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Good Kiwi blokes doing what they do best: operating heaving diesel-powered machinery.
One has to wonder how long any of the ‘fixes’ will last if (when) another storm system comes through from the superheated oceans.
I was amused that the Chipmunk we have for PM couldn’t get through to another disaster zone via the normal route to make a ‘we’re all in this together’ speech, like his predecessor, the Scorpion, and had to take a tortuous route along the only road left in the district, which took an hour longer.
I guess we have sent all the working helicopters Airstrip Five had to Ukraine for Russian target practice. Or can’t get the necessary the fuel.
FUBAR, as usual.
Another sunrise (here). Another step ‘down the staircase’ of energy depletion, environmental degradation, collapse of fiat currencies and institutional decay, with maniacs who claim to be in charge promoting and celebrating the descent into ‘hell’ via endless lies, accompanied by a general populace that runs as fast as possible in the other direction (with hands over their ears) when confronted with truth they don’t want to hear.
This great unravelling is both exciting and scary -especially when scary items I use on a daily basis stop working, like the electric jug (kettle) that stopped working yesterday morning and the fully charged smartphone that suddenly went blank yesterday evening.
Obviously, I won’t need such items in the not-too-distant future (5 years? 3 years?) but at this point it is nigh-on-impossible to live in this complex society without a smartphone. The controllers have made it that way.
I got 3 years out of the secondhand electric jug. Fortunately (planning) I had a spare. But no spare smartphone, which worked for 4 years before crapping out.
So now I have to find a ‘cheap’ replacement. Unlike electric jugs, there are no supplies of second-hand smartphones.
Bugger. I was hoping to get out of negative bank balance soon.
I guess the NATOstan financial-economic system will hold together for a few more months, maybe even a year or so, even though it’s all fake and fraudulent and starting to unravel quite quickly.
As long as industrial humans can keep sucking oil out of the ground and refining it and using it to deliver petroleum energy to places that don’t have any….
Here’s a great plan. Why don’t we squander a tonne or two of refined petroleum to carry a tank (with an embedded coal debts of several hundred tonnes) to a battlefield, where it can be used by Russia for target practice? And then do it again. And again. After all, the system is predicated on wasting as much energy and resource as possible in the shortest time possible and generating as much waste as possible. Good for GDP, Global Destruction Paradigm.
Test for dioxins? Why would we do that when we know the levels are outrageously high!
Love Canal mark II on steroids.
zerosum
‘How bad are our social/economic/political systems?
People try to leave a bad place and try to go towards something better.’
I tried that 50 years ago. Got out of one concentration camp and into another concentration camp that was less densely populated and a bit warmer. 🙂
The managers of the less densely populated, warmer concentration camp were the same.
Dr D wrote:
‘So what did I get for it? 30 years later, still no “crash” or not that we’d recognize. None of their predictions were useful in the least. The Dow is from 10,000 to 36,000 and my money could have tripled.’
Yes, I got ridiculed for believing it would all crash around 2007, as a result of believing Matt Simmons declarations that Saudi Arabia had peaked in oil extraction in 2005 and Matt Savinar running round in 2004 with his hair on fire telling us it would all crash ‘in a matter of months. Mike Ruppert also ran around with his hair on fire after Fukushima, telling everyone that ‘it would be impossible to even grow vegetables in California as a consequence of the cloud of deadly radiation headed their way’.
Few, if anyone, anticipated the short-term US fracking boom that would hold it all together for another decade or so via ultra-low interest rates and outrageous levels of local pollution.
The scumbags at the top of the financial-economic-power pyramid were able to keep kicking the can down the road for another 15 years. But in 2019 it did all start to ‘blow up’…the ‘repo market meltdown and all that, and the fracking boom turning into a bust, as horrific depletion rates kicked in.
.As for Al Gore, well he did correctly highlight the overheating predicament humanity was facing more than 20 years ago: his crime was to promote completely fake strategies that failed to address the fundamental issues -of burning way too much fossil fuels to support outlandish levels of consumption and population growth and the money-lenders Ponzi scams predicated on continuous growth- and to promote strategies that made fiat wealth for him and his associates whilst exacerbating every aspect of the multi-faceted predicament.
There are numerous advantages to having walked the path I have:
I have zero faith in any politician or bureaucrat and can see quite clearly that they are either fuckwits or are professional liars and paid saboteurs, acting against everyone’s interest (other than the very short-term interests of moneylenders and corporations).
I know there is no point in sacrificing any of my time and energy or money to attempting to halt the ‘steamroller’ of corporate dysfunction.
I know what to expect -as oposed to the 99% who are clueless and think it’s all going to carry on much as before.
