Debt Rattle July 21 2023
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 21 2023]A month ago, I mentioned evidence (provided by the Dutch Institute RIVM) of a dramatic increase in cognitive problems among adults, see here.
That post struck a nerve and prompted many readers to share their observations and feelings about cognitive changes they observed in themselves or their loved ones. As of today, the post garnered 1,263 comments!
A friend of this blog, a popular substacker A Midwestern Doctor, offered to share further thoughts and observations. As I consider this to be a supremely important topic, I hope that the below text, which I did not write, will promote further discussion and thinking about the cognitive changes we observe.
I know many vaccinated and many unvaccinated people. Many of them, thankfully, are fine. Some have issues while remaining good, promising, and valuable human beings. I hope the struggles of those with emergent difficulties with the executive function will prompt a search for solutions.
While the thoughts below concentrate on vaccine-related issues, I plan on exploring this topic in the future and looking into other factors that may also affect human intellectual functioning.
The text below was written by A Midwestern Doctor. I want to offer it as food for thought. As always, you are welcome to agree or disagree with anything; your opinions will not be censored. So comment away!
Introduction
A bit of a read.
Cognitive Impairment in Adults – What Role Did COVID Vaccines Play?
“”No Limit” On Number Of Ukrainian Refugees To Be Allowed Into Canada: Federal Memo
With 230,000 Ukrainians having already emigrated to Canada to flee the war,Now Canada, did you build a new city this year for them to sleep in? You bigots. How dare you?
“No Sanctuary: NYC Shoos Migrants Away, Warns “No Guarantee” of Shelter, Services”
See? That’s how you do it! No sanctuary cities here! GTFO. The door closed behind me.
“Video of Deserted Mall And Streets in Downtown San Fran Reveals Democrats Destroyed City
“Embarcadero Center is a commercial complex of five office towers, two hotels, a shopping center with more than 125 stores but only two remain open on three levels located in San Francisco,”Yet nothing happens. No commercial real estate blow up, no banks, Dow 30,000, gold 1/20th of its all-time high. Let’s Go Brandon.
“Scientist Who Privately Said Lab-Leak ‘Not Some Fringe Theory’ Calls Reporting on this A ‘Conspiracy Theory’
See, this is the kind of mental gymnastics I write on every day because I still don’t understand it. It’s not ‘gymnastics’ because they experience no stress. They are mental octopus, mental sea slugs, which conform to fit whatever box is handed them from minute to minute (literally). So he says – and knows – it’s a lab leak, yet when asked – and knows – he says it’s NOT a lab leak, then when people report what he says – and he knows he said – he says they’re crazy. They’re Conspiracy Theorists (insert prickly poopy-pants word here. ‘Racist’, probably.).
Do you HAVE a functioning brain? It would seem so. So what pattern is your brain arranged in that permits such response, and what pattern is OURS arranged in to tolerate it? A: Ours is weaponized empathy. ‘Don’t be mean.’ If, say, a million people, including largely children, are mass murdered, don’t point it out in public so people will be alarmed. Like incest and pedos, keep it very, very quiet so nobody responds and fixes it. That’s worked all the years ’til now, right?
Like this: “As FedNow Launches, Fed Reassures Public That ‘Service Has No Relation With CBDCs’”
A Central Bank, launching a digital currency, is not a “Central Bank Digital Currency.” That’s cray-cray. Now you you gonna trust, me or your lying eyes?
So, you think RFK has inside players that told him the opposition was going to take the Semitic angle, as they did with Corbyn? This seems too well arranged. Look at the timing, almost within hours.
“RFK Jr: from Camelot to Conspiracy-Mongering (G. Ed.) “
Interesting, the only way to get this out now in in The Guardian? WTF are The Guardian? Do people in DC read them? Now you see why we say DC is run out of London, and we are a colony, re-colonized in 1913 just before we backstopped infinity-money and fought that important war for them, which we said we wouldn’t. So as the Empire shrinks, where are all the bulwarks, features, and defenders located? Assange, the financing, the messaging, the direct interference of warhawks for WWIII in Ukraine? Here? Not really. Not like London is. Decide what you want.
“Nor does he look like much of a Democrat. He is being hyped by billionaires”
That’s the definition of a Democrat. They are statistically the party of the rich, the upper class, and the party statistically against the workers. Both actively (Union busters) and incidentally (Workers are mostly MAGA).
“China Complicit In Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine, Says MI6 Chief (G.)
We all know MI6 would never lie. London again. Hey guys, if London and UK are so good, how’s Blackpool doing? Boston, UK?
