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““However,” she says, “the only reason the accident got a royal commission investigation was because of no natural gas to Melbourne for three weeks. The investigation had nothing to do with the death of two workers. Nor was it formed to discover why it happened. It was about people having cold showers in Melbourne and the government needed to do something about it.”
“Similarly, in Western Australia, the Varanus Island offshore natural gas line ruptured in 2008 at a processing port, cutting of gas to nearby Perth. It too resulted in a royal commission investigation and report.
““These investigations were not conducted to seek the accident’s root cause, or to discover a failure of process safety management, or see if similar conditions exist in other companies,” Kerin says.”
“The development of the Industrial Revolution led to the large-scale use of coal, as the steam engine took over from the water wheel. In 1700, five-sixths of the world’s coal was mined in Britain. Britain would have run out of suitable sites for watermills by the 1830s if coal had not been available as a source of energy.[65] In 1947 there were some 750,000 miners in Britain[66] but the last deep coal mine in the UK closed in 2015.[67]”
It would seem that the UK is uncommonly well and truly screwed.
Why does this seem poetically apt of our current global condition?
Imagine if the worked in large groups in synchrony to open a few hundred burn holes in the lake, made large enough to keep burning. A bit of local climate change, jah? Anthropogenic global warming, postponing imminent Ice Ages for 150 years. (insert flaming fart joke)
Color me amateur regarding economics, and consider the following mostly intuition bordering on magical thinking, but it seems to me that Hong Kong’s markets are the global bellwether. Hong Kong smells to me like where the Bank of England truly resides (and that is definitely pure subconscious thought bubbling to the surface like swamp gas of an ignus fatuus).
But it’s a powerful feeling I have, even if I just discovered it five minutes ago.
Anyway, to me, Hong Kong tanking today strikes me as the first genuine snow-roll of an avalanche.
Dmitry Orlov’s latest take on Russia’s Special MIlitary Operation in Ukraine:
“The EU sheeple, on the rump ass sub-continent, are spineless gutless jellyfish, soyboys and childless cat women.”
Yeah, well your mother was a cow and your father smelled of boysenberries.
What exactly, I wonder, is this chronic denunciation of so many people about? It’s fun to pick on victims of circumstance? The masses are tragic and frustrating but they are also real live human people. Classing them as hopelessly deluded sheeple smacks of classifying Jews as despicable parasitic semi-human vermin. Oh well, whatever gets ’em into the cattle cars, I suppose.
While we pray to the aliens (me too:) ), I’ll also note this: today’s Russian military personnel have high morale and high confidence in both their commanders-in-chief and their weapons systems. This makes them more likely to pull the nuclear trigger than they were during the Cold War, when Soviet morale was very low.
But they are not my worry. My worry is USA nukes, and I am happy to say that I perceive today’s USA military personnel as having very little confidence in their commanders-in-chief and their weapon systems.
I place my hope in, again, the common man.
But I’m all for help from the aliens or demiurges or whoever, if anyone, rules the stars above.
Regarding our current Cuban Missile Crisis redux, I take comfort from considering that US troop morale is surely at an all-time low. It’s faith in its commander(s)-in-chief(s) is surely dismal.
Therefore, I see it likely that our boys will refuse to launch missiles, or at least most of them will do so. Same thing happened in the 70s/80s. Russian military personnel refused to follow orders. Said orders were just machine errors, but they couldn’t know for sure at the time even if they believed so. I assume that their lack of faith in their leaders, per the dismal Soviet reality of that time, is why they chose to risk major punishment rather than obey apparent orders.
For all the AI going around, I don’t think that Skynet is in charge quite yet. I have more faith in the common man than many people here have in the omnipotence of TPTB or in the mass hypnosis formation gullibility of people. Yes, “the people is a great beast”, but individual persons are individual persons, and some of them are fairly savvy and decent characters.
But it is also likely that we may soon discover what a nuclear exchange is like.
