Just Some Randomer
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@ Citizenx Don’t get me wrong, my wife and I are not vaxxed either but the upside to me of rubbing her face in the fact that her brother was a willing accessory in his own (potentially) early death is meagre.
Divorce is expensive.
The wheels seem to be coming off everywhere at the same time these days, politically, financially, energetically, diplomatically, demographically…
I ‘ve been assiduously following and learning about all of these fields since before the last GFC and I flatter myself to imagine that I have developed a reasonable feel for what is going on and how things may develop. In one word I would describe where we are right now as ‘Perilous’.
‘The Big One’ financial crash feels so close I can almost touch it…….
If we get though the end of 2023 without a catastrophe kicking off in the financial markets I will be incredulous.
So, my young (mid 40’s), very fit and hitherto healthy brother in law has just been diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma out of nowhere. Starts an aggressive course of Chemo today.
One of my wife’s friends (a staunch anti-vaxer) dared to hint at a connection – this was not well received at all. I have decided to maintain a diplomatic silence on the subject – discretion being the better part of valour and so on.
“Well, since most live paycheck-to-paycheck the consuming bit is correcting, or will *sharply*, the hard work and hard times will definitely be a real reality check for a *large* portion of Imperial drones, especially those born after 1980…”
Since most people in Western economies work ‘Bullshit’ jobs that produce nothing of any real value, I’d say the consuming bit, as you put it, still has a looong way to go before it equalises with production.
“Maybe Poland doesn’t want to arm those it might fight in the near future? There are bound to be Ukrainians who don’t want to be part of Poland.”
Exactly my thoughts. The arms Poland has provided so far have achieved nothing other than to allow the Ukrainians to send even more of their troops eastwards to be blown up by Russia – which is ideal from a Polish perspective if they plan to re-take territory in the west of Ukraine that they consider historically Polish.
Now that Russia has disposed of pretty much anyone capable of opposing such a move by Poland, it makes perfect sense for Poland to halt further arms shipments so as to minimise the chances of this weaponry being used to counter their territorial ambitions.
“How long before the White House is painted in rainbow colors? And occupied by a trans POC with no qualifications for the post?”
Well, there are rumours about Michelle Obama making a run for the Presidency……
“Michelangelo Pietà
not possible. freaks me out.”
When you see artefacts such as the Benin Bronzes, which were made at roughly the same time as that Michelangelo sculpture, and are often held out and glorified as shining examples of how sophisticated non-European cultures were in terms of artistic development, it kind of puts things in perspective, doesn’t it.
“10% of all Challengers dead in a week. That means 100% gone by October. And Britain doesn’t have any. As I understand, these WERE the only ones they had operational, but check me. But that’s okay! …Britain has no soldiers to put in them, so I plan on invading Portsmouth shortly.”
‘Official’ sources claim that the UK has 350 Challenger 2s, or thereabouts, but that only 140 of them are ‘Operational’. I’ve seen claims that after donating 14 to the Ukronazis there are actually only 40 combat ready C2s that could be driven into battle next week if required.
No wonder the Ministry of Defence have been quick to make clear that they do not intend to replace any tanks destroyed in country 404. They just don’t have any. They do however seem have a very large stock of non-operational tanks (essentially just spare parts donors). Which might come in handy.
“Excellent article. Thanks very much for sharing it, and for the good advice (as always).”
Second that. Thanks Doc for all your insightful commentary.
“Block the sun! what fucking hubris is this? The blind leading the blind. We don’t need no stinking sun.”
The authorities: You must install Solar Panels to power our bright energy future with no nasty fossil fuels, so we can combat Climate Change!
Same Authorities: We’re going to block out the suns energy so that we can fight climate change.
Fair enough.
Lira’s heading to the Gulag.
Since we’re talking about Ukraine it’ll be a democratic, freedom loving Gulag replete with ‘Western Values’. Not like the nasty Russian ones.