“• UK Intel ‘Freelancers’ Helped Ukraine Target Crimean Bridge – The Grayzone (RT)”
Out of London. About as “Freelance” as all our NATO advisors in 300ft underground bunkers are. But ya gotta get all the Derp State in one place with their Nazi acolytes and blow them all to hell once and for all, amirite? I would. It would be a service.
“You have taken these people hostage with your ambition, incompetence and pure greed… this factory will be restarted, one way or another. We’ll do it without you.”
If only an American president would do that. You know, and like double Black employment in 2016-2019.
“how many people will die in these four years, while we finance the supply of arms for 20 billion euros..”
Trick question: Who Cares? Actually, more people will die of lack of power, fertilizer, and food, as always. That’s “Them”? Why should I care? Um, China shut off our antibiotics. And Pfizer had a magical factory destruction this week, after a year of every food processor going down, all by accident. So, not “You’re Next.” You already are. Past Tense. Check your food bill.
“• Ukrainian Counteroffensive Stumbles over Russian Minefields (Scott Ritter)
Listening to the specifics which I do at least one almost every day, it is madness of the first order to do anything without air power. Which they know, having done it 400 days in a row. Latest plan – and good, they’re getting somewhere – to mosquito attack and make Russia fall back, which Russia expects and is their doctrine. Then once the Ukies are good and settled, drop pre-targeted artillery on them, the new position. You must have air power to suppress that or it’s a turkey shoot.
Every day Russia gets up, they can do anything they want to the Ukrainians. Anything. Dropping mines behind them when they enter a minefield is just one of them. They hunter-kill every mobilized vehicle, for example (air force), find and target (air force), take out every ammo dump (air force), do leisurely non-stop surveillance (air force), and attack-strike or medivac (air force). Or nuke Kiev on a lark (air force).
Aaaaand Ukraine is going to do what? Shake their fists? They should be so lucky, they don’t have time. They just die. Joe Biden’s genocide. And I say why it’s all a setup, a team-up between the Pentagon and Russia. Russia got annoyed and needed to use Cluster bombs to stop this s—t but they can’t use them because of the PR. “And then a miracle happened”. NATO used them first, opening the door to a munition that does NOT help Ukraine, actually hampers them, yet allows Russia now to minimize casualties by authorizing this new weapons-creep. Etc, repeat, 18 months in a row.
“Russia has wiped out more than 26,000 Ukrainian soldiers, while also obliterating over 1,200 enemy tanks.”
That was almost two weeks ago and they’ve centered on “mosquito”, man-attacks, so it’s going to be near 40,000 by now. I have to say: where ARE they coming from? Do we have cloning factories somewhere?
“Referring to a “painfully slow” offensive,”
If by “slow” you mean “nothing was taken at all”, then yes. Some of the towns they’re reporting have been in no-man’s land, the “Grey zone” since 2-22-22, Ukraine just claims to control them and no one cares. Why bother? Let them have their fun.
“He also argued that some mercenaries had not been paid at all for their service in Ukraine.”
That’s odd. We’re paying their President, their bureaucrats, all their pensions, and all their free healthcare. Surely they can afford a mercenary or two. That said: Nazis will double-cross you? Throw you in jail without process or trial especially for free speech? Who knew?
“Repairing Damaged Ukrainian Military Hardware Would Be Nightmare for West (Sp.)
Amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics. We got nuttin’. No men, no bullets, no parts. Now when will it matter? BTW how do you tow a 70-ton tank off the front lines to a repair shop? With a Carvana flatbed?
“complete cessation of the naval blockade of Ukrainian ports. This will be possible when Ukraine receives the first F-16 squadron,”
You are kidding, right? The F16s will be water-landed by the 6th Gen Russian fighters like an F22 would take out a Sopworth Camel. In reality, they are going to overwhelm the archaic, collapsed infrastructure of Europe by forcing them to move grain west by rail. They can’t, but it’ll be funny to see them try with no steel and no engines. To get those we’d have to employ Frenchmen and Germans! Can’t have that!
“Grassley Releases Bombshell FBI Doc Discussing $10MM Biden Bribe”
Nobody cares and nothing happens.
“• A Catastrophic Debt Implosion Can Be Incredibly Quick (Von Greyerz)
Or incredibly slow. He/They’ve been saying this since 1996.
“popular symbol back in the day to symbolize freedom from mortgage payments.”
I suspect this is true but predates me. Even the old Depression-era people never mentioned it. Good idea though. As Americans move on average every 5 years, the eagle would probably be an endangered species.
“Cognitive issues”
Never matters. Nothing will ever matter again. Cognitive issues, disability up 50%, no one in the workforce, yet, if you go look for a job, no one’s hiring. Right? 300 applicants per job, 9 month process, yet companies say “they can’t hire.” So no workers = no scarcity. No workers = no job openings. No scarcity = no pay increases, and certainly not the 50% that inflation has been here. That how logic works, right? …In #OppositeLand.
