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Economists, actuaries, and others tend to make forecasts as if whatever current situation exists will continue indefinitely or will perhaps improve a bit. No one wants to consider the possibility that things will somehow change for the worse. Politicians want to get re-elected. University presidents want their students to believe that their degrees will be truly useful in the future. Absolutely no one wants to hear unfavorable predictions.
The issue I see is that many promises were made during the period between the end of World War II and 1973, when oil prices were very low, and most people assumed that oil supply could grow endlessly. No one stopped to think that this was a temporary situation that likely could not be repeated. If things didn’t work out as planned, debt bubbles could bring down the economy. This was a heading I used in my talk at the recent Minnesota Degrowth Summit:
In this post, I will provide a few highlights from my recent talk. I also provide a link to a PDF of my Degrowth Summit talk and a link to a Vimeo recording of the summit, which includes a transcript. To access the transcript and an outline of the timings of the various talks, scroll down on the front page of the recording. Joseph Tainter spoke first; there was a recorded section showing clips by other speakers that only online viewers saw, and I spoke last (starting at about 1:55 on the video).
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Between 1920 and 1970, US oil supply grew rapidly. The early oil was easy to extract and close to customers wanting to purchase it. There had been warnings from physicists (including, most notably, M. King Hubbert) that this could not go on indefinitely, but most people assumed that any obstacles were far in the future.
Of course, there were other countries producing oil besides the US at that time, so it was possible to purchase imported oil. The US still had some oil it could produce, but it tended to require more complex operations. For example, some of the oil was in Alaska. Bringing this oil to market required working in a cold climate, laying a long pipeline, and using ships to transport the oil to locations with refineries.
Low oil prices were very beneficial to the economy, for as long as they lasted.
We don’t appreciate how important low-cost food is to our personal finances. If food purchases amounts to, say, 50% of available income, necessities such as clothing and housing would take nearly all our income. There would be little left over for optional items. On the other hand, if purchases of food require only 5% to 10% of available pay, there would much more likely be money left over for discretionary purchases, such as buying a vehicle or paying for school tuition for a child.
Oil and other energy products are like food for the economy. During the period when oil prices were very low, there was sufficient margin for purchasing all kinds of “extras,” such as the items listed in Figure 4 below.
In the low-priced oil era, small businesses were sufficient for many types of operations. There was little need for a deep organizational hierarchy, or for advanced energy-saving versions of manufactured devices. Most goods used in the US were made in the US.
Once the economy started to need more complexity, things began to change.
The economy needs a strong middle class to maintain the buying power needed to purchase goods such as vehicles, motorcycles, and new homes, to keep the price of oil up. If the middle class starts to disappear, or if young people start earning less than their parents did at the same age (adjusted for inflation), then it becomes difficult to keep the prices of oil and other energy products up. Prices must be both high enough for producers and low enough for consumers.
Recessions took place when oil prices rose. Governments found that they needed to bail out their economies with more debt when oil prices rose. Since 2008, the ratio of US debt to GDP has skyrocketed. Quite a bit of the added debt has been to pay for programs for poor people and the elderly.
The current level of debt of the US government is widely viewed as being too high. One analysis suggests that if the ratio of government debt to GDP exceeds 90%, economic growth is inhibited. The US debt to GDP ratio is now 120% on the basis shown, which is well above the 90% threshold. One concern is that interest payments on debt already exceed the amount the US spends on defense each year. Taxes need to rise, simply to pay the interest on the debt.
Growing debt, particularly during the Stagflation Stage, is one of the issues mentioned by researchers into so-called secular cycles, which are long-term cycles that take centuries to complete. In the book Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin and Sergey Nefedov, a group of people somehow obtain possession of an area of land (often by cutting down trees or winning a war) that allows the population of the group to temporarily surge. When the population reaches the carrying capacity of the area, population growth greatly slows in a period referred to as Stagflation. Wage and wealth disparity become more of a problem, as does debt.
Eventually, according to Turchin and Nefedof’s study examining eight societies, populations tended to collapse over long periods, ranging from 20 to 50 years. Such cycles are closely related to the periods of growth and collapse analyzed in Prof. Joseph Tainter’s book, “The Collapse of Complex Societies.”
The time ahead looks worrying, if my analysis is correct.
A few comments for my regular readers:
- My presentation included 51 slides. Look at the PDF to see the full presentation.
- Even though I didn’t mention it, having a rapidly growing energy supply at a very high EROI would not be sufficient to forestall collapse indefinitely. Other issues would emerge. Population would rise higher, and pollution would be more of a problem. Eventually, the system would still reach a limit and tend to collapse.
- I only included EROI because I thought a few people would already be aware of the concept. I didn’t define it or talk about it.
- My analysis seems to suggest that extenders of fossil fuels, such as wind, solar, and nuclear, need to have very high EROIs. But even with high EROIs, they are unlikely to be helpful for very long because the system would still tend to reach its limits.
Panic attack .
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-warns-of-economic-disaster-if-supreme-court-rules-against-tariffs-5942820?utm_source=rtnewsnoe&src_src=rtnewsnoe&utm_campaign=rtbreaking-2025-11-11-1&src_cmp=rtbreaking-2025-11-11-1&utm_medium=email&utm_content=reactivate&est=7zDnhJTBLZHN6t3bf0FSSubOrn%2FYsiWdbJwqS9FhGbDMAeky%2F6X%2B2%2FLh7XfBxJdVNQ%3D%3D
There is a huge argument about how much benefit the tariffs really are. Trump says $3 trillion. Collected amounts are much lower.
He is exaggerating as usual . The amount is about anything between $ 150-200 billion . The problem is that all additional tariff raised is all spent , therefore more debt is needed to repay this . For the moment debt issuance is subdued because of the shutdown , it will spike when it is lifted . We must understand that the shutdown is not an issue of ” financing authority ” but ” spending authority ” . Now add this repayment and we are adding ” gasoline to the fire ” .
Some of the tariffs may be paid indirectly by additional debt of the government of the exporting country, as a way of helping the exporter. But that money doesn’t help the US.
the don isn’t interested in the USA
just in himself
on a literally exclusive basis
You are correct and the Epstein blackmail has ended his term. He maybe allowed to sit there for the next three years but he will have no power.
maybe
—but dont forget the don has now hired his own private army, with allegiance to him personally….
i think it is likely that he will use them to ensure he keeps hold on power…
it happened 100 years ago, and it is happening again if it is allowed to….
and i dont see any way of preventing it…
do you?
“You are correct and the Epstein blackmail has ended his term”
Is it true Ed?
Someone tell me it’s not true.
Not Bubba, anyone but Bubba🤣
“I wish I did not have to tell you this, but Bubba is the nickname of Bill Clinton. Not gonna lie, when I heard the news, I was catatonic for like 45 minutes.
You’re probably going into denial, convincing yourself this is something I made up, but even my twisted mind wouldn’t come up with this shit. Reality is once again weirder than satire.”
https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/it-turns-out-president-trump-is-the-706
The don is an actor instructed by the elders when to jump and when to step back. The only question now is can the elders save us. I believe we have a small chance for a fragmented civilisation to emerge out of the coming bottleneck but great sweeping changes will engulf us. The elders could cease to exist after the dust settles
how many more times—–
there are no ”elders”
there is just a concerted interest in turning the last remaining viable resources of the planet, into cash—the don is a manipulated part of that.
the sick joke of course, is that cash, in itself has no value, and neither do resources, until they are rendered into something saleable…..
and when the vast majority of us are impoverished, for whatever reason, we will not be able to buy anything…
TRIBUTE TIME
Well, it’s a slow day. There is death, destruction and conflict all around the world, but it’s the new norm and rather boring. So let’s do some tributes to cheer ourselves up.
Timothy Groves – Tim, a rather middle-class sounding name, but he claims to be working class. One vowel change – Tom – and his first name would have sounded rather earthily working class: Tom, coarse as a bomb. Would he ever have thought of emigrating to Japan if he’d been called Tom? Probably not. But off he went, to the land that at the beginning of the 1980’s was the epitome of technological innovation, with a powerhouse economy to match. That began to tail off at the end of the 1980’s, and now the country is apparently mired in stagnation.
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There have been some great Japanese films. I haven’t watched any of them, though, apart from Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. But here is my tribute to Tim.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x65ojiy
Great film. Shame about the production values. How fallen are the mighty.
Fascinating to listen to, though, even if you don’t understand a word.
Maybe Tim can translate it for us.
(Remember to UNMUTE the video, so you can follow the gist of it).
Especially if you don’t understand a word.
I’m sorry, Demiurge. That puppet show you’ve linked with is narrated in Korean, a language that sounds to me like animal grunting. I am “fluid” in Japanese, but Korean and Japanese are not mutually intelligible languages. There aren’t enough similarities to even guess the meaning from context. As Wikipedia has it, the two languages “share considerable similarity in syntactic and morphological typology while having a small number of lexical resemblances.”
Your suspicions about my middle class roots are unfounded, I’m afraid. No posh ancestors whatsoever. Paternal grandad William was a docker in, where else? London’s Dockland. He and his wife had 17 children and my Dad was number 15. Maternal grandad George was a night watchman at the Westminster Bank for 30 years. So yes, you could say he worked for the Rothschild family. He was the son of a serial pickpocket, George Senior, who fathered four (to the best of my knowledge) daughters with his common law wife between bouts of prison, and finally consented to make an honest woman of her when she finally bore him a son.
After retiring from the bank at the age of 64, grandad George took a job collecting insurance premiums door to door for the Prudential. He also worked at a pub in the evenings near Liverpool Street Station until well into his seventies. The extra money came in handy, but he mainly did it because he felt comfortable working, being employed, doing something useful, being in touch with people. He was, apparently, the polar opposite of his own dad, who had been a bully, a liar, a tyrant, and a criminal.
When I came into the world, the stork set me down in Bethnal Green Hospital, and I moved in with a family comprising 7 people in 3 generations and a dog, who lived happily in a typical 3-up, 3-down terraced house in Royston Street with a tiny back yard, an outdoor lavatory (middle class people had toilets!) no bathroom, no hot water, and absolutely no mod cons unless you count the radiogram (combined radio and record player) in grandad’s front room. Although we were not that badly off, having carpets on the floor rather than just lino.
My Dad had named my older brother, and so grandad George was asked to name me. He chose the name Timothy because he was an admirer of Timothy J. Ring (1858-1941), Canon of Westminster Cathedral, and a well-known London cleric in Grandad’s time.
There is not a lot of biographical info on Ring online, but I found the following at the National Portrait Gallery website:
1) Canon Timothy Ring was parish priest of St Mary and St Michael, Commercial Road, from 1904 until 1941, and became a legend in the East End. A true champion of the underdog he fought both communism and fascism in the 1930s.
His funeral in August 1941 brought the East End to a standstill and was attended by Cardinal Hinsley and several other bishops , along with an array of local politicians and dignitaries including the future prime minister, Clement Attlee, who was shortly to become Churchill’s deputy prime minister.
2) Canon Ring attended the Irish revolutionary (Sir) Roger Casement in Pentonville prison and Casement was received into the Catholic Church on the day of his execution, 3 August 1916.
You can read the rest of my unreliable autobiography when it comes out in paperback. Unless I decide to make it into a blockbusting novel.
Hmm. You don’t know Korean but you knew it was Korean. And then you said the language just sounded like grunts. See how I gas-lit you there? Kim Jong Un put me up to it, and he’s not pleased with the results. What did you say your address was again? 😉
You have a fair bit of knowledge about your ancestors. Unlike me, so I’m impressed. I’ll probably finish off your autobiography for you by adding some hilarious escapades, so that it becomes a roaring success and makes me a sterling millionaire.
Hmm, you probably don’t know Russian, German, Italian, Greek, or Scouse very well, but I expect you can recognize and distinguish between them.
Due to spending many years in the Orient, I’m pretty good at distinguishing between the main East Asian languages—even though I only understand Japanese, but I can’t distinguish between Chinese dialects or between most Indian languages.
Regarding the book project, I’m already a yen multimillionaire, and it’s a great life, so I say “go for it!”
I used to be semi-fluent in German but lost the Wanderlust after 30, so it’s too rusty now. I can understand a fair amount of written French and Spanish, and a bit of written Dutch.
204 yen to the pound sterling right now. So a yen is just like a half penny in the UK, which coin was demonetised in 1984.
1 yen used to be divided into 100 sen and 1000 rin. So when is Japan going to re-denominate its currency? Then you’ll stop being a millionaire and getting ideas above your Tube station.
It could happen any time—the next re-denomination.
A couple of years after the end of WWII, there was a huge devaluation of the yen. I’m not sure how much, but far more than 90%. With the right circumstances, something like that might happen again.
The US and the UK currencies have experienced more continuous devaluations over many decades, while the yen and the Swiss franc maintained their value against things like oil, gold and Mars Bars much of the time.
I lived through several decades of the rising yen. I think it was about 1000 yen to the pound after Breton Woods 400 yen to the pound in 1980, and then rose to as high as 130 yen to the pound by about a decade ago. 200 suits me fine as it makes my UK pension a bit higher in yen terms. It means I’ll be able to afford jam every other day.
US sanctions on Lukoil leave Bulgaria with only 35 days of gasoline and 50 days of diesel
The country, which relies on Russia for up to 80% of its fuel, is scrambling to avert a total shutdown
To secure supplies, Bulgaria has banned fuel exports and is rushing to nationalize Lukoil’s Burgas refinery
The government fears that if the refinery closes, it could trigger widespread shortages and protests severe enough to collapse the ruling coalition .
https://x.com/TheOtherSideRu/status/1988400413578850748/photo/2
though it might look different, every nation will face this problem in the coming decades,
only the time factor will differ—the end result wont,
there will be no exceptions
All countries will be facing this kind of thing in the next year or two. Welcome to Phase 2: shortages, collapse of the establishments, and rise of the nationalizing socialisms.
If Bulgaria could leave the EU and Nato, and become a Russian vassal again, they would be tickety-boo and hunky-dory.
Bulgaria is not a rich country, relatively speaking, but it does have a low government debt-to-GDP ratio—on the order of 25%.
Trouble is, they can’t do that in the current situation. It would be anathema to the current owners.
I’d argue that Russia isn’t exactly hunky dory itself right now.
Will the US be hunky dory in ten years?
At the moment that Bulgarian case is more of an (pre- /soft) war act or rather hostile-harsh biz arrangement racketeering than direct result of depletion forcing..
Bulgaria is a small outlier country (gladly sneaking under the EU membership umbrella – from their elites perspective), while ~similar geo/econ-political judo moves against say heavy-weight Turkey were dealt with less serious / imminent threats, as in other recent examples..
Someone has to lose out.
How the public is fooled . Report production not as bpd but boe/d . For example .
Chevron’s ~1 mmboe/d Permian is only ~440,000 b/d of Permian oil.
https://x.com/Energy_Tidbits/status/1988578617681735927
Please read the whole thread to understand the fine details .
Chevron plans to spend less on capital investment in the future, to keep cash flow up (or possibly even raise it) in the Permian. I would expect the production to get more and more gassy. The price of gas is generally far below that of oil (on an energy equivalent basis), so it will be hard to keep cash flow up. Also, production tends to decline quickly without infill drilling.
shareholders demand dividends, no matter what the cost, and irrespective of reality.
they voted musk his $1trn paycheck, purely on the promise of their share of it, no matter how unrealistic it may be.
oil has ”delivered” for the last 150 years.
therefore it will deliver for the next 150 years.
except that it wont of course
Don’t worry about that, Norman.
No doubt Elon Musk has Keith working on how to make space-based solar a practical solution to all our energy needs.
With space-based solar, the sky’s the limit!
China will lead the way for space solar power satellites. Ten years to a high power example. Twenty years to energy security for China and friends.
EU to demand €6bn from Britain for rearmament .https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/eu-demand-6bn-britain-rearmament-110612555.html
Both entities are broke .
Maybe the additional debt can be used to pay soldiers. Of course, currency relativities are likely to fall, as more debt is added. Or maybe the currency will not be accepted at all, in other countries.
The US- China truce is in the dustbin . Now what ? More sanctions ?
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/chinas-purchases-us-soybeans-abruptly-stops
Perhaps China doesn’t need very many soy beans right now. It has already bought them elsewhere.
Export bans on rare earth metals are really needed because China’s own demand is higher than its supply. Oh, dear!
Moros, the Greek God of doom, depicted with an intricate “knot” representing the complexity of fate. He embodies the inevitability of death and misfortune, a concept sometimes linked to his mother Nyx (Night) and his sisters, the Moirai (the Fates).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moros
According to this link,
In Greek mythology, Moros /ˈmɔːrɒs/ (Ancient Greek: Μόρος, romanized: Móros, lit. ’Doom'[1]) or Morus /ˈmɔːrəs/ is the personified spirit of impending doom,[2] who drives mortals to their deadly fate. It was also said that Moros gave people the ability to foresee their death.
People really don’t want to foresee their death, however.
Trump stimmies = clever trap.
*anything free is a trap.
If the government can give you money they can also take it away too.
Digital ID + UBI + digital currency = dungeon
We know one thing for sure, Americans will be “split” over these issues.
🙂
“If the government can give you money, they can also take it away too.”
Taxes go back at least 5000 years to ancient Egypt, maybe longer. Hell, the government can not only take your stuff they can draft you into a war to die. If free money is a trap, we must be antisemitic to give Israel all that dough.
I meant a trap to get peoples banking info who aren’t already in the system. Like unemployed people and such. seniors they have them already through social security.
The first check was to break the ice for universal income.
And landslide brought BAU down.
Planes crashing, Bridges collapsing. Ukraine on Fire, Cannibal solar flare!
Good lord..
I’m an atheist but even I can spot actual apocalypse when it’s this obvious.
You haven’t looked into the kids room for a while, have you? That’s probably why you’re a little out of practice.
The collapse is huge! The blurb says:
A newly built bridge in Sichuan, China, has partially collapsed — just months after opening. The Hongqi Bridge in Shuangjiangkou, Maerkang City, gave way after cracks were discovered in the nearby mountainside, prompting authorities to close it to traffic a day earlier. Experts believe water buildup from a nearby reservoir may have weakened the slope, leading to the collapse. Thankfully, no casualties were reported, but the incident has raised serious questions about infrastructure safety in China’s mountainous regions. In this video, we explain what happened, why it matters, and what it reveals about the growing challenges of engineering in an era of environmental change.
Spectacular, isn’t it? With all that dust billowing up and the columns of that bridge falling like dominoes. Looks almost like AI did it.
This video is selling the disaster as some kind of climate change-linked catastrophe. When the reality is that they should have planned and built the structure better, and they probably should have put a bit more rebar and a bit less polystyrene foam into that concrete.
Hear the names and places as the orator (it matters not if A.I. or professional human voice actor) pronounces them. This sound travels and enunciates the true message that The Hand wishes to convey.
Hongqi Bridge. ‘Honkey’ Bridge. This should tell all that the US$ as reserve currency is being phased out and replaced/reformatted.
Packaged with the implication that Anthopogenic Climate Change (rampant colonialism) caused this event the statement of revolution against structural white supremacy rings loud and clear.
I like it!
When I heard the name of that bridge, I thought of honky too.
Remember when Elton John was halfway cool and singing about moving back to the countryside?
I think it was just a normal landslide, just bad luck.
Big bridges are hard to maintain. I live in Michigan and we have that huge bridge connecting to the U.P.. And they’re always shutting it down for high winds and ice, etc. Its even has it’s own twitter page giving updates.
When my husband and I visited China in 2011, we saw landslides along the Yangtze River. They seem to be quite common. In this photo, you can see that the name of the city (Qutang) has been obliterated by a small landslide. The city had recently been rebuilt. It had previously been in the path of the widened river.
It was quite misty along the Yangtze River, so it was hard to get clear photographs.
https://ourfiniteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/qutang-buildings.jpg
SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, (food stamps) in the great state of pleasant peninsula seekers is named “Bridge Card.”
Here’s some more video and a lot more info on the Honky Bridge.
The WSJ has an editorial pointing out what is close to obvious for those reading OFW:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/chinas-green-energy-revolution-is-powered-by-coal-8af17c4a
China’s Green Energy ‘Revolution’ Is Powered by Coal
The only bright spot for the environment is the rapid expansion of state-of-the-art nuclear power.
The article explains that solar and wind are made using coal, and that the electricity used to power EVs is disproportionately coal. Also, selling lots of little used EVs to people who would not otherwise buy a vehicle raises CO2 emissions.
The byline claims that the rapid expansion of state of the art nuclear will work. I am skeptical of this. It is hard to believe that the changes will be rapid enough to provide the upgraded uranium that is needed to power this additional nuclear.
Today is Veteran’s day, or Remembrance day.
I can beat Chucky again or talk about the worthlessness of the kind of people the Duke of Wellington had called ‘the scum of earth’, but I won’t since I did that many times.
Western Civilization has received blows here and there in the last few years, and it seems the initiative has been permanently lost.
I had said India Delende Est because if the colonial powers blasted off everything it had built before they left, it would have been next to impossible for the third world to rebuild them, and raise their living standards, and therefore consuming valuable resources which cannot be replaced.
All these talks about unproven, untested new contraptions have remained as talks. No different from people in Oswiecim talking about a Soviet offensive which never came (that place was closed before the Soviets reached there).
As peoples from Asia are taking the initiative of civilization the world is going to return to Asian standards of everything.
Another winner of the Great War was the blacks of the south. Till then they were confirmed to rural areas in the south but thanks to the great war and Chucky, they were liberated and moved to the north, and the inner cities no longer became safe to walk around.
Thus, I will finish this post with the ending of Porgy and Bess.
Porgy was so low class that he was shunned even by other blacks but he joins the Great Migration
https://youtu.be/9ptttSZfT6M?si=Hr-vXVXfsJQqks6P
Which would never have taken place if Chucky and his 200/400 Worcestershires did ‘not do their duty’.
