Debt Rattle May 14 2025
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May 14, 2025 at 10:00 am #188020
Raúl Ilargi Meijer
KeymasterMarc Chagall Blue lovers 1914 • China Sent Secret Delegation To Washington 3 Weeks Ago To Negotiate Deal (ZH) • Trump Not Going To Istanbul, Kr
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 14 2025]May 14, 2025 at 10:12 am #188022Germ
ParticipantGood morning :-))
Slow-motion euthanasia on repeat prescription…
“Stokies can book 10th Covid jab NOW –
how to get yours
The Spring vaccinations are now open”https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/stokies-can-book-10th-covid-10122931
TVASSF – at least they’re all winners of a Darwin Award.
May 14, 2025 at 10:39 am #188023EoinW
ParticipantThe Boers could immigrate to Russia. Instead they choose the USA. Oops!
Most disappointing online development in 2025 has been the turning of Zero Hedge. Counterpunch 2?
May 14, 2025 at 10:42 am #188024Just Some Randomer
Participant“Trump Can Still Lead Without a Third Term (Victor Davis Hanson)”
Yeah – why not. Obama did.
May 14, 2025 at 11:15 am #188025Topcat
ParticipantBritain is just about done as a ‘society’.
Islam hates the West
May 14, 2025 at 11:17 am #188026May 14, 2025 at 11:18 am #188027May 14, 2025 at 11:19 am #188028Michael Reid
ParticipantMay 14, 2025 at 11:20 am #188029Michael Reid
ParticipantMay 14, 2025 at 11:21 am #188030Michael Reid
ParticipantMay 14, 2025 at 11:25 am #188031Topcat
ParticipantTrump has gone with the NeoCon whack job Keith Kellogg instead of Witcoff
He has now embrace the Ukraine war as his.
He will be blamed by history as the Loser.
Putin gave him an Out and he wasn’t smart enough to take it.
The Russian will grind the Jewish Nazi Zelensky to dust and take far, far more of Ukraine as their’s forever.
The Neo-nazi EU leaders will drag their countries down into being True Shitholes.
May 14, 2025 at 11:30 am #188032Dr. D
Participant“The U.K. Becomes The First Islamic Country To Make A Deal With Trump “ Bbee
“Democrats Confused By Legal Immigrants Who Seem To Love America” Bbee
“Sad: AOC Unable To Obtain Real ID Because She Died On Jan 6 And Is A Ghost” BBee
But that’s okay, there was a new insurrection yesterday, halting official Federal business, by attacking cops in a Federal prison. Hey: everyone remember when armed Leftists tried to light an ICE facility on fire with all the immigrants inside? Good times…. Nothing says “Caring” quite the way ethnic immolation does.
“Microsoft Reportedly Slashing 3% Of Global Workforce
Words have meanings. You’re dropping 3 out of 100 employees? Will anybody notice? That sounds like “Tuesday.”
Same always on world-wide panic chaos meltdown we had for the election, for DOGE, for tariffs, for that 10,000pt drop in the Dow, for the second Great Depression, for civil war, for Israel, for Yemen, nuclear war with Iran, for Fetterman savagely and unhinged sitting, drinking a coke. …Like a psychopath.
By “The Law of nothing ever happens” … nothing has yet happened.
Check your antenna: in hindsight, what has happened. A couple migrants were deported, fewer than Obama. Tariffs rose slightly. There is an undelivered promise Income Tax may drop slightly. Prices were high but fell back to Jan levels. The Dow is where it was.
Hogg, being pulled from the DNC: Whoops! Backsies! We keep voting until you vote right. If Hogg asks for backsies, sorry. You’re (allegedly) a white male chosen to bring white males back into the party. But if DEI asks for backsies, as many times as you need honey. Because we know you’re so weak and incompetent we’ll have to do that. Women like you need a big strong man to help you out. Right?
“Pop Star Ed Sheeran Admits “Every Area Of London” Is Dangerous Now
What could have changed? Well, I guess we’ll never know.
