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It will be an interesting year.
We know that the age of peak performance for humans varies, depending upon the activity. Peak performance for an athlete tends to come between ages 20 and 30, while peak performance for a person writing academic papers seems to come between ages 40 and 50 years. By the time people are 80 years old, they have a strong suspicion that health and other aspects of performance will deteriorate in the next 20 years.
Economies, in physics terms, are similar to human beings. Both are dissipative structures. They require energy of the appropriate kinds to keep their systems growing and operating normally. For humans, the main source of this energy is food. For an economy, it is a mixture of energy that the economy is specifically adapted to. Today’s economy requires a certain mixture of energy directly from the sun, plus energy from fossil fuels, burned biomass, and nuclear energy. Electricity is a carrier of energy from different sources. It needs to be available at the right time of day and the right time of year to allow today’s economy to continue.
Most people don’t realize that economies grow and eventually collapse. For example, we know that the Roman Empire started its growth in 625 BCE and reached its peak extent in 211 CE. It declined somewhat between 211 CE and 456 CE, when it finally collapsed after several invasions. The growth and collapse of economies is very much expected because of their nature as dissipative structures.
In 2024, the world economy is acting more and more like an 80-year-old man than like a young vigorous economy. Perhaps the economy can continue for quite a few more years, but it increasingly looks like it is in danger of falling apart, or of succumbing as a result of what might be regarded as minor problems.
Trying to predict precisely what will happen in the year 2024 is difficult, but in this post, I will examine some of the things that are going wrong in this increasingly creaky old economy.
[1] Too many parts of the world economy are changing from growth to shrinkage.
The blue circles can illustrate many different things:
- The total goods and services produced by the economy;
- The quantity of energy required to produce the total goods and service produced by the economy;
- The total population that is supported by these goods and services (which will generally be rising or falling, too);
- Goods and services per person (which tend to rise during periods of growth and fall in a shrinking economy);
- And, strangely enough, the ability of the economy to maintain complexity. Without enough energy, structures such as governments tend to fail.
As the economy moves away from growth, toward shrinkage, major changes can be expected.
[2] In a growing economy, repaying debt with interest is very easy. In a shrinking economy, repaying debt with interest becomes close to impossible.
If an economy is growing, there will likely be an increasing number of jobs available over time, and they will pay relatively more. If a person loses his/her job, it is not very difficult to get a position that will pay as much or more. Paying back a loan on a house or an automobile tends to be easy.
A corresponding situation occurs for businesses. If the business can count on an increasing number of customers, overhead becomes easier and easier to cover with a growing consumer base.
The reverse is obviously true in a shrinking economy. Jobs may be available if a person loses his/her current job, but the jobs don’t pay very well. Businesses may face periods with suddenly lower demand, as in 2020. There is a sudden need to reduce overhead, such as payments for office space, if the space is no longer being utilized by employees.
Clearly, if interest rates rise, it becomes increasingly difficult for borrowers of all kinds to repay debt with interest. Raising interest rates is thus a way to intentionally slow the economy. If the economy is growing too quickly (like a 20-year-old sprinter), then such a change makes sense. But if the economy is behaving like an 80-year-old, hobbling along on a walking stick, it becomes likely the economy will figuratively fall and become severely injured. This is the danger of raising interest rates when the world economy is having difficulty growing at an adequate rate.
[3] The physics of the system dictates that as the system shifts in the direction of shrinkage, the wealth of the system is increasingly distributed toward the rich and very powerful, and away from those of modest means.
Physicist Francois Roddier writes about this issue in his book, The Thermodynamics of Evolution. He likens energy (and the goods and services produced using this energy) as being like energy applied to water. When energy levels are low, the less wealthy members of the economy tend to be squeezed out, just as (low energy) frozen water turns to ice. The reduced amount of energy available (and goods and services produced using this energy) increasingly bubbles up to the small number of economic participants at the top of the economic hierarchy. This issue tends to make the already rich even richer.
In some sense, the self-organizing economy seems to preserve as much of the economy as it can, when energy supplies are inadequate. The wealthy seem to be important for keeping the whole system operating, so the physics tends to favor them.
Inflation, in general, is a problem, especially for people with limited income. Higher interest rates also take a big “bite” out of spendable income. This problem is greatest for low income people. The benefit of higher interest rates, and of capital gains, tends to go to high income people.
High food prices especially affect the poor because, even in good times, food tends to be a high share of their income. For example, in a poor country, if food costs amount to 50% of a person’s income when food prices are moderate, a 20% increase in food prices will lead to food prices costing 60% of income. Such a situation quickly becomes intolerable because there is not enough income left for other essential goods.
The figure above shows that between 1990 and 2022, the share of total wealth held by the top 1% of US citizens rose from 23% to 32%. This means that other citizens were increasingly squeezed out of the benefits of the growing economy.
[4] With their newfound power (arising from the growing concentration of wealth), the wealthy are tempted to exert increasing control over the economic system.
The fact that the world economy was likely to reach annual limits of fossil fuel extraction about now has been known for a very long time. I have referred to a 1957 speech by US Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover pointing out this bottleneck many times. Wealthy individuals have known about this bottleneck for a very long time. They have been asking themselves, “How can we increasingly benefit from this change?”
Clearly, reducing the population growth rate has been one of the goals of some of these wealthy individuals. With fewer people to share the resources available, everyone will benefit.
But the wealthy can also see that hiding the energy bottleneck would be of huge benefit in keeping the current system operating as usual. These individuals, through the World Economic Forum and other organizations, have pushed for zero global warming emissions. They have tried to reframe the problem of inadequate inexpensive-to-produce fossil fuels as a problem of too large a quantity of fossil fuels for the system to handle. In their view, we can decide to transition away from fossil fuels without significantly adverse impacts.
By hiding the energy bottleneck, companies selling vehicles can claim they will be useful for many years. Educational systems can claim that we are well on our way to finding substitutes for fossil fuels, and that there will be good jobs available in the new systems. With the bottleneck problem hidden, politicians do not have to present citizens with a very concerning and intractable issue. Since a happily-ever-after narrative is desired by all, it is easy for the wealthy (and politicians who want to be reelected) to influence the major news outlets to present only this view to readers.
[5] Major cracks in the economy are likely to start showing soon. The energy bottleneck is already pulling the economy down, even if major news media are reluctant to discuss the problem.
The problem displays itself in several different ways:
(a) The economy has moved toward two widely differing views regarding today’s energy situation.
The narrative presented in the press is that we have an excessive amount of fossil fuels. In this view, any shortage of fossil fuels (or any other resource) would be quickly accompanied by rising prices. These rising prices would allow an increasing quantity of these materials to be extracted, quickly solving the problem. But the real story, for anyone who examines the details, is quite different. Affordability becomes very important, holding prices down. History shows that nearly every civilization has collapsed. Populations tend to grow but the resources supporting the economies don’t grow quickly enough. Rising prices don’t fix the problem!
People who work with fossil fuels know how essential they are for our current civilization. The story about intermittent wind and solar substituting for fossil fuels sounds very far-fetched if a person thinks about the need for heat in the winter and the difficulties associated with long-term storage of electricity. The two widely differing narratives surrounding our energy future sound like they could have come from the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
(b) Repaying debt with interest gets to be an increasing problem.
Strange as it may seem, added debt can temporarily act as a placeholder for additional energy. Debt is a promise for goods and services that will be made with future energy. This placeholder can allow capital goods, such as factories, to be made which allow more goods and services to be made in the future. This placeholder can also be used as the basis for money to pay workers, so that they can afford to purchase more goods.
At some point, the debt becomes too much for the system to sustain. We are seeing some of this in China, where there have been debt defaults in the real estate market. In the US, the commercial real estate market is experiencing high vacancy rates. There is increasing concern that, in many places, commercial real estate can only be sold at a huge loss. In this situation, the holders of debt are likely to sustain massive losses.
(c) Political parties start differing widely on whether to increase government debt.
The more conservative parties do not want to keep adding more debt, but the more liberal parties insist that there is no other way out: If there isn’t enough energy of the right kind, the added debt can perhaps be used to fund projects in the renewable energy sector that will create the illusion of progress toward an adequate supply of energy of the right kind at the right price. The added debt can also be used to continue the many social programs promised to citizens and to provide support for activities such as the war in Ukraine.
So far, adding debt has worked for the US because the US dollar is the world’s reserve currency and because the US has tended to keep its target interest rates high, encouraging other countries to invest in US securities. If other countries try to add substantially more debt, their currencies will tend to fall, leading to inflation.
The US may soon also run into an inflation problem because of added debt. This happens because it is possible to “print money,” but it is not possible to print goods and services made with inexpensive energy products. For example, the temptation is to bail out failing banks and pension plans with added debt. To the extent that this debt gets back into the money supply, but there aren’t added goods to match, the result is likely to be inflation in the prices of the goods and services that are available.
(d) Broken supply lines are another sign of an economy reaching limits.
When there aren’t quite enough goods and services to go around, some would-be buyers of goods have to be left out.
In the last three years, all of us have experienced at least some problems with empty shelves in stores and the unavailability of needed parts for repairs. Many kinds of drugs are in short supply around the world. Heavy industry has been encountering problems, as well. In 2022, Upstream Online wrote, “Drill pipe shortages causing headaches for US producers [of oil and natural gas].”
If we are reaching the limit of inexpensive fossil fuel available for extraction, an increasing number of these problems can be expected. These supply line problems tend to raise costs in a different way than “regular” inflation. Often, a more expensive product must be substituted, or a higher cost workaround is needed. For example, a person may need to use a rental vehicle while his current vehicle is being repaired because of unavailable replacement parts.
(e) Conflicts arise when there are not enough goods and services to go around.
Part of the conflict comes from wage and wealth disparity. For example, an increasing number of people are finding reasonably-priced housing impossible to find. The combination of high interest rates and high housing prices tends to make home-buying a luxury, available only to the rich. An increasing share of young people are also finding automobiles too expensive to afford. One way “not-enough-goods-and-services-to-go-around” manifests itself is by many people not being able to afford the products in question.
There is often a belief that a more equitable distribution of income would solve the problem. But, if the economy cannot build more cars or homes because of energy shortages, this doesn’t fix the problem. Providing more money to the poor would instead cause inflation in the price of the goods that are available.
Another way this conflict manifests itself is in conflicts among countries. Countries selling fossil fuels, such as Russia, would like higher fossil fuel prices, so that the standards of living of their own people can be higher. However, if fossil-fuel-importing countries, such as those in Europe, are forced to pay higher prices for the fossil fuel they use, it becomes difficult for companies in these countries to manufacture goods profitably. Also, the higher fossil fuel prices make the cost of growing food higher. Customers often cannot afford higher food prices.
In the case of the fight between Israel and Gaza, at least part of the conflict relates to the natural gas field that Israel is developing, but which arguably belongs to Gaza. If Israel can develop this resource, it may be able to keep its own economy expanding for a while longer. The people of Gaza will remain very poor.
(f) Manufacturing around the world seems to be reducing in quantity. It definitely is not rising to keep up with population growth.
The big shortfall today is in goods, rather than in services. This is what a person would expect if an energy problem is giving rise to the problems we are currently experiencing.
The organization S&P Global Market Intelligence puts out an index called the Purchasing Managers Index, for 15 countries, including a global average. The manufacturing portion of this index is in contraction on a worldwide basis, as of the latest data available. The extent of this manufacturing contraction is especially significant for the US, the European countries included, for Japan, and for Australia. The countries that are not in contraction are India, Russia, and China.
