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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 CIA head admits that USA has now lost ‘uncontested primacy’ in the world.
He presents quite the list of issues – including economic, energy, new techs, diplomatic, geopolitical decline – so see the vid.
Many of us have been talking about much of this on here in recent years despite some lingering nay-saying.
USA foreign policy is a complete fiasco now.
NATO faces collapse in Europe after UKR, and ‘Israel’ and the ongoing genocide in Gaza have alienated basically everyone in the rest of the world.
Meanwhile China is racing ahead in basically all tech and, along with Russia, building ties everywhere.
BRICS expands beyond G7 GDP….
It just gets worse and worse.
Things change in this world and that may be something to just get over.
Empires rise and empires fall and USA is no exception to that.
Britain suffered massive hegemonic displacement in living memory so we are perhaps more accustomed to the idea.
The idea of ‘the end of history’ after the Cold War now looks breathtakingly naive and even arrogant.
> U.S.’ ‘World Superpower’ Tag In Jeopardy? CIA Chief Admits ‘No Longer Enjoys Uncontested Dominance’
US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director William Burns admitted that Washington no longer enjoys unrivaled power in international affairs. In an article in Foreign Affairs magazine, Burns said, “China’s rise and Russia’s revanchism pose daunting geopolitical challenges in a world of intense strategic competition.” He also added that “a growing number of regional powers pursuing independent foreign policies have also challenged the US’ hegemony.” Watch this video to know more.
Blame the loss of uS hegemony on the rise of technology and AI. They are as good excuses as any.
The alien has landed
https://i.postimg.cc/7PJr1wXY/Hoolio-Alien.png
Eddy, wondering if this is FAKE…please ask Hoolio
James Webb Space Telescope observes 19 intricate galaxy structures in stunning detail (images)
News
By Robert Lea published 2 days ago
The treasure trove of images reveals intricate patterns of gas and dust in spiral galaxies beyond the Milky Way in unprecedented detail.
Recently released James Webb Space Telescope images of 19 distant galaxies shine an entirely new, dynamic and vibrant light on these gorgeous realms. The treasure trove of cosmic portraits taken by this $10 billion telescope reveals highly detailed, and quite breathtaking, face-on views of the spirals as seen from the instrument’s vantage point in space.
But Eddy, it’s a 10 billion $$$telescope….
Hubble is probably fake.
But telescopes on Earth are real
Are the images real? No idea. Could be artist’s renderings.
How would you be able to prove it one way or the other?
How did the Mars helicopter battery (same as what you have in your drill) charge in -60C?
okay that is all fine and dandy.
but where is tonight’s Sasha dialogue?
the OFW commentariat is yearning for more.
more!
MOAR!
Sasha stopped engaging after her fifth bottle of Rothschild wine… and now she’s experiencing a dreadful hangover…
And to top it off… the PR Team director called her in and slapped her in the head so hard that she cracked a few teeth … He then shouted ‘Don’t you EVER do this again. You made a f789ing fool of yourself. You go back and delete all that stuff. And if it happens again we’ll cut you off and send you back to the Dumpster where we got you – and you can continue servicing NOFs’
Then Sasha tried to make it right by getting on her knees… like the good little Russian Ho that she is….
doggy pictures are always nice.
but lately the real action has been with Sasha totally dominating you in your exchanges.
more Sasha!
Hoolio pics can wait, we want more Sasha dialogue!
it’s #1 in OFW popularity!
The way i see it… Fast Eddy has destroyed Sasha.
Not difficult when one is dealing with trailer trash…
Eddy, could you post more material of your relationship with sasha so we can all see how badly you destroyed her?
we want proof, to know that Eddy isn’t being fake!
The more I see it, an Asiatic style of changeless, progressless world is more likely in the core, just maintaining whatever is there, as things get downhill outside of the core.
a good grasp of reality.
I personally think a final resource grab by today’s winners , combined with the most draconian surveillance and basically the loss of all freedoms by those who do not qualify (say, the bottom 90% of the advanced countries, let alone the rest of the world) will be inevitable as things get tighter.
In his book Great Reckoning, William Rees-Mogg, father of Jacob, did write that investors have the last laugh. That will be the case.
Investors will own the earth if not already does, with nothing for the rest.
Investors will own the earth if not already does, with nothing for the rest.
They can claim to own whatever they want. When there are no more laws, possession and strength is ownership. But farmland will be useless and abandoned anyway.
Read JMG latest, referenced in this segment of OFW.
It does not sound like a very fun world and it looks like a short, painful life. Many here seem to look forward to chaos; farming, fighting and natural childbirth are very hard work.
I am all for Starship Psyche is guessed to be worth 10,000 quadrillion dollars. NASA has a mission to go and have a look. For all of us, I hope it works out.
Dennis L.
Teleported to the earth by your God’s Devine Power, I guess.
dennis
print 10k quadrillion dollars
and see how many starships you can buy with it
Assuming you’re serious
norman,
If this thing is real, it is not printed, it is metal.
Digging is so yesterday, serious people are sending ships propelled by ion engines to go and see. All the metals came from super novas, the stuff is up there in large quantities, other than momentum, transportation is frictionless.
We find what we are looking for, but I am surprised how many people are jumping on space. I am not much for the moon, the dust is going to be very challenging.
When Starship works, when fusion per Whyte works I shall remind all of you, I told you so first.
So does anyone know who owns Commonwealth?
Musk does not own all of Space X, who owns the rest? Imagine you come home to the wife and say, “I am going to invest in a company which will launch rockets and have them land on their butt. ”
Dennis L.
Dennis, why are you quoting JMG like he is any authority on anything?
This is the guy that makes his money with astrology but his prediction at the beginning of 2020 was “same old, same old”.
He also called Biden “moderate”.
He is a tinpot dictator on his website, deleting any comments that disagree with MSM. Actually even MSM is more open than him now.
But I guess you find people that agree with you wherever you can, even if you have to dredge the sewers.
He is a druid wizard… come on man …. be impressed
Have met him, interesting fellow. I read a great deal of various points of view. JMG did some years write about a US aircraft carrier being hit by numerous drones; seems some what similar to the present.
I still read Gail, and she has predicted collapse in ten of the last ten years, well, sort of, sorry Gail.
I joke about affirmation, but I am a pretty good reader.
My guess is deflation in farm income which leads to deflation in land prices.
Kul seems to think land is king, it makes very little cashflow. If you are a farmer, find a side job.
Various comments, your mileage may vary.
My greatest takeaway from OFW, skipping the jab; I also followed Campbell and he was very pro jab at the outstart. Not so much now.
Thanks for the comments, it is nice to be noticed.
Dennis L.
Okay, he is interesting; are his predictions any worse than those presented here? I have been here for a while and 2016 was supposed to be the big one.
As I mentioned earlier, I am not a fan of any person or group. Dennis Meadows predicted where we are now, but he and his now departed wife, Jane? say nothing of tomorrow. LTG is only terrestrial. The universe is a big place run by we know not what. Based on hx, “They will think of something.”
Good night all,
Dennis L.
hmmmm … just finished.
He’s generally worth a read on the past and present, like Kulmie a reliably thought provoking POV
but with this one, about half way through he launches into
So complex a system won’t be sustainable indefinitely.
and off he piffles on his imaginations of the future
on and on with utter fantasyland until he reaches
… beyond the deindustrial dark ages? That’s impossible to predict …
for buddha’s sake, if you can do the deindustrial dark ages
come in Denis L
Disclosure: long time JMG lurker
I have found many interesting insights in JMG’s writings over the years. I know him in person. He has done far more readings of history than I have. As with any writer, you have to sift through and find the parts you agree with and stay away from the parts you don’t agree with.
I agree that his Druid stuff is pretty strange. Different religions for different folks.
I agree Gail, I’ve immense respect for the breadth of his historical knowledge and interpretation. Current political insight, too. That’s why I read him.
He and Scott Adams were the only two that understood the course of the US 2016 presidential campaign
His SF, druid stuff, futurology? not the slightest interest
the dark age will be forever. the metal ores and fossil fuels useable by small economies are all gone. that seems obvious.
As obvious as the fact that this surely did not land on the moon?
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Discuss
I believe in Miracles..You Sexy Thing..
Black Swan’ author Nassim Taleb, who correctly called the 2008 financial crisis, says the U.S. is in a ‘death spiral’ over government debt
“We need something to come in from the outside, or maybe some kind of miracle.”
BY ELEANOR PRINGLE January 31, 2024 6:29 AM EST
It’s been dubbed the “most predictable crisis” facing the U.S. economy, but an expert has warned it will take a “miracle” to save America from its national debt problem.
