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A major reason for the growth in the use of renewable energy is the fact that if a person looks at them narrowly enough–such as by using a model–wind and solar look to be useful. They don’t burn fossil fuels, so it appears that they might be helpful to the environment.
As I analyze the situation, I have reached the conclusion that energy modeling misses important points. I believe that profitability signals are much more important. In this post, I discuss some associated issues.
Overview of this Post
In Sections [1] through [4], I look at some issues that energy modelers in general, including economists, tend to miss when evaluating both fossil fuel energy and renewables, including wind and solar. The major issue in these sections is the connection between high energy prices and the need to increase government debt. To prevent the continued upward spiral of government debt, any replacement for fossil fuels must also be very inexpensive–perhaps as inexpensive as oil was prior to 1970. In fact, the real limit to fossil fuel extraction and to the building of new wind turbines and solar panels may be government debt that becomes unmanageable in an inflationary period.
In Section [5], I try to explain one reason why published Energy Return on Energy Investment (EROEI) indications give an overly favorable impression of the value of adding a huge amount of renewable energy to the electric grid. The basic issue is that the calculations were not set up for this purpose. These models were set up to evaluate the efficiency of generating a small amount of wind or solar energy, without consideration of broader issues. If these broader issues were included, EROEI indications would be much lower (less favorable).
One of the broader issues omitted is the fact that the electrical output of wind turbines and solar panels does not match up well with the timing needs of society, leading to the need for a great deal of energy storage. Another omitted issue is the huge quantity of energy products and other materials required to make a transition to a mostly electrical economy. It is easy to see that both omitted issues would add a huge amount of energy costs and other costs, if a major transition is made. Furthermore, wind and solar have gotten along so far using hidden subsidies from the fossil fuel energy system, including the subsidy of being allowed to go first on the electricity grid. EROEI calculations cannot evaluate the amount of this hidden subsidy.
In Section [6], I point out the true indicator of the feasibility of renewables. If electricity generation using wind and solar energy are truly helpful to the economy, they will generate a great deal of taxable income. They will not require the subsidy of going first, or any other subsidy. This does not describe today’s wind or solar.
In Section [7] and [8], I explain some of the reasons why EROEI calculations for wind and solar tend to be misleadingly favorable, even apart from broader issues.
Economic Issues that Energy Modelers Tend to Miss
[1] The economy is very short of oil that is inexpensive-to-extract. The economy seems to require a great deal more government debt when energy prices are high. Models for renewable energy production need to consider this issue, even if any substitution for oil is very indirect.
I think of the problem of rising energy prices for an economy as being like a citizen faced with an increase in food costs. The citizen will attempt to balance his budget by adding more debt, at least until his credit cards get maxed out. This is why we should expect to see an increase in government debt when oil prices are high; oil and other fossil fuels are as essential to the economy as food is to humans.
Figure 1 shows that most US government funding shortfalls occurred when oil prices were above $20 per barrel, in inflation-adjusted prices. For the 15-year period 2008 through 2022, US government expenditures were 26% higher than its receipts.
Figure 2 shows a reference chart of average annual oil prices, adjusted for inflation.
Figure 2. Average annual inflation-adjusted Brent oil prices based on data from BP’s 2022 Statistical Review of World Energy.
The reason why oil prices tend to be high now is because the inexpensive-to-extract oil has mostly been extracted. What is left is oil that is expensive to extract. The low prices in the years surrounding 1998 reflected a supply-demand mismatch after the Asian Economic Crisis of 1997. The crisis held down demand at the same time as production was ramping up in Iraq, Venezuela, Canada, and Mexico.
[2] Economists tend to assume that shortages of oil will lead to much higher fossil fuel prices, thereby making renewables inexpensive in comparison. One reason this doesn’t happen is related to the buildup of debt, noted in Figure 1, when oil prices are high.
Section [1] shows that high oil prices seem to be associated with government deficits. A high-priced substitute for oil would almost certainly have a similar problem. This governmental debt tends to build up, and at some point becomes almost unmanageable.
A major problem occurs when there is a round of inflation. Central banks find a need to increase interest rates, partly to keep lenders interested in lending in an inflationary economy and partly to try to slow the inflation rate. In fact, the US is currently being tested by such a debt buildup and increase in interest rates, beginning about January 2022 (Figure 3).
Higher interest rates tend to have the effect of slowing the economy. In part, the economy slows because the cost of borrowing money rises. As a result, businesses are less likely to expand, and would-be auto owners are likely to put off new purchases because of the higher monthly payments. Commercial real estate can also be adversely affected by rising interest rates if owners of buildings find it impossible to raise rents fast enough to keep up with higher interest rates on mortgages and higher costs of other kinds.
[3] It is uncertain in exactly which ways the economy might contract, in response to higher interest rates. Some ways the economy could contract would bring an early end to both the extraction of fossil fuels and the manufacturing of renewables. This is not reflected in models.
If the economy contracts, one possible result is a recession with lower oil prices. This clearly doesn’t fix the problem of the cost of wind and solar electricity being unacceptably high, especially when the cost of all the batteries and additional transmission lines is included. In some sense, the price needs to be equivalent to a $20 per barrel oil price, or lower, to stop the huge upward debt spiral.
Another possibility, rather than the US economy as a whole contracting, is that the US government will disproportionately contract; perhaps it will send many programs back to the states. In such a scenario, there is likely to be less, rather than more, funding for renewables. I understand that Republicans in Texas are already unhappy with the high level of wind and solar generation being used there.
A third possibility is hyperinflation, as the government tries to add more money to keep the overall system, especially banks and pension plans, from failing. Even with hyperinflation, there is no particular benefit to renewables.
A fourth possibility is disruption of trade relationships between the US and other countries. This could even be related to a new world war. Renewables depend upon worldwide supply lines, just as today’s fossil fuels do. Building and maintaining the electrical grid also requires worldwide supply lines. As these supply lines break, all parts of the system will be difficult to maintain; replacement infrastructure after storms will become problematic. Renewables may not last any longer than fossil fuels.
[4] Economists tend to miss the fact that oil prices, and energy prices in general, need to be both high enough for the producer to make a profit and low enough for consumers to afford finished goods made with the energy products. This two-way tug-of-war tends to keep oil prices lower than most economists would expect, and indirectly caps the total amount of oil that can be extracted.
Figure [2] shows that, on an annual average basis, inflation-adjusted Brent oil prices have only exceeded $120 per barrel during the years 2011, 2012 and 2013. On an annual basis, oil prices have not exceeded that level since then. For a while, forecasts of oil prices as high as $300 per barrel in 2014 US dollars were being shown as an outside possibility (Figure 4).
With close to another decade of experience, it has become clear that high oil prices don’t “stick” very well. The economy then slides into recession, or some other adverse event takes place, bringing oil prices back down again. The relatively low maximum to fossil fuel prices tends to lead to a much earlier end to fossil fuel extraction than most analyses of available resource amounts would suggest.
OPEC+ tends to reduce supply because they find prices too low. US drillers of oil from shale formations (tight oil in Figure 4) have been reducing the number of drilling rigs because oil prices are not high enough to justify more investment. Politicians know that voters dislike inflation, so they take actions to hold down fossil fuel prices. All these approaches tend to keep oil prices low, and indirectly put a cap on output.
Why Indications from EROEI Analyses Don’t Work for Electrification of the Economy
[5] Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROEI) analyses were not designed to analyze the situation of a massive scaling up of wind and solar, as some people are now considering. If utilized for this purpose, they provide a far too optimistic an outlook for renewables.
The EROEI calculation compares the energy output of a system to the energy input of the system. A high ratio is good; a low ratio tends to be a problem. As I noted in the introduction, published EROEIs of wind and solar are prepared as if they are to be only a very small part of electricity generation. It is assumed that other types of generation can essentially provide free balancing services for wind and solar, even though doing so will adversely affect their own profitability.
A recent review paper by Murphy et al. seems to indicate that wind and solar have favorable EROEIs compared to those of coal and natural gas, at point of use. I don’t think that these favorable EROEIs really mean very much when it comes to the feasibility of scaling up renewables, for several reasons:
[a] The pricing scheme generally used for wind and solar electricity tends to drive out other forms of electrical generation. In most places where wind and solar are utilized, the output of wind and solar is given priority on the grid, distorting the wholesale prices paid to other providers. When high amounts of wind or solar are available, wind and solar generation are paid the normal wholesale electricity price for electricity, while other electricity providers are given very low or negative wholesale prices. These low prices force other providers to reduce production, making it difficult for them to earn an adequate return on their investments.
This approach is unfair to other electricity providers. It is especially unfair to nuclear because most of its costs are fixed. Furthermore, most plants cannot easily ramp electricity production up and down. A recently opened nuclear plant in Finland (which was 14 years behind plan in opening) is already experiencing problems with negative wholesale electricity rates, and because of this, is reducing its electricity production.
Historical data shows that the combined contribution of wind, solar, and nuclear doesn’t necessarily increase the way that a person might expect if wind and solar are truly adding to electricity production. In Europe, especially, the availability of wind and solar seems to be being used as an excuse to close nuclear power plants. With the pricing scheme utilized, plants generating nuclear energy tend to lose money, encouraging the owners of plants to close them.
The US has been providing subsidies to its nuclear plants to prevent their closing. When one form of electricity gets a subsidy, even the subsidy of going first, other forms of electricity seem to need a subsidy to compete.
[b] Small share of energy supply. Based on Figure 5, the total of wind, solar, and nuclear electricity only provides about 6.1% of the world’s total energy supply. An IEA graph of world energy consumption (Figure 6) doesn’t even show wind and solar electricity separately. Instead, they are part of the thin orange “Other” line at the top of the chart; nuclear is the dark green line above Natural Gas.
Given the tiny share of wind and solar today, ramping them up, or those fuels plus a few others, to replace all other energy supplies seems like it would be an amazingly large stretch. If the economy is, in fact, much like a human in that it cannot substantially reduce energy consumption without collapsing, drastically reducing the quantity of energy consumed by the world economy is not an option if we expect to have an economy remotely like today’s economy.
[c] Farming today requires the use of oil. Transforming farming to an electrical operation would be a huge undertaking. Today’s farm machinery is mostly powered by diesel. Food is transported to market in oil-powered trucks, boats, and airplanes. Herbicides and pesticides used in farming are oil-based products. There is no easy way of converting the energy system used for food production and distribution from oil to electricity.
At a minimum, the entire food production system would need to be modeled. What inventions would be needed to make such a change possible? What materials would be required for the transformation? Where would all these materials come from? How much debt would be required to fund this transformation?
The only thing that the EROEI calculation could claim is that if such a system could be put in place, the amount of fossil fuels used to operate the system might be low. The overwhelming complexity of the necessary transformation has not been modeled, so its energy cost is omitted from the EROEI calculation. This is one way that calculated EROEIs are misleadingly optimistic.
[d] EROEI calculations do not include any energy usage related to the storage of electricity until it is needed. Solar energy is most available during the summer. Thus, the most closely matched use of solar electricity is to power air conditioners during summer. Even in this application, several hours’ worth of battery storage are needed to make the system work properly because air conditioners continue to operate after the sun sets. Also, people who come home from work need to cook dinner for their families, and this takes electricity. Energy costs related to electricity storage are not reflected in the EROEIs shown in published summaries such as those of the Murphy analysis.
A much more important need than air conditioning is the need for heat energy in winter to heat homes and offices. Neither wind nor solar can be counted upon to provide electricity when it is cold outside. One workaround would be to greatly overbuild the system, so that there would be a better chance of the renewable source producing enough electricity when it is needed. Adding several days of storage through batteries would be helpful too. An alternate approach would be to store excess electricity indirectly, by using it to produce a liquid such as hydrogen or methanol. Again, all of this becomes complex. It needs to be tried on small scale, and the real cost of the full system determined.
Both the need to overbuild the system and the need to provide storage are excluded from EROEI calculations. These are yet other ways that EROEI calculations provide an overly optimistic view of the value of wind and solar.
[e] Long distance travel. We use oil products for long distance transport by ship, air, truck, and train. If changes are to be made to use electricity or some sort of “green fuels,” this is another area where the entire change would need to be mapped out for feasibility, including the inventions needed, the materials required, and the debt this change would entail. What timeframe would be required? Would there be any possibility of achieving the transformation by 2050? I doubt it.
The conversion of all transportation to green energy is very much like the needed conversion of the food system from oil to electricity, discussed in [5c], above. Huge complexity is involved, but the energy cost of this added complexity has been excluded from EROEI calculations. This further adds to the misleading nature of EROEI indications for renewables.
[f] A dual system is probably needed. Even if it makes sense to ramp up wind and solar, there still will be a need for many products that are today made with fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are used in paving roads and for making lubrication for machines. Herbicides, insecticides, and pharmaceutical products are often made from fossil fuels. Natural gas is often used to make ammonia fertilizer. Fabrics and building materials are often made using fossil fuels.
