Debt Rattle December 31 2022
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Edvard Munch Ashes 1894 • Forecast 2023 — Get Out of the Way if You Can’t Lend a Hand (Kunstler) • Ukraine Lashes Out At Orbán’s Pro-Peace Stan
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle December 31 2022]Edvard Munch Ashes 1894
I do like this painting; I think it’s well done, but am at a loss as to what it’s about…
If there be any hope for a reduction in the rate of decline of life in NATOstan nations it begins with the annihilation by Russia of the mercenaries and under-cover forces currently active in Ukraine and the destruction of most of the weapons NATOstan nations have delivered to Ukraine.
Russia’s progress in the demillitarisation and deNazification of Ukraine is slow but steady.
Once the ground fully freezes and the former military personnel brought back into service are fully equipped and familiarised with the latest weapon systems we can look forward to faster progress in demilitariation and deNazification of Ukraine.
The problem for those of us living in the totalitarian fascist police states that constitute Oceania cenrtes on how to remove the numerous scorpions that have been installed into positions of power by ‘Big Brother’ and Big Brother’s associates.
The war in Ukraine is existential for Big Brother and Big Brother’s associates and they may well try anything to hold onto power, including unleashing nuclear weapons on Russia.
Although Russia’s response to NATO attacking it with nuclear weapons would be utterly devastating, as Andrei Martyanov points out, the people making the major decisions have little idea what they are doing and are quite psychotic, apparently believing their own bullshit.
The only thing renewable about ‘renewables’ is amount of fossil fuel input needed to manufacture them or make them function in the short term. That fossil fuel input has to be constantly renewed.
Fraudulentism, the philosophy or practice of establishing and maintaining [in the short term] economic, financial and political arrangements on the basis of fraud.
If the totalitarian psychotic sociopaths have their way, after fraudulism comes feudalism. Neo-feudalism.
Let’s hope Russia is successful soon and a new world order is promptly established on the basis of justice, respect, egalitarianism and cooperation.
Not that New World Order.
Okay, dreams are free for the moment.
They’d tax them if they could work out a mechanism and financialise it.
I found this interesting. It’s about how homo violentus solves disputes over who will rule and disputes over of which bit of land they will rule over.
“Winter storms put the US power grid to the test. It failed.” – Vox
Yes, if only Buffalo had had solar panels, this wouldn’t have happened.
“Rebecca Leber is a senior reporter covering climate change for Vox.” Well let’s see: Activist.
“She was previously an environmental reporter at Mother Jones, Grist, and the New Republic.” Activist.
“Rebecca also serves on the board of the Society of Environmental Journalists.” Activist.
No more journalists, only activists. That’s why they can’t spell, talk, listen, or use logic.
Her answer: Coal doesn’t work in cold weather. Um, what? I never heard that. We can’t build more supply. Look at Russia and China! No new supply there and coal was never used in Canada or Russia because coal freezes? – doesn’t burn? – it’s blades ice over? Having not asked anybody, she seems unclear. But Coal and Gas = bad. Auto-Freezing from Great Leader using Smart Meters = Good. The one true Truth is that activists are not smart or moral enough to be trusted with a thermostat.
I approve: send all that nasty coal and gas to me. I’ll take care of it for you.
New Coronirus variant.
One that we NAME! Yes, as I said in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, that is EVERY year there are new variants. Clearly they ALWAYS get milder or we’d all be dead 200,000 years ago. It’s only the exception that proves the rule. And the exception is named Dr. Fauci and his magic happy Crispr lab. Or 50 such labs, all lavishly funded.
“Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been harshly criticized by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry,”
Who? I only listen to important countries that matter.
“Zelensky Gives His Government More Censorship Powers (RTN)”
That seems unlikely: he had them all already. They already murder reporters. They have a reporter hit-list website that includes children. And they also kill government officials for speaking out. But they are the 51st State, so when in Rome…
“This hegemon is now refusing to accept the future in which it would be “not one of the two, but one of [the] few poles,” put in its proper place as “just a part, not the whole, of humanity.”
You may think this is unique, but this is the “Wolfowitz Doctrine”, “official” U.S. or Neocon policy. That is, to be a hyperpower so powerful that if any nation – not just a major one like Russia or China – if any nation, detracts from American power in ANY way, however small, you must crush them. And you must crush them preemptively, that is, aggressively, that is, in an illegal war of aggression. Dugin is merely rephrasing us exactly in his own words.