I know what preparations I need to make for the various meltdowns.
That said, no one can survive [in the long term] the environmental meltdown the totalitarian fascists have orchestrated over the past several decades. I knew that 25 years ago, which was why I embarked on my futile campaigns to wake people up and to change the system.
So now, 25 years later it is all crashing -the energy supply, the economy, the housing market, the ‘health’ system, the ‘education’ system, the environment…..
I don’t how bad it is where you are but on Airstrip Five the numbers get worse by the month: each set is ‘the worst ever’. And most of the numbers are on the back of previous economic-social activity. Just wait till the effects of the multiple storms start to be revealed in a month or two.
Of course, Ukraine will be a total basket case by then and all sorts of desperation measures will be announced by the scumbags at the top of the [fake] power-control pyramid.
‘He who laughs last, laughs best.’
P.S. I see that China has unofficially declared war on the US. That’ll be very ‘interesting’.
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RIM The body has superb mechanisms for dealing with invaders and repairing itself. Hoping that yours is up to full strength. I suspect it is, since you haven’t taken any clot shot, death vax, cell biloogy modifiers.
Curiously, I had a text message telling me that my son was very ill with ‘Covid’ and that I should go to a medical centre and get antivirals, having been close to him a few days before.
I thought my son’s phone had been hacked and that it was a scam.
Ot turned out to be a genuine text, and he was out of action and concerned he may have passed something on to me. He was out of action for a day or two.
In the past such infections were called ‘flu.
That said, back in 1997 I did get infected with a very nasty virus that attacked my upper respiratory system and hung around for 6 weeks. I heard of a case of someone ending up in hospital unable to breathe without assistance.
Currently I have no symptoms of anything except old age, plus the post-herpetic pain from shingles that has been with me since 2015. Shingles is a really nasty condition that can develop from a very common virus lurking in one’s nervous system for decades.
So the body’s defences, though good, are not infallible and sometimes need help. Appropriate help. Not sabotage by messenger RNA.
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Another round of rain-induced carnage for Northland-Auckland on top of the previous rounds of rain-induced carnage.
No heads will roll, though, despite it all having been caused by incompetent fuckwits in ‘government’ over many decades.
People are becoming increasingly desperate as ‘climate change’ (Planetary Meltdown) generates ever worsening conditions, i.e. worse inundations more frequently.
‘CO2 correlates but LAGS temperature as shown by ice cores.’
Still flogging that dead horse in the hope it will walk Dr D.
It won’t because it’s a dead horse, buried long ago, in fact.
For the umpteenth time, CO2 increases followed temperature changes before industrial humans poured megazillions of tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere (and oceans).
So, for the umpteenth time: de-sequestration of previously sequestered carbon creates an entirely new set of conditions and previous heat balances no longer apply.
I know it is quite normal for humans to resist facts when they don’t fit preconceived narratives. And that is exactly what you are doing when you keep repeating unscientific (anti-scientific) bullshit.
However, we also that presenting scientific facts has zero influence on beliefs. Didn’t Paul Simon sing, “A man hears what he want to hear and disregards the rest”?
I’m not sure how that should be punctuated. But it’s not going to matter anyway and I have better things to do that argue anymore over nonsense.
The water level of Lake Mead has almost certainly peaked at around 20 feet below what it was this time last year and set a new record low for the time of year.
http://graphs.water-data.com/lakemead/
I guess it’s not going to matter too much if the managers of Airstrip Two intend to demolish the economy and kill-off most of the population this year.
Go shopping. Don’t buy anything useful. Don’t use cash; use a high-interest credit card. Everything is under control and everything will turn out fine.
Yes, Dr D, if you overheat the oceans and melt the ice cover via outrageous levels of fossil fuel use that cause the atmospheric CO2 concentration to skyrocket, you will wreck the thermal gradient that contained the Jet Streams and you will get wild swings of air temperature that result in snow in locations that hadn’t seen snow since the last Ice Age.
What is more, with the Jet Stream so messed up as a consequence of the overheating (Planetary Meltdown), the uncontained Jet Streams could swing wildly in the other direction and deliver baking heat soon after the snow.
We have been experiencing such wild swings here on Airstrip Five. On Tuesday (Mercury Day) it was over 30oC and people were trying to keep cool. On Friday (Venus Day) it was around 10oC, with precipitation, and people were complaining about the cold or not complaining so much because they had heaters turned on and electric blankets turned on and log fires lit.
Just a reminder, it is February, which is the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of August in the Northern Hemisphere, which normally delivers the hottest weather around the first or second week.