“Kiev has had a chance to disappear this guy for over a year. I wonder how long his followers will have to wait to hear that he is safe? Political asylum from who? Why not catch a plane to Chile or the US?”
Indeed. And if he were a local he’d have been bundled off to the front lines post-haste. Being a US citizen however I guess things are a bit more complicated.
“All that pre-dates CO2 by decades. They did the same with every scientific discovery almost ever. Like Continental Drift, for example. Almost anything in Archaeology ever. They ruin the career of someone out of sheer hate and blind ignorance for the whole 50 years of someone’s career (e.g. Graham Hancock is this week’s model) only to go “Oops! Boy were we THEY dumb!” But who got the money and the textbooks? The ignorant, hateful, bad-faith, anti-scientific liars. Always. They have the safe careers, and the whole thing starts again.”
Which is why it is said that science progresses one death at a time. Once all of those responsible for ridiculing and blocking the challenge to the established ‘Truth’ have popped their clogs, a newer generation, not party to the previous resistance, can accept the ‘New Truth’ and man the barricades to defend it until they too shuffle off this mortal coil.
@afktt – 800,000 year average? Why not 800,000 seconds if you’re going to cherry pick minuscule and irrelevant time periods? Live has been going on for billions of years on our little rock. What’s the average over that period? Might be more relevant.
Oh no! Bird Flu is coming for us! Run for the hills!
@Dimitri – If the false flag is going ahead, it has to be done quickly, IMHO, while there is still enough of the UKR army extant to allow NATO to claim that the Russians did it because they were about to be overrun by UKR forces and lose control of the NPP.
In a month or so more, that story won’t fly at all as there’ll be no Ukrainian forces left.
Also – 96 hours ‘If the Russians are slow to respond’? Like, they’ll book a meeting room in the Kremlin to enjoy some tasty doughnuts and contemplate what to do next? The Russian nukes, would with absolute certainty, be in the air by the time the NPP went bang.
@RIM
According to yr.no (the most accurate weather forecaster I have found) the weather in Enerhodar will be a balmy 30-ish centigrade with sunshine and light clouds today and tomorrow. Bit of rain forecast at the weekend, but no thunderstorms. Not sure why a thunderstorm would affect a bombing of the NPP in any case. Western missiles can’t handle wet weather?
@Dr D “sniper rifle on fast wheels,” the French AMX-10 RC armored fighting vehicle”
I am given to understand that one of the most impressive engineering features of this vehicle is its amazing turn of speed when in reverse gear – it being French and all.
@anticlimactic – Media trying to manufacture a high profile distraction from the undeniable proof of the Biden family criminality and Treachery being aired that same time, of course,
From this perspective ‘Inflation’ actually represents the speed at which the Financial and Physical economies are moving away from each other.
Sure the Financial system is just a fantasy where ‘Money’ is shuffled between players and can be, if required, created in infinite quantities at zero cost in order to bailout key players and keep the game alive. It can, therefore, never collapse due to its own internal flaws. It can always be bailed out.
However the Financial system has a touch point with the real physical world where people make and sell things to each other – things essential to life. Things nobody can print out of thin air. The two systems are drifting ever further apart and at the point where the gulf between them is too great and ‘Money’ no longer bears any practical relationship to physical goods and services then the Financial system simply becomes irrelevant to people. ‘Money’ becomes worthless no matter how internally consistent the debits and credits within the Financial system are.
At that point the Financial system doesn’t exactly collapse, but simply becomes irrelevant whether TPTB like it or not.
Oh No! A super-healthy fitness instructor and model who was also a frontline nurse during Covid and therefore presumable super-vaxxed.
“Ms Fitzgerald, of Mulcair Road, Raheen Heights and Finnitstown, Adare, Co Limerick, “passed away unexpectedly on 27th May 2023” read an obituary posted online.”
Completely normal.
I’m greatly amused by the nonplussed reaction by so many normies to Russia capturing Bakhmut/Artyomovsk.