The opposite of this is called “Being a normal nation”. I can’t say it’s “Being a normal nation through all of human history” although it is, because even in the attempted window of the Wolfowitz/Nazi doctrine, it was an utter failure as if it never was. 1) Nations opposed us anyway, all kinds of them. 2) We illegally attacked them weakening ourselves 3) Losing allies and 4) Losing the wars we fought against tiny, pointless goat herders like F-Stan. How’s it feel Mattis, to lose to Akmed the goat boy?
And on with the required lying-speak: “While some Western observers have dubbed Dugin “Putin’s brain,” they observed incorrectly. Putin and Dugin never met and I believe Putin had Dugin bounced out of Moscow U. Oh, best friends I guess. “Some people say”, in the old Reporter trope “SOME people say your mother is a whore. Now – I – would never say that, but SOME people do.” No: if YOU print it, as a reporter, YOU said it. By law.
And SOME people observe that the earth is flat and was created in three days by Bigfoot. But you notice I didn’t bring that up either, as what “Some people say” is ALWAYS IRRELEVANT unless there are specific reasons otherwise. “Some People” are always saying “some s—t.” That’s not news.
“Though Kiev has officially denied it, US intelligence officials later said they believe someone in the Ukrainian government was responsible.”
“Some people did some things” – Ilan Omar No, it was not “Some unnamed intelligence officials suspect” while Kiev “roundly denies it.” Russia has long since published the names, actions, and orders of the car bombers, if not already has them tracked down and in custody. It’s not normal journalism to say “Some people stole from FTX, but FTX denies it.” when we already KNOW it was SBF, with two sworn affidavits from his co-chairs and board. We don’t say “Somebody suspects” in the Tate Murders.
Sorry you’re not a reporter. Someday later maybe. I can’t fix this as your Copy Editor, line-by-line. Go rewrite it and give me something to work with. Here’s the MLA handbook, it’s only 50 years old. I don’t THINK they have put in “Requirement to lie once per paragraph” – Yet.
“(MIT) have adopted a resolution defending freedom of speech and expression, including speech deemed “offensive”
Yes but you have to understand words have no meaning. Only Ego. My Feel-Feelz. They, probably including MIT also said this same thing for years before now while they were censoring. And during McCarthy while they were censoring. You can’t believe a word they say, they BELIEVE they are not censoring when they remove language they don’t like. “It’s not a lie if you believe it.”
In which case: Show Me. I’m happy you’ve said so, now prove it. Whoops! Too late, nothing’s changed. If you actually made such a pact instead of nattering on uselessly, we’d already see people fired, quit, and be sued. Actions are news, not talk, and there are no actions yet.
“MIT does not protect direct threats, harassment,”
Me calling you “Daisy-Mae sissy-pants” is a direct threat and harassment. Right? Not protected. My calling you “Madam”, is a vicious hate crime attack according to Massachusetts, the state of your residency. Right? Why should MIT censor? They can pay the State of MA to do it for them.
“with many people supporting his deplatforming.”
As above “Some people” want his deplatforming. This crack whore on 22nd street for example. “Some People” always want. And “some people” don’t. Yet you print one side and not the other because you’re not a reporter. Who What Where When and Why? Or in this case “How?” As in “How many?” Like the Netflix protest of Chappelle they still reference, 5 out of a whole company of thousands? Yes, zero. Same as zero people believe Bigfoot created the earth in three days. We don’t cave in to statistical Zero complaints, sorry.
“On this question and many others throughout the pandemic, our problem was not that the science changed—it’s that it wasn’t done.”
It wasn’t done and nobody’s mad. Why? Could it be because the right people got paid and the wrongly people got punished and in penury? If the science was annoying and locking down billionaires all day, making them lose fortunes instead of gain them, I suspect things would be addressed quickly. Besides, the science WAS done. You’re just LYING and pretending it wasn’t.
“More disturbing, our country has been deeply divided for years about whether to mask children.”
Except they ran that study which was released by the CDC in August 2021. Masks don’t work in schools. They continue them anyway, and the CDC/NIH help in contradiction to their own research. So they don’t believe in Science? Or they are aware all their studies are lies? Don’t answer too quickly either way: I can wait.
“Similarly, a conclusive study showing that Vitamin D reduces COVID mortality, published last month, arrived two years too late.”
No it didn’t. I was going to say this was a good article. In the sense that it has complete sentences and not an openly apparent lie in each paragraph. But this is false, and the article is “Whooda Knood??” about stuff we all knew by April 2020. …With research. By research. It must have been extremely obvious and extremely publicly available if I read it under my bridge. But you didn’t Mr. Science man? CDC’s problem was only “they were slow?” Oh, so give them more MONEY now, I understand! They were “Doing their best”, I get it! “Let’s not worry about who did what to whom” because “What difference does it make at this point?”
