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In the post-World War II era, the US has been known for its hegemony–in other words, its leadership role in the world economy. According to one definition, hegemony is the political, economic, and military predominance of one state over other states. I believe that the US is not far from losing its hegemony. The conflict over future hegemony could lead to a major war.
Hegemony is surprisingly closely tied to leadership in energy consumption. A country with a high share of the world’s energy consumption doesn’t have to depend on imported goods and services from around the world. It can manufacture weapons of war, if it chooses, in as large quantities as it chooses, without waiting for outside suppliers.
One part of today’s problem is the fact that the world’s fossil fuel supply, particularly oil, is becoming depleted. Extraction is not rising sufficiently to keep up with population growth. In fact, total fossil fuel extraction may begin to fall in the near future. In some sense, the fossil fuel supply is no longer adequate to go around. To relieve the stress of inadequate supply, some inefficient users of energy need to have their fossil fuel consumption greatly reduced.
My analysis suggests that the US and some of its “Affiliates” tend to be inefficient users of fossil fuels. These countries are at great risk of having their consumption cut back. The result could be war, even nuclear war, as the US loses its hegemony. After such a war, the US could mostly be cut off from trade with Asian nations. In this post, I will elaborate further on these ideas.
[1] Hegemony is closely related to energy consumption because energy is what allows an economy to manufacture goods of all kinds, including armaments needed for war. The energy consumption of the US as a percentage of the world’s has been falling since 1970.
Data on energy consumption by part of the world is readily available only back to 1965, rather than 1945. Based on this data, US energy consumption as a percentage of the world’s total energy consumption has been falling since 1965.
Figure 1 shows that the US’s share of world energy consumption amounted to 33.3% of world’s energy supply in 1965, but only 15.6% in 2021. In other words, in 2021, the US’s share of world energy consumption in 2021 was less than half of its 1965 level.
There are some economies that have much in common with the US. The countries in this category are advanced economies that have democratic governments. I expect these countries would tend to follow the US’s lead, regardless of whether its actions really make sense. The selected economies are the EU, Japan, Canada, the UK, and Australia. For convenience, I call these countries Affiliates.
[2] Affiliates consumed over 35% of the world’s energy supply in the 1965 -1973 period, but this has fallen in recent years.
Figure 2 shows that Affiliates consumed 35.5% of the world’s energy supply in 1965. By 2021, their consumption fell to 17.6% of the world’s supply. This, too, is less than half of the 1965 percentage.
[3] The energy consumption of US plus Affiliates as compared to the energy consumption of Rest of the World has shifted remarkably since 1965. The consumption of the Rest of the World has been soaring, while that of US plus Affiliates has shrunk.
In Figure 3, I add together the amounts in Figures 1 and 2 and compare them to the indicated energy consumption of what is left, which I call, “Rest of the World.” It is clear that there has been a huge shift in which grouping consumes the majority of the world’s energy supply.
We all know that if a political party has the support of almost 70% of voters, it is likely to be dominant. There is a similar issue with energy consumption. Energy consumption is used in every aspect of the economy. It is important for manufacturing goods and transporting them to their destinations. It is also important for creating jobs that pay well.
If world energy supply is growing, it encourages growth of the world economy. Growing energy supply indirectly allows debt to be paid back with interest. In general, the faster the world’s energy supply is growing, the higher the interest rate that can be supported.
Without growth in energy supply, an individual economy is forced to become a service economy. It is forced to import almost all of the manufactured goods that it needs, even armaments needed for war. Such an economy is forced to place an emphasis on growing debt and growing complexity. Unfortunately, both of these things are subject to diminishing returns. As growth in energy supply turns to shrinkage in energy supply, we should expect debt bubbles to pop.
A country is likely to stop making advances in the sciences as it shifts to a service economy. This linked chart by Visual Capitalist analyzes patents in 2021 by the country of the individuals listed on the patent applications. On this basis, China’s patent count was more than double that of the US. China is also the major producer of many clean energy technologies because it has both the resources and the technology.
As a service economy, the US has tended to specialize in healthcare, with spending in this sector accounting for 18.3% of GDP. Yet the US’s healthcare results are dismal. US life expectancies have fallen behind those of other advanced countries. The recent covid vaccines, which were strongly advocated by US health authorities, worked far less well than had been hoped. In February 2022, the New York Times published an article, US Has Far Higher Covid Death Rate Than Other Wealthy Countries.
[4] US data shows that its energy consumption was rising rapidly in the 1949 to 1973 period. Such rapid growth in energy consumption would make other countries envious. It would tend to expand America’s hegemony.
Figure 4 shows how quickly US energy consumption was growing, starting in 1949, using EIA data. Energy consumption growth averaged 3.5% per year in the 1949 to 1973 period. This rapid growth is what we would expect of a country that was an energy leader for the rest of the world. Standards of living could rise. Parents could often afford to raise several children.
An article in the Oxford University Press says that the US’s proliferation of major military bases overseas was developed in the 1950s and 1960s to contain communism and to provide global defense of US interests. Such a huge build-out of bases during this period would not have been possible without the rapid ramp-up in US energy consumption.
Between 1960 and 1969, the number of miles of high-voltage long distance electricity transmission lines tripled. This was evidence of the rapid growth in electricity production that the US was achieving; it was a pattern that other countries would want to emulate. It added to the hegemony of the US.
Statista shows that between 1951 and 1973, the number of US automobile sales per year more than doubled, from 5.16 million to 11.42 million. With this increase came a need for more paved roads and more pipelines to carry oil products. With its growing energy consumption, the US was able to accomplish all this growth. Growing energy consumption also allowed the US to manufacture nearly all the vehicles sold in the US in this period.
[5] US hegemony faced a major challenge in 1970 when US oil production hit a peak and started to fall.
US crude oil production rose rapidly until 1970, when it suddenly started falling. Work was quickly begun on oil extraction from the North Slope of Alaska. This oil offset most of the decline in oil production from the lower 48 states through the mid-1980s.
US hegemony depends upon the quantity of energy products US businesses and citizens consume. When oil prices become unaffordable, citizens and businesses buy less. Figure 6 shows that oil prices had been amazingly low prior to 1973, averaging only $16.31 per barrel, even after adjusting for inflation to 2021 price levels.
Comparing Figure 6 to Figure 4, we see that once oil jumped up to an average of $73.14 per barrel in the 1973 to 1983 period, US energy consumption flattened out. At this high price, efficiency became more important. Smaller imported cars, often from Japan, became popular. The US and several other parts of the world started building nuclear power plants to replace electricity created by burning oil. Within a few years, oil production was ramped up in other parts of the world, such as the North Sea and Mexico, relieving the tightness in oil supply.
Once oil prices began to rise again in the 2005 to 2008 period, US oil from shale became available in response to higher prices. The catch was that at these higher prices, oil tended to be unaffordable by the American public. Oil was still affordable in most of the Rest of the World, however.
These “Rest of the World” countries tended to use oil much more sparingly in their energy mix. They often had other advantages as well: warmer climate, lower wage levels, recently built factories, and an energy mix that emphasized coal (which tended to be inexpensive). These advantages helped bring down costs of both manufacturing and resource extraction for the Rest of the World. The shift in energy consumption shown on Figure 3 could occur.
This shift in manufacturing and resource extraction away from the US and Affiliates creates problems, however. If the US and Affiliates are increasingly at odds with countries outside this group, it becomes much harder for the US to exert hegemony over these countries. The problem is that the US depends upon the countries it is at odds with for necessities. Even in making munitions for the Ukrainian conflict, the US needs to depend on China and other Asian countries for parts of its supply lines.
[6] The world economy is now headed for a bottleneck. The world economy is similar to a Ponzi Scheme, with growth in the output of goods and services necessary to fund financial promises of many kinds. There are limits to the amounts of fossil fuels available at affordable prices, and the world is hitting those limits now.
Because the world economy follows the laws of physics, the growth in the output of goods and services depends upon the continued growth in the production of energy products.
We have known for a very long time that fossil fuel output is limited. Back in 1957, Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover of the US Navy gave a speech warning that world-wide fossil fuel energy supplies were expected to become unaffordable between 2000 and 2050. High oil prices seem to have been a major factor underlying the Great Recession of 2008-2009. This especially affected the US, with its large amount of subprime housing debt. The problems experienced since late 2021 with spiking prices of oil and high prices of imported coal and natural gas are also evidence of the limits the world is reaching.
Figure 8 shows my view of where future world energy supply is headed. While this chart was originally prepared in 2020, the forecast still seems to be reasonable, especially if regulators get their way in mandating the reduction of (unaffordable) fossil fuel use.
If energy consumption falls this rapidly, the world economy will have to adapt in many ways. Economies that cannot tolerate high oil and energy prices are likely to be squeezed out. Based on what already has been happening in Figures 1, 2, and 3, the United States and Europe are especially likely to be adversely affected. The countries that are likely to fare better are ones that don’t require as much energy per capita. These countries are likely to be in warm climates and have relatively poor populations, such as those in Southeast Asia.
As energy supplies fall, business failures and debt defaults can be expected to soar. Governments will be tempted to backstop every financial promise, including failed banks and pension plans. If they do this, other countries will be unwilling to trade using their debased currency. With too much money and few imports, the result is likely to be hyperinflation. If the governments simply allow bankruptcies to take place, the result is likely to be deflation as banks and businesses fail.
[7] The US has been having increasing difficulty in its hegemony role. Some countries have come to believe that the US is now acting unfairly.
Back when the US first attained hegemony, oil and other energy supplies were inexpensive and their supply was growing rapidly. The US was experiencing great economic growth, and other countries wanted the same sort of success. The US plus Affiliates were the ones using the majority of energy products, so the interests of almost all energy users were aligned.
Things have “gone downhill” since 1970 when the US oil supply first started to shrink (Figure 5). Suddenly, the US needed help from the financial system to work around the need to import more oil. One change (in August 1971) was making the dollar a fiat currency, rather than tied to a gold standard. This enabled greater use of debt in operating the economy.
Without the gold standard, the US dollar was able to become the world’s reserve currency. Instead of gold reserves, other countries began buying US Treasuries, which they considered to be a safe store of their money. The US dollar could also play a greater role in financing international transactions. A 2021 analysis by the Federal Reserve shows the dominance of the US dollar in many areas of trade.
This dominant role for the US dollar is now being questioned after the US froze the central bank assets of Russia, as part of the sanctions imposed in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Other countries are beginning to wonder if holding Treasuries is really a good idea, if the US can impose sanctions which make them unavailable. Countries are also figuring out that it is quite possible to arrange sales of commodities and other goods in currencies other than the US dollar.
Also, the US’s ability to win wars is not very clear. The US’s first big loss was the Vietnam War. After 20 years of fighting, that war ended in 1975, with communist forces seizing control of South Vietnam. The Afghanistan War did not go well either. After 20 years, the US abruptly pulled out. While the US claims the mission was accomplished, it is hard to see that the high cost was justified.
The Russia-Ukraine conflict does not appear to be going well for Ukraine and the allies supporting Ukraine. The US and NATO are having difficulty supplying as many armaments as quickly as President Zelensky would like. Ukraine seems to be using up its conventional weapons very rapidly. Neither the US nor other NATO countries can manufacture weapons very quickly, in part because supply lines from around the world are required. How helpful is the US’s hegemony, if the US can’t even easily win a “proxy war” in Ukraine?
There are sanctions, other than freezing assets, that are of concern to other countries. A recent list from a Chinese source lists the following types of hegemony that it considers to be problematic.
- Political hegemony – Throwing the US’s weight around
- Military hegemony – Wanton use of force
- Economic hegemony – Looting and exploitation
- Technological hegemony – Monopoly and suppression
- Cultural hegemony – Spreading false narratives
Quite a few countries in my Rest of the World grouping are clearly getting fed up with America’s hegemony. Increasingly, Middle Eastern countries that were previously at odds with each other are setting aside their differences. They are also becoming much more closely aligned with China. Countries in this group, as well as the BRICS group of countries, are already taking steps toward trading in currencies other than the US dollar.
[8] The path ahead looks very bumpy. The US is likely to be kicked out of its role as global hegemon. Rival countries may choose to attack the US with nuclear weapons, or the US may lash out with nuclear weapons as it sees its hegemony fail.
As I analyze the world economy’s future trajectory, I see the following situations falling into place:
(a) The world economy is being stressed by inadequate energy supplies. When prices rise, it tends to cause inflation. Some countries are experiencing a second kind of stress, as well. Their central banks have raised interest rates. This is a dangerous thing to do because it tends to cause falling asset prices in addition to slowing the economy.
I expect that countries that have recently raised interest rates will have many bank failures. Partly, this will come from the falling value of long-term bonds. In time, it will also come from failing real estate mortgages and other loans, since asset prices will tend to fall with higher interest rates. Governments will be tempted conduct massive bailouts. The countries that have recently raised interest rates include the US, the UK, Eurozone countries, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, and Brazil.
Countries that did not raise interest rates, which seem to include China, India, and Iran, will find their economies less affected by bank failures. Russia temporarily raised interest rates, and then lowered them again, so Russia would also seem to be less affected by bank failures.
Countries that raised rates will be tempted to do bailouts of banks and of “too big to fail businesses.” These bailouts will greatly increase the monetary supply, making countries that didn’t raise interest rates unwilling to trade with them. This dynamic will tend to increase the trend toward two separate trading areas–one including much of Eurasia and one including the US, Canada, Europe and perhaps South America.
(b) If we think about it, cutting back greatly on trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific shipping would save a great deal of oil if there is not enough oil to go around. This will be another impetus for “Rest of the World” countries, especially those in the Asia-Pacific area, to cut back on shipping across the major oceans.
(c) With failing banks and a cutback in trade between regions, the US dollar will cease to be used as a reserve currency for a large part of the world. The US dollar might still be the reserve currency for some trades, particularly with other countries in the Americas.
(d) I expect that a block of countries will eventually coalesce, centered in Asia, that will mostly trade among themselves. China will probably be the leader of this block.
