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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle January 18 2024 #150652
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    jb-hp ” I’m curious what would you do if your batteries wore out and no new ones were available?”

    Alright I’ll play, If the batteries are worn out, i.e. won’t hold charge, they will still function as your conversion point for the incoming power. Regardless of the generation method. The inverter running your system requires a certain voltage input between steady points. Dead batteries will provide this even when enough energy is flowing in. So you become children of the sun or of high wind/water which ever is your source. As for freezing food we also can, dry, salt and smoke food for storage. The frozen veg/meat/fish tends to be of better nutritional value than the other methods. Our freezer stands empty and unplugged during early summer, the one as part of the fridge is plenty, until the harvest starts coming in. During the summer months and early fall there is more than plenty of sunlight getting through to run the freezer even if it was left running empty.
    It follows as well that if batteries aren’t available I’m thinking that a lot of other things won’t be readily available either. Things like copper and lead for the simple lead acid type as for the more advanced ones such as ni-cad or lithium well I think you get my drift. We then become truly children of the sun. As far as energy loss at conversion from vdc to vac it is approx 15%. I used 20% when calculating my needs. I always go high on this as to help cover any mistakes I may have made along the way.

    My totals for yesterday:
    12 panel array 60 amp hrs, 3.04 kws, max voltage 114 vdc
    9 panel array 47 amp hrs, 2,43 kws, max volage 115 vdc

    Enough to go without any generator help. Todays forecast is for sun all day so the laundry will get caught up and the dishwasher will also run. I might even spend a little time in the workshop running some pine boards through the table saw. You have to make hay while the sun shines!

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 17 2024 #150599
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    Taking up on my electricity collection from yesterday, for any who may be interested. Today started out mostly cloudy with sunrise at 7:48 am. The bank started out at 48 vdc and with the cloud cover giving way to mostly cloudy by noon. Checking on it just now 2:47 pm I am running at absorption 58.8 vdc. I have achieved 87 amp hrs so far and still running at 58.8. This voltage is set to run for 30 minutes and then will drop back to float voltage of 54.4 vdc for the remainder of the day, sunset is 5:03 pm. Incoming voltage is approx. 110 vdc with the amperage approx. 18.1 amps. Due to the size of my panel array, it’s split between two charge controllers to maximize the amount of incoming power. Both producing the same voltage and amperage at the time of reading, so a total of 36 amps flowing to the bank. With an hour or so of good sun time left in the day I should have no problem making my desired amounts. The controllers won’t recognize wattage above 3500 so as to maximize collection for this time of year it made sense to split it. In a sense I have two arrays one of 12 panels and one of 9. Just checking for today I have had a high of 5470 watts coming in, not bad for a 5400w rated system at the wrong angle for this time of year.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 17 2024 #150589
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    ” The “Bombshell” would be if the FBI didn’t perjure themselves, openly, and not even hiding it as he knows there are cameras. I don’t remember the last time the FBI didn’t fabricate, entrap, railroad, and lie. Generally to protect insiders and oligarchs, as we see with Hunter daily. His Federal Gun Charges?”

    Hmmm…

    Why the U.S. National Security State Assassinated MLK, Jr.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 16 2024 #150536
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    jb-hp like I said I’ve been at this a while. My chest freezer is full of food we’ve grown this past year so a full freezer takes less to keep it frozen. It is also in an out building that at this time of year is usually well below freezing. The extra insulation for your fridge would help some but your adding two feet or more to the size of the room it occupies, or reducing said room by that much. At this time 3:10 pm AST my 5400 watts of pv are producing a whooping 130 watts at 2.1 amps. Needless to say the gen will run this evening for a bit. That said the bank is humming along at the 50.4 vdc that is expected for a 48vdc system but it will drop back around sundown to I’m guessing somewhere around 48.8 +/-. It would seem most think that we live some sort of luddite lifestyle here, I can assure we don’t. When people hear off grid living they automatically think Uncle Toms cabin or something. I spent forty plus years working at any jobs I could find so now in my mid sixties I’m not about to give up some creature comforts, at least not willingly. In the end all I can say is all the DIY catalogues and arm chair math in the world is no substitute for reality. I’m using both and well life ain’t exactly like the photograph.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 16 2024 #150533
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    @jb-hb “Nearly 1 watt ” I would need 3000 of those running for three hours a day every day to run the home and keep the battery bank topped and that is assuming they generate 50amps per hour as well. It’s great that folks here keep finding these little miracles that are on offer out there in the consumer world. I’ve been living this for almost two decades and have yet to see anything that will work on the small demand we have, which is at least a quarter of what our most efficient neighbours use. But hey wtf do I know? Our home needs 300 continuous watts to just idle, mostly refrigeration, so no water drawn no lights running and no battery charging. That’s the starting point. No disrespect to anyone here but the shit that’s published out there is sales oriented. In my experience it never comes close to as advertised. In my neck of the woods just throwing a small hydro turbine in a stream or river to get power would land you in court with a bunch of different charges by various .gov departments environment and fisheries both fed and state, so there’s that as well to consider. Penalties vary but they’re game stoppers of the sell up to pay kind.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 16 2024 #150528
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    @michael-reid
    Speaking from experience forget wind turbines all together. You’re a bit further north than I am so I’m going to guess you’ll have three months of less than optimal weather for PV. How ever it will be more reliable by several magnitudes over wind. Using a good generator as supplemental power to run your home and battery charger at the same time is the only way through. Well you could do the Tibetan monk thing for a few months of the year. Keeping your panels close enough to the ground so you can sweep the snow off is recommended also. Any big power draws like range or dryer need to be gas as well. My water heater is gas as well. Heats the water on demand so no standing tank of hot water. We have a dishwasher as well. We run the washer and dishwasher on sunny days after the charging cycle has made it to absorption in the charging cycle, or are confident it will make it to absorption. Wind turbines are a bust at any size. There were a number of wind turbines in my area installed around the same time I took the bait. They ranged in size from .5kw to 20kw and there are no to be seen now, besides the big monstrosities that are .gov supported. I suspect they are there due entirely to subsidy. “Too cheap to meter” ha if we could harness the heat from that bit of hot air we’d be in business.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 16 2024 #150496
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    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/dark-davos-escort-services-completely-booked-wef-begins

