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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.
The point being that whenever an activist, politician or journalist uses words like “ought,” “could,” “should,” and “can,” what they most often mean is “can’t.”
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2024/01/30/a-small-and-deceptive-word/
From the article:
I don’t think we are all on our own. There is an outside power helping us blunder along. Leaders on two side keep suggesting things to do. Somehow, the system stays together longer than it seems like it would be possible for it to do.
We should/ought/could… invest in job creation
We should not invest in job creation. Jobs that don’t naturally spring from the economy are fake jobs that won’t last.
and all the PHd’s at NASA come under that category
hahaha https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/electric-buses-sitting-unused-cities-across-the-us
I remember that the previous electric busses you reported not working were in the UK. This is some of what is reported now :
With the company bankrupt, no one can get replacement parts now.
This is not good advertising for the electric vehicle industry.
Much like solar panels, it turns out electric buses don’t really work in winter.
But helicopters work in -60C on Mars hahahahahaa… they use the same tech as a power drill battery
Ok that was faked – but everything else on bbccnn is real … right?
bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
JUst for you FE, because you are an enquiring mind.
“The Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has a unique system to recharge its batteries and survive the extreme cold conditions on Mars. Here’s how it works:
Before Deployment: While still attached to the Perseverance rover, Ingenuity charges its battery and uses a thermostat-controlled heater powered by the rover. This heater keeps the interior at about 45 degrees Fahrenheit (7 degrees Celsius) through the bitter cold of the Martian night, where temperatures can drop to as low as -130F (-90C). This protects key components such as the battery and some of the sensitive electronics from harm at very cold temperatures1.
After Deployment: Once Ingenuity is deployed on Mars’ surface, its batteries are charged solely by the helicopter’s own solar panel2. The solar panel charges the battery, making Ingenuity a self-sufficient system as long as there is adequate sunlight3. Most of the energy is used to keep the helicopter warm, since nighttime temperatures on Mars plummet to around minus 130 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 90 Celsius)3.
Surviving the Night: Ingenuity can’t afford to keep the temperature of its interior at a “balmy” 45F – that takes too much precious energy from the battery. Instead, when it wakes up on the surface after being dropped, it sets its thermostat to about 5F or lower1.
Battery Recharge Performance: The Ingenuity team checks the temperatures and the battery recharge performance over the next couple of days after deployment1.
This innovative design allows Ingenuity to survive and operate in the harsh Martian environment. It’s truly a testament to the ingenuity of the engineers and scientists at NASA! 🚁🔋🔆”
So there, easy as pie.
Dennis L.
After Deployment: Once Ingenuity is deployed on Mars’ surface, its batteries are charged solely by the helicopter’s own solar panel2. The solar panel charges the battery, making Ingenuity a self-sufficient system as long as there is adequate sunlight3.
Ever tried charging a mobile phone using a solar panel? Good luck….
Ever tried charging a mobile phone using a solar panel in -60C? Good luck…
Note that the Tesla’s were connected to a high voltage charger — that is supposed to warm the battery and allow it to charge…. in weather much warmer than -60C… and that did not work.
This is a lie. it is bullshit. Anyone who believes this is mentally ill
Although my writings look like I am a pessimist, I am actually an optimist.
I personally see a catabolic collapse, with the centers of civ lasting much longer than expected, although all the poor and ‘not essential’ people will be kicked out to die in the wilderness.
With massive recycling dumps here and there, enough material will be salvaged to bring the top 1%, 0.1% or 0.01% past a Type I Civilization, although most of the people who enabled that to happen will be thrown away like used straws.
What is the evidence that a helicopter using the same batteries as a power drill from Walmart… can be charged in -60C on Mars?
What is the evidence that confirms the Rat Juice is Safe and Effective?
The thing is …
Once you catch them lying about one issue… or two.. or three… you have to assume they lie about everything… at the very least you have to question everything …
Get it?
sounds like another bee in eddys bonnet
Looks like maybe things are about to heat up. Will this get the collapse moving?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/moment-no-return-imminent-biden-has-decided-response-says-iran-supplied-weapons-used
What is the evidence that US soldiers were killed?
The Atlanta Journal Constitution has pictures and names of the three soldiers killed. They were all from Georgia. They were all black.
Could be fake. How to confirm – go to the funerals???
Even then … we saw in Israel how the govt sacrificed folks at the concert.. allowing them to be killed… so that they’d have an excuse to carpet bomb the Gazans…
They way the Elders and their minions see the world — is that there are 8B cockroaches swarming … killing 3 of them … to further an agenda… would be like you stepping on 3 roaches…
They do this all the time…
Just like Hoolio kills rabbits… he feels no remorse … in fact he exhibits great delight as he races back and forth with the dead bodies … he actually flings them in the air and catches them… then he eats them
All those commandments are basically out the window with the Elders… they do not allow artificial constructs to prevent them from doing what is … necessary…
See Colonel Kurtz for more on this
This is about one of the two women in the group.
https://www.wtoc.com/2024/01/30/grieving-unthinkable-spc-breonna-moffetts-life-long-friend-opens-up-about-tragic-loss/
This is about the one man.
https://www.wjcl.com/article/william-jerome-rivers-carrollton-georgia/46581802
This is about the other woman.
This looks to confirm they are dead… but it does not confirm how they died…
Cuz we know that the Elders have no problem with killing some folks to further their agendas… it’s really no different than what Hoolio does.. his conscience does not bother him
Thanks for the info.
Actually some days ago also other soldiers died, but they were Navy Seals and they officially get lost during an operation.
No one talked about them…
I’ve the impression that also other soldiers previously died in the area, but now maybe it is necessary to talk about this subject and have maybe an excuse to start something…(?)
Something is happening maybe…
https://maritime-executive.com/article/u-s-navy-releases-names-of-two-seals-lost-at-sea-in-gulf-of-aden
https://maritime-executive.com/article/two-navy-seals-lost-overboard-while-boarding-ship-off-somalia
Being a logistics base, this is normal in this day and age.
no the collapse is years and probably decades away.
in The Core at least.
though ME countries are in The Periphery.
We are starting to realize that these retroviruses, which have co-evolved with us over millions of years, have important functions, such as regulating other genes,” says de la Rosa. “It’s an extremely active field of research.”
Genetic material from endogenous retroviruses – which infected the earliest organisms on Earth, leaving markers in our DNA – is estimated to make up around 8 to 10 percent of the modern human genome.
The newly discovered link between these viruses and embryo growth has implications for creating artificial embryos and working on regenerative medicines, according to researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, or CNIO).
The research has been published in Science Advances.
critical early stage of embryonic development has been linked to a virus that mixed with the ancestral DNA of complex organisms like ourselves more than 500 million years ago
Genetic material from endogenous retroviruses – which infected the earliest organisms on Earth, leaving markers in our DNA – is estimated to make up around 8 to 10 percent of the modern human genome.
https://www.sciencealert.com/embryo-development-linked-to-a-500-million-year-old-viral-infection
The newly discovered link between these viruses and embryo growth has implications for creating artificial embryos and working on regenerative medicines, according to researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas, or CNIO).
Think the author of The One Straw Revolution observed…the more we think we know, the less we understand
Healthcare is an area that the US seems to be willing to spend an unlimited amount on. The current system is costing 17.3% of GDP, but US life expectancy is much lower than for other advanced countries. As long as someone is willing to put money for an idea, someone will follow it. We don’t need artificial embryos, as far as I can see.
I don’t think Japan spends that much ($ per year for each person). But people there live almost ten years longer than in the USA.
Whoever wrote the Wikipedia page may well be American, as s/he seems to think that lifespan is closely linked to expenditure on ‘healthcare’. Keep taking the pills …
It is not really healthcare of course. It is healthcare as much as the MIC is military. It’s just bubbles where to pump public money for profit.
Sounds like a way to pretend mRNA (AKA endogenous retroviruses ) and their genetic insurgence into our DNA are ‘natural’ and been around for hundreds of years too. Well frack that shit, cos we done with it the BS
I think that this article from the WSJ is important. The big issue is that there is not electricity on the grid to provide any transition to electricity from fossil fuels. There wouldn’t be enough electricity (in fact we are already bumping up limits), and the grid could not handle the electricity, if the electricity were there.
U.S. Oil Drillers Are Going Electric—if They Can Get the Electricity
Frackers can’t connect to the electric grid fast enough as they seek to reduce emissions, save costs.
Of course, if these frackers are getting natural gas out, setting up their own electricity generation would seem to be the perfect answer. It is terribly expensive to pipe the natural gas away. Burning it in place would seem to provide cheap electricity–far cheaper than it would cost to buy it from the regular grid.
But people making EVs and batteries don’t have the option of setting up their own generation using natural gas. Any additional US manufacturing or transition from oil heating to electricity will have this difficulty. They will not be able to get enough electricity from the grid.
Reindustrialisation is not something that can really happen.
I am afraid you are right.
But “re-medievalization” sure as shucks can.
Maybe, but without high quality iron ore even a mediaeval way of life might not be possible.
Copied this directly from chatbpt, follow the money.
“Dennis Whyte is a renowned physicist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also the co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). CFS is a private company that aims to develop practical fusion energy as a safe, clean, and limitless source of power.
Whyte and his team at CFS are working on developing a compact and efficient fusion reactor based on the tokamak design. The company’s goal is to demonstrate a working prototype by 2025 and commercialize fusion energy by the 2030s.”
Need to do some research on CFS, it is getting hard to get in on the good stuff, the good stuff makes so much money raising money from the outside is not necessary, brains are.
We are going to deal with our problems, it will be messy, the fabric of the universe is only 80/20, trick is to find the 20.
Dennis L.
If there is money for research in this area, someone will see if they can find a solution for it.
Basically whatever this guy is saying is gimme mo’ money.
The Spanish Empire did not fall because of a lack of money.
I don’t give a shit about being ‘renowned’. It means he has rubbed the correct shoulders, i.e. being a good politician. People like him are all talk, no results.
There trick is using superconductors with high magnetic field tolerance. This allows them to make the tokamak more compact and small is cheap.
Dennis Whyte, Lex Friedman had a session, two+ hours about a year ago, fusion and it is coming real soon now, say 2050 give or take. So, Gail’s debt problem will be solved; on a planetary scale, one invests large to keep biology going. Recall my thesis, biology is the ultimate expression of the universe, no one is going to screw that project up. Or, it is just money. You might look into commonwealth fusion.
Biology, this site was correct in that certain virus programs had issues and thanks in part to this site I sat that program out, and also sat next to two Chinese students who at the end of 2020 went to China on break and returned. Math review was important to me, I held my nose; yes I was concerned but am very goal oriented.
Farming, I don’t like chemicals. Last fall, bored, looked at a CC, started their electronics program, could only take digital, missed the open application window for other courses, this semester took a microcomputer programming unit. It is sort of learn what you want and uses the freenove program, Raspberry Pi. I am almost done with my basics, Freenove has a wheeled device using a Raspberry Pi which will supposedly follow a face. So a photo of a weed will substituted for my ugly face. If it works, I have an autonomous device which will identify individual weeds, now put that on a drone, put a laser on a drone and make a swarm of drones and zap go the weeds. Get Hub has tons of code, figure out how to read it, Murach to the rescue, only say 1200 pages, two books. My CC has a 3D printer course in the CNC program, print the drones for the swarm, took SolidWorks a few years back, need to review a bit, laughing quietly.
I am from the CP/M era, the Raspberry Pi blows that away and the editing software is better than anything from say the early 2000’s. The computers are say $60/computer.
If drones work they solve a soil compaction problem and the autonomous nature starts to solve the manpower shortage on the farm. Also, this device will be cheap, I hope. I suspect they can be run with solar energy. Hint, we farm in the summer with high solar incidence. The knowledge appears off the shelf. No chemicals, save our spaceship earth.
Musk is using solar energy on a continuous mode scaling at $1B annually, enough to be noticed.
Fusion will save our planet; the fabric of the universe has worked long on hard to even make a universe with potential, it will open a window. We have no idea what is ahead except, “they always think of something.”
On earth find out who backs commonwealth fusion, bet it is very big money, long term players. Get on the same bus and see where it goes.
Personal note, thanks guys, didn’t step on the viral land mind. A good friend, retired physician, took the jabs, now has PVC issues. She danced well, bummer.
Dennis L.
We have no idea what is ahead except, “they always think of something.”
The evidence is all around me here that they don’t always think of something. The coal ran out, the industries it supported died; those well paid jobs have never been replaced. It’s just the same in America.
Maybe you are onto a new weed solution. Sometimes additional complexity works, especially when off-the-shelf items are available to make it work.
