Debt Rattle October 27 2022
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle October 27 2022]“Devastated parents of boy, 15, who died after collapsing in a Liverpool restaurant”
Normal!
“The White House has also considered banning or restricting exports of refined fuels – a strategy that industry trade groups claimed would backfire “Banning or limiting the export of refined products would likely decrease inventory levels, reduce domestic refining capacity, put upward pressure on consumer fuel prices, and alienate US allies during a time of war,” …”
Can someone who is way smarter than I am explain why restricting export would increase prices domestically? (serious question – I don’t get it) Thanks!
“If you get it you’re protected, and if you don’t, you’re putting yourself and other people at unnecessary risk,” he [Biden] said.
Is that misinformation or disinformation? I get the two mixed up.
10-year comes down to test the breakout at 4%. Classic formation.
“Gunmen Storm Iranian Pilgrimage Site In Major Attack: 15 Dead & 40 Wounded”
Trying to antagonize Iran and open that new front. “Always fight a three-front war” – Lao Tzu
“After Sending out 240,000 Unverified Ballots, Pennsylvania Now Warns of ‘Delays’ Counting Midterm Votes”
Quarter of a million votes. In just this ONE line. Let that sink in. If PA has 4 cities, this is a fifth they may have just made up. And “Warns of delays”? Yeah, who could have predicted that, except all of us, months ago. Can you see how that gives the military license to step in? In the middle of “a war”? They won’t? You mean the way the Supreme Court had zero jurisdiction to decide the race in 2000, illegally jumped in, and also decided it wrong, and everybody was good with it?
“Credit Suisse is nearing a deal to sell the securitized-products group to financial giants Apollo Global and PIMCO, as part of the bank’s retreat from Wall Street.”
I guess we know what Powell traded for access to that $6B lifeline.
“Forget Big Brother, Big MUM is Google’s new tool for suppressing conservatives…”Mum’s the word, I guess. Mummy dearest. “Try not to speak” I have to think these guys know what their projects sound like, and don’t care. “Jigsaw” is the name of their other one. Like the movie. Or the comic villain.
“Black Supremacist Guilty in Deadly Christmas Parade Attack”
Shocking. I don’t think anyone’s been convicted since I don’t know when. What did he get, 6 months, out with time served?
“Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb (Chris Hedges)”
I’m not sure at the moment that anyone knows where this is going. Too many variables, with too many former anchors unmoored. But I think probably that’s what it takes to alter the path and release the status quo. Those anchors moor them especially, and more than us. How else would it change? And don’t we need change? Perhaps this is the purpose of war among humans.
““We have eight different 155mm artillery systems in the field … so it’s like a competition between systems” to see which one proves best..”
None of them. Because they were all created for Congressional districts and maximum cost.
“I’m really optimistic that Abrams tanks are possible in the future and I am sure that fighter jets like F-16s, F-15s, or Gripen from Sweden will also be possible,”
The Abrams is a design from about 1973. The F-16 is 1976. The F-15 is 1972. That’s “Soviet-era” and way past Soviet era. Russian “Javelins” were blowing up Abrams like roman candles a few years ago in one theatre, I think it was Yemen. They’re also too heavy, too complicated, and use far too much gas: supply chain, supply chain, supply chain. At 10,000 miles.
He then says he wants Leopards and Marders too. Does this guy know anything about war? Supply chain. So you want 4 different units in the field at once for 4 different parts and 4 different mechanics and gear to fix them?
But go ahead and try them if you want. I’ll just use a $10,000 drone to blow up your $1,000,000 rocket in the butt like “W” said, all day long. Zero mile supply chain.
“US Vows to Protect Allies with Nukes (RT)”
And also attack allies with nukes. Energy nukes. Like NordStream.
“Sherman went on to condemn recent missile launches by North Korea – a major focus of this week’s meetings – slamming the DPRK’s record number of weapons tests this year as “deeply irresponsible, dangerous, and destabilizing.”
…The very same week the U.S. does the very same ICBM testing. “It’s not Fascism when we do it!” …We’re pure as the driven snow…but we drifted. I mean, we never attacked/invaded/occupied/war crimed anyone, right? All aggressive attacks, occupation, and wars of expansion are good, peaceful and right…when we do them. In Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan… All little kids who are U.S. citizens become terrorists when we illegally drone strike them. “…Killin’ some folks” –Barack Obama
…Just. Tired.