Here we are in the third week of February, either baking or freezing, and not knowing which will come next. I was told by someone who I will not identify that she had the air conditioner running continuously during the hot spell. Undoubtedly she had the heaters on 3 days later. As Kunstler pointed out 20 years ago, any society that puts comfort and convenience above all else has no future.
Another rather dramatic effect of superheated oceans [due to atmospheric CO2 being more than 50% higher than any previous peak in the 800,000-year record, i.e. 420 ppm versus 260 ppm, or 420 ppm versus 280 ppm if you want to take it from the somewhat higher pre-industrial level of 280 ppm ] is the increase in moisture-carrying capacity of the air, which results in the torrents of water smashing or inundating infrastructure stupid apes construct on hillsides and in low-lying areas.
The complete destruction of industrial civilisation is inevitable because industrial civilisation is its own worst enemy and the fuckwits who are in control only know manipulation, lies and ‘development’.
Put simply, Homo fuckwit is using fossil fuels to destroy Homo fuckwit in order to keep Ponzi schemes running a little longer.
As for the wild swings in temperature, I went from wearing practically nothing to needing five layers, including a waterproof layer.
I am quite convinced that misinformation and denial will continue: they are much more ‘fun’ than reality -until reality hits.
Anyway, isn’t there a piece of paper that declares that the purfuit of happineff is a God-given right?
Re: the discussion about which dominates, City of London or Washington. There is circumstantial evidence that Washington began to dominate after 1942 insofar as Brettin Woods, the shifting from Pound to Dollar as reserve currency went ahead without much of a fight. And when Britain got into strife over the Suez Canal in 1956, Washington stood back and watched Britain go under.
Regarding Airstrips, one of the biggest crimes of the mid-1960s was the removal of the indigenous population of Gacia Diego (Chago Islanders) by the government of Airstrip One -effectively genocide- to provide a new airstrip for Airstrip Two to use. That crime was perpetrated by the [fake] Labour government of Harold Wilson.
With respect to ‘Fresco from the Minoan Palace in Knossos, Crete, Greece. 16th century BC’
The beautiful bare-breasted woman lived in a culture of Bull Worship because the Sun God was consorting with the bull -Taurus- at the time. I don’t know the Minoan name for Taurus but I believe it is connected with the Greek story about the Minotaur.
Athletic lads (not sure about lasses but I believe they were also allowed) performed ‘bull fighting’ tricks involving doing somersaults over angry bulls to demonstrate their courage and prowess, and perhaps their lack of fear of the Bull God.
As the Sun God progressed towards Pisces, Bull Worship had to be discouraged and replaced with Fish Worship. Hence in the Bible the numerous references to the ‘badness’ of worshiping the Bull and the ‘goodness’ of worshiping the Fish. Had to keep pace with the Earth’s odd, rather wobbly orbit. Bull Worship persisted long after its use-by date in Spain, the Indian sub-continent and some parts of Africa.
Christians managed to stamp it out Bull Worship in much of the world and replace it with Fish Worship and Fish association with the Sun God.
I believe we are supposed to be abandoning Fish Worship soon, in favour of worshiping The Water Bearer.
Unfortunately, due to the activities of psychopaths and sociopaths and eco-vandals over an extended time period (of the order of 500 years), we are unlikely to get that far before blowing ourselves up or rendering the Earth uninhabitable.
So many wasted opportunities and false beliefs along the way, and even more so now.
Of course, the Deceit and Crime organisation will make up for that oversight by changing additional rates in the next financial year. That’s if there is still a financial system on 2023-24.
6. NATO is pretending to send pretend weapons to Ukraine.
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1. There is little doubt that shifting from hunter-gather to settled agriculture led to a deterioration of both physical capacity and mental capacity of the average homo. Nevertheless, top-of-the-range individuals would have remained reasonably comparable to their hunter-gatherer ancestors and would have found themselves in positions of power, where they could use their mental skills or potential for physical bullying to have more fun and acquire more goods and fertile mates.
Small people with high intelligence use their intelligence to avoid the some of the ill-effects of being around large bullies or being led [misled] by fuckwits -summed up in modern times by George Carlin’s “avoid stupid people in large numbers.”
That’s where the official, mechanised bullying comes in: “Walk towards that machine gun or I will shoot you.” Or the institutionalised bullying. “If you don’t pay the bill, we will confiscate your assets and put you in prison.”
2. Dr D from yesterday. Indeed, most people on ‘Airstrips’ have traces of Roman and Viking blood, and many in America have Spanish and slave (oops Slavic) blood too.
