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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.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/niall-mccrae-the-shocking-testimony/
The book What the Nurses Saw by Ken McCarthy features interviews with nurses who worked in the killing fields of US hospitals. An army veteran, Erin Marie Olszewski qualified and practised as a nurse in Florida. When New York became the American epicentre of Covid-19, she answered the urgent call for nurses from the city authorities. On arrival Olszewski was surprised to be boarded in a luxury hotel, having no work assigned but paid $10,000 weekly by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Clearly the crisis was not as bad as portrayed on the news.
Eventually Olszeswki was posted to a large public hospital, to find doctors and nurses following extraordinary and harmful protocols. Rather than a last resort, intubation to breathing machines was primary treatment. Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York, acted as medical dictator, ordering 30,000 ventilators. As paycheck employees following administrative policy, doctors abandoned their Hippocratic Oath, mistreating patients who walked into hospital but left via the morgue. Consent, so fundamental to healthcare, was reduced to doctors telling patients that their only chance of survival was mechanical ventilation.
According to Olszewski the throughput was like a factory production line, manufacturing the desired mortality data. Nurses, normally reticent in challenging decisions made by doctors in a rigid hierarchical culture, failed to put their patients first. They were complicit in state-sanctioned murder. This was particularly awful in the public hospitals of New York, where the majority of patients were poor and funded by Medicare, the federal system that incentivised use of ventilators, paying hospitals $39,000 per case. As patients were expected to perish, little care was given and they lay unwashed on their faeces. As soon as a corpse was carried out, the apparatus was used for the next admission.
To sedate intubated patients, high doses of fentanyl were administered. It was standard practice to conduct a breathing test on patients after a day on the ventilator. They almost always failed, because of the respiratory suppressant effect of fentanyl. But the most dubious intervention was remdesivir, declared by Anthony Fauci as the ‘drug of choice’ for covid sufferers. This antiviral was originally tested on Ebola cases, but over half died in the trial. For covid a rushed and incomplete trial was claimed as evidence of its efficacy, but the drug often caused kidney failure.
It seems like I remember reading that the early ventilators (with the terribly wrong settings) produced a 96% mortality rate. Maybe that number is wrong, but it was simply dreadful.
Teething problems on the way to the Big Transition … https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/91470
And then there is the issue with cold and charging the batteries…
How about equipping EVs with a small diesel generator to warm the batteries????
It’s a loved problem, just the regular immersion heater in the battery coolant circuit, plugged to the 230V engine heater sockets found in most civilized places on earth with a bit colder climate.
https://cdn.branschaktuellt.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/29092843/Branchaktuellt-oktober_1920x1280_1.jpg
And yes, it can both heat the battery and squeeze in a couple of kilowatts of charge and heat into the battery and coupe..
It ain’t rocket science folks, as for implementing it properly not leaving stranded EV’s. Well, I hereby present you ego driven (no pun intended) engineering incompetence.
Hang on … instead of all these work arounds… so that people can charge their EVs with fossil fuel generated electricity …
Why not just buy – for half the price — a car with one of these????
Hahahahahahahah… WTF???? Do I get to be the King of Idiocracy Land for making this suggestion?? Why can’t the Green Grooopies work this out for themselves????
https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1bvFLRVXXXXXuXFXXq6xXFXXXp/Pair-of-Car-Stainless-Steel-Exhaust-Tail-Pipes-Muffler-Tips-for-VW-Golf-Tiguan-Passat-Touran.jpg
Ok I get it … the GGs don’t want to drive cheap ICE cars …. cuz… cnnbbc said saving planet …
Well then … here is a solution when it gets cold … just buy one of these… and put it inside the car and blast it … hopefully this will heat the battery pack enough to be able to charge it.
WARNING – because GGs are f789ing idi ots… there MUST be a huge warning on the side of the heater – OPEN WINDOWS WHEN IN USE OR YOU WILL DIE.
Hmmm.. if you open the windows… the heat will escape.. gosh … seems we are back to square one on this …
Sadly this won’t work on Mars …
https://sesdirect.co.nz/collections/diesel-electric-heaters/products/be-21kw-diesel-radiant-heater-70000btu-1
Immersion and coupe heaters have been in use in the Nordic countries for more than half a century already. Ask any Laplander if they fancy turning the ignition key of a -30C cold fossil burning automobile without first having it preheated for some 3h. They’d think you’re either bonkers, a Russkie, Brit or a ‘Murican. But that’s not your fault.
😅👍👍
Where I am from if you didn’t plug in the block heater — you may as well not get out of bed on a cold day…
Civilized enough. Block heater it is, right. Thanks FE.
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Various issues.
> ICJ Rules Against Israel; Shock Decision; Texas Defies Biden, Prospect of US Funds For Ukraine Fade
Another 4 or 5 countries are taking them to either the ICJ or ICC and this ruling has opened the door for many to end all dealings with them. I’m hopeful of a push to ban them from all international events, as was done with apartheid SA. Lots and lots of sanctions would be great, as they import just about everything. It’s about time they understood the revulsion that the bulk of the world feels for them.
Expect the rest of the duel passport holders to be planning a quick exit, which will compound the economic destruction. 700,000 have already ran away and won’t be returning. Hezbollah are ratcheting up the pressure and the talk of a blockade of the med gathers pace. A few well placed rockets on their refineries will speed it up, but that might not come until the med is a no go for shipping to them.
This also now opens the door for charges against the complicit.
Best news I’ve heard in quite some time. Think I’ll go out and celebrate tomorrow, although it also means they are going to double down on the genocide, but I feel the resistance will be emboldened to fight fire with fire, maybe even the destruction of the Knesset(hopefully full), which would be wonderfully symbolic.
I hadn’t realized that the ICJ ruling was so negative for Israel.
They got to pick one of the judges and all the judges except one ruled against them. No prizes for guessing which one.
The WSJ article makes the ICJ ruling sound favorable to Israel.
As all the western media have Gail and they are being wholly dishonest. The ICJ can not order Hamas to do anything, as Hamas are not a state, so ordering a ceasefire was never possible, but they did order the illegal encampment to stop killing civilians
“in accordance with its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in relation to Palestinians in Gaza, take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of Article II of this Convention, in particular:
(a) killing members of the group;
(b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;”
That is telling them to cease their genocide.
Mr Bolsen is not happy.
https://youtu.be/MsiGmOUQdj4?feature=shared
Now we need BRICS to bring article 6 to the table and get the US kicked out of the UNSC which is very doable.
Edward Dutton, one of the few remaining intellectuals of England, goes to a seaside town called Clacton in Essex and meets with the people. The thumbnail says Britain’s Genetic Decline.
https://youtu.be/hf3oNMCZw2M?si=W3X7RqeX_nEFx-RG
At one time, selection favored the intelligent and physically fit. No more. The selection seems to be in reverse.
The title of the video is, “Clacton: The Last of England.”
The blurb says,
Selection has always favoured those abilities and behaviours that improve the chances of passing on those particular genes.
He seems not so bright.
He thinks pigs got smaller after the Romans left Britain because people ‘forgot’ how to breed them, like they supposedly ‘forgot’ how to make concrete and glass.
Obviously none of that is true. Pigs were smaller because of the low fertility of the post collapse farmland and there was no timber available to produce glass or concrete due to deforestation. Deforestation would also have affected pigs since they used to eat a lot of acorns.
Like we forgot how to fly to the moon. And stopped going. Forever (cuz the technology has degraded)
The lost the technology …
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2b/07/e6/2b07e6acd2c53c3a5f8a911121015059.jpg
Life before BAU:
Recently, the creators of the movie Loving Vincent released a movie called the Peasant, about the daily lives of peasants in the western region of Russian Empire, which Woodrow Wilson renamed Poland.
Wladyslaw Rejmont , a descendant of a former landowner, worked in odd jobs in various parts of the congress province of the Russian Empire. He wrote that story in 1904-1907, based in an insignificant town called Lipce where he worked in the 1880s.
The story takes place either in the 1870s or 1900s, which does not matter since life in that part of world did not really change until the Red Army swept into there.
Trailer for Peasants
https://youtu.be/wuOLXlND62c?si=B-vcyxq1jAJM11rL
Clip from the 1973 movie dealing with same topic
https://youtu.be/cvIVC2LEViA?si=-2mAd0VS4dNofpso
Jagna is the prettiest girl of Lipce. She is in love with the landowner’s son, who is married btw, but her mother said land is forever so she marries her lover’s father, who is much older, so she would inherit his land.
A bunch of intrigues occur, with the Landowner , having kicked his son out of the house then getting into trouble with the richer Russian landowners, while his young wife continues dalliances with his son, whose wife just watches the whole thing since disinheritance means death to her.
The Landowner dies, and the son, after raping Jagna, accuses her to be promiscuous and manages to cheat her inheritance. He then orders the peasants to lynch her. She is stripped naked and gang raped (off screen) and banished out of town ; not being able to read Polish, I don’t know how she ended up in the original story.
But Jagna’s mother, who ended up with a small plot of land, ends up happy despite of what happened to her daughter, since daughters are replaceable but land is not and the central message of that story is people come and go but land is forever.
The story, while remembered in Poland which did not have a highway connecting Warsaw and Silesia until quite recently, not being the kind of people building infrastructures, was virtually forgotten out of it, even the fact that its author won a Nobel Prize back in 1924, until this movie was made.
That is how people lived before BAU. It might be offensive to people in English speaking world, but people lived like that, out of touch of civilization, before Chucky did ‘his duty’.
Thank goodness for Chucky.
If USA is ever going to reform, CA and HI should NOT be given statehoods.
Break CA into at least 4 states so it can not dominate national politics, and create the territory of Oahu, Maui, etc and end all privileges for the Hawaiian Royals, most of them descendants of whites who married some Hawaiian nobles long time ago.
CA having electoral votes led to a lot of mishaps, all of them bad. It should be denied.
And whoever had the idea to make Hawaii a state should be damned. Even now it really acts like it is a world of its own. It should become the first former state, the first state to have its statehood stripped.
Inflation/deflation.
Natural gas, US, down,
Gasoline US, down, at St. Chrales, MN, currently about $2.55/gal give or take
Home prices seem down:
https://wolfstreet.com/2024/01/25/prices-of-new-houses-drop-to-2-year-low/
Don’t know much about cars.
A very nice Peterbilt, sled, older engine, less than 100K miles recently sold for $250K-300K as I recall. The old engines run, the new ones are serviced.
Nice, older tractors go for a premium, older engines, not temperamental.
Were I to guess, and I have, land prices seem to have topped; they no longer make sense on a cashflow basis.
Dennis L.
Thanks for pointing this Wolfstreet article out. I understand the builders are building slightly smaller homes, probably with a few less “extras” to keep the prices down.
Around my neighborhood of homes built mostly in the 1970s, there are an awfully lot of homes being renovated, with the idea of selling them at high prices. I have a hard time believing that very high prices can be obtained, however.
Also, longer-term interest rates may be heading up–they are back above 4% now, and could get back to the 5% level, if the government continues borrowing huge amounts of money and needs to skew the money it borrows toward longer durations. Government debt is unusually skewed toward short durations now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM2nMBpjrsE
Brendan Kavanagh first half a speech second half Brendan playing and singing totally fun.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/biden-set-announce-lng-export-ban-appease-climate-warriors-ahead-election
Electoral gimmick or is it running short due to the shale decline? Has Europe been consulted (ah, dumb question).
It also appeals to right leaning nationalists. Such as myself.
This if enforced will completely undermine the US Ukraine and Europe strategy.
strategy ???!!!???
it works the strategy kill Ukraine,kill Europe, hurt Russia.
You are not wrong. But they have to do something to keep Europe onside, besides filling Brussels with puppets. Cutting gas has to be one of the worst thing as seen from Europe. Did I mention that the Houthis have enlarged access denial to the US and UK? The European participants are next.
The future is ours
The world is ours
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Ed,
The universe is a strange place, it has its own rules or shows us the fabric as we live. It is also a very old project, not even a fourth decimal point in our time frame of max 100 years.
The extreme nihilism leads nowhere, some will chose that to show “cool.” Others will stand firm, some too will lose, but some will win and survive.
We are in a bumpy stretch; I find it comforting to suspect I am going with flow and not coasting into a backwater from which there is no escape. Or, life is as it should be, we concern ourselves too much with the details.
Dennis L.
Interesting
Building all of the needed infrastructure for LNG would seem to have a very long payback period. I wonder if natural gas available for export would decline very early in this payback period, making building such LNG terminals non-economic.
Also, if US natural gas production peaks very soon (and it may very well do so, given the low prices and the forecasts that are made using Hubbert Linearization), the US may need whatever natural gas is produced for its own use.
Interesting Gail. It got me thinking what will Russia do. My guess is that all the LNG will go to Japan, China, South Korea from Yamal. It is a fairly short trip, but of course you need icebreakers and possibly a convoy.
Russia has been building natural gas pipelines to China. I understand that expansion is planned in the near future–2025 if I remember correctly. Pipeline natural gas is usually less expensive than LNG. But I suppose it depends on the length of the pipeline and the terrain that it goes over. Pipeline gas could also be pretty expensive.
Icebreakers you say.
https://m.vz.ru/economy/2024/1/19/1249177.html
Not everyone is worried about global warming!
No-one with any power, and almost no-one else, is worried about it.
Only really dummb people worry about it … there are a lot of dummmb people in the world
The Canal… fake … but not just for the fun of it … it would explain any shortfall in energy supplies… those damn HOOTIES are driving up our heating costs.. damn HOOTIES!!!