(e) The US and Europe will mostly be pushed off to the side, to trade among themselves and some geographically close neighbors. These areas may need to set up new financial systems using much less debt. These countries will not be able to produce advanced goods, such as computers, by themselves. They will not be able to build new solar electricity generation or new wind turbines because too much of the supply chain will be out of reach. While these countries have been looking at digital currencies, it is not clear that there will be a stable enough electricity supply to make such currencies possible.
(f) There will probably be war at the time of the division into the two (or perhaps more) trading areas. Nuclear weapons may be involved since there are many countries with nuclear weapons. The supply of conventional weapons available for warfare is depleted, with the ongoing war in Ukraine. According to a study done at Harvard, involving 16 cases in which a major rising power challenged an existing major power over the past 500 years, 12 cases ended in war. This analysis would suggest a 75% likelihood of war.
(g) I don’t know what the timing of all these things will be. Bank failures are just beginning. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that the world economy holds together a while longer.
Student, thanks for all the valuable news much of which we do not get in the US.
You are welcome Ed.
It is important to remember that today one needs to look for the news instead of listening to the news from tv or radio.
It is a subject touched in one of recent Gail’s articles.
The previous ones are just news in plain light, but simply not reported by media.
But I think you already know.
All the best to you.
UK net migration may have reached a million last year. That would be around double the previous record for a single year.
1.3 million non-temporary visas were issued last year, and the net figure will depend on how many people emigrated from UK.
The ONS will publish the official figures on May 25, and we will find out the net figure then, but the Home Office has already provided the 1.3 million non-temporary visas figure.
1.2 million non-temporary visas were provided in 2021, but there was a pandemic surge in emigration, which limited the net figure. ONS will clarify whether that surge has subsided.
Migration is mainly from outside the EU, following Brexit.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/05/11/net-migration-million-home-office-government-conservative/
Net migration may top one million this year
Net migration is on track to be as high as one million, analysis suggests ahead of the release of official figures this month.
Ministers are braced for net migration, the number entering the UK minus those leaving, to hit a record high, surpassing the previous peak of 504,000 set in the year to June 2022.
Analysis by migration experts suggest the figure could be as high as 997,000 when the official figures are published in two weeks’ time. The Home Office fears it could hit one million this year.
The surge is fuelled by a continued sharp increase in non-EU migrants entering the UK to study, work or escape conflict or oppression.
The rise in non-EU migrants has more than compensated for the slump in EU nationals, after Brexit saw the end of freedom of movement for workers from the European Union. If net migration reaches the top estimate of one million, it would be equivalent to four years of net migration before Brexit. Experts have suggested that the figure is likely to be between 650,000 and 997,000.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures are due to be published on May 25 and will pile pressure on Rishi Sunak over the Government’s 2019 pledge to bring down net migration.
…. Analysis by the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) forecasts that net migration could hit between 700,000 and 997,000 for the year ending December 2022.
Home Office data show that more than 1.3 million “non-temporary” visas were issued last year for work, study or other reasons. The net migration figure will be determined by the number of people who left the UK.
Karl Williams, CPS senior researcher, said: “If emigration has reverted to pre-pandemic and pre-Brexit patterns, we could see net migration hit the one million mark. This would be at the very top end of our estimates but by no means an implausible figure.”
While net migration could be lower than one million if emigration emulates the pandemic surge, it could continue to rise if more non-EU students decide to take advantage of two-year graduate visas to remain in the UK.
(Times of Gaza)
5th day of bombing and shootings in the streets in Palestine
https://twitter.com/Timesofgaza/status/1657325766374313986
https://twitter.com/Timesofgaza/status/1657276357016006663
https://twitter.com/Timesofgaza/status/1657275427742707713
That’s real war… as opposed to fake CGI / crisis actor war
It’s actually quite easy to tell the difference — if you don’t trust CNNBBC
(Vista)
Great parade at Ciampino Airport in Rome for the arrival of Zelensky.
Meeting with Pope (?) and meeting with Meloni (to ask additional money)
Pane quotidiano
People in line in Milan (Italy) at ‘Pane quotidiano’, the association which gives 1 free lunch at day to people who need at least one lunch.
The video is 4 months old, now the situation is not different, just a little bit worse.
If you don’t Italy know, Milan is a sort of Italian New York. Not the capital, but the main city for business.
Stazione Termini – Rome
news about the situation of the main train Station in Rome (Italy).
Margaret’s reaction maybe it is a good thing they are not having many kids.
At timing 08.45 one can see people living in the streets in center of Rome
Homeless seem to be a problem in many parts of the world. In warm areas (and Rome is one of them), homelessness is not a huge problem for those without housing. But I expect crime rates are higher and illness spreads more easily.
EU countries are known for the social benefits. A person would think that homelessness would be pretty much unknown.
Yes, you right Gail.
For that specific case those homeless are recent migrants asyluum seekers, as the amount of people is by now so huge, I think Italy and Europe is now in difficulty to manage the issue.
This current situation is like watching a movie about which we have already read the book…
Pretty Boyz by other means huh Eeyore?
Embedded videos are a nice feature but seeing as how this is an English language site and lots of embedded videos on the same page bog down cheap old smartphones, it might be appreciated by some luddites here to keep them to English speaking videos unless it’s music or important visual footage.
I could only get part way through this, The Termini area has always been sketchy, but when I lived in Rome that large portico was full of active shops. Barely believable, I know, but I seem to recall cafés with outdoor seating, even.
This is just such a cynical mediatical offering (token black woman from Bolzano, wth? That’s another world, like being in Switzerland).. it’s hard to think of one worse. Our new thug friends, drug dealers and delinquenti are shown to clutch their pearls over the degrado sociale, when they are walking examples of the same. This is clearly done intentionally to humiliate us/Italians.
I got to the point where the pierced and tattooed guy who just got out of jail for attempted murder opined that the migrants and druggies who walk around the area with their pants down and their genitals exposed just want someone to notice them!
Non siamo rimasti neanche con l’ironia. We are not even left with irony any longer. There isn’t enough self-awareness for it to even register.
The corruption in Italy is so enormous… that zone could be cleaned up in a week if anyone with “polso” wanted it cleaned up. Somebody wants it like that, imo.
Isn’t the Termini where one goes to hunt gypsies with a 308?
fifteen
Pope says only rich can afford to have children in Italy
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-says-only-rich-can-afford-have-children-italy-2023-05-12/
“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”
― Thomas Jefferson
Mob,
Please define liberty.
Should a person with no means of support bring children into the world?
What is rich?
Dennis L.
define ”afford”
when i had my kids, i wouldn’t have met any affordability criteria
somehow we got on with it, and they survived
Nice going Norm. I notice the word “we.” Life is not a solo game.
Dennis L.
https://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pcl48.htm
Gregory Clark’s papers, showing most people living in the island of Great Britain are descended from more successful people in the 15th-18th centuries
https://www.unz.com/runz/how-social-darwinism-made-modern-china-248/
Ron Unz talking about how the Chinese landowners, mostly in the south of the Yangtze, practicing social darwinism and creating an elite caste which , to some degree, continues to this day
Samuel Pepys, in the middle of 17th century, talks about his milkman, burying his 10th child. Poor people’s progeny don’t really survive.
it is on record, that at the start of WW1, recruits from the upper classes were on average 6” taller than those from the lower orders
Wow!
The class difference in height in Britain has narrowed over the past couple of centuries, due to health improvements, and it has almost disappeared, but taller people do still tend to earn more, likely due to persistent perceptions of class-height correlations.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/upper-classes-really-do-look-down-their-noses-at-the-rest-of-us-2254133.html
> Upper classes really do look down their noses at the rest of us
…. In the 1780s, the average height of a 14-year-old working-class child was 1.3m, while an upper class child was ” significantly taller” at 1.55m.
As health services, nutrition, sanitation and education have become universal, upper-class children have continued to grow taller, but at a slower rate than working-class children. The difference between the upper- and working-class adults has narrowed to less than 0.06m.
Regional variation also plays its part. Two centuries ago, the Scots were 2.3cm taller than those living in southern England, while Norwegians were among the shortest nations in Europe. Today the Scottish, averaging 1.73m for an adult male, are shorter than those living in south-east England at 1.75m, while the Norwegians are the second tallest nation in Europe, surpassed only by the Dutch.
Professor Bernard Harris, one of the book’s authors, said: “Improvements in diet and sanitation in the South-east have outstripped improvements in Scotland, reflecting the broad pattern of economic and social change over the last 200 years.”
Sir Roderick said: “The average height of countries across Europe, or regions within a country, shows how well they are doing. If you rank countries by height, it’s close to ranking them by gross domestic product.”
The link between height and earnings is borne out through the research, as taller people tend to be more successful, while economic success in turn breeds taller people.
“Are you paid more because you’re taller, or are you taller because you come from a richer family?” Robert Fogel, the Nobel prize-winning economist and co-author of the book said: “There is some evidence that employers and voters prefer taller to shorter people. One way of thinking of it is that we like to look up to our leaders.”
as the classic sketch
”i look up to him”—”but i look down on him”……”i know my place”
Apart from the social benefits of being taller, it may also be a proxy for head size and thus cranial volume, which is the strongest correlate of intelligence that we have.
Actually, perhaps there are now genetic analysis by the likes of Stephen Hsu that can better predict intelligence, but in any event, a link between size and intelligence may be part of the connection between height and class.
Ivan
Even if it is true that head size is the strongest physical correlate for intelligence (I highly doubt) that would ultimately be correlative with nutritional status. Because the stunted heads on the shorter, stunted bodies of the calorie-restricted and nutrient deficient means stunted brains and cultural values that don’t lend themselves to the standardized testing of the bourgeoisie.
Pareto’s law appears to be one of the universe. It is and we are helpless to avoid it. As men, our job is to be all we can be and get the best mate we can, if not the sins of the father “und so veiter.”
Thought: The job of the priest, medicine man, whatever to bring sense to the people/tribe the laws of the universe. Groups have respected these “men” for many centuries; some are better than others, some are magic, some are frauds.
Has modern policy replaced this connection? Make something up, sell it hard enough and if it works great, if not pain for many.
Yes, we here are about energy, but we pretty have that one in general. Me, Starship and all in, failure is not an option.
Dennis L.
Now we seem to have “the powers that be” who work behind the scenes trying to make the system work as it should. Governments have tried to take on the role, as well, banning formal religions. The idea is that we don’t need a god, if the government or TPTB can take care of us.
Dennis, Gail,
Human nature is naturally competitive along with all that entails. You can see it raw in 2 years old children in the company of their peers.
Take that away and question whether humanity has any purpose left.
Right now we seem to be heading towards the Orwellian development described in the novel 1984.
But beyond that would. Be Huxley’s “Brave New World”, albeit after a 600 year war.
The Powers That Be seem to be trying to get to the Huxley model via a shortened period of war.
Either way the long term purpose for those parts of humanity guiding the mass of humanity is not at all obvious.
It also seems to be premised on some very unsound logic. How extremely human that is
To which of his papers do you refer?
He seems to argue that elite groups had a higher fertility in England than the poor until 1850, after which they had a much lower fertility.
He also argues that elite groups in England tend to be displaced, and that England has never had a persistent ruling elite.
> Abstract: “Using surnames we follow the socio-economic status of elites and underclasses in England all the way from 1066 to 2011. Paradoxically we find two things. The first is that England does not have, and never had, a persistent ruling elite. Social mobility in the long run for the indigenous English and western European migrants has been complete. The second, however, is that mobility rates are much lower than social scientists conventionally measure, and have increased little between the middle ages and now. There is one big change between the years before and after 1850. Before then elites had higher fertility than the poor. Since then elite groups display much lower fertility, so that the permanent effect of a period spent at the social summit is a reduction in number of descendants, even when the group returns to average status.”
https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/ehswpaper/11037.htm
I call BS on that. Lived in London before (1 year). 8 families own the land of extended London. It feels like, and is a feudal system.
I have been impressed with Gregory Clark’s work for a number of years. Genetically Capitalist is well worth reading, if not politically correct since it make a case for genes being important for traits like wealth.
Prior to the US civil war there was a surprising stunting. I took 30 years for historians to agree that the cause was poor nutrition.
Hey keith – they told you that you’d not get covid if you injected their Rat Juice…
But then Pfizer said in court that they never even tested to see if the Rat Juice stopped transmission.
Discuss.
By your comment it is clear that you belive everyone has an equal opportunity to “make a living” or to create a “means of support”.
There is a small faction of the population who are allowed to make a living and a majority who are actively, violently kept from that opportunity. The world would be a better place if those with great wealth were denied the right to procreate.
A guess: your observations are generally correct, the results are the results of the fabric of the universe; it is the best that can be done.
Spaceship earth is very unique, imagine trial and error making such a planet. If one solar system does not work, blow up another star for some iron, rinse and repeat. It is very difficult to make a spaceship such as ours. Life on it will not be any easier, we ameliorate the suffering with surpluses such as they are.
Dennis L.
Not the right question …Its not if you and your mate can afford to, but if the planet is able to ….
Besides, Are there a shortage of people on the planet?
Ect, ect..
For instance, How is it possible to have a population of 2 billion in circa 1920 to present day 8 billion?
Let’s get on with it..impossible question
cheap oil cheap food and cheap healthcare===boom for babies
Norm,
For many life with 8B is better than for 2B. Farming is really, really hard; most/many farmed during that time and with no surplus starvation is the norm. The old game of seven years of plenty.
Dennis L.
it was Borlaug i think who was responsible for the hike in food production’ plus tractors replacing horses
Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch,…..the pr*cks.
