JHK’s Three-Act Play
“The powerful are panicking, and so they should. Their secrets are leaking.” —Miranda Devine
“It’s all just snake oil. We want to save the planet, and the life upon it, but we’re not willing to pay the price and bear the consequences. So we make up a narrative that feels good and run with it.” — Raul Ilargi Meijer
“2023 could be a pivotal year for the USA if the pervasive lying can be exposed, digested, and believed. All that exposure has to happen amidst continuing boondoggles toward the Great Reset agenda.” – Truman Verdun
“More borrowing only ever makes sense if you are expecting a larger economy in the future. All economic expansion is based on energy. Countries with energy can expand, those without cannot.” — Chris Martenson
“To be an enemy to America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.” — Henry Kissinger
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It’s hard to contemplate 2023 without spiraling into nausea, tachycardia, and cold sweat. But it is an inescapable duty here to lay out the probabilities ahead. I’ve been doing this forecast thing for some years now, and, of course, I am often wrong, so take some solace in that and relax. Maybe the new year will be all unicorns, rainbows, talking gerbils, and candied violets.
2022 sure was a cold shower. The long emergency I talk so much about finally got up to cruising speed, with the ectoplasmic “Joe Biden” revving our country into economic, political, and cultural collapse — a hat-trick of calamity — and he did it more swiftly and directly than any emperor managed in late-day Rome, with policies and actions 180-degrees contra to America’s public interest — cheered on by a thinking class that had obviously lost its consensual mind.
Was the governing strategy simply to do the opposite of what the loathed and detested Mr. Trump would do? Could it be that simple or that automatic? The thinking class’s eyes have a zombified glaze these days. It’s obvious, you might agree, that “Joe Biden” is not in charge of anything, really. He’s an animatronic figure programmed to read a teleprompter and not much else. Half the time, he can’t even find his way off-stage after doing that one trick. The claque pulling his strings just may be the crew you see around him (you know, WYSIWYG): Susan Rice, Ron Klain, Jake Sullivan, Antony Blinken, Victoria Nuland, and company. Ms. Rice has kept herself completely hidden backstage at the White House for two years. Nobody ever hears about her or sees her. Weird, a little bit, for the Director of the Domestic Policy Council.
Or else, are there puppeteers deeper in the shadows, say, “JB’s” former boss Barack Obama, Der Schwabenklaus and his WEF retinue, Bill Gates and other tech billionaires, the “systemically important” bankers, George Soros…? Or some coven of super-elite warlocks we’d never heard of? The US leadership dynamic is truly mystifying and has been for two whole years. Will mysteries be revealed in 2023? Personally, I think so. Things are lining up in that direction, though who knows whether the damage can even be reversed at this point. And now onto the shape of things to come….
Economy
All you can really say is that the folks running things have hijacked every module of our nation’s interests and tilted them down into decadence and ruin. They’ve tanked whatever’s left of the US economy with an array of surefire idiotic maneuvers. By spending trillions of dollars that don’t exist to buy votes, they’ve inflated away our money’s purchasing power — an Econ 101 level mistake. The “Green New Deal” is a swindle, an out-front, in-your-face nefarious operation to subvert Western Civ by the WEF, and its stooges — laid out explicitly in its house publications.
There is no way we can run our society as currently outfitted on any combination of alt.energies. All the Greenies can really accomplish with this crusade is to destroy the complex systems we rely on faster than would happen in the normal course of things, foreclosing any chance of an orderly retreat to a plausibly downscaled arrangement for daily life. We are exiting the current system anyway, like it or not — the longstanding thesis of The Long Emergency.
This gets to the heart of the conundrum we face. Ill-intentioned as the WEF and its allies may be, the world is heading toward a Great Re-set. The catch is, it won’t be the WEF’s version of it, their schematic techno-nirvana with a tiny comfortable elite lording over the bug-eating hoi-polloi. They somehow miss the glaring point that the energy required to run their precious transhuman tech won’t be there. By the way, the WEF’s core idea of central control by a coordinated world government is at odds with the core reality of the times ahead, which is that life is about to get much more local and downscaled — the exact opposite of centralized. Everything organized at the giant scale is veering into failure: empires, global corporations, hypertrophic cities, giant universities, giant farms, you name it. Their business models are broken. The activities these things represent have to get smaller, finer, and more regional. Depending on what we’re able to salvage and re-purpose from the fabricated leftovers of Modernity, we’ll be lucky to land back in life lived at the level of the early 1800s. Or else, if we really mess up, we’ll plunge haplessly into a dark age in a resource-stripped world.
The “Green New Deal,” based on a combination of wishful thinking and self-destructive malice, includes the deliberate undermining of what’s left of America’s oil industry by cancelling pipelines, drilling licenses on public lands, draining the strategic petroleum reserve, and other efforts to sabotage what’s left. America still has a lot of oil in the ground, yet much of it is hard to get at and uneconomical to produce at the scale required. It’s a money-loser, and losing money consistently doesn’t pencil out for any real business.
This hard reality is especially true of shale oil, which had a good run production-wise 2009 to 2022, though the producers could barely make a dime at it. The shale oil “miracle” was largely a byproduct of near-zero interest rates. Investors flocked to it after 2009 because they couldn’t get any yield from bonds. Shale oil was played-up as a sure thing. It took investors a decade, and over a hundred oil company bankruptcies, to catch on — and now shale oil can’t attract enough new investment to keep up the giant operations at scale. The main shale oil regions, the Permian Basin in Texas and the Bakken fields of North Dakota, have entered permanent decline as they run out of “sweet spots” to drill and frack. Considering the new era of capital scarcity ahead, money for shale oil companies will be even harder to get and we’ll get less shale oil every year, while conventional oil continues its own remorseless decline. The catch here is that oil prices are just as likely to go down as up because the foundering economy creates substantial demand destruction — meaning that customers drop out of the market.
Natural gas involves similar dynamics. There seems to be a lot of it for now in the Marcellus formation spread over Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and into New York (where fracking has been prohibited for years). Natgas is very useful for electric generation, home heating, and some manufacturing, but not so much for transportation. Shale gas production is also based on “sweet spots” for drilling and there are fewer of them every year. The depletion curve for natgas is even more extreme than it is for oil: the flow stops all at once. The early shale gas plays in the southern US — Haynesville, Fayetteville, Barnett — have been in decline for years. As with shale oil, producing shale gas is expensive, with all the trucks ceaselessly delivering sand, water, and fracking chemicals to the drilling pads, and then transporting waste liquids off-site. Prediction: in 2023, we’ll hear the first rumblings about “nationalizing the oil industry,” which will be a giant step toward killing it altogether, given the all-around incompetence of government.
The strategy of changing out oil-based cars and trucks for electric vehicles (EVs) is a loser on several counts beyond the disruption and instability facing US oil production. One, it’s premised on the fantasy that we can continue living in a suburban sprawl arrangement by other means. Two, the electric grid is too inadequate and fragile to support the charging of so many millions of EVs in addition to everything else we ask it to do. Three, the middle class is being decimated, so there are fewer credit-worthy customers for cars priced out of their shrinking budgets anyway. Four, far less capital will be available for consumer loans. The car industry itself may not survive the re-possession orgy coming in 2023 for defaulted auto loans. That shortfall will infect banking, too. The economy is already hurting. The “Green New Deal” will cut its wobbly legs off.
Similarly, the new mandates against the use of nitrogenous fertilizers (made from natgas). European countries are already on-board with this WEF folly. The Netherlands, Europe’s leading food producer, is going so far as to forcibly shut down thousands of farms and limit fertilizer use on the remaining ones. Germany is likewise limiting fertilizers. Canada fell in line next. Prediction: in early 2023, “Joe Biden” will set in motion anti-fertilizer policies in the US. There will be plenty of squawking in the big farming states, rising to angry protests. The tractor convoys may invade Washington. The situation sets up a grim prospect for the US food supply: scarcity, high prices, and hunger ahead.
The Ukraine bread-basket is out of the picture in 2023, unless military action ends well before planting season. Thanks to “Joe B’s” stupid sanctions policy, a more vulnerable Europe can’t depend on Russia, another world-leading grain producer. By summer, the projected harvests all over Western Civ will be inadequate to feed the existing populations. Routine grain exports to the poor nations of the “global south” will stop and a lot of people will starve in those countries. By then, it will be too late to fix anything. The price of food will soar throughout Western Civ, aggravating other economic crises that will amount to metastasizing poverty. Populations will get very restless. Governments will fall (candidates: France, Germany, UK, Australia, the USA). In some places they will not recover in their prior form.
As a general proposition, Globalism is done. That got underway in earnest with the Covid shut-downs. Now, geopolitical friction gets worse and trade relations deteriorate further. There will still be trade between nations, but much reduced. Global supply chains are already wrecked, especially for specialized mechanical replacement parts and electronic components. It will be harder to fix cars, trucks, turbines, really any sort of machine, including computers and things run by them. A lot of commercial activity will just stop.
Europe has already blundered into buying its one-way ticket to Palookaville. Germany and the rest paid for that ticket by going along with feckless US policy to “weaken” Russia with sanctions (mission not accomplished). The coup de grace was the US wrecking the Nord Stream pipelines. So, Euroland has inadvertently decided to ditch its industrial base, which means they go medieval or worse. They have committed economic suicide. They’d better hope reincarnation is for-real. Anyway, they’re not coming back from this fiasco the way they went into it, that is, the way things were. When the shock of winter is over in early 2023, strife will be the new leitmotif in the Old World. People grow desperate in the six-weeks-want of springtime. Nations crack up.
America’s economy largely hinges on finance now that financialization replaced manufacturing as the basis for prosperity. Alas, financialized prosperity is false prosperity, since it consists mainly of borrowing ever greater amounts of money to keep up the mere appearance of prosperity. In real life, prosperity requires producing things of value, not just trading increasingly abstract financial instruments purporting to represent money. I’ve discussed this enough in books, prior blogs, and previous forecasts. Suffice it to say we’ve run out the string on this stunt. All we’re left with now is the debt markers, documents that purport to represent wealth. The collateral is all the stuff we produced previously that is still standing: buildings, developed properties, public works. A lot of this stuff is deteriorating quickly, losing its value — for instance the tens of millions of suburban houses built with shitty, short-lived materials like strand-board and vinyl… all the cars….
Financialization led to the current inflation in our debt-based money system. More borrowing becomes more money going into existence, chasing a declining amount of goods as production falls off and supply lines choke. Services also suffer. People can’t afford to eat out, get acupuncture, visit hair-dressers. When the inflation is bad enough, say more than ten percent annually, it will cause enough economic damage to provoke a big contraction in activity, bringing on a deluge of loan defaults on mortgages, car payments, and corporate obligations. Loan defaults cause money to disappear from the system. This flips inflation into deflation. The bond-market is blowing up as this occurs, because bonds are debts and they’re not being serviced or paid-off. The imploding bond market infects the stock markets and they crash, too.
Before long, nobody has money, except people who invested in gold and silver. Prediction: the change-over from inflation to deflation comes in summer of 2023 and gathers momentum into the fall. The implosion leads to economic conditions worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s because our social and family arrangements have disintegrated along with our towns and cities. Civil disorder ignites. The government attempts lockdowns, but this time without a disease to blame it on. It’s no longer safe to be a politician.
The Covid-19 Story Backfires Badly and Hell Breaks Loose
Against the backdrop of a developing economic depression, the public can no longer avoid seeing the calamity that the mRNA vaccines have instigated. Early death is in the news daily now and from exactly the adverse effects that have been derided as “conspiracy theory” by public health experts since 2021: myocarditis, blood clots, organ damage, neurological illness, unusually aggressive cancers, damaged immune systems. Meanwhile, America’s public health aristocracy — Dr. Tony Fauci, Rochelle Walensky, Francis Collins, Deborah Birx, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and many, many others will be compelled to testify under oath before newly re-constituted House committees and finally answer for all their dishonesty in the Covid-19 response saga. They lied about everything, especially the “vaccines.” It will go worse for them as public sentiment turns from submission to official bullshit to rage over a deadly fraud.
By then, the past efforts of this gang to mislead the public on Twitter and other social media will be well-documented. The exposed slime-trail of money and corruption between Pharma and federal bureaucrats will finally make an impression on the long-bamboozled nation. The mainstream media will be dragged into this morass and the public will begin to understand how the newspaper editors and TV news producers, too, were bought off by Pharma and controlled by the national security state to pimp for the Democratic Party and globalist interests outside the USA. This exposure could be the end of the great legacy news organs, The New York Times and the rest of the gang. Their executives will have to testify along with everyone else. They might not be prosecuted — in a gesture of respect for the First Amendment — but rather will suffer badly from their loss of credibility.
All of this will aggravate the animus against the government and the Democrat Party’s “Joe Biden” regime — which will be under assault from separate inquiries into the Hunter Biden laptop and its abundant evidence of bribery and treason, and hearings about the wide-open border, payments to Ukraine, and the gestapo-like behavior of the FBI.
Here’s a scenario for you: The Justice Department will be drowning in criminal referrals. The FBI will be in a state of paralysis, unable to carry out more insults against US citizens as its systematic crimes are revealed. When the DOJ dithers about bringing action, the public will be even more enraged. The current Attorney General, Merrick Garland, gets dragged into Congress to answer for his misconduct and the resulting humiliation will run him out of office. “Joe Biden” may be forced to resign, drowned in a sea of troubles and scandals revealed. A deal will be made to let Veep Kamala Harris off the hook in exchange for her resignation.
That will leave the Republican Speaker of the House, whoever it is, to become president. He will fire every political appointee in the executive branch and replace them with people who will follow the law. It will look like a promising return to decency and the rule of law. But the damage to America’s prestige will have been so gross by then that the federal government has lost legitimacy. The financial crisis, meanwhile, puts the government into something that smells like bankruptcy. The country is in a ferocious depression, the people have no money, but neither does the government. Real authority devolves to states and localities. The playing out of these dynamics also depends on what is happening outside the USA.
Europe in Macro
Don’t forget, Europe, the west end of the Eurasian landmass, used to be an important part of the world, with an aggregate GDP greater than even the USA’s or China’s. Europe is the birthplace of Western Civ, a division of the human project the past few thousand years that yielded tremendous advances in science, art, music, philosophy, and organized intelligence generally. Now it is on the rocks. Europe, in the aggregate, as represented, say, by the European Union, or NATO, made a grave error going along with the USA’s foolish Neocon project to make a heap of trouble in Ukraine in order to “weaken” Russia.
Russia was no longer a threat to the USA after 1991. Once the USSR was done as a political entity, and after Russia recovered from the daze of collapse, it wanted to be treated by the West as a normal European nation. Russia became a market economy, like all the others in Europe. It held elections like the others, had a legislature, a new body of property law, a private news media, regular banks, and all the other trappings of modern political normality. Russia even requested early-on to become a member of NATO. The USA and Europe refused NATO membership, but also refused to admit Russia into European normality. Instead, led by the USA, the West conducted an asset stripping operation which hampered Russia’s redevelopment.
Otherwise, the West mostly ignored Russia, and in spite of all that Russia got back on its feet, got some industries going, especially oil-and-gas, and enjoyed two decades of relative stability. Russia eventually began reaching out in the world and made trade agreements with other countries. It built those Nord Stream gas pipelines. It organized a regional “customs union” among its Eurasian neighbors intended to function rather like the Eurozone.
As that was all happening — pay attention — around 2010 then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sat on a State Department’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) that threatened to block the sale of a Canadian company, Uranium One, to Rosatom, the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation, on the grounds that Uranium One’s assets included 20-percent of the USA’s uranium supply. Selling all that American uranium to Russia looked kind of bad, you’d think, and you’d be right. But then, suddenly, about $150-million poured into the Clinton Foundation — much of it from Uranium One’s owner, one Frank Giustra — plus Bill Clinton happened to get a half-million dollar speaking gig in Russia, and… whaddaya know, CFIUS ended up approving the sale. The public hardly heard a peep about it. (Where was the US news media?)
During that same period, Hillary Clinton also helped facilitate the transfer of American bio-medical, nuclear, and Info technology to the high-tech consortium called Skolkovo, Russia’s version of Silicon Valley. Much of the tech at issue was dual-use, good for civilian and military applications. Again, tens of millions of dollars gushed into the Clinton Foundation from the corporate participants in the Skolkovo deal. Crickets from the news media again.
In 2011, relations between the US and Russia soured when President Putin accused the US of fomenting protests in Russia over its parliamentary elections. And from there, our State Department decided that Russia and the USA could not even pretend to be friendly.
Jump ahead to 2014: Neocons in the Obama administration figured it was time to cut Russia back down to size. That effort crystalized around the former Soviet province, Ukraine, and blossomed into the US-sponsored-and-organized Maidan Revolution, utilizing Ukraine’s sizeable Stepan Bandera legacy Nazi forces in the vanguard, to foment violence in Kiev’s main city square. The US shoved out elected Ukraine President Yanukovych — who angered America by pledging to join Russia’s Customs Union instead of the EU — and installed its own puppet Yatsenyuk, who was ultimately replaced by the candy tycoon, Poroshenko, replaced by the Ukrainian TV star, comedian Volodymyr Zelensky. Ha Ha. Who’s laughing now? (Nobody.)
From 2014-on, Ukraine, with America’s backing, did everything possible to antagonize Russia, especially showering the eastern provinces of Ukraine, called the Donbas, with artillery, rockets, and bombs to harass the Russia-leaning population there. After eight years of that, and continued American insults (the Steele Dossier, 2016 election interference), and renewed threats to drag Ukraine into NATO, Mr. Putin had enough and launched his “Special Military Operation” to discipline Ukraine. Once that started, American Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stated explicitly to the world that America’s general policy now was to “weaken Russia.”
That declaration was accompanied by America’s policy to isolate Russia economically with ever more sanctions. Didn’t work. Russia just turned eastward to the enormous Asian market to sell its oil and gas and utilized an alternate electronic trade-clearance system to replace America’s SWIFT system. Sanctions also gave Russia a reason to aggressively pursue an import-replacement economic strategy — manufacturing stuff that they had been buying from the West, for instance, German machine tools critical for industry.
Russia did sacrifice more than $50-billion in financial assets stranded in the US banking system — we just confiscated it — but, ultimately, that only harmed the US banking system’s reputation as a safe place to park money, and made foreign investors much more wary of stashing capital in American banks. Net effect: the value of the ruble increased and stabilized, and Russia found new ways to neutralize American economic bullying.
Europe was the big loser in all that. For a while, Europe could pretend to go along with the US / NATO project, pouring arms and money into Ukraine, and at the same time depend on Russian oil and gas imports. Eight months into the Ukraine-Russia conflict, the US blew up the Nord Stream One and Two pipelines, and that was the end of Europe’s supply of affordable natgas, to heat homes and power industry. In a sane world, that sabotage would have been considered an act of war against Germany by the USA. But it only revealed the secret, humiliating state of vassalage that Europe was in. Europe had already made itself ridiculous buying into the hysteria over climate change and attempting to tailor its energy use to so-called “renewables” in history’s biggest virtue-signaling exercise. Germany, the engine of the EU’s economy, made one dumb mistake after another. It invested heavily in wind and solar installations, which fell so short of adequacy they were a joke, and it closed down its nuke-powered electric generation plants so as to appear ecologically correct.
So now, Germany, and many other EU member states, teeter on the edge of leaving Modernity behind. They managed to scramble and fill their gas reserves sufficiently this fall to perhaps squeak through winter without freezing to death, but not without a lot of sacrifice, chopping down Europe’s forests, and wearing their coats indoors. Now, only a few days into Winter, it remains to be seen how that will work out. We’ll know more in March of the new year. France had been the exception in Europe, due to its large fleet of atomic energy plants. But many of them have now aged-out, some shut down altogether, and “green” politics stood in the way of replacing them, so France, too, will find itself increasingly subject to affordable energy shortages.
Prediction: Europe’s industry will falter and close down by painful increments. The EU will not withstand the economic stress of de-industrialization. It will shatter and leave Europe once again a small continent of many small fractious nations with longstanding grudges. Some of these countries may break-up into smaller entities in turn, as Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and the USSR did in the 1990s. Keep in mind, the macro trend world-wide will be downscaling and localization as affordable energy recedes for everyone. Since the end of World War Two, Europe was the world’s tourist theme park. Now it could go back to being a slaughterhouse. The Euro currency will have to be phased out as sovereign bankruptcies make the EU financial system untenable, and animosities and hostilities arise. Each country will have to return to its traditional money. Gold and silver will play a larger role in that.
The USA poured over $100-billion into Ukraine in arms, goods, and cash in 2022. That largesse will not continue as America sinks into its Second Great Depression. In any case, much of that schwag was fobbed off with. The arms are spent, the launchers destroyed. A lot of weapons were trafficked around to other countries and non-state actors. Russia is going to prevail in Ukraine. The news emanating from American media about Ukraine’s military triumphs has been all propaganda. There was hardly ever any real doubt that Russia dominated the war zone strategically and tactically. Even its withdrawals from one city or another were tactically intelligent and worthwhile, sparing Russian lives. The Special Military Operation wasn’t a cakewalk because Russia wanted to avoid killing civilians and refrain from destroying infrastructure that would leave Ukraine a gutted, failed state. Over time, the USA proved itself to be negotiation-unworthy, and Ukraine’s president Zelensky refused to entertain rational terms for settling the crisis. So, now the gloves are off in Ukraine. As of December 29, Russia shut off the lights in Kiev and Lvov.
The open questions: how much punishment does Ukraine seek to suffer before it capitulates? Will Zelensky survive? (Even if he runs off to Miami, he may not survive.) What exactly will be left of Ukraine? In 2023 Russia will decide the disposition of things on-the-ground. Failed states make terrible neighbors. One would imagine that Russia’s main goal is to set up a rump Ukraine that can function, but cease to be an annoying pawn of its antagonists. Ukraine will no longer enjoy access to the Black Sea; it will be landlocked. The best case would be for Ukraine to revert to the agricultural backwater it was for centuries before the mighty disruptions of the modern era. Perhaps Russia will take it over altogether and govern it as it had ever since the 1700s — except for Ukraine’s brief interlude post-USSR as one of the world’s most corrupt and mal-administered sovereign states.
Bottom line: Ukraine is and always was within Russia’s sphere-of-influence, and will remain so. The USA has no business there and it will be best for all concerned when we bug out. Let’s hope that happens without America triggering a nuclear World War Three. (Yeah, “hope” is not a plan. Try prayer, then.) Mr. Putin’s challenge going into 2023 is to conclude the Ukraine hostilities without humiliating the USA to the degree that we do something really stupid.
Asia
The enormous region where most of the world’s people live is swirling with quickly changing dynamics. It’s hard to tell what kind of shape China is actually in at the close of 2022. The CCP capitulated on its extreme lockdown policy and now the country seems gripped by a new and severe outbreak of the Covid virus. It’s killing a lot of people, including quite a few higher-ups in the CCP. The world saw the beginning of a popular revolt in China through the fall of 2022 as demonstrations erupted. The political side remains opaque.
The economic side, less so. China’s wealth since year 2000 has derived from its immense factory capacity and cheap labor force. Globalism is wobbling, and with that the world’s supply line network. If trade relations with the USA continue to sour, both China and the USA will suffer. China will find itself at over-capacity, even for the giant Asian market. And they are competing with several other quickly-industrialized nations in the south, plus India, plus the old stalwarts South Korea and Japan.
The main problem for China, and indeed all the Pacific Rim nations on the Asian side: energy. China doesn’t have very much oil in the ground and is utterly dependent on imports. It has a lot of low-quality coal. It’s building coal and nuke plants like mad. Will that suffice? Electricity is great, but you need fossil fuels to run heavy industries. In the great shiftings of 2022, China made deals for getting more oil and gas from Russia. That might work for a while. But Russia’s energy resources are probably near peak production now. What happens on the way down from that peak? Maybe Russia will be less avid for sharing its fossil fuels with its neighbors. Maybe that will cause political friction. Maybe a desperate China will reach out and try to grab resources from Russia’s vast Siberian territories? Not next year, though….
The Neocon-led US foreign policy establishment is insane for sure, but the CCP is only not-crazy during times of great stability. Throw in some popular dissent and some economic distress, and the CCP could go cuckoo. Uncle Xi shows very Mao-like tendencies for creative despotism. The party must have a long game for Taiwan, but a distressed and crazed CCP, and an agitated Uncle Xi, could turn that into a short game out of desperation — and then what? We’d have two really crazed governments, the USA and China, ginning up the Eastern theater of World War Three. The upshot of predicament depends to some extent on how delicately Mr. Putin can organize America’s exit from Ukraine.
Prediction: For 2023 internal friction will preoccupy China as it attempts to square its operations with those pressing trends of our time: downscaling and relocalization. All this could easily lead to regional strife in China. For decades, the CCP has been the glue between its disparate peoples. It may prove to not be superglue.
Japan remains as enigmatic as ever. It has drifted economically for nearly forty years. Now it looks like it’s drifting into a sovereign bankruptcy as it loses control of its deeply-gamed bond markets. I’ll stick to my old prediction that Japan is en route to going medieval. Its pre-industrial culture was very charming and worked well for long periods of history. Industrial modernity demoralized them. Japan imports all its oil. Without it, you can’t even begin to run a modern war machine, so there won’t be a second reaching-out for resources as in the 20th century. The Japanese will not be alone in the new medievalism when this era completes itself.
The Deep State, an Appreciation
America is at a crossroads, a threshold, a tipping point. Every vital institution in the land has been at least partially wrecked, most especially the ones in charge of the rule of law, which was the best thing we had going for us. The Deep State is for real — the weaponization of a national bureaucracy against the nation itself. Yet, it’s certainly not just an American thing; it’s happening across Western Civ. Is it some natural process of self-destruction? An auto-immune disorder of a giant cultural organism, with parts attacking the whole? The USA, Great Britain, Canada, and Australia took such special pride in being open societies and now they are consumed in censorious lunacy. Continental Europe had a sketchier history with liberty, the enlightened individualism of Everyman, though they actually birthed its principles. But now the whole works is infected and ailing, and by what? It’s as if some cosmic spike protein came among us all and got into our hearts.
Most major religions feature some version of the idea of death-and-rebirth, and it’s a fact that we see ourselves embedded in cycles, especially seasons. Things turn and return, are born, develop, degenerate, pass away. This was the brilliant application of Strauss and Howe’s Fourth Turning theory to the study of history, and by those terms we have entered a deep secular winter of the human project. One can appreciate how the onset of winter spooked our prehistoric ancestors. They developed their prayerful ceremonies for bringing back the sun, and warmth, and new growth, dancing around the fire in the skins of animals, often making blood sacrifices to the mysterious forces in charge of… everything. The modern way of reenacting all that seems to be industrial-strength warfare. Many of us are praying right now that we don’t have to go through that.
More likely, I think, we’ll forego the nuclear fire and simply go through a collapse of the socioeconomic organization that our governance rests on, and the Deep State illness with it. It’ll come with plenty of hardship, but it will purge the poisons that have disordered us, and when we get through it, we’ll make new arrangements for daily life. For some years, I’ve been calling this process a long emergency, and now we seem to be right in the thick of it. I believe in the natural process called emergence. Systems transform themselves organically from one state to another when acted upon by the circumstances of time and place. The outcome is usually a surprise, and not all surprises are bad. So, adios 2022 and hello little baby 2023. Lead us where you will and let’s go forward into it bravely. As Bob said so many years ago, it’s all right, Ma. It’s life and life only….
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Don’t know if I will live long enough to read this in it’s entirety but will try. Thanks for the memories.
I haven’t read it all yet, but the last remarks at the end of his first phase seems to sum it up. The character of the people under question will determine the future course of the nation. The character of the American people is vastly different than the one of the 1930’s. There must be a certain commitment to cooperate and help each other and it just isn’t here now. The center will not hold.
“Duty” used to be a thing.
Duty?
Towards the hordes of parasitic ‘New’ Americans who don’t speak my language or share my culture, and have been taught to hate me?
Towards the inbred cabal of banksters and their sycophants who are busy using financial shell games to necrophilize the carcass of my former country?
No thanks, I’ll pass.
The ones that will probably be cleaning your ass when you are old and feeble? Those parasites?
Zorro-100% concur,
“my butts been wiped, my butts been wiped” fearless leader
“Hard times make strong men
Strong men make good times
Good times make weak men
And weak men make hard times.”
Shotho, you’re right. Today’s American society is nothing like the society of the 1930s… we’re back to being weak men, and because of that, we know what’s coming.
Well, I hope that you do, and I believe that you will make it. It is another bull’s eye for Jim and that he says that it might not all pan out as he sees it, I think it pretty much will.
I do take issue with the idea that the powers who rule are printing out money to buy votes – hell, they don’t need to buy the damn things, they can create them out of the same thin air that the cash comes from. I believe, actually I KNOW that they are printing out as much as they can as fast as they can so they can filter as much of it as possible back into their own pockets so that they can own ten times the assets they will need once the shit REALLY hits the fan. I would not be surprised if Sleepy Joe isn’t bunkered down in the East End of St. Croix right now just in case the dawn of the New Year brings a red dawn of one kind or another.
And he and I differ on our opinion of how our Manchurian candidates are going to fare in their bid for King of the Hill. With friends like the Second Sick-O Austrian, Bill Gates, and George Soros behind them, China has my bet for a serious advancement towards their goal of Top Dog in the coming Year.
But Jim is always scoring center of mass hits, so once again I thank him for all of his hard work, his kindness and I wish him a long and healthy life.
America’s economy largely hinges on finance now that financialization replaced manufacturing as the basis for prosperity. Alas, financialized prosperity is false prosperity, since it consists mainly of borrowing ever greater amounts of money to keep up the mere appearance of prosperity.
It’s amazing when you think about it. For at least 30 years, the economy has been fueled by the great casino lending dinero to the players so they can stay in the game. A few recipients come out rich as Croesus; others rub by; not a few use up their chips and slink over to the bingo room.
Business today monitors every hemidemisemiquaver of the Fed’s acts and language because they signal the price of borrowing. Particularly since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, our dark guardians have seen to it that the Loan Ranger pays minimally for taking on more debt. For a company to live beyond its financial means has never been cheaper.
No one actually denies that the world’s economy sails on a sea of debt. It’s not an occult secret hidden from prying eyes. Anyone with minimal financial knowledge can spot it if they want to. But our economic “leaders” and pundits rarely speak of it. Mustn’t let the plebs get wound up.
It seemed to many like the system worked fine and had no expiry date. The Covid catastrophe only whipped it more. Hey, kids! Get your stimmy bucks! Free money!
2022 was the year the shadow fell. Stimulus nowhere in sight and seems merely to have created inflation and postponed the reckoning. The only Lenders … a bagel manufacturer.
Bring on 2023. It will be different, if that’s any comfort.
so much shorter than a 1.7 trillion budget bill
Winning the War in Ukraine
Winning the War is a question of existential survival for both the Russian and US protagonists. For the Russians it is a matter of national survival in the face of the USA’s policy statements and actions whose stated aim is to destroy the Russian nation-state and replace it with a group of weak resource colonies susceptible to bribery, assignation, military intervention, and globalist wealth extraction. For the Global West (AKA the USA) it is the very survival of the “rules-based order” * that forms the basis for decades of dominance and wealth extraction all over the globe.
The Rules-Based Order—- Our Rules:
1- All international trade in energy and key goods must be based in US Dollars.
2- The USA shall have the exclusive right to create Dollars out of thin air. It does so by distributing Dollars into the accounts of the Banking Cartel (AKA the FED) which then disperses them into the world economy in the form of loans. (Which sometimes trickle down into consumer loans.) International debt holders then pay off their loans by sending food, oil, uranium, rare earth minerals, bananas, slave labor products like Apples, and other items that the USA no longer has.