Styxhexenhammer666
AI Generated News
Media Whores already using AI to boost ‘productivity’, i.e. leaves more time in their day day to goof off because they are talent-less hacks to begin with.
AI news easier to spot as propaganda due to odd disjointed composition.
We’ll see
Britain is a Developing country:
https://www.sambowman.co/p/britain-is-a-developing-countrythe UK is now a lot more like Poland … With the exception of a few sectors like AI, we are so far behind the frontier in terms of economic development that worrying about technological progress doesn’t make much sense”
They can only dream of being as sound as Poland. Poland has an economic foundation.
“Here are some statistics that might put it into perspective how far behind the frontier the UK is.
By GDP per capita, adjusted for purchasing power, the US ($76,399) is 39% richer than the UK ($54,603). GDP growth since 2010 has been 47% faster – nine percentage points – in the United States (28% growth) than the UK (19% growth), despite being from a much higher level.
By productivity, or how much we produce per hour worked, the US was 38% more productive than the UK (UK $54.3/hour, USA $73.7/hour) in 2019. France / Germany were much closer to the US than to the UK at $69/hour.
Between 2010 and 2019, productivity growth was twice as fast in the US (8% growth) as the UK (4% growth).
Americans could stop working each year on September 22nd and they’d still be richer than Britons working for the whole year.
Or, as Mike Bird pointed out, a car wash manager at an Alabama Buc-ees, a chain of gas stations and grocery stores, earns more ($125k/year) than THREE median UK salaries. (-ed, this stat is untrue except in very unusual cases)
The average starting salary for a newly-qualified nurse in the US is over £42,000, compared to only £27,000 in most of England, and the gap only widens as their careers progress.
UK real disposable incomes are not forecast to return to 2021 levels until 2027.
And many input costs are higher in Britain than America.
A median square foot of housing in the US is about half the price of the median square foot of housing in the UK (about $225 or £173 in the US, versus £331 in Britain).
The median industrial price of energy even before the Ukraine war was 7 cents per kWh in the US and 19 cents per kWh in the UK.
The industrial price of energy tripled in the UK between 2004 and 2021, or doubled relative to other prices.
Annual energy use per person in the US is 77,000 kWh; in the UK it’s 30,000 kWh.
Annual electricity generation per person is 12,700 kWh; in the UK it’s 4,800 kWh.
UK GDP per capita is about to be overtaken by … Slovenia.”
“every single US state is richer per person than the UK, even places like Mississippi and West Virginia”
He should look into this. As in the U.S. the most dangerous areas in America are ironically in all the cities which also have the richest, safest parts. (That is, Democratic cities. That outcome is the certain consequence of Socialism.) I expect you will see the same in England: it’s poorest precisely BECAUSE its elites are richest. Like Argentina and Venezuela. Or what we say of Russia. (as year after year Russia pushes this stat in the right direction)
“But there is one problem. There is virtually no recognition of how bad things are among British elites.”Clearly. They seem to be under the illusion they have a military, and have viable tanks. They do not. They seem to feel they can give the military they don’t have, to another country and it will matter. It will not.
Etc.
Cognitive-impairment is real
factors that may also affect human intellectual functioning.
Crowd controls needed to keep the system functioning for the benefit of a few.Cognitive Impairment in Adults – What Role Did COVID Vaccines Play?
Cognitive Impairment in Adults – What Role Did COVID Vaccines Play?
A Midwestern Doctor’s in-depth exploration
By Igor Chudov
Global Research, July 19, 2023
———Think about this.
Modern warfare tools.
Counter-battery radar gives its own position away, it’s cost effective so long as the radar stations are cheap enough to keep replacing or mobile enough to be more survivable. As you note, audio triangulation is passive, cheap and easily “droneable”, plus there’s the heat signature from the muzzle flash, which can apparently be picked up with IR sensors.Any gun firing unguided shells on a ballistic arc gives away its position, firing low can keep shells below radar coverage but requires guided shells to remain useful over long range … and there’s still the acoustic / thermal signature.
The problem for high value artillery, tanks, attack helicopters, EW stations, active battlefield sensors etc. is this: there is no cat-and-mouse argument that can dial out their cost. Their cost makes them inherently attractive targets, those listed all have conspicuous operational signatures.
It’s sufficient to immobilise even the most heavily armoured or costly piece of equipment and it’s then a sitting duck that can be engaged as a stationary target.
Passive sensors where possible, lower cost distributed sensors otherwise. Munitions delivered by rockets and drones wherever possible. The place for low volume, high value systems is behind the lines where they can operate safely and even then they would remain a potential weak point for a novel attack.
