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and then go on to vote for the next “lesser” evil that our partisan ideologies prefer”. Or don’t vote at all. They haven’t recognized the masses in, well maybe ever. So return the favour by ignoring them as much as possible. If approached always be civil and answer any questions the same as they do; with lies. Always lie on any polls or questionnaires, never be truthful because they won’t be. This will help to skew their way of “doing business” directions that may or may not be helpful for them. Hopefully not! I have always voted to counter the argument “if you don’t vote you can’t complain”. I always picked some one that I was sure wouldn’t get in. Well the last election was it for me. Time to sit it out. I’m irrelevant to them so back at you buddy.
“We are in a highly dramatic situation. What is in place now is not sufficient,” Translation: the people that are in place aren’t fir for purpose!
“Probably by the end of this winter, as is sometimes cynically said, pretty much everyone in Germany will be vaccinated, cured or dead,” Well if they’re vaccinated they’re not cured so what’s left? Sh!t this is gone well off the rails. WTFFor those who like connect the dots a little less cryptic then Triv:
From the Non-Profit Industrial Complex with Love | The Art of Annihilation
“What’s infuriating about manipulations by the Non Profit Industrial Complex is that they harvest the goodwill of the people, especially young people. They target those who were not given the skills and knowledge to truly think for themselves by institutions which are designed to serve the ruling class. Capitalism operates systematically and structurally like a cage to raise domesticated animals. Those organizations and their projects which operate under false slogans of humanity in order to prop up the hierarchy of money and violence are fast becoming some of the most crucial elements of the invisible cage of corporatism, colonialism and militarism.”— Hiroyuki Hamada, artist
The green deal in just a few numbers showing what we’re being sold isn’t really possible. Sound familiar?
“To replace all UK-based vehicles today with electric vehicles (not including the LGV and HGV fleets), assuming they use the most resource-frugal next-generation NMC 811 batteries, would take 207,900 tonnes cobalt, 264,600 tonnes of lithium carbonate (LCE), at least 7,200 tonnes of neodymium and dysprosium, in addition to 2,362,500 tonnes copper. This represents, just under two times the total annual world cobalt production, nearly the entire world production of neodymium, three quarters the world’s lithium production and at least half of the world’s copper production during 2018. Even ensuring the annual supply of electric vehicles only, from 2035 as pledged, will require the UK to annually import the equivalent of the entire annual cobalt needs of European industry…
“There are serious implications for the electrical power generation in the UK needed to recharge these vehicles. Using figures published for current EVs (Nissan Leaf, Renault Zoe), driving 252.5 billion miles uses at least 63 TWh of power. This will demand a 20% increase in UK generated electricity.
“Challenges of using ‘green energy’ to power electric cars: If wind farms are chosen to generate the power for the projected two billion cars at UK average usage, this requires the equivalent of a further years’ worth of total global copper supply and 10 years’ worth of global neodymium and dysprosium production to build the windfarms.”
“Green Energy: A Bubble In Unrealistic Expectations: …as global policymakers have turned against the fossil fuel industry, energy producers are for the first time in history not responding to dramatically higher prices by increasing production…”
Or what’s left can’t be used up by the general population because we (MIC) need it to keep the peace and run the gulags.
@ Micheal Reid
Agreed! Same issue here for me, (Nova Scotia), lost all hope for a speedy realization of the con. Time to start the underground market I guess. If the failings we see else where in the west, by the years end it should be getting quite interesting here in Canada as well.
@ Germ
Great letter to NZ’s supreme leader wraps it up fairly well.“Millions of people have been helped, but for those who have suffered, surely they should be given the support they need, as after all we were only doing what we were asked for the benefit of all. “We were a healthy couple that went on six mile walks at the weekend and we didn’t expect anything like this.”
“as after all we were only doing what we were asked for the benefit of all”
Yes including accepting the liability! Sad that most won’t read the fine print!I’m unsure of the origin of this quote, “you can judge a society by the way it treats its live stock”. During my decades as a “gentleman” farmer I found this quote to be applicable down to the individual level. When searching for new breeding stock to improve our small herd of Nubian goats it was quickly apparent if the folks at a particular farm had any empathy for their animals. Same held true at neighbours homes just by looking at the conditions of/around household pets.