If manufacturing is in contraction, we would expect more broken supply lines in the months and years ahead.
[6] How will all this turn out, in 2024 and long term?
I don’t think we know. Things are likely to get worse economically, but we don’t know how much worse. We know that an elderly person can easily succumb to some illness. In the same way, we know that if the economy has enough weak points, a major collapse might occur, even without a huge decline in energy availability.
At the same time, the economy seems to have a lot of resilience. Leaders of the US, and perhaps of other countries, as well, seem likely to take the route of adding increasing amounts of debt, to bail themselves out of whatever problems arise. If banks get into trouble, some new funding facility will be developed. If Social Security or private pensions need more funding, it will likely be provided by more government debt. This leads me to suspect that in the US, at least, there is likely to be a higher risk of hyperinflation (lots of money but very little to buy) rather than deflation (very little money, but also very little to buy).
The Universe came into being, apparently out of nothing. The Universe has grown and continues to grow. Eric Chaisson, in his 2001 book, Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature, shows that the trend in the Universe has been toward ever greater complexity.
Together, it appears that the Universe, itself, acts like a dissipative structure. Self-organization leads the Universe to grow and become more complex, as long as it has adequate energy. The question becomes, “Where is the expanding energy supply for the Universe as a whole coming from? Can the expanding energy supply continue indefinitely, or until whatever force started it, chooses to stop it?”
It seems to me that there is something from outside pushing the whole Universe along. Economists talk about “an invisible hand.” People from a religious background might say that there is a God who created the Universe, and is continuing to create it every day, through involvement in the things that take place on Earth, including the strange happenings in 2020.
If I am correct that there is an outside force influencing the economy today, perhaps Earth’s problems are temporary. One possibility is that eventually a new type of energy solution will be found. There is also the possibility that, at some point, whatever force started the Universe may cause the operation of the Universe to cease. A replacement (which we can think of as heaven) might be provided instead.
The popular narrative tends to see ourselves as having a great deal of power to manage problems with our current economy, but I don’t think that we have very much power to influence the system we find ourselves embedded in. The economic system behaves on its own, based on market forces, just a child grows up, matures, and eventually dies. The system within which we live is very much guided by what we call self-organization, which is outside our power to control.
We don’t want to miss the window .. now is the time to Release the Pathogen:
China Stocks Hit Rock Bottom: After $6.3 Trillion Market Loss, Brokers Suspend Short-Selling Amid ‘snowball derivative liquidations’, China’s stock market is falling faster than its population. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-stocks-hit-rock-bottom-after-63-trillion-market-loss-brokers-suspend-short-selling
Ad “5d: Broken supply lines are another sign of an economy reaching limits”
Electrical grids don’t have the capacity to cope with a big shift from combustion-engined cars to EV’s.
If all cars in my street are replaced by EV’s and all gasheaters are replaced by heat-pumps; the electricity consumption will double or triple. And this will happen everywhere in the coming decade….
URGENT: Giving mRNA Covid vaccines to pregnant rats caused brain changes and autism-like behavior in their young, a new study shows
Naturally, the disturbing finding – which was published in a respected, peer-reviewed journal last week – didn’t come from American scientists.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-giving-mrna-covid-vaccines
Why would this be … disturbing?
It’s hilarious – no???
Good https://mishtalk.com/economics/existing-home-sales-drop-to-lowest-full-year-total-since-1995/
Release the Pathogen.
I need to get a bumper sticker for my truck with that slogan… hahaha
Not good for real estate agents or those with redecorating businesses. Also furniture sales.
Also, this does not show up in “employment/unemployment” statistics. Realtors and brokers (and most others in that ecosystem) still have their “jobs” – they just don’t make any money.
The government rollout of EV chargers has been a slow-motion affair, and as you’d expect the reason is politics. The feds are throwing billions of dollars to build charging stations, but they’ve added social-justice and union mandates that make the build-out more complicated than necessary.
https://mishtalk.com/economics/2-billion-in-subsidies-only-2-ev-stations-opened-the-holdup-is-social-justice/
Wrong.
The roll out is slow on purpose .. there is not enough electricity available…
This is all more fakery – they say they want to ban ICE… but they actually do not
Old news .. Montagnier identified this early on https://www.arkmedic.info/p/the-smoking-glove
We have a very bright future, CNBC agrees, the future is in the stars. Affirmation is so much better than information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHVAERH4yzc
TINA. Somewhere Space X is getting more money than most national space programs, if the internet system works, those who boycotted former Twitter will have a fit.
We have a wonderful, self maintaining spaceship, earth. One needs to ignore the occasional temper tantrum in the form of and earthquake or volcanic eruption. I don’t think man has a place in space, too cold, too much radiation, too little gravity but some gravitas, it is serious business after all.
Nothing ever stays the same.
Dennis L.
You base your opinion on informercials. I base my opinion on historical examples.
Some drive through the windshield, some drive through the rear view mirror.
Dennis L.
Including yourself who had to dig up Joseph P Kennedy’s corpse to try to make a point.
Human nature is kinda the same during the time of Caesar and now. Which is why people like me usually win in the end and those who don’t have their foot on the ground usually lose in the end.
This is a machine translation from a Greek article.
NATO reckons that it is going to ‘man up’ and fight Russia.
https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/anatrichiastiki-odigia-tou-nato-stous-ypourgous-amynas-tis-symmachias-oloi-oi-dytikoi-laoi-tha-etoimastoun-gia-genikevmeno-polemo-me-ti-rosia-einai-anapofefktos/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Chilling NATO Directive to Alliance Defense Ministers: ‘War with Russia Inevitable – All Western Peoples to Prepare’ (vid)
Gloomy future of Europe – Terror in Germany, Sweden
German Ministry of Defense document: “Germans to prepare for war with Russia – ‘X-Day’ fast approaching”
The head of the NATO Military Commission, Admiral Rob Bauer, gave a chilling directive for humanity after a meeting of the defense ministers of the alliance countries in Brussels.
“The Western world must be prepared for a total war with Russia,” said Rob Bauer.
Read also: Lightning in the air in Sweden: The political and military leadership called on the people to prepare for war – Gotland is a target of Russia!
NATO now considers that 100% war with Russia is coming after the apparent collapse of the Ukrainian Army.
We remind you that there have been previous warnings by the German Ministry of Defense and the German government, while recently the military and political leadership of Sweden called on the people to prepare for war with Russia.
When even the most moderate international media, such as Britain’s Telegraph newspaper, Germany’s Der Taggespiegel and Politico directly warn of an all-out war between Russia and NATO, then the word “shock” is subordinate to what may await Europe. , which, although it has spent the last decades in peace, sees its future… once again set to be grim.
First there was the Bild report, which talked about war in the summer of 2025, only to have German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius come again today Friday 19/1 to claim – citing experts – that a war with Russia could break out in in the next 5 to 8 years, stating that Germany should prepare for such a scenario.
Read also: German Ministry of Defense document: “Germans to prepare for war with Russia – We are fast approaching ‘X-Day'”
Chairman of NATO’s military committee Admiral Rob Bauer said that although NATO and member governments are preparing themselves for conflict with Vladimir Putin’s regime, civilians must realize that they also have a role to play. https://t.co/yhx92ZLSEN pic.twitter.com/6UAnmWkKEi
— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 19, 2024
“The West should prepare for war with Russia”
“The Western world must be prepared for an all-out war with Russia within the next 20 years,” said Rob Bauer.
Prepare the citizens
Bauer called on the citizens of the West to prepare for total war.
“Although the armed forces are prepared for the outbreak of such a war, the citizens must also be prepared for a conflict that would require a radical change in their lives.
Large numbers of civilians will have to be mobilized if war breaks out and governments will have to put in place systems to manage the process,” Bauer said after a meeting of NATO defense chiefs in Brussels, as reported by the British newspaper The Telegraph.
Peace is not a given
“We must realize that peace is not a given.
And that is why we, NATO forces are preparing for a conflict with Russia.
But the discussion is much broader.
The industrial base also needs to, but also that people need to understand that they have a role to play,” said Bauer, who heads NATO’s Military Commission.
“You need to have water in the house, a battery-powered radio and a battery-powered flashlight. So you can survive the first 36 hours.” Bauer, NATO’s highest military officer said this during a press conference after a two-day meeting of NATO’s military committee at its… pic.twitter.com/MA1yOWhyiX
— Yasmina (@yasminalombaert) January 19, 2024
Kudos to Sweden
In fact, Bauer praised Sweden, which asked all its citizens to prepare for war before the country officially joined NATO.
Stockholm’s move, announced earlier this month, has reportedly led to an increase in volunteers for the country’s civil defense organization and an increase in sales of torches and battery-powered radios.
“That’s where it starts.
The realization that not everything is planned and not everything will be like this in the next 20 years,” Bauer pointed out.
Rehearsal… the Steadfast Defender 2024 exercise
It is noted that next week the largest NATO military exercise since the end of the Cold War is expected to begin, with the participation of more than 90,000 NATO soldiers.
This is the Steadfast Defender 2024 exercise, which has more than doubled in size since it was announced last year and is expressly designed to prepare the alliance for a Russian invasion.
Britain has committed around 20,000 troops, as well as tanks, artillery and fighter jets to the exercises which will take place across Europe until May.
Weak weapons production is problematic
Even so, senior NATO officials are increasingly concerned that governments and private arms manufacturers are falling behind in… war preparations.
Western arms and ammunition stocks have been depleted by the conflict in Ukraine and will take years to replenish at the current rate of production.
Meanwhile, Russia has tripled its military spending to 40% of the total national budget while drastically speeding up its production lines.
“We have to be more ready across the spectrum.
We need to have a system in place to find more people if it comes to war, whether it happens or not.
Then we talk about conscription, reserves or conscription.
We need to be able to get back to an industrial base that will be able to produce weapons and ammunition fast enough to be able to sustain a conflict if we are in it,” Bauer said.
German Defense Minister: War with Russia in next 5 to 8 years
The head of the German defense department, Boris Pistorius, said that Russia could attack a country of the North Atlantic Alliance within the next 5-8 years. In an interview with the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, the German Foreign Minister spoke about the need to prepare for a direct confrontation between the Russian Federation and NATO.
For his part, the German Minister of Defense, Boris Pistorius, who was the first to admit the inability of the EU to supply Ukraine with 1 million shells, argued – citing experts – that a war with Russia could break out within next 5 to 8 years, stating that Germany should prepare for such a scenario.
Speaking to German magazine Der Tagesspiegel he warned that an increasingly bellicose Putin could attack NATO in less than a decade.
“We hear threats from the Kremlin almost every day … so we have to take into account that Putin may even attack a NATO country one day,” says Pistorius, who though stresses that a Russian attack is unlikely ” for now,” “our experts expect a period of five to eight years in which this could be possible.”
In the list of necessary measures he included the return of compulsory military service, an increase in spending on the army and an increase in the production of arms and ammunition.
In addition, Pistorius announced his desire for Germany to acquire its own nuclear shield.
Given the growing threat from Moscow, the German Defense Minister emphasized that he cannot give all available weapons to Ukraine. Continued military supplies to Kiev will weaken the German armed forces, and the production of new weapons takes time.
“If the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, wins, then Germany will also be at risk and we cannot buy tanks in a shop. They have to be produced and that takes time,” said Pistorius.
“We have to learn to live with the risk again and prepare ourselves – militarily, socially and in terms of military defense,” Pistorius emphasizes, judging the mobilization in Sweden understandable.