    I think the headline says it all.
    If ever there was a place to hit with a few well placed hypersonic missiles?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 16 2024 #150495
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    I see oil hasn’t moved out of the seventies since the Red Sea troubles? Maybe things aren’t exactly as advertised?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 16 2024 #150494
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    “Each overreach geometrically increases the dangers to democracy, ever more turns the public off, and ironically cascades sympathy and poll numbers for the very target of their paranoias.”

    Paranoia will destroy ya!


    @thomasjkenney
    “Any thoughts about using pumped storage for a backup? Set a tiny panel and pump to trickle low-to-high, and leave the high tank for emergencies.”

    The amounts you would need to be of much help are immense. Moving water up hill is one of the most energy intensive things we humans do. The height and volume you would need to get any amount of electricity would be quite large plus all the parts and pieces required to build it. Pumps, turbines, generators and so on. Most low pressure high volume pumps, (least energy use), won’t push water very far vertically. You get less than one half pound of pressure per foot of elevation, .433 to be exact. So at twenty feet of head you get less than 10 psi. So to get the power needed to run a turbine you would have to go a lot higher or supplement with volume, think weight. Now we’re moving tremendous amounts of water up hill. This is an equation of diminishing returns that spirals out of control very quickly. When hydro facilities start to run low on water behind their dams they don’t pump the exhaust water back over the dam for re-use because they would use too much of the energy generated in the first pass to put it back, possibly all of it. The second law of thermodynamics cannot be broken, ever.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 15 2024 #150442
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    Out of Africa!

    Spotting the similarities
    Can you see the commonality yet? The monetarist ”financialisation” of the UK economy has made the Nation poor in real export performance and the bankers rich; it has increased Britain’s dependence on toeing the NATO/US line, emptied the Treasury and weakened the NHS by succumbing to ridiculous panic in the face of Covid19, and seen its educational system become so narrow, politicised and inflexible, there has been a quite staggering loss of citizen willingness to think for themselves. Instead of the banks fulfilling their original role as purveyors of money to each generation’s entrepreneurs, the fabled ”trickle down wealth” process has actually been sucked up into banks who have – more and more – used their giga-wealth to buy other banks, while focusing on funding Big Globalist Multinationals to get even bigger through M&A. As we now see (but every villain from Gina Miller to Jeremy Hunt affects denial) Britain is under the immediate cosh of blocist centralisers in the EU, and New World Order fanatics persistent in their desire to make the UK look dysfunctional and thus unable to function independently. PM Sunak follows the insane mass migration policies because he works for them, not us…and Keir Starmer is exactly the same animal.

    Comparing the UK to Gambia, for EUNATO hegemony read Sino-Islamic hegemony; for financial services dependence in the UK, read Tourism dependence in Gambia; for educational and social neglect in Britain read precisely the same ignorance in my adopted country; for ECOWAS union politics in Gambia, read Brussels blocism in Britain; for emptied Treasury during the Big Pharma Contrick19, read tourism crippled in Gambia; for lower rates of good food repurchase in Britain read zero ability to afford a decent balanced diet here.

    But the last commonality is that of being enmeshed in the fishing net of credit-derived debt in the face of rising interest rates, and exposure to both smartphone technology and media content. For this is where brutal cultural change has served the geopolitical control-freaks in the shape of narcissism, fame fantasies, State control of information and mass brainwashing alongside higher and higher costs of consumption.