On a different topic, with respect to PVC issues, do you mean Polyvinyl Chloride issues? There do seem so be issues with this harming the body. This is a link to an old academic paper.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1475246/
Premature Ventricular Contractions, the most common type of irregular heartbeat.
and harmless, so they say.
I don’t know why PVCs would prevent her from dancing.
Does sound more likely than anything to do with plastics.
Premature ventricular contractions,extra heart beats of the lower chambers. The damn virus/vaccine seems to mess with the heart.
As far as the weed solution, major manufactures now offer machines which recognize weeds and zap them with chemicals or in one case use a large electric generator – that one is $1M.
Nature works small, not large, grasshoppers are very effective eating machines, now train them to eat only weeds.
Dennis L.
2050? Must be joking. 2050 can easily be 20500 or 205000, since it won’t come. Whatever coming after this won’t use the AD system which has no basis on any thing, based upon a calculation of some French monk named Dionysius(Dennis) during the middle ages.
You watch too much informercials. I used to watch them too, like Nikola Danaylov who is less active now, but given that all of their achievements need BAU, it is all empty talk.
Meanwhile, 50 years ago, Masanobu Fukuoka obtained the same rice yield as from industrial farming, using organic no-dig methods. It was on a relatively small scale; Japanese farms seem to have been tiny. Maybe they still are. He also changed to non-flooded rice fields because with his methods they worked as well or better. Also dry rice fields wouldn’t emit methane, which is said to be a problem with rice growing.
Weeds weren’t a great problem if the ground was kept covered … as any gardener knows. Maybe some people planning to introducing new fancy drones to kill weeds need to get more familiar with existing and past methods used by organic growers?
David,
I have no idea about what will work, fsa wants weeds killed on crp land, one way is to spray, another is burning the whole thing – that could be exciting.
Frankly, the project intrigues me, most likely my last project so nothing to lose. I like the idea of charging the things with solar, I like the idea of a swarm, I like the idea of not spraying everything or even in limited areas spraying and having chemicals blow on to me. Mentioned above, there are machines which recognize weeds, for spraying say $500k plus >$250(that is probably multiple $100ks low) for a tractor to pull the machine. I mentioned the large electric machine for $1M. CRP does not pay that well.
Charging multiple batteries with solar in the summer beats the intermittency problem as well as the transmission problem.
Don’t have a clue, but Raspberry Pis are incredible and currently damn cheap.
Dennis L.
David,
If it worked and made money it would be done. Ironically, I own/manage my land, not much of a farmer, farming is still hard work.
Photo of the farming method you mentioned.
https://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/Fukuoka__39__s_natural_farming/
Currently in US very difficult to find farm hands to hire.
Dennis L.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre certainly has a way with words.
“Our deepest, obviously our deepest condolences go out, and our heartfelt condolences go out to the families who lost, uh, three, three brave, uh, three brave, uh, three brave, three folks who are military folks, who are brave, who are always fighting, who are fighting on behalf of, uh, this administration…”
I wonder how Jen would have phrased this statement?
lol
i was watching Jen on something this morning—still does it for me, every time.
pity its not reciprocated
can you give us details?
well drb
she wasnt pole dancing—which was a pity
other than that–i can’t remember
but you can be certain that WH press conference audiences have dropped by 99.9% since she left.
Wait, are you talking about the ET alien that masquerades as the White House press secretary?
i havent seen a WH press briefing since Jen left
so i wouldn’t know Ivan
Oh, ok I got confused and thought you had the hots for the gremlin.
Reminiscent of the moon mission astronauts… I guess when you are lying it’s hard to keep the story completely straight…
F.E . believes that Laser reflectors magically appeared on the moon!
Time, date and mission number!
Otherwise B/S!
Honey, i didn’t mean the Tesla to run over ya mum.
Any OFWs planning on getting ‘MuskChipped’
https://www.rt.com/news/591509-musk-brain-chip-human/
I’m just surprised anyone would believe this actually happened. Musk is a con man.
Maybe someone got some kind of implant. Whether or not this can even slightly work is a good question. We hope not.
that is also fake.
After awhile you can spot most of the fakes … you don’t even have to look beyond the headline…
If he is a con man, he does some pretty incredible things. PayPal would been enough for most, making cars in a tent was an inspiration, shooting a car which did not work into space was showmanship, Starship is pretty damn incredible let alone the Falcon series which go up and then come down on their butts in one piece.
He organizes very well.
Dennis L.
Dennis will be probably the first since he cannot get enough of whatever his God is pitching for
Thought about this one kul, “the cannot get enough….” is not even close, sorry I have failed to communicate better.
Dennis L.
https://thegoodcitizen.live/p/two-hearts-that-bleed-as-one
She harnessed jack sh it … she doesn’t write that garbage she sings about.
I hope she gets a severe vax injury
FE, the second paragraph speaks of envy, you are welcome to it; don’t think it is very helpful.
Dennis L.
You are reading that all wrong… there is no envy… the two of them are complicit in pushing the Rat Juice… and as we know — my favourite SCHAD happens when the pusher ODs
Don’t listen to her, she lives a life most of us can’t imagine, that is not luck, it is talent and hard work. Luck gave her a voice and a body(have seen photos) for which she has trainers.
Those of us who have lived, been involved with others understand broken hearts; they heal and one can grow stronger and with luck avoid the same mistake in the future. There are so many mistakes, why repeat?
I don’t like judgments of other people, it speaks of envy. Of course, I could be wrong and often am.
Dennis L.
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/Snag_357f772f.png
Taylor Swift story count graph. It rises over time.
Yep – fake https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/there-taylor-swift-psyop
There was an MTV video award ceremony where Madonna and Beyonce passed the Illuminati alter ego to Taylor Swift. She’s going to lead us into a glorious, bright future of desensitized and compliant human energy slaves.
Fast Eddy, “Why you gotta be so mean?”
There is clearly some sort of psyop ongoing. wherever you look on the internet common people complain that swift is everywhere on TV. I wonder what is it for. zerohedge has a piece about it.
The Houthi pdf of Miles Mathis which I linked also has some stuff on Taylor
The HOOTIES provide a great excuse for … energy depletion — there’s no energy depletion — it’s just that the HOOTIES keep shooting at the tankers…
The Red Sea shipping crisis is sending waves through Asia’s fuel markets, hoisting costs even on routes that don’t use the waterway, while spurring sellers to reduce cargo premiums to offset the higher freight.
Rates for shipping products such as petrol have jumped as some vessels sail longer distances to avoid the Red Sea after attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels. That’s tightened the market, first boosting costs of long-distance routes via the Middle East, and now spilling into voyages within Asia.
Global commodity markets – especially for crude oil and related products – are transfixed by the stand-off, which worsened in recent days after a fuel-laden tanker operated on behalf of trading giant Trafigura Group was set ablaze by a Houthi missile.
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/3250168/red-sea-shipping-crisis-sends-shock-waves-through-asian-fuel-markets-things-are-getting-worse-not?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage
Problem
Reaction
Solution
The bad guys are blowing up da ships?
Oh no!
Let’s build that new canal through the dead sea
that we been planing out to the med
Yay all TPTB are Chappy again
And you got to payroll it.
Good little minion!
The bad guys are blowing up da ships?
Oh no!
Let’s build that new canal through the dead sea
that we been planing out to the med
Build it with what? There’s no energy available for massive projects like that and how much trade is there really going to be once the Middle East has no more oil.
Quite amazing that the HOOTIES are unopposed… they get to do whatever they want…
Does that make sense? I suppose it does if one is addicted to bbccnn…. if bbccnn does not question this — why would a MOREON????
when we all know the US would put an end to this in a day if it really wanted. We could not find our way around the world without your insight.
It’s not just the US … it’s all countries … shutting the canal threatens BAU… yet… nothing … they do nothing
hahahahahahahaahahahaha
How about you go to bbccnn and pick up some stuff on the Safe Rat Juice and post that here… we can have that debate too
Whatever is on cnnbbc… is not to be questioned… hahahahaha
Ask bbccnn (or chat) how they charged the chopper battery in -60 while you are at it…
“Whatever is on cnnbbc… is not to be questioned…”
Your the only one that is not questioning their lies. Ask yourself why that is.
“It’s not just the US … it’s all countries … shutting the canal threatens BAU”
How many times, the Suez canal is not shut and the great majority of the worlds nations have no problems navigating Bab-el-Mandeb, but bau for them has got a whole lot more profitable.
I’ve just checked and Suez is busy as usual. A small drop, almost as if a few countries are fearful for some reason.
Why do you endlessly repeat bbccnn lies, because it’s only you and the western msm repeating these lies. Moron or minion?
Busy as usual… BAU…. but hang on … I thought the canal was shut??? Cuz the HOOTIES???
Hmmm… kinda like charging a helicopter battery in -60C on Mars…
You was played
Your rather slow aren’t you. As I said before, look at a map.
Your rather slow aren’t you. As I said before, look at a map.
He would rather spend hours every day typing nonsense than take 30 seconds to look at a map. Maybe he’s off his meds again.
I saw the map that purported to show no ships in the canal last month…
I immediately thought about the helicopter on Mars desperately trying to charge its battery in -60C…
Then I thought about the Safe and Effective Rat Juice…
Do you think they might lie about stuff???? If so which is a lie – which is not — and how do you know?
Can you prove the Nordstream has been blown up?
You can see my dilemma … it’s insurmountable .. so I just work off the assumption it’s all fake – unless I can somehow prove otherwise.. which is very difficult – often impossible…
But there are some things that I know are definitely fake — cuz I can apply common sense…
If someone tried to shut down BAU by closing the canal… the US China Russia etc… would act. If necessary they would nuke Yemen the home of the HOOTIES>
Recall they killed 500k children in Iraq…
“You can see my dilemma”
Yes, you’re an idiot that doesn’t think, or listen.
No canal shut.
No problem of navigation for China or Russia.
No US invincibility.
No pandemic.
No mutations.
No cannisters.
No hints about the future from Hollywood.
“But there are some things that I know are definitely fake”
GVB.
Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon.
Hollywood films.
TV shows.
yaxley-lennon can’t be fake
he has his own alias–but they dont put aliases on police records or mugshots.
Klaus Schwab’s “Young Global Leaders” school rules the world? By Michael Lord. You ought to see who’s been to his school …
I really am shocked. This is actually real. Here is their website. They are coy about past students, but you can see some on their website here. There’s a Wikipedia entry here (which is minimalist, so clearly Wikipedia is on board with their agenda — Jimmy Wales is a student of theirs).
How is it that more than 190 governments from all over the world ended up dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in almost exactly the same manner, with lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccination cards now being commonplace everywhere?
Always vaccines, never therapeutics like vitamin D, zinc, ivermectin or — like Trump suggested — HCQ.
The answer may lie in the Young Global Leaders school, which was established and managed by Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum, and that many of today’s prominent political and business leaders passed through on their way to the top.
The German economist, journalist, and author Ernst Wolff has revealed some facts about Schwab’s “Young Global Leaders” school … in a video from the German Corona Committee podcast.
The story begins with the World Economic Forum (WEF), which is an NGO founded by Klaus Schwab, a German economist and mechanical engineer, in Switzerland in 1971, when he was only 32. The WEF is best-known to the public for the annual conferences it holds in Davos, Switzerland each January that aim to bring together political and business leaders from around the world to discuss the problems of the day. Today, it is one of the most important networks in the world for the globalist power elite, being funded by approximately a thousand multinational corporations. …
In 1992 Schwab established a parallel institution, the Global Leaders for Tomorrow school, which was re-established as Young Global Leaders in 2004. Attendees at the school must apply for admission and are then subjected to a rigorous selection process.
Members of the school’s very first class in 1992 already included many who went on to become important liberal political figures, such as Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Tony Blair.
There are currently about 1,300 graduates of this school, and the list of alumni includes several names of those who went on to become leaders of the health institutions of their respective nations: …
Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand whose stringent lockdown measures have been praised by global health authorities
Emmanuel Macron, the President of France
Sebastian Kurz, who was until recently the Chancellor of Austria
Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary;
Jean-Claude Juncker, former Prime Minister of Luxembourg and President of the European Commission …
Annalena Baerbock, the leader of the German Greens … who is still in the running to be Merkel’s successor. …
California Governor Gavin Newsom …
US Secretary of Transportation Peter Buttigieg …
Microsoft’s Bill Gates
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
Virgin’s Richard Branson
Chelsea Clinton …
All of these politicians who were in office during the past two years have favored harsh responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and which also happened to considerably increase their respective governments’ power. … All of them expressed support for the global response to the pandemic, and many reaped considerable profits as a result of the measures. …
Wolff believes that the people behind the WEF and the Global Leaders school are the ones who really determine who will become political leaders, although he stresses that he doesn’t believe that Schwab himself is the one making these decisions but is merely a facilitator. He further points out that the school’s alumni include not only Americans and Europeans, but also people from Asia, Africa, and South America, indicating that its reach is truly worldwide.