Comment online: “Can we just take all these white racists and banish them to an island somewhere?”
A: Every time they do that it turns into a paradise, then all the other people show up and want some.Errr…I’m not sure what I think of that comment. I’ve been trying to refute it but can’t find examples. Even Australia.
“Supreme Court Chief Justice: Critique Our Rulings, Not Our Justices
That’s impossible when you don’t know what words mean. Like “Woman”. I’m not a genius but I gather that the law has something to do with the proper definition of words. Words like “Inalienable” and “Infringed.”
“Harvard Hammered: Feds Yank An Additional $450 Million In Grants
These wasted grants could make 10 Flint water supplies. Priority, TO the rich, FROM the poor. If Harvard needs something, are their Alma Maters too broke to provide it? I’m not taking anything from them, I’m just not giving anything TO them. That’s different.
Bitcoin $103, ETH up 50%. That’s nothing: Pepe the Frog coin up 77%
Afrikkaners: As usual, ask questions, what is this? Well, let’s see: it’s Fifty people. FIFTY. This is what they’re losing their minds over, so politically: so worth it. That’s just normal churn of random countries, there are probably as many people from Micronesia each year.
Are there problems there? Well, the South African national anthem, sung by the president is “Kill whitey”, “shoot the Boer, the Farmer, don’t be afraid, do it…” etc, so…that seems perhaps bad. Is that the sort of thing that happens before genocides, that the leaders themselves command the people at large to commit genocide?
Well we can’t ask questions, so I guess we’ll never know.
“… 5 minutes later …
“Why is Russia ignoring our ceasefire demand?”Russia: “Did you say something?”
Tariffs: already over. Jet: weird, I wouldn’t take it maybe, but it’s like getting a billion free dollars for the DoD, so I’m sure we can do something with it.
“• Trump Not Going To Istanbul, Kremlin Downplays Direct Ukraine Peace Talks (ZH)Since it’s nothing but false starts, I haven’t followed SitRep in months, is Russia massing for a real invasion? Like I said, I gave up since every “massing” meant nothing so far. Speaking of, since I’m out of it, what’s the run rate? Still 1k/week?
“Take out Zelensky -and the Europeans- and you can get a Putin-Trump meeting.”
Yes, but they can agree to nothing at this point. Europe is funding and backing Ukraine. UK/Starmertrooper has promised to kill every Briton, stop every NIH, close every heating subsidy, to pay Ukraine’s daily salary and kill another 1M Ukrainians. That’s true love right there.
“envoy added that he found it difficult to “understand the logic” of those who oppose direct engagement with the Russian leader.”
The logic is that the war might end, might be peace, then 1M more Ukrainians wouldn’t die, the EU would have no reason to exist, NATO would dissolve, and every nation in Europe would go bankrupt. Reason enough?
Trump’s Third Term:
Why would I care until his does something in the first two?

All politics evolves and rotates. In fact, one of the big problems with the DNC is their refusal to give up what was a winning formula a few years ago, until everyone discovered what it really meant. Like Woke CRT, Big-tent, technocrat-control stuff.
“Q: who does the EU use for such investigations? They have no secret service.”
Good point. But it’s the EU: they’ll just make something up. For the 25th year in a row.
“Over 550 retired senior Israeli security officials—including the former Head of Mossad, former Head of the Shin Bet, and former Deputy Chief of the Israeli army—have sent a letter to President Trump urging him not to listen to Netanyahu on the war in Gaza.”
All Jews, — except 550 Israeli government and the whole newspaper Ha’aretz – are totally genocidal for Gaza. And Hassids in NY. Plus our Jewish Presidential candidates. Also Frankelstein, all the Jewish comedians, and hundreds of thousands more worldwide. But other than them, every single one. At birth.
Kier Starmer: More, he’s literally repeating “Blood and soil” speech – only in the most boring way humans have yet devised. This “Stranger to your own country” is classic. Possibly they had in mind some other guy to swing the nation to actual cleansing fascism, but that guy stepped out? Is de-masked? (BoJo) refused? (Nigel). So they’re running the Op with Keir Stalin until they can get the new actor trained up and hired.