“We cannot go all-in, as some are demanding.
Otherwise, we ourselves will be defenseless,” underlined Pistorius.
Poland: Be ready for any scenario
In fact, Politico reports that similar concerns also exist in Poland.
“Russia defies logic.
What happened in 2022 seemed impossible.
We must be ready for any scenario,” Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said in his statements, as Politico points out.
How about 380k Ukey soldiers dead in 2 years! 6X more that the Americans who died in over 10 years in Nam…
Hahahaha
What will it take to convince you that it’s all fake?
Likely NZ would be drawn in and then you will find out on that island in the middle of nowhere just how real the world is.
Be sure to get some footage on your phone to remind you it is all real.
And we can all say, ‘CGI, FAKE!’
Your personal death would presumably just be another ‘fake!’
Something to look forward to Eddie?
They’ve used up all of NATO’s ammo – where is the rubble?
380k dead vs 50k US dead in Vietnam. Explain
Why doesn’t Pooty shut the gas?
Eddy might have a point about certain things being fake. He has shown us quite a few fakes from Ukraine(all from one side though).
“I just got back from Ukraine, where I was visiting some friends.
Everything we have heard about what’s happening in Ukraine is a lie.”
https://twitter.com/MariaMateiciuc/status/1743658029893984735
It’s amazing that everything the corporation tells him is real, he instantly believes(pandemic, deadly mutations, illegal encampments exceptionalism) and shouts from the rooftops. Then everything that the corporation says isn’t happening(AnsarAllah, Hamas, Russia, Iran) he screams fake endlessly.
3.8m people died in the Vietnam war, back when weapons were inefficient compared to today, but let’s just look at 58000(why doesn’t he question this figure?) who died on the side that stood back and bombed literally everything(back when they had the resources to do so). They can’t compute when the boot is on the other foot.
It’s all very predictable, just like bcccnn, the truth only exists for their side. Everything else must be a lie and so fake. They don’t even notice that it’s their side producing the fakes to keep the dumb in line.
The line after I just got back from Ukraine . . .
is
“The reality is darker, bleaker, and unequivocally hopeless. There is no such thing as Ukraine “winning” this war.”
This is a testimony to a lot of men dying in the war, or leaving the country.
Help me understand why you would continue to supply the enemy with energy … when you know that just throttling back would bring millions to the streets demanding an end to the war so that they could afford to eat – instead of paying 5x more to heat their homes.
And where is the rubble produced by these advanced artillery shells.
Fast Eddy is a logical entity.
I answered that months ago, but as it didn’t fit the media narrative, you chose to ignore it.
Ignoring what doesn’t suit the narrative isn’t logic.
Stick to imaginary mutations of nothing.
no you didnt
It’s not pantomime season anymore Eddy, but seeing as that’s your level, oh yes I did.
Throttle back was the term you used and I showed you the figures.
Now instead of doing your usual Shapiro act(plucking a single point out of the air without any context and claiming it as definitive proof), how about you prove your claims with some facts and dare I ask, logic.
What evidence do you have to assert that no throttling back has happened?
Why do you think 380,000 is not possible in two years(190k a year) with more advanced weapons, when 3,800,000 died in ten years(380k a year) with antiquated weapons?
Why are you so programmed that you believe Russia should act like the West and destroy the means of living, when unlike the West, they plan to incorporate the region into their country, rather than genocide the people and steal their resources?
You say you like seeing trouble, so get yourself to Kharkiv and post evidence that nothing is happening. I’ll reimburse all your costs if you can. Deal?
Why can’t anyone show me the rubble from these advanced weapons?
Why doesn’t Pooty reduce the gas flow to the EU? It’s war right – why supply your enemy with energy?
Why? Why? Why?
Enquiring minds want to know
So you can’t back up a single claim, just repeat the same idiocy.
You’re Ben aren’t you?
Here’s where the bulk of the fighting took place in Mariupol, but do remember that the Russians have no interest in destroying their people’s lives(feel free to ignore the simple logic behind that(again), as I understand that’s not what Hollywood taught you.
https://youtu.be/lmsLOmJPocQ?feature=shared
I’ll leave you to do your masters bidding and deny, deny, deny. It’s ok, I know you have nothing else and can’t back up a single claim you have made.
Informative that you have ignored the offer of a free trip. Fear of what will meet you?
Bombs = Rubble. No rubble.
Reduction of Gas Flow = exploding inflation = mass protests/riots = end of NATO support for UKEY.
If one is not a MOREON one will connect the dots by applying this logic
Blind as well as stupid. You have my sympathy Ben. Maybe it’s the marketing you eat😂
I find that when most people are proved wrong. They get angry.
If only they’d accept they are wrong – then they could change their mind — and they’d be right.
It’s so easy. Yet so hard.
what you actually mean eddy, is
if everybody agreed with ”me”
Now go into the corner and continue sucking your thumb
No desire to join you and Shapiro in kiddies corner, but thanks for the offer.
Europe is a bunch of walking zombies. I wonder who will fight their war…the immigrants, the LBGTQ crowd?. In 5 years Europe will be near completely deindustrialized as their green energy fails and they have little natural gas. What they will have will be very high priced. They are extremely vulnerable….a few well placed missile strikes could devastate many of their energy connections….cables, ports, etc. I say F%&& NATO. That is what the people of Europe must say.
The neocons tricked the Ukrainians into dying in order to kill a few Russians. Now they are going to get western Europe to die to kill some more Russians. Not just zombies dumb morons MOREONS.
Seize the means of production and you know what to do with the owning class.
Simplicus on the war drums in Europe .
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/new-war-drums-chill-europe-with-renewed?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1351274&post_id=140692630&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=26quge&utm_medium=email
“2024: Too Many Things Going Wrong” ???
This weeks Blog by JHK segues nicely with his bi-weekly article:
The Goddess of the WEF
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-goddess-of-the-wef/
Excerpt: “The last thing the WEF she fronts for or cares about is this airy-fairy freedom thing. Ditto equal opportunity. They want all the goodies for themselves and they want the rest of us to quit cluttering up their world. And they mean to get you out of here, for-real. The Covid-19 operation, so advantageous to their Great Reset plan, has resulted in billions of people subjected to very sketchy “vaccines.” The record indicates a shocking, abnormal, sustained rise, since 2021, when the “vaccines” were introduced, of all-causes deaths. That was just the overture of the Next Big Thing.
This week, the WEF and its subaltern org, the WHO, amped up warnings about the coming “Disease X.” This, they say, will be much worse than the namby-pamby Covid-19, which mostly led to people’s deaths by iatrogenic medical maltreatment with respirators, remdesivir, and opiates — and the relentless suppression of actual effective treatments. (All talk of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine on the Internet was deemed “disinfo.”)
If such a thing as “Disease X” does arise in the weeks and months ahead, this is what it will actually be: a cover-story for all the previously mRNA-vaccinated people with damaged immune systems getting fatally ill from a new mutation of Covid. Eminent virologists are predicting exactly this. (Misinformation, you think?) Wait for it and find out.
They can’t launch a rocket and Disease X or whatever didn’t make a dent in population. Too many escorts perhaps?
Dennis L.
JHK also says,
My comment: Pushing the agenda the Powers that Be want. If demand from the poor can be kept high, prices of commodities can be kept high enough for production to stay up. The agenda of the Davis crew includes increased migration. With more workers, wages stay low, but aggregate demand (in spite of the low wages) rises.
Observation:
The photos of the migrants I have seen appear to show fairly healthy, younger people. Sam’s customers do not look healthy, even the checkers at Hy-Vee are gaining fat around the middle.
Demographically the migrants are probably changing the age distribution and the women seem to have children in tow and are not posing for crotch shots with well separated thighs.
If you think Sam’s Club customers look unhealthy, you should spend a few minutes at Wal-Mart. Almost all are obese and shuffle around in a zombie-like trance if they aren’t using a motorized scooter.
James is on Team UEP:
If such a thing as “Disease X” does arise in the weeks and months ahead, this is what it will actually be: a cover-story for all the previously mRNA-vaccinated people with damaged immune systems getting fatally ill from a new mutation of Covid. Eminent virologists are predicting exactly this. (Misinformation, you think?) Wait for it and find out.
The thing is … James is using logic and common sense….
1. They used those LNPs to get the payload directly into the cells of the body overriding the immune system. Fact.
2. The global economy is gonna collapse. Fact.
3. If the global economy collapses without anyone taking pre-emptive action – 8B will ROF. Fact
4. They have been warning (prepping) about the never-ending mutations … and now they are telling us to expect epic death totals. Fact.
5. They will not not act. They do not want 8B being skinned alive. They f789ed up the immune systems for a reason. They primed the Vaxxers for The Pathogen. And they are gonna release it. Soon. And billions will die. And anyone including A Vaxxers will be locked down under total martial law. And be starved to death. Hopefully Super Fent is offered… I suspect it will be. Fact
James is just connecting the dots … like he did with The Long Emergency.
James knows. Well done James. James gets it.
Most on OFW get it… they won’t admit it… but what other outcome can there be?
He’s an old fart who got everything wrong by unplugging from the system. He should have played the status game, made money, got a trophy wife and lots of blow, and had a good time. Sure it’s all going to shit in not too long, but that’s after his time. He played the hand wrong wrong wrong.
I like it how when faced with The Truth… ya’ll get upset.
The best part will be when The Pathogen is released… Fast Eddy will have a brief window of opportunity … to remind ya’ll of HIS greatness in predicting the end game
And as the die off is happening — ya’ll will realize FE was right .. and ya’ll will retire to a corner and pout… that’s what most do when they are proved wrong.
What’s your take on the Rat Juice — $$$$? Great Reset???? Don’t leave us hanging
Bloomberg reports that about two thirds of California Solar companies have cash flow problems after the state slashed incentives to add the panels.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/about-two-thirds-of-california-solar-firms-have-a-cash-problem-1.2023322
It’s a small world … in the UK I saw this story
https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/24053641.caplor-energy-ltd-fownhope-enters-administration/
According to the article:
Where not to invest!
Guess: they made estimates of future income, regulations changed, income declined, owners took the standard draw and the company went burp.
Dennis L.
The only way that seems to work is locally, use what you make and avoid taxes, it is after tax money with no taxes on transmission, etc.
Current personal guess, make it locally store it as hydrogen and use a fuel cell.
Dennis L.
Almost all renewable energy will fail…will be fun to watch.
My solar and batteries work well at a remote end of the transmission network in rural Australia.
Panels paid for themselves in ~2.5 years. Still going strong year 6.
Batteries were added later as a non-financial bulwark against a decaying grid, but recent grid price increases mean a payback around 6 years.
I could/should have held off on batteries for longer, but post-COVID supply chain issues made me jump.
They look and work just like an appliance should – white box with a few blue lights. We don’t even notice when the power goes out.
Go solar and live 4eva!
Fred, I have 12kW in two panel arrays in my pasture, + a large battery BU system. I know how they work for an individual who can afford it.
My comment is about the green energy push by the government. It will fail. Now, just like any other government policy forced onto us, it will be a pleasure to see it fail.
The idea of the wealthy controlling all of the natural resources seems to have hit a road block:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-york-stock-exchange-abandons-plan-control-americas-natural-resources
I wonder how running electric power lines through wilderness areas would work.
These companies would be operated for profit, I am sure. Reminds me of companies getting involved in selling water, where it is in short supply. Poor people (in poor countries, especially) tend to be priced out of the water that they need for their daily activities. Commercial enterprises get first access to available water supplies.