Hope is now all one has, as in: I hope most of this s*%t is wrong!
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-10-17-are-covid-vaccines-giving-people-aids.html
Doubly injected people between the ages of 40 and 70 have already lost about 40 percent of the immune system capacity from the moment they get injected. They then progressively lose more of it over time, with peak immune system loss for many expected to arrive by Christmas.
“If this continues then 30-50 year-olds will have 100% immune system degradation, zero viral defence by Christmas and all doubly vaccinated people over 30 will have lost their immune systems by March next year,” reports The Exposé.
There is no denying, based on the data, that fully vaccinated people now suffer from what appears to be acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, more popularly known as AIDS. Their immune systems are fading away, which many have been warning would be the case.
Just maybe the whole of the narrative has more to do with this:
#212. Are we nearly there yet?At present, the tendency is blame everything – including inflationary pressures, supply-chain disruption and financial stresses – on the after-effects of the coronavirus crisis. As an explanation, this ranks for credibility somewhere between “the dog ate my homework” and “I can’t buy a round of drinks because a spaceman from Mars stole all my money”.
After all, official figures indicate that global GDP fell by a less-than-catastrophic 3.3% last year. To believe that all of these economic problems only began in 2020 requires extreme myopia, and a very short memory.
Rather, and as regular readers know, the economy has been deteriorating over a very long period, which we can trace back to the identification of “secular stagnation” back in the 1990s.Most here are amazed at the ease TPTB have at getting people to follow their directives. I think it starts at the very early age of learning to speak. In the west it begins with the likes of Santa. It’s a lie. Children are taught very early that responsible adults don’t lie they tell little white lies to enhance the “magic” but would never tell “big” lies that would ultimately hurt you. We are conditioned at a very early age to believe that authority isn’t going to lead us astray in any harmful way. These small lies that seem harmless are in reality conditioning most to never ask the hard questions. The Jesuit priests learned long ago that the teachings drilled into the heads of children will, no matter what life circumstances they find themselves in, will influence their thinking and behaviour in adulthood. Lesson I take from this: don’t tell lies to children no matter how magical it may seem at the time. You reap what you sow!
Concerning “D” being AI, try humour. It’s one thing AI doesn’t seem to understand. Might help to prove one way or the other.
It’s free to down load the pdf. Tom Murphy @ Do the Math
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/980Salvaging a decent future requires keen awareness, quantitative assessment, deliberate preventive action, and—above all—recognition that prevailing assumptions about human identity and destiny have been cruelly misshapen by the profoundly unsustainable trajectory of the last 150 years. The goal is to shake off unfounded and unexamined expectations, while elucidating the relevant physics and encouraging greater facility in quantitative reasoning.
After addressing limits to growth, population dynamics, uncooperative space environments, and the current fossil underpinnings of modern civilization, various sources of alternative energy are considered in detail— assessing how they stack up against each other, and which show the greatest potential. Following this is an exploration of systemic human impediments to effective and timely responses, capped by guidelines for individual adaptations resulting in reduced energy and material demands on the planet’s groaning capacity. Appendices provide refreshers on math and chemistry, as well as supplementary material of potential interest relating to cosmology, electric transportation, and an evolutionary perspective on humanity’s place in nature.
These numbers don’t make any sense to me. 0.2%/1,100,000 = 220,000 or is it 0.2% of 1 percentage point = 44,000? The next paragraph has 2790/0.01 = 279 but they have 187? It has been a very long time since my schooling years, over four decades, however what math are they using? Something from economics 101? I don’t know how to get the same results!
From the Times of Israel:
But early data from the Health Ministry aired by Channel 12 news Sunday evening appears to show that those who have received a third vaccine dose are highly protected against the disease. According to the data, just 0.2% of the first 1.1 million Israelis who got their booster dose have been diagnosed with COVID-19 after at least seven days passed since the shot.In absolute terms, the number of virus carriers who received their third dose is 2,790. Of them, just 187 (0.01%) were hospitalized and 88 (0.008%) developed serious symptoms. Fewer than 15 of them have died, with the report offering no exact number.