Thus, it is almost certain that a dual system would be needed, encompassing both fossil fuels and electricity. There are likely to be inefficiencies in such a dual system. If intermittent renewables such as wind and solar are to be a major part of the economy, this inefficiency needs to be part of any model and needs to be reflected in EROEI calculations.
[g] “Renewable” devices are not themselves recyclable. Instead, they present a waste disposal problem. Solar panels especially present a toxic waste problem. Without much recycling, there is a long term need for minerals of many types to be extracted and transported around the world. These issues are not considered in modeling.
Profitability of Unsubsidized Renewables Is the Best Measure
[6] If renewables are to be truly useful to the system, they need to be so profitable that their profits can be taxed at a high rate. Furthermore, sufficient funds should be left over for reinvestment. The fact that this is not happening is a sign that renewables are not truly helpful to the economy.
Some people talk about the need for “surplus energy” from energy sources to power an economy. I connect this surplus energy with the ability of any energy source to generate income that can be taxed at a fairly high rate. In fact, I gave a talk to the International Society for Biophysical Economics on September 7, 2021, called, To Be Sustainable, Green Energy Must Generate Adequate Taxable Revenue.
The need for surplus energy that can be transferred to the government is closely connected with the debt problem that occurs when oil prices are higher than about $20 per barrel that I noted in Section [1] of this post. Renewable energy must be truly inexpensive, with all storage included, to be helpful to the economy. It must be affordable to citizens, without subsidies. The cost structure must be such that the renewable energy generates so much profit that it can pay high taxes. It is unfortunately clear that today’s renewables are too expensive for the US economy.
EROEI Models Can’t Tell Us as Much as We Would Like
[7] In the real economy, the economy builds up in small pieces, as new approaches prove to be profitable and as all the necessary components prove to be available. EROEI models shortcut this process, but they can easily be misleading.
The concept of Energy Return on Energy Invested has been used for many years in the field of biology. For example, we can compare the energy a fish gets from the food it eats to the energy the fish expends swimming to procure that food. The fish needs to get sufficient energy value from the food it eats to be able to cover the energy expended on the swim, plus a margin for other bodily functions, including reproduction.
Professor Charles Hall (and perhaps others) adapted this concept for use in comparing different energy “extraction” (broadly defined) techniques. More recent researchers have tried to extend the calculation to include energy costs of delivery to the user.
The adaptation of the biological concept of EROEI to the various processes associated with energy extraction works in some respects but not in others. The adaptation clearly works as a tool for teaching diminishing returns. It gives reasonable information for comparing oil wells to each other, or solar panels to other solar panels. But I don’t think that EROEI comparisons across energy types works well at all.
One issue is that there are huge differences in the selling prices of different types of energy. These are ignored in EROEI calculations, making it look feasible to use a high-priced type of energy (such as oil) to produce a low-valued type of output (intermittent electricity from wind turbines or solar panels). If profitability calculations were made instead, without mandates or subsidies (including the subsidy of going first), the extent to which there is a favorable return would become clear.
Another issue is that intermittency of wind and solar adds huge costs to the system, but these are ignored in EROEI calculations. (The situation is somewhat like having workers drop in and leave according to their own schedules, rather than working during the schedule the employer prefers.) In EROEI calculations, the assumption usually made is that the fossil fuel system will provide free balancing services by operating their electricity generation systems in an inefficient manner. In fact, this is the assumption made in the Murphy paper cited previously.
An analysis by Graham Palmer gives some insight regarding the high energy cost of adding battery backup (Figure 7).
In Figure 7, Palmer shows the pattern of energy investment and energy payback for a particular off-grid home in Australia which uses solar panels and battery backup. His zig-zag chart reflects two offsetting impacts:
(a) Energy investment was required at the beginning, both for the solar panels and for the first set of batteries. The solar panels in this analysis last for 30 years, but the batteries only last for 7.5 years. As a result, it is necessary to invest in new batteries, three additional times over the period.
(b) Solar panels only gradually make their payback.
Palmer finds that the system would be in a state of energy deficit (considering only energy out versus energy in) for 20 years. At the end of 30 years, the combined system would return only 1.3 times as much energy as the energy invested in the system. This is an incredibly poor payback! EROEI enthusiasts usually look for a payback of 10 or more. The solar panels in the analysis were close to this target level, at 9.4. But the energy required for the battery backup brought the EROEI down to 1.3.
Palmer’s analysis points out another difficulty with wind and solar: The energy payback is terribly slow. If we burn fossil fuels, the economy gets a payback immediately. If we manufacture wind turbines or solar panels, there is a far longer period of something that might be called, “energy indebtedness.” EROEI calculations conveniently ignore interest charges, again making the situation look better than it really is. The buildup in debt is also ignored.
Thus, even without the issue of scaling up renewables if we are to make a transition to energy system more focused on electricity, EROEI calculations are set up in a way that make intermittent renewable energy look far more feasible than it really is. “Energy Payback Period” is another similar metric, with similar biases.
The fact that these metrics are misleading is difficult to see. Very inexpensive fossil fuels pay back their cost many times over, in terms of societal gain, virtually immediately. Wind turbines and solar panels depend upon the generosity of the fossil fuel system to get any payback at all because intermittent electricity cannot support an economy like today’s economy. Even then, the payback is only available over a period of years.
I am afraid that the only real way of analyzing the feasibility of scaling up electricity using wind and solar is by looking at whether they can be extraordinarily profitable, without subsidies. If so, they can be highly taxed and end our government debt problem. The fact that wind and solar require subsidies and mandates, year after year, should make it clear that they aren’t solutions.
From Slovakia:
Chief of child psychiatry / Suicidal thoughts are like an epidemic among the young. They are reported almost daily
https://www.postoj.sk/132594/samovrazedne-myslienky-su-medzi-mladymi-ako-epidemia-hlasia-ich-takmer-denne
Mass D
The compulsory Year 9 task requires students to write a letter to a disapproving parent.
https://xyz.net.au/2023/06/gender-reassignment-victorian-schoolkids-forced-to-write-about-changing-gender/
Here it is again … how strange it’s always a pretty woman … never a vile SSS thingy… with a Fester
https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/80169
Again, from direct daily observation here of the students – I walk through the various faculties on the way to shop – the Trans people are always in the company of very plain and grotesque females, often lesbian, never with any normal, pretty ones. It is sad to see. ‘Transition’ to full womanhood is a lie, it’s as simple as that. A psy op built on a lie.
‘magine … you are a pretty 20 yr old… and you get taken back to the love shack… and this is unveiled.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F497f085c-84a2-41e4-9e76-69047d0d6401_2304x984.png
‘No one has heard from Jamie’: Foxx’s co-star John Boyega says he’s been frequently calling the actor ever since medical emergency TWO MONTHS ago – as concern grows among fans
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/news/jamie-foxx-co-star-john-boyega-says-no-one-has-heard-from-him/ar-AA1cE1yj
He’s f789ed. Totally irreversibly … f789ed.
Shoulda not shot the Rat Juice bro
Oooooooh …
A New Zealand high school teacher has had his teaching registration cancelled after he refused to use the preferred pronouns and name for one of his transgender students.
It has led to the Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand saying all students are “entitled to feel that schools are a safe space, where they are respected and valued” and teachers must not use their authority to “undermine the personal identity of their learners, or to inappropriately influence them”.
The teacher was placed before the Disciplinary Tribunal, an independent body with each panel chaired by a lawyer alongside two experienced teachers, in February after a complaint from the student.
The decision, released publicly today, said a 14-year-old student in the teacher’s math class was in the process of transitioning from girl to boy, while a “preferred male name” was recorded in the school’s online portal.
However, the maths teacher, whose name was withheld from the tribunals’ decisions, refused to call the student by his preferred name and pronouns. He later met with the student during a morning tea break and told him that gender transition went against his Christian beliefs.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/christian-teacher-loses-licence-over-refusal-use-trans-students-pronouns
Canada:
https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/80149
How strange that the same policies are being introduced in multiple countries at the same time… almost like there is central planning going on …
“How strange that the same policies are being introduced in multiple countries at the same time… almost like there is central planning going on …”
Not strange at all methinks, given the events of the last few years. They built up and tested the global network during the CV19 / flu scam. Now that it is there and proven to work effectively, it can be used for anything, from what I can tell.
And getting children to transgender is an effective way to ensure they cannot have children later in life. It is very difficult to convince some/most people that they are being gaslit, I would have thought especially teenagers. Just waiting for the day my own daughter (17 yo) to tell me she now wants to be known as Brian.
I have always had friends in the transgender scene. They used to be a fraction and it usually was complicated.
I am suspicious the current hype is a consequence of fitting to roles. There are women that behave quite male, have a lot of energy, call them tomboys, and there are very feminine and sensitive men. Partners might like especially that on their spouses! But TikTok and Co tells you to be muscle loaden as a man and look like the Kardashians as a woman.
While I have no problem to call Susi Brian or vice versa, I see risky operations very doubtfully.
I think we should see and valuate the individual characters of people, then they might not have the desire to harm themselves with dangerous operations.
A math teacher should help a kid to understand and be confident in maths, so it has something to rely on in life – and not fall for a juvenile avoidance strategy.
Children should be taught to avoid and fear Tranny Freaks – they are mentally ill … drug abusers… and are often criminals who enjoy pedo pursuits…
Teach the children to stay as far away as possible
Children should be taught to trust no institution or authority, until that trust has been earned (not sure this is possible given many of their track records to date). Schools do exactly the opposite. Trust all authorities, do not ask any questions. Thus why the vast majority of people took the vaxx without questioning, no hint of doubt or suspicion. Indeed, many of them insist we all take the vaxx without questioning.
This was all part of UEP — it started decades ago to prep the MORE-ONS so that they would not revolt against the Rat Juice >> xtermination
It’s worked very well – barely even a whimper out of the herd 🙂
Indeed,….the current degenerate willingness to accept transgenderism is a preamble to the movement to enact broad based transhumanism. First you addle the minds by encouraging the mentally deformed to be held up as role models…..so that when the “science” allows full neuronal integration with the world wide web and then the creation of true chimeras humanity will embrace it all……
as in the days of Noah…..
Simpler guess:
Widespread use of birth control pills,
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140105102505.htm
There are multiple references to the penis issue in alligators as well as ovarian development.
Free sex is not free, gender dysphoria is likely real, no easy solution; too many chemicals in our water, too many in our food.
For what it is worth genital warts from Mayo.
“Genital warts are one of the most common types of sexually transmitted infections. Nearly all sexually active people will become infected with at least one type of human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus that causes genital warts, at some point during their lives.
Genital warts affect the moist tissues of the genital area. They can look like small, flesh-colored bumps or have a cauliflower-like appearance. In many cases, the warts are too small to be visible.
Some strains of genital HPV can cause genital warts, while others can cause cancer. Vaccines can help protect against certain strains of genital HPV.”
Note cancer, vaccines and not mentioned, HPV on the hard palate – let your imagine go wild. Old nostrum, some sex is dirty. Obvious, some tissues are not meant to mix with others. So old fashion, invent a vaccine instead. Old solution, don’t do it, so quaint.
We are part of the fabric of the universe, billions and billions of years of development, simple solutions sometimes don’t work.
Dennis L.
Much wisdom in that, Dennis.
Something I’d never heard about before, Dennis: ‘The Seven Precepts of Noah’.
Most interesting – a sort of second best for those who don’t follow he Mosaic Law. One can still become ‘righteous’, it seems.
Not sure what the relevance of genital warts is in this discussion. Are you saying that genital warts are more prevalent now than in the past?
They can be removed via outpatient surgery.
Not worth it to take a vaccine on the off chance that it might prevent a case of genital warts—that you might never have been destined to get!
Jane, you’re surely right, but a number of US states have mandated the HPV vaccine shots for school attendance.
“mandated the HPV vaccine ”
It’s economic. You can give a lot of shots for the cost of treating one case of cervical cancer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV_vaccine#Cost
Too many endocrine disrupting drugs could indeed be part of the problem.
“(b) Solar panels only gradually make their payback.”
Only is it is not ‘too hot’?
“Britain fires up coal plant as solar panels suffer in hot weather
Rush to turn on air conditioning during heatwave causes spike in demand for electricity”?
https://archive.ph/FYW0x#selection-2601.4-2605.91
A solar panel loses effectivity when getting too hot. They are usually cooled down creating floating air at their backs. But that’s hard in a hot area. It is not so easy.
It’s simply too funny for words: solar panels that can’t cope with real sun, and wind turbines that go haywire in the too-strong winds of winter. Oh, and water turbines that get bashed apart and corroded by the ocean.
Our civilisation will end as farce,
We really do need ‘Monty Python and the End of the World’.
Will I go out screaming or laughing? I suspect the latter – our deluded, scheming and deceiving species deserves little better.
“A Chance Event 1 Million Years Ago Changed Human Brains Forever
Like treasured recipes passed down from generation to generation, there are just some regions of DNA that evolution doesn’t dare tweak. Mammals far and wide share a variety of such encoded sequences, for example, which have remained untouched for millions of years.