A new version of Trump’s possible running mate:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/donald-trump-jr-says-his-father-may-tap-tucker-carlson-running-mate
The article also says,
“Speculation over who Trump will pick ramped up last week after he said that he has already made a decision on who his running mate will be.”
Tucker is making way too much money with his new subscription service. I still think it will either be Vivek Ramaswamy, first choice or Ron Destantis, his second choice.
Given the elections are meaningless… why not see what Paris Hilton is up to?
Be careful of Tucker Carlson. He is a very clever phony as he furrows his brows to act so concerned. He is a stealth opportunist who feeds off increasing conflict like so many of these other doom porners. Admittedly, we need good messengers to disseminate the truth, but we need to be very careful behind their motives. Surprisingly, Amazing Polly on Bitchute seems to discern some of this hypocrisy and these ulterior motives better than most. Also Shiva, who calls out Tucker. https://www.bitchute.com/video/asa9dXALJqIM/
Contrast their opportunism with the traditional true partisans.
He is obviously fake
Tucker has an insanely childish laugh not befitting a VP. Our Dear Leader should not select him on that basis.
A disabled jewish black woman using the pronouns he/him would be a vote catcher.
He is an excellent actor though
A disabled jewish black woman using the pronouns he/him would be a vote catcher.
Would that be Whoppi Goldberg?
How about a black man? It has the minority appeal, black, and the return to normal, man.
The Advance of Civilization and the transition to a Type I Civilization means the winner-take-all economy, leaving NOTHING to the rest.
As today’s winners advance in a rapid pace, despite of resource shortage, unimaginable poverty, misery and horror will await 99% of all population.
There are NOTHING for them. Even their lives will be treated as commodity to be traded, like Gogol’s Dead Souls where the names of dead serfs could be used as collateral for mortgages.
End of more will not be relevant as 99% or all population are squeezed and their standard of living will plummet by more than 90%. There is no reversal of it.
The compromises in the US between the Democrats and the Republicans seem to reflect the fact that to get legislation passed, there has to be something in the legislation for everyone. The compromise funding legislation passed this week, which extends US government funding until early March, will add more debt, which is favored by Democrats. Biden had to relent on the US border funding he wanted, to get the other parts he desired.
So there is still some compromise involved.
Which will eventually lead to the cessation of democracy and the introduction of corporatocracy.
even if such a concept existed
you cannot have a corporatocracy without the necessary fuel to keep it running
you can though, have a feudual autocracy, where the regional warlord controls all energy resources, pays trusted henchmen to control everyone else.
but this lasts only till the fuel runs out
>> but this lasts only till the fuel runs out
Because shale oil production is a complex human endeavor, it cannot withstand the disruptions that would come from the transition to such a society. If civil society breaks down, oil production ceases except perhaps for the remaining low-volume conventional oil wells. Production would go from ~19mbpd (total liquids) to ~2 or probably less. Mad Max.
yup—thats about right
if we’re lucky
It’s too late. The fight over remaining resources will consume them.
‘The world is being rewired’ and will see more supply shocks, Mark Carney says
Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney issued a warning at the World Economic Forum that global supply shocks are becoming more persistent, forcing central bankers to adapt to tame inflation.
Carney also posited that a “rewiring of intelligence” is underway, but argues the impacts of that won’t be felt until later this decade.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/10235415/mark-carney-supply-shocks-world-economic-forum/
Fauci > Bougie
Carney is talking about Central Banks pushing the economy down, to try to control inflation. He says:
The mortgage stress test is almost certainly for banks. It will keep them from giving so many loans–certainly mortgages, but perhaps other loans as well.
Regarding, “Preparing homeowners for the jump in interest rates.” Higher interest rates adversely affect new purchases of homes, pretty much everywhere, including in the US, because monthly payments become much higher.
How rising interest rates affect existing mortgages varies by country, and by whether the loan is for a homeowner or for a business. In the US, most mortgage rates for homeowners are “locked in” for the life of the mortgage, which is often 30 years. In other countries, which I would expect would include Canada, higher interest rates flow through to the amounts paid by mortgage holders–not necessarily immediately, but at some date when the rates are automatically adjusted.
Businesses everywhere have to contend with changes in interest rates, when their loans come up for renewal at some date, for example, every five years. For example, someone owning an apartment building will find that the interest rates on his mortgage loan will increase at some date in the near future. In fact, payment on many of these loans seems to be “interest only,” so a change in interest rates truly affects the business owner’s cash flow. The only way the business owner can collect enough money to pay the higher interest rates is by raising rents, at renewal time. These higher rents badly impact the budgets of those renting apartments.
Homeowners will readjusted mortgage rates will also see a hit to their ability to do discretionary spending.
Anyhow, these are ways to push the economy down. Central banks had expected that the effect would happen much more rapidly than it really did.
Air Boeing 747-8 from Miami International Airport CATCHES FIRE MID AIR..
https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1748236371351781726
This was a cargo plane, carrying 5, that made an emergency landing at Miami International Airport. Everyone is safe. This is what NBC is reporting.
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/mayday-video-shows-flames-coming-from-atlas-air-plane-midflight-before-landing-safely-at-mia/3210719/
The headline the article actually shows is “FAA finds ‘softball-sized hole’ above engine before making emergency landing at MIA.”
The “flames from the engine” part is not reported until the end of the article.
It was not removed from the simulacrum via “orb tech” because there were not dozens of traitorous Chinese tech thieves aboard……
The world is not even close to what we perceive it is.
Assuming that the “Big Bang” was the beginning!
As for the final conclusion…
This sounds very unlikely… It might appear to be like that to the eyes of the regular modern moron slave, which can’t see past their daily slavery.
Simple example… The plans/decisions to start a conflict with Russia in order to start destroying the European economies via the destruction of the NS1&2 that allowed Germany to be an industrial powerhouse… That’s gone! Those that planned the operation are today receiving the PROFIT of US LNG exports to Europe! And this wasn’t achieved by an economic system behaving on its own! That was achieved with deliberate plans and orders and execution. And this is just one simple example.
If Woodrow Wilson did not steal Silesien from Germany and give it to Poland, which NEVER owned it to begin with, none of these would have been relevant.
Exactly, the same words have been spoken many times by other peoples too…especially natives in the Americas regarding allowing those sanctioned elites from foreign lands of Europe that arrived seeking opportunities…
Just imagine if those initial visitors were rubbed out to discourage other so called explorers and or settlers for gaining foothold…the woulda coulda shoulda shrug…
The establishment of the Roanoke Colony (/ˈroʊənoʊk/ ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in America. The colony was founded in 1585, but it was visited by a ship in 1590 and the crew found that the colonists had disappeared under unknown circumstances. It has come to be known as the Lost Colony, and the fate of the 112 to 121 colonists remains unknown to this day.
Too bad the natives stopped
I’m not sure it was a matter of the natives stopping attacks when you had to contend with fierce women protecting their families from kidnapping and murder. Don’t bring a dagger and a long bow to an axe fight, lol.
My distant ancestor Christine Zeller dispatched 3 natives who came sneaking up to their Lebanon County, PA frontier fort between 1723 and 1745. The 1st fellow she cracked over the head, dragged his body into the cellar and then imitated the native language beckoning the other 2 to enter. They were dispatched in the same manner.
The Zellers settled the area of Newmanstown with a Penn Land Grant in the early 1700’s. Christine was a descendent of Lady Clothilde “de Valois” and Jaques Zeller who were married in France and protected by Queen Anne during the troubles before they sailed for the New World. – The Zeller Family Legacy by Mark Doner.
My point was the natives needed to rub out all initial contacts with the so called “explorers” so they could not return to home base country , Spain, England o Portugal…to report back it was easy pickings over inferior heathen savages that did not deserve to live unless they were saved by the “advanced” European exploiters.
By all accounts initial contact and agreements to this very day have been violated and ripped up by governments, especially on Washington DC
Yes I understand. We all know that there were existing blood feuds and territorial disputes among Native American going back hundreds of years and “weaker” tribes exploited allegiances with Europeans to gain advantage. Immigrants including former landed gentry, miners, tradesmen and farmers looked for freedom of religion and new opportunities in distant lands. The Elite companies and Old World religious powers exploited the situation to undermine stability instituting cash cropping, taxation.. all methods of colonizing the Americas. Its a winning strategy throughout history. Native tribes just helped to table plans by progressive City leaders to remove the William Penn statue in Philly the main reason being that He honored contracts.
What!?!?
How aure are you NS1&2 are destroyed? MSM?
https://www.nord-stream.info/
???? That is not proof of anything
The financial system operates under the laws of physics and under self-organization. Who is elected operates under the laws of physics and self-organization. When citizens are unhappy (or too poor), the system tends to fail. Citizens easily catch illnesses which would otherwise not cause many deaths. Or they try to overthrow governments.
Governments indirectly control the amount of energy they are able to get through the taxes they can collect. If citizens are terribly poor, they cannot be taxed sufficiently. Too much wage disparity tends to bring down the system. This wage (and wealth) disparity takes place when there isn’t enough energy products (and thus finished goods and services) to go around.
There is a system running above the financial sub-system!
The financial system is a tool to control the human herd, that’s for sure. But on a finite planet, even the controllers are forced to act according to the dictates of the physical system. When, due to the impossibility of continuing to grow, capitalism and liberalism are no longer possible, what is left? Forced degrowth and techno-communism. In short, controlled demolition.
Another good one from “B” (aka The Honest Sorcerer)
https://thehonestsorcerer.medium.com/the-end-of-the-colombian-age-21b47f943753
Lmao
Without Western civilization China would still behave as if it is 200 BC
Other than the zones covered in Charles Murray’s Human Achievement, roughly the line connecting Amsterdam to Venice, everything east of it is simply irrelevant for civilization
Not testing the first hydrogen bombs at Shenyang(Mukden) was Truman’s greatest mistake.
Early in the post, “B” says:
B quotes several paragraphs by Tainter, explained by Tainter. His conclusion is
He later says:
He then says:
He explains the reason for US de-industrialization:
Europe, in particular, is in terrible condition with respect to resources, but the US is not doing well either. This is why he forecasts that the West will fall first. B may very well be right!
America does not end at it’s borders.. America is a global empire that sucks the world’s resources into the machine
When America fails… the world fails .. BAU ends…
And because we have destroyed the soils and built 4000 spent fuel ponds… humans will go extinct.
Actually not that good … his conclusions are off
hahahahaha https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/91258
“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”
― Sun Tzu
YES!!!
BTW – where is keith…
Choose
a) vax dead
b) vax injured
Communing with the ghosts of Jacques Fresco and Paolo Soleri. Every time a bell rings a futurist gets his per diems.
Ding Dong keith is dead….
Lucky keith – he won’t have to endure The Pathogen
If I believe in GW… and I read this … I’d hang myself
The World’s Coal-Fired Power-Generation Hit A Record High In 2023
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/worlds-coal-fired-power-generation-hit-record-high-2023
Does anyone think… given the above … that the whole GW thing … is a hoax??? If we can’t stop burning coal then why mention GW – what’s the point of EVs when all the power is from coal?
Duh
If advanced nations demonize coal, this leaves more coal for the rest of the world. It’s a win for the less developed nations.
This is a link I found to a fairly recent (late 2023) IEA coal report:
https://www.iea.org/reports/coal-2023/executive-summary
The article says,
“We forecast that China’s coal consumption will fall in 2024 and plateau through 2026. . . The country’s economy is undergoing major structural changes as it reaches the end of infrastructure-led, energy-intensive growth.”