Nothing to do with declining affordable energy … it’s just that those HOOTIES are so powerful … surely at some point the world powers will stop them from shutting down the canal
We are going to unleash our diverse army anytime baby. Even the few leftover whites have walked a mile in her shoes, walking in high heels for a mile to build esprit de corps. With not yet invented bombs which can penetrate the ground for 30 meters and then explode. Then we will finish them with 155mm shells recycled from Ukraine. We are in fact building another factory, ready in 2030, that will double the shell production. Then with AI we will be able to take care of 100 drones swarms, using laser guns. We have asked the Houthis to attack only during clear skies, no fog.
yes of course the Russian army is busy in Ukraine… that’s much more important than keeping a major artery of the global supply chain open…
Pooty fraid the Big Bad HOOTIES?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/update-25-states-now-stand-texas-governor-greg/
26 of 50 states stand together against the leviathan.
“I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.”
-George Washington (1788)
Hobbes’ Leviathan expounds at length upon the structure of society and legitimate government, becoming one of the most influential political philosophies in the West’s history.
“UPDATE: 25 States Now Stand with Texas Governor Greg Abbott – Sign Letter Supporting Texas’ Constitutional Right to Self-Defense”
It is going to be interesting. Recalling most soldiers chose not to kill other soldiers(the reason for the incredibly large number of rounds/kill) there is hope.
Probably not all Federal officials are in agreement with starting a civil war, they too may be no shows. More policy I suspect, people will simple ignore policy and find ways to make life work. Nor do I think state officials will start a shooting war, perhaps just stare at the other side.
We need to get along and the hard heads who want constant war need to be sent to the front lines; let them lead the way.
Dennis L.
In reality what we need to do is start killing all the “human members” uphill of us in the Hierarchy.
That means any SOB that des not carry his/her own water needs to go.
Sharpened pine poles, hemp ropes, open pyres hilltops.
We can start with technologic war and evolve into the tried and true.
May it come soon…..
here here
In my town the supervisor was reelected. His first action was to double his salary.
My wife and I looked at a house in a town on the other side of the river.
FE would approve this
Two lithium-ion rechargeable batteries to meet peak demands of rover activities when the demand temporarily exceeds the MMRTG’s steady electrical output levels.
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/electrical-power/
The temperature on Mars can be as high as 70 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) or as low as about -225 degrees Fahrenheit (-153 degrees Celsius).
https://science.nasa.gov/mars/facts/
Generally, the operating temperature range of lithium-ion batteries is 15°C~35°C. If the temperature is too high or too low, the battery will not work
https://www.energytrend.com/news/20220719-29274.html
There is a lot of articles on “operating range of Li Ion battery”.
So, what is real and what is not?
It is the little details that count. The average person on the street doesn’t know this.
They know now… but they continue to believe this was real (it was real – but it was filmed on Earth)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xAGTqGpjGc
Notice how easy it is to control what humans think… they are dummb.
Pavlov could have easily convinced a human to pull the lever… just replace the treat with a $100 bill….
hahahahaha…. what a ridiculous species… sprays poison on its food supply to stop the bugs from eating it …then they feed the stuff to their children … hahahaha
helicopters on mars… hahahahahahahaha Ever been in -60C? it’s brutal …
I have…and it is….
I also agree it is funny how everyone thinks what they see on their screens is real….big daddy gubmint wouldn’t lie right??
LMAO
Where does it say that Mars rovers are equipped with lithium batteries? That is too indefensible a lie, and NASA must have gotten better at lying over the decades (unless they lost the “how to lie” manual too, along with the technical drawings of the apollo). All the Voyager and cassini missions had plutonium chargers.
somehow, i don’t think NASA would have sent a man with a van to the tesla factory to get a couple of spare batteries to put in their mars rover.
but at least it gives eddy something else to be ‘right’ about
Same batteries as your electric drill norm 🙂
Given the recent excitement about the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity’s first powered flight on another planet, I wanted to share my research into its power source: 6 lithium ion cells.
You may be surprised to learn that the Ingenuity’s energy source is built from six off the shelf 18650 lithium ion cells from Sony, the VTC4. This cell has been around for several years – I found a data sheet from 2012 while researching for this article.
Given the general high power and low energy specifications of the VTC4, it has probably been used in power tools here on earth. Furthermore, it comes as little surprise that the team at the JPL went for something “tried, tested, and true” for a mission critical component.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-deep-dive-its-6-pack-damien-frost/
“Nothing. No juice. Still on zero percent, and this is like three hours being out here after being out here three hours yesterday,” Tesla owner Tyler Beard told Fox 32.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/16/tesla_owners_in_deep_freeze/
This is one of those moments where you can either declare you were wrong … or you can continue to exhibit behaviour that everyone on OFW will consider you are MOREON.
Hey norm… how does it feel to be made to lick the toilet bowl seat in a public washroom?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-deep-dive-its-6-pack-damien-frost/
Given the recent excitement about the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity’s first powered flight on another planet, I wanted to share my research into its power source: 6 lithium ion cells.
You may be surprised to learn that the Ingenuity’s energy source is built from six off the shelf 18650 lithium ion cells from Sony, the VTC4. This cell has been around for several years – I found a data sheet from 2012 while researching for this article.
Given the general high power and low energy specifications of the VTC4, it has probably been used in power tools here on earth. Furthermore, it comes as little surprise that the team at the JPL went for something “tried, tested, and true” for a mission critical component.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-deep-dive-its-6-pack-damien-frost/
You can change your F mark to an A by stating: Fast Eddy – you were right. You are the GOAT. I admit I was wrong and you made a fool of me. Please change my grade.
The body of the rover is insulated and heated.
The Perseverance rover’s body is called the warm electronics box, or “WEB” for short. Like a car body, the rover body is a strong, outer layer that protects the rover’s computer and electronics (which are basically the equivalent of the rover’s brains and heart). The rover body thus keeps the rover’s vital organs protected and temperature-controlled.
Wow. Just because you read this on a website does not mean it is possible.
You need a very powerful heat source to keep a battery at a temperature where it can be charged… it’s a Catch 22 situation … you use the power of a battery to heat the battery to charge the battery to heat the battery ….
We are talking extreme cold… you’d need a massive battery to make that happen…
And you’d need a very large array of solar panels…
Why are people so f789ing re tarded? Oh right cuz they trust bbccnn and NASA
Meanwhile:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2b/07/e6/2b07e6acd2c53c3a5f8a911121015059–apollo–space-pics.jpg
Why did you post a picture of a hobo tent?
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/body/
Insulated and heated hahaha
With the seat warmers on and the heat on full blast, the Tesla lost over 60 miles of range compared to the figure we recorded with no HVAC use.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a31739529/how-much-does-climate-control-affect-ev-range/
Now try to heat the rig in – 60C or worse hahahaha
Unreal how stoooopid people can be…
It is not possible to charge a battery in -60C… NOT POSSIBLE. Simple.
F789 this is irritating having to read stoooopidity…
Look at this f789ing thing!!!
Duh
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2b/07/e6/2b07e6acd2c53c3a5f8a911121015059–apollo–space-pics.jpg
Given the recent excitement about the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity’s first powered flight on another planet, I wanted to share my research into its power source: 6 lithium ion cells.
You may be surprised to learn that the Ingenuity’s energy source is built from six off the shelf 18650 lithium ion cells from Sony, the VTC4. This cell has been around for several years – I found a data sheet from 2012 while researching for this article.
Given the general high power and low energy specifications of the VTC4, it has probably been used in power tools here on earth. Furthermore, it comes as little surprise that the team at the JPL went for something “tried, tested, and true” for a mission critical component.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-deep-dive-its-6-pack-damien-frost/
“Nothing. No juice. Still on zero percent, and this is like three hours being out here after being out here three hours yesterday,” Tesla owner Tyler Beard told Fox 32.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/16/tesla_owners_in_deep_freeze/
The key point is to know what kind of batteries had the rover that run over the moon like a buggy car.
Thanks in advance for replying on this point who know this.
Exactly.
Rover rolled inches per hour.
Moon buggy with fuel cells performed almost like a dune buggy. Not likely.
Dune Buggy on the moon
This is even better, with some part of the video directly taken from the car, fantastic 😀
https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-video-apollo-16-lunar-rover-drive-on-moon-2017-11?op=1&r=US&IR=T
“LONDON 🇬🇧 The third electric bus has caught on fire in a matter of days.” Strange! Doesn’t sound like these electric busses have a promising future.
These are acts of Terror … committed by the unstoppable HOOTIES.
Look under your bed… BOO!!!… there’s a HOOTIE>
Given the recent excitement about the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity’s first powered flight on another planet, I wanted to share my research into its power source: 6 lithium ion cells.
You may be surprised to learn that the Ingenuity’s energy source is built from six off the shelf 18650 lithium ion cells from Sony, the VTC4. This cell has been around for several years – I found a data sheet from 2012 while researching for this article.
Given the general high power and low energy specifications of the VTC4, it has probably been used in power tools here on earth. Furthermore, it comes as little surprise that the team at the JPL went for something “tried, tested, and true” for a mission critical component.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-deep-dive-its-6-pack-damien-frost/
“Nothing. No juice. Still on zero percent, and this is like three hours being out here after being out here three hours yesterday,” Tesla owner Tyler Beard told Fox 32.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/16/tesla_owners_in_deep_freeze/
Not only the cold but the absolute vacuum of space. I’m not sure how lithium ion batteries would fare if they’re sent orbit. I reckon they must not o it keep them at about +25C but also at about one atmosphere of pressure. Basically placed inside a pressure controlled climate chamber. Does that seem to add complications? Otherwise I reckon the outgassing, thermal runaway and deep freeze to close to absolute zero would make short work of any ambitious space project built with over the shelf parts sourced from DigiKey and Mouser.
Doesn’t the milind complex got some spiffy radioactive materials that can be used with thermoelectrics? It’s nice, toasty and provides electrons for the circuitry.
But WTF do I know of space adventurisms?
🤷♂️
Don’t boggle the minds and confuse the MOREONS with scientific detail
The same MOREONS who did not question Safe and Effective when they surely know anything discovered and tested in under a year was highly unlikely to be either
MOREONS outsource their thinking to bbccnn… and huff…
come on man!!! Don’t use facts!!!! And do not intrude with logic.
The MOREONS do not like that stuff… they just like what bbccnn says… and it says the chopper and the landing vehicle were charged with solar panels… they are not interested in the FACT that batteries won’t charge in cold – never mind extreme cold…
Even if you show them this EVs stranded in barely below 0C … https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/19/tesla-battery-dying-cold-weather-charging-winter
They (norm) will insist that NASA (oh great NASA inventor of velcro)… have better tech…
And when you show them that the battery tech is off the shelf stuff used in power tools… they then inform you that the buggy and chopper were heavily insulated…
Oh hey if that worked why not insulate the Tesla battery? Oh right insulation is useless if you don’t have a very powerful heating source to overcome seriously -C temperatures… trying to do this would suck the battery dry in seconds… Duh.
It is at this point that they stick the fingers in their ears and repeatedly shout – I’m a f789ing MOREON so F789 you CTG… I’m a f789ing MOREON so F789 you CTG…
And norm disappears down the back alley to hook up Out Back the Dumpster…
You may be surprised to learn that the Ingenuity’s energy source is built from six off the shelf 18650 lithium ion cells from Sony, the VTC4. This cell has been around for several years – I found a data sheet from 2012 while researching for this article.
Given the general high power and low energy specifications of the VTC4, it has probably been used in power tools here on earth. Furthermore, it comes as little surprise that the team at the JPL went for something “tried, tested, and true” for a mission critical component.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-deep-dive-its-6-pack-damien-frost/
Repeat after me — the Mars landing is FAKE. 100% Fake.
Funny https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/91461
This is a long list of dead Pro Vaxxers. Enjoy
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-f3d?r=m6kl7
Doomsberg poops again . Adam Taggart moderates the debate between Doomsberg and Rozcwanig ( top oil analyst ) .
Economically recoverable reserves are upwards of 1,450 gigabarrels for the top 10 countries combined. At ~36gb per annum that’s 40 years. If price goes up, more reserves become economical and can be added to the total. In short – we’re golden. Now where’d I put my BAU 2050 party hat and champagne?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves
I’ll check back with you doomers in 10 years and let you know it’s safe to come out of the bunkers.
Is it possible that wikipedia is not a trustworthy source? And that in fact government published data aren’t themselves trustworthy?
From Wikipedia :
Some statistics on this page are disputed and controversial—different sources (OPEC, CIA World Factbook, oil companies) give different figures.😊 Some of the differences reflect different types of oil included. Different estimates may or may not include oil shale, mined oil sands or natural gas liquids.
Because proven reserves include oil recoverable under current economic conditions, nations may see large increases in proven reserves when known, but previously uneconomic deposits become economic to develop. In this way, Canada’s proven reserves increased suddenly in 2003 when the oil sands of Alberta were seen to be economically viable. Similarly, Venezuela’s proven reserves jumped in the late 2000s when the heavy oil of the Orinoco Belt was judged economic.” 😂
Make up the figures as you go along and suit your narrative . Example Venezuela , who cares what the reserves are . They cannot be extracted , It is the flow rate that matters and not reserves . It is the size of the tap and not the size of the tank that matters .
Thanks Ravi. I have always had a question which google would not answer, but maybe you know the answer. Is the Venezuelan new, extremely heavy oil, harvestable by pipe, or is it so think it will not flow?
drb , most of Venezuelan oil is actually extra heavy about 8-10 API and is in what is called the Orinico Basin . Difficult to flow . At peak Venezuela produced 3.5 mbpd . Now 850,000 . Years of sanctions have destroyed all the infrastructure and the manpower is lost . During the Trump years the oil majors did an assessment of time and money needed to bring back production to pre sanction days . The cost was about $ 70-90 billion and time 10 years . It was not worth it for them to go back , Further China has advanced Venezuela $ 50 billion so they have first rights on the oil as repayment for the loan . The reserves of Venezuela will remain undevolped and will not come to the market . Latest update .