“NATO Warns Russia and Iran (RT)”
Or else what? You’ll send in the 3,000 men of the 101st? And hold one tiny village? To “warn” you need to have forces to enforce your will.
“claiming it had obtained incriminating evidence of those activities during the ongoing military operation.”
Well that’s easy then! We read your claims, publicize them widely through the West, and find out if they’re full of s—t or not. Problem solved. Oh wait: you won’t look? …And you somehow know you don’t want to look, before looking? Uh-huh. So. Weird.
And Fauci just funded the creation of a far more deadly MonkeyPox, to kill off the gay men he missed the first time around. Don’t worry: after creating what nature wouldn’t, when it gets released, it’ll be an “accident”. So all good, right? Oopsie!
“the remaining EU funds owed to Poland will also be frozen. This is no surprise given that the EU establishment has abandoned any pretense of even-handedness.”
I can’t believe people ever bought this and I was the crank for warning them. What I learned was, you can’t buy dinner by being right.
“The objective is to make Poles vote the right way and choose the right government.”
Pshah! That’s crazy! They would never put in a government, then attack that government to cause another Prime Minister to be installed from the Banking Industry just 45 days later, so they can “vote right” and “choose right”, re-capturing them back for the WEF and EU, right London? It’s just crazy that someone like me could even suggest it!
“Google and Microsoft Hit by Slowing Economy (BBC)”
All the FANGS have dropped, including Tesla, but the Dow rises. Uh-huh. Housing has fastest decline ever and the Dow rises, holding above 30,000. Uh-huh. Facebook cut in half and the indexes it is part of rises. Huh. On a totally unrelated note, Switzerland is the biggest holder of U.S. stocks, especially Apple. Don’t know why that popped up just now. Probably nothing.
“diesel supplies were “unacceptably low” and that President Joe Biden’s administration had “all options” on the table to reduce prices.”
Having never heard of markets, this all made sense to them. The people, having never read of capitalism in school, agreed. Okay, very slowly now: Biden’s price reduction…A) raises supply or B) lowers supply? HIGHER prices INCREASE supply. LOWER supply INCREASES prices.
As with other price controls he can pick EITHER low prices OR supply, but not both. But markets would exist under “Capitalism,” and we don’t have that.
“History, most recently the Arab Spring and Colour Revolutions, shows that a dangerous political void is more likely than liberalisation.”
Yes, but you have a meta-assumption that they prefer peace. They do not. The goal is to exhaust the world with hardship and conflict, so people will say yes to “Build Back Better” under their new Maitreya.
“The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion.
We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.”
Does that look like any strategy you see anywhere today? Any questions?
Unless you know it’s a RELIGION, you can’t understand it.
“Over the last several months, I have described the demands of climate activists as fanatical”
It’s a RELIGION. Fanatics are a term reserved for religions. That is: people of faith and belief, not discussion and objective evidence.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire
Do we see both? And can we imagine a goal where making people believe only absurdities and commit constant atrocities is a winning tactic?
“[The people will] be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Our Religion (Lucifer, Apollo, the Light Bearer), brought finally out” Who wouldn’t want that? He has the word “Light” right in the name! Love and Light, children.
But it’s just a couple crazies, not the top influencers of most major parties:
“Saul Alinsky wrote an epigraph describing the rebellious angel Lucifer as “the first radical known to man” in his book “Rules for Radicals.” –Snopes“Flanked by Dr. Anthony Fauci who still got the disease after four boosters…”
AFKTT Or like the brothers in Oz, “Who can stand in the way when there’s a dollar to be made?”
COPPER🧵redux. I live near one of the largest copper mines on earth (Kennecott Utah Copper – KUC). I helped manage a smaller copper mine for 8 years. Observation: Wind/Solar/Battery Proponents & ESG bean-counters are completely out of touch with copper mining & production.
COPPER🧵redux. I live near one of the largest copper mines on earth (Kennecott Utah Copper – KUC). I helped manage a smaller copper mine for 8 years. Observation: Wind/Solar/Battery Proponents & ESG bean-counters are completely out of touch with copper mining & production. pic.twitter.com/F50u6rRxDp
— B.F. Randall ⚛ ⛏ ⚡ (@Mining_Atoms) October 23, 2022
Is “Renewable Energy” Renewable?
Part 1: PV & Polysilicon“All Words are Pegs to Hang Ideas On”
–Henry Ward BeecherLabels are powerful. In energy, there is none more consequential than “renewable.” But straining to avoid carbon, we’ve swallowed a camel. A🧵/1
Is “Renewable Energy” Renewable?