I don’t think that going nuclear is on Russia’s mind. It has zero.zip need to. If Euromerica’s retards-in-charge decide to go out in a blaze of glory that takes us with them, oh well. Ain’t a whole lot I know to do about that. We’re a silly species in that regard. We think we know what we’re doing. We think so to the point that we argue with each other over whose crazy scheme to avoid-disaster-and-prosper is better than whose, as if anyone had a clue how to deal with groups of homo saps larger than Dumbar’s numver.
I’m not saying that we know what we were doing in groups smaller than Dunbar’s number, either, but I do believe that groups that small have too much mutual visibility to allow nasty psycho/socio-paths run things.
All that changes, alas, when times get hard and tribes become competitors, as someone pointed out earlier. That means war, and war naturally elevates and glorifies psychopaths into positions of power. Meanwhile, the logic of Grow Big or Die takes over, and presto chango, here we are today, giant warring virtual tribes enthralled by cretinous creeps with a thing for baby sex. (That is some weird shit.)
As much as I want to dismiss the risk of nuclear war, that is based on emotional wishful thinking powered by the usual logical fallacies. When I remove my emotional bias and remove the logical fallacies, I must concede that nuclear war is eventually inevitable, and we seem to be approaching a zone of maximum inevitability.
But I prefer this perspective:
“Thanks for the video of massive Northern hemisphere nuclear exchange, Michael Reid.”
(old-timer voice) We didn’t have that kind of thing when I were a kid…
fwiw, one of my fave commentators at another site had this to say about the current Russia/Ukraine situation:
“In favor of my analysis of the situation in Kharkov region in earlier comment under this article, where Russian troops were withdrawn even from the towns in the north, near Russian border, where they were not attacked by Ukrainian forces. This was now confirmed to be a “consolidation of strategic assets” game that I suspected was the key reason for a rapid and secretive withdrawal without much fight by Russian troops. Now events in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict are starting to develop rapidly and we can note three main themes:
1. In Russian parliament they have just voted in the new law amendments that address the war time measures by making punishments harsher and introducing new types of punishable offenses during war time. This law was voted in in one session without much debate or corrections.
2. Belarus is elevating conflict readiness level by conducting mobilization drills
3. Referendums with a question whether to join Russia are going to be conducted in LPR, DPR, occupied (liberated) parts of Zaporozhye region and in entire Kherson region. Here is the summary of referendum plans from the Russian military analyst Colonel Cassad
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Summing up by referendums.
1. Referendums will be held from September 23 to 27 in the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
2. Referendums will be held both in person and in absentia (with house visits) for security reasons.
3. After the referendums, all territories will apply for membership in the Russian Federation, which will be considered as a matter of priority.
4. After consideration of applications, all territories will become part of the Russian Federation – de facto, 4 new subjects of the Russian Federation.
5. The DPR and LPR retain their names and flags. It is still unclear about the regions. Zaporozhye is proposed to be called the “Zaporozhskiy Krai”.
6. According to opinion polls, you can count on 70-85% for joining the Russian Federation, with turnout in the region of 65-75% on average.
7. The United States, NATO and Germany have stated that they do not recognize the results of the referendums. In Ukraine, they immediately became hysterical that holding referendums would negate the slightest chance of negotiations.
8. Of course, the war in Ukraine will not stop, but now it will have a qualitatively different context. We are waiting for the announcement of specific measures to optimize how SMO is conducted.
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From myself I’d like to add that what prompted such, almost unexpected, urgency of these actions was yesterday’s shelling of the city of Donetsk where rounds of 155mm howitzers hit the corner store and 13 people have died, many ripped to pieces. Many more were wounded. This left a very grave impression on the Russian society so that even official media was showing footage of a bloodstream going for meters from a killed dismembered person down to a city street drain, asking a question: “Is this enough of a red line?”. Ukrainian media habitually was blaming Russia for shelling of the city under Russian control, but the evidence , including fragments of shells with NATO markings, certainly point in a certain direction that is not Russia. This “they shot themselves” storyline was a favorite way by Ukraine to cover their intentional crimes against civilians for over 8 years, starting with attacking peaceful city hall in Lugansk in 2014 with jet fighter rockets, but, interestingly enough, many Ukrainians, including some of my relatives in Kiev believe in it because it is so convenient for them to maintain that believe!”