The only major races that haven’t engaged in much warfare to acquire territory and resources seem to be the Qin following the establishment of China and the Rus. The Japanese and Koreans (both offshoots of the proto-Chinese) were at one another’s throats for centuries, much as the ‘English and ‘French’ were at war for about 400 years, following the rupture of the Norman Empire into two major sectors.
The Roma Empire, having collapsed under the weight if its own administrative costs, in-fighting and environmental destruction, shifted east to what is now Romania-Greece-Turkey. Then got overrun. Headed northwest.
3. Never in all of history have so many people been dependent for their existence on ultra-high-speed destruction of the entire life-support base via the use of fossil fuels.
4. The matter of CO2 following temperature increases arose again yesterday. Yes, CO2 did follow temperature, until industrial humans desequestered hundreds of billions of tonnes of previously-sequestered carbon. Now it doesn’t.
The same with methane.
The plan is to put even more previously-sequestered carbon into the atmosphere, mostly in the form of CO2, and pretend there are strategies for dealing with the consequences.
5. I am surprised the local Deceit and Crime oranisation for Gisborne isn’t charging those affected by silt for dumping the silt. There’s a business opportunity the local Deceit and Crime organisation missed.
Gisborne people clearing silt from flooded homes and businesses are not impressed with the council’s solution on how and where to dump it.There are two places to go and at the Dunstan Road site only one person showed up yesterday.
The other site is Matokitoki Valley Road for rural, commercial and industry disposal.
Some residents said they did have the means or the ability to transfer the silt from their property to the dumping station.
Of course, the Deceit and Crime organisation will make up for that oversight by changing additional rates in the next financial year. That’s if there is still a financial system on 2023-24.
6. NATO is pretending to send pretend weapons to Ukraine.
Sunflowers: One is 2 metres tall and has more than a dozen flower heads. Well worth propagating.
Temperature: bouncing round like a yoyo: a few days ago it was well over 30oC and close to 40oC in the building I am working on. Yesterday 10/11oC, with an overnight minimum of 9oC. A friend had the log fire burning. This summer!!!!
All due to huge changes in air movement; previously, warm air from the north; now, cold air from the south.
I see that California is anticipating unprecedented blizzard conditions.
Messed up Jet Streams.
Is there anything The Empire of Lies hasn’t messed up?
Jeffry Sachs: just what planet does he live on? It is certainly not the same one I live on.
I had to listen to the first section twice.
Having correctly identified the act of international terrorism carried out by the US State Department, he then goes in to talk about “The transition to ‘Green Energy’ requiring much infrastructure”!!! At which point I stopped listening.
Cognitive Dissonance, that uncomfortable feeling of believing two mutually exclusive concepts at the same time obviously does not occur in Jeffry Sachs brain.
Transition to ‘Green Energy’.
I guess that why he is professor of economics, blah, blah, blah.
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Bosco. Thanks for the link that led to another link that led to this:
…12 white-tailed eagles, with a wingspan of 8ft, will be released each year
The birds’ last known breeding place was recorded at Culver Cliff in 1780.Growing up on Airstrip One in the 1950s/60s I witnessed a lot of destruction of Nature and covering of pasture and strawberry fields with concrete and asphalt. At the time I didn’t realise that the destruction-extermination had been going on for centuries, but what I did see was enough to make me realise by about age 15 that it was all terminal as far as my homeland was concerned: always more people, more houses, more roads, bigger crowds, less room, and more competition for what remained.
The energy-related economic upheavals and social regimentation of the early 70s were enough to drive me away from my place of birth. New Zealand/Aotearoa looked appealing at the time. I didn’t realise that the psychotic, sociopathic, eco-vandals who had wrecked England (more properly their ancestors) had already turned New Zealand/Aotearoa into Airstrip Five.
Nor did I fully realise that The Continuous War Against Nature (along with continuous squandering energy and resources) was an important component of the ‘long-term’ strategy of The Empire of Lies.
I now know that the most important war The Empire of Lies has been engaged in has been The War on Truth.
Unfortunately for The Empire of Lies, a few of us know the truth, that 2 + 2 does not equal 5, nor 3, nor 7 nor any other number the Empire of Lies tries to choose it equal on any particular day.
Dr D.
I agree that the child appears to have outgrown the parent, and America certainly behaved (behaves) as though it were (is) Airstrip One -basically from 1942 on.
Where the real power lies -London or Washington- none of us knows.
Some say Britian is a lapdog of America.
Some say Washington does nothing until instructed to by London -more properly The City of London, the private corporation with interests all over the world.
Both London and Washington are infested with corrupt liars, put into power by the real powers that be, who are never identified or even seen. We just see the consequences of all the corruption and lies as we head down the road to Peak Mayhem. 🙁
For consistency and for literary reasons I will stick with Eric Blair’s designation.