As above, Newsweek advocates reinstating all doctors with legal damages and is going to arrest and to de-license all the doctors who were wrong? Or openly defied an act of Congress to create active bioweapons that were released then paid millions in embezzled tax money to cover it up? No? GFY.
“Trump Tax Returns Released by House Committee: He Paid Little in Taxes (NBC)”
What. The. Actual. THIS is the story they’re running with all over? That’s it??? It makes me want to shake his old, greasy hand. This is your “Bombshell: Walls are Closing In”?
Yeah, no surprise for a guy audited 9 times, once every year. And no surprise in a system where taxes are exclusively paid by the little people and not GE, GM, or Amazon.
But I have an answer “We oughta pass a law!!!” Sir: we DID pass a law. That IS our present tax code. Would you like to roll again?
Hunter’s Daughter. I have to say this is typical, and people clearly like it. “Oh let’s not be political” they’ll say.
“Excess Deaths 13%”
This is Australia, that had no Covid. Only the Vax. Thank you Australia for being our control group, only you can help prove it wasn’t Covid.
“he was calling me ‘boomer,’”
Really dude? This is your defense as an aggrieved victim? I guess you’ll need reparations for someone naming your 20-year-age window correctly. Oh noes. How shall you survive?
At: V. Arnold # 124670
I do like this painting; I think it’s well done, but am at a loss as to what it’s about…
How about: When the flames of passion end … ashes?
Formerly T-Bear
At: V. Arnold # 124670I do like this painting; I think it’s well done, but am at a loss as to what it’s about…
How about: When the flames of passion end … ashes?
Hmmmm; yes, I suppose that would do nicely…
Just a correction, the quote attributed to “Ugh Bardi” (Ugo Bardi) is not mine. It was said by Gail Tverberg. Please, Raul, correct when you have a moment. And happy new year to everybody (hopefully….)
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If Julian Assange is not released immediately from British injustice, may the trials and tribulations of the passing year be faced in the coming year magnified ten fold. As the late occupant of Buckingham Palace had the opportunity to bring the atrocity being done in her name to an end but would not stop her name from being politically used by granting complete pardon and taking the prisoner from Belmarsh herself under royal sovereignty; who on that benighted island would dare object? May she enjoy the privileges of hell for her omissions of justice. The collective West needs enjoy the consequences of their wrongs. Those who refuse to remove from position thew perpetrators of ideological evil have no claim to innocence; some 95% incumbency rate for public office is evidence enough. Diplomacy will not end the Ukrainian saga, only abject surrender in battle will suffice given the perfidy of EU and their U.S: masters’ malfeasance of governance.
This following year marks the beginning of an epoch of profound sorrow as the victims of the greatest crime against the human species unfolds. How that will be lived with is impossible to foretell.
New Years greetings? Bah! Humbug!@Dr. D:
No more journalists, only activists. That’s why they can’t spell, talk, listen, or use logic.
Turley: According to published excerpts, President Joe Biden is denying an account of the Secret Service about an agent being attacked by his German Sheppard, Major, at the White House.
Yes.
“The incorrect narrative provided by mainstream media (MSM) is that climate change is our worst problem. To lessen this problem, citizens need to move quickly away from fossil fuels and transition to renewables. The real narrative is that we are running short of fossil fuels that can be profitably extracted, and renewables are not adequate substitutes. However, this narrative is too worrisome for most people to handle.” — Ugh Bardi
What utter bollocks. The governments of the world could develop clean nuclear, could develop clean oil, could develop clean gas, but they want to spend your money building weapons, building useless green wind/solar generators at 500% profit, bribing foreign politicians, pandering to oligarchs etc. If there was a real crisis, the USA’s biggest budget would not be for the military, it would be for the development of technology to rescue us from the energy crisis. Pretty simple logic, why would you believe that there is any energy or climate crisis other than that dreamed up by the bullshitters.
Shortage of paracetamol in Taiwan. People here are buying it up and sending it to their relatives in mainland China. In mainland China they are hoarding paracetamol because the government will not hand out any medicines to people with Covid, so they intend to use paracetamol when they catch Covid.
Initially it was toilet paper – for no reason – and now it is paracetamol – for no reason. The majority of people are complete retards. Maybe they want to die of Covid without feeling the aches and pains.
TAE extract says
“To be an enemy to America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.” — Henry Kissinger
It’s hard to contemplate 2023 without spiraling into nausea, tachycardia, and cold sweat.