Part 1: PV & Polysilicon“All Words are Pegs to Hang Ideas On”
–Henry Ward BeecherLabels are powerful. In energy, there is none more consequential than "renewable.” But straining to avoid carbon, we’ve swallowed a camel. A🧵/1 pic.twitter.com/nrJbhL4V45
— B.F. Randall ⚛ ⛏ ⚡ (@Mining_Atoms) October 5, 2022
Bubble makers – Motivators – Conflicts
Pick one/winner
1. Health (Respiratory virus, Omicron)
2. Wars/conflicts (USA, Russia, China, Iran)
3. Diminishing affordable energy
4. Profits (the Dow rises)
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War tool – Unmanned vehicle – drones, observation, attack, data gathering,
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there is “no proof”
According to USA,
1. Only seven nations expressed support for Russia: Belarus, China, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, Syria and Venezuela.
2. 31 countries are helping Ukraine
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Satyajit Das: A Disordered World – Part 1: Fracture
Posted on October 26, 2022 by Yves SmithThis part examines current great geopolitical divisions. The second and third part, which will appear on Thursday October 27 and Friday October 28, will look at key vulnerabilities and possible trajectories respectively.
———–Yuval Harari (picked up by Hal Turner): “You have this small elite which pushes its own interests even if it doesn’t benefit the vast majority of the population. This has happened so many times in history and it is probably going to happen again. One of the biggest dangers to the planet today is this technological utopia, because- probably for the elite, it will work. If bad comes to worse- when the flood comes- the scientists will build a Noah’s ark for the elite, leaving the rest to drown (the rest of the people and the rest of the ecosystem) but they are likely to be able to construct this technological Noah’s ark- which is probably what much of the elitists is counting on…”
I have asked here before: if the people who destroyed the world were the ones who survived the destruction- is that okay? At least some “humans” will survive?
Oh yeah, Dali was 14 when he painted that. We’ve had a few of his early works recently, but this one looks especially strong.
The 2020 COVID had the original 1/2020 Wuhan spike protein, which attached to ACE-2 receptors in the blood-vessel linings and caused blood clots, the same as it does now if you get a gene-therapy product which induces your cells to make this historic spike protein.
It was clearly the case that blood-vessel inflammation in the lungs was driving the pneumonias and inability to oxygenate the blood. It was different and new, but it is now understood.
Current COVID does not do this, but is very infectious.
“Things are different today…”“Thinking Like A Forest” blog post is up https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/thinking-like-a-forest
Ugo Bardi asks if “holobionts”, which we are, and which a forest also is, can “think”. Obviously our modes of problem-solving are different, but exist to benefit the furtherance of life. To what degree might humans “think-together”, I wonder. We are different from trees, without interlacing root-networks, but we clearly act in concert for mutual survival and adaptation.
Can Holobionts Think?
I started this chapter by examining trees and forests as holobionts, then looking at human beings. Trees and humans are as alien to each other as we could possibly imagine. Humans are mobile creatures with an extravagantly powerful metabolism that makes them able to sustain protracted efforts longer than any other living animal. That turbo-charged metabolism is also used to maintain their large brains, of which they are very proud. They use their brains to control their muscles and their sophisticated sensory apparatus, as well as to deal with each other in complicated social rituals.
Trees are the opposite in almost all respects: they are immobile, their metabolism is slow: and they can’t even control their internal temperature. They don’t have eyes, nerves, brains, and not even muscles. Yet, they move, they sense their environment mainly by chemical signals, but also visual and mechanical ones — including vibrations in the acoustic frequency. They “know” what’s going on around them, but in ways that are mostly alien to mobile mammals, including humans.
https://theproudholobionts.blogspot.com/2022/10/can-holobiont-think.html NYC Firemen, police, and garbage collectors, reinstated with back-pay.
New York Supreme Court reinstates all employees fired for being unvaccinated, orders backpay
State Supreme Court found that being vaccinated ‘does not’ stop the spread of COVID-19
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-supreme-court-reinstates-all-employees-fired-being-unvaccinated-orders-backpay
Charles Hugh Smith points out the weaknesses of forced-growth economy, impossible to continue on a finite planet.
Stuff is running out, like oil and copper. (Lead is surprisingly rare.)
People in developed countries have everything they need already, so failure modes have to be engineered into products to make them break in a few years, so people buy new ones.
