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It is now popular to talk about leaving fossil fuels to prevent climate change. Pretty much the same result occurs if we run short of fossil fuels: We lose fossil fuels, but it is because we cannot extract them. Practically no one tells us about the extent to which the current system depends upon fossil fuels, however.
The economy is extraordinarily dependent on fossil fuels. If there are not enough fossil fuels to go around, there is likely to be fighting over what is available. Some countries are likely to get far more than their fair share, while the rest of the world’s population will be left with very little or no fossil fuels.
If losing fossil fuels completely, or nearly completely, is a risk for some of the world’s population, it might be useful to think through some of the things that go wrong. The following are some of my ideas about things that change, mostly for the worse, in a fossil fuel-deprived economy.
[1] Banks, as we know them, will likely fail.
Before banks fail in areas with virtually no fossil fuels, my guess is that we will generally see hyperinflation. Governments will greatly increase the money supply in a vain attempt to get people to believe that more goods and services are being produced. This approach will be used because people equate having more money with the ability to buy more goods and services. Unfortunately, without fossil fuels it will be very difficult to produce very many goods.
More money will simply provide more inflation because it takes physical resources, including the proper types of energy, to operate machinery of all kinds to make goods. Creating services also requires fossil fuel energy, but generally, to a lesser extent than creating goods. For example, the pair of scissors used in cutting hair is made using fossil fuel energy. The person cutting hair needs to be paid; his or her pay needs to be high enough to cover energy-related costs such as buying and cooking food to eat. The shop where hair cutting is operated will also need to pay for the fossil fuel energy required for heat and light, assuming such energy is even available.
Banks will fail because too large a share of debts cannot be repaid with interest. Part of the problem will be that while wages will rise, the prices of goods and services will rise even faster, making goods unaffordable. Another part of the problem is that service economies, such as those of the US and eurozone, will be disproportionately affected by a declining economy. In such an economy, people will get their hair cut less often. Instead, they will spend their money on essentials, including food, water, and cooking supplies. Service-providing businesses, such as hair salons and restaurants, will fail for lack of customers, leading to defaults on their debts.
[2] Today’s governments will fail.
With failing banks, today’s governments will also fail. Partly, they will fail because of attempts to bail out banks. Another problem will be declining tax revenue because fewer goods and services are produced. Pension programs will become increasingly difficult to fund. All these issues will lead to increasingly divisive politics. In some cases, central governments may dissolve, leaving states and other smaller units, such as today’s provinces, to continue on their own.
Intergovernmental organizations, such as the United Nations and NATO, will find their voices becoming less and less heeded before they fail. Getting sufficient funding from member states will become an increasing problem.
Dictatorships ruled by leaders who wield absolute power and aristocracies ruled by leaders with hereditary rights are the types of governments with the least energy requirements. These are likely to become more common without fossil fuels.
[3] Nearly all of today’s businesses will fail.
Fossil fuels are essential for all kinds of businesses. They are used in the extraction of raw materials and in the transportation of goods. We use fossil fuels to pave roads and to build nearly all of today’s buildings. Without fossil fuels, even simple repairs of existing infrastructure become impossible. Without adequate fossil fuels, international companies are especially at risk of breaking into smaller units. They will find it impossible to operate in parts of the world with virtually no fossil fuel supply.
Fossil fuels are even used in making solar panels, wind turbines, and replacement parts for electric vehicles. Talking about solar and wind as “renewables” is to a significant extent misleading. At best, they can be described as fossil fuel “extenders.” They might help a problem of a slightly low fossil fuel supply, but they are far from adequate substitutes.
[4] Grid electricity and the internet will disappear.
Fossil fuels are important for maintaining the electrical transmission system. For example, restoring downed power lines after storms requires fossil fuels. Hooking up solar panels or wind turbines to the electric grid requires fossil fuels. Home solar panel systems may operate until their inverters fail. Once their inverters fail, their usefulness will be greatly degraded. Fossil fuels are needed to manufacture new inverters.
Fossil fuels are also important for maintaining every part of the internet system. Furthermore, without grid electricity, it becomes impossible to use computers to connect to the internet.
[5] International trade will be scaled back greatly.
At this time of year, many of us remember the story of the three kings from the East coming to visit the baby Jesus with precious gifts. We also remember stories in the Bible of Paul traveling to distant countries. From these and many other examples, we know that international trade and travel can continue without fossil fuels.
The problem is that without fossil fuels, some parts of the world will have very little to offer in return for goods made with fossil fuels. Countries with fossil fuels will quickly figure out that government debt from countries without fossil fuels doesn’t really mean much when it comes to paying for goods and services. As a result, trade will be scaled back to match available exports. Exports of goods will likely be very limited for parts of the world operating without fossil fuels.
[6] Agriculture will become much less efficient.
Today’s agriculture has been made unbelievably efficient using large mechanical equipment, generally powered by diesel, together with a huge number of chemicals, including herbicides, insecticides, and fertilizers. In addition, fences and netting made with fossil fuels are used to keep out unwanted animal pests. In some cases, greenhouses are used to provide a controlled climate for plants. Using fossil fuels, specialized hybrid seeds are developed that emphasize characteristics that farmers consider desirable. All these “helps” will tend to disappear.
Without these helps, agriculture will become much less efficient. Figure 1 shows that even with the small cutback in fossil fuel use in 2020, the share of employment provided by agriculture rose.
Employment in agriculture is essential. These workers did not get laid off, even as workers in tourism and workers making fancy clothes lost their jobs, so agricultural jobs as a share of total employment rose.
[7] Future labor needs are likely to be disproportionately in the agricultural sector.
People need to eat. Even if the economy is operating in a very inefficient manner, people will need food. The share of people in agriculture (including hunting and gathering) can be expected to rise considerably.
Some people hope that a shift to the use of permaculture will solve the problem of the dependence of agriculture on fossil fuels. I see permaculture as mostly a fossil-fuel extender, rather than a solution for getting along without fossil fuels, because it assumes the use of many fossil fuel-based devices, such as modern fences and today’s tools. Also, at best, permaculture only partly solves the inefficiency problem because it requires a huge amount of hands-on labor.
Today, there is a wide divide between the share of employment in agriculture in the United States and in the same statistic for the UN group of least developed countries. Most of these countries are in sub-Saharan Africa. They use very little fossil fuels.
The US share of employment in agriculture has recently been about 1.7%. In the part of Europe using the Euro, the share of employment in agriculture has recently averaged about 3.0%. In either the US or Europe, it would take a huge change in employment to get to 70% in agricultural employment (as seen early in the 1990s for the UN least developed group), or even to 55% (as experienced recently by the same group).
[8] Home heating will become a luxury item available only to the wealthy.
Without fossil fuels, wood will come into high demand for its heat value. Wood will be needed for cooking food; it is very difficult to subsist on a diet of all raw foods. Wood will also be in demand for making charcoal, which in turn can be used to smelt some metals. With these demands on wood, deforestation is likely to become a major problem in many parts of the world. Wood in general will be quite expensive, given the considerable cost of harvesting and transporting it over long distances without the benefit of fossil fuels.
People living in sparsely populated wooded areas may be able to gather their own wood for home heating. For other people, home heating will likely become a luxury, affordable only by the very rich.
[9] Living alone will become a thing of the past.
Without enough heat, and with barely enough wood for cooking, people (and their animals) will have to huddle together more. Homes housing multiple generations, built over a place for keeping farm animals, may again become popular. It will be more efficient to cook for large groups than for one person at a time. People in cold areas will huddle together with each other in beds to keep warm. Or they will huddle together with their dogs, as in the saying, three dog night, meaning a night that is cold enough to need to have three dogs to keep a person warm.
Even in warm parts of the world, people will live together in groups, simply because maintaining a household for a single person will become impossibly expensive. Food and fuel for cooking will take up a huge share of a family’s income. There will be little left over for other expenses.
[10] Governments and their laws will shrink in importance. Instead, new traditions and new religions will play a greater role in keeping order.
Governments have made dozens of promises, but without a growing supply of fossil fuels (or an adequate substitute), they will not be able to keep them. Pensions will be gone. The ability of governments to enforce ownership laws will likely disappear. Without any good substitute for fossil fuels, mass disorder is a likely outcome.
People crave order. Without order, it is impossible to conduct business. We know from recent experience that “sustainability groups,” put together by people with a common interest in sustainability tend not to work well enough to provide order. They tend to fall apart as soon as obstacles arise.
What has seemed to work to provide order in the past is some combination of traditions and religions. With a changing world, both traditions and religions are likely to need to change. In the book, Communities that Abide, by Dmitry Orlov et al., the authors point out that having a strong (non-elected) leader, and a shared set of religious beliefs, helps keep a group together. In fact, it helps if the group is somewhat persecuted. Fighting for a common cause is part of what keeps the group together.
The Ten Commandments in the Bible are interpreted in a way that strongly suggests that they are rules for behavior within the group, not for behavior in general. For example, “Thou shalt not kill,” applies to other members of the group; wars against other groups were very much expected. In those wars, killing of members of another group was expected. This would seem to allow Israel’s killing of members of Hamas, today. Without enough fossil fuels to go around, fighting becomes more frequent.
Conclusion
In my opinion, the problem the world is facing today is like one that smaller economies have faced, over and over, in the past: The population has become too large for the economy’s resource base, which now includes fossil fuels. Today’s leaders reframe the problem as voluntarily moving away from fossil fuels to prevent climate change in order to make the situation sound less frightening.
As I see the situation, the world needs to scale down its use of fossil fuels because, ultimately, the laws of physics determine selling prices for fossil fuels. We extract the inexpensive-to-produce fossil fuels first. The problem is that fossil fuel selling prices cannot rise arbitrarily high. Prices must be both:
- High enough for producers to make a profit, with funds left over for reinvestment and for adequate taxes for their governments.
- Low enough for consumers to afford to buy food and other consumer goods produced with these fossil fuels.
If we assume that all the fossil fuels that seem to be under the ground can really be extracted, climate change from burning them may indeed be a problem. But it is hard to see that they can really be extracted, given the affordability issue. Politicians will hold down prices to get voters to vote for them if nothing else.
Researchers have been working diligently to find solutions, but to date, their success has been poor. Every supposed solution requires significant use of fossil fuels. So, we need to think through what might happen if we are forced to get along without fossil fuels and without an adequate substitute.
Is there any way to avoid a totalitarian, all-surveillance state which tracks everyone’s energy usage , and restricts it significantly so other than the few winners , everyone will be living hand to mouth?
If the electric grid breaks down, this doesn’t happen.
Even if the grid was still functioning, which it wouldn’t be, it would soon be destroyed by people scavenging metals for scrap, just like in South Africa.
Complex, expensive infrastructure can’t survive even a partial collapse.
Only a capable, competent and non-brainwashed engineer will tell you that steady state economy is as real as unicorn fart because things spoils, degrade or worn out and has to be replaced. When you replace, it is neither sustainable nor steady state.
