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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.
Cancer drug shortage impacts patients nationwide
https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/news/2023-12-20/cancer-drug-shortage-impacts-patients-nationwide
This is likely true… cuz the Rat Juice hahahahaha
No big deal … the drugs don’t have any effect on Turbo Cancer.
How about starving the cancer by eliminating carbs and sugar??? WHAT????? F789 you man. I’m not gonna do that – are you nuts??? I want chemo!!!!
oh well https://t.me/EdwardDowdReal/523
What is the goal of the unlimited immigration into white western nations?
How many millions will the US take 20 million? 60 million? 150 million? 330 million?
>> How many millions will the US take 20 million? 60 million? 150 million? 330 million?
Who cares. The USA has ~40% non-Hispanic white births, which is to say, it is no longer a 95% white 5% black country like 1940. It’s not going to revert and that’s that. If that upsets you, blame your parents and grandparents, they decided today’s demographics, even if only through inaction.
Who are the powers that be? China seems to be the only place capable of long term covert action.
Sounds funny! Perhaps the kids were responsible for the “inaction” because they never fell asleep?
Nah, the parents and grandparents were busy being good little hyper tryhard attabois and hyper moaronic 304’s. Just like you are, difference being is that you’ve got a developed taste for rayciss.
And of course if an economic system emerges which supports these tendencies, moar of these loonies will inevitably be needed to support an ever expanding egotistical fantasy. Asia, Middle East, Africa and South America got plenty of aspiring Hypers. It’s all good.
Be grateful for them and keep BAU rolling brother, full tilt through the predicament, into inevitability, despair, chaos and finally collapse.
Just fuel ‘er up with finiteness and floor it, bead loaded with materials for the umpteenth kitchen renovation and other projections of success only found in an IKEA catalogue.
Yes you can !!1!1!1!1
The ‘murican dream !1!1!1!!!!1
JUST DO IT !!1!1!1!1!
M.O.A.R. !!!1!1!!1!!
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Demographics? Support SS with additional payroll tax? Extreme shortage of labor? Biology? Modern women decided children are not important but want to have a safety net which almost by definition must be biologic.
Dennis L.
https://www.igor-chudov.com/p/jn1-is-the-next-big-covid-variant
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https://wolfstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/US-Pending-home-sales-2023-12-26.png
Mortgage Rates Dropped a Lot but Clearly Not to the Magic Level. Buyers’ Strike Continues. Issue Is Price
A similar drop in mortgage rates a year ago to even lower rates didn’t turn up sales volume either – on the contrary.
https://wolfstreet.com/2023/12/28/mortgage-rates-dropped-a-lot-but-clearly-not-to-the-magic-level-buyers-strike-continues-issue-is-price/
The results are staggering and incontrovertible. Something is very wrong with public health beginning not in the covid year of 2020, but rather upon deployment of the transfecting gene therapy drug the government calls a “vaccine” in 2021.
https://coquindechien.substack.com/p/suddenly-and-unexpectedly
This comment goes with Fast Eddy’s comment of about an hour earlier.
“Washington State University and the Washington Medical Commission punish a doctor who testified before a US Senate committee about dangers of the Covid “vaccine”
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/12/28/washington-state-university-and-the-washington-medical-commission-punish-a-doctor-who-testified-before-a-us-senate-committee-about-dangers-of-the-covid-vaccine/
Delightful
https://coquindechien.substack.com/p/suddenly-and-unexpectedly
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I would agree. Something is very much wrong if “died suddenly” and “died unexpectedly ” are up so much in 2021, but not 2020.
I was under the impression that 2023 covid vaccine doses given were very much lower in 2023 than in 2021 and 2022. If this is the case, the “died suddenly” problem may significantly lag the actual giving of the doses. Or perhaps the “died suddenly” problem will start heading downward, with the lower doses in the near future.
At one point I showed this to a leading barrister who is a vax fanatic
https://metatron.substack.com/p/covid-requiem-aeternam?s=r
High vax countries high excess deaths in the weeks after the vax…
Low vax countries no excess death.
To his credit he was willing to watch the entire presentation.
His explanation for the high excess deaths — covid… yup … covid…. protection from dying from covid is what they were told… yet…
I see I said – so why are their no excess deaths in low vax countries (remember the vax stops you from dying if you get covid … so surely if few are vaxxed … loads should be dying – right)…
No response. TFIs cannot respond. It’s like asking a freezer to make toast. It can’t
It doesn’t compute
Well asking a lawyer to use higher order cognition is less likely than toast from a freezer….that’s for damn sure.
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Whether due to energy problems or another reason sad corrupt new zealand let in around 5% of its total population as immigrants in the last 12 months. Around 2% of its population left resulting in a population increase of around 3%.
Despite this its total GDP fell. Gdp per capita is in freefall.
Problem is the ones who are leaving are mainly qualified European-ethnicity while those arriving are from the PICSA countries; Philippines, India, China and South Africa.
The standard of living has basically halved in the last two decades.
It takes an awfully lot of oil to get goods shipped to New Zealand. The price of oil was very low in the 1998-2001 period, so the cost of shipping goods and people to New Zealand was not very high. Now that the price of oil is much higher, transportation to costs to and from New Zealand (humans and goods) is very much higher. This problem has disproportionately affected distant islands that must import as large share of what they consume, and that must try to export finished good around the world. The whole system is much less profitable.
This is the reason why New Zealand is doing so poorly. New Zealand is truly on the “periphery.” When the world economy needs to shrink back to its core, the periphery, including New Zealand, is very much at risk.
NZ has food. It has hydroelectric energy. Just add a few nuclear reactor and it will be a paradise.
NZ has food.
It has access to fertiliser for the moment, you mean.
Just add a few nuclear reactor
And refuel them every 23 months how?
Would you consider Canukistan to be “peripheral”…
Please say yes……
Canada–that is a good question. Canada has enough food production and oil production that it is probably core. At least Western Canada is core. Eastern Canada is more like the US Northeast, with lots of problems.
I suspected as much,…….as vexatious as it is.
I so despise my nation and its people…..they are useless in every way that matters…….
But got lucky in geology.
Consider that day after day after day … we get news stories about the great transition to renewable energy and EVs…
We know all of that is a lie.
Yet we still believe other fables told to us by cnnbbc…..
Funny that
Fortunately the transition to producing 6,000 shells a day is going gang busters.
And india is on the moon hahahahaha
India landed a probe on the moon? Sure they did, what’s so impossible about that, unless you’re just a racist? Oh wait, you are a racist.
Withnail, racism within the same species is just another evidence of ‘brain quantity is no guarantee for succes’.
Higher up on the ladder, you’re just another greedy Ali Express diaper.
Official CDC Data: 143,233% Surge in Fatal Cancers Among Vaxxed Americans
Official data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed an alarming spike in fatal cancers among Americans who have received Covid mRNA injections.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/official-cdc-data-143233-surge-in
COVID-19 Vaccines Can Worsen Cancer, According to New Peer-Reviewed Analysis in Medical Journal
Researchers found many factors within COVID-19 vaccinations that predisposed cancer patients towards a worsening of their condition.
https://vigilantnews.com/post/covid-19-vaccines-can-worsen-cancer/
Of course… we need to keep UKEY as the excuse for raging inflation
https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/China-up-close/Analysis-Putin-promises-Xi-to-fight-for-five-years-in-Ukraine
The whole analysis gets more and more complicated.
Actually it’s quite simple … it’s fake
It’s not fake. It is a proces of humanity following dinosaurs. We all saw the huge bones.
Now we get to see the huge brains.
Multiple Pizza Hut franchises in California, collectively operating hundreds of stores, are laying off 1,200 in-house delivery drivers ahead of a new law taking effect in April that raises wages to $20 per hour
PacPizza LLC, operating as Pizza Hut, said in a federal WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) Act notice filed with California’s Employment Development Department that the company has made a business decision to eliminate first-party delivery services and, as a result, the elimination of all delivery driver positions. Similarly, Southern California Pizza Co. has also announced layoffs, impacting about 841 drivers across the state.
The drivers, who now face the reality of unemployment in the coming year, have voiced concerns about the impact on their livelihoods and the broader implications for workers in similar positions.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/california-pizza-hut-lays-off-every-delivery-driver-as-wages-rise-to-20/ar-AA1m3Kts
Eventually … inflation kills the host….
Restaurants and delivered hot food fall in a recession.
Key Points
Pending home sales in November remained the same as one month ago.
Month over month, contract signings grew in the Northeast, Midwest and West but they contracted in the South.
Pending home sales dropped in all four U.S. regions compared to one year ago.
https://mishtalk.com/economics/pending-home-sales-at-record-low-despite-falling-mortgage-rates/
Prices and interest rates are still too high; sales are not doing well.
New FOIA’ed Data Reveal NY Vaccine Clinics Called Ambulances To Be “On Standby”.
Actually though, another anecdote- my cousin was at my house for Thanksgiving in 2021 and I happened to walk by while she was telling my sister that she had gotten the first shot and it put her in the hospital. And she literally said, “that means it really, really worked!” And then she asked my sister not to tell her adult daughter because her adult daughter had tried to warn her that they were dangerous so she was hiding it from her that she had to go to the ER be of it. And she was planning to get the second one. Her mother (my aunt) can’t stop getting Covid and has multiple new autoimmune diseases but doesn’t know why- vaxxed to the max. I literally have almost had a nervous breakdown from watching this unfold. My other sister was injured. Just found out my brother has had epilepsy since April of this year. He no doubt had gotten multiple injections. (Lives in NY city) I have no doubt that other family members are injured as well but they don’t tell me because they know I was trying to warn people. I have to hear it secondhand usually. Like I’ve seen photos on social media of my nephew (teenager) going to a heart hospital but there’s no explanation of why. The insanity is never ending.