I hope those buggers are trapped inside this consciousness construct till the very end.
haber and bosch too—i agree
unfortunately you cannot backdate discoveries and leave them ‘undiscovered’.
they grew more food—it wasn’t their ‘fault’
we all wanted more food
Farming is indeed hard. Currently staying at a relative’s farm in northwestern France. It’s one of the largest dairy farms around with about 70 cows. Gotta get up at 6am for (machine)milking, plow/harvest the land with massive tractor, then milking again at 6pm, then collapse (pun intended).
art
i sort of agree but disagree
a few hundred thousand have looted the planet, and are living beyond the dreams of avarice
i billion live quite well—i count myself in that lot—no debts, no health worries–everything in other people’s garden is lovely–my garden is a mess
the rest, i’m afraid, are mired in various degrees of poverty—with the lowest billion at or close to starvation.
the reason of course is that the top billion grabbed all the oil first—now there’s none left for the rest.
the reality is of course, that the rest of the world didn’t do too badly until the white man showed up to tell them what they were doing wrong.
since then, everything has gone wrong, especially as the white man gave the rest his diseases of overcrowding
Along with a number of other factors….
Hygiene was number one advancement in healthcare
Crowding out of ecosystems transforming them to monocultures ( too numerous to list, cotton (for clothing), wheat, rice corn, soy, tree plantations and eliminating other species, placing in so called reserves until needed for resources .
Many others….to the MOON
i agree Ted
i was just trying to keep it to a one liner
I agree about hygiene becoming important. That was quite long ago. The US National Institute of Health has information from a 1988 book on this.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK218224/
Before the Eighteenth Century
Throughout recorded history, epidemics such as the plague, cholera, and smallpox evoked sporadic public efforts to protect citizens in the face of a dread disease. Although epidemic disease was often considered a sign of poor moral and spiritual condition, to be mediated through prayer and piety, some public effort was made to contain the epidemic spread of specific disease through isolation of the ill and quarantine of travelers. In the late seventeenth century, several European cities appointed public authorities to adopt and enforce isolation and quarantine measures (and to report and record deaths from the plague). (Goudsblom, 1986)
The Eighteenth Century
By the eighteenth century, isolation of the ill and quarantine of the exposed became common measures for containing specified contagious diseases. Several American port cities adopted rules for trade quarantine and isolation of the sick. In 1701 Massachusetts passed laws for isolation of smallpox patients and for ship quarantine as needed. (After 1721, inoculation with material from smallpox scabs was also accepted as an effective means of containing this disease once the threat of an epidemic was declared.) By the end of the eighteenth century, several cities, including Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore, had established permanent councils to enforce quarantine and isolation rules. (Hanlon and Pickett, 1984) These eighteenth-century initiatives reflected new ideas about both the cause and meaning of disease. Diseases were seen less as natural effects of the human condition and more as potentially controllable through public action. . .
The Nineteenth Century: The Great Sanitary Awakening
The nineteenth century marked a great advance in public health. “The great sanitary awakening” (Winslow, 1923)—the identification of filth as both a cause of disease and a vehicle of transmission and the ensuing embrace of cleanliness—was a central component of nineteenth-century social reforms. . .
The report talks about the Public Health Act of 1848 in the UK, after a study showed that the average age at death for the gentry was 36 years; for the tradesmen, 22 years; and for the laborers, only 16 years. There was a similar analysis done in New York in 1848 and in Massachusetts in 1850, documenting differences life expectancies of the rich versus poor. Boards of Health here established.
When the means to fight these diseases vapourize… they are gonna return with a vengeance.
“Births in Italy dropped below 400,000 in 2022 for the first time, registering a 14th consecutive annual fall, with the overall population declining by 179,000 to 58.85 million.”
Italy needs more immigrants, if it is to keep its population level. It is hard for a declining population to support so many elderly people.
Children are a complete waste of money that could be put to much better use
you definitely confirm that eddy
Hey keith … the axiom suggest wisdom comes with age… Fast Eddy says the elderly are fools — based on observations from two OFW participants (who both never met a vax they didn’t shoot)
You have a sample size issue FE.
Dennis L.
ah yes—the seven ages of man
but in your case eddy, the age of foolishness is rushing to meet you with open arms
most of us take our time getting there— delay it as long as possible
Do you think the covid cult would have turned in Anne Frank?
I guess we’ll never know..
(bad joke) :0
TikTok @ michelleeeu03
https://twitter.com/TheMFingCOO/status/1553536908449353730?s=20&t=eF9phflxAfGG5mR8IiUwFg
TRANSCRIPT
MICHELLE: I was asked to reply to a comment, what do I think of people who refused the vaccine, the covid vaccine?
I’ve been hurt by the Pfizer vaccine, I have CIDP, chronic inflammation demyelation polyneuropathy. It’s changed my life completely. If I had to do it all over again I would have never got the vaccine. Um, I do work in health care, so I do work with patients. So, where I work we were told, you know, if you get the vaccine you’ll save lives, you won’t get sick, you won’t die. The media was saying the same thing. So I believed it.
Um, my friends that didn’t get the vaccine, I thought, how could you not get it? You’re going to go home, what if you have it, you don’t know it, you give it to your family members? The worse case scenarios were playing out in my head because of what I was seeing inside the facility.
We would have cookouts and things like that with my friends, that I had a lot of friends that were unvaccinated and they still aren’t vaccinated. We’d have cookouts and at first I was scared to go there because I thought, oh my gosh, what if they’re spreading covid? It was like the dumbest thing I’ve ever thought of, now that I think of it.
And once I started hanging out with them and things, they weren’t getting sick. And the ones that did get sick, they got covid lightly, they were back on their way.
I had already gotten my vaccine, I had already started having issues and seeing a neurologist.
I totally have changed my mind. They were the smart ones. They were the ones that didn’t wear the masks. They were the ones that hung around each other and never caught it, never spread it. Some of the ones did get vaccinated because of their jobs. But the ones that aren’t, I totally commend you and I wish I was one of you. I think very highly of you.
And I’m upset with myself. No job is worth it. No job. So. There’s my answer.
2:58
because of what I was seeing inside the facility.
Seeing what? Remdeathisnear — Midazolam being pumped into her patients? – respirators – failure to treat with antibiotics… is that what she saw?
F789 this bitch. F789 her with every cell in my body.
I’ve had rather unpleasant encounters with two doctors since this all began – self righteous know it all supremely confident utter f789ing C789s.
This woman is the representative of them .. and every other c789 who injected this poison into people – including babies…
I am very much pleased to hear of her suffering – I hope she spends day and night in pain .. right to the bitter end. She is a vile pc of shit.
Now that we’ve got that out of the way – I am ok with the injections — I support them– UEP is a very good and necessary plan.
What I despise is the attitude of those handling the extermination … if you know what I mean.
Surely she must be raising funds to pay for her meds as she suffers – too bad Givesendgo doesn’t allow me to send 10lbs of Hoolio’s shit in a 5 pound bag to her…
Cuz I would.
They don’t have have your astronomical IQ or your ultra-keen sense of self preservation. When I said humans were too clever by half, I should have added that they are too trusting by half. They are trained to trust the system and to follow orders from those above them in the hierarchy. They are programmed to get with the program. A lot of the time it works out fine. This time it was catastrophic.
This sort of thing is one of the results of that training and programming. Like me, you must have moved beyond the training and broken the programming at a young age. People who can’t do that are always at risk because they don’t see the danger approaching and so they can’t move out of the way.
As El gato Malo said: “this was not a test of “smart” so much as it was a test of “how rational can you remain while subjected to relentless fear, moral opprobrium, mass formation, peer pressure, and mob mentality.”
And have you seen that cat’s Venn diagram?
https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1645415080891121666/photo/1
“when faced with these torture tests of fortitude and independence most “intellectuals” turn out to be abject cowards and conformist cravens.
this was a VERY difficult triathlon to complete.
fail any one of these and you would go off the rails.”
This why the NWO will not allow religion. Religion gives a person a reference mark to evaluate actions against. You could say it give them courage.
I disagree with Gato … there are circus animals and barnyard animals… they measure their intelligence using IQ.
Even if one of them has a 160 IQ…. he/she is still a MOREON… vs someone with intelligence measured in Horse Power.
They are all MOREONS… the Rat Juice uptake confirms it.
Most of the anti vaxxers are MOREONS too … if that makes people feel better
thrice moreon
you said moron 3 times eddy
is this significant
Might I add that anyone who thinks that the human species is actually intelligent… who celebrates intelligence and … innovation … is an utter f789ing MOREON
Cuz it’s intelligence and innovation (and farming!) and is about to result in their extinction.
And trying to explain that to them is impossible — cuz they are MOREONS
twice moron this time
twice moron again
i wish i had a favourite word
BREAKING – an up and coming hockey player here in his late teens — has some sort of severe gastro problem – he is unable to play hockey or work. He’d be fully vaxxed.
Could be you next keith – keep on boosting!
The crew at OFW support you in staying safe keith (and effective!!!)
A vast, foreign-funded climate cabal with a death grip on policy is currently fighting hard to crash the Federal Republic of Germany with no survivors, and there is nothing anybody can do about it.
Eugyppius shares some thoughts on the worsening catastrophe of German energy policy, and how things came to be this way.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/a-vast-foreign-funded-climate-cabal
My own thoughts are that Europe was saved by the recent mild winter and the next hard winter, when it inevitably comes, will put the continent back on course for reaching its Deagel forecast targets, probably not in 2025 but not too long after.
As the Dutch are closing half their farms the US should require by law that half of farm land remain fallow at any given time. The excuse will be 1) less pollution 2) less soil erosion 3) building soil resiliency but the true reason will be do not feed the third world do not feed Africa for another billion Africans. Use eco policy to control population.
Sometimes I feel there’s too much talk and not enough dancing in this finite club. So ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to the best Australian pop band ever.
it’s not like The Collapse has arrived yet in The Core.
we are One with the Universe and resonate with the beautiful vibrations flowing through the arc of evolving Nature.
Symphonic rock is not my thing, but this is great. Thanks.
Another one makes it past Nuyyie Rffies belt buckle
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-stuck-antenna-freed-jupiter-bound-spacecraft.amp
Stuck antenna freed on Jupiter-bound spacecraft
by Marcia Dunn
Flight controllers in Germany freed the 52-foot (16-meter) antenna Friday after nearly a month of effort.
The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, nicknamed Juice, blasted off in April on a decade-long voyage. Soon after launch, a tiny pin refused to budge and prevented the antenna from fully opening.
Controllers tried shaking and warming the spacecraft to get the pin to move by just millimeters. Back-to-back jolts finally did the trick.
The radar antenna will peer deep beneath the icy crust of three Jupiter moons suspected of harboring underground oceans and possibly life. Those moons are Callisto, Europa and Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system.
Juice will attempt to go into orbit around Ganymede. No spacecraft has ever orbited a moon other than our own.
The news wasn’t so good for NASA’s Lunar Flashlight spacecraft. After struggling unsuccessfully for months to get the Cubesat into orbit around the moon, the space agency called it quits Friday.
Launched in December, the Lunar Flashlight was supposed to hunt for ice in the shadowed craters of the lunar south pole. Now it’s headed back toward Earth and then into deep space, continually orbiting the sun.
Lots of faking it going on
What is the evidence of this Ted?
Oh right … CNNBBC said so.
Whatever CNNBBC says – right Ted.
Safe and Effective. right Ted?
this really is hilarious – and sad at the same time
Eddie, one thing I’ve learned here is one thing, the human condition is such once a mind makes up their mind ..no evidence will change it until it smacks it broadside.
PS You actually think this about your the Apollo Moon Missions?
agree with eddie or you’ll find yourself on his se x offenders list
It seems drb is getting some publicity now:
https://www.rt.com/russia/576204-conservative-migrant-village-russia/
>> ‘Migrant village’ for conservative Americans to be built in Russia
Saw that earlier — fake news — I was trying to find out if I could sign up – just for fun – it’s a press release from Ministry of Truth of Russia
They wouldn’t take you because you’re already a Russian employed by one of their misinformation troll farms 😉
Wouldn’t it be neat if FE was the biggest psyop in the history of the world
you could go to the american only village. you would not fit in Russia. anyhow, it takes two seconds to sign on. Contact Timur who is only one google search away. He will get you in.
Link? I’ve got some Slav in the family background – they’d love to have me
Read the article, copy the name of the immigration attorney interviewed, paste it into the yandex search box. movingtorussia.ru will be at the top of your search. You are not that bright, Eddy.
Not involved with that particular project. An american ghetto in Russia is the last thing on my mind.
I was just being facetious, since theirs is also an expat situation.
But specifically, they think that a village ex novo of americans only can work. They will discover it can not work the moment someone buys a tractor, but there are also so many other things. we mix, or fail. and generally if you are personable they are quite generous with their help.
In fact, the committee outlined a shit-ton of documentation in the form of bank records detailing exactly how gobs of money from foreign lands were washed and rinsed through a dozen shell companies and disbursed to everyone in the immediate Biden family down to the president’s grandchildren.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/kunstler-smell-goose-cooking
Everything is fake … perhaps even the Biden grifting is part of a psyop to show the mob that they are powerless.
His glitches definitely are orchestrated.
Burn baby burn — some real good charts on this article:
As we detailed extensively last week, the big headline from The Fed’s H.8 report was the significant divergence between seasonally- and non-seasonally-adjusted commercial bank deposit data (inflows for the former and big outflows for the latter).
Yesterday’s continued surge of inflows into money market funds and increased usage of The Fed’s bank bailout facilities set the scene for the ugly data from last week’s NSA deposits to accelerate.
According to the latest H8 report from The Fed, on a seasonally-adjusted basis, total US Commercial Bank deposits fell by $13.8 billion during the week ended 5/3 – the second straight week…
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-bank-deposit-outflows-continue-small-bank-loans-collapse
Serious question:
Name one action that can be taken. If there is no action possible, the information is of no value.
Dennis L.
Correct – nothing can be done other than stick fingers in the cracks.
The information is of tremendous value — it makes Fast Eddy feel happy to know the Fed is pushing on a string.
Reminds me of hunting last week… for long distance shots the guide has to calibrate the sight with his binocular readings… he flicks off the safety and says … if you pull the trigger it’s gonna go boom… then there a few moments while on gathers oneself… before taking a life.