Taleb, who advises Miami-based hedge fund Universa Investments, told an event hosted by the organization this week that national debt is a “white swan,” a risk that’s more probable than an unpredictable “black swan” event.
“So long as you have Congress keep extending the debt limit and doing deals because they’re afraid of the consequences of doing the right thing, that’s the political structure of the political system, eventually you’re going to have a debt spiral,” he explained, per Bloomberg. “And a debt spiral is like a death spiral.
What do you expect we do? Pay taxes and not get 20percent returns on paper? What are you nuts? Only poor people …well you know
Debt is a lien on future goods and services. These goods and services need to be made with energy products.
The catch is that fewer and fewer goods and services can be produced in the future. This is in conflict with the huge amount of liens issued. Something pretty clearly goes wrong.
This guy beats Taleb as often as I beat Chucky and the 200/400 Worcestershires.
https://greyenlightenment.com/2024/01/18/ob-betting-against-change/
There will be no changes.
It is really hard to know when and how change will take place. Past patterns don’t, by themselves, quite tell you enough.
Betting that an outlier will happen again doesn’t work very well either. The economy tends to stay together, better than any of us would ever have predicted.
Is this the same Nasty Taliban that was wearing double masks and facial shields in 2020 and 2021?
He could not recognize a black swan if it crapped in his mouth…
Is he a … VAXXER????
If so …hahahaha… total MORE-ON
Out of CONTROL…Prices Are Rising So Fast It’s Now IMPOSSIBLE To Keep Up
1,996 views · 3 hours ago…more
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vH6A5ofN46M&t=61s
The Money GPS
Poor Fast Eddy and Hoolio
To share a recent experience of mine, Veterinary services aren’t immune either. A routine spay is twice what it cost just 3-4 years ago. Meds have doubled for pets too.
lilblackduc7312
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If you exclude “volatile” energy, food, transportation, housing cost and so-on, inflation is almost on target! 🔥 Everything’s fine 🔥 Good show, David…
wooooooo!
through the coming decades, at some point in time most people are going to be priced out of their desires for non-essentials/luxuries.
oh well, they will just have to deal with it.
but the question is when?
if I live to 2030, I’m guessing that I will still be riding the tiger of bAU.
if 2030 sukcs, well…
que sera sera.
Cost of food in Belgium increased 6.34 percent in January of 2024 over the same month in the previous year. Food Inflation in Belgium averaged 3.20 percent from 2007 until 2024, reaching an all time high of 18.02 percent in March of 2023 and a record low of -1.58 percent in May of 2021. source: Statistics Belgium
Too make it simple food prices are up by 29% on a y/o/y .
Assume the same for all countries…
What cannot continue… will stop. Hopefully Pathogen X arrives before BAU stops
another decade or so of that, and Belgium may no longer be in The Core.
How about we just remove everything that is inflating at double digits per year… and whatever is left we just say that’s the inflation rate?
F789 Yeah!!!!
An interesting read regarding the deindustrial age and its future. Agree or disagree!
“Deindustrial Warfare: A First Reconaissance”by JMG
https://www.ecosophia.net/deindustrial-warfare-a-first-reconaissance/
Why is There an Epidemic of Bad Refrigerators
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7R6QwJbkRFs
My forner appliance repairman, now retired, told me that there is no such thing anymore as a reliable refrigerator, washing machine, and especially dishwashing machine. He said that they are all problematic and despite difference in brand names, likely made in the same factory with the same innards.
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I just finished watching a Youtube video about some ol lady with a 1920’s refrigerator that was still working. Apparently nothing was ever done to it over the years repair wise. I personally know people with 1970’s fridges that are still working perfectly! I am definitely going to stick with older appliances from now on.
Yes Sir, not a problem to buy a replacement every 5 years or so…
Read there is a city in China that builds one appliance Air Conditioners..
That’s it..got to keep those billion of pairs hand busy
Increased complexity leads to a lot of repairs of appliances like refrigerators, washing machines and dishwashers.
Also, since the system is consumer based, it needs these things to break and get replaced with new ones to keep workers busy and employed. It’s the same with doctors, they really can’t do much for a person who doesn’t smoke, drink alcohol and lives a healthy lifestyle. They would be out of business.
Along with shoddier workmanship, refrigerant mandates required new R-410 to replace the old R22 ( not sure about those types) refrigerant., but this newer refrigerant, required to save the ozone layer, is not as efficient for heat transfer from the liquid to the gas phase, and is more costly. Thus the manufacturers use smaller volumes to keep the costs down, which means that the compressors and relays have to work overtime, along with the thermistor switches, defrosting switches and timers etc. Kind of like how exhaust and mileage requirements for ICE vehicles meant manufacturers had to ring every last bit of power and drive efficiency. Thus we went from reliable V-8s and V-6’s, admittedly with less milage, but in the long run more durable, to these turbocharged V-4s with CVTs which essentially are disposable and fraught with breakdowns. By the time you replace the transmissions and turbocharger, you’re probably looking at a net loss financially and from an energy pedigree standpoint.
My previous two homes had refrigerators that lasted for decades, now the Maytag (acquired by Frigidaire) a no frills refrig I bought less than two years ago already has had to be repaired after 8 months (thankfully under warranty) but now at 15 months it is failing to cool/freeze again. Charles Hughes Smith is right. It is a landfill economy. Nothing lasts. It’s all crap. The crapification of the world economy is at hand.
I had a refrigerator that stopped working during the warranty period, about Christmas time last year. The new refrigerant had leaked out. The company gave me the money for it, and I bought a new one.
4 yr old clothes dryer NZD2000 — warranty is only 2 yrs… something is wrong with the seal on the drum… getting it fixed is like pulling teeth out of a live shark
John Michael Greer writes about how smaller, low tech countries can beat the bigger industrialized countries, by being nimble and having low-cost attack devices.
What has happened can be described very simply: the spectacularly overpriced armed services of the industrial world have passed their pull date. They no longer yield military power commensurate with their overwhelming expense: quite the contrary, cheaper ways of fighting wars can now overwhelm them. That’s something that happens routinely in the declining years of a civilization. A glance at an earlier example will help show how it plays out.
JMG talks about the Barbarians defeating the Roman Army, long ago.
He says:
He points out
The Romans could no longer produce enough steel to properly arm their troops. We have the exact same problem.
Good point!
Where is the evidence of this?
I see no shortage of products made from steel … so why would there be a shortage for making military equipment?
If there was a shortage of steel … then companies that use steel in their products should be experiencing significant contraction….
Would their share prices not be dropping?
Would they not be laying off loads of people?
Would car dealers not be short of inventory?
Steel is a huge component of BAU — if we were running out … we would have a wide range of signals…
Plenty of steel … stop making stuff up
Who’s to blame here..I vote it should be FAST LOOSE Women…they caused the downfall, just like in the Bible..
The Era of Easy Money Ruined Us
The rot caused by easy money will only become fully visible when the hollowed out institutions start collapsing under the weight of incompetence, debt and hubris.
CHARLES HUGH SMITH JAN 30, 2024
https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/the-era-of-easy-money-ruined-us
Like Obama said in a news conference regarding the Financial crisis about prosecuting the culprits…”Look. There is plenty of BLAME to go around..ain’t that the truth…
‘Easy money’ was not the problem. It kept the system going for longer. Only real things matter.
Maybe for a chosen few, Whitie
It’s Withnail.
No. It was a combination of allowing a central bank (The FED) to get established, enabling politicians to pay for the promises they make to get re elected. This is done through a debt based fiat fractional reserve system which has no gold backing. Once these politicians become established as career politicians, they become magnets for influence money and the fascist (duopoly of political and corporate control) system is born. Government grows and now more than half the population has an interest in preserving their share of the government largesse.
Women esp0ecially and other non producers, who tend to vote liberal, are given the right to vote which is not what our founding fathers intended. Now there are handouts in exchange for votes, and so we now have a pure democracy or mob rule, which assures our eventual self destruction. Add millions of illegal aliens invading to accelerate the process.
“We found that more than 80% of those interviewed believed that most of the world’s money is created and allocated by either governments or central banks. An understandable view, but wrong.”?
https://theconversation.com/why-central-banks-are-too-powerful-and-have-created-our-inflation-crisis-by-the-banking-expert-who-pioneered-quantitative-easing-201158?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton
From Oil Price
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Massive-New-Russian-Natural-Gas-Pipeline-to-China-Faces-Delays.html
OilPrice.com clearly has a strong anti Russia bias.
?? Maybe, but I think it’s well established that when China comes to Russia’s economic aid, they’re actually getting huge discounts. Ditto India. Russia was stupid to not establish these links and pricing during peacetime, seeing as they had plenty of indicators years in advance that a war was possible or even likely. Maybe now that Russia has stabilized economically and in the war, they’re less willing to sell at such large discounts.