In 2012, Schwab and the WEF founded yet another institution, the “Global Shapers Community,” which brings together those identified by them as having leadership potential from around the world who are under 30. Approximately 10,000 participants have passed through this program to date, and they regularly hold meetings in 400 cities. Wolff believes that it is yet another proving ground where future political leaders are being selected, vetted, and groomed before being positioned in the world’s political apparatus.
Wolff points out that very few graduates of the Global Leaders school list it on their CVs. He says that he has only seen it listed on one: namely, that of the German economist Richard Werner, who is a known critic of the establishment. …
Another thing that the Global Leaders graduates have in common is that most of them have very sparse CVs apart from their participation in the program prior to being elevated to positions of power, which may indicate that it is their connection to Schwab’s institutions that is the decisive factor in launching their careers. This is most evident when the school’s alumni are publicly questioned about issues that they have not been instructed to talk about in advance, and their struggles to come up with answers are often quite evident. Wolff contends that their roles are only to act as mouthpieces for the talking points that those in the shadows behind them want discussed in public debate. …
Wolff notes that politicians with unique personalities and strong, original views have become rare, and that the distinguishing character of the national leaders of the past 30 years has been their meekness and adherence to a strict globalist line dictated from above. …
The WEF’s current Board of Trustees includes such luminaries as Christine Lagarde, former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and current President of the European Central Bank; Queen Rania of Jordan, who has been ranked by Forbes as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world; and Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the largest investment management corporation internationally and which handles approximately $9 trillion annually …
Wolff highlights that BlackRock, run by Global Leaders alumnus Larry Fink, is presently the largest advisor to the world’s central banks and has been collecting data on the world financial system for more than 30 years now, and undoubtedly has a greater understanding of how the system works than the central banks themselves.
A possible agenda?
One of the goals of the current policies being pursued by many governments, Wolff believes, is to destroy the businesses of small- and medium-sized entrepreneurs so that multinational corporations based in the United States and China can monopolize business everywhere. Amazon, which was led until recently by Global Leaders alumnus Jeff Bezos, in particular has made enormous profits as a result of the lockdown measures that have devastated the middle class.
Wolff contends that the ultimate goal of this domination by large platforms is to see the introduction of digital bank currency. …
Wolff further explains that the lockdowns and subsequent bailouts that were seen around the world over the past two years left many nations on the verge of bankruptcy. …
Wolff says that two European countries are already prepared to begin using digital currency: Sweden and Switzerland. Perhaps not coincidentally, Sweden has had virtually no lockdown restrictions due to the pandemic, and Switzerland has taken only very light measures. Wolff believes that the reason for this may be that the two countries did not need to crash their economies through lockdown measures because they were already prepared to begin using digital currency before the pandemic began. He contends that a new round of lockdowns may be being prepared that will finish off the world’s economies for good, leading to massive unemployment and in turn the introduction of Universal Basic Income and the use of a digital currency managed by a central bank.
Democracy has been cancelled:
The ultimate conclusion one must draw from all of this, according to Wolff, is that democracy as we knew it has been silently cancelled, and that although the appearance of democratic processes is being maintained in our countries, the fact is that an examination of how governance around the world works today shows that an elite of super-wealthy and powerful individuals effectively control everything that goes on in politics, as has been especially evident in relation to the pandemic response.
The best way to combat their designs, Wolff says, is simply to educate people about what is happening, and for them to realize that the narrative of the “super-dangerous virus” is a lie that has been designed to manipulate them into accepting things that run contrary to their own interests. If even 10% of ordinary citizens become aware of this and decide to take action, it could thwart the elite’s plans and perhaps open a window for ordinary citizens to take back control over their own destinies.
WEF and their ‘Young Global Leaders’ program, who’s on the list? It’s a rather long list, so I picked off just a few:
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google.
Niall Ferguson is a Bilderberger historian. Ferguson charges between $50,000 to $75,000 to hold standard speeches, mostly to corporate executives.
Larry Page, co-founder of Google.
Gavin Newsom, governor of California in January 2019, a state in the forefront in driving the COVID deep event. Decreed mandatory COVID-vaccinations for all schoolchildren in 2021.
Samantha Power also attended the WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow 2003, so she is a reliable hand.
Nathaniel Rothschild, the only son and heir apparent of Jacob Rothschild.
Joe Hockey, Australian politician and diplomat. Even with getting a push from the right place, he never made it to the top.
Ivan Krastev, a protegé of George Soros. Attended the Bilderberg for the first time in 2019.
Jimmy Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia.
Peter Thiel, billionaire member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee.
Mark Zuckerberg, US billionaire credited with starting Facebook.
Ben Goldsmith, English financier and environmentalist, son of James Goldsmith.
Nikki Haley, later became United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
Huma Abedin, termed the effective “right-hand woman” of Hillary Clinton.
Jeremy Howard is an Australian data scientist and entrepreneur. In 2014, he started a business trying to digitize healthcare. Then at the very start of the COVID-event he organized a worldwide campaign for mandatory face masks, making face-to-face health care very difficult.
Clare O’Neil, Australian politician. In 2019 she was considered a frontrunner for the deputy leadership during the 2019 Australian Labor Party leadership election.
Andrew Bragg, Australian politician. He became a Senator in 2019.
Ibram X Kendi is an American author and activist. He believes the low take-up of Black people having the COVID vaccine is due to racism.
Vasudha Vats is a Vice president of Pfizer.
Scott Morrison, Australian PM
Greg Hunt, until recently Australia’s Health Minister.
More here.
I wonder what their secret handshake is.
Phil:
What a revelation!
George Carlin was onto this. “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”
Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis weren’t mentioned anywhere. Schwab’s students and the WEF hate that Trump provides leadership for the general populace against the professional/managerial class that now dominates all the institutions, the left, and public life.
We have discussed the Global Leaders program in the comments at OFW, but not very recently. Thanks for bringing it up again.
It’s a club… I wish I would get invited
Remember this?
https://youtu.be/B0w52V1toNw
Does anyone on OFW (other than norm) believe that was not the PR Team holding those flags?
Almost everything is fake – wake up
Can Mcm really be this stooopid? This naive????
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/who-do-they-think-they-are-meryl/comments
Fast Eddy
just now
YES! Finally!!! A petition to make them stop this!!!
I am sure this will turn the tide against these evil demons.
Let’s all sign the petition and wave it at the front gate of their next meeting.
Without a doubt that will stop them
If only revolutionaries throughout history would have had Substack so they could share petitions – so many lives would have been saved.
All Hail … THE PETITION!!!
Oh hang on … here comes another update…
Please ignore previous email.
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hahahahahaha…. the world ain’t gonna last much longer…
Specialized imported products are likely to disappear from all of our shelves. Most olive oil is from Europe and the Middle East/North Africa. There seems to be a little grown in the United States and Australia, too. I’m afraid the climate is wrong in New Zealand.
There are lots of olive trees in nearby Cromwell NZ… terribly expensive for the organic though – if one can even find organic.
Everything is ridiculously expensive here… no doubt cuz of all the corruption + having to support the chin-scribblers… they seem to get everything at a discount or free.
Why the f789 didn’t they give them pox-infected blankets when they had the chance??????
I tried to grow an olive tree on my lawn, a few years ago. The type of olive was claimed to be quite cold resistant. But the winter here quickly killed it. I’m surprised that NZ can grow them. I also discovered (by reading) that the process of making oil from olives is non-trivial. A homeowner likely couldn’t do it.
More olive oil for Europe will be great. I am ok with that. We should keep our wines, too.
“U.S. breaks promise to supply Europe with LNG citing concerns about climate”?
https://edireland.substack.com/p/us-breaks-promise-to-supply-europe?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=929169&post_id=141078271&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=nm2q&utm_medium=email
Here we can see the utility of GW… it is very useful in explaining away energy depletion… in fact this is why GW was invented
Get it?
It is a convenient way of explaining why we can’t use as much fossil fuels as we would like.
i was under the impression that we couldnt use as much fuel as we liked because it is no longer available at the price it was in the 1930s
That is part of the issue, as well.
then the rest of issue must be, that we dont have the means to consume fuel productively as we did in the 30s.
fuel uses and wage increases leapfrog each other
wages keep leaping, but fuel has run out of the means to keep up–wages must be underpinned by fuel increases or the system doesnt work
ie–every wage demand must be matched by a fuel supply increase so that the system remains in balance.
if bread that used to be 1c a loaf, is now 100c a loaf, its because wages and fuel supplies have increased x100, so nothing actually changes.
deplete energy without reducing the price of bread, and bread becomes unaffordable—and you have food riots.
Complexity seems to require a lot of energy consumption now. It is hard to measure, so people think that complexity is free. That is part of the problem.
we could deduce then that complexity is the result of use of energy in infinite ways.
my first car had a engine, wheels and seats and a roof to keep the rain out, with a minimum of instruments.
now–my car is so complex ive never understood most of whats going on, and never lifted the bonnet in the last 3 years, i’m surrounded by padding to keep me safe, and can barely hear the engine.–things on the dashboard light up and flash—i ignore most of them
a few year ago i drove an ”old car”—that i had romantic notions about (dont ask) it terrified me.
all down to increased complexity
A+ Bravo Bravo!!!!
btw – I am a few hours into this and things are really grim with this cooling situation in the 1600s… lots of murder and rape and stuff…
But what really caught my eye is a mention of a very warm period prior to the decades of cooling — and there were RECORD HARVESTS.
One of the reasons for the disaster that followed was that the RECORD HARVESTS lead to population expansion … then of course harvests collapses >>> starvation.
It does appear that COLD weather is the enemy … WARM weather is great — except if it’s followed by years of COLD weather
Burn more f789ing coal peeps… do the RIGHT thing
https://www.audible.com/pd/Global-Crisis-Audiobook/B0BN2XKWXB
Small pox is both highly contagious …with a very high death rate.
Imagine something emerging that is even MORE contagious … but with a 100% death rate for those infected.
That’s the plan Stan. Mass extermination … the few that survive .. starve…
This is a wonderful plan… much better than the alternative (I don’t fancy being eaten)
My only question is: will this Frankenstein Pathogen emerge as a result of the leaky vaccine deployment during a pandemic — or will it be man-made in a lab.
I’m leaning in the direction of the GVB theory — they likely don’t feel they need to time things exactly… all the would want is for the pathogen to arrive before they lose control of BAU…
The fun part of this is that nobody knows when it will arrive — not even the Elders… it’s a numbers game…
Nothing left to do but wait… tick tock
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4txHi7esGd4/TEAnpt_E_2I/AAAAAAAAAMk/2KmCNOfptQA/s1600/timebomb.gif
Another science denier.
https://thedakepage.blogspot.com/2016/12/how-to-assess-climate-change.html
Did you know that plants grow better – when it is warmer and they have access to lots of carbon?
We need the natural gas in the US. Europe only gets leftover natural gas.
Yes to keeping the wine. Imagine being able to but a decent Bordeaux, or Amarone for the same price as nice Australian Shiraz. Maybe collapse, at least for a time, will have a few bright sides to it🍷
No natural gas no fertiliser no wine.
Nothing to worry about. I posted before about all the polyhalite in Whitby, so we’re saved.
Just need lots of diesel, steel and…. Oh damn
Your comment is suite embarrassing Whitnail, you don’t know what you are talking about. Dunning Kruger !!
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Inflation continues to explode higher….
I remember when I was unhappy that my EVOO was 42 dollars a gallon. That was 2009-2010.
Paid actors… https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/91564
Relates to Justin Trudeau and climate change. Hard to believe it would be true, I agree, but it does look like Justin Trudeau. In today’s world, a person doesn’t know.
He was a drama teacher… probably wanted to be a hollywood star but as we can see from that clip — he would never make the cut…
Perhaps he could do p-orn?
funny https://t.me/leaklive/17908
Taylor Swift for president 2024. With Kari Lake for VP.
She doesnt turn 35 until just after the election. Im sure an exception can be made though.
She turns 35 before the swearing in date.
35 and no kids? I guess she’s gunning to be the next Madonna.
Off to Africa to steal some babies?
I would very much enjoy it if TSwift had a heart attack.
Gail, thanks for some optimism in the closing section:
One possibility is that eventually a new type of energy solution will be found.