Humans are a strange exception to this club. For some reason, recipes long preserved by our ancient ancestors were suddenly ‘spiced up’ within a short evolutionary period of time.
Because we’re the only species in which these regions have been rewritten so rapidly, they are called ‘human accelerated regions’ (or HARs). What’s more, scientists think at least some HARs could be behind many of the qualities that set humans apart from their close relatives, like chimpanzees and bonobos.” ?
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-chance-event-1-million-years-ago-changed-human-brains-forever?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
“chance” had nothing to do with it…..
But how/why did bonobo culture lose/bury their gene-altering technology? ALL of this has happened before.
I wonder if the additional energy availability of cooked food played a role in the transformation of the human brain. Animals still don’t eat cooked food.
cooked food=less chewing
less chewing=smaller teeth and mouth
smaller mouth=more room for brain growth relative to body size
also smoked food–ie hung up in smoky caves, keeps longer and doesnt go bad so quikly—hence food available for lean times and long journeys.
True enough,….of course the statistically impossible event that fused the 2nd and third chromosomes in humans to drop our chromosome count below that of all other hominoids had nothing to do with anything.
It implies of course that “something” was playing with the genetics of Homo sapiens beyond that of the world of claws and fangs.
Please move along boys and girls, nothing to see here
sheeesh cro
give it a rest
More energy to go into growing brain cells (energy that wasn’t used in chewing).
More time for crafts, since chewing food does not take up literally half the day.
I will refrain from feeding Hoolio cooked food… we don’t want him going all ‘intelligent’ on us… and turning into a f789ing MORE-ON
I fed our dog a raw diet (meat, bones, organs) and he lived twice as long as his littermates. Was lucky enough to live near a butcher who would sell us all his scraps, cheap. Dog ate better than we did. Some days we’d pull a stuffed pheasant or breast of veal out of the garbage bag.
Sounds like you have a good source of fresh rabbit, so you should be golden.
We feed him raw from time to time … but the dry he gets is top grade … I am told the key ingredient is unvaxxed babies… grass fed.
https://pharmafiles.substack.com/p/breaking-shit-just-hit-the-fan Directly from Ffizer!
PharmaFiles by Aussie17 (https://pharmafiles.substack.com/p/breaking-shit-just-hit-the-fan)
Almost 5 million adverse events reported by Pfizer’s own document
No best actor award for this guy https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/80124
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Thanks Joel – a great article. Those advertisements are disgustingly unethical. They clearly seek to play on parental fears for their children, and yet make no mention of the adverse risk profile that goes with the mRNA injectables, as well as the the fact that they are not traditional vaccines but are a new technology that has not been formally ‘approved’. The doctors and officials in the Australian public health system who commissioned and authorised those advertisements need to be brought before an investigatory tribunal and forced to explain themselves under oath.
Up until 2020 I virtually accepted the modern ‘scientific’ health industry at face value as being fundamentally ethical and effective – I was brought up that way. My views then changed dramatically over the following three years as the Covid events unfolded. I was confounded by the avalanche of lies and deceit that poured out of the mouths of the ‘health’ officials, their brainless political masters, and the unconscionable behaviour of the goons of the corporate media who promoted fear and panic – acting as the paid mouthpieces for an unscrupulous and dishonest political class. It is only in the last three years that I came to learn that the Hippocratic Oath was dumped from the medical training schools some time ago.
Without the ethical underpinnings of the Hippocratic Oath, individuals who now graduate as doctors are effectively trained to regard their profession as an ‘industry’. It is this radical change in the psychology that underlies medical practice that explains how these disgusting advertisements could have been authorised – or for that matter, how licensed doctors could be allowed to carry out procedures such as radical gender-reassignment surgery on children to satisfy a sociological and ideological psychosis. That comes on top of abortion at the time of birth, and a state-sponsored euthanasia program for the old and lonely, dressed up under the euphemistic label of ‘Voluntary Assisted Dying’. What an absolutely appalling profession medical practice has become. What absolute arseholes are the politicians who allowed all this to happen.
I hope I live long enough to see the doctors and public health officials in Australia who have pushed the dangerous and toxic mRNA genetic agents onto children charged with the crimes against humanity they have committed.
This chicken vaccine makes its virus more dangerous
The deadliest strains of viruses often take care of themselves — they flare up and then die out. This is because they are so good at destroying cells and causing illness that they ultimately kill their host before they have time to spread.
But a chicken virus that represents one of the deadliest germs in history breaks from this conventional wisdom, thanks to an inadvertent effect from a vaccine. Chickens vaccinated against Marek’s disease rarely get sick. But the vaccine does not prevent them from spreading Marek’s to unvaccinated birds.
“With the hottest strains, every unvaccinated bird dies within 10 days. There is no human virus that is that hot. Ebola, for example, doesn’t kill everything in 10 days.”
In fact, rather than stop fowl from spreading the virus, the vaccine allows the disease to spread faster and longer than it normally would, a new study finds. The scientists now believe that this vaccine has helped this chicken virus become uniquely virulent. (Note: it only harms fowl). The study was published on Monday in the journal PLOS Biology.
This is the first time that this virus-boosting phenomenon, known as the imperfect vaccine hypothesis, has been observed experimentally.
The reason this is a problem for Marek’s disease is because the vaccine is “leaky.” A leaky vaccine is one that keeps a microbe from doing serious harm to its host, but doesn’t stop the disease from replicating and spreading to another individual. On the other hand, a “perfect” vaccine is one that sets up lifelong immunity that never wanes and blocks both infection and transmission.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/leaky-vaccines-enhance-spread-of-deadlier-chicken-viruses
Sound familiar?
This sounds way too familiar. As you quoted:
This seems to be the ideal the military and whoever else has been looking for:
Give a vaccine to those you plan to save; wipe out everyone else.
Except this doesn’t really happen, if the vaccine doesn’t really prevent getting the illness. Those who are vaccinated against Covid continue to both get and spread the disease. Not to mention, getting the many side effects.
I am undecided… this.. or the binary poison … it keeps me awake at night wondering how all the poor Vaxxed MORE-ONS are gonna die….
eddy
they will top themselves, rather than read any more of your eternal four number faux cussing fakery rants about —
…. (add relevant subject here)…….
In case anyone had any doubt about the long term future of Ukraine. Israeli president, prime minister, and 12 out 13 ministers. Israel looking for ways out of a frozen conflict it will lose as soon as energy supplies decline. And now Ukraine’s Israel status.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/blinken-floats-israel-status-plan-ukraine-us-drifts-next-forever-war
Enter into another perpetual war. Not something anyone would want.
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Funny how 911 happened on 911… given 911 … is the emergency hotline eh…
Funny that…
I suppose someone on the PR Team thought that would be amusing
“Nine eleven” certainly sounds much more euphonious than other dates said in the same style. Examples at random: eleven four, twenty-three eight, thirteen two… Imagine a journalier having to repeat 50 times a day “twenty-three eight, the tragic events of twenty-three eight”. Na the journalier would have no credibility at all, and a week later could be out of action with a tongue sprain. And does th PR Team wants that? God forbid!
This attention to detail is what make those guys worth of their salt.
It is interesting how Wisconsin shaped the history of the USA population:
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/lgbtqhistory
Receiving immigrants from the Western part of Slovakia, where I live.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20111121_33_Immigrants_Statue,_Cudahy,_Wisconsin_(6439617147).jpg
And how Gail from Wisconsin created this blog.
We had a male duo of Simon and Garfunkel from New York in the 60s. But now we have a women’s duo of Reina del Cid and Toni Lindgren, Toni coming from Wisconsin:
https://youtu.be/9d8k6_E6tC0
https://www.revolver.news/2023/06/top-canadian-politician-apologizes-to-unvaccinated-we-were-wrong-she-makes-unprecedented-promise/
I told you Canadians are nice.
When she pulls Alberta out of the Dominion, takes control of the Cold Lake and Wainwright military complexes and starts impaling Trannies and leftists on the legislature lawns,….then take her seriously…..
Not all Canadians are “nice”…..
Most of them are MORE-ONS… same as everywhere else
Danielle Smith made a promise: anyone who was terminated from their job due to their refusal of the COVID-19 vaccine will be reinstated.
Oh .. wow. https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/80118
norm?
the wings didn’t have to penetrate far at all into the building.
the jet fuel in the wings would have been moving at 500 mph as well as the rest of the entire plane.
there was nothing there to stop the jet fuel from penetrating forward into the building after the wings cracked on impact.
that would be about 50,000 gallons of jet fuel weighing about 400,000 pounds.
thus the fireball exploding out of the side of the building far forward of the impact area.
400,000 pounds of fuel moving forward at 500 mph.
an enormous vector.
since you are science-challenged, it might take you a long time to understand the above, or perhaps never actually.
ps: perhaps SimpleEddy isn’t posting so much lately about the war, so I haven’t been able yet to call him a “war-on”, get it? like a portmanteau of war and moreon, a nice rhyme there, quite lovely.
Well don’t stop there — what about the wing appearing behind a building rather than in front of it … when that building is behind the tower…
And then there is this MSM report – why does he say there is no wreckage at the Pentagon?
https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/79526
I am fascinated by how – even when faced with incontrovertible evidence… the mind digs in on what the MSM has told it to believe. It it a glitch – or is it some form of stooopidity?
Mark Crispin Miller, NYU Professor who formerly taught “How to Recognize Propaganda” has something to say about this in his recent conversation with USAWD.
Millers interview on USA Watchdog was first rate…
It’s also amazing how the fuel that was burning inside the plane did not set the plane alight while it was flying, but it allegedly burnt most of those steel buildings, ignoring all the laws of physics. 😉
not wtc again
has covid run its course at last and nobody can think of another suject?
the war-on is like a 5 year old watching Saturday morning cartoons.
if it’s in video form, that’s his upper limit for science, just showing his very low science aptitude.
which partially explains why he is such a war-on, because there is a lack of war videos for him to watch.
but this is all entertainment, right, we’re just having fun here.
I’m just a comedian, you know, so please war-on moreons, don’t take me too seriously.
Thanks Eddy that is convincing.
the video moreon thought that it was necessary for the wings to penetrate into the building.
unlike science-challengedEddy and the video moreon, you know science.
400,000 pounds of jet fuel x 500 mph.
an enormous vector.
Ya it looks like a hot knife slicing into butter … uh – you do not slice through massive steel girders like butter…
You smash into them — and you explode… like a pancake.
An airliner is not a military tank… it is a flying soda can – with engines attached… tin cans crumple if you smash one into a massive set of steel beams …
If you look very closely at the slow motion as it hits… the plane appears to just disappear as it is supposedly crashing into the building … it does not smash at all…
hahahahahaha… tin cans don’t do that
Like I said … whatever the bbccnn told you to think – that – no matter what
hahahahaha
True!
Newton’s Third Law: Action and Reaction
His third law states that for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction. If object A exerts a force on object B, object B also exerts an equal and opposite force on object A. In other words, forces result from interactions.
yes Z.
the plane easily penetrated where it hit weak glass windows, and wherever the wings hit steel girders, the wings would have instantly broken.
the fuel surging forward out of the broken wings then hit what?
sheetrock of the inner walls?
that didn’t stop the 200,000+ pounds of fuel from surging forward.
and we know from the video evidence that there are clearly two fireballs, one on the side and one at the impact site.
so we easily can tell where most of the jet fuel ignited.
where there was the bigger fireball.
science-challengedEddy thinks the 400,000 pounds of fuel just stopped instantly, where the video evidence shows that much of it surged forward for a fraction of a second, perhaps a quarter to a half second, before igniting.
we can thank the video moreon for narrating that the wings would have hit steel beams.
the video moreon was just too much of a moreon to realize that he actually explained why the wings broke into pieces and too much of a moreon to realize that much of the fuel would continue its forward motion through the breaks in the wings.
“that didn’t stop the 200,000+ pounds of fuel from surging forward.”
And breaking through 10 inches of steel, or however thick it was? When could liquid ever do that? Pull the other one, david-overlongname. 🙁
Plenty of fireballs appeared way further down the buildings too, just before the “planes” even hit.
covidrama must be nearing the end of its run
We have absolute evidence that 911 was a false flag scam lie. 100%
But I support this 911 thing. Like UEP – it was necessary
but is Abe Lincoln still alive and living in New Zealand?
Why do yo refuse to answer that question eddy?
very poor reading comprehension there by Z.
at least Z doesn’t think the plane should have crumpled like a tin soda can and fallen to the ground.
the war-on is also a sciencemoron.
good mind for business, sukcs at science.
but no shame in that, it is what it is.
Another artist ‘dies suddenly’ mid performance, 45-year-old Rapper ‘Big Pokey’, whose real name was Milton Powell, was performing during a Juneteenth-theme show at the Pour09 Bar.
https://www.wftv.com/news/trending/houston-rapper-big-pokey-dies-after-fainting-during-performance/FCERSBJYTVAD3OSVVM277ZPULU/
Did Big Pokey get the Poke? We demand to know!