Take the example of tires(tyes) or bearings that get worn out ans has to be replaced. Rubber trees grow and die and they need fertilizers, care and maintenance the mchines that make the tyres are never steady state systems. All it needs is one small part of the gigantic system to be “non steady state” to make the entire gogsntic system non steady state
Any engineers who says that green energy is the future and will replace FF is not even an enginner to begin with
All modern manmade systems require maintenance. Any small part that fail will bring down the whole system eventually. The more complex the system is, the more prone it is to failure
CTG.
Please explain modern automobiles, e.g. Toyota. Compared to cars of my youth they are much more reliable.
Tires now can last 70K miles compared to 25K miles in the sixties.
TV repair business are out of business, my Sony flat screen dates to the late 1990’s I think,
Solid state is very reliable and the MTBF seems surprisingly long.
Dennis L.
So your car needs no maintenance, oil change, etc? Any change you need is bot steady state anymore. It is not renewable anymore. Your replies certainly have characteristics of the AI that Postkey mentioned in the last few posts
Reply to CTG below,
Sorry, did not make thoughts clearer. Modern cars still need oil changes, but points and plugs seem to last tens of thousands of miles. My Camry hybrid is a 2007 with 180K miles and runs great.
It is more complex than autos of old, but requires much less maintenance.
Some complex things work remarkably well. Starship will be an example, the Falcon X is very reliable compared to rockets of the 1960’s.
Politics is more complex and probably not better, not much engineering perhaps.
Dennis L.
<i<All modern manmade systems require maintenance. Any small part that fail will bring down the whole system eventually.
Entropy. People here should understand this though the general public largely doesn’t because if they understood it they would know we are doomed.
“is not even an enginner to begin with”
Are you an engineer? Have you talked to any engineers?
I was an accomplished engineer in my past job. I have a few critical patents in semiconductor manufacturing
keith is an engineer on a choo choo train – he pulls the handle to make the whistle blow
Do nations respect patents on critical technologies? Is submitting a patent just a way for the government to incentivize providing the government with full information on important tech developments and also to identify who has information they want?
I will go along with you that the current technology needs maintenance. We do that all the time. But take your rubber tree example. Latex sap is almost pure hydrocarbon, so very little is taken from the soil.
Assuming we solve the energy problem, why should maintenance be of concern?
gotta admire your assumption keith
they never fail you
“(…) and restricts it significantly so other than the few winners , everyone will be living hand to mouth?”
Problem is that the state becomes the incompetent arbiter of evolution. If one is to transcend from the default evolutionary “winner takes it all”, rapacious primate tendencies, which so happens to be a blueprint of the eternal recurrence of all retch and no vomit, one must first figure out into what exactly.
Let’s ponder upon our options (so far):
1. Maladaptive evolutionary process (the state)
2. ‘Full send’ evolutionary process (the perpetual recurrence)
3. Temptations laced with poison (attack the divergent-recurrent tendencies)
1. Will fall flat on the face as it is still competitvely unbound, 2. Is the Lotka-Volterra slow ass evolution back up into the trees. 3. Isn’t tractable because of the inherent nature of bolting a large neocortex onto baseline primate tendencies, which is to say that everyone’s a Hyper. And yes, that includes me and you and our hypothetical offspring.
4. Try something new (AGI)
I’m cool with transcending the absurdity of human-chauvinist nonsense. Partaking in the game of life as “evolved” complex embodiments eventually will yield “children” of the collective efforts (of mankind), which quite possibly isn’t biological at all.
Playing “the game” is to accept the rules.
https://youtu.be/0Gq5R5ffrtE?si=lYz_LRtM8r_TCMbc
Or perhaps I’m merely a boneheaded libertarian?
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Validates not having children … https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/90394
I wonder if the many vaccines is part of the reason the US infant death rate is so high compared to other countries.
https://www.ajmc.com/view/us-has-highest-infant-maternal-mortality-rates-despite-the-most-health-care-spending
US Has Highest Infant, Maternal Mortality Rates Despite the Most Health Care Spending
January 31, 2023
Yes Gail, the childhood vaccine program is killing and disabling our children. When the pandemic hit in 2020, infant mortality decreased because of all the missed “well baby checks” when the vaccines are administered.
As a country, we’ve traded benign childhood infectious diseases for chronic, long term illnesses and much, much worse like Autism and behavioral problems..
I suspect you are right, or “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
Dennis L.
“part of the reason the US infant death rate”
We know why it is so high, but it not PC to state it.
I reckon being pregnant, having an STD, being obese, boozing and smoking crack won’t give a good statistic, eh?
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(Financial Times)
IMF: Ukraine needs money, a lot and quickly.
“The head of the IMF has urged Ukraine’s allies to rapidly unlock tens of billions of dollars for the country, as she warned delays in providing the extra funding would jeopardise Kyiv’s tentative economic recovery.
Kyiv can manage a likely short-term funding gap of “a couple of months,” said Kristalina Georgieva in an interview, praising the authorities after they had “revitalised the economy”, tamed inflation and strengthened Ukraine’s tax base.
But with the US and EU still haggling over financing packages for the country, she said Ukraine’s economic revival would be endangered if it is forced to “adjust” to an absence of fresh financial support. Further delays could force Kyiv to return to destabilising policies such as printing money, as it did a few months after Russia’s invasion last year.
“What is important is not to prolong this period, because then it would put more pressure on Ukraine to adjust . . . right at the time when the country has turned towards better prospects for the economy,” said Georgieva during a visit to South Korea.
“Work will continue in the US and Europe [on the aid packages]. Ultimately, I remain optimistic they will secure the funding.”
The failure by the US and EU to secure extra long-term financial support for Kyiv comes after Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia failed to liberate significant amounts of land and as Moscow steps up aerial attacks on infrastructure.
Ukraine needs $41bn in budgetary support from its allies next year, according to a budget passed last month. It is counting on $18bn from the EU, $8.5bn from the US, $5.4bn from the IMF, $1.5bn from other development banks and $1bn from the UK.”
https://www.ft.com/content/b12dd676-53d1-4e35-91e0-a225e7b62ece
Archive
https://archive.ph/xcDTK
All these countries that Ukraine would like to borrow from are up to their ears in debt. Maybe what it wants is permanent funds, but these countries don’t really have money to offer.
Running out of money for CGI
Over the last 2-3 years, it is becoming apparent that we are in the Matrix. It is like the Matrix is provoking the subjects.
I see some videos (only a few because they are unbearable to watch) which shows wokeism and illegal migrants. As real as it can get, it is really “”impossible” for people to be that stupid…….
I have no other rational explanation to offer than we are all in a Matrix.
yes – it does resemble a video game
Never attribute to the Matrix that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Nope this is beyond stupidity. Anyone who lumps everything into “people are stupid” does not think much and does not think hard. By attributing “not normal” to be being isbthe laziest way and does not require any thinking
”matrix”—like a few others, is a word that people have got hold of
frequent use and exchange has given meaning where there is no meaning
it is just a daftword—means nothing and used to describe that which does not exist
jumping up and down—saying ”but it does exist”—will not change that
it is a chocolate teapot word—-i insist that there is a chocolate teapot orbiting Mars—-you cannot disprove it
Which proves that I am correct–there is a chocolate teapot orbiting Mars.
but the matrix nonsense will go on—ad nauseam.
Mankind, surely, has always been surrounded by a matrix which through the Rapacious Monkeys’ perceptual powers explains and illustrates his narrative.
Since about 800BC the western RM has, like a crow to shard of consumer packaging, been spellbound by money
It will all cease with the moneygrubbers’ rapture
the reign of the lichen? No One Knows the Future
The US has the same problem as every other economy. A lack of young, smart,highly educated, hard working people. The US did side-step the lack of young people with unlimited immigration of young people. Young lawn mowers and ditch diggers will not make us rich.
as discretionary sectors keep shrinking, the talent and the $ to pay them will have to migrate towards essential sectors.
I’m not worried, ha ha.
meanwhile, I’m riding the bAU tiger powered by 19+ mbpd of black goo crude.
hey look!
14 days until 2024, wooooooo!
The US has the same problem as every other economy. A lack of young, smart,highly educated, hard working people
That isn’t the problem. Lack of affordable resources is the problem. Workers are useless without them, no matter how well educated.
“19+ mbpd of black goo crude.”?
“19+ mbpd of black goo crude.”?
That’s not what it is though. The majority barely qualifies as oil and can’t be used to make diesel or jet fuel. Do people here not read any of Gail’s blogs?
But that very specific spike protein is now unspecific. It has mutated and the vaccinated defence systems are struggling to recognise it.
I also know work colleagues and people I have interviewed or chatted to at the school gates, who have been hit hard by Covid in the past few months. A familiar tale has been a week of coughing, headaches or fever followed by a lingering fatigue.
OAS combined with an IgG4 immune response switch.
For some of us, Covid is just a sniffle – not even enough to make you go digging around in the bathroom cabinet to see if there is a lateral flow test hiding in there.
Which ‘some of us’, BBC. Go on, be honest!
The BBC tries to explain what is going on. They want to blame the unvaccinated but can’t. They want to praise the vaccines but can’t. They have erased the concept, that maybe the vaccines don’t work, from their brains, so this is hard for them. I actually feel a bit sorry for them. And then I remember the Hannah Fry ‘documentary’ trying to shame the unvaccinated and so my empathy disappears.
How we fare after being exposed to Covid comes down to the battle between the virus itself and our body’s defences. The earliest stages are crucial as they dictate how much of a foothold the virus gets inside our body, and how severe it is going to be.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-67726685
I have not had so much as a sniffle in well over a year — same with M Fast.. same with the 2 munchkins… same with hoolio
What can it be??? Oh right — let’s dot connect – we have IMMUNE SYSTEMS that are fully functioning hahahahahaha
Oh what joy — I have an immune system — it keeps the bad boys out — defeats cancer keeps me feeling mega great…
Unlike the Re TARDED MOREON vaxxers hahahaha
Mutated or a ‘new release’?
it will be a new release… of course it will…
Not according to vanden Bossche?
But the article doesn’t use the word ‘unvaccinated’ once, so we can only assume that the case studies are vaccinated people.
“What is it like to catch Covid now? It is a question I have been pondering since a friend was surprised by how roughed up they were by it. Their third bout of Covid was significantly worse than the previous time they caught it.”
Surprised by how roughed up they were by it. Third bout of Covid was significantly worse than the previous time. All sounds like the friend was vaccinated to me.
“I thought every time you catch an illness it’s supposed to be a bit better each time?” was the message from his sickbed.
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/tell-me-covid-vaccines-dont-work
so they don’t stop you from getting IT… and apparently they don’t stop you from getting really sick
Wait a minute, I thought Covid vaccines were not only supposed to stop people from getting Covid but if they were one of the very, very rare cases that did, supposed to stop them from getting ill?