With respect to the Normans (originally from what we now call Norway), I suppose that if you are living in narrow valleys next to fiords in a cold climate region and suffering population pressure, you are going to go off in longboats and steal stuff and occupy other people’s land. That would be called survival of the fittest or a genetically-advantageous strategy.
As I see it, many of our current predicaments are products of attempting to continue doing what worked in the past.
I really am thoroughly sick of hearing talking heads churn out utter garbage about ‘climate change’ and ‘democracy’ and what Russia is or is not.
Centuries ago, this planet was almost completely overrun by vicious psychopaths, hell-bent on stealing everything they could and enslaving everyone they could.
Those vicious psychopaths set up fake governments and fake, rigged, political systems and fake, rigged economic systems, to control the populaces they had enslaved and to control the multi-generational progeny of those they had enslaved, so the progeny of the vicious psychopaths could continue to steal and manipulate under the guise of ‘freedom and democracy’, until there was nothing left to steal and the planet was utterly degraded.
That point has almost been reached.
The vicious psychopaths who are in control of ‘Oceania’ and ‘NATOstan’ intend to use the last of the resources available to them to protect [in the short-term] the Ponzi schemes that were established by their ancestors centuries ago, even as those Ponzi schemes unravel, to the detriment of everyone and everything.
War is Peace
Ignorance is Strength
Freedom is Slavery
The psychopaths and sociopaths and eco-vandals in control will have one last try at manipulating the slaves in the concentration camps [before is all collapses] by using the International Medical Mafia because:
Sickness is Health
A number of ‘fat ladies’ are in the dressing room, making their final preparations to ‘sing’ the finale that ends the show. The names of the most important ‘fat ladies’, in no particular order, are:
Mathematics
Geochemistry
GeophysicsThey will ‘sing’ so loudly that the chorus of weak tenors and sopranos -named Politics, Economics, Commerce, Religion and Entitlement- who have commanded the stage for most of the show will be completely drowned out.
The song that Mathematics, Geochemistry and Geophysics will sing has already been written, of course. Indeed, it was written long ago. It is called Consequences.
Today I was informed by two reliable sources that a child at a local school identifies as being a cat and has been provided with a cat suit to wear to school. I was told she never speaks but meows.
If I had heard it from one source I would have thought, nice joke. But two independent, unrelated sources suggest it is true.
Eat your cat food and become like Julie Newmar.
No. I haven’t attempted to assess the calorific value of sunflower seeds. I just know they are an excellent store of protein and oils.
As a teacher of English, I encountered a student from China who had very noticeable grooves in her front teeth. I asked her why. She told me they were from splitting sunflower seeds.
I will start harvesting sunflower seeds when I have finished weather-proofing the building I have been working on -I reckon in a few more days. I planted seeds over a period of a month or so and have sunflowers at various stages of maturity.
I was a bit naughty yesterday: went for two-hour cross-country hike, and then helped as friend with some problems. Today ‘lost’ 4 hours playing bridge. But made up for it by working till 10pm.
The shit is really hitting the fan for ‘Chipmunk’ now. The housing implosion accelerating; the worst trade figures ever have been announced; there is a monumental mess across 1/4 of the ‘Airstrip’…and resistance to the bollocks churned out by him and his band of thieves and liars is increasing.
RBNZ just raised interest rates another 0.5%, which will clobber most sectors of the fake economy a bit more.
One could easily be forgiven for thinking that the Crazy Chipmunk is exacerbating the sabotage orchestrated by the recently departed Scorpion, because he is.
But nobody can compete with Zelensky when it comes to sabotage.
I heard yesterday that the clown who got stuck into me for pointing out that the ‘Covid vaccines’ were not vaccines at all is very ill. “I’m a scientist,” he shouted at me,” just over a year ago, when I was active in the local group trying to stop the Covid insanity and challenge the endless stream of government-promoted misinformation.
*Really! So am I,” I replied. my field of study is chemistry, including biochemistry. What’s your field of expertise?”
He ran, as they do.
I subsequently was told he is a psychologist. He should have known about Mass Formation Psychosis and Neuro-linguistic Programming and not fallen for the lies.
At the bridge table the matter of someone I do not know becoming ill with ‘Covid’ came up in conversation. Jabbed, of course.
I pointed out that the so-called vaccines provide no protection and reduce the body’s capacity to fight infection. I recommended Ivermectin.
Probably fell on deaf ears.
Fortunately, nobody at bridge mentioned Ukraine.
The final dominoes are starting to tumble. Inevitable is not imminent. But it’s getting damned close.