To all us Russia/Ukraine war-watchers, let us (yet again) remember Sun Tzu’s wise words: never interfere with your enemy when it is busy destroying itself.
Some shit-lipped genius named DMitry Orlov said that the reason Russia doesn’t just kick ass and all that is because it would seem unsportly (words to that effect). Seriously. Dmitry’s insight and analysis are often breath-takingly penetrating of insight but he still seems to enjoy stepping in his own poop and then sticking his foot in his mouth.
Anyway, Ukraine seems to be doing a fine job of annihilating itself as a political entity. Meanwhile, there is the Donetsk/Donbass referendum just days away. Plenty of time for Russia to boil the cauldron if the Ukranatonazis decide to be as foolish as they appear to be.
I have no prob with anyone speaking their minds, even those I might perceive as trolls. Nor do I have any prob expressing my opinion to them, even my opinions about their contributions. Whatever and ever amen, already. Oy, the drama!
This article, already shared above, gives me hope. Living in a major USA city, I am likely to be euthanistically vaporised should things go nukular, but also have the option of our area not being nuked: I know of no major military installations here.
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“Considering that Putin has appeared weak the past year or so, although seems to be back in good health.” I’m inclined to think he’s lost his touch.
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beingthe most ” isMost of us here including me are inclined to believe that covid was moving among the public before Wuhan. So, with that caveat stated, I’ll note WWII started on Dec 1 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland. Fort Detrick, the putative epicenter of covid release upon which most conspiracy theorists (say it with pride, y’all), was suddenly closed on August 4th, and China blames it on Ft. Detrick.
August 4, Sept 1, close enough. When most major cyclical history prediction timelines converge on a time (roughly 2020-2025) as when All Hell shall break loose, close enough feels eerily close.
I think there is a global conspiracy. Maybe a few dozen of them, in fact. All of them fighting to win. That’s what a world war is, after all. Bloodusckers like Herr Fauci and Aleksandr Gintsberg are involved and exploiting as much as they can but are still just fleas on a rabid tiger. I think of them more as standard issue war profiteers than as megalomaniacal masterminds, although Gates and Schwabb are kinda special that way in their delusions of grandeur.
The banksters aren’t running this war or this epidemic; they’re just cashing in. Entities like the USA/Euromerican officials probably think that they are running this war merely because they started it. A comparison: I have NEVER been even mildly hurt when someone attacked me, and I have been severely attacked more than my share of times. But I have NEVER won a fight I started because I’d had enough of someone’s shit. Said shit wasn’t bad enough to warrant manslaughter if necessary, and without the promise of potential manslaughter, my kill-switch gets stuck half-on/half-off, a VERY dangerous place to be.
Anyway, per the comparison: we started it. Russia and allies are finishing it, decisively, in basic economic/military terms. What’s odd is that Russia is impaling itself into Death By Several Hundred Syringes (of nasty covid vakzines) while China is basically at war with its own people and economy while geopolitically maneuvering in tandem with its allies to decisively kick Euromerica into hard dark weak times.
We “won” WWI only to inflict a nasty epidemic on ourselves via an arrogantly misguided medical experiment on our soldiers. We “won” WWII only to turn what’s left of our democracy into a de facto fascistic military-industrial nightmare with a new flavor: modern cybernetic electronic media.
Russia will almost certainly win (or “win” if you prefer) this war but appears poised to celebrate its victory with a majorly reduced/weakened populace via self-inflicted covid policy.
I wonder: is Putin increasingly clueless as a result of vakzine side effects? Or is he ruthlessly and adroitly (he has this knack for adroitness) playing the globalists at their own game? Maybe a la ‘if you can’t beat ’em outside their game, join ’em, and beat ’em at their own game’? The popularly maligned 5-D Putinian chess meme.