The loss of growing coal supply to power China’s growth is a real problem. Of course, the IEA talks about China’s growth in clean energy to try to fill the gap.
Regarding coal use in other economies, the report says:
Advanced economies are where the big push is to demonize coal. This sends available coal supplies to the rest of the world.
Later in the report it says:
I wonder if Australia is past peak coal. The best quality coal tended to be mined first.
NEW ZEALAND HAEMATOLOGIST KNOWS THE TRUTH AND STAYS SILENT…
This week I spoke with someone with first hand knowledge, who shared the following.
A NZ man has a serious blood cancer (no they are not Covid injected).
This patient went to a large top tier public hospital in New Zealand, for specialist treatment.
There, the patient saw the HEAD HAEMATOLOGIST who said to him…
“Have you had the Covid vaccine”?
To which the patient responded “NO”
The head Haematologist responded
“THANK GOD”
Why is this clearly aware specialist still working in medicine and claiming his pay cheque each week?
Why is he not screaming from the hill tops what he knows and sees every day in his work?
That Covid injections are harming and killing his patients.
Remaining silent at this point makes him COMPLICIT IN THE CRIME
See the comments as FE taunts MCM … clown https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/if-it-were-possible-to-break-into/comments
“‘Civilizations rise and fall’
“Inside an off-grid community of families preparing for the downfall of America
” … Riverbed Ranch, a burgeoning off-grid community in the high desert of western Utah.
“Riverbed isn’t a commune or a typical farming community; it’s a land cooperative made up of 135 shareholders with a single goal: living independently of modern mass-scale systems of production.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/off-grid-homesteading-community-riverbed-ranch-utah-doomsday-prepper-survivalist-2024-1
Scrolling through this, I wonder: how could they have done this in the first place, without the output of fossil fuels, etc.?
Isn’t that “Great Basin” area is largely uninhabited BLM land, partly because there’s not enough water available, unless they truck it in, to support human habitation?
Another excerpt: “In these unstable and uncertain times, it’s easy to understand why some people want to disconnect from what isn’t working and start from scratch. But even a project such as Riverbed Ranch, as it exists today, ultimately remains dependent on the global systems that residents are turning their backs on. Solar panels, vehicles, satellite internet — even the know-how to grow food in a sustainable fashion — are all sourced from modern technologies and industrial supply chains, the results of decades of societal advancement at a civilizational scale. It’s not like you can simply walk into the desert and pummel dirt into solar panels.”
The article ends:
” Until the apocalypse hits, most people still need to earn a living.”
I am afraid that most people will need to learn a living, after the apocalypse hits. Things won’t get better. People will need tools to work with. They will need shoes. They certainly will need water, out in the desert.
The photo shows hoses for watering crops. In order to keep this up, they will need replacements for those hoses, and for any pumps supporting the system. They are not independent of the current system. They just assume that they can get along with a little less fossil fuels, and that will be good enough.
I agree. In my view, to have an idea of what can happen in case of a collapse, one has to see what happened in the middle age after the collapse of Roman Empire and then imagine if a community like this could survive.
Societies will still exist, with internal and external outputs, but with lighter organization.
Isolation like this can be dangerous for many aspects.
A small community like this could exist only in similar way to what the monks did in the middle age with monasteries, that is:
provide medical cures, instruction and spiritual support to farmers and other people in the small groups in the sorroundings, in order not to be destroyed.
So that they could also receive some external output and produce some internal products.
Any community needs to be bound together by some form of religious ideology and needs to be located in well watered fertile area……western deserts are a poor choice.
Somehow, Mormons seem to have succeeded in Utah, however. One of their beliefs seems to be, “Keep a full year’s supply of food in reserve.” Perhaps the only real requirement is a unified belief system, generally around a religious view. Having some water nearby helps also.
The Mormons “succeeded” until the industrial state fails…then they go down with ship…….they also vacc the H out of themselves.
You ever been to Salt Lake City?
In a different life, I ate a bad burger in Bozeman Montana and headed south…..got the raging you-know- what by the Great Salt Lake…….watched 2 undercover cops beat the …. out of a drug dealer in that city’s bus station…….
The landscape and the experience made an impression. I felt better once I hit Yellowstone on way back.
We won’t even discuss what I saw in California.
DelusiSTAN
A. I wish them well
B. They need a common religion, didn’t read enough to see if that is the case
C. They need children,e.g. Amish
D. I don’t think even the Amish would try and farm that land.
Dennis L>
If the so-called multipolarity becomes a reality, you can kiss goodbye to Type I Civilization and and any advance of civilization forever.
All the remaining resources will be spent to promote the interests of the newly empowered factions, not to advance civilization or farther the reaches of humankind.
Today’s unipolar, dollar based economy where USA and its close allies can basically do whatever they feel like is needed in order to reach the next level of civ.
I noticed a new story on Zerohedge. It sounds to me like Vivek Ramaswamy, after dropping out of the race for President, is working to get a major appointment in the Trump administration, if Trump is elected. I suppose Vice President is a possibility. Vivek tends to tell the story the way it is. Mainstream media does not support him at all.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/were-middle-war-vivek-shoulder-shoulder-trump-battle-deep-state
I’m leaning on a possible a VP appointment which he would then have the opportunity of becoming POTUS. He’s still young but that’s if Trump isn’t suicided first by the Washington Neocon Mafia.
Some have talked about the US splitting into two or more pieces. The far differences between the one side with Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy and the other side with Biden and the wealthy powers that be would seem like they could be the catalyst. The fact that Vivek is already talking about being in a middle of a war adds to this feeling. Read the last paragraph that I posted.
How can a split work when the different groups live in the same town on the same street?
This is an issue. Cities and suburbs generally have different views. Even within the same household, spouses can have different views. This makes for lots of conflict. But if some group can actually succeed (US Southeast, for example), it would seem like it could stay together.
White church going grandmother is using the word “succeed”. Something is going on.
If it does and it pays social security I will move to the free nation, assuming it has the same values of freedom that it had the last time it tried.
Psst, Ed, SocSec is not based on freedom.
Lidia, I agree. But since I have been robbed for the last 42 years I want some of the money back.
Sunken cost falicy
The 5 oil pod regions.
Hopefully, in all the talk about a possible second US Civil War, the American People remember one thing. “The chicken sh*t falls from the top down. Always has. Always will.” Simply stated: “Start at the top.”
My grandfather always said: “If you have problem with a company, go right to the top.”
Now that corporations and the government have merged (which is the definition of Fascism), the job just got that much more interesting.
Either way — before, during or after — for a while it will be neighbor against neighbor, family member against family member, until new neighbors, and new families, and new neighborhoods are formed by the survivors.
Every nation goes through a golden era. IMO, echoed by others much smarter than I, the United States’ golden era was from 1870 until 1970.
This what I tell the low IQs when I hear endless pontifications about we have to “fix the system” or we need to have “something to replace the system with before we go to war”
STFU,…….go to war…….if you live….then you can do your BS “organizing for the social good”
LMAO
the elders will make trump their fall guy or patsy thats why he will be elected so when things go haywire trump will take the blame who knows what shenanigans will be thrown at us ,when is the election anyhow?
Things are too far gone to fix. We are the USSR. The Fed is the central planning committee. Biden is analogous to Yeltsin, although that doesn’t exactly fit, since Russia began its recovery immediately following his departure and we are still in for a steep and painful decline.
As long as it is the red states that suffer and the blue states served I see no problem.
I live in New York State a state that exists due to massive infusions of federal money.
New York home to Soros, Clinton, and IBM.
I can’t remember where I saw a post on You Tube how Ramaswamy supposedly made his initial fortune. But this YT poster opined that Vivek bought a patent right from a major drug company for a drug, maybe to treat Alzheimers?, that had failed repeatedly in clinical tests and was put on the shelf with no further study by that drug company.
Vivek took the drug, and reportedly without doing any additional investigation, modification, clinical reviews, research etc simply relabled the drug, and pumped it to Wall Street with his company Roivant. As the investors clamored “shut up and take my money,” Vivek raked it in. Of course the drug failed. I don’t remember or know whether or how the FDA approval process happened. Sounds like a variation on a Wall Street version of a medical trojan horse. I simply don’t trust the guy. He is very ambitious, VERY ambitious, slippery, and way more than Trump, Haley , and DeSantis. He makes SBF look like a dunce.
We are allowing the very people who should NEVER be allowed to be in a position to rule (ruin) other peoples’ lives. He was (is) associated with Peter Thiel.
IMO, lawyers, doctors, politicians should have their grade school through high school years investigated if they seek positions of power and influence. Forget their application statements and letters of recommendation. Yes, I admit it is impractical and will never happen but you can learn a lot about the real person before they learn to put on their disguise in adult life. For instance, DeSantis’s college classmates said about DeSantis -if you were not useful to him, he didn’t want to be bothered talking to you. Only if you were a someone would he give you the time of day. But as far as Vivek, it would take a thorough deep dive investgation to follow the money trails. I’m confident though that he covered himself a lot better than FJB and Hunter.
The first post on You Tube addressed Vivek’s recent rise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoMc4DCrrF0
I had to scroll down about 100 posts to find this.
Punishment (severe) for stooopidity
“New cancer diagnoses in the U.S. are expected to top 2 million for the first time in 2024, driven in large part by an alarming increase in cancers among younger Americans, according to new American Cancer Society data.”
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/17/new-cancer-diagnoses-record-high
Strange co-incidence!
“There are no such things as coincidences.”
There really are not
Remember, this is all just a coincidence !
by bringing in fear of disease and death people are distracted from diminishing returns there is also more to go around as people i personally know are wanted for jobs whereas before there was nothing for them bau or kicking the can down the road or efficiencies in our strange new world have been found collapse has been avoided for the time being
The map is worthless; it plots absolute numbers and therefore might as well be a population map.
at my workplace sickies have skyrocketed, the employer is strangely silent Deep down they must know the crap they injected into everyone is responsible, that would explain continued hiring of new employees. i have been there for 32 years never before have i seen so many new hires to cover all the available work.
melbourne trams? yes?
Really strange.. we went every few months back in the day … yet…
One fundamental challenge, says Jan Wörner, a former director general of the European Space Agency (Esa), is weight. “You are always close to failure because you have to be light or the spacecraft will not fly. You cannot have a big safety margin.”
Added to that, almost every spacecraft is a prototype. Apart from rare cases, such as the Galileo communications satellites, spacecraft are bespoke machines. They are not mass produced with the same tried and tested systems and designs. And once they are deployed in space, they are on their own. “If you have trouble with your car, you can have it repaired, but in space there’s no opportunity,” says Wörner. “Space is a different dimension.”
The moon itself presents its own problems. There is gravity – one-sixth as strong as on Earth – but no atmosphere. Unlike Mars, where spacecraft can fly to their destination and brake with parachutes, moon landings depend entirely on engines. If you have a single engine, as smaller probes tend to, it must be steerable, because there is no other way to control the descent.
To complicate matters, the engine must have a throttle, allowing the thrust to be dialled up and down. “Usually you ignite them and they provide a steady state thrust,” says Nico Dettmann, Esa’s lunar exploration group leader. “To change the thrust during operations adds a lot more complexity.”
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/12/why-landing-on-the-moon-is-proving-more-difficult-today-than-50-years-ago
And perhaps the earlier trips were simply fiction.