Muskoverse: Guess just shows how, when everyone is a moron, doing everything they can think of except engineering products, that just being normal rockets you to the top. He’s demonstrating just how easy it is to succeed in a former DEI world.
“Trump Admin’s Aggressive Push to Slash Drug Prices: Will Big Pharma and Its Lobbyists Bend?”
Well, let’s see: does he have blackmail of mass murder and genocide on every pharma company? Oh he DOES? Well, problem solved. Now do you want him to jail them all, or just lower drug prices?
Actual ship, rebuilt:

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff4568bf-4061-4ade-a616-1b740896b1ea_1080x708.jpegMay 14, 2025 at 11:36 am #188033Topcat
ParticipantThe Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter
My take away from his book is that Complexity itself is by nature always self terminating.
Humanity when viewed in light of weaponized AI seems like a Fit.
The Medium is the Message
May 14, 2025 at 11:58 am #188034Topcat
ParticipantThat’s Nvdia’s new Post Apocalyptic Chip
May 14, 2025 at 12:05 pm #188035tboc
Participantthe proof that most have not actually read Orwell’s 1984 lies in the unecessary use of Ai that has become popular. Every use of the language models attached to a search engine supplies information to the programmer, also know as training. The hip and the cool are actively rewriting history themselves. Ask someone you know, “considering the current state of western media, what is your view of Winston”.
Large Language Models for Small Minds
May 14, 2025 at 12:57 pm #188036those darned kids
Participanttopcat: “Britain is just about done as a ‘society’.
Islam hates the West”
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i watched that video. it’s very sad. but it is not islam that has destroyed the west. “the west” thought it could manipulate islam as a tool for resource control, but that, of course, is folly.
much of the mayhem you see in the video has nothing to do with muslims. many of the migrants are not muslims.
blaming “muslim” drug dealers is like blaming “christian” narco cartels.
• why are they migrants? it was the people in the shiny towers destroying their home countries.
• why are they in britain? it was the people in the shiny towers who let them in.
• why is no one helping the native population? because the people in the shiny towers want them dead, just like they want you dead, too. and they want the migrants dead, too, too.
• why is there so much chaos? because the people in the shiny towers want it that way.the people in the shiny towers have the same mix of skin colours as their multitudinous victims below. religion and skin colour mean nothing to them – power does.
please aim your justified horror in the correct direction.
“cleanliness is part of faith, and faith leads its possessor to paradise” muhammad (pbuh)
May 14, 2025 at 1:04 pm #188037those darned kids
Participant“for Israel, for Yemen”
how many dead is too many before you take a stand a say, “my personal betterment is not worth the price of seeing people die in my name”?
how many?
so smart, yet so blind.
practicality and pragmatism mean nothing when one’s 3 year old daughter’s viscera are now on the sidewalk.
May 14, 2025 at 1:06 pm #188038those darned kids
ParticipantComment online: “Can we just take all these white racists and banish them to an island somewhere?”
A: Every time they do that it turns into a paradise, then all the other people show up and want some.Errr…I’m not sure what I think of that comment. I’ve been trying to refute it but can’t find examples. Even Australia.
hahahahahahahaha!
let’s try europe 1914 to 1947. fun times in whitey paradise!¡!
hahahahahahahaha!
stupid racist bean heads.
May 14, 2025 at 1:12 pm #188039those darned kids
Participant“Why would I care until his does something in the first two?”
May 14, 2025 at 1:33 pm #188040zerosum
ParticipantLies and Secrets
• Russia Continues To Prepare For May 15 Talks in Istanbul – Kremlin (Sp.)
Moscow’s call to resume negotiations that Kiev abandoned in 2022, proposing that talks be held again in Istanbul.
Peace talk/cease fire will be with the Russian delegation,President Putin’s personal presence will not be there. And per the latest from Reuters, President Trump is not going to be there in Turkey either.