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/29/1215547427/venezuela-oil-spill-maracaibo
Those are good points. The Venezuelan country also needs a high tax rate on exported oil, in order to have funds to support the rest of the economy.
Anyone who thinks that the world’s “proven reserves” are reasonable should stop and think about something this article points out: Venezuela has the highest (supposedly) proven reserves in the world.
Also, (not in this article), Canada is close behind.
I think Art Berman has a good explanation of oil on his talks. He is my go to on oil. Much more knowledgeable than doomberg
If I treat it as untrustworthy, I have nothing with which to poke and prod the commentariat.
When I studied Latin at Liceo, those were the typical rethoric questions that Cicerone made in his tirades 😀
Reffering to drb questions above
Wishful thinking goes into the “reserves” that are published. No one knows what future prices will be; they depend upon demand and well as supply. They also depend on supply lines for things like steel drilling pipe being in place. The US buys an awfully lot of its steel drilling pipe from China; we don’t manufacture much here, and cannot given today’s supply lines.
The whole system is interconnected and very much dependent on rising debt (to create “money” supply) as well as adequate energy supplies of the right kind.
It is the failure of the economic system that we are likely up against. This is not reflected in the supposed “proven oil resources.”
Debt is a claim on future revenues. One nice block of Pt, solar conversion to electricity to H, H conversion to electricity for mobility and it is all paid back.
We are a growing universe, thus debt grows; there are hiccups, but the universe grows as does our understanding of it. The energy is coming from parts unknown, but it keeps coming.
China, Japan and the US are going to the moon, Japan arrived and tipped over, small problem.
Someone, somehow sees money and repayment of debt.
In life you keep going or you die and it is someone else’s problem.
Dennis L.
An interesting comment from POB :
KENGEO
IGNORED
01/22/2024 at 4:06 pm
“Peak oil could be 2018, (annual production) but this is looking unlikely”
So far it’s still 2018, 1P reserves are only about 250 Gb, world currently consumes almost 30 Gb annually.
1P reserves run out in ~8 years, we will need to see 1P reserves increase by 15% each year just to keep them around 200 Gb…so far there’s nothing suggesting that is going to happen.
A future peak exceeding that of 2018 seems very unlikely, so I completely disagree with your willy nilly assessment…
More likely, we will see very large production cuts from a number of key producers (Russia, Saudi Arabia, US, etc).
Understanding terms :
1P = Proven reserves ( 100% will be extracted )
2P = Proven & Probable reserves ( 50/50 chance ) just like flipping a coin .
A post by John at OSB on this video . Thoughtful .
” In my view the signifcant difference between Doomberg’s position on “Peak Cheap Energy” and Goehring & Rozencwajg ‘s” Peak Unconventional Resource Production” (for lack of a better phrase) and the position of those of us on OSB is the perspective on what is meant by “cheap”.
To me “cheap” means that something is abundant, readily available for general use and affordable. In this regard, I think Mike and to a much lesser extent Art Berman is more correct than Doomberg. At least Doomberg suggests the possibility of a more cheerful and optimistic future than Berman who sees a dire dystopian future with drastic reductions in energy consumption which in turn suggests that only the progeny of the privileged few will survive the coming chaos. I think Berman’s scenario will be a bloody and painful process and if Berman is any sort of a humanitarian he should at a minimum offer a path forward for humanity.
A friend, Heinrich Leopold, wrote his thesis on the Fisher-Tropsch process, told me that gas-to-liquids is a difficult process from a cost point and and energy balance point. Difficult processes are more expensive. And in Heinrich’s view, It is better to use the energy source and technology with the cheapest cost. According to my dictionary, expensive is the opposite of cheap.
In an environmental sense, the US has sanctioned fossil fuels vis-a-vis wind and solar renewable energy in favor of a climate agenda and in a geopolitical sense the energy exporting countries of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Russia, Venezuala, and energy importing countries of China, Cuba, and North Korea, for geopolitical reasons.
The foreseeable outcome of this, in my view, is very similar to what has happened to Germany after WWII, South Africa in the late 20th century and present day Germany during the confrontration between Russian-Ukraine-USA. These sanctions appear ready to give birth to a “new world order” that doesn’t bear any resemblence to the NWO announced by Bush 41 in 199
Doomberg TKO. There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch
What a f789ing MOREON!!!
At least Doomberg suggests the possibility of a more cheerful and optimistic future than Berman who sees a dire dystopian future with drastic reductions in energy consumption which in turn suggests that only the progeny of the privileged few will survive the coming chaos. I think Berman’s scenario will be a bloody and painful process and if Berman is any sort of a humanitarian he should at a minimum offer a path forward for humanity.
Oh ok … so Berman should just invent a Hollywood Ending with no basis in fact … to make the situation more palatable….
I already did that – they will not allow chaos.. and ROF https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220
64 comments for “The Year of the Recession that Didn’t Come: Our Drunken Sailors Partied & Spent, GDP Jumped”
Leonardo
Jan 25, 2024 at 3:28 pm
The most reckless drunken sailor, the federal government, is blowing vast sums in every direction, relentlessly running up gigantic deficits and piling them on its $34 trillion mountain of debt.
As long as the treasury market keeps assimilating the surging supply of new debt, this drunken sailor can continue his drinking spree singing his favorite tune of -deficits don’t matter- and scoffing at any mention of bond vigilantes.
$50T by 2030 ish.
$100T near The Collapse.
end of 2024, the 2020s will be half in the history books.
😎
Trump added 7.8 trillion in 4 years and who knows what bidet has added- not transparent- but I’m guessing it’s more than that so you can figure about 10 trillion per president but that doesn’t include interest on the debt.. the law of exponentials ! Works both ways! I think they need to let the crash happen. Question is do we come out of it? We might not make it to 2030 David.
I found an article behind the paywall on Zerohedge talking about the huge increase in US debt that was required to create the US’s supposed 4th quarter GDP growth rate of 3.3%.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/gdp-number-was-great-there-just-one-huge-problem
I would point out that there is also an increase in private debt that is going on, that needs to be added to this number, since increases in non-government debt also affect debt. We are probably up in the range of $4 or $5 of total increase in debt to generate $1 of GDP growth. This cannot continue indefinitely, especially with interest rates as high as they are.
Wouldn’t that depend on where the GDP is? Starship would be part of that but it is an asset.
Dennis L.
Not sure how you cut rates with this … but also not sure what is driving this …
https://wolfstreet.com/2024/01/25/the-year-of-the-recession-that-didnt-come-our-drunken-sailors-partied-spent-gdp-jumped/
From the article:
“All major categories of spending and investment pulled in the same direction.”
“A year ago, even the Fed staff predicted a recession for late 2023.”
It looks to me as if once the powers that be figured out how bad 2023 was likely to be, they “let out the stops” in all directions. The rest of the world isn’t doing as well, but the US has seemed to do pretty well with the US$ as reserve currency.
See how powerful the suggestion of a rate cut is.. they don’t even have to cut the rates…
I suppose there might be a problem when the markets realize there won’t be significant rate cuts though
I’m not holding my breath on rate cuts.
Oh wow … now where is the mother who injected her baby? Or injected while preggo????
3-month-old girl dies at Queens migrant shelter after suffering cardiac arrest
January 21, 2024
Long Island City, Queens, NY — A three-month-old girl has died after she suffered a cardiac arrest at a migrant shelter. Police say the infant was housed at the Queens County Inn and Suites in Long Island City. Medics rushed her to the hospital where doctors pronounced her dead. Police say there were no signs of trauma on her body.
I give you … DEATH.
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-6b4
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-perils-of-vaccinating-when-you/comments
INGRID C DURDEN
3 hrs ago
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I remember Geert VandenBossche saying something like, when you jab people in the middle of an epidemic, the virus will mutate quicker. that one would inject a pregnant woman is beyond belief. I saw the vaxxed films and remember a young woman who had the papilloma shots, got very sick from it, was vaccine damaged, and a few years later, got cervical cancer. I know several who got the covid shots and were sick from the shots and then had the virus.
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A Midwestern Doctor
2 hrs ago
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Correct. He was not the only one. I’m pinning this comment because of your cervical cancer observations.
Fast Eddy
just now
Pin this 🙂
F789 All Vaccines.
But don’t try to dissuade others from taking all that are on offer in the event that there is a degree of utility in some of them and if the herd takes the risks you get the benefit…
It might sound a bit harsh… and selfish… but actually it’s just your reward for being blessed with true intelligence.
Everyone has the same opportunity to not vaccinate… but should you be penalized because they are stupid? So stupid that you could even explain this to them and they’d a) get very angry cuz if everyone did this … and b) they’d continue shooting all the shots..
It would be nearly impossible to convince a Pro Vaxxer to retire from the game… cuz curing stupidity … is not possible. Although taking lots of Covid Boosters will eventually cure every disease
This short video will cheer everyone up—apart from Yuval Harari.
It has drama. It has suspense. It has bravery, courage, heroism, human interest, and a cute dog. The works!
For those that don’t know, the people are speaking Russian.
Yes, I know it should have been obvious from their behaviour.
Since almost everybody on this blog is a westerner, pretend you didn’t see it and go back to enjoy your collapse.
Yes, this country has a lot to offer. I would not be anywhere else.
-50C winter is awesome! It’s a good place to test the battery on the Mars chopper
I am at fairly northern location, and we got -33 yearly minimum last year and -37 this year. The sheep (never mind the cows) don’t even bother to go inside at -37. And russian made batteries work at those temps. You can be indoors those days.
yes of course … Russia has the best of everything including batteries… right?
Far better than those crappy batteries that Panasonic makes for Tesla and other EV makers … right?
Where does Russia purchase it’s batteries from?
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/01/19/top-10-battery-producers-in-the-world-2023-provisional-data/
Delusional Thinking on Display.
F.Fail.
The trusty, old and crusty Soviet propaganda is still alive and kicking.
Gotta make the proletariat endure the suck while the politburo revel in opulence. Perhaps it is Pootsky et. al. these days. Same jank, different name.
Anyway; in Soviet Russia battery charges you.
Thank you for the laugh, Kow!
Because you are an e-bike fan in Scandinavia, I bet you might have some relevant observations about battery performance in the very cold …
Thanks DB. It works just fine. Park the bike indoors between the bouts of suck, churn and turn in the cold. I believe it is called a ‘house’, perhaps a garage. Try it.
For sure a cold day depletes the battery faster, but it’s not rocket science to figure out that stuff moves with more resistance in the cold, with the exception of ice skates and skis.
EVs also do not charge as quickly in extreme cold. Some Tesla owners near Chicago told reporters their cars would not charge at all. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/19/tesla-battery-dying-cold-weather-charging-winter
Now imagine -60C hahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahha
Mars helicopter hahahahahaahahaha
hahahahahaha
haha
ha
Power Drill battery packs hahahahahahahahahahahhahhahaha
I smell mental illness
They’d probably got teslas with defunct or without battery pack preheaters. I’m not so sure teslas in southern latitudes would need a preheater. Thats, like, for colder places. Say Alaska or whatever hellhole the Laplanders dwell in.
Never heard of a Tesla refusing charge in Scandinavia.
Fake news for the plebs.
Thank you for your observations, Kow. Keeping batteries indoors when not in use or using preheaters don’t seem to be options in Mars, as FE indicates.
Why is NASA funding research on how to make batteries enduring the cold of space and planets like Mars?
https://acee.princeton.edu/acee-news/nasa-awards-hatzell-a-grant-to-improve-batteries-for-space-missions/
Maybe there is more to the story. But then how did multiple generations of solar/battery powered Mars rovers perform their missions?
Tesla has huge funding… and yet…
A Tesla owner’s video went viral after he couldn’t get his Model S to charge at a Supercharger station in the cold.
Domenick Nati, a radio host in Virginia, was trying to charge his Tesla Model S last Friday ahead of his holiday travel, but he was having some issues.
It was reportedly 19°F – or -7°C – at the time.
Nati claims to have first tried to charge at home without success, and then he tried at a local Supercharger station where he posted this video on TikTok that went viral:
https://electrek.co/2022/12/26/tesla-owner-viral-car-would-not-charge-in-cold/
Some things… no matter how much effort and $$$ … are not possible.
Charging a battery in -60C or more… will never be possible
DB, it’s probably some one-off pieces of kit sent through the climate/vacuum chambers before being bolted on the business end of a adventurism gizmo in orbit or on wheels at some hellhole of a planet.
I’m sure the mil-ind complex got some spiffy solid state, or radioactive “batteries” that may operate in the worst possible conditions. After all, a battery merely shoves electrons from one pole to the other.
https://youtu.be/SvZBr13HdFQ?si=7C1aeGgArj_w2_Lh
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_battery
It is detrimental to Civilization.
Story at a Glance:
•The HPV and COVID-19 vaccines are two of the most dangerous pharmaceutical products that were ever pushed onto the market. However, regardless of how much evidence of harm emerged, authorities always insisted they were “safe and effective.”
•Many of the issues with both vaccines were a result of those vaccines hyperstimulating the immune system, which in turn created a variety of debilitating autoimmune disorders.
•One of the less appreciated consequences of this hyperstimulation is that if it occurs while someone is infected with the disease, it can make the existing infection become more severe.