I as hoping you would write about the worthlessness of the Duke, but in the end you circled back to Chucky.
Well. His crime is so big tgat i could not resist
And the unrepenrenting nature of the so called British patriots, too.
I am someone who easily deludes himself. Maybe next time.
There’s not much new here for many of us OFWers, but you may enjoy this one-hour college lecture while knitting or doing deadlifts.
How Societies Collapse
In this lecture, Professor Jiang explains the three theories as to why and how societies rise and fall: the financialization of society, elite over-production, and the civilization life cycle.
Recommended Readings:
1. Please do yourself a favor, and read Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century.” It’s surprisingly clear and simple, and his evidence is striking and overwhelming.
2. It’s essential to read Peter Turchin. Start off with one of his earlier works: “War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires.”
3. C. Wright Mills’ “The Power Elite” is a classic sociological survey on the structure of power in society.
Somehow, too much population for resources (which may also start becoming more limited) doesn’t make the list of why societies fail. This is a reason that no politician could ever mention. In fact, those talking about “peak oil” rarely mention the population problem.
Too much complexity might also be added to the list of why civilizations fail. Complexity is added to work around energy (really, energy per capita) shortages. With too much complexity, there get to be wide disparities in pay. Asset ownership tends to fall into the hands of those who are already rich, making the situation worse.
In an interconnected economy, a lot of pieces rise and fall together. This is why many theories are possible. Governments favor theories that make it sound like the problems are far away and solvable. Researchers in academia favor theories that government officials and the general population will like.
societies collectively become aware that supportive resources are in decline.
when that happens, they beg buy or borrow from elsewhere…
when that isn’t possible, they steal it.
that involves conflict.
and conflict inevitably destroys that which is being fought over.
which is how and why modern civilisation will end.
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i could have written a 100 page thesis on the subject…but thats what it boils down to.
I have not had time to listen to this, but I saw another long video from the guy. He struck me as the first scientist charlatan from China (the chinks are catching up with us!) and if you say h could not make the energy connection, well, that seals the deal for me.
He didn’t mention the energy connection, although this may be because in this lecture he was tracing how the dynamics of the rise, decline, and collapse of societies plays out in general, not specifically in our present industrialized society.
I haven’t seen any other lectures by him yet. I found what he had to say in this one interesting—about how human behavior changes as people move from living in villages, to towns, and then to cities and finally megacities. How with each shift, life becomes more abstract, people trust each other less, children become less of a vital and useful resource for the family and more of a burden, how money becomes more important, etc.
One of the big points he makes—drawing on Tainter—is that the collapse of societies is inevitable, regardless of what people try to do to prevent it, and this would be the case even if there were copious amounts of affordable energy available.
But no, he didn’t mention energy specifically. He could be a charlatan—that’s an excellent point. Anyone could be a charlatan. They don’t all have shifty eyes, I’m informed.
I’ve seen some of his clips and I think he was on The Duran recently. I don’t find him particularly insightful.
Yes, the “collapse industry” is still small niche but the YTchannels ala NateHagens and others are churning material regularly, books and blogs are out there..
So, ample opportunity to bottom feeders to re-chewing some of the original material and present it on their own (like him)..
“Jeffrey Epstein facilitated efforts to open a backchannel between Israel and the Kremlin during the Syrian civil war, according to leaked emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
The trove of emails, exchanged at the height of the Syrian civil war between 2013 and 2016, reveal Epstein’s successful efforts to secure a private meeting between Barak and Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a Russian-brokered end to the conflict, including winning Russian support for a negotiated removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.”?
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-ehud-barak-putin-israel-russia-syria-war-depose-assad?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=email
https://niccolo.substack.com/p/saturday-commentary-and-review-198?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=39821&post_id=178485958&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=nm2q&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
The second link explains the author’s view of Epstein:
. . . this is not a sex scandal but a national security one. The “sex trafficking” charges (and convictions) were, in my opinion, nothing but a diversion, a smokescreen, from the real heart of the matter, one that enmeshed powerful people from all sides of the aisle. It’s a scandal that many wish would just go away, even if there are some partisans in Congress intent on using it for their own purposes.
Maybe ‘scandal’ is too strong a word? Maybe “affair” is the better latter half of the compound noun? I don’t know. What I DO know is that there is a lot more information that will come out in due time regarding Epstein and his “hobbies” that involved some of the most powerful people in the world. I am not making a moral judgment here, I’ll leave that to others. Mike Tracey has done a great job in digging in deep to reveal that pretty much the entire sex angle to the story is nonsense. The espionage side is bearing more fruit, however.
Recently, a hacker came into the possession of personal emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein. DropSiteNews received these emails and worked to verify the content. What they uncovered is very, very interesting, and is strong proof that Epstein was knee deep in the world of international backroom deals, especially involving the USA, Israel, and Russia.
So glad these emails got leaked out of the notorious Epstein files that sealed shut…shows Jeffrey had a good heart and went out to help ❤️ out where he had connections for World Peace. Perhaps Chump should have included him as a co winner of the Nobel Peace Price? What a tag team!😉
Over the course of a couple months, the Hand has elevated Nick Fuentes from social pariah to poster boy of the ‘grassroots’ America First national socialism. Welcome to the dawn of Phase 2. Yootoob short:
https://youtube.com/shorts/lcNECYP-u-I?si=vZaxz_VlFlj9i34P
Nick Fuentes sees a major problem when each group, such as the Jews, start looking at their own interests first, rather than that for America as a whole.
Right now, the political parties in the US seem to be splintering. The Democrats are not at all happy that some of their party broke off and voted with a temporary reopening solution until January 1. There are also divisions within the Republican party.
Without enough energy, we know that representative governments with costly programs cannot hang together. It may be that political parties cannot hold together, either.
Al Julani the tribe headchopper for hire playing basketball with centcom comanders , and there still retards blabing about conspiracy rheorists.
In the pasts they tried to hide things , now is all in the open , they know that the banyard animals are stupid retards …
BRICS and the multipolar bullshit IS a fraud.
All ” arab ” petrodollar monarchies are part of the tribenstein global plutocracy inc you stupid clowns and all the ” islamic ” whahabi terrorists were always their sicarios to shape the tribe agenda in the middle east .
Now its south America turn, the cartels are the new al Qaeda , HTS , ISIS they say to the stupid barnyard animals…
Resistance is futile … Putin is a chabad gnome cuck , fucking gremlin has assad under house arrest …
But but the petrodollar is dead said the multipolar clowns …
The problem is that US is nowadays so healthy society that its (school) system currently producing +25% of unemployable caste of moreons, which is way worse than say doctrinal-islamic school somewhere in the ME.
Now, the import of brains (ongoing for hundreds of yrs) into US slowed substantially in latest yrs and decades. That Thiel and Musk kind of cadre are likely the very last wave of that mega trend, and it took place almost ~25yrs ago..
POTUS is pleading (or threatening) foreign govs in CHN and elsewhere in Asia/LatAm to stop drug precursor exports en masse into the US etc.
PUTIN Chabadist stooge or eating kids for supper doesn’t matter in light of evidently bettering his country since 1990s chaos.
You decide for how extra long this could be all managed.. vs RoW competition.. (Yes, it’s a paint drying slow process..)
Sincerely one of the also-Clowns
Largely agree. For all the criticism of Putin, the Russian army keeps grinding through Ukrainian soldiers and Russian diplomats keep haven’t stopped their monotonous “root causes” signaling.
Whether because he’s forced by the General Staff, or because he has Russia’s interests at heart, Putin travels in the right direction, simply at a pace slower than many of us would like. Even this slow pace might have some strategic rationale – it allows Russia to continue developing and building and deploying new systems, while letting the West’s self-inflicted implosion progress and perhaps even become a distraction from Russia for these hostile nations.
Ivan the Slav wrote:
“Putin travels in the right direction, simply at a pace slower than many of us would like. Even this slow pace might have some strategic rationale – it allows Russia to continue developing and building and deploying new systems”
But it’s been 3 years since Russia invaded Ukraine, and there has been a lot of death, injuries and maiming, on both sides of the war since then. These are human lives – suffering humans – that were are talking about, while WE sit here in our safe homes, going about our normal prosperous lives. And the longer the war goes on, the more it affects Russian morale.
I do read that parts of Russia are suffering significant shortages of fuel (gasoline, etc.) and also occasional power cuts, but I do not know how accurate this is, since there is propaganda on both sides. Even after the war ends, civilians will still be injured or killed over the coming years by hidden mines and unexploded bombs, etc. – of which there are many in certain areas, I understand – on the front line and in disputed areas.
And look up “Russian depopulation”, which must also be a concern. Other Western countries face similar concerns, of course. Though no doubt we’ll all be getting a few robots over the next years, to ease our labour shortages.
Anyway, Ukraine will never get its lost territory back. It needs to be forced to accept terms a.s.a.p. instead of grinding through human lives. Apparently Putin offered good terms early in the war, but Boris Johnson, who fancies himself as a great and wise statesman, persuaded Mr. Z to reject them and continue the war. Now it’s up to Putin and the POTUS to bring this to a much-needed end. And yes, I do know that the US neo-cons (who include quite a few Democrats too) goaded Russia over the years and egged on the Ukrainian ultra-nationalists in 2014 especially. I well remember the atrocities against the ethnic Russians in Odessa in 2014. I’m sure Putin does too.
>> These are human lives – suffering humans – that were are talking about, while WE sit here in our safe homes
I don’t think emotional arguments should factor in at all when dealing with strategy. How much more pain and suffering or risk to the Russian state might occur if he reacts emotionally and crushes Ukraine without first depleting NATO weapons stocks and economies? Or, compare what would happen to Russia if missile escalation occurs, with versus without newer versions of air defense and strike systems that are evolving. It seems to me that the macro trends are in Russia’s favor, best for Putin not to disrupt them with actions whose consequences are unpredictable.
This is more of a reply to Demiurge, though.
“Or, compare what would happen.. ”
If the aim of the western sponsors for that UKR regime change then war came to fruition:
– balkanization of RUssia proper – running the risk of disorderly upheaval-fragmentation, perhaps incl. sub-scenario of splinter hard core nationalist general freaking out – taking over the keypad and launching!
– protracted Vietnam like war and its effect potentially leading to wider chaos or even that final escalation option #1 anyway
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Right. And what is happening at the moment is strikingly in line with esoteric texts. Either someone has good prognostic abilities, or things are pushed.
On the other hand: it’s either raining or it’s not raining. What skills are needed for this?
The problem with intergenerational sects is that the Church always lives only through the community. If a generation of idiots comes to power, it decides just how it understands it.
And, of course, you can also make the wrong decision! This is the community of destiny. There is no authority that reverses wrong decisions and there is no claim that wrong decisions have no consequences.
On the other hand, the following has always been clear: from the moment of transition to crisis mode, decisions become completely crazy. This is because they can no longer have a positive effect. And no matter what you try, the crisis will not stop. In addition, it was always clear that those with resources will have resources longer. This is a very banal logic. And countries with resources have a strategic and military advantage.
Then why was colonialism possible, why did resource countries make France, Great Britain and the Netherlands great? This is due to the fact that these countries had developed a system of using resources, and the colonies had an advantage when they gave resources. Today, however, this knowledge is ubiquitous and know-how can be purchased everywhere.
Could other solutions have been found, as repeatedly mentioned by Tuchin? For sure! But the real existing community, the Church, did not do it.
This is the fault not only of the ill-fated children of the conspirators, but also of the ill-fated children of the rest of the world.
And in a way, for sure, this has something spiritual.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/10/climate/south-america-oil-gas-brazil-guyana-argentina-climate
What can you say about this, Gail?
Low-EROI? Costly? Low quality? Wrong weight?
Is it already counted for in the IEA reports?
Does it change anything?
Thanks for this link.
It sounds like companies are now looking more closely at whether any of the oil available in South America can reasonably extracted. The success in finding oil offshore Guyana has led oil companies to look more closely at prospects elsewhere. I think that this is a reasonable thing to do.
South America’s oil production has indeed started rising. While Guyana’s oil production is the one we hear about most, Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela have all been doing well recently in terms of oil extraction.
Argentina’s crude oil production has been rising, as follows:
2020 480 thousand barrels per day
2021 514
2022 583
2023 635
2024 701
2025 Q1 747
2025 Q2 755
Whether or not Argentina’s crude oil production is profitable is uncertain. Argentina started out without pipelines. I expect the oil that is being produced there is rather light. This is good, in some ways (easy to process and transport), but it doesn’t produce much diesel. It is tight oil, produced by fracking. But as oil production increases, especially if the price rises, perhaps it can be profitable.
When I look at other South American countries, Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela are also showing increases in production. This oil has been overlooked in the past. It may be that techniques are good enough now to get at least modest amounts out profitably now. It is worth a try. We are running short of good options.
As I see it, there is not much we humans can do about climate. Efforts to date have been pretty much counter-productive. CO2 emissions have risen since the Kyoto Protocol was put forward. Indirectly, it encouraged more use of international trade, with more manufacturing in coal-using countries. Climate has been extremely variable in the past, and it can be expected to be very variable in the future.
https://futurocienciaficcionymatrix.blogspot.com/2025/11/los-arboles-no-nos-dejan-ver-el-bosque.html?m=1
I think this is a good analysis of South American oil
I agree. This is an extremely good analysis, both of South America and of the world.
I didn’t realize that the Brazilian government is expecting its oil production to reach a peak in 2028.
This is part of the conclusion:
Conclusion.
We will probably see new production highs in late 2025 or 2026, but…
…the downward trend has begun, if we disregard the temporary shale oil boom. It’s not a movement of just a few years; it’s been underway for 20 years, as shown in the graph.
We cannot ignore this trend, which has occurred while discoveries were already high and it was possible to replace the oil that disappeared due to the decline of the fields.
Now let’s think about what the future holds.
Shale oil will die in the 2030s. Instead of adding, it will subtract.
Brazil’s boom will go from adding to subtracting, as this graph from the Brazilian government shows.
Guyana will hold out a little longer, but it too will peak in the 2030s , falling rapidly thereafter. [If I were in Guyana’s place, I would flatten the curve, and thus bring the peak forward.]
Namibia has not approved anything yet, and even the first projects are being revised downwards.
The supergiant oil fields of the Middle East will begin their terminal decline, as Ghawar, the world’s largest field, already began years ago. All signs point to the 2030s as the period in which global oil production will collapse.
Ghawar is in decline? I was wondering about this they have been pumping it for 75 years! You would have to think that it is in decline but I don’t know much about middle eastern oil. Thanks!
It is interesting that the closer we get the more we get stories of how we have a glut of oil and we will be transitioning to a “renewable” economy. Even today I heard a story of China and how they are way ahead in this category.
They certainly have to work hard at getting oil out from Ghawar. I don’t know whether it really is in decline.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxSbWc2uOYg
Oil, Smoke and Mirrors.
This documentary was released on October 24, 2007. It critiques the connection between the 9/11 attacks, the “war on terror,” and the global struggle for dwindling oil reserves. It features interviews with experts such as Richard Heinberg, Colin Campbell, and Michael Meacher, who discuss the geopolitical motivations behind those events.
Watch the first 2 minutes and 46 seconds of this video. The guy talks about how he accidentally found out that Ghawar was filling up with water. And that was in 2007!
Search Assist says,
The Ghawar oil field, the largest in the world, has experienced a decline in production capacity, now estimated at 3.8 million barrels per day, down from previous estimates of over 5 million barrels. This decline is attributed to natural depletion and the company’s strategic choice to invest in other fields while maintaining overall national production levels.
This is based on article published by Forbes and by Resilience.org.
The Financial Post in April, 2019 said:
https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/saudi-arabias-biggest-oil-field-is-fading-faster-than-anyone-guessed
Saudi Arabia’s biggest oil field is fading faster than anyone guessed
Ghawar is able to pump a maximum of 3.8 million barrels a day — well below the more than 5 million that had become conventional wisdom in the market
This was six years ago. Production is likely lower now.
I found a possibly unsafe website that says more:
https://en.clickpetroleoegas.com.br/the-largest-onshore-oil-field-in-the-world-a-giant-reserve-that-single-handedly-sustained-the-world-economy-for-70-years-btl96/#goog_rewarded
In 2025, Ghawar remains a pillar of Saudi production, but operates at a new pace. Its oil production in 2023 is estimated to have been around 3,06 million barrels per day, well below its maximum capacity, reflecting OPEC+ production cuts and the need to manage the reservoir carefully.
The big strategic shift, however, is below oil. Aramco is investing heavily to develop the vast reserves of unconventional gas that exist in deeper formations of the field. In November 2023, the company announced the start of production at the South Ghawar gas project, with an initial capacity of 300 million cubic feet per day. The goal is to use this gas to supply growing domestic energy demand, freeing up more oil for export.
So, if Ghawar’s oil production in 2023 was 3.06 million barrels of oil per day, it is likely less than 3 million barrels per day, now.
I found a table giving production per year in wiki.
https://www.gem.wiki/Ghawar_Oil_and_Gas_Project_(Saudi_Arabia)
Dividing by 365 days in a year, it comes out to the 3.04 barrels per day for the year 2022. This would imply an even lower estimate of current Ghawar production that the previous estimate I showed, since it is for an earlier date, and the estimate is very slightly lower.
I am not sure whether you are aware of the lengthy discussions and forensics on the Ghawar situation in theoildrum.com back in 2007. Stuart Staniford used to go deep into those kind of analyses. Here is a link, if you are interested in digging further…
http://theoildrum.com/node/2393
Thank you for pointing out how oil doomers have been incorrectly predicting demise for 20 years. Meanwhile, the world finds a way.
“Doomers” didn’t expect such easy and vast amount of printable – actionable fake money, which could be poured into US alt. oilz & gas projects. Plus similar effort and tools applied around the world!
So, we got few decades extra.
COOl.
ps It’s undeniable though from the stats that largish xy% of pop is being slowly pushed way down their spending allowances during this “extension process” – so in effect doomers were RIGHT! The mega trend was only postponed and micro-dosed managed among the public/consumers..
https://futurocienciaficcionymatrix.blogspot.com/2025/11/occidente-en-la-encrucijada-del-petroleo.html?m=1
It sure if anyone else has posted this yet but why would anyone want to trade Euros for tangible assets????
Thanks for posting this. I haven’t seen it before. It shows Rystad’s 2025 reserve estimates, by country. It also provides a list of known projects. It concludes,
Without new oil contributions after 2027, global oil production may begin its permanent decline. Easy-to-extract oil has run out.
It’s true that we won’t notice shortages immediately, because global inventories are ample, and later because severe rationing will surely be implemented under whatever pretext they want to sell us. But beyond 2030, all these measures will have run their course, and oil shortages will be inevitable. They can still prolong extraction by relentlessly drilling everywhere available, but again, that would only buy time.
At some point there will be rationing but what I am worried about is what is going to happen to Europe why would the brics take Euros for limited energy?
Change of pecking order.
EUR is likely going to disintegrate sometime between ~2030-2040.. More goods, food, and energy flows diverted elsewhere, for ever.. Into MENA, Asia, partly US and LatAm..
The only investment that will make money is real estate and precious metals and even some cryptocurrency in other words diversity once the current cycle implodes there will be only. a handful of winners a fraction of the 1 % ers will survive the rest will become serfs.
Anything that is leveraged or mostly bought on credit…. will it really hold its value? In Canada for example, real estate value is about to be obliterated for so many reasons. Without a well oiled (and fuelled) economy, is anything that doesnt generate some ongoing value worth anything?
Farmland… but even that is going to be rural, and we know that is in the sights of the 2030 Agenda folks.
Probably nothing really has any value… if there is not a positive outlook for five or ten years down the road. Im still clinging onto hope.
As many investors are aware there are highs and lows thus is where the fed steps in raising or dropping interest rates to reinflate all bubbles can anyone say negative interest rates imagine what will happen to real estate precious metals
Given the real debt exposure (off/books), the imagined reval in metals would have to be of the 10-25-50x.. from today’s levels and that’s NOT in the interest of anybody, incl. indiv or state actor hoarders. Therefore, they are preparing some tactical sidesteps for few net yrs attempting overall stability such as gov stablecoins or re-introducing various forms of ~barter like deals within the global trade, basically locomotives for bananas or CPUs..
Plus obviously forced-nudged massive demand destruction across most of the sectors.
https://www.rt.com/india/627587-russia-india-transfer-nuclear-technology/
As the Indian government has set a target of increasing nuclear power generation capacity from 10Gw to 100Gw over the next several decades,
it does not say where the uranium will come from.
Just think of all of the jobs (and GDP) that will be added by adding all of the building required for this nuclear power generation.
Whether or not there is uranium available to operate the new generation is a problem for a later administration.
Crap talk . All air ,no punch .
And Lo, as she reaches legal maturity, in the spirit of all that is thin and large and lightweight, Apple releases the iPhone 17 “Air” beckoning all to stare into their airy palms assuring that the trees will naught be seen again.
Ending the Fed through the back door. Here’s another good, libertarian stablecoin article that was crossposted on ZH:
“Where This All Leads
If stablecoins continue to expand, the architecture of monetary control will inevitably change. For more than a century, the Federal Reserve — America’s central bank — has guided the economy through two main tools:
Adjusting the supply of reserves (the base money held by banks) to encourage or restrict lending.
Setting interest rates to influence borrowing, spending, and investment.
Both tools rely on one assumption: that most dollars circulate inside the regulated banking system. Stablecoins quietly break that link. Each token represents real assets — Treasuries or cash — but moves on networks that operate outside the Fed’s direct reach.
As this pool of “off-bank” dollars grows, the Fed’s traditional levers lose precision. Creating more reserves at the central bank no longer guarantees more credit when individuals and businesses can hold or move digital dollars independently. Raising interest rates may cool activity in traditional banks but not in the global digital-dollar economy that now runs on its own infrastructure.