Zelensky has also said that he would only attend the meeting in Istanbul if Putin comes in person.
Peskov has stated that preparations for Thursday’s negotiations are underway.
He has also ruled out the possibility of any of Kiev’s Western European backers taking part in the process, arguing that they are “entirely on Ukraine’s side” and “rather pro-war,” which excludes them from being considered “unbiased.”Really, all the talk of pushing to get Putin in Istanbul to negotiate in person was about generating mainstream media headlines like the following:
Moscow worries that such a lengthy pause in fighting would only be used by Ukrainian forces to rearm and regroup along the front lines, at a moment they are exhausted and steadily losing ground. Peskov told reporters.———–
Lies and Secrets
• Here’s the Truth About the Qatar Jumbo Jet Story (Margolis)
(The Qatar B-747 was built in the US by Boeing.)Gifts and Donations are legal and acceptable Tax deductions even if its $400,000 to USD or from USD to other country.
“Qatar is offering the jet to the US military, not Donald Trump,”
the ‘sky is falling’ conspiracy crap grows tiresome.
contrary to the media’s alarmist tone, this sort of arrangement isn’t unprecedented.
“The wing based at Andrews has also purchased aircraft from other countries in the past which are currently flying our VP and senior government officials.
———————Lies and Secrets
“unlawful discrimination related to ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ (DEI) in the workplace.”
————Lies and Secrets
• Labour and Tories are ‘Two Cheeks of the Same Backside’ – George Galloway (Sp.)Imagine that for a second — freezing your own pensioners while funding someone else’s war.
This is the UK’s reality now, and no one from either of the two major British political parties is speaking up against this.
————-Labour’s betrayal of the working class..
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Lies and Secrets
Who was President when Biden wasn’t?
—————-May 14, 2025 at 1:41 pm #188041Topcat
Participant@those darned kids
Islams stated goal, written into their religious text, for CENTURIES has been to conquer the West.
Islamic raids of conquest far out number all the ‘crusades’ put together.
That is historic fact.
Please address the point made in this video.
Islamic armies surrounded Vienna in 1683
Luckily for the West the Muslim Army was crushed, never to return to Europe proper again.
The Muslim commander, Kara Mustafa Pashadue, to his defeat at the battle, was executed in Belgrade in the approved manner – by strangulation with a silk rope pulled by several men on each end – by order of the Janissary Agha
During the Siege of Vienna, the Ottoman troops pillaged the surrounding countryside and took many surviving civilians into slavery in the Ottoman Empire (Islamic)
During their CENTURIES long attacks against Europe, the Muslims took MILLIONS of Christians into slavery.
Europeans were NOT taking MILLIONs of Muslims into slavery during the same time frame.
Please address this glaring historical discrepancy between Islamic barbarism over centuries and the very brief duration of European crusades in the Near East
May 14, 2025 at 1:56 pm #188042those darned kids
Participantit ain’t 1412.
May 14, 2025 at 3:08 pm #188043those darned kids
Participantif islam wants to conquer “the west”, ¿why does every muslim man support real madrid? and ¿whose favourite player is christiano ronaldo?
hahaha, ¡see you at the mall!
May 14, 2025 at 6:01 pm #188052Dora
ParticipantDr. Mike Yeadon writing about the digital-ID.
The hill to die on
Whatever the consequences, however inconvenient, however scary: resist, refuse, do not comply with digital ID
-Here’s what I’m completely certain it’s going to be used to accomplish.1. At a time of their choosing, the Useless Eliters will trigger an event that ends sovereign currencies and physical cash. Money will become solely digital but it won’t be like you currently know it. Instead, it’ll be Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
2. When you try buy anything, you’ll be required to show your digital ID. The merchant will be unable to process the payment without this. Your digital ID is the gateway to absolutely every transaction.
Obviously, there must be ways to ensure that your digital ID is valid in some way. Before the question of whether you have the requisite credits in your account. And whether all the conditions necessary to allow the transaction are met.