Pretending we live in a wealthy country which has good prospects for the future:
DANGEROUS SPLURGE ON IMPORTS
Our imports in January rose al almost twice the rate our exports rose. And almost no-one is noticing. Imports rose almost +26%; exports rose almost +14%. A +14% rise is pretty damn good, and for the year to January exports are up +13%, the best annual rise since . But we are buying imports are a completely other level, like we are a wealthy country. This pretending will undoubtedly catch up with us at some stage, but not yet, it seems. Anyway, our January merchandise trade deficit blew out to -$2 bln in the month, the largest ever January shortfall.The Reserve Bank o0f NZ has raised interest rates again (4.25 to 4.75%), accelerating the implosion of the economy and the standard of living (same link).
The corrupt liars that compose the mangers (government) of Airstrip Five are starting to find that even the bought-and-paid-for mainstream ‘news’ media are challenging the endless lies they tell.
Cyclone aftermath: Lies, damned lies and statistics
Story by Dame Anne Salmond • 4h ago
Dame Anne Salmond has seen some actual research on what is in the forestry ‘slash’ bedevilling Tairāwhiti, and it doesn’t bear out the forestry minister’s claim
Over the past month or so, the Minister of Forestry Stuart Nash has repeatedly tried to fend off an independent inquiry into forestry slash. In the process, he has made statements that don’t bear close scrutiny.
When questioned by RNZ about the devastation caused by the clear felling of pine plantations on the East Coast, for instance, he said, “My understanding is its 40 percent from harvesting operations and the rest is indigenous.” The media should be fact-checking these claims.
Data from interim scientific analyses of slash deposits in Tairāwhiti supplied to Cabinet ministers in the wake of Cyclone Hale do not bear out the Minister’s claim. On Waikanae beach in Gisborne, for instance, the slash was 70 percent from harvesting operations, with 80 percent at Tolaga Bay.
In the case of the Waimatā river in Gisborne after Cyclone Gabrielle, an ecologist who was helping to clear the slash remarked: “From what I have seen on the Waimatā so far – and I have been cutting it up with a saw – it’s 90+ percent radiata and some willow scattered through it. about 5 percent native, mainly Kanuka. These catchments have very little native left.”
The two fake ‘official’ numbers affecting people on Airstrip Five the most at the moment are the ‘official’ inflation rate (devaluation rate) and ‘official’ property (house and land) values.
‘Official’ inflation rates are between 3% and 10% per annum lower than the actual devaluation-of-money rate. This is important because pensions and benefits are adjusted annually ‘to keep pace with inflation’. This mechanism is being used to slowly pull the rug from under the general populace and eventually leave them floundering.
Of course, the general populace of AS5 could well have the rug pulled from under them quite suddenly.
There are numerous scams that come under the general heading ‘saving for retirement’; these scams are mostly run by corporations, whereby monthly allocations of fake money are taken from participants and used to cover salaries, vehicle expenses, executive bonuses and general expenses, whilst a portion is ‘invested’ in ‘share market’ frauds, ‘growth funds’, hypothecated derivatives etc., where real returns are substantially negative and there is a very real prospect of all the fake money vanishing in a matter of weeks, if not days.
I was trapped in Orcland in the early 2000s and so desperate to get out I sold the property I had at the time for $355,000; the QV official valuation -the supposed market price- was $450,000.
I had a major dispute with Quotable Values over the property I purchased in New Plymouth. They informed me that the land -sloping and terraced- was worth $360,000, whist the two storey brick house and other improvements were worth $120,000.
I pointed out that such a house could not be constructed for less than $200,000 (and more like $300,000 at the time) whilst the land was worth $160,000 at the most. Eventually QV budged a little and reduced the land value while increasing the house value a little. it was still completely fake, but had the effect I desired, of reducing my rates bill -or more correctly reducing the increase on my next rates bill.
It was (is) all part of the scam system run by the managers of Airstrip Five as a mechanism for extracting/circulating fake money via rates. The higher the land value, the higher the rates.
That is where it gets really interesting because ‘Quotable Values’ for properties in Orcland and Boot City (Auckland and Wellington respectively) have fallen by $200,000 to $300,000 over the past year or so. And those falls were before Nature smashed so much of the landscape and completely demolished houses or made them uninhabitable and requiring hundreds of thousands of dollars of remediation.
If the statistics mean anything, property values in Canterbury have fallen by 1.5% over the past year or so, having risen by around 30% over the previous two years from a relatively low baseline induced by the Christchurch earthquakes of 2011.
On the other hand, property values in more remote regions have continued to rise (from very low baselines).
People who can are abandoning the shitholes the managers of Airstrip Five have created over the last 50 years.