Pokey loves the Poke… got it 5x for to be safe and effective
Maybe someone can write a rap tune with poke in the lyrics… and collapse… and death — where’s Vanilla Ice these days… Poke Poke Pokey
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Shell said Wednesday it intends to devote an ever larger chunk of annual spending to oil and gas, a strategy that’s been dubbed “catastrophic” by climate activists. Shell says it can still deliver on its pledge to shareholders to eliminate emissions by mid-century, but didn’t say how. At the same time, the company signaled it will restrict spending on renewable energy projects to those it thinks can compete with the returns of its fossil-fuel business.
japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/17/business/shell-fossil-fuel-investments/
the story fades out at a spywall. Tantalising …
Oil and gas is what works!
Synthetic oil and gas would work just a well.
keith
all energy derives from the sun—
oil/coal/gas in the ground is ancient fossilised sunshine—
That fossilised sunshine is highly concentrated–living material, compressed over millions of years into the we use now
Any form of synthetic oil must also be derived from the sun—
But it isn’t condensed…the oil extracted from plant material is what has grown this year—not compressed over a million years.
we cannot grow enough oil this year, to fuel next year’s BAU
Pulling carbon fuels back out of the atmosphere would use infinetely more energy than it would produce
You are fond of telling us that your level of physics and mathematics is well above high school grade
So why is this so difficult to understand?
Norm, how much energy does the whole human race use?
How much sunlight comes down on the Sahara desert?
I.e., it’s an economic problem, not a physics one.
keith
it’s neither
it’s a surplus energy problem
or more precisely a lack of surplus energy in concentrated form
I’m surprised keith, that you of all people trot out the old chestnut—how much energy falls on the Sahara desert-?–Really?
Though maybe i shouldn’t be–yould just as easily have used the surface of the moon as an energy receptacle.
I’ve told you before, that you should get a calculatorectomy.
you’ve worked out that the Sahara receives xxx Gw of power….all we have to do is transfer that power to where its needed—job done.
I am but a simple man….never aspired to the heights of academe.
Somehow though, the visual of rows of solar panels covering the Sahara presents a few problems that even i can see.
Number one—keeping them clean. In a month the efficiency of each panel would drop sharply because it’s covered in sand
so they would need regular washing—with water—in the sahara desert?
The energy collect is dc—which presents transmission problems
Electricity, as i’ve pointed out again and again to you (I keep trying because you are proven to be unstupid,—–though the problem might be due to old age–like me) is of no use whatsoever without all the gizmos needed to make use of it.
they require fossil fuels to produce.
The energy has to be of precisely the right type to match built infrastructure.
We humans are part of the ecosystem. We need food; in fact, some of this food must be cooked food. Somehow, this need must be met. Food today is grown and transported primarily with diesel fuel. Somehow, this need must be met.
Humans also need fresh water. This water needs the right minerals included and not too much pollution. The need increases with the population.
Then there is the issue of all of the roads, railroad tracks, electricity transmission lines, ships, ports, and pipelines. Somehow, these must all be maintained if they are to be used in the future. If a much more electric future is needed, somehow a huge amount of electricity transmission lines must be added, as well. Materials for these must be dug out of the ground and appropriate structures built. Today, most steel and other metals are manufactured in China.
Then comes the actual fuels themselves.
Gail, this is engineering and economics. Engineers are good at balancing types of energy and materials needed to those available.
You make it sound like impossible instead of just an engineering problem.
The concept is known as “design to cost” and it is a well understood methodology. With enough effort, we could pave the Sahara desert with solar farms, make cheap energy, suck CO2 out of the air and make all the diesel fuel anyone could want.
Not simple, but well inside what we could do. Will we? No idea.
sheeeessshhhh
i give up
suddenly its a relief not to be intelligent
“or more precisely a lack of surplus energy in concentrated form”
, , ,
“they require fossil fuels to produce.”
Norm, can you name anything that requires fossil fuels to produce? A list would be even better. I can’t think of anything that can’t be produced with renewable energy, but maybe you can.
they keyboard you are banging on for a start.
no doubt the keys could be produced in wood or ivory—but supplies would soon run short on that resource i think?
i can’t of any other material—can you?
Then, like me, the window you are staring out of trying to think of a smartass comment
Doable without fossil fuels—but the cost would be astronomic–glass as far as i know has never been produced commercially in the modern context without fossil fuel
While we’re at it–if you went through your entire house, remove every item which carries within it a component of oil coal and gas—- you would sitting naked on bare earth—starving to death,—iiterally.
Go ahead–mentally replace everthing that could be replaced without FFs—your situation wouldn’t change much.
Your calculator might say differently—but I’m living in the real world here. I dont inhabit a world of future maybes and calculated possibilities
daily food in 2023 for 8 billion humans requires FF.
“the keyboard . . .
i can’t of any other material—can you?”
Plastic made from air and water today would be around 3 times as expensive. Which mean that the plastic in a kb would cost around a dollar instead of 30 cents.
“Then, like me, the window you are staring out of trying to think of a smartass comment”
Are Electric Furnaces the Future of Glass Manufacturing?
https://mo-sci.com/electric-furnaces-future-glass-manufacturing/
“–glass as far as i know has never been produced commercially in the modern context without fossil fuel”
See above. Point being that glass certainly can be produced without FF.
“While we’re at it–if you went through your entire house, remove every item which carries within it a component of oil coal and gas—- you would sitting naked on bare earth—starving to death,—iiterally.”
Take steel for example. There is a major push on with many millions being spent to make it entirely without FF. The point I am making is that there is not anything we make that cannot be made without any FF. More expensive (today) to be sure, in the future likely not.
“Your calculator might say differently—but I’m living in the real world here.”
Is there any group of people who live in the real world more than engineers? We use FF because they are cheap, but if we have to, we can get along without them. Ask any engineer if this is the case.
yup keith
engineers with calculators
my assessment of your home and contents still stands
the theory exists to ”make everything” without fossil fuels—yes
the everyday practicality does not.—and never will
Why—because that would cost too much in real world terms.
air and water???
Id guess there must be 50 billion computer keys in existence, maybe twice that if we count all the other gizmos with keyboards.—when 50bn show on the market made from air and water, i’ll take you seriously.
in the meantime—do you recall assuring me (from your position of lofty scientific certainty—that field weeding was being done by machine…using very little fuel?
I checked it out—as i usually do—being the OFW ignoramus.
I find it weighs 6/7 tons and has a 2 or 3 litre diesel engine
its certainties like that that makes me wary of ”physicists’.—and similar BS artists with calculators.
You have an impeccable backgrounf in physics and stuff keith—only last week a paper of yours dropped randomly into my inbox about human behaviour–written 2006 which i thought was excellent.. (nothing to do with OFW)
but as we get older we tend to lose the thread—only today i was talking to a brilliant finance guy–multi millionaire—who didn’t whether it was breakfast time or christmas.—all very sad–considering how he was 5 years ago.
constant repetition about energy access just isn’t going to cut it i’m afraid.
I think that the problem would be that essentials, particularly food, would likely be three times as expensive.
Your discretionary income would fall greatly. Buying goods made with the new plastic would be completely out of reach for most people.
“air and water???”
CO2 out of the air and hydrogen from water. It’s is how you make synthetic oil and from that plastics.
“weeding”
It’s an amazing use of AI. Much smaller energy use than dragging a cultivator through the field. For those who want to look, stick AI and weeding in google news.
There is an interesting potential use if we ever put up power satellites. They can be used to slightly cook fields, killing weed seeds.
“about human behaviour”
My new paper is an extension on this one. It is a math model on how humans are selected for the traits leading to wars.
One of the traits we have been selected for is optimism for winning when half the time those who go to war lose. But win or lose, the genes do better by going to war rather than starving in place.
The reason is that the winners incorporate the young women–who carry the genes of the losers.
“energy access”
I can’t predict the future, but I can say that there are something around 300,000 engineers in the US alone. Their ability to solve problems has been massively increased recently by AI. There are at least half a dozen ways to solve energy problems. The details will take a lot of work and they might all fail, but I would not bet on it.
keith
without cheap surplus energy—please note the surplus part—AI is nowhere
—no matter what 300000 engineers come up with
that weeder weighed 6 or 7 tons—i put a link to it on OFW–to do 20 acres a day. That fact doesn’t seem to register.
the paper i read didnt appear to be a math model—but i could be wrong–it was written in 06
slight;y cooking fields from power satellites—keith i know you remain convinced by the numbers on your calculator—but you really have lost the plot there
The sun can raise immediate ground temperature to maybe 40C?—imagine the power blast to go higher than that.—even an inch or two underground puts a weed seed beyond normal extreme heat–are you talking 60 or 70c—i am the worlds worst gardener—but if i turn over hot soil—it is cool.—again—no degree in physics to figure that out.
Making plastics from air is no doubt possible—we do not have the means for volume capacity.
“particularly food,”
For the US it would not be the first time.
Before the civil war, there was an unrecognized economic pinch that stunted the growth of children. This was so at odds with the view that the US always had enough food that it was 30 years from the time this was reported in the journals to when it was widely accepted.
I can did out the reference if anyone would like to read it.
“surplus energy”
Norm, I am not sure what you mean by this term. Energy in excess of any need? If so, why?
“daily food in 2023 for 8 billion humans requires FF”
If we are going to grow it in Kansas and eat it in NYC, it is the case that we need energy to move it. But that energy does not have to be FF. Electric railways work just fine.
Keith
by surplus energy i mean—surplusses wayyyyyyy beyond need
your calculator wont show this, but your wages–and mine–were made possible by the surplus energy existing in the living existence of your environment
you could be employed only because to ‘system’ delivered excess–
in other words, you didnt live in a community where you had food insecurity—THAT is the critical factor
Food security +++ allowed you personally to enter the halls of academe and attain high distinction
yet that high distinction leaves you utterly clueless about what allowed you to be there
surplus energy.—nothing else
your intellect is of no use whatsoever if you’d had to spend each day providing yourself with enough to eat–you were in a position to pay someone else to do that for you.
the human condition really is that simple
i can only suggest you chuck away that calculator, and start thinking without numbers.
“surplusses wayyyyyyy beyond need”
Engineers don’t do that. We like to build to the peak need and a margin, but the accountants often don’t let us. In some places like Texas, the political people forbid what we consider reasonable. Thus Texas is having a power crisis and people are likely to die.
“enter the halls of academe and attain high distinction”
You have the wrong person in mind, no academic distinction here.
“providing yourself with enough to eat”
At an extended time in the past, we raised a significant part of what we ate. So I do understand the problems.
“start thinking without numbers.”
Engineers are neither inclined or trained to think without numbers.
There is Lord Rutherford’s famous maxim that any knowledge that one cannot measure numerically “is a poor sort of knowledge.”
Robert A. Heinlein (he was on the board of the L5 Society and a major influence on me as I grew up) said something close. “Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.”
Heinlein was, of course, an engineer.
well—that’s definitely me as subhuman then—no wonder i always have sore knuckles
throughout most of history, the vast majority of us ate what we grew—or what we hunted and killed
—i think you you missed my point keith—that this is the only era in history when that function is carried out by a tiny minority of ”other people”
It is that tiny minority which puts food on your table, a roof over your head and petrol in your car
In other words with the help of massive energy inputs from fossil fuels.
Thanks for the L5 link–i hadn’t come across it before. That tells me a great deal about you. A revelation indeed there. I will refrain from further comment on L5–As long as they don’t try to recruit me.
Stop and consider, if you can:
“A poor sort of human”—Heinlein—A man of social charm by the sound of it,.
It would certainly escape someone of such lofty intellect, that if his garbage wasn’t emptied regularly, and the contents of his lavatory were not dealt with, he would likely be dead.—not a mathematician among them.
I take it, by repeating such a crass comment from Heinlein, that you have never been left wrecked by a Mozart sonata, or by the finale of Beethoven’s 9th? or a Shakespeare soliloquy? Or closed your eyes for an hour and let yourself be taken into Thomas’s “Milk Wood” with Richard Burton?
No doubt the above can be analysed by some formula or other–but what happens when you take the formula and try to repeat it.?
Can’t be done. So much for mathematics.
As with the L5 society—mathematics says you can mine titan—then we sub humans prick your balloon of pomposity and point out that the Earth we live on does not have the resources to do so. Nor the purpose.
no matter how the sums are manipulated to give you the answers you want.
Keith
“electric railways work just fine”
hmmmm
now tell me Keith—we have a surplus of food in Kansas, and several million people starving in the Sudan.
So how does that work???
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On another thread Keith (to which I cant find the direct reply thread)—you mentioned “If I should vanish”—implying the CIA are likely to take you into protective custardy —or something.
You are a founder member of L5—You write about ”The Far Edge”, Youve enrolled in a cryo program, you write about solar sunshades, space elevators, and stuff beyond my pension grade,, zapping weeds in fields from space,…and much other stuff besides
You are undoubtedly a clever chap in your field
and far be it from me to deny your sense of self importance—but i dont think any of the above would interest the cleaning staff at the pentagon, let alone one of the generals,
“if I should vanish” shouts paranoia to me.—-nobody’s coming to get you–you will be safe in OFW
Robert Heinlein wrote a lot of stuff. I know this because I read a lot of his stuff in my teens and twenties.