    Here in The Gambia, the astonishing rise and rise of smartphone usage has involved increases in citizen debt both to purchase these infernal spy-phones and renew credits to feed the addiction. Equally, however, it is seen by young Gambians as primarily useful for banal conversation at all times and [especially among females] selfies to the point where – when either at the beach or dressed up on Fridays – they pose and pout for what often becomes an amateur fashion shoot. Thus, even though they skipped both pre-digital cameras and mass cellphones, they hardly ever use their phones data content as a source of information beyond tabloid fame obsession, beefcake and locally made soaps appealing to a truly tooth-rattlingly low IQ and/or half-educated influence.

    In short, they are even further down the road to simplistic manipulation than other similarly distracted electorates in the First World.*

    *In one area – advertising – I am bound to say a local acting profession really is emerging. To any and all Western commercials directors, I would point out that good scripts, intuitive casting and really good ”comedic” actors make the TV ads here infinitely more engaging and LOL funny than the programmes.

    Finally – last but far from least – Big Pharma represents the beginnings of a problem in my homeland, whereas in my self-banishment here, deregulated really means unregulated. There are lots of meds-pack notices saying ‘Prescription Only’ – somewhat pointless virtue-signalling given that there are no GPs to write the scrips. Once again, a State health service on the way to collapse allows one to glimpse what Britain will become in the end. [the coming EUNATO mandatory approach to ”vaccination” ensures that we will go the same way as Black Africa].

    Predicting the consequences
    Poverty moving rapidly towards desperation is far closer in the 3rd World than the first. For different reasons (naked corruption, lack of cultural remorse etc) Covid19 made less impact in terms of ”New Normal” kidology here than it did in the West…because compared to a pressing need to find family food for the evening meal, a bad flu bout was seen as something of a non-event. But the converse is also valid: people here are far closer to abject destitution than in the UK, and after a season of 50% fall off in tourists thanks to iniquitous EUNATO State lockdown in 2021, lots of seasonal workers crept ever closer towards starvation. In short, we’ll see the full consequences in the Gambia before you reach that stage in the UK.

    The ultimate consequences of following neoliberal perverted monetarism all the way down to the bottom of the pit could be summarised as follows:

    When the wealth gushes up not down, the mass repeat consumption neoliberal economies require doesn’t happen.

    It thus has to be stimulated by lax credit at low interest rates – and where possible, the import of poor quality goods from elsewhere in order to keep the Proles feeling rich.

    This has the potential to upset the import/export balance of payments problem, and produce a fall in the currency’s value, causing inflation at home.

    Competing Sovereigns then buy one’s currency with a view to taking ‘directionalised’ profit so exports fall, imports rise, and the citizenry suffers further inflation.

    In desperation, the Nation State borrows money to prop up the currency and provide more benefits to its by now very concerned electorate.

    Down and down goes the national wealth, up and up goes the national debt, further and further away goes the normalisation of interest rates in the light of citizens and sovereigns now mired in debt.

    Finally, there are four further crucial similarities you share with Gambians:

    1 Brits and Gambians are more likely to comply rather than complain

    2 While Brits have their imported thugs, Gambians have their beach bumsters and Nigerian hookers. Both can [and already are] displaying an increase in violent aggression if they don’t get what they want

    3 Gambians rarely expect elections to make any difference, and smart British voters feel the same: there is no radical Opposition deemed likely to tackle the underlying problems of Greed

    4 Tribal voting in Gambia and the UK is very different, but requires exactly the same skills in lying through your teeth about what you stand for. While the UK has Greens, EU Remainers, ScotNats, Plaid Cymru, Hard Left, anti-EU, Hard Right, Ulster Unionists, Scottish Tories, English Tories, The Labour Party, PC feminists and gender nutters, so too Gambia has The Mandinka tribe [the largest] followed by the Fula, Wolov, Jola, and Sarahule. In the 2021 Election that returned Adama ‘Plank’ Barrow to the Presidency, the dominant Mandika tribe was split about what it was after, but its dominant size still handed the election to Barrow. He is the leader of the National People’s Party, but all Parties here claim to be ‘National’, ‘United’ or ‘Alliance’ in a somewhat incredible attempt to suggest they have support above the tribal spectrum. This is no more true than the myth that Keir Starmer will offer any real alternative to Rishi Sunak.

    Both cultures share a tendency to vote in favour of self-interest and their wallets. Both electorates lack the education, informed radicalism and discernment to throw out the traitors at the top. But Gambia is further down the road to impoverished perdition…and this why I contend that Brits in particular and the EU in general would do well to use my adopted country as a yardstick for what the coming Apocalypse might entail.

    Ultimately, neoliberal capitalism is a cul de sac economic system doomed to eat itself. It gives more and more ridiculous wealth to the tiny percentage of winners, but has no solution to the bust that inevitably follows the mortal combat [between rising interest rates and the level of lax household borrowing to maintain the feverish repeat consumption level] required to keep the ideology solvent.

    Ever since 2009, the global alliance between Pharma, multinational business, central banking, silicon valley powered State surveillance and its dupes [climate emergencists, Davosites and crazy Vegans] has been trying to put off the moment when this sick neolib/neocon joke finally becomes obvious to even the last compliant sofa-bound blob.