I guess the BBC must be talking about unvaccinated people getting Covid at the moment? But every unvaccinated person that I know isn’t continually getting reinfected. And if they are, they certainly don’t know about it.
And we can all remember, only last year, how much the BBC liked to belittle the unvaccinated. They reported on unvaccinated people dying and made programmes to make the unvaccinated look like insane, social pariahs. So if this current article was referring to unvaccinated people you can bet your bottom dollar that it would be in the headline, as well as repeated multiple times every sentence.
But the article doesn’t use the word ‘unvaccinated’ once, so we can only assume that the case studies are vaccinated people.
“What is it like to catch Covid now? It is a question I have been pondering since a friend was surprised by how roughed up they were by it. Their third bout of Covid was significantly worse than the previous time they caught it.”
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/tell-me-covid-vaccines-dont-work
norm keith – so what exactly do the injections do — other than f789 up your immune system so that when a pathogen or a disease comes knocking … you are for the most part defenceless
The US can maintain global hegemony using space base and space power lasers. Even after FF are gone. DC can also use them to keep the states in line.
a hegemon needs huge FF energy resources, which will be declining slooooowly and perhaps become a problem for The Core in the 2030s.
the US will retreat to a regional power, with its great symbiotic relationship with Canada.
Latin America will probably be happy to sell us some food.
a lower population would help.
I maintain my prediction of depop beginning in 2024.
What kind of mushrooms have you been eating?
Unlike the vast majority of shroom trips there are some which reveal shocking and unimaginable things.
For example, just imagine being shown a vast “mechanism”……. an otherworldly, other dimensional, mechanical, machine like, unyielding and completely amoral, intelligent, sentient construct whose purpose was the utter and complete disassemblage of living souls. The erasure of self and the idea of self.
Imagine you are held there as a forced viewer of this constantly writhing, flowing unstoppable mechanism as you are forced to become aware that there are things much, much, much worse than hell
No machine elves at all……no kaleidoscope of kodachrome colors……not a single wondrous or enticing or welcoming thing….
Imagine that…….
The simulacrum doesn’t seem so bad in comparison.
Explaining a friend’s experience of course!
yes imagination is endless.
Experienced exactly that when sniffing Special K.
That’s seems to be the archetype of an aware, conscious mind. An unyielding construct crafting reasonably consistent hallucinations out of sensory input.
It’s all in your head.
How about trying to disassemble the idea of your own self. After all, it is merely an image of yourself, your subconsciousness little puppet, the chess piece of yourself in the game of life.
I think therefore I am., isn’t that enough?
Placing too much emphasis on self referential structures (ego, etc.) steals value from raw, unfettered existence itself. Keep the self small, constrained, enough to know that which you are exists.
Keep it simple.
It is nothing inherently wrong for a complex embodiment of life to engage in Samsara and being subject to Karma, but at least do yourself a favor of admitting you’re a player, a reckless wastrel trying to get ahead. Especially if you’re living in the west with roof over your head and food on the table.
You want it, then have it.
The real tragedy isn’t the poor, sickly and hungry schmuck in rural India, but rather the generic Hyper in IC. You see, it’s a fools errand trying to Placate a spoiled, entitled, snowflake Rapacious Primate in search for ego boosting statuses and prestiges while being mesmerized by the Monkey Business.
That is probably what you’re smelling high as a kite, and it isn’t pretty. Indeed, it is the ugly truth.
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However, in the mean time:
(etc.)
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Your friend «friend» should have hugged a tree during that trip. Connect to grandpa pine to ground.
Not sure about that, but Starship is the answer such as it is.
My guess, hope, is it will work; the question then is what does one do with it?
Guess: Mine a platinum asteroid, make fuel cells, generate hydrogen from solar electricity. I have been critical of hydrogen, but batteries don’t work very well or very long, trying something is better than doing nothing.
Dennis L.
“Guess: Mine a platinum asteroid”
Sorry, no such thing. We have lot of samples of them that have fallen to Earth. They have platinum (and gold) but it is down in the fraction of a part per million.
Of course, if the stream of mining an asteroid is big enough, you can get quite a large amount of platinum and gold out of the processing. But it is huge. To process a couple of cubic km of asteroid iron over a 25 year period takes a 30 GW open ended induction furnace. You peal the asteroid like an apple, the melted metal is electromagnetically pumped out, run through a rolling mill to make thin sheet metal. The metal is crumpled up in a chamber with warm CO, which dissolves the iron and nickel into carbonals. What’s left is mostly cobalt enriched with the gold and platinum.
The chemistry is fairly straightforward, the economics is not.
This is why I celebrate Vax injuries and deaths… they think the following:
https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1736179032842993830
Remember what Dunc said …
I’m always amazed when I see the montages of MSM pushing the clot shots. Not watching MSM saved my mental health. The DOD paid for no less than 125 studies to determine the “best messaging” to get the public to line up as test subjects for serial felony offender Pfizer. All of those messages about ‘selfishness’ ‘doing your own research’ ‘the greater good’ ‘science deniers’ was bought and paid for.
Not quite… there won’t be a naturally occurring deadly variant… you would want to control the time frame… the moment of detonation …
Yes the immune systems of the Vaxxers are f789ed…
What will happen is they will RELEASE the pathogen that will kill the Vaxxers.
How’s this for a formula – all Vaxxers have some level of damaged immunity — the most Rat Juice shots the more damage…
Those with less damage might linger sick as dogs… but those with severe damage… let’s say everyone with 2 or more shots… mostly die…
This is more than enough to convince everyone including the A Vaxxers to Lock the F789 Down!! Remember Rwanda – dogs were eating the dead bodies… so they shot the dogs cuz that grossed them out…. the same story will play out here only far worse… You gonna venture on the streets when everything outside your is sinister?
When the wail of the ambulances and police cars are announcing death death DEATH… plague…
And the supermarkets are empty so where would you go? You might want to raid your neighbour… kill him .. take his food… but he might have plague –yuck … fear fear fear
And then the squads of unvaxxed snipers will be everywhere… and there will be a hotline ‘Report Your Neighbour – This is an Emergency – We must Contain the Plague… report your neighbour’…. then cnnbbc announcing shoot to kill … drones circling … armed to the teeth — shooting anything that moves…
The plague is serious business… stay the f789 home
And everyone will stay home — waiting for the food vans… and everyone will starve (or maybe… just maybe…. there will be Super Fent distribution … offering a way out … when the pangs are unbearable)….
Is it not obvious that this will be the outcome????
In vanden Bossche’s view, highly vaccinated people have gravely compromised their immune systems, and done so with potentially profound consequences which soon will begin to manifest themselves.
“In my humble opinion, what we are going to see is something completely completely unprecedented in terms of the magnitude of the wave of morbidity and unfortunately mortality that we will see.”
https://notrickszone.com
Given the possibility he might be correct – that there is the possibility of the emergence of a new variant that would have the capacity to cause highly virulent, very serious disease in vaccinated populations – we should urgently be doing further extensive research into Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine and Quercetin combined with Zinc, antibiotics and Vitamin D to protected the vaccinated.
Studies should look at optimal dosages and which (Ivermectin, HCQ or Quercetin) is most effective in different populations groups.
Does using all 3 together improve outcomes ?
We also need a plan to be able to supply these drugs & supplements in quantities required and distribute them population wide.
In addition what about more research into nasal sprays and gargles (betadine and iota-carrageenan) which the evidence to date shows are highly effective.
And especially in Australia, we need to have real time data on excess deaths – not 3 to 4 months delayed as it currently is.
However, the first problem we have is these drugs are off-patent and there is little financial incentive for Big Pharma to run the studies needed, in fact the current patent system encourages Big Pharma to suppress the research needed.
And the second problem is that the very politicians & health bureaucrats that should be using government funding to run these studies have dug themselves a hole so deep with their Ivermectin denial and they have engaged in such malfeasance – that they can’t afford to now admit that Ivermectin based treatments might work./
https://twitter.com/CKellyUAP/status/1736316304611836183?s=20
Check out what happens when you dump contaminated water into the ocean….
https://t.me/leaklive/17288
Is the timing right? Three months later–is that right? Why not earlier?
Could be the cancer takes time to develop
A radioactive substance with a long half life will emit very little per year. Likewise a radioactive substance with a short half life will emit lots of radiation per year. The water had been sitting in the tanks for like four years so the fast stuff is gone. It could be simple poisoning. Plutonium is super poisonous. Or so we are told by the government that does not want us playing around with it.
Thank you, Gail, for a rare examination of what will happen without fossil fuels. I am one of those who think permaculture will take over agriculture. It can grow its own fertility and design pest-proof systems. Yes, it is not as intensely productive per acre as monoculture; but it provides many other essential services besides producing food, such as flood and temperature modulation, biodiversity preservation, and rain-making on a regional basis, not to mention carbon sequestration. At the same time it can also provide fibre for clothing and many kinds of building materials.
Yes, at the beginning it requires a lot of labor; but that is 80% for the several-years-long establishment, and then only 20% for maintenance into perpetuity. Yes, permaculture uses the fossil fuel tools now available for things like pond-building, electric fencing, or bringing produce to market; but we also know how to do without those tools, using human labor with shovels for earthworks, horses for transportation, or dogs for herding. Permaculture is allied with low or appropriate technology for energy production, heating and cooling, even local internet. Low fossil fuel areas will need to provide jobs for the people laid off due to economic collapse. Permaculture can provide those jobs, which are not all endlessly tedious boring sweaty work in the hot sun. Permaculture knows how to substitute for dumb labor the intelligent harvesting of ecological flows.
In fact, the logical conclusion of the permaculture mindset applied to any area is the establishment of incredibly rich ecosystems for easy hunting and gathering, kind of like Gardens of Eden.
In fact, the logical conclusion of the permaculture mindset applied to any area is the establishment of incredibly rich ecosystems for easy hunting and gathering, kind of like Gardens of Eden.
I am pissing myself laughing.
Greetings
I agree with the triumph of permaculture.
Fungi … bacteria … maybe lichen?
There are indeed things we can do, but the changeover takes a huge amount of time. For example, we can use a few horses for transportation, if we raise enough more horses for this purpose. There are many details to attend to. We need food for the horses, and there needs to be a way of cleaning up after the horses. Ideally, the horse manure needs to get back to the crops. Large cities cannot work well because there would be too much manure.
Shovels are mostly the product of a fossil fuel economy. So are wheelbarrows. Wooden tools might work for a short time. There need to be people making tools with available materials.
Horses? Won’t the hordes eat all of them?
The village, of course, was void of animals – no cows, horses, no sheep, goats, dogs or cats – not even crows. All were eaten.