3- If a country starts accumulating too many US Dollars because they have too much oil to sell, they must use it up by buying arms (AKA Weapons of Chaos) from US manufacturers or buy US bonds with it.
4- If they don’t like the Rules Based Order and step out of line the USA will hire mercenaries to bomb their wedding parties or jam a bayonet up their President’s ass.
Putin violated the First Rule by having the audacity to demand payment for his country’s oil in gold or the national currency. Therefore, he must be killed, and his every utterance loaded into a Saturn rocket and sent on a direct flight to the center of the Sun.
For those who still remember their first-grade math, Russia’s 10 to 1 advantage for the KIA results of the Ukrainian-US proxy war tells you how that will end. When Russia grinds the last Ukonazi soldier hiding behind the last 60 year old conscript into the frozen mud it will end. What then, USA? We will find out if our “leadership” is only clinically insane as is self-evident, or suicidal as well.
Agreed, thors. This is a fight for survival not just for Russia, but for the US to continue as the world’s hegemon.
Amen – I couldn’t agree more. Well put
I don’t know if any of us will live long enough to come any of his predictions come to fruition. And I strongly disagree with most of his predictions. 1st off, why does he fall into the trap of using the now debunked “fossil fuel” narrative? Oil is not a fossil fuel and it is regenerative – comes from decaying organic matter. 2nd, he makes an excellent point that there is nowhere near enough green energy to power the global elitists “dreams” of these mass cities where they can track everyone. However, those “dreams” are their selling points to the masses – the elite are so far removed from reality that they can’t even comprehend that most of us hate their “dream” cities. But I digress, because the FACT is the want at least 3/4’s of us dead, and the rest as transhuman slaves. They do not care if these dream cities actually work, because they don’t care if we don’t have electricity! The people remaining alive will live in squalor, just look at the inner cities – only it will be worse because they no longer have to at least convince a few idiots to vote for them!
As for China, don’t even get me started – the USA sent Russia flying into Xi’s hands, and who knows where that will take us! And, once again, Oil is NOT finite!! Russia will never stop selling them Oil. Period. Although it appears Russia no longer is interested in “world domination”, they certainly plan to maintain their own, something I’m sure Xi is fine with, at least for some time. And China’s financial system is even worse off than our own. It is so understated by Chinese friendly media how bad of shape China is in, with their ghost cities and banks. The people are starting to rise up there, and a desperate Xi is a dangerous Xi – can you say “Taiwan”, just for starters? War is a money maker for globalist, kills people, and is a great distraction from the protestations of the Chinese people at home. The CCP isn’t stupid; they know they need money, they don’t care, like all communists, how many of their own people starve or are killed in war, and they definitely need a distraction for the media to report on
Add to that the severely weakened U.S. military and you have to wonder what Xi is waiting for…
The only thing for certain is no one knows how this all ends. The criminal puppit Biden Regime, along with their elitist friends in congress on both sides of the isle need money, want most of us dead, and need their own distractions from all the covid, election fraud, and deeply corrupt non-elected (FBI, DOJ, CIA, NIS, CDC, DHS, etc…).
The only real question is whether the citizens of this country will pull their heads out of their own asses in time to see through the shit and rise up. The true power is in the citizens of this country, but there is so much apathy and so many “don’t want to get “envolved”. Most in this country don’t realize just how bad things are going to get exactly because they won’t stand up; FROGS, the water is starting to boil!
Great…Kunstler has attracted another nut job. Biden, criminal? Por Que?
he got you to show up also. lol
Bravo! You skewered the River Rat.
If oil derives from decaying organic matter, how in the world can it be regenerated? From what organic matter? Compost heaps?
NeverVaxxed, I’m sorry but you are going to be very disillusioned in the next few years when it becomes (literally) painfully obvious that the oil is running out. This is something I wrote right before the elections a couple of months ago. And if I can make one editorial note: Even if I’m wrong about peak oil – which I don’t believe I am – the policies put in place (and still planned to be implemented) by western governments absolutely insure the exact same outcome.
PEAK OIL – THE REAL PROBLEM
Peak oil is the overriding geopolitical issue of the day. Everything that is going on in the world today is, in my opinion, due to this one problem.
Before I get wound up on the peak oil problem, let me say that yes, there are a lot of ancillary things going on, too, what with the new world order, and all. I don’t discount any of this. I just believe that these things more accurately fall under the “let’s not let a good crisis go to waste” category.
OK, back to peak oil…
The world we live in today – and have for the past hundred years – is predicated on the premise of cheap, abundant oil. Without it we simply would not be where we are and have the things we have. Virtually everything we do and everything we have is touched by, and in most cases, made possible by this supply of oil. Even the food we eat, and especially the amount of food we produce, is directly correlated to cheap, abundant oil.
You can read about peak oil and hear the fearmongers and the doomsayers talk about the end of the world because of the consequences of peak oil. But in a way they’re right, although they are being a little disingenuous when they suggest that the oil is running out. When they say peak oil, they are talking about ‘conventional’ oil; the cheap stuff that we’ve been pulling out of the ground for the past hundred years or so. Yeah, the amount of that kind of oil is declining fast.
But what these people don’t mention is all the other oil that is available to us – at the right (high) price. The shale, the tar sands, the Arctic, etc. For instance, there are estimates of two trillion barrels of shale oil sitting under the Rockie Mountains. This is a staggering amount and honestly, something that has been known for over a hundred years. But try as they may, it has never been profitable to retrieve it. This is not cheap, abundant oil.
Now, with all that said (and to the doomsayer’s credit), without cheap, abundant oil the world as we know it WILL end. Everything WILL drastically change because, as I said, everything we have and everything we do is predicated upon cheap, abundant oil. And going forward, oil will not be cheap and will not be abundant (at least for many years, if ever again).
Most credible estimates show oil supply/demand constraints for the foreseeable future becoming increasingly more obvious and finally hitting us hard some time in the next five to fifteen years. (Personally, I place my bet on five.)
This is the overriding reason, in my opinion, for most of what is going on in the world today. Without cheap, abundant oil our society, as we know it, is gone forever.
And this, to a large extent, explains the seemingly bizarre policy changes by governments and corporations around the world the past few years – ostensibly related to global warming (excuse me, climate change) – away from fossil fuels and toward solar & wind energy and electric vehicles. And the reason I use the word bizarre is due to the fact that these alternative energy sources really aren’t viable alternative energy sources. If we had to convert to these sources today the overwhelming majority of us would literally be sitting in the dark waiting to freeze to death. And truthfully, due to the sheer size of the global fossil fuel industry, this really isn’t going to change much in the next five to fifteen years.
Perhaps more bizarre is the fact that even at $100+ oil, gas & oil exploration companies – the guys who go out and look for new gas & oil deposits – aren’t. They aren’t looking. If you listen to them, they don’t even have plans to start looking. Which begs the question, “What do they know that we don’t know?”
I believe the whole climate change thing is simply a ruse to keep the majority of people in the dark about the oil catastrophe that is about to hit us. Let’s face it, in order for governments around the world to implement the types of policies that will be required for a world without cheap, abundant oil – without letting the cat out of the bag and risk losing control of their populations – there must be some other (more palatable) catastrophe at hand for people to fear. Something the politicians can point to and say, “That’s the evil thing making your life miserable.” But not something so dire that we all fear for our lives. And so they give us climate change.
I don’t dispute that the climate is changing. It is constantly changing. That’s nothing new. But we aren’t causing the change. Just look at long (and short) term climate maps and you will find an astoundingly cyclical rythym to global temperatures through the decades and centuries which is caused by the sun, the moon, and a host of other things. And the irony of the man-made global warming scam is that, by most unbiased accounts, we are now at the beginning of a decades long cooling period.
The loss of cheap, abundant oil will put in peril a large portion of global food production. Thus, we will eventually not have enough food to feed everyone because we will not have enough oil to produce this food. We also won’t have enough oil to produce the tens of thousands of other oil-based products that are used seemingly inconsequentially every day by all of us. We certainly won’t have enough oil to simply burn it up in millions of automobiles every day. There will be massive job loss because without cheap, abundant oil, there will be little to produce and only relatively expensive methods of making what we can produce without the heretofore cheap, abundant oil.
There will be loss of life, probably on an unprecedentedly massive scale. Those same, unfortunate, starving people you hear about in far off African countries you probably couldn’t find on a map will be the first to go. And in these places, it will indeed be a massive die off – surely in the tens of millions, probably hundreds. After this, the next wave will be those countries that must import most of their energy and food consumption. Those with domestic energy and food production will fare better, but it still won’t be pretty. And if (or should I say when?) war breaks out on a large scale, all bets are off.
Eventually, we will get to the other side of this crisis. It will take years, though, probably decades. The world will be a far different place by then. Hopefully, it will be a far better place. Plan accordingly.
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As an addendum, I am going to go out on a limb and make several specific predictions regarding the next nine months (through the first half of 2023).
First, President Biden will somehow be removed from office. He will either die in office, resign due to health issues, or will be removed under amendment twenty-five. He has simply become too much of a liability.
Second, the Democrats will make a miraculous showing in the mid-term elections keeping control of both houses and even gaining those two seats in the senate President Biden said was necessary to pass legislation to take our guns.
Third, congress will indeed quickly pass gun legislation banning all assault weapons (including large caliber ‘automatic’ handguns and all large capacity magazines). Included in this legislation will be a not-yet mandatory buy back program.
Fourth, in order to ensure the gun legislation is not overturned in the courts, congress will also pass legislation adding at least two more justices to the supreme court.
Fifth, Donald Trump will be indicted causing all hell to break loose from the MAGA crowd – who are already upset and protesting the gun legislation.
Sixth, (and this one would most likely not occur until the second half of 2023 into 2024) governors from several states will balk at any decisions handed down from a ‘packed’ supreme court – especially the gun legislation – threatening secession. As a result, some form of limited martial law will be imposed to quell these protests and renegade states.
Seventh, all hell breaks out…
“Europe is the birthplace of Western Civ”.
Really? It seems more complicated. I’ve been reading David Graeber’s and David Wengrow’s 2021 book ‘The Dawn of Everything’.
The Tigris and Euphrates was the birthplace of civilization. Europe was the birthplace of the downfall of civilization.
“The Fertile Crescent”; Hebrew Scriptural origins the basis for Western law and concept of Liberty as described in many Biblical verses -particularly in the person and promise of Jesus Christ. See 2nd Corinthians chapter 3 Verse 17.
Our host mentions Chins, giving excuse to bring in this personal experience from September 1985 in our Tahoe home: Mr. Kong Chou Liu, veteran of the “Great March with Mao Tse Tung, visited us to discuss bringing some brand new Chinese built steam locomotives to America for use on tourist railroads, etc. The conversation drifted to economic development policies & his commentary as to how America needed a modernized China as counterweight to Russia. Included in my suggestions for Chinese policymakers: “certainly should include comprehensive railway mode development connecting all provinces”. Going into 2023 homeland China is nearing completion of many exceedingly challenging railway engineering projects, including through the Himalayan range, ensuring ability to maintain strategic manufacturing connectivity and, most importantly, assuring food distribution…
In Canada, Mexico & the lower 48, loss of over 100,000 miles of food distribution rail lines, including many once linking key agriculture districts with US urban populations, will soon be felt, with consequential lethal famine. Persons of means and corporate interests can assume responsibility and form consortia to rebuild these crucial branch line. Enhanced food distribution is best way to leverage disaster preparation funds, not hideouts and private security forces. The Bible does in fact show a type of America in Daniel Chapter 4: Nebuchadnezzar’s “Great Tree Sheltering Many. Moreover, the Tree is preserved from destruction by “Bands Of Iron”; see Verse 15!
“……America…… preserved from destruction…..”. 4014HAMPHEDGE.
All due respect, theTree referred to is Israel, but only as she will be a shelter and a provider to the Gentile nations surviving the Great Tribulation, and she herself preserved from destruction at the hands of those same Gentile nations. Israel is the only nation with a God, all other nations are Gentile including America. America’s power will be crushed and broken like all the others. Israel will be brought to the place of repentance as she is Jehovah’s unfaithful and thus whore-ish wife as well as Jehovah’s disobedient firstborn son……both in the Land today in unbelief, without the Messiah and way before the time. Her time to both bless and rule the Gentile nations is yet ahead but ONLY after she is brought forth in a day following repentance when they see him whom they have pierced. The 1948 nation of Israel is a construct of powerful Zionists. Israel will yet be forced from the land again, forced back out among the Gentile nations to be punished. It is from THAT dispersion that her Messiah will call her back to the land, rebuild the Temple and allow her to fulfill the purpose for which she was brought forth back in Exodus…..to bless and rule the Gentile nations from Jerusalem, Christ sitting on David’s earthly throne in a Theocratic Kingdom. The Church has another role entirely ruling over the earth from the Heavens as Consort Queen to Christ the King and ruling as co-heir from Christ’s Heavenly throne. (Christ has a dual rule). So, no the USA is entirely Gentile despite the many Christians within her borders. And despite there motto on her currency, she is not a Christian nation.
I wish I could share JHK’s enthusiasm but as long as the levers of power in the United States and here in Canada are in the hands of WEF puppets, I don’t think we’ll ever get to the truth, The parties of chaos, Democrat and Liberal, have done such a good job at dividing the polity through the legacy media that I fear when the truth does come out, the one-half of the population that’s still brainwashed will rise up and threaten to kill anyone who questions the official narrative put out by Washington and Ottawa.
Mesopotamia (Greek for between the rivers), Tigris & Euphrates, is the birthplace of civilization, yes.
However,
Hellas, aka Grecia in Latin, aka Greece, the Greek speaking people and city-states surrounding the Aegean Sea (which was the conduit for shipping goods, people, and ideas) are the birthplace of Western Civilization. The Romans adopted the Greek ideas and philosophy, and modified them. But Rome saw the value. The Roman Empire and Roman Catholic Church transmitted and imbued these concepts to (geographic) Western Europe.
That said, today Greece is nominally part of the West, EU and NATO, blah-blah, but not really “Western”.
The Greeks and Greek language were the vehicle for spreading Christianity. Hellenism also was intertwined in the Byzantine Empire.
When Rome broke with the other Christian churches in 1054, that’s the birth of the West which has evolved as we know it today.
If you use Latin letters and live in Western Europe, North America, or down under, you’re in the West.
If you don’t, you’re not..
As always, JHK’s column was superb, though not perfect, since I don’t see the GOP speaker of the House taking over and doing the right thing. Very optimistic of JHK! But perhaps I’m mistaken
The presumptive GOP Speaker can barely get a sentence out of his maw without a malaprop or a questionable gerund. And, as an Establishment guy, he’ll be more worried about “bipartisanship” than with doing what’s in the best interests of the country. In other words, a typical Republican, and not an outside other box leader.
it’s always great to hear from Socrates Detroit. Living across the big ditch in Windsor, I always considered myself a Detroiter at heart even if my allegiances were to the Maple Leafs and Raptors. is Cobo Joe’s and A C Lindell’s still around?
Yes. Really. Europe is the birthplace of Western Civilization. Even before the Greeks the Yamnaya of the European Steppes, inventors of the wheel and tamers of the horse we began. Their migrations brought their language and technology and culture to India, Persia, Scandinavia, Hispania, Rus and more. Their primary God was the father of Odin and Zeus/Jupiter.
Then, the Greeks and Romans developed Western Civilization. Byzantium carried on Rome until the Ottomans overran it. In Northern Europe the German warrior kings in Germania, Francia, and Brittania rekindled Roman technology, law, religion. They rediscovered the incredible and advanced scientific, mathematic, legal and philosophic though of Greece and more of Rome. They sailed forth into the unknown and charted the seven seas, mapped the world, developed all of the technologies the world so desperately wants and the legal and philosophical systems they want to burn only to enjoy the material scraps of once great people and nations.
They built cathedrals, advanced art wrote cantatas and fugues and symphonies. They built universities, hospitals, sub-oceanic and satellite communications networks. They built railroads and invented aviation and the machines that made it possible. They split the atom and unleashed the safest cleanest form of energy man has ever discovered. They built spacecraft and ten of their great men walked on the moon. The West towered over the world in every dimension of civilization.
Then came the 60s. The subversives of the Frankfurt School and other aliens who would capitalize on the hubris and demoralization of a corrupt, ignoble, weak and short sighted managerial class in The West took root. In exchange for forestalling a manageable financial bankruptcy they sabotaged their people and their children to be nice to be everyone else as a facade for cowardice and feathering their own nests.
These comments that question the greatness of The West illustrate the fall – the demoralization and apologetic deference of a self defeated people. They suffer extreme demoralization and contempt for themselves and their ancestors. So now within The West we have arrived at the great bifurcation. Those who will recommit to themselves – the people who built The West. They will preserve themselves and its spirit manifest in its culture. The will survive and one day re-emerge to shine their great light upon the world.
The other fork will consist of those who will abandon themselves and stay lost in self loathing, moral confusion and self righteous self immolation that utilizes quackery produced anti-Western books as a crutch of righteous indignation – a cope to escape the demoralization of their fallen civilizations and nations. They will be overwhelmed by the rabble of globalist immigration who will repay their false belief that the foreign hoardes will hold hands and join them in an endless chorus of Kumbaya for universal brotherhood. They will check out in medicine ceremonies, indulge in quack self help groups and honor the spirit ancestors of stone age hunter gatherers. They will thus spit on their ancestor’s graves. They will be overwhelmed by the foreign and angry rabble, and their lights will go out – for eternity.
That leads me to a major component of chaos that is missed entirely in JKH’s predictions. That is the massive wave of un-assimilated, alien, illegal and legal immigrants throughout Europe and America. They are currently supported and elevated above the indigenous and heritage populations of The West. They are taught and told to hate The West and the very populations who they were welcomed in to replace. Some groups carry a blood libel against the people and nations of The West. It is a libel that has been coddled and encouraged and facilitated by the degenerate and unfit ruling elites can’t see what will happen when their children are a tiny minority who taught the new majority to hate them and to feel right in dispossessing them.
Add that hot spice to the cauldron and list of utter failings of the corrupt and suicidal ruling regime that turned against itself and its people who are The West.
@themetalmystic Excellent and thoughtful post.
Right on! I don’t know who the other commenters were. People spit on and delegitimize The West. It betrays an ignorance, a pettiness and envy or all of the above.
Happy New Year ZorroSchorro
Downright brilliant if you ask me, Zorro. Sums it all up about as well as I’ve ever seen it done, by anybody. Bravo, ‘mystic.
@ themetalmystic:
Yup. The superiority of Western Civilization over all others is undeniable.
Good post, and good analysis of what we face. Unfortunately, a lot of people who ought to know this instead call anyone who brings this up things like “idiot,” “Trump worshipper,” “traitor,” and “maniac” while continuing to support the suicide of this society, including the deaths of their families and friends.
You are and proved to be an equal to Douglas Murray and Francis Fukuyama (and maybe Eberstadt) in your depiction/portrayal of the decline/end of Western Civ (as JHK refers to it). Very coherent and lucid pot.
And a Happy New Years to you too Jim! Have a question though- what about Iran and the ME- any predictions on that?
If you say Iran you should include China and Russia. They are now very much a part of the equation there and that’s even beyond BRICS.
Same with the rest of the Persian Gulf. All of those hostilities engendered and exacerbated by the CIA/Mossad are falling aside as Chinese and Russian diplomacy (the real deal, unlike Blinken & Co) work their pragmatic magic.
Anyone with two brain cells would know that the current joke that sits in DC would drive Russia into China and the Brics. Anyone would know that, the question is was it planned?
Russia and China are the key founding members of BRICS.
How could Brandon have driven Russia into something they founded?
It must all be Reagan’s fault, right, comrade?
Indeed, Uncle Bob, it was.
Reagan and Bush set out to destroy the USSR, thereby setting into motion today’s chain of events.
At the time Russia and China were not aligned.
It was Carter’s National Security Advisor Brzezinski who first started pushing for the dissolution of Russia., 20 years before he published “The Grand Chessboard”.”
the current joke is the executive branch and congress many of who have been there since reagan. its not a 2020 thingy.
Always enjoy your yearly predictions, and I believe you may have hit a bullseye this year. I hope not, but one way or the other this great unraveling will occur, whether or not I concur. Have a Happy New Year James !
Thanks again JHK, and a Happy New Year
Read previous forecasts from Mr kunstler. The terminal bad shit he ALWAYS predicts never hits the fan. I do believe he has a genetic disposition of depression. When the world ends when you end (no descendants) you can be as gloomy as hell…. Zero worries about children or grandchildren to balance your mindset with hope.
Some other bad shit is concocted to forestall or distract from that which he predicts, but the bad shit is still there waiting. It doesn’t go away.
the pandemic was huge in that its agenda 2030.
@ docmartin:
I think JHK is calling some things early.
Speaking of get out of the way if you can’t lend a hand, President Trump still hasn’t said anything about the overwhelming evidence coming out about the vaxx’s lack of safety and efficacy.
He’s getting terrible advice from terrible people, still.
You probably missed this, but Alex Jones told Del Bigtree of The Highwire that Trump made it very clear that he doesn’t want to talk to any “anti vaxxers” anymore. In fact, Trump’s language was quite strong. I forgot exactly, but I think he called anti vaxxers idiots. AJ was trying to get into communication with Trump about eliciting his help in stopping kids from being jabbed with the clot shots. He gave the above message as a reply to Jones through one of his aides. He refused to even talk or listen to him or anyone else on the matter.
That’s why and when Jones started putting his support behind DeSantis.
Trump is proud of ‘Operation Warp Speed’. He believes it is “his baby”. This is the achilles heel of trump. His narcissism and stubborn arrogance. It knows no bounds.
I did miss that.
All I knew is that he hadn’t acknowledged the facts yet, in the face of all the evidence coming out.
Which means he either doesn’t know, which is not a good look for someone running for president, or he does know and hopes it will just go away if he doesn’t say anything.
Here is some information about the studies that came out recently:
VERY VERY IMPORTANT THREAD. Explains the significance of the IgG4 paper in a technical but very understandable way.
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1608542207811747846?s=20&t=5WBLynRi3KSB4cV5eVex3Q
Beryl you’re just going to have to accept the fact that Trump is not interested in the facts that you care about.
Like I said, he considers ‘Operation Warp Speed’ to be one of the crowning achievements of his presidency, and it frustrates him that he gets no credit for it. I’ve heard him say this more than once. Forget third party information. I’ve heard HIM say this.
He knows the left won’t give him credit. What really frustrates him is that most of his fans, like you, are anti vaxxers. He is not anti-vaxx. He has never been anti-vaxx. He never will be anti-vaxx. He thinks RFK, Jr is a nut.
Sorry to break the news. Trump will not be swayed by the facts of the jabs.
Maybe, just maybe, if a jab leads his beloved Ivanka to drop dead, and a doctor that he trusts says, “Sir, the COVID jab killed her. No doubt about it.”……then he might be ready to listen.
I’d say you nailed the state of his mind. Trump was a dim for most of his life and still has that “thought” process in which feelings trump facts. Thus he “feels” what he does about the jabs and contrary facts are irrelevant and, worse even than that, those facts undermine his “greatest achievement.” So he is where he is and he ain’t about to move.
I was in his class at Penn at a time when it actually was a great university. (That time is well in the past.) Somehow he went through his two years (he was a transfer) without being affected by or learning from his surroundings. That’s on him.
Mick – so do you actually think Ivanka took the jab? You’re smarter than that. Please tell me you mean hypothetically?
Trump is sane when it comes to foreign policy, especially Russia. DeSantis is insane on these things, backed by the “right wing” enemies of the United States, the Neo-Cons.
Neither one of them has the courage to disavow the Vax, but neither one of them was willing to force it on people – though Trump may have toyed with the idea.
On balance, Trump is still better, though the way he is acting is quite disheartening to say the least.
In any case, all of us who voted for him should update our inner files: He was never the man we had hoped he would be. He never had the slightest interest in closing the border for example.
I think he did have that intent, until he didn’t.
Does it even matter who the Democrats select as their next president? Maybe it will be Caligula’s horse which will at least provide some entertainment during press briefings. The US is pretty much dead, we’re just kind of doing the forensics at this point. I share JHK’s enthusiasm that we can build something new from the ashes.
Yes, I don’t like the DeSantis view on foreign policy. I’m concerned that he will be another neo-con.
Maybe DeSantis is a closet student of history, and shares Jefferson’s fears of large standing armies and central banks.
That would be huge! Unfortunately, it’s more likely DeSantis will come under the influence of neocons. Politicians need money. It’s very difficult for those who don’t sell out to stay in the game. Look at Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich.
TaxDonkey, I do NOT share JHK’s enthusiasm that we in the USA can rebuild from the ashes.
Not only are people too soft (I include myself, though I think younger people are not only softer, but mentally compromised by their utter dependence on smart phones), but diversity especially and also the culture wars have really divided society.
The key to America was economic prosperity for more people than elsewhere. Also, in 1924, the door closed to immigrants not from Western Europe (like me).
Those born between 1900 and 1955 came of age weathering a depression, a world war (that did not touch America itself), and 25 years of prosperity for most (except those who lost their lives, limbs, or brains in Korea or Vietnam). People were Americans. And they were proud of that or they totally accepted that, if they were “illegals” who snuck in, and eventually became US citizens, even with their horrible English. I know quite a few of those, who despite their halting English thought America and AMERICANS were great! Even during the difficult 1973-83 era.
That is all a memory. Not to mention our gender/sex issues.
When the USSR imploded, the Soviet republics and their residents got hammered. However, at least in Russia, with its majority Russian population, despite the dysfunctional system, the family and social structures they had enabled them to make it.
Never in history has there been a major power as diverse as the US. It worked, and I think it requires, prosperity. I’m not sure how it will work in reverse. If leverage is great on the way UP, it is hell on the way down.
The down started in Feb 2020. We are entering year three, with no end in sight—on a macro level. Of course, some will do well or better, but most will do worse. I’d plan accordingly.
Yes, the different races ignored each other (except for Blacks preying on Whites) during prosperity, but will fight in the bad times to come.
So?
So let’s win. Morality means winning. Only winners can be merciful after all – or generous. We’ve forgotten that all this is a luxury.
But first and foremost we win for ourselves. This is health. Anything else is sickness. As Tom Jefferson said, Survival is the first morality.
BoO this could be simple cognitive dissonance and the huge weight he gives to political imperatives. Trump knows he will appear weak with admission of such a serious error, and most anti-vaxxers will have to forgive him if their other choices in 2024 are as bad as 2016.
but the pain of cognitive dissonance in condemning his crowning achievement as a mass poisoning, well, who will take the blame of the media. much safer for his personality and his political standing to support the warp speed vaxx research program. remember he never supported mandates for any group. he always supported free choice.
he really can’t back away from his history on the vaxx.
it would be political suicide and tremendous grief and guilt.
Don’t think DeSantis is some extraordinary leader. He is doing the bare minimum of what I expect a sane Republican govonor to do.
He knows how to spell.
Alex Jones….only one of the worst humans alive.
When idiots like you are bad wrapping him we know he is over the target.
Right. When someone like Jones is your hero, you have no moral compass. You must be a pathetic little incel. Was Sandy Hook a hoax?
Ooh, someone who agrees with Crusher on Sandy Hook.
Why don’t you two get a room?
Moral compass we are talking about a country that rips 800k babies from the womb and we are worrying about what some talk show hosts says about a psychopath shooting up a school being real or some government black op?
Priorities all over the place and none of them matter one bit.
Been married for over thirty years so your incel comment is more a reflection of your lack of values than mine.
You continue to show just how clueless you really are.
False equivalency incel.
So benr, sandy hook a hoax?
@sewagesucker
Why should anyone answer any question you pose when you are so obviously here for nothing but trolling.
Go fsck yourself.
That’s wee-minded benr for you, riverrunner. No ability to answer a straight question, only vitriol and name-calling, like a cornered rat!
Happy New Year, wee benr. Looks like you’re about to have more of the same old, same old though. Frustrated failings about things you don’t even understand. Probably the dumbest poster on this board of pretty sad posters.
Answer the question benr. Yes or no? Tell the world who you are .
Fake Trae returns, after stomping his flip flops & leaving the blog in an embarrassing huff a few weeks back.
Good times.
Whether Sandy Hook was a hoax or not is not a yes or no answer.
Maybe ask, was it a psyops?
Oohhh, a ‘psyops’ says MaryQ. How clever. It is an easy question you moral abomination. Thank you for the reminder.
I have answered the question your just to dim to remember it and or understand it.
As far as the retread libturds return talk about pathetic.
Good grief the poor fool just can’t keep away!
It’s almost as if he likes us and the abuse.
Poor simple bastard.
So benr, sandy hook a hoax?
Definition of Straw Man argument, fyi.
This is correct…..and it up is why I continue to believe DeSantis is the best option for a GOP effort to dislodge the Corpse from the Oval Office. Trump has had his day. He did many good things. But he is out of ideas and only is running because he wants his legacy to end on a WIN and not a LOSS …. especially since the loss was fraudulent. I “get that” but it’s still a poor reason to run again. What is Trump’s agenda? Sounds like more if the same from his first term. Some of that is good, but the American people want to see some fresh ideas for crushing the Woke Mafia once and for all. I don’t think Trump has the balls to do what must be done…..but I think DeSantis does.
Why does anyone care what Trump says at this point?
I care if he’s going to be a candidate in 2024 and he hasn’t come around to acknowledging the facts.
These people who pushed this shot deserve prosecution and there is a slim chance we could have an American president who will lead the way. I don’t want him ruining that.
Beryl, it’s a question of what would matter most to him: his need to always be right so that his ego never takes a hit, or the need to sweep some of his enemies out of the way at the cost of making an admission of error. I question whether he would be able to say he was wrong. His ego and narcissism are his biggest flaws.
He could blame it on a number of other people, although he is ultimately responsible.
By not acknowledging he was wrong, he is covering for a whole slew of incompetents and bad actors.
Pence, for example.
Oh, you still believe that elections matter.
Me? No.
But if something happened to change that, I want to be prepared. It’s only prudent.
At local and state level, yes. At federal level, no.
Even local is getting bad, Hereward. Or always has been.
Federal – hell, they just place into office who they want.
Of course we believe elections matter, especially to those who have become adept at stealing them.
And what are those ‘facts’ you speak of? mRNA vaxxes have been extremely effective.
Right riverunner – it’s about booster time isn’t it? Maybe get two – just to be extra safe.
Extremely effective in killing people.
Global death rates are over 15% average.
Injection in the frontal lobe might be a good option for you, RR.
Uh huh Benr…and you attribute that to vaxxes? Source please and nothing ridiculous.
Hahahahahhaha!
Seriously, I suppose they have been effective, if the goal is to kill off a few million people.
Which they haven’t….
As the old saying goes sewagerunner why argue with a pig you will just confuse the pig and piss yourself off.
You are clearly a pig and worthless troll with zero to add to this site.
Do your own damn research you lazy sack of manure.
Translation from benr? I have no idea, yet again, what I’m talking about.
@ sewagesucker
Translation you’re an idiot who wouldn’t listen to anything unless it confirmed you bias so why bother.
Better to point at you and laugh as you are ALWAYS wrong.
runter finally supporting the trumpster, kinda brings a smile.
getting people to admit that the jab and the reaction to the covid scare was bad for the world and killed as many or more than the flu is on a par with realizing oswald didn’t act alone or that cheney allowed those jets to hit the world trade center.
To imagine that your government is evil is the height of treason, you can’t go there.
