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@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.
@Red :- I can’t disagree with any of that. Checkmate indeed – a predicament rather than a problem. As I see it, the chain of events that leads to the end/reset of the financial system began when cheap energy became a thing of the past and the creation of sufficient wealth to maintain our consumer society was no longer possible.
Personally, I have been reasonably active of late buying any durable goods/tools/equipment that I think will be needed over the coming years, as I strongly suspect they will not be available at any kind of reasonable exchange rate for Fiats in the near future – if indeed they are available at all.
CBDCs are as much a distraction to the real world of currencies as windmills are to the real world of energy generation. A techno-utopian ‘Fix’ that cannot possibly work but gives those who support them some hope to cling onto.
Sorry @Red – you appear to have missed the essential point of the matter which is ‘Orange Man Bad’.
Once you internalise that starting premise, everything will make sense.
All of the above being said, I’d be surprised if Russian commanders would reveal to the US the fact that they had the ability to hack and down Reapers at will in a scenario as apparently innocuous as this. Why not wait until there was much greater tactical/strategic value at stake? The Allies never revealed to the Nazis that they’d broken the Enigma code simply because doing so would prompt the Nazis to move to a more secure solution. Same applies here I should think.
@DBS “About that crashed Reaper drone….”
You can tell that they’re lying because when they make stuff like this up for public consumption it always sounds like it’s a scene from some kind of ‘Mission Impossible’ movie
Picture the scene – [closeup of the Russian Pilot’s face] as he struggles to manoeuvre his wingtip into the Reaper’s propeller….suddenly a gust of wind throws him off and he nearly collides with the drone [camera cuts to show wingtip glancing off the Reaper’s fuselage], but then he dramatically recovers [quick shot of gloved hand on joystick] and has one….last….attempt….[Suspenseful music]…
Then of course we have the daring raid on Nordstream by a bunch of ‘Secret Operatives’ in a small boat armed only with a string of WWII grenades and a Walmart snorkelling set, who after some close scrapes on the seabed no doubt returned to harbour that evening sporting immaculate tuxedos, just in time for dinner with the Contessa
Looks like it’s the European banks in the firing line today, SocGen down 7%, BNP down 8%, Credit Suisse nearly -11% and so on across the board this morning
Seems the Fed’s magic money fix for SVB has not entirely quietened things down.
@AFKKT – why do you keep obsessing about climate change? It’s an irrelevance. Like a guy driving head-on into a brick wall at 100mph fretting about his terminal cancer diagnosis.
Why fixate on something that’s, frankly, not going to matter by the time it really starts to bite? It’s not healthy to obsess about things that (a) there is no possible mechanism to change and (b) are way down the priority list of things that will kill you.
Yes – our current way of life is ‘Unsustainable’ to use the mot-du-jour but it sure as hell won’t be climate change that puts an end to it.
I’d worry about, and plan as best you can for, the immediate issues that face us all. Not something that will only become relevant after what’s left of society is already foraging for food in the landfills left by industrial society.
@Red #130030
“Scrolling back over the last 24 hours it would seem his name is attached to literally dozens of articles? How can this be anything other than signing off on stuff. I’m sure someone here can straighten me out on this?”
‘Tyler Durden’ is a nom de plume used by the ZH writing staff. It isn’t an individual.
@afktt “And when Britain got into strife over the Suez Canal in 1956, Washington stood back and watched Britain go under.”
Which, in my mind, is exactly what the majority of the world is now doing viz the US/West in Ukraine. It’s an old story – once all-powerful and glorious empire fails to note that its time is done and continues to perform the bully routine that worked so well in the past even as its true power has been well and truly hollowed out.
The rest of the world notices though. My theory is that Ukraine is to the US what Suez was to Britain – the moment when the world pushes back and the Empire finds itself flat on its backside wondering where all its power and prestige went.