•Despite this being clearly shown within the HPV vaccine trials, since testing before vaccination would reduce vaccine sales, it was never recommended within the prescribing guidelines (some groups even said to not test before receiving the vaccine). Likewise, with the COVID vaccines, despite everyone being continuously tested for COVID-19, testing was never advised prior to a vaccination appointment, nor were members of the public informed of the dangers of vaccinating while infected.
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-perils-of-vaccinating-when-you
Just go ahead … it doesnt matter — you are gonna die anyway
The article is quite long. It gives a lot of examples of bad results from vaccines, as well a few with what seem to be very good results.
All wars are banker’s wars. Their business model is:
War
Chaos &
Theft
That’s why the US is always fighting pointless, unwinnable wars. The outcome is immaterial to the banker’s business model.
Watch the Great Taking for detail on the theft part. Good interview with the author David Webb here: https://www.brighteon.com/f0e58a84-9790-48d9-8f5d-7c94ac918874
The other context, as we all know here, is that stuff in general is running out, so population reduction – deliberate or natural – is baked in.
But I’ve got diesel in the shed, plus solar panels AND batteries, so everything is hunky dory and BAU party time is officially still ON.
Yes, the David Webb interview is good. He says that there is now hyper-financialization (which I can believe). He says that after this there will be a bust and low price levels.
I wonder how much stuff will be available to buy. Without the financial system, not much business can be carried out.
mass CONFISCATION event
hahahaha… can he be that stoooopid? The Elders have no interest in confiscating .. why would they?
It’s not as if they are God and they need to put out the collection plate every Sunday…
They own the reserve currency .. the own the world… money is just a tool for them .. to control the minions…
They are confiscating nothing .. they are exterminating
Maybe he got the terms mixed up?
It’s more credible that they want some kind of future, rather than to go down with the ship. They just don’t want too many useless people. They’re more likely to be reducing numbers than removing 100%.
It takes modest amounts of electricity to keep high-level radioactive waste cool. Why wouldn’t they arrange to keep the system going at a much lower pace? If they’re bankers they can change the banking system itself so as to be viable in a zero growth situation.
DDKE
David Dun.ce Kruger Effect
David has contracted Du.nce Kruger … is there a treatment?
The conundrum:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/denver-health-critical-point-8000-migrants-make-20000-emergency-visits
Locals pay for hospital care, free care given.
Western women have discovered the power of sex, they are empowered and having children interferes with their careers. So once they have done all the important policy work, who is going to do the actual work? White boys are sitting this one out, going out of tribe for support is a dicey proposition, social conventions outside of clan may be inconvenient.
Demographics: We are biology and it is inescapable, past say forty, each year is less productive and yet seniority states we should earn more, we have “earned” it. My thesis is migration is an attempt to leave the hard, dirty, boring work of rearing children to the “others.” But, will they share their children?
We have done poorly by our children and the elites in positions of power have not helped; if you doubt do a search on Gow, UW La Crosse, former president of same.
By uwlax.edu, “Dr. Gow received his B.A. degree in Journalism from Penn State in 1982; his M.A. in Speech Communication from the University of Alabama in 1985; and his Ph.D. in Speech Communication from Penn State in 1989. He also completed the Management Development Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education in 1998.” None of this makes things, it is all policy.
Speech and communication is narrative, and that is convincing others to believe that narrative.
The universe is set up for biology, our various ideas when they aid this endeavor do well, when they are a hindrance, my thesis is the universe thinks long term and the long term will be change. We are going to see that up close and personal.
Dennis L.
These people are not the people your God need to build the starships you crave so much.
It doesn’t work when only part of the population gets healthcare outside of emergency rooms.
Not sure what you are saying.
Healthcare does not work in the US, it is a mess.
Can only speak to dentistry, it depends on income for procedures and when that does not work depends on hygiene at very high cost levels to cover extremely expensive dental facilities. I looked at that one and was very fortunate not to wade into that quagmire. There are too many interests with considerable educational and financial investments to change. The better the outcomes of my clinic, the worse the financial position became; a guess is perhaps I was one of the largest single dental clinics in the US for a period of time, I had very good numbers, we eliminated procedures over time, ie. cavities filled, extractions and increased preventive. Financially, it did not work at the end because hygienists were so highly in demand to “sell” dentistry in high end clinics. There was no way to cover the overhead without a revamp of the entire process – that would not make one popular.
Healthcare has to be orders of magnitude more difficult.
One observation over the years, more treatment leads to decreased oral health. Would healthcare be different?
Dennis L.
I will agree with you. I generally stay away from healthcare for the issues you mention.
In the linked article, immigrants were filling up emergency rooms because there they could not pay for treatment elsewhere, because other places would take only take patients who could pay–with money or credit cards.
I was not commenting on the quality of US healthcare.
Physicians are trying to cover their overhead, just as in the dental office. They recommend all kinds of unnecessary procedures. I have mentioned that my father was a general practitioner, back when he entered practice. He would complain about other physicians doing unnecessary appendectomies, when it was obvious that abdominal pain was from something else. And Catholic doctors selling their female Catholic patients hysterectomies, when they didn’t want any more children.
Also, what’s the deal with X-rays? They want to do X-rays every year at minimum. I don’t want so many X-rays to the head. Things are dicey enough up there as it is.
Two reasons come to mind:
When I ran that huge clinic, we photographed and x rayed everything, documentation. This was in addition to copious notes, I can keyboard very quickly.
Of course, one is paid for that so that it is a consideration.
Primary for me was documentation.
Dennis L.
Sorry, that is meant for Dennis..
Thanks, second paragraph explains it.
Dennis L.
Dennis, that is very interesting. While keeping up with six-month cleanings, I had some borderline ‘pockets’, and was steered to a creepy periodontist. Fast-forward a few years after ditching the perio. ‘Pockets’ remain modest, though the dentist keeps trying to steer me back to the creepster (kickbacks?) who wanted to sell me on laser treatments. Referring dentist seemed all right (frat bro type), but the perio had set things up such that immobilized patients were made to view slideshows of his luxury climbing vacations to Machu Picchu, Nepal, etc. (large monitor over the chair).
Then “covid” hits, and many hygienists disappear, leaving appointments more than a year out. Somehow (despite a fairly casual approach to home hygiene) my ‘pockets’ decreased during this longer period between interventions. I even had areas of bone re-growth. Is this just me, or would you hazard to say this could be a generalized outcome?
I’ve been studying this recently.
Dr. Ellie likes Listerine and Crest toothpaste.
She is against “homemade” whitening toothpastes with baking soda and hydrogen peroxide as they tend to be too strong.
She strongly recommends Xylitol for creating an alkaline environment in the mouth.
And she’s not anti-fluoride.
Dennis should have some thoughts on this.
https://drellie.com/complete-mouth-care-system/
Tim, I have been out of it now for almost ten years.
Fluoride: There was an article in Nature, sometime in early 1980’s regarding fluoride. It correlates with decreased tooth decay, but all over the world the order was wrong. The CDC each year recommended a lowered level in public water supplies.
Somewhere in the early seventies, tooth decay seemed to just disappear, guess, less smoking. One wonders how much fluoride is now ingested with bottle water and all.
Dennis L.
Thanks, Dennis.
We don’t have fluoride in the water in Japan. But many people use fluoride toothpaste and most dentists apply a fluoride varnish after cleaning teeth—with a nice minty varnish.
Xylitol as carie-prevention aid was pioneered in Finland in the 1970s and has spread around the world since. I’ve never sought it out in the past, but as I’m old enough to be called “long in the tooth”, I am considering testing it as a mouthwash or a chewing gum.
The secondary effect there is that chewing gum may help keep the brain from freezing. 🙂
but a lot of people online report that Xylitol makes them ill with headaches, burning month stomach and gut issues, etc. So I personally wouldn’t take it as an alternative sweetener to sugar or ingest it in multi-gram quantities.
I use waterpik with a diluted peroxide solution every night, and salt mouth washes every now and again. I don’t even brush anymore except when traveling. Much better oral health.
Main thing is to move bacteria in the pocket, ultrasonic worked best last I saw the papers.
Perio is a hold over from smoking, as that decreased so did the issues.
If pockets are increasing probably bad, but what is the rate? Also, when I was following the literature, pocket depth increase was episodic.
Don’t think much bone can be regenerated, that was a grail for some time.
There is a band of attached tissue below the pocket, that is very important, the wider the band the better.
Dennis L.
Meet the All Powerful HOOTIES!!!!
Bow down Biden … Xi… Pooty…. there’s a new kid in town… and they mean business… they are kicking your asses in the canal zone… next they will come for ya’ll
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/01/24/multimedia/24houthis-propaganda-2-fptw/24houthis-propaganda-2-fptw-facebookJumbo.jpg
BTW – they are named after
Witness the POWER of the All Powerful HOOTIES!!!
Houthis claim clash with US Navy
The Yemeni group said it had scored a “direct hit” on an American warship
At least one of the missiles fired from Yemen on Wednesday afternoon struck an American warship and forced two US-owned commercial vessels to retreat, a spokesman for the Houthis has said. The US Central Command claimed that all the incoming missiles had been shot down, however. The Shia group that controls the western part of Yemen – including the capital, Sanaa – has been harassing vessels linked to Israel since late October, in support of the Palestinians in Gaza.
So POWERFUL are they … that the United States of America has to beg China to HELP US!!!
Washington pressing China for help curbing Houthi Red Sea attacks — report
Top officials imploring counterparts in Beijing to intercede with Iran in order to restrain Houthis, but seeing no progress, according to Financial Times
The United States has asked China to urge Tehran to rein in the Iranian-aligned Houthi rebels attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea but has seen little sign of help from Beijing, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing US officials. The US has repeatedly raised the matter with top Chinese officials in the past three months, the report said. White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and his deputy, Jon Finer, discussed the issue in meetings this month in Washington with Liu Jianchao, head of the International Liaison Department of China’s Communist Party, the newspaper said.
Maybe this is all fake to give cover for issues with energy production?????
Qatar warns gas exports impacted by Houthi assaults as US-flagged vessels attacked
QatarEnergy says shipments using ‘alternative routes,’ suggesting longer trips around Africa; US naval ships escorting Maersk vessels intercept projectiles off Yemen’s coast
Qatar, one of the world’s top exporters of liquified natural gas, warned Wednesday that its deliveries were affected by ongoing attacks from Yemen’s Houthi rebels on shipping over Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The statement by QatarEnergy came as an explosion struck near two US-flagged ships carrying cargo for the American government Wednesday in a crucial strait near Yemen, though no damage or injuries were reported. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion immediately fell on the Houthis.
These guys are far more advanced technologically than the Afghanis. And the Afghanis beat the US. I think it is all normal.
The Afghani’s beat America? I wasn’t aware of that … seemed to me the Tallies were the ones tossed out on their asses… then the Americans up and left … nobody beat them and ejected them.
And btw – the Americans won the Vietnam War… notice how the Vietcongs were tossed into the economic stone age after 75… and then when the Americans decided they’d had enough of dire poverty … they welcomed them back into the machine.
America does not lose wars… in the end they win.
And if the canal was threatened it threatens everyone – including China and Russia
Yet they do nothing …
Cuz HOOTIES is so powerful right… they own that f789ing canal
hahahahahaha mental illness on display yet again on OFW
Well, whether they lost by choice or under duress the result was the same. I think there are more flat Earthers in the world than people who think that the Afghanis or vietnamese lost. Perhaps are you saying that this time the US can kill a bunch of Yemenis, declare victory and leave, leaving the Suez canal open only to Brics traffic? Because I could agree with all of this.
If anyone was threatening BAU … they would be incinerated – not by the US… but by the US China Russia and every other country with a military force.
Who is supposedly supplying the HOOTIES? Oh right Iran … and none of the world powers lifts a finger?
Are you brain dead???? Use some common sense..
America murdered 500,000 children because Iraq was f789ing with the oil situation…
And it WAS worth it. It WAS the right thing to do.
They would pour thousands of soldiers onto the banks of the canal and kill anything that moved if there was a force disrupting this vital part of the supply chain. And they’d keep them there as long as required.
Point of interest — what are the demands of the HOOTIES? What are the seeking by shooting at the ships? Oh right — just for fun… or whatever…
Wake the f789 up … This is not kindergarten… this is OFW>.. nonsense has no place here (norm excepted)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP_VnVlFhXU
hahaha
norm – I guess you were wrong when you assumed they had cutting edge tech… hahaha… maybe your mate keith can build you a helicopter… cept keith is dead. RIP keith. Saves me deleting your rubbish
You may be surprised to learn that the Ingenuity’s energy source is built from six off the shelf 18650 lithium ion cells from Sony, the VTC4. This cell has been around for several years – I found a data sheet from 2012 while researching for this article. Given the general high power and low energy specifications of the VTC4, it has probably been used in power tools here on earth. Furthermore, it comes as little surprise that the team at the JPL went for something “tried, tested, and true” for a mission critical component.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-deep-dive-its-6-pack-damien-frost/
Trust Fast Eddy. 1500HP. The GOAT of OFW. The GOAT of all humans ever to live.
evidently suez does not threaten american BAU. The impact is on Israel and Europe.
I see … so the US would be fine if Europe collapsed… (and btw – a solar panel can charge a battery here – you just wrap a blanket around the battery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nod6nYRN78g)
See p. 56
Something sets off an interrelated Eurozone crisis and banking crisis, a Spanish default say, which spreads panic and fear across other vulnerable Eurozone countries.
This sets off a Minsky moment when overleveraged speculators in the banking and shadow banking system are forced to unwind positions into a one-sided (sellers only) market. The financial system contagion passes a tipping point where governments and central banks start to lose control and panic drives a (positive feedback) deepening and widening of the impact globally.