People who do need stuff can’t buy what they need.
Throughout the prior history of human economy, things made more sense and more efficiently provided for human needs with what was available. (Yes, it was much more human-effort to keep living.)
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-end-of-growth-road.htmlEconomy = Oil. It’s almost perfectly true, a very good approximation.
IEA: The Current Energy Crisis Is Unprecedented
The executive director of the International Energy Agency has said that the world is currently in the middle of the first truly global energy crisis.
Natural gas markets are particularly tight, and they are set to worsen next year as demand climbs and Europe struggles to replace Russian pipeline gas.
As well as being more expensive than pipeline gas, the lack of infrastructure to import LNG to Europe is resulting in delivery delays.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/IEA-The-Current-Energy-Crisis-Is-Unprecedented.htmlRefinery executives say that shuttered US refineries will not be reopened despite maximal utilization this year, and in face of ongoing shortfalls in refined products like diesel. It has already been pointed out that this is a 30 year investment to make a new refinery, and nobody can make that investment at all these days.
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Energy-Execs-Tell-Granholm-Shuttered-US-Oil-Refineries-Wont-Restart.htmlAmericanThe 24 hour letter from 30 Congressional Democrats to President Biden to please negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine “died suddenly”. Why would this withdrawal-of-peace-request happen? Isn’t this about avoiding nuclear holocaust?
“They waited to get about 30 and released,” one source texted The Hill on Tuesday morning, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal negotiations. “Didn’t consider election timing.”
A House aide said the letter was “circulated for signatures” in June. “We aren’t sure why it was released now.”
Progressive Caucus withdraws letter on Ukraine strategy amid blowback – 10/25/22 1:03 PM ET – The Hill
“The Congressional Progressive Caucus hereby withdraws its recent letter to the White House regarding Ukraine,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the caucus chairwoman, wrote in a statement, representing a stunning shift in their call for a diplomatic push to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
“The letter was drafted several months ago, but unfortunately was released by staff without vetting. As Chair of the Caucus, I accept responsibility for this,” Jayapal wrote.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/10/the-progressives-in-congress-are-useless-wimps.html#moreWeapons sent to Ukraine end up on black market – Putin And other highlights of recent short speech to the heads of security and special services of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries:
https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/weapons-sent-to-ukraine-end-up-on-black-market-putin/That 7-minute speech with subtitles (subtleties?) is here, quite efficient and to-the-point. Countries are defending themselves from US/NATO hybrid warfare attacks. http://thesaker.is/vladimir-putin-addresses-russian-security-council-october-26-2022-eng-subtitles/
This came at a time when Russia and NATO were both carrying out nuclear-war-games in Europe. Who “might” benefit?
I have seen it postulated that such a dirty bomb or other mass destruction could befall Kherson, to prevent Russia from advancing to Odessa this winter and taking the whole Black Sea coast.
SCOTT RITTER: Russia’s ‘Dirty Bomb’ ScareUS doubles down on ‘dirty bomb’ denial
The Pentagon chief has rejected “false allegations by Russia about Ukraine,” describing them as a pretext for escalation
https://www.rt.com/news/565288-us-denial-dirty-bomb-ukraine/Moscow urges UN probe into Ukrainian biolabs
Russia has filed an official complaint over US-backed biological activities in Ukraine
In June, the Pentagon published the ‘Fact Sheet on WMD Threat Reduction Efforts with Ukraine, Russia and Other Former Soviet Union Countries’. The US military claimed that following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Washington has “worked collaboratively to improve Ukraine’s biological safety, security, and disease surveillance for both human and animal health,” by providing support to “46 peaceful Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities, and disease diagnostic sites over the last two decades.” These programs have allegedly focused on “improving public health and agricultural safety measures at the nexus of nonproliferation.”
https://www.rt.com/news/565341-russia-un-ukraine-biological-laboratories/As winter approaches, both Russia and Ukraine bulk up their forces in preparation for decisive battles
Moscow’s military mobilization means that Kiev is set to lose its vast numerical advantage. How will this play out on the battlefields?
https://www.rt.com/russia/565235-sergey-poletaev-as-winter-approaches/I have noticed that the Ukraine Nazis no longer can afford to use any of their Nazi soldiers in front line roles as they are now being used solely to force non-Nazi Ukrainians soldiers to die on the front lines.
Ukrainians are no longer able to mobilize large army size armies but are now restricted to organizing only battalion or company size attacks.