@tboc “i understand why Lao Tzu went to the wilderness”
Well, technically Dowd is correct in that if the entire human race is subsumed by a giant nuclear fireball, the many intractable issues that currently face us will no longer require resolution.
Anecdotal: Chap came to service my vintage tractor today. His brother came with him and as part of a general chit-chat mentioned that he’d recently had an operation to deal with a blood clot in his leg, involving some serious surgery and 97 staples to close it all up. Was very insistent that it was caused by his first covid vax – says his doctor had seen lots of similar cases recently. I didn’t argue.
“Then I come home and read this industrial grade gas-lighting by a completely clueless moron :
The real reason you have an everlasting cold”
Bullshit indeed, but the comments below the line are hilarious. Last time I looked there was almost universal disbelief at the garbage propounded within the article itself.
Seems like critical mass has been reached where people feel able to call out the Covid BS without fear of being buried under a great steaming pile of Pro-Vax comments. There just aren’t as many Vax Fanatics out there, ready to leap to the defence of the official narrative as there used to be.
“EU Agrees To $100 Russian Diesel Price Cap‘
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/eu-agrees-100-russian-diesel-price-cap
Or, as the Daily Telegraph explains – this is the next escalation of ‘Putin’s Diesel War’.
Remarkable idiocy.
Yeah, Rantzen was a particularly obnoxious example of Righteous Vax Fanatic. Normally I would refrain from mocking the afflicted, but in this case I can only smile inwardly as she chokes down the banquet of consequences that she laid for herself.
@Phoenixvoice – it certainly does, very much like the ‘Russia is running out of munitions’ and the ‘Russians are all fascists’ nonsense that gets trotted out every other day, all evidence to the contrary.
Re: the tanks, and in particular the reluctance of Germany to agree to send their Leopard2 tanks to Z until the US also agrees to send Abrams – it seems pretty obvious what’s at play. Leaving aside the pure tokenism of sending a handful of old tanks which will make no military difference at all, Germany’s concern is that it has been quite successful in exporting Leopards to many countries – it’s an important element of their arms exports.
Clearly they can do without global 24 hour rolling news media showing lines of smoking burnt-out Leopards in the Ukrainian mud which the US, having not send any Abrams, would then be able to point at in arms fairs and steal German export orders by claiming that this would not have happened to US tanks because they’re soooo much better.
Now that the US has agreed to send tanks, the Germans are thinking that they’ll have smoking Abrams carcasses to point at during the arms fairs thus negating the US advantage.
Sneakily though, after agreeing to send a handful of Abrams, the US DoD is now suggesting that they will order new tanks to send, rather than taking units from existing stockpiles. So, by the time any US tanks reach Ukraine (if any ever do) the war will be long over and the reputation of the Leopard2 will be as trashed as the examples Germany sent. Schmartz, no?
@Oroboros #126362 – that is precisely how I feel about the whole Ukraine situation. The conjoined political and financial systems of the ‘West’ cannot be fixed from within because the level of corruption and incompetence has reached saturation point. It’s an irredeemable situation and, I feel, the longer it staggers on the more damage it will do and the less likely it is that there will be enough of the world left after the inevitable collapse for the survivors to pick themselves up and build something different.
I welcome the fact that rapid change is being forced upon the post-WWII settlement from the outside and hope that the hard times ahead will clear the deadwood.
“Don’t you think that calling for the genocide of people who have the most powerful military in the world is rather dumb?”
Spittle-flecked Ukro-Nazis are not renowned for the subtlety of their thinking. One might imagine that by now they’d have realised that the promises of unlimited ‘Help’ from the West which was the foundational assumption underlying their aggression against Russia have not, and will never be, delivered upon. But no. On they go flinging their young men to their deaths in a futile attempt to defeat an enemy 10 times their size.
It’s almost like they’d rather die than admit they were wrong.
Oh wow. It’s almost like someone is coordinating this globally. No gas stoves, no gas heating…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/2023/01/12/new-gas-boilers-could-banned-within-decade/