Original document says:
“To be an enemy to America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.” — Henry Kissinger
“The incorrect narrative provided by mainstream media (MSM) is that climate change is our worst problem. To lessen this problem, citizens need to move quickly away from fossil fuels and transition to renewables. The real narrative is that we are running short of fossil fuels that can be profitably extracted, and renewables are not adequate substitutes. However, this narrative is too worrisome for most people to handle.” — Ugo Bardi
It’s hard to contemplate 2023 without spiraling into nausea, tachycardia, and cold sweat. But it is an inescapable duty here to lay out the probabilities ahead.
Looks like RIM is doing a bit of inline editing.
Ugo Bardi said
Please, aspnaz, note that “ugh bardi” never said anything like that. That quote is by Gail Tverberg
Noted. Apologies to yourself for the erroneous attribution.
I found the origin of the misquote: Jim Kunstler. Never felt so close to poor Marie Antoinette….
@DrD “So honored Ugo reads the blog.”
As if I wasn’t already spending too much time correcting my grammar, typos, spelling and punctuation. Somehow it was so much easier when it was just us yahoos in the mix, now we have to factor in the possibility that people might actually be listening.
Forecast 2023 – comment #481
Rich people will migrate to energy rich/surplus places to continue their lifestyle and to avoid the failure of societies.
My impact/influence on our social/economic/political systems will be the same as 2022 – zerosumThe biggest flaw in the strategy of egocentrism is that so many other people are using the same one.
On the upside, though, if the things we did for our own self-interested reasons were enlightened enough to be what is REALLY in our own best interests, we would soon be living in paradise.
Looking around, I don’t think we’re quite there yet.
The thing of it is, being selfish only works properly if you go ALL IN and do what will absolutely make you happier and more successful that any other thing you could possibly do for yourself : Love others as you love your self.
Best wishes for the coming year.
Jan 23 starts the year of the fluffy bunny.
Plunging down the rabbit hole, where visiting will take a toll,
Where nightmares form from pleasant dreams
and diligence elicits screams.Happy New Year, y’all!
The US Constitution
As we enter a new year, and ponder the situations we are in, it is useful to consider::
It is a unique document in History, one of the few pollical systems systems tailored to LIMIT the power of Government.
History has shown that POWER is the ultimate end of everyone seeking for self aggrandizement or to impose their ideas on others.
It is not surprising that almost everyone, our political Left to the CCP and the W.E.F. fight to keep the deplorables from mis-directing their gravy train. We need a strong cadre that supports the goals of the Constitution, and applies the term of Treason to anyone who has or tries to usurp it.
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The CIA, The FBI, The White House all say, “without our control, you would perish.” I beg to differ. If every man-jack (and Jill) was required to learn to handle a gun, and every house had at least one good bolt-action rifle, I promise the Constitution would be MUCH safer.My curiosity was triggered due to some recent experiences/observations and as a result I have been reviewing some old notes.
“Early on it was reported that “a superantigen-like motif akin to staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) was discovered near the S1/S2 cleavage site of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which might explain the MIS in children and cytokine storm in patients with severe COVID-19.”
The Ethical Skeptic once commented that Omicron is like a loaded gun with the safety on. Not sure where I pinched the following, could have been from the Skeptic but not sure.
“If you were to design a pathogen, it would make sense to include a lethal element (SEB) and an immunosuppressive element (HIV). It is a little curious that this SEB part of the spike protein seems to be attenuated or, even, “turned off” in the Omicron variant. Of the many mutations in omicron the most
interesting two are in the SEB domain. While staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) is associated with food poisoning, it has been studied for potential utilization as an inhaled biological weapon.”I came across this the other day. Just something to keep an eye on. Monday night fever, Tuesday morning breathing issues, Tuesday afternoon dead.
Somebody suggested the following timeline
-2018, a virus is made in a wuhan lab, where it gets into the world. It gets ignored, and respiratory deaths are blamed on a “mystery virus” in local papers, and everything else under the sun.
-Hospitals quietly changed the protocol to stop administering Azithromycin for pneumonia, even though that was standard.
-Suddenly, out of nowhere, videos start coming out of China of relatively healthy looking people falling down and fish flopping all over the ground.
-Ventilators are pushed
-meds are withheld
-OTC and vitamin data is suppressed
-Doctors are banned from social media, licenses revoked.
-Death count rises.
-pandemic
-Vaccine.Recent video from Chris Martenson
Apologies for the fluffy bunnies post. I tried posting something that FSR is verboten. It’s no worse than loads of stuff that appears on this site but still some algo somewhere wouldn’t let it appear. The fluffy bunnies were just to check whether my username was now also verboten like last time.
In September, Moscow annexed four regions in eastern Ukraine: Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson.
Correction:
In September, four regions in eastern Ukraine: Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson voted to join Russia and leave Ukraine.asp(en)naz(i) and Ugo exchange.