    Along the way, we Anglofones lost the battle to establish a living wage for nurses, Waspi justice, real Brexit, an independent foreign policy, Covid19 weapon development, the reality of vaccine calumny, a fair deal for Russian speaking Ukrainians, and truth about the 2020 POTUS election tampering. It represents a grand theft of civil rights spanning thirty years, exacerbated by opening borders to anti-social thugs.

    Free speech and direct democracy have entered an existential crisis in the West; Black Africans have rarely if ever had either. The key thing that will accelerate events here in The Gambia compared to the West is the much thinner line between being poor now, and desperate by this time next year. The UK in particular already has its systematically imported thugs fighting with police and slagging off the Jews, but I suspect there may be [initially] a sense of giving Starmer a chance. The tourist season here is well below par again this year [reduced spending power in the First World] and – now that the IMF and China are involved working at their planned hegemonic duopoly – tourism and infrastructure projects put on hold plus over-leveraged accommodation speculators will start to lay people off and, in some cases, go to the wall. The same applies to smaller retailers suffering from a 16.7% inflation rate that can only squeeze the working class until they can no longer viably function. The moment when Devils find things for idle hands to do isn’t that far off.

    In the UK, the inflation rate is only 4% and the den of thieves at the Bank of England can still hide the inevitable with talk of reduced interest rates. In the US, the rate is just under 3.2%. Both the Fed and the BoE are gaily putting out puffery about reduced interest rates later this year, conveniently forgetting that both cupboards have been emptied by Covid, Permawar, welfare sprees and a host of other Bidenomic/NWO insanities. The US national debt more than doubled during 2023 – from $13 trillion to $34 trillion; the UK’s debt exceeded 100% of gdp for the first time in 64 years for similar reasons.

    But the Gambia is a minnow without the array of disguises enjoyed by the First World; in three years, the national debt here has grown 50% – globally, the debt is tiny but Washington [ie the IMF)] and Beijing are already extracting several kilos of flesh: a second port (for easy US troop access) is under way, and the Chinese are already ruffling feathers by installing factory fishing with the potential to wipe out the local fishing community. Add that to the other layoffs already mentioned, and we reach the tipping point: What happens when half-starved people have no money coming in at all and nothing to do?

    I advise all of you to keep a close eye on the gather storm in Gambia. The coast is unlikely to remain as smiley as it has traditionally been. For once, a sub-saharan African nation will be a peek into the near future.

    The Davos >> banker >> ecological looneys >> surveillance >> military complex knows perfectly well how nasty things could get when 7.8 billion Earthlings have had their savings digitally pilfered with nothing coming in. Hence the need to be rid of the Useless Eaters.

    2024 is a pivotal year. Sleepwalk through it at your peril.

    Analogies & Outcomes: at the end of the neoliberal road.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 15 2024 #150414
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    Wes: “I am wondering how Michael and Red are doing since we have had so few sunny days since the beginning of December. Their battery banks must be having a very hard time getting recharged.”

    The worst is over for me. From mid November til mid January is the slowest. Low angle for the sun means any cloudy day I don’t get enough in through the PV system. On cloudy days I run a gen for about two hours +/- to top the bank, running on just the bank for a couple of days is more wear and tear than I want to put the bank through. From here on even on cloudy days I usually get enough for our needs. I rely totally on PV for my electricity. I’ve been off the electric grid for seventeen years now so we know how to manage our use quite well. Most folks would have a hard time with the steep learning curve during the dark period. I’m a bit further south than Micheal is so I can’t speak to his situation. When I first went off grid I had a small wind turbine (1kw), and small PV array also 1kw. The wind turbine was of little use even though the geological wind survey put out by environment Canada said that my location and elevation would produce three fold my expected electric use. Well mother nature didn’t take math or maybe I should say she doesn’t do averages.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 10 2024 #150100
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    @ Dora:
    The AI here doesn’t like rumble anymore, apparently hence no reasoning with robots. Work arounds are easy with something that can’t see reason. Are you ready to rumble? 😉

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 10 2024 #150095
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    As technology has invaded many facets of our lives, I am guessing that all of us experienced the frustration of trying to reason with algorithmic minds. Have you ever raised your voice to a device, asking “Really!?” We might wonder if the application was designed by an unpaid intern, or if the designer ever tried to use it in realistic circumstances. But no amount of frustration will have an effect. The operating space is prescribed and rigid, so that no matter how many times we try, the thing will stubbornly execute the same boneheaded behavior.

    Imagine that a self-driving car in a city detects a voluminous plastic bag in its way. It will stop, and say—perhaps silently to itself—”Object.” “Object.” “Object.” “Object.” “Object.” “Object.” I could go all day. No, actually I can’t. But it can, and that’s the point. A really sophisticated version might say: “Bag.” “Bag.” “Bag.” “Bag.” Meanwhile, a human driver might look at the bag, and based on the way it waves in the breeze decide that it’s mostly empty, but just looks big, and is safe to drive over without even slowing down—thus avoiding interminable honks from behind.