Among those conditions will be your location.
If you’re outside your 15 minute community boundary, the transaction will fail. If you’ve already had your 50g of meat this month, the transaction will fail. If you’ve posted something a corporation doesn’t like online, it’s possible the transaction will fail (depending on what it is that you’re trying to buy).
3. First, about credit in your CBDC account. Remember there are now no alternative means of payment. If there’s a restriction on your account, you will be unable to transact. If there’s anything about you that the state or its delegated authorities don’t like about you, there will be laws that permits the state or its delegated authorities to not permit a transaction. CBDCs can be removed or caused to expire. You will have no recourse. Whatever might seem OK today could, in a heartbeat, not be OK. You will have no recourse.
You might trust the government of the day. That’s not enough.
You’re trusting every future government, too. Given what past governments have done (been told to do), and still do (are told to do) how confident are you that this is a wise position?
If they take any steps you don’t like, you have no recourse. A crucial feature of the design of these accounts that I’ve seen proposed is an upper limit.
You will not be permitted to save.
I expect at some point, you’ll be wholly dependent upon the state crediting your CBDC account with Universal Basic Income, upon which you might, if you’re careful and compliant, just make it to the end of the month.
You won’t need much money, though, because you won’t be going anywhere. See UN2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
4. Here’s the “killer flaw”. Unfortunately it’s not even black humour. I’m sure they actually intend to do this.
Note that your digital ID, the QR code that you’ll have become, isn’t itself your identity. You cannot look closely at it and learn what it says about you. Because it’s essentially a web address. It’s within the files & details within that address, that website, that the devil lies. One of the critical aspects of digital ID that’s different in kind from any other means of identifying yourself that you’ve ever had is that it’s editable in real time.
This isn’t true of your passport, your driving licence, your council tax bill plus your credit card, all the simple, traditional means of identifying yourself that you’ve used successfully for years.
It’s also biometric & will use your face as the key. Avoiding Neurolink will not cut it.
5. One of the editable fields in your digital ID is your vaccination status.
I’ve seen the outline of the EU vaccination passport system, which the EU Commission started in 2018. It’s explicitly stated that it’s anticipated that everyone will be vaccinated, regularly & for life, with mRNA based injections & recorded electronically only.
It’s entirely fraudulent, the claims they make that this will improve health and safety as you move about.
On the contrary, if you’re repeatedly injected with anything based on that platform, your health will decay and eventually you’ll be killed.
6. You might argue that you’re not going to accede to the requirement to be injected at all, let alone regularly. I’m sorry to have to point out to you that if “Vaccination status on most recent WHO recommended injection: No” is what your digital ID says about you, then your digital ID is invalid.
You won’t be able to buy anything.
Note that you will also use your digital ID to cross any regulated threshold, such as a border, a mall, a shop or potentially even your home or car (if you have one). If you decline the injections, you will lose access to your own life.
In the most extreme case, you’ll starve to death. If on the other hand you comply with the injections, you will sicken & die.
Do not sign up for digital ID.You cannot check out later. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say it’s the last truly voluntary, important decision you’ll ever make. Thereafter, you’re a passenger.
https://drmikeyeadon.substack.com/p/the-hill-to-die-on
~~~~~My words now: it wouldn’t surprise me to see the EU and the US use the excuse of open borders and a flood of illegal immigrants as a ‘good reason’ for a digital-ID… for our own protection, don’t ya know.
May 14, 2025 at 6:13 pm #188053Bam_Man
ParticipantThe fatal flaw in their CBDC/Digital ID plan is that virtually nobody is going to be willing to perform actual, productive work for a form of fake “money” with so many strings attached. But of course that will not stop them, because they are megalomaniacal, slave-driving psychopaths.
May 14, 2025 at 6:22 pm #188054Dr D Rich
ParticipantLet me know when that sternly worded missive results in deracination, debanking, demonetization or leads to loss of land, title and standing in the Jewish community.