Well, well, well……How about this for “fighting inflation”?
Beginning Jan 1st:
$6.5 Billion Natural Gas Tax Which Will Increase Household Energy Bills
$12 Billion Crude Oil Tax Which Will Increase Household Costs
$1.2 Billion Coal Tax Which Will Increase Household Energy Bills
$225 Billion Corporate Income Tax Hike Which Will Be Passed on to Households
atr.org/list-of-tax-hikes-in-democrat-reconciliation-bill/
Corrected web link: atr.org/list-of-biden-tax-hikes-hitting-americans-on-jan-1/
No wonder they made such a show of hiring new agents.
The agents will be coming for the “overpayments” dished out during Covid. Wait for it.
If the taxes were carbon dividends that would be passed back to citizens as a UBI it would all be good.
But that is not going to happen. Rule by the rich can’t let such a thing happen. Only failed policies in line with unbridled capitalism will be tried by the two geriatric political parties that run the show here.
What could have been……………….
httpX://www.afcd.org/
One rapper said the black was the main element of existence since “when you close your eyes, that’s what you see.”
You close your eyes and dream of carbon – which is also black.
I see a reddish pink sometimes. When I was very small, I liked to rub my eyes to see all of the Klimpt-type colors.
Black is what the rapper sees. I see red, not black. We can just barely imagine their world, & they ours.
Her vote cancels out yours. They must be kept down in the next America. Blacks and women are natural allies. One is necessary for us. The other is not.
Do they even teach the parable of the ant & the grasshopper in grade school anymore? I suppose not, the comparison is too invidious, too much butthurt the result. We are the ants, they are the grasshoppers. Even so, we must overthrow our queens.
Jarek, do you just wear a white hood around your hood and house all day?
Hear, Hear !!!
“Routine exports to the poor nations of the “global south” will stop and a lot of people will starve in those countries. ”
– no, they won’t. The Britney Griner affair has already proven Black lives matter more than White lives, and our Woke high priests will enjoy starving local Deplorables as they ship all our food to “People of Color” living near the Equator.
People who deem themselves sophisticated are usually sophists, and the simplest fucks of all.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul is a lateral move at best. But what if Peter is your brother, one to whom you are indebted by many bonds of kinship, nationality, and custom? And Paul is just some stranger?
Xenophobia may be limited, but xenophilia is immoral madness. One doesn’t overcome limitations (Should they be overcome? Can they be? Should they be if they can be in all cases?) by ignoring them much less hating them.
Some big words Jarek…been studying your thesaurus?
You are a Lilliputian. A little man. You give me a pain in the gulliver.
Great article Jim, and very much on point with your predictions. There will be some doubters, but we are truly headed for life-altering events, hopefully to be survived. If you will indulge me, I have been thinking about our Southern border and the absolute non-enforcement of our laws. This is an invasion, not a surge of migrants, but illegals who care not a wit for our nation or its laws. But why would China Joe and the administration allow this breach of our sovereignty? There are only two possible explanations for this. First, in a case that must be investigated, the Biden clan is being paid by the Mexican cartels, who are making billions from the humans and drugs, so many millions to pols would be no problem, and the Bidens have proven that everything they do involves graft and grift. The second potential reason I see is that the civilian force talked about by Obama is contained withing the mostly military-aged illegals storming the country, who now number over 4 million. In addition to the Demoncrap storm troopers, antifa and blm, they can be enlisted to fight Americans, based on the government largess and promises of more. You might count the 87,000 new gun-trained IRS agents in that group as well. If anyone has a better explanation, I am all ears.
Jgalt: I think it’s simpler than that. They just want to create a permanent Dem majority by importing automatic Dem voters. The GOP doesn’t care either because the illegals will be force wages down.
We might survive if there were only 2 billion in the world. With 8 billion people we are doomed. Billions of people will not starve to death and go quietly into the night. The nuclear fuse is burning and the American government is fanning that spark so it won’t be going out. The madness of crowds rules, nobody has a clue what to do. When the starving starts, the flashbulb will go off.
You are right. But instead of going with the Globalist agenda that would have made us of us here serfs (you too), we could and should have gone with Fortress America. We have everything we need here. Sit tight with our borders sealed and watch the world die.
Thank God South Africa never got the bomb. Some say they did, but if they did, the white government recognized the danger in time & decommissioned their stock. The last thing this world needs is a “rainbow” bomb. We’re still at the mercy of the “Sampson option” though.
Excellent Tate.
Tip of the hat on the Samson Option.
Talk about leverage! Seymour Hersh wrote a book, a must read, “The Samson Option”
it will be a race between starvation and the next lab-made-plague.
they already had the dress rehearsal on Oct 23, 2022, in Brussels. the next plague will give them permission to install body tags such as the quantum dots, or Musk’s implants, or the nanobots now constructing signalling devices in many of the vaxxed. they must track us better, and be able to control the mass mood. depopulation and tracking are the basis of forced obedience.
httxx://www.globalresearch.ca/bill-gates-plans-new-catastrophic-contagion/5802719
I read about that just last night. I went straight to the source: centerforhealthsecurity.org, after reading (a not-too-well-written) article on the Tenpenny Report.
Not a lot of information on the site but what little info is provided (“Lessons”, “Participants”) is all you really need to know.
Looks like Africa’s gonna get hit hard. Children too. And spreaders of “misinformation”.
“Covid” isn’t going away, it’s coming back as “MERS-2”. Warnings at the World Cup. Musk was there – uh oh…
Two words: FUCK THAT.
Thanks for that, Jim. A somewhat long, but thought provoking read. Am looking forward to next year’s JHK Essays.
May you have a very Happy New Year!
Sounds like Jim still has hope…………hahahaha.
You have to have hope, or else life is not worth living.
Yes, most folks need hope, but…
If you can set hope aside, leaving yourself with nothing but life, then you will know what you are living for, and no one will be able to break you by crushing your hope.
…but yeah, for just about everyone else, try to envision a rationally positive outcome to current (and long-trending) events. Ok, “hope”.
Don’t conflate hope with magical thinking. The later causes inaction.
Don’t worry, I’m not doing that. I’m just thinking of plain old garden variety “Hope”. A weed I’ve eliminated from my garden – but I understand many cultivate it for the nice-smelling flowers. And that’s ok – I guess.
“We want to save the planet” but unfortunately for the bulk of the masses that will leave only [mostly only] the ruling global elite inhabiting the Earth.
And that has been the plan in action these some last 50 years or so, soon to culminate.
“Say goodnight, Gracie.”
~toktomi~
The dismal trajectory envisioned by Mr. Kunstler has quite a lot of global momentum and it is difficult to see what could set things back on the right course. But I’ll jump right in anyway. Regards energy, the only sane path is nuclear (hundreds of Micro Modular Reactors trucked/floated on site) while using natural gas as a bridge fuel. But that won’t happen until the elections are cleaned up. But that won’t happen until the courts are cleaned up. See where this is going?
Mr. Kunstler is correct about the Fourth Turning. Absolutely required reading for anyone trying to understand what the heck is happening.
I doubt if the will nor the resources exist in the West to embark on any more grandiose nuclear power projects. Nuke plants are being decommissioned, not built.
Even if the will exists for nuclear, it takes a lot of time to plan and build them. Fingers crossed for cold fusion, folks!
Cold fusion is still several decades in the future to being implemented at scale.
Cold fusion is fantasy…..even “hot” fusion is decades away.
Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors are the way to go. We should have stuck with the research conducted at Oak Ridge in the ’60’s….we’d probably be using the reactors right now.
But NNnnnooooo! The MIC wanted reactors that would produce weapon-grade fissile material for their bombs.
Please don’t tell France, Germany, Japan, India and China. I think there’s more… Oh yeah, USA too! Most can see the handwriting on the wall as the Green Dream implodes.
It isn’t imploding. The planned collapse is accellerating.
When the dust settles, 15-min. cities, digital access checks for anything you need, and digital currency will be brought in. Because the system is reinventing itself.
Unless more people start saying no. The green dream is nothing more than a fig leaf to hide what is coming — as the intentional collapse accellerates.
@ Night Owl:
There can be no doubt that the collapse is intentional. When every Western policy is aimed at killing people, it’s hard to escape the feeling that “they” want to kill us.
Maybe the main real purpose of third-world immigration is to encourage us to kill each other.
Depriving people of food and energy, giving the clot shot to as many as possible, and stirring up ethnic and racial hatreds in an atmosphere of resource constraints is, if you think about it, a good way to kill of the maximum number of people in a country, while leaving the infrastructure mostly intact.
It is a multi-pronged assault that is desinged to tear down every pillar upon which places worth living in were constructed.
I don’t even begrudge the illegals. Many are decent and simply want what we have, but they are indeed being weaponized.
@Ant:
“Maybe the main real purpose of third-world immigration is to encourage us to kill each other.”
That’s the conclusion I have come to.
Encourage immigration by treating illegal aliens better than citizens. Import large numbers of people from alien cultures and settle them together so they can remain separate. “Melting pot”?
And when the shit finally does hit the fan? Citizens, especially – well, ok, almost exclusively – white, will be attacked by “law enforcement” for not being servile enough toward the invaders.
But a lot of us and them killing each other.
‘Accelerates’. One misspelling is possibly a typo, but twice in the same statement is clear evidence that you’re a pretty crappy “editor”.
@Yirgach
Population Dynamics 101
There is no fix for population overshoot.
And there is no fix for a growth-based [exponential growth, no less!] global economy that has lost the one-time constant growth energy supply.
No, kiddin’, kiddies, it is the end of the line for most of us.
Wanna have a say-so in the longevity of the ruling elite? Walk away. Right now.
Rather hang on as long as possible? Makes sense, I reckon. But have no illusions. We’re all gonna die, sooner rather than later.
I could be wrong but all the crazy, denial stories that I hear to the contrary are patently silly.
~toktomi~
Please, Ehrlich tried that excuse and failed miserably. Like any organism, humans adapt to change.They learn not to waste resources on mitigation. Has worked out just fine for the last couple hundred thousand years. In this age we all live longer and better. Why?
You need to understand how that happened.
@Yirgach
🙂
~toktomi~
I think you’re absolutely correct regarding The Fourth Turning. I read it (the first time) a couple weeks after it came out, and honestly believe it may be the most prophetic book of our Times. As a result, I have shared its insights with dozens of friends, and Truly believe that we are well into our “critical” phase. No one knows exactly how thing will resolve; but they’ll be significantly different than what we’ve experienced so far. Frankly, it’s nice to be in my late seventies!
THE LONG EMERGENCY
arrived in my mailbox two days ago. Can’t wait to read it after today’s blog.
STUDENT DEBT FORGIVENESS
isn’t all that bad for the tourist industry I found out recently. I have a conference to attend in Clearwater this February and wanted to extend the stay a few days at the $319 per night conference rate. No doing. The rate goes to $600 and up because “its spring break”.
Another great article – thanks, James. I don’t think you are very far off in any of your predictions for this year. We shall see.
I do see that more and more people are coming around to getting what a hoax covid19 was. Or at least understanding that emergency, untested mRNA vaccines were not a good idea. The MSM continues to cover up the carnage, but when enough families lose teenagers to myocarditis or enough high profile people die of SADS, it will be impossible to ignore it.
People are dying of artificial sweeteners, Mary.
The prediction today is that very bad weather is about to consume civilization. Interpret that sentence literally or symbolically as you wish.
Since people are not dying in large numbers any serious and real complication with mRNA vaccine will be successfully covered up. People can’t accept that fossil fuels now exit stage left so what kind of delusional and magical thinking makes people think the ‘truth will come out’.
It won’t, propaganda is effective. People are taken in by false flag. If the ‘hoax’ were exposed for what it is, people would be smart enough to mitigate the shitstorm ahead. The majority of people can’t accept that grandpa Joe does them wrong so turn up the volume knob on bat-shit. The lies won’t stop and they won’t stop working.
It is a sad disappointment to find out people are not as smart as I thought they were.
The death rate is up 20% in the United States among working age people. Can that be hidden, even from average, distracted people?
A 10% increase is considered “catastrophic”, but let’s face it, you have a very callous conscience except when it comes to minorities or officially mandated compassion objects.
I don’t want to know what an officially mandated compassion object is. It sounds scary.
George Floyd? Hello? Or you can choose another of the pantheon of melaninated loser heroes to worship.
Beryl, I believe I’ve heard that they are now dying of too much happiness. I don’t think any of us here are in danger of that.
And seltzer, I heard.
Those bubbles… hard on the heart. 😉
Guess I’ll have to switch back to Prosecco…
SADS has been around longer than covid. Is what is happening in China now w covid hoaxy or is it all stage managed?
Jabs do some of the same damage as covid but they also prime your body to be more easily being infected.
They are programming peoples bodies to do the opposite of what a normal vaccine is believed to do.
More BS.
Try and keep up sad little propagandist turd.
Look around the real data is coming out you just have to pull your sad head out echo chamber leftist nonsense sites you call news.
So provide the data big talker from a reputable source and quit spouting bullshit with no basis in reality.
It takes an immense amount of effort to avoid knowing about this stuff. I don’t know how riverrunner does it. The guy must be worn out.
@ant
No that fool is here to stir the pot and provide cover for some reason.
I suspect it is and has been on this site playing the same scams and games for years as a legion of names.
You suspect incorrectly benr..yet again.
More lies from rr and retread libturd.
Happy new year may your covid shots bring you exactly what you both richly deserve.
Classy benr, classy….amazing but I haven’t been sick in 3 years.
Oh you are sick mentally ill.
Stop gazing in the mirror, RR.
JHK: “….. Or else, are there puppeteers deeper in the shadows, say, “JB’s” former boss Barack Obama, Der Schwabenklaus and his WEF retinue, Bill Gates and other tech billionaires, the “systemically important” bankers, George Soros…? Or some coven of super-elite warlocks we’d never heard of?”
I firmly believe that Barry Soetero, aka Obama, is the chief puppeteer in the Zombie Administration. Susan Rice is quiet and unseen because she is more powerful than most know. Mainly because of her alliance with BHO.
But the real power are the “coven of super-elite warlocks we’d never heard of”. Absolutely. These are the ones who tell BHO when to jump and how high. As well as the Clintons when they had the con. And the Bushes, And the……well you get the drift.
This coven is more wicked and desperate than ever, because they know their time is short. A lot of damage will be done though before they are taken out of the way.
Speaking of WEF, doesn’t the fact that Zelensky now says he intends to join that organization, which has a goal of loss of sovereignty for America, make Congress’ sending Zelensky any more money some kind of crime?
They are supposed to defend our sovereignty, aren’t they?
Speaking of Obama, He and Michele joined Netflix in 2018, as they transitioned from a movie service to a political propaganda outlet.
That Sevant of the People show featuring Zelensky as a teacher who becomes president started showing on Netflix in 2017.
Congress doesn’t give a rat’s ass about defending our sovereignty.
This Ukrainian Operation is a means to an end. That end is all that matters to them, and the “coven” they bow down to.
I can’t see Barry-O pulling anybody’s strings – except maybe Big Mike’s g-string.
Whoever had their collective hand up Barry’s outdoor, has their hand up the Big Guy’s.
I spit out my fizzy-water!
Can’t find a thing to argue with here, Jim, other than possibly the idea that the current band of idiots will be called to account this year. They seem to have effectively fire-walled themselves from prosecution, for the time being at least. I think we’ve still got a few more years of turmoil before we get up the gumption to go after these lowlifes, which will make it all the worse for them when we finally do. The pent-up rage is going to be truly epic!
I think we’ve likely got a major war in Euroland on tap as well, which will ease some of the population pressures over there in the 21st century’s inaugural major blood-letting. Seems to be almost therapeutic for that part of the world, and “the US” seems to be more than gleeful to stoke the conflagration. We can only hope it doesn’t get out of control and go nuclear, but I’d say the odds on that are 50/50 at best. We haven’t been building and maintaining those things all these years just to let them deteriorate on the shelves, and they’re our DC criminals’ last best hope to hold on to power, which is otherwise about to evaporate in the coming years.
But other than those very minor quibbles, very well done!
Concerning the swine who currently rule us, I don’t know how things will pan out. But I do have a powerful gut feeling that they won’t be around much longer. The kind of events and trends that we are facing tend to make short work of governments.
Agreed. Their actions have already undermined their legitimacy completely, thus their reach for “extra-judicial” means to keep the sheeple in line. But I continue to think it’s going to take some external assistance to flush out DC and their WMD’s. Their crimes are truly global in reach, so it’s only fitting that some of those external actors who have shared in the misery all these years get in on the action as well. If Americans alone could have taken them out by less forceful means it would surely have been done already. 2020 proved that that’s no longer possible. Absent the force of arms, the ruling junta in DC doesn’t intend to go anywhere.
I don’t see nuclear war in our future.
I think every country is in the hands of the puppet masters. They will break the governments and they will break the people, but they will not break the assets.
This is a country in which they look at perfectly good structures and announce “This is a teardown”.
And then they tear it down and build a monstrosity in its place.
Yeah, you don’t need nuclear war when you have destructive sociopaths in charge.
Great post as always. This post could easily have been made into a three-part series — easier to analyze and comment on.
“Failed states make terrible neighbors.”
Ah, the exact reason that Poland and Hungary will use to ‘reclaim’ territory at their respective borders with Ukraine — for the purposes of stability and peace!
I can see Poland cutting a deal with Russia.
Maybe after freezing this winter. Maybe after starving next summer.
Eventually all of Europe (that doesn’t include the UK) will let go of our hand and take Russia’s hand instead.
If I were Russia I would simply smirk at the Poles grabbing Galicia.
“You go, boys!” Go ahead and incorporate the worst people in Ukraine, whose grandfathers slaughtered 200,000 Poles with pitchforks and machetes. Except for the babies and children. They just bashed their heads in. But, you know, as the president of Poland said, let’s let bygones be bygones. We’re good buddies now.
Sure, dude.
Poles might find out for themselves why Russia launched the SMO.
Minor typo. It is Ugo Bardi who you can find at httpX://www.senecaeffect.com/.
The road to ruin is rapid so it is hard to say when the she drops. But it will
Alas, financialized prosperity is false prosperity, since it consists mainly of borrowing ever greater amounts of money to keep up the mere appearance of prosperity.
On my website I don’t have such a long fine analysis this morning. All I have is a short story. The story will piss the insecure right wing hangers on here, but I am always pissing them off. So I don’t care.
The Omnibus Bill is an attempt to keep up the mere appearance of prosperity.
* my typo: when the shoe drops
They are trying to prove that MMT (Mondern Monetary Theory) actually works. Before this is all over we will see Basic Income, Free Education and Free Health Care.
But the end result will be the same as Marxism – utter failure and great agony.
Yir,
They have bought into the paradigm, and it will be difficult to revert
to the old system.. Do you know the stated reason for taxes in the MMT?
Income redistribution.
BRH admits to ridiculous increases in property taxes.
Land redistribution.
By 2030, you will own nothing, and you will like it.
You won’t be able to pay for your taxes, utility bills, transportation costs, mortgage, or groceries, let alone have disposable income or (HAHAHA!!!) save anything for the future. It’s no wonder that many people have the attitude of “fuck it!” and just go out and squander whatever money they get: It’s not as if they can ever become truly wealthy, and they also know they’ll never get out of debt, so they may as well have some fun before the bastards in government and banking take everything away from them.
Bob,
From your lips….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm45h8DHiR8
Elysian,
Considering they have to copy your driver’s license, get your birth date, and verify your occupation to buy a goddamn box of .22LR bullets so you can blink on private property, I doubt that’s available here in the People’s Republic of Hochul.
You only mention Marxism to piss me off. I won’t take the bait.
I agree MMT is here to stay, and the dollar will buy forever less.
MMT is not the same as CBCD. MMT is debt-free money, issued to pay for real goods and services, not borrowed money used to prop up the stock market.
MMT is not what they have in mind.
I admire Jim’s optimism.
My only prediction: the man-haters and women-haters on this site will lay off and let the rest of us discuss and debate the things that matter.
Well, first we’ll have to define “What is a woman”, and “What is a man”.
Lol….
Don’t ask the new girl on the USSC, because she doesn’t know.
Who’s keeping you from discussing anything?
I was thinking of discussing my idea for 4th wave feminism with the other ladies here.
I guess that’s out, now.
It’s too bad. After constantly hearing what control we had over men’s behavior, my idea for the 4th wave is for us to get in touch with our power.
Why are we allowing men to be like they are, if, as I’m told. it is up to us?
I was going to get a consensus of what we would want to make men be like, going forward.
I already know what I don’t want them to be like.
Women have the power to destroy men who make the mistake of marrying them. They have used that power. And they use the threat of it to keep their man in line – more of a servant than a husband. Their real husband is the state in other words.
So unless you are willing to admit the above, don’t bother having any such discussion. It would just be an exercise in “false consciousness” as the Marxists put it. Much like talking about how we are living on stolen land and then not moving off of it.
The Truth? We are living on conquered land. Everything you have is a result of that conquest. Thus you owe the Conquerors a debt of gratitude you can never repay.
I don’t talk about stolen land. Who conquered it?
BTW my peeps were here before it was the USA.
Who conquered it?
Wow.
Her people were here before so she’s not part of the bad stuff – but she sure accepts the fruits of thereof.
Classic feminine here. Her vote cancels out yours.
Jarek:
Don’t jump to conclusions!
BTW, the idiocy of California’s reparations to black Americans for slavery looks really nutty when one considers that the whole Mississippi Delta belonged the Choctaw Indians.
They were pushed out to empty the land for cotton plantations. The Choctaw Indians definitely should get reparations.
Yeah we should just go back to Europe, but all of you should stay here as slaves and concubines of the NATIVE AMERICANS.
What a word salad of stupidity. Go attend your klan meeting.
@ Jarek:
Pshaw! You’re not married because trust fund babies generally don’t get married. The reason they don’t is because marriage and family would almost certainly require getting a job, work, and sacrifice. The main objective of the trust-fund baby is to, above all, never have to go to work–or accept any other responsibility, for that matter. The goal is to remain a child.
Grownups have the expectation that they will work and sacrifice in the service of others. It is only children who expect others to take care of them. Adults have graduated into the role of taking care of others. The husband–or wife–who has not accepted responsibility for others is merely seeking to remain a child. Responsibility for other means…duh…that at many levels you will be their servant.
But I suppose if you find it too degrading to provide for a wife and children (mainly due to the fact that YOU want to be the baby), it’s probably better if you stay single.
@ Jarek:
When you were a child, your parents busted their asses to take care of you, to serve you. When you are an adult, the roles are reversed: You are supposed to bust your ass in the service of others. Grow up.
So why are you & other men here whining that some women refuse to marry men? Shouldn’t you be cheering us on? After all, we’re saving you from all the bullshit you claim you have to put up with in a marriage.
You don’t know what you want, except for women to be miserable, since you hate us.
I’m convinced that Jarek is also a ridiculous little racist incel with no social skills probably holed up in his parent’s basement.
Mary: I never focus on women refusing to marry because the marriage strike is men refusing to marry – since that means marrying the state, not just some more or less unpleasant and useless woman.
That’s the real situation now.
RR: Congrats. You’ve become one of the girls.
Thank you for proving my point Jarek.
Lil’ J still hasn’t figured out yet that almost everyone here laughs at him.
I think he gets most angry when people start turning his annoying personal questions and probes back onto him.
Trying to remake men is not going to work, imo. They are what they are. And it happens that there are already good ones out there.
The worst things they do are already illegal. The merely annoying things they do should be discouraged or ignored, not made illegal, imo.
Or ridiculed. That is why we should point fingers and laugh at the men larping as women, those disgusting men prancing around in high heels and lipstick and announcing that they are more sexy than any actual women.
Our ruling overlords have made it illegal to laugh at them. That is wrong.
But I also think it’s wrong to fire a man for blushing in front of a woman. So, there’s that.
I would love to hear your idea for 4th wave feminism.
Looks like my prediction didn’t even make NY! (:
No-one, Mary. But it clogs up the comments section with pointless back-and-forth invective that serves no purpose.
I would say the same for football scores and World Cup nonsense.
There isn’t much to debate, TBH.
Multiple hoax narratives have led the West down the garden path, and now the planned destruction is being sped up as much as possible to ensure that the plan doesn’t fail.
The global plantation must be ushered in, and the many-stranded myth of a lack of resources, overpop., climate change, and out of control deadly diseases will continue to be propped up by the mafia and their paid shills until they break it all — before putting it back together as the New Normal.
And 75 percent will buy it, even here, some of the lies remain virtually unchallenged.
“;even here,”
You said the corporation you work for is part of all this?
That is correct. At the apex of it.
Ofc, the majority of large corporations are part of it. No one would vote for what is coming, so they are not asking us.
Maybe you can be of use by proving information to the rest of us. I can’t see any other justification to be working there. You could do something else after all.
I don’t really care if you see any justification.
@ Night Owl:
Jarek can’t see any justification in working.
Night Owl has, and does, invaluable information from our man inside.
It is wrong of you to demand more, belay that- our homelands are in great danger as it is, and I pray for our people there.
“I can’t see any other justification to be working there. ”
Well, he supports a family . . .
Well he could do something else as I said.
Jarek:
What is your job?
Where do you go to work every day?
Who is your emploiyer?
He volunteered this info. He didn’t have to do that. He shouldn’t have if he didn’t want to talk about it.
I’m not going to belabor it. Now let’s talk about you! Do you volunteer? You live on Martha’s Vineyard? Or Nantucket?
I volunteered it because I have nothing to hide.
As Islander asked, what is it you do, Jarek? Where did you last donate or protest?
Jarek…in the final analysis, Night Howler Monkey is just taking the money, while pretending to himself that he’s in the vanguard of resistance. The fact is, though, that (assuming his self-inflating autobiographical hints have any truth in them) he’s a wimp, a sell-out who won’t resist the fruition of his apocalyptic predictions and is materially aiding in their development.
I hear you if you mean their posts distract or dumb down somewhat.
More than that. If you have spent enough time around liars, you realize that in the end nearly everything they say or do is a lie, or has a lie running through it in some form.
They are lying and they know many of us know, but they choose to double and triple down on the lies.
Because it is all lies.
They have a goal, and the ends justify the means.
N.O. If you mean the stuff they are pumping out nowadays there in the Mainstream media, yes, of course. I was referring to the-battle-of-the-sexes commentariat on CFN tho.
🙂
This from he who said “Trump will be your President” in December 2020. Rich!
A few times over the past three weeks, the place where I usually get my gas was completely out of mid-grade and premium for a few days at a time.
That indicates to me that the refiners are having some difficulty in producing the two higher grades.
Probably won’t be long until all grades will be out intermittently. Then for longer durations. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see this happen by summer.
I had better keep my tank topped up.
One thing we can always count on here at CFN, besides the usual racism, misogyny, fever dreams, etc is gigantic leaps of ‘logic.’
This year’s forecast brings to mind a passage from prophetic poet Robinson Jeffers, written 85 years ago:
Why
do we invite the world’s rancors and agonies
Into our minds though walking in a wilderness? Why did he
want the news of the world? He could do nothing
To help nor hinder. Nor you nor I can . . . for the world. It
is certain the world cannot be stopped nor saved.
It has changes to accomplish and must creep through agonies
toward new discovery. It must, and it ought: the awful
necessity
Is also the sacrificial duty. Man’s world is a tragic music and is not
played for man’s happiness,
Its discords are not resolved but by other discords.
Actually, to know what the hell is gong on in the world – be it good or bad – is a mandatory obligation for any serious individual or Government official. But what is serious?
It is to know what is possibly coming down the pike and to to benefit from this foresight.
Misty pangs and worries of a creature out of The Scream are just that..
Somebody posted a Jeffers’ poem a few weeks ago on this site. A metaphorical piece about seine fishing. I’m not sure when he wrote that one, but it was a gem. I’ve always appreciated his verse. He was no “happy wanderer” like Whitman, but rather dark, moody and inward, and in this case quite prescient. Given what he had already seen in his lifetime, I could see why he, or anybody for that matter, could get world weary.
Like Jim, many of us in the USA wrongly guess the DJIA would collapse.
how wrong we were.
I wonder what will happen in 2023.
Hyperinflation?
TELL ME
Predicting the DJIA and Hyperinflation is very difficult to do. At least putting a time stamp on it.
I think the biggest concern of 2023 is the coming war between NATO and Russia.
Or, what Russia ends up doing as an act of desperation right before it falls again. This is concerning because Putin might be gone when this happens. Contrary to popular left-tard belief, he is one of the sane ones in Russia.
NATO = USA. The question is, when the Ukes start to falter, what is Biden going to do?
Trick answer: shit his pants. The trick part is that he will do that regardless.
Shit his pants, fall off his bike, eat ice cream, shamble off into the shrubs, utter embarrassing non-sequiturs, and accuse others of doing what he and his party of criminals have done and are doing. That’s what Biden will do.
And yet Uncle Boob, ol crusty Biden has been fairly effective in his first two years.
Jo Jo Magoo has been effective, alright.
Effective at causing high gas prices & soaring inflation, allowing immigrants to run roughshod over the country, killing and maiming people with vaccine mandates, destroying small businesses, putting insane trannies in high places, decimating the military… that’s just for starters.
Yes NATO is essentially USA. I assume that most people here know and agree with this.
with afghanistan as the most recent similarity, the few americans we admit to being in UKR will bug out.
biden will proclaim that all UKRs have refugee status, and there will be token airlifts to 3rd countries in prep for a fantasy destination in US.
meanwhile, the Deep state will have brought the next panic event into mass consciousness. could be new plague, fuel crises, financial flops, weather or EQ events. something to serve as distraction from leaving UKR to the poles and russians to sort it out.
we could look back at Iran, when the shah fell for other comparisons.
if nukes fly, and i think it is too early for nukes, they will be “terrorist” events, that we cannot prove were russian.
there will be a few nukes exchanged. the NWO order needs the nuke scare to bring in the overt global control. but this wont happen for a several years.
really, consider chernobyl and fukushima. both global nothing-burgers. strictly local effects.
No nukes, just the fear of nukes. Cheaper and more effective.
i hope so, Blackbird.
but they may make a demonstration to drive the fear into the hearts.
It makes no sense to fear nukes.
They keep using the same tactics of fear over and over.
Just don’t buy in.
The last time “the Left” gained power in Russia, they killed millions of real Russians. Putin knows that as does those behind him. It is his most sacred duty to prevent that from every happening again.
The Mob behind Zelensky is the same as the Mob here and the same as the opposition in Russia.
Anglin’s question: Why did they allow the Western internet that only facilitates the corruption of their youth? China was wiser and created their own.
Why did Putin ask to join NATO?
Why did Peter the Great build Saint Petersburg?
Answer those questions and know Russia’s sorrow.
Lindbergh wanted to rebuilt White ramparts from Galway to Vladivostock. A Seer if ever there was one.
Russia isn’t going to fall. You’re thinking of the USSA.
They’ll both fall, just not at the same time or under circumstances most people will see coming.
There is no evidence that Putin will fail in Ukraine. Quite the contrary. Whether you like him or not, he and his team (Lavrov, Medvedev and Surovikin) and streets ahead of anyone we have in the West. My concern is much more what the Biden neocons will do once the realise the jig is up. They are crazy and unstable enough to press the button.
The adults in charge back in 1972 knew that the US had hit peak oil, and they introduced changes to deal with it.
But they didn’t go far enough, imo. Mandating better gas mileage and lower speed limits? How about investing in public transportation and rebuilding the tracks ripped out by GM and Standard Oil?
They did pass a law forbidding exporting the remaining US oil, but even that was overthrown by Obama and the worthless Congress we have now.