He had a rather dim view of humans in general, as your mathematics quote makes clear. But he was not overly impressed with scientists either. One of his more well-known quotations is “Most ‘scientists’ are bottle washers and button sorters.”
All in all, Bertrand Russell seems to have had a more charitable view of the mathematically challenged. He wrote in his book The A B C of Relativity:
“The remainder of this chapter may be omitted by readers who have not even the most elementary acquaintance with geometry or algebra. But for the benefit of those whose education has not been entirely neglected, I will add a few explanations of the general formula of which I have hitherto given only particular examples. “
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China Steps Up Game With 1st ‘Floating Oil Factory’
Some political theorist said a nation always has to decide war now or war later. For the US with a populous under 5th gen warfare and little industry versus China which is growing in science and technology and versus Russia that is growing in industrial capacity the choice is clear WAR NOW before it gets even worse. It does not matter if it is unwinnable now it will be worse later.
In nuclear term the US can win now against China but now in 20 years. In nuclear terms the US can hope for a win against Russia, it sure seems like a pipe dream but the neocons will be undeterred by the death of America as long as Israel survives.
China is screwed they have no arable land, a population decline, no oil….no coal….the products they make are being made in vietnam…. philippines and India….they are on the decline more than anyone else….and on top of that a leader that kills anyone that disagrees with him so that no one tells him anything….so please don’t hold them up as this superior race….
yes Russia is in a far superior position.
Vlad the Great.
and Xi the Magnificent.
And Joe the Sniffer.
Lock up your daughters, especially on foggy nights.
Google says China produces 1/4 of the worlds grain. China produces 3,700,000,000 tons per year of coal. In 2021 the population increased by 0.07% increase.
Do you have an references for your statements?
Shall we talk about the Clinton’s kills?
Farmed industrially so they will have zero food productions post BAU… ruined soils
https://www.cfr.org/article/china-increasingly-relies-imported-food-thats-problem
Where are your references? China is a dog eating its own tail… Clinton?? What does that have to do with the price of rice in China???🙄
Ireland will be a major winner by increasing its population by millions through uncontrolled migrant activity . It’s blessed with surplus grains, fossil fuels and a climate and cuisine. to die for, as well as celibate priestly priesthood taking in all the clever kids, ensuring survival of the smartest, into the future.
The advance space programme Na Eirrean is planning to put Astronauts on the sun. The won’t need thermal shielding as they will be going at night! .. NASA is watching and learning.
“Current AI feels like something out of a Philip K Dick story because it answers a question very few people were asking: ‘What if a computer was stupid?’ “
I like that Davidinazillionquintillion
source:
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/06/03/crypto-collapse-get-in-loser-were-pivoting-to-ai/
That’s a really good article. Thanks for the link. I also looked at the stuff about the SEC case against Binance which is pretty amusing.
Let’s not blame the computers… and give them a bad rap… blame the humans who made and programmed them… MORE-ONS
Let me ask Hoolio if he would like a computer — he shows zero interest in the topic
https://i.postimg.cc/fRykC9dv/Hoolio.png
The loss of affordable air conditioning will mark the end of BAU.
Not long ago, the IEA seemed to be talking about the possibility that air conditioning would become affordable in Africa and India. Not likely, except for a handful of the very rich.
People have lived without air conditioning for a long time. Air conditioning would seem to be something that people could do without, except perhaps in crowded situations, where body heat leads to way too much heat.
Don’t underestimate the effect of local heat zones from paving over thousands of acres in urban areas.
To live without air conditioning you need a different construction of buildings, the anchient knew how to construct them. We are not talking about glass towers reaching the sky. What is more you need another work style, eventually a siesta. People for sure can live in the heat – but not maintaining the pressure-loaden global workstyle of the finance system.
Slowly at first…
I was born in Florida. When I was a child, my family would drive to the Gulf for our pick from miles & miles of empty beaches. Then air condtioning came. The beaches became an almost unbroken stretch of condos, hotels, & development. The population explosion to much of the USA south coincided with AC. In the past people had ways of living with heat. But now many buildings are built without any windows that can be opened. AC seems optional, but I believe you are right. BAU would falter in many places.
That’s a good description of what is happening to beaches in the Tropics. Caribbean islands are among the worst examples of hotel/condo sprawl.
I believe the current hotel/condo sprawl also depends on a culture of hating the old wooden houses that had high ceilings, windows that opened and very low conduction of heat. It makes for massive loss of history, among other matters.
Many houses had a large central ceiling fan system that pulled the heat out. And an elaborate system of heavy shades that were lowered or raised according to the position of the sun.
Yes. Jalousie windows in the islands.
Local music venue Fathers Day offer is a drag queen show. Nothing says fatherhood like drag queens.
Oh gods of collapse hurry up.
NE – nakedemperor.substack.com liked your comment on Western Decline in Prosperity.
Our energy predicament, including why the correct story is rarely told It is my view that when energy supply falls, it falls not because reserves “run out.” It falls because economies around the world cannot afford to purchase goods and services made with energy products and using energy products in their operation. It is really a price problem.
Prices cannot be simultaneously high enough for oil producers (such as Russia and Saudi Arabia) to ramp up production and remain low enough for consumers around the world to buy the goods and services that they are accustomed to buying.
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2022/07/28/the-worlds-self-organizing-economy-can-be-expected-to-act-strangely-as-energy-supplies-deplete/
Perhaps NE can join us here and help taunt The NOF.
The more the merrier!
I’ll have to explain what a NOF is… or perhaps Xabier can do that
We have a convert!!!
NE – nakedemperor.substack.com liked your comment on Western Decline in Prosperity.
There is no way out of this. Collapse has been baked in since the turn of the century. Rising costs of energy are a huge headwind on the global economy. If the central banks did not act to offset this using stimulus (primarily low interest rates) we would not be having this discussion. The world would have collapsed. Alas What cannot continue will stop – there is a limit to what the stimulus could achieve… and we started to push on a string in 2019…
That was the trigger to release Covid and the Injections … now we wait for the End Game.
The Beginning of the End JUNE 13, 2003 – There is increasing evidence that massive economic stimulus — monetary, courtesy of the Federal Reserve, and fiscal, thanks to the president and supply-side minded lawmakers — is taking hold. The magnitude of the policy turnaround, which caps a constructive, multi-year reflation process, should overwhelm the economic negatives — including the drag from expensive oil and poor finances at the state- and local-government levels.
Expensive oil and its impact on other energy costs remains a concern. The current level of U.S. monetary stimulus is massive. Real interest rates have fallen 5.2 percent from December 2000 to March 2003, reaching -1.2 percent. A swing of this magnitude may be historical.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/207227/reversal-fortune-david-malpass
HIGH PRICED OIL DESTROYS GROWTH According to the OECD Economics Department and the International Monetary Fund Research Department, a sustained $10 per barrel increase in oil prices from $25 to $35 would result in the OECD as a whole losing 0.4% of GDP in the first and second years of higher prices.
http://www.iea.org/textbase/npsum/high_oil04sum.pdf HOW HIGH OIL PRICES WILL PERMANENTLY CAP ECONOMIC GROWTH For most of the last century, cheap oil powered global economic growth. But in the last decade, the price of oil production has quadrupled, and that shift will permanently shackle the growth potential of the world’s economies. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-09-23/how-high-oil-prices-will-permanently-cap-economic-growth
Unfortunately, these things are true. High priced oil doesn’t work. Somehow, high-priced renewables were thought to be a way to solve the problem.
Yes but the way the system works we will have high price oil….crash low price oil ……high price oil crash….to say that we will not have high price oil is shortsighted…unless you mean long term…..but then again you never know….
I doubt it is the price! Call it costs or efforts.
Let’s say, oil companies would double the price tomorrow. The states could tax the oil companies and grant subsidies. The companies could pay their workers better, who shop and consume. The companies could invest. GDP stays equal. Only the distribution of wealth changes.
Things differ, when you decide to ship the oil around the world. Costs will rise and thus the price but in this moment we also have more efforts. The ship must be build and maintained, needs fuel and staff. Fracking or offshore drilling need more efforts. That means instead of cutting hair, workers have to do rig work. GDP shifts toward resource production. You may think of the EROI model and call it invested energy. Productivity sinks.
The price underlys several mechanism, such as taxes, demand and supply but also production costs. But it is not a good indicator. A company could decide to sell oil under its production costs to gain market share.
Yes
Adverse Events
(December 19, 2021 to June 18, 2022)
Total Number of Adverse Events:
1,591,026 (Interval)
4,964,106 (Cumulative)
Blood and Lymphatic System Disorders: 100,970
Most Common AE – Lymphadenopathy – 79,717, Lymph node pain: 9,199
Hundreds of rare disorders. There is a strong body of evidence linking these lymphatic disorders to the vaccine.
Cardiac Disorders: 126,993
Most Common AEs – Palpitations – 30,435 / Tachycardia 25,509 / Myocarditis 10,363 / Pericarditis 9,789
In addition to myocarditis, there were 270 different types of heart damage reported, including many rare conditions.
Congenital, Familial and Genetic Disorders : 1,143
Most Common AEs: Congenital anomaly: 45
Ear and Labyrinth Disorders: 47,038
Most Common AEs: Tinnitus: 15,833 / Vertigo 13,698
Endocrine Disorders: 4,115
Most Common AEs: Hyperthyroidism 546
Eye Disorders: 61,518
Most Common AEs: Vision Blurred: 8,600, Visual impairment: 7,540
Gastrointestinal Disorders: 317,811
Most Common AEs: Nausea: 123,930, Vomiting: 38,784
General Disorders and Administration Site Conditions: 1,605,985
Most Common AEs: Fatigue: 234,052, Malaise: 141,773, Chills: 128,172
Hepatobiliary Disorders: 4,380
Most Common AEs: Hepatic function abnormal: 386, Jaundice: 341, Hepatitis: 258
Immune System Disorders: 31,895
Most Common AEs: Hypersensitivity: 9,587, Immunization reaction: 7,846 Anaphylactic reaction: 7,326
Infections and Infestations: 167,382
Most Common AEs: COVID-19: 74,803, Herpes zoster: 18,744, Influenza: 15,464
Injury, Poisoning, Procedural, Complication: 241,342
Most Common AEs: Maternal exposure during pregnancy: 5,956, Exposure via breast milk: 5,796, Overdose: 5,144
There were also 30,828 reports of “poor quality product administered” and 54,370 reports of off-label use.
Investigations: 96,411
Most Common AEs: Blood pressure increase: 14,161, Heart rate increase: 11,499 Blood glucose increase: 1,296 (diabetes)
There are over 60 pages of different “investigations”
Metabolism and Nutrition Disorders: 24,038
Most Common AEs: Decreased appetite: 13,410, Dehydration: 1,631, Feeding Disorder: 868, Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar): 621
Musculoskeletal and Connective Tissue Disorders: 539,299
Most Common AEs: Myalgia: 177,523 Arthralgia (joint pain): 121,356, Limb discomfort: 23,851
Neoplasms Benign, Malignant, and unspecified Cyst: 3,711
Most Common AEs:Neoplasm malignant (cancerous tumor): 213, Lymphoma: 177, Breast cancer: 169
3,711 Tumors!
Nervous System Disorders: 696,508
Most Common AEs: Headaches: 295,929, Dizziness: 92,642, Paraesthesia: 44,587.
Extremely high amounts of bells palsy, tremors, memory impairment, paraparesis (loss of muscle function in the lower half of the body), etc.
Pregnancy, Puerperium, Perinatal: 4,056
Most Common AEs: Abortion spontaneous: 1,846, Premature baby: 184
Product Issues: 15,910
Most Common AEs: Product temperature: 14,474, product quality issues: 174
Psychiatric Issues: 77,148
Most Common AEs: Insomnia: 16,673, Anxiety: 7,049, Confusional state: 5,539, Sleep disorder: 4,791
Renal and Urinary Disorders: 13,647
Most Common AEs: Renal pain: 1,950, Pollakiuria: 949, Haematuria (blood in urine): 949
Reproductive System and Breast Disorders: 178,353
Most Common AEs: Heavy menstrual bleeding: 30,500, Dysmenorrhoea (painful periods): 15,319, intermenstrual bleeding: 13,818
Respiratory, Thoracic & Mediastinal Disorders: 190,720
Most Common AEs: Dysphonia: 56,775, Cough: 26,605, Oropharyngeal pain: 18,845
Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue Disorders: 224,633
Most Common AEs: Pruritus: (Itching) 36,607 Erythema (skin redness): 21,900, Hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating): 16,936.
Social Circumstances: 9,414
Most Common AEs: Loss of personal independence in daily activities: 3,548, Impaired work ability: 2,213, Bedridden: 1,195.