Clearly the Ukrainians/Nato/US don’t have enough Nazis left to to be everywhere at once, along the 1,000 km battle front. Ukrainian daily casualties have dropped significantly as a result of a lack of Nazis enforcers. If there are 100,000 Nazis left, that means only 100 Nazis enforcers per kilometer.
This change in the war has allowed Russia to wage a successful static artillery war otherwise known as the meat grinder. Unfortunately they are no longer killing many Nazis, just ordinary Ukrainians.
General Mud is nicely providing the Russians the time they need to mobilize more troops.
Clearly Russia is still dictating how the Ukrainians are reacting.
General Winter comes after General Mud.
As for the the Ukrainian’s US handlers in the US, they are clearly going ever more bat crazy, slowly but surely losing touch with reality, and starting to believe in their own propaganda. They have kept loosening their previous levels of restraints by introducing more and more lethal weapons into the war. It seems they are sans adult supervision. This is the scary part. I doubt they will know when to stop.
This might be why Russia is mobilizing a larger army, to end the war quickly?
On: The Collective West + what is going on..
Some call it Late-stage capitalism, heh, competition eats everyone up. (Say, one brief descr.) For ex. if one has for-profit health care ppl become unhealthy and desperate and aren’t no longer super fit workers.
Some call it Fascism, an authoritarian type dictator partnership between Big Corps and State institutions (who become subservient) – a kind of centrist madness. Often hate of others, some kind of out-group(s), has to be fired up for a kind of hysterical adherence to the Capos.
Some call it Energy Crisis – the USuk-isr and Europe have been facing, for a while now, the expectation of higher, very high, energy prices – not directly / uniquely caused by the Ukr. matter (which has only exaberated it, used as an excuse..) but a long standing trend, the result of so-called ‘peak’ oil, gas, the inefficient, illusory performance of ‘renewables’, e.g. wind, solar. —> US fracking is stuttering; Europe is hugely energy dependent, its own ressources are clapped out, from the N. Sea, to Norway, etc . Imports become scarcer, dry up ..
Some call it stupid, ill-advised, short-term economic policy, note that the “W” has de-industralised, by off-shoring and outsourcing manufacturing to China, other Asia, poor countries, to profit from low labor prices, looking virtuous by exporting pollution, etc. Concentrating on financial matters and control, ‘tech innovation’ and the like, to lord it over everyone. This is close to the ‘late-stage capitalism’ argument.
Some see a kind of spiritual rot, with decadence, like in Rome, taking over – Satan is here amongst us. Yes.
(Is), NATO Set To Attack Tiraspol?Transnistria, with its Russian base at Tiraspol, is located directly in-between Romania and Odessa. This presents a problem for any NATO intentions for Odessa.
Transnistria, as an unrecognized breakaway province of Moldova, has been defended by Russia since 1994 or so, and would be seen as fair game by NATO, which doesn’t seem to worry about the rules, anyway.
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https://www.bing.com/search?q=Transnistria&cvid=8bc0bd7968fe44deb509c0b74fa6bac9&aqs=edge.0.69i59j0l8.11935j0j1&pglt=299&FORM=ANNTA1&PC=U531
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobasna_ammunition_depotThe Cobasna ammunition depot has been referred to as one of the largest[2] if not the largest ammunition depot in Eastern Europe[1] and contains up to 20,000 tons of Soviet-era weapons from the 14th Guards Army of the USSR and also from the former states of Czechoslovakia and East Germany. Currently, it is guarded by around 1,500 Russian soldiers. Ever since Russia’s conflict with Ukraine, there has been growing distress in Moldova for the Cobasna ammunition depot, with some believing that the weapons there could be used in a potential future military conflict. Additionally, the Academy of Sciences of Moldova determined that an explosion of the weapons located in the ammunition depot, which passed their expiry date long ago, would be equivalent to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.[2] Concern for such an event increased following the 2020 Beirut explosion.[1]
On 27 April 2022, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Transnistria reported that drones flew over Cobasna and that shots were fired on the village. The ministry claimed that the drones came from Ukraine. Several attacks had recently occurred in Transnistria at the time.[7] They occurred during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and may have been a false flag operation by Russia or Transnistria itself.[8]
7. “Moldova’s separatist Transdniester claims ‘drones seen, shots fired’ near huge ammo depot”. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 27 April 2022.
8. “Possible ‘false flag’ attacks in separatist Moldovan region of Transnistria raises concerns Russia plans to expand conflict”. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 27 April 2022.