A Shrunken Arsenal: The Alarming Decline of U.S. Munitions
As fighting rages in the Middle East and Europe and China looms as a threat, America’s dwindling arsenal of high-end munitions emerges as an alarming crisis. The United States, once a fortress of military might, now faces the prospect of a munitions deficit in an era brimming with uncertainties. This desperate situation demands the development of a national critical munitions stockpile.
European weapons makers are overwhelmed and struggling to meet Ukraine’s consumption of more than 6,000 artillery rounds each day during peak counteroffensive fighting. Ukraine’s ability to stave off defeat and defend itself against the Russian invasion largely depends on an uninterrupted supply of these rounds.
I see… so the UKEYS are firing 6000 rounds per day … let’s check on what the US forces used on a single operation in Vietnam:
for northern Kontum Province by the 24th Special Tactical Zone, the first major Vietnamese ground operation began. Dubbed DAN QUYEN by the Vietnamese, it grew out of special agent reports indicating a major buildup of enemy units southwest of the Ben Het Civilian Irregular Defense Group camp, which sat precariously at the convergence of the Laotian, Cambodian, and Vietnamese borders.
In order to head off Communist plans to execute a strong offensive effort in the highlands, the 24th Special Tactical Zone was tasked to conduct operations to spoil Communist plans, protect Ben Het, and compel enemy forces to retire to their Cambodian sanctuaries. The operation was conducted in three phases: Phase I (515 May) involved forces of three Vietnamese and two mobile strike force battalions screening the tri-border area west of Ben Het; Phase II (16 May-3 June), based on intelligence produced during the initial phase, was a six-battalion (plus) offensive operation conducted southeast of Ben Het and targeted against elements of the North Vietnamese 66th Infantry, 28th Infantry, and 40th Artillery Regiments; and Phase III (3-5 June) consisted primarily of bomb damage assessments by multibattalion Vietnamese forces and the establishment of a defensive screen around the Dak To, Tan Canh, and Ben Het areas. By operation’s end the South Vietnamese had succeeded in mauling the Communist forces and establishing a favorable 7-to-1 kill ratio. In support of the operation, the 52d Artillery Group provided 29 tubes of artillery-12 105-mm. howitzers, 12 155-mm. howitzers, 1 8-inch howitzer, and 4 175-mm. guns-and assigned the 1st Battalion, 92d Artillery, to establish the forward command post for U.S. support forces. This command post was later expanded into a fire support coordination center for all American artillery in the area. From their own assets, Vietnamese forces utilized 8 155-mm. and 6 105-mm. howitzers in support of the operation.
A total of 73,016 rounds was expended by friendly faring units. Enemy soldiers captured during the campaign expressed a fear of first-round volley fire employed by both South Vietnamese and U.S. units in the form of random time-on-target missions.
If the UKEYs are firing 6000 per day — show me the rubble….
And we are told 380k Ukeys are dead… who is left to fire the 6000 rounds per day?
Feel free to continue allowing bbccnn to tell ya’ll what to think.
Question nothing. If it’s on cnnbbc .. it is TRUE.. I get it — this is the World of a TFI
https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/indiamoon_feat.jpg
European weapons makers are overwhelmed and struggling to meet Ukraine’s consumption of more than 6,000 artillery rounds each day during peak counteroffensive fighting.
They arent ‘struggling’ in the sense of coming close to producing 6,000 rounds a day. They are producing only a very small fraction of that and that is not going to change. At this point Ukraine will be able to fire a lot less than 6,000 rounds a day.
It is likely Ukey counter battery barrage. The russkies shooting and scooting with crappy/detuned North Korean “shells”. With Ukey burning through the stockpiles not only causing shortages, but also puts wear in the barrels. I reckon they won’t be hitting anything at all soon enough.
How about loitering ammo? A small deployable/detachable chute and it can stay in the air for much longer before dropping it. Artillery carpet bombing so to speak, a bit of slop in the barrels won’t matter that much if a few arty battalions can burn through a couple of hundred rounds in counter battery fire, then scooting, before the rain starts, and counter counter battery fire, etc. The possibilities are endless with shells allowed to “land” and act as mines bored into the ground, but just deep “enough”.
Very well. What do I know about “modern” warfare.
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With Ukey burning through the stockpiles not only causing shortages, but also puts wear in the barrels. I reckon they won’t be hitting anything at all soon enough.
Already a major problem. The US and its allies were unable to supply the necessary replacement gun barrels for the artillery they provided and can’t manufacture more.
I’d like to see the rubble that has resulted from overuse of the artillery weapons
Surely Russia must have some cities that are devestated
Show me the Rubble!
I can’t find it https://duckduckgo.com/?q=russian+city+destroyed+by+ukraine+artillery&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.wsj.net%2Fim-501678%2F8SR
Proof?
The proof is all around us here in the UK. The country is full of dead former coal mines and the ruins of the industries they fed. The rest of Europe is the same.
eddy spends his life on ofw constantly trying to prove that he exists
You seem to like attention, also.
OFW is the only place where norm gets acknowledged… being mocked is better than nothing…. and unlike with the forays Out Back the Dumpster … the attention on OFW is free
Right norm…
we all comment on OFW to draw attention to our points of view Gail–that is human nature
I try to avoid what i call Gatling gun comments—-fire off enough and one is bound to hit something—I think my numbers confirm that.
and i leave certain subjects out of my comments . (see above –or below–wherever this comment appears)
I reckon FE is a bot or a team of commenters. I have seen comments from this handle across dozens of sites (must run into 100s/week). No way this is one person.
He can repeat what he says, several places.
I have seen the columns written — daily — by Charles Hugh Smith. I can see the many things Chris Martenson puts out. And Robert Bryce recently summarized what he did this last year in this post, which is truly amazing to me. https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/god-bless-substack-and-a-2023-recap
Some people are amazing in the amount of things that they can produce. I don’t think FE is a bot of a team of commenters.
The GOAT … is prolific… and let’s not forget FE’s 1500HP (that’s a measure of intelligence and it’s like the Richter scale – each increase is exponential)… thus he has the intelligence of 100,000 normal geniuses… and this is the sort of output one would expect… from The GOAT
Are you suggesting Fast Eddy is Ai?
If so then Ai apparently does exist … and it is capable of true genius
what you might call a bot on the landscape then
Norm likes to sport the tried and trusted master suppression “techniques” when his egotistical fantasies are challenged after so many years of deliberation from desiring validation, cope and hope.
Innit so Normal?
How does attention work for an anonymous poster? I had the impression it needs a named persona which can associate its narrative through posts, their statuses and prestiges, as projections onto the “audience”.
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norm on the other hand uses his real name … seeking attention …
norm why not use post using the handle NOF?
That’s not proof — I need you to get me first hand evidence
That’s not proof — I need you to get me first hand evidence
No coking coal no coke. No coke no locally produced virgin steel. No virgin steel no shells. Same problem as the US.
Seems you are wrong — it’s ok — if you change your mind you can be right!
Just pretend you never blurted out your nonsense…
Seems the US does have coking coal https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5d8b8cdde4b0c4f70d0b8e4a
And they do produce shells… lots and lots and lots of them!!!!
New manufacturing techniques are moving the Army toward its goal of producing 85,000 155mm artillery shells per month, starting in fiscal 2025, the assistant Army secretary for acquisition said Monday.
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2023/08/army-aims-make-1-million-artillery-shells-year-starting-fiscal-2025/389202/
Check out the shiny steel shells so shiny!!!
https://www.usnews.com/object/image/00000187-ac80-d625-a9ef-aca0be2b0000/d1913901cb8f4aa887814d384f8f48c5Army_Ammunition_Shortage_49440.jpg?update-time=1682224305000&size=responsive970
A steel worker moves a 155 mm M795 artillery projectile during the manufacturing process at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pa., Thursday, April 13, 2023. One of the most important munitions of the Ukraine war comes from a historic factory in this city built by coal barons, where tons of steel rods are brought in by train to be forged into artillery shells
hahahahahaha…. and of course India is on the moon…
If America was out of coking coal… ya don’t think they do what they always do when they need more resources — steal them? Like they stole Iraq’s oil
hahahahahahahahahahahaha…
You need to get a life – and stop wasting my precious time — I normally charge $500,000,000 per hour for this
“Seems you are wrong — it’s ok — if you change your mind you can be right!
Just pretend you never blurted out your nonsense… ”
The U.S has coal, but to make more steel, you need more. So how’s production doing?
2017 coal production was 774,609(TST) and has fallen to 594,155(TST) in 2022, with no signs of increase this year.
https://www.eia.gov/coal/production/quarterly/pdf/t1p01p1.pdf
Coking coal, the important one, so that’s what they’ll be putting the effort into.
5,719(TST) in 2022 falling 1.7% in a single year to 5,623(TST).
https://www.eia.gov/coal/production/quarterly/pdf/t3p01p1.pdf
“And they do produce shells… lots and lots and lots of them!!!!”
They produce less than a twelfth of the amount of steel than China and as your own ‘proof’ attests “moving the Army toward its goal” could mean an increase of a single shell, so we can ignore that rubbish.
Ask yourself why, if they have so much, they’ve been running around doing deals with Australia and Poland. Not exactly big players are they.
“You need to get a life – and stop wasting my precious time — I normally charge $500,000,000 per hour for this”
Fraud, always has paid the best, but no matter how much, it’s still bs.
So, the bully has all it needs to beat any you say, but something is wrong.
The Houthis are so scared that they keep upping the ante and the bully shouts, but no action(resource restraints?).