This scientist also offers hope:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-01-26/its-not-the-end-of-the-world-book-assumptions-omissions-spark-debate/
Of course half the population disappearing in the next decades kinda tempers expectations.
our current mode of existence depends in converting one form of energy into another.
if the ”new form of energy” doesnt do that, then our lifestyle, is over
I wrote an article, “Is it really possible to decouple energy growth from GDP growth?” back in 2011.
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/11/15/is-it-really-possible-to-decouple-gdp-growth-from-energy-growth/
If we need energy “dissipation” to perform every part of GDP, decoupling really doesn’t work.
Hope springs eternal…
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181119-why-flammable-ice-could-be-the-future-of-energy
This is a 2018 article, and it is now 2024. Flammable ice is not on the front pages of our newspapers, yet.
Paint me puzzled about drones
One reads a seemingly ever expanding volume of press and quasi scientific analysis and comment. It appears from this along with missiles, they are the go to weapons of the present and R&D thrust into a projected future.
It’s maybe 12 years since I first saw a drone that was not merely a toy but a serious hobby. Stories one reads are of AVs that stay aloft almost indefinitely, of ones with surveillance duties, assassinations, and even mosquito like kamikaze formations. The imagination extends far beyond salacious peeping tom possibilities.
In came the Afghan Paki operations of O’Bama and we all remember the wedding party stories, but missile armed drone use expanded across the Middle east and North Africa, kaching for weapons manufacturers and the holy envoys of deals and allurements. One time the Iranians were said to have hacked the communications of one and landed it intact in eastern Iran. Trump signed off on retaliation and Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes were drone bombed. Few acts could have thrown more Greek fire into the waters.
Perhaps two years ago there was a Caucasus war between Azerbaijan and Armenia involving a breakaway state on a complicated map. In one of the battles, a significant element in victory was reported to be the use of drone “swarms” which I understand were Turkish made. In the short time since, I’ve come across this image which I’m told is old hat but struck my mind quite sharply
tuxboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/drone_lumineux_002.png
Last year a mysterious drone swarm attack occurred in Syria targetting an army base recruits’ graduating ceremony
newarab.com/news/drone-attack-kills-112-syria-military-academy
Fake, yeah, I know but at the time it was widely reported and there was video around with the crowds dancing and then running away and then cleaning up the bodies
What brought all this to mind was a drone story today on MoononAlabama
Another anomaly are (sic) the high rate of wounded from the alleged drone strike. Drones are used in mass in the Ukraine war but the casualties they cause are usually less than a handful per drone.
moonofalabama.org/2024/01/war-on-the-middle-east-the-time-of-monsters.html
Who knows facts? The future?
West Point the US army college is big into training its students on drone use. I live near by.
what are they training them to do? These swarms are computer controlled.
oh wait … I know. Mentor their future AI masters
perhaps the biggest disruptor of advanced missile defense systems is the drone swarms.
send in a bunch of relatively cheap unarmed drones for the very expensive anti-missile systems to respond to and knock out, and closely follow that by sending in weaponized drones and/or missiles.
the lower tech and cheaper mass produced drones have superseded the much more highly complex anti-missile systems, and there may be no additional complexity that could defend against drone swarms.
in a beautifully ironic twist of history, the cheaper form of drone warfare has evened the playing field, so to speak, or battlefield.
it is an amazing thing to behold.
Drone combined with nerve gas and blinding lasers, the sky is the limit.
well there is a limit.
there is a limit to the number of possible biological and chemical weapons.
crossing red lines and all of that.
I am a simple farmer, want to do weeds.
Dennis L.
is smoking them legal in your state?
Try to work out how this is related to the HOOTIES ‘attacks’ in the canal… who has the HP to connect the dots….
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/industry-insiders-hopeful-bidens-attack-texas-lng-will-be-short-term
The question in my mind is whether Peak US natural gas extraction will come too soon for investors to get an adequate return on all of this investment. And whether exporting such a large amount of natural gas will leave too little natural gas for those of us living in the US.
US natural gas supply will not grow endlessly.
Now this is interesting … Sasha the tool MOREON… was asked why there were no results for her on a custom search 2000 -2019 … surely as a successful pharma entrepreneur there should be loads of references…
I asked her about this a few times on her SS – no response…
Now … I repeated the search https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sasha+Latypova&df=2000-01-01..2019-01-01&ia=web
Recall when she first emerged on The Scene… we could find no background on her????
She is fake … she is running a Limited Hangout… she is an invention of the PR Team.. an embedded agent… tasked with entertaining the A-Vaxxers and ensuring they never turn to violence … it works a charm… they are glued to her SS as she offers up weekly revelations on the Rat Juice….
This is a brilliant tactic of the PR Team … make the MOREONS believe they are winning… so they do nothing
Sheer Genius
She’s not fake.
https://theorg.com/org/clerio-vision/org-chart/sasha-latypova
https://ratical.org/PandemicParallaxView/Latypova-Resume_102022.pdf
That could easily be faked…
You’ll have to something more than that Eddy, unless you would say the same about GVB.
I think Mrs S is correct.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Latypova+A&cauthor_id=20528504
Notice the A… wrong person
Who is SV?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Latypova+S&cauthor_id=27995684
The A, I would guess, stands for Alexandra, as in
Alexandra (Sasha) Latypova
If you had looked at the links from Mrs S you would have known that.
No idea about videos as I’m not into screen culture. What do you think you have found?
It’s easy to drop documents with names on them … it’s done all the time to provide cover for embedded agents
Videos are more difficult… surely given her supposed prominence she would have done some presentations… but nope … nothing … well there is one presentation involving her painting…
Her role is to operate a Limited Hangout and keep the A Vaxxers entertained…
Notice how when I post stuff about energy depletion she turns into a petulant 7 year old and hurls insults…
Your reasoning is lacking in reason. If as you claim, videos are hard to fake now, just think how hard it was in 1969. You might just have defeated your own arguements about another subject(please don’t talk to me about that, I couldn’t care less either way).
Her initial work would have no need of videos, so why waste time and money on something no one would watch. As for your comments on her articles, I read neither, never have and never will.
Anyone that thinks people have been dying from anything apart from the change in treatment protocols or the poison, I wouldn’t waste my time on. They’re the kind of low intellect that go on and on about mutations and probably stupid enough to believe a film is giving them clues about the future. Hard to imagine I know, but they exist.
Avoid these people Eddy, or you’ll end up repeating the shit they spout.
Huh? Faking a video is easy — and getting people to believe the fake is easy – just put it on cnnbbc
This is not the same at all — writing a story and putting your name on it is easy… pretending to present at a conference that never happened – is for obvious reasons far more complicated…
And why bother — most MOREONS do not question to begin with – if Sasha says she’s awesome she’s awesome …
There was NOTHING on her when she emerged – even Gail pointed that out at the time … now there are bits and pieces… that placates the suspicious…
But not FE — FE is calling her a fake
SS is a psyop .. that exists as a Limited Hangout… there are loads of embedded agents on SS entertaining the MOREON A-Vaxxers with tales of vaccine woes…
I know they are fake because there is no call to action — they just go round and round high fiving as more horrifying studies are dropped… doing nothing
That is the point to SS – entertainment… for the A vaxxers
It’s much more difficult to fake videos … so guess what FE did… he searched for videos of her 2000-2019…. and guess what….
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sasha+Latypova&sca_esv=41437dda0f3602d3&biw=1280&bih=551&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A2000%2Ccd_max%3A2019&tbm=vid
Eddy, your confusion is starting to become confusing.
You stated
“It’s much more difficult to fake videos …”
And then in the very next reply you state
“Huh? Faking a video is easy —”
No wonder Alexandra is kicking your sorry arse all over the place.
Fine wine and skiing in Tahoe, sounds like a person that wants to enjoy life and is. Good luck to her. Enjoying the wonderous vastness of nature, then back home for good food, wine and company, or sitting in a dark room banging away on a keyboard, in between being programmed by Hollywood, whilst eating Mozzarella “style” snacks. I know who I’d rather be.
By the way Opus One isn’t that expensive when it comes to fine wine(I can buy a 1997 for £450 and England is stupidly expensive for wine) and if she invested early, pretty good value, certainly compared with some of Jesse Katz’s wine and he’s a mere child in comparison.
“The world took note in 2017 when a bottle of Jesse’s wine called The Setting (a Cabernet Sauvignon/Cabernet Franc blend) went for a record-setting $350,000 at the Napa Valley Wine Auction.”
https://www.changemakertalent.com/speakers/jesse-katz
Take a leaf out of Alexandra’s book and try enjoying life a bit, before you realise it’s too late and all you have done, is waste it away on empty imaginations and left your money to the local cats home or local revenue gatherers.
fitz
what eddy meant was—that at his level of cleverology, faking a video is easy
everybody else can’t because they cannot match his intellect.
eddy has told us that 000s of times—surely you believe him by now
Faking a video that goes back in time is more difficult … than faking a document and putting a date on it … I already explained that – get over it
Sasha says she does not think the Rat Juice is about killing loads of folks – but on the other hand she is the one who exposed it as a DOD operation .. etc…
I am wondering – how did she or anyone get their hands on a DOD contract?????
Surely given the nature of this anything related to this would be buried under the highest degree of secrecy. Yet there is she … dropping contracts all over her SS…
Does anyone actually think a serious person involved in supposedly fighting against the most malign operation in the history of the world – an operation that has maimed and killed millions already….
Would be slinging homophobic slurs and telling the world that she is living it up like a 0.0001% er???
Look at her response to anything involving energy — it’s on the level of a petulant idi ot 7yr old… she says she is a scientist…
Do you think Mike Yeadon (who is possibly the only non agent of the PR Team) would present himself in this manner?
Sasha is a two bit drunken skank… a loser.
If she really is in Tahoe – then it’s on the DOD’s dime.
Recall when she emerged on the scene Gail did some searching on her … and there was f789 all… the PR Team likely filled in some of the blanks after the fact knowing some people might dig into her background
Her comportment on her SS yesterday … says it all.
She is fake.
” it’s on the level of a petulant idi ot 7yr old”
Fighting fire with fire?
As to your concerns about how she addresses you, take a look at your own general posting history(who threw the first stone?).
Every woman that questions your proclamations, gets instantly denounced as ugly and a prostitute, which is a clear sign of your own failings. If you have a mere 10% of the intellect you claim, you would be able to dispassionately dismantle that which you believe is incorrect. Give it a go sometime.
Drinking a mildly expensive wine, does not mean she’s in top 1% let alone the top 0.0001%. I’m not even in the top 20% and I do occasionally.
I agree with Gail, an author should let raving loons drag them down to the loons level. It’s a no win situation. She should learn that lesson.
eddy
fitz is pointing out what i was saying years ago
any woman who disagrees with you is reduced (by you) to the level of the gutter—time and again youve done it wiuth any woman on OFW who dares to offer a contradiction to your rantings. i have no doubt this would be reflected in RL—if RL women didn’t terrify you.—your comments about the opposite sex make that very clear.
a gentleman does not use such expressions with regard to a woman
this does not denigrate her—it reveals what you are and your oft-repeated faux-obscenities, obsessions, inadequacies and, er–shortcomings.
remember the episode down the medical centre—all turned out to be a fantasy?—some 18 yr old receptionist got rid of you in short order. (RL strikes again)
there is of course one exception to my observation above—but we wont dwell on that.
The female of any species is sweet and beautiful—but dangerous when crossed. A lesson some men never learn
Not quite… it’s ok to disagree — but if you want to avoid the label of MOREON you need to engage…
Let’s engage…
How did they charge a helicopter in -60C on Mars?
Similarly Fast has suggested to Sasha that the Covid thingy is all about severe depletion of affordable energy … unlike you she at least responds … with homophobic slurs and drunken rants about fine wine and ski trips…
Let’s engage on the Mars topic norm … otherwise…
Hahaha… yes of course!!!! I agree.
However… Fast Eddy is part genius part entertainer…. what definitely is NOT … is a serious person. He does not pretend to be a scientist battling against the DOD and trying to stop the roll out of the Rat Juice.
On the contrary Fast Eddy supports the Rat Juice and UEP … also Fast Eddy believes humans are a total f789ing joke… a really nasty stooopid joke that inflicts torture on defenceless animals… that grows food using finite chemicals… that rings a bell on a podium to celebrate destroying the planet…
The joke … is not deserving of seriousness — the joke needs to be called out .. and mocked .. and ridiculed… and told to get f789ed… told that the sooner it goes extinct the better…
And if it is possible Fast Eddy will visit the hospital parking lots and kick some of the MOREONS we call humans in the face and spit on them … and offer them more Rat Juice….