Certainly fake data in The Empire of Lies: GDP, ‘inflation’ (devaluation of fiat currencies), unemployment indeed anything to do with finance or the economy or so-called planning.
Selected data geared to hide the true dire state of affairs: energy reserves, certain pollution data, e.g the amount of contaminants such as dioxin in soil, the amount of arsenic in soils, the level of toxins such as lead or mercury in soils and water and the air,
Ridiculous ‘data’ such as projections of population growth and prediction of energy use in the future -based on energy that does not exist or cannot be extracted. The classic on that was the International Energy Agency’s projections into the far future based on ‘yet to be discovered oil’, completely ignoring the fact that this planet was gone over with a fine-tooth comb in the 1960s and the peak of discivery was around 1963, with discoveries tailing off dramatically since the 1990s.
Industry-collected data that is passed on for public consumption by governments because they have no capacity to actually do any data collection of analysis these days, e.g fishing, and the number of dolphins caught in nets or the number of fish caught are all fraudulent because there are huge financial and political incentives to lie.
It is said that in the sheep heyday of the 1970s, there were 50 million sheep on Airstrip Five: 40 million actual sheep and 10 million ‘paper’ sheep which collected government sheep subsidies.
All the data use in so-called planning (if there is any) is fraudulent, e.g, a Deceit and Crime organisation decides it wants to expand its regional airport to provide local rort operators with contracts and business opportunities, so it declares there will be a ‘doubling of the number of passengers over the next 20 years’ as a fake justification to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars and issue no-competition contracts.
Here are a few examples of how it works. The Deceit and Crime ogansiation monotors pollution levels, not at 1.5 metres above ground level, where people are breathing in polluted air, but by placing a measuring device on the top of a high building.
When monitoring dioxins, great care is taken to ensure that samples are only taken form the top 1cm of soil (subject to UV degradation) and not from the lower layers, where the dioxin is actually present at a high concentration. The same when monitoring water; take the sample when discharges are low, or take the sample from a place less contaminated.
Buildings that have withstood multiple earthquakes over more than a century are declared ‘earthquake risks’ and are demolished because someone connected to the local council wants to build and art gallery or a hotel on the site. Or someone wants to work a rort carrying out earthquake strengthening.
By the same token, buildings and bridges are constructed from the cheapest possible materials. Thu there was a huge scandal, known as Leaky Homes, in the 1990s, when government decided that untreated timber could be used for construction and no oversight of construction was necessary. Many high-priced ‘developments became uninhabitable within 5 years. nobody was held to account because the Deceit and Crime organisations (councils) had subcontracted inspections to companies that had declared bankruptcy.
Huge amounts of resource are pouring into so-called risks that or extremely low probability. e.g. the risk of Mount Taranaki erupting…a one-in-50,000-year risk, whilst factors that are of 100% immediate risk, e.g. the peaking and subsequent decline of oil extraction, are totally ignored.
Then there are all the fake numbers in the so-called health sector, and absolute minefield of misreporting, under-reporting and manipulation.
I believe the atmospheric CO2 numbers acquired by Keeling from 1958 on were genuine and that most of the numbers currently presented by institutions such as the Scripps Institute are genuine.
I believe that most temperature and rainfall data is genuine.
POTUS asks Russia for permission to enter Ukraine? -frightened the plane would get shot down if visit done without permission.
Meanwhile the meatgrinder grinds meat and the losses of Ukraine and NATO continue to increase.
One day till the anniversary of SMO.
‘Interesting times’.
The war is not just a war in Ukraine: it is a global war, initiated by the banksters long ago against truth and against anyone who challenges the lies that the banksters and their agents -the managers of NATOstan countries, often referred to as governments- tell.
Since the Oceania banksters derive their power from lies, propaganda, censorship, oppression and violence -pollution being a subtle form of violence- we must anticipate increased levels of lying, propaganda, censorship, oppression, violence and pollution from them and their agents -the Big Brother governments of Oceania- until their Ponzi schemes implode as a consequence of the mathematical lies they tell or implode because Russia and its allies defeat Oceania militarily.
I note that there are a number of participants on TAE who are fundamentally opposed to scientific and mathematical truth.
Whether they are agents of The Empire of lies, I cannot say, but they certainly behave as though they are.
Whatever is causing rainbow patterns (interference refraction/reflection0 is not vinyl-chloride, more properly chloroethane, which has a boiling point of minus 13.4o Celsius, i.e. a gas at commonly encountered temperatures.
Setting fire to it may well have caused some polymerisation or reforming into oily substances with a higher molecular masses and higher boiling points, i.e. liquids at commonly encountered temperatures.