No wonder, since most of the posters in here hardly read other posts.Nevertheless Happy New Year to all.
Chain of cultural events during the summer of each year in beautiful Vienna, properly named kulsommer.
Poignant piece for contemplation and self reflection recorded in the “Last Normal Year” of our lives.I liked the painting too, but the body language of the man strongly suggests regret. This lends the whole scene a depressing tone.
Piggybacking on Ilargi’s Matrix graphic above…
As most here have already discovered, once indoctrinated it’s a difficult process to undo. We know this from our own personal experience (otherwise we wouldn’t be on TAE, but CNN), but in the last few years from the many fruitless attempts to wake up our friends and family.
Happy New Year’s everyone!
Politically, nothing changes significantly until the money system changes.
Therefore 2023 will witness, to some extent, more of the same in Oceania, since politics is controlled by, and largely for the benefit of the central bankers: more lies, more manipulation, more attempts at control, more violence directed towards the proles by ‘security forces’, as the level of security declines exponentially.
The collapse of the fake money system is why Big Brother is now utterly desperate to knock down Russia. Russia poses the biggest threat to the bankers since they took over the government of England -transformed into Airstrip One- in the mid-1690s.
Of course, being scientifically illiterate (or choosing to ignore real science) the bankers press on with what worked in the past, i.e. from 1695 through to early 2022: fraud and manipulation, backed up by censorship, deceit and violence.
Concurrent with the fraud, manipulation, censorship, deceit and violence, the bankers set up systems that rewarded the squandering of energy and resources. Those fake systems gave them the results they desired in the short term: expansion of their Ponzi scheme.
As most readers of TAE know, Oceania is now in ‘deep shit’ when it comes to energy and resources, having squandered both for centuries, and now finds it impossible to steal them from other regions of the world via violence. Indeed, Eurasia is now outdoing Oceania in the use of violence.
Welcome to the next phase of the Long Descent in The Age of Consequences
My last major project is now 80% completed and I believe I will finish it before the next round of devaluation of fiat currency [by the banksters and their agents, the managers called the government] on Airstrip Five.
@Oroboros, who dreamed of having a Honda 350 twin: That motorcycle may have opened the door to practical motorcycle commuting in the US, since it could cruise at highway speeds, was light, reliable and inexpensive.
I wanted a Yamaha 350 in 1972, but it’s good that I did not get one. I might have died long ago.* 2023 Predictions
– Gold, Bitcoin and seed potatoes will be the best performing investments
– Biden will send Zelensky the nuclear football for Easter and Ze will threaten to push the red button using his penis on live TV if Russia doesn’t withdraw
– To get rid of SADS death from the vaxx will be redefined as suicide; Pundits will debate whether people chose to get the vaxx or whether they were born that way
– Oil will be priced in Yuan but Ipecac will still be priced in dollars; Only the rich will be able to afford gasoline and only electric cars and Hummers will be seen on the road
– Crickets and worms will replace beef in the American diet; Conspiracy theorists will claim that crickets and worms fart too but posts saying this will be banned from all social media
– ChatGPT will identify as a purple tele-sexual autistic quadruple amputee and will replace Karine Jean-Pierre as White House Press Secretary; ChatGPT will be hurled into the void when Peter Doocy asks its favorite color and it can’t decide“It has come to our attention that some Russians are not adequately thankful for the newly ratified biometrics law that keeps them extremely safe and secure.
Don’t these silly geese read English-language RT.com, or other highly reliable and authoritative websites that copy-paste government talking points?
Russia’s Unified Biometric System (UBS) was specifically designed to protect and serve the Russian people by giving control of all biometric data in the country to a joint-stock company partly owned by Russia’s central bank. Why is this so hard to understand?”
As the 2022 draws to a close here are things I am concerned about:
The push for cashless societies.
The planned releases of much more deadly viruses.
A ramp up of false flag operations.Things I am hopeful about:
Regenerative ranching for meat, dairy and egg production.
The spreading practice of “no-dig” gardening.
The increasing understanding of Permaculture.
The growing awareness of people in general who are starting to see the human experiment with clear eyes.
The growing percentage of preparedness.A successful celebration of insanity and squandering of precious resources overnight on Airstrip Five:
‘Fires still burning after busy New year’s Eve for emergency services
New Year’s Eve was a busy night for firefighters after a number of fires burned around New Zealand, mostly caused by fireworks and bonfires.
Fire and Emergency said in a statement they fielded 111 calls about multiple incidents across both the North and South Islands with around 15 incidents being attended to simultaneously’
Must be good for GDP (Global Destruction Paradigm).
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