    Arguing with robots would likely be similarly tedious. No matter what insults you are compelled to fling after reaching your frustration threshold, all you get back is the annoyingly repetitive insult: “Meat bag.” “Meat bag.” “Meat bag.”

    Meat bag brains have the advantage of being able to take in broader considerations and weave in context from lived experience. We can decide when algorithmic thinking is useful, and when it has limits. Unfortunately, I buy the argument from Iain McGilchrist that modern culture has increasingly programmed people to be more algorithmic in their thinking—in my view via educational systems, video games, and ubiquitous digital interfaces. I often feel like I’m arguing with robots, but of the meat variety.

    Robotic Traits
    Let’s start by sketching out some of the traits I associate with “robotic” thinking.

    Reasoning with Robots

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 10 2024 #150094
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    Dr.D “Using telepathy?”
    Of course that’s how they do it. Remember they already knowd Putin was going after all of Ukraine and then on to the rest of Europe. They just read his mind from London or was it DC? The masters of mind reading are everywhere around us, just look at the portrayals in Mad magazine or the Simpsons, see we always had excellent telepathy at work here. So good they were reading the minds of the yet to be born even. So glad we have such grand guardians! From Plato to NATO amirite?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 9 2024 #150006
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    And then we have this making the rounds:

    The Next Crisis “Bigger than Covid”: Paralysis of Power Supply, Communications, Transportation. The WEF “Cyber Attack” Scenario, “Usher In the Great Reset”

    False flag? Civil war started pack? Perhaps somewhere around Oct/Nov. Election stopper? Who knows for sure what to believe?
    Oh what a tangled we weave
    When at first
    We practice to deceive

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 9 2024 #150005
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    Hmmm….

    Criminal Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was allegedly killed in Kyiv on January 3 when Russian cruise missiles peltered a command bunker where Austin and Lieutenant General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander in chief of the Ukrainian Army, met secretly to discuss mounting an asymmetrical offensive to “bring Vladimir Putin to his knees,” claims a Russian FSB source known for providing invaluable intelligence and the truth behind Putin’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine.

    FSB agent Andrei Zakharov’s tale, however, directly contradicts an administration narrative about Austin clandestinely hospitalizing himself for an unknown ailment at Walter Reed Hospital. Friday evening, a frenzied media went haywire after Politico ran an article about Austin admitting himself to the hospital and staying there an entire week without notifying his criminal in chief, pResident Joseph R. Biden. The report quickly spiraled into undreamt of drama that engulfed all levels of government, with several lawmakers calling for Austin to resign for poor judgment and lack of transparency at once. Austin’s unannounced absence has embarrassed a criminal regime struggling to stay afloat.

    Zakharov refutes the hospital story because, he insists, Austin and a bevy of Ukrainian brass were tucked away in what they thought was a secure military command center 20 feet beneath the streets of Pecheskry District in central Kyiv.

    Russian intelligence, he added, had marginal luck tracking Austin’s trips into and out of Ukraine since early 2023. Austin had spent so much time in Kyiv he ought to have applied for Ukrainian citizenship, Zakharov joked, adding that the secretive and self-admittedly reclusive Austin had traveled to Ukraine from Poland eight times in 2023.

    In early November, a Spetznas “hunter-killer” team entered Kyiv undetected after learning that Austin had arrived in Ukraine to personally deliver fantastic news to Zelenskyy: the U.S. and U.K. had voted to give him even more free money and arms. The Spetznas had eyes on Austin and Zelenskyy and came close to killing them, but the team aborted the mission at the last moment due to unforeseen and unspecified complications.

    Vladimir Putin, Zakharov said, had bestowed upon Austin the title of “war criminal.”

    Putin, he added, delighted in Austin’s demise.

    “We knew Austin was in Ukraine, and we discovered their rendezvous point. We also know the pig Zaluzhnyi, and he is killer of the women and the children, was to meet his lieutenants to learn them about new drone warfare. They were our intended targets. Austin was a bonus.”

    Twenty cruise missiles, he said, destroyed surface buildings and collapsed a labyrinth of interconnecting chambers underground. A battle damage assessment revealed the strike had razed the structures and cratered what lay beneath. Only rubble remained.

    “Nothing on this earth could survive what we sent. Yes, he is dead. He must be dead,” Zakharov said.

    Real Raw News’ American sources in the White Hat community, while stopping short of dismissing Zakharov’s story as wishful thinking, said they want to see irrefutable proof of Austin’s death before scratching his name off their own “most wanted” list. However, they’ve called the official narrative a blatant lie, for if Austin had gone to Walter Reed, their sources would have taken notice and informed General Smith’s office.