From now longtime I have said that the age of mega projects is over . BRICS , NEOM , pipelines , canals ,nuclear plants , dams etc . They are in the rear view mirror . No NETT surplus energy to carry out these endeavors .
From the WSJ – Canada will soon be able to export more oil from the Oil Sands to China and other Asian economies. This may raise prices the US refineries need to pay for this oil.
The U.S. Is Spoiled by Cheap Canadian Oil. That’s About to Change
A long-awaited pipeline project promises to cut Americans’ discount
The article shows a couple of charts regarding US oil imports from Canada and elsewhere. US imports from Canada have already plateaued since, presumably related to the smaller pipeline capacity to the West Coast.
Not a problem. Uncle Joe will send a Ukrainian yacht to blow up their pipelines.
“The Trans Mountain expansion, which will nearly triple the capacity of an existing pipeline to 890,000 barrels a day…”
so the increase is about 600,000 bpd, and I’ve read that Canada wants to increase their production by that amount.
“US imports from Canada have already plateaued since, presumably related to the smaller pipeline capacity to the West Coast.”
or because the US is at a record high production of 13.2 mbpd, and the 4 mbpd from Canada is perfect for now.
sure Canada might get some higher prices for their oil, but good for them.
it is some mighty fine oil indeed.
heavy.
Oil field decline rates and consequences .
https://futurocienciaficcionymatrix.blogspot.com/2024/01/las-tasas-de-declive-observadas-de-los.html
Spanish . Use Google translate .
Translated to English, this says,
The observed decline rates of oil fields have decreased. Consequences.
“A detailed report (June 2020) of 7,691 non-OPEC oil fields concludes that decline rates have been reduced to around 2.7%-3.5% compared to 2008 calculations.”
I think that the amount of infill drilling that can be used makes a difference. Also, techniques are improving. These improved techniques tend to slow down decline rates. All of these things depend on business as usually going on as in the past. The price of oil is important. If the price is high enough, more expensive extraction techniques can be added.
One thing the report says is that big fields decline more slowly than small fields. If oil extraction is more dominated by extraction from large fields, we would expect it to go more slowly.
Gail the decline rate is 2.5-3% because of infill drilling otherwise it would be 8-9 % . Decline rate cannot be zero . Geology prevails .
http://theoildrum.com/node/9340
Judge throws out Elon Musk’s $56 billion Tesla pay package
The 2018 CEO pay package made the Tesla and SpaceX boss a centi-billionaire and the richest person on the planet.
Dan Mangan, CNBC and Lora Kolodny, CNBC
A Delaware judge on Tuesday voided the $56 billion pay package of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, ruling that the company’s board of directors failed to prove “that the compensation plan was fair.”
Tesla’s share price slid about 3% in after-hours trading Tuesday following news of the decision in the Delaware Chancery Court lawsuit filed by Richard Tornetta, a shareholder in the electric automaker.
The pay package that Tesla granted Musk in 2018 was the largest compensation plan in public corporate history, the judge noted, making the Tesla and SpaceX boss a centi-billionaire and the richest person on the planet.
The plan offered Musk the chance to secure 12 tranches of Tesla stock options, which would vest if the company’s market capitalization increased by $50 billion and Tesla achieved a revenue target.
“Was the richest person in the world overpaid?” asked Chancery Court Judge Kathaleen McCormick in her 200-page ruling. “The stockholder plaintiff in this derivative lawsuit says so. He claims that Tesla, Inc.’s directors breached their fiduciary duties by awarding Elon Musk a performance-based equity-compensation plan.”
In her decision, McCormick found that Tornetta had proved that Musk “controlled Tesla,” and that the process leading to the board’s approval of his compensation was “deeply flawed.”
Musk can still eat cake
In the UK the CEO of British Gas recently said that he couldn’t justify his salary of about £2.5 million per year. Yet Musk thinks he’s worth about 18,000 times more. Ha ha.
Paypal, Tesla(close to #1 selling car in CA, neck in neck with Toyota) SpaceX.
What are those companies worth without him? Paypal would be the exception.
The judge.
“McCormick received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Harvard University, and received her J.D. from Notre Dame Law School.[3] She began her career as a legal aid lawyer. She then went into private practice at Wilmington law firm Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, where she became a partner. At Young Conaway, she specialized in corporate and alternative entity law. ”
Probably should send those billions to Ukraine so they can be recycled into the US elite class.
Humanity has one chance, Starship, we need metals, we need a future, we need our spaceship earth.
Dennis L.
Too little , too late. Unless your God can teleport the metals from who knows where, game over.
Basically, not only the resources are declining, but worse, they are on the hands of those who should not be managing it.
Frankly speaking, a lot of resources are in countries not really part of civilization, and their corrupt leaders all want a cut.
None of these would have materialized if colonialism continued. US do-gooders, again not knowing jack shit about what is going outside of North America, thought all the peoples should have their own countries, and now we have peoples in places we never heard about and do not really care demanding their share.
If there are some unknown tech which will defeat these tinpot regimes and reclaim the resources for the use of peoples who can do something about these, Civilization will get a new lease on life, although that won’t be pretty for about 5 billion people who cannot be assimilated into civilization in any way.
If not, barbarism awaits.
I don’t make judgments regarding how the system should work. The self-organizing system provides its own way of integration.
I will agree that resources that remain unextracted are often in parts of the world with little use of fossil fuels, such as central Africa. Cheap child labor may be used for extraction.
“Complexity” is not an idea that has gotten to these parts of the world because in today’s world, it takes a lot of energy and long supply chains to make complexity work.
You talk alot about who constitutes “civilization” and who does not. I’m loathe to say any Western Country is civilized or worth saving. Especially Britain. What say you?
The general populace living in United Kingdom (Incl NI) will have to atone for the damages they caused to civilization , but basically the Western civ is the only one with a chance for reaching a Type I Civ and is worth saving.
Civilization .. is built upon mass murder and plunder….
Feels kinda oxymoreonic….
civilization /sĭv″ə-lĭ-zā′shən/
noun
An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society, marked by progress in the arts and sciences, the extensive use of record-keeping, including writing, and the appearance of complex political and social institutions.
The type of culture and society developed by a particular nation or region or in a particular epoch. “Mayan civilization; the civilization of ancient Rome.”
The act or process of civilizing or reaching a civilized state
I said Poland was, and is, the Mexico of Western Europe and JMS put the example of Ignacy Lukasiewicz, who supposedly invented this and that.
A quick search of Lukasiewicz shows more results on Jan Lukasiewicz, a philosopher active in 1920s, and a Robert Lukasiewicz, who appears to be based in USA.
That Ignacy guy was probably important in the Galician town where he operated, and not too much so as far as the rest of the world is concerned.
And, though he is credited for operating an oil well in Galicia, it is an empirical fact that when the Poles began to run the Galician oilfields, courtesy of Woody Wilson, they mismanaged it so badly that by the end of 1920s there were no more oil and most people don’t know now that there were oil in the middle of Europe.
So my opinion of Poland being the Mexico of Western Europe is unchanged. Wilson, not knowing jack shit about European traditions, basically distributed all the resources to peoples who should not be touching them with a 10 yard pole.
It is my understanding that Poland has historically had somewhat lower wages than most of Western Europe. It has also had access to more coal than most of Western Europe. These advantages have allowed it to do a significant amount of manufacturing for the countries of Western Europe.
Mexico has significantly lower wages than the US. Its energy is oil and natural gas, some of the natural gas imported from the US. Mexico has done quite a bit of manufacturing for the US.
The energy data would suggest that neither Poland nor Mexico is doing very well. Energy consumption per capita is not rising. Poland’s coal production is falling, as is Mexico’s oil and gas production.
Poland makes some very fine machine tools.
Dennis L.
Tradition flowing from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire , killed by Woodrow Wilson. Poland does not design any machine tools
Fast Eddy stepped in dog-s**t and that’s when it hit him – the neighbor’s dog is conspiring to destroy him with the vaccine!
this is so tragic. he did everything he could, and they still got him.
So true https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/91605
Big oil uncovered
‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show
Documents show industry-backed Air Pollution Foundation uncovered the severe harm climate change would wreak
The fossil fuel industry funded some of the world’s most foundational climate science as early as 1954, newly unearthed documents have shown, including the early research of Charles Keeling, famous for the so-called “Keeling curve” that has charted the upward march of the Earth’s carbon dioxide levels.