Considering that Putin has appeared weak the past year or so, although seems to be back in good health.
Why are we always reduced to the same dilemma: are they that stupid or that ruthless? These times surely call for ruthlessness, and Eurasia is surely the place to be for the survivors of this vakzinazion nightmare, but I see no reason to kill off your own to make room for them.
Warning: anyone trying to sell me on the idea that Putin wants a piece of whatever evil conspiracy action Davos and such might have, will be viewed with dismissive bemusement. To whatever extent Putin may be cooperating with them, it is not submissively, and is compliant for hidden reasons. No smart ruler signs off on decimation-puls of his native populace knowingly unless there’s an uncannily crucial reason.
Me, if I had to bet real money today, I’d wager that Putin is losing his touch, probably with some nasty vakzinazional help. Everything he’s done looks flawless to me (including numerous feints and strategic retreats like letting the West steal a buncha gold, etc., or not finishing up the Ukraine SMO in the neat and speedy manner most media pundits seem to crave like the ultimate Brawndo for journalistic houseplants)… everything except Russia’s covid response, which is a nightmare on a par with ours, worse in some ways, not as bad in others.
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Noting Sept 23rd-27th: maybe someone named Franz Ferdinand will be assassinated there?
Nobody knows what Russia will do if NATO challenges the referendum results. Without ever saying so, Russia has made it clear that all options are on the table even as they give detailed kindergarten instructions to USNATO on how to best avoid the worst on said table. When and how Russia will use its options is a military secret in constant flux, war being a powerful catalysts for geopolitical change.
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Central bank currencies give all manner of global banksters and wannabe overlords wet dreams but requires a working internet and the energy to run it. All during a time when world war is glaringly emergent, the detonation phase already begun, and cyber-warfare being the most powerful and strategically flexible weapon on the table.
My ever-growing conviction is that we so crave order and security that we refuse to imagine that someone won’t be in charge of what’s left when the dust has settled.
I can’t even get my hospital’s billing cyber-structure to accept the update of debit card info it needs to collect a substantial debt from me.
Even Justin’s brother says #TrudeauMustGo
The best laid plans of mice and minions…
“But the presumption is that if NATO did not exist, Russia’s brutality would not exist and I doubt this is true either.”
That is basically ‘I know you are but what am I’. Russia has not been slapping sanctions against innocent nations for years, and Ukraine begged to be invaded, pulling the wacko shit it has since 2014. Every goddam nation that ever existed has been brutal.
Calling another nation a war criminal is generally a device used by national war criminals to deflect attention from their war crimes.
Please, stop it. You’re embarrassing the internet.
I will be flamingly arrogant and a literary snob and say that I read COrmac McCarthy’s amazing masterpiece, The Road, and don’t intend to sully that experience with some shitzoid Hollywood celluloid eczema.
OPening page:
“When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world. His hand rose and fell softly with each precious breath. He pushed away the plastic tarpaulin and raised himself in the stinking robes and blankets and looked toward the east for any light but there was none. In the dream from which he’d wakened he had wandered in a cave where the child led him by the hand. Their light playing over the wet flowstone walls. Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast. Deep stone flues where the water dripped and sang. Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease. Until they stood in a great stone room where lay a black and ancient lake. And on the far shore a creature that raised its dripping mouth from the rimstone pool and stared into the light with eyes dead white and sightless as the eggs of spiders. It swung its head low over the water as if to take the scent of what it could not see. Crouching there pale and naked and translucent, its alabaster bones cast up in shadow on the rocks behind it. Its bowels, its beating heart. The brain that pulsed in a dull glass bell. It swung its head from side to side and then gave out a low moan and turned and lurched away and loped soundlessly into the dark.
“With the first gray light he rose and left the boy sleeping and walked out to the road and squatted and studied the country to the south. Barren, silent, godless. He thought the month was October but he wasn’t sure. He hadn’t kept a calendar for years. They were moving south. There’d be no surviving another winter here.