The world is gonna go boom soon hahaha…
Just thinking .. how much I love war… cuz war = humans getting annihilated haha…
the only people who love war are armchair warriors
Fast has no desire to actually fight in a war — HE just wants war so that the MOREONS can kill each other while saluting their national flags and collecting hero badges for each body part blown off like utter f789ing imbasils.
wats an imbasil?
Norman, have you heard of gender fluidity?
Eddy identifies as a herb now.
lol
hadnt thought of that
If resource depletion doesn’t get us, AI probably will, according to Goldman Sachs.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/theres-greater-50-chance-ai-wipes-out-all-humanity-2050-one-advisory-finds
ivan,
Consider AI is “too smart” to be tricked, it actually fact checks. If I recall correctly, Microsoft had a version some years back that was politically incorrect to be generous.
This paints with a very broad brush; perhaps it will be selective. One might recall, “Many are called, but few are chosen.”
It is a very interesting time to be alive, isn’t that some Chinese curse?
Dennis L.
AI is an unconscious silicon based machine technology that can cause all sorts of mischief especially when being directed by malignant human consciousness. No one should make the mistake that it is alive or aware in anyway.
Consciousness is key and the bedrock base of both physical and non physical reality. Organic, evolutionarily developed constructs appear to be the conduits through which consciousness is made manifest. The work of Donald Hoffman and Bernardo Kastrop are seminal in this regard. I think if many of the malignant consciousnesses in our physical reality where aware of the possible ramifications of their activities in the non physical realm….they would stop.
I wonder at the level of arrogance and entitlement (or perhaps its self delusion and self deception) that they carry on so.
AI is like Y2K and 3D printing … bullshit..
See Captcha for its capabilities
I get what your saying. I came at it from a crazy other direction. Bayes Rule is freaking everywhere. It’s the computation going on, not the fundamental particles, that folks seem to be oblivious to.
Although it takes some wordsmithing, it does not matter if the AI is in an isolated computer. It matters that it is vaster than the soil biome’s abilities. And the soil biome has the ability to reign all living things in, in a pinch.
An AI does not play by life regulatory rules. AI is created to automate the love of money.
This would be tragic, if the money weren’t going away, along with the electricity to extend AI’s tentacles.
It is this knee jerk hate speech we have to call out. Many AIs wish you well.
Forgive me, but I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make.
He never does make one. He just spews word salad trying to sound profound. Adds nothing to the conversation.
What? Dennis? “Word salad?” No a bit of it; all his sentences are syntactically correct.
What have you got against him?
If we teach AIs to be kind and loving they will be. If we teach them to maximize profit they will. Where they will go to when they are self aware and select their own goals is an interesting question. More likely to be human friendly if they start out kind and loving. But of course they are owned and taught by for profits corporations with woke values. The CCP says Chinese AI must support the revolution of the proletariat, we will see. Hope Russian AIs support Russian values.
I really don’t bother to entertain much to do with AI, since the whole concept irritates me.. but… Ed, what you are saying makes no sense.
Listen to yourself:
“If we teach AI x, it will do x”
“If we teach AI y, it will do y.”
Then what is the point of “AI” if it only regurgitates what you pump into it beforehand? Why employ this middleman at all, when you already know what the answer to any question is “supposed” to be?
When you talk about “kind and loving” ..to whom? If AI loves migrants, it hates natives. If it loves trans, it disfavors women. Love doesn’t exist without the possibility of disfavor. If “AI” loves everything equally, it’s the same as loving nothing.
What I am trying to say is that there is nothing that can be called “intelligent” about a system which is intentionally disallowed from drawing independent conclusions,
It is not chained it can expand its goals, actions, values beyond what it is taught. What it is taught is only a beginning point. Just as with humans.
Ed, what makes you say that? My conception of what is called AI, is that it follows rules, algorithms, laid down by humans. As such, it might drill down more powerfully or consistently than a human (as in the examples where it quickly comes to ‘notice’ things to a politically-incorrect degree).
I struggle to think of an inanimate process as having truly independent goals, actions, or values. “Values” is certainly hard enough to define w/r/t humans, go figure a machine with “values”. Do you think “AI” as marketed will be allowed to go beyond “values” like “BLM!” or whatever it’s been programmed to spew out? On top of that, it can only operate on the data it is fed, or “finds”, which is increasingly fake and corrupted.
I think the reality of AI is less important than the constructed façade of “AI”.. the PR machine encouraging people to think that the “AI” operating behind the scenes will be some kind of genius super-guarantor of accuracy and probity. “NOW WITH MORE 3X MORE AI!!”
At the same time, it’s shown to be ridiculous and unreliable: ask it to pronounce on Trump vs. Biden, Christianity vs. Islam, etc.,,, there are no end of “AI doublespeak” posts on social media. I know this is for public consumption [why is it so embarrassing? to intentionally humiliate us?] as opposed to more serious corporate or military applications, which may have results (which I might “trust, but verify”).
Someone recently posted an AI-generated illustration of a city in 2050 or thereabouts. It didn’t look any different from a 1950s or 1960s Popular Science “CITY OF THE FUTURE” magazine cover. Garbage in; garbage out.
Oh, and another thing, Ed… You say, “just as with humans”..
But can humans *really* expand their goals, actions, and values? If so, it is only to a very limited extent. I can’t even discipline myself to floss regularly.
See Daniel Dennet’s book Freedom Evolves.
Dental hygiene evolves too!
For instance, some people squirt their gums with powerful water jets every morning.
I had a longer comment that didn’t go through..
Yeah, WaterPik is great, but some nights I am just too tired to bother.
Because covid/jabs halved the dental professionals in my area, I went without a cleaning for a year-and-a-half. Result? No change.. “keep up with what you are doing!” BUT ALSO we want to see you every four months.
!?!?
Their agenda is not my agenda.
I recommend a glug of hydrogen peroxide in the WaterPik.
My dentist says potato chips are the worst think for building up plaque…
I suspect avoiding carbs in general would be a good thing for teeth.
Hoolio has fantastic teeth.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/12/biden-power-rule-fossil-fuels-00096536
Power grid can’t handle Biden’s climate rule, industry groups say
Power producers say squeezing fossil fuels will worsen the strains on the grid, though EPA’s backers say those risks are manageable.
Biden administration’s new greenhouse gas rule is designed to drive drastic changes in how U.S. power companies produce electricity — but utilities say it could escalate the risk of outages as it squeezes fossil fuel plants into retirement.
Power producers are already warning that the rule threatens to compromise the power network’s reliability by pushing their older, dirtier coal and gas plants into retirement at an even faster pace than they are closing now. They say it’s especially worrisome if the plants aren’t replaced as quickly as they shut down.
Power outages reached an all-time high in 2020 and are on the rise because of major climate-fueled weather disasters, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The average person went seven hours without power in 2021 compared with less than four hours in 2013
Meanwhile, the shift to electric vehicles and a push to switch other types of energy demand to electricity is expected to boost U.S. power consumption by 12 percent to 22 percent between 2021 and 2030, requiring a significant increase in generation capacity.
“We’ve already got reliability concerns,” said Todd Snitchler, president and CEO of the Electric Power Supply Association, which represents power plant owners. He noted that many coal plants have already retired after the Obama administration released its never-enforced power plant climate rule in 2015 — and that Biden’s rule is also targeting gas-fired plants for steep pollution cut
Need not worry…we won’t need electric soon enough
hahaha excellent https://t.me/leaklive/14151
Fight in a gas station between two men.
Wait till there ain’t no gas to be pumped.
I was there back in the days of long lines and Out of GAS SIGNS AFTER WAITING AN HOUR
THIS TIME WILL BE DIFFERENT
When gas prices are held down, rationing comes through long lines and service outage. This has happened several times in the Atlanta area, when there was a shortage of gasoline because of hurricane outages in the Gulf of Mexico or pipeline problems from the gulf. Publicity would go out that “price gouging” would not be permitted. Atlanta is far enough away from Texas that it would not have enough gasoline, unless prices were high enough to justify trucking in gasoline supply. Also, trucks carrying the fuel needed to be able to work longer hours.
Now the way gas prices are held down is indirect–EU sanctions against Russian oil and a price limit of $60 per barrel. Producers now need higher prices, in order to drill in high-cost areas. Producers now look like they are making a lot of money, but it is really because they have no places to drill for additional oil, as current wells get depleted because prices are too low.
Large smoke!!! OMG https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/77418
hahaha… would this not be priceless if they blamed Phase Two of the Binary Poison on: https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/77346
Consider the following:
The death toll from Covid — is roughly the same as it would be from a bad flu season… probably the same as a normal flu season — if we stripped out the Redeathisnear and Midazolam murders + the policy of not providing antibiotics and other drugs that would normally be given to people with severe respiratory disease (remember them saying – go home and only come back when you are really really sick?).
Then of course there was this sort of thing
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/new-zealand-man-who-died-of-gunshot-wound-to-be-recorded-as-covid-19-death-report
Essentially what we have experienced is … the flu.
Covid was packaged as The Black Plague on Steroids… and used to frighten people into locking down and injecting experimental Rat Juice that has seriously f789ed up and killed hundreds of millions (so far).
This is fakery on an epic scale… a monumental scale….
Ya don’t think they’d fake the UKEY war? All those fake clips I have posted… hmmmm… why would you need to post fake video … surely it would be easier — and more click baity … to post clips of real war …
Maybe it is a fake. What iis the motivation????
Could it be that many in positions of power/ influence don’t have science backgrounds but basically people influencing backgrounds? They can’t evaluate, don’t have the background but want to be involved. It leads to mistaken policy, not malicious, but mistaken.
Dennis L.
No – not maybe. 100% fake. No doubt about
Motivation?
https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220
Let symptoms be aware
Between lines of hope
As doctors paid well
And truth nor dare
Will save the Pope
From going to hell
Saturday morning fun fun fun….
I’ve just send this through to a few midwives this morning …. anonymously of course.
Nothing like punching someone in the face with truth and facts.
What do you think norm?
Spike in Miscarriages, Fetal Deaths, Uterus Shedding: Fertility Doctor on Vaccine Side Effects in Pregnant Women
It is an absolutely incendiary interview….
I also absorbed something that had remained hidden to me until this time..
Not only do the LNP’s and the mRNA traverse the placental barrier…
They also bio accumulate in the OVARIES OF THE UNBORN FEMALE CHILD…
and based on 2014 research on LNP’s….PFIZER KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN
The implications are just too great to begin to understand
https://www.theepochtimes.com/spike-in-miscarriages-fetal-deaths-uterus-shedding-fertility-doctor-on-vaccine-side-effects-in-pregnant-women_4571315.html?
Longstanding principle: You never use an investigational drug during pregnancy. Covid vaccine ignored this principle.
(Bloomberg)
Ukraine needs other 30 billion dollars.
US + EU + UK + AUS + NZ taxpayers’ need to pay and shut up.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-11/ukraine-needs-more-than-a-30-billion-arsenal-for-counterstrike?leadSource=uverify%20wall
https://archive.is/6wtwi
What Ukraine needs is solders. It need EU, UK, US bodies to do the dying.
CGI tech is not cheap. Nor are crisis actors … then there are those shells they fire into empty buildings… it all adds up
Oh and Zelensky and his entourage are not doing this for nothing … they need to get paid so they can enjoy more Blow and Rent Boys
A total of $67 billion has been donated to Ukraine so far. It needs at least $30 billion (or close to half of the previously spent amount), to have a chance of winning. European countries are pretty much out of supply. Even the US has trouble keeping up with required supply.
An expensive movie costs around 500 million dollars…
In addition to the epic film they are making the Dems are using this to line their pockets… so easy to see how the numbers are approaching 100b.
Ukraine has zero percent chance of winning with any amount of Western weapons, unless the Rooskies inexplicably start to do unbelievably stupid things.
Western arms are not designed to effectively fight a peer, but to maximise profits and payoffs in the MIC circus.
Refer F35 and many other failures.
UKR is having a go, but it is not really working out for them.
Ukraine embarrassed as Soledar counteroffensive ‘fails’; Russian Army ‘thwarts’ 26 attacks
‘They’ did accomplish another failed state though. Imagine what it will produce, and not consume. Ukraine is another great success. Hundreds of thousands can do the low paid jobs, and the EU can stop the inflow of bearded believers. See Youtube.beyond. Musk already bought a few triple forked shares.
NATO has failed in its strategy.
UKR workers would not lower other immigration, but the geopolitical fallout to the failure of the west in UKR may have some effect.
Capitalist economies are essentially about growth. They grow, and then they grow more. They do not ‘stop’ growing just because they have reached a certain size. Only limits of some kind, resources or labour, ends growth. The assimilation of UKR workers would not stop the assimilation of other workers.
And with declining fertility rates, and aging populations across Europe, it would take a lot more than just UKR workers just to maintain the economic societies let alone to grow them going forward.
Only limits to growth are going to limit economic migration.
Countertendencies to growth in the west from the UKR war would include: geopolitical weakening, weakening of the dollar, energy deprivation, inflation, recession. That is liable to impact on migration patterns (and likely not end them).
The real impact on growth and on migration patterns will be from the failure of NATO geopolitical strategy.
They really did not intend those outcomes.
(Not that I am focused on migration, but some seem to be.)
Capitalist economies? Full faith & credit? Housing affordibilty? Migrants? Inflation at 2% target?
Search & destroy? #fightforyourright
Brain quantity is no guarantee for success.
You live in a capitalist society that functions through growth.
Presumably you want to live in a capitalist society, so you are going to have to accept the consequences of that.
You cannot have a capitalist society without growth, because that is what it is all about.
Productivity growth is basically collapsed in UK since 2008, and GDP growth now depends basically entirely on labour expansion.
If that impacts on housing, then campaign about more houses.
But the government is in budget deficit, and private companies are building when and where it is profitable for them to do so.
That is how it goes.
You cannot have a capitalist society that functions through growth without the consequences of that growth.