This doesn’t erase the Fed’s influence entirely — it still sets the yields on Treasuries, which determine how profitable stablecoins are to issue — but it transforms policy from direct control to indirect coordination with markets. The Fed becomes one actor among many in an open monetary ecosystem it no longer fully commands.
In the longer run, this shift could mark the first step in a broader evolution away from pure fiat money — currency that exists solely by government decree — toward market-based fiat, dollars that remain denominated in US units but circulate and self-regulate through private, competitive institutions.
Bitcoin deepens this evolution. With its fixed supply and independence from any state, it serves as the natural hedge against fiat inflation and mismanagement. Today, it functions mainly as a reserve or collateral asset beneath the stablecoin system, but over time it could grow into a broader store of value — a hard, voluntary anchor for a new digital monetary order.
The deeper this system embeds, the clearer its logic becomes: the more Washington delays fiscal reform, the more Treasuries it must issue — and the more it will rely on global demand for stablecoins to absorb them. Each step increases dependence on market-based money and decreases central control.
That dependence may prove to be a healthy limitation. It forces discipline on a government that has long evaded it and opens the way for an age of monetary independence — where money once again belongs to the market, not the ministry.”
https://mises.org/mises-wire/stablecoins-us-dollars-unexpected-lifeline
If the US government gets into financial difficulty, isn’t there still a problem?
If there are fewer good and services to buy in the future, how can the stablecoins really be stable?
Half of the purpose of digital Lincoln Greenbacks is to avoid a US Government default by turbocharging, via decentralization, the global flight to dollar safety which will provide ample demand for short term Treasuries such that the government can continue to service its debt. The other half is for providing universal decentralized/populist access to that island of financial relative stability for anyone in a hyperinflating country with access to a phone app.
A deflating dollar is an increasingly stable dollar in that its real value increases relative to collapsing available goods and services. Deflation of the oil proxy currency moves it in the direction of hard currency and away from fiat currency. Stablecoins will be stable only until deflation has run its course. After that all bets are off.
How can anything that is so difficult to trade, relying on an increasingly-unstable infrastructure, be called a “store of value”?
Right on lidia I certainly don’t agree with the bit about Bitcoin as a store of value. I think all the regular cryptocurrencies are going to crash…into the stablecoin market. But that’s just my feeling while still not having the faintest idea what Bitcoin is, but that’s also kinda the reason for the feeling lol. I don’t see its necessity during a needs-based Phase 2. As for the unstable infrastructure, so long as the Internet is intermittently available, digital banking services can continue to exist. None of them of course are true stores of value in the longer-term Collapse context.
Ex-French president Sarkozy released.
I said it before, Sarkozy would not spend much time in prison.
The French legal system is rigged and controlled by French oligarchs and Globalist elites.
France looking more and more like a banana republic
Sarkozy was sentenced to 5 years but is released in 20 days . The elite have each other’s backs .
https://x.com/angeloinchina/status/1987866432483234124/photo/1
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/french-court-orders-ex-president-sarkozy-be-freed-after-nightmare-20-days-jail
On close-up facial visuals though, he was pretty scared when going in and quite unsure during the release as well.. Initially, they even reported on the jail-facility selection for him, should it be or not ~posh-safe-high profile part of the jail system or rather dungeon for realz..
Keeping a former head of state in prison for five years would have made France look even more like a banana republic.
Or like the kimchi republic of South Korea, where four of their last six former presidents have ended up as prison residents.
True, yet SKorea is nowadays producing better carz than FR, perhaps also building NPPs and other infrastructure faster, so..?
Not to worry the slave markets in Libya are thriving.
The HS..er commentariat made interesting musing and hints under the new doomerotic scenarios article. Mostly, undeveloped fully but ideas hinting into new areas of unusual inquiry:
One bloke hinted in the direction that the ~bat sniffles 2020s global affair~ was actually a pre – negotiated [nascent global PO reaction event], where only the Chinese effectively went ahead with the deal of full spectrum gov controls, demand destruction etc. While other big countries/zones appeared to adhere to pre-programmed script at first but in few months backed off.. notably US and chiefly EU just ended up with proposal of killing ICE vehicles by ~2035 and that’s all. In the turmoil the situation has been misused to double cross around ~2021-2 as to re-activate the war..essentially betting at another attempt at balkanizing the RU for resources. If this is more or less correct, some new measures of forcing demand destruction might continue by whatever unexpected means and unsuspected corner any day.
Another collapsitarian mentioned that the life posturing of new young generation of ~slackers~ is just NOT a trivial – stereotypical re-run of new incoming vs ongoing generation as seen numerous times throughout history, BUT it is TRUE observation (identified himself as actual participant) because they feel in their core there is NO future for them in demand collapsing / energy starved world anyway. They plan to use every last proverbial penny and prospective new day just for enjoying themselves as possible.. (obviously at this point most not fully grasping the specifics of mega trend ahead just the key impoverishment leading hints speaking to their future..).. and this could accelerate further around ~2027-35 as the slow down/brake down open eyes to large pop segments..
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Haven’t seen a closet peak-oiler Michael Every article pop up on ZH for awhile, but here he is titling it “Welcome to Phase Two(s).” If that’s not an homage to myself i don’t know what is.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/welcome-phase-twos
Here’s an excerpt on the definancializing power of stablecoins, that rewords what I’ve been saying about digital Lincoln Greenbacks being a parallel reserve currency for replacing the private financial system without adding dollar debt (which causes inflation).
“Moreover, the Fed’s Miran gave a speech, A Global Stablecoin Glut: Implications for Monetary Policy, which contained key Mar-A-Lago Accord ideas: from an economic statecraft AND domestic political perspective, this could logically be rolled out alongside the policies above:
Dollar stablecoins are increasing demand for US T-bills and other USD liquid assets outside the US and demand will grow in both EM and DM with burdensome paperwork (and taxes?).
Exporters may receive portions of their payment in stablecoins, “perhaps undeclared if domiciled in jurisdictions that proscribe stablecoin use.” We flagged that risk a few months ago: the US saying it will pay in stablecoins or telling Middle East oil producers to say it too.
This demand lowers US borrowing costs and its neutral rate R* (and logically does the opposite elsewhere).
It strengthens the dollar and weaken other FX, but other economies may de facto dollarize, in which case they lose the potential advantages from a weaker currency.
Unstated, but logically consistent, if offshore dollar stablecoin demand is higher than supply, we could see higher dollar borrowing rates outside the US than in it.
Also unstated, but logically consistent, stablecoins are NOT more US financialisation in one respect. Yes, they can encourage the buying of US assets like T-Bills, which IS financialisation. Yet they are NOT additional debt, just collateralised by it. The debt already exists: now the US gets 1:1 spending power WITHOUT it. That’s definancialisation, potentially.”
https://www.rt.com/news/627553-tech-titans-bid-create-baby/
could lead to the birth of a “genetically engineered baby,” free of hereditary illnesses and with higher intelligence, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
If one is already the superior race is it smart to make it widely available?
We don’t know at this point what will really be “best adapted” to the changing situation.
Underlying this sort of idea is the continued technilogical develpment of the world and the economy. Is Star Trek our future or a world made by hand? Perhaps both simultaneously?
the energy necessary to launch starships does not and will never exist
the energy necessary to grow potatoes and mend shoes does
“Is Star Trek our future or a world made by hand?”
I’ve been wondering that lately. Even during the world depression of the 1930s, significant technological progress was made. Nowadays we have a kind of economic stagnation around the world, but technological progress marches on, and now we have Artificial Intelligence widely available. People will argue whether the “intelligence” name is correct, and it occasionally gets facts wrong, but compared to what we had before, its capabilities are still stunning.
I now wonder how long it will be before we get the first robotic president – and will anybody know. Back here in the UK, criticism is mounting against our lacklustre prime minister, Keir Starmer.
Starmer makes our dullest former PMs, such as John Major, Theresa May and Gordon Brown, look like the life and soul of the party by comparison. Even his forename is dysfunctional: Keir. In English, the rule is “i” before “e”, except after “c”.. I watched a YouTube video of Starmer yesterday, and it suddenly dawned on me: the man is a Replicant, and nobody has noticed yet. Does anybody even know? Does his wife have to take a can of oil to him every night to ease his joints? At least his future is assured. When he is eventually ousted as premier, he will be offered a starring role in the next Blade Runner film series. 😉
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Prime_Minister_Sir_Keir_Starmer_Official_Portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg/250px-Prime_Minister_Sir_Keir_Starmer_Official_Portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg
Keir Starmer – the Replicant.
Hello drb753,
With Gail’s permission, I ask first to you, as you often show to have some countercurrent geopolitic understanding of what is going on in that area.
I also read other articles about that issue below indicated, saying that Israel doesn’t want a pacific and democratic Sudan, because the whole Sudanese population is in general against the massacre of Palestinians and also want the two States solution.
Saying also that Israel and others States of the area, on the contrary, need Abrham accords quickly to make business and exploit resources.
Thanks for your feedback
Article on Sudan:
RSF militants committing genocide in Sudan’s El Fasher with UAE, Israel backing: Analyst
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/10/30/757871/RSF-militants-committing-genocide-in-Sudan-s-El-Fasher-with-UAE,-Israel-backing–Analyst
With due respect Student . Does Sudan matter in the big picture ? As we are today the only states that matter are the USA , China and Russia . Yes , even the EU and India are irrelevant . ROW can ” take a long walk on a short pier ” . This is not to discourage drb whose posts on Russia are duly awaited and appreciated .
Dear Ravi, sorry, but, in my view, your question this time is really not at the level of your usual contributes on this blog.
But I don’t mean for reasons involving morality, but on business and geopolitical side.
The list of things why matters is long.
When the PM of Singapore recently said (confirmed) from now on this world is no longer lead by single country (US) and few yrs prior to that by several Gulf states as well, some even joining or aspiring for BRICS+ membership ..
Today we are finding ourselves evidently within some intermezzo period, gestation pause, the new arrangement is not yet fully formed-revealed or acting, but the old is for sure withering away.. It will take yrs, perhaps a decade or two..
Ravi has a point. However, with Russia in the Sahel, Venezuela, Iran. and of course Ukraine, some hard choices have to be made. Generally Israel will promote destabilization of anything within 1500 km of itself. UAE, as discussed elsewhere, are not and never were random bedouins, like the Qatari at the time Syria was first attacked. I suppose that as BRICS grows militarily these things will become rarer.
I absolutely agree that UAE are not bedouins, they are smart like Qatari.
That’s why Sudan matters, beyond genocide issues.
That people don’t spend money and time on wars just randomly.
Same thing for Gaza and Israel.
What I see in general is a sort of caution on talking about UAE or Qatar actioons and less about Saudi Arabia.
This thing must mean something.
The UAE and Qataris are not Bedouins . Of course not .The largest nationalities in the UAE are Indians (3.5 million to 3.86 million), followed by Pakistanis (2.91 million), Bangladeshis (0.92 million), and Filipinos (0.7 million). Emirati nationals make up approximately 11–12% of the total population, with expatriates forming the vast majority.
Indians: 3.5 million to 3.86 million, representing over 38% of the total population. They are present in various sectors, including construction, retail, and finance.
Pakistanis: 2.91 million.
Bangladeshis: 0.92 million.
Filipinos: 0.7 million.
Emirati: Approximately 11–12% of the population.
Others: Significant populations from other countries include Egyptians, Iranians, Nepalese, and Sri Lankans.
Westerners: Approximately 510,000 Westerners live in the UAE, making up about 5% of the total population.
Qatar’s population is predominantly non-Qatari, with expatriates making up about 88.4% of the total. The largest national groups include Indians (21.8%), Bangladeshis (12.5%), and Nepalis (12.5%), with Qatari nationals making up about 10.5% of the population. Other significant populations include Egyptians, Filipinos and Pakistanis .
So 3 immigrants to support each Emirati or Qatari .
And to think that the UAE, Bahrain, Oman and such almost became part of India, courtesy of the Poms. Lucky for those countries it didn’t happen then 🙂
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgq3wlp22j9o
Russia has had an agreement with the Sudanese govt for a base on the Red Sea for some time now. The current instability puts a stop to that.
Should the RSF and its backers overthrow the govt, those plans will end. The US has threatened action if Russia is allowed to build a base there.
I believe this is the purpose of the civil war.
It is fairly easy to figure out what is going on, if a person looks at a little demographic data and energy data for the area.
Both Sudan and South Sudan are suffering from enormous population explosions. UN 2024 population estimates are as follows:
South Sudan-
Population 2.2 million, 1950
Population 18.4 million, 2023
2023 Live Births per Woman 3.86
Sudan –
Poulation 6.2 million, 1950
Population 50.0 million, 2023
2023 Live Births per Woman 4.23
In 2022, oil prices were high. It looked like oil extraction in Sudan could be quite profitable. But now oil prices are a whole lot lower, meaning that that is not possible. Oil is primarily available on the border between the two countries.
https://www.eia.gov/international/analysis/country/SDN
https://www.eia.gov/international/data/world/petroleum-and-other-liquids/monthly-petroleum-and-other-liquids-production?pd=5&p=0000000000000000000000000000000000vg&u=0&f=A&v=mapbubble&a=-&i=none&vo=value&t=C&g=00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001&l=249-ruvvvvvfvtvnvv1vrvvvvfvvvvvvfvvvou20evvvvvvvvvvnvvvs0008&s=94694400000&e=1704067200000
There are three types of oil in the area.
(1) Fula is pretty much worthless –too heavy and too acidic. Used internally.
(2) The Dar Blend can be OK if the price is high enough. The Dar Blend is a heavy oil that has corrosive qualities that can make it difficult to work with. It is found in South Sudan.
(3) The Nile blend is a medium crude that is relatively more attractive to refiners.
Production in Sudan was as quite high for a few years, averaging 486,000 bpd in 2010 (combined for Sudan and So Sudan), but it has dropped off greatly. In 2024, it was only 37,000 barrels per day in Sudan, and 79,000 barrels per day in South Sudan.
Oil refineries are almost entirely in Sudan. Sudan appears to be the big user of liquid fuels, but it is a net importer of liquid fuels. South Sudan, which seems to be poorer, is the country which produces more oil than it uses.
The tax revenue from selling the oil is clearly not enough, today, especially relative to the huge population of the two countries. Civil war has been a problem for many years, essentially because of too many people for resources.
The situation in Israel and Palestine is in some ways similar. Way too many people for resources. High birth rates in both countries.
There is no good solution either place. Too many people for resources.
National characteristics are secondary. If you list the current hot spots, there is a line of economically and militarily potent states against Russia, with the exception of Venezuela.
Russia has a GDP as big as that of Italy. You line up a handful of Italy in a multi-front war against Russia, who will win the resources?
That’s obviously the plan. Europe should get the Caspian Sea, and the USA should get Venezuela. China is also emptying the Caspian Sea via Iran. The Saudis are apparently supposed to supply those who cannot be connected by pipeline.
I am not sure that the plan will work, because it would mean that Asia would have to renounce its capitalist rise. The oil would be spent on the disproportionate standard of living of 1 billion and 4 billion went empty-handed. This does not necessarily have to work that way.
People fear the socialists will take their stuff in an attempt to make all equal.
Not that we can edit genes we can instead add the superior genes to the children of the poor inferior humans in order to make all equal.
NYC spends $42,000 per student per year in a vain attempt to make 70 IQ students equal to 140 IQ students. Now with biotech and honest talk to can reach the promised land of equality.
IQ isn’t everything (cherry picking).
And you’re dehumanizing people into #’s. (covert way of justifying mistreat of the less fortunate)
“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man,”
– Charles Darwin
I agree with you and with Darwin.
And I would extend that sentiment towards the suicidal too, as well as to creepy crawlies that get into the bathroom.
As a young man, Darwin used to go hunting with his college chums, but by the end of the Beagle voyage he was exuding empathy all over the place. he couldn’t abide cruelty to children, women, the poor, “primitive” people, slaves (when he witnessed it in South America), or animals, even ants.
If he’d know there would be no end to the callous cruelties dished out by and to people in the 20th and 21st centuries, I’m sure it would have broken his heart, since he was a believer in progress to a higher state of civilization—and history has proven it was not to be. We have just as much barbarism and more rude name-calling than ever these days.
The issue is always survival of the best adapted to the changing situation. I agree that in general, “smartest” seems to have led to a huge benefit for survival, particularly in Asia and in areas where it was necessary to work around cold weather.
But this is not always the survival skill needed. If fossil fuels are no longer available, we may suddenly need more physical labor. In that case, physical strength may make a difference.
If working in the sun in agricultural fields is needed, ability to withstand high temperatures outside may be important, too.
Resistance to disease may become important, as antibiotics lose their ability to control many diseases. Also, as vaccines are shown to have bad side effects, besides not working as well as hoped.
If billionaires are trying to control everything, perhaps new skills are needed. Maybe people will need to be like some people in China–willing and able to cheat wherever they can. Or maybe they need to fit into whatever new structure is coming along. If there is a need for inventors, perhaps they have great skills in that direction. If there is a need for willingly low paid workers, perhaps this will be important.
until the industrial revolution gained real traction, workers were paid subsistence wages—the minimum to keep them from starvation, but able to deliver real physical work
the only way production could be increased was to meet demand for higher wages, to pay more people.
that brought on the leapfrog economy we have today…
problem is—we frogs have run out of leaps.
back in the day of rockefeller carnegie and ford, billionaires produced physical goods that could be bought and sold, more importantly, they reinvested thier billions on vastly increased production—and the flow of real money. so wages kept on increasing in real terms…
whereas todays super rich seem bent on accumulation of money-wealth for its own sake, and re invest little in the real world, instead we have off-earth dreams and AI promises, while real wealth diminishes in the face of resource depletion.
I am afraid you are correct.
I’m even more afraid than you are Gail.
I think that Gail must have a special function key on her keyboard that auto-types that sentence for her.
you repeat phrases too dem
i use them to calibrate my BS-ometer.
the only way production could be increased was to meet demand for higher wages, to pay more people.
If you’d care to read that sentence back and parse it, and scratch your head and say “hmmm” under your breath, you’ll find it doesn’t make any sense with reference to a real world situation, although it is fine semantically.
I think what you were trying to say was something along the lines of:
The only way to meet the demand for higher wages was to increase productivity per worker in order to reduce the production cost per unit, thereby allowing products to be sold at affordable prices while providing a higher profit per unit sold, a portion of which could be returned to the workers who contributed to making the products—otherwise there’d be trouble at mill.
Of course, I could be wrong.
My English reading comprehension is pretty good, but I do occasionally misinterpret things.
How about:
The only way production could be increased was for the bosses to meet the workers’ demand for higher wages, and/or to pay more people, in order to motivate them to produce more products…… ?
That’s another possible interpretation.
Your socioeconomic class determines how you are treated in school. I am white and know I was helped less and treated worse because my parents were working class. We really can’t know what people are capable of if they were born in a different set of circumstances.
Trade with China has recently been falling, after some exports were pulled forward toward the summer. Now, there seems to be some potential improvement in trade relationship in sight.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-china-freeze-shipping-probes-goldman-warns-key-trade-routes-set-deteriorate-further
U.S. & China Freeze Shipping Probes As Goldman Warns Key Trade Routes Set To “Deteriorate Further”
This is a link to a key chart:
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-11-10_06-50-39.png?itok=qfv9wKz4
New data from Goldman analysts led by Jordan Alliger shows continued weakness in China-to-U.S. trade flows, with loaded vessels down for a fourth straight week (-10% WoW, -35% YoY) through October 30.
Alliger noted that China-to-U.S. trade flows will experience a brief improvement in mid-November (+6% YoY) before another steep drop (-30% YoY) by month’s end.
“Full ramifications from the recent tariff-related implementations and magnitudes have yet to play out – but the next few weeks could continue to illustrate shipper reactions as a potentially wait-and-see mode after the large pull forward over the summer,” the analyst said.
Private property now being seized in Canada
Homeowners in Pacific Northwest city are warned their land has now been given to NATIVE TRIBE… and that eviction could soon follow
“The mayor of a picturesque city has warned homeowners they could soon lose their properties after a Canadian court ruled the land belongs to a native tribe.
The British Columbia Supreme Court awarded the Cowichan Tribes an Aboriginal title over roughly 800 acres of land in the city of Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver.
The tribe was also given an Aboriginal right to fish for food, according to the court’s August 2025 ruling which was reviewed by the Daily Mail.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15208713/richmond-british-columbia-cowichan-tribes-home-eviction.html
Talk about a “Reverse Mortgage”
Sorry, I’m the king of bad jokes. lol
A new way of doing things!
native peoples had no concept of private propety in the sense that we do
it appears to have been stolen from them in the first place
Canada’s economy is basically just housing. You could say the Angles had their land stolen by the Normans. Everything is stolen ultimately. Somehow balance must be found at some point.
But, forced dismissal doesn’t do any Canadian any good, including the First Nations peoples… IF there is no value to the land.
It will create the worst outcome imaginable. No value to build businesses by, no trust for process, and banks will quickly go bankrupt.
This is a Soros / WEF destruction of society initiative. All Canadians, including the First Nations people … will simply starve without a functional banking system.
The myopia of all Canadians is now at the flashing red level.
Sorry,
“their fault”, you don’t go to one of the best locations on Earth ~PCFNW~ buy property in/near city, that’s definition of blasphemy in the first place, so no tears..
The US economy is not real; it’s just a big billionaire Ponzi scheme.
75% of Tesla shareholders approved a $1 TRILLION pay package for Elon Musk.
$1,000,000,000,000.
Tesla only made $7.13 billion in net income in 2024.