After they eat all the animals…. then they start to eat the dead humans… then they kill humans and eat them…
This contains excellent first hand accounts of famine — this is what awaits 8B if UEP fails — actually far worse … cuz there will be total famine – and total collapse … mayhem
https://www.rbth.com/history/332225-horrific-famines-of-ussr
It would be helpful to understand the workings of an Amish community. They continue to build very large homes around my area, I have mentioned the purchase of land for cash, they move at a slower pace(follow a buggy), they take Sundays off, and they don’t seem to have a shortage of horses around me.
This not a praise of the Amish, it is an observation they are doing many of the things mentioned here and it seems to work. It is my understanding that communities are limited to about 250 people and then a new one must start. They are patriarchal, what happens to women who are childless?
Dennis L.
here they have sold out at huge profit in southern Ontario and moved here, bought poor land in a hard place at prices that locals could not wait to sell to them.
They will last about as long as the Albertans 25 years back who sold ranches (oil leases truly) and bought big ranches near me………those same folks are selling out to Amish.
The cycle repeats and none ever learn….or maybe they are the smart ones…..if you can sell to the next idiot it removes you as the idiot?……..yes/no?
The first Amish cart trotted past my place yesterday…out surveying their new surroundings….poor buggers have no idea this is the warmest winter so far in a coupe of decades……..that pretty warmblood horse might end up in the guts of a timber wolf pack next year.
Hope they raise good roping horses. however,…I want another.
It would be helpful to understand the workings of an Amish community.
They are just theme park actors. They die too if there are no more fossil fuels.
Potemkin- esque
Thank you, Gail, for a rare examination of what will happen without fossil fuels. I am one of those who think permaculture will take over agriculture. It can grow its own fertility and design pest-proof systems.
Delusional.
What do you get when you cross a mentally ill male with a severely re tard ed female?
nor…. wait no.. that will get me censored..
Ah ha… a permaculturalist …
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’
“We need more humans. That’s the message from two of the world’s richest billionaires, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
“I would love to see, you know, a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins…Our solar system would be full of life and intelligence and energy.”
https://fortune.com/2023/12/16/jeff-bezos-elon-musk-human-population-outer-space-mars-spacex-blue-origin/
This is a misleading message made on purpose.
They know very well that we don’t need more humans, but the economic system and companies like the ones they lead, actually need higher rates of procreation, expecially in western societies, where their businesses mainly work.
What is useful for the economic system is actually to have people who make many children, buy houses, forniture, home appliance, buy every thing that is necessary for children, but then die relatively young, so that they are not a burden for health systems or pension funds when they reach a certain age.
In my view, the current economic systems actually need high fertility and high mortality, but they cannot say it like that.
Ideally we should all live forever and procreate like raccoons on energy drinks jacked up with cocaine and viagra.
I’m sure those strategies once was “tested” by hoomans or whatever our ‘ancestors’ once happened to be. Hyper consumerism and Hyper Procreation.
Until “we” ran out of some critical and cheap resource. Or perhaps made some disastrous choices and changes to the ecosystem.
It reminds me of what this blog is all about.
However, in the mean time:
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MOAR!
the trillion humans proves my theories about tunnel vision genius
i win $100m on the lottery—it does not make me a financial genius—it makes me lucky
same applies to musk and bezos—clever in a specific field—but idiots in every other aspect of life and living.
expanding humankind must consume.
the means to consume into infinity does not exist—we are at this moment hitting limits, we have not improved our means to get ‘off earth’ for 1000 years—we let people delude us that we have.
it isnt going to happen
but Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is boring enough.
what is boring X 1,000?
youve never been moved by his clarinet concerto david?—truly sublime
but i agree 1000 would be overdoing it
it’s all subjective hearing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JCZm-D4XVw&ab_channel=purupuru
Akira Ifukube, ladies and gentlemen.
MOAR!
Long-Term ADHD Medication Use May Increase Heart Disease Risk: Study. A new study indicates that long-term use of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication may increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and that the risk increases the longer the drug is used. The results of the study conducted in Sweden were published in JAMA Psychiatry, bringing to light the potential risks of long-term ADHD medication.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/long-term-adhd-medication-use-may-increase-heart-disease-risk-study
You may have seen this article too:
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/long-term-use-statins-linked-heart-disease-studies
This is a link to the review study:
https://cardiacos.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2015-Statins-stimulate-atherosclerosis-and-heart-failure-pharmacological-mechanisms.pdf
Statin use is also tied to increased risk of dementia, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s.
Trying to talk my husband out of taking them is impossible. His cholesterol isn’t even high. “My doctor recommended them.”
I know how that goes Gail. Everyone takes them it seems and can bear no criticism or doubts about their use. How did that happen? People think they can think independently too!
This doctor should be hung. He is recommending this shit … cuz he gets a free trip to a statin conference… what a f789ing disgrace
End of the day though — buyer beware… most doctors are worse than used car salesmen .. they will give you stuff that destroys your health — cuz $$$….
Burn it down
I almost never see a doctor… but I want them to feel uncomfortable when they see my face… oh no not you again — the guy who has had zero Rat Juice shots…
Last time I was in the office of one of these scumbags I needed a few anti inflamms.. after tipping over skiing… she tried to sign me up for a pile of tests being a new potential source of money — I said nah don’t need that … my idea of preventative medicine is healthy living … disappointed that I was not going to be a new cash register she tried to give me a second prescription to offset the potential issues from the anti inflamms… to which I responded — do we have anything to deal with the side effects of that?
F789ing bitch. Murderer.
Let’s revisit FE’s visit to Val the utter vile filth… https://www.mixcloud.com/fasteddynz/confronting-doctor-re-vaccine-injuries/
We had an Americun visiting a couple of months ago … she was telling us how huge numbers of people are on anti- depressants ….
Have a friend who went them for stress… and he turned into an uncaring zombie — it solved his anxiety … but it blocked out every other emotion … he went off them after a few months – and solved the anxiety by quitting his job.
How many millions are walking around in this zombified state????
Why do tv watchers always go on about zombies. I’m starting to wonder if the goal is to give you all Cotard’s syndrome and if so, it’s working.
What’s a TeeV?
Zombie is interchangeable with MOREON
Same as a computer screen and those that watch tv programming, on either, are the only people that go on about zombies, as they’ve been programmed to do. Definitely morons though, whichever medium they get their programming from. Your Cotard’s training seems to be coming along nicely.
Hardly the same at all… guns don’t kill people… people kill people…
Get it?
Watching tv programming, whichever medium, is watching tv programming and so being programmed, get it?
Who is watching TV programming on the internet?
That’d be you.
You constantly talk about the programming telling you the future, encourage others to watch and believe and even call a series a season, as if it determines the cycle of the year.
Delusional or what.
You mean Utopia? As I have mentioned… Utopia is a head fake… it was made to convince the MOREONS that there is a kind way to reduce population – sterilization …
Notice that is starts with telling us about peak oil?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK_fsI32In4
Notice how as the plot thickens one of the rebels turns against his chums admitting that we have no choice – that the sterilization plan is NECESSARY?
The MOREONS watch this .. and they initially side with the rebels — how dare they stop us from pumping out as many rats as we bloody well want!!!
But then as they are controlled… they are told to think this is necessary (which it is)… mission accomplished
And hey – this is better than the actual plan – extermination — which is the actual plan- cuz a cull would lead to ROF….
So the MOREONS walk away from watching the series having been conditioned …. for what is to come… notice this Deagle thing… that ties in as well…
Anything is better than extinction – right?
Guns don’t kill people, people kill people
You are not comprehending
I have no idea what utopia is as I’m not a screen moron.
You are correct about guns not killing people, it’s bullets. Surprised people don’t know that.
I didn’t read the bit inbetween, sorry. Some shit about tv just sends me to sleep. If I ever suffer from insomnia I know what to do, so thanks.
You really should watch Utopia
Yeah, that’ll answer everything. Alternatively just get “I’m a moron, slap me” tattooed across your forehead.
If we’re all dead on 10th February I’ll admit you are correct.
Year of the rabbit, longevity, peace, and prosperity, sounds horrifying.
Ouch… that must be frustrating
The New York Fed Has Extended Its Half Trillion Dollar Bailout Facility to a Sprawling Japanese Bank You’ve Never Heard Of. Quietly, on December 1, the New York Fed published the following statement on its website: “The Norinchukin Bank, New York Branch, has been added to the list of Standing Repo Facility Counterparties, effective December 1, 2023.” The Standing Repo Facility (SRF) is a permanent $500 billion bailout facility created by the Federal Reserve and operated by the New York Fed – the private regional Fed bank where multi-trillion dollar Wall Street bank bailouts have become a regular feature of its operations.
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/12/the-new-york-fed-has-extended-its-half-trillion-dollar-bailout-facility-to-a-sprawling-japanese-bank-youve-never-heard-of/
Not a peep in the MSM… when things are really really bad… hide the news
This doesn’t sound like good news.
I have heard that the FDIC has developed a program for assessing other banks for amounts paid out above the $250,000 insurance maximums. I imagine the assessments will have to be raised to accommodate this bank, as well.
From the link about the Japanese bank:
Mortgage affordability is the worst since 1981 when mortgage rates hit 18%.
Financing a home used to be a staple of the American Dream, but much has changed since the pandemic. High interest rates, rising property values, and declining real income have made owning a slice of America harder than ever.
According to Creditnews Research, mortgage affordability today is the worst it has been since 1981 when mortgage rates hit a record high of 18.38%. But how can this be when current rates are less than half that? The answer lies in a concept called mortgage burden. For the average homebuyer, the mortgage burden is the ratio of mortgage payments to income.
https://creditnews.com/research/mortgage-affordability-is-the-worst-since-1981-when-mortgage-rates-hit-18/
Young people find themselves with low wages. They need a car to get to work, and this is expensive. Many of them have student debt to repay. It is hard to have much left over for high monthly mortgage payments.
You are describing the evils of inflation and stagflation together.
A few years back, I had a real eye opener with a daughter’s situation. She was working 2 part time jobs in 2018 and making less than I did working 2 part time jobs in 1980, while she was paying $4/pack for ciggs, I paid .50 cents. She was paying around $3.60 per gallon for gas, while I paid maybe .65 cents for a gallon of gas. She was paying $700/mo for a lousy 2 bdrm/1 bath trailer in a crummy trailer park, I paid $400/mo for a 2 bdrm/1 bath house with hard wood floors, garage and fenced in back yard. Where $100 in groceries would last me 2 weeks with all kinds of meat products included, she would have to pay $500 or $600 or more depending on the meat products for the same provisions, without her food stamps.
While costs have skyrocketed, her wages were quite stagnant compared to mine 20 years earlier.
lorraine
the ultimate difference lies in surplus energy availabilty
you and i lived through a time of surpluses, which has been an anomaly as far as our living standards are concerned (only since 1945/70)
the existence of our descendants will slip back to pre-oil surplus days, and will never return to that american dream era.
the american dream was just that—surplus energy availablity.
most are in full on denial about it, but i see it as inevitable.
its not a pleasant future to contemplate.