In our tropic model of the globalised economy, the banking and monetary system keystonehub comes out of its equilibrium range, crosses a tipping point, and is driven away by positive feedbacks to some new state. This directly links to another keystone-hub, production flows.
Failing banks, fears of currency re-issue, fears of further default, collapse in Letters of Credit, and growing panic directly quickly shut down trade in the most affected countries. As the week progresses factories close, communications are impaired, social stress and government panic increases. After a week almost all businesses are closed, there is a rising risk to critical infrastructure. Almost immediately internal trade and imports stops in the most affected countries, and there is impairment in a growing number of other countries.
Trade is impaired globally via a credit crunch. This undermines exports from some of the most trade-central countries, with some of the most efficient JIT dependencies in the world. This cuts inputs into the production and trade into countries that were initially weakly affected by direct financial contagion. Globally, the spread of trade contagion depends on complexity, centrality, and inventory times and once a critical threshold is passed spreads exponentially until the effect is damped by a large-scale global production collapse (implying another keystone-hub, economies of scale is driven out of equilibrium).
Trade contagion and its implications feed back into financial system contagion, helping drive further disintegration. The interacting and mutually destabilising effects of keystone-hubs coming out of equilibrium destroy the equilibrium of the globalised economy initiating a systemic collapse. Growing risk displacement in an increasingly vulnerable system is increasing the risk of system failure. Once the financial system contagion crosses a particular threshold the de-stabilisation of the globalised economy will be exceedingly difficult to arrest; this point may be in as little as ten days.
Once a major system collapse occurs, scale, hysteresis, entropy, loss of critical functions, recursion failure, and resource diversion is likely to ensure that the features associated with the previous dynamic state of the globalised economy can never be recovered.
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://mahb.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Trade_Off_Korowicz.pdf
Try this link instead:
https://www.feasta.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Trade_Off_Korowicz.pdf
This was written back in 2012. It gives an idea how interruptions to complexity can lead to collapse.
“Are you brain dead????”
You certainly appear to be.
Russia and China have no problems using the Red sea, but do now have a huge economic advantage. Do you even know that a delegation has just been to Moscow for talks?
“Point of interest — what are the demands of the HOOTIES”
What kind of idiot doesn’t know that?
Oh so the HOOTIES only shoot at the US ships… hahahaha…
This is like playing basketball against someone with no legs … hahahahahahahaha….
come on man… you may as well get your next booster and end it
Unlike you, I never for a single second went along with covid fantasy, just like unlike you, I don’t go along with the Hollywood fantasy.
No masks, no tests and no imaginary belief in US invincibility Mr Hollywood.
No one apart from you has said they only attack US ships. As usual, you just make it up as you go along and you’re really bad at it.
So the HOOTIES only shoot at American ships… but hang on … these guys are not American .. and btw ships generally are registered in low or no tax jurisdictions … so how do they find out which are American????
Oh right they stop them and ask for their papers… if they indicate they are headed for America they fire missiles at them… makes perfect sense if one is re-f789ing-tarded
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/15/maersk-to-pause-all-container-ship-traffic-through-the-red-sea.html
It does make a difference if only some traffic is being let through.
The Chinese are loving the opportunities now available for them, just by not backing genocide.
I was talking to an insurance man earlier and asked what field, to which he replied, international shipping(couldn’t believe my luck). I was quite surprised that he agreed wholeheartedly that you can’t beat Yemen(bomb them all you like, they’ll just hide out, then hit you, were his words) and went on to list some of the history of western failures trying too. One of the few people I’ve met that didn’t bat an eyelid when I started talking about energy constraints, just nodded. So I asked if he could recommend any shipping sites worth following and he recommended Tradewinds, which is unfortunately paywalled. Maybe someone here(Student?) Can get past the paywall, as it had a comprehensive selection of articles and a whole section just on LNG.
Anyway here’s one about Chinese companies picking up the slack(you can only see the first 2 paragraphs).
https://www.tradewindsnews.com/containers/new-chinese-container-ship-players-cash-in-on-rivals-red-sea-exodus/2-1-1588741
As I said yesterday, China and Russia are very happy with the situation and AnsarAllah were in Moscow 2 days ago, as explained by John Helmer today(with links to russian articles).
https://johnhelmer.net/russian-foreign-ministry-ties-red-sea-blockade-to-gaza-blockade-backs-houthis-in-moscow-meeting/
So much changing in pipeline politics and trade routes. It would be good, given the wide knowledge base of commentators here, if we talked more about this, as this could well be the start of a major energy realignment, that I doubt very much will be helpful for the problems the west has brought upon itself.
Yeman have beaten the US once and the British at least twice already, so only a Hollywood head would struggle to understand how it’s happening again.
They made 2 US flagged ships being escorted, because they were carrying munitions for the illegal encampment, turn and run the other day, just by putting a few rockets a hundred metres in front of them, whilst depleting the US defences even more.
The US is now begging China to have a word with AnsarAllah, but why would they. The US constantly abuse them and their shipping has no problems at all going through Bab-el-Mandeb, making them far more profitable.
Might be a false flag today, so the media can hide the ruling of the ICJ, if it agrees with South Africa and tells the world that yes, the illegal encampment is committing genocide(which everyone outside the west already knows).
You are calling FE a Hollywood head?
Him and anyone else that believes the US can’t be defeated in Yeman. History proves that false and not just there.
You know the kind, they think TV and film tells them what’s happening and completely ignore the evidence of the real world.
How are those rapid mutations that were going to kill us all getting on 4 years later, or the fact that he believes the US can produce enough steel of the needed type to fight all over the world. He should look at page 43 of the below and reconsider(he won’t because that’s not what the screen tells him).
https://tupa.gtk.fi/raportti/arkisto/42_2021.pdf?ref=ageoftransformation.org
Everything is fake unless it follows the Hollywood script, which is quite amazing for someone that claims not to watch it, whilst telling everyone to watch it. If he’s not getting paid to distract, then I can only assume that he is what he likes calling everyone else.
One apparent limitation of Ukraine being unable to shoot more shells is that the barrels warp under intense fire. I think we are past peak quality steel, which itself requires high quality coal. Barrels have always warped but they are doing it sooner now.
“Barrels have always warped but they are doing it sooner now.”
Is this true for Russian barrels as well?
Also, could it be caused by modern munitions putting more strain on the barrels?
I know next to nothing on the subject.
One apparent limitation of Ukraine being unable to shoot more shells is that the barrels warp under intense fire.
Evidence of this?
I don’t know about the Russian barrels. I was in Rostov on Don a few months back and there is a lot of logistics there, so logistics may be playing a role. It is possible that the Russians are better trained and are able to wear the barrels less. There is also still some high quality anthracite here.
Found some info on the reasons why.
“In general, modern Gun Barrels are manufactured from low alloy steel forgings. Steel has been found to be an excellent material for this application due to its balanced combination of high elastic yield strength, surface hardness, ductility/fracture toughness, modulus of elasticity, and melting point. These properties enable the resulting Gun Barrel to be resistant to all of the potential failure modes described above.
However, the desire for ever-increasing performance characteristics of weapon systems in recent years has required that Guns operate at higher pressures, as well as increased firing rates and durations. Further, the trend has been to utilize more energetic propellants that have higher flame temperatures and rates of bore degradation. Designers of Gun Barrels are under constant pressure to reduce weight, resulting in thinner walls, reduced thermal heat sink, and higher Barrel operating temperatures. All of the above tend to increase the rates of wear and erosion inside the Gun Barrel, despite gun steel’s excellent combination of properties.
https://www.sto.nato.int/publications/STO%20Meeting%20Proceedings/RTO-MP-AVT-109/MP-AVT-109-16.pdf
Nothing new it would appear, just the usual demands of more from less.
Who said anything about fighting in Yemen … or America.
We are discussing the canal… a relatively small area… and to keep it open every country on the planet would contribute forces to exterminate any entity that was lobbing missiles at ships.
How hard is this to understand?
A 7 yr old would get it
No one apart from you is discussing the Suez canal, as there is nothing untowards happening there.
Bab-el-Mandeb is an issue for the genocidal encampment and the 2 countries backing their genocide, but Bab-el-Mandeb is over 2000km away from Suez and any 7 year old can very easily grasp that, just as they could grasp that hungry lions on the streets of London does not make walking in Moscow dangerous. Ask a 7 year old to teach you this very simple logic.
Try looking at a map. Now keep looking until it sinks in.
To recap for you.
Bab-el-Mandeb is not Suez.
Russia, China and the rest of the world have no problems going through Bab-el-Mandeb*
No other countries have a problem with Yemen, as their actions are very profitable for all except the genocidal and their backers.
Shipping insurance for the genocidal encampment and the 2 countries backing it have gone up 100 fold for navigation through Bab-el-Mandeb.
The US and UK have failed at every attempt to bring Yemen to heel for a hundred years. Read some history of Yemen.
Repeating a lie, no matter how often, does not make a truth.
Hollywood and reality have nothing in common.
Top gun is not a documentary and the US are not all powerful.
Remember, admitting you were wrong, will make you right. Stage two, the blockade of the Mediterranean sea might be starting soon and I’d hate to see the confusion that would bring.
*Oh look, loads of traffic, just not for the genocidal.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:35.7/centery:33.7/zoom:4
Nice map of marine traffic! Is there any way of telling which ships represent which countries?
Bab-el-Mandeb is a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa.
If you click on the arrows/dots it will show the country that the ship is registered(but not owned) and tell you wether it’s a tanker or cargo ship. For some it will tell you the port it’s from and destination, but I think you need to pay for full details. It does appear to be comprehensive, but without paying you will just see a 🔒 were the details would be.
All HAIL the great HOOTIES!!! Slayer of the Elders… Russia and China also bow down to the HOOTIES!!!
Hey how come ISIS…. Al Qaeda … Shabob… Nusra … and none of these other fellas didn’t shut down the canal before? Did they not think to do that????
Funny that eh… funny as in hahahahaha… this is all fake…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_groups
HOOTIES are coming for you — hide under the bed… Do NOT fight back. They are too powerful!!!
hahahahahahaha
This is useful in explaining away the deep depletion of energy… maybe you should pursue that line of thought
The head of the UK military has called for UK citizens to be prepared for conscription into the military. NATO has clearly organised a campaign of military leaders speaking out for that and it follows similar moves in Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland and likely other places. Here the government has said, ‘no plans for that’ but that is only the initial response.
The speech of the UK Chief of Staff makes his ‘plan’ clear: first the regular army will be sent into land battles with Russia and they will all be killed; then a second wave of all the reservists will be sent in to be killed; and then conscripted citizens – you and me – will be sent in as a third wave to be killed. Wow, what a ‘plan’! He actually likens it to ‘as Britain did in the First World War’.
The fairly unanimous response in Britain has been ‘f/ck off!’
“Instead, he said, the Army needed to be in a position where it could fight a ‘land war’ against the ‘Russian threat’, bring ‘second echelon’ reserves online quickly to fight, and train and equip ‘the citizen army that must follow’ at the same time.
“The Ukraine war shows how important it is to be able to expand a military quickly — as Britain did in the First World War, for instance — Sanders said, noting ‘Ukraine brutally illustrates that regular armies start wars; citizen armies win them.'”
See also: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/23/public-call-up-army-too-small/
> ‘Prewar Generation’ Must Prepare to be Called up for ‘Citizen Army’ if West Fights Russia, Warns Top British General
(from Breitbart)
The British Army needs to be prepared to “rapidly expand” to field a “citizen army”, its top general said, praising European states for bringing back conscription and saying “we must similarly prepare”.
We are now living in the “prewar generation” and it is time to take “preparatory steps to enable placing our societies on a war footing”, Chief of the General Staff General Sir Patrick Sanders told the International Armoured Vehicles Conference in Twickenham, England, on Wednesday morning. Limited elements of the speech were trailed in the Daily Telegraph in advance, characterising them as a warning that the public faces “call-up if we go to war, military chief warns”.
The General, who is becoming known for making outspoken speeches on the need to grow the British Army to be ready to fight Russia and allegedly soon to leave the top job a year early over his public criticism of the government cutting troop numbers, has already had his speech practically disowned by the government.
In remarks that follow several other top NATO leaders in recent weeks drumming home the idea the West faces war with Russia in the medium term, General Sanders said the Army needed the capacity to rapidly expand, saying present plans to enhance the reserves and enrol recently retired soldiers in a larger “strategic reserve” talent “is not enough”. Instead, he said, the Army needed to be in a position where it could fight a “land war” against the “Russian threat”, bring “second echelon” reserves online quickly to fight, and train and equip “the citizen army that must follow” at the same time.
The Ukraine war shows how important it is to be able to expand a military quickly — as Britain did in the First World War, for instance — Sanders said, noting “Ukraine brutally illustrates that regular armies start wars; citizen armies win them.”
The General’s remarks pointed to the moves made in European states closer to the Ukraine war where the public have been told to prepare for war, to survive emergencies, and where conscription has either been brought back, or the matter is under discussion. Sanders said: “Our friends in eastern and northern Europe, who feel the proximity of the Russian threat more acutely, are already acting prudently, laying the foundations for national mobilisation… taking preparatory steps to enable placing our societies on a war footing when needed are now not merely desirable but essential.
“We will not be immune and as the pre-war generation we must similarly prepare – and that is a whole-of-nation undertaking.”
The Ministry of Defence — the government department which pays for the Army — said on Wednesday that “there is absolutely no suggestion of a return to conscription”, and a spokesman for the Prime Minister said: “The Government has no intention to follow through with that”, reports the Evening Standard.