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/210041/Yemen-warns-of-intensified-attacks-in-Red-Sea
Erdogan doesn’t appear to be bothered by the threats “How do you (Netanyahu) differ from Hit ler? These (actions) will make us look for Hit ler as well. Is there anything Netanyahu does that is less than Hit ler? No,”
South Africa have reported the illegal encampment to the ICJ for genocide and if found guilty, all that stood with the encampment will be guilty.
The young of the encampment are now refusing the call up and preferring the prison sentence(odds of living somewhat better?).
All those warships sitting there, doing nothing except watching their multi million dollar defense systems being depleted by easy to produce 2k rockets and drones, all while Operation Prosperity Guardian is proving very prosperous for everyone except those conducting it.
Something very wrong. I’m getting a Norway Vs England 1981 feeling 😂
Let me introduce a new word to the TFIs of OFW (are we witnessing Rat Juice brain damage?)
import /ĭm-pôrt′, ĭm′pôrt″/
transitive verb
To bring or carry in from an outside source, especially to bring in (goods or materials) from a foreign country for trade or sale.
Alternatively no need to import – there is the option to kill some folks in a country that has what you want — install a flunky dictator.. and pillage…
pillage /pĭl′ĭj/
intransitive verb
To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; plunder.
To take as spoils.
To take spoils by force.
The United States is not short of any resource. They may not produce the resource themselves e.g. rare earths…. but that is not a problem .. they have all that they need.
Ok children — it’s recess… go play tag… or whatever grade 3 children do these days (4nicate behind the Dumpster??? watch hard core p-orn clips?)
lol
as ive pointed out before
eddy is unable to make a lucid comment without tagging his own—er– shortcomings on the end of it.
like a sort of signature.
So you now accept that they don’t have the coke or steel themselves and are reliant on those well known giants of production, Australia and Poland.
If that doesn’t work out, they’ll invade China, for the ability to invade China.
Bells gone.
Coking coal, or metallurgical coal, has been produced in the United States for nearly 200 years. Coking coal is primarily used in the production of coke for use in the steel industry, and for other uses (for example, foundries, blacksmithing, heating buildings, and brewing).
Currently, U.S. coking coal is produced in Alabama, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Virginia , and West Virginia.
Historically, coking coal has also been produced in 15 other states (Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming), but currently is not. Coals from the Appalachian, Arkoma, and Illinois basins are Pennsylvanian in age, while coals in Alaska, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming range in age from Early Cretaceous through Eocene.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20201113
Are there no search engines in TFI-land?
If America was out of coking coal… ya don’t think they do what they always do when they need more resources — steal them? Like they stole Iraq’s oil
Yes, mountains of high quality anthracite left in the perfect locations for steel plants. That’s why the US steel industry collapsed and the plants closed.
They did indeed try to steal iraq’s oil by getting Iraq’s government to sign the oilfields away to US oil companies. But Iraq said no and America had no choice since the Iraqi government were their only allies in Iraq at the time.
New manufacturing techniques are moving the Army toward its goal of producing 85,000 155mm artillery shells per month, starting in fiscal 2025, the assistant Army secretary for acquisition said Monday.
Yes new techniques, that will do it I’m sure. By 2025. They would need a lot more than 85,000 a month, of course, to fight a war.
You seem to not understand globalization …
Have you noticed that Walmart and Cosco and Amazon are stuffed with every consumer product under the sun?
What % of those products are made in the US? The majority are not… yet there they are — piled high on the shelves…
And how about the rare earths that go into making EVs and iphones… the US doesn’t mine much of those … yet the US has plenty of EVs and iphones for sale….
This is not a difficult concept … a 7yr child of average intelligence could be made to understand how it works.
Which begs the question … what is wrong with you — why are you unable to grasp any of this?
The 3 letter acronym comes to mind… but I won’t say it … I am trying to start the day off on a positive… I let Hoolio out the back door and 630am and he killed his first rabbit of the day… hurrah for Hoolio — the mass murderer!
Coking coal, the important one, so that’s what they’ll be putting the effort into.
5,719(TST) in 2022 falling 1.7% in a single year to 5,623(TST).
It’s poor quality coking coal now too, probably on the borderline. The old Pennsylvania anthracite could be used without even coking it, it was so good.
Oh no 1.7%!!!!!! Disaster!!!!
But only if this was Idiocracy… cuz then they would not be aware that they could IMPORT their deficit (like they do with oil) and make as many shells and artillery pieces as their heart desires.
Seems you are living in Idiocracy Clown World….
Duh
“New manufacturing techniques are moving the Army toward its goal of producing 85,000 155mm artillery shells per month, starting in fiscal 2025, the assistant Army secretary for acquisition said Monday.”
Change to…
“New manufacturing techniques and the ability to print endless fake money are moving the Army toward its goal of producing 85,000 155mm artillery shells per month, starting in fiscal 2025, the assistant Army secretary for acquisition said Monday.”
fixed it for you.
Inflation of everything will hit and change this result….perhaps to 8,500 155mm artillery shells per month….
Neither did America … so you’ll need to recant…
https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/indiamoon_feat.jpg
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/abj9z/close_up_image_of_the_apollo_11_lunar_module/
One does not fire a huge number of artillery shells while retreating.
It isn’t a war of attrition anymore? Sloppiest arty barrels and least ammo loses, no?
I was of the impression western high-tech fireworks would make stomping russkies a cakewalk? HIMARS etc., no?
I expected the Ukey Tryhard Attboi cannon fodder eventually would end up grinding the shovels to the shafts building trenches, yes?
Admittedly I’m shit at military strategy and tactics.
😢
Nothing about this war makes sense… therefore the conclusion must be that it is orchestrated… basically fake… with some photo opps….
Did anyone notice the photos of the cities in Russia destroyed by the UKEYS as they burned through the entire arsenal of NATO artillery….
Oh right… there was no rubble… nothing … it’s FAKE>
Let’s check out Hoolio – he has returned from his Killing Fields … had his morning crunchy food and water… and is now reclining… I asked him … do you think UKEY is fake… he said of course it is …
https://i.postimg.cc/DZm09S9h/Hoolio.jpg
Remember this?
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/dr-mark-trozzi-empty-hospitals-at
Strange world. Mortality seemed to increase after the vaccines were rolled out.
For some who are interested in economic aspects .
“HHH
IGNORED
12/28/2023 at 6:56 am
We will begin to hear stuff like monetary conditions are easing because yields and or interest rates are going lower.
FED has conditioned the market to equate lower interest rates with easing and higher interest rates with tightening. Which is completely false.
Lower interest rates equals nothing good and tighter credit and lending conditions. While higher interest rates equals easier money and more growth and inflation. Reality is in fact the exact opposite of what we are told.
So for the moment markets are trading on what they are told to believe. Dollar is going lower because people are acting accordingly to what they have been told.
But in the real economy as rates go lower. Credit becomes harder to get not easier. And the economy slows. Which ultimately leads to there not being enough dollars. Because money continues being destroyed every month as payments are made on old debts while new debts aren’t being made at a rapid enough pace to keep the money supply expanding.
We are heading straight into a depression. Debt levels are way higher than they were say 5 years ago. Unplayable debts will start piling up creating a cascade of unplayable debts.
That’s what a dollar shortage looks like. And globally it’s not just a dollar shortage. There will be shortages in different currencies for the same reasons. It’s just the amount of dollar denominated debt is huge compared to everything else.
Some small country. Can’t remember exactly who off the top of my head at the moment recently defaulted on their Euro bonds. Meaning debt that was denominated in Euros. So unless the commercial banks start expanding credit everywhere we are going to see debt defaults everywhere.
Why exactly are commercial banks going to be willing to extend credit? Answer is they’re not which is why the money supply is shrinking.
When the old loans you have issued are getting defaulted on it’s hard to make new loans. Banks start going into survival mode and not lend. They start loading up of safe and liquid US treasury debt instead of making loans.
HHH
IGNORED
12/28/2023 at 10:17 am
Something else I think we will see is while for now currencies namely the Swiss franc are getting so called safe haven flows.
That will reverse when people have no choice but to liquidate their banks holdings to meet margin calls and debt obligations. Meaning they are unable to borrow more to meet debt obligations. So banking centers of the world get drained of deposits. When we get to that point there will be no doubt shit is hitting the fan.
“My bit . Understand why the Indian Rupee bids for oil were rejected .”
The USD will be the last man standing — the BRICS are not some magical entity that is untethered to US dominance… they are not healthier than the US … in fact they are more rotten than the US… cuz they do not have reserve currency status
The US and the USD go… everyone starves and ROFS. Simple as that
We need UEP to succeed
The system works in a very strange way. Perhaps this comment is right that it ends up being deflation that brings the system down.
Or perhaps the US is the last currency standing, because its debt has a money-ness quality that the debt of other governments does not have.
Gail, I can’t see any mention of deflation nor inflation in the copy/pasta at all. My reading of it is that the dude is predicting credit default throughout the economy and a depression. Surely if the USD collapsed (and one sees this bandied about quite often in these stable times) there could be quite the inflationary wave, along with the depresion
No One Knows the Future
This is the future https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220
Views vary. He refers to the “real economy” but never a real rate of interest, completely ignoring the issue on foreign exchange rates (which is vital in deficit economies) and inflation on the measurement of GDP, not to mention consumer behaviour. Doug Noland is of the view that we remain in a very easy economic environment because commercial bank lending is still at negative real rates and corporate bond markets are very buoyant. Look at the 2yr chart for DB – probably the shakiest corporate debter globally now that CreditSuisse has gone done.
With our credit system I understand that credit creation at a rate less than that needed to meet former credit maturity and ongoing interest liabilities in a given period causes someone to default. Credit not expanding fast enough will cause issues, actual credit shrinkage is the fear that keeps Yellen waving incense and babbling away hoping no one is walking around outside with their eyes wide open. All this said the eurodollar market is so vast and opaque that the domestic USD credit market may not be representative of the overall picture.