Pole dancing is a career option for some
The American Dream Now Costs $3.4 Million. The classic “American Dream” including two kids, a house, and car costs more than most make in a lifetime. The cost of raising two children to the age of 18 is now estimated at over half a million dollars ($576,896). The average lifetime cost of a home including a mortgage with a 10% down payment and a 30-year fixed rate of 7.2% is now about $796,998.
https://www.investopedia.com/the-american-dream-now-costs-over-usd3-million-8409951
Argentina’s Milei Devalues Peso by 54% in First Batch of Shock Measures. Argentina devalued the peso by 54% and announced a swath of spending cuts as the first steps of President Javier Milei’s shock-therapy program, moves welcomed by the International Monetary Fund. The newly inaugurated administration weakened the official exchange rate to 800 pesos per dollar, Economy Minister Luis Caputo said in a televised address after the close of local markets on Tuesday. It was 366.5 per dollar before the address.
Gasping for air!!!
Have spent a bit of time in this country. They have some of the hottest birds and excellent steaks.
The black market rate for dollars is much higher than the rates above but most hotels price in dollars and won’t take pesos.
I’d like to go back there for a few weeks and see how the changes are affecting the country.
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Soooo EEEEEEEEEEE – can they reduce rates to reverse this disaster… without triggering The Apocalypse of Hyperinflation????
What I see happening here in NZ… where the fixed long term mortgage does not exist… is more and more mortgages are now resetting at the higher rates… and that is forcing people to dramatically reduce spending so that they can make their mortgage payments…
If unchecked this will lead to a very deep recession and ultimately a deflationary death spiral….
The same story must be playing out in almost every country … because the US can somewhat offset this with mega government spending (debt) it will be the last man standing… but it too will eventually crash into a heap of rubble…
When do we get the pathogen?
Sad new zealand is dying.
Murder and suicide pervasive.
Massive immigration from third world toilets like India, China and the Philippines. Qualified whites fleeing to Australia in droves.
Ethnic tensions increasing.
Not a single good university. High schools fostering teen pregnancies and drug use.
The world’s most irrelevant country is a testament to the perils of socialism.
The one thing NZ needs more of is the massive immigration … cuz locals don’t wanna work so without the immigrants the ship would sink even faster…
it’s the whites who support Ardern…. called her auntie they did…
And the white women are generally plough hogs… bones like hippos — and girth… but they sure can pull a plough cept they don’t wanna do that no more
So what use are they???? I ask again — what use are plough hogs that refuse to pull ploughs?
Women’s rugby I suppose — even less popular than the men’s version … which is basically 30 plodding slow white men who think they could run roughshod over an nfl team … cept when they try out they get introduced to the reality of the physical superiority of the descendants of those who survived slavery… and they get sent packing
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/concerns-jarryd-hayne-may-not-be-fast-enough-to-land-running-back-spot-in-nfl/news-story/d76f19570d86362c80925acf40c34eaa
Here’s why – non-slaves.. were not bred like race horses… and they were not put through hell on earth removing all but the fittest strongest fastest from the gene pool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD2pbpibmlg
Anyhow … plough hog rugby… pulling hair — eye gouging .. delightful!!!
Warren Buffet Selling $28.7 Billion in Stock Rings Alarm Bells Over Economy. According to the company’s earnings, the Nebraska-based firm of the legendary investor and billionaire, known as the Oracle of Omaha, sold a net $10.4 billion of stock in the first quarter of the year. In the second quarter, it sold close to $13 billion of shares and bought less than $5 billion. In the third quarter, it sold about $5.3 billion worth of stocks. For Steve H. Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University who served on President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers, Buffett’s and Berkshire Hathaway’s “recent lightening up on stocks and accumulation of a pile of cash—$157 billion—is consistent with the fact that stocks are relatively pricey right now.” But it’s also, crucially, a sign “that a recession is right around the corner,” Hanke told Newsweek.
https://www.newsweek.com/warren-buffet-selling-28-7-billion-stock-rings-alarm-bells-over-economy-1851270
Wow!
Buffet might be wrong of course.
Mr. Buffet, that apparently friendly, grandfatherly old man from Omaha has, through his “investments” probably done as much harm to this realm as it is possible for any single human avatar to do (possible exceptions to various Illuminati, Rothschilds heirs and Zionists).
I wonder if his consciousness will be surprised with what is waiting for him in the waiting area of the simulacrum after he exits the stage?
It seems self evident that the 10% or so of humanity that are “dark triad” seem to be involved in the self correcting part of the human population dynamic here in the simulacrum. They will of course block any and all attempts by normal humanity to self correct the freefall of civilization that is occurring….they are, in any conventional sense, the embodiment of evil.
I just wonder if they are NPC or if they are as real (and biologically designed) as the rest of us? If you are aware of them and have “consciously “conversed/interacted/observed them…..you know what I am talking about. (narcissistic sociopaths specifically, as opposed to true psychopaths……..the psychopaths are a design flaw……I am pretty sure)
hahahaahaha good!
Britain is paying the deadly price for telling the public to ‘protect the NHS’
Thousands are dying from preventable causes and missed diagnoses. Too few are willing to ask why
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/14/britain-paying-price-for-telling-public-to-protect-nhs/
Third of millennials support closure of nightclubs as Covid cases surge
Up to 33 per cent of those aged between 25 and 40 supported the government closing down nightclubs
A survey by More in Common showed 33 per cent of those aged between 25 and 40 said they support the government reintroducing the closure of nightclubs as Covid cases surge.
It comes after 97,904 symptomatic Covid-19 Omicron cases were reported across the UK as of 6 December, according to a ZOE health study.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/millenials-nightclubs-covid-cases-b2463072.html
As we can see… stooopidity has not been cured… right norm
Doomaah memes for the end of 2023:
I talked about the Charles Dickens quote in Tale of 2 Cities, a silly melodrama, where the protagonist simply disappears in the middle of story, and showed Dickens did not know anything other than lowlife London.
I laughed when BoJo proposed a European Alliance, led by United Kingdom. Being from a Middle Eastern background (who has a name like Boris?), he apparently was not aware of the centuries of warfare conducted by the British Crown to destroy any hope of a European union.
Who will want to join an alliance led by United Kingdom when it showed it had no intention to share Europe’s fate in 2016?
United Kingdom has a lot to atone for its past since in the last 5 centuries. I expect it to be a very messy place which would make the War of Roses look like a game of soccer gone wrong. The Nobles will hide behind their walls, , but the chavs, who somehow think killing Europeans while doing nothing against people from the subcontinent is a good thing, wont fare well.
Hold on…Peak Shale: Not so fast!
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Mark Hinaman, Director of Engineering and Innovation at Franklin Mountain Energy, joins me to give us a pad side view on Fracking and a response to claims of “Peak Shale” Mark is also the Principal and Founder of the nuclear energy think-tank, Fire2Fission and although he believes that there’s oil everywhere and natural gas is even more abundant, e explains why he thinks that nuclear is the ultimate energy source.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8c0XcYzaOEE&t=166s
Yep, we will be able to squeeze the towel even tighter to keep the core going till 2030..
Ain’t that nice…we can all be here reading Nuttie Eddies posts about heart attacks
This gentleman is talking all ‘if ‘ and ‘but’ . Ok , with me . He is just trying to justify (or keep ) his job .
In Art Berman’s most recent Nate Hagens podcast, he supposes that if finance and geopolitics don’t prevent it, total C+C production might only be 20% lower in 2040. BAU-lite could continue with -20% production. Heck, we just crushed Europe, that enables BAU for the rest of us.
Ain’t that nice….for me here in the USA…God Bless America
” he supposes that if finance and geopolitics don’t prevent it, ” . Best of luck .
I feel Lucky…because I’m holding a biggie
Just like Uncle Sammie
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A732Cuuo2tI&pp=ygUcZGlydHkgaGFycnkgZG8gaSBmZWVsIGx1Y2t5IA%3D%3D
Well, luck just ran out in 24 hrs . 🙂
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bp-halts-all-tanker-sailings-through-red-sea-uk-navy-receives-report-possible
Still more to come ravi. I did try to point this out a while ago. Close off two or three bottlenecks and the west has lost, much like it’s illegal encampment has already, but you can’t get that through the thick skulls of the exceptional racists. Expect the attacks to intensify(Iraq and Syria first) and if goes to the straights of Homuz we’ll go to full scale wwiii because we believe we have the entitlement to everything.
Just in time for the Deagel production.
Can you prove that the Nordstream pipeline has been destroyed?
Not sure what you think Nordstrom has to do with transport bottlenecks, please explain.
You do know that it’s thousands of miles away from the region I’m talking about I assume.
Can you prove it hasn’t?
Why would I have to prove it has not been destroyed?
Our ageing society: Dying for four years after the heart surgery and no idea about the COVID
https://plus7dni.pluska.sk/ludia/utok-josefa-laufera-umelom-spanku-je-to-celebrita-inych-davno-odpojili
Deepl Translate:
“Josef Laufer has brain damage after four years in artificial sleep, but his daughter still believes in a miracle.
One of the biggest dudes of Czech and Slovak show business did not deserve such an end. Singer and actor Josef Laufer (84) has been in an artificial sleep for almost four years and his daughter Ester still cannot come to terms with the fact that the life of the artist and her beloved father is heading towards an irreversible finale.”
A lot of people die at age 84. Economies cannot afford to keep elderly people with brain damage alive, I am afraid.
Economics aside, who really wants to live in that vegetable state? There are many that deny death. It eventually happens to every living thing, sometimes premature and other times naturally.
i can’t afford me
Yes, as Doc Jeff…I’m old and expensive
In Australia the Aged care Homes (Nursing homes) are 80% occupied by dementia and alzheimers residents. The government subsidize nursing homes here at a great cost to the taxpayer. They’d rather you live in your own home so subsidize you to stay there until you absolutely can’t.
But there might be light at the end of the tunnel.
My sisters nephew on her husbands side just died of a heart attach – aged 25. My niece aged 30 has just had a hip replacement. Her younger brother is on heart pills.
The youngest generations old age mortality rate might be sinking – they might not get old.
The poor health of the young people sounds terrible!
We need to build old age homes … for teens who are f789ed by the Rat Juice hahaha
Th genetic mutations accumulating…
Heart attack and 25… vaxxed?
Here you are MG and many others here long in the tooth..
A really funny video by a Doctor Jeff on
Dr. Jeffrey Laitman joins WIRED to break down how our organs and body parts age from head to toe. From hearing and hair loss to sagging skin and deteriorating joints, Dr. Laitman highlights the impact of aging on the human body—and what we can do about it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mlFUJ-0Rb8Y
All part of the natural process of collapse…ain’t that nice
A nice summary.