Posted by: anon2020 | Jul 21 2023 8:30 utc | 68
Speaking Of Problems (as we do here) https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/speaking-of-problems
Consciousness of Sheep, Our Predicament Restated (long, good, excerpted for brevity)
There is a meme doing the rounds on social media… a picture of a vegetable patch, captioned “the time is coming when only those who know how to grow food will survive.” The idea being that, as our complex civilisation breaks down, we will be forced to return to a far simpler economy, where most people revert to roles within agriculture and food production. As with most memes, it functions as a thought-stopper… one which hides the obvious reality – backed by millennia of experience – that, in fact, “it will be the people who know how to force others to grow food,” who will be the real winners in the post-industrial economy...
..The problem with both visions of the future – and the spectrum of views between them – is a fundamental misunderstanding of the collapse which has begun to break over us. This is that each assumes the continuation of that part of industrial civilisation which is required to make their version of the future possible, even as the coming collapse wipes away ALL aspects of industrial civilisation. Most obviously, nobody had developed even an embryonic version of the renewable energy supply chain which is the essential first step to turning non-renewable renewable energy-harvesting technologies (NRREHTs) into the envisioned “renewables” upon which the promised techno-psychotic future is to be built. That is, until it is possible to mine the minerals, build the components, manufacture and transport the technologies without the use of fossil fuels at any stage in the process, then there is no such thing as “renewable energy” in the sense which the term is currently promoted... But even at the dark green de-growth opposite end of the spectrum is a version of denial which assumes that it is possible to gradually shrink the global economy in a managed way which results in the least suffering possible…
.. And so, some return to an agricultural civilisation is far more likely than a future which – for the moment at least – requires energy sources which don’t exist, along with technological breakthroughs which defy the laws of physics…
..Any possibility of a managed de-growth, however, died half a century ago for two related reasons. The first is that we didn’t take the October 1973 oil shock seriously. That is, geologists had already mapped out the process of “peak oil” – based on a roughly 40-year timeline between discovery and peak, which had played out as predicted in the USA… peak discovery in the early 1930s followed by peak production in 1970. It followed that since the world peak of oil discovery was in the early 1960s, then decline would begin some time in the first decade of the twenty-first century….
..The second – and intimately related – reason was the collapse of the post-war Bretton Woods currency system in August 1971. If the history of money teaches us anything, it teaches us that fiat currency systems – especially debt-based ones – are extremely corrosive to functioning economies…
..The system came to grief because – shock-horror – the US government lied. The temptation was simply too great to resist. And so, domestically, the US government overspent on social programs while internationally it deficit funded the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and a host of tied-aid packages which obliged states in the global south to purchase American goods…
..The event which triggered the cascade which resulted in the 2008 crash, was the global peak of conventional oil production in 2005. The ensuing oil price rises filtered through the economy, as everything made from, made with, or transported using oil increased in price accordingly…
..The 2008 crash simply could not have occurred had it not been for the halt in oil production growth and the ensuing price increases. That is, if – hypothetically – someone had opened up another large and cheap to extract oil deposit prior to 2005, the energy to underwrite real economic growth would have been available and prices would not have increased. To some extent, this also explains why the economy has not been in freefall ever since. I said above that the broadly correct peak oil narrative was more nuanced. This is because US peak oil in 1970 was partially artificial. The corporations which did the drilling within the USA were the same ones that drilled for oil around the planet. And since in 1970, there was plenty of cheap oil to be had elsewhere, there was little point investing in more difficult and expensive – including “unconventional” – deposits within the USA. Indeed, once the 1973 shock had served to raise the price of oil to a new level, deposits off Alaska, the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico became viable and, from the late 1980s, underwrote another debt-based boom (albeit at a lower level of general prosperity than in the post-war years)...
..Meanwhile, the post-2008 low interest rate financial environment provided sufficient speculator funding to develop the large deposits of unconventional oil in North American shale and bitumen sands. This provided the world economy with one final oil boom before a final peak was reached in November 2018.
The global economy was already entering a recession before SARS-CoV-2 embarked on its world tour, although this has been obscured by two years of economic lockdown followed by a self-defeating economic war with Russia. Nevertheless, as the economy re-opened, with oil production at some 4 million barrels-a-day below the November 2018 level, oil and gas prices quickly began to spiral upward. At the same time, broken supply chains resulted in generalised shortages, which also drove prices up across the economy…
..The banks, however, are correct to doubt the likely future growth of an economy increasingly starved of the energy that it needs to function. In the 2020s, it is not just that we are out of cheap oil, but we are rapidly running out of more accessible oil entirely. And since none of the alternatives to oil – fossil and non-fossil – is viable without oil, then the only possible economy in future is a shrinking one… and nobody has figured out how to operate one of those...