Surgical and Medical Procedures: 87,073
Most Common AEs: Immunisation: 46,563, interchange of vaccine products: 38,170
Vascular Disorders: 73,542
Most Common AEs: Hypertension: 14,859, Hypotension: 5,707, Deep vein thrombosis: 4,696
Many of the other 264 different types of vascular disorders are rare.
Over 60% of cases had either an unknown outcome or did not recover, suggesting that many of the injuries were not temporary.
If you have time take a look at the full file here.
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The tremendous quantity of adverse events is both horrifying and astonishing. I can’t even begin to estimate the underreporting occurring here.
This is the data your health officials didn’t want you to see. They assured you the vaccine was safe and effective, I assure you it is not. The vaccine literally affected every part of your body.
There is no way to mistake these adverse events, some extremely rare disorders, for a coincidence. Does this seem safe and effective to you?
hahahahahahaha…. keith norm – discuss! DISCUSS DISCUSS DISCUSS!
If no one talks about these events, perhaps they didn’t happen.
If no one talks about these events, perhaps they didn’t happen.
If the tree in the forest and no one was there to listen to it. did it fall?
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Hey keith!!!
Confidential Pfizer Document Shows 1.6 Million Adverse Events
393-Page Document: Adverse Reactions Affecting Virtually Every Organ System
Take a look at a summary of the adverse events in every organ system of your body below. It’s so long that it took hours to go through, summarize and type out!
It includes:
•100,000 blood disorders
•127,000 cardiac disorders
•47,000 ear disorders
•61,518 eye disorders
•696,508 nervous system disorders
•77,000 psychiatric disorders
•178,000 reproductive disorders
•178,000 reproductive disorders
•225,000 skin and tissue disorders
•3,711 tumors
•73,542 vascular disorders
https://drpanda.substack.com/p/confidential-pfizer-document-shows
You f789ed up keith… you got played… you got suckered…
Suuuuu EEeeeeee!!!
Out of 200 million people that’s about what I would expect with or without vaccine.
The number of adverse events is very disproportionate to the number of adverse events related to prior vaccines, however.
keith will choose to ignore that bit of the science … and make sh it up to justify injecting Rat Juice many many times…
“related to prior vaccines”
Hmm. It would be interesting to have numbers on this. Far as I know the number of adverse reactions is no worse than say yellow fever. (Which is just plain nasty or at least the one available in the 50s was.)
FYI https://pdfhost.io/v/nvrgA~sEJ_VAERS_Heart_Damage_V8
For more https://openvaers.com/covid-data
updated https://openvaers.com/covid-data/myo-pericarditis
https://i.postimg.cc/W4D2rC37/Myoc.png
I know of 3 people who have experienced chest pain after the injection… and did not report it to a doctor – and most certainly not to VAERS… they said it wasn’t too bad and they hoped it would just go away…
I know of two people who did report it – they were told it was anxiety — go away.
Now I view it as helping the Russian. Go Pfizer!
(Financial Times)
”The unexplained rise of cancer among millennials.
Increasing numbers of younger people in the developed world (edit. so called western world) are being diagnosed with the disease. Scientists are not sure why”.
https://archive.is/Y7TCt
https://www.ft.com/content/90d5f2e3-d539-4149-a503-2114ac3ef355
By underlining that the increase in cancer in young people is a trend of the last 20 years, the article diverts attention from its even greater increase in the last 2 years.
In short MSM doing what MSM does.
This article covers only the years 1990 to 2019. It says absolutely zero about the last two years. The article seems to suggest that diet (or drugs) is causing the problem.
I would add that hormones fed to animals may be part of the problem. I know that children are maturing earlier. This could relate to both a change in diet and hormones in meat that the children are eating.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/10/girls-puberty-year-earlier
Girls beginning puberty almost a year earlier than in 1970s
This article is more than 3 years old
Onset of glandular breast tissue development has shifted by three months per decade
That’s the argument that the anti-Tommy pedos will use when they explain why they have 9 yr old gf… either that or it’s ok in Somalia so what’s the problem with this in the UK????
Hormones fed to animals are a good point! Also some plastic particles can act as hormones. I guess there is also a connection between sugar (not carbonates) and hormones but that’s too complicated for me.
My impression is that MSM is trying to find justification for all the increase of health problems related to the recent Covid mRNA vaccination.
For instance the following article seems to me in the same line.
It tries to convince people to do not too much sport, because that can damage your hearth…
Nothing like that would have ever appeared on MSM before Covid mRNA vaccination.
Actually at the end of the following article every man has the doubt to make too much sport, even if he is the one who doesn’t make any competition at all…
https://www.corriere.it/salute/cardiologia/23_giugno_19/troppo-esercizio-male-cuore-afc1201c-0b8e-11ee-a43e-f9c625e8ed19.shtml
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Have a rid of how the MSM is blaming vax injuries on long covid …
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/systemic-failure-experts-sound-worries-over-support-for-long-covid-sufferers/TXDOOIPC6RHSFDDFI6VXC7NL6U/
Odd how scientists and doctors have become so confused and puzzled these days, isn’t it?
But not so! They seem to know what isn’t and could not ever be the cause…….
The same people who knew 100% how to get us out of the covid debacle, but *now* we’re to accept they know nothing.
This from Doomberg. I would love to read the whole thing, but a sub is too expensive for me.
““Clowns to the left of me. Jokers to the right.” – Stealers Wheel
In innumerable ways, Norway has executed a near flawless energy policy. It produces more than 90% of its electricity from carbon-free hydropower, with the balance coming from other renewable resources like wind. The country’s nearly 1,700 hydroelectric dams are buttressed by approximately 1,000 water reservoirs that collectively represent a backup power supply equivalent to 70% of its annual consumption. Norway produces so much clean electricity that it routinely exports a meaningful amount to its neighbors in Europe. Most Norwegian homes are warmed in the winter using heat pumps or electric heaters, and more than 90% of its new vehicle sales are either full battery electric (BEV) or plugin hybrids (PHEV). In essence, Norway is an “electrify everything” green utopia.
Norway is also blessed with an abundance of oil and natural gas reserves—far more than it could ever consume domestically— and the country has been incredibly thoughtful as to how it exploits its resources and who ultimately benefits from them. In 1990, the Norwegian parliament passed legislation creating what is now the Government Pension Fund Global, and surplus revenues from its petroleum sector have been swept into it ever since. The fund is used to dampen the impact of economic volatility on government budget planning, diversify the country’s wealth beyond its borders, and secure the well-being of its future generations. As of March 31, 2023, the fund had a value of $1.36 trillion, or approximately $250,000 per citizen.
Given this fact set, the data on Norway’s annual oil consumption may come as a surprise:
The belief that the proliferation of renewables and electric vehicles (EVs) will cause a precipitous drop in oil consumption is practically religious dogma among environmental evangelicals. The entire climate change movement is predicated on it. It is the kind of assertion that feels like it should be true. Banks have been pressured to stop lending to the “soon-to-be-obsolete” industry, and investors of all stripes have fallen into a similar intellectual trap. Legendary Investor™ Cathie Wood, founder, CEO and CIO of Ark Invest, made a public spectacle of such in a now infamous tweet from 2020:
Last week, the increasingly political—and thus, decreasingly useful—International Energy Agency (IEA) released its medium-term oil market report, catalyzing yet another round of breathless headlines on the matter. Here are a few snippets from the press release accompanying the report’s publication (emphasis added throughout):
“Growth in the world’s demand for oil is set to slow almost to a halt in the coming years, with the high prices and security of supply concerns highlighted by the global energy crisis hastening the shift towards cleaner energy technologies, according to a new IEA report released today….
In particular, the use of oil for transport fuels is set to go into decline after 2026 as the expansion of electric vehicles, the growth of biofuels and improving fuel economy reduce consumption.
‘The shift to a clean energy economy is picking up pace, with a peak in global oil demand in sight before the end of this decade as electric vehicles, energy efficiency and other technologies advance,’ said IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol. ‘Oil producers need to pay careful attention to the gathering pace of change and calibrate their investment decisions to ensure an orderly transition.’”
A peak in global oil demand in the next six years? A simple acknowledgement of the logic underpinning the world’s oil consumption reveals that it is a far cry from being unseated. Let’s do the job the IEA should have done and bring the very real gating factors to the discussion…”
The IEA can’t say, “Oil supply will fall in the near future.”
It is politically correct to say, “Oil demand will fall in the near future. People will be shifting away from oil to cleaner fuels.”
The IEA cannot frighten people, even if its staff know that oil supply will fall. The IEA staff is probably thinking that oil prices will become too high for consumers, leading to less demand. Thus, their statement about less demand will indirectly be true.
The real situation is likely to be more complex. It likely includes war and changing currencies and relativities. Some countries will do relatively better and others relatively worse. Government may fail.
Yes, every time I read something like “a peak in global oil demand” I interpret it as “a peak in oil production”.
I am speculating that the rest of the article documents that Norway’s use of fossil fuels has gone up in parallel with the increase in their renewables use.
That is the main point of the article’s intro.
What the IEA said, regardless of the way they said it, was cited as an example of the lack of realism of the IEA in constantly asserting the supposed inverse relationship between renewables and ff use.
lolololol
take a look at Norway
lots of snow, mountains and waterfalls
Which means lots of hydropwer
also very few people, who get along with each other—and lots of oil
so obviously they can create a wealth fund for every citizen
Paper wealth is a good idea, as long as the paper is worth something.
their wealth is underpinned by surplus energy
it will be ok as long as that lasts
“also very few people, who get along with each other—”
If that were true, you should apologize to FE Norman.
I didnt know FE was Norwegian??
Do all the other Norwegians know this?
When we were in Oslo I particularly enjoyed the large group of Roma sitting and lying on the pavement in front of the hotel begging. I enjoyed the drug dealer in his electric wheel chair who after a sale would zoom away, different area of Oslo. My wife and I also enjoyed walking with the mass of Muslim men leave the mosque in the evening.
Norway is as dead as the rest of the west.
In Italy it is legal to hunt the Romani (gypsies) American big game hunters pay thousands for a chance to shoot a big male
“The OPEC Big 5, in May, was down 1,881,000 barrels per day from their post-pandemic high in September.”
https://peakoilbarrel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/758720-1.gif
“The rest of OPEC, the Other 8, production was up 108,000 barrels per day in May. This was all Nigeria which was up 171,000 barrels per day. So, without Nigeria, the Other 8 was down 63,000 barrels per day in May.”
https://peakoilbarrel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/758725-1.gif
From peakoilbarrel.com
We are running out of ff. Period. We can ‘invent’ crypto currencies to soak up excess liquidity. But we cannot spunge reality. They will keep trying of course.
The day will come that CNN calls migrants a ‘cancer for humanity’. And no one will be watching CNN.
In the meantime we need more prancing Tranny Freaks… and forest fires to provide a hellscape ambiance
no tommies today eddy?
I thought sunday was visiting day?
It’s Monday + I had to go to town to get some anti inflamms for my shoulder — fortunately I knew the doc was Anti Vax in advance (he treats my vax injured mate)… so there was not confrontation
I will get to tommy shortly
good
My comment was meant for ”uk yesterday”–obviously
in any event, i wouldnt want tommy going stir crazy with no visitors
sorry about your shoulder–has hoolio been tugging too hard at his lead again?
Norman have you taken at look at Professor Norman Fenton’s excellent articles as I recommended?
No 5G, no magnets, no CT – just the numbers, from someone very well-qualified to look at them.
My chum the Prof of Medicine here took a look, and approves of his methodology and conclusions.
They are not so very long, and should be within at least your reading comprehension: so you have no excuse not to – as you so often remind us, you like to ‘sharpen your wits’, which as you refer to them can be assumed to exist in at least a vestigial form.
Go on, take a peek.
The “Other Eight” countries of OPEC has been in a fairly steep decline since early 2013, according to the chart.
Looking at the linked chart, the fact that the “Other Eight” was up between April 2023 and May 2023 depends on the fact that the “Other Eight” was unusually low in April 2023. There must have been some disruption in Nigeria that time, which has gone away. The underlying long term decline may still be an issue.
Now Norway needs to cut exports to retain oil for future domestic use, plastics, chemicals, etc.
The new world order look out for your self and screw everyone else.
Norway seems to have prioritized boosting their exports of natgas. Hence their eager participation in the NS2 sabotage. And guess what???!! Norwegian natgas exports to Yurp are up! Who’da thunk it.
They can make all sorts of promises that they will never be asked to keep – cuz we’ll all be dead soon
What is missing from this story? I think they are pumping old contracts but soon output will drop drastically
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/EIA-Sees-Record-US-Shale-Output-Despite-Slow-Growth.amp.html
that is a beautiful story, just lovely.
yes US LTO light tight oil is expected to enter permanent decline in 2024, but it’s not 2024 yet, is it? (oh look, I think I can see Q3 on the horizon.)
part of the boost must be that a multitude of DUCs (drilled uncompleted wells) have been completed recently and are now producing, quack quack.
and:
“Over the past five weeks, the total number of active drilling rigs in the United States has dropped by 53, Baker Hughes data showed on Friday. The total rig count fell to 695 last week-38 rigs below this time last year. The current count is 380 fewer rigs than the rig count at the beginning of 2019, prior to the pandemic.”