So you see — Fast Eddy is much different than Sasha… you cannot hold HIM to any standard. HE has no standards… Cuz as is obvious – HE gives ZERO f789s about what anything thinks… cuz HE considers all but a handful of humans… as lower than barnyard animals…
A MOREON is the bottom of the barrel… the only thing lower.. is a NOF…
HE gives ZERO f789s about what anything thinks… cuz HE considers all but a handful of humans… as lower than barnyard animals…
Yet he ran here for support when he couldn’t handle the banter from Sasha.
No … HE copied and pasted cuz the exchange was hilarious and HE wanted to bring the fun to OFW…
I find Sasha hugely amusing … a ‘world class scientist’ lashing out with homophobic slurs …. on a public forum….
This does not happen every day — so we must savour it … and copy and paste it …
I’ve got to step away shortly — can I expect clips of demolished Russian cities when I return?
I woke up several years ago , but some are still asleep ( Denise L example ) .
https://thehonestsorcerer.medium.com/collapse-will-look-nothing-like-in-the-movies-e753f510492d
He’s wrong. When the financial system goes… collapse will be global … and within hours the looting will begin… then the starvation … then the cannibalism.
UEP will prevent this
I could imagine the financial systems becoming fairly separate, and some parts of the world continuing longer than others. As long as there are energy resources to dissipate, there will be an interest in doing so.
For example, the central government of the Soviet Union collapsed, but the individual pieces mostly continued on, afterward.
The more self-sufficient pieces would seem to be able to do better than other parts.
I can’t
Because when the financial system breaks – and it will — the supply chains will vapourize (we have all read korowicz on this)
And for want to energy and spare parts and everything else that keeps us alive — the entire world will seize up. Permanently.
It will stop on a dime.
Within days there will be no food. The chems that clean our water will run out – the pumps will stop. People will be polluting the water table as they defecate on the streets and in the bush….
The Gates of Hell will open wide
The police and military will not only no longer protect you — they will be killing and raping … and pillaging… as will most when desperation sets in
The world will quickly descend into total chaos…
We get a taste of that here … and this was just a momentary black out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1Vq2S1TrmY
It really is a good thing that they are exterminating us before this happens… is there anyone here who prefers the Gates of Hell to open over a relatively peaceful death for 8B+?
Those are the two options – there are no others
excellent article about slooooooow collapse.
“… world population could easily decline by as much as 2–5% per year. At such a rate our numbers would be halved every 2–3 decades, reducing world population to well under a billion by the end of this century. No novel viruses, mass starvation or global wars required. Just good old civilizational decline, and a corresponding rise in excess deaths.”
such a very hopeful paragraph!
it’s coming, but not here yet in The Core.
Hope for Depop in 2024, rah rah rah.
I think he starts giving the wrong impression in this sentence:
“Decline is an unevenly distributed, bumpy ride back to a truly sustainable way of life.”
How many of us can truly have a sustainable way of life, on this planet?
He ends with:
At this point people — and that includes us, me and you, Dear Reader — will increasingly have to rely on local communities, personal skills, small farms and radically simplified governance structures. . . These things will evolve in parallel, and when our centralized systems finally give up the ghost they will suddenly leave a vacuum behind. What will fill this void, however, will be up to us. At least I hope.
I think he is off in wishful thinking land.
This is what happens when one cannot handle the truth … it leads to mental illness…
So how do you see the collapse unfolding,Gail?
My crystal ball is cloudy. Things seem to work together in ways that no one could predict. Last yearend, absolutely everyone was forecasting recession by year-end, but somehow, with lots and lots more debt, it stayed away. Covid-19 and the shut-ins (and the huge amount of added debt and waived loan repayments) kept collapse away in 2020. The higher death rates in recently may be playing a role now, as well.
These are things that most of us mere mortals have a problem forecasting. There seems to be an outside force that is helping keep the system going. It works in ways that seem miraculous.
Let me uncloud the crystal ball … two options 1. ROF (total collapse – murder rape disease cannibalism spent fuel ponds)… or 2. https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220
There are no other options.
Second coming of the Messiah. A transformation to something totally different, not an Earth that reaches limits.
I am hoping that is why Fast Eddy was bestowed upon us… I will continue with my lobbying efforts to ensure the Brave New World that HE will rule over has a district with Clubs filled with hot wild women and the best pills and blow…
I think it’s a long shot… Fast Eddy doesn’t like humans… I doubt HE’d think such a vile species deserves salvation …never mind a street with Clubs…
Modern civilized western humans just don’t grasp real violence. Not really. All these laws, all this talking……..
Soon to be gone
Imagine some very bad men at the door — hacking it down with axes…
With the rape and murder on their minds… and human flesh eating
The permaculturists and community garden people don’t understand the true nature of humans or how horrific life was before fossil fuels.
At this point people — and that includes us, me and you, Dear Reader — will increasingly have to rely on local communities, personal skills, small farms and radically simplified governance structures. . .
There will not be any farms for centuries. The land is exhausted.
It’s worse than exhausted… the soil is ruined from pouring chemicals onto it
If you tax less, people will spend more.
Now, if Congress can just do something about massive deficit spending and $34 trillion in debt.
https://mishtalk.com/economics/tax-cuts-not-bidenomics-explains-surge-in-consumer-spending-in-2023/
that $34T will look great in 2030 when it’s about $50T.
bAU for sure at $50T.
$100T maybe still bAU, not so sure.
I hope to live to see it.
😎
Roughly $7T every 4 years and that doesn’t take into account the interest on the debt which could hit $1T per year. So debt levels could be much higher than $50T by 2030.
“How do you go broke? A little at first, then all of a sudden”.
about what I’m guessing, $3T more per year on average, about 6 years until 2030.
what the hey, $100T by 2030 would be very cool, and would up my chances of seeing it happen.
but it will probably be the boring dull long slooooooow grind of about $3T each and every year.
It seems to me that the state tax changes were at least partly in recognition of the fact that taxes based on the value of homes went up greatly, as the value of homes inflated. The tax rates had to be reduced, or tax payers would revolt.
AnsarAllah have attacked a US navy supply ship and continue to goad the impotent dinosaur.
https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1751862917832532266
Just to rub it in, they’ve done their own take on Karl Rove’s famous words.
“We’re a powerful resistance movement now, and when we act, we create a new challenge in the Red Sea. And while you’re preoccupied with that challenge —judiciously, as you will—we’ll hit more ships again, creating other new challenges, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study the strikes we do”
Will the US bomb another sand dune and say, look, we showed them who’s boss?
Helmer has an interesting article about yesterday’s attack.
https://johnhelmer.org/the-tower-22-strike-in-jordan-triggers-us-israel-into-all-front-war-the-arabs-and-iran-are-ready-the-russians-too/
Miles mathis says otherwise
https://youtu.be/qjlEwsXXJwY?si=6dvpgG6ScDlM9rIP&t=406
sorry, wrong link
Please delete above
Here is the correct link
This doesn’t seem to be a link, at all.
Care to elaborate kulm?
Here is the link I intended to put in
http://mileswmathis.com/houthi.pdf
He just sounds like another Hollywood head that can’t believe that the US isn’t all powerful and some of his claims(evidence free of course) about people he looks down on as lesser are beyond ridiculous.
“these revolutionaries in Yemen don’t have the tech to be attacking big ships in the Red Sea”.
“Ali Hosseini Khamenei of Iran, another CIA stooge Jew-in-a-Turban”
“We have always owned Iran”
Then he talks about tax payers, as if they fund military spending. What an idiot.
As I said, another Hollywood head that lives in a past and can’t believe the world isn’t like he was led to believe decades ago by Hollywood. I’d advise him to smash his head against a wall multiple times and see if that clears the stupidity. Probably not, but it would at least stop the gibberish for a while. If he’s an example of white intelligence, we’re truly doomed.
If all the wars were fake, he can go and live in Libya or Gaza(just for a month), but of course, like all Hollywood heads, he’s far too scared to do that, as he knows he’ll be ripped apart the moment he tells the locals that their families didn’t really get bombed and they only amputated their own limbs just to keep gullible yanks amused, so they would pay their taxes. Forget the wall, tell him to use a gun(not to the head, it’s clearly empty).
Here is a quick overview of Miles Mathis for people interested:
Miles is the only person I know that EXACTLY matches the MSM idea of a conspiracy theorist. He believes he is a genius – he has thousands of papers that “disprove” everything from Newton to Einstein to the value of PI (which is 4 according to him). He believes there is cabal of a small tribal group from ME (guess which one?) that controls everything.
Interestingly, he is an optimist. According to him there are no serial killers, terrorist attacks or wars because they are all psyops with fake victims.
Now, all of the above being said, he is a good artist, an entertaining writer AND his predictions are closer to reality than the govt’s. That tells me that the world we live in is so insane that even a paranoid with delusions of grandeur is closer to the truth than our so called leaders. Isn’t that amazing?
Amazingly scary, but unsurprising when we look at the figureheads we are given.
Nice comment Fitz, all is said !
OMG the HOOTIES make ISIS — or is it ISIL… or whatever… look like choir boys…
Keep in mind – the US benefits from their being a bogeyman.. ‘terrorists’… fear allows them to do pretty much whatever they want .. with the support of Americans and most of the world…
I’ve long wondered… why ‘the terrorists’ never take any meaningful action … for instance.. 20 ‘terrorists’ with Bic lighters … could seriously damage economies by riding around and tossing lit ciggies into the dry tinder during the summer… in places like California and Aussie …
Or how about this … rent 1st floor apts in dozens of buildings in NYC… and every day you bring in small amounts of petrol and other stuff… and fill the apartment up… then detonate all of them on Day X.
But nope. I guess they can’t think of that stuff…
The Matrix was more than a movie… it was a hint
But nope. I guess they can’t think of that stuff…
Blocking a critical chokepoint such as the Red Sea is far more effective.
If a sand dune threatens american BAU, that sand dune will be obliterated. Just ask Eddy.
It’s because of wink wink, Russian aggression. The Neocons need war before the election.
‘Largest Ever’ NATO Exercise To Rehearse Russian Attack On Europe
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/largest-ever-nato-exercises-rehearse-russian-attack-europe
Too bad the population is too stoopid and manipulated to see the trees from the forest.
ZH, front page tagline sums it up:
“90,000 total troops involved… to defend Europe from an invasion.” 🤡
“90,000 total troops involved… to defend Europe from an invasion.”
Norm fears the inevitable so he goes into his closet and takes out his WW1 helmet and flintlock musket to ward off the pesky Russian invasion because he believes Joe Bidet would never lie to him. For those that don’t know, Norm played the character “Daddy” on the show Keeping Up Appearances. 🤓
Biden is being taken to court for complicity in genocide.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/complicity-in-gaza-genocide-biden-formally-accused-before-us-court/
Trump is a moron, but I don’t believe he’s ever been accused of that, unlike the sniffer in chief.
It will be a giant Kabuki. Like the Russians who only choose one town to fight at, they will choose some largely inconsequential town to consume the weapons and make more money for the Military Industrial Complex.
It’s because of wink wink, Russian aggression. The Neocons need war before the election.
The US is not capable of fighting a war, its allies even less so. Dropping a few bombs on some goat herders and calling that a war is all they can do.
What if … the elites of the leading economies realized that major wars are no longer feasible cuz atomic weapons… so they set up a club — let’s call it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G20
And they decided to fake everything … while enjoying fine wine gourmet cuisine the best h00kers… (it’s ok to partake in children if that’s your thing) private jets as the divided up the spoils?
They invited select minions to be part of the club….
And we will never be in the club…. we get to experience the matrix that they have created … and we get played by cnnbbc ….
And they laugh at how gullible we are
Some of the more ridiculous names of element in the Periodic Table include Polonium and Curium, named because Marie Sklowdska nabbed a French nerd. Poland’s contribution to civilization is mostly military, culminating Jan Sobieski’s salvation of Vienna in 1683, but intellectually its contribution is nil. It is the Mexico of Western Europe ; if there is Polonium there should be a Mexicium too.
But among newer elements the ridiculousness just explodes.
The 116th element is , after all, named after a Mexican. Robert Livermore, later called Don Roberto Livermore, was born in Essex , England but moved to what is now California. He married a Mexican landowner’s daughter and became a Mexican, NEVER took the US citizenship til he died in 1858 and died as a citizen of Mexico.
Some idiot named a spot in California after him, not knowing he never set foot at there, and later Berkeley built the Lawrence Livermore center. Someone thought Lawrence Livermore was a famous scientist ; in reality it was named after Ernest Lawrence, who built a cycloton which was important in the early stage of atomic science, and the aforementioned Don Roberto Livermore.