Any of the chlorinated hydrocarbons that get into the stratosphere will become ODS – ozone depleting substances that exacerbate the ‘ozone hole’ problem.
It’s probably all relatively small fry compared to what is happening in Ukraine, where much plastic is being vaporised, one way or another, except for the people who live near the incident.
When did The Empire of Lies ever care about the welfare of people?…only when they are dropping like flies and cannot be persuaded to work in a particular toxic environment.
Tanks in Ukraine.
Dima, of the Military Summary Channel, as noted (indeed emphasised) that in reports, no Uko-Nazi tanks have been destroyed recently.
He speculates that either the Uko-Nazis are accumulating them away from the battle zones for a ‘major offensive’ or have none left that are in working order.
We know that the gross aberrations that are products of the use of massive quantities of fossil fuels on a continuous basis will end soon and that we are headed for fourteenth century living arrangements (at best).
For me, the biggest questions are:
1. How much more damage will the agents of the money-lenders -who infest the ranks and files of the NATOstan political systems and bureaucracies- manage to perpetrate, both locally and globally, before the whole Ponzi, fiat money system collapses?
2. How long before we enter the period of rapid collapse? that leads to Peak Mayhem, the point at which fiat currencies -especially those of NATOstan sector- become worthless and all the systems [that most people in NATOstan nations have become totally reliant on] break down completely.
3. Will I need to defend myself and those who are important to me from a ‘zombie apocalypse’?
4. How much longer will there be a reliable electricity supply in the district I live in?
5. Will it be possible for my family to be reunited before it all collapses?
Yesterday I used 2 litres of petrol to get to a place where there were no people. I did encounter two other human beings along the way but for most of the 4 hours I was tramping saw no one and was able to enjoy remnants of the natural world not messed up by ‘development’d
Fearless fantails perched less than a metre away.
Along the route I encountered numerous pest species introduced by ignorant white people, including thistle, gorse and blackberry, and saw sheep (a non-indigenous species) from a distance.
Whilst blackberries taste delicious and provide essential vitamin C, their calorific value is low. Sheep meat, the Norman language mutton, definitely has the capacity to provide calories galore should the need arise.
Bumble bees just do their thing, both out in the wilderness and in my garden. They ‘love’ sunflowers. So do I. And so do greenfinches.
The criminals at Parliament and the local council haven’t wrecked everything yet, but they are doing their best to do so.
With so many people on Airstrip Five becoming ill or dying from the toxic jabs, one might hope that any campaign for forced ‘vaccination’, as per the World Health-rort Organisation agenda, would now flounder very quickly.
I suspect the managers of the business trading under the brand name ‘clean green New Zealand have more than they can handle on their plate, attempting to sort out the mess they created from Northland to Hawkes Bay. Fatguts, the so-called Finance Minister, announced yesterday that “58% of GDP had been affected.”
Even allowing for the fact that GDP is just another phony index, another fraud, that’s got to hurt.
How now, brown clown? (criminal)
If, like me, you were wondering how an Indian multibillionaire became Prime Minister of Airstrip One, I cannot say for certain. I can only make some assumptions and put 2 and 2 together.
Money talks.
‘However, at a closed-door meeting Thursday of the Conference of Presidents (CoP) — which includes the heads of all the political groups and the Parliament’s president — leaders refused the request to hold a public grilling.‘
That pretty much sums up everything.
If you are a criminal -as all so-called leaders in NATOstan nations are- wouldn’t you hold meetings behind closed doors and ensure the public doesn’t get to hear what was discussed and who benefited from the secret deals made?
Without energy, nothing happens.
The long-term consequence of over-use of fossil fuels as energy sources is a completely fucked-up planet, inhospitable to most extant life forms -including humans, of course. Indeed, humans will be one of eh first species to go extinct as a consequence of overuse of fossil fuels.
All ‘official plans and policies’ focus on promotion of short-term Ponzi schemes which are dependent on systematic fraud and conversion of fossil fuels into waste, until it becomes impossible to do so, whilst at the same time lying continuously about everything.
Since all so-called leaders of NATOstan nations are psychotic sociopaths or trained actors, they do not believe there is a point of ‘until it becomes impossible to do so’ -infinite growth on a finite planet and other severe delusions of the mentally ill being the norm in the corridors of power of NATOstan nations.
‘We’ hit the wall in 2019: the splattered mess of 2020-to-2023 is the result.
I have much work to do in the tiny window of opportunity that is left before it all turns to custard -very likely later this year.
Venus and Jupiter were stunning in the evening sky yesterday. Today looks suitable for a short river adventure.
All work and no play makes for a dull life.