695 drilling rigs can do a lot of infilling, which is adding more holes to the existing shale fields.
so in the race between declining existing wells and newly producing wells, the new production is winning.
for now.
The thing I am wondering about is whether there is any possibility that some other company will come in, with a new technique that will work better.
I know that there have been a lot of reports of buyouts in the Permian Basin.
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/2023/04/26/is-a-buyout-gusher-coming-in-the-permian-basin-why-a-takeover-boom-looms/
Is a buyout gusher coming in the Permian Basin? Why a takeover boom looms
Companies are looking to buy up rivals to secure drilling sites for the future — not to boost their output immediately. They often cut back on drilling rigs when they close deals.
I suppose that these folks may be hoping for much higher prices. With these higher prices, many things might be possible.
While we hear the story about companies cutting back, it is at least possible that some companies have new ideas, especially if they could get oil prices up higher.
“The Permian Basin is set to grow 40% before hitting its peak of 7.86 million barrels in 2030, according to a Bloomberg survey of major forecasters.”
a beautiful quote, just lovely.
though the other few big shale plays are already headed down.
if the SPR drain ends by June 30th as it is planned, then that might put a small upward push on prices.
or not, depending on everything else going on in the world in Q3. (Q3!)
If I recall correctly, Bakken and Eagle Ford are down ~30% from peak production over only a 2-3 year period.
and Permian production (in bpd) looks to be up even more than their drop, thus it’s trending towards a predicted record high for US shale next month.
Q3 is looking to break some records, wooooooo!
This is a chart of monthly North Dakota production (Bakken)
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=mcrfpnd1&f=m
It is down something like 25%.
This is a chart of monthly Texas production. This would include Eagle Ford and part of the Permian basin.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPTX1&f=M
It is now very close to its previous peak.
This New Mexico production. It keeps rising and rising. It is the later-developed part of the Permian.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPNM1&f=M
The only other very big piece is the Texas Offshore piece. It is also down, since 2019.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFP3FM1&f=M
Sorry, I guess I forgot the name of the other formation. I pulled a spreadsheet from EIA and then had to do the graph myself. There were two formations that had fallen greatly.
Just like Aramco, they will pump up the potential of oil fields prior to the sale. But the sale fell through when thay actually got to look at the books, or was it because the Saudis wouln’t shoe the books?
And the other unknown is how much money is made by the sales commissions on the rights to drill (leases) vs money made through actual production?
An interesting link . Problems , predicaments and technology . In this post he discusses overshoot and the insurance industry connection .
https://problemspredicamentsandtechnology.blogspot.com/2023/06/overshoot-insurance-and-sacrifice-zones.html
As I see the situation, insurance companies are left to be the “bad guys” when a long period of bad public policy pushes leads to an increase in fire or theft losses (or both).
Forests burn down, as part of their natural cycle. This is especially the case, if regulations forbid controlled burning, and also forbid lumber companies from thinning trees. In fact, some types of trees require fires for seeds to regerminate and grow.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/giant-sequoia-needs-fire-grow/15094/#:~:text=TRANSCRIPT-,Giant%20sequoias%20are%20the%20largest%20trees%20on%20Earth.,really%20are%20born%20of%20fire.
https://www.nationalforests.org/our-forests/your-national-forests-magazine/how-trees-survive-and-thrive-after-a-fire
There are many electricity transmission lines that shed sparks, leading to fires also. When there are rules that prevent insurance companies from getting the rates they need, they tend to leave the state.
Or, sometimes, they charge the rate that they think they need, and homeowners think this is awful.
The US government for a long time had a give-away insurance program, allowing people to build in flood plains. Needless to say, this doesn’t end well either.
Re flood plains.
I had a wonderful home on beautiful water in La Crosse which I no longer own. Mortgages are not possible without flood insurance and the Federal Government underwrites flood insurance. I looked ahead and made a difficult choice.
MN insurance costs are soaring, along with utilities. Shipping all our natural gas to the world market is not good for us as citizens, the electricity around here comes from natural gas.
Stuff is going up, bummer.
Dennis L.
against the possible—insurance is available
against the inevitable, it isn’t
simple to understand
Robbie Williams lacks energy and struggles towards the end at Pinkpop
“After just three songs, Robbie Williams leans on his knees on Saturday night. The band has just started the fourth song, but the boss urges his colleagues to stop. “I’m fucked,” he says breathlessly.”
https://www.ad.nl/show/robbie-williams-mist-energie-en-worstelt-zich-naar-het-einde-op-pinkpop~a0f77a3e/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2F
Schad
I am getting a “This page is not responding.” Wait, Exit Page. MS seems to have noticed you, groan.
Dennis L.
the Fabric of the Universe is fraying.
AI knows who you are and where you live.
don’t you see? AI has great advanced capabilities.
I saw an Object last night Flying in the sky, and I could not identify what it was, so it was Unidentified.
the ONLY logical conclusion is that we are being visited and observed by a whopper of an Alien Civilization far advanced beyond ours and most likely enabled by many millennia of AI.
there surely CANNOT be any other explanation.
Are you using a VPN?
It seems The Bossche Mutation theory is making the rounds again. Just what we need: an entire book by this weirdo about a terrifying mutation that never came to pass after 3 years of blabber. The only thing dumber than the theory and its originator is the people repeating it for free; at least the quack is making money off the scam.
I will have to admit that I find it hard to believe that a terrifying mutation is just around the corner.
What I do believe is not far away is problems importing drugs of all kinds from India and China. This may have a bigger impact on illness than any terrifying mutation.
In a world without antibiotics and antifungals, an untreated minor abrasion can be deadly. Let’s hope we don’t return to that sort of world.
I prefer the Binary Poison theory.
If they were chasing a deadly mutation they’d keep the pressure on for more boosters… we’d be seeing more lockdowns and other coercive strategies to keep the MORE-ONS ramming more Rat Juice into their damaged bodies
If you analyze their MO, it’s death by a thousand cuts. Chaos is unpredictable and presents a risk to them, so why would they go that route?
Pesticides, vaccines, estrogen mimetics, social devolution: all degrading, none acutely disruptive.
A thousand cuts will collapse BAU and result in ROF.
Don’t think they want ROF
The greatest threat to one’s health would appear to be holding ones breath waiting for Geert’s long-predicted terrible mutation…..
There’s no such thing as bad publicity, and your comment, once it’s been amplified by social media, will probably sell Geert another hundred copies.
If he finds 100 suckers to buy his book, kudos to him.
That said … covid persists regardless of the season … it keeps on mutating…
In the end… she Cassandra was right …
And let’s not forget the Malthus prediction … he’s gonna be right … just a bit later than expected
Eddy is a noble soul. He will work overtime free for his idol.
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/dedollarization-dollar-dominance-janet-yellen-usd-global-reserve-share-decline-2023-6?amp
“She also said the dollar will remain dominant as most countries have no alternative.”
This sounds like as good an excuse as any.
I just heard Janet Yellen say the dollar as a reserve currency will lose some of its strength? Strange for her to admit this. If the dollar lost its status Americans would be paying a lot more for everything especially oil and petrol at the station.
She seems to be saying “some” of its strength. It could be a lot worse than that, but she won’t talk about that possibility.
What incentive does she have to mention it? It must be a big problem if she is talking about it. The U. S will go to war before losing its grip. I believe that is what the Iraq invasion and Libya invasion was about . If Saudi Arabia doesn’t get in line then they will soon have rebel attacks. If the U. S lost its reserve position I am afraid they would collapse. But I guess globalization has made all nations weaker in some way or another.
Globalization has allowed all of the rest of the world to benefit from China’s big increase in coal consumption. I think that this growth in coal consumption is nearing the end, however.
Countries are weaker now because all of the fossil fuels are close to their extraction limits. It is the lack of cheap-to-extract fuels that is the big problem. Also, the rising world population. Our problem is getting enough cheap energy of the right kinds relative to the world population.
When claims for peace dividend got louder the US obviously changed their strategy from invasion to financing proxies and creating maximal chaos. Neither the Afghans, nor the Curdish, nor the Lybians, nor the Ukrainian had or will have an advantage from that. Not to mention the Germans (Hersh). That’s where BRICSS jumps in. The last Ss stand for South Africa and Saudi Arabia.
When you create max chaos in Saudi-Arabia, there is no way to get the oil out. You need an invasion. I guess Russia and China will jump in!
In political management you can take risks and win, like Moltke. You can also lose.
When Europe implements digital money, a digital Id, Industry 2.0 they will all run on US software and servers. It seems to me someone has changed military strategy.
The WHO contract is a very special thing. We will see if the BRICSS will sign it. Perhaps they can manipulate the weather and force them by hunger, I don’t know.
There have been rumours since 30 years that liberal democracy (a self organizing system) does not suit a declining economy because people are all insatisfied and cannot agree on a compromise. I guess what we see currently being etablished is the long proclaimed benevolent authoritarism.
The US will keep their power. The question is for how long?
In pre-democratic times, the only recourse of discontented populations was to riot or rebel, as they couldn’t vote.
Even the Turkish sultans, who were perfectly happy to massacre enemies in heaps, had to tread carefully with urban populations, above all in Istanbul.
The digital panopticon – digital ID, UBI, CBDC, health ‘passports’, etc, is intended to take care of that issue. It couldn’t be more obvious.
As for the self-proclaimed ‘benevolence’, it will be about as benevolent as a tranny is a real woman ….
It will be interesting to end one’s life under such a regime, will it not?
The Elders know this .. and that is why they give us fake democracy… it’s a great way to allow the MORE-ONS to blow off steam … they have no idea that voting tosses out one load of rats… with another set of rats taking their places
Cuz… wait for it…. they are … wait… Stooooopid F789ing MORE-ONS!!! They keep voting decade after decade after decade thinking … well this time we’ll get the good guys….
hahahahaha…(Elders are laughing with me)
How about a Substack … The Elders of Zion… think like an Elder
USA simply lacks the industrial base to compete in war with China and Russia.
That situation is not going to change any time soon.
The recent Politico article argues that.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/09/america-weapons-china-00100373
The Neo-Cons want to focus on the war against Russia, and the ‘Realists’ in Washington/ Pentagon want to shift the focus to war against China.
We saw the Russia dove/ China hawk ‘Realist’ John Mearsheimer in other vids.
They tend to marshal the ancient historian Thucydides for an ‘inevitable’ war with China to (try to) maintain USA hegemony.
The ‘Thucydidean Trap’ for most people is something to try to avoid, but for the ‘Realists’ in Washington it is a pretext.
(For others it is just an explanation of a tendency.)
The ‘Realists’ seem to know that USA is liable to lose against China and they still want the war anyway.
China war party vs. Russia war party
The US cab’t simultaneously fight Russia (in Ukraine) ad China (in Taiwan). There gets to almost a debate. But Biden and others are very interested in keeping the Ukraine conflict going.
War presidents always get re-elected.
His arg is solid but hard to believe there are advocates arguing for 100% replacement.
I like how he lays out the numbers forcing contrarians to do the same.
The numbers give a good baseline of the problem.
No comments on his SS.
https://ttbreakingbs.substack.com/p/the-hard-reality-of-solar-and-wind
So we need 121 Trillion kW hours of power and a large portion of it for planes, automobiles and heating needs to be in a reliable and portable form.
Let’s see how solar stacks up….
Solar Cost to replace fossil fuels is : Well over $200 Trillion Dollars
I would agree:
Also,
I think that shifting the discussion to “EROEI” from “quantity of fuel of the right type per capita” confused a lot of people. EROEI is a ratio that doesn’t tell us much, especially for renewables. (Adding “net energy” confused the matter further.) The real issue is energy of the right kind, relative to population. When people start thinking in about the story too narrowly, in the wrong direction, they think anything is possible.
“anything is possible”
Gail, from the physics and chemistry, energy is fungible. You can convert any kind of energy into any other kind. The problem is economic, paying for the conversion equipment, the losses and the starting kind of energy.
Keith
the problem is that the vast majority of people read:
“we can go mine asteroids”
or
“We can get diesel from growing vines”
and take that as literal truth–which of course it is.
what they don’t see is the economic cost of doing so.
There is no doubt that global warming could be solved with a sunshade in L1. It might be the least expensive option. The major problem is how to pay for it.
At first analysis, it’s much smaller than a big power satellite project.
keith—youve been at that calculator again
trust ne—its bad for you.
i can lend you my ridiculometer if you like—that will give you a much more accurate reading
Satellites Solve Everything! SSE
+1 to Norm for “ridiculometer”.
Maybe we can pay for the sunshade by shorting ag. companies?
The jury is in…
The verdict…
keith is insane
“ridicule”
Lidia, do you think humans have a problem with global warming? If you don’t that’s one thing, if you do, then what if anything can we do about it? If you have a solution, that’s great, what is it? If you don’t, please don’t hassle the people who are trying.
lol Keith
you have an opinion that differs from eddy’s—that puts you on his insane register
welcome
it’ll be his p’do list next–
keith does not demonstrate hate for those who fight the pedos … nor does he worship pedo potus… therefore he need not worry
visiting day with your controller Tommy tomorrow eddy?