Listened to M. Atwood interview way back when she first released these tales. She had spent a fair amount of time researching CRISPER and then wrote these tales. If you haven’t read or heard of them they are great stories and the imagination of Margaret comes shining through. The comparisons to our present is a bit disturbing however. Just coincidence or clairvoyant?
The MaddAddam TrilogyYummy cash!….. The under ground economy has always liked cash or solid metals. Can’t see it getting any smaller anytime soon. Digital will only work with electricity everywhere. With diminishing returns on…. well everything human, a black market will thrive on something be it trading potatoes or silver/gold or anything of value outside of the controlled system in which live the elites. At some point the “luxuries” that seem to be the domain of the affluent will become very heavy liabilities. I’ve have started offering clients the option of paying in real silver not paper. No takers yet but some looks of almost bewilderment. A few comments about it soon will be favourable as well.
@Phoenixvoice
I’ve been “off grid” since ’05 and am in my second home as such. The first one’s inverter is still running fine and my new one is only 6 years old without issues to this point. I use lead acid batteries for storage. 8 two amp hour deep solar Rolls 600’s.I’m using brave browser on a mac and notice a difference in comment count between signed in and not. Most of my browsing is done without signing in. I sign in to post something and there are always more comments immediately upon sign in. The following paper is co-authored by Megan K Selbert and William Rees
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/15/4508/htm
From the introduction:We argue that while the GND narrative is highly seductive, it is little more than a disastrous shared illusion. Not only is the GND technically flawed, but it fails to recognize human ecological dysfunction as the overall driver of incipient global systemic collapse. By viewing climate change, rather than ecological overshoot—of which climate change is merely a symptom—as the central problem, the GND and its variants grasp in vain for techno-industrial solutions to problems caused by techno-industrial society. Such a self-referencing pursuit is doomed to fail. As Albert Einstein allegedly said, “we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”. We need an entirely new narrative for a successful energy transition. Only by abandoning the flawed paradigmatic source of our ecological dilemma can we formulate realistic pathways for averting social–ecological collapse.
….or “stupid is as stupid does” maybe? It seems to come down to “experts” straying well out of their field.
Stupidity is a very specific cognitive failing. Crudely put, it occurs when you don’t have the right conceptual tools for the job. The result is an inability to make sense of what is happening and a resulting tendency to force phenomena into crude, distorting pigeonholes.
This is easiest to introduce with a tragic case. British high command during the First World War frequently understood trench warfare using concepts and strategies from the cavalry battles of their youth. As one of Field Marshal Douglas Haig’s subordinates later remarked, they thought of the trenches as ‘mobile operations at the halt’: ie, as fluid battle lines with the simple caveat that nothing in fact budged for years. Unsurprisingly, this did not serve them well in formulating a strategy: they were hampered, beyond the shortage of material resources, by a kind of ‘conceptual obsolescence’, a failure to update their cognitive tools to fit the task in hand.
https://psyche.co/ideas/why-some-of-the-smartest-people-can-be-so-very-stupid?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter“I agree with Polder Dweller that if much tighter social and political control is the aim of this “New Normal”, then there has to be a reason all this coordinated effort is necessary. And the reason that most readily presents itself is that some form of big economic change is coming whether we want it to happen or not.”
There may be reason enough explained in detail here:
#208. A path of reason, part oneDr. Morgan maintains the economic system is really an energy system and monies are a claim on what that energy is used to create, period. As such the western economies have been stagnant for a long time with most in “degrowth” since about ’05+/-. The monetary claims out there on what’s left in the natural world are far and above what actually exists. The gap is massive when looked at. The economy has been run as if infinite resources exist and don’t really matter anyway because work arounds are always waiting in the wings. The covid narrative is a great way of creating a diversion that is exactly what is required to keep from using the last of everything! Stop gratuitous travel, shut down global supply chains save on fuel. The worlds MIC’s aren’t about to allow the general global population to use the last drops of fuel while they polish their tanks and planes without petrol to use them.