It’s either that … or the technology back in the 60’s was far superior to what is available now… the computers… the engineering… going to the moon was like taking a bus to downtown… pedestrian…
Let’s have a look at this advanced technology
https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/1-lunar-module-antares-apollo-14-nasa.jpg
I bet they regret disposing of all the engineering plans that detailed how to make one of those… apparently they claim that all the moon stuff was taking up too much space to they threw it all in the garbage.
I cannot begin to imagine how StOOOPid I would have to be to believe humans walked on the moon… stooopid is not good enough… what’s more profound that stoooopid?? mentally re tard ed brain damaged… rat juiced… dun.ce… idi-ocy…
We need a new word for this …
How about we just refer to such people as NOFs…. agreed?
It’s because the Natzi scientists are all dead.
F.E . believes that Laser reflectors magically appeared on the moon!
Time, date and mission number!
Otherwise B/S!
Here he is again … doubling down on Stooopidity.
Gosh they claim they can’t go back cuz the technology is insufficient
hahahaha… at what point does stooopidity get classified as mental illness?
F.E . believes that Laser reflectors magically appeared on the moon!
Time, date and mission number!
Otherwise B/S!
You gotta check out “the angry astronaut” youtube channel.
He’s a true believer but he just released a story about the failed american bid for lunar landing that is both utterly absurd….and completely believable in this day and age….
NASA and Navahos……yes…thats what I said……..NASA and Navahos…..
You can thank me later
Anyone who believes man has landed on the moon …
is mentally ill / stoopid + re-tarded
Anyone who believes man has landed on the moon….
Should be thrown into hole 50ft deep and a public toilet servicing a town of 20,000 should be installed on top of the hole….
Anyone who believes man has landed on the moon….
_________________________ (it’s a game – wanna play)
F.E . believes that Laser reflectors magically appeared on the moon
Time, date and mission number!
Otherwise B/S!
The good thing about NOFs… is in addition to believing the moon stuff… they believe whatever cnnbbc tells them to believe – so all of them are boosted to high hell hahahahaha
SCHAD
F.E . believes that Laser reflectors magically appeared on the moon!
Time, date and mission number!
Otherwise B/S!
Is it a coincidence … that when FE is discussing MOREONISM… you show up?
when the quickest way home is to walk through the market square every night.
but all day, and all night, there’s some eejit on his soapbox there spouting the same old stuff—day in day out, year in, year out,
but when you have to walk past him—as quick as possible,
it’s difficult not to show up when the subject is moronism
F.E . believes that Laser reflectors magically appeared on the moon!
Time, date and mission number!
Otherwise B/S!
The oil market could be heading for a supply crunch from 2025 onwards as oil exploration fails to keep pace with demand, Occidental Petroleum (OXY.N), opens new tab Chief Executive Vicki Hollub said on Tuesday.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/market-be-short-oil-2025-onwards-occidental-ceo-davos-2024-01-16/
They will not wait until it begins to unravel… because they might miss the window of opportunity to prevent ripping of faces (murder rape starvation and cannibalism – the 4 horses of collapse)…
The questions that need to be answered is this is mRNA vax related? Are we now witnessing the effects of an untested experimental product leading to reduced heart function?
Or is the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 warned by many including Geert Vanden Bossche?
Or is this something else entirely. (Disease X)
https://drpanda.substack.com/p/another-mystery-illness-filling-up
Miami Hospital Rooms Are Seeing New Disease That Affects All Ages, Displays “All flu symptoms & swelling in their legs, water in their lungs, fluid in their heart, etc”
“They’re keeping it from the news, they don’t want you to know what’s really going on”
Here is a video of a nurses firsthand account of what she’s seeing in Miami area hospital emergency rooms right now.
https://drpanda.substack.com/p/another-mystery-illness-filling-up
Hopefully this is true
fake
Quite possibly — but let’s hope it’s real shall we
The 10 foot tall space aliens brought the disease.
CANCER!!!
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/sleeping-giants-thursday-january
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fba442ee3-dec0-45d6-960e-e6dcc4b62943_1064x422.png
Big jump in cases comes after vaccines introduced.
norm?
I ask again … is keith dead… (rhetorical… he’s taken every shot on offer)
Or maybe keith took a booster and is now vax injured and he feels Great Shame…
keith .. if you can’t type… blink if you are still alive.
Technofeudalism, Starship and Type I Civilization go hand and hand. Without Technofeudalism , Type I Civ cannot occur. A point I have argued at reddit , here and some other places and could not find anyone who could counter me.
The World had to waste 110 years to find out that it was NOT possible to have a higher standard of living for everyone and also advance civilization;
IN fact, the aspirations of countries who do NOT deserve to have advanced living standards have led to the present crisis.
90%+ of the world’s pop should go back to subsistence. No abundance. No luxuries beyond a cheapo 3G phone which could be recycled from today’s inventory of phones. Give them no more than a cot and three not-so-hots, work them to death, and everything concentrates to the top.
If that can be done, we will have a spacefaring civ and Singularity.
If this can give you some solace
https://youtu.be/M7PM8iDt_4w?si=RR-Trv4cv1eCmN6y
(Dakar race)
I hope you don’t mind if I share something off topic just for recreation (I hope).
During these days the Dakar race is taking place, actually it is about to finish in one or two days.
As you know, it has been moved some years ago from Africa to Saudia Arabia. (yes, Saudia Arabia, not far from Gaza and the Red Sea crisis…).
Anyway the race is in a ‘preserved bubble’ all perfectly organizedcand it remains a fantastic race to follow.
It has been changed a bit from being an adventure race to a rally, although extremely difficult and tough, not a normal rally.
A lot of fussil fuels wasted for nothing?
Yes, but damn, sometimes you need to have some fun 🙂
Here some highlights from the bike sector, there are various sectors running at the same time.
Then, if you open the channel you can see all the sectors and all the stages.
Have a nice evening.
good one
I’m so glad that I may be still reading Fast Eddy’s posts here for decades to come
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/peak-oil-theories-iea-opec-al-ghais-crude-demand-supply-2024-1
Peak oil theories have been around since the 1880s, and the latest warnings also won’t come to pass, OPEC chief says
Filip De Mott Jan 17, 2024, 12:11 PM EST
Theories that oil supply will peak tend to miss the mark, OPEC’s secretary general wrote.
Such warnings have emerged since the 1880s, but fail to come true, Haitham Al Ghais said.
“Throughout history, repeated predictions of peak oil supply have repeatedly been moved further into the future, and at ever-higher levels.”
This was despite the IEA only a few years earlier highlighting that the world would still need oil for years to come and stressing the importance of investing in the sector,” Al Ghais quipped.
He added that crude and its derivatives will remain a daily fixture across global economies, given faster industrialization, a growing middle class, and expanding transport.
Meanwhile, the world’s net-zero policy goals are unrealistic, he said. But even alongside them, new technology won’t help end oil demand, but improve its use — by reducing emissions and introducing carbon capture.
By 2045, total world oil demand will reach 116 million barrels per day, Al Ghais added, up from OPEC’s 2024 forecast for 104.4 million bpd.
BAU Baby 2045….let’s see how old will I be then…about Norman’s age… 😂
I will have to admit that supply has tended to exceed early estimates of the amount that can be extracted. This is the reason for a need for a little humility in trying to guess precisely how, and when, things start going wrong. We are living in a very interconnected system. While we look at one portion of the system, this doesn’t necessarily tell us what ultimately will happen.
Also, there tend to be lot of cycles in economies. Some economies collapse; new ones grow out of the ashes of the old economies. We think our current world economy will continue, but it seems likely that its form will change considerably.
its not peak oil we have to worry about—there will always be oil
what we have to worry about is peak debt
we ”live” on the difference between the cost of getting hold of oil, what people can afford to pay for the stuff
so we have 2 cash streams:
one—the infinitely rising cost of getting hold of oil—the energy we must expend to get it
two— The debt we are willing to incur to pretend we can have oil at the price we used to pay for it (in real terms), ie sometime before the 1970s.
so—in order to disguise the former, we must increase the latter.
For as long as possible.
So our debt increases while we pretend it doesn’t exist.
But the end result will be that we spend more and more in acquire less and less oil—while telling ourselves that (quite correctly) there is no peak oil.
The peak we do have however, is peak debt—we run out of money to pay wages to ourselves
Yes that’s true for all countries. Some people think that Russia and Saudi Arabia will be sitting great. Naive fools! They remind me of the old man building the bunker and garden for the apocalypse or better yet the old baby boomers who used to comment on the oil drum that they would sit and eat popcorn watching the show as their retirement checks keep coming in! LDipshits! Can’t do basic math.
What is really horrifying is how we are increasing debt with money that has no value, with a back-up plan based upon what got us here.
Fiat currency followed by digital currency. Zero + zero = zero. This all really started with back in the 1950s with the introduction of the Dinners Club credit card in 1950, followed by the first ATM in 1969, followed by the internet, followed by, followed by . . . .
From 1913 until 2008, the value of the USD fell 98-percent. Common knowledge. IMHO, the final 2-percent went away during and immediately after the GFC and the Crash of 2008-09. Oh, they stopped a full-on credit collapse in mid-free fall, but what they missed was catching the remaining value of the USD.
It was like trying to catch a knife falling through your fingers. Lost some of those, too.
The years following the GFC and the Crash of 2008-09 has been like watching an episode straight out of the Twilight Zone — “The Naked People are on Mainstreet.”
I once wrote that as we draw closer to Singularity and Type I civ, all gains will be monopolized by the top few and the rest will have nothing. Keith tried to answer this but he could not
A world which would have been attained long ago if Chucky didn’t do ‘his duty’.
Nothing for 8 billion plus people, who will fall to animal status and will be killable without impunity by today’s winners. Again, with less people , end of more can be tolerated and more resources can be continued to be put into future research to put some of humankind, probably the top 10,000 or so, beyond the horizon.
It is over for those who are not the winner of today’s world. They will all be subject of UEP as today’s top crust flies away to the space for eternal conquest.
“If I am correct that there is an outside force influencing the economy today . . . .”
Just don’t forget: God is terrible with money.
But God is very good with physics, and physics underlies financial systems.
Not when we’re going to need another Dark Ages just to dig the physics out from beneath a full-on systemic, and financial collapse.
It seems that I have solved the reason why they did not call me back from my car service after the insurance event caused by a marten damaging the cables under the hood. Due to the lack of the personnel, there seems to be a new person in charge of the insurance events in the car service.
Today, I have found a mummified body of the marten under the hood. It returned in-between and died there.
First, the poor normal was pitied by the person in charge, then she constantly asked her colleague what to do.
There is a need for more mentorship with the new scarce workforce that seems to have no experience with their new job positions.
First “the poor animal was pitied” during my call.
IMy car is now scheduled for the inspection and repair.
That sounds like a post I would make….
I trap marten all the time….never once caught under a vehicle hood though!
Where are you located?…..ballpark (province/state)
In the countryside, near the forest. Here is th photo of the poor creature and the damaged cables;
https://i.postimg.cc/3xnV9m7M/IMG-20240118-093533-083.jpg
I was told by my nephew, who is a electronics car mechanic, that those ultrasound defenses against martens do not protect your car always, it varies, you are not safe. He has got a fleet of agricultural combine harvesters that get damaged by them.
That is another way how our food production has become vulnerable.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission is in the process of re-introducing Martens to the State. It will be the 1st time in 120 years that they will be a part of the native ecosystem. Dad says there were some objections at the annual meeting over the idea especially by Turkey hunters. I had a Fisher sighting on the West Shore of Harrisburg and then my first Mink encounter during deer season this year along the NY/PA line.