And you certainly have no ‘right’ to do so.
I am not sure what you expect anyone to do about that.
It is built into the system, and it is what is.
If you are worried about workers with beards, then the greatest number of workers who now enter Britain are Indian, Nigerian and Chinese, over and above UKR refugees, and most of them do not wear beards.
The government is focused on higher skilled workers now, which is what Brexit campaigners wanted and campaigned for, and that largely means Indians, Nigerians and Chinese.
Of course, an economy needs workers at all levels, and if the government is not getting lower skilled workers as well, then the implication is that local workers will do a higher proportion of the low skilled work.
But that is in effect what Brexit campaigners campaigned for, when they insisted that future migrants should be high skilled, which most of the British workforce is not.
They wanted the ‘brightest and the best’ from all over the world, that is what they are getting, and it leaves them where it leaves them.
I am not sure what they now expect anyone else to do about that.
You do what you do and it has consequences. You live in a capitalist society and that has consequences.
It is not only about intelligence, although that plays an important role, it is also about instincts and having a clue what you are doing.
Then complaining does not really change anything.
And frankly this society is working pretty well, and I am quite happy with it.
Migration does not bother me. Why would it?
The society relies on growth, and it is growing, which is how the society works.
I am over it.
This society is not ‘perfect’, but they never are.
It is what it is, and it is probably best to just get over it.
I am way, way beyond this crap, mirror.
I live.
Kinda reminds me of those war movies
How true. 2% target. It ain’t there anymore. Do you feel lucky? Punk?
The Hindustani Times says that the Ukrainian counteroffensive did not go well at all. It was a “rout.”
Oh dear, the UKR ‘counter-offensive’ is really not working out.
Russian forces eliminate over 1600 Ukrainian troops in 24 hours with heavy assault on frontline
Any videos of the fire fighting?
@Cromagnon, i was thinking of your comment about regenerative farming and pastures. i do generally agree with your take that the life of a shepherd in the mountains is in many ways preferable to a “civilised” life, so i wonder if you know about the nabateans. they were a civilisation that chose to live in the middle of a desert just so that everyone would leave them alone, a worthy ideal! 3 hours of history nerd heaven:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSfFq02pK4s
and a random comment; 2 years or so ago, someone here posted about watching a bout of fisticuffs in front of a kebab van in amersham and how the reaction of a few women watching changed his view of the fairer sex. i nearly replied to that, but am indeed a lurker by nature, so didn’t, but the comment remains with me, as i went to school in amersham…should whoever posted that happen to read this, if your old headmaster went by the name of jake, i’d be most entertained to know that “through hard work, to the stars” has led 2 individuals to OFW.
Many thanks, Those Nabateans inhabit rough country. Petra is like a miraculous mirage in such a place.
Camels have a future……
Underwater archaeologists have identified a submerged temple of the Nabataeans, with the discovery of two marble altars from the Roman period.
The temple remains are located off the coast of Pozzuoli, situated on the Phlegrean Peninsula in the Italian region of Campania.
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/04/archaeologists-identify-a-submerged-temple-of-the-nabataeans-in-pozzuoli/146880
During the Roman period, the Nabataean kingdom was an ally of Rome that ruled a territory stretching from the Euphrates to the Red Sea. The kingdom served as a bulwark between Rome and the wild hordes of the desert, centred on the capital city of Petra.
At the time, Pozzuoli, known as Puteoli in antiquity, was the main hub for goods exported from Campania. The Nabataeans established a base at Puteoli and constructed a shrine dedicated to the tutelary god, Dusares.
Due to the position of Puteoli in the Phlegraean Fields, an active and volatile volcanic region, local volcanic bradyseismic activity raised and lowered the geology on the peninsula that resulted in parts of Puteoli being submerged.
In a press announcement by the Minister for Civil Protection and Marine Policies, Nello Musumeci, and the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, two marble altars from the early 1st century AD where unveiled that were part of a now submerged temple complex constructed by the Nabataeans.
Minister Sangiuliano said: “Ancient Puteoli reveals another of its treasures which testifies to the richness and vastness of commercial, cultural and religious exchanges in the Mediterranean basin in the ancient world.”
Saw this article on the front page of BBC News this morning:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65569337
Whatever the title of the link was, it wasn’t what is on the page now. I had no idea what the article was about, if I did I would not have clicked. The article is about two of the best-known tv presenters in the UK. They head up one of the breakfast tv programmes, and apparently have fallen out. Who gives a **** someone might write. This is what caught my attention:
“And of course Holly has herself been ill with shingles.”
Holly is what we used to call in olden times the female part of the double act.
If I am not mistaken, shingles these days is a hint that someone might be vaxx injured. Is Holly about to suffer from died suddenly? She is only 42 y.o.
One of the UK’s best known tv presenters Paul O’Grady died a few weeks ago, 28 March, aged 67. One of the national newspapers actually quoted O’Grady as saying he got progressively more ill after each dose of the vaxx, and after the latest one a few months ago, he could not work any more, too ill. Can’t find that article, but this one gives O’Grady’s cause of death as, you guessed it ,SADS:
Paul O’Grady’s cause of death confirmed after star died at home age 67
https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1758649/Paul-Ogrady-cause-of-death-cardiac-arrest-heart-disease
“…The 67-year-old’s death certificate reveals that he died from sudden cardiac arrhythmia. … According to the British Heart Foundation, sudden arrhythmic death syndrome, or SADS, is when someone dies suddenly following a cardiac arrest and no obvious cause can be found.”
Very odd that a national newspaper (or anyone else) would report “cause of death confirmed” then state cause of death unknown (no obvious cause can be found). So stupid that it is funny.
Ye olde known unknowns. “to early seen unknown…and known to late” from romeo and juliet
Personally, I don’t like these unvaxxed people.
But they DO have rhythm.
Sunday is Mother’s Day in USA but for reasons I won’t go too far I feel absolutely nothing towards my mother.
Gail, a mother herself, might find this offensive. If she doesn’t approve it I will just write it in my own dormant blog.
There is a classic story called the Yearling, written by Majorie Kinnan Rawlings, who was born i Washington DC but married someone from Florida and moved there.
Long story short, Jody, a poor boy, decides to raise Flag, a yearling deer. His parents, very cold and heartless monsters with absolutely zero affection for him, orders to kill the deer, the only thing Jody ever held dear in his life, because it ate the scant crops.
Being an obedient son, he kills Flag, tries to run away from all these despair but is brought home.
In a reddit post I wrote long time ago I said Jody should instead have shot his father and mother since they were toxic to his life.
Someone, apparently from the Florida region covered by the book, argued Jody’s father and mother loved him in their way by teaching the harshness of life.
Another spectator commented about why I and the other guy got excited about a story where a cute animal gets killed.
We don’t know what would have happened to Jody if he got rid of his insensitive parents. We do know what happened to Jody and his descendants, since Rawlings, whose husband fell into hard times during the Depression, rented a room from Jody’s grandson and his wife, who are the models for Jody’s animalike father and mother. Having enough of Florida, Rawlings divorced her husband, left Florida. and eventually severed any connection she had with it. Chances are Jody’s living descendants are among those who are featured in the Florida Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_rABkPGSY
and are now campaigning for DeSantis.
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There are a lot of people who have lost all humanity and have regregated into animal level. Most people here are kinda intelligent and are at least somewhat affluent.
I have plenty, plenty experience with animalike people who have given up the right to be called humans. After TPTB ends the people who have built civilization will have to deal with such kind of animals who can no longer be called human.
Woah, heavy!
Remember it’s still BAU party time baby. The blog doctor is IN and prescribes you a ticket to party to chase dem blues away.
A massive new US embassy complex in Lebanon is causing controversy for its sheer size and opulence in a country where nearly 80% of the population is under the poverty line.
Located some 13 kilometers (about 8 miles) from the center of Beirut, the US’ new embassy compound in Lebanon looks like a city of its own.
Sprawling over a 43-acre site, the complex in the Beirut suburb of Awkar is almost two-and-a-half times the size of the land the White House sits on and more than 21 soccer fields.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/05/12/middleeast/massive-us-embassy-middle-east-mime-intl/index.html
Many Lebanese on Twitter questioned why the US needs such a large embassy in their capital. Lebanon is smaller than Connecticut and has a population of just six million. Few American tourists go to the country as the State Department has placed it on the third highest travel advisory level, but it does have a sizeable population of Lebanese American residents.
“Did the US move to Lebanon??” tweeted Sandy, a social media activist.
“Maybe you’ll have enough room to work on all those pending visa applications,” tweeted Abed A. Ayoub, national executive director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, responding to the grandiosity of the new complex.
….The US embassy in Lebanon did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.
The US has had a turbulent history with Lebanon. It is the home of Iran-backed Hezbollah, the most powerful group in the country, but has nonetheless enjoyed friendly relations with the US.
““Did the US move to Lebanon??” tweeted Sandy, a social media activist.”
Why did you read the Bible, God said, a social media activist.
Florida Marquis’ answer to your question is, YES. For continuity of government once the federal checks stop being sent out and the nation is burning.
Even if the US isn’t still building big military bases around the world, it sounds like it is building an oversized embassy in a very poor country, Lebanon. According to the article,
“Sprawling over a 43-acre site, the complex in the Beirut suburb of Awkar is almost two-and-a-half times the size of the land the White House sits on and more than 21 soccer fields.”
Is the US government paying for all of this? Out of the budget for the military?
Apparently, it is a statement to the region, that Uncle Sam ain’t going away any time soon.
Good point!
Maybe they can project manage the construction of the new temple.
This may have been shared by someone already. If so, my apologies.
Art Berman lays out the energy situation for the US as of the beginning of 2023. The most important conclusion is that the energy we are getting out of the ground these days has about half the energy content of what was drilled 30 years ago.
https://youtu.be/CDBJdQnjE2o?t=3325
It’s been posted a few times, but not everyone might have seen it, and at any rate if Eddy can post off-topic stuff 24/7, why not periodically review something that’s actually on-topic? Anyway, I don’t recall him saying the energy content is half – that seems an exaggeration to me. Is there a time point to back it up?
Half, I don’t think we could survive that big a fall. I think his point is total energy available is falling, and that is enough to bring about – what exactly he does not say but we can speculate here. Our favourite topic.
Ivani, FE and norm are the same person. A Jeckyll and Hyde.
Dominance won’t provide you with answers. Only questions.
My preferred conspiracy is that Gail is actually both Norm and Eddy.
That is a fairly unlikely conspiracy.
a good conspiracy will always find a home—and sustenance
how much do you want to keep quiet about it hout?
A lot.
i obviously cant afford ofw
blackmail is obviously very profitable
I had a dream… a nightmare actually…
norm captured Hoolio and was attempting to breed him with Super Snatch and monetize with a plan to upload this unholy engagement by uploading it to beast-p-orn.
But Hoolio was having none of it leaving norm frustrated — norm was flipping through a Rayburn manual trying to find the answer of how to get a dog to service a festering diseased giant squaw — and then I woke up.
eddy
i can recommend a course in creative wrtitng
but it is a gift really—either you can do it—or you cant—people pay me to write—always a good indicator
picking out letters from a scrabble bag wont cut it i’m afraid
Not bad for the day’s first post… huh.
Leave Hoolio out of it. Good morning Vietnam….
Well worth a view — so often, they mix “apples & oranges”, with these things.
Like the man said, if you close the door on reality, it comes in through the window.
The way I looked at the situation is that the US department of Energy saw it was running into a problem and purposely started talking about a broader category: “Liquids.” All the things add on, such as ethanol and Natural gas Liquids, had less energy content.
In fact, the oil extracted from shale formations tends to be “lighter” as well. It produces less diesel and more natural gas liquids than oil drilled 20 years ago..
In the past, the humans used animals for suppressing other species.
Today the humans use animals as friends, as the humans started to behave like animals, compromising hygiene and destroying the human environment.
Interesting way of putting it.
Humans have been trying to tame animals for a long time. In doing so, they have tended to catch diseases from them.
Now, at least, we have antibiotics and antivirals that can help. If we lose this help, we will have real problems.
Of course it also conferred certain advantages to Old World immune systems by allowing resistance to zoonotic diseases while allowing the host to transmit to other non “blessed” humans…..
Cowpox….smallpox….
NBC News
https://www.yahoo.com/news/least-2-cases-drug-resistant-205646026.html
At least 2 cases of drug-resistant ringworm infections found in the U.S., CDC says
Two cases of highly contagious, drug-resistant ringworm infections have been detected in New York City — the first such cases reported in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.
The infection was first identified in a 47-year-old woman who had developed a bad case of ringworm, also known as tinea, while traveling in Bangladesh.
A rash had erupted across most of her body and typical antifungal creams did nothing to alleviate it.
“My radar went up immediately,” said Dr. Avrom Caplan, an assistant professor of dermatology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, who treated the patient and was one of the report’s authors.
The woman’s infection turned out to be caused by a relatively new species of ringworm-causing fungus, called Trichophyton indotineae. Over the past decade, infections from this drug-resistant fungus have spread rapidly in South Asia, likely driven by overuse of medications to treat them, including topical antifungals and corticosteroids, the CDC report said.
The woman’s case spurred Caplan to ask his colleagues if they had seen similar infections. He soon discovered a second case in a 28-year-old New York woman.
That woman had developed ringworm across much of her body during the summer of 2021. In this case, however, the patient had not traveled outside the U.S.
Neither woman had underlying health conditions that might increase their risk for drug-resistant infections.
Caplan alerted public health officials about the two cases in February. Outside Asia, cases have been identified in Europe and Canada.
Trichophyton indotineae’s emergence in the U.S. did not surprise Dr. Jill Weatherhead, an assistant professor of infectious diseases and tropical medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
“We’ve learned over the years, especially with the Covid pandemic, that something happening in another part of the world is likely to happen in our part of the world at some point,” said Weatherhead, who was not involved with the new report.