These (((Ppl)) make the World Turn, Money Reign and Control/Assassinate Presidents und other assorted leaders but when it comes to The Palestinians they just can’t make their fellow church-going cultists budge in the direction of not killing, not genocide, not murder.
Here’s a letter for them:
F
May 14, 2025 at 6:24 pm #188055Dr D Rich
ParticipantNawar al-Awlaki
“Light of the world”
May 14, 2025 at 7:19 pm #188056those darned kids
ParticipantMay 14, 2025 at 7:32 pm #188057Dora
ParticipantDNC Voids David Hogg’s Vice Chair Election Win Due to Party’s Gender Diversity Rules
You can’t make this up!
May 13, 2025
https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/dnc-voids-david-hoggs-vice-chairMay 14, 2025 at 7:59 pm #188058Dr D Rich
Participantmegalomaniacal, slave-driving psychopaths.
….and quite a few Schizotypals and Schizoid Personality Disordered guys among the ascendant Information Technology Crowd that bring and brought so much more human interaction to our lives
May 14, 2025 at 8:09 pm #188059Dr D Rich
Participant“Dad!”
“Yeah, Rich?”
“You know, Dad…the other Bill Withers”
“Oh yeah! Dobie Gray”May 14, 2025 at 8:50 pm #188060tboc
Participantdo ya think that bearded writer of history books tellin the Truth on Islam ever heard of The Roman Empire?
Ahh Yess, Them Was Southwestern Europeans so the truth does not apply. as ever body know
White Makes Right
bet they ain’t heard of the Zullu either“Tell it like it is
Let your conscience be your guide” – Davis/Diamond
Aaron NevilleMay 14, 2025 at 8:59 pm #188061tboc
ParticipantDoes anyone know if there is a current federal subsidy for installing fiber optic systems? There are Major fiber infrasctructure projects under way in Northwest Florida. Liveoak, Apex and AT&T that i am aware of.
The IP service installer came today. A young, single man. Installed through the attic upon request. Did not even raise his eyebrows upon request. If one out of twenty are of the caliber of this GOOD young man, we gonna be OK.
May 14, 2025 at 11:00 pm #188062zerosum
ParticipantYou were told the truth yesterday. It is not the same today.
May 14, 2025 at 11:05 pm #188063aspnaz
ParticipantJerry Seinfeld, arguably the most famous Jewish comedian, supports the Israel genocide.
Jon Stewart, arguably the most famous Jewish show host, does not support the military option because of the hostages, but he supports Israel’s right to get rid of the Palestinians.
Bob Dylan, arguably the most famous Jewish musician, supports the Israel genocide.
…. Dr D the gibberish merchant says “But but but it is not ALL Jews”. Whatever.
May 14, 2025 at 11:08 pm #188068Dr. D
ParticipantYes, thanks, you literally just proved and supported my point, thanks.
May 14, 2025 at 11:28 pm #188069John Day
ParticipantLow On Energy https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/low-on-energy
To give contextual scope to these numerous links and excerpts, let me draw attention to the November 2018 peak production of crude oil + condensates, which has not been equaled since then, and how that correlates with the projection of Peak Industrial Output, derived from the data fed into computer modeling in the 1972 Limits To Growth. She provides clear written explanation and graphs. [Actual Peak Industrial Output might have been tweaked by COVID lockdowns.]
An financial-economy based upon exponential growth must reset when that becomes impossible. We are there. It looked like TBTF-bailouts during COVID lockdowns and wars in Ukraine and Israel-Palestine, and that is still in the public-denial phase. Wile-E-Coyote is about to look down.
Russia has the most natural resources per capita. The US is #2 in that regard. Both have about enough oil, and more than enough food, and nuclear weapons, and large militaries. There is a game-theory attraction to their working together, but an equal imperative for opposing interests (London finance) to drive them to war against each other. An elite reckoning of the inevitability of Israeli governmental collapse appears to be dawning. The war of genocide against Palestinians only delays that inevitability. Trump has new leeway, due to that financial-elite acceptance, it seems. What next?