Bank reserves on deposit at the Fed are very healthy. The VIX is at praternaturally low levels and the USD 10yr Treasury has had an eyepopping end of year rally … goldilocks stability
Andy Xie writes yesterday US bond yields have to be high to attract enough money to fund the government deficit. If people expect declining interest rates, they will be more willing to put money in the market. The Fed would want to engineer expectations of rate cuts, but not its actual realisation. How long could such a situation last? However long the world remains dumb to the fact, that’s to the Fed’s benefit. If people wake up, though, all bets would be off.
scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3246358/why-erratic-fed-could-pose-biggest-risk-global-economy-2024
Secured lenders always have an eye to grabbing the collateral and letting unsecured creditors flap in the wind.
Squeezing commercial lending periodically and particularly in a slowing ecomomy which gives the credit default domino train some thrust, handing an accelerating stream of collateral to lenders
Four other Oysters followed them,
And yet another four;
And thick and fast they came at last,
And more, and more, and more —
All hopping through the frothy waves,
And scrambling to the shore.
ain’t this oligarch vs humanity system just wonderful
the best of all possible worlds
the end of history
How America became a fossil fueled monster . From Sri Lanka .
https://indi.ca/the-evolution-of-the-hegemonster/
This article starts out:
It has some interesting insights.
“instead of the snow we get the fire next time”…..
yes we will indeed…….
All those UFOs (really laser pointers and range finders and dimensional periscopes) gonna really enjoy the micro nova show.
Best become a “shepherd in the hills” if hanging around this construct matters to ya. If not, best to just carry on,…..
“Russia, Iran finally dump the US dollar for good
” … In essence, the decision by Russia and Iran to abandon the US dollar in their trade dealings is more than a financial maneuver. It’s a bold statement in a world where economic strategies are intertwined with geopolitical ambitions. As these nations chart their course, the ripple effects of their decision will be felt far and wide, challenging the status quo and opening new chapters in the story of global economics.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/russia-iran-finally-dump-the-us-dollar-for-good/ar-AA1m7fSH?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDGEDB&cvid=a753dbcd20c6466ca26e7e7142424b01&ei=9
How long will the “petro dollar” dominate? (https://oil-price.net/)
What took them so long? Sounds like they’re spineless. Russia has been claiming they’re eliminating the dollar each year for the last decade. Next year we’ll hear again that Russia and Iran will soon eliminate their use of the dollar.
“5GW is valuable because it forces us to pay attention to the unseen wavelengths of the spectrum of war. It forces us to see war as more than violence. It forces us to see war as a spectrum that is constantly shifting between extremes of energy and visibility. It forces us to develop a definition of war that is broader than the definitions found in most contemporary general theories of war. The problem with using a narrower definition of war is that the enemy may fight you with a form of war that you not only can’t see, but, even worse, don’t even believe in. If the enemy uses a broader definition of war than you, any attack on that portion of the spectrum where you are defenseless may inflict a decisive defeat. The worst part of such a defeat may be that:
You never knew you were at war.
You never saw what hit you.
You never knew there was a chance for victory.
You never knew that you were defeated.
You don’t believe in any of the above.”
Abbott, Daniel H.. The Handbook of 5GW: A Fifth Generation of War (pp. 30-31).
Letting out human-adjusted viruses, and telling people that a vaccine would prevent the disease, would seem to be a strange version of a new kind of warfare, but I don’t think that is what this book is about.
The book is from 2021. It has generally good reviews. One critical review says,
collapse is happening in 2023 going back to cryptic clue given to us by Christine lagarde her clue being the number 7 adding single digits of the current year 2023 adds up to 7.
According to Chinese calendar we are in 4719, according to
Buddhist 2565, according to Byzanthine 7530, according to Ethiopian 2016 and considering Maya… So, there will probably be a collapse next year, but not for the sea of #ullshits said by Mrs. ‘prendoperilculotutti’ Cristina La Guardia.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/what-year-is-it
I remember the video. There will be 7 good years and 7 lean years. This is from an earlier comment I made:
If adding up to 7 is good, perhaps 2023 has been a relatively good year.
The beginning of the final phases of collapse began just prior to Covid and the Injections:
“The global economy was facing the worst collapse since the second world war as coronavirus began to strike in March, well before the height of the crisis, according to the latest Brookings-FT tracking index. “The index comes as the IMF prepares to hold virtual spring meetings this week, when it will release forecasts showing the deepest contraction for the global economy since the 1930s great depression. https://archive.ph/UUfl2
Collapse Imminent: https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-systemic-collapse-and-pandemic-simulation/
The next and last phase will involve the Pathogen — which will trigger the Extinction of Man.
‘Predicted’ 14 years ago?
https://x.com/ronin19217435/status/1739861149754044429?s=20
Paramedic Drops Alarming Revelations on COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
“I’ve documented several cases [of concern], including an unprecedented number of miscarriages and aortic dissections post-mRNA vaccine.”
https://vigilantnews.com/post/paramedic-drops-alarming-revelations-on-covid-19-vaccine-distribution/
Transportation and distribution issues? Must do better next time! Vigilant Fox was always part of the op (calm down victims!)
in late 2022, I predicted that every major world leader would still be in their same position at the end of 2023.
maybe just a lucky guess?
or am I missing someone?
argentina?
Major?
Major major there are only three. Did the UK have a revolving door moment in 2023? Meloni? Of course the German PM is on the outs but he may drag it on until early 2024.
Argentina ? It is unravelling within 30 days of the new president taking oath . My bet ,6 months best case and 3 months worst case scenario before he is booted out .
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/argentinas-president-javier-milei-signs-decree-slashing-5000-government-jobs
Sorry folks . Not 3 months ,not 6 months . 24 hours . There are no volunteers for starvation .
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/socialist-protests-erupt-argentina-milei-implements-austerity-cuts
And the TFIs believe degrowth will be painless and a great idea. Cuz he TEEv told them so…. and they do not question
Right norm
Sharon Ledbetter
5 hrs ago
Just a story, at the time of the role out of the shot, I lived in Mendocino County in a small coastal community in Northern California. My monthly ant termination guy came soon after and was so glad he had taken the shot. Well the next month he came and we talked and he was angry about taking the shot, and shared with me that he had friends in the fire dept, sheriff dept, and the EMTs, who had met together and between them, in this small community, had dealt with 26 dead after the shot in 30 days.
Pierre Kory, MD, MPA
4 hrs ago
Author
my god. Another example indicating the massive clusters of front line folks across the world who saw all this carnage and either tried to get the word out, or were just censored to death. Literally.
Jane Scandurra
4 hrs ago
I live in Westchester County and work from home. While I am horrified to see this data from the early days of the rollout, the level of ambulence activity over this past year has been absolutely insane. I know it’s only anecdotal, but I hear sirens all day long. That’s not unusual if you live in NYC, but this is normally a very quiet suburban area. Whenever and wherever I am driving around the county, I always encounter *at least* one EMS vehicle speeding by me. During the warm weather months when my windows are open, I’d wake up to the sound of sirens every single morning.
This. Is. Not. Normal. 🙏🏻
Ron Swanson
17 mins ago
Yeah. In my area of southeastern VA, Chesapeake,
2020 was quite a quiet year. I have been a stay at home dad to 3 young kids since February of 2020 and it is self evident that the sheer volume of ambulance sirens had increased exponentially since 2020. We just moved waaaay out into the country and marvel at how we no longer hear the hourly shrieks of the sirens of EMS.
Connie Benn
3 hrs ago
I live up the street from a small hospital, along the what I suspect is the alternate route; the main route being Main Street to a highway. I see an ambulance go by on average at least once a day when before I had seen them just a few times a year. I hear them leaving the station almost every Sunday during Mass, that didn’t happen until the last few years. Today, one drove by as I stood outside the church after a funeral. I mentioned it to the priest,”Kinda strange how ambulances are driving around a lot these days. I know I sound crazy, but there are a lot of people in ambulances lately!” I suspect he’ll start noticing now. Even my daughter noticed.
gatogordo15
5 hrs ago
We moved back into our local town of roughly 7k in early Jan 2020 that has a fairly big hospital that services a population area of roughly 20k we had previously lived in this town for ten years and a life flight helicopter coming into town was such a rare event when we lived here previously that my kids and I would all run out of the house to watch it as we were just blocks from the hospital… beginning in the spring of 2021 and up through late summer/early fall of 2022 the amount of ambulances and helicopter flights that would come in literally reached such a crescendo that we became numb to them until the life flight in Aug of 2022 ended up being my best friend dying of a ‘massive unusual clot’ /heart attack at 43 even tho she had the heart attack literally a mile from the hospital and I had to hold her 10&12 year olds in my arms half the day while they waited for the horrible news….
I’m a stay at home Mom and literally am at home all but maybe 10-15 hours a week max and we went from hearing maybe 1 life flight a month to many times a week multiple times a day… The obituaries around here have been littered with ppl between teens to 50’s saying they died unexpectedly but a huge amount of those ppl have been in their 30-40’s …
I know of two ppl in my small church alone that had massive heart attacks in the last 2 plus years that were 39 and 43 and one of the two died, multiple people in their 50s and 60s with me onset heart issues without any indication prior, tons I mean tons of pregnancy and infant complications, many miscarriages, several very high fetal age stillbirths, unable to get pregnant, many with full blown eclampsia, we have at least 3 ppl in their 20’s that regularly pass out multiple times a week that can’t get neuro or cardio consults for 3-9 months
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Pierre Kory, MD, MPA
5 hrs ago
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I am speechless in sadness after reading your post. I know this has been the dark reality for many people, at least those that are awake and aware, while the others who are ignorant of the vaccine catastrophe, despite the same things happening to them, instead just put it down to unfortunate strokes of bad luck. Some days I don’t know which is worse or if it even matters as the pain of all the dying is unbearable no matter what you think is going on.
https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/new-foiaed-data-reveal-ny-vaccine/comments
Russia seems to think that the time has come for it to begin to impose consequences on UK for its participation in the UKR conflict.