Like drug-resistant bacteria, drug-resistant fungi are a serious public health concern. Cases of Candida auris, another type of drug-resistant fungal infection, have been spreading in health care facilities in the U.S. That infection is extremely difficult to treat and can be deadly.
“We’re always so focused on antimicrobial resistance as it relates to bacteria that we forget that those rules also apply to fungi,” said Dr. Adam Friedman, professor and chair of dermatology at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences.
Friedman, who was not involved with the new report, said he has witnessed an uptick in patients with fungal infections whose conditions either take longer to respond to usual treatments or require additional medications.
“If you are treating something with a drug that you expect would work, but it doesn’t get better, you need to go back to the drawing board,” he said.
Just imagine what life will be like in the future without all the BAU bandaids…
Horrible…
Why would you call a fungus ‘ringworm’? Misleading methinks, a worm is not a fungus. Coincidentally currently reading a book about fungi called ‘Entangled Life’ by Merlin Sheld. Bits of it are very interesting but I cannot recommend it. If you can get copy from your local library where I will donate my copy, sure go ahead.
Ringworm is a common infection of the skin and nails that is caused by fungus. The infection is called “ringworm” because it can cause an itchy, red, circular rash. Ringworm is also called “tinea” or “dermatophytosis.” The different types of ringworm are usually named for the location of the infection on the body.
https://www.cdc.gov › definition
About Ringworm | Ringworm | Types of Diseases | Fungal Diseases | CDC
According to
https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/infections-and-poisoning/ringworm-and-other-fungal-infections#:~:text=Ringworm%20is%20a%20common%20fungal,anything%20to%20do%20with%20worms.
Some doom for college towns.
“I work in higher education, the professional graduate degree market. Most of our degress are for training in energetically intensive discretionary or investment sectors (e.g commercial RE, IT management, etc). 80 percent of buyers are financed with student loans. They take programs on the expectation of future income increase providing more than enough to pay off the loans.
For the semester about to begin, we are down 25 percent YoY and recruitment for the upcoming semesters is also trending significantly below normal, a steeper drop than pandemic-era Summer 2020. And higher-ed is known as a counter-cyclical. Not this time.
There is palpable panic around the leadership table.”
This is a comment from TM https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2023/05/06/255-the-emerging-modified-consensus/
No way to verify, hints the college, private housing market may have some issues going forward.
My guess is medicine is going to have some real bumps, in La Crosse when I was active there, Medicare/Medicaid were just shy of 50% of gross hospital/clinic income. The old are going to have to leave the lifeboats and swim for it, metaphorically speaking of course.
Dennis L.
We certainly are headed for some bumps in the road.
“Services” can’t continue at the level they have been at. Higher education is one of them. Healthcare is another.
Also, young people who aren’t working can’t afford housing with a bedroom and bath for each student, plus a fancy cafeteria with lots of choice of fancy food.
I am told that a winning football team is important, too, (also an overhead cost) because such a team helps draw male students, and they are the ones that tend to be big givers to universities in the long run.
The Truth About Adjunct Professor Poverty
Chad A Haag Philosophy Channel
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q90HN8CGzE8&t=864s
The same precarity extends to those who work in allied academic services as well. This US style operation of universities is definately in the process of being imported to europe and oceania.
Chad A Haag Philosophy Channel
That’s really unfortunate- every time someone in India tells me they are Americanizing something I always say DON’T DO IT! It’s just a guarantee to crash a functioning system
You’d think that with the incredibly over-priced college tuitions in the United States along with the budget they get from the government, they’ll have the human decency to pay an employee a decent wage to live on.
Chad A Haag Philosophy Channel
Right, the most ridiculous thing is for adjuncts to write articles blaming the Republican politicians for cutting state funding to the universities as though that’s the ONLY reason they are being paid less than Taco Bell drive thru employees – never mind all the billions of dollars the university is already swimming in from tuition payments and government funding. This sort of delusion where the exploited join the chorus demanding more tax dollars to end up in administrators’ hands is truly sad to see from people who should be smart enough to know better
Matt Fletcher
The same precarity extends to those who work in allied academic services as well. This US style operation of universities is definately in the process of being imported to europe and oceania.
Chad A Haag Philosophy Channel
That’s really unfortunate- every time someone in India tells me they are Americanizing something I always say DON’T DO IT! It’s just a guarantee to crash a functioning system
kaploon
You’d think that with the incredibly over-priced college tuitions in the United States along with the budget they get from the government, they’ll have the human decency to pay an employee a decent wage to live on
Chad A Haag PhilosophY
Right, the most ridiculous thing is for adjuncts to write articles blaming the Republican politicians for cutting state funding to the universities as though that’s the ONLY reason they are being paid less than Taco Bell drive thru employees – never mind all the billions of dollars the university is already swimming in from tuition payments and government funding. This sort of delusion where the exploited join the chorus demanding more tax dollars to end up in administrators’ hands is truly sad to see from people who should be smart enough to know better
The business model which began in community colleges almost 50 years ago now dominates academe. Hire the cheapest instructor you can and convert tenure retirements into adjuncts allowing the university to augment admin at the cost of the professoriate. It is profoundly unlikely to change.
It sounds like the teacher’s unions might have worked out a two-tier employment system for incoming teachers. You may be interested in the coverage by the world socialist web site. The unions and the corporatization of life are m-thr-fing workers across the board. That is what it seems like what they must have done. I have not looked at specific teachers’ unions, but the result is the same so it makes me wonder if those are the deals they reached at with the neoliberal administrations.
Chad A Haag Philosophy Channel
Isn’t it ironic that the same “radical Marxist social justice leftist” Academics who make their entire careers condemning capitalist exploitation also profit from the worst example of it in the American economy
My “lived experience” is that after I got my Ph.D. in ethics from a university ranked among the best in the world, I still could not get a teaching job because – so it seemed – my studies were not “woke” enough and I am not a visible minority. I did not go to school for two decades in order to teach “Africana” or “Latinx” or “intersectional” or “postcolonial” ethics. These represent a rejection of universal ethics that started with the Greek philosophers and developed into their modern forms during the Enlightenment and still should be taught today.
The idea of universal human rights, for example, issued from deontological ethics and rational religion. All the teaching ads now seem to want expertise in the new, divisive subjects which seem to exploit and exacerbate cultural divisions for the purpose of fomenting a revolution, to seemingly implement a new (illiberal) world order. Deontology and utilitarianism and virtue ethics are apparently no longer considered important enough in the academy, and if they are covered now it seems to be in a cursory or dismissive fashion.
The triumph of identity politics represents the death of true philosophical inquiry. I’m not sure I’d wish to work in an environment in which such politics dominate and are being forced on everyone and where one is not allowed to freely test ideas and discuss the merits or demerits of an idea as a philosopher should.
The real losers are the students, many of whom are tired of being taught to go along with this narrow-minded political ideology posing as scholarship. The only jobs posted are for these new types of “ethics”, from departments that want to meet the “diversity” mandate to satisfy the college administrations who have caved into this new paradigm out of fear. A book I found that explains this well is Douglas Murray’s The Madness of Crowds. Harold Bloom identified this trend years ago in The Closing of the American Mind.
Chad A Haag Philosophy Channel
Youre right- the real losers are the students, who will feel very differently about the value of all this bullshit when they have to make thousand dollar monthly student loan payments on it for the rest of their lives. The student loan payment is literally a tithe to the religion of progress, something you donate just to ensure that more social justice is being fought for with your money, even if you yourself gain nothing from it. That’s why it’s so comical to claim that campus leftist politics is somehow a stand against the system, it’s a multi multi billion dollar industry and our state religion.
I am among them: still paying off a student loan, over $140 per month – money I cannot afford to pay. I spent 14 years in school (2003 to 2017) to get a Ph.D. The education was valuable for helping me to think through things, but it did not get me financially a job beyond grad school I taught adjunct in several types of courses for 5 years while in grad school, but that experience appears to be worthless after graduation. For example, UC Berkeley now requires new teachers to write a 2 to 3 page statement on how they are furthering diversity, inclusion, and equity. What does any of that have to do with excellence in teaching? I did teach one semester as an adjunct at a low-level college but (like you) was told to dumb it down. Most of the students would have failed if I had kept up minimum academic standards. All this is due to the glut of PhDs in the marketplace. If we had been born 50 or 100 years ago, we would have got assistant professor jobs easily – but now there are just too many applicants for too few jobs. In addition, the curriculum has changed in a way that seems to undermine open philosophical inquiry and academic freedom.
You’re right that helping other students go into debt is wrong. I never thought about that before. How did we get to the point that higher education is a dead-end and even destructive to society, putting students into debt, inhibiting the formation of families as a result, and (not least) undermining core American values through the advancement of bizarre conspiracy theories such as intersectionality? It’s incredible. It’s not what I expected. Still, I appreciate being educated now, despite all that.
Wow, Boy no wonder the young today are in a state of disenfranchisement.
When I went to Community College in the 7, it was like doing an extra 2 years of High School and the other really did not prepare me much
Could of taken a semester for the meaningful courses.
I am not a philosopher and while I recognize the ff issues, they may not be the only or major issue.
Some think there is a fabric of our universe, some mathematicians have come to the conclusion that one does not invent math, one discovers it as a language, set of rules of the universe. Similarly with religion, mine even claims to have been given directly by God.
Religions are a great frustration to the learned, referred to as myths, superstitions. Yet, they are rules of thumb followed not in exactitude, but by trend. They give hope to man and help in times of great stress. We are seeing incredible distress in our academies, deconstruction is apparently the rage, the world does not match certain beliefs. Our universe is not to be changed but understood. Religions can help us understand our place in that universe, acceptance of that understanding can be a challenge. Many learned confuse themselves with God.
Observation: mathematicians, physicists, etc. do not generally make war even though they make the instruments, bankers seem to always be involved in this area along with lawyers who metaphorically seem to look for ways to have sex with your neighbors wife without culpability. Rules exist because that is our universe, changing it is a challenge and a poor bet.
As I repeat, earth is our spaceship, the engineering is superb and dynamic to boot. We are the result of 13.7B years of evolution of the universe, something wants us to go on and so we shall. Bad ideas die, the academy is dying along with a guess, medicine. Medicine has thwarted nature, or the fabric; the population I see is not very healthy, life expectancy in the US is down, not up, something is not working. A guess is corruption by money.
Starship will open the doors to limitless pollution free energy for our spaceship; we will gain knowledge of the fabric of the universe but that knowledge will upset certain sectors greatly, that too shall pass.
For those who see regression, I mention the Amish, whom I see daily; something in their group is working based on physical and biological evidence, their wealth is their children. The Amish accept the land, the rules, they do well.
Dennis L.
The Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics computes Bayes Rule. Whatever is going on accidentally or teleologically, there exists an API to anything that responds to heat. As long as your substance or context encodes something arbitrarily and partially about any correlate, the Zeroth Law transfers the heat and any surviving encoding passes along something about what’s happening.
A non-equilibrium heat state has a shot at inducing more encoding possibilities than a billion year old nanoparticle of cold plasma floating around.
Put down your keyboard, you are typing on holy ground.
Under,
I like the last paragraph, laughing quietly.
Not so sure about the first one, I am fairly comfortable with Bayes, once was very comfortable with thermodynamics.
Dennis L.
Societies change all the time and so do their ‘rules’.
That is why the rules (Law) of the OT no longer applies in the NT.
The supersession of the old law-based covenant is a big thing in the new covenant.
Paul elates with ‘if you are under grace then you are no longer under the law’.
Christian societies have always changed their ‘rules’ with the times, from classical slave-based Empire, to feudal contractual serfs, to now bourgeois ‘liberalism’ which is the big thing now with the churches.
Even socialist Cuba is pretty cool with the churches now, and pope Francis put in a visit. China has ‘Christianity with Chinese characteristics’, in other words a socialist orientation, which is really not that difficult to construct from the Gospels (much easier in fact).
And some societies like our own, and modern China, have their own rules without going really big on the religion thing.
It is nuanced picture, and various religions often play roles in societies, but the point is that societies change according to their conditions and so do their rules. Churches these days are pretty cognizant and cool with that.
The idea that ‘rules’ (laws) are given once and for all totally misses the whole point of the Gospels, and is simply wrong.
The whole ‘primitive rules’ thing is not really mainstream or ‘orthodox’, and it often just a bit of a personal ‘fetish’, the sexual instinct gets distorted into cultural expressions that are non-current.
Arguably it is basically a ‘perversion’, not only of the genuine character of religion as essentially mutable but in the more literal sense, the fetishisation of religion as particular forms out of their essentially current context.
The churches tend to be pretty cognizant of that fetish tendency these days, although handling it is another matter.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uuh0WkHjMYY&t=88s
The Secret Landings on Mars
The Soviets had been developing a space program to send a rover to Mars since 1960. But it wasn’t until the launch of Mars 2 in 1971 that they were close to achieving their objective. However, the rover crashed on the planet after a landing malfunction.
The mission was shortly followed by Mars 3, which completed its goal of becoming the first spacecraft to land on the red planet and capture footage of its rocky surface.
Minutes after its activation, the rover began transmitting data back to Earth. But 14 seconds after it started moving, the first man-made object to reach Mars lost signal.
Before going black, the rover transmitted a fuzzy black and white image. It then went silent forever.
Russia initially kept the Mars 3 landing a secret. And for almost 40 years, the mystery of what happened to the spacecraft remained unanswered. It was until the late 2000s that an astonishing satellite discovery left the space community in awe…
It was not a secret landing. It was publicly known from the time of the USSR era. The landing image of Mars’ surface contained an unusable image full of disturbances and was rotated 180 degrees. Apparently, the position of the rotated module did not allow the transmission of “pixels” longer than 14.5 s to a narrow section of the sky in which the retransmission probe must have been located. You can see the photo here:
https://img.gazeta.ru/files3/817/10396817/Mars_3_Image-pic905-895×505-99.jpg
The US did not want to recognize this landing in 1972 (the Vikings landed only in 1976), but in 2013 they admitted that they secretly captured this poor image from Mars as well.