If we consider our human ecosystem to be like a natural ecosystem, managed by apex predators, such as wolves, then most people, farmers and such, would be like grazing animals, deer. Our apex-predators are our elites, the lines of kings and nobles. Their special function is to kill a lot of people when the people outgrow the resources. Vlad the Impaler was reportedly a very good general, recognized by the Pope, and relished his role…
If we are able to transcend this management model, to become stewards of life on our fair planet, we make the elite skillsets redundant. I think we need to each seek, accept and follow Divine Guidance. I just don’t see bureaucratic mechanisms working, other than with coercion, and we have seen how that devolves…Gail Tverberg, Brace for rapid changes in the economy; the world economy is reaching Limits to Growth
The world economy is at a major turning point, which is why we should brace for rapid changes in the economy. The world is moving from having enough goods and services to go around, to not having enough to go around. The dynamics of the economy are very different with not enough to go around...Middle distillates (diesel oil and jet fuel) are particularly important in world trade. Middle distillates are plentiful in heavy oil, such as that found in Russia, the oil sands of Canada, and Venezuela. Diesel is important for operating farm equipment, large trucks and ships, and construction equipment.
Middle distillates are in short supply because it is hard to get the price up high enough, for long enough, to compensate for the high cost of extraction, distillation, and transport. If the price of diesel rises much, the price of food tends to rise. Voters don’t like high food prices.....In 1957, US Navy Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover gave a speech explaining the importance of fossil fuels to the economy and to the military. He then explained that we could not expect fossil fuel extraction to last very long:
“It is an unpleasant fact that according to our best estimates, total fossil fuel reserves recoverable at not over twice today’s unit cost are likely to run out at some time between the years 2000 and 2050, if present standards of living and population growth rates are taken into account.”
Much modeling has been done since that time. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology did a series of analyses which they published in 1972 in the book, The Limits to Growth. The most recent update to this analysis shows the following summary exhibit.

What I see ahead.
(a) Recession seems likely, starting out as being barely perceptible, but getting worse and worse over time.
(b) World output of physical goods and services will begin to decline almost immediately. In particular, products manufactured in the US using inputs from China will become difficult to obtain, as will goods imported into the US from China.
(c) I expect that commodity prices will fall. Deflation seems more likely than inflation. If inflation does take place, I expect that it will take the form of hyperinflation, with central banks issuing huge amounts of money, but there not being very many goods and services to purchase with this money.
(d) I expect that many banks, insurance companies, and pension plans will fail. I expect that governments will not be able to bail them all out. If governments do try to bail out all these failing institutions, the result is likely to be hyperinflation, with not much to buy.
(e) Many governments have plans for digital currencies to replace the currencies we have today. I am doubtful that these plans will work. For one thing, intermittent electricity is likely to become an increasing problem. For another, government organizations, such as the European Union, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the United Nations are likely to start falling apart. https://ourfiniteworld.com/2025/04/24/brace-for-rapid-changes-in-the-economy-the-world-economy-is-reaching-limits-to-growth/May 14, 2025 at 11:29 pm #188070John Day
Participant
May 14, 2025 at 11:30 pm #188071John Day
ParticipantUgo Bardi goes country by country down the list: What if Malthus Was Right? A Practical Guide to Determine Who Will Starve First. https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/what-if-malthus-was-right
Catherine Austin Fitts is getting more of a hearing than usual lately: “We know that mRNA technology is a killer, and yet we see the president supporting [it]…the constituencies that want this diminution of life expectancy and want this poisoning to keep happening…are very, very strong…[but] this is nothing short of murder.”
Catherine Austin Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, investment banker, and founder of the Solari Report, describes for Jimmy Dore how the mRNA injections that have been launched on the world constitute “murder.”
Despite their apparent danger, however, the former HUD official notes that there are entrenched “constituencies…that want this diminution of life expectancy and want this poisoning to keep happening.”