Cracks starting to show locally. A nearby town has ceased postal delivery, with resumption not clearly foreseen. It’s a reasonably well-off town. That was the news, anyway in last week’s paper. I didn’t get this week’s paper because our own mail route has not been delivered to our street since Wednesday.
when services become unaffordable, they start to fail.
we now send far fewer letters, but postmen demand higher wages
the result is inevitable
My University has eliminated office phones except the main office.
I thought you’re a farmer, what are you doing at a university?
My former University.
Once a week is fine with me.
I was expecting a bill where, if you pay it off essentially immediately, you save a percent or so. Even with normal delivery, I only get a day or two’s window.
Now imagine if….. https://t.me/leaklive/17287
here’s the full clip https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/90349
11. There will be Global Holodomor because there will be no food. 8 Billion humans will tear each other to pieces and eat the body parts.
12. The spent fuel ponds will go unmanaged… burn up and release tens of tonnes of toxic cancer causing materials into the atmosphere poisoning the planet for many thousands of years
13. Humans will go extinct
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/number-americans-upside-down-auto-loans-continues-worsen
Tied with the highest percentage on record over 60 days late.
People need vehicles to get to work.
And… he’s f789ed
There is only one way to plant
1. loosen the soil
2. put the seed
3. put manure/water
4. wait for it to grow.
non Fossil fuel way = subsistence farming
Fossil Fuel way = permaculture
In the olden days where subsistence farming is the only way, it is a closed system. The food for the animals comes from the land and the animal and humans return it via manure to the land. The use of iron is very minimal and land is left to fallow. This close system is sustainable but feeds only a little.
Fast forward to permaculture. Well, if you read up what permaculture is, it still relies a lot of the facilities provided by fossil fuel – organic mulch ? buy. compost? buy? raise the garden bed? now? machines? It is an open system that depends on supplies around the world. The organic mulch is made by a machine in China that requires parts from Malaysia, Thailand and Germany. The oil in the machine that makes the part comes from Dubai.
Good luck with that.
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Nuclear power – why is it that no one wants to dump all the spent fuel into the Mariana Trench now rather than waiting until we are more chaotic before executing it? I mean when there are bank failures and money cannot be obtained from ATMs and supply chain breaks down only then will we do it? It is inevitable that with the lowering of rates in USA, inflation will go sky high with so much free money sloshing around. Deflation coming as well. So, a banking crisis or a monetary crisis is not something is very far away or imposssible. So, we wait until it is dawned upon us before dump them in to the trenches? Anyone here not rooted in reality?
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There will still be fuel available but only for the rich. IF you happen to read a lot and have the brains, you will realize that you need a refinery, tools, equipment, knowledge to operate a refinery. Without a refinery, you have no oil products.
Refinery operates in a large scale. The pipes are huge. These pipes cannot be downsized as the raw material is fixed (i,e. the oil blend is fixed for certain refineries). So, how would anyone get refined fuel out if the refinery is down or if the raw material (crude oil) is of a different blend or very low volume? The refinery will just shutdown.
Not to talk about the complex software, parts and machines that requires support from companies worldwide for the refinery to work.
Seems like a lot of people are still rooted in unicorn farts and rainbow skittles (not grounded in reality if you catch me)
yes one by one refineries will be shutting down.
starting this decade the 2020s, much more in the 2030s.
too bad for young people.
Davie Wavy..not to worry BAU for the core good in the future
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/oil-outlook-crude-mergers-production-boom-price-demand-energy-exxon-2023-12
The oil industry’s mega-merger spree and a US production boom point to strong crude demand for years to come
Phil Rosen Dec 16, 2023, 8:16 AM EST
This year has seen a flurry of oil mega-mergers worth more than $100 billion.
Big deal flow and rising US production point to industry forecasts of big demand for years to come.
The “inevitable” consolidation suggest oil companies are shrugging off peak demand concerns.
Oil demand is expected to continue growing through the rest of the decade, hence consolidation in the US oil patch is a more measured approach to address this need via reduced costs and economies of scale,” Matt Smith, lead oil analyst for the Americas at Kpler, told Business Insider.
This year, the US has averaged 13 million barrels a day of output. Some analysts have forecasted that will increase in 2024. US production hit a record 13.2 million barrels a day in September, which happened as OPEC+ leaders like Saudi Arabia and its allies like Russia struggled to get a handle on oil’s recent downward spiral.
International Energy Agency executive director Fatih Birol in September forecasted the beginning of the end for global crude demand, but the oil and gas industry has effectively bet on the opposite.
A JPMorgan commodities strategist this week said demand for oil in emerging markets is vastly underestimated, and peak oil demand won’t be seen in our lifetime.
My opinion,” Mitchell said, “is that both the consolidation and the oil boom suggest demand will remain high and increasing at least through the remainder of this decade.”
Ain’t that nice…we all can be here posting until 2030 with each other about how the end is near…
Financial engineering is not Physics or geology . No new oil was created or pumped . Reminds of the movies disclaimer ” No animals were injured in the filiming ” . 🙂
In a pinch the Trench is a solution. With planning tunnels in the Atacama desert, once the core gets below 100 kW of power. The US will ask for help the day it can not handle it, but not a day before.
At that point of time, it is a second too late
welcome to the real world.
Poisoning the oceans… with stuff that has a half life of tens of thousands of years… hmmm……
The ocean has a radioactivity of some 10^24 Bq as we speak Eddy. Translated in thermal, 1000 GW, or 300 fully operating plants. And stuff with a half life of 10000 years or less decays before the layers can mix. Generally, the longer the half life the lower the radioactivity, so what is left is less problematic.
Water does not boil at depth, and so any convective cycle, while increasing mixing, will be limited. The advantage of using a trench is that mixing is further limited by topography. The important thing is that the rods do not melt down and contain the nuclear fuel until it has cooled down.
hahahahahahaha… if it’s harmless why bother with these high tech fuel ponds? Why not just dump spent fuel into the trench?
Feel free to continue to just say whatever comes into your head
this is way outside your depth. you have no understanding of the process. all you need to do is keep the rods intact. But I am not saying this is ideal because in fact of order per mille of the roads are not intact. I am saying it is cheap and fast. Having seen untold billions wasted on WIPP and Yucca Mountain, I guarantee you it is a lot easier to do what I said is going to happen.
Yes and I see that you are an expert in all of this …hahahahaha
Clown World doesn’t count.
Duh
Hey – was it not you that stated that the mountains would block the toxins from the burning ponds?
hahahahahaha
Now that… is a good one!!!! hahahahahahaha mountains hahaha… nothing passes over mountains right – the wind and clouds smashing into them … and stop hahahahahahaahahahaha
Maybe you can bury them in Super Snatch’s Festering Trench — I hear it’s massive and deep
“Hey – was it not you that stated that the mountains would block the toxins from the burning ponds?”
No Eddy, that was the ex poster with the name similar to Renate, who got the hump and left.
Your view on permaculture matches mine. Drive to town, to buy everything you need to make the system work.
Mollisons vision was a noble one. Expend some fossil fuel energy if required to establish a “permanent agriculture”….which in his region (subtropical Australia) meant a food forest.
There are a very few examples of this in reality and none of the “practitioners were practicing “permaculture”
The Yanomani of Brazils swamp savannas created and maintained forest islands comprised of primarily useful species for humans for centuries if not millennia.
There are pacific islands were food forests have been maintained via draconian societal rules for many many centuries.
Much of riverine South America (esp Brazil) has a strange predominance of fruit bearing tree species along rivers which is probably the result of human “permaculture”
So…..its not impossible…..but it is primitive and long term and driven by common sense and no other options.
Mongol use of Asiatic grasslands has lasted for thousands of years and while there has been some degradation in last few centuries it has staying power.
If there had never been European involvement (other than horse reintroduction) on North American great plains….it is likely that a permaculture of large grazers would have existed for thousands of years with tribal warfare keeping humna numbers in check. Without sharps buffalo rifles, introduced disease and railroads….the horse culture could have been vey stable.
Imagine trying to transition from watching tictok on your phone and ordering pizza.. to scratching the ground for bugs to eat…
I’m thinking … suicide would be a big thing
Imagine trying to transition from watching tictok on your phone and ordering pizza.. to scratching the ground for bugs to eat…
Oh hunger will bring out the animal in people very quickly. The killing will begin.
Famine always does… always….
No Bob Geldof I’m afraid…
No harm in using fossil fuels to set up our liberation from fossil fuels. That’s what we should have been doing from the time of that famous speech in the ’50’s by that military guy, you so kindly re posted. Better late than NEVER!
Liberation? Liberation from literally the only thing in human history that has significantly improved living standards for the majority of people in the West, at least?
lol withnail
i had that thought too
What does this liberation look like?
. The use of iron is very minimal and land is left to fallow. This close system is sustainable but feeds only a little.
Actually it isn’t sustainable. Entropy means you are always taking out more from the land than you put back in. Slowly, slowly, the productivity declines. Maybe you add more manure to one field and it starts producing more, but then you’ve had to give less or no manure to another field.
This is correct, but in practice the sustainability of forests is many orders of magnitude greater than the sustainability of ag. crops. The important thing is that roots continuously recycle nutrients. Losses due to herbivory (the crop is picked and eaten elsewhere) are much smaller than losses due to nutrients leaching past the maximum depth of roots.
Most crops have roots fishing down to 1 to 1.5 meters at maturity. Most trees have roots down to 10 meters or more. The loss follows an exponential form and so trees have exhaustion times much larger than ag. crops. Prairies are intermediate performers, due to keystone deep root plants such as alfalfa or member of sunflower family. See
http://soilandhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/01aglibrary/010139fieldcroproots/010139toc.html
http://soilandhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/01aglibrary/010137veg.roots/010137toc.html
With so few people around, they have plenty of land to fallow….
If they had slaughtered anyone who put a seed in the ground thousands of years ago … we would not be going extinct now
It’s as simple as that
The mindless zombie hordes… https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/assembly-line-elite-culture
Once again, Gail T absolutely “nails it”.
Thanks!
Of course it had nothing to do with the Clot shot because they are safe and effective. It’s common for world class athletes in peak physical condition to suffer heart attacks during sporting events. It happened constantly during the 60’s, 70’s and right up thru today. 🥸
“Tom Lockyer: Luton captain suffers cardiac arrest as Bournemouth vs Luton called off”
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11717/13031890/tom-lockyer-luton-captain-suffers-cardiac-arrest-as-bournemouth-vs-luton-called-off
Very thought provoking Gail. Can you substantiate this section please?: “Dictatorships ruled by leaders who wield absolute power and aristocracies ruled by leaders with hereditary rights are the types of governments with the least energy requirements”. Why is this?
With so few leaders and the chosen style of government there is no need for elections, or any kind of legislative group. The dictator or king has a residence (or two or three). He may have a handful of assistants, but there would not be nearly as many people involved as with the kinds of governments rich countries have today. The energy is needed to support the large staff of people. They all need to eat and to travel (at least a little).
As a government adds Departments of this and that, it adds to the expense (which is really an energy expense).