One question that has been knocking about in my head concerns blood transfusions. If you’re in an accident or have to undergo a required surgery where blood has to be given, are the donated bags by the vaxxed going to introduce these mRNA’s into your sustem? If so does this mean you’re now at increased risk of “x”.
Once again thanks to one and all with extra kudo’s to Raul. Read this blog almost every morning. The comment section usually the day after due to time zone differences. Just like to add that our provincial chief medical officer Dr.Strang, who I refer to as Dr Strange Love, said on a radio news clip over the weekend: “the models show that a fourth wave of the delta variant is likely come October”. Models? Aren’t these the same idea that was pooh poohed by the “mainstream everything” when the Limits to Growth came out as well as the “models” showing the climate changes coming in the distant, (like now!), future. These were all wrong! The models predicting the future of delta are iron clad? Lets see the LTG looks like it was spot on, the climate models are looking right about the results of pollution sinks filling to over flowing just missed the timing by about one century. So maybe they’re trying to make sure no one will believe any modelling. It’s only useful when it benefits a certain segment of the populace. That segment isn’t the serfs!
Forgot to mention,
We’ve been turning the phone off on Fridays and back on Monday morning. Perhaps sacrificing personal income on principle. The message on voice mail explains that the phone number will no longer be working in a few weeks time and gives the email address for contact. Keep the faith, whatever that means to you.
Kodo’s to all that post here it has been an eye opener over the past two years! Our hapless leaders are thrashing about like a wounded rhino. They are literally out of fuel to maintain any visual resemblance of the past 4 decades.Always a great site to visit for info not offered on the MSM. Have been following for years, comment almost never. A thought on A.I., get rid of your phone! We run a small residential painting company and as such had a phone attached to us everywhere we went. This past year I’ve been working to have this infernal thing surgically removed. We’ve set the wheels in motion so as to be without a digital track, at least by that form. All correspondence with be through email only on my lap top that never leaves the home office. In approx. two months the cell will be disconnected. This accomplishes two small, very small, steps away from the BAU. First the track and ping bs that is happening in the UK would be rendered useless if enough phones were at least left on the kitchen counter when going out. The tracking that is done for whatever reason becomes less valuable. Secondly it removes one more very tiny piece of the “income stream” from the narrative.
P.S. I’m in Nova Scotia and so far most around us have been tagged and no grief our way as yet!
“The offer was immediately met with opposition from some EU countries, especially the three Baltic countries and Poland”. Wow sounds a lot like some rhetoric from about eight decades ago.
Solar Panels Create 50 Times More Waste Than Predicted, Much Of It Toxic (RT)
Having lived “off grid” since ’05 I can assure you that this is looking at solar PV as a continuum of BAU. Not going to happen. Being self employed and working mostly in my local neighbourhood we can live our lives according to our power sources availability. i.e. Doing our homestead chores when there is enough incoming power. Storage is for carrying us through low periods and to make it work better we do very little “electric” work on dull days as well as after dark. The world economy will not function only on sunny days with reduced power consumption even then compared to now. That, as most here know, is just the electrical part of global energy use and only 20% at that. Improved efficiency isn’t going to make us “up grade” we aren’t selling the extra we generate so improved efficiency has no lustre. Before someone asks we have 5.4kw worth of panels and 8 deep cycle solar 200 amp hour batteries and run the house through a Outback GS 8048 inverter at approx. 45 degrees North.I’ve been following this site for several years and have to say kudo’s to Raul and all who comment regularly. My Parents # 77165 “leave your phone home” absolutely true. I have been leaving it home on purpose for several years now. It is my “business” phone. On Fridays I turn it OFF. Turning it back on Monday morning, if I remember! I use cash for a lot of my purchases, not that we buy much anymore. Just working on being less obvious to the algorithms. Sometimes when we’re out with no tracking devices I’ll use my credit or debit card wondering if the AI’s are scratching their digital heads trying to figure how I got there. If only it was that easy hey?