    “We don’t know if that Russian story is baloney or not. Our sources at Reed are unimpeachable and they say he was never there. And as far as your other question, Mike, we don’t have him. If I learn more and can share, I’ll let you know,” a source in the general’s office said.

    Russian Claim: Austin Dead In Ukraine

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 8 2024 #149991
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    Shite remove the space after the dot.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 8 2024 #149990
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    Hmm The link:
    https://rumble. com/v45wj8o-breaking-rebel-news-david-menzies-brutally-arrested-for-scrumming-freeland.html

    Remove the dot

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 8 2024 #149989
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    Rebel News reporter David Menzies was brutally arrested by police after he tried to ask Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland questions about the Liberal government’s failure to add the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps to the country’s list of terrorist organizations.

    Jesus H Christ Freeland nazi cunt.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 8 2024 #149985
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    Dr D : “So effective you need one every 10 days. That’s what “Vaccine” means, right? 10 day immunity?” Their immune system now IS that shot! So quarterly means what, 40 days a year without any protection. The rest of the year with less than average protection, well some is better than none, I guess. Oh well easy come easy go, after all life is a terminal decease.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 8 2024 #149965
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    Narrative control needs to be controlled. Some good old fashioned public stoning’s might be in order. No less cruel.

    The lobbying group for older Americans just told its nearly 38 million members to “hustle” for another Covid jab, even if they have already had five boosters.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/aarp-just-told-its-38-million-members-get-8th-yes-eighth-shot-mrna

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 8 2024 #149956
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    Our industrial civilization is in full denial of its mortality. We teach Ozymandias to our children, yet somehow manage to remain fully oblivious to the temporal nature of our culture. Why do I tell such “depressing” stories? Well, while I’m fully aware that the decline of our modern age is inevitable, I do believe that we ‘doomers’ and ‘collapseniks’ have an important role to play.

    https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/death-cults-doomers-and-an-end-of?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 8 2024 #149955
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    Important Report by Dr. William Makis.
    The State of Florida has called for a halt of the use of mRNA Covid-19 Vaccines, setting a precedent for the implementation of similar decisions not only across the United States, but Worldwide.

    The evidence is overwhelming.

    Read the letter of Florida State Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo below

    We call upon people across the United States to pressure State officials to cancel the mRNA Covid-19 once and for all.

    The evidence of mortality and morbidity resulting from vaccine inoculation both present (official data) and future (e.g. undetected microscopic blood clots) is overwhelming.

    The official data (mortality and morbidity) as well as numerous scientific studies confirm the nature of the Covid-19 mRNA vaccine which is being imposed on all humanity.

    Our thanks to Dr. William Makis

    Breaking: Florida Will be the First Jurisdiction to Halt COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 3 2024 #149662
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    Catherine Price
    Tue 2 Jan 2024 13.00 GMT
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    It was 3.30 in the morning when I realized I needed to break up with my phone. I was holding my baby in my arms as I scrolled through eBay, feeling a bit delusional with fatigue, when I had a brief out-of-body experience in which I saw the scene as if I were an outsider.

    There was my baby, gazing up at me. And there was me, looking down at my phone.

    I was horrified. This was not the impression I wanted my child to have of a human relationship, and it also wasn’t how I wanted to be living my own life. I decided in that moment that I needed to “break up” with my phone and create a new relationship with better boundaries.

    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/02/smartphones-attention-economy-reclaim-free-time

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 3 2024 #149659
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    “If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I bet they’d live a lot differently.”

    Most would already be living a lot differently if they could see the stars at night.

    Concerning the electric tractor from yesterday and about ev’s in general. What’s up with all the Kw’s involved? All we ever see is the amount/number of kwh’s a battery pack holds and then equated to household usage. It’s comparing helium balloons with the space station, yes both seem to float but…. it’s the amp hours stupid. If your bank holds 35/kw hours how long does this do real work? For the x45h2 tractor it states 8hr running and equates that with 8 acres coverage, doing what exactly? Will it do that pulling a three or four bottom plough? I have my doubts especially if the ground is soft or conversely well packed. It has a 32/kw motor, so if all that power is required it will last about one hour as you can’t use all of your battery. You probably can’t use all the power at once for very long anyway as it would cause the bank to over heat and start a fire. At the end of the day, which will be less than eight hours unless you are just driving around the farm, it’s about the amps the work requires from the bank. If the bank is 800 amp/hrs and the work being done needs 200 amp/hrs then four hours later your day is over. I don’t know the amp hour rating for this as it required a sign in to maybe get it, so forget it from here. There are so many variables it’s a useless exercise to try and sort through it. Electricity is a most useful source of work but it’s storage for use later is a no go when compared to diesel. Battery storage works for small draws over shorter time spans but falls short over the longer time spans and is not very good for heavy lifting over shorter spans such as a work day. The devil is in the details! Having lived with a battery bank doing most of our domestics for 17 years and counting it is definitely about your amp hour demand over an extended period. For us that period is a conveniently defined unit: sunrise til sunrise. Over this time period we use approximately 65 amp hours and our requirements for refilling is about double. This at my latitude in the northern hemisphere from mid November til mid January isn’t doable on cloudy days, so it’s supplemented by running the generator a couple of hours +/- at sundown. Battery backup needs backup!