..The point of a bank is to make loans in a way that guarantees a return. And collectively that means that the real economy of energy and materials must grow. Now that the material growth has come to an end, banks have little incentive to keep lending…
..It is this growing reality which is fuelling a populist backlash against the neoliberal “green” energy fantasy, and which threatens to deny climate change itself …“US President Joe Biden arrives [at COP26] in a cavalcade of 21 vehicles from Edinburgh airport, and then appears to fall asleep in the conference chamber – surely the most carbon-intensive afternoon nap in history…”
It matters not one iota that economists are generally wrong. The economy matters. Because strip away the imposed ideological froth and the one thing common to all revolutions is that they were preceded by rumbling bellies. Rumbling bellies, that is, which are growing louder by the day across the formerly prosperous working-class districts of the western economies. It can only be a matter of time before this turns nasty – most likely when one or more of the political psychopaths finally realises that a return to burning fossil fuels provides the easiest route to power – and the political violence we used to associate with banana republics comes home to roost. And it is for this reason that the unfolding economic crisis, despite being the least serious of the “Three E’s” – economy, energy and environment – is going to strip us of the means to carry out either the disruptive science required for an alternative energy transition or for the reasoned management of a shrinking economy in line with the depleting energy and resources available to us.
Energy though, is the true driver of the process. In this at least, the climate sceptics have a point. Attempting to maintain an advanced, complex, and globalised industrial economy by expanding the tiny fraction we currently generate from wind and solar, while simultaneously removing the eighty percent that we currently derive from coal, gas, and oil, is simply impossible – there is neither the energy nor the mineral resources to come even close…
..Currency derives its true value as a means of allocating material resources – which include energy, minerals, but also human labour and human ingenuity. But these material economic inputs impose physical limits on what is possible…
…In thermodynamic terms, technological development – and productivity more generally – is really about lowering the amount of energy wasted as heat so that more can be directed to useful work. And sadly, the laws of physics leave even the most efficient technologies wasting more heat than they are able to convert for useful work… This applies to energy itself, of course. There is always an energy cost to producing energy for useful work. Productivity improvements such as better technology and economies of scale can lower this cost. But high cost and high waste is inevitable. For example, most of the energy powering an internal combustion engine is lost as heat or in powering cooling systems. Similarly, around a third of grid electricity is lost in transmission, and more again is lost as heat from the appliances using it…
..The energy cost of energy sets an important system-level boundary too. The economy as a whole must set aside a proportion of the potential energy available to producing energy. This means that only the energy left over is available to power the much larger non-energy economy. Prior to the Industrial revolution, when energy was limited to wood, food, animal fodder, and small-scale wind and water power, the non-energy economy was tiny – primarily the few luxuries available only to the very wealthy. Everyone else, one way or another, was involved in the production of energy – either directly growing food or engaging in the many peripheral trades required to allow farming to operate.
It is a measure of the raw power that fossil fuels – first coal, and later oil and gas – provide, that while as late as the 1930s, one in four of us was working the land, today it is less than two in a hundred. And today’s massive consumer and public services economy is the result. In the event that another Carrington Event were to strike the planet, almost all of the global economy would come to a possibly irreversible standstill in a matter of hours.
It is not only some external catastrophe that might spell disaster for the global economy though. Because of the way we have harvested fossil fuels – like technology, beginning with the cheap and easy before moving on to the expensive and difficult – the energy cost of energy has been growing remorselessly since the oil shocks of the 1970s. The impact upon the wider economy was partially offset by the neoliberal revolution, through such things as offshoring production to countries with lower wage rates and fewer environmental regulations, and by using debt to bring consumption forward from the future… that is, today! …
..In the developed states, real economic growth stalled prior to 2008. And there are growing signs that states like China and India are now also struggling to maintain real growth. Again, this is why the first wave of our collapse is experienced as an economic crisis. As the energy available to the wider economy declines, so there is simply not enough to maintain what already exists, still less provide the power for new goods and services. But other than the ever-louder complaints about the cost of electricity and gas, most of us experience the crisis via general price rises and falling incomes. And our individual common-sense response is to rein-in our discretionary spending in order to maintain essentials like housing, food, transport and utilities…
..Because this energy crisis manifests as a monetary problem, it is unrealistic to imagine that most people – including politicians, economists and establishment journalists – will recognise it for what it is…
..Awareness of the energy crisis, then, is most likely to come to public awareness only when rationing by price morphs into full-blown rationing. That is, when it is clear to all that there is no longer enough to go around. Clearly this will be a lot worse in places where there is a high level of intermittent capacity, since your electricity hour may be cancelled if the wind isn’t blowing…
..The symbolic moment when our problems became a predicament was the day Ronald Reagan ordered the solar panels to be removed from the White House roof. Prior to that point, a sizeable part of the population had been grudgingly accepting that lowering speed limits, making smaller, fuel-efficient cars, purchasing local goods, and wearing an extra sweater in the winter, were necessary. After Reagan and Thatcher, we were back to drill-baby-drill and let the future reap the consequences.