‘How to greenwash’: propane industry tries to rebrand fuel as renewable
A coalition of oil and car manufacturing interests provided $13,814 (about $158,000 in today’s money) in December 1954 to fund Keeling’s earliest work in measuring CO2 levels across the western US, the documents reveal.
….The possible consequences of a changing concentration of the CO2 in the atmosphere with reference to climate, rates of photosynthesis, and rates of equilibration with carbonate of the oceans may ultimately prove of considerable significance to civilization,” Epstein, a researcher at the California Institute of Technology (or Caltech), wrote to the group in November 1954.
Experts say the documents show the fossil fuel industry had intimate involvement in the inception of modern climate science, along with its warnings of the severe harm climate change will wreak, only to then publicly deny this science for decades and fund ongoing efforts to delay action on the climate crisis.
So, all we humans have to do is to stop eating and stop reproducing.
Of course not, just agreeing with Fast Eddy about humans being Stoopid…using his own words..
And what else does he express…??
he expresses a lot of vowels
I am not convinced that Obama’s policies did a whole lot. I think that it was the growing use of fracking that produced a whole lot of natural gas very cheaply. The rise of natural gas production started about 2008; Obama’s presidency started in 2009.
EIA data shows a graph of US net natural gas production. It needed to be used somewhere.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n9070us2a.htm
Natural gas prices, with all of this extra production, fell remarkably low, because it had now where to go:
This is the average electric power price:
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n3045us3a.htm
This is the average residential price, (which has a lot of overhead costs included):
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n3010us3a.htm
Rising natural gas production had a great deal more “upside” for the economy, than coal production, which had been fairly stagnant prior to 2008:
https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec6_3.pdf
Prices of the various fuels used for electricity generation.
https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec9_13.pdf
Coal was known to have a lot of local pollution problems–smog, in particular. It was not popular. Coal had been hit with more and more regulations to reduce smog.
Natural gas production of electricity was more efficient than coal, and its generating plants were often cheap and quick to build.
I would argue that there probably is coal still the ground for future use in the US, because of Obama’s policies. This makes the US attractive to any foreign group that sees a way to make use of the coal that is available.
In a way, the set-aside coal is analogous to the oil that was temporarily set aside in the Soviet Union, after the collapse of its central government in 1991. This has allowed the oil production of the Soviet Union to be spread out over a longer period.
Watch what they do … not what they say
I saw a bumper sticker today “My dog and I talk sh** about you when you’re not around”. Made me think of Fast Eddy.
Funny https://t.me/leaklive/17940
haha https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/91573
Excellent – this is a step in the right direction (away from animal testing) https://t.me/downtherabbitholewegofolks/91590
If you hover her name it says – Best Seller – thousands of paid subscribers… I find that hard to believe — she must be an embedded agent. and the subscribers are fake — to convince the MOREONS that she is for real.. surely…
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cry more… woketard… tell us how you feel. Rotch’s wine is tops. The ‘luminnaughties really know how to do it… tasty AF. Also beautiful property, nice views, they are neighbors near my second home. How was your evening? what does the missus say? How is the dog-baby? Let’s chat fren…
You were so brave – I retired! I don’t stay in hotels! I am a big deal! LOOOL. turns out you have to use search engine to figure out what Opus One means… or where Tahoe is… LMAO.
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the verdict – mentally ill.
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hahaha, tell me you are butthurt without telling me you are butthurt… are you a father to a dog? Yes! You told me so, I and I believe you. Really I do.
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Yes Sasha – my wife is actually a dog — and she gave birth to a mixed human/dog…
Have another bottle of that fine expensive wine – the night is young.
Is there a worse way to live your life than to lock horns on the internet with someone you do not know?
We know Eddy is deranged in an Eddy sort of way (I’m not being derogatory but I cannot understand why SL would engage? It certainly diminishes credibility.
YES! Why would she drop to the level of Fast Eddy?
Fast Eddy actually supports UEP so HE does not care about gravitas…
And she does not have 1500HP behind her so trying to match FE is futile
Maybe Sasha thrives on sparks?
Maybe she’s sharpening her armory of verbal weapons in what for her is a foreign language by testing them on FE?
Or then again, maybe she just kinda likes him?
Even though she’s a bit rough looking … if she has access to a private jet… this could work out
Provided M Fast turns a blind eye … and Hoolio gets a seat
its the banging your head against the wall thing
feels wonderful when you stop
One has to pass the time somehow as we wait for the die-off to begin
The NFL playoffs are winding down … this fills a hole in the schedule
https://theconversation.com/a-century-of-tragedy-how-the-car-and-gas-industry-knew-about-the-health-risks-of-leaded-fuel-but-sold-it-for-100-years-anyway-173395
Leaded gasoline helps explain why folks are so f’ing stupid. In particular, check out this graph to know the typical blood levels during your development:
https://images.theconversation.com/files/436456/original/file-20211208-68670-1nmlwhl.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip
Word association … Sasha…
Fast Eddy says : F789TARD
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Eddy! Where is you substack with deep research about DOD murdering billions? I searched for it…. searched for it… searched… I didn’t find it! Do you have a link? Are you here for a bit of fame? Why don’t you go back looking for more oil? The world is running out!!!! OMG Eddy, I don’t understand, why you are posing like a revolutionary why denying the simple fact that there is no more oil!!! so fake…
I am still enjoying my Opus by the way, so good…. mmm… 1997 is the year if you ask my opinion… really, get your lazy butt in gear and go dig more oil. we are almost so low on it, fking lazy bum you…
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Can you take a selfie of you with your 1997 Mouton Rothschild … be sure to get the label in the photo with the price… so we can be impressed…
Sasha continues her utter domination!
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of course you don’t know where Tahoe is… how would you, phony… of course you wish you would be me, why else are you here getting so much humiliation for hours? yes, of course I get it for free you idiot, how else? Uncle Rotch’s got me covered… I am so glad your wife gave birth to a puppy dog! Mazel tov! Thank God almighty it wasn’t a cat….
PS, sorry about the retarded term – I get it, you are the woke generation, I meant “neurodivergent” which is retarded but nice….
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You have about as much class as a street walker…
Keep on going … oh great Thought Leader 🙂
And you are a mother? Really? You are a disgrace
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
https://t.me/EdwardDowdReal/590
Total UK PIP (disability) excess claims above baseline are up about 70% monthly & annually. The z score for monthly is 4.5.
Data through 10/23
She sounds like a ho oker … or a stripper … but damn… she’s a bit rough looking… maybe she was once hot? You know those Russians… they are hard core drunks… all that booze might have robbed her of her hotness….
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I live at Tahoe, dufus. Lol. How is your puppy, I mean son? or is it daughter? or is it Xem puppy? I mean sorry, I don’t want to come across as unwoke…. what are the puppy’s pronouns?
OMG!!! What are you going to do when the oil runs out – eat the poor little puppy???
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How about some more homophobic slurs… let us know how you really feel.
And can you expand on the use of the term ‘retard’… I am sure your audience would like to hear more.
How’s that Rothschild wine?
https://en.opusonewinery.com/wine/
And can you expand on the use of the term ‘moreon’…
I am sure your audience has heard it a million times.
Tell Sasha, “How about some more ilithiophobic slurs?”
doofus / dufus
Etymology
Perhaps an alteration of earlier goofus (first attested in the 1920s), due to influence from Scots doof (“simpleton”). Scots doof is derived from Low German doof (“deaf”), which has a secondary sense: “idiotic”. The Low Saxon word is cognate with English deaf.
Some have proposed that perhaps dupe played some kind of role in the development of doofus as well.
Goofus appears to be a fanciful extension of goof, perhaps taking its ending from ignoramus. Goof likely originated as an alteration of the (now obsolete) English goff (“a clown”)—compare English geek, which originated as an alteration of geck (“simpleton”)—but any of its history prior to that is up for debate, and difficult to precisely trace.
Hang on … it just occurred to me… Sasha is mentally ill.
so says the guy obsessed with Sasha.
but keep posting your exchanges.
it’s quite entertaining how she is dominating you.
total domination.
it’s awesome.
Bet she wears stiletto heels while she posts those things. But Eddy knows that Sasha may be a problem for BAU, and hopes they will come to her house in force, like in the final scene of Blues Brothers.
Why would they come for her? She’s doing zero harm to The Plan…
What she is doing is running the A Vaxxers around in circles == entertaining them… ensuring they take no action
After these exchanges with her… I find it hard to believe that she is who she says she is
>> I find it hard to believe that she is who she says she is
Who cares, isn’t it all fake anyways? And don’t forget to check inside your shoes for conspiracies before you put them on!
warning eddy that someone switched the L and the R labels on his shoes has spoiled the fun for everyone else Ivan
Sasha The Eddy Slayer. Good job Sasha.