Chief of the Defence Select Committee Tobias Ellwood MP was on hand to give his interpretation of General Sanders’ remarks, telling broadcaster Sky News on Wednesday morning that society needs to “listen carefully” to the comments, and that the public should be “shocked” and worried by the events he believes are on the horizon. The Army Officer and Member of Parliament said: “We’ve had three decades since the Cold War, life has gone well. It’s now going to get more difficult as authoritarian states exploit our timidity, our reluctance to put fires out… There is a 1939 feeling to the world right now, these authoritarian states are re-arming”.
Perhaps this plan is an attempt to cover up other problems within the UK economy. Hiring all of these people for the military might cover up the lack of jobs that pay well in the UK are probably in short supply. It would also give an excuse for the UK government to borrow money. And it might make its army look like it is a little more capable.
Perhaps a real problem is getting people to be willing to die for certain ideas, e.g. woke. War is hands on and personal; policy papers might not cut it, those called upon for the front lines may just sit it out.
There is evidence in the media that many jobs are not fillable; people just don’t want them. Camping out, in the rain with someone raining cannon shells down might not be a desirable job.
This is not a trivial issue I think.
Dennis L.
I remember reading that road building was a very undesirable job before fossil fuels came along. Slaves were sent to do this.
The closest variation to this in the US is offering citizenship to someone who serves in the military. Citizenship tends to be hard to get otherwise.
Immigration only exacerbates this problem. Just saw a tweet of an immigrant woman named ‘Zara’: “I’m not going to die for Britain.” A response: “Of course not, you aren’t British.” Zara: “I just got my British citizenship, so pfffpttffftth.”
Sounds like a smart woman.
If more people were like her there would be less war and so less people dying for corporate greed. What problem do you have with this?
“If more people were like her there would be less war”
Not true, unfortunately. War is asymmetric. It is planned and instigated by the few but waged and suffered by the many, civilians included.
It would be true if all normal people acted like her. Do you believe that the inbred and their relations would go to war without us to do the fighting for them?
There’s a good reason they spend so much on propaganda outlets like the guardian and bbc(they actually get the gullible idiots to pay for the propaganda from that pile of feces, which is somewhat revealing about the lifelong indoctrination that most accept without question). It’s to keep the population scared of imaginary hobgoblins and so willing to do their bidding. That woman is just less gullible than most and so I applaud her good sense. Of course your free to get yourself killed, for people that despise you, even though they would have nothing without your subservience, but the moment you all refuse, the wars stop.
The sooner the many quit, the faster the war ends.
While I don’t want more war, I do think it’s a problem when the citizenry have no reciprocal attachment to society, not seeing it worthy of their energy or collective contribution.. only interested in being on the benefits end. It’s like the story of the Little Red Hen.
Thanks for the explanation and to a degree I share your view, but I’d need the whole conversation to make the jump you have and it sounds like the usual sad racist leading question that I see so often, so probably no conversation. To be willing to lay down your life would first need the inclusion into that society and there’s very little of that going on from the Brits(English are by far the worst). Also no one is threatening to invade us, so going to war would be a choice of our government for other reasons and I wouldn’t join that fight. Basically we don’t offer any reciprocal attachment to society, so have no right to ask for it back and I don’t understand from what you posted that there’s any evidence that she’s only interested in the benefits end(might well be the case though, which doesn’t bother me either, as the biggest takers of benefits for putting absolutely nothing back are the ultra rich). Society and inclusion are long dead in the west, unless you live in rural areas and even there it’s falling apart fast, even though there’s no foreigners moving into these areas(my part of the world at least). I’d say the blame clearly lays elsewhere and the scapegoating is to distract people from looking at the real reasons.
Do you believe that if NZ declared war on Canada, Eddy is duty bound to sign up and lay down his life for NZ?
If not, why not?
One other point, when you say “Immigration only exacerbates this problem” I’m sure the natives where you and yours now live would agree wholeheartedly.
The West won’t need new armies, because the only way to defeat Russia is with nukes. Russia knows that and therefore will not dare to attack any NATO country directly. Putin may make his mouth go about the destruction of Soviet monuments, and he may cause a bit of mischief with cyberattacks on the little Baltic countries, but he will do no more than that, nor does he want to.
Meanwhile old British statues are also being defaced and toppled across parts of the Commonwealth, so the statues are falling in many places, to mark the start of a thoroughly new era.
Year One of Zara.
Fake
In other words, not really feasible.
Same with the Mars thing…
You may be surprised to learn that the Ingenuity’s energy source is built from six off the shelf 18650 lithium ion cells from Sony, the VTC4. This cell has been around for several years – I found a data sheet from 2012 while researching for this article. Given the general high power and low energy specifications of the VTC4, it has probably been used in power tools here on earth. Furthermore, it comes as little surprise that the team at the JPL went for something “tried, tested, and true” for a mission critical component.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-deep-dive-its-6-pack-damien-frost/
Most of what is on cnnbbc is fake
Best thoughts .
On renewables :
“. Wind and Solar are the filet minion of the energy world. Nat Gas is the beans and rice. When people can’t afford beans and rice I’m sure the political class will cry “let them eat steak” or is it cake? ”
On bubble economics :
It reminds me a little of the old joke about the two economists who are shipwrecked and take refuge on a desert island. They spend all their time selling each other the only can of sardines they have left. In the end, one of them can’t take it anymore, opens the can and eats it (the bubble bursts). The other harshly rebukes him: “But what have you done, you bastard! Now what are we going to live on?”
🙂
I like your analogies.
I heard the sardines tasted terrible to which the reply was, “Those are not eating sardines, those are trading sardines.”
Dennis L.
K: “Bernanke, I’ll pay you $20,000 to eat that pile of bull crap.”
B: “Deal!”
B: “Krugman, tell you what, I’ll pay you $20,000 to eat *that* pile of bull crap.”
K: “Sold!”
B: “I’m feeling pretty sick. we both ate crap and neither of us is any richer.”
K: “You’re missing the bigger picture.. we’ve increased gdp by $40,000 and created two jobs!
https://i.redd.it/n9lk7sp0z5071.jpg
Brace for impact .
https://wentworthreport.com/energy-outlook-brace-for-impact/
Generally, this is an excellent report. I would point out however that it is a US only analysis, not a world analysis. I do find a handwaving statement in the article that I have a problem with:
What is David Archibald talking about? US coal production is far past peak. He doesn’t show a linearization for US coal production. The whole process will require a major supply chain. The US has more coal resources in Alaska and in the US west, but they tend to be away from railroads and highways. It would take many years and a lot of resources to build the additional railroads and highways to make this extraction possible. All of this activity would require crude oil.
The Bergius process itself requires high pressure and temperature. All of this takes significant energy. The devices to provide this process need to be built, taking many years, also. Once the liquid fuels are made, they need to be transported from the remote locations where the coal is available to where the would-be user is located. This process likely will require new pipelines, or significant investment in other transportation and the use of diesel fuel.
I think that this transition is nonsense. This analysis leaves out the need for international trade to get the steel and other materials need to build all of these things.
There was one statement I particularly liked at the end:
Former President Obama has increased the propane tankage on his Martha’s Vinyard property to 2,500 gallons. No doubt he is well informed and would rather be comfortable than virtuous.
I agree with you Gail . GTL and CTL are non-starters . This video was posted on Mike S blog and is also a non starter . Just because it is technically possible does not mean it is economically feasible .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRgw-rXZMn4&ab_channel=AGTAnalyzers
This is the mindset I encounter when talking to people with a conservative view. There is plenty of fuel in amurica! The liberal view is more unicorns and fairies!
Yes! I observe the same split.
Natural gas is cheap, see SJT.
Dennis L.
SJT = ???
Natural gas used near the point of extraction can be cheap. Shipping it long distance, as LNG particularly, adds hugely to the cost.
once again—that mid 2020s date shows up clearly on the chart, after that FFs availablity falls off wile e coyotes cliff
and renewables are not going to put it back up there.
The importance of China as a global “factory” exceeds anything seen until now.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/china-worlds-sole-manufacturing-superpower-line-sketch-rise
“The United States is the only military superpower in the world. It spends more on its military than the ten countries behind it spending the most together. China is now the world’s only manufacturing superpower. Its output exceeds that of the next nine manufacturers combined. This column uses the recently released 2023 update of the OECD’s TiVA database to paint an eight-chart portrait “China’s journey toward superpower status and the asymmetric impact its dominance has had on global supply chains.”
This is a very nice analysis of China’s changing capability at manufacturing, with a lot of very fine charts. The author is someone named Richard Baldwin, with very impressive credentials. Professor of International Economics IMD Business School, Lausanne; VoxEU Founder & Editor-in-Chief VoxEU.org
There was one chart that stood out to me. It gives support to my view that China is reaching peak manufacturing because of peak Chinese coal. This is a chart of China’s manufacturing taken from the report:
https://ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Chinas-Manufacturing-Production-by-Ricahrd-Baldwin.png
What if US war stuff does not work? War is economics, missiles at $2M a pop are too expensive to shoot.
The Red sea will be instructive, the Houthis keep shooting cheap missiles, the US apparently shoots them down at $2M a pop x2 as it takes two shots to guarantee on hit I am told. The ships have 90 missiles, so 45 incomings and then no ammo, bummer. If the warship leaves the post, commerce grinds to a halt and for the warship it is a long trip go reload; the US supposedly got rid of supply ships.
Going to be interesting.
Dennis L.
The economics of war has to work. Also, the quantity of materials used has to work.
https://www.rt.com/news/591238-pope-warns-perverse-deepfakes/
“These pics of me with children aren’t pedophilia, they’re deepfakes!”, he exclaimed in a shrill voice!
“Yes, yes, deepfakes!” all of the US senators and Hollywood stars agreed vigorously.
And just like that, it was all swept under the rug and Epstein was memory-holed and never mentioned again.
I reckon the current campaign accusing various elites of Pedo-ism (norm is that the correct term?) is fake and orchestrated… just like the Tranny Freak stuff
Why?
To D-Moralize the MORE-ONS and make them welcome the coming extermination
I also suspect they dumped some sh it into the Juice of Rat sauce … to decimate (kill/maim 1 in 10 or whatever) for the purpose of D-M.
The primary purpose of the Juice of Rat is to damage the immune system the injuries are just a bonus surprise so that the MOREONS are unsettled by all the cancer etc…
It’s all for a good cause of course
How much evil do you have to do to do good. Yes sirreeee… plenty of evil…
Very few understand the significance of that statement from utopia
If the aggregate total of the ‘evil’ is still smaller than the ‘good’ which could come out of this, it is justifiable
That is to defend Civilization. The elites must be kept unharmed
The elite multiply, too, and revolutions by the marginalized elite occur when the non-elite cannot bear the increasing burden. So, the elite are also culled periodically; they can never be “kept unharmed” in perpetuity.
Millions of people in UK would need to double their income to escape poverty, new report warns. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation report said 14.4 million people in the UK were in poverty in 2021-22, including 8.1 million working-age adults, 4.2 million children and 2.1 million pensioners. The charity also said six million people were in very deep poverty. This means they received less than 40% of the country’s median (middle) income after housing costs. https://news.sky.com/story/millions-of-people-in-uk-would-need-to-double-their-income-to-escape-poverty-new-report-warns-13053978
I recall the long traffic queues of SUV’s to the soup kitchens when the virus was all the rage.
Poverty is such a misnomer in IC.
If it would have been a long line of crusty bicycles to the handouts, then we’d be talking about shit getting real.
No, there’s no real ‘poverty’ in the UK. Perhaps the end of opulence and frivolous consumerism. And good riddance to the obnoxious asocial media projections.
Or the government would have to re-define ‘poverty’. Oh dear, what a cynic I am.
But some items have become fantastically more expensive to buy over 50 years, such as beer in a UK pub. The government duty hasn’t gone up that fast.
The lifetime of consumer ‘durables’ [the word is now a joke] such as electric kettles, fridges or washing machines has fallen by two-thirds or more since the 1980s. If the warranty is two years, the item tends to fall apart after 3-4 years. That’s a disguised increase in the cost of living. So no wonder people in ‘the bottom third’ are suffering.
Durability has definitely gone down with added complexity of these devices. Supposed energy saving don’t factor in the fact that these devices fall apart quickly.
There’s little improvement in electric kettles anyway. Heating the water by a resistance element in the base can’t be improved very much if the heat transfer efficiency is already 75% to 90%.
Good point!
Trillion Dollar Dilemma: Is the US Treasury Market in Trouble? The US Treasury market impacts everything from mortgage rates to the value of the dollar in your pocket. Recent increases in government borrowing have raised questions regarding its future. Is the most important financial market in trouble? In addition to plugging the hole torn by deficits, the US government needs to refinance existing debt coming due — which is a lot. An astonishing 85% of Treasury debt issued in 2023 is due within one year or less. This leads to constant refinancing needs. 4-week Treasury bills, for example, need to be refinanced twelve times per year.
https://www.fairobserver.com/business/trillion-dollar-dilemma-is-the-us-treasury-market-in-trouble/
No mention of energy in the artice. The author has the reader thinking we are one step away from a treasury securities cliff then quickly concludes that everything is fine unless an act of congress reigns in deficit spending. BAU 51?
“An astonishing 85% of Treasury debt issued in 2023 is due within one year or less.”
No wonder short term interest rates stay high! The government is in the borrowing club. This demand cannot go away.
This article has quite a bit of information in it and links.
One paragraph says,
Of course, at a higher interest rate, bonds currently held by a bank tend to fall in value. If banks want to avoid this problem, they will slant their purchases of government bonds toward short term securities.