    From Quora:
    But a Ludicrous P100D is been seen to generate over 570kW during max acceleration, which at 400V gives you 1,425A. The new fuse that Tesla use to turn a regular P100D into a Ludicrous P100D (along with other changes) is rated at around 1500A, so that is roughly in the right ball park.

    So 1425 amps! Big number but how long could the bank last at that kind of draw? I suspect it would be shut down by internal safety mechanisms due to overheating long before it ran out of charge. Lot of heat there, think arc welders.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 29 2023 #149379
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    Net zero Hmmm….

    We don’t need to hypothesize. Government data disprove the Treasury’s contention and demonstrate that increasing deployment of renewable capacity reduces the productivity of Britain’s grid. In 2009, 87.3 gigawatts (GW) of generating capacity, including only 5.1 percent of wind and solar, generated 376.8 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity. In 2020, 100.9 GW of generating capacity, with wind and solar accounting for 37.6 percent of capacity, produced 312.3 TWh of electricity. Thanks to renewables, 13.6 GW (15.6 percent) more generating capacity produced 64.5 TWh (17.1 percent) less electricity.
    Those numbers are damning for renewables and demonstrate why they make electricity more expensive and people poorer. Before mass deployment of renewables, 1 MW of capacity in 2009 produced 4,312 MWh of electricity. In 2020, 1 MW of capacity generated 3,094 MWh, a decline of 28.3 percent. It’s as clear as can be: Investment in renewables shrinks the economy’s productive potential. This is confirmed by the International Energy Agency’s net-zero modeling. Its net-zero pathway sees the global energy sector in 2030 employing nearly 25 million more people, using $16.5 trillion more capital, and taking an additional land area the combined size of California and Texas for wind and solar farms and the combined size of Mexico and France for bioenergy—all to produce 7 percent less energy.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/britains-net-zero-disaster-and-the-wind-power-scam-5553319?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 29 2023 #149373
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    “Our social/economic/political system.”

    Is a race to the bottom.
    Can you see the bottom yet?
    Do you need glasses?
    TAE provides some glasses.
    Good optometry here.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 29 2023 #149360
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    You don’t have to worry about the climate if these folks get their way. You will be staved to death if you can’t pay and most won’t be able to, by design. They will attempt to have backyard gardening outlawed soon enough.

    Colin Todhunter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). In 2018, he was named a Living Peace and Justice Leader/Model by Engaging Peace Inc. in recognition of his writings.

    With reference to the section on India in the author’s 2022 e-book Food, Dispossession and Dependency. Resisting the New World Order, Aruna Rodrigues, lead petitioner in the GMO mustard Public Interest Litigation in the Supreme Court of India, stated:

    “Colin Todhunter at his best: this is graphic, a detailed horror tale in the making for India, an exposé on what is planned, via the farm laws, to hand over Indian sovereignty and food security to big business. There will come a time pretty soon — (not something out there but imminent, unfolding even now), when we will pay the Cargills, Ambanis, Bill Gates, Walmarts — in the absence of national buffer food stocks (an agri policy change to cash crops, the end to small-scale farmers, pushed aside by contract farming and GM crops) — we will pay them to send us food and finance borrowing from international markets to do it.” 

    Sickening Profits: The Global Food System’s Poisoned Food and Toxic Wealth

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 29 2023 #149358
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    For a look at a possible reason for climate weirding other than human caused. Assuming of course one can hold two opposing views in ones head at the same time.

    A lot more here to chew on if you really can think beyond the local.

    https://www.youtube.com/@Suspicious0bservers/featured

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 28 2023 #149300
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    @dr-d-rich
    “By virtue of being virtually on this blog today, neither have/has been impoverished, silenced, deplatformed, blacklisted, disappeared and eliminated.”

    Fascinating isn’t it! Almost like controlled opposition, but seems weird just the same. All others that were questioning the sanity have been deplatformed. Why not these guys? Or more to the point why not Ritter? He would have had to sign a NDA I’m sure so has yet to violate that? If there isn’t more to this this meets the eye……. well blow me dry and call me dusty.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 27 2023 #149241
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    The first three minutes is Trudeau admitting everything pretty much.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 27 2023 #149225
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    CT: What are your thoughts on Greta Thunberg and the movement surrounding her?