This is so stupid it defies basic math and reality itself .
https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1987001773253701640/photo/3
Wrong number of zeros in the pay amount!
musk has to jump through a lot of hoops to get that pay packet
whether he delivers or no—we’ll have to wait and see
You might like this guy Norm. You might even be neighbours. I like that he gets the physics right.
https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/
“The scale of the potential payout has drawn criticism, but the Tesla board argued that Musk might leave the company if it was not approved – and that it could not afford to lose him.”
“If you have a reckless CEO who can’t be fired because it would hurt the company, then you don’t really have a company; you have a cult.”
i can only agree with you ravi
For the compensation deal to pan out, Tesla needs to achieve a 10T market capitalization. That could be taken care of by USD devaluation. Maybe it’s not so unrealistic, after all.
https://en.topcor.ru/65785-darom-gonjali-flot-v-ssha-priznali-chto-ne-smogut-bombit-venesujelu-rossija-zapretila.html
Otherwise, the Russians wouldn’t be sending military transport planes to Caracas and stationing warships directly opposite the US fleet. They want Washington to get the message across: this time, Moscow won’t allow what the West did to Ukraine.
– McGregor said in an interview.
God bless the peace makers the Russians
The US admitted it couldn’t bomb Venezuela – Russia banned it.
The White House’s belligerent, militaristic stance has undergone a dramatic shift. President Donald Trump’s administration was forced to inform lawmakers that the US currently has no plans to strike Venezuelan territory and has no legal basis for attacks on any ground targets, CNN reported, citing its sources. . .
Retired Pentagon Colonel Douglas MacGregor, for example, speaks on this point. He believes Russia has sent the White House the clearest possible signal about the unacceptability of any intervention or attack on Venezuela by any other means.
“Otherwise, the Russians wouldn’t be sending military transport planes to Caracas and stationing warships directly opposite the US fleet. They want Washington to get the message across: this time, Moscow won’t allow what the West did to Ukraine.” – McGregor said in an interview.
The abrupt shift in rhetoric behind the scenes at the White House and in legislative briefings indicates that Russia’s message has been received and properly received in Washington. It’s likely that now the administration, led by the hawkish Marco Rubio, who dreams of overthrowing Maduro, will look for other pretexts for an invasion or the kind of American-favored air strikes. After all, the end result will be nothing but a joke – the US sent a huge flotilla, a strike group, and redeployed air force to the Caribbean for nothing, but they couldn’t have done so just to fight drug smugglers.
https://ddnews.gov.in/en/putin-rushes-to-help-maduro-sends-wagner-group-to-venezuela-as-trump-beats-the-drums-of-war/
Wagner war fighter deployed to counter US aggression.
Maduro accused the U.S. of fabricating a war aimed at toppling him. The standoff escalated sharply on 24th October when the U.S. Department of War ordered the deployment of the world’s biggest aircraft carrier – the U.S.S. Gerald Ford – to sail to the Caribbean. The Department of War headed by Pete Hegseth courted further controversy when the Reuters news agency reported that U.S. military personnel involved in the Latin American operations were forced to sign non-disclosure agreements – an unprecedented step that raises suspicions of excessive secrecy. . .
President Trump’s hardline stance is driven not only by an ideological push to remove President Maduro, but also by a strategic aim to secure U.S. influence over Latin America’s vital oil resources especially as China and Russia expand their footprint in the region. China imports large quantities of oil from Venezuela. Venezuela sits close to the Panama Canal, one of the world’s most vital shipping arteries and only about 1,700 kilometres from the U.S. mainland, well within range of medium-range missiles. For Beijing, location is the real reason why Venezuela has become one of China’s closest partners.
As for Russia, it maintains a strategic partnership with Venezuela, too. In May 2025, President Vladimir Putin of Russia signed a Strategic Partnership and Cooperation Treaty with President Maduro in Moscow. It entered into force on 27th October. This 25-article agreement elevates ties to a new level, covering energy, mining, trade and investment. Russia’s support to Venezuela is most visible in defence, where it has supplied over 4 billion dollars worth of weapons, including jets, tanks and drones. Besides a Russian cargo plane landing in Caracas, Russian special forces are reported to have trained Venezuelan troops to counter an invasion or a coup.
Speculation is also rife that the Wagner Group has been tasked with President Maduro’s security.
The “Cartel of the Suns” is apparently the cause for concern. I was surprised that I had not heard of it until recently. It puts everything into context.
And Lybia. But Syria was another matter because a certain state was involved.
The Night Hitler’s Oil Minister Calculated Germany Would Run Out of Fuel in 90 Days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTfKvuqbaKA
But we have wonder weapons being developed in our Labs and FDR is sick and dying.
Don’t forget AI will direct the next operation to Antwerp
Yes, indeed, we are some strange creatures
And Germany fought on for 2 1/2 mo after the deadline
And if the foolish Balaton operation, using up the remaining oil reserves , was not taken it would have fought for 1 more month
Look of all the lives and misery averted if the surrender was conducted in November 1944…..I was on Germany myself visiting towns along the Rhine River and one had a wall memorial dedicated to those that perished and most were killed in those last months of the war, senseless for the sake of a stubborn egomaniac that refused to face the actual.
Suppose we shall see the same again as the planet runs dry of the essential substance that allows us to maintain our society
I discussed it with some Brits long time ago
They were adamant about Germania Delende Est, to keep the Cockneys and other scum of earth in Englsnd safe
Alas, they should also have done India Delende Est.
May I suggest you see a movie that is now showing titled “Treason and Truth”.
As World War II rages, a teenage boy in Germany is forced to confront a terrible truth—loyalty to his country now means loyalty to a lie. When his trusted bishop urges obedience to the Nazi regime, he begins to question everything. And after his Jewish friend is taken away, he secretly listens to banned radio broadcasts and launches a resistance, exposing the truth. But in a nation ruled by fear, defiance comes at a cost—and as the regime closes in, he must decide what it truly means to be a good German.
Based on actual events
https://www.angel.com/watch/truth-and-treason
Take care and perhaps as Gail mentions we may see a intervention in our human folly
Only that which exists can be destroyed. So, India Delende Est is totally imaginary. I am not sure why you have such a truly blind hatred of the subcontinent – a traumatic event in childhood, perhaps? I understand that the modern day immigrants don’t help much, what with their penchant for arrogance and one-upmanship, but that is not an excuse for such vitriol. By the way, Ramanujan belonged to the highest caste (Brahmin) but he was dirt poor. I have often wondered whether you know deep secrets about him that escaped the attention of Hardy or Littlewood, which would perhaps explain your propensity to defame him.
Any way, the point is, there was no political entity called “India” before the British clobbered together such a thing during the course of their empire building efforts. You can compare the subcontinent to Europe in that sense. Even the largest of the empires of the subcontinent, the Maurya empire (320 BCE to 185 BCE) that encompassed all the regions from Afghanistan to present day central India, failed to make inroads into the deep south. Forget about the Mughals (Akbar, Shah Jahan and such). They could never rule south India.
Passing blanket statements on “India” and “Indians” would be akin to the three blind men who went to “see” an elephant. It’s why I often remind my countrymen that the history of partition being peddled is factually incorrect. There was no partition in 1947. Two countries came into being where there used to be hundreds of kingdoms and princely states.
My state is tiny compared to the whole of India (just 1.5% of the area) but still close to the Netherlands in size. If I cross the border to the next state, the climate is totally different. Our histories might be interlinked but we have different languages, different customs, vastly different social development indices, different mix of religions… the list goes on. I would go so far as to say that culinary wise, our state has much more in common with south east Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand…) than with North India. In short, there is no such thing as Indian food or Indian wedding any more than there is European food or European wedding.
Info for everyone around here. The myth that Hindus don’t eat beef is just that – a myth. In fact, there is nothing in “Hinduism” (which, by the way, is not a religion, but a way of life) that prevents one from eating anything. Come to our place. Cow slaughter is not banned, as it is in most other states. We call beef fry our “national dish”. Stopping for now.
Thanks Aravind for the refresher course . Having left India 35 years ago your post is truly enlightening . Be well .
Gail is it possible that we have a 1929 style depression? With the stock market collapsing? Or is that impossible with the current nanny state government that we have today? It seems like the current administration would like to just to hand out checks to people instead of letting things take their course. So I am guessing that we would have hyper inflation system.
That is a good question.
Now the government has learned to inflate the money supply to solve problems. So there is a possibility of hyperinflation.
But with hyperinflation, it will not take long for the current governmental system to collapse (or be overthrown). The dollar will no longer be used in international trade, certainly not the way it has been in the recent past. The result will be a loss of goods to buy. The US cannot make much on its own.
Even as hyperinflation is taking place, it is not clear that the stock market will do well. The things that are most in demand will be food and some other necessities.
With a failing government, it may be that current savings (including holdings of stock) will have little value. The US dollar may be little used. The farmers raising the crops, and others in the line of providing food and necessities may come out ahead.
Assuming hyperinflation what will the government sell to willing buyers? Police protection comes to mind, street maintenance, utility maintenance, sewers but the list narrows. Ala cart might be in order, Different times.
My personal guess is we have lost the most important social institution, the church. It was cheap and used the unknown fear of hell. One never really knew, but perhaps a few coins in the plate just in case. No sarcasm, I think we need moral values and simple rules repeated weekly and also with known friends around us for social guidance. Gossip is a powerful motivator and perhaps old biddies served a social purpose, think of them as cheap guidance for young girls.
Dennis L.
Nathanial
They want to hyper-inflate so they can move us to digital currency.
Same reason why many stores and places no longer take cash.
Then carbon “allowances” for everyone.
Debts will be canceled.
And NWO will emerge from the ashes!
Yes, the probability this type of control will be attempted at least in some industrial countries/zones is 99.9% ..
The probability this will be kept effective mid-term say beyond ~2035-45 is a way murkier affair..
Many stores won’t take cash? Where? When? I don’t see that. Debt cancellation? For who? Everyone? Everything? Should I take on more debt?
The biggest bar in my downtown wont take cash. Its three stories, My local minor league baseball park wont take cash. Its becoming useless.
Just go look at China that is where we are all headed.
Camera’s everywhere that can even hear sound. (spying on you)
*This call maybe recorded for quality and training. (spying on you)
Scan the QR code.
etc. etc.
conventional stores take cash….but a lot of other places dont now..
i sell my books at my lectures, you’d be surprised at how many people just dont carry cash anymore, even small amounts— i’ve had to buy a small card machine because of that.
nothing to do with ”they’—just the way people seem to be collectively moving—i used the draw cash out of an atm machine every week—now its every couple of months (and then onlt because i believe we need a cash economy)—cant remeber the last time i went into the kiosk to pay for diesel with cash..
sad, but it just seems to be the way things are now.
i dont think theres a plot involved either.
Norm
They want to have control over all purchases and you can’t do that with cash.
Why?
Because the world is running out of resources.
”we” went along with the idea of turning the planet itself into cash…
that went fron coins,,to notes—the cheques (written by everone)
That in turn let to the accumulations of the mega eich…
which in turn gave us money inthe from of electronic signals…
so we use signal to buy goods.
which means that whoever controls the signals, control what you have available to buy goods..
We drifted into this ourselves—small wonder a few clever people are taking advantage of it.
I am seeing more places give discounts for cash, 4% seems the rule around here, Rochester, MN.
If a merchant has a 10% margin, taking cash would increase the profits by 40%, not trivial.
Dennis L.
Here in New York it is a 4% up charge to use your credit card at restaurants.
An “up charge”
They just can’t even think of sensible reason so they say “up”.
honk honk
BREAKING: President Trump announces that he will be paying a “tariff dividend” of at least $2,000 per person.
Stimulus checks are officially back.
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1987511769284169749/photo/1
Do the maths .
”Trump floating $2,000 checks to every American—a very radical-left move—would cost $326B.
That’s $131B more than a year of tariff revenue and $211B above DOGE’s unverified savings.
This administration is all show—disruption wasted for votes.
https://x.com/aeberman12/status/1987514251418730796/photo/1
Of course, $2,000 for most Americans would be difficult to claw back if the Supreme Court reverses them. This is going to be fun –grab the popcorn .
Bessent: The $2,000 dividend could come in in lots of forms. It could be just the tax decreases that we are seeing in the President’s agenda— no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on social security, deductibility of older loans— those are substantial deductions.
LOL! You’re not getting those checks .
Damage Control .
https://x.com/Ronxyz00/status/1987536458165490146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1987536458165490146%7Ctwgr%5E18ca1e934acafaf5e337c9fe58ba67503b49a3c4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Ftrump-announces-2000-tariff-dividend-be-paid-most-americans
“Trump floating $2,000 checks to every American—a very radical-left move—would cost $326B.” The only true ideology is loyalty to money and keeping the global capitalist system running for another day. The American Right supports the “Free Market” when it works in their favor and relies on subsidies and bailouts when it suits them. Any so-called “morality” tied to money is just propaganda to keep the working class in line.
What I want to know is how this passed the editor. $2000 * 300 million people = 600 billion, not 326. Even if only those over 18, still far above 326.
hitler started an ”investment fund” in his personal interest..
tell me the difference between then and now
I was just saying that the American right-wing story of “Free Markets” has always been a fairy tale. You have proven Godwin’s law in record time.
Norm,
Stop calling Trump Hitler for everything. You destigmatize the holocaust.
He does it because he knows there was no such thing.
all dictators use the same playbook…(there is only one)
dictators arise and are driven by force of circumstance—(always collapse of the current economic system)
Dictators always blame ”others” for thier inadequacies, and that collapse..
Dictators always show their ”strength” by oppressing those ”others”….
Dictators convince thhe gullible that all will be well when ”others” are got rid of.
dictators always lie about how well the nation is doing…
Dictators always cream off the surpluses for themselves and cronies—while allowing the nation to slide into poverty. (Musk wants to be a $trillionaire while 1 in 8 on SNAP benefits????)
Dictators always suppress political dissent—-
Stop me when I go off track Mob…..I want to know where I am in error on all this.
I take no pleasure in having said this for the last 10 years. Maybe we all need to know where you got your rose tinted spectacles from.
As if we don’t already have enough inflation.
Gold to $5,000/oz and beyond.
No need for SNAP benefits, with these checks.
What checks? I will believe the when I see them! So much panic coming from the orange man. Sad….
all autocratic rulers must maintain a constant state of conflict
(any history book will confirm that)
Trump is in conflict now with the American people.
multibillionaires can only sustain their income by leeching onto the have-nots, because actual resource-assets are now in severe depletion..
this is what the breakup of the USA looks like..
He is MIGA. He betrayed the voters again on nearly all counts. At this point I would be ambivalent about seeing Democrats take control of congress and then impeach and imprison him for whatever nonsense they feel like.
The system is corrupted at so many levels it can not fix itself. Reset is required.
Agree, too far gone. It’s why I try to emotionally detach from obviously disastrous politics and policies.
Another genius idea . 50 years mortgages . Take out a mortgage when you are 25 and keep on paying till you die . Lifetime slavery .
.https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5597005-trump-administration-50-year-mortgage/
Remember the chain of events—- repo crisis , cruises and viruses . Another trial run ????
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/norwegian-cruise-line-issues-health-warning-to-passengers-over-bacterial-disease-5941640?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&src_src=morningbriefnoe&utm_campaign=mb-2025-11-09&src_cmp=mb-2025-11-09&utm_medium=email&utm_content=reactivate&est=rSNWEmyhzAvFClmiOpYbBgRzeZmIVX6s%2FxrtREHoVTrwwaxwWsFiEaP%2F%2BqgoeW3oGQ%3D%3D
“Influenza A” broke out in many places in China, schools were closed, and hospitals were full
Recently, influenza A has broken out in many places in China, many children have fallen ill, and parents have also been infected. Many schools were forced to close classes, and hospitals in many places were full of patients. The official media of the Communist Party of China rarely reminds that do not exercise after a cold or fever, as severe cases will lead to sudden death.
On November 5, “Don’t do this kind of thing after a cold and fever!” Serious will cause sudden death” appeared on Baidu’s hot search, attracting attention.
CCP News rarely released news that do not exercise after a cold or fever, and beware of “viral myocarditis”. These two days happen to be the active period of the virus, and after suffering from viral myocarditis, you have to force strenuous exercise, which may cause malignant arrhythmias, heart failure and even cardiogenic shock, and in severe cases, sudden death.
Many netizens suspect that the so-called “influenza A” is actually the new coronavirus, “it is yang.” Just change your name.”
“It hurts me, I can’t hold on anymore, why is it so serious, more serious than the epidemic.”
“I also feel much worse than the new crown.”
(Google translator)
https://www.aboluowang.com/2025/1106/2301277.html?utm_source=dable
“Legionnaires’ disease” this time around?
“Super Flu”
‘Director of National Intelligence
@DNIGabbard
: “Barack Hussein Obama ordered the overthrow of the United States government on behalf of Hillary Clinton after the 2016 election was over—after the American people said no, we want Donald Trump to be our commander in chief, not Hillary Clinton.”
https://x.com/Real_RobN/status/1986992295124910185?s=20
Pretty sure that’s a fake quote in that Gabbard would never race-bait with the inclusion of Hussein.
Hopefully my last offering on Canada’s Euthanasia policy……
As Long as You’re Living
Jonathon Van Maren
I first heard Robert Munsch in second grade. Our teacher read his 1986 classic Love You Forever to our class, and like almost everyone who heard the story as a child and read it to his or her own children years later, the cadences of the mother’s beautiful lullaby stayed with me: “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.”
I had to grow up to grasp the beauty of the book’s ending. The boy, now a man and a father, cradles his frail, ailing mother, and sings the lullaby back to her as her own voice breaks and fades, changing the last line by two words: “As long as you’re living, my mommy you’ll be.” When he was a baby, a boy, and a teen, his mother covered his vulnerabilities with unconditional love. Now, as she’s dying, it’s his turn to gather her into his arms.
That last phrase—“as long as you’re living”—took on a heartbreaking significance with the news that Munsch, who lives in Canada, has been approved for euthanasia (referred to by the Orwellian euphemism “medical aid in dying,” or MAID). According to his daughter Julie, Munsch first mentioned that he was planning to die by euthanasia in a 2021 interview with the CBC after being diagnosed with dementia, but the decision made headlines when Munsch discussed his choice in an interview with the New York Times published on September 14.
The eighty-year-old author told the Times that his memory and creative processes are declining. “I can feel it going further and further away,” he said. This, as well as witnessing his brother’s death from Lou Gehrig’s disease, prompted him to apply for euthanasia. “Hello, Doc—come kill me!” he joked. “How much time do I have? Fifteen seconds!” Munsch added that his death has not yet been scheduled, but that by law he must be able to consent just prior to the lethal injection that will kill him.
“I have to pick the moment when I can still ask for it,” he told the Times. The news coverage of the interview prompted his daughter to post a clarifying statement online: “My father IS NOT DYING!!!” she wrote. “Thanks to everyone and their well wishes, however, my father’s choice to use MAID was in fact made 5 years ago. . . . My dad is doing well but of course with a degenerative disease it can begin to progress quickly at any point.”
The public interest in Munsch’s decision to opt for euthanasia, of course, is because he is one of the most famous children’s authors in the world. Munsch, an American by birth who moved to Canada in 1975, has sold more than 30 million copies of his over seventy books. For countless children, Munsch was—and is—a fixture; he is the most stolen author at the Toronto Public Library. Now, if he decides to go through with his decision, the name “Robert Munsch” will forever be tied to Canada’s euthanasia regime, and he will join the more than 60,000 Canadians who have already been legally killed.
For advocates of euthanasia and assisted suicide, Munsch’s choice is a triumph for autonomy. But it is much more than that. Munsch is making a very public value judgment. A life with dementia, he believes, is a life not worth living. Indeed, he said that he is worried about waiting too long to take the plunge into eternity because, as he told his wife Ann, if he can no longer legally consent, “you’re stuck with me being a lump.”
The description made me almost physically recoil. I love someone who suffers from dementia and treasure every moment I have with her. People suffering from dementia are not “lumps,” as Munsch says—and I hope his loved ones have made that very clear to him. Perhaps they have. But Munsch does not need their permission to die—he only needs permission from the state. In Canada, the government decides who is eligible for a state-funded and facilitated lethal injection, and who is not.
Because euthanasia is not, in fact, a “free choice.” It is a choice granted only to some. By passing legislation determining who qualifies, the government has pre-selected those they believe have lives so valuable they are legally barred from suicide, and those with lives so worthless they can be assisted in their demise. In fact, a “provider” can come to your home and dispatch you in the comfort of familiar surroundings. Many like Robert Munsch, fearful after a devastating diagnosis of what the future might hold, become suicidal. The government does not affirm their worth but affirms their suicidal ideation.
Robert Munsch’s life thus far has been one of both triumph and tragedy. He struggled with addiction. He grappled with the grief of losing two stillborn children, after which he wrote Love You Forever. He and his wife adopted three children. His stories brought joy to millions. What a tragedy it would be for the final chapter of his own story to come to a close at the end of a needle. What a beautiful thing it would be if he instead allowed himself to be cared for, in all his vulnerability and frailty, by those who love him. That, for all the pain, would be a powerful story that our culture desperately needs.
https://firstthings.com/as-long-as-youre-living/
Tim,
For the love of god. The world is running out of energy and you’re fighting to keep people alive/consuming who don’t even want to.
Its like were running out of food and some hippie says “I’m going on a hunger strike to protest killing animals” and you’re saying “NO, Please eat”.
The more likely analogy is that the world is running out of food and some carnivore diet guy goes on a hunger strike to protest that there’s only beams and rice left and Tim’s saying, no, please eat.
What if that person was your family member? Dunbar’s Number does exist but it’s still the principle of the matter. Their bodies still want to stay alive or they wouldn’t need State ‘assistance’ for their broken minds to accomplish the murdering of their bodies in the first place.
Obviously we can’t stop people from committing suicide if they are determined to go through with it.