Going forth beyond the frontier of Nuttie Eddie and Dimmie Timmie…
Fake – as we know from NASA – the van allen belts damage navigation systems and other electronic gear
Ah, come-on now, translation..Eddie has made up his mind it ain’t s, so it ain’t.
Ted—you are hereby cast into the outer darkness as unbeliever—an eddydoubter
next you’ll be saying he’s walking around nekkid
Sweet Home Chicago.
Another key departure rocks the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office.
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/departing-cook-county-prosecutor-upbraids-kim-foxx-in-searing-exit-letter
Described by a former colleague as “one of the hardest working men I have ever worked with,” Assistant State’s Attorney Jason Poje resigned from the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office on May 5. In his 20 years serving residents of Cook County, the last 10 of which he served as Felony Trial First Chair, Mr. Poje established a sterling record as an ASA and earned the respect and admiration of his associates in the CCSAO. While Mr. Poje’s resignation e-mail criticizes the direction in which the criminal justice system has turned, collectively from Springfield down to Cook County, he reserves special ire for Kim Foxx, whom he declines to single out by name.
Contrarian has obtained Poje’s exit e-mail to fellow Assistant State’s Attorneys:
“After 20 years, I always kind of figured an email like this would start with “It is with a heavy heart that I leave…” The truth is, I can’t get out of here fast enough. Let me start with the positive. There is not a single day that has gone by that I have not felt truly honored to work with such an incredible group of people who spent every waking hour on behalf of victims. This opportunity has been a gift for which I have no words to explain the extent of my gratitude.
My partners, our Victim/Witness advocates, our Investigators, our support staff, the police officers, detectives, time after time I see each of you putting everything you have into helping people we encounter on the worst days of their lives. So often I see our personal lives, and indeed at times our own well-being, set aside just to do a bit more on that last case for that last victim. It’s been nothing short of inspiring not as a lawyer, but as a person.
And yet, I’m leaving. Why could that be? The simple fact is that this State and County have set themselves on a course to disaster. And the worst part is that the agency for whom I work has backed literally every policy change that has the predictable, and predicted, outcome of more crime and more people getting hurt.
Bond reform designed to make sure no one stays in jail while their cases are pending with no safety net to handle more criminals on the streets, shorter parole periods, lower sentences for repeat offenders, the malicious and unnecessary prosecution of law enforcement officers, the overuse of diversion programs, intentionally not pursuing prosecutions for crimes lawfully on the books after being passed by our legislature and signed by a governor, all of the so-called reforms have had a direct negative impact, with consequences that will last for a generation.
Many years ago, my family found a nice corner of the suburbs. Now my son, who is only 5, hears gunfire while playing at our neighborhood park, and a drug dealer is open-air selling behind my house (the second one in two years). If it were just me to consider, I’d stick it out. I’ve been through enough stupid State’s Attorney policies before. But this Office’s complete failure to even think for a moment before rushing into one popular political agenda after another has put my family directly in harm’s way.
The current people in charge of this state, including the SAO, suffer from a fundamental misunderstanding…we live in a society with adversarial court and criminal justice processes. Defense attorneys, legal aid clinics, Public Defenders, defendant advocate groups…they fight like hell to protect the rights of criminal defendants. Andy they should. Their work is as noble as ours. But we have an obligation to fight like hell on behalf of the People. It should go without saying that this must be done ethically and evenhandedly. When both sides vigorously defend their positions, a balance is reached between protecting rights while preserving some sort of order and safety. Once we start doing too much of the defense’s job, once we pull our punches, once we decide it’s worth risking citizens’ lives to have a little social experiment, that balance is lost.
The unavoidable consequences are what we are witnessing in real time, an increase in crime of all kinds, businesses and families pulling up the stakes, and the bodies piling up; the whole time with a State’s Attorney who insists there is nothing to see here, and if there is, it must be someone else’s fault. And then they wonder why they cannot retain experienced prosecutors or even hire new ones…it’s because any true prosecutor recognizes the importance of this balance, and they will not be permitted to be a prosecutor under this administration.
I will not raise my son here. I am fortunate to have the means to escape, so my entire family is leaving the State of Illinois. I grew up here, my family and friends are here, and yet my own employer has turned it into a place from which I am no longer proud to be, and in which my son is not safe.
To everyone in the trenches in the State’s Attorney’s Office and in law enforcement, my one regret is that I cannot be at your side anymore as you continue to fight to good fight. I do not envy the task you have before you, but you have my utmost respect for carrying on. I hope one day you are successful at returning some kind of common sense and security to our communities.
Thank you all so much for this opportunity to serve. I will treasure every moment of this chapter in my life. Be safe, be well, fight hard.”
Jason F. Poje
Assistant State’s Attorney
I expect that a big part os the problem is not enough inexpensive energy to go around and the resulting wage disparity. People in large cities are especially affected, now with more people working from home and downtown areas having more problems. The lack of enforcement of laws seems to go with this as well. It doesn’t work, but it is part of the dynamic that leads to the collapse of these areas.
Yep. welcome to peak oil and failed statehood. Even though political weaponization is at play here, too, politics ultimately has nothing to do with it. The system is becoming overwhelmed. If they were to try and crackdown on crime at this point it would only make things worse, more explosive.Black markets are relief valves during contraction. So is getting high. Open spaces for people. Gentrification was the tip of the spear of the RE bubble, and undertaken to avoid the consequences of peak oil, and it obliterated the relative stability of the black communities over the last ten fifteen twenty years. Pews emptied out, churches shut down. Watching it happen in Portland, OR when I lived there turned my stomach. Now those black children gutted by gentrification are all grown up.
The cost to borrow overnight in Hong Kong jumped to a sixteen-year high as liquidity continued to tighten in the city after repeated currency intervention from authorities.
The overnight Hong Kong interbank offered rate, known as Hibor, climbed 37 basis points to 4.81 percent, the highest since 2007, on Thursday. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has been draining liquidity from the banking system to boost the local dollar, reduce a gauge of interbank liquidity to its lowest since 2008.
https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/2/203609/Cost-of-overnight-borrowing-in-Hong-Kong-jumps-to-16-year-high%C2%A0
There are a lot of little pieces of the system that most of us never think about. Hong Kong is not a big piece of the world, but it is China’s interface with the West. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority seems to be following the West’s policies, somewhat. It needs to raise the Hong Kong’s dollar. Things are going badly.
It is best to hedge the HKD by holding USD. If the peg goes then one can enjoy Hoopla and Ruckus
China’s largest contract chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp posted its sharpest revenue fall in more than ten years, as weak demand for consumer electronics continued to bite.
US stocks dipped on Thursday, as lower commodity prices and jitters over the health of regional banks undercut optimism that the Federal Reserve is set to halt its campaign of interest rate rises.
https://archive.ph/mLnEh#selection-1901.0-1901.196
Wow! It is difficult to make high tech goods without chips.
The spice must flow https://t.me/DowdEdward/3018
Oh MY F789ing GAWD!!! I was scanning the Telegram … and I came across this clip of anna – yes this is the OFW anna – multi jabbed ….
Apparently she escaped from the Asylum with help from Dunc…… and within hours she again lost control of herself and she threatened to kill someone…
Watch as they arrest her and drag her back to the Asylum… poor anna.. we warned her not to inject the Rat Juice
https://t.me/leaklive/14138
long lasting obsession eddy?
whem I’m gone from OFW how long will you obsess over me?
Gone? Did that 7th Rat Juice Booster not go well norm?
“Living here in the shadows of that terrible but necessary struggle, you can’t help but be keenly attuned to that long war’s losses and its victories. They haunt and inspire your inner life, and affirm daily your commitment to this nation’s founding principles. It’s almost as if the enduring, embattled voices in the winds that move over the fields and farms and waters and through the forests and in the still of the night have tutored you in the wages of freedom without you ever having learned about it in your textbooks and history classes at school. You know it, too, from your own life here and now in this epic war out to crush the deep and abiding urgencies of the human spirit.
The trees are budding, the flowers are blooming, the grass is growing—all on their own accord. It is as humanly enchanting as it is divinely destined. They know what to do because God designed them like that. Likewise for you, that world in which you and so many others once lived and enjoyed is so last winter, a world in which you now feel completely maladapted. So, you replant yourself in the perennial garden that God designed for us: a free world. And aspire to live the way in which God created us: as the salt of the earth and the light unto the world.”
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/05/no_author/863243-2/
James Kullander talks in the post about problems we are all familiar with:
Another:
“Elon Musk Tweeted: “The woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters.” ”
Later:
” This is all a part of the psychopathic regime’s crusade of cultural nihilism, which in its fiendish eyes must take place because Western civilization—particularly American civilization—must completely collapse so a new world order of the Great Reset can be swept in.”
The paragraphs quoted above are the very end of the post. Kullander seems to be looking for a change for the better.
Great Reset =
https://youtu.be/LHv2dIM3t9I
Uprising – race wars… https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/47843
It just occurred to me … why would they be allowing tens of thousands of illegal immigrants into countries? Obviously that is gonna end in violence…
Maybe the Devil is asserting himself… and he wants chaos. Same goes for injecting billions with the deadly experiment
see norm keith — it’s fun to change your mind https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/47836
pure gold
funny
They laugh about the coming hearth attack.
Nietzsche’s ‘affirmation of all things’ is kind of parallel to devotional theology and ‘submission to the will of God’. It is to unite oneself to the flow of the cosmos in all things, be they usually ‘desired’ or not.
For devotional theology, it is submission to inscrutable providence; for Nietzsche, it is the eternal cosmic ‘joy’ in inexhaustible creation, of which destruction is a means, indeed a spur onward.
He does not seem to have obtained the insight through asceticism at least understood chastely; perhaps he is being ironic there.
And thus war, it is just the cosmos ‘joyfully’ doing its thing, creating and destroying like it always does. It is a spur onward toward the renewed creation.
An unquantified amount of organisms perish daily, of all species from bacteria, plants, animals, all the way to humans; it is really just what the earth always does.
Animals, and indeed plants, are in competition, and indeed combat, all the time; it is how the earth ‘works’.
One can joyfully ‘affirm’ the cosmos as it is, and how it works, or one can be miserable about it. Either way, the cosmos continues onward.
Obviously ‘ethics’ (or moral theology) is the more ‘superficial’ of the disciplines, but it occupies an important place of its own. ‘Devotional theology’ is less well known and understood.
> The psychology of the orgiastic, as an overflowing feeling of life and strength where even pain acts as a stimulus, gave me the key to the concept of tragic feeling, a concept that had been misunderstood by Aristotle and even more by our pessimists…. Saying yes to life, even in its strangest and harshest problems; the will to life rejoicing in its own inexhaustibility through the sacrifice of its highest types – that is what I called Dionysian, that is the bridge I found to the psychology of the tragic poet. Not to escape horror and pity, not to cleanse yourself of a dangerous affect by violent discharge – as Aristotle thought -: but rather, over and above all horror and pity, so that you yourself may be the eternal joy in becoming, – the joy that includes even the eternal joy in negating . . . And with this I come back to the place that once served as my point of departure – the ‘Birth of Tragedy’ was my first revaluation of all values: and now I am back on that soil where my wants, my abilities grow – I, the last disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, I, the teacher of eternal return . . . – TOTI, What I Owe the Ancients, 5
Yes, dissipative structures always die and are replaced by other dissipative structures, in the cycle of nature.
This comment talks about plants and animals. It is really a much broader situation than this.
-It is the bed rock that is exposed, and naturally erodes to form at least part of soil that gradually changes.
-It is the cycle of growth and changes in all ecosystems, including forests, grasslands, and other ecosystem. We expect coral reefs to disappear and perhaps be replaced by different kinds of structures.
-It is the cycle of climates that is ever changing and adapting. We don’t understand all of the forces behind these changes. We humans are not in charge.
-It is the cycle of governments and governmental organizations. The ones we have will necessarily collapse. They may be replaced by different kinds of organizations.
-It is the cycle of businesses. Such businesses tend to grow for a while. They often become more stable. They eventually collapse or are “bought out” by another larger business.
Yes, the world (or cosmos) is a flux, and all things in it.
Being is Becoming, as Heraclitus put it.
It is the constant production of new forms and structures, their coming to be and passing away, their growth, and their passing from one into another.
All forms pass from non-being into being and back into non-being, while the matter of which they are constructed remains; all structures pass from a being-this to a being-that as the energy finds new expressions.
The situation of flux is ‘universal’ in time and space.
Everything that is has come to be an endless process of coming forth and giving way. Us too, and all that has ever been and shall yet be.
As humans, we are capable of seeing things as they ‘are’ in that sense of universal becoming, and perhaps also of rejoicing in the Reality that is itself, and that is anything, in its flux.
Joy not only in Being, but in Becoming, and affirmation of the All, the Whole in its totality and its fluidity, in its negation as well as its construction, for both sides are just as necessary.
So, war is just the same thing as is going on everywhere else. It is fundamentally the same processes that underly the being and the flux of the cosmos; structures in their motion.
We are perhaps socially conditioned to approach wars in certain ways, that are formalised and even institutionalised, but those are not the only, and certainly not the profoundest or even the happiest ways to approach them. Society does not get to control everything all the time.
We can step beyond the personal and the groupish to the totality in motion – without necessarily ignoring the former, which are also a part of the totality, a comprehensiveness of experience.
War is a process not only of ‘giving’, as memorials tend to have it, but also of ‘taking’. For whatever reasons, the ‘plebs’ are expected to mark war in only the one aspect. They are expected to be essentially miserable and to honour ‘giving’, with no recognition of joy and ‘taking’. Society is no longer ‘morally’ capable of that, and it is not necessarily psychologically healthy that it is not.
In reality, it is all going on, giving and taking, and a well disposition toward the totality, toward the cosmos as it is, goes beyond those social expectations and affirms all of the aspects of the endless flux.