Ah, come on now…this can’t be true…must be coming from the same scientists that claim that we are causing climate change…HOW DARE THEY…
How industrial agriculture is disturbing the nitrogen cycle and undermining conditions for life on Earth by Gilles Billen , The Conversation
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-industrial-agriculture-disturbing-nitrogen-undermining.amp
Six of our nine planetary boundaries have now been crossed—and industrial agriculture are the main culprit. That is what a team of scientists under Johan Rockström reported in an article published in September..
….Some writers consider the Haber–Bosch process to be “the most important industrial process” of modern history, foreshadowing among other inventions the airplane, nuclear energy or the television. In 1925, the biologist Alfred Lotka marveled, “This extraordinary development the Haber–Bosch process is something more than a fundamental new departure in industry. It represents nothing less than the ushering in of a new ethnological era in the history of the human race, a new cosmic epoch.'”
And that is what this issue is about: this new epoch that we call the Anthropocene. Today, on a global scale, the quantity of reactive nitrogen that the fertilizer industry puts into the biosphere each year exceeds the amount provided by all natural processes of biological fixation. On a global scale, the speed at which nitrogen circulates has therefore increased more than twofold..
In this accelerated flow of nitrogen, what causes trouble is the environmental nitrogen loss that results from it. Indeed, the more nitrogenous fertilizers are used to increase crop yields, the less the added nitrogen is effective and the greater the losses through leaching and volatilisation. What we call the nitrogen surplus is the excess of nitrogen put into the soil in relation to the quantity actually taken away through harvesting.
It is this surplus that contaminates groundwater, making it undrinkable, and river water, which leads to the eutrophication of coastal waters—the cause of green tides, toxic algal blooms and deep-sea anoxia.. And it is this surplus that releases ammonia into the atmosphere, which creates aerosols with serious effects on human health..
That is why the team working under Rockström evaluated the agricultural nitrogen surplus when defining the planetary boundaries beyond which the conditions for human life on Earth would no longer be guaranteed. The upper limit of this surplus, which is determined to protect water and air locally, varies greatly between world regions, but on a global scale it is estimated to be 60 million tons of nitrogen (60 TgN/year), in contrast to today’s nitrogen surplus of around 130 TgN/year.
This huge gap between the threshold not to be overstepped and the actual level reached today justifies the goal that the European Commission and the United Nations’ Biodiversity Conference recently set itself to halve nitrogen waste by 2030.
Now back to the Fast Eddy UEP Terror Show..
I remember years ago being told that early farming was what kept the Earth from going back into more of an ice age than we are in now. (According to one definition, we are currently in an ice age.)
Pollution is of course a different limit that we are up against. This is related to entropy and the laws of physics.
All of these issues relate to too high a population on earth, I am afraid.
The HB process needs to be recognized as the most important development in the history of man … because it is what allowed us to grow to 8B … and guaranteed our extinction. It destroyed the very soil that feeds us.
Nuclear energy is also up there in terms of the stooopiest invention ever
Fast Eddy the moarons are at it again in a big way….
Running out of landfill space at home, Miami-Dade County is considering a faraway solution for disposing of its trash: paying a company to haul garbage by rail across state lines.
“They’re looking to ‘train’ waste all the way up to Georgia,” Jimmy Morales, the county’s chief operations officer, told Miami-Dade commissioners on Wednesday about a potential deal with American Waste Services, a company with an office in Opa-locka. “We want to make sure, from a cost perspective, that it makes sense.”
Negotiations over “trash trains” are part of a larger effort to find new destinations for the roughly 1 million tons of garbage, yard debris and other waste that Miami-Dade used to burn each year at the county’s incinerator plant in Doral. When the incinerator was damaged in a massive fire in February 2023, the county was forced to shift almost all of the garbage burned there to private landfills in Miami-Dade and elsewhere in Florida.
Miami Herald
What a comedy show we are putting on…can’t wait for the trucks and trains to stop
Instead of a general collapse, we might even see what David of a million names had proposed – continued BAU in 2040.
If we watch the Kurosawa Akira movie Rashomon, there are unbelievable horrors outside of the walls of Kyoto, in which only a selected few could live. The selected few remained oblivious to all of the horrors – it was as if it was happening in another planet.
In the Tale of Genji, set in around year 1000, Genji gets into some trouble and is exiled to a town named Suma, which is part of Kobe now and about 30 miles from Kyoto. He acts like he is being sent to the end of the world.
More disenfranchisement of the hoi polloi, more impoverishment of the former middle class and upper middle class, and more concentration of wealth to the very top will keep BAU going for quite a long time.
The threat of a general uprising will be negated by 24/7 surveillance which makes rebellions impossible.
Less people using resources means less aggregate resource consumption so the BAU can continue among the top crust since it will be the middle and upper middle class which will get destroyed.
I will gladly sacrifice any chance of a Type 1 civ just to keep bAU rolling along in The Core until 2040.
why not?
I am the Centre of the Universe.
Funny that I’m in the exact center of the universe and I’m not seeing you. Are you the transparent man?
i do wonder how big a word-hammer it takes to bang home the truth
you cannot—repeat cannot—have BAU for this imagined elite without us unwashed masses to support it.
yet the daftness persists, that ”they” will have BAU after the rest of us have been disposed of.
Only a critical number of unwashed masses are needed. There are disagreements about how many are actually needed, but given today’s tech and all that, maybe 20% of today’s pop, or maybe around 1.5 bil (take or leave 100 mil) might be enough.
Depending on the source between 70.6 and 72.3% of the world’s population have received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.
The problem is that there are no reliable sources, they are all tainted with propaganda. In fact, some people question the feasibility of producing billions of injections in such a short time.
Judging by the mortality rates so far, I would say that most of the injectees received just a saline solution. But this is only a guess.
The 90% of people living in USA , Canada, etc do not matter either.
Only the investor class does matter, and
We can inflate dollar to the infinity
https://greyenlightenment.com/2024/01/10/why-american-investors-do-not-need-to-worry-about-the-national-debt/
tl, dr, since all the debts are in dollars, if dollars are inflated away, the creditors lose, not USA. USA can do this to infinite. My addition is maybe it won’t be able to do that if all other countries on earth are bankrupt and cannot supply anything to USA anymore, but that means USA owns everything anyways so it does not matter.
Basically, an Economic Singularity has already arrived, and today’s winners are set to rule the world for ever. Ever . For maybe at least 1 billion years.
Interesting idea, as long as issuing more US debt can work, and the US doesn’t fail for reasons other than the ones considered in this post.
If electricity stops working, for example, there is a real problem, for example, or if computer security becomes a huge problem.
at least a billion eh?
and Here I was hoping to eat sauteed sweetbreads from a billionaire donor within the next 10.
Just got this from Climate and Economy .org blog aka Harry’s (Justin Pano’s)
Crop-killing weeds advance across US farmland as chemicals lose effectiveness
By Rod Nickel and Tom Polansek
January 16, 20246:43 AM ESTUpdated 2 days ago
WINNIPEG, Manitoba/CHICAGO, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Crop-killing weeds such as kochia are advancing across the U.S. northern plains and Midwest, in the latest sign that weeds are developing resistance to chemicals faster than companies including Bayer (BAYGn.DE), opens new tab and Corteva (CTVA.N), opens new tab can develop new ones to fight them.
In many cases weeds are developing resistance against multiple herbicides, scientists said.
Reuters interviewed two dozen farmers, scientists, weed specialists and company executives and reviewed eight academic papers published since 2021 which described how kochia, waterhemp, giant ragweed and other weeds are squeezing out crops in North Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota as chemicals lose their effectiveness.
Some more good news for Doomers and those that wish for the end of the human plague pandemic
Reminds me of antibiotics losing effectiveness, and vaccines only working against the current version of a virus.
We humans think we have solutions, but they are very temporary solutions.
Cattle completely destroy giant ragweed. we will naturally go back to pasture/cropland rotation.
>> are developing resistance to chemicals faster than companies including Bayer (BAYGn.DE), opens new tab and Corteva (CTVA.N), opens new tab can develop new ones to fight them.
“opens new tab” … “opens new tab”
Uhhm, are you the bot, or just reposting bot-generated text?
Sorry, Ivan, nope just an average old time boomer wasting time posting sh#t here via what pops up on my screen that Fast Eddy may like…sorry you don’t approve…next
Every body is building artillery shells…
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/amp/2024/01/17/nammo-ramps-up-155mm-artillery-ammunition-production-by-getting-95m/
Støre’s statement indicates that the ongoing conflict in Ukraine has led to an escalating demand for substantial volumes of ammunition. Given these circumstances, the Norwegian government is stepping in with robust measures designed to enable the defense sector to boost its production.
Details of the funding reveal that half the amount, one billion kroner or around $95 million, will back specific projects at Nammo to enhance the making of artillery ammunition. The remaining NOK 1 billion, again approximately $95 million, has been allocated for supporting various other initiatives within the Norwegian defense industry. According to a press release from the government, these funds will be provided through the Nansen program.
Just a few days after Russian warplanes effectively targeted Ukraine’s production facilities, Norway has stepped up to increase its manufacture of 155mm ammunition.
critical concern for Ukraine’s Western allies is the country’s reliance on old Soviet ammunition sizes for most of its artillery and armor. This makes sourcing 155mm, 152mm, and 125mm ammunition a complex task, as these sizes are not standard production in Western countries.
Hahaha, reminds me of Addie Hitters invasion of Russia in WWII and the Germans discovered the railroad gauge was different for tracks …oops, my bad…
Let the BAU show go on ..at least for four more years. Having Trump reelected as the host of America would be very entertaining and even having Joe Biden winning again will be too…win, win sitation
If we build more ammunition, it will provide a certain kind of jobs, but it will use up materials that could otherwise be used for consumer goods.
Materials that are used for consumer goods are often from other countries; perhaps adding jobs could prove to be more important.
This would be different source of new jobs than green energy. Also, an excuse for continued ramped up debt, to further all of this spending.
Gail, you are correct …even in medieval times ..defense spending meant JOBS….
KYBURG, SWITZERLAND—Swissinfo.ch reports that the well-preserved pieces of a fourteenth-century gauntlet have been unearthed in northern Switzerland, at a site thought to have been a blacksmith’s shop. A mould, hammers, keys, and projectile points were also recovered. The 25 metal gauntlet parts would have once been attached to each other and riveted to a leather glove to form a flexible form of protection. Only four other gauntlets from the period have been found in Switzerland, but researchers do not know if armored gloves were rare objects, or if the metal was routinely melted down and reused. To read about a mid-second millennium B.C. bronze hand uncovered in Prêles, Switzerland, go to “An Eccentric Artifact,” one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2018.
All the world’s ammo is being expended in UKEY — yet there is so little rubble!!!!
And the HOOTIES have shut down the canal… and the world powers do nothing.
hahahahaha
And man has walked on the moon…
F.E . believes that Laser reflectors magically appeared on the moon!
Time, date and mission number!
Otherwise B/S!
I put here this very good post as a podcast in french. Hope you agree.
https://peertube.heraut.eu/w/5DLDckWaQp44viKK34fM1B
Xavier – France
Thanks very much.
This is a translation of my current post into spoken French, using the following approach:
Méthodologie
Traduction avec : https://www.deepl.com/translator
Génération de voix : API OpenAI speech – voix “nova”
The photo of me shown at the time the talk plays is from an outdoor conference in Pennsylvania, several years ago.