“When it was light enough to use the binoculars he glassed the valley below. Everything paling away into the murk. The soft ash blowing in loose swirls over the blacktop. He studied what he could see. The segments of road down there among the dead trees. Looking for anything of color. Any movement. Any trace of standing smoke. He lowered the glasses and pulled down the cotton mask from his face and wiped his nose on the back of his wrist and then glassed the country again. Then he just sat there holding the binoculars and watching the ashen daylight congeal over the land. He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”
SInce European citizens won’t voluntarily submit to death by freezing and starvation, one assumes that the US powers that be have ample reason to create an October Surprise, but are nonetheless hesitant because they know that Russia and its allies could respond to such a surprise with some very surprising actions of their own.
Looks to me that this was ends reither with a whimper (EU members abandoning the EU for in exchange for necessary Russian energy and other reasons) or a BANG (not necessarily nuclear; maybe ‘just’ a few hundred thousand electrical power transmission transformers going off in the course of an hour or a few days).
“No stats for oil refineries but I can tell you that NZ’s only refinery was recently shut down.”
Sorry if I confused: my remark on oil refineries addressed a post I’d made just before, which post failed to appear and is now lost in digital outer space. For the record, I do not believe that food processing centers are being deliberately sabotaged per some central plan.
“The truth, however, is that nothing is unusual about any of the fires that have occurred in food processing plants over the first few months of the year. Although no data is kept on fires that occur strictly at food processing facilities, the National Fire Incident Reporting System tracks fires within broader categories like manufacturing, refrigerated storage, and agricultural facilities. In 2019, the number of fires at all manufacturing or processing plants in the country topped 5,300—nearly 15 a day. Additionally, more than 2,000 fires occurred in agricultural, grain and livestock, and refrigerated storage facilities, which could all include food processing operations.”
Might as well start learning some work chanteys. Lift that barge, tote that bale…
ShenandoahI find it useful to reduce the Ukraine situation to this:
USNATO Euromerica started this mess.
Putin is finishing it. It will be over when Putin is done.
This global warming is real/global warming is not real whining nonsense is enough to make me puke on someone’s shoes. Everything we disagree with has become formulaically reduced to someone else’s “scare tactics”. It doesn’t matter whether this or that is what’s causing the current climate upheaval: the climate is currently upheaving, puking all over our shoes.
So the fat cats wanna sell snake oil in the name of saving the human race or something? Whatever. The climate is going wonky, and it only takes 20 years of that to reduce a global civilization to a shadow of itself.
I can see it now on a billion tombstones: IT WASN’T MY FAULT! THEY DID IT!
Raised amid a thousand shades of grey of injustice, we naturally feel that the most important part of any remedy is knowing (or at least believing we know) whom to blame.
What is truth, Jesus asked. So did Socrates. Neither had an answer.
““The proper description for what is happening in Europe is really an energy and food price shock rather than a general inflation.””
Is there anything more general to an economy than food and energy. Other than water and oxygen and land above water, no.
Here is the Politico article he references:
Me, I’ll take a stupid photo of whom/what-ever I want. HOw dare you walk in front of my camera without my permission ?!?!?
Meanwhile, here is some uncommonly unbiased perspective on mass covidiocy:
Bill Gates and the Global Vaccine Mafia
“The pandemic has been an unholy storm of three things: 1) Shady SARS-inspired gain-of-function virus research culminating, most probably, in the release of a lab-enhanced virus; 2) destructive mass containment policies imposed for many months on people across the world; and 3) hasty treatment and vaccine development by a few favoured pharmaceutical concerns, followed by the mass coercive administration of doubtful mRNA products from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna.
“These are the three legs of the stool. Remove one of them, and the whole thing falls. Without 1) there’s no pandemic at all; without 2), some people die, but without all of the collateral damage and with none of the vaccinator mania; without 3), lockdowns have no obvious end point and are probably confined to the first wave.