From the perspective of an unfortunate recipient of exclusively MSM reporting, what’s happened there is the equivalent of:
15 – Love to Ukraine
30 – Love to Ukraine
45 – Love to Ukraine
Game set and Match to RussiaTotal misalignment between what they have been told is going on and what has actually happened – which is causing all sorts of cognitive pain – mostly manifesting in anger and denial. Strangely many seem to have doubled down on their credulity of Pro-Ukie propaganda.
Like Hitler supposedly moving imaginary Panzer divisions around his maps just before the fall of Berlin, many people seem to genuinely believe that The Ukies have lured Russia into Artyomovsk in order to surround and destroy them – with massive forces that, it hardly needs to be said, show no signs of actually existing. I guess the half-dozen UAF squaddies still holed up in some derelict shed on the outskirts of town are about to spring into action any minute now and push Wagner back via a ‘Flanking manoeuvre’ that Zelensky and his mob are now touting. Or something like that.
How long can your batteries supply your entire energy requirements – Including heating, lighting, refrigeration, cooking transport, AC and everything else? To be real-world effective, we would need batteries that can fill in for days or weeks of poor sun/wind conditions. Maybe even longer to account for seasonal variations in sunlight and wind power.
Are you factoring in the requirements of industry as well as domestic needs? I’d imagine the power demands of, say, a steel smelting operation, or a public transport system are considerable.
@ John Day #135957
“Coal and ores had been mined by hand for thousands of years. Technology in China was far more advanced than in the west. ”
Yeah – I guess that’s my point. If there HAD been a prior advanced civilisation that looked anything like ours there’d have been nothing for the Chinese to mine by hand. To secure any useful (from an industrial point of view) quantities they’d have had to do what we now must, and drive shafts miles into the ground, and then pump them dry. None of which you can do without already having some pretty advanced tech.
We have pulled the bottom 10 rungs out of the ladder from hand tools to industrial civilisation. Nobody can come after us.
Clearly, this has not happened before.
The problem I have with this theory of cyclical development and ancient civilisations is a practical one – specifically, if a previous civilisation has consumed all the non-renewable (on a 9,000 – 12,000 year timescale) natural resources, then how can a subsequent civilisation get going?
Where, for example, on the planet will the founders of a future civilisation after ours be able, with nothing more technological than a pick and shovel, be able to pull coal and iron ore out of the ground to begin their Industrial revolution the way we did? We’ve consumed (or at least spread widely over the planet) pretty much everything that a fledgling civilisation could reasonably expect to be able to reach without already having deep-mining technology equivalent to ours.
Are we to suppose that the minerals we mined to build our society were overlooked by all previous civilisations because they were using some other means (which we have no evidence of) to build theirs?
What we have done is take materials from a small number of concentrated locations where they could be economically mined and spread them all over the planet. Sure, all the Iron etc. we’ve ever produced is still on the planet and theoretically available for re-use, but it’s now in an uneconomically sparse distribution pattern.
Maybe when the hypothesised previous civilisation collapsed, they helpfully collected up, from all over the world, all the metals and so on that they’d mined and put them all back in the ground just where we could then come along and find them? Then, obviously, they put all the fossil fuels back – unless they had some science fiction alternative to fossil energy, of course and never needed to burn coal or oil.
Seems to me that unless we postulate some higher being ‘Re-setting’ the gaming board back to the way it was after each collapse, which is kind of like the Creationists who tell us that God put the dinosaur fossils in the ground to make the world look ancient, then I can’t see how this cyclical theory works.
Indeed. One does not start a fight with one’s banker.
“Thoughts go off into scifi land quickly – something electromagnetic? (vague memories of golden age scifi writers talking about using magnetic containment for plasma in fusion reactors…) Something being thrown forward from the nose to create a protective envelope? (Like Charles Pellegrino’s backwards starship concept)”
My bet would be some kind of ceramic or a more advanced version of the material in the heat shields used on the Space Shuttle that conduct so little heat they can be picked up with bare hands straight out of a furnace while still glowing red hot.