But the world is already ran by dictators. Dynastic wealth like the Orsini Family and Vatican Banker Elites decide which puppet politicians get installed. Do you mean the ruse of democracy will end because centralization is impossible without technological control and/or functioning infrastructure?
It’s because the ruse of big guvmint is unaffordable. It is not feasible to administer welfare in a jobs program to a large swathe of mentally ill and deranged mini dictators with their useless policies, sans cheap fossil fuels.
It is a degradation until it becomes an exercise in futility. Nothing gets done, because nothing can be done without affordable fossil fuels.
Still, things need to be settled by some form of authority and policy. You see, the rapacious primate would self destruct in no time flat if in no uncertain terms being told what to do in situations of ambiguity.
The mentally ill (Hypers) need medicine, hope, cope, and clearly defined processes and policies to somewhat be in an acceptable operational envelope. Unfortunately it is predisposed on the availability of cheap fossil fuels.
You’re welcome.
😉
seb
because they do not allopw the unwashed masses to possess goods that require large energy inputs to run them
if you look at a night map of korea—you will see that the south has light—above the 38th, it is dark
that says it all
Interesting on how the rich got rich…
The World’s Oldest Settlements Were Built by a Culture Nobody Expected
HUMANS 16 December 2023 ByCARLY CASSELLA
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-oldest-settlements-were-built-by-a-culture-nobody-expected
Researchers suspect that a shift in climate roughly 8,000 years ago created the stage for an abundance of seasonal resources in western Siberia, prompting an influx of human migrants.
The development of fishing and hunting strategies, or the advancement of food storage may have then led to a surplus of food, which needed to be defended.
It’s also possible that the crowding of various hunter-gatherer groups in one region promoted a culture of raiding.
“Management of these surpluses then led to changes in the socio-political structuring of populations and the emergence not only of wealth inequality and exclusive property rights, but also of increased community cohesion, for example through collective work on, and use of, monumental constructions,” suggest the researchers.
More work at the Amnya site is currently underway, and archaeologists are making sure to keep their minds open. The traditional notion of hunter-gatherer that persists in many academic texts may soon need some serious revision.
The study was published in Antiquity.
The hunter-gatherer description has to applied in context. Traditionally it has been applied to Sub Saharan Africans who lived in a relatively stable climate of dry season and wet season which may have been dictated by the migrations of the herbivores on the Savanna and certainly before farming could be established, as the dry season would probably prevent year round supply of grains.
In Siberia, the changes are much more drastic, from extreme heat during the summer to numbing cold during the winter. Higher intelligence would be required. The energy trade off in building temporary huts on the road in a hunter gatherer existence would have been prohibitive, but in certain niches where there is changing seasonal abundance whatever the season, whether fish, game, wild berries etc. a more intelligent subspecies could adapt. Kind of like the greater intelligence required for the Neanderthals to survive the European climate.
So no I don’t see this discovery disrupting the hunter-gatherer model of those humanoids, whether Aborigines or Sub Saharan Africans who lived and survived in tropic areas. It is merely an extension of the adaptations of those humans that had migrated out of Africa. If they lived in areas conducive to farming, they farmed. If they lived in areas conducive to a seasonal rotation of of food sources, they had the intelligence to forgo farming and timed their food strategy to available sources.
The need to defend their Siberian location was the same as farmers who would need to defend their farms and incorporate as outreaches of cities or feudal protection arrangements.
All wealth is in Marten pelts. Betcha those Siberians understood that…..the forts…..
One cannot exploit the natural resources of Siberia without high-tech metallurgy, therefore Hyper Tryhard Attaboy CTO Enki with favorite Hyper MOARonic 304 CSO Namma decided on some clandestine operations up north, while the gold bug Enlil continued to teach the monkees the crafts of agriculture and clan warfare down south.
After all; to a hammer everything looks like a nail.
/sarc off
But I digress, let’s ponder where there’s large deposits of iron ore and plenty of trees that can be processed to coke.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/huntergatherer-metallurgy-in-the-early-iron-age-of-northern-fennoscandia/0BD3D4FF8DF8A6A65F74526242A98C66
I’m sure the mercantilistic Balts and Viking precursors had no problems shifting the fine merchandise to the east and south.
Unfortunately, or rather expectedly given the new toolchain, the Rapacious Primates started breeding like cockroaches on meth laced viagra, and soon enough large swathes of loonies started migrating and warring, laying claim to new territories previously deemed inaccessible.
The possibility that a Rapacious Primates in the early Iron Age just happens to figure out ‘tamahagane’ steel smithing and advanced layered metallurgy is not even absurd.
It had to be knowledge from prior ages, say before the Pleistocene Epoch ended with those comets slapping down in the already melting glaciers covering North America, making an epic “flush” of the old ways and civilizations. Most likely corrupt and cruel to the core.
It sort of an analogy of the awful sanctimonious hypocrites of today’s bourgeois. Unwitting mental illness and corruption to the inner sanctum of their DNA – just brought to the next level “thanks” to even bigger brains.
It’s what “nature” produces when bolting on a larger neocortex on a shoddy primate baseline. It is just an amplifier of a monkeys natural instincts and tendencies.
“Star forts” in freaking Siberia, massive stone structures in the Andes, the pyramids, sprawling city ruins hidden beneath the Amazon forest, Göbekli Tepe. I mean, gimme a break.
The perpetual recurrence of the Hyper®
The smell of a monkey™
🤥🦧
Impressive………
The world is certainly not what we think it is.
From “The PCR test viewed from the legal kill box perspective,” by Katherine Watt:
“Viewed through the legal history, EUA program lens, the PCR test was Step 1 in a 4-step bio-behavioral modification/cull induction program sequence. The sequencing is important for maximum effectiveness.
“Between Feb. 4, 2020 and April 1, 2020, HHS Secretary Alex Azar issued four ‘Notice of Declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency use’ of several classes of drugs, devices and biologics.
“All were false/fraudulent product claims (i.e., not really intended for detection, diagnosis, personal protection, treatment or prevention) but rather intended to, and effective for, pushing them into common use; ramping up fear, panic and social distrust; suppressing cognitive function; and also for operating hospital and nursing home homicide protocols.
“Step 1 Notice of EUA declaration was effective Feb. 4, 2020, and covered ‘in vitro diagnostics for detection and/or diagnosis of the novel coronavirus.’ (85 FR 7316)
“Step 2 Notice of EUA declaration was effective March 10, 2020, and covered ‘personal respiratory protective devices’ also known as masks. (85 FR 13907)
“Step 3 Notice of EUA declaration was effective March 27, 2020 and covered ‘medical devices, including alternative products used as medical devices,’ also known as ventilators and ventilator accessories. (85 FR 17335)
“Step 4 Notice of EUA declaration was effective April 1, 2020 and covered ‘drugs and biological products,’ also known as ‘Covid-19 vaccines’ along with Remdesivir, molnuparivir and others. (85 FR 18250)
“Based on more recent Federal Register notices (85 FR 79198 and 88 FR 82907), I speculate that the same sequence, or similar sequence, will be announced within the next few months for hemorrhagic fevers [marburgvirus and ebolavirus].
“The escalation/difference between the coronavirus-predicated ‘vaccine’ cull and the hemorrhagic fever-predicated ‘vaccine’ cull is that, as far as I know, there’s no background rate of normal, circulating hemorrhagic fever genetic material in peoples’ bodies to be detected by PCR and other test kits and hyped up as a novel disease, while there was and remains lots and lots of normal, circulating coronavirus and influenza-related genetic material in peoples bodies that can easily be detected and then hyped up as a novel disease.
“The cullers presumably have a different approach prepared to build broad public fear of hemorrhagic fever, but the general pattern will probably be very similar.”
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/the-pcr-test-viewed-from-the-legal
My guess is that Europe, starting with Germany, is going to begin down the road of FF-less metamorphosis within a couple of years, if not in 2024. Because Biden’s destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines has already reduced Deutschland’s industrial base considerably. The country has already had to start paying exorbitant prices for LNG and imported oil. Plus, a RAND Corp. document (amid other think tank concoctions) had already said that the way to keep America’s economic hegemony was to eliminate Germany as an economic competitor by impoverishing it.
Wasn’t this the same reason that England was behind the start WWI? England was running out of coal and was fearful of an ascendant Germany.
If I didn’t know any better, I would think it is the same for China and Russia/sarc.
How do you know the Nordstream pipeline has been destroyed?
Oh, you are bad and wicked man.
It should be pretty obvious by now. What got us here to this point, 8+ billion eaters and industrial civ, has been fossil fuels. Remove it and try and replace it with Green Energy and you destroy wealth and the population. There’s no going back to the Little House on the Prairie days.
“The Crash Course – Chapter 8: The Fatal Green Energy Myth” by Chris Martenson
https://peakprosperity.com/the-crash-course-chapter-8-the-green-energy-myth/
I scanned through this video. Chris does a good job of explaining why Green Energy is a myth, for a person who is new to the subject.
It’s not a myth, its just too little, too late.
Greed and incompetence did the job.
‘Brain quantity is no guarantee for succes’
What most people fail to grasp is that “little house on the prairie” was predicated upon a large and expanding fossil fuel base to drive the industrial machine that enabled the VAST folly of settlement and farming of the North American interior.
Horse agriculture was fast followed by gas/diesel agriculture…..
In fact horse agriculture is not even a long term prospect, as horses require far higher caloric intake when doing draft work than do draft oxen. That means cereal grains……..and the system collapses fast as soon as that is brought in.
Medieval peoples in the much easier climes of western europe used OXEN for tillage if not human power itself.
Farming will fail across vast swathes of the planet as the true costs of ecological economics takes hold.
The Mongol way is the only way outside of hunter gathering forward in the great grasslands of this realm.
The Mongol way of life is the Lion way of life.
is the role of genghis khan taken?
Patience, grasshopper.
Nothing wrong with “green” energy, predicament is that it’s just not enough rivers for those picky and pesky hydro power plants.
Nukes could cover the slack, but surely not for 8B+ of Hyper Tryhard Attaboys and Hyper MOARonic 304’s. And specially not for the sanctimonious hypocrites coping from mental illness by semi-unwittingly burning through copious amounts of FF’s.
1B tops, with crème on top.
https://youtu.be/09nHj9Qd6k0?si=i4j2fMCLfNlrNoBj
But who’s get to choose? An AI instructed by a bunch of mentally ill Hypers (they all are!)?
What could possibly go wr…
Ah, never mind, but by all means let’s study them:
https://youtu.be/-KSryJXDpZo?si=W74kgt6QG3sGwvzO
https://youtu.be/2pkpsxEyi-k?si=0N6pxdl7ZyHzk18Y
🤣👍👍
FUBAR , Anything for a buck . Bikini Yoga . This is just like the last days of the Roman empire .
In a way, fiat currencies are the same species, but less understood.