———“Biden ended his speech by getting the COVID-19 booster shot live on camera.”
I’m pretty sure that it was only a saline injection. Too much at stake to have him keel over.
It’s beginning to look like bigger and bigger “things” are becoming “disposable”.
Ukraine has become a disposable country where money laundering by large countries and corporations have been having a field day. All world leaders are now disposable as well. BoJo, Truss, Biden &c. Their expiration dates are all determined by their aggressive usefulness, and by their handlers. If the power brokers need some law passed or some egregious thing done, they just put someone in place, get er done, and then have him or her removed by the outrage that ensues. They are “paid” for their service by a nice platinum parachute. In the past a lot of this was “hidden” and they got away with it (1913 Federal Reserve vote at Christmas). For those who are found out, they are quietly, or noisily shuffled off and the game continues.This was learned by the power brokers by their long history of putting people in power and then rewarding them with wine, women and song, all the while flensing their country of natural resources and influence. The Congo comes to mind as well as all the other countries where the “natural” leaders were ousted by our CIA and satellite groups.
I am horrified and disgusted by what the “leaders” (handlers) of my country have become. I used to struggle to not be ashamed to be an American. I realize that I could not have done anything to change the unsavory outcome before us.
Another article from Denninger:
Doctors Are Stupid
“Without carbon-based fuels which are the feedstock for fertilizers, not counting the use of carbon fuels for sowing seed, tilling fields, harvest and transportation, all of which absolutely rely on said carbon based fuels and cannot be deferred when they need to be done because the sun isn’t out or the wind isn’t blowing right now, that is just accounting for fertilizers made from same, yields would drop by at least a quarter and perhaps by as much as half, especially in equatorial and European regions. Here in the United States the reduction is estimated, on a conservative basis, somewhere around 30%.“In other words if you think a few million people being “screwed” by carbon fuel use is bad somewhere in the neighborhood of two to three billion people would die of hunger if we were to stop using carbon-based fuels and that’s just the fertilizer, not accounting for the use of carbon fuels (and the machinery they power) to sow, till, maintain, harvest, transport and keep safe for consumption (you know, refrigerate) said foods.”
There’s plenty of climate misinformation out there to recycle into false narratives.
Or the same misinformation can be repeated at regular intervals.
After all, most people have extraordinarily short memories. That’s if they ever read what is written. Or understand it.
So, we see that ‘water vapour causes more warming than CO2’ narrative has been regurgitated.
Yeah. True, Except that water vapour can never be a primary driver of warming (overheating) because it changes phase in the temperature ranges experienced on Earth and in the atmosphere.
Water vapour condenses into rain, or the molecules coalesce directly into the ice phase (hail/snow/ice crystals). And ice has close to zero vapour pressure, whilst rain has an extraordinarily low vapour pressure, which is why it forms at the temperature it does, just like steam condenses coming out of a boiling kettle.
On the other hand, CO2 gas remains as CO2 gas over all temperature ranges experienced, and continues to absorb and re-radiate in the IR day and night everywhere.
And CO2 continues to be absorbed by rain, lakes, seas and oceans, depressing the pH, and messing up biochemistry.
What is more, the current atmospheric CO2 concentration is 415/230 = 180% of the long-term average. Even calculating from the elevated pre-industrial of 280ppm we get 415/280 = 148%
If something had changed by 48% in any other field except climate science, that would be considered significant. But for climate change deniers, that essential truth is just too bad. So they then try to circumvent the argument by telling us that hundreds of millions of years ago CO2 levels were much higher. or the ridiculous narratives that CO2 is a plant nutrient. Or that there is hardly enough CO2 for plants to grow, despite the CO2 level being severely elevated.
They never include the fact that there were no humans hundreds of millions of years ago when CO2 in the atmosphere levels were much higher, or that the current atmospheric CO2 level corresponds to seas and oceans being around 25 metres higher than at present– the only reason that seas and oceans are not 25 metres higher right now being the time delay of cause and effect, there being so much ice to melt and deep cold water to warm up.
But we must never allow scientific facts to interfere with politically driven [faux] narratives, must we?
By the same token all official narratives are false, faux, phony, fabricated nonsense, as genuine as the faux fur coats manufactured from synthetic fibres in Asia and died with synthetic dyes to look leopard skins.
All official narratives are false, faux, phony, fabricated nonsense means:
‘Freedom and democracy’ in the concentration camp.