Zoning laws should have forbidden suburban sprawl. Why build out more into precious farmland when you already know that the oil won’t be there forever?
The plan should have been spelled out distinctly – conserve the remaining oil and gas for future generations. Even people without children should be amenable to that.
But then the Evil Reagan was elected, with a slogan of “Screw future generations. We are going to use every drop of oil now, for ourselves”.
And oil usage more than doubled since 1980. Suburban sprawl reaches up to 100 miles from the cities, with nothing but energy-burning McMansion after McMansion for miles and miles.
And now here we are, the future generations. And we are screwed.
It’s difficult to feel sorry for people so reckless, especially when their only reaction to the predicament we are in is to whine about the lack of the cheap oil they feel entitled to.
Rational people assumed the human race in general would be as rational as they were. They did not understand the loudest and most vociferous people of influence were sociopaths that did not care about future generations or anyone else. Sociopaths adept at controlling other people. Rationality became a pastime and doom was baked in the cake.
So you admit radical human inequality? The best Communists do, viewing their lesser brethren as useful idiots.
Can anything really good come from such utter deception? The older systems frankly admit it and make it a cornerstone of their policies.
Deception as a cornerstone of policy.
Hmmmmmmmmmm ???
How does that work in the long run?
As Jim in Florida used to say, A dead tree can stand for a long time.
“And oil usage more than doubled since 1980. Suburban sprawl reaches up to 100 miles from the cities, with nothing but energy-burning McMansion after McMansion for miles and miles.”
And average vehicles got bigger and bigger, and then huge. So much so that often I feel like I’m in traffic with Humvees, Tanks and Greyhound busses trying not to get squashed.
Oh, they call that suburban sprawl the exurbs now. Atlanta had the “Perimeter” when I lived there in the 90s. Now they have the “Outer Perimeter”. I think plans are in the works for a perimeter around that one too.
Why have the HOV lanes failed? Are Americans loners and independent when it comes to driving?
Yes. Americans mostly drive as loners and independents. Not for much longer though.
The pundits here were talking about how mileage per gallon has tripled since the good old days. I didn’t catch what changed to make that possible. Do you know?
Smaller, lighter vehicles is one reason.
The ones the politicians never drive, in favor of the larger SUVs.
Technology. (To answer Jarek). Yes, even larger vehicles get better mileage today than 40 years ago. But, the technology is there to make it even higher, or better. Car manufacturers don’t likey, and neither do the oil companies.
My husband drives a hybrid which gets 40 mph.
I like to point out that our VW got 32 mph back in 1961.
Europe never went as nuts about oil wastage as the US did.
Computer controlled ignition, timing, and fuel delivery systems were the driving factor. These increased both power output and fuel efficiency. Unfortunately, fuel efficiency gains are almost always used to either drive more miles or buy vehicles with greater performance and/or weight, very often both (See the Dodge SRT Hellcat Durango). There’s a fancy scientific name for that principle, but it eludes me at the moment.
Jevon’s paradox.
Thanks Dys and others.
Technology, specifically advances in engines and transmissions, and using COMPUTERS to control them, and aerodynamics.
The internal combustion engine (ICE) has gotten as efficient as it will get.
In fact, the changes over the last 20 years illustrate the law of diminishing returns: each improvement costs more or entails greater risk to the customer (in the form of expensive repairs that will exceed whatever fuel savings accrued—and if you bought it used, the 0.5 to 2-3 mpg improvement saved money for the previous owner).
Here’s an great example—the automatic transmission. In the 1970s, 99% of them had 3 speeds. By 1990, the majority had four. This was a pretty inexpensive trick that should’ve been on cars since the 1960s. In the 90s and 2000s, we got 5 and 6 speeds. That’s a bigger cost increase for a smaller benefit. Now we have 8, 9, and 10 speed. Ditto. So to keep costs manageable, because of “progress”, automakers do things they didn’t do before, like use fewer bolts or plastic drain pans, to save money.
Well, when a stone cracks the plastic drain pan, you have a pricey problem, vs a dented steel or aluminum pan that might leak, but would be less costly to repair with far less risk of catastrophic damage.
Ditto engines. Fuel injection cost more, but considerable benefits. Computerizing the engine was a big benefit for modest cost.
However, much of these improvements have evaporated because vehicles got heavier because of consumers wanting SUVs (basically tall wagons) and all the power accessories and Gadgets and government mandates for crashworthy and air bags.
And the exurbs are far away and you drive more.
The sweet spot for cars and trucks is late 1990s to early 2010s.
The higher costs to build cars was camouflaged by Mexican cars and parts, Chinese parts, and to a smaller degree, Korean cars and parts.
That is fading.
Just as America is getting poorer, the cost of cars is on track to sky rocket
The cost of EVERYTHING will necessarily skyrocket, as the Hawaiian Who Thinks He’s God said. The incredible debasement of the US dollar over the last 20 or so years has guaranteed our return to serfdom. Happy f-ing New Year!
Brevity is not my strong suit.
In the car-dependent USA, more and more ICE offer the illusion of utility, but are actually less useful.
One example: Pick up trucks with smaller, HIGHER beds are less capable for commercial use.
Another: Transmissions today have no dipsticks, making service difficult or impossible. No worries, the fluid and trans is good for “life”. So the automakers have “saved” motorists from $300 fluid change every 100,000 miles, which would translate to a manageable $300 to $600 for the life of the vehicle for a gamble— will the trans fail at 120, 150, or 200k miles? When it does, the motorist has two choices: pay $3 to $8 THOUSAND to keep an car on the road (if it’s in decent shape) or junk it, and spend $x thousand for a new or used replacement.
GM started adding a module to regulate fuel flow, an FPPM (fuel pump pressure module) back in 2007. This improved mpg by 0.5, which might help the EPA rating.
In 2007, If that module cost $100, and another $100 in labor, that’s a $200 bill for something that didn’t exist, and hence could not fail before. At $2 per gallon, In 2007, 15mpg vs 15.5 mpg, 12,000 miles, you saved 25.8 gallons. $50 per year, that I won’t notice. But I will notice a repair bill, the hassle, and downtime.
Is that prudent management of an expensive, vital (in suburban and rural America) product?
No.
But it is typical of the delusion of something for nothing permeates society.
Personally, even as I recognize the reality of the long emergency, and the end of “happy” motoring, I wish I could buy a new, mildly updated version of a 1985-95 Toyota Corolla or Honda Civic or VW Golf, with a reliable fuel-injected 4 cylinder with a catalyst, with a manual transmission and air conditioning that has room for four, gets close to 35 mpg in typical driving. Or a 90-2000 Camry or Taurus. bigger with automatic.
I cannot get such a new car.
The closest thing is a new Camry. It’s quite impressive. It’s BIG, inside it’s like a slightly narrow big American car from the 1970s. It’s quicker than they were, and gets 28/39 mpg.
But it’s got a whole “suite” of electronic gimmicks I don’t want, and will be expensive to fix. A touch screen radio, which I hate. An 8-speed automatic, when 6 costs less and is all I will ever need (my “beater” does fine with 4). Direct Fuel injection—which means crud will build up on the intake valves over time—which costs more to build than “port” fuel injection, and is not as robust. It’s not worth the extra power or mpg to me. And the standard low profile tires mean a much higher risk of dented wheels on Michigan’s pothole roads.
Some or all these issues will pop up in 6-10 years, when the resources to address them will be lacking.
At the same time, the simpler, more fuel-efficient vehicles which will be needed will either be rusty or gone (like my beater) or in short supply (because relatively few were made after the mid 2010s).
The upper middle class will be driving old, “base” 4-cyl cars.
And that is just one more facet of the upcoming reduction in personal mobility (the electric cars being the more obvious one)
Used to be that Athens was separate from Metro Atlanta. You’ve gotta think that Toccoa will soon be part of Atlanta, the way things are going.
Oh, and Gooooooooo Dawgs! Sic ’em! To hell with the ohio state university!
Lemming-like. Listened too long and hard (to the exclusion of reality) to the Pied Piper. Just as we were subliminally and even overtly trained to do so. A trans-generational psyop of Psyops.
The tangled web woven by Rockefellerists has come home to roost—just as I think they knew it would.
Gates said “a 10% reduction,” thinking (along with marketing PR think tanks) that would be a palatable public number. The real number intended I think is much higher.
Municipalities always wanted growth, because they believed a lack of growth was what caused the urban decay in our older cities.
Malls and such expanded the tax base. Nobody thought to question why they had to keep collecting more and more taxes to keep the same level of service.
Reality shows that when communities experience a lot of growth, taxes will eventually go up.
What impelled them to ramp up oil production, and introduce new and stupid ways to waste it? Simply greed?
I still can’t wrap my mind around the explosion of everything-wrapped-in-plastic. That started in earnest in the 1980s IIRC. Why are they wasting so much FF on shit they don’t need to?
And it’s not just plastic. What about leaf-blowers and other un-needed wasters of FF?
Cheap and low energy devices. Oil is the source of everything organic.
Carbon is life
It is unbelievable that they could be that evil, for whatever reason.
And there was really no good reason at all to waste oil. It didn’t have to be like that.
Maybe some sort of self-destructive urge? A hatred of coming generations?
Après moi le déluge?
I have no idea. I just know that it happened and now we are going to experience the consequences of bad decisions made over 40 years ago.
The only answer some people seem to have is to use the last oil to ruin the land and water supply of future generations by fracking, to get a few last bits out.
Despicable.
Also notice, that after they put the emissions laws in place, and emissions went down, the size of gas-guzzling cars went back up and now they are bigger than ever.
Yep, I noticed. That started in the 80s, under the Evil Reagan.
Mary, that’s because trucks and SUVs can do things that sedans can’t, like lugging around families and the modern equivalent of siege engines — kids’ extracurricular activities shit. Since CAFE standards killed the station wagon, Americans were left with either buying outsized vehicles or trying to stuff kids, dogs, sports equipment, food, ballet clothes, and God knows what else into a Dodge Omni. And speaking from experience, Dodge Omnis weren’t exactly comfortable when occupied by only the driver.
When I was a kid we transported ourselves to school, parks and playing fields, either by bike or by car.
Sprawl leads to traffic leads to kids unable to be outside on foot or bike without being run over by a 4 ton vehicle.
Plus chances are that the designated place is too far to get to by foot anyway.
I take it you didn’t bother to teach your kids to stay out of the road, Paula. And as was discussed yesterday, suburbia exploded for a multitude of reasons, not just because Ronaldus Magnus wanted to piss off the Greens.
It’s a confluence of reasons as to suburban to exurban sprawl, and bigger vehicles.
One factor—people (including often myself) want OTHER to people to do the right (more difficult) thing.
Self-discipline is lacking—in how and what we eat, stuff we buy, what we drive…
From 1953-73, the golden summer of Americana in my mind, affluence took away self discipline and the adults, those who live through the depression and fought WW2 didn’t want their kids to suffer.
Now that the reversal of affluence is accelerating, we will see how that plays out.
Uncle Bob, there are cars like the Subaru Outback that are the same thing basically as station wagons were. I call bullshit.
Uncle Bob,
“Since CAFE standards killed the station wagon, ”
Bullshit.
Station wagons are still made. The Subaru Outback is basically the Legacy with AWD. Very good car. Mine is the 1996 manny tranny model. Even the Volvo station wagon is reasonable compared to the SUVs and vans that clog our roadways. Some brands, like BMW and SUV, seem to have bypassed station wagons completely and gone from sedans etc. straight to SUVs.
Many people buy SUVs because they are taxed like trucks. I.e., no tax.
Huge scam. Terrible vehicles that have a high center of gravity and cut off visibility for drivers of normal-size cars.
And many SUV drivers are just terrible drivers. Watch them try to park if they can’t just wheel into a mall parking lot. They have no business behind the wheel of these obscenely outsize vehicles.
And then you see them driving along on a gorgeous day with all the tinted windows closed, AC blasting, oblivious.
The American cocoon.
Get off your high horse and this “evil Reagan” horseshit. Carter was the worst president of the 20th century not named Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Maybe you preferred the grayness and regulation of every aspect of life found in the Soviet bloc, but most Americans didn’t, at least until The Hawaiian Who Thinks He’s God and his puppets came along. In any case, suburbia and urban sprawl really started in earnest after WW2, when people wanted to get out of the cities and have grass, not asphalt and concrete, around their homes. Eisenhower hated passenger rail with a passion, as did a lot of Americans when given the option of being able to drive anywhere at their convenience. Same with killing downtown’s first with malls, then with big box stores. Was all of this stupid, as you posit; or was it people expressing their freedom? Before you start hurling rocks, remember that people in a free society have no obligation to you or anyone else to act or think in a particular way. Especially those of us who dearly miss Reagan, but take every opportunity to tell Margaret Noonan that she’s an arrogant dunderhead (even if WSJ doesn’t like it).
Dearly miss Reagan….grow up big boy. He was awful. I’m sure you clutched pearls over Soviet union life.
I’m not clutching pearls, and I’m a union worker, you dirty goddamn communist.
Oooh….’communist’. Original Uncle Boob!
Reagan DESTROYED small town America and family farms.
FUCK that old POS.
Thank you Mary.
We can see the inability of Bob to have cognitive dissonance between his worship of Reagan and his dislike of what Reagan wroth.
You have to have cognition to have cognitive dissonance.
What Reagan wrought. It wasn’t good.
But hey! You can sit in traffic to drive to your destination, where you can step over homeless people in order to be served by an immigrant who barely speaks English.
Because……freedom!
what Reagan wroth. – Paula
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Acoustic terrorism. Compare the sound of a blower to the lovely sound of a rake.
And consider the morality: Raking and picking up your own leaves as opposed to blowing them someplace for someone else to worry about.
They should hand a leaf blower to ever immigrant coming across the southern border.
I think they do.
No, they should give each one a rake.
You, klanboy, is concerned with morality all of a sudden?
“… compare the sound of a leaf blower …
Raking a large area is impractical for most people who don’t have the time or inclination. On the other hand using the mulch function of a leaf blower (found on many models) produces inexpensive product that breaks down with time and adds nutrients to the soil. And many models are electric, which green people will appreciate.
Most people using leaf blowers are being paid to do it anyhow. To blow the leaves into someone else’s property. So, they might as well use a rake and remove the leaves.
I have sen three guys blowing eaves around an area that I could have raked in a half hour. When I was in Berlin in fall 200y the Tiergarten was raked by hand. The workers rode bicycles to work. I don’t know about now.
The whole Camp Ground—every yard and backyard, used to be raked by hand, by a team of about 20. The leaves were raked into piles and then vacuumed up by a truck, which took them to the landfill for composting. Again, I don’t know about now. But it is perfectly possible to rake large areas by hand. Guys just like noisy machines. It’s a macho performance—they think it might look sissy to rake. Whereas women ‘scapers are perfectly willing and able to rake.
!969 “The Graduate”
Mr. Maguire to Ben: “Ben, just one word…plastics…’nuff said.”
The future in a nutshell.
Bingo! LOL!
Blaming one person, Reagan, Clinton, Obama or Trump is naive, They are the results of two and a half years of being interviewed by a voting public that never, ever votes on issues. This last midterm cements this into place as the worst government ever being basically supported by the people.
These politicians are a microcosm of us! Scary, isn’t it.
Not to mention the mass media’s self-appointed role of steering Americans to vote for particular candidates, even when over 80% of polled voters say a different candidate is significantly better (e.g., John “who in fuck voted for this guy?” Fetterman).
The role of mass media can be summed up by this: I was in a doctor’s waiting room in 2000 when the receptionist and a woman patient started talking about Hillary the Harridan. Both women eviscerated Hillary as a know-it-all, arrogant, condescending carpetbagger who knows less than nothing about New York. On and on they went, enumerating why Hillary was awful. By the end of their conversation, they agreed that they’d vote for Hillary because a) she’s a woman and b) the news said she’s brilliant. Critical thought and personal observation are worth less than what a couple of TV-R majors in fancy clothes say in front of a camera. Sad, and disgusting.
Even at the local level politicians are 100% self serving. They protect and promote themselves and others similarly situated.
Well remember, White flight is a huge factor, one that people don’t like to talk about except to condemn Whites. We flee Black savagery – something the upper classes didn’t have to worry about. But they are beginning to learn, eh Paula!
As a Marxist, you should welcome this payback. I don’t expect you to ever care about your own people per se, of course.
A self-confessed hater of white women lectures me about “my people”?
As if.
Yeah, this is why I hate them (philosophically): attitudes like yours. False values. Ridiculous ideas.
Jarek is a clown….don’t engage.
“forbidden suburban sprawl”
You forget that suburbs were White refugee camps.
You may not remember the riots from forced “school desegregation”, but I do.
Not entirely from the sanctified ones’ innate tendency to go a-wilding, either. The neighborhoods where they walked to school amongst familiar adults who looked and sounded as they did were broken by Great Society largesse.
Parents who bought homes there so that their children might walk to school saw their carefully hoarded property value wiped out. In return, they were offered stalls in the feral Project corrals.
Both black and white lost the tight territories they had developed over generations, the sturdy three-legged stool of home-school-church. And now we have Philadelphia.
That might have been true for some, but I think that most people bought what was available and affordable, and the government encouraged builders to build out, on land that was cheap because it was only used for growing food.
I used to work in San Jose and I worked with people who lived as far away as Stockton.
Is that rational? Only to people who can’t remember anything different.
They wouldn’t have to actually pass laws against sprawl, they could just refuse to pay for the infrastructure involved.
The local governments tax the existing population to pay for the water lines, the sewer lines, the electrical lines, the gas lines, the roads, the new schools, etc., for the new subdivisions and then tell the population “You want this”.
And then doofuses say “We wanted this”.
Yeah, no.
And Filthydelphia runs the whole Commonwealth. Some relatives in PA are fine with this because they’re woke Democrats, while other relatives and friends are irate about the Krasnerfication of the entire Commonwealth. It’s really sad and frustrating to watch the greatest country on Earth become a people’s republic of gibbering idiots and drug addicts, but there’s not much anyone can do as long as people buy the Uniparty’s lies.
Regarding peak oil and the “fossil fuel” designatin, F. William Engdahl just dropped this in my in-box (excerpt):
“. . . Big Oil finds a new King
As a first step, the major American and British oil interests concluded that a plausible scientific argument was needed that would propagate the convenient (for them) myth that the world’s petroleum resources were finite and depleting rapidly. For this job, they chose an eccentric petroleum geophysicist from the University of Chicago who was working for Shell Oil in Texas, a man named Marion King Hubbert, or King, as he preferred to be known.
Hubbert was asked to deliver a paper to the annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in 1956, an event that would become one of the most fateful examples of scientific fabrication in the modern era.
Hubbert posited all of his 1956 conclusions on the unproven assumption that oil was a fossil fuel, a biological compound produced from dead dinosaur detritus, algae or other life forms originating some 500 million years back. Hubbert accepted the fossil theory without question, and made no evident attempts to scientifically validate such an essential and fundamental part of his argument. He merely asserted ‘fossil origins of oil’ as Gospel Truth and began to build a new ideology around it, a neo-Malthusian ideology of austerity in the face of looming oil scarcity.
For the giant British and American oil companies and the major banks backing them, the myth of scarcity was necessary if they were to be able to control the availability and price of petroleum as the lifeline of the world economy. The scarcity myth was to be a key element of Anglo-American geopolitical power for more than a century.
King Hubbert admitted in a frank interview in 1989 shortly before his death that the method he used to calculate total recoverable US oil reserves was anything but scientific. It might be compared with wetting one’s finger and holding it up to see how strong the wind is blowing. . . . ”
Hubbert does look like a bit of a charlatan.”
And yet Spindle Top has played out and the oil companies are now drilling miles under the ocean and destroying water supplies to frack.
Why would they do that if there was an unlimited supply of oil?
Your abiotic oil link didn’t say that oil was an unlimited resource. I admit that I didn’t read it all, but I read enough to grasp that even if the oil doesn’t come from organic matter, it still takes time to seep into the reservoirs where it gathers.
It is obvious that the US pumped out all the easy oil already.
You may think that oil companies are stupid enough to ignore easy sources of oil in order to drill in difficult places, but I disagree.
How about investing in public transportation and rebuilding the tracks ripped out by GM and Standard Oil?
There is a good reason that public transportation (buses, trolleys, commuter trains) is avoided by everyone who has an alternative. It is uncomfortable, unreliable, and useless getting to anyplace not on the route.
I hear the chorus singing: “But that’s because it’s never funded adequately! We should quit spending money on roads for cars and put the funds into more buses and bus routes!” (Never mind buses use the same roads as passenger cars. “Yes, but we can create bus-only lanes, like bike lanes but wider!” Shouldn’t cost more than a million and a half dollars a mile.)
What’s that? You say public transportation is dirty, crowded and slow because it’s poorly managed. Uh-huh. Like communism doesn’t work because realcommunism has never been tried.
For my sins, I’ve taken public transportation in New York, Boston, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, and the San Francisco Bay area, as well as various non-U.S. cities. They’re all a slice of misery. I’d rather be in my car in a traffic jam (at least I’d have some personal space and privacy) than in a communal packing crate on wheels.
And yet, the public protested the ripping out of the rails. There is a documentary showing the public protests when the bought-off politicians sold out the public to Big Oil and the auto companies.
It is called “Taken For A Ride” and used to be available on YouTube, but has been taken down now.
When my mom was a child in LA she could take the Red Line to the beach and back. Cars make children immobile, as well as the elderly and those too poor to afford the multiple expenses involved in car ownership and usage.
But YOU like your can on wheels and YOU prefer traffic jams to being on a trolley, so YOU think that everyone is the same as you.
God, I hope not! You seem very unpleasant.
Uh, pot to kettle….
Starting in the Populist Era, Americans were taught that railroads were octopi out to destroy all that was good and decent in America. The drumbeat increased with the Progressives, as rail lines were taxed to death, while public service commissions and the ICC prohibited the railroads from dumping unprofitable routes until the Staggers Act helped the freight roads. (Bear in mind, corporations are legally mandated to earn profits. Sad, but true.). Passenger service steadily declined as cars became more affordable, roads improved, air travel became popular, and the Interstate system was built. Politicians supported the movement away from rail to road and air travel mostly because that’s what the public wanted, not because of Reagan or Trump or Leverett Saltonstall, or the Rockefellers, or Marathon Oil. Now, suddenly, rail is wonderful. But outside of subways and some short corridors (Boston-New York-Filthydelphia-DC), it’s not profitable and is seen as an antiquated form of transportation. The elites’ solution is, of course, to cater to themselves with overpriced high-speed rail at taxpayer expense, while insulting people who question the wisdom of pouring tax money down a sewer for something very few people want and even fewer will use. But that’s all irrelevant because this is something “the right people” want, and what they want, they eventually get — and then they blame others when it turns out their idea was wrong.
The railroads built the rails on land handed to them by the government and the government supplied the cavalry to protect them from the Indians. Then the railroad corporations paid off the Supreme Court to proclaim corporations immortal and commenced to price gouging the farmers.
The government built the roads and the interstate, and allowed private corporations to buy up the existing light rail lines between and in cities and rip them out.
The government paid for the infrastructure needed to enable private corporations to build sprawling subdivisions and handed out GI Bill money for the public to buy them.
The government continues to subsidize cars and planes, while stifling any public system.
And then doofuses like you claim that it is your own choice.
You are like a toddler, thinking that if you can choose between the red shirt and the blue shirt, you are exercising control.
You choose between the Chevrolet and the Ford and think that you rule the world.
Paula D on a roll! I used to be a city planner and I completely agree with your thoughts here.
And then doofuses like you – Paula
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The reason the US has no coherent government policy regarding energy – or really anything – is that in this country, the government doesn’t tell business (Big Business) what to do. That would be “fascism”.
What we have instead is the mirror image: plutocracy. Big Business tells the government what to do.
Dear god…something sane from Paula D.
“That will leave the Republican Speaker of the House, whoever it is, to become president. He will fire every political appointee in the executive branch and replace them with people who will follow the law.”
I’m just curious how that’s possible. Never before, when the Republicans have controlled the Presidency and both houses have they ever used that power for good not evil. What could possibly change that now, when the corruption is at an all time maximum? Team red vs. team blue is an old distraction.
The nation of wishful thinking has no borders.
Yeah, we had a guy who tried to fight the Swamp and failed.
The East Coast and Midwest GOP are RINOs whose goals of a central Deep State outweigh any caring for the people.
The monarchial kingdoms of the late Middle Ages presage what we are seeing now. Most of them were removed with much violence.
He didn’t fight the swamp….that was just bs and red meat for the rubes. He is the swamp. The most corrupt ‘president’ in history.
Oh, for the love of Christ, will you kindly shut the fuck up with your fucking Democrat Party talking points? I realize you’ve never had an original thought in your life, given your political bent (emphasis on “bent”), but this bullfuckingshit you assholes throw out there about Trump’s alleged corruption (omg, he said an election was stolen — just as a bunch of Democrats have done, and some of his voters went nuts and attacked a federal building, also like some Lefties) while you ignore Obama’s connections to Tony Rezko and Bill “let me build you a bomb” Ayers; the Clinton corruption machine; the Biden corruption machine; even the McConnell-Chao-ChiComm corruption machine is nothing but hypocrisy of the highest order, and it shows that the most important thing isn’t corruption, but making sure nobody outside the Washington club ever does anything to change the status quo. “Oh, you’re a Trump worshipping lunatic and a conspiracy theorist.”. As I’ve said here and in comments elsewhere around the net, Trump is done, as is the populist Constitutionalist movement. As I’ve also said, I didn’t support him in 2016, but I did come around for his last two years because his performance, on balance, was good, whether the Left will admit it or not. I sure as fuck didn’t, and won’t, support Mr. Fister the senile pervert you people worship as if he were God Almighty, mainly because he does the bidding of the WEF and the extreme Left, no matter how much it harms Europe or especially America.
Yeah, you’re the perfect example of a TRUMPISTA – your thinking process has become deranged and you simply hold that any factual information about the Clown President ‘just isn’t true!’ See J6 Committee report and his recent tax statements. What a lying grifter he is, and you along with him.
Why do you hate ‘merica Uncle Boob? After two years, Trump was suddenly ‘good.’ My god, what parallel universe do you live in?
You make a lot of assumptions in this trainwreck of an aggro post here Boob. Does sedition and treason mean anything in your warped little mind? Ah, yes, the ‘party of law and order.’ That the one you belong to? What’s that? Oh, if Obama, Biden, (insert any dem here) had tried to pull off 1/6, would your reaction be the same….a shrug, and more lunatic ravings about how ‘I miss Reagan…boo hoo.’
It was under a Republican administration that the globalism push really got rolling.
I’m not sure which admin you are speaking of. NAFTA was passed and Glass-Steagall revoked under Clinton. These two action were huge accelerants toward our current disaster.
Mergers of giant corporations, which among other things, led to the homogenized MSM we now have, started under Reagan but dem admins have played along nicely.
Well, Clinton worked for the Bushes. They pretty much installed him where he was in order to destroy the Democrat party & create two corporate-controlled parties.
Evidence of this “installation” by the Bushes?
I think it was the Dem Party that decided on the “third way” strategy to win over Republican voters .
I disagree.
I think—I recall—the globalist push really got going under Clinton. A combo of foreign and domestic policy chnages that went very far toward moving us to where we currently find ourselves.
Remember Larry Summers and that senator married to a Chinese woman who pushed hard to elminate Glass-Steaall?
NAFTA?
Also, internal consolidation of telecoms so that our whole communications industry is controlled by six giants? Actually I think it is now four.
And other moves. Is there evidence that Clinton owes his political career to the Bushes? Although there was a personal relationship of some kind between Bubba and Bush Sr. Whom he had defeated. I think that relationship may have developed later.
As a Rhodes Scholar Clinton was already a darling of the CFC-Chatham House crowd. He wouldn’t have been chosen if they hadn’t had plans for him. Weakening the country’s industrial base was part of the Globalist plan. NAFTA. Gaining complete control of the media was an indispensable precondition to what has occurred here in the past three years.
“the globalist push really got going under Clinton”
Only at that time I don’t think we understood that this was a “globalist” agenda.
It had some other designation, like “third way.”
Agree.
Trump was not a Republican. His failure to realize this kept him from doing much of anything. His worst enemies, even now, are GOPers.
She’s talking about Reagan, not Trump.
The hapless Trump at CPAC: Why would I ever leave the Republican party?
Because not only are they scum (by and large), but because they also hate you.
R vs. D is a practice in futility.
True, but the Democrats are more open about their contempt for, and hatred of, Middle America, and are better able to use the machinery of government to grind their enemies to dust.
Oh Uncle Bob, you really need to get out of your programmed mindset.
Not really.
I think it is important to understand the history.
Anyone looking for a leader is lost.
No one is going to save us but ourselves.
He certainly lifted the veil on what’s been there all along.
A worthy summary much commensurate with my own, I’m self-satisfied to report. Satisfied, but far from smug.
Hear that train in the distance? It’s grown quite louder over these past 12…
Along with a lot of other old-timer Alaskans I’ve always kept extra supplies and vittles in stock; it’s astounding to most how quickly necessities, let alone conveniences disappear in a crisis/emergency/disaster. We remain on the far end of shipping logistics with the Gulf of Alaska the means of conveyance: 3 days of groceries on the shelves in Anchorage. I’d say 2 days realistically upon the SHTF and freaked-out denizens panic shop. The real deal will make the Covid butt-wipe crisis but a blip, but I must acerbically acknowledge how ‘Muricans responded to that plight—their heads irretrievably planted up their asses. The fact they worried about TP more than the food required to necessitate TP’s usage says a lot about our collective base consciousness. But I digress—
I’m taking your/my prognosticating very seriously. Am giving up my remote fishing village apartment for a 42’ motor sailer, yellow cedar-planked over oak, and will live out my remaining years as able on the waters that fed me and some millions of Americans over these past 55 or so years I pursued commercial fishing. I know where the finned and carapaced live so odds are good the panoply for my dinner plate will remain comestibly consummated for the years I may have left. Venison and moose, ducks and geese above the littoral too. I’ll send you some pictures of the boat, Jim. Maybe that fishing trip we talked of 12 or so years ago might yet remain on the bucket list, your chickens notwithstanding.
Finally, the maxims, tried and true: “Don’t worry about a thing, nothing’s going to be alright.”
And what life has taught me ultimately: “Wanna make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.”
Happy New Year, one and all.
Americans freaked out about toilet paper because Americans were told that Americans were freaking out about toilet paper.
We’re like that.
“Don’t worry about a thing, nothing’s going to be alright.”
I like that.
I think the toilet paper idiocy was a test to see how Americans would react in any large emergency.
I’m very happy that most went for the TP. I’d go for the food.
It sure did let the PTB know that they are dealing with irrational mental midgets for the most part, didn’t it?
I enjoyed reading this masterful assessment of the last 30 or so years and, I believe, prescient estimation of we’re going. I find some hope in it.
There WILL be retribution for those who have brought us to our present state. I know it’s been said before, but we hadn’t yet reached the boiling point. I don’t think it’s possible to overestimate the inertia of the great mass of sheep, but they are about to be awakened in ways they will not be able to ignore. Even the most slumbrous will respond to being cold, hungry, and without any likelihood of relief. I don’t want it to happen, God knows, but when it does many of the absurdities that we’ve been sidetracked by (the whole idiotic trans thing, for instance) will vanish like the chimeras they really are. Hungry people don’t care about your pronouns. The monstrous mutilation of children will end, as people find themselves less concerned with nebulous feelings and delusions about gender and more concerned with feeding and clothing themselves; a harsh but necessary awakening. They’ll make themselves useful to someone or they’ll be on their way to the next life.