“One may assume that Russia’s response will follow in the next three or five days.”
From Pravda:
https://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/158582-russia_uk_destroyer_diamond/
> Russia to strike UK’s destroyer HMS Diamond in response for Crimea port attack
Incidents » Conflicts
London was warned about its “excessive involvement” in military operations in Ukraine. After the destruction of Russia’s Novocherkassk large landing ship in Crimea, Russia may response by striking a British warship.
Russia to strike UK’s destroyer HMS Diamond in response for Crimea port attack
Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu informed Russian President Vladimir Putin about the situation with the Novocherkassk large landing ship. This suggests that Russia’s response to the attack will follow shortly.
Russian analysts believe that it was the UK that carried out the December 26 attack on the Novocherkassk. Ukraine used British missiles and used UK’s help in satellite reconnaissance and target guidance. The Ukrainian military only had to press the button.
“This latest destruction of Putin’s navy demonstrates that those who believe there’s a stalemate in the Ukraine war are wrong. They haven’t noticed that over the past four months, 20% of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has been destroyed,” UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps wrote on social media soon after the strike on the Russian warship.
According to Shapps, “Russia’s dominance in the Black Sea is now challenged.” The statements from the UK Secretary of Defence suggest that Britain was indeed involved in the attack on the Crimea port.
British Minister of State for the Armed Forces James Heappey also alluded to the scale of Britain’s participation in attacks on Russia.
He said that the UK was learning from information that Ukraine was sharing with it. This information includes data obtained from compromised Russian equipment. British companies use reports from the Ukrainian military to improve their products, he said.
“Ukraine has routinely used a combination of intelligence and Western-donated long-range missiles to wipe out Russian supply dumps and headquarters,” Heappey also said.
Russia earlier warned the UK through its ambassador in London that Britain was “too deeply” embroiled in the conflict in Ukraine. This may cause the conflict to escalate dramatically. UK Ambassador to Moscow Deborah Bronnert was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry in connection with these allegations.
Meanwhile, destroyer HMS Diamond is on guard in Red Sea.
According to Fitzroy Magazine, Russia should seriously raise the stakes in the game.
Russia can make it clear to the UK that it will have to pay with its own fleet for attacks on Russia. Russia may transfer anti-ship weapons to Houthi rebels, and they can use it to strike the Diamond destroyer of the Royal Navy. The latter is currently taking part in Operation Guardian of Prosperity.
Political scientist Yuri Baranchik supports this idea. He suggests Russia does it on its own, scrambles “two MiG-31s, or two Tu-22M2/TU-22M2M and hits the Brits with two Kinzhal missiles.”
Baranchik believes that the situation has gone too far as the West is practicing strikes on the naval component of the Russian nuclear triad in the Northern Fleet taking into account similarity of conditions in terms of the destruction range.
The situation with Russia’s Black Sea Fleet may only become more complicated, since Crimea’s geographic location makes it possible for NATO reconnaissance aircraft to monitor every movement of the Russian Armed Forces and track every radio message on the peninsula.
One may assume that Russia’s response will follow in the next three or five days.
I find it interesting that you tell the world what you plan to do in a “war”
We will see what really happens.
It’s almost as if it’s all fake….
Russia won’t do anything. 99% probability.
I think that Russia will do something, but it will not be what they are preparing us to think about, but something else…
brIcs… India…
https://mishtalk.com/economics/there-were-zero-takers-for-offers-to-pay-for-oil-in-indian-rupees/
hahahahahahahahaha so much for usurping the Elders
It is only a matter of time (and not much) before all international trade is once again settled in Gold.
Nobody is going to be willing to trade valuable goods and commodities for increasingly worthless fiat currency that is created out-of-thin-air. Especially Rupees.
I miss BAU.
Like the desserts, miss the rain.. 🙁
Everything But the Girl (Tracey Thorn) sang this, not Sade.
These folks were so skinny they seem like a different species.
Good song though.
Cher in her heyday looked like having the female hooman blueprint of a body:
https://youtu.be/9n3A_-HRFfc?si=CPg81pOtN7aiolZw
And how about Joan Jett you might ask, yes, why not:
https://youtu.be/bpNw7jYkbVc?si=5xtfRAUPcKTBpKEV
Ah well, those were the days. 😢
I was mocked and jeered for having a Cher video on my 80s playlist while partying the Friday before Christmas.
And I don’t care.
I always thought Cher looked like a man … wasn’t she the original Tranny Freak?
I read somewhere that she was actually the male in the Bono relationship.
He looked the type.
I got you babe….
I admit my tomboi tendencies.
Hyper MOARonic Voluptuous 304’s with duck lips and silicone sack implants, well, that’s for Hyper Tryhard Attabois: 🤢🤮
I wonder if triple S got some bonus protoplasm and extra slop for our resident projector of insecurities to sink his dentures into?
Do yourself a favor and save your imagination from a lifelong trauma with better ideas:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/5b05837b0568ba3b4de2056b131251aa/bd769185a9d7feb0-25/s500x750/c585b6218117762b51e99634503be32ed7a19f75.gifv
Cher in her heyday looked like having the female hooman blueprint of a body:
And how about Joan Jett you might ask, yes, why not:
Both excellent choices, don’t let Eddy bully you with his insinuations.
I have plenty of bAU but alas I don’t have so much that I can share some.
maybe in 2024.
I hear it’s coming in 4 days.
hahahahahaahaha I LOVE IT!!!
To me, the most shocking discovery I made when reviewing the documents, is that I found evidence of 5 different occasions where calls were made to EMS dispatch to have ambulances “on standby”:
1. 2021-02-21 07:38:16.000 E2105940 NOTIF EMS 355 PELHAM RD NE _ROCHELLE: @WILLOW TOWERS NEW_ROCHELLE ‘WILL BE ADMINISTERING THE COVID-19 VACCINE TODAY TO 220 PEOPLE’
2. 2021-03-20 08:19:58.000 E2108926 STAND-BY EMS 210 N BROADWAY SLEEPY HOLOW: @HIGH SCHOOL- SLEEPY HOLLOW “’73B2 & 36M3 ON STANDBY FOR VACCINE DETAIL
3. 2021-03-20 08:46:43.000 E2108930 STAND-BY EMS 168 W BOSTON POST RD MAMARONECK_V : @STT HOMAS EPISCOPALC HURCH MAMARONECK_V “‘VACCINE STANDBY UNTIL APPROX 1300HRS’
4. 2021-05-20 09:07:15.000 E2115997 STAND-BY EMS 950 PALMER A MAMARONECK_V: @MAMARONECK HIGH SCHOOL-PALMER AVE MAMARONECK_V “‘EMS STAND-BY FOR VACCINE CLINIC
5. 2021-05-20 14:09:41.000 E2116032 ALS 950 PALMER AVE MAMAR @MAMARONECK HIGH SCHOOL-PALMER AVE SIDE MAMARONEC _V “‘EMS STANDBY FOR VACCINE CLINIC
Are you kidding me? Employees at vaccine clinics in Westchester County, as early as Feb 21, 2021, were calling EMS “to be on standby?” For “vaccine detail?” One caller informed EMS dispatch that they “will be administering vaccines to 220 people today?” Note they did that as early as February 21, 2021. That is how fast some front-line workers knew how dangerous the vaccines were.
Also note how, on 5/20/21, two calls from the Mamaroneck High School clinic asked for ambulances to be on standby, the first call was made at 9:07 AM and a later one was made at 2:09 PM. For a “safe and effective” vaccine?
Again, calls with requests of this nature were being made from clinics in New Rochelle, Sleepy Hollow, and two different ones in Mamaroneck? If I was living in Westchester County at the time, I damn well would have wanted to know these calls were being made (as an aside, I lived in that county from 2008-2015 and still have lots of friends with children there).
https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/new-foiaed-data-reveal-ny-vaccine
Booster Time — Prepare for a Deluge of Damaged MOREONS hahahahahahaahahahahahaha
“Employees at vaccine clinics in Westchester County, as early as Feb 21, 2021, were calling EMS “to be on standby?” For “vaccine detail?” ”
This is a smoking gun. Clearly someone knew that there were likely to be a lot of injuries with the covid vaccines.
Gail, have you noticed that the world’s masters are honest? All you have to do is read THEIR writings.
Of course, if you are an NPC you will read the MSM and believe whatever they say even as it changes from day to day (“we were always at war with Eastasia”).
That’s why I keep nagging you when you repeat MSM. Just read what the govt is saying. Like the stupidity about Taiwan that you repeated – US govt and think tanks never hid the fact that they NEED to control Taiwan as part of their global empire.
>> This is a smoking gun
This is just someone making claims on the internet. We don’t know if it’s true or not.
Um, that person relaying those claims just happens to be one of the top cardiologist in the world.
It is a prominent physician … with a reputation … and he has given very specific details .. exposing him to anyone who has access to this data…
We also have seen major increases in deaths and injuries post vax and loads of excess ambulance call outs.
I give Kory A+ Excellent work
Sage thinks he is part of the op. He was pumping the story (now known to be a lie) that hospitals were overwhelmed, we needed a bazillion vents, and all the patients were dying of covid. ‘member?
https://open.substack.com/pub/sagehana/p/i-have-a-terrible-feeling-in-my-gut
https://open.substack.com/pub/sagehana/p/were-at-war
But he has such an honest demeanor!
And a kind face!
I prefer to assume the Pierre Kory was deceived initially, as a lot of good people were, by reports that later turned out to have been fabricated.