Because of such American idiocy we now have an element named after a Mexican who did NOT contribute anything to science, so it is kind of a Mexicium.
Another ridiculous element is the 117th element Tennessine, named after Tennessee, to commemorate American Rednecks. Russia paid it back with the 120th element, Oganesson, named after Yuri Ogannessian, an Armenian but spending all of his life in Russia and had chosen Russia over Armenia when USSR collapsed. Now Armenia is no longer allied with Russia, Putin might regret putting an Armenian into the Periodic Table, but the logic then was if Tennessee deserved a spot in the Periodic Table, Armenia also did.
With a Mexican and an Armenian in the Periodic Table, Japan also put itself on there in the 113th element. Nihonium is named after Nihon, which is how Japan calls itself.
and there also is Kulmonium…
which exists in my imaginary alternate history.
😁
And the Armenians are salty that it should actually be Hovannison, since Oganessian is a Russian corruption of Hohvannisyan (Hohvannisian in English speaking countries) equivalent to ‘Johnson’ in English.
The Armenians should ask whether Armenians are a people who deserve to be honored in the Periodic Table.
(From Wikipedia)
Ignacy Łukasiewicz was a Polish pharmacist, engineer, businessman, inventor, and philanthropist.
His achievements included the discovery of how to distill kerosene from seep crude oil, the invention of the modern kerosene lamp (1853), the introduction of the first modern street lamp in Europe (1853), and the construction of the world’s first modern oil well (1854).
One point for Poland, nil for Kulm.
Bloodthirsty NeoCon Linsdey Graham tweeted;
‘Hit Iran Now. Hit them hard.’ 01.28.24
With what?
I like Caithlin Johnstone’s latest blog post and she sums it up by saying: “Get out of the middle east. Just get the f789 out. Stop backing a genocide in Gaza, stop murdering people to shore up domination of world resources, and leave. Leave before you unleash something far worse than the nightmare you’ve already inflicted upon our species.”
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/01/29/yet-more-us-driven-escalations-toward-war-in-the-middle-east/
And let China have all the oil?
FE thinks the US has lots and lots of things if Iran threatens BAU. I suggest pallets full of dollar notes. We have plenty of those, nd they are very heavy and can make holes in roofs.
You notice how these warmongering nutjobs aren’t doing the fighting?
On a positive note. The complete collapse of civilization will cause warlords to become up front leaders of their forces. War chiefs tend to lead by example. Thus men leading other men into battle will have balls and they will be on the line with the rest.
The God of this world is a pussy essentially…he has encouraged humanity into the Faustian bargain of civilization again and again.
Maybe next go around Adam will catch the serpent offering that idiot Eve the apple and after slapping her silly he might manage to cut off the serpents head……
You can see why I don’t get invited to hang with the “sophisticated” of this sh*tshow?…..
I’d invite you and pay your travel expenses, just for the look on their faces.
Some things are just worth it and I’m sure the look of horror would be priceless 😉
I recall many, many years ago having a very, very well compensated Attorney tell me that
“THEY are really not going to like you at all”……
I was younger man and still naive enough to think things like “truth” and “honor” and “courage” still had meaning in this 3 D reality. I was even so foolish to have had rather misguided rapport with the “old gods” so I was at a loss as to his meaning.
No longer…..the elites are afraid and full of hate because the time of the barbarian is now upon us and they know it……and the “old Gods” is a rogue intelligence masquerading as a deity…..and history repeats.
Drill Baby Drill!!!
Among Dennis L’s many delusions, his obsession on the Amish is simply laughable.
The Amish are a hopelessly inbred tribe, descending from the original few hundred ‘founding fathers’.
https://youtu.be/qjlEwsXXJwY?si=6dvpgG6ScDlM9rIP&t=406
They are all genetically similar , with all these genetic diseases popping up here and there. In essence they are all siblings for genetic purposes.
Cleopatra got sick of centuries of brothers and sisters and cousins reproducing each other so she tried to add some Roman genes into the Ptolemaic gene pool, although that didn’t really work out.
Still she had a point. The Amish does NOT allow intermarriage and if someone marries out of the tribe the person has to leave, and there are no shortage of those who left such communities, who tend NOT to follow their lifestyle.
It is common to blame the colonists for everything but the Eskimos, ahem, the Inuits were deeply into the road for extinction when the colonists appeared, and the colonists probably saved them. Both Robert Peary, who conquered the North Pole, nad Matthew Henson, his black sidekick, left descendants in Inuitland; apparently the Inuits didn’t care about Henson being a black.
So either the Amish continue to inbreed and eventually die out, or they will allow outsiders who will end their Amishness. End of Story.
If converts to Amishness interbred with the existing Amish, there is no reason, supposing those converts to be well chosen, that more genetic variety could not be introduced, while retaining Amishness essentially unchanged.
Ashkenazi Jews are apparently all descended from just a few hundred individuals living in Central Europe about 1300 year ago. Despite a few genetic problems (Tay Sachs etc), they have thrived, although with much less new blood being introduced than the Amish could expect.
They don’t accept converts btw. A few splinter groups might, but the main branch does not
Ashkenazi or Amish?
Dennis L.
Oh, please, why upset his fantasy…they bred like rat….rabbits and do some weirdo trailer trash relations…other than that fine folks..
While in Southern Minnesota saw them on their horse buggies.
Don’t seem to be a problem…yet
According to Prof. Ulrike Kämmerer (Kaemmerer) some Pfizer batches contain SV40 promoter enhancer sequence, that can cause plasmids to be processed backwards and in that case let the cells produce spider protein.
She refers to US research and sequencing probably around Kevin McKernan, this is not very clear.
The lately deceased pathologist Arne Burkhardt had found a strange kind of Amylosis, that did not show the usual coloring reactions. This might be explained by spider proteins.
Spider proteins cannot be dissolved by the human organism.
German language only. You may activate subtitles and then auto translation into English. Start at 43:00 or earlier e.g. 36:00.
https://youtu.be/jCtmAe3DSwg?si=Xrb8To-YeKAjYtog
Spiderman, spiderman!
https://youtu.be/5Z8N9TTvKeQ?t=8
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!”
Sir Walter Scott
Credit card debt is at an all-time high, and Americans are taking longer to pay their balances. The percentage of Americans who are in financial distress due to credit card debt has reached the same level as during the Great Recession, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis report “Share of Americans in Financial Distress Reaches High Levels” (December 26, 2023, J. M. Sanchez, M. Mori).
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/why-americans-do-not-see-strong-economy
One thing this article says is
We have all kinds of inflation measures. The GDP deflator seems to be less stable than some others. This is a chart I made this morning, using FRED data. It doesn’t show the big drop to 1.5%, but it does show how unstable it is. Recently, its indications of inflationary increases have been far higher than during the 1970s and early 1980s.
https://ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Chart-of-Implicit-GDP-deflator.png
There are all kinds of details that I don’t know, such as how seasonal adjustment factors may differ.
If we think of 1.5% as the “inflation rate” pulled out of total GDP growth, it is extraordinary low.
it is bAU tonight in The Core, baby.
real as real can be, not fake.
😎
Evergrande just got liquidated. So, no BAU for anyone in that company. Might have some influence on other markets.
China is surgically cutting down the real estate sector that grew out of control. It is a contained cut down the rest of economy still exists. Now if they can cut down the little pinks China will be great.
My friend in HK lives in the same building as the CEO of a listed property developer in China… they are on friendly terms and were discussing the situation north of the border… the CEO fella told him — it’s far worse than the media are saying.
The media are saying the property market in china is bankrupt … how much worse is worse than that???
I can believe that China’s property sector is in dire straits. China over-estimated what kind of housing people could afford. It also hit peak coal. And it used a huge amount of debt to keep the whole system going.
I understand that China has a lot of guarantees of guarantees, so that if one sector goes down, it likely to pull other sectors down. China also has a huge demographic problem, so that the young people available to buy homes and other goods are severely lacking. We in the West depend heavily on China. This can’t turn out well.
My hat is off to the psy-ops team. They have recast poor starving mommies and babies to killer gangsters. The humanitarians mission is recast as a military issue something the American public understands and supports.
The images Eddy is fond of sharing will scare the bleeding heart soccer moms into bomb them to *ell out of them military supporters, USO volunteers. Can France, Germany, Spain, Italy make the transition?
I have to agree with Eddy Ukraine does not look like a real war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYGhn–fbiM
Gaza on the other hand does look real, F15 strike eagles flattening everything in sight.
In Vietnam to bring the north to the bargaining table Henry Kissinger sent waves of 129 B52s for 11 days of bombardments. In Vietnam when you see a bomb explode you see the compression wave burst out for a 1/10 of a mile in all directions in the blink of an eye. In Ukraine it is a mortar launched bomb that displaces a few bricks. We may really be at the end of the ability to make and deliver high explosives in quantity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H93aF2yaP04
I am looking forward to obese purple haired women crawling through trenches. I drag queens hopping out of hueys and prancing to cover. They are free to wear their tutus if it makes them feel good.
I love the smell of Manic Panic in the morning.
Virgin steel is needed for bombs as well as artillery shells
Plenty of them deposited in the Marianas
That damn war was a worthless waste of time, money and lives.
Dennis L.
“I don’t give a sh/t about Nato.”
Trump addressed the topic of NATO at a rally on Saturday. Serious concern has been mounting among NATO partners in UK and Europe that USA will dump NATO one way or another (see below.) This is while they are mouthing off all the time about how they are going to ‘fight Russia’.
No one really knows if NATO will still be around in a few years time.
https://bnnbreaking.com/politics/trump-questions-u-s-financial-contributions-and-natos-reciprocal-support/
Trump Questions U.S. Financial Contributions and NATO’s Reciprocal Support
In a recent statement that has sparked conversation and controversy, former U.S. President Donald Trump questioned the balance of financial contributions to Ukraine’s defense, arguing that the U.S. is bearing a disproportionate burden compared to European nations. Trump’s comments have rekindled debates about international alliances, their cost, and their value, particularly in relation to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Disparity in Financial Contributions
Trump pointed out that the U.S. has invested over $200 billion in Ukraine’s defense, a figure vastly overshadowing the $20 billion contributed by European countries. His point of contention is rooted in the geographical proximity of Europe to the conflict zone and the arguably greater significance of the conflict to European security. Trump’s critique poses a question that has been echoed by many: should European nations be contributing more financially to match the U.S.’s support?
Skepticism Towards NATO
Trump’s comments didn’t stop at European contributions. The former president also took aim at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), suggesting that the alliance may not be as beneficial to the U.S. as it is often portrayed. He expressed skepticism about NATO’s reciprocal support, casting doubt on whether member countries would stand by the U.S. in a time of need. This skepticism feeds into Trump’s long-standing view that NATO allies should contribute more to their own defense.
Re-evaluating International Commitments
Trump’s stance reflects a broader perspective that the U.S. should reassess its commitments to international alliances. This sentiment, while controversial, has found resonance among those who believe that the U.S. is overcommitting resources to international endeavours at the expense of domestic priorities. The question of the U.S.’s role in global defense, and the fairness of its financial commitments, remains a contentious topic, one that is sure to provoke further debate in the wake of Trump’s comments.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/28/the-threatened-return-of-donald-trump-endangers-the-uk-most-vital-interests
The threatened return of Donald Trump endangers the UK’s most vital interests
We know what Trump thinks of the mutual defence treaty. “I don’t give a shit about Nato,” he yelled at John Bolton when the latter was his national security adviser. There were enough adults in the room when he was last in the White House to constrain him from giving full expression to all of his isolationist, nativist, alliance-disdaining, Europe-despising, autocrat-admiring impulses. Second time around, the fear that most shivers the spines of officials in London and elsewhere in Europe is that “Trump unbound” would shatter Nato.
https://www.dw.com/en/is-europe-ready-for-another-donald-trump-presidency/a-68074784
Is Europe ready for another Donald Trump presidency?
Trump’s skepticism towards NATO is also causing concern in Europe. During his first term in office, Trump threatened on multiple occasions to withdraw from the Western defense alliance.
EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton recently added to the uncertainty when he related a revealing anecdote to the European Parliament: In 2020, US President Trump allegedly told EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that “if Europe is under attack, we will never come to help you and to support you.“
I have a hard time believing that Nato will be around in a few years. Trump tends to say what he thinks. Not a way to make friends in Europe, however.
trump seems to say—and then think—and then say he said something else
Our Dear Leader, Peace Be Upon Him, is infallible.
Four years of joy coming then lights our for the U.S.