“If you look at what’s happened with the effort to change the policies so that we don’t poison our children, what the confirmation of Kennedy at HHS said, the failure to get Weldon put into CDC, and the switch now on the Surgeon General, what it says to me is the constituencies that want this diminution of life expectancy and want this poisoning to keep happening, those constituencies are very, very strong,” Fitts says.
Fitts adds, “We know that MRNA technology is a killer, and yet we see the president supporting MRNA technology… I just saw a tweet, and I haven’t had time to confirm it since the beginning of the year, [but] since the Trump inauguration, 2.6 million children have been given mRNA shots.
”There’s been no change in the heavy [‘vaccine’] schedules. We don’t need studies to show where autism is coming from. We know where it’s coming from. So this, to me, is nothing short of murder.”
After Dore shows Fitts a clip of FDA Commissioner Marty Makary saying he’s not sure sure if a healthy 12-year-old girl should receive a seventh COVID booster, Fitts notes that “He’s lying because in the box.” The former HUD official adds, “He’s not allowed to say the truth.” https://x.com/SenseReceptor/status/1921735420309541209Sasha Latypova provides the link: Call for action – please submit public comment to the FDA asking them to remove mRNA shots from market https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/call-for-action-please-submit-public
Caitlin Johnstone, Israel Admits It Bombed A Hospital To Kill A Journalist For Doing Journalism https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-admits-it-bombed-a-hospital
Netanyahu: Israel Will Finish War in Gaza, Drive Out 50% of Palestinians The Israeli Prime Minister said Tel Aviv is seeking countries to take the Palestinians https://news.antiwar.com/2025/05/13/netanyahu-israel-will-finish-war-in-gaza-drive-out-50-of-palestinians/
May 14, 2025 at 11:32 pm #188072John Day
Participant Israel Launches Nine Bunker Busting Missiles at Gaza’s European Hospital
Without providing evidence, Tel Aviv claimed they were targeting a Hamas leader as well as a command and control center beneath the hospital
Israeli security officials stated that Tel Aviv launched nine bunker busting missiles into and around the courtyard of southern Gaza’s European hospital near Khan Younis on Tuesday. At least 28 people have been killed and 70 others wounded including a journalist hit with shrapnel. https://news.antiwar.com/2025/05/13/israel-launches-nine-bunker-busting-missiles-at-gazas-european-hospital/ Not the same hospital: Attack on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital ‘huge blow to already overwhelmed health system’: WHO chief
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted on X that the attack killed two and injured 12. One of the injured is in “critical condition and is undergoing multiple surgical procedures,” he said.
“The burn unit was struck, 18 hospital beds in the surgical department, 8 beds in the intensive care unit and 10 inpatient beds were destroyed,” he said. “We repeat our call: attacks on hospitals must stop.” https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250513-attack-on-gazas-nasser-hospital-huge-blow-to-already-overwhelmed-health-system-who-chief/ World Health Organization: 57 Children in Gaza Killed by Malnutrition Since March Amid Israeli Siege
The WHO representative for the West Bank and Gaza warns an “entire generation” will be affected by the starvation campaign https://news.antiwar.com/2025/05/13/world-health-organization-57-children-in-gaza-killed-by-malnutrition-since-march-amid-israeli-siege/Israel assassinates Gaza’s anti-narcotics police chief https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250513-israel-assassinates-gazas-anti-narcotics-police-chief/
Israel Killed My Source in Northern Gaza
On 24 March, the Israeli military assassinated Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat by targeting his vehicle in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza.
Mohammad Mansour, a reporter for Palestine Today, was killed in a separate incident on the same day as the prominent Al Jazeera correspondent.
Their deaths added to the still-growing count of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza, where at least 214 media workers have lost their lives since October 2023, according to the Government Media Office in the territory.
Months before killing him, Israel accused Shabat and five other journalists working for Al Jazeera of having ties to the armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, labeling them as “terrorists.” https://scheerpost.com/2025/05/13/israel-killed-my-source-in-northern-gaza/ -
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