That future is now breaking over us. The gathering economic collapse – and the accompanying social unrest – will soon remove the resources that we would need even to mitigate the worst of what awaits us. And economic hardship is only the first tsunami wave to break over us. In the course of the 2020s, energy failures will worsen. Beginning with people being priced out of access to energy, soon enough we will be faced by absolute shortages. Again, this will inevitably be accompanied by unrest as the wealthy cling onto their ill-gotten gains in the face of growing public hostility…
..All we can say with some certainty is that tipping points are being crossed, and that the scope for us to respond meaningfully is fast shrinking to zero. We will still respond, of course. But our responses are likely to become ever angrier and more impotent as the crises engulfing us remain unmoved by our feeble attempts to respond… we must conclude that the age of solutions has passed… the age of consequences is just beginning.
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2023/07/19/our-predicament-re-stated/A CATASTROPHIC DEBT IMPLOSION CAN BE INCREDIBLY QUICK
The growth of the economy is not driven by money but by energy. As Tim Morgan of Surplus Energy Economics states:“The economy is a surplus energy equation, not a monetary one, and growth in output (and in the global population) since the Industrial Revolution has resulted from the harnessing of ever-greater quantities of energy. But the critical relationship between energy production and the energy cost of extraction is now deteriorating so rapidly that the economy as we have known it for more than two centuries is beginning to unravel.”
The dilemma is that the Energy Cost of Energy is constantly increasing. In 1990 that cost was 2.6% of fossil fuels and is estimated to be 12% in 2025. According to Dr Morgan, with the current Energy Cost of Energy, the real economy as well as prosperity has started to decline and that trend will continue for several decades. Fossil fuels still represent 83% of all energy globally and renewable energy is unlikely to make any significant difference in the next few decades. So we are now looking at peak cheap energy at a time when asset markets are in bubble territory with debts and deficits at levels which can only result in an implosion. Again let me emphasise that cheap energy is a prerequisite for economic growth. Consider all of the reality above as a threat to the established power structure, especially if it were to be understood broadly by people, and openly discussed in the political arena, so as to seek rational and cooperative adaptations to the economy which supports us all. However broad and open public discourse, leading to consensus actions of our societies, particularly American society, is necessary for any adaptation to the predicament of declining energy and economy to be worked out and implemented.
Everybody having wires into their brains to be controlled by A.I. is not a solution or an adaptation. It is a blind alley where human life will die out.
The one political candidate who is raising the most questions, and doing so politely and intelligently, is Robert Kennedy Jr. This is a threat to the established (and failing) power regime, which can only be met by silencing his voice. These are not topics which the power structure can address at all, because they do not exist in its control-narrative.
To acknowledge the existence of the many problems Bobby Kennedy Jr. is openly addressing is to break the control-narratives, and to lose legitimacy, as it is seen to have been a false-legitimacy all along. Thursday he testified before a House Committee on censorship. (Kennedy’s campaign manager, Dennis Kucinich sits behind him, and Elizabeth Kucinich sits behind Dennis’s left shoulder. Dennis ran for President back in the day, one of the honest candidates I voted for, who did not get nominated.)
CNN has the video. The gold stars for key points are very useful. Do listen to his opening testimony.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?529216-1/robert-f-kennedy-jr-testify-censorship-free-speech-part-1&live=&vod=Meryl Nass MD, The Hearing Goes On
Dr. Nass monitored the hearing and encapsulated much of the testimony and many of the arguments here in a court-reporter’s style.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-hearing-goes-onThis is the medical literature cited by Kennedy in his testimony and his private discussion over dinner, which is worth watching fully. It’s not what some people say.
New insights into genetic susceptibility of COVID-19: an ACE2 and TMPRSS2 polymorphism analysis
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32664879/Professor Anthony Hall on government lies and censorship, with context:
9/11, the COVID Hoax, the Climate Change Fraud, and TWA Flight 800, 1997-2023 , Punishing the Truthers to Protect the Liars
https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/911-the-covid-hoax-the-climate-changeGrassley Releases Bombshell FBI Doc Discussing $10MM Biden Bribe; Burisma Boss Said Hunter ‘Dumber Than His Dog’
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/grassley-releases-bombshell-fbi-doc-discussing-10mm-biden-bribe-burisma-boss-said Nigel Farage had his bank accounts shut down with the high-net-worth bank Coutts after officials decided the former conservative politician’s views did not align with the bank’s values, it has emerged.