It’s quite possible that many of the migrants, both legal and illegal, will begin to return to their places of origin in (mostly) warmer parts of the world. At the very least, their movements are likely to be in a southerly direction – which, personally, makes me happy. When order breaks down sufficiently, if they haven’t made themselves useful (which I consider unlikely) all those armed people down along the open southern borders (and elsewhere) are likely to send them packing to a place from which there is no return.
Once things have settled down, the localization JHK has talked of will come into effect. If you’ve made a wise choice in where you’ve settled, and have become part of a rural community where people have skills and neighborliness, where food is grown, you’ll be as well off as it’s possible to be. Those who have remained in cities or city suburbs will, I’m afraid, be culled, as will the woke – who are profoundly helpless. It will be horrible, but inevitable, because there is no way they can be fed or cared for.
The survivors are likely to be the smartest and most able, which bodes well for the future.
Do you remember in TLE that it will be horrendous because society in general has lost much of the skills that allow an agrarian society to run. That and the denial used to ignore the oncoming situations are going to crush the majority of the population. The cities are going to become huge cemeteries.
There WILL be retribution for those who have brought us to our present state.
Wishful thinking.
There is not a group that can be singled out for bringing on the present state. No group unless you say the entire country brought it on for going brain dead and letting natural consequences happen. Like children who believe in Santa.
Most of those who brought on the present state are dead buried or burned. The satanic cabal now encompasses those who know better and do nothing. These are not the same people as those who brought it on.
the localization JHK has talked of will come into effect.
No, we have no farms. We will have no fossil fuels to operate farming equipment with.
We die.
For every person in Union Grove there are ten thousand who died. In this world there will not be enough hands to bury them.
@K-Chien, Have you ever heard of horses? We certainly do have farms, quite a few small ones where I live – including dairy. We don’t have to have fossil fuels to operate a horse and plow. It would be nice if we didn’t have to revert to conditions of two centuries ago, but we certainly have farm land and the means to grow food. Where I live, quite a few people have surprising skills and knowledge. It would be ugly for a while but, as I said, the smartest and most well prepared would survive and the woke would cull themselves.
I remember Mr. Ed.
The USDA, National Agriculture Statistic Service (NASS) recently completed a census which counts only horses that are on working farms. This definition excludes boarding, training and riding facilities; as well as any other operation that fails to generate a minimum of $1,000 in sales of equine products, defined as “breeding fees, stud fees, semen or other”. NASS reports a total of 459,526 horse farms in the US, with an agricultural population of 2,847,289 horses.
So when the culling gets 99 out of 100 people we are all good then?
Thinking the smartest and most well prepared will survive assumes an orderly transition. Some kind of cosmic justice. It won’t work out that way. Obviously some unfit will go fast. After that the Fates have their say. They like to confound. The world is not about to suddenly become fair as civilization collapses around us. People will be pulling shit.
In about 700 AD there were corn farmers in Arizona that experienced a drought. A farmhouse from the end of their civilization was excavated, and the results revealed a murder scene from the last days of their civilization. The elements buried the crime scene for over a thousand years. The land became barren. America has seen collapse before.
No, that was Turtle Island. We’re the real Americans, not them. Until you know who your people are, how can you be right about anything?
If the people who walked over on the land bridge from Asia are not real Americans, who are?
America refers to a nation – ours. They didn’t have the word or any concept of a modern nation.
They were just living here. We needed to move them and we did.
Accepting them as the real Americans was a tremendous defeat for the real native White Americans. Freedom begins between the ears. So does slavery.
“…the smartest and most well prepared would survive…”
Only long enough to get killed doing something that needed to be done, that no one else thought of, and wouldn’t have done anyway had they thought of it.
He drowns as his boat floats away, carrying a mother and children he had barely met.
Why so negative, China-man? The dead will fertilize the soil where they fall – assuming they aren’t make into official fertilizer as at Waterloo.
You people who undermined our sense of being a people which led to the opening of the borders all share a special blame and place in hell – both leftists, their liberal enablers, and the “conservatives” who funded them and made money off the cheap labor.
Happy New Year everyone.
I read JHK forecast with a sense of trepidation. I was rewarded well.
However, I, along with a few others, believe the forecast to be optimistic. JHK keeps referring to “the people” figuring thinks out and making corrective activity happen..
IMHO, this font of intelligence in this country does not exist. The two sources of economic democratic growth are not intelligent, period. One, our newest folks from south of the border, raised in Socialistic countries, they are products of economic failure. Their levels of education are less than what the USA needs for economic growth. They will continue to come and load down the welfare system. All to provide a lot of illegal votes for the Dems. Two, our illustrious education system that doesn’t. The intelligence levels of kids graduating from high school and college declines every year. The Education Department ordered nation wide testing years ago, and the results are so bad that the testing has been discontinued since Covid. The papers supporting these graduates say they are qualified to take over the country’s economic structure.
Hahahahahahahaha.
Two vexing questions.
Are we living in a time where intelligent people are silenced so that stupid people won’t be offended?
Why are we running out of money for Social Security and Medicare and not for welfare, illegals and free college?
One summary.
There is a coin shortage. America is officially out of common sense.
No.
We are living in a time where the system has decided it is reinventing itself. It decided decades ago.
There is nothing more to it.
The form in which it seeks to reinvent itself is not a form that any of us would vote for or be in favor of. So they are not asking us.
They have and continue to install those who will carry out the plan. And they invert reality through the media organs they own.
They will continue to distract you until the planned collapse has been completed. To participate in the new world, you will have to give up nearly everything.
Unless we say no. The plan is actually very simple to recognize and the perpetrators to identify when one ignores the various distractions.
Unless we say no?
Who exactly is we?
I have not witnessed enough folks smart enough to realize their world is collapsing due to their gimme state.
The people. And I agree.
Trying to stay positive, ofc, but many will sleepwalk right into the trap.
Is working for them compatible with saying no?
I don’t work on any of the associated projects, and I donate and have done my share of protesting.
That old Ayn Rand line comes to mind that to help anyone else, you must first help yourself to some degree.
A man who cannot put food on the table is going to spend all of his time trying to find a way to do that first.
Tell me where you can work that isn’t giving $$ to the .001%.
I would be interested in working for them.
This is the conundrum. Especially depending on one’s field.
They’ve gotten nearly everyone onboard over the past few decades. Even my previous public-sector employers.
Will it change? I hope so.
It takes a heart of fire to stay grey so deep behind enemy lines.
The starving hermit in the woods won’t be able to tell us which direction to prepare for, or which elites may be preparing to rebel, but our man inside can.
To betray such courage ruins the betrayer. End such complaint, I beseech you.
Unless one works for themself, one can’t help but fund the 0.01% to some extent.
Next best thing, try to save a lot and then work for yourself.
S-D, I agree. I’ve been trying to work for myself, but they’ve made it VERY tough.
And of course, as a small (1-person, so far) business, the $$ is unsteady.
As Whitney Webb states in some of her interviews: We must say no.
To which I would add:
While and when we can.
Just reading an extraordinary book, Empire of Cotton: A Global History, by Sven Beckert.
There is much in the story that is relevant to today. The main message, which he makes again and again:
The First Industrial Revolutoin, built on the manufacture of cotton, joined the most advanced technology, in Lancashire, with slavery in the American South.
what made the Industrial Revolution possible was the VIOLENT EXPROPRIATION OF LAND AND COERCED LABOR.
I can see a precedent here, where high-tech notions of trans-humanism require reducing actual humans to slaves and organ farms. But now the lure is accumulation not of capital but of raw power over the earth.
We are seeing expropriation of land in the Netherlands. We see it in another form in the buy-up of farmland by Gates.
Coercion of labor can occur and has occurred in many forms. Replacement of human labor with robots and AIs is also a way of coercing labor.
At this point, as Webb states in an interview with Dr. Mercola that was up at his site today, the aim of the “olis” is not to accrue more money—-they have so much already, having more is meaningless. It is gaining the power to put into place fanatical “utopian” visions of how human society should work. But utopias always turn into dystopias.
One obvious way to say no is to refuse to join the smartphone surveillance /compliance/data provision grid.
So, safe to say that you’re fully trepidated as well as fully vexed now, eh JAZ? Beats being fully vaxxed anyway!
By the way, don’t believe that “no money for Social Security and Medicare” hooey. There’s obviously more than enough for Ukraine and perpetual wars of DC’s own doing, so that dog won’t hunt.
JAZ is one of ours now, betray him not.
LOL! I’m still fighting for his mortal soul, for now at least.
JHK has written an outstanding summary of the state of the world! I can’t even imagine knowing so much.
Agree, but I do find a lot of your posts equally outstanding. Cheers & Happy New Year, Anthea!
@ MaryQueen:
Thank you!
Anthea, When TSHIF there will be a lot of dirty folks needing soap. Have you any experience making soap from wood ash? My project was not very successful, actually it was a disaster. More like shitty/smelly liquid soap.
Sounds like these bars would make a good Krampus stocking stuffers.
Negative value is still value.
@ stelmosfire:
No, I’ve never tried making lye from wood ash. When you make soap to sell, you kind of have your hands full making it the easy way.
It would be hard to make a successful liquid soap using lye made from wood ash, because you wouldn’t know the strength of the lye. That is not too big of a problem when you’re making NaOH bar soap, but it’s absolutely critical with liquid soap. Liquid soap cannot have more than a 3% superfat (the amount of fat left over from what is consumed by the lye). If you have more than 3% superfat in a liquid soap, it will separate.
Try making liquid soap with store-bought KOH. Stick to the recipe, and it’s a breeze. But you’d have to buy the KOH online, as I know of no regular stores that carry it. Brambleberry is a good reliable supplier of soapmaking stuff–and probably has a simple liquid soap recipe you could use.
Thing is I wasn’t trying to make liquid soap! I’ll give Brambleberrys a look. My daughter wants to get into making her own soap. I was trying to be primitive about it since I’m a caveman at heart. Next time I’ll try some Griz tallow. Thanks, Anthea.
@ stelmosfire:
Brambleberry is a really good starting place. Also, join some of the soapmaking groups on Facebook. Have a look at SoapCalc.net, which does all the calculations for you. You just input which fats/oils you want to use, and it tells you how much lye and water to use and allows you to make decisions about water and superfat percentages. I like a very high superfat. I set the superfat at 8% in SoapCalc, but I sub apple cider vinegar for water, which makes the superfat even higher.
Before we had online lye calculators, soapmakers had to calculate how much lye to use with a pencil and paper, after determining the SAP value of each of the fats/oils used. I have done this, and it’s a PITA.
But you can start off with a Brambleberry recipe. (Their recipe blog is Soap Queen.) I think most people start with a recipe they found online. SoapCalc allows you to “turn pro,” so to speak, and create a recipe for your specific needs.
Here is my recipe–though you probably wouldn’t want to start with a recipe with ten different fats/oils/butters.
14 ounces Beef Tallow
7 ounces Coconut Oil
2 ounces Cocoa Butter
2 ounces Mango Butter
2 ounces Shea Butter
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7 ounces Sunflower Oil
3 ounces Canola Oil
3 ounces Castor Oil
0.8 ounces Flaxseed Oil
3 Ounces lavender essential oil or other fragrance
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8 ounces Apple cider vinegar
1 ounce sugar
5.4 ounces lye
3 ounces sodium lactate
This is what happens to you when you start dicking around with SoapCalc. You get OCD about creating the PERFECT recipe.
The sugar is in there because it improves lather. The sodium lactate is to improve hardness and because it’s a humectant. Subbing ACV for water is said to make a milder more gentle soap. Personally, I like to include about 15% butters. This makes a luxury soap. You can even feel it in the raw soap batter; it’s like buttercream frosting, texture-wise. The liquid oils are selected for their high linoleic/linolenic content–which I think should be as high as you dare go. But this stuff is all fine-tuning. I didn’t start out like this. It just kind of mushroomed on me.
Even a very simple homemade soap is so much better than store-bought detergent bars that it will blow you away.
If your daughter gets obsessed–a common problem for soapmakers–have her set up at a local farmers’ market. She’s pretty sure to sell enough to support the addiction.
For colorants, check out Mad Micas. They are great. Brambleberry has some nice fragrances. One of their best is Bali Breeze, which is a fruity floral. Their Sea Salt is also very good–always a top seller for me.
Sorry to go on and on…..
Another really fun thing to do is to make “designer dupe” perfumes, which is easy-peasy.
Wellington sells about a hundred “designer dupe” fragrance oils, which when diluted make perfumes. (I especially like the Jo Malone ones, but they also have a dupe of Armani Code, which the men like.) They sell sample-size bottles so you can check out whether you like them before committing to a big bottle. Some of the non-designer-dupe fragrance oils also make good perfumes. Bali Breeze made a popular perfume.
The way you make a bottle of perfume is to fill a one-ounce spray bottle up to the shoulder with cyclomethicone. Then, using a pipette, squirt 3ml of fragrance oil (or essential oil) into the bottle. Screw on the spray cap and shake. You can sell the shit out of these. People love them. I buy my cyclomethicone from Lotioncrafter.
People also love bath bombs, and Brambleberry has a “how to” on those. They take a little practice.
I make some other products, but I sense it’s time for me to shut up.
Anthea,
Thank you for sharing all of this soap info! I will print this out and check out Brambleberry.
The only thing I’ve read about soap making related to starting with pig fat and using cinnamon for color and scent. They weren’t trying to be fancy, just get clean, as they were in dire circumstances.
Thanks again!
@ mrs_saj:
Lard makes a good, mild soap. The only reason that people don’t commonly make a pure lard soap is because the lather is a little lackluster. You can fix the lather issue by going with about 80% lard and 20% coconut oil. Coconut oil soap produces lots of bubbly lather, but a pure coconut oil soap is too harsh for many people. This is why soap is usually made with several oils. You’re trying to get the best of all possible worlds: gentleness, conditioning, lather, emollience, hardness, etc.
Lard is nice for a liquid soap–which you have to make with KOH lye instead of the regular NaOH lye. One of my main annoyances with liquid soap is that it usually comes out too runny. Lard makes a liquid soap that is just right: not too thick and not too thin.
This info is AMAZING, Anthea. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us!!
Lordy, my oldest sister and brother were raised using lye soap. Who knew the simplest things were so hard?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr_XQjBEgzk
Grandma’s Lye Soap
D’oh! I mean to say “KOH bar soap,” rather than “NaOH bar soap.” The sentence doesn’t really make sense as written.
Trade secrets, Wow! That’s quite a recipe. I think I’ll start on something a little easier . Maybe perfecting cold fusion. Thanks for all the hints!
One reason I don’t mind sharing my recipe is because I’m pretty sure no one will copy it anyway.
Another reason is that–unlike many soapmakers–I don’t think I’m Madame Curie because I can make soap.
@JohnAZ,
“IMHO, this font of intelligence in this country does not exist. “
We’ve spent the last ten years or compiling an endless list of purported victims and “marginalized communities”, who demand ever more reparations and freebies, and make ever more absurd claims. In fact, the real victims who have been genuinely marginalized are the intelligent, capable, principled, and sane.
It’s their voices that have been silenced, their skills and knowledge base that have been denigrated. But when things fall apart, those are the ONLY people who can begin to put them together again. They’ve spent recent years hunkering down and trying to survive, but they’ll come into their own. They’re the font of intelligence that truly does exist.
*or so
@ Rowdypiglet:
The great mystery to me is why the world’s elites, who enjoy unimaginable wealth, would wish to exterminate most of humanity. Is there some desire of theirs that cannot otherwise be gratified–even with all the money in the world and the freedom to go wherever they wish? If they are offended by the crush of humanity in Calcutta, why go there? The earth boasts endless pristine beaches, forests, mountains, and spring-fed streams. Even many of the world’s great cities were charming, if you liked that kind of thing, before the elites’ agendas destroyed so many of them.
It wasn’t that long ago that it was probably delightful to repair to your Upper East Side townhouse in NYC in the spring or fall fashion season, for a month of shopping, dining, attending parties and cultural events, and visiting museums and art galleries. You could get your hair and nails done on Madison Avenue and take the Mercedes convertible out of the garage to drive out to Jones Beach, or visit your friends in the Hamptons. The rest of the time, you could rusticate yourself at your place in Majorca or Tuscany, or go skiing in Switzerland or Aspen.
I’m not seeing how the rest of us are spoiling it for them or standing in the way of their complete happiness to so great an extent that we need to be mostly killed off.
Unless, that is, unless your chief and ultimate pleasure in life is the murder, torture, and ruin of others. After all, if you are truly an “elite” and far above other humans, how are you to feel the good of it if you don’t occasionally bare your claws and go on a murderous rampage? Kind of like the way the Spartans made war on their slaves once a year and killed a lot of them.
There is also a human tendency that I have often observed for inferior people to conceive a burning hatred for capable and intelligent people. The reason for the burning hatred is that capable and intelligent people make them look bad. And I suspect that the “elites” are, in reality, a bunch of inbred morons, and they know it.
I suspect that this is also Jarek’s problem: He’s a loser who’s never accomplished anything, or even attempted to, who detests everyone else here because we have lived lives of worth and accomplishment. (He also fancies himself rather “elite.”) And so his awareness of his own inferiority drives him to include a gratuitous insult in most of his posts. He’s actually a familiar type–probably to most of us: the aunt or sibling or co-worker who can’t bear the sight or presence of intelligent and capable people, and who always makes a point of attacking and ridiculing them, simply because such people make them sensible of their own inferiority.
You devoured your husband much as the Female Mantis devours its mate – starting with the head.
There is so much to hate. Not hating what deserves to be hated is complicity with evil. Yours is pseudo-Christianity at its worst. Like seeing life through dirty rose colored glasses.
@ Jarek:
Sounds like you’ve been watching the Nature Channel on TV.
People who never do anything with their lives are very often the victims of toxic parenting, which is to say that they were discouraged by criticism and made fearful of failure. This is often a control mechanism. Keeps the kiddies from leaving the nest.
It’s actually a form of abuse. When you come from such a family, it behooves you to break the cycle of abuse. Some of your comments suggest that you have been subjected to severe psychological abuse. That shit comes from somewhere–or perhaps I should say from someone. The “inner dialog” is often a tape of your parents’ voices–one or both.
@ Jarek:
Your manner of interacting with people is strikingly unhealthy. Perhaps this is how you function in real-world interactions, in which case it is unsurprising that you appear to have no real-world interactions, due to being shunned. Or–which is probably more likely–you have long been aware that people react to you unfavorably and so have isolated yourself. You could only get away with such behaviors vis-a-vis people who are unable to defend themselves, which would in most cases be children. So, if your family members have children, you are probably not allowed to be around them–though, as I have said, this behavior is almost certainly a family pathology, so you may have family members who believe such behaviors are normal.
You are the quintessential evil old woman. A busybody always watching, snooping and involving herself in other’s business – so helpful! – with a view towards their destruction.
And always smiling – like when you accepted a ride from a man and demonized him in your mind all the way home.
Yes, the world is a largely a white washed grave full of rotting impurity within.. You love these clean surfaces because it allows you to get away with your misdeeds.
Jarek thinks that “old woman” is an insult.
LMAO.
The thing so many men don’t get about women is that we’re mostly OK with ourselves. Seems to me their projection onto women that we are lonely or worried about aging is their own problem.
If I were embarrassed to be old, I wouldn’t preface so many comments with stating my age. I’m happy to be the age I am, and lucky for the privilege to become old. As my dad always said, “consider the alternative.”
I find it an interesting American (or perhaps western) phenomenon that people fear or deny getting old. I see it in a lot of the more pervy men on this site. They think talking like a dirty old man about anal sex and orgies & the like in some weird desperation to seem, what, young? “I have a creepy libido!!! I am YOUNG!” LOL.
In any case, they are laughable.
Thanks for the most convincing comment yet that proves you are a narcissist at the very least and a psychopath at most.
You have described Jarek to a “T”. Well said, Anthea.
He has no worth really in the world, so he hates all of us who do.
Especially women and black people, for reasons I don’t care to know.
I like Clusterfuck Nation but there’s always evidence of “Children of Alcoholic Families” thinking (it’s so automatic for all of us). Specifically, WhoTF does JHK think, from the other side of the criminal Duopoly, is going to ” replace them with people who will follow the law”? Anyone recall the Bush/Cheney debacle? WhenTF did that entity ever “follow the law”? In Iraq? Afghanistan? 911? I’m not saying DAD isn’t a drunk… I’m just not in denial that MOM is, too.
Indeed. And think of how many 9/11-level lies they have put out there in the past 5-6 years.
The shots alone are a crime against humanity that, given the scale, supercedes anything we have seen in human history.
This is the takedown of the West and the start of a New Normal. All planned. They are going for it all.
In Ed Dowd recent interviews, he is talking about some stunning numbers. In the USA, 2,500 excess deaths per day in addition to 5,000 more disabled PER DAY!!. If these numbers are remotely true, this is a catastrophe of historic proportions. I’m sure the numbers for the rest of western civ are similar. We can only hope that the ‘died suddenly’ numbers will decline along with the declining number of people getting boosted.
In Germany, they just announced that the “Übersterblichkeit” (excess mortality) was about 20% for this past year. Which is, ofc, absolutely unprecedented.
I mentioned recently that we live near a hospital. Every day we have 10-15 ambulances rushing by. This number was about 3-4 a week a few years ago.
The latter is anecdotal, ofc, but fits with the reported numbers.
All the new causes for dies suddenly are amusing.
I hear its due to hot an cold weather, artificial sweeteners, climate change, stress, …
Don’t forget gardening, warm showers, and sleeping positions.
It’s so ridiculous that it could be pulled straight from theonion.com.
But that is the point. Flood the town square with sewage.
And so many soccer players having health problems. Not sure if you remember the former Holland and Arsenal player, Marc Overmars, but he has just has a stroke. A very sudden and unexpected stroke.
I remember Overmars.
Night Owl,
I live near a hospital. I’ve had one particular friend who has visited since we bought the house 10 years ago. She lives on 2 acres out in the country on a numbered state road. You know the type of quiet country road. This year she asked why there were so many more ambulances. I hadn’t even noticed.
Yes, it’s hard to hide death statistics. But what of the other end: sterility, miscarriage, birth defects, and SIDS?
Neurological, almost always associated with protein misfolding, inherently has a really long latency period. I suspect we haven’t even seen the biggest wave of mRNA-prompted neurodegenerative disease yet.
Indeed, we have a surfeit of spiteful mutants now.
But when Children of Men comes, the twisted young who survive, having no future to live for, will be sex toys and rage zombies of the State, their hearts filled with vengeance.
Not against their masters and makers, no, who provide them with costumes and a role.
At least that mythical England tried to save itself. The best part of the movie was the endless lines of Muslims behind barbed wire awaiting deportation.
The Black Christ Child was grotesque of course.
Easier to hide.
Five years from now, miscarriages and birth defects up – but will we be in a position to notice, or care?
Twenty years out – I don’t think there is any concern among the Masters of the Universe about their program of genocide becoming obvious.
Today I read of a 32-year-old young man, member of “the tribe” (Wampanoag, that is), who died unexpectedly.
That’s all that was written, aside from the expressions of shock.
No speculation as to the cause of death. But people must be starting to wonder . . .
Generally speaking, when someone dies ‘unexpectedly’ they committed suicide. Very common among males.
total horseshit.
Ah yes, Ed Dowd, the world renowned public health specialist and epidemiologist. C’mon man, the dude picks stocks.
I saw an interview of Dowd recently. Someone on this blog recommended him to me. The numbers sound crazy, but when you spread it across a country of this size, it’s hard for the average joe to notice, unless he (or she) is personally involved in the business of death.
Good point. I went to the gym yesterday. Tons of people working out and nobody died suddenly.
Night Owl
Right on.
However, the Deep State is so arrogant now, especially after the election, that do not even bother to lie any more. Just do what they want and to hell with what people think.
Again, the people are so stupid they do not even realize what is happening, nor care.
Are you that much better? With your: Government bad, Corporations good. They’re the same thing, just the left and right sides of the Pyramid, from a frontal or one dimension view.
Why do you so often reach for the straw man? I have yet to see such a black and white argument from JohnAZ.
John is pretty balanced, even if he did fall for the Corona hoax 🙂
One’s in a mood. Don’t sh*t at the family table, ok?
JHK has it right. The problem is the financial invasion of everything. Corporations are just a part of it. Money is just made with already money, and all this does is add to the debt, both the Deep State’s and individual.
Corporations are influenced by the government, look at the USA that sent all their manufacturing, especially the “dirty” part to China. This corporation movement was to get cheap wages, but also to get polluting industry “over there”. The rust belt remaining elected Trump who promptly forgot about those folks that elected him.
I do not pay much attention to corporate America compared to the government. Not near the influence. Both are woke by the way, so they have basically the same agenda.
John has always railed against Government. He doesn’t know the Beast has two hands. Talks about Capitalism as if it was still mom and pop main street. Doesn’t get that Capitalism has mutated to something else entirely.
I have no idea who you guys are talking about. You’re just not seeing what’s there.
The gremlins are small and sweet when little. The wise keep them that way.
“The problem is the financial invasion of everything.”
Why is it so difficult for people to equate “coerced labor” with usury?
Is your money working for you?
It’s not that your money is working for you: it is your money coercing poorer people to work for you. This is why it is prohibited.
Gremlins indeed.
Your fevered imagination is a crime against humanity. Stop with ‘the shots’ bullshit.
I think that there is an innate desire for justice, not just in humans, but in all animals. Try to pet just one dog when another is there. It’s only fair that they both be petted, in their opinion. Did you ever see the experiment where they reward one monkey with a grape and the other one with celery? Yeah, that didn’t fly. And humans have the same sense of fairness and need for justice.
That is why it is so difficult for us to understand that the levers of power are completely owned by a small class of greedy and psychopathic people. This is not an accident.
The system is set up to reward such people and to discourage the honest and decent from participating.
Yes, a couple raised a chimp as their child. It became too much for them (they’re at least seven times stronger than we are) and the put him in a zoo. Knowing the tribal nature of chimps, they kept him in his own cage, but in view of the other chimps, so they could gradually get used to him.
On his birthday, they came to give their chimp son some birthday cake. The other chimps lost it. He was the low man on the totem pole and he was getting cake? Somehow they got out and tore the couple’s face off.
Extreme resentment leading to mayhem. This is Marxism. That the other chimp had a unique circumstance (a human family) didn’t matter to the untermensch chimps as it doesn’t matter to the agitated proletariat.
Paula’s “justice”!
My comment was in response to rudyspeak’s comment, about the likelihood that there will be justice, when both parties are equally corrupt.
But your Super Power is to turn any comment into one of your obsession, so that you can attack and insult.
Worst Super Power Ever.
@ Paula D:
Jarek’s problem is that he’s overmatched by just about everyone here and is sensible of his inferiority. He displays his lack of self-esteem in the customary way, which is to attack and insult everyone who is injuring his vanity by displaying intelligence, knowledge, experience, and competency.
Marxism is ignorance and evil
Paula is a Marxist
Therefore Paula is
I’ll leave it to you to fill in the blank. It’s called a syllogism. Look it up.
Oh come on. If JarJar wasn’t seeing the world through his cracked lens, we wouldn’t have got the chimp story. Tore their faces off. That’s some serious hunger for justice.
What’s his name? Twilight Zone, Burgess Meredith, librarian, broken glasses…
I don’t believe that chimps “somehow” broke out of their zoo cages in order to tear people’s faces off.
Like the old joke “Up to now, everything was fine.”?
Sounds like someone fed Jarek a tall tale and he fell for it.
Actually, that story happened.
I know because I worked in the animal nonprofit world, and it was a cautionary tale. But the pet chimp did not go to a zoo, he went to a sanctuary.
I still don’t know how the other chimpanzees got out, but they tore off the man’s face, ripped off his genitals and some other gruesome stuff. The chimps were shot by the sanctuary owner.
A really horrid story all around.
But still has nothing to do with what Paula was talking about.
Very cringeworthy attempt at a strawman.
Jarek IS a strawman.
Good boy, Wokey. You’re a good chimp.
“That is why it is so difficult for us to understand that the levers of power are completely owned by a small class of greedy and psychopathic people.”
In a true monarchy, “levers of power” are inacessible to the public. And the keys to the control room are owned by only one family. You’ll never have situations with feeble minded psychopaths in the room fiddling around with the controls to see what happens and attempting to get personal gain coming their way. Situations like this are similar to rules preventing children from flying commercial passenger jets.
“an innate desire for justice, not just in humans, but in all animals.”
Such a nice observation! Thanks.
Please remember dogs are pack animals, with innate hierarchy.
The lead dog is always greeted first, petted first, fed first, otherwise they get confused, undeservedly so.
@ Alzaebo:
I have little experience with dogs, but you see the same thing with goats. They are all about social dominance. The alpha female seems to spend most of her time reminding the others who’s boss. And all the others devote a lot of their energies to enforcing their place in the social hierarchy. So there’s a lot of head-butting.
Humans do much the same thing, except that it’s much more subtle. It’s also carefully concealed by good manners, assuming you are among people who have good manners. But if you’re among less civilized people, it can be as blatant as it is among goats–where you have to leave the PTA meeting by the side door, carrying an empty beer bottle that you are prepared to break.
I have a goat named Daffy who is the dominant goat.
When I take them out to pasture he insists on being in front of the rest. If he stops, they all stop.
This pisses me off and I entreat the others to Break free! You don’t have to live like this! Just walk past him and you will be out where you can roam freely!
It never works. Just like with humans.
But humans do have an innate sense of justice. Even Jarek does, in his own twisted way. That is why he gets so incensed at affirmative action. It offends his sense of fairness.
He would never admit that though.
Paula D,
I am picturing you trying to reason with your goats and it makes me smile. I talk to my dog all the time. I swear she understands me and does the opposite of what I say.
Goats are impervious to reason, scolding, and slaps on the nose.
The goats here are not mine but my daughter’s, and she has always had to get rid of the bucks at some point, as they get uncontrollable and/or destructive. Some go to freezer camp and some get sold. She sold the last one, as he was a pure LaMancha. The trouble with him was that the neighbor’s does went into heat, and he suddenly became an escape artist. He managed to escape three or four times during one work day, and my daughter and her husband had to go drag him home. My son-in-law was ready to shoot him. They finally locked him in a shed until they found a buyer.
Don’t tell the men here, but I usually have my male goats castrated.
Usually it makes them better, but not always.
I first read “The Long Emergency” back in 2005. It’s been interesting to follow CFN over the years and see how things have played out. Jimbo has a gift of being able to throw a lot at the wall in his yearly predictions…some sticks, some doesn’t. At least he’s up front about it, stating right in his first paragraph that he’s often wrong, so take some solice in that and relax. Every year brings increased complexity, supposedly to make our lives simpler, and look where we are today. “Get out of the way if you can’t lend a hand”. I like that, and so I will. Happy 2023, y’all…should be a doozie.
Amazingly coherent and cogent this morning lil’ t! Good for you!
Jim wants rapid change giving TLE validation. Stretch out the years and he has been pretty much right on.
Boy howdy. I didn’t see his claims about peak oil panning out like they are, but they are, meaning he was way ahead of the pack.
Able to see a probability that I couldn’t, and I’m grateful he laid it out plainly enough for me today.
In 2008, when I read TLE for the first time, it scared the hell out of me. I put it down three times before finishing it, being a naive suburbanite at the time. Tried to spread the word To F&F, laughed at.
Not any more.
Still a exurbanite, but out of debt and ready.