Sasha is currently Out Back the Dumpster in Tahoe — servicing 3 plumbers.
You need some new material.
theres obvious something appealing about dumpsters
I feel so dirty… now I know how norm feels after his encounters out back the Dumpster…
Hang on … it just occurred to me… Sasha is mentally ill.
She seems to be firing on all cylinders when it comes to dealing with you.
Foul mouthed wench… (mentally ill)… she could be suicidal… definitely losing the plot
Further into the gutter she goes….
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For a self proclaimed world traveler you have difficulties with geography. Tahoe is not at Aspen and definitely not at Davos. What am I going to stop them, blah- blah … oh wait. I did stop “them”, didn’t I. We are all here, laughing at you, Eddy, aren’t we? Cheers. I am drinking Opus One right now – what’s your choice? My kids find you hilarious btw.
wait… don’t tell me… you didn’t have kids because you are gay? Or because no woman wanted to do this with you? Or because you thought the world is running out of oil? And now you are like a liberal chick with a cat named Vagina and nowhere to put your anger??? Too precious…
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Tahoe not Aspen? Is Tahoe more ‘in’? .. never been… I am more of an offthebeatentrack kinda traveller… and I avoid the Louis Vuitton folks.
Opus One – must be… expensive… wow… you must be so awesome… is Paris Hilton with you? How about Kim? I am very impressed.. I wish I could be you!!!
Now this is interesting:
Opus One is the realized dream of two men: Baron Philippe de Rothschild of Chateau Mouton Rothschild in Bordeaux …. https://en.opusonewinery.com/wine/
Do you by chance get comped the wine??? Is that the same wine they drink at Davos?
Now that you have made a complete fool of yourself… I hope you are drunk cuz otherwise I am gonna think you are trailer trash makin stuff up….
How do your fans feel about your homophobic comments and mocking use of the term retarded?
BTW – I am happily married and we have a wonderful dog.
Why are you posting comments of Sasha taking you to the cleaners? What am I missing? And why is this important?
just out of curiousity—i just casually scrolled through a dozen or so comments. on a random ofw page.
none of them could be coherently linked to the previous one, and none made any overall sense in any context whatsoever.
just floods of self-hysteria and self obsession.
just words pulled out of the ofw scrabble bag, and thrown down on the board, in the hope that something makes sense, somewhere, to someone.
Are you not entertained? By the Thought Leader/scientist fighting against the DOD… descending to the level of a bogan?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QoFSNOOBtwI/maxresdefault.jpg
How do your fans feel about your homophobic comments and mocking use of the term retarded?
She wasn’t mocking you, just pointing out a fact.
I could respond with much more cutting vitriol … but she has the ban button…
+ I enjoy letting her dig her grave with her readers.
I am happily married and we have a wonderful dog.
Is this a non sequitur?
Oh this is terrible, someone call animal-welfare services! There are laws against this sort of thing.
not in NZ
I can’t exactly unleash Fast Eddy in all his glory on her SS – or she’ll ban me…
She’s not right in the head – she might actually try to find me and stab me (after all –she has deep contacts at the DOD)
In 2016, India’s Central Soil Water Conservation Research and Training Institute reported that the country was losing 5,334 million tonnes of soil every year due to soil erosion because of indiscreet and excessive use of fertilisers, insecticides and pesticides over the years. On average, 16.4 tonnes of fertile soil is lost every year per hectare. It concluded that the non-judicious use of synthetic fertilisers had led to the deterioration of soil fertility causing loss of micro and macronutrients leading to poor soils and low yields.
The high-input, chemical-intensive Green Revolution with its hybrid seeds and synthetic fertilisers and pesticides helped the drive towards greater monocropping and has resulted in less diverse diets and less nutritious foods. Its long-term impact has led to soil degradation and mineral imbalances, which, in turn, have adversely affected human health.
https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/30/sick-to-death-unhealthy-food-and-failed-technologies/
The world is experiencing a micronutrient food and health crisis. Micronutrient deficiency now affects billions of people. Micronutrients are key vitamins and minerals and deficiencies can cause severe health conditions. They are important for various functions, including blood clotting, brain development, the immune system, energy production and bone health, and play a critical role in disease prevention.
The root of the crisis is due to an increased reliance on ultra processed foods (‘junk food’) and the way that modern food crops are grown in terms of the seeds used, the plants produced, the synthetic inputs required (fertilisers, pesticides etc) and the effects on soil.
https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/30/sick-to-death-unhealthy-food-and-failed-technologies/
Seems about right. I started taking a biotin (vitamin B7, I think) supplement and noticed a clear improvement in skin health.
Yep take mine too…I live basically on coffee and Kelloggs Eggos, the building blocks of life
Super Snatch has a special cream that she applies to her face … not sure if it makes her younger… given it is supplied by a 90 year old NOF….
Seek Kelp.
Hey norm — do you want me to hook you up with Sasha?
Serious person __ Idio t Troll ___
Vote
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i am just answering your comments, retard. nobody asked you here. you have been dunked in it numerous times here, but you keep coming back for more… Mommy issues? go figure!
PS – why would I want to go to prison or die? What’s your problem? Certainly, you need a shrink, but I am not it, dear.
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You are not willing to go to prison – or die????
What kind of revolutionary are you?
You are fighting against the most malevolent force in the history of the world — and all you are willing to do is run a Substack?
Oh and I almost forgot you are quite busy skiing and mountain biking … and drinking Bordeaux from your vineyard…
Champagne Socialists and Bordeaux Revolutionaries… hahaha…
This is priceless… keeping making a fool of yourself
Davos hahahaha…. I wonder if she calls in male models to massage her after a day on the slopes…
I’ve got her on the line … the Anti Vaxxers are both entertained … and offended.. but hey she’s the one how blurted out that she spends here life on the slopes of Aspen and mountain biking … when she is supposed to be leading The Revolution hahaha
Clown … (or just fake)
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why would I WANT to do what Kirsch does? OMG, let me think…. think some more… Mabbeee??? Because I am not Kirsch??? LMAO.
prove me wrong big guy…
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so what are you doing to stop them from destroying the world and killing your children?
Oh right — skiing Aspen … then mountain biking … some fine wine… Jeez sounds like what they do at Davos… hahaha
This is fantastic!!!
Getting under her skin now 🙂
her two humans will soon be dead – and she’s skiing at Aspen hahahahahahaha what a f789ing TOOL
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when are YOU, Eddy, going to grow a pair and take REAL ACTION for what you are so passionate for?? I mean oil? Instead of writing dumb comments anonymously on my substack page that has nothing to do with the issue you are so fucking vocal about? Thank you for being so entertaining, though.
And for the record, I did my part to counteract the extermination plan by actually MAKING TWO NEW HUMANS. What did you do?
Some people are able to respond to comments in an appropriate way; others get upset by whatever the commenter says.
One would assume a highly esteemed scientist… would not behave in this manner…
It kinda impacts your gravitas… and your ability to convince people that the Rat Juice is evil
She is fake. She has to be
The Oil Drum occasionally had problems with some of its unpaid staff members getting into online conflicts with commenters.
This woman is writing these posts, quite likely trying to earn a living doing so. I imagine she gets stressed out. I imagine that she was not very successful at whatever she was doing previously.
There is a fair bit of incongruency with this situation…
In other news:
TIAA paid $145 million for the 300,000-square-foot, 19-story Washington D.C. Xerox Building in 2011. It just sold on January 5th for $25 million. That’s quite a discount.
It’s not only happening in D.C. The commercial real estate fire sale is ongoing in New York, as well. Just one example from Forbes, in December:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/regression-wednesday-january-31-2024
TIAA is Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association. It is what provides annuities to at least some college professors. The low sales price doesn’t sound like good news for TIAA.
https://www.tiaa.org/public/retire/financial-products/annuities/monthly-income-for-life
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Do you collect Louis Vuitton bags??? Now that would impress me
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why? Are you gay?
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Somehow … your responses to my questions … make me think you are not a serious person .. something seems off…
I doubt a serious person who was concerned with this massive threat to humanity would be going off about houses around the world — fine wine — and ski trips…
It makes you look a bit like a fool… and a serious person would not make a fool of themselves like this…
You seem to not have picked up on the fact that I am mocking you … Our Aspen villa – ski bunny Louis Vuitton Revolutionary… hahahaha… keep going!!!
She cannot be real
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/do-you-see-them/comment/48491361?utm_campaign=comment&utm_medium=email&utm_source=substack&utm_content=comment
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why? Are you gay?