Sage is not one for giving people the benefit of the doubt. He would make a first-class prosecutor at the forthcoming Nuremberg II Genocide Trials (to be held as soon as kind sensible decent people rule the world—please wake me up when that happens).
But a lot of people who initially pushed or recommended the jabs will get off if they have competent defense attorneys.
Still, I am glad that Sage is on the case, examining the record of who said what and when, because most of us have not been paying attention to the history of those who have become prominent in the Movement that is not a Movement.
sage believes oil is abiotic
I showed that to a mate who has myo from the jab and has done 9 hours of online consults with Kory…. his comment was — he comes across as genuine but who knows….
Kory is very clinical – no discussion of the back story on this — but at one point my mate made a comment that indicated this was not an accident and Kory said ‘I see you get it’….
sage believes oil is abiotic
F.E . believes that Laser reflectors magically appeared on the moon!
See https://youtu.be/KpuKu3F0BvY?t=2413
This is a crucial statement
https://youtu.be/4O5dPsu66Kw?t=169
And of course there is this – my all time favourite hahaha (feel free to be a TFI and not see)
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/abj9z/close_up_image_of_the_apollo_11_lunar_module/
This is like trying to ask a toaster to make ice… even if I explain to you how to do it… you will never be able to do it…
F.E . believes that Laser reflectors magically appeared on the moon!
Time, date and mission number!
Otherwise B/S!
And … ambulance call out numbers blasted off hahahahaha
And still .. and still … the TFIs working in the hospitals… continued to inject themselves with Rat Juice….
Remember the clips of the TFIs collapsing in front of others queued for their Death Shots?… the f789ing MOREONS thought nothing of it — they remained in the line — awaiting their chance at Vaxxx Roulette
TFIs …
Oh hey norm keith saw the clips here on OFW… and still … they shot more Rat Juice
hahahahahahahahaahhahahahahahahahaha and we have been to the moon hahahahaaha trust norm
But…but, we were told they were safe and effective. 🤓
Remember this
If the mandatory vaccine policy was imposed and unvaccinated health care workers lost their jobs, the province would have to cancel surgeries and it doesn’t want to do that, she said.
“We’ve got thousands of surgeries that are waiting, not to mention diagnostic procedures, and we know that we’re seeing patients that are more acutely ill,” she said.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-no-vaccine-mandate-for-healthcare-workers-1.6235828
Now why might medical staff walk off the job if forced to inject the SAFE Rat Juice????
What do they know????
What were they seeing?????
Why do hospitals that have mandates have any staff willing to accept the death shot and continue working– TFIs
Further, an article published in the journal Nature reported:
There was an increase of more than 25% in the number of ambulance calls in response to cardiac arrests (CA) and acute coronary syndromes (ACS or “heart attacks”) for young people in the 16–39 age group during the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in Israel (January–May, 2021) compared with the same period of time in prior years (2019 and 2020).
They also found a robust and statistically significant association between the weekly CA and ACS call counts and the rates of 1st and 2nd vaccine doses administered to this age group. Note they found no observed statistically significant association between COVID-19 infection rates and the CA and ACS call counts.
They report that their findings aligned with previous studies showing that increases in overall CA incidence were not always associated with higher COVID-19 infection rates at a population level, and that the stability of hospitalization rates related to myocardial infarction throughout the initial COVID-19 wave compared to pre-pandemic baselines in Israel.
Their findings above also mirrored reports of increased emergency department visits with cardiovascular complaints during the vaccination rollout in Germany as well as increased EMS calls for cardiac incidents in Scotland.
https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/new-foiaed-data-reveal-ny-vaccine
For instance, we already know from ICAN and Aaron Siri’s FOIA request of the CDC’s V-Safe data that 7.9% of all 10.1 million vaccine recipients reported requiring medical care to treat a vaccine adverse effect. Of those requiring medical care, almost 11% (8,700 people) visited the emergency room or hospital. How many travelled for this high level of urgent /emergent care by ambulance is unknown, but historically, about 15% of ER patients arrive by ambulance, so this would come out to about 1,300 patients among a population of 10 million vaccinated.
https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/new-foiaed-data-reveal-ny-vaccine
EEEEEE AWWWWW
A sad state of affairs.
No, it’s not. Gaza genocide or Ukraine slaughter is a “sad state of affairs”.
Giving the willing slaves a CHOICE to commit suicide is the best that we can have in this evil, corrupt world.
And to think that most slaves (including your husband) would choose death over losing their job – now that’s commitment to their masters!
AGREE!
Ukraine and Gaza are the issue and soon Iran.
TPTB have show they can murder in many ways and no one objects.
I hope Taiwan and China are smart enough not to fall for the sui cide offer from the west.
Recent FOIA-obtained data from the Department of Emergency Services in Westchester, NY reveal a shocking number of vaccine emergency calls as well as requests for ambulances to be “on standby.”
Right before the recent Christmas holiday, I received a call from a friend and colleague named Louis Conte regarding a “contact” of his with knowledge of the inner workings of Emergency Medical Services in Westchester County, New York.
Louis’s contact had been monitoring EMS dispatches in Westchester County and saw, subsequent to the jab rollout in early 2021, what he felt was a frightening number of calls from vaccine clinics or homes where general or specific “vaccine reactions” were cited as the cause of the need for an ambulance.
https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/new-foiaed-data-reveal-ny-vaccine
EEEEEE AWWWWW
True https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/the-propaganda-for-vaccines-vaccines
F789 all Vaxxines
V-AIDS
Springfield, MO – Josie Orellana, a volleyball player at Ozark High School, passed away in recent days after complications from her cancer treatment, her family shared on social media. The beloved 16-year-old [above right] had been fighting acute myeloid leukemia — otherwise known as AML — since June 2022. Her family posted that she passed after complications from her bone marrow transplant and that she was surrounded by love and fought bravely until the very end.
Johnson City, Tenn. – On December 3rd, 16-year-old Xander Pierce passed away following a battle with cancer. Pierce was a joy to know, and an inspiration to those who knew him. “He really kept incredible faith and was very inspiring to others and very caring for others,” said Jason Pierce, Xander’s father. Xander was diagnosed with Fibrolamellar Carcinoma. This is a form of liver cancer that only occurs in one in five million people, according to the National Cancer Institute.
Cherry Hill, NJ – Cole Fitzgerald beat cancer as a toddler, then went on to accomplishments in the classroom, in youth sports and in efforts to defeat the disease. But the 19-year-old, who was known as “Fightin’ Fitzgerald,” was diagnosed with a different cancer 18 months ago. And this time, the illness prevailed. Fitzgerald, a 2022 graduate of Washington Township High School, died at his home on Dec. 15, according to an obituary. Among his accomplishments, Fitzgerald defied disabilities to serve as a student assistant coach for Washington Township Youth Football and a four-year student coaching assistant at Washington Township High School.
Las Vegas, Nev. – A Clark County spokesperson reported that CCFD Deputy Fire Chief Warren Whitney, 53, has died. According to a media release, Whitney died on Monday night due to complications from an illness. He joined the department in 1995 and served as a firefighter, engineer, captain, and deputy fire chief. Whitney was a long-time paramedic and served on the county’s technical rescue team. He worked as a suppression captain and as a captain in charge of the training division.
Ok.. enough of that … I’m bored. The banality of vax deaths
https://www.amazon.com/Eichmann-Jerusalem-Banality-Penguin-Classics/dp/0143039881/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=banality+of+evil&qid=1703747903&sr=8-1
Yes, great evil can be simple following orders, just banal.
I would suggest they are not evil… they are doing good:
In a roundtable interview Inverse participated in, Cusack said the question was inspired by former U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, who played a huge role in the Vietnam War.
“The question was, ‘How much evil do you have to do to do good?’ People genuinely thought we were doing good carpet-bombing Cambodia. You know, we gotta do it to stop communism,” Cusack says. “I was talking to Gillian [and said], ‘We need to put this in.’ And so we did.”
Cusack says the question defines Kevin Christie as someone who believes the ends justifies every means, and that they are the only ones to take up that responsibility. And it’s a personality type that Cusack fears.
“If people are recognizing existential threats, somebody is going to have to make moral choices that entail a lot of people suffering and dying for the greater good,” he says. “Christie is someone facing [those] global threats, of global warming and food and water shortages, and he is taking on the moral questions. He’s one of those creatures of pure will. You see examples of it in the culture. People who change the world for the better, sometimes they are sociopaths.”
https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/john-cusack-amazon-utopia-question
And VAIDS
Former NFL player Mike Williams died from a rare form of bacterial sepsis related to his dental health problems, according to a medical examiner’s report released Friday. Williams, 36, a wide receiver who played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Buffalo Bills, died on Sept. 12 after he was removed from life support in a hospice at a Florida hospital. He’d been hospitalized since suffering workplace injuries in August while working as an electrician, the Tampa Bay Times reports . The cause of Williams’ cause of death was “bacterial sepsis with cerebral abscesses and necrotizing lobar pneumonia due to multiple dental caries and retained dental roots,” according to a preliminary report released Friday by the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner’s Office. The report also cited cardiovascular disease as a contributing factor in his death, which the medical examiner listed as ‘natural.’ This is the first time that this type of dental sepsis has led to a death in Hillsborough County, the Tampa Bay Times reports, citing a department spokesperson.
Link
Williams’ family was “shocked”:
The family of former NFL wide receiver Mike Williams is reportedly “shocked” by his cause of death.
And Damar Hamlin has yet to play for the Buffalo Bills since collapsing and going into cardiac arrest. Of course it had NOTHING to do with the CV19 jab.
Bronny James won’t play again. Just like all those footballers
He actually did play for 17 minutes. That surprised me given the risks involved.