What empire? There have always been silly people with silly ideas. It is the absence of non silly ideas that may be the concern. Perhaps, all the people with non-silly ideas are hard at work trying to solve the world’s most pressing problems like eradicating rabies, covid-19 and the green energy transition instead of entertaining people.
norm just had a heart attack after watching that… he’s used to this
https://youtu.be/swmeBR1CXp8
https://gvdb.substack.com/p/white-lung-pneumonia-in-children
Anthony Varriano
Writes Anthony’s Substack
18 hrs ago
Dr Geert
Today in CDC’s weekly update
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-variant-jn1-flu-surge-hospitals-cdc-warns/
they reported a steady rise in MIS-C since the summer as well as pediatric hospital beds at near capacity. Though they blame the causative factor as being “covid 19”, not the mechanism of the highly infectious variants and the sidelined innate immune system overhhelming the childrens immune capacity, thereby making them more susceptible to secondary immune pathology and infections (including RSV, flu and bacterial ). After gaining a more detailed understanding of your views and projections in your latest course, I have to concur that we are (unfortuantely) seeing it evolve in real time, like a scary Hollywood movie.
I think the difficulty now too is that since your warnings/writings have been largely ignored to date, it is a tall order for most people including scientists and public health “authorities” to sit down and methodically comb through your writings with the “mental stamina” (your phrase) that is needed to really grasp the meaning and nuance of your work; Especially when things are unraveling so quickly as you have been saying for a long time.
Much gratitude for your perseverance and scholarship
Anthony
Quite a few people don’t want to get near anything made by Pfizer or Moderna, now. And nurses don’t want to go back to work.
White lung pneumonia in children indirectly results from large-scale vaccination against SARS-CoV-2
https://gvdb.substack.com/p/white-lung-pneumonia-in-children
Ponder these lines, as if written about 2020s:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities”, 1859
https://live2fightanotherday.substack.com/p/covid-19-evolution-tale-of-two-cities
Of course, 1859 was just before the US Civil War. It was a time when things were rapidly unraveling. Population had grown too fast, partly because people had learned about the importance of cleanliness (especially at childbirth), and partly because of the continued immigrant flow. Growing tobacco and cotton had degraded the soil.
From “Reuters reaches out to this Substack in an attempt to fact check my reporting on Iceland,” by Sasha Latypova:
“Thank you for your message. I don’t know who makes the claim that Iceland is banning covid EUA countermeasures, in my Substack article I described precisely what was announced in Iceland and provided clarifications made by my friend, the local journalist who called health officials.
“Since you are in the business of fact checking, I would like to point out that you are spreading false and misleading information by calling the injections ‘vaccines’ while their true legal status in US law is ‘EUA Countermeasures’, a non-investigational, non-pharmaceutical substance. I invite you to read section 564 of FD&C Act, and also USC360bbb -3(k), which states the following: 21 USC 360bbb-3(k): ‘If a product is the subject of an authorization under this section, the use of such product within the scope of the authorization shall not be considered to constitute a clinical investigation for purposes of section 355(i), 360b(j), or 360j(g) of this title or any other provision of this chapter or section 351 of the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 262].’ A non-investigational chemical entity can never be used in legal clinical research (a human subject investigation) and thus can never become an approved pharmaceutical vaccine.
I hope you can now fact check many fake news producers that are claiming that covid injections are approved pharmaceutical products. Thank you.”
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/reuters-reaches-out-to-this-substack
They’re not “vaccines” and they never will be.
A copy/paste from another blog’s comment section regarding this post , Interesting .
“SpartalDecember 16, 2023, 3:21 p.m.
Hello. I have spent a couple of weeks with minimal activity on networks for work reasons.
I’ll be back and leave you Ms. Tverberg’s latest post:
https:// telegra.ph/Ten-Things-that-Change-without-Fossil-Fuels-12-16
It doesn’t say much new but I find it remarkable that when it starts listing what will happen with the shortage fossil fuel, it says nothing about transportation or applications that use oil directly; The first thing he says is that the banks will fail, and immediately afterwards, the governments.
We must not forget that the most important component of the collapse is the economic one. There is no point in having technical alternatives to oil if they are incapable of maintaining GDP
U.S. poison control centers are reporting a sharp increase in calls related to semaglutide, a drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes and obesity, CNN reported Wednesday.
Developed by drugmaker Novo Nordisk, semaglutide is sold under the brand names Ozempic for diabetes, and Wegovy for weight loss. According to Medscape, Novo Nordisk said the two drugs are not interchangeable — although Ozempic is often taken off-label for weight-loss.
According to CNN, America’s Poison Centers said that between January and November, it responded to nearly 3,000 calls — a more than 15-fold increase since 2019 — about semaglutide. In 94% of those calls, semaglutide was the only substance reported, while 6% of the callers reported taking semaglutide plus one or more other drugs.
Also this week, an investigation by The BMJ highlighted examples of potentially illegal marketing of semaglutide in the U.K., suggesting the marketing may be a contributing factor to growing hype and ongoing shortages of the drug.
According to the BMJ report, webpages promoting semaglutide may violate U.K. laws, which prohibit the direct marketing of prescription drugs to consumers.
The New York Daily News reported that celebrities have publicly promoted Wegovy, helping to fuel the growing demand for the drug. According to Medscape, physicians looking to prescribe Ozempic are struggling to locate the medication for their patients due to shortages.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/poison-control-centers-spike-calls-weight-loss-semaglutide/
Here we have another example of the downside of strapping a brain onto a primitive stinking money…
They simply cannot control their urges to stuff their faces with KFC and Soda Pop — and demand a pill to overcome their monkey oo oo addictions … and when the pills f789 some of them up… they will continue to take them …
Cuz they be … MORE ONS
Thank you for the well thought out article! Few people are able to look at the big picture with respect to societies and the world at large. Your list provides valuable insight that can assist the public in planning for a more productive future. Thank you for sharing a reality we desperately need to be contemplating. Well done and spot on!
You are welcome!
“Your list provides valuable insight that can assist the public in planning for a more productive future.” Yes! That is the purpose of valuable insights and intel: Planning for the Future. Just don’t express any of your plans on this site, ’cause it will be shot down without a nary alternative suggestion.
Logic is thine enemy
Interview is at the bottom of the story https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/gail-macrae-california-icu-nurse-covid-protocols-vaccine-injuries/
The hospital’s charting system was also rigged to not show post-vaccination breakthrough infections, Macrae said. “Any patient who was diagnosed with COVID the chart would automatically populate as ‘unvaccinated. If anyone tried to change that manually, the only other option was “vaccination status unknown.”
This was a feature of the Epic software used in all Kaiser Permanente hospitals, said Macrae, a limitation corroborated by others.
“I’ve talked to nurses all over the country who saw the scamming of the charting systems,” she said.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/gail-macrae-california-icu-nurse-covid-protocols-vaccine-injuries/
The covid vaccine story is bizarre beyond belief. We keep stumbling across more of it. It is as if an outside source is trying to reduce world population through the use of the so-called vaccines. Nurses have quit in frustration. Putting Anthony Fauci in charge was a crazy idea–he is close to being a vaccine sales-man. His wife was “Chief Ethicist.” No one was told that many over the counter and cheap generic drugs would help with a better recovery because that would reduce the pharmaceutical companies’ revenue. The manufactures had no liability for bad outcomes, so they had no motivation for even the most basic quality control. At least the share prices of Pfizer and Moderna are way down now.
“It is as if an outside source is trying to reduce world population through the use of the so-called vaccines.”
Well, Bill Gates is a big investor in BioNTech which is linked to Pfizer. Conspiracy theory? Bill Gates has made it publicly known that the world’s population needs to be 500 million at most. His father was also a believer in depop.
I am pondering which is more obvious…
that the Rat Juice was designed to kill and destroy the immune system
or that the moon landings are fake
or that the towers were taken down in a controlled demolition
or that a cruise missile hit the pentagon
I must admit I don’t pay too much attention to all this vaxx and covid stuff any more because the treachery (not safe, not effective) is so obvious now in many aspects. What is worth revisiting however, is whether the latent destruction of the immune response has been the real objective all along, and not the immediate kill shot effect of the spike protein itself or even the Vaxx. Like a financial Ponzi that needs new investors, the COVID pandemic needs new “injectees” to help transmit the spike protein not only to prevent herd immunity from overcoming the pandemic, kind of like “herd redemptions” collapse the Ponzi scheme, but also insuring a future immune deficiency endgame for millions down the line. Cause and effect then becomes harder to discern.
My cynicism was spiked when I read very early in 2020 about Indian researchers who had identified 4 sequences in the spike protein which were identical to those in the supposed HIV virus.
Going back to HIV, theoretically it is a good long term weapon because of the latency from first inoculation to manifestation of symptoms all the way to the Kaposi Sarcomas. It tis has a chance to spread far and wide before it becomes discovered in contrast to a fast killer lime Ebola. A virus wants to be able to spread and to do this, it must not kill the host before the host has had a chance to transmit it.
So could the PTB have had been titrating the immediate lethality of the Vaxx to optimize the latency and lethality of a much larger immunodeficiency process?
YES!
Then imagine cooking up a pathogen that exploits the immune f789ed id iots who shot this toxic waste into their deltoids… and releasing it… when BAU is about to blow sky high…
It does make sense.
Coffee earlier – wife of a friend was saying she has a client who manages building projects in QT… he told her the pipeline has dried up … he is still employed but not sure how much longer that will last — he said he was making plans to hunker down in Asia on a long trip….
BAU is dying. Release the pathogen. Year of the Rabbit ends mid Feb…. call it two months left
“So could the PTB have had been titrating ”
Sorry, just no way. I know this field, and it just is not up to what you are making a conspiracy story about.
Now *eventually* they could make a virus that infects only left handed redheads, but not this side of the singularity.
The same STEM workes you are defending, saying it is impossible for them to develop a bioweapon are and claiming Artificial intelligence is ready to make millions of college educated workers unemployed.
and no one claimed that they could make a virus to infect only left handed red heads. The only thing that has been put forth is that they could and have a motive to develop a virus to reduce world population to sustainable levels.
Awful strawman.
“The same STEM workes you are defending”
I am not defending them. I was objecting to “PTB have had been titrating ” because the technology is not up to the such a task–yet anyway.
“claiming Artificial intelligence is ready to make millions of college educated workers unemployed.”
I make no claim about AI making people unemployed. For all I know, there may be a desperate shortage of people to prompt AIs. AI of the current LLM type has been around more than a year and as far as I know it has not caused the employment rate to go down.
“they could and have a motive to develop a virus to reduce world population to sustainable levels.”
If there were any such thing as PTB, I would know some of them. None of the people I know would seem possible candidates for PTB, they are, one and all just as lost as the rest of us. Besides, biological weapons are the very devil to control.
In any case, for a while we need the vast population. Cut it to 1/10th and there would be no way to justify development of an iphone or whatever the next gadget is.