POTUS is an actor/errand boy… so it does not matter who wins…
However I would like to see Trump win… because I know it will cause the MOREONS to unhinge… it will result in tremendous angst… enormous stress as they are forced to watch him blow hard on cnnbbc
hahahahahaha… Go Trump Go!!! MAGA!!!!
Old Joe.. well he can go back to stealing young girls panties from the laundromat .. and taking them home to sniff… hey norm don’t you get any ideas … we’d hate to read about you on bbccnn…
With friends like Europe, who needs enemies? Europe was out of “stuff” early in the twentieth century, why rescue it from its endless wars? Germany could have Camus and Satre with their endless drivel about existentialism. Germany would have gone home just to get away from the French.
Sorry, we have been hustled into endless wars for absolutely nothing other than increase GDP.
Dennis L.
I agree, but I think the contrary about friends, a lot of people in Europe will realize that with Trump maybe the situation could be better for Europe.
I support Trump F NATO, F Europe. Lets see Europe deploy 30,000 troops to our southern border.
Let’s see Europe kill 100,000 cartel gangsters at the border and/or inside Mexico and Central America.
The US doesn’t defend Europe, it occupies Europe. Do you really think Russia wants to invade Europe? What resources does Europe have that Russia wants?
Right. Except for the contents of a dozen museums, there is nothing in Europe that would justify the movement of two or three Russian divisions.
Good points!
“What resources does Europe have that Russia wants?”
Wine and olive oils, perhaps?
Ed,
We stole the SW US from the Indians, now they are walking back and returning the favor. The feminists without children can deal with it.
Had a wonderful Latina for many years, her parents came from Mexico the old fashion way, they swam.
Dennis L.
Are you not entertained?
Cuz this is all about being entertained. It’s fake/orchestrated
Now that we have real bad guys cartel gangster I AM ENTERTAINED.
Next step B52 carpet bombing of the cartel gangsters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m93lTnuPxpk
This damage is not from bullets but from fancy munitions that spin at a high rate and direct molten copper at selected targets. A single shot can “disable” 20 targets.
Eddy let’s ramp up the play to full speed.
and let’s have Italy use the new Warthogs to sink ships on the way to Italy. It has such a cool sound effect.
Re: ramping up play..
Over a few beers in 2012, I cautioned our local A10 pilots not to fire on citizens when the globalists tried to take over. The one cocky pilot wasnt impressed but his buddy was amused. I reminded them again next time I saw them.
As far as being approachable for heckling and re-programming.. military and police are good fun with alcohol, fusion center guys are like revenge of the nerds, DEA/task force guys are drunks/thiefs.. good company for informant dealers and gang stalkers who waste taxpayer $$$ terrorizing poor people, killing and incarcerating addicts and giving sleepless nights to parents, concerned citizens and hard working neighbors.
NSA crew are like a group of cackling earlybirds at a masonic pancake breakfast.. ready for retirement, too hungry and confident in their ability and like the previously mentioned groups just looking for the next handout, snack, weak kid to bully and activist to bore to death or drive over a cliff with operant cues, cliches/tropes and weaponized psychology.
Europe gave the twentieth century WWI and WWII. We, US, should have sat both out.
Dennis L.
then dennis
by about 1946/7—hitler would have got the a bomb, and the means to deliver it
and guess where?
How would he Norman?
Russia won WWII and would have within the same timeframe with or without the US late tag along and Adolph was dead in 1945 either way.
because the uk acted as a giant aircraft carrier
from which the us air force bombed german factories, and disrupted their war machine—the uk could not have done that alone, and the russians didnt have long range bombers
without usa intervention, the germans would have concentrated all their firepower on the east, and on saudi via suez—to take their oil. By 1944 germany already had ICBM tecnology figured, within a year or two, washington would have been within range
as it happened, the americans invaded north africa, and took the threat away from suez
Hitler killed himself because Germany was being invaded on 2 fronts and Japan was collapsing
You might want to look into that a bit more Norman. They bombed German cities and amazingly missed most of the industry in almost every single one. Whole cities destroyed and in some places not a single factory hit, when they were so close. Quite amazing, until you find out who owned and financed said factories. The lie about helping to end the war faster is no more believable than the lie that nuking civilians will speed up a people that were already discussing terms of surrender, surrendering.
80% of all Germany’s troops, including all the best troops and equipment, were on the Eastern front and Russia steamrolled through them.
As for ICBMs, that’s fantasy. A decade maybe, possibly as little as 2-5 years with continued help from the US, but again irrelevant as that Russian steamroller was by then unstoppable.
All the US did was fund and give the Nazis tech(IBM and certain patents), right up to the point they realised Russia was going to take whatever they liked. Then and only then did they choose to become involved on the winning side, which was the USSR. Local resistance groups apart, everyone else just rode along on their coattails.
Western history of WWII is a complete fabrication. Understandable I suppose, as just like our royal family, supporting Nazis was becoming a bad look, so best try to hide it.
Germany was last centuries Ukraine, no more and WWII was just a continuation of WWI, all organised by the corporation. Think about the timing of peak coal, the set up of the federal reserve and the manufactured events that started WWI and then ask yourself why we tried to invade Russia at the end of it. Resources and keeping the people in line with the corporate ideology, nothing else.
Please don’t take any of the above as distain for the poor mugs that gave their lives for a manufactured lie. I have nothing but sorrow for how they were treated, as I do for the poor mugs that are being slaughtered now and soon, for corporate greed and power. Propaganda will always be more deadly than any bombs, no matter the number or destructive power.
well
if ww2 was a complete fake—i’ll leave it at that
the details are not worth arguing over
Now now Norman, I didn’t say it was fake and if you read the last paragraph again, all to real for so many. Your welcome to disagree, but please don’t misrepresent, as you rightly don’t accept others that do that to you. You know as well as anyone that the powerful will send millions to their deaths and then manipulate history to absolve their crimes. My grandfather was a nurse during the war and then a Psychiatry nurse afterwards, so dealt with the horrors for decades. I say none of those claims lightly and I’m sure you had family that lived those horrors for decades afterwards.
We appear to be very close to being taken down that road again and I would rather that didn’t happen. Never accept or repeat the old lie.
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
The last two lines translated: “It is sweet and proper to die for one’s country.”
Go to Huff to see what norm’s reality looks like
We need not be too hard on norm – his intelligence level is = to the other 8B zombies … he is considered normal.
In fact the word normal was created from the root word norm
norm-al
It’s much harder for Norman’s generation to believe that the people that took us to war, were also the people planning and executing it from both sides. That’s understandable, as they watched their father’s, uncles and brothers being destroyed, so hard for them to believe it was all preplanned by people in our own countries for no more than power/ownership. It’s easier for our generation to question, as we didn’t watch first hand, those returning utterly destroyed and they were considered the lucky ones.
Here’s a small piece of the puzzle and a relevant one for OFW commentators, from a publication that I’m sure he will trust, but everything I wrote earlier is relatively easy to confirm(although google will be less than helpful in any search).
But one ingredient was missing: the gasoline addi• tive tetraethyl lead. Hitler’s planes had to have Ethyl Gasoline\ Corporation, owned jointly by Stand. and Oil and General Motors, supplied I. G. with the secrets for the tetraethyl process and, while I. G. was still building the plant to produce it, Standard supplied the additive, itself. All this with the approval of the United States War Department, although by then Hitler’s intentions were clear. I. G. executive August von Knieriem acknowledged that the style of Hitler’s war would have been “impossible” had not “the Americans presented us with the production plans, complete with their know‐how.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/08/06/archives/with-a-branch-at-auschwitz-farben.html
I came to the same conclusion as Foolish Fitz on this topic. Nazism is obviously an ugly child of Western industry, American included. The biggest effort is to admit that school mislead us. Unlearning is a tricky art.
my comment wasnt about the source of nazism
obviously it is a product of capitalism….capitalism is unsustainable, but those who hold power must pretend that it is sustainable.
to do that they must excercise totalitarian control over the lower orders (ie us).
this must take on a violent form, killing those who disagree, to cover up the fundamental problem, which is energy shortage.
those who ”agree” get a priveleged lifestyle—but only for so long as it lasts.
Check Germany and Japan in the 30s, they had to do exactly that, and invade other countries to cover their energy shortfall. (irrespective of US industry input.)
now energy shortfall is affecting everybody, so some kind of totalitarian rule is sprouting everywhere.
Irrespective of politiical belief, Trump is telling everyone capitailsm/growth is forever
Biden is trying to tell people that it isn’t.
you takes your choice
the US started escorting convoys to Britain
any conflict at that point was a grey area i think–no one wanted to actually declare war
/////The first action between the U.S. and German navies occured on April 10, 1941, when USS Niblack (DD-424) neared the Icelandic coast to pick-up three boatloads of survivors from the Dutch freighter Saleier, which was sunk the previous day./////
I was shocked when I figured out how much the US GDP increased during World War II–about 25% on a three-year average basis, indicating that there was a sustained huge rise in US GDP. (These amounts would include any inflationary impacts.)
https://ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/comparison-of-change-in-disposable-personal-income-with-change-in-gdp.png
The reason GDP increased so much, based on this chart, is because total disposable income increased a huge amount. The added debt to fund the war effort funded the hiring of many more people, including women who had never worked outside the home. This bump up in spending increased the use of oil, too.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS2&f=A
For example, new improved trucks developed for military use could be adapted for agricultural and industrial uses. Production of US oil tended to rise. BP data indicates that inflation-adjusted oil price did not really rise during this time. US oil production was nowhere near limits, and the Texas Railroad Commission was involved with price setting, so the prices did not fall too low for producers during the Depression and immediately after that.
at the start of ww2 the usa was awash with oil that they had no use for (Oil is worth nothing until you burn it)
wars are the ultimate method of dissipating surplus energy—ie fossil fuels, and turning it into money
governments created money and underpinned it with ever-increasing oil supplies.
this continued after ww2, with the fantasy that it was ”the american dream”
it was no such thing–it was the post war momentum
this is what the MAGAnuts are falling for again—with the oil gone, America can’t be great again.
collapse is certain.
and bear in mind dennis—that Japan and Germany declared war on the usa
or had you not heard about that?
The self-organizing system works strangely to produce the big spikes in GDP that the powers that be would like.
Not true Norman. The US started attacking German ship first. That’s a declaration.
Dimitri Orlov on ” Russia will invade Europe ” .
Given all of this, Europe’s stance in preparing for a Russian attack is reminiscent of an old joke: a man is walking down the street when a woman up on a balcony points at him and screams: “Help me! This man is about to rape me!” The man shouts back: “Woman, how can I rape you if you are up on the balcony?” To which the woman responds: “I’m coming right down.”
So true.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/01/27/nz-takes-on-mrna-market-with-arrival-of-million-dollar-machine/
Hooray, we can make our own dog shite here in saaaaad NZ
Once they use this technology in pet medicines then the shedding they will produce may even get to the A-Vaxxers.
Did Hoolio get some trial pet shite meds?
Maybe he is spiking the clan!
Maybe these vaccines will be successful in getting the population of New Zealand down quickly.
We have given up eating pork because it is so cheap, cheaper then chicken, and some say it is vaxxed.
Homebrew
Will screw the crew
I see a white haired white guy at the machine. This is going to be a real problem.
Geothermal fracking will save us:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0UH0vLjchg
We have thousands of times the necessary energy to run our civilization on electricity.
I did look at this geothermal combined with fracking video. It does sound like it might have some promise. I have not run across this proposal before. The company doing this is Fervo, being funded by Google. https://fervoenergy.com
One issue I am aware of with “regular” geothermal wells is that the ones very near volcanoes often work very well, but the ones quite a ways away have a problem with the underground heat that powers them going down over time. The geothermal plants that are near volcanoes (in Iceland and on Hawaii, for example) seem to be quite successful, except for the volcanoes erupting and causing problems. Could these new wells work for long enough to be economic?
Another question I have relates to the supply lines needed to get all the materials to make this approach work. Steel would be needed, plus lots of water and sand for fracking. Of course, the price would have to be brought very low, as well.
Now if only there was a volcano next to every city.
What is good enough for Pompeii, is good enough for us.
How much electric can we get out of Yellowstone? Ship it to the east and west coast by high voltage DC transmission lines.
I don’t know, but with any luck it will set off the Yellowstone Supervolcano and end this abomination called “civilization”.
I have concerns about screwing with our spaceship earth. Our earth gets solar from fusion and heat from the center from what we really don’t understand. Earth radiates at a rate determined by the universe.
We have existing technology, Starship, we need cheap, Pt and maybe Pd, we can generate electricity with a 10,000 sq mile solar panel installation, we can convert to H and use that as a storage medium and a transport medium with fuel cells made from the Pt. This means we are not increasing the heat load on earth by burning solar stuff and possibly killing our planet.