The former UKIP and Brexit Party leader went public last month with the difficulties he was having in opening a U.K. bank account after Coutts, an institution he had been banking with for almost a decade, inexplicably closed his accounts and several other banks refused his applications to open a new one.
New evidence obtained by Farage now contradicts the initial response provided by the bank.
In a 40-page dossier Mr. Farage acquired via a subject access request, Coutts made it clear that his conservative views were problematic for the bank, citing Brexit no fewer than 86 times, and his support of Donald Trump who is mentioned 39 times.
The minutes of a meeting of Coutts’ wealth reputational risk committee held on Nov. 17 last year stated that Mr. Farage is “seen as xenophobic and racist. He is considered to be a disingenuous grifter. Being associated with Nigel Farage presents a material and ongoing reputational risk to the bank.”
The bank does not state who “sees” Mr. Farage in this fashion, or why this individual or social group holds weight in a decision on whether or not to provide a British citizen with a U.K. bank account. It should be noted that Mr. Farage has won elections in Britain as the leader of a political party, namely the European parliamentary elections with the Brexit Party in 2017, and wields considerable public support.More from Dr. Nass, the rollout of iris scan digital banking ID, an offer some Ethiopians “can’t refuse”. (What would put You in a bind like this? Think. Don’t speak.)
Ethiopia, where most people are “unbanked” and the UN food program provides many with rations.
The country cannot afford food but apparently they can afford iris scans. The UN is requiring the scans to supply the food. No wonder Ethiopia is where the globalists are piloting the program.
Ethiopia, a nation currently struggling with deep food shortages and famine, has announced that they will make it obligatory to have a national digital ID in order to use banking services in the country.
Over a week ago the United Nations’ World Food Programme said that they were appalled at the levels of theft going in Ethiopia, in regards to how many people were stealing the provided rations, and have demanded that biometric checkpoints be instigated to alleviate the problem before they start making any real resupplies there….
Biometric Update also noted, ‘Ethiopia is implementing a World Bank-supported MOSIP-based digital ID project which intends to have all eligible citizens enrolled by 2025. The country also recently contracted IrisGuard to support benefits payments to citizens with iris biometrics.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/mandated-digital-ids-happening-fast Belarus To Hold Exercises With Wagner Near NATO-Member Poland’s Border [It’s a straight shot across a superhighway to Warsaw from there.]
Belarus’ Defense Ministry has announced it will hold joint military exercises with Wagner fighters along the border with NATO-member Poland, in a fresh escalation after Warsaw has already remained on edge over the presence of Russian mercenary forces next door.
“The Armed Forces of Belarus continue joint training with the fighters of PMC ‘Wagner,’” the defense ministry said in a fresh statement. “During the week, units of the special operations forces together with representatives of the company will work out training and combat tasks at the Brestsky training ground.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/belarus-hold-exercises-wagner-near-nato-member-polands-border UK intelligence ‘freelancers’ helped Ukraine target Crimean Bridge – The Grayzone
Ukraine’s drone attack on the Kerch Bridge was most likely planned by former British military intelligence agents who signed a contract with Kiev in 2022, the independent outlet Grayzone has reported citing leaked documents.
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/uk-intelligence-freelancers-helped-ukraine-target-crimean-bridge-the-grayzone/We demonetize, shadowban, suspend, deplatform to quash Sound of Freedom across every platform and malign it uniformly in the press BECAUSE it’s just a conspiracy theory that the establishment has some weird pedo aspect to it.
We demonetize, shadowban, suspend, deplatform to quash Try That In A Small Town across every platform and malign it uniformly in the press BECAUSE a push to destroy civil society is just a conspiracy theory and it’s calls against criminal violence that are literal violence
We make silencing RFK our first order of business in a meeting about weaponized censorship BECAUSE fascist style anti free speech is just a conspiracy theory
We’re going to convert to renewable solar energy! Also we are going to block the sun! What don’t you #%#ing GET, shut up, you stupid working class deplorable
IEA Warns Of Winter NatGas Crisis If Russia Cuts Supplies – when are they going to let themselves onto the fact that they are refusing to purchase the gas?
At this point, I have a crush on the plane lady. She may be crazy, maybe not, but she at least apprehends what her own eyes are seeing, sizes up reality, and then acts forthrightly on it. Nah, nah #%#& this #$%&, I am NOT dying with the rest of you. Heart emoticon.
Orlov interviewed by Dialogue Works.
No Sane Person Goes to War against Russia (Military Textbook Ch. 1 Par. 1) Dmitry Orlov
21 July ’23. 53 mins. https://tinyurl.com/2k3r7ukm
He brings up some points not mentioned elsewhere. For ex.: what happens to Dead Ukranians. Treats “Terrorism” etc. by the UKR – Na-Z-i etc. The West new turning away from Zelensky. (…), and more.