GDP ‘as a measure of progress’.
‘Money’ created out of thin air by banks which have no reserves.
‘Sustainable development’ as a way out of the mess the psychopaths have created.
‘Voting’, so that occupants of the concentration camp can choose which psychopaths will mislead them and abuse them in the future.
Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera…
Next May atmospheric CO2 will be 425 ppm or thereabouts, and the oceans will be a little more acidic.
There will be less cheap-to-extract oil available.
Industrial Civilisation will continue to fall off the EROEI curve.
More resources will be expended fighting unwinnable wars, waged by the psychopaths on competing groups and in fighting the laws of mathematics, physics and chemistry.
As WES has pointed out, things are going badly in the front line. Paid mercenaries from Poland and Romania lost their enthusiasm when confronted with the reality if fighting Russians, and refused to advance. Neo-Nazi bullies were sent in to ‘persuade them’, resulting in a fire fight and the death of a few of the neo-Nazi bullies.
The Russians blowing the cover of the Ukrainians has likely caused a backtrack on the ‘dirty bomb’ false flag plans.
Sanctions are to be imposed on Belarus now that the Euronazis have run out of Russian stuff to sanction. The desperation of lunatics.
The Salafists hate Shia shrines to their saints.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/gunmen-storm-iranian-pilgrimage-site-major-attack-15-dead-40-injured
The Iranian’s have had enough.
The Russians go full out big brother on their school kids . The Rona scam has provided the perfect window to create high tech facial recognition and movement monitoring program.
“How it will work in the school year: the child puts a magnetic key on the door to enter the school grounds, then in the hall he goes to the turnstile, which identifies the student. The same Face ID system measures the temperature of each visitor and only allows them to go to school when normal. If the temperature of the child is elevated, the parents will be called and asked to take them home. Now a mechanism is being worked out, with the help of which parents will be able to monitor the child during the day, to observe his movements.”
“A secondary school in Moscow took a similar route to ensure public health by purchasing a state-of-the-art “thermographic complex.”The facial recognition system can monitor multiple people at the same time, allowing administrators to “promptly find a [suspected biohazard] in a crowd of students in order to send him for an additional examination or contact his parents to pick him up.”
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/biosecurity-grooming?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email“Majority owned by the Russian government, the bank is headed by an ethnic German named Herman Gref (Hermann Gräf in his native tongue), a member of the World Economic Forum’s board of trustees and also a member of JP Morgan’s International Council.
Gref played a key role in the creation of Sputnik V—key really being the key word here. He even claims to be one of the first people in the entire world to be injected with Russia’s flagship clot-shot, two months before Phase I trials started.
In September 2020, Gref decided he wanted to branch out and create SberEverything.”
Once again, EVERYTHING that AFAIK is saying about climate is either just dead wrong or irrelevant. Either he is a shill for some seductive power-bloc, a Climate Cult religious nut, or willfully ignorant on this issue. There is a sufficiency of accurate, non-panic-porn, genuine-science information readily available; perhaps AFAIK needs the neurotic certainty that contemporary climate science cannot deliver — impeded, as it is, by politicization and complexity. But progress is being made, and it isn’t leading anywhere near the “reasonable” fantasies AFAIK prattles on about.
Ironically, the best estimates of future climate are consonant with the paleo-climate record of the past 5000 years that is leading us down into another glaciation.
Well shiver my timbers, Matey,
The mystery remains why AFAIK can be so incisive in his skepticism of the political Standard Narrative while at the same time be such a fatuous science-denier about our actual understanding of climate variability, and a vapid toady to the climate-panic energy-control aspects of that Narrative. Puzzling…
I reckon that some people just cannot be consistent in applying their intelligence, and have belief-bound blind-spots in their worldview. Sad…As Russia Gets Weaker, Xi Jinping May Forgo Taiwan To Grab Eastern Russia
Craig Hooper obviously has no qualms about being judged a total idiot. This is the most ridiculous scenario I have seen proposed as yet. Does Craig understand why China’s Xi wants Taiwan? Does he understand that KMT ran away to Taiwan and as a result they made Taiwan the target of the PRC regime?