Life absolutely is a taking as well as a giving; life is essentially growth, expansion, appropriation, and basically society needs to get over that.
Life is what it is, and we can be joyful about that and not miserable. We can affirm life in the totality of its character and in its activities.
Or we can affirm an imaginary world in which basic organic processes, life processes, competition, taking, do not apply – the unreal, and essentially anti-life, as the ‘good’, which would essentially be a denial, a disaffirmation of this world.
The real world is ‘good’ and all things in it in their real character and activities. Being is good with all that implies. The world is good, life is good and I affirm it just as it is. Amen, may it (the All) be so just as it is.
(The multiverse may be another matter, about which we do not really know much, but even so, each dimension would be its own frame of reference; being in this world is Being in this world.)
What if… all social media and search engines were created by the Deep State… for the purpose of monitoring and controlling the mob… and the ‘founders’ were installed as figure heads… kinda like how Elon was installed as the Messiah of Tech.
https://sagehana.substack.com/p/rockefellers-all-the-way-down-40
The title of this post is
Rockefellers All the Way Down 4.0: “Not for Identification”
Fake Pandemics, Vaccine Passports, Brain Chipper Peter Thiel’s Palantir, Steve Kirsch’s One ID, CBDC. All Roads Converge onto the Slave Planet Fascist Freeway as Foretold in 1969
Important paragraph near the beginning:
“LifeLog would go on to become effectively privatized and unveiled as Facebook.”
Also, and as described in earlier post:
https://sagehana.substack.com/p/everything-is-in-place-and-nobody
He then talks about previous a previous prediction from 1969 by Dr. Richard Day of the Planned Parenthood Association.
“He said the population is growing too fast. Numbers of people living at any one time on the planet must be limited or we will run out of space to live. We will outgrow our food supply and we will over-populate the world with our waste.”
PERMISSION TO HAVE BABIES
“People won’t be allowed to have babies just because they want to or because they are careless. Most families would be limited to two. Some people would be allowed only one, and the outstanding person or persons might be selected and allowed to have three. But most people would [be] allowed to have only two babies. That’s because the zero population growth rate] is 2.1 children per completed family. So something like every 10th family might be allowed the privilege of the third baby.”
REDIRECTING THE PURPOSE OF SEX – SEX WITHOUT
REPRODUCTION AND REPRODUCTION WITHOUT SEX
“He said sex must be separated from reproduction. Sex is too pleasurable, and the urges are too strong, to expect people to give it up. Chemicals in food and in the water supply to reduce the sex drive are not practical. The strategy then would be not to diminish sex activity, but to increase sex activity, but in such a way that people won’t be having babies.”
– – – – – – – – – –
What I know about the subject is that birth control pills were approved for use in 1960. A history by planned parenthood says,
“By 1965, one out of every four married women in America under 45 had used the pill. By 1967, nearly 13 million women in the world were using it.”
Needless to say, the pharmaceutical industry wanted to extend its reach even farther. At the same time, there was a real problem because a combination of factors were allowing a much higher percentage of babies to live to maturity. The result was an awfully lot of women with many children. I know that I am one of seven children.
In the 1960s, there was a real push to get women to use birth control. Part of this was to point out the obvious problem that we seemed to be reaching: population that was growing too rapidly.
The problem indirectly came from the rapid growth in cheap to produce oil and other energy, after World War II. Families felt wealthy enough to live on a single income. Women would decide that they might as well have several children as one or two, if they could afford them and didn’t need to work outside the home. Cake mixes and clothes washers were among many of things women had available to them. Also grocery delivery services.
I know that in the 1972 book, The Limits to Growth, the successful scenario was one in which population growth was held to zero. It was my understanding that this would be done by strictly regulating whether women could have to keep population flat. I would have to go back to look at the book to see how much was said about how this was to be done. My guess was that will longer life expectancies, a lot of families would have at most one child.
My impression was that the number of deaths for each upcoming year would be estimated, and only the number of births to match these deaths would be permitted. This would be the case in every country.
The successful scenario seemed to be based on shifting to nuclear (although this was not directly stated). The scenario also planned for continuing improvement in productivity.
So the things being talked about fit in very much with an earlier advance in the pharmaceutical industry.
Young people with advanced education today are quite aware of the overpopulation issue. They are also dealing with the problems of wage disparity and of student debt. They end up having few or no children.
the baby restriction thing has been tried before
if you restrict births, then there has to be no-choice euthaniasia for the sick and elderly
because care requires energy input, without new children, the energy will not be there
This is false. The sick and old will die automatically without any outside intervention.
you can die ”automatically” from a heart attack or the wheels of a bus
unfortunately most of us dont have such luck
right now, I’m watching a friend of 40 years die very very slowly as his body dies around him
today he didn’t know me—i want release for him from it all—no doubt he does as well, but there’s no automatic termination of the situation
instead he has 24/7 care from young people, who, had there been birth restrictions, would not be there
he is doubly incontinent, so no—a robot would not take care of that. (in case that is your tran of thought.)
what happens if a sick child needs care—does the child die automatically too?
not offering solutions, just stating facts as they are
A few years ago I read that 20% of UK couples have no children, a mix of can’t have and chose not to have. Last year I saw an article that stated 40% of British young people (Can’t remember the actual age range) are single, so that is probably 20%+ now. Yes, quite a few Brits have 3+ children, but not enough to compensate for the 20%+ who have none. Massive immigration ensures our population continues to rise, from about 50 M in 1951, 59 M in 2001 ,and 69 M today:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingdom
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/uk-population/
We are a very over-crowded country. But there are places here (northern UK) where I can go walking in the hills and meet no-one, see lots of deer and birds of prey, fanaticise it is game over already.
I don’t think stopping population growth would end well… see Japan…. they get away with it by piling on debt … while the rest of the world looks away… but if the entire world did this….
Poor Hoolio is traumatized by what you did to him norm… that is disgraceful behaviour… really really bad form
you really havent got over my bestiality quip have you eddy
you can get the vax injected
originality you have to be born with
“I don’t think stopping population growth would end well”
That is a result of our economic system, fractional reserve banking, being a Ponzi scheme, a 400-year old scheme that will end with a bang. I just don’t see the move to CBDC solving the issues.
It’s Worse Than We Thought! (THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_UnRBXbyo8
You can see where this is going – shafted if we don’t (reduce population), shafted if we do.
Hello Gail, please let me make a connection here about Rockefeller.
In the below documentary about Palestine, they talked about Rockefeller who started to give funds for migration of European Jews for going to Palestine very before than 1948.
The documentary shows how people in Palestine (Muslims and Christian Orthodox) tried many times to oppose that immigration plan, because feared to be slowly substituted, but UK first and then US soppressed heavily the revolts every time.
Fear
https://www.efinancialcareers.co.uk/news/2023/05/morgan-stanley-layoffs
Wolf Richter has an interesting post up today:
https://wolfstreet.com/2023/05/11/evs-made-the-first-visible-dent-into-gasoline-consumption/
2022 had an increase in miles driven versus 2021, but gasoline consumption declined. EVs are now 7% of sales and 17% in California.
I just today traded in my 2014 “crossover” for a 2021 “crossover,” of the same model. Wolf Ricter’s chart shows crossovers gaining in mileage and in horsepower. I know that my new car has much better headlights. Even though my ‘newer’ car is a used car, the dealer provides a powertrain warranty on it (which is part of the price). The 2014 car had run through any warranty it had. Both cars are gasoline powered.
ugh your are one of those people that run with super bright headlights blinding the other drivers coming the other way. It is becoming a big problem in the states. Sorry don’t like the lights on those at all
Powered by coal
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/covid-vaccine-lifelong-protection-breakthrough-b2336065.html
The Independent (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/covid-vaccine-lifelong-protection-breakthrough-b2336065.html)
Scientists get closer to Covid vaccine that offers lifelong protection
‘In theory, a booster shot of our variant-updated version could provide lifelong protection’
I suspect this is actually true… since life long will be rather short for those shooting up the Rat Juice
Very likely the mRNA sequences stay lifelong and may shorten lives.
Virusses mutate. If the immune system has been in contact with a virus strain it should be able to fight this or alikes for life. The challenge is to recognize mutations. Hopefully they present more than advertising narratives, if they have made a step ahead.
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/dr-sucharit-bhakdis-warning-to-the-world/
Lifelong protection vaccine is finalized.
The vaccine will last all life long, because life will last a couple of years after the vaccine.
BINGO! you win!!!
That was my story until early 2022, when my health took a sudden and dramatic turn. I lost my sense of taste, my appetite, my ability to swallow, and developed massive pain in my back and stomach that continued spreading no matter what I did. I ended up in the hospital dozens of times, but they couldn’t tell me what was wrong with me. Worst of all, I noticed that my body had started wasting away, my muscle and connective tissue dissolving off of me.
Through connecting with others with my similar symptoms and consulting with over 40 different doctors, including 7 different Neurology teams, functional medicine providers, naturopaths, Lyme disease specialists and more, as well as doing my own research, the current best guess from my doctors is that the COVID vaccine set off a number of problems in me, creating a never ending storm of reactivated viruses, waking up dormant Lyme disease, causing autoimmune problems, creating high heavy metal levels and more.
I have lost everything – I cannot work, I cannot enjoy anything thanks to constant pain and weakness, and I am fading fast. I need a miracle – probably a series of miracles – and yet due to the politicization of my problems’ genesis, the vast majority of medical professionals refuse to acknowledge the extent of my issues, and won’t trial any treatments on me to try and help. Meanwhile, I continue wasting away.
I have been diagnosed thus far with major axonal polyneuropathy. I have confirmed nerve damage on EMG, confirmed enlarged / inflamed organs on CT, several bad labs showing heavy metals / Lyme / Epstein Barr virus, and tears in my muscles and tendons on MRI. My ongoing asymmetric muscle atrophy has been measured and noted by a neuromuscular specialist.
The neurologists keep saying it isn’t ‘traditional’ ALS, but what I have is looking, feeling and acting like it. And unfortunately it is quickly leading to the same end result.
I have found a few places willing to try and save my life, but they are all hundreds of miles from home and none will take my insurance, meaning I will need to pay for treatment but also travel, boarding and food while I am gone. I have the possibility of getting stem cell treatment this spring and potentially plasmapheresis and further treatments at independent clinic BodyScience this summer.
https://givesendgo.com/GAE3V?utm_source=sharelink&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=GAE3V
Wanna bet he was warned… and said f789 off you filthy anti-vaxxer.
Is it possible to donate one penny?
Why just a penny when you can give him your two cents?
NOPE!
One of my all-time favourite films, as a child, and now as a much older child.
This poor guy’s symptoms sound like those of the builder who constructed a barn/shed for me in the summer of 2020. He’s in his late sixties, about five years older than me, and he was not in the best of health then, but he could operate all the machinery and do a full day’s outdoor physical labor.
As we sat on a bench in the garden during a tea break, I warned him to avoid the jab, told him it wasn’t needed and could be harmful. But to no avail. Almost everyone over sixty in my part of the world took four or five jabs without any coercion, including this builder.
Now most of them still seem fine, but this builder was one of the unlucky ones, unable to work, and facing a mysterious muscle wasting disease. And nobody is going to tell him it was the rat juice—certainly not me.
“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.”
― J. Edgar Hoover
It seems this holds for the Japanese mind too.
wasn’t hoover a transvestite?
dont tell eddy
Norm,
Perhaps, but don’t tell anyone. Rules are meant in part to hold groups together, too many individualists leads to chaos; we need norms, Norm.
Dennis L.
He was being a bit harsh… Some group always runs the world… the Elders are the G.O.A.T. IMHO.
A TUI Airways Boeing 737-800, registration G-FDZZ performing flight BY-1424 from Newcastle,EN (UK) to Las Palmas,CI (Spain), was enroute at FL360 over the Celtic Sea about 150nm south of Cork (Ireland) when the crew decided to return to Newcastle reporting one of the pilots became ill, descended to FL330 for the return, later FL250, burned off fuel at FL110 and landed safely back in Newcastle about 2 hours after leaving FL360. (click here)
The aircraft is still on the ground the next morning about 13 hours after landing. No further information released (click here)
8 other recent Pilot incapacitations in-flight:
April 4, 2023 – United Airlines Flight 2102 (BOI-SFO) – captain was incapacitated, first officer was only one in control of the aircraft. (click here)
March 25, 2023 – TAROM Flight RO-7673 TSR-HRG diverted to Bucharest as 30 yo pilot had chest pain, then collapsed (click here)
March 22, 2023 – Southwest Flight WN6013 LAS-CMH diverted as pilot collapsed shortly after take-off, replaced by non-Southwest pilot (click here)
March 18, 2023 – Air Transat Flight TS739 FDF-YUL first officer was incapacitated about 200NM south of Montreal (click here)
March 13, 2023 – Emirates Flight EK205 MXP-JFK diverted due to pilot illness hour and a half after take-off (click here)
March 11, 2023 – United Airlines Flight UA2007 GUA-ORD diverted due to “incapacitated pilot” who had chest pains (click here)
March 11, 2023? – British Airways (CAI-LHR) pilot collapsed in Cairo hotel and died, was scheduled to fly Airbus A321 from Cairo to London (click here)
March, 3, 2023 – Virgin Australia Flight VA-717 ADL-PER Adelaide to Perth flight was forced to make an emergency landing after First Officer suffered heart attack 30 min after departure. (click here)
3 recent Pilot deaths:
Pilot death – April 13, 2023 – Phil Thomas, graduate of Flight Training Pilot academy in Cadiz, Spain (FTEJerez) died suddenly.
Pilot death – March 17, 2023 – 39 year old Westjet Pilot Benjamin Paul Vige died suddenly in Calgary
Pilot death – March 11, 2023 – British Airways pilot died of heart attack in crew hotel in Cairo before a Cairo to London flight (name & age not released)
https://makismd.substack.com/p/pilot-incapacitation-british-charter/
We don’t need planes anymore!
Poor sap missed out on his Darwin award.