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39085467/bronny-james-lebron-james-usc-debut-highlights
Damar has played a few minutes as well…
I hope Bronny has a second .. massive heart attack.
That would be Huge SCHAD
This happens… when you have VAIDS
Wisconsin – Walt McGrory, a guard for the Wisconsin men’s basketball team from 2017-21, has died after a battle with bone cancer. He was 24. A message posted Monday on McGrory’s Instagram account announced that he had died Saturday. McGrory appeared in 37 games off the bench over four seasons at Wisconsin and was part of the 2019-20 team that won a share of the Big Ten regular-season title. McGrory announced plans to transfer to South Dakota in April 2021 but was diagnosed with osteosarcoma later that year. McGrory had detailed his battle with cancer through frequent updates on social media.
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-afe
Neel Nanda, a stand-up comedian perhaps best known for his appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Comedy Central’s Adam Devine’s House Party, has died, his manager Greg Weiss confirmed to Deadline. The cause of death is not immediately known. He was 32. “I [am] deeply shocked and saddened by this. He was a wonderful comic, but a better person,” Weiss said in a statement. “He had the world in front of him,” Weiss added, noting he was fully booked with appearances throughout January and February.
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-9d6
https://watcher.guru/news/brics-130-nations-move-toward-cbdc-us-dollar-at-risk
BRICS: 130 Nations Move Toward CBDC, US Dollar at Risk
Amid the greater de-dollarization plan for the BRICS bloc, and overall digitization of finance, 130 nations are all moving toward a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) which could leave the US dollar at risk. Subsequently, the BRICS currency, which is likely to be announced in the coming year, could only add to the international pressure facing the greenback.
Reports from the summer confirmed the plethora of nations that are in “advanced phases” of CBDC development. Moreover, a survey from the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) states that 41% of Central Banks expect a CBDC to be fully operational by the year 2028. So, what does that mean for the United States dollar?
Throughout 2023, the showdown between the BRICS alliance and the US dollar dominated headlines. Indeed, the former had set off massive geopolitical implications with its various de-dollarization plans. However, the projects of the BRICS alliance may not be all that the Western-based currency has to fear.
Specifically, research shows that amid BRICS action, 130 nations are moving toward a CBDC, putting the US dollar at risk. Moreover, this development arrives alongside the continued work on a BRICS currency project. Many have pondered whether or not that could also be a digital asset used unilaterally.
Additionally, a recent OMFIF survey shows that 41% of Central Banks are expecting a fully operation CBDC in four years. That could fast-track the overall prevalence of these digital currencies on a global scale. Therefore, countries around the world could opt for greater local currency use, moving away from the US dollar to an even greater degree.
To date, more than 11 nations have already launched their own CBDC pilots. Moreover, the digital yuan saw tremendous success earlier this year. As the popularity of similar currency options grows, the dollar’s reign within international settlements could certainly be threatened.
There is no denying that 2024 presents a very important year for the US dollar. The global south does not seem prepared to halt its de-dollarization plans anytime soon. Moreover, as US allies such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE adopt these endeavors, the currency could face irreparable harm.
The two big questions seem to be:
1. How soon will the US dollar get into trouble from debt defaults, too much money printing, and other related problems?
2. When will the BRICS be able to take over with its currency, at least for its portion of the world?
Ideally, the BRICS currency would be ready to take over before the US dollar gets into too much trouble.
Of course, the West has been working on a digital currency, for allocating whatever goods happen to be available in the countries participating in this scheme–probably quite a few, which are not part of BRICS. The problem will be keeping electricity operating, to make the system work, I expect. Also, not many goods available to trade.
Has anyone examined the debt situation of the BRICS members hahahahaha…
Last I looked China had a property black hole 7x worse than the US subprime blow up…
well unintelligent ego-centric populations do that, nash equilibra for defecting because of malthusian selection because of non-homogenization which decreased affinity for unity, due to la raids x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 in past; hub dub mub i go invest a piece of rock that decays and is owned by gov for 99 years, and hub dub everyone also does that because hub dub government inflated currency away because hub dub mah economic superpower trade genius and economic repression for population repression because hub dub im too stoopid pre-built ghost cities and squandering resources repeated ad infinitum means a bajillion claims on resources that don’t exist because my time-reference is now because of lack of associative reasoning or verbal fluency because hub dub authority emperor selection squashing out verbal g or political ideational factor of overruling, so strong spatial tilt only
The real problem will turn out to be getting people to perform actual, productive work in exchange for fake, digital “money” that has invisible government strings attached.
I am rather sure that this will rather quickly end up in a “We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us” scenario.
Work is not optional for most people.
The Venezuela of the Pacific, sad corrupt new zealand, is collapsing apace. As inflation bites and none but the wealthy can afford food, posses of young people are fighting back in order to feed their parents:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/301031672/nz-news-live-five-boys-interrupted-during-alleged-burglary-of-auckland-home
In this case the posse was 11-13 year olds.
As one weeps for this dying lanf, one can only be inspired by these young members of the resistance.
Even in this vicious moral desert some flowers still bloom
Its not all bad in New Zealand.
It mostly is bad though
I actually enjoy the raging inflation … it’s a symptom of a dying world
Gail, I’ve been hearing friends/colleagues rave about the US’s “massive renewables buildup” and couldn’t help but wonder how much of it is actually about wind/solar production. Could it be a shadow re-military-industrialisation with a woke smiley face like pretty much everything this admin does.
Must be a huge increase in fables on bbccnn telling them to think that…
As we know it’s all fake… these people are TFIs … ignore them
Yep, the only thing that’s real is the huge number of cannon shells and cannon barrel they are producing right now, using the highest quality steel, produced abundantly in the US. It is well known that a land power like the USA prioritizes things like shells. Everything else is fake.
The US is the world leader in producing high quality military equipment … they have a budget that is bigger than all other countries combined.!!!
“The US is the world leader in producing high quality military equipment”
Do you say that because that’s what you are paid to say, or are you so subsumed in the propaganda that you believe every word?
Show me their high quality hypersonic missiles, or any kind of hypersonic missile that works.
“they have a budget that is bigger than all other countries combined.!!!”
Yeah, all that money and they have air defence systems, that a decades old Scud can defeat and a not fit for purpose aircraft(rebranded Yak 141) that cost about 10x the amount of a superior SU57, whilst also struggling to stay in the air. They are now trying to replenish artillery stocks, but for some reason, that’s going to take 5 years and needs lots of foreign countries to supply the needed materials(steel maybe?).
Shouldn’t you be asking, WTF have you done with all that money?
All that made up money and what do you get, nothing of any real substance, as soon as you have to do any more than murder wedding parties and children playing football.
You do have some impressively large floating(for now) coffins. So that’s something, until it’s not.
They said they were going to give the Houthis a good beating, but all I hear is silence and the Houthis keep doing what they said they would. No one is stopping them.
Maybe Bibbi the Butcher’s men are having better luck and much like the Yankees, they know the safe target.
https://t.me/QudsNen/91889
Your oh so expensive equipment doesn’t appear to be very good against men.
https://youtu.be/rCkOnTeBezM?feature=shared
That’s why the Butcher has offered a ceasefire, but Hamas have refused and China have now made it all but impossible for the illegal encampment to import anything that may have a duel military use.
It’s all falling apart(as planned).
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/Economy/israeli-war-budget-falls–20bln-short–spurs-closure-of-10-m
Stick to mutations of make believe and pointing the finger over there.
well, he also believes in “markets”, “freedom, “60 millions” and other imaginary things. At least he does not believe in “9/11”, “Moon landings”. You have got to take the bad with the good.
Good points!
Last I looked… the Elders were still running the world….
“Hey – after the UKEYS fired all the US ammo stockpiles at Russia…”
When did this happen?
They’ve been unsuccessfully firing it all into their own soil.
No matter how many times you churn up a field, it just looks like the same churned up field.
It’s a fair argument for them being true westerners I suppose.
Lots of shine, little substance, abundant waste.
Look on the bright side, as the conventional starts to run out and it is, they’ve either got to go big, or turn tail(déjà vu?) and if was too happen on 9th February and if it’s also a Friday, that’d just be perfect🤯
https://youtu.be/SXmk8dbFv_o?feature=shared
test
It’s a new method of tilling the soil!!! I get it!!!! hahahahahaha
I assume you are being sarcastic. The US has two massive oceans and a big Navy. It also has ICBMs and long range bombers to deliver nuclear warheads, 300KT and up. The US is not a land power.
yes. The US is an extreme maritime power.
drb , is it ? Maybe a dinosaur . Read the comments section also .
https://www.oilystuff.com/forumstuff/forum-stuff/the-us-navy-is-a-dinosaur
used to be? for the time being they are patrolling the red sea. it is going the way you say but not fast enough that China can invade Taiwan. The real and still present strength is under water.
https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/6483.jpeg
The “massive renewables buildup” has basically been getting us nowhere with respect to producing more electricity. The crazy pricing scheme pushes other producers (particularly nuclear and coal) off of the grid, leaving pretty much the same amount of electricity produced.
The recent push for plants to build EVs and batteries for these cars does, in fact, require huge amounts of electricity. The primary way such electricity can be produced seems to be by adding fossil fuel-powered plants. Georgia is a state running into difficulty, with new EV and battery plants. https://www.wrdw.com/2023/10/28/georgias-largest-utility-looks-natural-gas-it-says-it-needs-generate-more-electricity-soon/
https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/coal/ev-battery-factory-in-kansas-to-be-powered-by-coal-at-least-temporarily/
The US has just about enough energy to still power suburban American consumerism but not enough to also power new industries.
Could it be a shadow re-military-industrialisation with a woke smiley face like pretty much everything this admin does.
There is no such thing as ‘reindustrialisation’. There is only industrialisation followed by deindustrialisation. You can’t put coal back in the mines.