But I’ve heard that attempted suicide and suicidal ideation is often a cry for help. I hope you never go to work on a help line for the Samaritans. When a desperate caller standing on a window ledge on the 24th floor calls you up on their smartphone and says, “Goodbye Cruel World! I’m going to jump!”, are you going to respond, “Go ahead, make my day!”?
Mostly, I think it’s sad when a person is so miserable in this world that they want to leave it ahead of time. If we are considering things from a doctrine of souls perspective, most souls have to go through endless rounds of life as a bacteria or an insect or a mold spore. Very few of them ever get the chance to live a human life. When you think about it, it’s a great privilege—like winning the lottery or getting one of Willy Wonka’s Golden Tickets in your chocolate bar. Such a shame to waste the experience by checking out early.
Are we running out of energy? That’s news to me. I thought it was still BAU tonight baby!
I can’t to LIVE……oy, I’m only 99 and breathing
Famous American Artist Euthanized Despite ‘Good Health’
Acclaimed artist and sculptor Jackie Ferrara has been euthanized despite reportedly being in “good health.”
Ferrara is the latest celebrity to be killed by “assisted suicide,” continuing the disturbing trend of liberal media outlets glamorizing what should be treated as a tragedy, not a fashionable lifestyle choice.
Ferrara was killed via lethal injection on October 22 at age 95.
By all accounts, Ferrara was in “good health.”
She simply decided that she was “ready to go,” and didn’t want to “depend on anybody.”
“I don’t want a housekeeper,” she told The New York Times shortly before her death.
“I never wanted anybody.
“I was married three times.
“That’s enough,” she added.
Because Ferrara was healthy, she did not qualify for “assisted suicide” anywhere in the United States.
https://slaynews.com/news/famous-american-artist-euthanized-despite-good-health/
What a genotype, Ashkenazi +95yrs still going strong, including childhood in Detroit.. well perhaps ~less pollutants (or wider suburbia?) during the post 1929 econ crisis..
Let’s sequence and see what genetic changes make Ash ken azi superior humans. Then create a gene treatment for embryos so all human can share the superior abilities.
Assisted suicide is never going to be fair.
So far, you have shown rich and or famous people chosing to call it quits after a LONG LIFE. rwo of them are artists. Artists as a group are more suicidal and have whether they are 8 or 80. So, many of these people claim they don’t have reason to stick around. All the goverment programs in the world won’t give them a ” a supportive environment in which they are valued and cherished despite their problems and trials. ” Why? Because people are different.
The only possible supportive environment that could value a person despite their problems is a good family, which a lot of people do not have because family formation is discouraged. When human societies were more religious, and families were larger because they was encouragement, people had more children than they could take care of. Children were often given up for adoption, sold, or abandoned and religion did little to curtail that.
There is also the issue of genetics. Extroverts are going to be more likely to stick around than introverts. White men are going to be more likely to commit suicide than other groups possibly because life to them is only worth living if they are useful to others.
White men are going to be more likely to commit suicide than other groups possibly because life to them is only worth living if they are useful to others.
This is why I always try to let Norman know he’s still useful here at OFW.
I don’t think it is only white men that feel the need to be useful to others, but I certainly do feel that need. Not being needed causes a sense of existential angst in me.
Why should this be? Obviously, it’s because I am a wimp!
Perhaps, deep down in my imagination or my subconscious, my inner child, clinging to anything it can get its arms around, feels that if nobody needs me, then nobody needs to take care of me either, and so I may be left to starve on the street. Indeed, any change in life status “for the worse” can be interpreted as a step towards annihilation.
Some people may commit suicide because they can’t live with the existential angst that comes with the knowledge that they are mortal and are destined to die regardless of how hard they fight against it.
And others may commit suicide out of ennui, or loneliness, or because they don’t get enough Instagram likes.
Regardless of the argument that people in constant pain with no hope of a decent quality of life should be given help in ending their lives, it shouldn’t be the business of the state to assist the bored, the lonely, and the anxious in killing themselves. Much like providing “gender-affirming care” and providing lots of free stuff to people who enter the country illegally, this enabling of suicide is part of a slide down a slippery slope for society. In my humble opinion, of course. Nothing personal.
No other animal seems to have anything like the trouble humans have in living life. Contrary to the popular wisdom, lemmings do not throw themselves off cliffs on purpose to end it all. Other animals, as far as is know, never ask themselves, “What is my purpose in life?” They just get on with it.
Thanks, big brain!
Statistically, it bears out.
The high desire to be useful to others is, in my opinon,
a large reason why nuclear families are perceived
in America’s multiracial society as a “white” thing.
You don’t see lots of single black men killing themselves because they don’t have a woman in their lives, or can’t get a good job. Suicide and self-harm seem to be more common among white people in general, specifically white men. There are non-white races with high suicide rates but we are talking about one to two races out of several non-white races.
Animals with mental illness quickly succumb to predators or just die so it’s not that animals aren’t prone to psychological problems, it’s that they are quickly removed most of the time , with exceptions like rabies, being an exception.
The English Substacker Miri, who is known for her Massive Missives, recently came up with a very pleasant conspiracy theory about beer.
We like conspiracy theories at this site, and I have one regarding pubs and the consumption of beer…
It is known that the ruling classes are targeting for destruction, as a venue where people meet and socialise, pubs in particular. Many collapsed as a result of “Covid” restrictions, and many more have struggled to recover, with around 35 pubs closing permanently every month. Consequently, the number of pubs in the UK is now at a historical low.
Yet it does not seem to be alcohol consumption in particular that the ruling classes are trying to stop. After all, you can buy alcohol at any supermarket or corner store, often very cheaply, and even get it delivered straight to your door via delivery services.
However, here is the difference: people at home, especially women and couples, mostly drink wine.
Yet people in pubs – even if they rarely or never drink it at home – mostly drink beer.
What is beer – especially the popular IPA variety – rich in?
Orthosilicic acid (a form of silica).
What does orthosilicic acid do?
It removes aluminium from the body.
In fact, it is the only known substance that can do this. Whilst other forms of silica, such as silica supplements and Diatomaceous Earth, can remove aluminium from the digestive tract, only orthosilicic acid is proven to cross the digestive barrier and become active in the whole of the body.
Beer isn’t the only source of orthosilicic acid – certain mineral waters have it too, including Volvic and Fiji and many others around the world (look for a silica content of 30ppm or more on the label) – but beer is nevertheless a very powerful aluminium detoxifier (and non-alcoholic beer works too).
So, imagine if you have sustained a childhood brain injury relating to aluminium, but from the age of 18, are regularly visiting the pub and having a few pints of orthosilicic acid rich IPA.
By the age of 35, your body burden of aluminium is likely to be markedly less than the person who sat at home every night drinking wine – which not only doesn’t remove aluminium, but actively contains it.
Who is most likely to be drinking beer in the pub?
Men.
Who is most likely to be drinking wine at home?
Women.
And wouldn’t you just know that women are more at risk Alzheimer’s – the age-related neurological condition strongly correlated with both aluminium toxicity, and autism. In fact, it is already known and documented that beer-drinking (and that can include non-alcoholic varieties) is associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s. (Tedious, patronising disclaimer: that doesn’t mean drinking excessive quantities of beer is good for you.)
https://miri.substack.com/p/neurodiversity-needles-and-9am-gin
By some serendipitous coincidence or some accident of synchronicity, in the above post, Miri mentions Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, who Reante introduced here a few days ago. I’d never heard about her, and now her name turns up twice!!
In her book, Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS), author and neurosurgeon-turned-nutritionist, Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, talks about how vaccine injury often manifests itself most clearly in girls at puberty, where they suddenly become very fussy about what they eat.
An extremely common trajectory for vaccine-injured girls – who may have seemed fairly “neurotypical” as young children – is for them to announce around the age of 14 that they are becoming vegetarian – and this not infrequently turns into veganism, and then anorexia.
Dr. Campbell-McBride cautions in the strongest possible terms against encouraging seemingly innocuous “vegetarianism” in teenage girls, because a) it’s often a red flag that an eating disorder is developing, and b) vegetarianism is the worst possible diet for those dealing with a vaccine-induced neurological injury.
The two substances in the diet that appear to exacerbate the symptoms of this kind of injury the most are gluten (the protein in wheat) and casein (the protein in dairy).
Thanks, this [aluminium aspect] is a great follow-up to recent discussion here on discomforting-destroying gut microbiome even by timid alcohol habits (beer-drinking).
I’d be still hesitant to more regular beer intake regiment, especially if you favor the °higher% brand-flavors.. If you eat ~lot of natural fats (milk, fish, nuts derived) and some fructose sugar perhaps a small beer bottle a week (afterwards!) won’t have that much effect, but certainly not advisable for every meal every day, and definitively not more..
Bottom line overall still stands in my simplistic (decades observant) view:
Less meat (even the pastured ~luxury type) and much less alcohol (incl. this beer over wine for women update), ..
Chemtrails theoretically being the other major source of aluminum heavy metal toxicity.
A healthy body with a consistent surplus of nutrients can upregulate the safe excretion and chelation of heavy metals. A healthy microbiome does the same.
I hadn’t heard Natasha’s patterned observation on 13year old girls that aligns with my feminine brother’s transition to vegetarianism at 13, as mentioned last week.
Yep, the ~toxic waste is just everywhere. I recall former neighbor cleaning (washing out) his pool sand filter down the slope near the property boundaries. The place was dead for many years afterwards, both from altered PH level and more importantly ~chlorine residuals yuck.. The grass recovered with huge delay – and it’s likely advisable not to plant there anything edible..
Now, you can add aerial toxicity from local and distant (global) sources, store bought food contamination, medicine, apparel, .. . etc.. The vectors are too numerous.
They are numerous but I would argue that they are not, on balance, too numerous if we fight fire with fire in taking full advantage of the industrial slave plantation which also doubles as a high-nutrient protectorate under the right circumstances. A homesteader managing his or her high-nutrient, perennial animal and tree crop food system under the protection of private property law and the prison industrial complex, can create a supercharged local ecosystem that can buffer what pollution does enter. That’s why walking the talk is evolution in action.
reante
i never know if you are indulging in studied irony
or talking total bullshit.
That doesn’t surprise me in the slightest norm. Three inches of my winter barn bedding from the previous winter spread out over jak’s neighbor’s dump site at the end of winter would see nice healthy perennial grasses in maturity by the beginning of summertime. Imagine that as you enjoy a leisurely afternoon on your balcony.
Yes, that’s why I mentioned it – as an unattended ~extreme case. You are correct that nature’s healing power is overwhelming (longterm). Still, I’d be hesitant to plant there fruits, berries for few yrs time..
For example, most of the chlorine evaporates quickly just out of the pool itself, but there are other compounds basically various ~herbicides and flocculants, and who knows what this binds to even in healthy soil.. could be released afterwards and or trans-mutate into other dangerous precursor stuff all along..
ps it wasn’t exactly Olympic pool sized volume m3 anyway; but +20yrs in cont. operation so it must have accumulated there in the upper topsoil / layers..
No I agree planting food plants there with the intention of eating the produce would be a last resort option but if I had limited space it would still make sense to me to plant well-mulched food plants there for long-term productive capacity. Microbes will break all that stuff down eventually and pretty much all of what toxins plant take up are water-soluble ones anyway which are the less carcinogenic kind. To be sure, I do eat 99pc organic.
Continuing the ~garden mini thread.
My Comfrey was so-so year long, comes Nov and voila it’s all just [neon intensity shining green], no kidding.. I expected this improvement for next spring though; just [top wood mulched] bit of charcoal, compost, and heavenly moisture.. Perhaps it’s the nature signaling peak ~potash/potassium – already, hey you slacking human over there – work the diy fertilizer from me asap! But I’ll more likely opt just for the in-situ method leaving it there on the spot next to berries for a while..
Nice jak comfrey’s the bomb huh? We’re having a great autumn too thank goodness after another heinously long seasonal drought. Really nice mix of heavy rain and sun and warm temps, though I’m finding out in my one clay pasture field just how long it takes for clay to loosen up after six dry months. The grass is way behind the sandy soils.
“Cancer rates are climbing among people in the 20s, 30s, and early 40s, “notes the Washington Post. And it is “perplexing” because researchers still don’t understand the cause.
However, Marc Giradot, originator of the bolus theory, attempts to answer this question by postulating that substances administered in vaccines (and in other medical interventions) have the potential to contaminate or “transfect” stem cells and progenitor cells, which are “immune privileged” and therefore are not destroyed by the immune system when they go bonkers.
This article includes an easy-ish introduction to the relevant aspects of cell biology that most of us non-biologists may not very aware of.
Despite the fact that public health authorities are apparently trying to hide at all costs the link between the current cancer epidemic and the COVID vaccination campaign, there’s overwhelming evidence that suggests COVID vaccines have caused the recent rise in cancer.
After summarizing this evidence, he asks:
It seems every time someone investigates tumors post-vaccination, they find persistence of the COVID vaccines intracellularly. Most researchers casually ignore a fundamental question and immediately start conjecturing about integration. I am saying we are collectively missing a key logical step in the genesis of cancer by not addressing a fundamental question. I am not saying that integration is not possible.
The question no one asks is:
Why hasn’t this cell, contaminated by the COVID-19 vaccine particle, been destroyed by T-cells?
He goes on to argue:
…the cells most likely to be contaminated by the vaccine are:
– endothelial cells (the cells that line our blood vessels), where the vaccine particles are trapped,
– hepatocytes (our liver cells), where the particles are filtered, and
– muscle cells (at the injection site).
All these cells are immune-sensitive and, upon transfection, would inevitably undergo apoptosis (cell death). That would also be true of epithelial cells, adipose cells, and immune cells. Red blood cells don’t have a nucleus, and therefore can’t replicate or propagate cancer.
In other words, cancer cells can’t originate from immune-sensitive cells because they die when contaminated by a vaccine.
This is a fundamental realization:
In the general case, all the cells contaminated by the Covid-vaccine should be destroyed, SV-40 or not, DNA contamination or not, integration or not.
This is probably one reason why most vaccinologists and “experts” can’t believe vaccines can cause cancer or that spike can persist. If you limit the transfection scenarios to muscle cells, endothelial cells, hepatocytes, and immune cells, there is no scenario in which DNA can persist or cancer can propagate.
Everyone seems to be ignoring a key player in cancer: stem cells!
Stem cells and progenitor cells are immune-privileged; they are the only cells that can survive vaccine-transfection and propagate cancer.
https://covidmythbuster.substack.com/p/the-hidden-trigger-how-vaccines-poison
Marc does mention viruses in this piece. I hope, Reante, that you will kindly overlook this faux pas and just read “signaling exosome” for “virus.” Apart from that, I think you’ll find it an interesting hypothesis.
surprised we even need hospitals anymore with all the shots given out.
🙂
(don’t worry, I’ll let myself out
If this guy had an open enough mind to set that incorrect theory aside and hypothetically accept, for a week, that the vaxx “spike” is a misdirection play, and that “spikes” are political cover for classified (or scrubbed from the BLAST database) tumor signaling exosomes, he would be home free.
Notice how in other people’s vaxx theories they are always threading the needle. By looking for ANY possible mechanism by which the cancer could form, and then making that mechanism the be all end all, as he does with stem cells. Then notice how my theory is the do-nothing theory. I’m like the Fukuoka of vaxx theory. I see the Big Picture, which did includes ‘viruses’ and includes signaling exosomes, because they are 100% the cause of ALL genetic transfer in multicellular eukaryotes, and therefore the cause of all genetic mutation, including the radical intelligent human cancer mutation, and then I just let physics/biology do all the work in service of the theory.I just sit here and you guys post article after article on vaxx dynamics and I just say over and over again — while including AI overviews direct research literature — that those dynamics are tumor exosome dynamics and that all roads lead to them. SV40 included.
Just because a cell gets a vaxx LNP inside it doesn’t mean that a t-cell should come along and kill that cell. That’s ridiculous. I didn’t read the article given your excellent presentation of it. Does he justify that claim with a biological analysis?
So he’s got to fundamental misconceptions halting all personal progress, and they’re both based in germ theory. Cancer and ‘viruses.’ The former is stoopidly treated like some kind of egregorian meta-germ when in obvious truth it’s a radical, mutational healing protocol, and the latter does the same in also treating the signaling system for that mutational healing protocol as a germ.
Orwellianism is never going to produce accurate patterning.It’s only ever going to reinforce the elite Ashkenazi Pasteur hitjob on true biology when they disappeared terrain theory and buried it six feet under. Nevermind Pasteur’s apparently confessing on his deathbed to it all being bs.
Which disincludes ‘viruses’
Marc’s got a pet theory and he’s highly invested (intellectually) in it. he thinks that if injection staff would just aspirate, so if they see blood in the needle they withdraw, then they could substantially reduce the number of vax injuries. That’s the crux of the so-called bolus theory. I can’t judge whether he’s right or wrong. After all, as we used to say after 9/11, I’m not a structural engineer, what do I know? But to the limited extent that I understand them, I find his explanations plausible.
But this particular post is specifically about cancer and how mRNA injections could be responsible for a great deal of it.
Just because a cell gets a vaxx LNP inside it doesn’t mean that a t-cell should come along and kill that cell. That’s ridiculous.
Is it? It’s the view propagated by a number of smart people with wide-ranging views, including Sucharit Bhakdi, Mike Yeadon, and Marc. Auto immune attack by killer T lymphocytes is the process by which the injectables do their damage to the endothelium (rhymes with “helium”!), they say. The particles that don’t remain in the muscles reach cells all along the blood vessel walls and in the organs where the blood vessels go, as these particles are designed to do. Then the foreign proteins are produced on the surface of these cells and the immune system targets these cells for destruction.
Here’s a cartoon video for medical students of how this is supposed to happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDEduT62Awc
At the risk of repeating this to the point of boredom, the mainstream theory is that if an LNP (liquid nanoparticle) gets inside a cell, the cell will display a foreign protein on its surface. And when that happens, the immune system will go to work. Killer T cells destroy “virus”-infected cells, cancer cells, and other foreign cells by inducing a process called apoptosis, or programmed cell death. They identify these abnormal cells by recognizing foreign markers on their surface and then release molecules like perforin and granzymes, which punch holes in the target cell and cause it to self-destruct.
As I say, this isn’t my opinion. Because, Colonel Hogan, I know nothing! Nothing!? It’s the conventional wisdom that they teach in med school.
Marc is pointing out that stem cells and progenitor cells — both of which are formed in the bone marrow where they are protected from most infections or sources of contamination — are also immune privileged, unlike all the other cells in the body. It’s like that scene in Star Wars where Obiwan tells the Stormtrooper, “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for. he can go about his business. Move along!” And the Stormtrooper repeats this word for word.
In Marc’s hypothesis, if a stem cell or a progenitor cell become infected by an LNP or anything that could cause them to turn cancerous, the immune system’s killer T cells will ignore them. The message the T cells hear is “These aren’t the cells you’re looking for….” So they can morph into tumors without being stopped by the immune system.
Now, this is where it gets a bit more interesting.
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), which are capable of both self-renewal and producing all types of blood cells, and hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs), which are more specialized and committed to a specific lineage of blood cells, are are formed in the bone marrow where they are protected from most infections or sources of contamination. This is essential because they are among the most precious cells in the body. Without them, we can’t rebuild damaged tissues.
But while your average piece of foreign matter or signaling exosome or whatnot is unlikely to be able to reach the bone marrow to get at these cells and thereby cause them to develop into tumors unopposed, Marc envisages that LNPs from the MMR injections can and do get into the bone marrow and contaminate these immune-privileged cells. Result, turbo cancer.
Marc is frustrated because he has been selling his theories for the past for years and almost nobody is listening—and those who are listening are scoffing. I’m sure you can appreciate his frustrations more than most because it’s basically the same way most people treat you when you try to present them with new ideas. They either don’t understand them, don’t want to understand them, don’t have the ability to understand them, are adamantly opposed to them because the theories contradict something else they believe in, or they don’t care about them at all.
Dr. Bhakdi, one of the world’s most acknowledged experts in his field, has stated that he has given up trying to teach people. After being derided as a kook by far lesser men and prosecuted for antisemitism in Germany (he was found not guilty), he has retired from the fray.
Ah, the trials and tribulations of being a high flyer amongst oiks!
Thanks very much Tim for that generous response in both spirit and length. And you’re always so entertaining.
I called that statement ridiculous because I had completely forgotten about the whole crazy vaxx ‘spike’ narrative – that the body is forced to make spikes and present them such that the immune system kills them. That is a completely fictitious world from start to finish. It’s just another Tyler Robinson job. So I stand by it being ridiculous but I also now acknowledge that that is the understandable apparently reality for otherwise great people like Sucharit and John Day who bought into ‘covid’ because that was their bread and butter. What else is new?
I agree that not aspirating by policy was the icing on the cake. But it seems like that policy only affected a very small minority.
I don’t mean to be dismissive or arrogant but Marc is flat out wrong. Cancerous HSPCs mostly result in blood cancers because they are circulatory system cells, but they are recognized as contributing to other cancers. So the pattern just doesn’t fit that HSPCs becoming cancerous from the LNPs would cause all manner of turbo cancers outside of the blood. HSPCs don’t “morph into tumors” with the exception of lymph node and bone cancers (lymphoma and myeloma). There’s no literature on that happening otherwise. And signaling exosomes CAN reach marrow.
In seeing the real role that HSPCs can play in promoting all types of cancers, he’s mistaking a positive feedback loop of a pre-existing cancer for the root cause. The literature makes clear that cancer promoting activities of HSPCs are always the result of… you guessed it, tumor exosomes and other tumor secretions like cytokines. Again, all roads lead to the vaxx being cultured tumor exosomes. Also tumor exosomes can suppress t-cells like Marc was talking about. They can even force apoptosis on t cells. Crazy. I talked in the past about how they can also suppress igg3 and cause igg4 disease, if you recall the big igg4 hullabaloo of a few years ago.