I also note that in the graph above there is a clearly visible pattern of increasing likelihood of LGBT self-identification in each successive generation. This would seem to align with increasing levels of exposure endocrine disruption pollutants during gestation/childhood over time. Those born while levels were quite low appear to be far less likely to identify as LGBT than those born more recently.
Cultural factors are undoubtedly at play also, but I think there’s more to this than simply attitudes changing over time to make it more acceptable.
@Don Antonio
Your #2 is absolutely what I have long thought. We’ve known for along time that a number of widely used chemicals such as PCBs, phthalates and others mimic oestrogen and can cause developmental issues related to reproductive organs that are observable in fish, reptiles and other animals exposed to them via groundwater pollution.
It seems beyond question that humans are also being affected, although perhaps the effects are more concentrated in the development of our brains (male and female human brains having observably different internal physical structures, particularly in the connections between left and right hemispheres) resulting in perceived misalignment of physical sex and mental gender.
Given the predominant characteristic of these chemicals is that they mimic oestrogen it would be unsurprising if males were more affected by exposure during gestation, and indeed it does appear that a significant majority of Trans people are males identifying as female.
“…..all commodities and labour are now denominated in dollars, destroy the dollar there is no other item to take its place in economic history.”
Pretty sure global trade was conducted satisfactorily and on a massive scale prior to Bretton Woods. For thousands of years in fact.
In terms of more recent history, on 31 December 1998 no transactions in the EU were denominated and valued in EUR and then the next day, they all were. Overnight. One can argue about the structural failings inherent in the design of the Euro system, but nevertheless it is demonstrably possible to change the basic unit of currency used for trade within and between countries very quickly if necessary.
“The complete and final victory of Ukrainian nationalism will be won only when the Russian empire no longer exists.”
Sound like they need some kind of ‘Final Solution’ to their Russian problem.
@ Dr. D “$600 Silver. $10,000 gold? Question is, what is oil in that world? Can I drive to work?”
Certainly you can drive to work…if you have stocked up on some gold and/or silver.
Of course it’s quite likely that there will be no ‘Work’ to drive to at that point.
Another one. Unknown cause of sudden death.
On the front page of most UK Newspapers today – famous comedian ‘Dies Suddenly’ at only 67. Zero curiosity as to why he died evidenced in the articles or the comments (mostly).
Every single day – open the newspaper and there’s another ‘Died Suddenly’ story and these are the noteworthy ones that merit media coverage. There must be thousands, hundreds of thousands more out there dying in obscurity.
Nobody cares why.
Finally! The markets have Deutsche Bank in the firing line. Shares down 10% today and CDS prices jumping. How that Godforsaken disaster of a bank is still alive I do not know – but maybe not for much longer.
It’s really incredible that people can open the newspaper every day, see a story like this – every day – and still just shrug and move on as though nothing unusual is taking place. From today’s Daily Mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11897831/Head-chef-38-died-suddenly-Cornwall-beach-bar.html
‘He was a fit and healthy man. He last went to the doctor in 2016. He didn’t smoke and had stopped drinking, he never took drugs, he was really fit and healthy.’
“The part I don’t get is the wisdom of releasing the video, as it makes the US the laughing stock of the world.”
The world isn’t laughing at the fact the clowns in the whitehouse released the video. The world is just laughing at the clowns.
@Mr. House – definitely not feasible. The economies of scale that make the infrastructure of the internet affordable for us would be lost. As Gail Tverberg points out occasionally, it’s only because so many people are watching Youtube videos of cats and sharing the cost of maintaining the infrastructure that we can use the internet for online banking at reasonable cost.
Same applies to most of the things we enjoy if the global population is dramatically reduced. Without so many people paying taxes to maintain roads or buying the cars that giant factories can turn out so efficiently in massive quantities and so on, the whole thing becomes unaffordable for everyone.