The Taiwan question is interesting because it is about the KMT, not about Taiwan as a whole, but of course Taiwan as a whole will suffer. Taiwan contains three main groups of people: aboriginal Taiwanese, long time Chinese who’s families emigrated to Taiwan 100+ years ago, some so long ago that they do not know, and the KMT who emigrated since 1949. The KMT people are mostly in and around Taipei, which means the north of Taiwan tends to vote KMT while the rest of the country – which has no skin in the CCP revolution – votes for independence. The KMT party is pro-unification, mostly because the KMT people left their home towns to escape to Taiwan and would like to see them unified. Of course, the majority want independence because they were living very happily in Taiwan before the KMT arrived. They do not see why reason why China should take over Taiwan just because the KMT used it as a safe haven. So, mainland China has support for unification in Taiwan.
China invading Eastern Russia is completely bonkers unless I am not aware of a historical reason for China to do such a crazy move, taking over its ally using military rather than business. China’s track record is to take over using cash, why would that change?
You know we are in trouble when former Donald Trump is the voice of reason.
Chris Hedges has TDS, it is seeping through his skin, I assume his social circle all expect each other to behave like children when the opportunity to bash Trump presents itself. Such a clueless approach files his writing in the garbage. Trump did the USA a great service, he forced the deep state to show itself to such a degree that the overt corruption made the USA look like the third-world. None of us know him as a person, but he was obviously not the candidate that the deep state wanted and the result was very telling. Anyone who bashes him with TDS is basically backing the deep state, succumbing to their emotional manipulation to hate Trump and then into their excuses for blocking Trump and unseating a duly elected POTUS. These people are the enemy of good people everywhere.
Club Orlov speaks:
Ukrainian Made Simple
“More and more people in the West are beginning to scratch their heads wondering why they should be suffering with sky-high inflation, unaffordable utility bills, unruly mobs of freeloading Ukrainian migrants.
The more probing minds are puzzled over the amazing speed at which the Ukrainian government swallows up vast sums of money being sent to it with nothing to show for it even as public services in the West are failing due to a lack of funds…..
or why all of NATO is quickly being stripped of numerous kinds of weapons systems, which are being shipped off in the Ukrainian direction and are then either destroyed, sold to third parties around the world, or are taken as trophies by the Russians, while inflation is making their replacements unaffordable.
Some people are starting to think that this is all a ploy to enrich the Biden clan and stuff its political campaign coffers in order to forestall a disastrous political defeat by vote-buying and fraud at the poles while keeping Biden’s son Hunter supplied with drugs and underage Ukrainian prostitutes,….
hahahaha
The senile meat muppet’s cokehead son get 80k a month to sit on a Ukronazi ‘gas company’.
Nothing to see, keep moving….
Alexander Mercouris hits it out of the park again.
Another day of massive missile attacks on the Ukronazi electrical power network.
The Russians are probing the Ukronazi electric grid. Each time the Uk’s try to repair it, the Russians take note and knock it out again. Deconstructing the infrastructure to later completely knock it out.
Russia Wrests Initiative from Ukraine, Advances on Liman, Conducts Nuclear Drills,Threatens Starlink
Hmmm.
Ukraine is a testing ground for weapons systems. Reminiscent of the Spanish Civil War which I don’t personaly remember. That helped promote WW2.
Now we have nuclear threats being thrown around. Very reminiscent of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which I do presonally remember. That passed, but what might this Ukrainian Missile Crisis lead to?
Randy Newman’s song, “Political Science,” seems morbidly relevant Here’s some:
Boom goes London, boom Paree,
More room for you, and more room for me
And every city, the whole world ’round
Will just be another American town
Oh, how peaceful it’ll be
We’ll set everybody free
You wear a Japanese kimono, babe
There’ll be Italian shoes for meThey all hate us anyhow
So let’s drop the big one now
Let’s drop the big one now.The US military will unleash its full arsenal, including nuclear weapons, to protect South Korea and Japan from attack
Another lie. No country will sacrifice its very existence to defend another country. That is the problem with a NATO that is all about nuclear defence. The costs are so great that no nation could ever make such an agreement and stick to it. The idea of NATO works with conventional weapons, the politicians don’t care if someone else’s child dies in a war, but if there is a chance of their entire country, including their home and family, being nuked, then that is a different game. The whole idea of a nuclear NATO is absurd and I am sure that Europe – the Europe being destroyed by their NATO ally the USA – do not believe a word of this lie, especially from the agreement-incapable USA.
Another thought: if nukes do start popping up, that’s the end of the Australian electricity grid. I don’t think it’s been made EMP-proof at all.
And likely the end of the US grid too, or at least of enough of it to make life horrendous for huge numbers of people.
And the European grid(s). Ditto.
Are we committing electrical suicide?
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