Tumor exosomes explain everything. Feel free to post this at Marc’s place if you want. If he’s like me, like you kinda say he is, then he’ll be only too happy to let his theory go in exchange for the true one. If he disagrees and wants to debate me I’d be happy to do that over at his place although I think this comment makes clear why his theory is false, and also how my theory incorporates what IS true in his theory, namely HSPC contribution to cancer.
Thanks, Reante, for the detailed explanation.
I won’t be posting anything at Marc’s Substack, at least until I know a bit more about what I’m talking about. 🙂
From what I’ve read over there, for a man, Marc is very tolerant of different views and likes to answer questions. He isn’t one of those cult leader types who demand his followers agree with him and treats anyone who opposes him as an obnoxious troll. I say “for a man,” because women who run online forums tend to be less authoritarian towards dissent. They may bang your hand with a 12-inch ruler or make you stand in the corner, but they seldom expel you from class.
As I said elsewhere, I am receptive to the tumor exosome hypothesis but I am not sure what the details are. I can’t find any information on “Tumor Exosomes for Dummies” or “Tumor Exosomes 101” or what in my childhood might have been called “The Janet and John Guide to Tumor Exosomes.”
A good first question I am asking is, “What causes cancer?”
Is it only tumor exosomes, or do other things also cause or trigger cancer?
That’s the level of my ignorance at present. Ten years ago I read Moss’s The Cancer Industry, which sits on my bookshelf near the computer, but I’ve forgotten what Moss said about it. And I know several other people have written widely-praised books on Cancer.
Last year, Amazon temporarily delisted the paperback version of the book Cancer Care: The Role of Repurposed Drugs and Metabolic Interventions in Treating Cancer by Paul E. Marik. I’m wondering if I should shell out for a copy of that while it’s available?
Nobody seems to know what cancer is that I can tell because nobody has a systems theory that can include it. So I figured it out for myself since I was already building a contemporary systems theory of biology because of the plandemic. And I’m right.
Body detoxification includes both detoxifying from exogenous (environmental) toxins and from endogenous (internal) biological processes. Generally speaking, we have our daily detox cycle, the main part of which is a good night’s sleep. That’s our primary structural detox cycle. And then we have our secondary (backup) structural detox as necessary, which is an emergency detox for when our daily detoxes have been chronically inadequate; it’s our ‘seasonal’ detox we informally refer to as ‘colds’ and ‘flus.’ Exercise that results in significant fat burning is a non-structural detox cycle.
Generally speaking, a cold is a water-soluble detox and a flu is a fat-soluble detox of the heavier duty carcinogens that have accumulated in cholesterol droplets in our adipose cells because that is where our intelligent body sends them for stabilizing them in storage because they are dangerously reactive and cholesterol is the highest quality fat for stabilizing them. Exercise, as mentioned above, can also release them into the bloodstream for processing.
Detoxification cycles are complex and nutrient intensive, and require adequate available nutrients to carry out while juggling all the other nutrient demands that the body has.
When the secondary structural detoxes become chronically inadequate over a period of years or decades, just like the primary daily detoxes can, then the body is can face an existential crisis of toxicity if there is no additional available adipose tissue for storage, or the storage complex isn’t functioning well, or the exposure to carcinogens suddenly increases, and maybe at the same time as conditions aren’t as ripe for detoxing (reduced sunlight hours, etc). There could be many reasons. Tumorigenesis occurs. Many people actually have nascent tumor microenvironments popping in and out of existence regularly. Those nascent ones are like flex accounts and they’re probably important informational feedback loops for the body because of their active exosomal signaling systems. Like little flashing red lights. I wouldn’t be surprised if those lights are what, at least in part, trigger secondary structural detoxes.
Tumorigenesis that builds momentum and turns into indefinite tumors is what we call cancer. What is it’s function? To provide a last-resort emergency storage for the gnarly fat-soluble carcinogens that are now threatening to kill the body. It’s an amazingly adaptive, tertiary protocol for a total overflow of toxicity, whereby some normal cells radically mutated in order to completely change their function in order to carry out that protocol we call cancer. But it’s not a tertiary detox protocol because it has no mechanism for detoxification. It’s just a backup stable storage protocol like the adipose cells. One of the main classes of tumor exosomes signals for cholesterol, and another class signals for angiogenesis (for the body to grow a capillary over to the tumor because tumors are bloodfed) so that the tumor can acquire the cholesterol from the bloodstream because, as with the adipose cells, cholesterol is in what tumors stabilize the carcinogens.
Cancer buys the body more time and comes with symptoms such that the mind is alerted to the body’s acute illness so that the mind can make some seriously beneficial changes to the lifestyle that the mind has imposed on the body.
Cutting out tumors with surgery and targeted ionizing radiation are also detoxification protocols. The former is obvious as to why and the latter (while obviously also killing the cancer cells) strips electrons from the carcinogens such that the molecules are broken down into less dangerous water-soluble toxins which is also what our own fat-soluble detoxification system does to them via the oxidation processes of our monooxygenase enzymes.
In hindsight it’s so simple and obvious what cancer is. It’s amazingly awesome. And we can heal from that existential state. It goes into remission all the time when given a chance. The mainstream just insists on othering it because of allopathic culture, germ theory, and the profit motive.
Amazing comment, Reante! You’ve developed a comprehensive model of what’s going on with colds, flus, and cancers.
I nodded my head in agreement as I read each point. Google AI may disagree, but I think you may well be substantially correct.
In any case, I am going to copy this comment for future reference.
Thanks Tim appreciate the company.
AI Overviews:
“Yes, tumor-derived exosomes signal to hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) in the bone marrow and significantly affect their function and the bone marrow microenvironment. This interaction plays a crucial role in promoting tumor progression and inhibiting normal hematopoiesis.
Key mechanisms of this signaling include:
Direct impact on HSPCs: Tumor exosomes are internalized by HSPCs and deliver specific molecules, particularly microRNAs (miRNAs). For example, exosomes from Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) cells carry high levels of miR-150 and miR-155, which target the transcription factor c-MYB, leading to reduced HSPC proliferation and differentiation.
Remodeling the bone marrow niche: Tumor exosomes also target bone marrow stromal cells, which are critical for supporting normal hematopoiesis.
They downregulate essential hematopoietic-supporting factors like CXCL12 and Stem Cell Factor (SCF).
They can induce the expression of inhibitors like Dickkopf-1 (DKK-1) in stromal cells, further suppressing normal blood cell formation.
This remodeling creates a microenvironment that is more favorable for the survival and proliferation of tumor cells, while impairing the ability of normal HSPCs to function effectively.
Induction of quiescence in normal HSPCs: In some cases, leukemic exosomes can induce a state of quiescence (dormancy) in long-term HSCs (LT-HSCs) by transferring miRNAs like miR-1246, which suppresses protein synthesis and makes these cells more susceptible to accumulating DNA damage, which can later lead to mutations and relapse.
In essence, tumor exosomes act as critical communication messengers, altering the bone marrow environment and directly manipulating HSPC function to the benefit of the tumor’s growth and survival.”
“Yes, tumor exosomes can suppress T cells by inducing apoptosis, inhibiting their proliferation and activation, and promoting the development of suppressor cells like regulatory T cells (Tregs). They achieve this by carrying specific molecules, such as suppressive proteins like CD39, CD73, and PD-L1, which interfere with T cell function and signaling pathways.
Mechanisms of T cell suppression by tumor exosomes
Direct inhibition of T cell function:
Apoptosis: Tumor exosomes can induce T cell death through mechanisms like Fas/FasL (CD95/CD95L) interactions.
Reduced proliferation: They can inhibit the proliferation and activation of T cells, particularly CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes.
Impaired signaling: Tumor exosomes can down-regulate important signaling pathways in T cells, such as JAK3 and STAT1, leading to a loss of function.
Functional exhaustion: They can induce a state of T cell “exhaustion” by upregulating markers like PD-1.
Promoting immunosuppressive cells:
Regulatory T cells (Tregs): Tumor exosomes can promote the differentiation and expansion of Tregs, which are immune cells that suppress the activity of other immune cells, including T cells.
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs): They can promote the expansion of MDSCs, which also contribute to an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment.
Molecular cargo:
Proteins: Exosomes can carry immunosuppressive proteins like CD39, CD73, FasL, CTLA-4, and PD-L1 on their surface, which can directly suppress T cell responses upon contact.
miRNAs: Tumor exosomes are rich in microRNAs (miRNAs) that can be transferred to T cells to alter their gene expression and function, for example, by down-regulating pathways involved in T cell proliferation and differentiation.”
… that the vaxx “spike” is a misdirection play, and that “spikes” are political cover for classified (or scrubbed from the BLAST database) tumor signaling exosomes,
I am open to this explanation. But when I Google ” tumor signaling exosomes”, I get only two hits. One of them is to a Substack article from last month on Mike Yeadon’s no-virus views, and the other is to a comment on OFW from August 19, this year.
So, I’ll have to check this out in more detail by doing more extensive searching. And if you could give me some more pointers, that would be nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBzW_fXRDc
Years and Years, episode 1.
When I Google the same I get plenty of hits. You can also leave out “signaling” because I just generally make sure to include that word in the context of the vaxx because exosomes with mRNA in them are specifically for signaling via genetic information.
You will cover ground a lot faster by just asking AI questions but that a good research paper or two like what you posted will help you get the lay of the land and jumping off points for AI questions.
Remember that the tumor exosomes theory is so powerful that it not only obviously explains the cancers and the immunosuppresive dynamics but it also explains all the structural tissue injuries that are based in fibrotic disease like myocarditis ( heart fibrosis), detached retinas, sepsis, all manner of organ fibrosis leading to reduced function or failure, because two of the main classes of tumor exosomes signal to the body for the increased production of some fibrin but mostly collagen, because that’s what tumors are structurally made of. The collagen is made by fibroblasts which are specialized cells that live throughout all of our tissues for the purposes of making collagen scaffolding that keeps all our soft tissues together, kind of like the skeleton of the soft tissues. Fibrotic disease is the over production which is the equivalent of scarring. Systemically scarred tissue doesn’t work well.
Thanks, Reante. I am working through this research using AI questions, because they certainly help a student to cut through the undergrowth and go places. I especially like it when AI contradicts itself, which shows that the databases and the algorithms it has been programmed with are not yet fully integrated, thank Gawd!
You must make some allowances for us oldsters. Not that I want to make excuses, but we learned a lot of old stuff when we were young that gets in the way of learning new stuff now, and we are less flexible and less energetic both physically and mentally than we used to be. It also means we have to take in new information about three times before it begins to stick.
Perhaps if I jogged, did tai chi, took all 9 essential amino acids every morning and 20 grams of creatine a day, I might be able to reverse some of the decline. But you can’t go back all the way. I can attest that modest decline begins at 50 and I’ve been told the slope gets steeper after 65.
Hence, the well known paraphrased quote: “Science progresses one funeral at a time.”
The original form is:
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it”
—Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography, 1950.
Plank had a hell of a time trying to make Einstein accept the details of quantum theory. Einstein scoffed at Plank’s theory, remarking something along the lines of “God does not play dice with the Universe.”
But I digress.
With a bit of help from AI, I’m going to try to work out what mechanism causes cancer. Obviously, saying that carcinogens cause cancer is a bit like saying wind in the guts causes flatulence or alcohol causes drunkenness. We must dig a bit deeper and try to discern the mechanism at work.
The tumor exosomes hypothesis that you’ve presented looks promising because it does explain a lot of the post Covid jab injuries via excessive fibrosis—a single, simple, straightforward mechanism. So it is a powerful hypothesis. Occam’s razor would appear to favor it. I’ve noticed the injuries often involve a build up of fibrous clots in the vascular system, from all the young people who have died from heart attacks or myocarditis to Eric Clapton’s troubled hands.
You take issue with people such as cardiologist Peter McCullough (who has been struck off for his medical heresies) and Marc Giradot (who was never struck on to begin with) over the mechanism by which the COVID shots make the body produce “fibrinaloid” clots. You all agree that the shots produce the clots.
Incidentally, the mainstream Wikipedia/Google AI officially approved view is that COVID-19 the disease produces such clots, but the jabs are safe and effective. Any such weird clots are nothing to do with the jabs.
But where you seem to disagree with people like Marc is that they see the the contents of the jabs (such as the mRNA nanoparticles) transfecting cells, the cells subsequently being destroyed by the killer T cells, and the “fibrinaloid” clots being produced as “bandaid” to cover the damage and prevent leakage from the blood vessels prior to future repair; while you see the jabs containing artificial tumor exosomes—essentially deliberate carcinogens—that enter cells and persuade/force them to turn cancerous.
Would you consider that last paragraph a fair summing up, or have I misunderstood something important?
Correct me if I’m wrong but their theory on the fibrinaloid clots is regarding micro clotting as a result of endothelial band-aiding. That dynamic can’t explain the monster fibrin clots in the circulation system that have been found, which I regard as straight up blood tumors that are presumably mostly found in the people who got vaxxed straight into the bloodstream but also plenty who didn’t because the bloodstream is the main way that tumor exosomes travel in the body. Even when injected into muscle tissue, vaxx tumor exosomes will travel through the interstitial fluid that pervades the tissue in order to enter the nearest capillary or vein because that’s what they normally do anyway in order to migrate. So when a bunch of these exosomes enter the bloodstream and slow down at broad bends in the river they get taken up by endothelial cells that can turn cancerous and since tumors are blooded they have their unlimited buffet right there and they’re singing “We goin a Sizzler.” And these insane blood tumors grow out and sometimes break off and kill the person. There’s no explanation for that hypertrophic ‘fibrinaloid’ dynamic that I can see in their spike vaxx theory.
AI:
“Yes, tumor exosomes can congregate in areas of slow-moving blood and interact with endothelial cells. This process is influenced by hemodynamics and is a critical step in promoting angiogenesis (new blood vessel formation) and preparing distant sites for metastasis.
Mechanism of Interaction
Hemodynamic Influence: Blood flow forces, including flow velocity and shear stress, directly impact the behavior of circulating tumor cells and the targeting of tumor-derived exosomes (TEXs) to the vessel walls. Low blood flow speed (such as in post-capillary venules or areas of vascular stasis) facilitates the margination, adherence, and subsequent uptake of exosomes by endothelial cells.
Adhesion and Uptake: The adherence of exosomes to the endothelium involves specific surface molecules, such as P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1 (PSGL-1) and exposed phosphatidylserine. Once attached, endothelial cells internalize the exosomes through various endocytic pathways, including clathrin-dependent endocytosis and phagocytosis.
Functional Reprogramming: Upon internalization, TEXs deliver their cargo (proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids like microRNAs) to the endothelial cells, effectively reprogramming them. This delivery leads to several changes:
Promotion of Angiogenesis: TEXs contain pro-angiogenic factors (e.g., VEGF, MMPs, IL-6, IL-8) that stimulate endothelial cell migration, proliferation, and tube formation, creating the necessary blood supply for a growing tumor or a future metastatic site.
Increased Vascular Permeability: Some exosomal components, like specific microRNAs (e.g., miR-105, miR-25-3p), can disrupt the tight junctions between endothelial cells, increasing vascular permeability and allowing tumor cells to cross the endothelial barrier more easily for metastatic dissemination.
Pre-metastatic Niche Formation: By modulating endothelial cells and other cells in the local microenvironment, tumor exosomes help prepare a “pre-metastatic niche,” making the distant organ more receptive to circulating tumor cells.”
Yeah it’s a fair summation. A bunch of tumor signaling exosomes entering a cell such that their carcinogenic LNPs break down and pollute the cell just as the mRNAs signal for tumorigenesis is a perfect storm for tumorigenesis. But that would just be the cancer forming dynamic as opposed to, say, fibroblasts receiving tumor signalings for the upregulation of fibrinogen and collagen that can lead to fibrotic disease, and immune cells getting repressive signals to stand down, etc. The vaxxes certainly appear to be broad spectrum tumor exosomes because cancer is just a small subset of the injuries.
How does McCullough explain the cancers and turbo cancers?
How does McCullough explain the cancers and turbo cancers?
I’m not quite sure of the details because I don’t follow him very closely because he has an irritating whiny voice and he sells and promotes The Wellness Company with its supplements and medical kits, which renders him potentially biased.
But I consider him as basically well-meaning and knowledgable—not a charlatan by any means.
So I asked Google, which warned me that Dr. Mc was spreading misinformation blah blah blah, and then told me:
The core argument is that the vaccines interfere with the body’s natural immune surveillance mechanisms that normally detect and destroy nascent cancer cells. He, and sources he cites, suggest a link between repeated vaccination and the development of IgG4 antibodies, which could block local immune responses, allowing cancers to grow unchecked (immune escape).
Me again: Destroying nascent cancer cells is one of the immune system’s most important functions. To keep us cancer free, it has to destroy at least six nascent cancer cells before breakfast, so to speak, as new nascent cancer cells are popping up all the time. It’s a constant game of whack-a-mole.
I’ve noticed people getting cancer within weeks or months of being jabbed. Often the cancer kills them. But often they are treated and the cancer is apparently killed—or at least goes into remission.
It could be that the cancers form because the jabs interfere temporarily with the immune system’s response, but over the long term the immune system recovers and so if the original cancer is knocked out by treatment, the patient can recover.
That scenario would be in line with Dr. M’s views—which Google assures us are misinformation.
Your view that the cancers form because the jabs introduce tumor exosomes into the body and these exosomes cause some cells to become cancerous.
I assume that in your view the immune system is attempting to destroy these cells before they grow into tumors, but if there are too many cancerous cells, the immune system can’t keep up.
It’s easy to visualize this. It makes sense. The problem for me is I can see in my mind how Marc’s bolus theory could work, and how Dr. M’s theory could work, and how your theory would work. But I can’t see inside real body down at the cell level to see how the real body works.
The fibrous clots. How do the become so large sometimes?
I think Marc would explain it as the if the damage to the blood vessel walls cannot be repaired quickly, because the damage affects to large an area of the endothelium, then as much fibrous bandaid material is applied as it takes to do the job, even if putting layer upon layer on top of each other results in a blockage.
Marc definitely wrote in his book about the way the system works. He stressed that the body has evolved to deal with a limited scale of damage to the endothelium, as we suffer through exposure to free radicals due to what we eat, what we breath in, and how much stress we are under for various reasons, but it was never designed to deal with the catastrophic levels of damage that a bolus of material that can destroy large tracts of blood vessel linings at a stroke.
In his comparison, what cigarette smoking or eating inflammation-causing foods can do is like bombing in wartime that can destroy houses here and there, while what a vaccine bolus can do is the equivalent of carpet bombing that can destroy a whole city—or the blood vessels in Eric Clapton’s fingers. Good analogy—easy to visualize, I thought.
Remember, the blood vessel repair system is automatic. Doing as much as it takes to repair the blood vessels from damage. It doesn’t stop to ask itself, if I keep adding to this bandage, the blood vessel will block up. It simply responds to the signals it receives from damaged tissues.
I’d say that tumorigenesis happens with the consent of the whole body because it is a last-resort bodily function for times when the option for sending fat-soluble carcinogens (like the LNPs) to adipose tissue for storage is simply not an option. But again, the body’s first option for the genesis of these nascent tumor microenvironments is for them to be temporary.
The tumor exosome bombs combined with the carcinogenic LNPs just overwhelms some people who are already struggling with chronically insufficient secondary ‘seasonal’ detoxes. And if the jab went straight into the bloodstream, those bends in the river concentrate the vaxx and whole swaths of endothelial tissue become cancerous and the tumor has nowhere to form but in the bloodstream. Those blood tumors are unprecedented. Tumors in the bloodstream are the last place that the body would choose to have them form because it’s a circulatory system which is opposite of a storage system.
I just don’t see that Marc’s scenario makes sense for explaining blood tumors. Swaths of endothelial tissue getting killed by t-cells and those swarhs getting patched over with fibrotic scar tissue would be bad for sure, but it’s just not going to creates these fat ass three dimensional fibrin clots that break off or just almost completely clog up the vessel. There’s no reason the body would build out such hypertrophied and dangerous scar tissue.
Thanks for doing the legwork on Mac’s cancer view. I should’ve just asked AI myself. Again, tumor exosomes specifically upregulate IGG4. He clearly can’t come up with a specific reason why the vaxx does so.
Obviously my knowing that viruses don’t exist eliminates that massive stumbling block. These folks are groping in the dark because of virology. Trying to square a circle.
On substack last year I gave Yeadon the lowdown on the theory and suggested that he not run with it publicly if he found it compelling. I figured since by that point he had pretty much come to believe that no viruses at all exist — and not just respiratory ones which he had limited himself to going public about for so long — that he might be game. He was on substack daily so I knew that he got my reply right away. Three weeks later he gave me a thumbs up which I took to mean that he had decided to do what you are doing now. (I could be wrong.) I never checked back in with his work to see if it might have influenced his public commentary in any way, but I did suggest to him when I told him that he was well-known enough that he would want to think very carefully about publicizing the theory himself.
I have no interest in activism myself, and I’m a nobody operating under Dunbar’s Number so I don’t have anything to worry about. They’ve already paid me a visit in person so I know that they would let me know if they had a problem with me. They respect the boundaries of natural law and so my work is fair game. Like I’ve said before, I think they’d be disappointed if people out there weren’t divining what they’re actually doing behind their cover stories
Ah, I’m learning.
Tumor-derived exosomes are found in all body fluids. Upon contact with target cells, they alter phenotypic and functional attributes of recipients, reprogramming them into active contributors to angiogenesis, thrombosis, metastasis, and immunosuppression.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27117662/#:~:text=Tumor%2Dderived%20exosomes%20are%20found,thrombosis%2C%20metastasis%2C%20and%20immunosuppression.