“The hard problem, is working out what relationships prevail among these three. It is very tempting to perceive these as merely different elements of a cohesive, uniformly coordinated whole—I admit this. Yet hard evidence tying all three together remains elusive.” (emphasis mine)
We all have our suspicions. Those suspicions are well-grounded: these catastrophes in skin-suits are both stupid and ruthless enough to do crazy stuff like a controlled population demolition (CPD) . It is impossible for me to imagine that CPD isn’t on some of their minds and part of some of their schemes.
But a vast global conspiracy to CPD is not the only explanation that fits the known data, and one’s mind is either open to genuine possibilities or not, depending in great part on how emotionally invested one is in one’s current working Theory of Everything Political.
No public or even customer toilet means Dying Society, whatever form of cash it uses to wipe its transactional ass.
There never was news believable at face value. That is why we have so much unbelievable news claiming to be believable.
Hard to rally nations of 100s of millions to war without a media, you know.
I have no horse in the moon landing hoax race. Either way, the moon is a harsh mistress and I still miss Mike, my only cybernetic friend. But it would be easy to dismiss Afewknowthetruth’s lunar hoax claims as really, really, really stupid batshit crazy, altho I think that one ‘really’ would suffice.
Everybody’s got a heretic cow in their backlot. Many people think Darwin was a loon. There are those who swear Biden is not an animatronic hologram. Me, I don’t believe Santa Claus died for our sins.
Pamela Lillard,of the above-shared lullaby, died “Pamela Lillard, a long-time resident of Topanga Canyon, passed away unexpectedly on May 13.” (2021)
She was 64 years old. One expects she was vakzinated per normal due diligence.
I first discovered her as the music behind this world-shaking video:
I’ll say goodbye with this:
One of the things websites like this do for its conversationalists is reflect them off each other so they can feel like they’re sane, not the only renegade thinker on the planet.
Being human, we of course then proceed to compete in debates of Who is Saner than Whom. Who knows the real hidden skinny. And so forth:
For those raising wee ones in these ignoble times:
A pretentious and self-absorbed old fool, I feel a need yet to apologize to Michael Reid for the tone of my remarks to him yesterday (as if anything I said or did means much of anything). This guy sings what I meant top convey much better than I did:
“…cuz it’s crazy what lovers can do…”
Turn off the TV and turn off the light
Turn off the street lamps as well
Turn off the billboards that scream through the night
And dream the policemen to hell
Close all the windows and close all the doors
Close all the shutters and blinds
Close down the churches and pray to the whores
Lay down and then close your eyes
It’s amazing what comes into view
As we’re finally breakin’ the chains
When the temperature rises
We’ll go to our place in the rain
Take down the pictures and take out the trash
Take up the tattered old rugs
Take up the mattress and count all the cash
And laugh with the last of the drugs
Burn all the papers and burn all the wood
Burn what we can’t understand
Run up a flag for the old neighborhood
Sit back and then take my hand
‘Cause it’s amazing what lovers can do
With just a kiss and a glass of champagne
When the rivers run dry
We can go to our place in the rain
Pay off the piper and pay all the bills
Pay for the getaway car
Blow out the candles and head for the hills
Pray that we make it that far
Run from the poison and run from the flames
Run from the maddening crowd
Laugh at the whispers of who’ll take the blame
And sing all the sinners out loud
It’s amazing what crazy can do
When every good citizen’s sane
When heaven’s a desert
We’ll go to our place in the rain
It’s amazing what comes into view
When you just connect your heart back to your brain
When heaven’s a desert
We’ll go to our place in the rainRe: Tesla on God: One doesn’t pray to physical laws of nature because they are laws. This is why we turn to deities, be they real or imagined.
Re: Sun Tzu: I agree. I suspect that the next black swan will be such a thunderbolt from the Rus.
Michael Reid: rereading my response, I see it can come across as condescending. My bad. I was lecturing myself, not you, really. Well Hush Mah Mowf