I agree that his point at the end doesn’t make a lot of sense. The government cannot fix these problems.
LOL https://mishtalk.com/economics/denver-health-at-critical-point-as-8000-migrants-make-20000-emergency-visits/
The problem is not surprising, if people will no ability to pay can services at hospital emergency rooms, but not anywhere else. They likely could get much less expensive services elsewhere, but these places require payment through insurance or otherwise.
The Potemkin Economy .
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/gdp-number-was-great-there-just-one-huge-problem
I also referenced this article in a post I made a while after yours (I hadn’t read yours).
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2024/01/15/2024-too-many-things-going-wrong/comment-page-6/#comment-451109
Lots and lots of growth in debt was needed to create this “growing GDP” based on higher demand. I expect that it has been the fact that the US dollar is the reserve currency that has allowed the US to succeed at adding more debt, without the dollar falling hugely relative to other currencies in response. We don’t know how long this can continue. The amount of interest to be paid spirals as well. Other countries become increasingly angry.
Celtíberas athlete Alba Cebrián suffered a cardiac arrest yesterday afternoon while training in Castellón. As explained by her club in a statement through her social networks, the runner “fainted at 8:00 pm and she was admitted in a very serious condition.” The 23-year-old athlete was very involved with the team since its creation, being one of the architects of the team’s consolidation in the Honor Division. A starter in all events and a specialist in 3,000 meter obstacles, she was key in the different promotions of the entity in previous years.
MyoC big time here
https://www.occhionotizie.it/alba-cebrian-morta-infarto-atleta-spagnola-23-anni/
This is the destiny for Richard Jouve. Sick since the last stage of the World Cup in Trondheim two weeks ago, the Alpine Top will not be at the start of the big event of the season on the Tour de ski (from December 30 to January 7). “I had a big illness,” Richard Jouve said on Wednesday. I’m back to training a little, but I can’t do it too much, I’m very tired, so it’s complicated. I have no idea what I have. I saw the doctor, and it’s not the flu, nor covid, but I had all the possible symptoms that could be there: headache, stomach … Suddenly, it made me very tired, and I’m having a hard time training and recovering … The start of the season went super well, I did great results in sprint and distance. Until then it was good, and after that I was tired in Ostersund. And then I got sick in Trondheim.”
VAIDS!!!!
To be practical, the 2024 Olympics should have five categories of competition: Men’s, Women’s, Trannies’, Para, and Vaxxed.
And to be truly fair, the games should also have a Steroid-ed category.
How about a category for the mentally ill people who believe we’ve walked on the moon.
And one for the Vax Injured…
Helen Flanagan has revealed her eight-year-old daughter suffered a health scare that left her face paralysed. The former Coronation Street actress, 33, took to social media to share a health update on the youngster. Posting a snap of herself with Matilda on holiday, Helen revealed she suffered from Bell’s Palsy. The scary condition results in sudden facial muscle weakness or complete paralysis. In Matilda’s case, she was left paralysed and placed on a course of steriods. Posting a sweet mother and daughter snap, dotting mum Helen said: “Looking back at Bali pics Matilda started with Bell’s Palsy on holiday. “It’s cleared now as she had a course of steriods to clear but half her face was paralysed which was not ideal on holiday bless her.
“So glad it’s cleared now, it was brought on from a bad eye infection.”
EXCELLENT! She has not the slightest clue that the Juice of Rat caused this … so she’ll boosting her precious dotter. Ha! Delightful.
When does Andrew crash and burn with a vax injury???
What a FANTASTIC day this has been — lots of famous MOREONS have gone down hahaha… how good is that!!!
Imagine the shock and despair … hahaha… just imagine… it surely must suck to get a cancer diagnosis haha… I wouldn’t know cuz I don’t eat sugar laden trash and lay on the sofa all day watching the p… orn… and reality TEEv… haha oh and I didn’t shoot the Juice of Rat
Kate Middleton’s “alarming” surgery; Sarah Ferguson’s 2nd cancer diagnosis; footballer Callum Ainley diagnosed with cancer; Chilean actor Robert Nicolini has a stroke; Spanish runner’s cardiac arrest
Actor Helen Flanagan’s daughter, 8, left paralyzed by “frightening health scare”; France: “A sick Richard Jouve will skip the Tour de Ski”; Indian pol Tammineni Veerabhadram’s heart/kidney dysfunction
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/kate-middletons-alarming-surgery
bAU 2050.
😎
completely disagree
one of the beauties of Reality is that it doesn’t matter what our opinions are.
que sera sera.
All we need is optimism and a can-do attitude! And a covid shot!
we merely need to will it into reality!
Probably for ~10% of us, and we don’t know which 10% yet.
Dennis L. says:
January 4, 2024 at 11:13 am
(Snip)
Pure physics seems stuck, applied physics is going light speed and it is easier because much of it is codified in digital and just works. Tougher to invent Newton’s laws than apply them with a computer program which is no longer written on punch cards.
Dennis L.
Kulm answers:
At here I will be serious.
All the talents were killed in various wars in the 19th century, while US midwestern boys, who are mostly irrelevant as far as human achievement is concerned, took over tech because it was dirty work.
Which is why there are no more real new theories anymore.
Applied physics going light speed is no different from zombies charging full speed, since it has no theory, no basis and no way to explain.
Plus, if it is all codes, any fool can do that, which is why the tech gap between the West and the Rest became very narrow, since any fool who can code, although not knowing anything about the secrets of universe, can get to the result. It is little more than playing video games.
Which means countries and groups which should never have been gone close to such tech are reaching there and exploiting these tech as well.
I have lots of axes to grind against American philosophy and how irrelevant the peoples who do not live in the original 13 states are to Civilization but I will save that for another day. Suffice to say that this kind of approach is similar to calling someone who is gaining 200 pounds in a year is healthy.
kul,
Low hanging fruit has been picked. Fusion was solved billions of years ago and works well, problem is scale.
It is very hard to invent anything new, discover something which has not already been discovered. We are learning how to apply most known theories, finding new theories is very difficult.
Dennis L.
Denise . ” problem is scale. ” . No , The problem is you can’t face reality .
Hmmmm… must be because he is so tall…blood clots… respiratory issues….
Former Arizona Wildcats big man Christian Koloko’s young NBA career is threatened by a blood clotting issue, reports The Athletic’s Shams Charania. The 23-year-old Koloko was waived Wednesday after the Toronto Raptors traded Pascal Siakam to the Indiana Pacers.
Charania reported there have been teams interested in picking Koloko up, but he was referred to the league’s Fitness-To-Play Panel, which would have to clear him to play again.
Raptors president Masai Ujiri said Thursday that the health status of Koloko “is in the hands of the NBA.” Koloko has not played this season because of what the Raptors called a “respiratory issue.”
Koloko was the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year, Pac-12 Most Improved Player of the Year and made First Team All Pac-12 during his junior year in 2021-22. He played 91 games for the Wildcats over three seasons and is fifth in program history with 162 blocked shots. Toronto selected him in the second round of the 2022 NBA Draft with the No. 33 overall pick. Koloko played 58 games with 19 starts for the Raptors as a rookie last season and averaged 3.1 points and 2.9 rebounds with a block per game.
is this not fake news fast eddie as everything is fake now that ive got your attention what if the elders are useless ? This would explain their every move including the vaxxes it would also explain BAU utilising wind and solar it would also explain obsession with vaxxes as cure alls and moon landings could also be real it would also explain that the end is nigh and the elders are living in delusistani land thanks to their obsession with technology and blind faith to it .
If you watch a game see if he is playing … if he is then this is fake
SCHAD the f789 out of this
Dejan Milojevic’s “medical emergency”; Snoop Dogg’s daughter’s “severe medical emergency”; Ashley Park’s “critical septic shock”; AZ’s Christian Koloko felled by blood clot; Al B. Sure in 2-month coma
“Good Morning Charleston anchor Alissa Holmes OK after on-air medical emergency”; Minneapolis weatherman Keith Marler’s “multiple health issues”; QVC’s Kim Gravel has Bell’s palsy; & more
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/dejan-milojevics-medical-emergency
hahahahahahahahahaha what a wonderful day!!!
Those HOOTIES sure are powerful!!! If you believe this I have some Rat Juice to inject into you – thoroughly tested …
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/high-degree-risk-us-maersk-warn-shippers-steer-clear-red-sea-crisis
The Hooties are the honey badgers of the middle east.
(Bloomberg 24.01.24)
“How Yemen’s Houthi Attacks Are Hurting the Global Supply Chain.
Attacks by Yemeni group have triggered the biggest redirection of shipping in decades”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-01-24/red-sea-maps-show-houthi-attacks-hitting-global-economy
https://archive.ph/yAUNr
Who would have thought a rag tag band of rag heads… would be allowed to threaten the global supply chain!!!!
These HOOTIES are incredible… first group ever to be able to achieve this… gold medal for them!
And the amazing thing is that the world powers appear to be powerless to stop them.
Given the threat this poses to civilization – ie. it contributes to inflation and could if unabated collapse BAU…. you’d think there would be a group effort to crush these f789ers…
You know – like a couple of hundred thousand troops scouring either side of the canal exterminating the HOOTIES>.. supported by killer choppers — drones – fighter aircraft…
You’d think they’d issue a warning – anyone within x miles of the canal… will be considered a HOOTY… so stay the f789 away cuz We Mean Business WMB…
But nope — the HOOTIES continue to gather on the banks of the canal and fire missiles at the ships…
Cuz the HOOTIES are powerful — unbeatable… they are amazing!
Oh and btw – do we know why they are shooting at the ships??? Do they want something? What’s the motive? Maybe it’s just for fun???
hahaha… this is almost as ridiculous as the moon landings and chopper on Mars
hahaha… people believe it – cuz cnnbbc…
ZERO critical thought capacity.
F.E . believes that Laser reflectors magically appeared on the moon!
Time, date and mission number!
Otherwise B/S!
This is a declaration of mental illness.
If you continue to post this you admit to having a low double digit IQ.
any iq carrying double digits is good
“Don’t mess with 🤪 uhhiminauhwemerica 🤪 unless you want to get the benefit.” – Cognitively Impaired Joe Biden
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1749921415120220168
Yes you can’t make this up but the scariest story is the Kari Lake one
Yes you can’t make this up but the scariest story is that norm worships Joe Bidet. He even has his picture on his bedroom wall, right next to BoJo’s.
yup
there have been several reports of a peeping tom in this area–looking in bedrooms Rod?
careful–you might get ideas above and beyond your capabilities.
still you can always share your night time adventures in that respect with your mentor.—compare your shortcomings with his.—i daresay both of you will get straightened out in due course.
No doubt.
none drb
none at all—even at my age
Ugh ! No rod stay with me…..they are trying to bribe her not to run…..
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/kari-lake-demands-resignation-corrupt-gop-chair-caught-trying-bribe-her
Blimey, that’s damming.
I know nothing about her. Would you want her to run and win?
I’ve just found a woman that I’d vote for.
“I’m sorry that your amazon parcels are delayed”.
https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1749719738152808916
Fake
Fake. Otherwise he’d never be able to appear coherent – yet he does.
Gail wrote:
“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.”
Really? By the time I got to 60, I had a strong suspicion that my health and other aspects of my performance would deteriorate in the next 15 years – assuming I got that far.
In the USA, only around 1 person in 5000 lives to be 100, so Gail’s statement is rather optimistic. Do you have any centenarians in your family, Gail?
IIRC, Gail graduated from university in 1968. So probably she was born in 1947 and will become 80 in the near future. Perhaps that it why she focused on the age of 80, in the extract above.
My mother lived to be 95, and her mother lived to be about 95.
My own health has been far better than my peers in recent years. The health care system would go out of business if it depended on me as a customer. But you are right, I am not a young person.
Good that you’re still going so strong, Gail. With any luck you’ll still be writing OFW in 2040, but I expect to be long gone by then.
Work on your lifestyle now, and it may help.
On the other hand, whatever new contagious disease has been figured out may take us all down.
My grandmother lived to 105.
I did a calculation of my life expectancy from one of the online calculators (put up by a life insurer) that took into account current age and answers to a number of lifestyle questions. It came up with a life expectancy for me of a little over 100 years.
Woo hoo!
Comparative lifespans at the moment seem to be:
USA 75, UK 80, Sweden 83, Italy 84.
They’re extraordinary figures, given that Italy is ‘poorer’ than the USA. Italy is also poorer than Sweden but people live longer. (It must be the food, wine and greater sociability, I think.)
Food and lack of exercise are both important. Too much wage and wealth disparity are stressors. Excessive US medical intervention and chemical treatment for everything (insecticides, herbicides, antibiotics given to many meat animals, etc) is likely counterproductive, too.
Figure 2 from this PDF gives an idea how much US life expectancy has fallen, relative to other advanced countries since 1980.
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1_Case-Deaton_unembargoed.pdf
Figure 2:
https://ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Life-expectancy-at-birth-for-the-US-and-22-rich-countries.png
Figure 3 shows indirectly the impact of wage and wealth disparity–people with BA college degrees do far better than others, but still not good compared to other countries.
https://ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/US-Life-expectancies-with-and-without-a-BA.png
I was fortunate enough to figure out that American food was having an adverse effect on my health back in the early 1990s. Changing my eating habits helped a lot. Most people guess that I am far younger than my actual age–as much as 20 years younger. My husband, who has been eating a fairly similar diet, looks unusually young also.
norm feeds Super Snatch KFC etc and Big Gulps… she’s 58 going on 90… and morbidly obese (she also feeds from the Dumpster in between norm’s visits)
US would still be fairly high without the rednecks, blacks and hispanics
Higher without the wannabe medico’s/pharmacy hit-persons methinks.