F. Fail https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/the-era-of-easy-money-ruined-us/
Easy money fended off collapse for two decades and counting…
Charles should have asked me about this before he posted that and made a fool of himself
But the era of easy money did make rich people richer, and poor people poorer. That is that way it works when there isn’t enough to go around.
Can she be for real????
Surely not… otherwise she is a total f789ing tool….
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/do-you-see-them/comment/48488027?r=15h28a
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Eddy! Are you drinking too much oil and THAT’s the reason it’s running out? Looks like. I always said US Government and DOD were the main culprits of the mass murder, and Pfizer is only a contractor. Why would I storm their HQ? For what? I didn’t inject myself and nobody in my family did, because I warned them early and they listened. SS is working great for me Eddy, I love writing, fine art, and I also love skiing and mountain biking all year round. Just now back from Arizona/SoCal mtb and tomorrow we get fresh snow at Tahoe. What’s not to love? But looks like you are in the doldrums and green with envy….
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I already said I am impressed with your big dick… but feel free to keep swinging it…
Well then – what action are you planning to take to stop this?
Serious leaders of rebellions do not ski and mountain bike… you cannot be 10% in and expect to win…
Doesn’t seem as if you are willing to sacrifice much — not willing to die for the cause … or go to prison… (no wine in prison heheh)
What’s your plan? Or maybe you can tell us after you finish up on the mountain.
Collapse. It’s already 2024!! I’m tired of waiting. What happens? Adjustments. People adjust. There is also inertia built into the system. Everyone is constantly making adjustments. Every industry, across the board. Some of them are very painful. The homeless population rises for example. I’m not saying this can go on forever. It really seems like there’s a brick wall ahead and instead of slowing down we are pressing on the gas. Covid didn’t do us in, so the global system obviously has some built in resistance. I think the inertia leads to a slow degradation that no one really “sees”. But it’s possible disillusionment reaches a threshold and there is a psychological collapse. This has happened to many primitive societies in the past. They just lose faith in their way of life. That could happen to us. Faith in the progress of science and technology could erode to the point that secular society loses its way forward. Just don’t underestimate the collective survival instinct folks. That could put collapse far into the future, or so slow, it doesn’t really even look or feel like collapse. OTOH, things just seem to be going far too fast right now. Declining resources are squeezing out those on the bottom. No crystal ball here. I’ve been here since 2011, BTW. Still going somehow.
It is awfully confusing, I agree. The system has stayed together longer than most of us imagined could be possible.
It doesn’t look like the whole world economy is going down simultaneously. Some parts look like they may last longer than others. The US seems to be doing disproportionately well, compared to other advanced nations right now. But, can that last, and for how long? How long can the debt bubble keep going?
Japan has raised government debt to an absolutely amazing level. Can other countries do anything similar? Isn’t a very low interest rate (or negative rate) needed for a very high debt level?
Do you really think the US could last in anything like its present state longer than the countries that supply many of its goods and resources? If those were cut off, how could it do anything other than rapidly contract or collapse? Or perhaps try to obtain those supplies by force?
Hard to know whats going on in the world with some loudmouth screaming fake, moreon, Sasha etc etc endlessly rather than intelligent comment on the subject which has been seriously and intelligently presented
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/008/005/are_you_not_entertained_meme_banner.jpg
its called intellectual exchange of like minds pedro
Hey norm … tell us about the Safe and Effective vaccines… when do you get your next booster?
keith RIP
What we need is that straw that breaks the camel’s back… it’s happened many times throughout history … civilizations adapt and fight to stay alive … but the day always comes…
This will be no different — other than we cannot return to the 1500’s.. the soil is ruined… there are 8B … and those spent fuels ponds are ready to spew cancer …
What is also different is the Elders know there is no soft landing … so they are exterminating us
You and your stupid freaking elders. No one is pulling the strings Eddy. No
One had a master plan. It’s all just a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off running around. Everyone is clueless. It all evolves organically. Think of it like the brain. There are billions of neurons doing their thing, but no single neuron or set of neurons running the show. Another analogy is genes. Each gene is selfish and is looking out for itself. Same applies to humans. The 8 billion will have to fend for themselves if TSHTF.
So who ordered the MSM and major online platforms globally to censor anything negative about the Rat Juice injections?
Are you referring to the negatives that only exist in your head and have zero observational evidence to back up? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and you have none. You are a mad hatter, but I’ll give you plenty of leeway. You’re merely suffering from the human condition, same as me. We all express this madness in different ways. I’m no exception.
No – I am referring to the fact that every MSM outlet and significant online platform censored all negative information about the Covid vaccines — including blocking dozens of prominent scientists and doctors who warned that they were not safe nor effective.
Who has the power to make that happen?
How are they not safe or effective? Explain how they work. Oh, nevermind, you have no focking clue.
duncan… is that you?
Hahahaha…
After all these deaths and injuries… there are still some people out there who continue to believe Safe and Effective… but the numbers are slowly falling … as they die from taking the Rat Juice.
The best thing is that they seldom connect the deaths to the Rat Juice — so they take more hahahaha
There is now a cure for stoopidity!!!
Right Eddy. No one ever died or was injured before the vaccines.
Be sure to shoot your next booster….
Remember when they insisted that you would not get covid if you took the shot… I do .. cuz I saved the clips https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1463932846570192901
Seems they either lied .. or were wrong…
But then they pivoted to – you won’t get severe illness if you take the shot…
Funny but I played hockey in a league in the town — and all these young people who took the shot — were missing loads of games — cuz they have severe covid…
hahahahaha
This is for you https://www.tiktok.com/@tiktokrachelreenstra/video/7052092917552516398
Interesting. I and everyone I know took the vaccinations. Not a single adverse reaction among myself or anyone else. No Covid. You’ll see what you want to see Eddy. And I’m not ignorant. I know how the technology works. It’s no different than any other vaccine except the body manufactures the critical viral proteins in sufficient numbers for the immune system to be effective. It’s a new technology that prevented Covid from being a decade long pandemic that might have brought down society. Maybe that’s why you’re so salty. Covid didn’t end it all because of pesky new technology. I’ve seen your posts. To you, every death and injury is the vaccine. As if no one was dropping dead before all this. Nothing has changed, but you only see what you want to see, like a single non peer-reviewed article claiming unmaintained nuclear waste will fission like a nuclear bomb. You are not smart Eddy. You may be one of the densest people I have ever crossed paths with on the internet. You may even be a little schizophrenic, but I am not a psychiatrist. Oh well. You are adept at defeating the filters, so you are our schizo.
I’m afraid I disagree. There is no “off” switch for the generated pathogen. It can cross the blood brain barrier and go many other places where it is unhelpful. The injections also contain materials that have no business being in the “vaccine.”
While I agree that Fast Eddy gets carried away with individual cases, there is a pattern of higher deaths and of adverse results that is hard to explain except for the action of the new vaccines. Also, we should have known at the time the vaccines were released that heart damage would be a likely common outcome. The trial data was not analyzed well at all, before the vaccines were released.
I’m not sure that there is a pattern of excess deaths. When correcting for a higher and an ageing population, the death rate, in NZ, is lower than before the pandemic.
Hahahaha… suddenly the population is aging and it wasn’t a couple of years ago…
F.Fail.
It’s the f789ing Rat Juice… this all lifted off when they started the injections….
No-one said that the population is suddenly ageing. It has been ageing for a very long time. The point is that age has to be taken into account, as has population increases. When they are, we see no pattern of excess deaths in NZ. You can believe what you want about it but the data don’t support your story. Some are astonished that there are not more headlines about excess deaths. The reason for that is probably because there is no unusual pattern with death rates.
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/excess-deaths-tech-millionaire-steve-kirsch-challenges-moh-to-publish-death-vax-records/
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/its-time-for-criminal-charges-to
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/the-nz-data-is-crystal-clear-that
the reason the msm does not publish this stuff… is because the msm is a lie machine.
That is just wrong. The immune system is the off switch, just like any other vaccine.
No. It doesn’t work that way. It can still be generating pathogens, months later. The “vaccine” doesn’t work as planned.
Recall they said GET JABBED and you WON’T get Covid….
https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1463932846570192901
How’s that working out our Vaxxed friends hahaha
One would think … that after realizing that was a lie/mistake — these clowns would have stopped shooting more of this stuff.
But nope. You cannot cure Stoooopidity
That’s quite fine as far as the immune system is concerned . It may be generating pathogens months later, even years later, it doesn’t matter. The immune system has learned it’s a pathogen and you are protected for life (sans Covid mutations). I don’t understand the doubt. By What mechanism would this vaccine cause heart problems or any other injury?