Lots of long words in this one.
In New York, Jews against Genocide and against the tactic of labeling and libeling Mamdani as an Antisemite.
I was really moved by this dignified protest and I respect these people immensely.
Also, I learned from it the practical art of how members of the Hasidic community keep their hats dry in rainy weather.
God Bless the Torah Jews.
Oh he’s an antisemite alright. A structural one, that is. Who isn’t? Finance Capitalism is enshrined in Semitic culture.
As I said starting about 7years ago, the Collapse political establishment will be broad-spectrum culturally/structurally anti-semitic but not explicitly anti-semitic. Though of course it goes without saying that, when transitioning from a Semitic establishment to a structurally anti-semitic one, street-level antisemitism has to be nurtured because the consent factory manufactures is socially engineered products with vertical integration. Look how Nick Fuentes absolutely blew up last month. After being deplatformed for 8years suddenly he was on Tucker and Candace and Greenwald and Dore etc, and therefore on the Newshour and all the other MSM outlets. Timing is everything. And he’s a super smart kid who comes off as really reasonable. Kirk’s fake Mossad-framing assassination plus the rise of Kirk’s nemesis Fuentes who loathed Kirk’s Zionism, plus the young Left’s virile antisemitism, is the Hand’s young national socialism cake walking across American territory like Al-Nusra in Syria.
Welcome to the revolution in realtime, right now, that isn’t being televised.
Real or not real folks?
“the young Left’s virile antisemitism, is the Hand’s young national socialism cake walking across American territory like Al-Nusra in Syria”
We can only hope.
Hope has nothing to do with it. Relax your eyes into the distance brother and trust in them. When we want something too much, sometimes we can’t believe it’s true when at first it comes. ‘Too good to be true’ is but cognitive dissonance talking. Past baggage.
I like that the 70 year old is heading-up the protest with the official statement, the 17 year old prodigal son is by his side, and the 50year old true leader in his prime is doing the argumentative heavy lifting down at the bottom the steps. Traditionalism in accordance with natural fractals. Love those twisted forelocks. Built-in worry beads for the serious soul. I fancy it that the prodigal son’s forelocks are banded tight as a rite of passage.
https://flibe.com/lftr/
Fifty small thorium fueled nuclear reactors to make electric could help the workers collective of NYC product cheap electric to lower living costs.
DOA ;
”Small reactors, big problems: the nuclear mirage behind AI’s energy hype ”
https://medium.com/enrique-dans/small-reactors-big-problems-the-nuclear-mirage-behind-ais-energy-hype-77f93a3a4460
Small reactors make a good story, but they are not very practical.
“Modular designs have been explored before, and they faced the same obstacles: uncontrollable costs, complex engineering, difficulties in scaling and operational problems. The simple truth is that small nuclear reactors can’t compete with renewables today. Instead, the arguments are based on political, financial and institutional motivations, fueled by a mentally ill person who hates renewables.”
The irony of a renewable energy acolyte claiming people who don’t believe that renewable energy can produce enough energy to replace fossil fuels is mentally ill is very high.
Someone who promotes products that have never been demonstrated to work as a replacement for fossil fuels from my experience is usually “mentally ill”. This person is usually a layman. The person usually (yes, I know that there are exceptions) has no experience designing making solar panels or wind turbines nor have they tried to use it for real work. What makes this person “mentally ill”, to me, is that person frames finite world issues in political terms, as problems with capitalism, if they acknowledge finite world issues at all. They don’t know that much about what they are promoting but insist everyone convert or else.
Unless, Thorium fueled nuclear energy can dramatically increase all the other resources required for industrial civilization, it not lower living costs.
We still need lots of iron, asphalt, and other stuff.
We’re not just running out of electricity.
35% of the Earth’s mass is iron. That’s 2 sextillion tons of iron.
I just wanted to type the word “sextillion” and grin about it. I don’t get many chances to do that.
Not all of that iron is accessible, though. Most of it is in the core or deep in the mantle of the planet. Lester Brown has forecast that we might run out of iron by 2070. But most of the iron we used gets recycled so it can be used more than once, and there are lots of iron-containing manganese nodules or the seabed and iron asteroids that, if Dennis is to be believed, are just waiting for the soon-to-come space mining industry to harvest them. In only a few more decades, we’ll see how that forecast pans out.
Venezuela has massive natural deposits of bitumen, primarily located in the Orinoco Belt. The Orinoco Belt is estimated to contain more than 1,300 billion barrels of bitumen/extra-heavy oil in place, an amount roughly equivalent to the world’s estimated proven reserves of lighter oil.
Asphalt is made from bitumen, which acts as a binder for aggregates like stone, sand, and gravel. It is unlikely we will ever run out of stone, sand, or gravel. Specialized sands, such as torpedo sand (a naturally coarse, well-draining sand) and manufactured sand (M-sand) produced by crushing larger rocks, are commonly used in making asphalt because they meet these specific engineering requirements.
We may run out of the energy required to smelt iron or manufacture asphalt, but the raw materials appear to be abundant.
Bitumen is the byproduct of millions of years of decaying plant matter, no different than oil. It is not abundant enough to meet human demand for paved roads globally, just as with oil.
The so called bitumen deposits found independently of oil just happen to occur in countries with significant oil reserves. Canada…Venezuela….
Fed: la crise silencieuse :
https://michelsanti.fr/elections-manipulees/fed-adp
This is an interesting article about the dependence of the US Federal Government on the free sharing of data by big companies, such as ADP.
The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, recently lost access to a valuable macroeconomic indicator: anonymized employment and wage data provided by ADP, the payroll processing giant. More than just a technical issue, this statistic, no longer available to the Fed, poses a threat to stability and hinders its ability to manage the economy.
ADP is a private company that manages the payroll of 20% of the American private workforce—several million workers—and since 2017 had been generously sharing an aggregated and anonymized dataset with the Fed. Available with a delay of only one week, this data offered a near real-time glimpse into the conditions of the American labor market in terms of hiring, wages, and industry trends.
For Fed economists, this highly sophisticated analytical tool allowed them to detect weak signals. These cracks were not reflected in the official statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which are often published with a delay and are frequently revised after the fact.
But this tool is no longer available:
Everything came to an abrupt halt at the end of last summer, shortly after Christopher Waller, one of the seven members of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, mentioned in a footnote to one of his speeches ADP indicators that, in his view, signaled a slowdown in employment. Citing these figures to support his concerns about the labor market, he noted that hiring was falling below the most recent official government figures.
Officially, for a “process reassessment” aimed at guaranteeing “the highest standards of confidentiality,” the company has since stopped transmitting its weekly data. In reality, no one knows what motivated this break.
Nevertheless, this sudden reversal exposes the risks of public institutions’ dependence on private actors. In a country where government shutdowns have become a recurring partisan weapon, delegating economic oversight to a publicly traded company seems, in hindsight, unreasonable.
Now we don’t have the data, even if the shutdown is fixed. It is hard to know what employment really is.
=== Three Steps for Getting Through this Energy Crunch ===
1) Thorium into uranium fuel
It seems like this might have been solved by research in China. In October 2025, China’s experimental TMSR-LF1 thorium molten salt reactor in Wuwei, Gansu Province, achieved the first successful conversion of thorium-232 into uranium-233, validating the technical feasibility of the thorium fuel cycle
2) Nuclear power to electricity via small modular systems
Big power plants are expensive to build and operate, but there always seems to be new solutions just around the corner. Small modular reactors (SMRs) are a new class of nuclear fission reactors that are considerably smaller in size and power output than traditional nuclear power reactors, typically with a capacity of 300 megawatts electric (MWe) or less per unit.
3) Convert natural gas to diesel and kerosene
Collecting and converting natural gas requires energy. This is achieved using a Fischer–Tropsch reactor with cobalt or iron catalysts to produce synthetic diesel and other liquid hydrocarbons. It can be about 60% efficient, and creates very clean fuels.
QUESTION:
There are steps, but if we now have Thorium reactors, and can run those beside SMRs near Natural Gas sources…. it seems to me that we can create Diesel and Kerosene in the proportions which… the world is currently running on. There are very complex extra steps of course, and inefficiencies, but if we can mass produce these units, efficiency will eventually prevail.
Is this a cause for optimism?
Apparently, the big issue with Uranium-233 for SMRs is contamination by Uranium-232 which makes the fuel dangerous. If this process only creates 233, then only a small amount of other fuels including U233 are needed to start and continue the reaction to make U233 from Thorium.
I have not followed. Why is 232U dangerous? half life low – high activity? everything that comes up of a nuclear reactor is dangerous then. it is all chemically separated anyway, the french have been doing it for decades.
What Im imagining, and its totally just that … is….
SMRs that can be made available for small private operators that dont need hundreds of highly trained employees.
I wonder if it is possible to produce diesel if we are able to run SMRs then turbines and then distilleries near the sources of gas.
If we now possess all these technologies, could it be possible to set up many Fischer–Tropsch reactors operating efficiently enough for a new source of Diesel?
We can run heavy machinery on natgas for a while, decades at least. Everyone understands natgas will peak after oil.
Over-land transport can use electric charging with sodium ion batteries. This is already ramping and is going to displace most lithium ion batteries. It’s cheaper and not raw materials constrained in any meaningful way. Lower density, but good enough for mass adoption.
So the question is, can we ramp electricity? China and Russia have now demonstrated virtually 100% consumption of nuclear fuel (breeders, closed fuel cycle, also thorium), compared with historically low usage circa 1%. Russia and China have both demonstrated miniaturization of nuclear power – no more need for massive infrastructure projects to roll it out.
It’s solved, just not in the USA. Civilization is not going to collapse everywhere unless somehow bureaucratic ossification or war manages to prevent China and Russia from moving ahead. We here may still very well implode, though.
Sodium ion batteries for transport? I missed that story. That said, things in Sodium Ion seem to be moving quickly. My understanding is that they are heavier with far less energy density. They have trouble with cold charging… which knocks them out of contention for almost all places with minerals.
Electric trains make sense, but purely electric tractors are a fantasy… or so I thought. I will read up on it. Edison Motors in BC has found a hybrid solution that seems to appeal to some by the looks of it. Logging trucks coming down a hill is nothing but charge. I could see Sodium Ion being a perfect fit there… but the rest of the charge comes from a fuel powered motor.
To circle back; Natural Gas is plentiful. I know that places like Bangladesh are pretty much exclusively Natural Gas powered. But then, it is almost entirely an agrarian and textile economy.
Is it possible to run our planet on straight up natural gas with the infrastructure we have now? Not much heavy industry currently runs on Natural Gas, and building out a replacement energy distribution system is probably not in the cards.
More Diesel and Kerosene…. if we had that…. well, we still have a chance of finding that cubit parsec of plutonium.
I don’t know where you heard about sodium batteries being bad with cold charging, but just the opposite: CATL (biggest existing battery maker) claims these sodium batteries operate at -40C to 70C.
If it were some academic lab, or startup, or even a non-major player, I’d be more circumspect. But this is the biggest manufacturer moving a lot of production to sodium and saying they work across a huge temperature range and cost only 10%, when they already the biggest lithium battery supplier. For them to bring this out means it is very very very compelling.
I recommend watching the Intro and “Naxtra” sections, skipping the “Sodium Basics” in the middle.
I dont mean to sound overtly dismissive… but… I push back very hard on Matt Ferrell. Almost everything he talks about is either whimsical, not proven or simply false.
Any Chinese company, I also push back very hard on as they are all entirely propaganda driven.
As such, Im also not buying the Thorium Ship claims…. just yet. This is China today unfortunately… mostly false claims to appear as if they are far more advanced than they actually are.
That said, I really want Thorium to be finally true, and viable at scale. China has been working hard on this, and if they have made a breakthrough… the world might have a new lease on retaining operational complexity.
>> Any Chinese company, I also push back very hard on as they are all entirely propaganda driven.
Strongly disagree. This is CATL, largest battery manufacturer in the world and supplier of Tesla etc. If there are hype-mongers you should be wary of, they’re to be found in the USA.
I hold CATL in higher regard than almost any other Chinese company. They have performed.
They build safer batteries than most other manufacturers because they the process absolutely nailed.
But anything not actually in mass production should be considered experimental only. There are far too many examples of hyperbolic statements about future tech by not just Chinese companies, but nearly all these days. We have lost trust societies… and China has lost it entirely.
Just another snake oil salesperson
OK to summarize sodium developments compared to lithium:
* CATL projects the price to be 10% (at scale)
* not materials limited
* much longer cycle life
* huge temperature range and better low-temp charge storage
* multiple products rolling out this year
All according to CATL, which is the most reputable and largest battery manufacturer in the world. China is not known for hype, they have a different culture, they do first and tell you after they’ve done it.
Yes, we discussed it few weeks ago.
Basically, if you turn over large part of the current car fleet into at least ~30kWh batt sized plugin hybrids (+ off peak overnight charging) – the need for *gasoline drops DOWN dramatically.. means (yet) another PO proper rupture delay..
Possibility, not guaranteed obviously..
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* small displacement diesel private cars are effectively banned in EU nowadays and not consumer liked in the US anyway – so used in parts of Asia only
addendum> it either already lapsed or the licensing fees for Toyota’s serial-paralell hybrid drive as known originally in Prius ~30yrs ago dropped to the bottom;
So, everybody now offers to each model (optional) gasoline hybrids with small ~2kWh battery. Hence this suggested new upgrade towards PHEV combo (increased e-power + silicon batts) won’t necessarily mean dramatic price increase. Lets assume +25% in volume production over standard model. Someone could calculate the ~ROC of it over miles driven, but the bottom line to have fuel from off peak national grid or private PV install is almost PRICE-LESS by definition anyway.
oops [Sodium]..
addendum2: the JAP gasoline hybrid originated as response to European hair-brain idea “lets form worlds premiership” in small displacement diesels, DE-FR-IT poured enormous resources into this abyss, it was wrong solution for the depletion paradigm, and it had no longer term future vs hybrids as we see now clearly..
I think we are quite a few years away from actually doing these things.
1. The US has essentially no mined thorium, so the first part, “Thorium into uranium,” is a long ways off. It is my understanding that thorium is usually mined as a co-product when mining other minerals, but we aren’t mining much of any other minerals that might have thorium as a co-product.
2. Small Modular Nuclear Reactors are not yet at the point of ramping up. This is especially the case, if they are to be powered by thorium. Maybe, for the long term.
3. I don’t know enough about converting natural gas to diesel and kerosene to comment, but my understanding why something similar hadn’t been done in quantity before were (a) Too expensive–customers couldn’t afford the diesel and kerosene, and (b) Other requirements, such as water, not necessarily readily available.
I am not confident of the abundance of natural gas supply for very long either. It needs a higher price to continue for the long term. It needs other fossil fuels for pipelines. At a high price, natural gas is not very affordable for heating (which is a major use).
It is my understanding that the Thorium ship operated by the Chinese is much more expensive and more inefficient to run than the diesel ships. So until they can get the cost down it might not be that great a panacea that they say it is.
Thanks Gail,
I suspect you are correct about time frames. However, if achieving gas to diesel becomes humanities mission statement… and it’s possible to use the FT process to generate liquid fuels from gas deposits, is this not a potential means to continue BAU with our current build out?
Im certain this would not be remotely viable today. But, if we somehow were to have had many thousands of identical Thorium SMR FT (TSF?) units pumping out diesel, would that do it?
Perhaps there are a lot of different ideas we can try, and maybe one of them will work out. I don’t know whether this one can be ruled out based on built-in limits.
I assume you are driving the FT reaction with nuclear, not coal. and indeed FT only requires 200-240C. Easily attainable even at current reactors.
NG / Thorium + (Thorium reactors -> SMR -> Turbine -> FT) = Electricity + Diesel + Kerosene
I know this is essential not remotely viable at the moment… but it seems like maybe all the components of the 10000 piece puzzle, have been counted, turned right side up, with the edges completed.
I disagree. you either get diesel or electricity but not both.
The discussion about SMRs appeared (“coincidentally”) with the newly arousing wave of tech billionaires of the mid 90/00s. Apart from biz opportunity (and assumed simplicity of transferring mil tech into the open public space) there was also very apparent call for more distributed (relaxed) gov approval for it.. Simply, this all smelled like these boyz want it within their private compounds badly.
It seems with the price collapse of PVs and quality lithium batteries – the previous level of interest subsided a bit. It’s way less needed in that context today, as that batt storage tech (+ updated pool of spare parts) is +25yrs longevity – ergo good enough (for them)..
AstraZeneca’s top scientist dies of “MAD COW DISEASE”
“March 21 (Reuters) – AstraZeneca head of oncology research, Jose Baselga, has died at the age of 61, the company said on Sunday.
“An outstanding scientific leader, José leaves a lasting legacy in the scientific community and here at AstraZeneca,” the company’s Chief Executive Officer Pascal Soriot said, in a statement.
The statement did not give a cause of death but Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia said Baselga had died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare brain condition.
https://www.reuters.com/world/astrazenecas-head-rd-oncology-dies-61-2021-03-21/
This death occurred in March of 2021, about three or four months after the COVID-19 vaccine rollout started.
In 2020, Baselga was working for pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, and in June of that year, he was mentally competent enough to issue the following statement.
José Baselga, Executive Vice President, Oncology R&D, said: “The science supporting investigation of the use of Calquence in patients with severe COVID-19 is strong. The encouraging preliminary data in this case series has informed the initiation of global phase II trials, notably the CALAVI programme. We look forward to completing recruitment and obtaining data in these trials as soon as possible to further our understanding of what this potential treatment could mean for patients.”
https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2020/calquence-showed-promising-clinical-improvement-in-majority-of-19-hospitalised-covid-19-patients.html#
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, invariably fatal neurodegenerative disorder characterized by rapidly progressive symptoms, which typically worsen over a few weeks to months, with most patients dying within one year of symptom onset.
Baselga went from working in a professional capacity to dying of CJD within 9 months. Why and how he came down with it is question worth of pursuit. It is a rare brain disease, but then again he had a rare brain.
Could he have caught it by eating hamburgers served in the AstraZeneca canteen made from British mad cow beef that had been in the freezer since the 1980s? (Incidentally, I am not allowed to donate blood in Japan, even in 2025, because I spent more than 3 months in the UK during the early 1980s, just in case!)
Or did he come into contact with prions in some other way through his work?
And moreover, did he receive any COVID 19 shots? I was unable to find out online, but I did discover that AstraZeneca implemented a COVID-19 vaccination policy for its staff in 2021. The policy aimed to encourage vaccination among employees to ensure a safe working environment. But if he was jabbed, he would probably have had the AstraZeneca shot, which was a a viral vector vaccine a modified chimpanzee adenovirus to deliver the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein gene into cells, prompting an immune response. This vaccine has been linked to a rare but serious side effect called thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), a condition involving blood clots and low platelet counts, causing it to be withdrawn from use in many countries.
There are apparently a number of causes of CJD, namely:
1. Sporadic CJD: This is the most common form and occurs without any known cause. It typically arises spontaneously, usually in older adults.
2. Familial CJD: This hereditary form results from genetic mutations. It can run in families and is linked to specific gene mutations associated with prion diseases.
3. Acquired CJD: This form can be transmitted through exposure to infected tissues, such as:
– Contaminated medical equipment: Use of surgical instruments that have not been properly sterilized after being used on infected patients.
– Transplants: Receiving corneal transplants or other tissue grafts from an infected donor.
– Ingestion of infected meat: Consuming beef products contaminated with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease.
4. Variant CJD: A specific form of acquired CJD linked to BSE exposure, primarily occurring in individuals who consumed infected beef products.
5. Other prion diseases: Certain other prion diseases can also lead to CJD-like symptoms.
How come brain infection is not listed cause of what may have happened to him? Microbes that cross the blood-brain barrier have been implicated as causes for many neurological disorders and neurogenerative diseases. including Alzheimer’s disease and psychopathy. The Uni-Bomber story implies that he was never the same after a real bad infection as a child.
I understand your point, but not all neurological disorders are equal. And this Baselga case is very different from the Uni-Bomber case.
According to Google AI:
No, a bacterial infection cannot cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). CJD is caused by an abnormal protein called a prion, not by a bacterium, virus, or parasite. The abnormal prion causes normal proteins in the brain to misfold, leading to nerve cell damage.
Baselga was diagnosed as CJD, not with Alzheimer’s.
Again, Google AI:
CJD is definitively diagnosed by examining brain tissue from a brain biopsy or autopsy, as this is the only way to confirm the presence of the abnormal prion proteins. However, a diagnosis can be strongly suggested before death through a combination of a patient’s symptoms, an MRI of the brain, an electroencephalogram (EEG), and a spinal fluid test, especially the highly accurate real-time quaking-induced conversion (RT-QuIC) test.
The crumbling infrastructure halts the progress. We need more resources just to stay afloat. Wishful thinking brings a lot of disappointment. The delays and underestimated costs are the new normal.
How the reconstruction of the road with old bridges bypassing my regional town in Slovakia went form EUR 14 mil. to EUR 40 mil.
https://auto.pravda.sk/doprava/clanok/773481-znamu-panelku-v-trencianskom-kraji-dokoncia-o-pol-roka-skor/
In the good old days, a team of low-paid laborers would have done the job with pickaxes, spades, wheelbarrows, an “Irish tumble dryer” to make cement, and a few sticks of dynamite to break apart any rock-faces too hard for manual work to dislodge. Indeed, this is the still the way it’s done in some of the more human resource-rich parts of the world.
The narrative is that technology can replace low paid laborers even though in many cases, technology is more expensive.
In theory, they say humans can use A.I. and robotics to replace the work. In practice, very few customers are willing or able to pay the upfront costs of using A.I. and robotics.