We can do it.
Dennis L.
Your God will teleport the metals to where they are needed and He will assemble them with his bullshit
When the latest report came out and everyone cheered, I dug around the data a bit but figured I would wait for my favorite analysts to weigh in. Sure enough, Peter St Onge writes it up and it is a doozy. “Fresh GDP numbers came in and it was a blowout. The kind of blowout that only a $2.7 trillion government deficit can buy while the private economy crumbles around it. Another couple blowout GDP reports like this and Americans will be living under an overpass.”
The essential ruse comes down to unfathomable amounts of government spending that is being recorded as productivity and output, and interpreted by media as growth. “In the past 12 months the federal deficit increased by $1.3 trillion. Yet we only got half that in GDP—about $600 billion. In other words, everything else shrank. It’s even worse for that brave and stunning Q4—there we got just $300 billion in extra GDP for—wait for it—$834 billion of new federal debt.”
To put a fine point on it: “Essentially, [GDP is measuring] the pace at which we’re going Soviet, replacing private wealth with government waste.” In his interpretation of the data, we are destroying wealth at the fastest rate since 2008.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/great-growth-hoax
The big question in my mind is, “How long can this huge amount of spending to prop up the US government go on?” The rest of the world is clearly not doing very well. And the private economy in the US is hugely distorted by all this debt.
I would never have imagined that the shut downs associated with covid-19 (and the associated added debt) could keep the system going as well as they did. The world economy was headed for financial problems in 2020, and the low oil prices indirectly associated with the shutdowns greatly helped the system. The low oil prices and added debt kept things going.
The system keeps looking like it will fail, but it miraculously manages to stay away. The situation is almost as if there is a helping hand from outside of the system, making all of the pieces work together in ways I wouldn’t have managed. Now, all of the adverse effects from the vaccines are pushing the economy toward shrinkage. The parts of the system that seem to be pushed out are the weakest parts of the system, while the essential parts seem to be staying, at least so far.
But I think of your Twitter image of the big beam being dropped on the waiting truck, until the cable holding the beam breaks and falls on the truck. Does the whole system go up and up, endlessly, until one day, there is a huge downward crash? Of can the system shrink back gradually, allowing a much smaller crash?
“The parts of the system that seem to be pushed out are the weakest parts of the system, while the essential parts seem to be staying, at least so far.”
yes I see that also, and I also see many more weak parts and/or non-essentials that are going to be pushed out sooner or later.
“Does the whole system go up and up, endlessly, until one day, there is a huge downward crash? Of can the system shrink back gradually, allowing a much smaller crash?”
or shrink back gradually and then totally collapse?
it will be quite exciting for those who live through it.
Exciting … till they get riddled with cancer
Or no crash… instead … before we get to that…. they exterminate us
I’m only into chapter 2 of this https://www.audible.com/pd/Global-Crisis-Audiobook/B0BN2XKWXB and already there is are horrifying stories of how the militaries in a range of countries turned on their citizens…
The pillaged all available food — and gang raped the women
What we are facing is far worse because of the globalized world and the soil ruined by petro chem fertilizers that won’t be available…
The Gate of Hell WILL open if BAU collapses…
Surely ‘they’ will do whatever it takes – to prevent that.
Ruined immune systems + Pathogen X… you can bank on it
Military careers are popular here in the Southeastern US. Perhaps there is less emphasis on college. The view is that the military will provide some education for a career afterwards. I don’t know if they will turn on citizens around here. This is a map of where the bases are located within the US.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1XFBnIuaJ-71hcaDJvdmBmeXNhYM&hl=en&ll=47.323248104393436%2C-114.05083499999998&z=4
It seems like the military would need both weapons and ammunition to put in those weapons. I am doubtful that they would have a whole lot, given that the military goes after huge weapons and cannot afford a whole lot of ammunition for them.
It is also very popular around here for the more politically conservative people to buy guns and to buy ammunition for them. Around here, I would be more worried about this group than the military.
Laughing quietly: That answer is probably worth a few $B
“Does the whole system go up and up, endlessly, until one day, there is a huge downward crash? Of can the system shrink back gradually, allowing a much smaller crash?”
Do we perhaps worry too much about all this? Will the Amish really see things as different the day after? Specifically, less complex and Sunday will still be a day off.
I don’t see them going out with pitchforks for their neighbors.
Your idea of spend some/all of it now has some merit.
I continue to see and sometimes participate in machinery auctions. The small pieces used in fabrication generally go quickly if of good quality. A man can make a living with these tools and a human can add considerable value. CNC machine is not as profitable to the operator.
Dennis L.
The Amish will see things quite differently when marauders begin to shoot down their farms, as the Memmonites in Ukraine found as the Makhnoists who did not give a shit about their pacifism looted their farms.
Guess:
If we can go solar and H, then money is not a problem, the environment is safe from industrial man for while.
The universe is 80/20, we had to get this far to make the next step. Life is not for the faint of heart and in the end no matter how hard we try, we perish and it is no longer our problem.
The world works in mysterious ways, if Starship works it started from PayPal, went to making electric cars in tents and moved on to launching rockets which return to earth on their tails. Now, the internet is going to space, using sunlight to electricity and returning that to earth in the form of information – that is physics at work.
When satellite phone service becomes universal, that again will lesson the burden on earth to produce electricity, cell towers will be so yesterday just as are knob and post telephone lines.
Dennis L.
More attacks on illegal US bases and now the US is at last admitting that their troops are dying, so we can expect lots of civilians to be bombed.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-says-3-soldiers-killed–dozens-injured-in-drone-attack-in
Sorry, my mistake, not illegal, as in Jordan.
They say it is in Jordan, but it might well be in Syria. either way, right at the border.
Or might have not happened at all… like the Gulf of Tonkin thingy….
Fool you you once… fool you twice… fool you a thousand times…
Fool ya’ll over and over and over and over (cnnbbc said so … so it must be… right?)
Welcome to norm’s world
How do you know this is not fake?
That’s a very good point!
Fake like the pandemic, mutations and that idiot that told us we’d all be dead multiple times times over the last 4 years?
Then again, Trump is mouthing off about it and we all know what a fake he is.
Jordan Minister declared that the incident happened in Syria not in Jordan.
There are by the way US bases also in Syria.
“First statement from Jordan after the death of three US soldiers: The attack took place in Syria, not in Jordan. […] Jordanian Government Spokesperson Muhannad Mubaidin stated that the attack took place in Al-Tanf in southern Syria, not in Jordanian territory.”
It is also interesting that ISIS claimed the attack, but ISIS also claimed the recent attack at a cemetery in Iran during the celebrations for Soulemaini.
So, we have ISIS attacking US and ISIS attacking also Iran, but this time is Iran’s fault.
What is hapening with Isis is very strange….
Isis seems by now a cover to do everything and its opposite.
https://www.yenisafak.com/dunya/uc-abd-askerinin-olumu-sonrasi-urdunden-ilk-aciklama-saldiri-urdunde-degil-suriyede-gerceklesti-4598276
Yes, thanks Student. I have since read Jordan’s statement.
The US claims all land for 50 miles around it’s illegal Al Tanf base and Tower 22, so could possibly be in any one of Jordan, Syria or Iraq.
ISIS is a western set up, trained, armed and payed by the US and funnily enough based in Al Tanf. Strange coincidence.
As you mention, the blame fell instantly on Iran, so we can deduce that either, they knew Iran was planning it and done nothing, they are lying again, or it’s a false flag to escalate and so do the genocidal encampments bidding. If you look at US media over the last week, they appear to have been priming their readership for exactly this. Strange coincidence again.
What do Arthur C Clarke and norm have in common?
(trick question)
We remain in the eye of the storm
https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/scientific-blog/unfortunately-its-not-over
https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/scientific-blog/an-armed-forces-analogy-the-immunologic-consequences-of-the-covid-19-mass-vaccination-campaign
The first link is to a post by Geert Vanden Bossche about his forecasts. It ends with:
The second link is to a post by Dr. Rob Renebohm, who agrees with Vanden Bossche. He explains in detail why healthy individuals without covid-19 vaccines can be expected to do much better than those with a number of doses of vaccines.
Yes but we will starve.
This is a machine translation of a French paper on the philosophy of war among the pre-Soctratics and it focuses on Heraclitus. Geopolitical ‘realists’ trace their doctrine to Thucydides. Nietzsche explictly advocated and developed what he termed a pre-Socratic approach to moral and political philosophy.
Arguably states act in a pre-Soctratic fashion anyway especially when it comes to geopolitics. The pre-Socratics, like the geopolitical realists, are concerned with the ‘principles’ of how things actually ‘work’ in the world rather than a doctrine of how they supposedly ‘ought’ to work.
“One must know that war is common [universal] and strife is justice and that all things come to pass by strife and necessity…. War is father of all (beings) and King of all, and so he renders some gods, others men, he makes some slaves, others free.” (Heraclitus)
https://www.cairn.info/revue-dialogues-d-histoire-ancienne-2019-2-page-113.htm
https://www-cairn-info.translate.goog/revue-dialogues-d-histoire-ancienne-2019-2-page-113.htm?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
> Thucydides, Heraclitus and the archeology of political realism
The expression of political realism is recent; it first designates, in the strict sense, a modern conception of international relations which “attempts to understand political life by focusing on the real behavior of political communities rather than on the way in which they should have behaved”.
From this perspective, political realism is a theory which tends to reduce the relations between political actors to the logic of interest guided by the balance of power, and to subordinate to this logic all other considerations, whether they whether of the order of culture, piety, or justice. Now it is striking that the two main schools of political realism in the field of international relations (the classical school and the school of neo-realism) both claim to follow the analyzes of Thucydides….
…. Before Thucydides, the principle of power was the subject of various formulations at the end of the 6th century and during the 5th century: by Pindar and the sophists (Thrasymachus, Gorgias or Callicles), by Herodotus, and even before in Hesiod, so that we can undoubtedly find other places of expression of a form of political realism. But it is with certain fragments of Heraclitus that the proximity is most disturbing, since in addition to considerations on the principle role of war, we find there a representation of political relations through the prism of power, as well as a form of subordination of justice to power which evokes the realism of Thucydides. These are also the two corpora in which we find not only the most accomplished expressions, but also the most advanced theorization of ancient political realism.
My aim will then be to identify in a certain number of fragments the lineaments of a political thought which goes in the direction of a theoretical foundation of political realism and whose expression strongly evokes certain passages of Thucydides, then to question myself on the nature of this resemblance. It will then be a question of proposing an archeology of political realism in Antiquity, in the double meaning of the Greek word archè, since it will be both a question of a search for the origin of this approach in the thought of Thucydides and in that of Heraclitus, and a search for the principles which make this same type of thought possible in both….
I would agree that how the system should theoretically act, and how it actually acts are two different things.
I would also think that the theory is not sufficiently refined (perhaps does not include enough variables), if it doesn’t match up with practice.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46face17-b2c8-43fb-9aad-886c4d09914e_655x403.jpeg
Three of the four indicators of labor market activity point to a recent downturn in employment in the US. The one doing best is the JOLTS hiring rate.
Economy/Energy/Finance
Is the market prepared for a wave of goods inflation arriving from the spring and onwards? Freightco versus US PCE goods inflation.
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/this-weeks-must-reads-22-28-january
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ff36a45-ace3-443c-8b76-a374d8cf8332_602x344.webp
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/#
The first link is to a series of quotes from different articles by the Naked Emperor.
The second link is to a chart of US employment indications. The heading the Naked Emperor has made for this chart is, “US Labor Market is in free fall.”
The Naked Emperor link also shows a chart which shows that goods inflation is likely to soar, because the cost of shipping by containers across oceans is now much higher.
Fast Eddy has put this together with the link we saw previously ( and is linked in this list also ) talking about the astonishing amount of debt that needs to be refinanced in the near future.
It looks like lots of things are going wrong at once.
This chart reveals the history that did not need to happen. The United States has been the world center of technological innovation during these years, and the historical home for free enterprise and entrepreneurship. We should have had the greatest boom times in our history! Instead, government stole all that energy for itself. It’s a tragedy.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/great-growth-hoax
Amusing….
We should not be surprised to see Pathogen X (it will be renamed…) emerge…
Only the Elders and their minions know how much longer they can keep this going before it stops…
rename
red dragon
white night
death’s kiss
Thanks, I appreciate the summaries.
Wish I knew what is the right thing to do, I am always positive but things are changing and being on the wrong side of the issues can be painful.
Dennis L.