Here is your chance to learn from two of the world’s top cardiologists
Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Aseem Malhotra: How the COVID-19 Vaccines Impact the Heart – December 17, 2022
https://rumble.com/v21mjh8-dr.-peter-mccullough-and-dr.-aseem-malhotra-how-the-covid-19-vaccines-impac.html
My heart is doing just fine.
Yes that is also what I would expect a fool to say if he played Russian Roulette and he didn’t blow his head off
hahahahaha…
Please continue boosting.
Just keep on taking boosters…
We want Tim to take more boosters… Tim … can I drive you to the clinic?
And remember – if you have a bad reaction (like cancer or a heart attack) that’s because ‘it’s working’ hahahahaha
I know someone who took 4 shots… he ended up with pancreatic cancer… before staring chemo he took a 5th shot … and had a heart attack.
I have sat in front of him and listened to him lecture me that I am putting myself in danger by not getting any shots….
You see my point right — he is not connecting the shots to the cancer or the heart attack.
Most Vaxxers never do … cuz they believe they are SAFE and EFFECTIVE.
Even though these MOREONS all got covid multiple times after the shot.
I will be sure to tell two of my good mates who have myocarditis that it’s not the shots… cuz they had epic chest pain within hours of their shots… and they actually do connect this to the Rat Juice (one is a 35 yr old semi pro ice hockey player — the other is late 40s and runs hills as a hobby)
They will be pleased to know it’s not the shots — and I am sure they will be keen to take more … cuz without the shots… it would be so much worse
There is no cure for stoooopdity… other than more shots hahahaaha
So pray tell, what is the connection between the vaccine and pancreatic cancer or myocarditis? The burden of the explanation is on you. How does it work? What is the mechanism of injury?You won’t answer because you don’t know, and YOU connect the events, completely without evidence. Where is my injury? Or the injury for all the people I know who are vaccinated?
All you and your ilk have are anecdotes. Even if you find some correlation, correlation does not even imply causation. You are scientifically illiterate, terribly so.
For that we turn to walter … https://wmcresearch.substack.com/
Enjoy.
Prof.Angus Dalgleish: The COVID Booster Cancer Time Bomb
“Recently the American Cancer Society (ACS) has warned of a surge in new cancer cases in the US this last year of over 2 million, with many of these cases occurring in younger patients.”
By Professor Angus Dalgleish January 30, 2024
I have previously reported on my concern about the rise in stable cancer relapses that I have witnessed in my melanoma clinic.
None of these patients of mine presented with the classic prodrome of relapse that I had always noticed previously, such as severe depression due to bereavement, divorce or bankruptcy. Indeed the only thing I found they had in common was to have had a recent booster mRNA covid vaccine.
I phoned around my colleagues not only in the UK but also in Australia to check their experience. In no case did they deny such a link. Indeed, they were equally alarmed at the association between booster vaccines and relapse that they too were witnessing, as well an increase in new cancers, particularly in those below 50 years old. In addition to melanoma these colleagues were also very concerned about a sudden big increase in young patients with colorectal cancer.
Rather than instigating a proper inquiry to investigate this when we raised these concerns, the medical authorities told us all that what we were witnessing was a coincidence, that we had to prove it and above all, not to upset our patients.
Recently the American Cancer Society (ACS) has warned of a surge in new cancer cases in the US this last year of over 2 million, with many of these cases occurring in younger patients. Indeed, the chief scientific officer of the ACS, William Dahat, announced in addition that cancers were presenting with more aggressive disease and larger tumours at the time of diagnosis, especially in younger patients. Of further interest it noted a difference in the microbiome (the community of micro-organisms such as fungi, bacteria and viruses that exist in a different environment) between patients under 50 compared with those over 50.
This surge mirrors a report from Phinance Technologies of late last year which analysed in detail data from the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) which showed that disability and deaths in 2021 and 2022 had increased dramatically in all age groups, but especially in the 15-44 age group.
The Lancet also published an article before Christmas reporting excess deaths post covid pandemic to be up by 11-15 per cent over than expected for under-25s and for between 25-49 year olds. This is in fact the pattern found in many countries that have looked at the data. Germany for example has reported excess deaths rising from 7 per cent in 2020 to 24 per cent in 2023.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/profangus-dalgleish-the-covid-booster
Get your booster shots… increase your chances of getting cancer hahahahaha
Government doesn’t want to know.
I don’t care what one of the most prominent oncologists in the UK says…
The f789ing Rat Juice is SAFE and EFFECTIVE!!!
bbccnn said so (and huff)
I want more
“Humans cannot live without illusions. For the men and women of today, an irrational faith in progress may be the only antidote to nihilism. Without the hope that the future will be better than the past, they could not go on.”
― John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
Very good quote. It really seems to be the MO of the secular masses.
We’re all gonna die. Fast Eddy too.
That is a good bet. The supposed exceptions are pretty few. For example, Elijah.
How can the Messiah die…
The Messiah died and came back to life, if we believe what the New Testament says. So, he did die.
That was that messiah .. this is the new and improved Messiah… M for Messiah
Fast Eddy is not a physical entity … HE cannot die..
Good luck with that!
His alleged mortality is…. FAKE!
Stay tuned for more wacky fun from down under!
Fast Eddy is just like Rock ‘n’ Roll!
“Rock and Roll can never die,” according to Neil Young’s song.
it’s better to burn out .. than to fade away …
I am reminded of norm…
BTW – keith… vax injured ___ or dead ___
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To Keith
When he left the Burma police at the age of 24, he took up writing in earnest and committed class suicide, so to speak, “slumming” with working-class folks in the boarding houses of London and Paris
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-failed-saint-on-george-orwells-india/
Orwellian seems to best describe how the world is controlled.
Although not the uppermost class his diagnosis is prescient.
Was he trying to warn everyone or just trolling?
Perhaps he was trying to warn people. What had happened before might happen again.
Fabian Society predictive programming.
I do wonder how he predicted things so accurately.. almost as if he was part of a plan … or a simulation
Maybe similar things happen over and over.
Back when he was plain old Master Eric Blair, George Orwell was a pupil of Aldous Huxley’s at Eaton.
I imagine them trading dystopian takes on future while sitting around the fireside for afternoon tea while the junior boys served as toast racks for their crumpets.
Of course, this was well before Huxley’s magic mushroom period.
Next US hits Iran. Where are the Chinese?
then WW3!
but really, just another US psychowoketard instigated regional war.
we’ve lived through many, just not a WW.
it would bring some excitement to all these routine days of seemingly endless bAU.
bAU yesterday, bAU today, and bAU tomorrow.
boring!
😎
The US is too weak to attack Iran. It will do what it usually does which is attack somewhere in Syria, Iraq or Yemen and claim this is ‘attacking Iran’.
Agree . The Iranians control the Strait Of Hormuz — gateway to 65% of the world’s total oil exports . All will be blah , blah .
How is America weak? It’s by far the strongest economy on the planet — because the US unlike other countries … can run up trillions of dollars of debt…
Like a drunken sailor they can use that debt to buy whatever they want — more resources… military equipment … h00kers.. blow … anything….
Name a country that is in the same position? Iran? hahahahahahahaha don’t be silly
Can it last? Of course not… but in the meantime… the US will continue to be able to put everything on their tab… and the world will fund the tab…
You are living in a delusional world
It is probable that some part of humankind do have the amazing techs needed to reach the outskirts of Type I civ, although I do doubt whether they can actually overcome it due to lack of talents caused by 20th century wars.
I don’t know whether Keith is alive or not, but his mentor, Gerard O’Neill, was from Brooklyn while Keith is from the West. In other words, O’Neill, although being Irish, was part of Civ while Keith was not.
For all practical purposes California is Asia, as far as civilization is concerned. CA and HI should NEVER have been given electoral votes since they belong to Asian civilization, not Western.
If the people running USA thought Civilization as we know it could be maintained by the midwesterners, the rednecks, the Hispanics and the White Asians living in “Easternmost Asia”, aka CA, HI and their environs, they were mistaken. The White Asians think like the real Asians and succeeded making the modern world like Asian despotism, away from civilizational advance.
Damn. This is what happens when you take LSD and comment in blogs while you’re still trippin’.
Technology is just a way to use up resources faster. There are not enough resources in our solar system or any other solar system for interstellar travel to be possible.
If intelligent species evolve, they are stuck where they are until they go extinct. Their existence meant nothing. The universe doesn’t care or notice.
This talk focuses on Biden’s debacles at home and abroad and how it is liable to favour Trump come November. Trump’s favourability is now at a record high while Biden’s is at a record low. The DP looks in trouble.
“Robert Edward Barnes is an American lawyer, political commentator, co-host of VivaBarnesLaw with David Freiheit, and founder of Barnes Law LLP, a Los Angeles–based law firm. Barnes gained notability for regularly representing perceived underdogs and lawsuits involving constitutionality.”