Any firm attempting to use robots rebuild a bridge would have to borrow money, program the robots to do the task, and hopefully be able to pay off the loan. I imagine that most A.I. and robotics companies want their money upfront and don’t ask for a percentage of the profits later on.
There is also the issue of social norms.
Employees are expected to borrow money to get a job but employers are not expected to take loans out to pay employees, even if those employees are machines.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/germanys-hydrogen-dream-becomes-9-billion-yearly-black-hole
The lack of subsidies isn’t the only problem. A major brake on hydrogen expansion is the collapse of German industry caused by the very same green transformation policies. What Brussels and Berlin didn’t account for were fleeing investments due to skyrocketing energy costs.
Scaling hydrogen production requires industrial demand—but that demand is evaporating.
Policy is stumbling from subsidy to subsidy, driven by desperation to keep previous green ruin projects alive. It’s a dreadful spectacle—for every taxpayer forced to finance it.
I’ve read repeatedly that about 95% of commercial hydrogen is derived from “natural gas” — so, how could this hydrogen stuff function without fossil fuels?
If natural gas can be converted straight through to diesel, then why even bother with too hard to handle hydrogen?
I don’t have an answer.
Ah, you may be correct, David, about 95% of commercial hydrogen being derived from “natural gas.”
However, using electrolysis, hydrogen gas can be derived very simply from water. So, theoretically, capricious or intermittent energy sources such as solar and wind power could be used to produce copious amounts hydrogen (as well as oxygen) while the sun is shining or the wind is blowing.
In Chile, they are proposing to do just this, with the backing of the World Bank. It’s still very much at the PR stage, but they have a lot of wind down in Punta Arenas.
The World Bank — somehow, private capital seems to be lacking in such projects — don’t they think it’ll pay off?
I don’t think there is much of a market for hydrogen gas fuel at present. And such a market is unlikely to grow spontaneously while other fuels are abundant and the infrastructure for using them is widespread.
So, owners of private capital might hesitate to get involved in such a scheme. But if in future, hydrogen manages to obtain the subsidy of being allowed to go first, as solar power has done with respect to grid access, it might become a nice little earner for whoever backs it.
If solar and wind power generation can be said to be a derivative of fossil fuel since fossil fuel is required to build and maintain their infrastructure, then hydrogen from solar and wind could be defined as a second-order derivative of fossil fuel. I’m not sure about this terminology. Perhaps someone can correct me here.
This seems to be important and I haven’t seen it posted here. From yesterday.
https://futurocienciaficcionymatrix.blogspot.com/2025/11/la-tendencia-usa-shale-oil-producir-mas.html.
I have a question. If crude sells for $65 and NGL for $19 and several of the large oil US companies consider the both barrels of oil, then how does the price get determined. And as Art Berman said to Hagens NGLs can have as little as 35% the energy of crude shouldn’t we be looking at total energy in our 13.5M instead of volume.
Thank you
Sir , the price of oil is not determined by the physical market but by the financial market . Production of oil is about 84.5 mbpd but the daily trading volume at NYMEX is 5 billion bpd . That is why the distortion is priced . There is no real price discovery and that is why the shale industry has over $ 300 billion in non-repayable debt —- and continues to pump oil because the finance is available . It is something like the Tesla share price — is it $ 489 at peak or $ 215 at low ? Oh by the way oil also reached $ 147 and then also MINUS $ 37 . If oil was priced in energy units as you suggested it would be unaffordable and would not be extracted .
People continue to believe that the oil would stop if actors were “rational”, because it is loss-making. This is nonsense. Bankers/government will find a way to finance it surreptitiously (maybe they already are) as long as it is energy positive, because GDP/economic activity is a large multiple of oil/energy/raw materials. Small cost to finance oil, big returns in the form of ongoing civilization. 300 billion / 10 years = 30 billion per year – bankers are not dumb enough to let the civilization crumble because they refused to finance slightly loss-making oil extraction that returns 10mbpd.
”Shale Oil Is Growing on Trees Now ” . Mr Mike Shellman on the lies told to us everyday by the oil industry .
https://www.oilystuff.com/group/engineering-and-geological-discussions/discussion/69920128-600a-4497-ba05-1124d8318f95
There are many different prices. The $65 is for a particular type of crude oil, most like sold in Europe, because US oil prices are lower.
Natural gas liquids are mixtures of several different shorter molecules. Some of it is almost like gasoline. It sells for a relatively high price. Some of it is close to natural gas. There is propane, butane, and other types of gases. The price varies with the particular petroleum product. Some of it can sell for close to the same price as natural gas (which is very low), especially if the total amount extracted is not really needed.
Most (or all) of the profit typically comes from the oil extracted. The natural gas and natural gas liquids usually don’t sell for enough to keep the system going.
Natural gas, by itself, doesn’t sell for much. This is why it can compete with coal for operating power plants. Producers keep hoping prices will go higher. It is my understanding that the quest for higher prices is a major part of the reason for LNG exports.
Or maybe natural gas is going up to power all the AI data centers
I should add:
I do regularly look at total energy per capita. That is based on the heat energy generated using all sourced of energy combined. We need more energy, the more people we need to feed and transport.
Our problem today is that energy per capita is only barely increasing. In fact, it may be slightly decreasing per capita. This is the peak we should be concerned with. Historical experience shows that the economy does far better when total energy per capita is increasing. When it is flat or slightly decreasing, the world is much more likely to be in war.
My earlier analysis shows that the US civil war took place at a time when energy per capita was low or falling. Soldiers were getting shorter from malnutrition.
My earlier analysis shows that WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII all took place when world energy per capita was close to flat, or actually declining. The collapse of the central government of the Soviet Union took place at another such time.
World energy consumption per capita was rapidly rising between WWII and 1973. It also rose rapidly between 2001 and 2007, after China joined the World Trade Organization and started using its inexpensive coal supply to ramp up cheap goods and service for export.
We are now reaching a point where nothing is working as well as we would like. There is a fair amount of natural gas, but shipping it long distance tends to be very expensive. It also needs to be stored for use. Building storage facilities is expensive also.
Ostrich cull complete at B.C. farm, flock of birds shot dead, CFIA says
“The owners of the Universal Ostrich Farm are reeling after their flock was culled. A nearly year-long legal battle came to an end Thursday after the Supreme Court denied the farm’s last possible appeal and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency swiftly moved in to destroy the birds.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/11516647/ostrich-cull-complete-bc-farm-flock-birds-dead/
Sad, miserable, depressing news.
I think the murderous Canadian State is doing this sort of thing to further demoralize the people.
Canada is well on the way to becoming a black hole, politically and administratively speaking, and it also happens to be the world capital for euthanasia these days. It’s a country where doctors, care workers, and social workers are given the task of asking the sick, the depressed, the handicapped and the destitute whether they would like to end it all.
Canadian Bruce Pardy says, “We are approaching state singularity: the moment when state and society become indistinguishable.”
I think euthanasia should be legal for people in pain
Same reason we use it for pets. People shouldn’t have to suffer because the church says you won’t go to heaven.
Come on Tim
I could just reply, “Life is painful. Get used to it!” But that would be callous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnd06LWlql4
Or I could say, “Basically I agree with you.” But that would be to vastly oversimplify the situation. Not everyone in pain wants to die, and yet in Canada, according to accounts I’ve read, pressure is being put on such people to apply for assisted dying.
I think euthanasia has gone far too far in Canada. In 2023, the most recent year for which figures are available, over 15,000 people were “put to sleep” there, like pets. The accounted for one death in 20.
Of course, I may be wrong—or getting too much of my news from the Internet. But even the BBC is asking, “Has assisted dying in Canada gone too far?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50_l6XJkS30
I don’t think the Church has very much influence these days, does it? For a long time it hasn’t been able stop people from disobeying any of the Ten Commandments and it hasn’t even been able to persuade people that they have an immortal soul and that human life has dignity. Lots of people laugh and scoff openly when such a perspective is presented. After all they say, humans are merely hackable animals, basically worms with appendages. If life presents you with difficult problems that probably won’t go away, then death is a solution.
So, no significant psychological barrier exists now to normalizing the killing of people who are in pain. And an industry has grown up specializing in offering this service and promoting it to larger and larger segments of the population based on the idea that some lives are not worth living.
And perhaps, if nobody cares about you, a daily life filled with chronic pain, or difficult-to-manage suffering, is a life not worth living. Part of the problem, ironically, is that Canadian society isn’t compassionate enough to provide many people who are in pain or suffering with a supportive environment in which they are valued and cherished despite their problems and trials. That kind of society, which as you pointed out was once a hallmark of Christian culture, no longer exists in much of the post-Christian West.
Canada is on a slippery slope. Already a world leader in euthanasia, the country plans to expand Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) to include individuals whose sole condition is a mental illness from March 2027.
First they came for the ostriches, and then for the people in pain, and then for the mentally ill….
It is a sad situation in Canada.
But I understand that Japan has had a more accepting view of suicide than the US. Can’t people just choose to go off and die?
“I understand that Japan has had a more accepting view of suicide than the US.”
But the universe apparently doesn’t. I say this as someone who is neither religious nor spiritual but merely curious about the cosmology of the universe and the nature of the reality we find ourselves in.
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Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr. was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist.
In 1927, at the age of 32, Buckminster Fuller faced a period of profound personal crisis following the failure of his construction company, which intensified his financial struggles.
He contemplated suicide by drowning in Lake Michigan, a decision he reportedly considered to allow his family to benefit from a life insurance policy.
According to multiple accounts, he walked to a shoreline on the North Side of Chicago, prepared to jump, but experienced a transformative moment.
He claimed to have felt a sudden resistance, as if lifted several feet above the ground, and heard a voice declaring, “You do not have the right to eliminate yourself. You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe”.
This epiphany led him to resolve that he had a responsibility to use his intellect and experiences to benefit humanity.
He subsequently entered a period of deep contemplation, reportedly spending nearly two years in silence, during which he developed the foundational ideas for his life’s work. However, scholarly analysis has found no direct evidence of a suicide attempt or a two-year silence.
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Not at all surprising that he would have kept quiet about it, though, until he re-found stability. I have read similar accounts by others who either felt thwarted in their suicide attempts and / or guided by some paranormal force outside themselves.
I also think of the film, “It’s a wonderful life, which was ultimately based on loosely based on Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” What inspires people to write such stories, I wonder?
Despite being agnostic, like Hamlet I often think that there is more, lots more, and that life and reality in general do have their hidden aspects.
Good story.
Fortunately, Bucky was in America at the time.
Had he been standing on the Canadian shore of Lake Superior, no doubt the Government would have sent a care worker to give him a push.
Japanese culture/society never adopted any of the monotheisms in a big way. Traditionally, it has run on a mix of Buddhist compassion, Confucian duty and obligation, and Shinto reverence for nature.
In the case of suicide, I think Buddhist compassion wins out. It is a tragic thing, but the overwhelming emotion of people towards suicides is sorrow and lamentation that the person committing suicide deemed it necessary.
There is no eternal damnation in Buddhism. Unless they can reach satori, a person has to be reborn again and again, making life a bit like taking a driving test.
Buddhism, which has its roots in Hinduism, teaches that we go through cycle of birth, death, and rebirth called samsara, and that life is a continuous, cyclical process of suffering driven by actions (karma) and afflictions such as greed, hatred, and ignorance.
Mark Mardell has written about the situation in Japan regarding assisted suicide. Basically, the politicians and the courts don’t want to touch the subject or set any precedents that might open the way to it.
He quotes the authors of one study who write that in Shintoism and Confucianism, “death is regarded as the ultimate impurity and considered a serious taboo, and any discussion of death is still highly discouraged and met with great resistance.”
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good-death/68857/why-japan-struggles-with-assisted-dying
On the other hand, I am sure that a certain amount of euthanasia goes on in Japan unspoken and unacknowledged.
Tim Groves wrote:
“There is no eternal damnation in Buddhism. Unless they can reach satori, a person has to be reborn again and again, making life a bit like taking a driving test.”
A bit like occasional peak oil commenter John Michael Greer, who believes in reincarnation, metempsychosis, and karma. He also believes that the universe creates all living beings, including an assortment of gods, of which they are many. So he is a polytheist who professes to be a Druid. Yet he says that people of any religion and none can also become Druids if they so wish.
your life is yours to do with as you wish.
its not the preserve of politicians or holy busybodies.
if you have dependents, then that reality has to be put to one side for the time they are dependent on you.
eventually age will catch up with you, as it has with me.
i am still fully compos mentis (despite opinions to the contrary on OFW), superfit, and need no care of any kind, medical or otherwise.. Im in a position to lend a hand to others, when its needed. And do.
As long as I can deadlift my 100lb, I’ll know I’m not dead.
Eventually, this will change.
When it does, the thought of having my needs and functions attended to by others fills me with horror.
The alternative seems very civilised, as do the Canadian people in general.
Nobody is dragging people off the death chambers in Canada. despite the usual source of BS….If someone of 95 chooses to depart, its nobodys business but hers.
Next week i’m going to the funeral of a schoolfriend, whose movement in his care homefor the last 5 years has been “bed–chair bathroom” —literally. a daily journey measured in feet. (roughly the length of his coffin).
We are the same age.
I hope I will have the courage to make a different choice (before its too late) when my time comes.
Demiurge,
I hope you aren’t mistaking me for a druid or a wizard or an adept. the best I can do is replace the ball in the lavatory cistern when the thing starts leaking or the chain breaks.
Norman, it’s very commendable that you’ve kept yourself in such good shape, and the deadlifting is obviously part of the reason why you are in good physical health, but mind how you go when lifting heavy weights. You are not Arnold Schwarzenegger and even Arnold has had to scale things back since his Conan days.
For those who don’t know a barbell from a bluebell, here’s how to deadlift:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZaTM37cfiDs
Tim:
> Not everyone in pain wants to die …
Nobody ask the cats and dogs and horses and …
The idea of freedom and free markets, as portrayed by the American Right, is mostly a myth. Many on the right who claim we are “currently” losing our freedoms often have an overly simplistic and romanticized view of both American and global history.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-1-trillion
‘The Paradox of Thrift’: This meme was promulgated by Paula Krugman during the 2008 financial crisis. It refers to the natural inclination of people to spend less during a recession since, you know, they don’t have any money, job security, healthcare coverage, or ‘Disposable’ income.
This, of course, stymies economy recovery.
Yet, somehow, allocating $1trillion to one freak fElon, as well as numerous other robber barrens (sic), leaves so-called economists scratching their collective heads over why the economic straightjacket they’ve wrapped us in has deleterious effects on GDP growth in a consumer-driven economy.
And every dollar of debt ties every strap of the straitjacket one notch tighter.
Notes of interest: If a person in a straitjacket falls down, they have nothing but their face to stop their fall; if a person in a straitjacket falls down, they cannot get up without assistance.
“Musk’s nearly $1 trillion package would be the biggest corporate compensation plan in history…”
That is around the annual GDP of Saudi Arabia. Isn’t this era something…
Other than bidding up the price of stock, what could the $1 trillion be used for? Buying influence? Bidding up the price of farmland?
Somehow, we seem to be heading in the direction of a few owning everything, and everyone else owning nothing.
your observation about a few owning everything is quite correct.
as someone commented on radio uk this morning, we are now headed for a medeival/feudal economic system in that respect.—simply because the mass of the have nots will be ground further and further down. (for a time anyway) doesnt apply to our age group, but it will certainly apply to kids growing up now
Fake profits means fake rewards. Like fake followers, fake likes, fake news, fake celebrities.
Fake reality means inefficiency, which means implosion.
The people want to hear a nicer story. Not the real story.
They want to hear that there is some easy money that somebody makes. Just they are not the fortunate ones. Because they want more and more and more…
We have thorium now we don’t have to worry about peak anything anymore
The Chinese will show us the way
Thank gawd. I was worried there for a moment.
Start applying for a licence now. Make sure you have all documents.
They are well known to put the carriage before the horse. Not losing sleep till whatever they propose actually becomes online.
Lot of articles recently about Chinese build infrastructure for foreign/external clients gets very different price levels than in the homeland – mainland China. Basically, that often advertised ~1/5th advantage shrinks to only 1/2 cheaper than western companies.. It’s a combo of local gov subsidies NOT properly disguised in projects plus also they are NOT capable gain all efficiencies as when working in home environment.
So, take that as pre-warning.
From The Honest Sorcerer (neatly summarized by Dr. John Day)
The Emirates Shows Us How Not To Build Solar
Implications of the U.A.E.’s solar megaproject, and how solar could still help
The Emirates has recently commenced construction on a $6 billion solar project, combining a 5.2 GW solar plant with a 19 GWh battery storage. The system aims to provide one gigawatt of continuous, “renewable” energy on a 24/7 basis. But why does one need to store so much electricity in one of the sunniest regions of the world to do that? And what does this tell us about the rest of the planet trying to switch to wind and solar? …
..The batteries would have supply the electric grid 19 hours a day on average, and then would have to be fully recharged in 5 hours, when the sun is at its highest. (Which by the way corresponds to the average peak sun hours in the UAE at 5 hours and 50 minutes a day). The solar panels would then need to play a dual role during these five peak hours: besides delivering power to the grid (at a rate of 1 GWh), they would have to charge the battery cells using the remaining 4 GW of their rated capacity…
..This little exercise … shines a light on a rarely discussed metric when talking about power generation: the capacity factor; or the ratio of actual electrical energy output over a given period of time to the theoretical maximum electrical energy output over that same period…
..Solar can only deliver less than a quarter of it’s rated capacity on an annual basis; even in the middle of the sunniest of deserts…
..Germany’s dismal geographic location thus yields a capacity factor of 11% for solar on an annual basis. Practically speaking you would need to buy PV panels with ten times the nameplate capacity — compared to what you actually need — and we haven’t even talked about battery storage…
..Pumped hydro, hydrogen etc., while theoretically being much better options than Li-ion for long term storage, are also not available at such a scale. For reference Germany produces 500,000 GWh of electricity a year, while battery storage is slated to reach 3 GWh by the end of this year…
..The shut-down of hard coal due to the depletion of Germany’s once rich reserves and the banning of cheap imports, combined with the dismantling of nuclear power plants, could not be compensated by wind and solar…
..Realizing a return on investment in a 24/7 solar plus battery project is highly unlikely without resorting to heavy government subsidies…
..The cost of wind turbines, solar panels and battery cells now seem to have reached their minimum, and rely on one major supplier, China. As energy and raw materials become scarcer, and geopolitical tension grows, costs can be expected to rise in the years and decades ahead…
..Moving away from a grid supported and stabilized by fossil fuel use seems highly unlikely. As fossil fuel supply becomes scarcer still, grids relying heavily on “renewables” can be expected to experience frequent blackouts and power rationing…
..Gulf states already experience limitations in oil production and clearly see that demand might soon outstrip supply, as world oil output peaks then rolls over. Hence the recent multi-billion surge in solar investment to free up as much oil for export as possible…
..There are so many things which are possible using the power of the Sun, but running a 24/7 high consumption lifestyle, unfortunately, is not one of those…
https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-emirates-shows-us-how-not-to
The whole article is well worth reading. B has a number of insights into what is going wrong. His conclusion regarding what we might be using what solar and wind we have for is depressing, if we think about this being the longer-run alternative:
Imagine using solar as a back-up for blackouts: not to replace everything we did with grid power, but to enable basic services to be run: like water and sewage treatment. Or building resilient homes with small solar DC (direct current) backup networks, instead of wasting 10% of the power generated in an inverter, which, by the way cannot operate during a blackout, and clogging the network with excess electricity fed in during noon. Households then could use their small solar plus battery DC grids to charge their communication devices, pump water, run a fridge, and keep their lights on — in case the main grid would become unavailable for shorter or longer periods of time.
Clearly, there is no electricity for heating or cooling homes, or for charging vehicles. Cooking food is a necessity, but it is not listed as one of the things we would be able to do with the electricity. People in many parts of the world live without refrigeration, but they don’t live without cooking part of their food.
I notice that in this article “B” comes to the same conclusion I have regarding nuclear–nuclear doesn’t seem to be a solution because uranium depletes, just as fossil fuels do, and prices don’t rise sufficiently high enough, for long enough, to enable more extraction.
https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/no-nuclear-energy-wont-save-us
People in many parts of the world seem to cook with LPG [‘propane’]. It should be fairly abundant, given all the light oil that’s being extracted.
I am sure that a big cost is bottling the propane and sending it to wherever it is to be used. Transport generally uses oil (perhaps diesel), I expect. The question is whether the would-be buyers can afford it.
I agree. excellent article. and I know quite a bit about how the oil rich Middle eastern countries are trying to approach the problem. a minor quibble about nuclear. In a closed cycle system, nuclear fuel (have to add thorium in it) depletes much more slowly than current calculations indicate.
for fun for the Jewish community of NYC
what a fucking creep.
Never trust a man without a tie who keeps his top shirt button done up.
Or one who keeps his hat on while inside.
A Canadian. But don’t worry. He died in 2016, so he doesn’t need to be yootha-nized.
Every morning, millions of people around the world wake up and ask themselves: “Just what is the point of Canadians?” They have a British head of state, although they’re not British, and only around 44% of them think Canada should retain the monarchy anyway, but still they never get round to ditching it. They’re not American but sound American – when they’re not speaking the language of the cheese-eating surrender monkeys, that is. And their international reputation has been tarnished unto eternity by the two Justins.
Kind-hearted American President Trump offered to annex those poor Canadians so that they could call themselves American. That would have rescued the poor souls from their existential plight and misery. But their petty-minded president turned Trump down. Never mind – maybe those poor Canadians, having some inkling of their plight, will now yootha-nize themselves into non-existence. 😉
Not to worry Canada is filling with Indians. The new ubermensch.
Brampton is the capital of India .🤣
ah 28% Indian
Bu it’s the Eskimos who will take over, once the new ice age arrives.