Concerns …..
Availability of Energy, Political stories, Ukraine war, covid 19, long covid, are all impacts which are secondary to the impact weather extremes. (ie. My house is destroyed)Watch: Rand Paul Is Engaged In An All-Out-War Against Fauci
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-rand-paul-engaged-all-out-war-against-fauciRand Paul’s Kentucky Office Damaged In Fire, Roof Collapses
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rand-pauls-kentucky-office-damaged-fire-roof-collapses”
Col. Douglas Macgregor discusses the threat of globalism
and how NATO has become instrumentalized to work
as an appendage of globalist foreign policy run out of Washington and London.He provides his view on the current state of the war in Ukraine,
how America is staring at armageddon financially,
and multipolarity.
”Col. Douglas Macgregor: NATO is an Appendage of Globalist Foreign Policy
Well, it’s got to be worse than we know when things get this shrill. Some people really sweatin fallin off the gravy train.
Fauci, EcoHealth Alliance and Baric are patsies. Oh but the bread crumbs lead to Wuhan. Yep.
Millions in funding i tells ya, millions in funding”
We have three critical circles that
all of you are in today.We have a circle of medical freedom.
You have the freedom.
You and you alone have the autonomy over your body.You have the freedom to determine what happens to your body. This is solely your possession.
In many ways it’s the only thing you really have.That circle of medical freedom is
inextricably linked to the circle of social freedom,
and that social freedom includes
your family,
your employment,
your faith, and
your citizenry in any country.And that is inextricably linked to
your circle of economic freedom.Medical freedom is linked to
social and economic freedom.If we allow the circle of medical freedom
to be touched,
let alone broken,
all of the circles fracture.
”https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/where-medical-and-constitutional
Putin Says Russia Treating A.I. With Same Importance As Development Of Atomic Bomb
The Russian and Putin actually understand how DANGEROUS AI is.
They understand it can rip your face off down to the bone.
The Drone Swarms®, the Wave of the Future in warfare, will be driven by AI
The Russians will be surfing that Wave, bet your life on it.
The Ukronazis are out of Trained Meat®
The forced conscription of 70 year old men and 14 year old boys is coming to a close.
A Dead End if you will
Russian Soldier Says All They Hear Is Polish & American Speech On Radios – No Ukrainian At All
Observer said
I think a little more research is needed from the likes of aspnaz.
You are free to think what you like, I keep myself well informed on the AGW scam. It is a scam in the same mold as the Covid scam. You are a sucker, they rely on you, they know you will follow them, that you will not actually do any real research and discover that actually nobody knows how the atmosphere works and nobody knows CO2’s role in the atmosphere other than as plant food. Even the most basic questions cannot be answered by the sheep who follow the globalist scam, questions like why the ice cores show the exact opposite – CO2 increase follows temperature increase – why they told us with absolute certainty, just 20 years ago, that we were entering a new ice age, why they feel the need to fiddle the figures (or change measuring instruments) to favour their scam, why they fire all voices representing “different science” etc. If you can’t spot a scam then I cannot help you.
A Russian Offensive Pushing Across The Rest of Eastern Ukraine
Douglas MacGregor and Robert Kennedy Jr talk turkey
Clearly NATO has sufficient stocks of obsolete equipment and sufficient manufacturing capacity to maintain military hostility towards Russia for several more months. And the utterly incompetent leadership of NATO is sufficiently deluded to think that pouring yet more obsolete or inferior equipment into the conflict will achieve some kind of success -other than huge profits for the weapons manufacturers and continued kick-backs to corrupt politicians and political institutions on the gravy train. There is a schoolboyish bravadery that is a product of gross ignorance and inexperience of actual major conflict; in none of the major NATO ‘interventions’ of the past 60 years did the adverasary have satellite imagery, instant radar detection, hypersonic missiles, long range ‘flamethrowers’ etc.
Andrei Martyanov has repeatedly stated that the conflict in Ukraine is the first real major test (actual full-spectrum war) for NATO in its entire existence, and NATO has been demonstrated to be totally outclassed in almost every respect.
That is not to say that NATO is incapable of inflicting damge: as A M has previously pointed out, if you are on the receiving end of a projectile fired from a seventeenth century firearm you will likely be severely injured or killed.
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Meanwhile, the meltdown of the Greenland ice sheet continues to get ever more ‘interesting’, i.e. not only far above any previously recorded level of melting but increasing rather spectacularly.
Have you noticed how nothing makes sense anymore? A nation ruled by honorable and ethical people, that does not happen. We are in a very dangerous place.
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