Thanks for this essay. I’ve been reading the blog for many years and this is maybe in the top ten hall of fame. Spot on analysis of the energy situation. No use sugar coating that. We got maybe another year or two (if even that) with the current energy paradigm. After that, I don’t see how we can even pretend any longer with business as usual. I personally appreciate the optimism that we can build another way of life as these psychopaths facilitate the collapse. There are too many current articles out right now that simply point out how fucked we are under the thumb of these omnipotent central planners and there’s nothing that can be done about it. How is that helpful?
Despite JHKs discomfort with certain authoritarian aspects of the parasite class’s agenda, he seems completely on board with 15 minute cities wherein the slaves will own nothing and be happy. A few months ago he fawned over King Charles efforts in this regard. JHK also just can’t bring himself to admit that AGW is a scam to control the plebs. Furthermore, he can’t let go of the discredited “Peak Oil” narrative. Show me the EVIDENCE that oil is not abiotic. There is none. That is simply a convenient myth. Enjoy zee bugs and free Netflix in your livable cities. I personally am not having any of it. TPTB can kill me, but I will take a few out in the process rather than comply.
Uh, I would ask you to produce evidence of one barrel of oil that is abiotic. Where is the source of carbon to form the hydrocarbon chains, and what Gaia process forms the carbon bonds. Why are all the oil sources only in certain areas where Mesozoic sea life abounded and the sea bottom muck that forms oil when cooked.
Counter argument.
Say oil is abiotic. How fast does it regenerate? Fast enough or are we running it out. Sorta like Lake Mead.
Hydrocarbons can be formed within the earth’s mantle from iron oxide, calcium carbonate, and water under conditions of high pressure and temperature. Small hydrocarbon chains then polymerize into longer chain molecules (ethane, propane, butane). Russian scientists have used this theory to find and utilize abiotic oil and natural gas since the Cold War. More recently, the process has been recreated in a modern day laboratory: Anton Kolesnikov, et al. “Methane-derived hydrocarbons produced under upper-mantle conditions.” Nature Geoscience; July 2009: 556-570.
Of course, the same “experts” that proclaim the COVID JAB “safe and effective” call this a conspiracy theory.
And those experts are paid by the people who want you diseased and living in a geo-fenced 15-minute city. Side note: Also the same folks who believe the earth is “overpopulated.”
Food for thought. 🙂
That’s the ticket- “Fast enough or are we running it out. Sorta like Lake Mead.”
Too many animals at the waterhole when the drought starts is the problem, not where does the water come from.
Natgas is essential for fertilizer- not that we’re running low on its supply, but on engineer infrastructure chains capable of delivering it.
John,
Are you a geologist?
Are you a chemist?
Or are you merely comfortable because, like the covid karens, you are backed up by a majority in expressing a view that is not native to you.
How do you know, actually, that the origin of oil is biogenic?
How? A lot of very sensible people think it is obviously bollocks.
Did you read the article I linked a couple of weeks ago?
Can’t find same article quickly but here is something else:
httpX://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/on-energy/2011/09/14/abiotic-oil-a-theory-worth-exploring
Don’t forget that “Everyone” thought the sun revolved around the earth. They were so sure they were right, they would kill to prove it. Kind of like testing witches . . .
What do you actually know about it, yourself? I bet: nothing.
What difference does it make if oil is abiotic?
It is limited in quantity no matter where it comes from.
Throwing a toddler tantrum because daddy told you there is no more oil candy won’t do you any good.
There is what you want and then there is reality. Sucks to be you if you can’t grow up and recognize reality.
Actually, it probably sucks to be you anyway.
Since industry will soon be over, so will your Marxism. Every dark cloud has a silver lining…..
It makes a big difference, as it means that oil regenerates. The theory has already been proven in a lab. The question is how much exists and how quickly does it regenerate.
Beyond that man-made fuels are also a possibility for combustion engines, an an avenue that makes far more sense than EV tech., which is arguably more environmentally destructive than the petrochemical industry.
EVs are a transitionto 15-minute cities and no personal transporation. They fit perfectly with the plan for the global plantation. There will be plenty of fuel to power the personal conveyances of your masters, however.
Well, it obviously doesn’t “regenerate” fast enough to provide the amount of oil needed to fuel our current system, or we would just go back and pump Spindletop.
Your magical thinking of endless plenty isn’t based on observed reality.
How would you know how fast it regenerates? The research is ongoing.
And the kicker: Above, you did not even know what abiotic oil production was.
Now you are an expert telling others about magical thinking.
You are very smart.
Interesting: knowledge of the actual origin of “fossil fuels” is held hostage to immediate human needs. Whatever happened to pure science?
Anyhow, as I said in an earlier thread, a true understanding of the origin of oil would surely help in knowing where to look to locate more!
On this subject of peak oil and fossil fuels, the CFN commentariat seems to be fairly ignorant while being sure of being right and scolding. Bad combo!!
Here is one of my posts from a few weeks ago:
Back to abiotic theory of oil.
Just watched this video of Fletcher Prouty discussing the invention of the term “fossil fuel.”
httpXX://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSff0pwc1Xc
Read also the comments there. For instance:
“3 years I drilled for oil all over and not once did any geologist ever call it a fossil fuel. It’s a mineral and there is so much of it. We did core samples in southern Saskatchewan in Canada and had tens of meters of oil soaked cores. I’m talking sweet light crude. Think of that to drill 4000 meters straight down and for 100’s of meters it’s nothing but oil. That’s a lot. But nothing was said they boxed it up and we cemented the well moved the rig off they cut the casing and buried it. Makes you wonder why…cause there is more oil than you can possibly imagine under our feet.”
“My father was a pioneer in offshore oil exploration in the 50s and late in life he told me that there is so much oil in the ground that we could never get it all out, even if we were trying to run out on purpose. There is more oil currently known of and untapped than mankind has used up in all of history.”
“My dad was told many years ago by an engineer who worked for GE–when GE actually made appliances–that virtually everything they manufactured could be made to last, virtually, forever. “The problem,” he said, “is that we’d all be out of a job.” BIG BUSINESS can be as corrupt at BIG GOVERNMENT–sometimes even more so.”
” My Grandpa use to drill back in the 70’s. He said BC is riddled with Natural Gas. They would drill, log it, and cap. I was taking to him about the price of fuel. He said it’s all a big plan. Canada should have pipelines running from east to west, and never have to buy a single drop of oil from over seas. They don’t want that though. They want you to buy oil from over seas, and it comes from Saudi Arabia. The kicker is cause of the laws that the liberals put in place, no tankers on the west coast. So that tanker now has to sail in the other direction… the long way around ”
Here is another gem (in the context of the “cap” on the price of Russian oil):
“When I was in college studying Industrial Engineering, maybe it was an economics class, I’m not sure, but the professor proceeded to teach us all of the algorithms that people came up with to determine pricing of products. Maybe a lot of PHD theses, I don’t know their origin. When he got done going through all of the algorithms, he then told us, “You can forget all of that because pricing of products is really quite simple. You charge what you can get.” ”
Ha ha.
Plenty to mull over.
If you think about it for an instant, the term “fossil fuel” is ridiculous. A fossil is stone. Not oil. A layer of plant material that is compressed in some way would not turn into a fossil. It only turns into a fossil if minerals dissolved in water are deposited in the plant so as to preserve the appearance of the plant.
Here is a definition of fossil from an Australian museum:
httpXX://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/how-do-fossils-form/
“The term fossil literally means ‘dug up’, which comes from the Latin word fossilis. A fossil refers to any remains or traces of past life that are preserved in the rock record. Fossils include the organisms remains, such as plant or animal tissues, shells, teeth or bones and even bacteria (!), but can also include traces of life such as foot prints or worm burrows. Fossils tell us about the history of life on Earth, which we refer to as the fossil record.”
The page goes on to explain the five ways a living thing can become a fossil.
None of this has anything to do with oil, except the fact that oil is extracted from the ground.
I am starting to wonder whether the oil qua fossil fuel thing is a huge psy=op and mind-fuck. Coal is obviously closer to the concept. Still, it doesn’t seem to be formed by any of the five processes described by the Australian Museum.
If fossil fuels really came from fossils, wouldn’t we be looking to paleontologists to explain and find more oil?
It seems far more likely that oil is a mineral with traces of organic matter mixed into it.
There is also a paper to download by Prouty, Oil: A Renewable and Abiotic Fuel. .
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Here is a graf from the Prouty paper:
“Since oil is lighter than water, everywhere on Earth, there is no way that petroleum could be an organic, fossil fuel that is created on or near the surface, and penetrate Earth ahead of water. Oil must originate far below and gradually work its way up into well-depth areas accessible to surface drilling. It comes from far below. Therefore, petroleum is not a “Fossil” fuel with a surface or near surface origin.”
Here is my comment with the interestingn long article:
““It doesn’t matter where oil comes from, it matters how renewable it is
Actually, to a scientist of course it matters where it comes from. You seem to be conflating a scientific issue with a political one. A “pure science” approach to solving the mystery might yield better research than one that prejudges the economic ramifications of the answer.
Here is an article that sets out the main arguments for each hypothesis as to the origin of oil:
httpXX://web.archive.org/web/20110706112841/http://trilogymedia.com.au/Thomas_Gold/usgs.html
“Interesting: knowledge of the actual origin of “fossil fuels” is held hostage to immediate human needs. Whatever happened to pure science?”
The term itself is suggestive of the absurdity of the central idea behind it.
‘Abiotic oil’. Is there no amount of bullshit you WON’T accept and prosetylise?
Yeah, you would think that if oil was renewable, all the pumps would be going in the oil regions, Permian basin for example, sucking up all that renewed oil supply. You would think that fracking would never have started if renewable oil existed. Why are we drilling a mile deep in the ocean if renewable oil was available. Why are we freezing our asses off in the Arctic if the oil is available here.
If abiotic exists, it is trivial and will not make much difference.
Finally, I just read up on the abiotic theories. I will not judge other than to say, like climate control, the proponents are looking at data and fitting it to their theories.
Assuming the abiotic process works, and that is an enormous stretch considering all the things that must happen to make one drop of oil, how fast does it generate. Remember Peak oil is the availability of affordable oil by definition. The problem will exist. Like Lake Mead with water, as the usage rate far exceeds its availability. In other words, who cares.
This is the same type of argument as “If there were a conspiracy behind Dallas/9-11/Covid/ et Cetera, someone would have talked about it.”
Shows only the limitations of the speaker’s thinking.
A long time ago I used to hear stories told by a fellow who was a salesman for Caterpillar heavy equipment company. He was selling Caterpillar machines in Europe back when construction started for building North Sea oil drilling platforms. He was visiting the sites where they were putting together the giant steel structures for offshore oil drilling platforms. Caterpillar was manufacturing specialized forklifts and other machines just for use in offshore drilling platform construction. At this time he was telling us about past work experiences, we were all sitting around on a deck in Ohio drinking wine.
Someone brought into the conversation about how so long ago right next door in Pennsylvania, they were using crude wooden drilling platforms coming from lumber milled in local sawmills. Nothing high tech going on there at all. No need for any complicated steel machinery. The oil under their feet was under so much pressure that the lucky drillers could hit a gusher with oil spraying in the air and covering up the faces of the guys out there in their overalls. And they were laughing and dancing like crazy, going nuts like a bunch of wild Indians drinking fire water. Just like prospectors do when they hit a mother lode gold vein. That black stinky stuff flying in the air was black liquid gold. And we’ve long since blown all that Pa crude out our tailpipes and turbines. We used it for lubricating engines. But it’s mostly gone, and it’s not much point now contending about how the oil got down there in the ground in the first place. It’s not coming back, at least not in our lifetimes. We’ll look back at all this and realize our forebears pigged everything up, wasted a good portion of it in senseless warfare, leaving us only enough in year 2050 to run garden tillers and mopeds.
Those wells got sucked dry a long time ago in Western Pa. Gushers don’t occur in any of today’s movies. The public knows damn well the age of gushers is long gone. Go to a drilling site now and you’ll either be out in the ocean or you’ll be on land in a very noisy place with multiple giant hydraulic pumps running with locomotive sized turbodiesel engines driving the fracking pumps. And those pumps run 24 hours a day, smashing rock down in the wells to get the oil flowing. There will be many techicians employed in this high tech process, going around with clipboards and inspecting guages and pipes and valves etc. Sometimes a giant diesel engine will break down and be pulled out for a rebuild or service. Cranes will be there loading or unloading stuff from oversized 18 wheelers. Giant machines that had come in by rail and then trucked to the well site. Let’s face it, the easy oil is gone.
Well Woodchuck, you are right. But they don’t want to face reality.
The abiotic oil people go straight from “It’s not a fossil fuel” to “There is an unlimited supply of it. The reason they are no longer drilling that sweet oil in Texas and Pennsylvania and California is simply a conspiracy meant to keep prices high.
They could go back and drill in the easy places, but they prefer to go to the ocean near Alaska, just for shits and giggles”.
And if you don’t believe that they call you the conspiracy theorist.
Why should we give you evidence when you don’t have brains to understand it?
“Fawned over” is rude and untruthful. He merely pointed out that King Charles has a long history of supporting the small and local that began with his promotion of E. F. Schumacher’s book “Small is Beautiful” many years ago. It’s not unreasonable to speculate that he might not be on board with the WEF, and he has certainly never shown any affection for “15 minute cities”; quite the contrary. He has been a consistent friend of the countryside and of villages his entire adult life.
What’s wrong with 15 minute cities?
I used to live in San Francisco and what I liked about it was that everything I wanted and needed was in walking or trolley distance.
No car needed, and I liked that a lot.
As I understand it, the 15 minutes refers to the time it will take to access any amenity you could want or need.
People prefer driving, traffic, parking, car crashes and smog to having everything nearby?
I don’t understand that.
I think it’s the surveillance and CBDC control that comes along with it.
Its the diversity that comes with it.
The tribal ones will show no mercy to whites, who are the most welcoming and inclusive of all. We are the only ones who treat other tribes as we treat our own.
So stupid are we that we abandon our children to face hostile packs, that we might win imaginary accolades from liars who hated us from the beginning.
Alzeabo…great, another Klan member. CFN keeps attracting the worst.
If RR is against you, you know you’re on the right side.
No doubt he attends lodge with great men, perhaps even Schwab himself once or twice.
“No car needed, and I liked that a lot.”
I am in complete agreement, having spent time living with a girl friend in the West Village of lower Manhattan 40 years ago riding the subway or walking everywhere.
I have now lived in rural Utah for over 30 years and I could not survive without my pick-up truck to haul supplies to my small ranch. To each his or her own. I just don’t want Klaus Schwab or anyone else dictating my lifestyle or what I put into my own body.
I know, it’s for the collective good that my carbon footprint is zero, so I should just grow up and lose the individualism BS….
Do you think Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab are going to set an example by limiting their carbon footprint and living in a 15-minute zone?
Hooray, Green Alba! I was about to ask if anyone had seen my girl.
I abase myself. I must beg pardon.
Your servant dares dream too much, when his queen is away. Such effrontery is intolerable.
I meant only to say, our Highness, our Glorious Sovereign, the Queen of all our hearts…
I think you need a nice, calming cup of tea, Alzaebo. 🙂
I have missed GA also.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, GA.
I hope it has been a good one for you.
Thank you, Mary, I had a very nice Christmas and hope you did too. We don’t really do anything at New Year and this year my husband is working NY’s eve and NY’s Day so we’ll be bothering even less than usual.
Slugoon, as a Sassenach, could wish you a Happy New Year now, but tradition forbids me as, north of the border, we wait until ‘after the bells’. Bad luck or something, otherwise. 🙂
I can wish you a Happy Hogmanay, for tomorrow – that’s allowed!
My relatives lived in rural Utah. Many years ago, I would visit the town of about 100 people they lived in.
There was a general store there, a tiny store that stocked the basics. It also had a gas pump outside and it doubled as the town post office.
That is because cars were few and people walked to that store when they needed food or their mail.
But as cars became more ubiquitous the store went out of business, because people drove 30 miles to a bigger store with 30 varieties of cereal, instead of 3.
Also, I hear that the town of 100 has now sprawled into thousands of people living there and driving over the mountain into Provo, where the US government operates a giant spy center.
When I was a kid driving over that mountain was an all day affair, since the narrow dirt road was rutted.
But the taxpayers paid for a multi-lane freeway going over the mountain and now people “choose” to live in the former tiny town, where people knew everyone there and I used to get stopped when I walked around, by people wanting to know whose child I was.
Forgive me if I scoff at the “free choice” people insisting that the reason they live this way is because they want to, and not because their environment was shaped by their overlords to push them into their “choices”.
Thanks, GA. I love that you have a New Year’s Day superstition!
I don’t have a car at all, but I don’t like the idea of living my life by permission of some AI bot that tells me how many times a year I can go to the zone 25 minutes’ walk away where my daughter lives. For instance. And which will eventually stop me seeing her at all if I don’t get jabbed again. The 15-minute infrastructure is part of the electronic surveillance and control system.
Just because the trials are currently about limiting car journeys doesn’t mean that eventually you won’t be imprisoned in your zone even as a pedestrian, especially if they find out that people are meeting people in other zones to er … conspire (talk about the ‘government’).
Thank you. Once again, you lay out what I wanted to say, but was too lazy to.
It’s not about having a nice walkable neighborhood, it’s about what goes along with it.
It doesn’t have to be that way though.
When I lived in SF no one stopped us from leaving the city, or driving.
It’s just that everything was so convenient, and driving was such a pain in the butt. Not just from the traffic or the hills, which made driving a stick shift a real pain, but from trying to find a parking space. There were a couple of hundred thousand more cars than there were parking spaces, so driving anywhere meant a whole lot of time looking for a parking space.
I read about a 90 year old woman who had been born in SF and never left it in her entire life. She just never had a need to leave.
I agree that Big Brother telling us that we can’t leave the neighborhood is an entirely different thing from arranging neighborhoods to be pleasant and walkable.
But you can have one without the other.
That might be an interesting test case. If you read about an elderly buy riding his bike outside his 15-minute infrastructure circle it may be me!
We will stand up for you when the Zoning Police come for you, oleCasey. Although by that time it might be armed robot dogs snapping at your bicycle clips.
Easy, Paula.
The Big Box store, including malls, destroyed the walk up retail market with economy of scales. Many warnings were put out when Walmart started taking over, but in the environment of stupidity and greed, it fell on deaf ears.
When I lived in LA, I was in a neighborhood that was considered by the people who rate these things a 97% walkability rating. It was pretty great, and quite unusual for LA.
Everything I needed was within 1/2 mile or so, including hiking up in Griffith Park.
Paula,
You could leave your assigned “zone” if you wanted to, right?
In fact, you didn’t have an assigned “zone.” That is the difference.
As for Prince Charles, yes, he has always been a friend to the English countryside.
But he is also a significant frontman and spokesperson and keynote speaker for the WEF. How those two things parse is a question, but both things are true.
httpX://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj5cB_TtGAA
Yes, I just responded to that upthread.
I agree that limiting people from leaving is outrageous.
I just don’t see anything wrong with having pleasant neighborhoods.
Another problem is that in cities currently, the crime rates are soaring.
So that doesn’t make me want to live in a city, no matter how walkable it is.
That is true. The population has gone full-on feral.
I don’t know how to fix that, so best to avoid it.
Rowdypiglet
“It’s not unreasonable to speculate that he might not be on board with the WEF […]”
It was Charles Windsor who announced his pet project, the Great Reset, at Davos. He’s a radical malthusian and up to his eyes in WEFery.
Royalty may be grasping at straws to maintain their position of authority.
I remember that Europe at Times was run by one monarchial family, so globalism is old hat for them.
Charles better be very careful with his global instincts, I know there is a big contingent in GB who wonder if they even need the Family any more. The folks hated the EU enough to vote it out, the king better not hurt too many folks with WEF stupidity.
Yes. I think maybe Charles sshoujld cool it on the WEFfuckery.
The Brits are nearing the end of their tether already.
I used to think of him as a harmless eccentric who talked to plants. No more. I can’t even bring myself to refer to him as anything other than Charles Windsor. To even write his full title would give him a legitimacy and authority I don’t have any inclination to give him. And you’d have to hold a gun to my head to get me to sing That Anthem.
Not to mention that he enveigled a 19-year-old into marriage with him while he was aleady engaged in an affair he had no intention of ending with someone else’s wife. A right royal scumbag of the first water.
Loving the countryside as he does, this is how he treated his tenants living in the Duchy of Cornwall. .
theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/09/prince-charles-vetted-laws-that-stop-his-tenants-buying-their-homes
Add to that the fact that the Windsors are a bunch of vaxx pushers. I wonder why.
His father wanted to be reincarnated as a pandemic to kill millions or something, didn’t he?
Yes, he said he’d like to be reincarnated as a lethal virus to reduce human numbers. I read he actually said it in the Foreword to a children’s book!!!
Aspen, JHK has long been a champion of walkable, human scaled neighborhoods, where most of a person’s every day needs could be met with in a 15-20 min walk. “Geography of Nowhere” was published in 1993 and a 20th anniversary version released in 2013. There is also “Home From Nowhere” and “City in Mind.” “The Kunstlercast” was put together by Duncan Crary; it’s a transcript of many of the podcasts he and JHK did in the sights, walkable neighborhoods was one of many topics discussed. (I still miss the old Kunstercast form. :-()
In the 1990s and aughts New Urbanism was kicking off as city planners started looking at what they could do to restore the walkable neighborhoods left behind by suburbia. At the time I had high hopes for a resurgence of such neighborhoods. But alas and damn, New Urbanism has too often become synonymous with gentrification that prices out working people of more modest means. Remodels with high end finishes and higher rents; and tear downs and rebuilds of truly ugly modern buildings. Oddly, they all look eerily the same. I swear there is one architect firm doing all of them.
The commercial part of these developments offer the basic necessities of life such as of Starbucks, maybe a local coffee joint or two, restaurants, bars, hot yoga, regular yoga, day spas, hair salons and trendy barbers; maybe a Whole Foods and CVS. Sometimes a less expensive but still “cool” grocery like Trader Joe’s. If there is a hardware store, it will be stocking stuff to appeal to the Anthropologie shoppers. If you are looking for items needed to fix a leaky faucet, out of luck.
But if you look around, especially in old inner ring suburbs and small cities, you can still see some bones of the walkable neighborhoods that once existed. Where I live there are still old buildings that were once grocery stores, barbers and hair salons, drug stores, etc. All of these are within two miles of downtown; many have been repurposed into offices and other uses. But the infrastructure still exists here for a small walkable city.
Unfortunately it’s now surrounded by miles of suburbs and exurbs, with developers chomping at the bit to pave over and build on every empty scrap of ground they can find. I don’t get it. Do these people really believe happy motoring will continue forever and ever? Or are they laundering money?
I lived in SF so long ago that there was a hardware store on Castro Street that sold everything you might want from a hardware store.
And there was a lumber store on the next block from my house.
I delivered imported cheese all over the Bay area in the 90s. Even then, my civnat soul shriveled at the sight of once-lovely, handcrafted bungalows turned into ghetto slums by the “underserved.” Trash, tires, jacked cars, shabby bums, all of it.
How else to keep the money flowing by forcing the whites to flee, and flee, and flee yet again? Unable to build up society’s savings capital, as they are forced over and over to buy the same things- homes- and all that goes with it.
People think political campaigns against “the privileged people” are displays of mindless virtue signaling.
They are not. They are the coldest form of calculated piracy.
Exactly, capitalism requires growth. In the USA, that has been the transposition of ethnic groups moving away from ethnic groups.
JHK has repeated many times that TLE will be the reaction to no growth or negative growth economies. It is coming.
A body that keeps growing is known to be sick – sick unto death. But somehow economies have to keep growing? Any system that is dependent on that is a failed one.
The irony was that urban renewal projects usually destroyed existing thriving and walkable neighborhoods. The main example of this that I’m aware of was the urban renewal of downtown Kansas City, Kansas, which was in the 50s or 60s. The city took a thriving little shopping district full of a wide variety of small businesses–which it forced out–and created a wasteland of empty store-fronts and bizarrely arranged roadways that were an obstacle course to drive through. (Yes, people formerly drove to the downtown area to shop.)
The only reason I know what happened to KCK’s downtown is because one of my relatives owned a store there. Even in the 80s he was still bitter about how the city shut him down and kicked him out, and destroyed a thriving little business.
Yes, in the documentary Taken For A Ride they showed how the freeway system destroyed thriving cities.
I actually lived right by Hwy 101 when I lived in SF. That is, I lived where it suddenly stopped, right by Market Street. (Then they tore that part down after the 1989 earthquake).
I never knew why it stopped so abruptly until I watched Taken For A Ride.
Apparently the mayor at the time, (maybe Alioto?) listened to the irate citizens of San Francisco, and put a stop to the feds knocking out the heart of the city to put in a multi-lane highway.
That gave SF a few more decades of livability than cities like LA or Detroit.
Now, of course, it sucks, even without a freeway.
Also, there are a few American cities who still have their old pre-auto cores, like SF, NYC and Chicago
It is no accident that those are tourist destinations. Or were, before they descended into crime and destitution.
No one ever goes to the suburbs of those cities as a tourist.
They have no charm or attraction.
Also New Orleans.
In Kansas City, Missouri, the downtown and the corridor between downtown and Crown Center has been massively gentrified. The whole area was virtually a ghost town for decades. There were very few retail store left downtown. About all that was left were government buildings. Now the downtown is the Power and Light District, which is largely night life for young people, and expensive condos from the River Market all the way to Crown Center. The River Market was around for decades before gentrification.
My theory is that the area was deliberately allowed or encouraged to decline until some investors with deep pockets were able to buy it up for pennies.
Have you seen Catherine Austin Fitts talk about the 2020 riots?
She noted that the areas burned were the areas that were ripe for gentrification.
Poor people lived in those areas, with Dollar Generals and nail salons and taquerias and car repair places and pawn shops.
The rioters burned them all down, the people had no insurance to rebuild, and the land sold for pennies on the dollar.
The standard mafia way of business, with antifa and BLM doing the dirty deed.
In Minneapolis, where the riots started, the taxpayer paid for stadium bought up a lot of the former poor areas and turned it into a parking lot.
Weirdly enough, while I was typing this, a old-time song came on the radio that I didn’t recognize at first.
The words were something about how Paris and Rome were no longer as good as they had been. I told my husband “He should see them now! They are pigpens, especially Paris”.
And then the rest of the song was “I left my heart in San Francisco”. Which city is probably worse than Paris now, if that’s even possible.
The destruction of the beautiful cities that our ancestors built is really a shame.
I thought Fitts’s main speculation about the riots was that they took place on main thoroughfares that were slated for the installation of 5G infrastructure. So the buildings were prepped for demolition by rioters and eminent domain takings for 5G.
“It’s hard to contemplate 2023 without spiraling into nausea, tachycardia, and cold sweat.”
‘The Indispensable Nation!’ is like an unfortunate soul who has been given a ‘Terminal’ prognosis. This is a deeply sick and troubled place. And there are no Doctors in the House that can be trusted to do anything other than make America and the World sicker.
“The US leadership dynamic is truly mystifying…”
That’s what Deep State does. Deep State Gotta Deep State. Run the World from the shadows and hide like rats below the street manholes to stay out of sight. With an apology here to actual street rats.
“All you can really say is that the folks running things have hijacked every module of our nation’s interests and tilted them down into decadence and ruin.”
And yet people say that nothing ever gets done. Really? Damn good job here going on of effing everything up for Their fun and profit.
“… the world is heading toward a Great Re-set.”
Every single day the World re-sets. Quantum physics proves as much. The question is always does it reset into Their Demonic Version of the World or does it set itself into the Vision of the Remnant Sane.
“The ‘Green New Deal’ based on a combination of wishful thinking and self-destructive malice…”
It’s more like the Lean Bad Deal being forced upon a tortured and angry and beaten-down collection of Earthbound Souls whose main sin seems to be that we just want the Predator Class to leave us the hell alone. Which They won’t, of course. Deep State Gotta Deep State.
“… It leads to economic conditions worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s… Civil disorder ignites. The government attempts lockdowns…”
If We the People submit to these ‘lockdowns’… the problem is with We the People. If We are that effing stupid to Follow The Leaders right into the bowels of Slavery Hell, then We get what We deserve for being so utterly stupid. And We will be as stupid as They already think we are.
“The Deep State is for real — the weaponization of a national bureaucracy against the nation itself.”
Yes it is. But one must never lose sight of the Deeper State… the sick puppeteers that pull the strings of the Deep State bureaucracy. They are self-deluded False gods who think the World was created only for Them and that We the People are just filthy bugs messing up the place.
“Most major religions feature some version of the idea of death-and-rebirth…”
Nothing ever stays the same. The question is always… what is the trend line? Is it changing in a positive or negative direction.
And the thing to always remember is that the person who always has the biggest influence over your life is not Klaus Effing Shrub or anyone else but… YOU. You are always the greatest influence over your own life. And You decide your own trend line.
May the Great Spirit lead and sustain us all in the grand tug-of-war over the future of Our Planet in the New Year and always.
And the thing to always remember is that the person who always has the biggest influence over your life is not Klaus Effing Shrub or anyone else but… YOU!
But finding other people to blame things on is a hell of a lot easier.
Indeed. Clot-shot mandate and digital currency/ID advocates such as yourself are always the first to do as you are told.
There is a word for these sorts of people. I am sure it will come to me …
You know more about me than I do myself. That or you can’t except that plastic cards are digital money because that is all I ever claimed.
The word that should come to mind is paranoid because that be you.
The working phrase is “central bank digital currency.”
Credit cards are not digital currency. Central banks do not create the credit that you use when you use your credit card. You have to pay your bill from some bank account that you have in which you have deposited funds from a source that is not the central bank.
No it isn’t, you claimed that we already have digital money in the form of credit cards, so CBDCs are no big deal.
Credit cards are tied to dollars, euros, etc. Dollars, euros, etc. are not CBDCs.
You are an idiot.
What is Central Bank Digital Currency? Beyond the fact that it’s a fancy sounding name… this Bankster conjured abomination is simple: IT IS OUR WEEKLY ALLOWANCE FROM DADDY (GOV).
Daddy will give us our Allowance as long as we behave! and keep our mouth shut! If we don’t do that… DaddyGov takes away our allowance and we get nothing. Not even supper. We get sent our rooms to ponder our transgression. And then DaddyGov decides how we will be further punished.
‘Oh Daddy… I’m SO SO SORRY!…PLEASE give me my Allowance again. I’ll BEHAVE!’
accept
I will add that despite the obvious lack of verifiable evidence industrial CO2 production is a significant contributor to climate, Homo sapiens is obviously polluting and overpopulating the earth. Problem is Bill Gates, Larry Fink, King Charles, Jeff Bezos, etc. could care less about the environment or social justice. ESG is just their smoke screen to distract the masses while they gain total control over all of us and what is left of this beautiful, finite earth ship.
This comment is contradictory to your other comment. Are you the same person?
Nah, the hoi polloi are positioning themselves for survival.
Jim you’ve left out one of the biggest drivers for the acceleration in the desperation of the leadership of the west, the Belt and Road. In 2018 27 of 28 EU countries were exploring B&R deals with China. Italy, Greece, and Poland were looking at huge infrastructure and trade investments. With abundant energy supplies in Russia, propelling the new trade routes, the US stood to lose all influence in Europe. Obama’s pivot to the East in the teens was a failure. The US could not break China’s grip on its neighbors.
What was the reaction of the US? Plug in all new compromised leaders of the EU countries. Back the Green Parties that championed dismantling the energy infrastructure in favor of unproven green technology. Then break globalism with the COVID outbreak and push Ukraine into a war with Russia.