Of course norm fully supports this … he feels relieved with the direction this is heading https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/48861
It’s not – it’s just more DM.
Today is Waterloo Day.
When Queen Elizabeth II died, her funeral procession started at the statue of Wellington, showing the British Crown still thinks it is something to be proud of.
Now UK is ruled by a Hindu Prime Minister.
I will save my words on the aristocrats and landowners. All these common English, Scottish and Welsh grunts, who were often mistreated, killed all these Europeans to put a Hindu in power.
UK has never really had a self reflection time to regret what it did to the Continent, but as people not really palatable to the so-called British culture gain more ground, they will probably have a lot of time to reflect on that, like the Spanish who have had at least a century to reflect over what it did in the New World after it lost all it had (except for some sands in Morocco) to USA in 1898.
… God save the queen!
“God save the Queen, man.” – POTUS (Puppet of the US)
Are you sure we are not watching a robot? Maybe that was a program malfunction. I here people say that they hate Biden or Trump but it sounds strange…how can you hate a puppet? I guess it is just easier for them
come on man! don’t mock norm like that – joe is his hero… as is hunter
By some accounts, Britain was only getting its own back for being invaded from the Continent umpteen times over the millennia. Under this interpretation, one day, the British rulers got their act together and said, “Attack is the best form of defense” and “Divide and conquer”.
You also should bear in mind that people on the Continent have been fighting each other since time immemorial regardless of any British involvement, and that Prime Minister Sunak, regardless of what religion he may follow—and as far as I know he could be Temple of Doom— is just a middle manager, not a ruler.
I heard someone commenting on the body language during a meeting between Sunak and von der Leyen. Both unelected, btw. I didn’t see the video that was mentioned, but the commenter indicated it was obvious who was in charge.
(Reuters)
A question we should ask ourselves about the following article:
” ‘Terrible’: UK minister sorry for COVID lockdown 2020 party video.”
What we should ask ourselves about the above article is not the disrespect of observing 2020 lockdowns by UK politicians, but why they felt so comfortable having parties in 2020, when they were saying to normal people (at the same time) that they could die only by meeting others on the street.
Additionally, in absence of the so-called ‘contagion-saving’ vaccines, which was not yet available (and which would have been useless anyway).
Why didn’t they fear death?
Did they already know about use of regular anti-inflammatory drugs or Ivermectin or of certain types of antibiotics or whatever.., suggested only later ?
Or were they simply fearless leader, contemptuous of death and of any danger in life?
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/terrible-uk-minister-sorry-lockdown-breaking-party-video-2023-06-18/
Student, the disease was far from the medical disaster that it was hyped up to be, and our leaders knew that. There was a huge *financial* disaster looming in 2019. It would have made 2008 look like a walk in the park.
The lockdowns were used to prevent this disaster, by stopping non-essential spending in the economy and allowing the finance people to sort out the high finance troubles behind the scenes. The “emergency” was an excuse to keep the world population compliant while this went on.
COVID-19 WAS USED AND ABUSED BY GOVERNMENTS TO PURSUE ANOTHER AGENDA, WITH DR PIERS ROBINSON
https://www.bitchute.com/video/0Ig9Z3ZaKVbb
Also watch any video about this subject by Fabio Vighi, an Italian lecturer who is based in Wales.
That is more pertinent in my view. But my point was not to find the reasons for Covid, but make questions about that specific and apparently weird behaviour by UK politicians.
Which should push any person in UK to make some fundamental questions.
A behaviour that would have not sense, except considering that they were confident Covid was not dangerous, if correctly treated.
Anyway thanks for your considerations.
Another video to watch, Student. It includes for countryman, Fabio Vighi, who is very insighful.
The Political Economy of Covid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQU7sH794ho
>>>>>>>
From the 15:35 point onward, Fabio says this:
“The wider context of this would be for me how the system that we call capitalism – and which has become global in the last 20 to 30 years – is imploding, slowly but surely. We’re looking at the implosion of a system which is incapable of creating wealth through labour.
And if we want to go a step further, we need to look at a phenomenon called technological automation that has made sure that more labour is eliminated than reintegrated or reabsorbed into the market, simply because machines can do the same even better than humans.
That’s a kind of self-destructive narrative, if machines’ automation also means that less and less profits are created through labour. So capital is not invested into labour any longer but is driven towards the speculative market, which is in this respect much more profitable.
So we’re looking at an economy, I think, which is slowly but surely approaching this moment of implosion and is trying desperately to continue to operate. But in order to do that, it needs crisis, it needs emergencies: big emergencies, global emergencies like COVID. That allows it somehow to stay afloat, to continue, but at what price?
The price seems to be that we need to move towards a more authoritarian type of regime, where we need lockdowns, we need more forms of control, we need biopolitics, we need technology, technocracies, to make sure that our lives are controlled so that money circulates more slowly, and that allows for some sort of balance to be retained.
Again, I’m not sure for how long we can continue like this. The balance is very fragile, and my view would be that we are moving towards the next bubble and the explosion of the next bubble, which really could be the equivalent of an atomic explosion.”
>>>>>>>>>>
My reaction: You can see where the concept of “depopulation” might come in, if less labour is necessary!
On the other hand, the idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) is being touted, especially in the “Great Reset” vision. This would reintroduce into Main Street some of the lost consumer demand that machines inherently cannot provide. All of this, of course, is to ignore the impact of “peak energy” or whatever we want to call it. Scary times!
Zemi, with maximum respect for you and for your thoughts, sorry, but I don’t like Fabio Vighi and what you propose seems more something for another thread.
All the best.
When population declines so does GDP. When GDP declines so does the production of oil. That is a vicious circle leading into a permanent recession.
A permanent recession cannot be organized by capitalism, because noone lends to a person that has tomorrow less than today. That means all capitalists will keep their money under the pillow instead of investing. Unless there are negative interest rates, that devaluate your money faster than a risky investment does.
Negative interest rates – or inflation – leads to the positive effect that capitalists invest their money, but on the other hand it reduces the money the poorer population needs for their life.
That’s where helicopter money and CDBCs, digital money comes into place. They can steer inflation, tax and negative interest rates on parts of the money as they wish.
I am not convinced by your explanation of desaster capitalism. When population and GDP and energy declines, why would it help the economy to have pandemys, disasters and wars?
I understand that Vighi is a Marxist. A hybrid form of state capitalism or a “command economy” to mitigate energy affordability issues and social chaos with CBDC’s and a UBI safety net should be right up the Neo-Marxist alley.
Vighi takes issue with the technocracy yes but in his pandemic simulation and systematic collapse article he drops in a strange comment questioning the existence of the Virus. My Dad, a skeptical conservative and iconoclast who was formerly a Democrat, read it and was annoyed saying something to the effect of “these articles are 90% right and 10% BS.”
A normal person would read that article, register the “no virus” argument and tune out the rest of the evidence. That seems to be an effective tactic on the web.. straw man argument to shift the discussion towards fulfilling the desired outcome.
Struggle sessions.. Screaming liberals, “Are you a Christian? White supremacy, AR-15s and Gun Control, Trump and Russia Collusion while we arm real Jihadis and Neo-nazis. Act Blue and BLM and FTX and the Biden’s taking bribes from foreign actors to influence Democrats. Hilarious agitation propaganda!
The Fringe gets on board with surplus energy economics and almost gets there with “there might be a plan” and “see the naked emperor” then makes a mess of things by clinging to the hope of limited authoritarianism or a kinder, gentler form of liberal politics.. behavior nudging & equity. Hey, I’m not a Marxist though. Dave Pollard wants to save the world and stop harmful disinformation by pointing out that the investigation of Trump collusion wasn’t tasked with exposing the Clinton’s involvement and oh by the way RFK, JR is a disgusting anti-vaxxer, lol.
The WEF, Woke politics and AI, Transhumanism and Renewables are spooks to waste the time of small-minded Conservatives and provide a form of hopium for the Liberal activists and managerial classes. Meanwhile, the Pandemic is a test for alpha test for command economy, comprehensive technology solutions and a new vaccine platform for targeted gene therapy no matter the cost. The UKR-RUS war is a way to capture the rest of the hold-outs to complete the Dark Winter DARPA/biosecurity component of crafting the multipolar world order and techno feudal society.
“Transhumanism”
Really? Out of about a million people on Wikipedia, there are 70 who are considered transhumanists. Interesting people, but hardly enough to worry anyone.
Who cannot agree with you, Replenish? Spot on!
capitalism requires infinite growth
go figure
or better still .. total extermination https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220
I agree. It is a way to hide peak oil and peak per capita energy. Adding lots of debt at the same time that demand for oil was pushed down helped temporarily fix some of the problems of the economy. Of course, once the economy opened back up, inflation was the problem. The real problem is still in hiding.
That was what we were told, walk past someone and you could catch it.
I recall the young couple who tried to keep 12 feet between us as I cycled past them – following the advice given by the CMO Chris Whitty on TV! 6ft was safe enough…..
And the police breaking up little groups of students taking their hour of open air – so dangerous!
The 8 ft steel fence erected overnight around the stalls in the marketplace was the cherry on the cake. People really were dying after buying some fruit and veg……..
Breaking news from the Donbass
https://rumble.com/v2uxiga-ukrainians-surrender-en-masse-to-save-their-lives.-military-summary-and-ana.html
Let’s wish the poor bloody sods good luck if that is indeed happening, and may they not return to being canon fodder!
But there’s no fighting in the video — it looks like Farmville
shoot the officers and the politicians
Careful, wouldn’t want ATF and DHS at your door. The best men are men of action and few words. 😉
The monitoring software now has Ed on its radar… now a real person is monitoring Ed… anti terrorist squads are standing by.
The monitoring software (AI) is dum–mb. Notice how that got through the censors on OFW… You can confuse this highly intelligent AI by inserting extra letters or breaking up a word with – . or the exotic % & #
If this is true, it seems like we would hear more about it.
Might even be real footage – maybe no budget for cgi https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/80118
Bite-sized Bosche!
Geert Vanden Bosche has a new book out, and to promote it, he has posted ten short videos, each about two or three minutes long and each addressing a single point about matters viral and vaccinial.
Here’s a link to video number three, on the differences between vaccine-induced immunity and natural/innate immunity. In keeping with his earlier advice, Geert reckons most of us are far better off declining the jab.
https://rumble.com/v2ttjya-2.-only-trained-cellular-innate-immunity-yields-durable-protection-during-a.html
Now this is Excellent! https://metatron.substack.com/p/cardiac-episodes-in-young-australians
Yes but WHEN???? Dammit!!!
https://youtu.be/gAo-hRRxOCo
Geert Vanden Bossche
FE always seems to get to the motherlode just a gnat’s wing ahead of me.
THE oath taken by MPs when being sworn in says nothing about serving constituents.
And so 38 MPs did nothing to serve their constituents when making the decision not to accept an invitation to turn up and listen to testimony from a number of families who had seen loved ones killed via ‘Do not resuscitate’ orders they had not requested.
On Wednesday, in a meeting hosted by former Conservative and now Reclaim MP Andrew Bridgen, Room Five of the UK House of Commons heard families make allegations that the Government used Midazolam and morphine to accelerate the deaths of elderly loved ones, signing them off as ‘Covid deaths’.
During the “pandemic”, the Government’s advice was that anyone who tested positive for Covid and later died of any cause must be recorded as a Covid death.
Writing in his substack, journalist Maajid Nawaz says:
“The Liverpool “Care” Pathway (LCP) was an NHS end of life care death protocol that UK care facilities implemented to kill off elderly patients once they were deemed no longer worth saving. No, this statement is not even controversial any more. The LCP was banned after the fact. In 2020, old and banned end of life care death protocols were replaced by a new protocol labelled NG163. This is it”:
https://uncut.substack.com/p/murder-by-the-state-covid-inquiry
Notice how loads of these clips have pretty women …. makes people more willing to watch.. who are they? Why are they doing these clips?
https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/80114
Biological males being named “woman of the year”
It’s the new blackface.
Take it away, Al Jolson.
well don’t tell eddy
he has enough trouble with people faking it already
Why? A few days ago, UN secretary general Gutierrez tweeted that “The proliferation of hate & lies in the digital space is causing serious global harm. This clear & present global threat demands clear and coordinated global action”.
Which means that Gutierrez masters will soon implement measures to end free speech on the internet for good.
So, I believe that the promotion of transfreaks, rather than to demoralize and divide, is aimed at promoting “hate” reactions that can be used as a pretext for persecutory and censorship measures.
https://www.activistpost.com/2023/06/un-secretary-general-proposes-global-digital-compact-to-push-laws-against-online-hate-lies.html
Could be … impossible to know
if this is true… why
https://t.me/c/1588731774/18206
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/ntp-fluoride-long-delayed/