Life expectancy will prove to be pretty much an inverse correlation of your involvement with modern type 1 silly-visations achievements.
The greater the distance from natures rules the stupider the elites become. They never hold their ground.
Fast Eddy is immortal. HE has existed since the beginning of time … and HE will exist long after humans are gone.
Texas Man Allegedly Raped in Jail After AI Wrongly Identifies Him as Robbery Suspect Despite Having Alibi
“A Texas man is suing Macy’s and the parent company of Sunglass Hut after the two companies allegedly relied on error-prone facial recognition technology to falsely accuse him of armed robbery.
Harvey Murphy Jr., 61, went to a DMV to renew his license in Gonzales, Texas, but didn’t realize he would be leaving in handcuffs. His arrest was in connection to an armed robbery — one that occurred when he was on the other side of the country.
EssilorLuxottica and Macy’s took a video from the robbery and used it to determine the man was one of the robbers, and police put out a warrant for his arrest, court records said. However, the man had an alibi at the time of the robbery. He was 2,000 miles away in California, according to his lawyer.
Still, he was arrested with no idea what was going on. “All he knew was he was being transported to the Harris County Jail because of a felony arrest warrant,” court documents said.
At his arraignment, the man learned he was being charged with robbery. Once he learned the date of the incident, his lawyer and the prosecutor were able to confirm his alibi, the lawsuit said. The judge then agreed to dismiss the charges against him.
However, just hours before he was released from jail, the man says he was brutally assaulted, according to the lawsuit. “He was followed into the bathroom by three violent criminals. He was beaten, forced on the ground, and brutally gang raped. After this violent attack, one of the criminals held a shank against his neck and told him that if he reported the rape to anyone, he would be murdered,” the lawsuit said. After the attack, the man crawled into his bunk, faced the wall and prayed he wouldn’t be attacked again, the lawsuit said.
The man was left with permanent injuries from the assault, according to court documents.
https://www.ibtimes.sg/texas-man-allegedly-raped-jail-after-ai-wrongly-identifies-him-robbery-suspect-despite-having-73211
HOLY SHIT!
It is questionable what kind of future AI will have, with issues like this coming up. I read one article yesterday comparing the AI investment bubble to the Dot Com investment bubble.
The thing is … like the moon landings and the helicopter on Mars… AI does not exist… it is an imaginary concept …
But everyone believes in this tooth fairy …. the act as if it’s real…
Even though Oscar https://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/ is completely useless….
Quite fascinating…
The Global Brain Hive Mind Artificial Intelligence Control Grid
Absolutely ridiculous, the amount of compute required for encoding/decoding the some 2B+ Hypers®™ in pseudo “free” industrial civilization is nothing but a pipe dream for Schwabula and the rest of the utopian clique of sanctimonious hypocrites.
I can think of at least ten ways of doing this a lot cheaper and less obnoxious.
And by the way, what is there to know that isn’t already known? All Hypers are basically members of a primate cloner herd heavily engaged in the Monkey Business of BAU. Yes, that includes you, I, Schwabula, Billy G, Zuck et.al.
C’mon, let’s chant together:
YOLO!121!!1!
M.O.A.R.
Hypers gonna hyper!1!!!1
In perpetuity!
(etc.)
Cuz that’s what monkeys do.
Questions? No? Good!
🤣👍👍
The purpose here is no longer to know the herd (as you say, they already know everything) but to manage it perfectly.
Maybe it’s not feasible, maybe it’s just a pipe dream of absolute control… but let me remind you that the elders don’t usually invest billions in pipe dreams. They prefer to invest their hard stolen money in practical things.
JMS, I think that which you refer to is called Bread and Circuses. Yup, that too is an age old “invention”.
Yes, it is so compelling that even the elites seem to enjoy it. Say a good movie, music and food.
But please tell me, aren’t you entertained and obsessed by the antics and shenanigans in and of BAU? For sure you might protest, but deep down in that primate core of you…
The smell of a monkey.
🦍💨💨
🤣👍👍
He would have been executed in the old days. Henry Wade, who became famous in something unrelated to this, was notoriously famous for awarding virtually everyone a death penalty, regardless of alibi.
WHO calls for world pandemic treaty to prepare for deadly ‘Disease X’
“World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus has called on countries to sign on to the health organization’s pandemic treaty so the world can prepare for “Disease X.”
Ghebreyesus, speaking in front of an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, said that he hoped countries would reach a pandemic agreement by May to address this “common enemy.”
https://nypost.com/2024/01/21/news/who-director-tedros-ghebreyesus-calls-for-world-pandemic-treaty-to-prepare-for-disease-x/
Basically this is the prelude to Total Martial Law with a Shoot to Kill policy
As we know when the Vaxxers are dying by the billions … they will want the A Vaxxers locked down… telling them the food will be delivered… during that period they will snipe anyone who steps out the door…
This all has to happen with minimal violence… no cavorting from house to house ripping faces off… raping … and pillaging the pantries…
You can feel the PR Team working us over here… they are signalling that they are getting ready for something BIG.
It sure is gonna be exciting … all those dead bodies!
Did I mention that during the civil war in Rwanda there were many carcasses of humans on the streets — and the dogs were feasting — so they shot the dogs cuz it grossed them out to see them tearing at the human flesh…
Are you ready for this????
All conventional shale gas basins are in decline . There will be an increase in Permian shale gas as the GOR ratio rises and “oily gas wells become gassy oil wells” ( Mike S) . The problem is that there is very limited capacity for carry away of gas in the Permian so it will all be flared . This leads to two isssues :
1. Where is the gas going to come for the LNG terminal expansions ?
2. If LNG does not come from USA , then what about Europe ?
https://www.artberman.com/blog/draining-america-first-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-shale-gas/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-toys-with-an-lng-export-permitting-ban-752a62f4?st=6no3t6vpqigrqju&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Major gas basins .
https://twitter.com/aeberman12/status/1749758797336232107/photo/1
https://twitter.com/aeberman12/status/1749758335614914594/photo/1
https://twitter.com/aeberman12/status/1749758631573156144/photo/1
Natural gas discoveries at lowest .
https://peakoilbarrel.com/september-world-oil-production-rebounds/#comment-769027
But natural gas supplies greatly depend upon demand. Prices have been low recently, partly because of China’s lagging economy and partly because of the warm winter through December, leaving natural gas inventories high.
The WSJ has an excellent article about LNG and natural gas. In the paper edition it is called “Red Sea Attacks Won’t Threaten Natural-Gas Security.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/houthi-attacks-wont-threaten-global-natural-gas-security-72628e8d
It is titled: Houthi Attacks Won’t Threaten Global Natural-Gas Security
The threat to commercial shipping is snarling supply chains—but global energy markets look very different than in 2022
Some of the things that this article points out are:
Items I mentioned above- (warm winter so far, lagging Chinese economy, fairly full inventories)
Also, Qatar, a major exporter to the region avoids the Red Sea in its route to Asia. China and Japan are the world largest importers of LNG.
Prices of Asian LNG imports have dropped 40% to $9.41 per MMBtu. EU LNG import prices are about $9 per MMBtu, which is roughly where they were last summer.
It is expected that relatively less expensive pipeline natural gas imports to China from Russia will ramp up between now and 2025, holding down China’s need for additional natural gas.
(Not included in the WSJ article is the fact that US pipeline natural gas is very cheap and US natural gas production is at a record, as tight oil from shale formations increasingly produce natural gas, rather than oil. The current spot price at Henry Hub is $2.86, or less than a third of the price for which it is sold in Europe and Asia. But shipping costs as LNG are dreadfully high. My guess is that exports to Europe make financial sense, but the cost of shipping to Asia makes it undesirable as a market.)
I would also add that oil producers do not particularly want natural gas. Natural gas requires a huge amount of infrastructure. The price is extremely variable. The equivalent cost of crude oil is about 6 times the natural gas MMbtu price. At $9 per MMBtu, the price is roughly equal to $54 per barrel oil in value to the producer. At $3 per MBtu, it is only equal to about $18 per barrel to the producer. Few producers want to make an investment at this low price, but companies who produce electricity by burning natural gas greatly like the situation.
Qatar stops shipments of LNG via Red Sea .
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/lng-tankers-held-up-over-weekend-following-us-uk-strikes-houthis-data-2024-01-15/
The WSJ article that I quoted yesterday claiming that Qatar’s LNG wasn’t shipped through the Red Sea seems to be wrong.
OMG the HOOTIES are all powerful! The world powers — are powerless to stop them!!!
Bow down to the All Powerful HOOTIES!!!
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/01/24/multimedia/24houthis-propaganda-2-fptw/24houthis-propaganda-2-fptw-facebookJumbo.jpg
hahahahaha… as f789ing if
Well that sure is welcome news!!!
The only question is … do we have enough data points of this nature to trigger the release of Pathogen X (lab produced mutation Covid24.666.xxx
Export ban suggests the need to keep the natural gas for ourselves.
Also, new pipelines are horribly expensive (and materials intensive). We can’t ramp up natural gas take-away capacity much at all.
Strange that it does not occur to Pooty to keep the gas for Russia — instead he continues to pump full speed in support of his enemy in the EU.
Why would he not throttle back… just a little would send the mob into the streets…
Very strange… strange indeed.
Are we at the tipping point on energy????
Let’s see if we can suck a little harder on what’s left and accelerate this.
hahaha…
Shale oil and gas drilling is 3 times more costly than conventional oil . Art Berman . Shale oil is unprofitable at any price .
https://twitter.com/aeberman12/status/1749943044655157561/photo/1
But, as one commenter says, “Biggest change is that geological risk (probability of a dry hole) goes to zero with shale. The shale well will almost always produce some amount of oil or gas. Some part of capex can be recovered. No wonder XOM/CVX/OXY are paying top dollar to buy up Tier 1 shale acreage.”
It is necessary to look at the whole picture. Also, the hoped-for natural gas price. People tend to assume that US natural prices can go up, but the resulting electricity prices make home heating terribly expensive. They also tend to make manufacturing uncompetitive.
Soooo WEeeeeeee keep this stuff coming … almost as good as Celebrity Vax Injury stuff.
Most will feel despair reading this … me – nah… I am Delighted.
Although I’d like to have another year of BAU… hoping to be able to get to my favourite eatery in Perth a few times before Global Holodomor puts the kibosh on that https://www.sauma.com.au/
Wake up call . All the oil basins decline simultaneosly . From Quark in Spain .
https://futurocienciaficcionymatrix.blogspot.com/2024/01/el-modelo-del-acantilado-seneca.html
Google translate please .
He says BAU2030 baby!
Good link in the comments; Tim Watkins is on point as usual:
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2024/01/19/it-doesnt-really-work-like-that/
Also https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2024/01/21/269-how-will-exorbitant-privilege-end/
I need to look at this article, but I can believe that this would be true.
The economy uses a mix of fuels. The economy acts like a vacuum cleaner. It pulls from all sources simultaneously. Even substituting for renewables doesn’t help much, because there is a limited supply of materials like copper, lithium, and nickel. Extraction tends to take oil, putting an overall limit on supply. Trying to make oil from shorter molecules uses a huge share of the shorter molecules, so it doesn’t work well either.
Orchestrated … fake https://t.me/EdwardDowdReal/578
BTW – remember the Satanism stuff and Tranny Freaks? Notice how they disappeared.
Cuz it was all orchestrated… fake.
Ya’ll are being played… 365
FE, it is impossible to tell people on OFW that what they heard, see from MSM, news, etc MAY NOT be real. It is like a feed from The Matrix.
Remember many decades ago in the radio broadcast of The War of The Worlds where the broadcast was made like a news broadcast and people thought it was real.
Fast forward 100 years maybe. Same thing happened. People are just as gullible as they were 100 years ago
Some people are more gullible like believing in “safe and effective”. Some are better but still fall short like “Russian is bad”
Have you ever tried to warn people about a Ponzi scheme? They will snub you and tell you that you just lost a golden investment opportunity.
After COVID, I know the answer to the question “How the heck can a lawyer/doctor/engineer fall prey to financial scams?”
Same as before, same as after and same forever – gullible.
Are you gullible?
F.E . believes that Laser reflectors magically appeared on the moon! Do you?
Time, date and mission number!
Otherwise B/S!
You are safe and effective if you believe everything you read. Remember that the victors of war write the history. Is the history you read is correct or real? Think critically… no point discussing with people who are.not at the same wavelength….. ot different than discussing “safe and effective”
Zombie MOREONS cannot be reasoned with.
That’s why I fully support injecting as many as are willing with the Rat Juice.
For that is the only cure for their mental illness
Postkey, I was at dinner with an engineer for the Artemis project. He said that it was the biggest rocket ever. I didn’t want to shatter his world with the question: why the biggest? In the 70’s NASA went to the moon with 3 men, their food, water, waste, and a dune buggy w/ batteries that work at -250f.
Interesting question!
come on man … the technology was far superior in the 60’s… everyone knows that…
I am afraid that it is very easy to be gullible. Now with the internet bringing so many things to our attention, it is hard to judge what is legitimate.
I got an email today saying that the church office was telling partitioners to be aware that someone was sending out text messages, supposedly from the pastor, supposedly asking for money for some emergency cause.
Our church bookkeeper has given stories from other churches of someone claiming to be the pastor sending a message to the church bookkeeper to make some particular payment. The bookkeeper, in such a situation, needs to walk down the hall and see that the message is really from the pastor.
Con artists get very creative.
hahaha what a great idea!!!
kinda like believing the helicopter can charge in -60C on mars except that this costs the MOREONS $$$$$$
I bet norm gets caught up these scams a few times a week