Hmm so the US destroys Europe to save the reserve currency. Then US businesses can play vulture capitalism picking over the corpse. Meanwhile as you clearly state the Shale revolution is ending and by 2025 there will be little excess nat gas to sell.
These decrepit leaders of the west are dangerously running out of workable ideas. They just want to keep their ill gotten gains, Republicans included.
One comment.
Our elected leaders are politicians, lifetime failures, stupid and amoral.
Extrapolating from where we are, the West, the WEF, has shot itself in the foot by cutting off Russia. The EU freezes, Russia sniffs and looks East.
Have you been watching the love fest between Putin and Xi this last week. Joint naval exercises in the China Sea? Xi pats Putin on the back now that Ukraine is stabilizing, Putin to pat Xi on the back for Taiwan stabilizing.
This is simple, neither group fear the US any more and Europe is starting to realize it.
You are Biden, who has personally messed with the world to favor his Mob, and the world has now told him to eff off. What to do?
My cousin’s son, Theo, died suddenly today. He was 18 years old.
Theo went to California in the fall on a baseball scholarship. He had to return to Canada after developing clots in his throwing arm. Theo was a catcher.
Obviously, our family is devastated.
RIP Theo.
My condolences to you and your family.
Do they realize the cause? Or are they going with “sudden and unexpected” and “baffled”?
They are indeed baffled while I bite my tongue.
That is what I did when my niece’s friend delivered a stillborn baby girl.
Very sorry to hear that, OG. Mind boggling at age 18. Condolences to your family.
Thank you, GA.
I’m so sorry for your families’ loss.
My condolences to your family and to you Duane. It is so unimaginably criminal what is occurring right now with these injections.
That’s terrible. So sorry for your family’s loss.
play deadly games etc
I have heard similar from 2 families. clots but not deadly.
So sorry., Saskwatch.
The bastards hide behind the curtain of no knowledge. How much money is spent by Pharma med hiding what they have done?
OMG, I am so sorry to hear this.
Absolutely terrible.
Will your cousin have an autopsy done?
I hope so.
My cousin’s son, Theo, died suddenly today. – SaskWatch
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I hate hearing about people who die “before their time.”
Your news also makes me nervous since I have a 9 y/o grandson named Theo. I know, it’s just a coincidence but nevertheless……….
So very sorry, SaskWatch. What these colleges are requiring of their students is nothing short of criminal. Keep telling Theo’s story.
How awful. My condolences to you and your family SaskWatch. May Theo’s memory be eternal.
This is really hilarious, if you want to have a laugh. Tulsi eviscerates George Santos for his lies, and then Jimmy does the same on Biden.
https://youtu.be/NsVgTbP5pPs
The hilarious thing about Nitrogen is that every human being is a Nitrogen factory! Our urine is a fantastic source of N! I have grown 100+% of all my vegetables for 14 years and guess what I fertilize with? And there isn’t even a yuck factor. You dilute ~10x. Most of us guzzle significant amounts of coffee — another excellent source of N. Another source of N is blood! Yeah hat’s where our future N has got to be coming from. Governments never pass on the opportunity to take our blood!
And the atmosphere is 80% nitrogen, to boot.
We just need those nitrogen fixing plants to help us along.
That’s why George Washington Carver advocated alternating soybeans and corn, and also growing peanuts.
There are plenty of ways to grow food that don’t involve $1,000,000 tractors running over miles of farmland to grow “commodities” to export or feed to animals in feedlots.
Cue the tantrums of those who want things to stay just like they are, dammit!!
They’re entitled to cheap meat made from tortured animals fed on feed that takes 9 calories to grow 1 calorie, dammit!
Soy is not good for you. Corn not great either unless combined with well-rounded meals that contain proteins.
You are not going to feed the world on peanuts and soy. Human dietary needs are complex, and feeding lots of people requires machinery.
You could be right about that, NO. Many people have pointed out that the earth’s population before fossil fuels was about one billion.
That means that the 7 billion people added since fossil fuels were tapped cannot be fed without them.
Most people do not make the leap that you do, however, that since we need fossil fuels to feed 8 billion people, it follows that the fossil fuels are therefore available.
That is Magical Thinking again.
I just gassed up the 540i for EUR 105. Nothing much has changed since I learned to drive except the continent I live on.
This fact is what scared the hell out of me reading TLE the first time.
Soy is good for you if it’s not GMO. Edamame is really good for you, so is fermented soy.
That is true, Mary. Though soy as a staple still needs to be balanced out with other sources of vitamins and minerals.
There is also research that shows that excessive quantities of soy causes hormonal imbalances.
It’s great to eat if you are a woman with hot flashes, actually.
I had a little bag roasted soy beans for lunch a few years ago, at work. My hands swelled up after a few hours and I went to ER instead of going home. They had to cut my wedding ring off and give me a shot of something. I was told I was allegic to them. No more for me.
Wow that sucks! I love soy sauce and edamame.
Not that I eat it a lot, but I like it and it’s great low-fat protein.
A billion Chinese can’t be wrong!
Only fermented soy is good for you.
According to the Weston A Price Foundation.
httpX://www.westonaprice.org/soy-alert/#gsc.tab=0
I do not eat any more soy products if I can help it (soy is in just about everything, but if you don’t eat processed foods you can generally avoid it).
I used to make homemade tempeh years ago. I got the directions from “The Book of Tempeh,” by William Shurtleff, which is very detailed.
After you soak the beans and rub/rinse away the outer husks, you inoculate the beans with tempeh starter (fungus spores) and put them in plastic freezer bags with a zillion holes poked in them. So now you have a bunch of freezer bags, each containing a 1/2″ thick layer of inoculated beans. Then you place the bags in a egg incubator and set the temperature correctly for tempeh-making (which I can’t remember offhand). You leave the bags in there for several days. The tempeh-starter spores grow into a mushroom-like fungus that penetrates all through the beans and makes them hold together in a kind of cake.
It’s a really cool process.
Homemade tempeh is delicious, with a mushroom-like flavor. Store-bought is pretty much crap by comparison.
You prepare tempeh by marinating in soy sauce and lemon juice and then using it in stir-fries. It’s also good lightly fried in oil.
But my copy of The Book of Tempeh fell apart 15-20 years ago, as did my styrofoam egg incubator. An egg incubator is perfect for making tempeh, and probably a number of other things, like yogurt, because you can set the temperature as needed for different things. I used to put bread in the incubator to rise, if the weather was cold.
Thinking about this is making me want to buy an egg incubator and make some tempeh. The trouble is, an incubator is kind of bulky, so it’s difficult to figure out where to store something like that.
Maybe I should open a tempeh shop–or, better yet, a tempeh and noodle shop. I’ve heard of weirder things. I mean, who would ever think anyone would like hummus? Tahini and chickpeas?
Schizandra tea would go good with that.
@Anthea, I think that’s a great idea (the tempeh store).
And thanks for breaking down the process, I had no idea.
@ MaryQueen:
Thanks for being interested! I can get long-winded about stuff that interests me.
Diet lesson, NO.
All human groups have a combination of vegetables that together provide the 13 amino acids to build and maintain protein.
Mexico? Beans and corn.
Eggs are rated the best protein source scoring 100 out of 100, meats are farther down the rating list.
Beans are not sufficient. Mexicans eat lots of beef, pork, and chicken.
I’m an egg man, myself. But definitely not the Walrus. Koo-koo-ka-choo!
I’m definitely an egg person. I don’t like meat, so that works out well for me.
You can get enough protein on beans, legumes, grains and eggs for sure.
“feeding lots of people requires machinery.”
This implies that people cannot feed themselves, but someone else has to do it. “We” have to feed 8 Billion people.
It is of course true that some billions cannot grow their own food. But the more people do grow food, the easier it is to feed the billions with less invasive agricultural practices. in the USSR it was the peasant’s small vegetable plots that produced some large percentage of food for the populace.
Regarding nitrogen, during the civil War, when the Confederacy was running short of saltpeter for gunpowder, it was the patriotic duty of those on the home front to save their urine.
Here is a little film with some great vintage photos:
httpX://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8RXiioXKkk
@ Night Owl:
I’m not sure that “lots of machinery” is really needed to feel lots of people. I think a better solution would be a nation of small farmers, with maybe about half the population farming and the other half engaged in small business, manufacturing, and trades.
You can get a picture of such a world by looking at the Sanborn Fire Insurance maps from 1900 and 1910. If you look at the fire insurance map of, say, Odessa, Missouri, for 1900 or 1910, you see a thriving little town with about the same number of businesses then as it has now, with about one-third the population. (I’ve posted about this before, so apologies for the repetition.)
Odessa was a small rural town with a population of under 2,000, yet it offered almost everything in the way of consumer goods that was available at that time: multiple grocers, a restaurant, a hotel, a picture framer, a photographer, and even an opera house. (An “opera house,” at that time, hosted a variety of traveling entertainments and was also a meeting house–so it wasn’t exactly “opera,” though that’s what they called it.) By 1910, the town had a cannery and a small college.
All this (and more that I didn’t list) was supported by a thriving agricultural economy. Many of the businesses were probably owned by members of farm families.
Farming can be done successfully with draft animals, though this is more labor-intensive. But back then a farm could provide a living for a large family. Nowadays, most small farmers need a city job, and often the wife runs the farm.
Many modern people would find life in 1900 unsatisfactory, but if the government would butt out and get its boot off of people’s neck, there is no reason why anyone should starve, at least in America.
I concur. Small government means men are back in control as per Natural Law.
All of our little towns were destroyed to try to centralize. I grew up in one of them. Had a gorgeous little downtown, in the 1980s it was destroyed as all of our local factories and farms were shut down or co-opted.
I call bullshit that we can’t create everything we need locally. Especially our food. We were doing it up until corporate rule took over.
I think a combination of both is needed, Anthea.
About 3/4 of what we buy is locally produced or comes from our garden, but this is because we have quite a few local options.
Dunno if that could work everywhere, but I definitely agree that thriving local agri. economies are needed and preferred.
“Everything you need is right there by you” Maasia saying
@ Night Owl:
In my area and Missouri in general, along with many other states, the rural areas could easily feed themselves–though their ability to do so would require having at least half the population become small farmers or live on small acreages (5-20 acres per family). This would allow for all the small holders to produce dairy products, poultry, eggs, and meat (beef, pork, goats, and sheep). You’d also have an abundance of fruit from various fruit trees, and you could easily have large home gardens and market gardens.
We’d have food running out our ears, but feeding the cities would be problematic unless about half of the urban folks moved to their own small acreages.
No, we wouldn’t have bananas and pineapples, or strawberries and grapes out-of-season. Citrus would become a seasonal treat.
@Anthea, I consult the Sanborn Fire Maps often in doing genealogical research. There were so many self-sufficient towns and small cities, and you can clearly see them delineated in these maps. They produced almost everything they really needed locally. Unlike our present arrangements, they weren’t fragile and could have continued as they were almost indefinitely.
But by “as they were,” I mean without modern medicine. At that time, Nature or God (whichever you prefer) culled the population pretty ruthlessly and we couldn’t do much about it. The census of 1900 showed, in my family, three elderly aunts being cared for by family members. The census asked how many children had been born and how many were living. In this case, out of a total of 19 children of the aunts, none were living!
If we’d been able to save these 19 children, they would have grown up and probably built houses on the farmland that surrounded the town. Eventually there would be no farmland left or else it would be so far away that transport would become a problem and all that it implies.
If people continue to reproduce at the level they’re doing in third world countries (with most offspring surviving to adulthood), and continue to come here, I don’t see how we could make any sort of workable arrangements. It does seem there are too many of us already.
Large cities like Boston used to be supplied by to a great extent by farms and market gardens in the nearby hinterland. The advent of the Automobile Age and the highway infrastructure that cars required may have actually cut off much of this access by farmers and market gardeners. Think of the markets at Les Halles, in the North End of Boston. Local retailers, restaurateurs etc. went down there at 4:30 a.m. to pick up their supplies for the day: meat, fish, cheese, vegetables. Ditto the fish market in NYC. Plus the flower market. Why did these local markets collapse? or, did they?
Some dairies were even within the city limits. My mother recalled that there was a dairy (Molkerei) not far from her family’s flat overlooking the Moabiter Bruecke in Berlin. The dairy man came round a couple of times a week with a cart and delivered the order of milk and cheese. Not sure whether cows were actually kept there, but they could have been. After all, there used to be stables for horses in all big cities—somewhere near the periphery.
The current conception of the city with all of its support functions and systems totally externalized is a relatively recent development. The Netherlands is trying to push the production of food in the urban environment—that was the principal theme of the recent Floriade Expo. Since the Dutch also seem to be on the forefront of vertical agriculture while expropriating farmers, maybe they are planning on urban bug farms. Except, surely there are already plenty of cockroaches . . . ???? You could probably get steaks of the giant cockroaches that dwelled in the basement of the brownstone in NYC where I lived in the 1980s.
“No, we wouldn’t have bananas and pineapples, or strawberries and grapes out-of-season. Citrus would become a seasonal treat.”
Nothing has really changed there for some people. That stuff tastes like shit when it is out of season.
Its actually about 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, .09% argon (if you can imagine lol) and the remainder is really trace amounts of water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, neon and some other miscellaneous gases.
Tell us more, Ms. Science!
It sounds like he was revitalizing the clay-ey Southern soils of the sharecroppers he taught with his colleges-on-cartwheels.
A truly great man. Tuskeegee taught such crafts as bricklaying, mechanics, carpentry, tire repair- his movement was determined to bootstap blacks in a proper “for us, by us” fashion as do other insular minorities, successfully.
The conservative blacks of the tens and twenties were blindsided by what they called “the white poison.”
Communist money started pouring into preachers, lawyers, and politicians and into organizing such political groups as the NAACP., eventually backing long-time socialist agitators like Rosa Parks and her husband, and fraudulent frontmen like ML King.
Don’t forget the communist agitator (and therefore, favorite of Howard Zinn), W.E.B. DuBois, who eventually renounced his American citizenship to go spread the gospel of Marx to the people of Africa. May as well spread as much misery as possible, right?
“That’s why George Washington Carver advocated alternating soybeans and corn, and also growing peanuts.”
Corn is very demanding on soils. Rotating fields and alternating crops to allow the soil to build itself up means that some fields are out of production. This is the problem. Fertilizers are needed to keep all fields in production all of the time.
On smaller farms —an Amish farmer has stated that 40 acres is about the size limit of what one Amish family can manage—it is easier to incorporate soil-building practices than on large monoculture farms. Especially if farming with horses, in which case the manure can be used as fertilizer.
There have been many, many people who’ve done a lot of highly innovative work in organic gardening and farming, going back to at least 1960. John Jeavons was involved in this work for decades and developed methods for producing very high yields in very small spaces. One of my Facebook friends is a devotee of Alan Savory, who I gather has done a lot of work on land reclamation and rotational grazing. (To tell you the truth, I don’t know at lot about either of these, other than what my Facebook friend tells me.)
The thing is, we know a lot more than we did in 1850, thanks to the work of a lot of largely unsung heroes in this field. We’ve also developed a lot of new methods. Nowadays, every serious grower has a couple of high tunnels. In our garden, we have weed barrier between the rows. These seem like little things, but in terms of productivity they are HUGE. Also, thanks to the internet, knowledge gets shared–and it’s LOTS of knowledge.
In countless ways, “This isn’t your grandpa’s farm any more.”
Allan Savory is a very interesting character. He says, “Only livestock can reverse desertification.”
A lot of the work on understanding the relationship between ungulates and healthy grasslands seems to be getting done in Africa.
I picked up a book somewhere but haven’t read it yet, just browsed. It has an odd title: Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture; a New Earth, by Charles Massy (Chelsea Green, 2017). Loads of encomiums from Paul Hawken, SAvory himself, etc. with quite a lot of info on Savory’s land regeneration project in Zimbabwe and on other similar projects.
It might be worth a look to those here with an interest in cutting-edge regenerative agriculture. There are quite a few impressive before and after photos.
Pretty strong reviews:
httpX://www.amazon.com/Call-Reed-Warbler-Agriculture-Earth/dp/0702253413#customerReviews
Savory also has a TED talk. Do a search for “Allan Savory TED talk”
And most of that corn goes to feed cows, who shouldn’t be eating it to begin with.
@ MaryQueen:
Yup.
All legumes are nitrogen fixers.
I only used soybeans as an example because George Washington Carver pointed that out over a century ago.
Some of the responses here to that fact show me why we can’t have nice things.
“Some of the responses here to that fact show me why we can’t have nice things.”
Would you care to amplify?
For instance, NO immediately trashing soybeans.
Not My Point. I was talking about revitalizing soil with natural gas fertilizers, but he seems to be fixated on meat eating as his entitlement.
WithOUT natural gas fertilizers.
Re “For instance, NO immediately trashing soybeans.
Not My Point. I was talking about revitalizing soil with natural gas fertilizers, but he seems to be fixated on meat eating as his entitlement.”
Actually, your point seemed to be exactly soybeans as food, not merely as a means to rebuild soil.
You wrote:
“That’s why George Washington Carver advocated alternating soybeans and corn, and also growing peanuts.
There are plenty of ways to ***grow food*** that don’t involve $1,000,000 tractors . . ..”
So, you WERE talking about soybeans as food. Or, it certainly was a fair interpretation. Perhaps yo meant that the soybeans should be used for animal feed. (Actually, there are problems with that, too.)
It is you who chose to trash Night Owl.
Whereas you could instead have just re-explained your main point.
Last month’s alumni mag from my engineering school that is part of a flagship state university was trying to pimp a student project about the joys of human urine as fertilizer as some kind of genius scientific breakthrough.
Right, right….
Use bedpans instead of flush toilets for urine. You’ll save money, energy, and water resources. Since urine has salt in it, it’s usefullness is a bit limited as fertilizer. But asparagus tolerates and even likes some salt, and it’s perfect for that. Urine is sterile so there’s no need to be squeamish and paranoid about using it.
Might as well get used to peeing the way everyone did in the 1800’s. It will the way its done anyhow during the Long Emergency. Resources might not be available for general use in disposing of urine in sewage treatment plants. The only substance needing treatment to avoid a public health calamity is feces. It’s possible to compost the stuff safely at home, but that’s too technical and fussy for the average moron. For morons, a possibilty of safe and easy disposal might be to carefully bag the stuff and toss it into a wood heater running full blast. Then recycle the ashes in your garden. There’s mineral and trace element stuff in ashes left from incinerated feces that will benefit your garden plants.
Plastic bags are an important part of the homeless economy. Many homeless would bag their shit and then toss it in the garbage. Maybe that’s why Portland rescinded its no plastic bag rule.
In Africa the let the cow pats dry out first before usingn them for fuel.
Perhaps we should do the same . . . At least, in the Southwestern desert!
But what is wrong with the newfangled composting toilets?
It’s ironic that asparagus would do well feeding on urine.
Who will be Sancho Panza to Jim’s Don Quixote?
And conversely, who his fair Dulcinea?
Happy New Year to you Mr. K and thank you for sharing your 2023 predictions with us!! An amazing account of current events and potential paths in the new year ahead. Only you can put it together like that. I’m terrified and excited about what is to come. I think it is a good idea to pray and am so heartened to see you suggest it. I also appreciated the emphasis on the fluctuations of life and the seasons and really everything within material reality. There are many terrible and ominous things occurring and hardship is here and lies ahead too. But there are also good things and redemption is here and lies ahead as well.
BRH
COMMENT ON Utube
Info here in Connecticut in my town they have raised property taxes 40% to take effect in July.
And this January our electricity is going up again 50%. 9 months ago or somewhere there about it went up 68%.
They are raping Us and nobody is doing anything about it. It used to have to go through the court system for any increase. I’ve Been Told that is no longer the case.
Why bother with the courts? They’re a rubber stamp anyway.
Disaffected:
It depends, entirely, on your level of funds to buy the lawyers who can buy/influence the judges. If you’ve got the funds, you can buy justice. If not,
you be fuck-ed when you go to court.
I think it is worse than that, Neurodoc. Used to be, one side or the other could influence judges with money.
The judiciary is now Uniparty, if you are counter to the Libs, you do not stand a chance.
Everything is trending toward Uniparty and despotism.
Want to have a day in court. Better be Woke.
Attorneys serve the court, you pay them.
I haven’t done forensic medicine work in courts, mainly supporting injured workers, since about 5 years ago. Things may have changed, but what I saw then is that results depended upon which side had the most sway with the judge (e.g. one case had a judge whose campaign manager was the defense attorney; guess what happened; finding against the plaintiff worker and for the insurance company. I saw that type of thing many many times).
I still think money rules, but maybe ‘wokeness’ helps a little. 🙂
That sounds about right, Malthus.
We had an election just 2 months ago and energy prices nor property taxes were even mentioned. Instead, the issues were ‘Abortion on Demand’, who’s a racist, and is my Republican opponent a Nazi? Needless to say Dems swept the board.
BRH
Move! You are in a dead state.
I wouldn’t trust Robert Zimmerman as a sage. He has nice songs of a generation but as a poet laureate – give me a break. Mr K. thinks Ruskies are disciplining Ukraine; really, after 105,000 savages are permanently demilitarized and demolition of Ruskie headquarters and brass of the nuclear bomber base 600 kms inside the borders of the terrorist state; by the Ukrainian military.
The US had little to do with the 2014 Maidan. The reality was Operation Gladio jumped on the bandwagon of Ukrainian freedom manifestations; not the other way around.
Hahahahahaa! Thank you for the chuckle.
Jeez. And Victoria Nuland was Defending Democracy, right? Like Hillary did in Serbia, and Mad Albright did in Iraq?
Yeah, that’s pretty rich.
This is why we can’t have nice things. Because people believe monsters and ghouls like Nuland etc. are doing good work.
But they handed out sandwiches after their snipers took out civilians.
Manger de la merde sac de douche.
Kindergarten Franglais. How embarrassing. Doesn’t even know his infinitive from his imperative.
As for ‘sac de douche’ … seriously!
You know what they say – better to be thought a fool, etc. etc.
How ironic, I speak French.
It cracked me up almost as much as his initial post.
Yeah, tell us more about how it was not only moral (first version) but legally mandatory (second version) to turn London brown.
As Aquinas says, an immoral law is not a real Law. There is no possible justification for what was done and is being done, both there, here, and everywhere in the West (except your neighborhood), in this world or in any other.
I guess you got a suitcase full of straw men for Christmas. Lucky you.
GA, he got the whole strawman set, and couldn’t wait to use them all!
Right tryp,
‘The US shoved out elected Ukraine President Yanukovych — who angered America by pledging to join Russia’s Custom’s Union instead of the EU’ JHK
Yanukovych shoved himself out by reneging on his promise to the Ukrainian people to align with the EU and the West. That was the initial spark that Americans threw gasoline on.
Yanukovych lied to and defied the Ukrainian people who wanted the Western alliance, and he paid the price.
And they evidently wanted American/”NATO” missiles and artillery threatening Russia on its borders as well? Get a grip, turd. Your pitiful screeds are getting tiresome.
Back atcha, pisinfected!
Dis: 1
Slur: 0
Wrong. Ukrainians could see that Russia was offering a much better economic development deal than the usurious IMF. The EU was never going to let Ukraine in. That was come-on. The EU used the Ukraine as a proxy against Russia for years before the Maidan. It was the EU that fired the opening shot with its ridiculous gas hub in the Netherlands that it got started in ca. 2008 or maybe earlier.
You need to read more history.
I’m not wrong about 2014 and Yanukovych. You need to stop pretending that you know it all.
You are wrong, plain and simple. But feel free to make up your own version of history as you proceed, We all have freedom of speech and we all have the right to be wrong.
LOL.
Loving the new Tuscon Slur.
Desperate posting now.
“You need to stop pretending that you know it all.”
Maybe take your own advice, slur.
He’s not actually making up his own version. He’s not smart enough to do that.
He is regurgitating the propaganda slop they feed him and which he eagerly swallows.
“Please sir. May I have some more?”
Tusc…when Night Howler Monkey says you’re wrong, you know for sure, you’re right.
I think we need to look at this through a biblical perspective. This present age will not last forever and I wager we are very near its end.
The US will continue to slip into an economic depression. The deep state will get more desperate. There will be an attempt soon, maybe not 2023, but very soon to institute CBDC. There will be a push for blanket amnesty for all illegals in order to prevent resistance. We will probably start seeing the first push for some type of balkanization.
I wouldn’t be suprised if the war in Ukraine gets worse. Russia will win in the end but the global elite may try to get into a major proxy war spreading from Russia to the Middle east. We may see attacks here in the US as we get more involved. Remember, Putin, Trump, and Netanyahu are to blame for all the world’s woes according to the subversives.
I see 2023 worse than 2022 but I expect major upheavals in 2024. If the degenerate subversives steal that election and go full speed ahead with global tyranny I really think we will start to see mass chaos, violence, and a real push for civil wars the world over.
That said I think we are in the final decade or two before the physical return of Jesus Christ to planet earth.
That sounds about right. I figure His return on or about April 1, 2025, when He will come to judge the quick & the dead. You may wonder how I arrived at that date. Let’s just say I’ve been running some numbers.
Leave it to Jesus to come back on April Fool’s Day.
No one will believe it’s Him!
Hahahaha
Clouds begin to boil
Thunder begins to rumble
For the last 9 hours, everyone He addressed just smirked, “April Fool, amirite?” and walked off…
I always relished the line from Hannah and Her Sisters:
“If Jesus came back today and saw what was being done in his name, he’d never stop throwing up.”
“No one will believe it’s Him!”
Sounds like the same problem he had last time.
Well, yes, early on.
Then, it changed!
“No one will believe it’s Him!”
Mary,
The Insane Asylums used to be full of people who weren’t believed, either.
I was present at the births of two different babies whose mothers swore they had not had sex.
No one believed them. I wondered why. If Mary got away with that story, why didn’t these women?
I also had a man who said he was Jesus. Then he wanted a ride to a neighboring town, and my co-worker and I were like, “If he’s Jesus, can’t he just make a miracle and beam himself over there?”
How about a slight alternative, Tucker.
Putin smiles and supports Xi as he just rolls over Taiwan. Now what? Who does Biden support with his Mob.
BRIICS versus WEF, who will prevail?
OR
WEF joins BRIICS to destroy what little is left of the West.
In the meantime, Biden and the Lib Mob are doing their best to tear down the USA.
Who the hell is paying off who, here?
Taiwan (ROC) has strong economic ties with China (PRC).
The Kuomintang – one of the two primary political coalitions – favors unification.
The island is over 100 miles from mainland China.
An invasion is just a US fantasy.
As the economy of the US and the west collapses, the ROC will shift more trade to the PRC.
There ya go. East Asians are far less individualistic than we are. The produce powerful centralized states. No one gets to “do what they want”. That’s utter decadence in their view. Since the People’s Republic is no longer Communist and is a Capitalist super power now, what is the real issue?
Some Chinese care about spiritual freedom, but neither Capitalism or Communism really allow for that, not in the long run. The Pope sold the Chinese Catholics out and allowed a fake Church to be created, one that suited Party officials.
It is no different here in the United States. The American Church only cares about trangression and destroying the Church, turning it into a Gay Super Power or a Luciferian Temple.
Indeed, the Taiwanese looked at what the US did to Ukraine and said “Oh, hell no! You’re not using us to provoke a war with the mainland. We’re voting in the anti-US party”.
This went unnoticed by the propaganda slurpers in the US, who carry on like the emperor in the fable, pretending that the truth is inconsequential.
So now the US is trying to get them to move their water-intensive industry to Arizona, cause that makes sense.
Plan B is to blow up the factories in Taiwan, if it looks like the provocation is not going to work.
“Plan B is to blow up the factories in Taiwan…”
I hadn’t even thought of that. I like to think that I’m suspicious and distrustful – but damn, Paula, you almost make me look trusting and naive. Almost…
Yeah, my super power is being cynical. But I didn’t make it up….
/asiatimes.com/2022/12/us-mulls-scorched-earth-strategy-for-taiwan/
Thanks JHK for the yearend prediction summary; I always look forward to it.
My conclusions about all of the above, is that the US Corporation, already in default on its composite bond payments, as of mid October, will split into several new countries, with the food production regions splitting from the blue state shitholes. I.e., it is in bankruptcy and technically no longer exits as a valid corporate entity, in the absence of any bankruptcy plan (which has not been put forward): anyone wonder why countries world over are refusing payments in the defunct $USD? (You’re, of course, being told that the growing goods shortages are due to some transportation bullshit, not dollar refusal). Of course not, the corporate lying propaganda tv shows don’t talk about it; they only talk about things like kim kardashian’s ass, other celeb’s affairs, etc.
The reality is, that the former US Corporation, unless it successfully runs a WWIII plan against Russia and takes its resources, (highly unlikely), becomes a non entity, an irrelevant 3rd world country, with a ridiculously worthless fiat currency, i.e. the dollar, that Asia and other prosperous areas don’t give a shit about. It has debt that very simply cannot be paid back (do the math). IF you have gold and silver in sufficient quantities you will likely survive this with some semblance of dignity; otherwise you and your offspring, despite worthless dollar based pensions and bank accounts, and other worthless so called ‘assets,’ will be servants to their Asian masters (as predicted by many pundits, such as Jim Rogers), if they have a job at all. Happy fucking new year.
Nah! You’re still not thinking it through, NeuroDoc. Gold and silver still rely on the idea that intangibles are tangible – they aren’t. If you can’t eat it, burn it for fuel, or make it into something immediately useful, it won’t be worth much at all.
So much for gold and silver and all that “precious metal bullshit.” They might work as a stand in for the dollar for a very short time after the collapse, but I certainly wouldn’t make bank on that. Much better to invest your time and energy in land, commodities, and good old fashioned HUMAN capital in the interim.
I agree with Dis.
The new exchange medium will not be hard currency, the dollar, the Euro or the Xuan.
It will be human labor, resetting things by two hundred years. Financialization will collapse. Lazy people will starve.
That would be the human capital portion of the equation, JAZ Man. Surround yourself with good and useful people and treat them as you would your own. The proverbial “Golden Rule” applied.
DIS:
1-How will you pay them? veggies? women?
2-How will you keep those people ‘of yours’ from turning on you, taking
your stuff, and possibly killing you for good measure.”
I suspect you’ve never seen an actual breakdown. With the US Army Medical Command, I have been in Bosnia and Iraq, where there were massive breakdowns. The precious metals, gold, silver, and lead (with the appropriate delivery method) got you anything you wanted. I also saw that gangs of people would attack communities like you’re dreaming about, and taking what they wanted if the communities weren’t armed to the teeth.
Perhaps we’re talking different degrees of breakdown. In a post apocalyptic scenario, following massive violence and loss of any organized money control system, your model may be correct. The survivors live in a small community, growing food and singing cumbayah…..
But then the General Bethlehems show up, or the Ghengis Khan types arrive, wanting your food and women.
Just sayin. I’ve just seen too much human violence, and treated too many soldiers injured by that violence, to buy into your nice dream.
OK, explain how gold has lasted for multiple thousands of years as a medium of exchange. Do you think ‘things are different’ this time? Hell no!!!!
Imagine taking your gold coin to the grocery store, which for some reason is still open even though no one in the community has money to pay for groceries.
You hand your gold coin to the nose-ringed cashier, who hasn’t even seen cash used in their time working the “cash” register, let alone gold.
See how far you get.
Now take a gold coin to the gas station, where you fantasize there will still be functioning pumps and full storage tanks, just waiting for you to show up and fill your gas tank.
Same thing will happen.