I think analysis like yours with this rigorous and high level are not so frequent in France. I agree with you, and François Roddier : the physic level is the most important, when this level meet limit or problem. And all the complexity built on it is in danger and will collapse so. It’s true for a computer, a body, an ecosystem, a plant.
Something that is very interesting from a conceptual point of view is the relation between physical layer and complexity layers who emerge from it. When the system works well, the emerged successive layers seems to not have relation from physical layer. When you use software on a computer or when you write a code, you are in a mindset independant from physical mindset and you think about how to use or how to code, etc. It seems there is no connection with the next storm who will cut off your connection to electrical grid. And that explain probably why economist are able to think economy without think about energy. And politics so. And more the system is complex, aka more layers who emerged in cascade, more is difficult to see the connection with the physical layer, the layer 0.
The best video about that subject (relation between emergence layers and physicals layers) is this : Complexity Explorer Lecture: David Krakauer • What is Complexity?
https://iteroni.com/watch?v=JR93X7xK05o
I will try to translate your next posts in french to enlight a bit french people.
Best regards,
Xavier France
Lately, been reading about not only microplastics in our food and water that are potentially harmful, but now this too
https://www.ehn.org/beverages-in-metal-cans-may-be-a-significant-source-of-chemical-contamination-study-finds-2666912692.html
Beverages in metal cans may be a significant source of chemical contamination, study finds
A recent study published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials tested non-alcoholic beverages packaged in plastic, glass, cartons, and metal cans for contamination from endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs).
EDCsere found in 90% of the beverages tested. Sixty-three different types of EDCs were detected overall.
Drinks in metal cans contained higher concentrations of EDCs than any other packaging tested. This was true even for products sold by the same brand but packaged in different materials.
Bisphenols, including BPA – a particularly dangerous chemical associated with harmful health effects – accounted for 87% of the EDCs found.
“The results demonstrated that metal-based beverage containers play a crucial role in the release of EDCs into packaged water/drinks during contact.”
Diet is the primary source of EDC exposure, and non-alcoholic beverages account for a quarter of global dietary intake. While the health risks of EDCs are well-established, most countries have no enforceable policies in place to limit their use in food packaging. When calculating average daily intake, the levels of BPA detected in this study are up to 2,000 times higher than the most recent safety guidelines, highlighting the need for regulation to catch up to the reality of exposure.
Fast Eddy harps about the Elders UEP plan all the time here. We have concrete evidence that it permeates throughout our modern convenience of daily living.
Even without the jab we are doomed as a biological species…
Fast Eddie pointed out poring poisons on food to grow preserve and deluding the soil of its natural fertility by chemicals…
I’m glad I don’t personally drink soft drinks or beer from cans. I don’t drink soft drinks, and my occasional beer is usually from tap or a glass bottle.
This information needs to get out to the people drinking beverages from cans. Of course, if they don’t think about the problems of drinking soft drinks in the first place, they likely don’t care.
I think it may also apply to other can foods also…
Like canned corn, beans, carrots ect…
And we refer to ourselves as smart… we celebrate inventors… try explaining to a MOREON that Edison or Jobs are id iots….
That’s even harder than trying to explain to a Vaxxer that the shots are dangerous
Looks like the safest course is to drink beer from bottles! I now have a valid health reason to do so!
We will all soon be dead… so don’t get too stressed
does fake dead count the same as real dead?
Reise lives in Calverton Park in St. Louis, Missouri, and needs her car to manage her household.
“I just don’t know how they can come into my driveway and take my car,” she said to local Fox affiliate WDAF-TV in June 2023.
She said her life has grown more complicated ever since her car was towed.
“How am I going to get to and from work? I have kids, I have to get them to school,” she said.
Reise revealed that her car was impounded after her tags expired two months ago.
She argues that she’d been saving up for her taxes, which is why she hadn’t paid for the tags.
“I’ve just been taking a little bit out of every paycheck and setting it aside — the taxes are close to two grand,” she said.
She owes the tow yard almost $1,000 in order to get the car out and also owes $2,000 in state taxes.
Reise said she only has $800 saved up.
“I don’t have that amount of money to get my car out of the impound,” she said.
“There’s no way. “I live life paycheck to paycheck as it is.”
https://www.the-sun.com/motors/10098943/mom-car-towed-from-driveway-gray-area-law/amp/
Car repo’s are way up and deliquescent of bills are way up too…
BAU is out of breath…we need a break…
The Pathogen … would end her worries
Reise should move to Columbia MO, where my niece lives. The niece is a welfarian type, never pays taxes on vehicles that she somehow aquires, nor does she buy ins., lic. or anything. The local cops know her, and don’t ticket her or bust her ever, until recently, when she was ticketed for no plates. Then she called one of her policeperson friends, and they said she should have called them, and they would have “fixed it” for her. She failed to do that, so now she has a court date – ha ha!
Haha, these EV cultists deserve this. *Note* If you want to read this article without signing up for the NYT, just turn off JavaScript temporarily in your browser. Just wait when the Greenies are freezing their bums off because they have to rely on an intermittent electric source to stay warm and survive.
“Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather
In freezing temperatures, the batteries of electric vehicles can be less efficient and have shorter range, a lesson many Tesla drivers in Chicago learned this week.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/business/tesla-charging-chicago-cold-weather.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
Excerpt: “With Chicago temperatures sinking below zero, electric vehicle charging stations have become scenes of desperation: depleted batteries, confrontational drivers and lines stretching out onto the street.
When it’s cold like this, cars aren’t functioning well, chargers aren’t functioning well, and people don’t function so well either,” said Javed Spencer, an Uber driver who said he had done little else in the last three days besides charge his rented Chevy Bolt and worry about being stranded with a dead battery — again.
Mr. Spencer, 27, said he set out on Sunday for a charging station with 30 miles left on his battery. Within minutes, the battery was dead. He had to have the car towed to the station.
“When I finally plugged it in, it wasn’t getting any charge,” he said. Recharging the battery, which usually takes Mr. Spencer an hour, took five hours.
With more people owning electric vehicles than ever before, cold snaps this winter have created headaches for electric vehicle owners, as freezing temperatures drain batteries and reduce driving range.”
But this is something Martin Armstrong warned about in one of his daily posts.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/winter-woes-green-new-deal-turns-deadly/
Surely these are real modifications of the climate made by humans.
(Al Arabya)
“UAE to carry out hundreds of cloud-seeding missions in 2024 to tackle water scarcity” (300 activities are already planned).
“From shooting hygroscopic salt flares into the clouds to deploying unmanned aerial vehicles, the country uses a variety of methods to force rainfall and thereby ensure water security”
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2024/01/18/UAE-to-carry-out-hundreds-of-cloud-seeding-missions-in-2024-to-tackle-water-scarcity
I think that China has been doing something similar for years. Other places, as well.
Yes, I agree.
I think that if one wants to talk about human activities that modify the climate, one must first talk about these activities and then perhaps talk about other hypothesys.
Because these activities are real, proved and happen on various Countries, on the contrary, the impact of Co2 on the climate from human impact, is something to discuss about.
But media talk only of the latter.
I find very interesting these claims of Covid vax damages by Israeli people.
Probably war is also a good cover for the mistakes that Netaniahu made inside its Country.
(Hisinum.org)
“Claim: Severe disability after vaccination against COVID-19
“I played basketball professionally, I was an athlete…. Today I can hardly do anything, not even basic activities like climbing stairs or even walking for more than a few minutes. I have severe sleep problems, difficulty being in an enclosed space because I can’t breathe, no treatment or medication helps me, I feel like my life has been ruined.”
https://hisunim.org.il/תביעה-נכות-קשה-לאחר-חיסון-קורונה/
“Smadar suffered severe side effects immediately after the first coronavirus vaccine”
https://hisunim.org.il/סמדר-סבלה-מתופעות-לוואי-קשות-מיד-לאחר-2/
Others here: https://hisunim.org.il/vaccines/vaccine-injured/
And yet there are moreons who refuse/don’t want to connect the dots so they keep pushing this crap on the stoopid public.
The Slovak artist made an exhibition about his view of the future:
https://kultura.pravda.sk/galeria/clanok/696236-vytvarnik-rudolf-sikora-po-tretotriednej-civilizacii-nastupi-stvrta-cenova-skupina-nemame-sancu/?utm_source=pravda&utm_medium=hp-box&utm_campaign=shp_9clanok_box
Deepl translate:
“Artist Rudolf Sikora: After the third-class civilization, the fourth price group will come. We have no chance
Rudolf Sikora’s exhibition Third-Class Civilization, subtitled From Warning (1970 – 1976) to Agony (2021 – 2023), at the Art Capital Gallery in Bratislava’s SNP Square, will feature a guided tour on Thursday at 5 pm. The curator of the exhibition is Nina Vrbanová. The well-known artist gave us an interview about his work and opinions.”
“When the Club of Rome published The Limits to Growth in 1972, it turned the world upside down. It summarized the findings of 17 top scientists in a comprehensive study, reached the general public, and made an overwhelming number of people aware of where we were headed. On 7 April 2024, it will be 56 years since the Club of Rome was founded; from today’s perspective, some of its predictions have not come true, but many of them are 100 per cent true. In some ways, the scientists around the Club of Rome were wrong, but their main idea is tremendous. Underestimating the Club of Rome is ridiculous.”
“The subtitle of the exhibition From Warning (1970 – 1976)… draws attention to my work from the first half of the 1970s. One of the four walls shows what I was commenting on at the time. These are a few examples of major things from that period, now iconic: Out of the City (1970); Cuts through Civilization (1972); Habitat? (1974); Habitat III; and Two x Exclamation Point (1974), which are part of the permanent collections of several world-renowned galleries. For example, the originals of Reza’s Civilization are in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago in the USA. On the remaining three walls I show recent work from 2021-2023.”
“Do you have any idea what kind of civilization will follow the third class? And when will it come?
After the third-class civilization will come the 4th price group. According to the predictions of scientists who have been calling for years for a radical change in humanity’s behaviour towards the planet and its environment, after 50 to 80 years this environment will become uninhabitable for humans, because we are not changing any of it for the better, but for the worse.”
Artists often percieve things with ‘intelligenza intuitiva’ maybe translated with intuitive intelligence.
Let’s see if he will be right.
About Eastern Europe artists, I found the work of Jakub Rozalski also visionary.
I must admit that it was Ugo Bardi who first let me know about him.
Ugo is also often visionary, although he received some critics in this blog.
But I still think he had many good intuitions and insights.
Anyway, here we are with Jakob Rozalski:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tH743Wo5L3M&pp=ygUPamFrdWIgcm96YWxza2kg
The artists have a better ability to perceive the reality and meditate about the deeper meanings. That is why they can spot the truth under the marketing rubbish of neverending growth all around.
In the West artists are in for a quick buck like you or me. They can’t disobey the maximum power principle.
That is also true. You need some support, either commercial or from grants.
Art is a boy’s name..
Andy Warhol
That’s really cool artwork.
That’s for sharing that.
Without Woodrow Wilson carving up the Austria-Hungarian Empire, Sikora, who uses a German name, would have been known as an Austrian artist since Pressburg was a suburb of Wien.
Sikora subconsciously knows Slovakia should never have exists to begin with and he, instead of being part of a first world civilization, is stuck in a rust belt backwater.
Slovakia is a special mix of nations based on the Wallachian collonization. In fact, the Slovaks are not the the Slavs by their ethnicity, only by the official language.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-house-prices-fall-by-most-since-2011-ons-2024-01-17/
How long can debt be kept from defaulting?