You can (with federal subsidization) put lignite into the farmlands. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720313644
The world in 2024 will look like what France was in early 1814, as I have predicted.
The most decisive battle of the 21st century was the Summer Offensive the Ukrainians took this year, defeated by the Surovikin line.
The unraveling has started and it won’t be pretty.
Some people still think there are some fight remaining on the Western side. Maybe, maybe not. I won’t judge.
But the main show is over. Civilization will regress to what Leningrad was back in 1990.
Don’t know why a clip posted by someone else get stuck here. This is the clip I wanted
https://youtu.be/bOLtxHyWvGw?si=qmHt6pasod-tpx5B
Any world without smartphones is a good one.
predictions? you want predictions?
the world in December 2024 will look very similar to what it looks like now.
the smaller weaker Periphery countries might be a bit weaker.
The Core will largely remain intact with 12 more months of bAU.
though a country or two may find itself falling out of The Core.
I am curious about your comments david-across-time. You are often interesting & amusing. Though lately you seem increasingly irascible with blog “dooming” (especially toward the end days of an entry). If life will be mostly the same a year from now, why do you bother with us? Meanwhile, I do hope you’re right about December 2024.
because I care!
I·ras·ci·ble
/iˈrasəbəl/
adjective
1.
having or showing a tendency to be easily angered:
“an irascible man”
true, I’ve had some personal difficulties in the past 13 months, which has been reflected in comments.
but, leaving aside personal feelings, what I see is a slooooow decline where there is little change from one year to the next, though I could be wrong.
I hope to be much more optimistic in 2024.
I don’t think of you as angry so I def picked the wrong word. Next time I will consultant my dictionary first. (Though I see you weren’t bothered by interesting & amusing.) As far as optimistic —not why I read OFW. I will continue to enjoy your view of slo-mo.
it’s amusing to stir the pot and counter the doomy side with some realistic optimism.
my spelling is slooooooow-mo. 😉
Ukraine update from the lads.
No big surprises: Russians doing well; Ukrainians not doing well.
West keeps escalating, and Russia adapts. The process runs down supplies of the West.
I am keen to see what UKEY did with all that ammo that the US sent to them … so much that they emptied the stockpiles…
Surely they must have destroyed a few Russian cities? Any shots of rubble scenery?
No Ukraine send artillery on to trees and trenches with the hope of hitting a tank or person. Basically, one million artillery shells to kill 50,000 Russians. So 20 shells to kill one Russian. As the dual citizen neocons say a bargain. So, about $200,000 per dead Russian. where the heck did the other 90 billion dollars go?
I am only a few chapters into this… it describes the circumstances of the working classes across many countries during this period — in one instance it is estimated that 60% or more of the population was barely able to feed itself… horrible filthy living conditions…
And I am thinking … it was not vaccines that delivered them from disease rather it was the harnessing of energy… which resulted in more and better quality food… better sanitation and living conditions… less harsh work environments… better pay … medicines.. health care … better ‘terrain’ able to fight off diseases etc…
And I am thinking … once again… F789 ALL VACCINES … they are useless toxic garbage.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Revolutionary-Spring-Audiobook/B0BMB1ZCZC
This book describes the 1848-49 period. Any time before a revolution must be dreadfully awful.
“Breaking: 30 more countries apply to join the BRICS
” … In essence, the BRICS’ expansion is more than just an increase in numbers; it’s a statement of intent and a challenge to the existing global economic order. As more countries express their desire to join this emerging economic powerhouse, the world watches with keen interest to see how this will reshape the future of global economics. The BRICS, once seen as an alternative economic forum, is rapidly evolving into a formidable force in global trade and economic governance.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/breaking-30-more-countries-apply-to-join-the-brics/ar-AA1m4a2d?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDGEDB&cvid=7be9eb0f392748aab3172546539363ef&ei=9
How has the US gotten away with so much money-printing, except with its reserve-currency status?
How do interest payments spike (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Federal_interest_payments_2023.webp)?
We will see how this all works out.
unfortunately
all those nations are certain they have a money problem, and nothing is going to change that—they have consulted the best economists in the world—they could not possibly be wrong.
except of course, what they have is an energy problem.
and nothing is going to change that either—for real
sort of concur with Norman. They are going to get rid of US usury, perhaps a 10% boost to GDP. They are not making up any energy shortfall.
More like a 2000-3000% boost in real terms, to be fair. That’s assuming there is an actual de-linking and a ultra-Bandung type arrangement where these countries cooperate with each other a la Warsaw Pact/EU (which isn’t likely). The energy limits remain no matter what but what is possible within them expands to a great degree.
In any case, the north-south dependency of resources not producible or insufficiently producible in the north runs deeper (and further back in time) than even these so-called anti-imperialist sjw crybabies like to proclaim in order to feel puritanically self-righteous about themselves.
It would be nice if you were right but I think you are wildly overestimating the financial effects. It is usury like, 10% a year, no more. I do agree that there will be growth sectors in the BRICS areas for maybe ten years.
Fake.
The world is trapped in it’s marriage to the Elders… 33 trillion dollar wedding ring… they default – the world ends.
And then of course there is the fact that we are into deep depletion on energy and collapse is baked in
You folks are so easily played — are you unable to question? To think? Before you just blurt out what cnnbbc tell you to think?
Looks like some will default first and those who do that earlier might survive.
The world will end, there is no escape of it, but some parts of it might survive
There are no parts of the world that grow food without petro chems… everyone will starve… then there’s the cancer from the ponds
Maybe some parts of central Africa grow food without metro chemicals–I don’t know. But there certainly isn’t much. It makes a worrisome situation.
I hope to live to watch just how fast “agriculture” collapses in western canuckistan without petrochemicals.
Without fertilizer alone yields would fall 80% in the first year…..
without “pest control”…..virtually 100%
That is an honest assessment.
Without diesel…. without spare parts….
Something that has not been touched upon … consider all the diseases that we have kept at bay with antibiotics and other control measures… malaria is not gone…cholera is not gone….
Remove the drugs… remove the sanitation and clean water… remove the nourishing food … remove all medical care…. and you will have a Perfect Storm…. anyone who is able to survive will be in a severely weakened state… and these diseases are going to rip through them…
Who needs spent fuel ponds.
I hope to live to watch just how fast “agriculture” collapses in western canuckistan without petrochemicals.
And watch the permaculturalists discover that they can’t in fact live for a year on some rocket leaves and tomatoes from their back yard.
Permies are another flavour of TFI
malaria is not gone…cholera is not gone….
Cholera, typhoid, dysentery and many others will be making a comeback on a scale never before seen.
The rats will feast in the dead cities.
The Fall of Civilizations podcast.
1. Roman Britain – The Work of Giants Crumbled
A vast ruined bath house, a fire-damaged poem and a world teetering on the brink of collapse.
In this episode, we look at the collapse of Roman Britain. Find out how a great civilization grew up almost overnight on the island of Britannia, how it endured the test of centuries against barbarian invasions and foolish rulers, and what happened after its final dramatic collapse.
There was a total collapse of civilization in Britain when the Romans left. London was deserted, scavenged for iron nails and stripped of wood for fires. Writing also seems to have been lost as there is no evidence of its continuation.
> …. By the end of the 4th century everything south of the River Thames had been abandoned. Large pockets of London’s urban fabric turned into patches of overgrown wasteland and people began to grow wheat in the middle of the city.
By the end of the fifth century London was deserted. It was now an uninhabited ruin, a city of ghosts sinking into the marsh and mud of the river. London was deserted. We can imagine ivy growing over its crumbling walls and elder to young trees pushing their roots between the bricks and stones of its buildings.
The only people left in London was scavengers. They came to find things like iron nails which could be recycled. The forests around London would also have been cut down and so the only source of usable timber would have been that left in the decaying city, so little by little people tore London apart. It wasn’t only London that fell into ruins.
In cities like Bath urban life continued in some form after the departure of Rome. While it’s great temples crumbled and grand public buildings fell into disrepair, its city authorities still managed basic repairs like recobbling the streets, but without their links to the Roman economy the slow death of Britain’s cities was all but assured.
By the early fifth century all of Britain’s towns large and small simply ceased to exist. The City of York where once the Emperor Constantine the Great had been crowned now stood empty and in ruins, slowly reclaimed by the seasonal floods of the river.
The incoming Saxon people were obviously impressed by the ruins of Roman cities but also seemed to have feared them as places of ghosts and curses. They rarely came near to the ruins and built their settlements far away from them. At some sites there is some evidence that the wells of the decaying city were filled in to prevent people from returning. Ritual objects were also left behind perhaps to ward off the curse that was believed to hang over these crumbling stones.
It’s no coincidence that tales of giants form such a prominent part of British folklore. To see why you just have to imagine the mighty temples and public buildings that were left behind in the wake of Roman rule. To people who no longer knew how to build these things, these crumbling walls, these awesome constructions of bygone centuries must have seemed the work of a race of gods who had once walked England’s rolling fields and ancient primeval forests….
Interesting!
The incoming Saxon people were obviously impressed by the ruins of Roman cities but also seemed to have feared them as places of ghosts and curses. They rarely came near to the ruins and built their settlements far away from them.
They had to build far away from them because the farmland surrounding former Roman settlements was exhausted and the localities would also have been deforested.
Hey – after the UKEYS fired all the US ammo stockpiles at Russia… shouldn’t Russia look like this?
Just askin… cuz logic demands it
https://youtu.be/bItsSjLHL6M
Singapore govt giving out money to fight inflation
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/cash-payment-200-800-december-assurance-package-3921351
Wow.. we are living in a clown world or in a simulation
Won’t this contribute to more inflation hahahahaha… but hey – the optics are good cuz the TFIs don’t understand this …
This is a microcosm of the problems that all CBs are now facing….