The talk starts at about 9:45 minutes into the video.
> Biden faces conflict at home and abroad w/ Robert Barnes (Live)
Why Trump is favored:
There has been no net job growth for native-born Americans, under Biden. All new jobs have gone to immigrants. Wages haven’t risen enough, and interest rates are high. There are lot of wars now. All of these things create problems for Biden.
Trump is at record-high in preference. It is becoming increasingly clear that the many wars around the world the US military are involved with aren’t going well. The Democrats appear to be trying to bankrupt Trump and put him in jail on bogus charges.
“It is becoming increasingly clear that the many wars around the world the US military are involved with aren’t going well.”
Gail wins the prize for the biggest understatement of 2024 so far.
How about “the US military is completely f–d and hopeless” (c) Andrei Martyanov (like pretty much all combined West militaries).
Hannah Arendt wrote about the banality of evil, after witnessing the trial of Eichmann.
Eichmann was a pretty ordinary, not really successful schmuck who was introduced to the National Socialist party through his friends, and did the things I would not repeat.
She did not notice anything special which led him to that path, and concluded that evil can be done by the most ordinary, everyday folks.
But what Eichmann did pales before the evil deeds of these fine folks of Worcestshire, England, in Oct 28, 1914, the day humanity probably lost the chance for a Type I Civilization.
https://youtu.be/t2Gm7ES-nk8?si=RsE2170pwnsVDtFk
https://youtu.be/oAmAW-ZwSC0?si=i3cmxEbW-QNR9VFE
https://youtu.be/0KcRGxJ8h8Q?si=bvYB6dccHp1XMW1d
They are ordinary folks who you saw in English countrysides, but in on that fateful day, 200/400 of them , along with Chucky, caused the greatest fuckup of the 20th century. They are no less guilty than Chucky.
Which is why WEF’s plans are needed to maintain civilization. Ordinary people are simply too dangerous to be allowed into Civilization; they might cause fuckups like the above, and this time WEF is NOT taking anything to chance.
three cheers for awesome Chucky!
Chuck up, hooray! Chuck up, hooray! Chuck up! hoooraaaay!
Come on, lads. We’re off to the trenches.
Last man to cross the Somme is a conchie!
long live the memory of the good name of Chucky!
Thank you Chucky.
I’ve read this… and she has it all wrong…
Those who murdered the JOOS did not believe they were committing evil… they truly believed in The Stab in the Back… and that the sell out by the Zionist bankers was what caused the country to descend into utter destitution …
After the war Germany was saddled with massive unpayable reparations — decent women were servicing NOFs to be able to feed themselves and their children… people were starving … (read Mein Kampf for details)
There was no banality of evil — nothing banal at all…
They supported Hitler and the Nazis because they wanted revenge – plain and simple.
She makes it sounds as if they are mindless zombies who for no good reason chanted kill kill kill as the JOOS were marched to the chambers.
Of course she prefers not to touch on the term revenge… cuz then that raises some rather awkward issues…
I am told that the new thing in the business world is to ask … what is your super power???
I was thinking about this … and if someone asks me this (unlikely cuz I do my best to avoid everyone particularly people who might ask me this)… I am going to say… my super power is that I have the ability to predict the winning numbers in lotteries…
A new original thought (this only happens with FE — everyone else gets their thoughts from bbccnn)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous
Could be that the new pathogen that emerges will be hotter than the hottest Mareks (which killed all unvaxxed chickens within days)… killing everyone…
The vax has some short live efficacy against Covid… what if… the boosters they are now giving out … are placebos…. ensuring that the vaxxed have zero protection against the Death Pathogen…
Ensuring that everyone dies?
Eureka????
This makes sense … and we have the chicken precedent!!! Hurrah – no need to be locked down and starve… we all die of pneumonia .. the old man’s friend 🙂
Consider this — nobody set out to create Mareks on purpose… they just didn’t know any better aka they f789ed up.
And the hottest strains kill all the unvaxxed chickens…
With the Rat Juice … it’s like taking Mareks and then trying to strengthen it.. trying to make it more contagious and even more deadly… deadlier than the hottest strains of Mareks…
How do you do that? Of course you continue deploying leaky vaccines into a pandemic…
Till the Mother of all Mother F789ers emerges… something more vile than Super Snatch’s Fester… (the stench just typing that has me bringing up vomit)…
Fast Eddy is onto something … let that percolate … the genius to come up with this … the sheer brilliance of mind…
Fast Eddy – you have outdone yourself… let us all bow down to the GOAT.
Kiss the ring for HE has enlightened us… once again
In the real world, people aren’t as tightly packed as in chicken coops. A very hot virus can only kill a few people around it. It can’t kill the whole coop. It tends to die out quickly. The hot virus can’t spread very far because sick people tend to stay home and die.
100% kill rate:
“With the hottest strains, every unvaccinated bird dies within 10 days. There is no human virus that is that hot. Ebola, for example, doesn’t kill everything in 10 days,” said Read, who is an evolutionary biologist at Penn State University.
Again – they did NOT try to create such a virus … it was an accident…
On the other hand the DOD has most definitely gone over board in trying to recreate such a virus…
Not only that … but they have damaged the immune systems of the Vaxxers…
This is not a natural outcome — it is a Frankensteined outcome…
This would never exist in nature …
Therefore using nature as a comparison is of no use.
A highly contagious deadly pathogen will indeed spread far and wide — and kill huge numbers…billions
Anyone left — will be locked down (actually they will demand lockdown)… and starve
Recall that book about the plague (name escapes me) — they tried to hide in a remote place — but the plague still came.
This is how it ends.
If anyone is howling with grief … step back and consider the alternative.. ROF. Do ya’ll want ROF? UEP is far better … you die without violence… that’s a good outcome…
How much evil do you have to do to do good?
I am not putting money on the man in the sky (who demands money) … showing up to save the day. If he exists why would he? What is so great about humans vs every other extinct species that is worth saving?
Seems to me he’d stand back and watch us clean up the mess we have made by self-exterminating
that is what I would do (if i was Fast Eddy)
“Unknown to many, the BA.2.86 and JN.1 variants are evolving and spawning sub-lineages with unique mutations at an unprecedented rate never seen before in the history or annals of virology”
https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/brazilian-news-sound-alarm-about-detection-of-ba-2-86-spawn-jn-2-5-after-the-variant-was-found-driving-covid-19-hospitalizations-in-canada
Here comes a lay interpretation of the explosion of sublineages (spawn by BA2.86 and JN.1) currently seen:
The virus is currently pedaling in place at the bottom of a steep snowy hill, looking for its winter tires. Once those are found, it will rapidly shoot up the slope in a devastating ride….
Making sense of the current wild pedaling (i.e., the multitude of minor viral mutations) is therefore quite challenging…..
https://voiceforscienceandsolidarity.substack.com/p/sars-cov-2-is-currently-pedaling
UKR is nearly entirely out of Russia’s newly annexed regions. UKR has completely failed to push back Russia and they have lost hundreds of thousands of manpower and massively depleted NATO materiel in the attempt.
UKR cannot take the pressure and it is crying, ‘It is a fake! It is a fake!’ but everyone is laughing at them. NATO in Europe is soiling itself about what comes next ‘if’ Russia wins in UKR like there is any doubt about that.
Trump is liable to tell them to ‘cope with it, we have our own issues to address’. Biden started his stint in office with the NATO debacle in Afghanistan and he looks set to end it with another in UKR and that is likely how he will be remembered.
> Russia ‘Liberates One Of Last Frontline Areas’; Tabaivka ‘Not Captured,’ Cries Ukraine | Watch
The Russian Army has announced the “liberation” of the tiny frontline village of Tabaivka. Vladimir Putin’s men claimed to have taken control of the village of Tabaivka. The frontline village was “one of the few areas” that Ukraine commanded in the annexed regions. The village of Tabaivka comes under northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region. However, Ukraine has rejected Moscow’s claim that Tabaivka had been captured. Watch this report for more.
This is kinda like a video game… on the surface it appears to be real (surface being bbccnn) but when you dig deeper ..it’s just as fake as a video game
Hey remember this https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/28/facebook-posts/ghost-kyiv-clip-video-game-not-video-fighting-ukra/
Maybe they were having a bit of fun and dropping a hint that it’s all fake — knowing that most MOREONS would not pick up on it…
In war, there always seems to be a problem with the two sides disagreeing on what exactly happened. It is happening again here.
Spain saves EU .🤣🤣
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/eu-miraculously-avoids-recession-q4-spains-gain-offset-germanys-drain
All ind of miracles seem to happen!