    DR: It is sad and pathetic. The movement is a testament to the success of the global propaganda project that I describe in my report. The movement is also an indicator of the degree to which totalitarianism has taken hold in Western societies; wherein individuals, associations and institutions lose their ability for independent thought to steer society away from the designs of an occupying elite. Individuals (and their parents) become morality police in the service of this ‘environmentalism’.

    https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/13/from-dollar-hegemony-to-global-warming-globalization-glyphosate-and-doctrines-of-consent/

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 27 2023 #149224
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    tboc yes rom doesn’t die on its own. Give it back its electric and its up and running again. There are vast amounts of personal info on severs that will disappear should the severs die. As well as a lot of financial info that with die an ether death. This could prove out to be beneficial to joe sixpack in the long run. Going analog as much as possible would also assist in dragging the monster to its grave. Somehow leaving as much of the digital world on its own has to become fashionable if these social credit schemes are to be avoided. You don’t have to be a clairvoyant to see the road ahead but you do have to be looking up more often than not.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 27 2023 #149211
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    How many Black Mirror episodes are now reality? Here’s one that just aired as it was on hold due to lock downs and is already true. No news to most here, still the slide into fascism is almost complete. The big question is: How to change this trajectory? Individually you can “bug out” or go full luddite, but that won’t stop the beast. The only way my small mind can see is to take away its power. By power I mean electricity. This will only work if all electricity is gone from the entire planet for an extended period. That would be disastrous for all to say the least. As I see it though, as long as there is electricity the information that is now used to run the system will never be zeroed out of the equation. Solutions to this problem need to be discussed in a reasonable manner and implemented somehow. Ideas on how to accomplish this need to be put forth and hashed out. As it stands most here see the monster clearly yet solutions to this issue are not forthcoming. Hoping that this thing will crash under its own weight isn’t a strategy, it’s wishful thinking. The gorilla in the room is how to neuter the surveillance state without killing both host and parasite? Anywho if you haven’t seen episode 1 of season six black mirror and are a fan spoiler alert:

    in reply to: Debt Rattle Boxing Day 2023 #149176
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    “She went on to claim that contrary to its professed adherence to democracy, the bloc tramples on the will of the people when it runs counter to its own agenda.”

    Everything the bloc stands for is not for the benefit of “the people” wherever those people are. Everything they stand for is against the people, on purpose, it’s the new new world. Like it or fuck off and die peasant.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle Christmas Eve 2023 #149103
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    Dr.D sense? Making sense of the machinations of psychos? Is this not folly? Senselessness is senseless. Trying to find some thread of sense in senselessness is senseless!

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 23 2023 #149047
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    “Ukraine cannot exist as a monoethnic and monocultural state in its 1991 borders,”
    It can’t and it won’t. It’s most likely to return to it’s borders of 1900.

    https://www.euratlas.net/history/europe/1900/index.html

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 20 2023 #148841
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    Neil Ferguson is a cunt of high order.

    The Club of Rome and the Rise of the “Predictive Modelling” Mafia
    While many are now familiar with the manipulation of predictive modelling during the COVID-19 crisis, a network of powerful Malthusians have used the same tactics for the better part of the last century in order to sell and impose their agenda………………………..

    Neil Ferguson’s Sleight of Hand
    In May 2020, Imperial College’s Neil Ferguson was forced to resign from his post as the head of the UK’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). The public reason given was Neil’s sexual escapades with a married woman during a draconian lockdown in the UK at the height of the first wave of hysterics. Neil should have also been removed from all his positions at the UN, WHO and Imperial College (most of which he continues to hold) and probably jailed for his role in knowingly committing fraud for two decades.

    After all, Neil was not only personally responsible for the lockdowns that were imposed onto the people of the UK, Canada, much of Europe and the USA2, but as the world’s most celebrated mathematical modeller, he had been the innovator of models used to justify crisis management and pandemic forecasting since at least December 2000.

    It was at this time that Neil joined Imperial College after spending years at Oxford. He soon found himself advising the UK government on the new “foot and mouth” outbreak of 2001.

    Neil went to work producing statistical models extrapolating linear trend lines into the future and came to the conclusion that over 150,000 people would be dead by the disease unless 11 million sheep and cattle were killed. Farms were promptly decimated by government decree and Neil was awarded an Order of the British Empire for his service to the cause by creating scarcity through a manufactured health crisis.

    In 2002, Neil used his mathematical models to predict that 50,000 people would die of Mad Cow Disease which ended up seeing a total of only 177 deaths.

    In 2005, Neil again aimed for the sky and predicted 150 million

    The Club of Rome and the Rise of the “Predictive Modelling” Mafia

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 12 2023 #148292
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    “Arestovich recently announced that he would stand against Zelensky for the presidency, and would campaign on a platform of peace..”
    Didn’t we hear this same rhetoric by someone in “14.

    Dr.D they’re talking about the west and only the west as all others will have moved beyond swift and old methods of tracking no longer apply.

    “If the global economy were to fragment into two blocs based on UN voting on the 2022 Ukraine Resolution and trade between the two blocs were eliminated, global losses are estimated to be about 2.5 percent of GDP. But depending on economies’ ability to adjust, the losses could reach as high as 7 percent of GDP,”

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 11 2023 #148243
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    Oxy: the US is the eagle. The bald eagle is considered a scavenger before predator, if the shoe fits.

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