Yup, and who’s gonna give ya change for that dime-sized disk of gold when you try to buy a loaf of bread? You’ll have to buy the whole fucking store.
Lead, ultimately the only real precious metal.
I saw a sign at the cash register that said “No Checks”. I asked the cashier, “Do you take federal reserve notes”. She adamantly said “NO” and looked at the sign as if to say “Can’t you read”. I pulled one out and read the caption to her and then held it up. She responded, “Yes, we take those”. End of conversation.
“As Bob said so many years ago, it’s all right, Ma. It’s life and life only….”
Mr, Kunstler,
To finish that thought, the name of the song was/is “It’s all right, Ma (I’m only bleeding)'”
…We ain’t started bleeding yet.
Throughout my long life, I never expected Nuclear War…I may yet live to see it. (Elysiansfield’s predictions for 2023)…someone, somewhere, is gonna touch one off.
The good news is, you won’t live long after seeing it. Almost comforting, that. Almost…
Going out with a bang, he is!
“Elysianfields…go…to…the light…”
“No, gadzooks…not THAT light…”
Remember James Cagney yelling for his mom while the dirty coppers closed in on him?
After the nuclear exchange has run its course, the song should go “It’s all right Ma, It’s death and death only!”
As things continue to unravel and the American Remnant continues to be targeted for destruction and replacement, I hope that honest northerners, midwesterners, etc. (non-Southerners) of all stripes, will find the courage to admit that the wrong side won the war between the states. In no way was it a “civil war,” the aggressors were always the northern corporate interests, the South would have peaceably gone its own way and never sought to threaten the north. The north sought subjugation of the South, and eventually, the entire world. These admissions might pave the way for a less bellicose, more humble future, if that is even possible at this point.
The South was, and still is, the best part of this “country.” Most decent, authentic attributes of the American character and culture are Southern. Its indisputable.
Yes, civil war is two sides trying to take it all. The South just wanted to secede and had no designs on the rest. Perhaps the Donbass and Russian Ukraine is a parallel. Whether that will satisfy Putin now is another question.
Another fly in the ointment: New territories – slave or “free”?
I hit “submit” before I was finished.
The conclusion is that the “Republic” was mortally wounded in the late unpleasantness, Lincoln was America’s first Corporate Dictator, and Jefferson’s dream of a quiet, peaceful nation of aristocratic landowners, yeoman farmers, artisans, workmen, etc. is long dead. Amazing to think that there was actually still hope for this outcome as late as the early 1980’s or so… I am old enough to recall Senators Helms and East admonishing idiotic Americans about foolish immigration policies. Wow. Imagine that less than 40 years ago North Carolina was represented by John East and Jesse Helms? Now, the entire state is at least 85% Hispanic. I would bet my eye tee that there are at least 100 million illegals here. Every person and there progeny that can trace their lineage to after 1965 is also illegal, so add another 100 million.
And the Left pushed the meme that race doesn’t matter – and our side ate it up. If it doesn’t matter, why were they obsessed enough to bring in a hundred million non-Whites?
Because they know how much race does matter. Whites are hopelessly gullible. Even the smart ones? No, especially the smart ones.
Now the Left is openly saying that race is everything – while our side pushes the propaganda they used to peddle. It is enough to make the angels weep.
As Mitch told us, Your opponents are much smarter than you are. I add: If not always in raw IQ, in utter and ruthless cunning.
in utter and ruthless cunning – Jar
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cunning lingus
Rural Midwesterners (including the Great Plains) are already more aligned with the South than with their urban northern brethren. We are kind, gracious and tend to vote the right way. For what it’s worth, the South isn’t so different in the sense that cities like Atlanta and Dallas might as well be Yankee at this point. The battle isn’t north vs. south. It’s rural vs. urban and has been since at lest 1990.
I call them Central Standard Tribe.
Seems to me, it has always been that way. If you look back at literature or historical accounts, always seems that the ‘bumpking’ is pitted against the ‘city slicker’ and guess which one always looks like the smart one?
I guess that’s about to be tested.
“bumpkin”
“… America had come to the end of something and to the beginning of something else.
But no one knew what that something else would be
and out of the change and uncertainly and the wrongness of the leaders
grew fear and desperation and before long hunger stalked the streets….”
Thomas Wolfe
You Can’t Go Home Again
1940
Happy New Year Jim and Everyone!
Thomas Wolfe
You Can’t Go Home Again – Nigel T
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Read this novel many years ago and loved it.
Suspect arrested in the Moscow, Idaho murder of 4 college students in November:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/idaho-murder-suspect-bryan-kohberger-allegedly-asked-police-if-anyone-else-had-been-arrested/ar-AA15P8OE
Looks like we’re about to open up another chapter of ‘American Psycho.’ Perhaps Christain Bale in the leading role?
Christian’s too old now (thank goodness, he creeps me out).
But yeah, no doubt there will be a cheap rendition of this on NetFlix within the next year.
Bottom line is that Russia wins, the empire collapses and n America devolves into regional, warring states
The culprits will try to flee to their safe haven, which will instigate a concerted effort to wipe out the Satanic demons
We can only hope. Not sure that the regional states will necessarily be “warring.” They’ll likely have more pressing issues to attend to.
Once the border skirmishes get sorted out, the different regions will do trade with each other, but probably not with the blue cities and states which will likely remain in mad max mode for the indeterminate future. Dems deliver!!! Ha! 🙂
On the climate scam, this article is quite detailed and interesting:
2022: The Year ESG Fell to Earth
By Rupert Darwall
December 27, 2022
The year 2022 brings an end to an era of illusions: a year that saw the end of the post–Cold War era and the return of geopolitics; the first energy crisis of the enforced energy transition to net zero; and the year that brought environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing down to earth with a thump—for the year to date, BlackRock’s ESG Screened S&P 500 ETF lost 22.2% of its value, and the S&P 500 Energy Sector Index rose 54.0%. The three are linked. By restricting investment in production of oil and gas by Western producers, ESG increases the market power of non-Western producers, thereby enabling Putin’s weaponization of energy supplies. Net zero—the holy grail of ESG—has turned out to be Russia’s most potent ally.
It wasn’t only a bad year for ESG on the stock market. Earlier this month, Vanguard announced that it was quitting Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (NZAM), set up by former governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney a little over a year ago. “We have decided to withdraw from NZAM so that we can provide the clarity our investors desire about the role of index funds and about how we think about material risks, including climate-related risks,” the world’s second-largest asset manager said. . . . ” [more]
Yes, this is what happens when you let the greed heads do what they want.
Fascism or National Socialism. That’s it. The second is much better if possible to implement.
You don’t like it because it’s true. You’re not on our side. It’s obvious from the way you talk.
More mindreading madness.
GA
Do you have a first-footer tomorrow night?
Hogmanay is in Outlander.
What does your family do to celebrate? Any more, like the Gaelic days, it seems survival each Dec. 31 is cause for celebration.
Y’all following a lost shepherd.
You’re out in the meadows, out in the heath, and there’s some promise that the flock can return fat from grazing on promises and premonitions, return to some former place.
It’s gone. Long gone.
Your land is long gone.
Your homeland.
It is occupied.
Neocon launching grounds.
Why won’t anyone say it?
Read the cabinet. Go ahead.
Read the Biden cabinet.
The names. Who are they?
White war-mongers?
White tyrannicals?
No.
Chief of staff
Homeland Security
Attorney General
CDC
Treasury
Secretary of State
Who rages the wars?
From Ieaq to Afghanistan to Ukraine?
Why is Sean Penn behind this one?
Wake up dumb white people
Not likely; too many years of public schooling and indoctrination. Mind control is a bitch.
To be clear; 17 staff officers killed, 50 wounded and 5 nuclear bombers heavily damaged. This of course is the second attack on the terrorist base. The remaining bombers have high-tailed it to Siberia. I’m looking forward to the third attack. Beware the Ides of March.
Mr. Kunstler,
As far as prognostications go, I’d guess you’re not far off the mark. It may (or may not) take longer than you suggested for the darkness to occur. I’d imagine it is possible that alleged president biden might be fairly successful at confiscating guns or making ammunition and gun parts scarce.
An article talks about the American mortality and disabilities caused by the vax to the tune of 7,500 per day. Yup. Seven-thousand Five hundred per day. That comes to a little over 2.7 million per year. [https://citizens.news/687223.html]
NBC news says illegal immigration in the USA was over 2.76 million for 2022. Illegal immigration numbers reported by NBC News are probably pretty low estimates. [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/migrant-border-crossings-fiscal-year-2022-topped-276-million-breaking-rcna53517]
Let’s imagine there are 2.76 million illegal immigrants per year under Biden for 2022, 2023, 2024 and very, very many are military age males. And let’s imagine the Covid Jab gives us 2.7 million dead and disabled per year. So, does that mean each illegal immigrant is replacing a Covid-Vax-Caused mortally wounded or disabled American? That’s quite a coincidence.
And let’s imagine that somewhere down the road in the foreseeable future, maybe before the next Presidential Election, our Keynesian Economy suffers a collapse because the Fed might need to drive the Fed rate into the stratosphere in order to stop inflation and save the Keynesian Economy, thusly putting millions out of work across the USA (and millions more globally)…millions of idle Americans plus millions of illegal, male, military age immigrants. Not just in the USA, but across the globe. That doesn’t sound like a recipe for success unless you like anarchy.
If ammunition and gun parts become scarce coupled with defunding police in some large cities…well, some of those areas could become a lot like some hotspots in South Africa.
Or, maybe none of it will occur.
Cheers
“That doesn’t sound like a recipe for success unless you like anarchy.”
The word you’re looking for is “chaos”, not anarchy. Anarchy simply means “no ruler” – and that sounds fine to me. I could live in a state of anarchy – but not with the neighbors I have now. Most people need a shitload of “archy”.
The following gives a good sense of Ukraine’s complicated history:
The land within the borders of modern Ukraine, a Texas-sized nation often called the “breadbasket of Europe,” has long been coveted by the region’s powers. During Antiquity, the Greeks, Romans and Huns, along with a slew of lesser-known empires, from the Scythians to the Sarmatians, each established a presence there at one point or another.
More recently, from the Middle Ages to the present, the Vikings, Mongols, Lithuanians, Poles, Russians, Ottomans, Swedes, French, Austrians, Germans, Romanians and Czechoslovakians have all marched in, with some staying far longer than others.
Never fully independent until the collapse of the Soviet Union, though there were periods of semi-autonomy, Ukraine has been divided up and stuck back together several times. (Fittingly, the name “Ukraine” means “on the edge” or “borderland,” and its national anthem declares, “Ukraine has not yet perished.”) Through it all, Ukrainian history and identity has been a highly contentious topic, particularly in the context of the 2022 Russian invasion.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin, for example, has stated that Ukrainians and Russians are “one people” and that Ukraine isn’t a real state, an echo of when earlier generations of Russians referred to Ukraine as “Little Russia.” Yet many Ukrainians vehemently disagree with these characterizations, pointing to their country’s distinct language, culture, traditions and shared civic principles.
“A lot of really important history that Putin and Russian nationalists see as their ancestry happened in Ukraine,” says Stephen Brain, an associate professor at Mississippi State University, who specializes in Russian history. He adds that “for very long periods” Russia and Ukraine were “part of the same state.”
“On the other hand,” Brain says, “Kiev was the capital of its own state before Moscow existed.” Ukraine spent long stretches outside Russian control, and, according to Brain, “Ukrainians increasingly do perceive themselves as a separate nationality.”
Below is a timeline, dating back a millennium, showing how Ukraine arrived at this point.
Vikings, Mongols, Lithuania, Poland
1037: Kievan Rus – Construction of Saint-Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, which, in refurbished form, still stands today, marks a high point of the Kievan Rus principality. Purportedly founded by Vikings in the 9th century, Kievan Rus grew to encompass present-day Ukraine, Belarus and part of Russia. As historian Anna Reid writes, it constituted “the eastern Slavs’ first great civilization,” and at the time was the “largest kingdom in Europe.”
Modern Ukrainians, Belarusians and Russians all trace their heritage to Kievan Rus, leading to fierce, unanswerable debates about whether “Ukraine was once part of Russia, or Russia once part of Ukraine,” says Yoshiko Herrera, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an expert on Russian and post-Soviet politics.
1240: Mongol Invasion – A Mongol army commanded by Batu Khan, a grandson of Genghis Khan, thunders into Europe and captures Kiev (along with many other nearby lands). Much of present-day Ukraine and Russia subsequently comes under the control of the so-called Golden Horde, a segment of the vast Mongol Empire.
1363: Lithuania – Lithuanian forces defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Blue Waters and incorporate much of present-day Ukraine into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. For the next several hundred years, Lithuania and its ally Poland, with whom it would gradually unify, hold dominant sway in the area.
1476: Ivan III – Ivan III of Muscovy, as Russia was then called, declares his independence from the Golden Horde by refusing to pay tribute. (Previously, as Brain points out, the Muscovites had “cooperated with” and “emulated the Mongols.”) Ivan likewise claims a portion of present-day Ukraine—the first Russian leader to do so—leading him into direct conflict with Lithuania.
1569: Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth – Lithuania and Poland officially complete their merger, in part to combat Russia, forming the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1648: Cossack Rebellion – A Cossack rebellion against Polish-Lithuanian rule scores a surprise number of initial victories, which results in the formation of a semi-autonomous state known as the Hetmanate, an inspiration to future Ukrainian nationalists. However, the Cossacks also participate in pogroms that kill an estimated 14,000 to 20,000 Jews over the course of just a few months. As historian Serhii Plokhy writes, “entire communities [were] all but wiped from the map.”
1654: The Ruin – Abandoned by their Crimean Tatar allies, the Cossacks turn for protection to Russia, which they perceive as more amenable to their interests than Poland-Lithuania. “They took the best deal that was available,” Brain says. “They didn’t think they’d subsumed their will to anyone else…but, over time, Moscow didn’t see it that way.” Years of fighting subsequently ensue, with Russian, Polish, Ottoman and Cossack armies battling it out for control of present-day Ukraine in what’s sometimes referred to as “The Ruin.”
1667: Divided – Without consulting the Cossacks, who nonetheless retain a degree of autonomy, Russia and Poland-Lithuania sign a truce dividing Ukraine between them with the Dnieper River as the boundary.
1708: Russia Wins Control of Eastern Ukraine – During the Great Northern War, King Charles XII of Sweden detours into Ukraine as part of his ill-fated invasion of Russia and secures the support of the main Cossack leader at the time (though other Cossacks fight for Russia). The following year, Charles XII’s force is crushed at the Battle of Poltava, thereby cementing Russian control over the eastern half of Ukraine and, as Brain explains, marking the birth of the Russian empire.
1783: Catherine the Great Annexes Crimea – After a series of wars with the Ottoman Empire, Russian Czarina Catherine the Great annexes the Crimean peninsula and secures access to the strategically important Black Sea. At roughly the same time, Catherine finishes dissolving the Cossack Hetmanate (state) as part of what would become a long-running campaign to “Russify” Ukraine.
1795: Russia Gains Majority of Ukrainian Land – Poland and Lithuania cease to exist after a third and final partition divides up their lands between the Prussian, Austrian and Russian empires. Austria grabs a chunk of present-day Ukraine in the southwest, but Russia gains the vast majority of Ukrainian lands for the first time.
1812: Napoleon Invades – French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte marches though present-day Ukraine as part of his disastrous invasion of Russia.
Ukrainian Nationalist Movement
1800s: Ukrainian Nationalist Movement – Nationalist movements spring up throughout Europe, and Ukraine is no exception. Pro-independence forerunners begin codifying and promoting the Ukrainian language, stressing Ukraine’s distinct culture and history, referring to themselves as Ukrainians for the first time, and, eventually, calling for self-rule. Russia responds with a series of repressive measures, including a decree that bans the publication of Ukrainian-language books and newspapers. “A Little Russian language never existed, does not exist, and never shall exist. Its dialects as spoken by the masses are the same as the Russian language,” a Russian directive declares in the 1860s.
1917: Ukraine Council Proclaims Right to ‘Order Their Own Lives’ – When the Russian Revolution breaks out, Ukraine’s newly formed Central Rada, a council of elected delegates, proclaims Ukraine to be a state within Russia, whose people should “have the right to order their own lives in their own land.”
1918: Short-Lived Independence – As Bolshevik forces close in, the Central Rada declares full independence for Ukraine. “The genie of independence was now out of the imperial bottle,” Plokhy writes. Ukraine then signs a peace treaty with the Central Powers in which it agrees to German and Austrian military intervention. As the Ukrainian government hoped, the Germans and Austrians succeed in driving back the Bolsheviks—at least until the signing of the World War I armistice compels their exit.
But they also meddle in Ukrainian affairs, overthrowing the Central Rada (“Council”)and installing a pro-German puppet leader. That same year, a second, short-lived independence attempt fails in western Ukraine, this one quashed by newly re-formed Poland.
1919: Ukraine Divided Into Four Parts – In the aftermath of World War I, present-day Ukraine gets split into four parts. Russia retains by far the biggest share, while smaller bits are handed out to Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia.
1921: End of Civil War – The Bolsheviks emerge victorious from a brutal civil war in which the Red Army, the White Army, Polish troops, Ukrainian nationalist troops and unaffiliated peasant militias run roughshod over present-day Ukraine, with Kiev changing hands multiple times and massacres committed on all sides.
Era of Soviet Union, Great Famine, Chernobyl
Ukrainian Famine
Children collect frozen potatoes in a collective farm’s field during the Ukrainian famine. (Credit: Sovfoto/UIG/Getty Images)
1922: Incorporated Into Soviet Union – Ukraine is incorporated into the newly established Soviet Union.
1932-33: Ukrainian Famine – Seeking to assert his control over Ukraine, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin engineers a famine, known as the Holodomor, which results in an estimated 3.9 million Ukrainian deaths. Most scholars consider this to be a premeditated act of genocide. “The historical record is very clear,” Herrera says. “There’s a lot of documentation that Moscow knew exactly what was happening.”
1936-38: Great Purge – Stalin initiates a large-scale purge of perceived enemies from throughout the Soviet Union, including Ukraine, either executing them outright or shipping them off to Gulag labor camps.
1941: Nazi Germany Invades – In violation of a nonaggression pact, Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union and, by year’s end, has seized almost all of Ukraine. Some Ukrainians initially welcome the Germans as liberators, even going so far as to serve in the Nazis’ notorious Waffen-SS units. But most soon sour on the Nazis, in part because they mass deport Ukrainian civilians back to Germany to serve as slave laborers. One of the worst massacres of the Holocaust takes place this September, when Nazi death squads, assisted by Ukrainian police, murder some 34,000 Jews in a ravine outside Kiev.
1944: Stalin Deports Crimean Tartars – Stalin deports the entire population of Crimean Tatars, some 200,000 people altogether, nearly half of whom purportedly die of starvation or disease while in exile. Meanwhile, Soviet troops recapture Ukraine, from which they forcibly deport hundreds of thousands of ethnic Poles as they march west towards Germany.
1945: 1 Million Ukrainian Jews Lost in WWII – World War II finally comes to a close. All told, Ukraine suffers an estimated 5 million to 7 million deaths, or roughly 16 percent of its pre-war population, including around 1 million Ukrainian Jews.
1954: Khrushchev Transfers Crimea to Ukraine – The Soviet government under Nikita Krushchev transfers Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in a gesture of “eternal friendship,” a move that receives little attention at the time since it remains within the borders of the Soviet Union.
1986: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster – A safety test goes awry at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine, leading to a deadly reactor meltdown that the Soviet authorities initially try to cover up. The disaster, considered history’s worst nuclear accident, is often blamed for hastening the Soviet Union’s demise.
Ukrainian Independence
December 3, 2004: A series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate aftermath of the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election which was compromised by massive corruption, voter intimidation and direct electoral fraud.
A series of protests and political events took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005 and were known as the Orange Revolution.
1991: Ukraine Declares Independence – With the Soviet Union in its death throes, Ukraine’s parliament declares independence, a decision that’s overwhelmingly approved by Ukrainian voters in a national referendum. Ukraine is now fully independent for the first time.
1994: Ukraine Gives Up Nuclear Weapons – Negotiations between the United States, Russia and Ukraine result in a deal under which Ukraine gives up its inherited nuclear weapons in exchange for, among other things, a Russian vow to respect “existing borders.” Thereafter, Ukraine becomes a major recipient of U.S. foreign aid.
2004: The Orange Revolution – Disgusted with an election widely viewed as fraudulent, Ukrainian protesters rally in Kiev’s Independence Square in what’s known as the Orange Revolution. A re-run vote subsequently reverses the results, with pro-Western candidate Viktor Yushchenko, who survived a near-fatal poisoning attempt during the campaign, defeating pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych. In 2010, after Yushchenko struggled with infighting, Yanukovych mounts a comeback and wins the presidency.
2014: Protestors Oust Russia-Backed President – Government-backed forces open fire on protestors who have once again flocked to Kiev’s Independence Square, this time in support of closer ties to the European Union. Though over 100 people die in the melee, they succeed in forcing out the notoriously corrupt Yanukovych, who flees to Russia.
2014: Russian Annexes Crimea – Putin responds by immediately occupying and annexing Crimea. He also promotes a separatist revolt in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, a conflict that would claim some 14,000 lives over the next several years. “One of the key issues is that Ukraine has chosen Europe instead of Russia,” Herrera says. “And for Putin that’s unacceptable.”
2019: Zelensky Elected President – Volodymyr Zelensky, a former comedian who once played Ukraine’s president on television, wins a landslide election to become Ukraine’s actual president. Just a couple of months into the job, he takes a phone call from U.S. President Donald Trump that serves as the basis for Trump’s first impeachment (Trump was later acquitted by the Senate).
2022: Russia Invades Ukraine – Russia launches a full-scale invasion of Ukraine but meets heavier resistance than expected. The invasion, says Herrera, “comes back to Russia wanting to assert control over Ukraine and thinking they could get away with it.”
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It is “the Ukraine” until 1991.
The use of “Ukraine” throughout this account is ahistorical and misleading.
Yes, and that is because ‘the Ukraine’ means ‘the Borderland’ in Russian.
So Zelensky, the CIA, the US State Department, MI-6, the Mossad, and NATO want it to be called just “Borderland” without the “the”. Lol….
Fools. Fools fooling fools.
Vindication – and it feels so good.
Thanks for explaining Ukrain’s hopelessly complicated history. The place has never been a nation and never will be. It has a chance at becoming one once the Western powers are permanently expelled from the area. And that will most definitely happen.
A wall of text to grab the attention of the low of IQ.
2014 Protestors oust Russia backed president.
Reports say these protestors were mostly imports financed by NATO countries. Think of here, Spur, our lovely Antifa rebels are documented being paid to riot by our old friend, George Soros. Could he be the source of that protest in Ukraine?
You fail to mention that Russia, during the breakup of the USSR
Asked for NATO membership to join Europe. If that had happened, none of this would be happening now. BUT the US would have lost face in Europe, so it was rebuffed.
The USA made an agreement to assist Russia and the other SSRs to help their economies recover. Even then the US had no capability to do this, so they didn’t.
Most important, NATO led by the US promised not to convert Eastern Europe into NATO to provide a buffer zone. Another bald faced lie.
Spur, I understand your anti Russia rage, they caused a 20th century debacle, the Cold War.
But did they by themselves? The US had a chance to meld Europe together and blew it.
Only one winner here, Spur,
The MIC, who needs an enemy to justify itself.
One more
Russia will never let Ukraine become a NATO country!
Why?
Ukraine is geographically positioned at the throat of Russia. Eastern Ukraine aims at the Caspian Sea area, ie oil country, but even more important, the plains of Ukraine are only attack avenue to invade Russia from the west. North and South are mountainous and impossible to move armies through.
Again, supporting Ukraine is a no win scenario as the Russians are going to isolate it, as JHK suggested from Russia itself, to build a Russia buffer and from the Black Sea, because of Russia’s naval force there and the oil and gas in the area.
Remember shock and awe in Iraq where the US hit Hussein with an onslaught? The Russians have not used the strategy yet. Not only that, their advances have been cancelled because US tech development has made air and tank methods obsolete. I have seen folks here ask why the US has no sent Warthogs to the war. They too are obsolete, too slow and will get shot down by hand held weaponry.
Russia is currently trying to figure out how to get their objectives not being able to utilize tank warfare. The next level of airborne weaponry is about to be released onto Ukraine. Russia is a master of scorched earth tactics, Ukraine may be a black spot on the map and never pose a threat to anyone. 2023 should show what direction it is going to go.
Is Ukraine a repeat of the Alamo?
Russians think of Ukrainians as their relatives. They aren’t going to do a US-style shock and awe, nor are they going to turn the country into a black spot on the map.
That is an American tactic, not Russian.
Another massive dump to scroll by.
An excerpt and a link would have sufficed.
The turd’s going for a PhD in Ukraine Studies! Let us know how that works out for you.
The Western ones – the ones you like – are the ones who became Nazis, either real ones then or the fake ones now.
The Cossacks didn’t just kill Jews for no reason – they killed the Jews who were oppressing their Orthodox brothers on behalf of the Catholic Poles.
How many Ukrainian peasants did the Jews kill? Why does no one ask that? Until you do, you are “of the world”, part of this evil Babylon system.
The peasants had been fighting back, but the Jews and the professional Polish knights together were too much for them.
Of course killing becomes indiscriminate in conflicts very quickly. That is true on all sides – not just the Cossacks.
Spur downloads undeniable proof that there is no such thing as a historical Ukrainian nation and unified people with inviolate borders, to prove that there is such a thing as “Ukraine” and the people who live there live as one, speaking a language mostly invented in the last century and forced by law onto the citizens of the invented country, who previously spoke a variety of now-outlawed languages….. which proves something in his tiny brain.
What a doofus.
Those Vikings really got around. So not only did they colonize Greenland, sail to North America, overrun Britain & NFrance, occupy Sicily, conquer NAfrica, and threaten Portugal & Spain, but navigated down wild rivers into present day Ukraine & Russia. And all within a period of about 3 centuries. That’s impressive!
But when their time was up, it was up.
Kind of like the US, no doubt.
Christianity did it.
It’s unfortunate that the Norse didn’t codify and canonize their religion. Instead they put on that threadbare sweat-stained cloak of many colors.
Amazing what a few motivated people from a cold wet place can accomplish. Even more amazing that they commit collective suicide afterwards.
Check it out my nigga: During the conflict with Christianity, Vikings started giving their children Christian
names. Cultural submission? Perhaps engendered by all of the Christian women they had stolen to become their concubines and wives? Iceland was full of Irish female slaves who stooped to conquer.
Maybe the Jews know their business in putting descent thru the female line. Woman is form after all. A man may not know his child but a woman always knows hers. Whose influence is greater? Genetically? Not sure. But culturally? In the early years? Hers – especially if the Hero is off doing manly things abroad.
A stiff cock knows no morality – perhaps the ladies are right in calling us out on this. How can we survive as a race and culture with alien wives? We must steal Whites ones and convert them – perhaps. It was called Kshatriya marriage in old India. Arjuna did it.
My original rebuttal didn’t come through.
In 2014, after the US-instigated coup in Kiev, the people of Crimea voted to join Russia.
The city of Odessa was founded by Russians after Catherine the Great conquered the area.
On Fox news:
‘Kremlin showing cracks as Putin fires another general, British Intelligence says.’
We believe you, bro.
I believe British Intelligence!
Putin is looking for his Grant, or Patton, someone who will slaughter the Ukraine to get his ends.
If I thought this war was about Black slavery, I would turn in my sword.
Ulysses Grant
@Jar
hahahahahahah!!
I’ve been thinking this as long as I could question authority. Which is longer than I would like to confess.
much ado about nothing.
2023 will be just like 2022, and just a little bit worse.
Bill Cosby is going on tour? If that doesn’t beat all. Hard to believe. Just defiance, will it really happen? Is this what Pucker has been up to?
After Katrina, I’ve considered every likely guess on what would end the age. So many thinkers. So many likely scenarios. You had me at the “world made by hand” series. Turns out, the whole damn thing is just too complex to maintain. Even with all the boogeyman out there, the scariest thing for me is that the boogeyman are no longer capable of understanding the complexity. I’ve spent 17 years watching for signs, indicators, to have a leg up in the last moments of functional civilization. Damn if you ain’t right. It’s just too many moving parts. I deeply appreciate all the thinking that’s happened between here and there. I was hoping you were wrong.
Too many moving parts! Yup. I think about these issues every time I fire up my wood heater and read reports and complaints in the local news about rolling blackouts turning people’s heat off, energy costing way too much, and complaints about complex heat and air systems failing at the worst time and heat and air techs being temporarily unavailable due to too much workload.
My wood heater is extremely simple, so simple in fact that I’ve yet to experience a breakdown. And since I have access to the woods behind my house, I’ve never experienced a lack of fuel either. I get a smug feeling of satisfaction and superiority every time I see people in trouble due to mechanical problems I don’t have. The only mechanical issues I encounter is with my chain saws and wood splitter. And I also have the old fashioned splliting maul that never needs gas or service. If the gas splitter fails or there is no fuel for it, my house still stays warm while the people around me might just be shit outa luck.
Chuck,
Ask the Saint if he has ever been to a flue fire. I have been burning wood for…50 years, and have had several…the first one a very sporting event.
Fun fact…Current code all-fuel pipe, metalbestos, is only rated for one flue fire…the second one delamninates the pipe.
Trust me on how I know this….
@ elysianfield:
At my old house I burned wood for about 20 years and never had a flue fire. Most of the time I had triple-walled insulated pipe for the flue, but for a time I had only single-wall black pipe and, due to not taking adequate precautions against it touching the roof overhang, the wood there got to smoldering and I had to call the fire department.
Here, I have triple-walled insulated pipe, and the routine is to burn a creosote log in the wood stove every fall before starting the first fire in the wood stove. I think that is supposed to do the job to protect against flue fires.
My former neighbor once said that there is some kind of salt you can throw in the stove to clear out the creosote, but I was never clear on what he was talking about.
A company called “Rutland” makes fireplace and woodheater accesssories, and they sell a creosote remover “salt” you toss in your heater at least twice a week. It’s a dry powder consisting of manganese acetate and trisodium phosphate. Use the scoop in the can for measuring it. The manganese reacts with the sticky tar like substances in creosote and turning it into stuff that tends of flake off easily. A creosote log has the same chemicals in it. It’s best to toss the powder in on a routine weekly basis to help keep pipes free. It doesn’t mean you can stop the yearly scheduled chimney sweep procedure of running a brush up and down your chimney, it just makes the yearly scrubbing process much easier. Running single wall black pipe through the roof was a huge no no. Hopefully your insurance company isn’t reading this.
A rippin’ chimney fire looks like an upside down Saturn V headed to the moon. Cold chimneys+low smoldering fires+ unseasoned wood is a sure recipe for creosote build-up. Triple wall pipe makes for a nice warm flue. Around here many people have old exterior masonry chimneys. You’ll never warm them up enough with a damped down smoldering all-nighter fire.Often the old flue tiles have cracked over the years. Once that Saturn V takes off at 3 am it gets into the wood framing lickity-split.
Well, all of that explains your handle!
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
could chuck wood?
maybe that should be How much chuckling would a woodchuck chuckle if a woodchuck saw others without wood?
@ Woodchuck:
From another point of view, consider the cost in man-hours to cut, split, and stack a cord of wood, versus the cost in man-hours at your place of employment of one month’s electric bill or gas bill.
Much depends on your hourly wage, of course. If you take home $20/hour, it takes you one 8-hour day’s work to net $160. Would that pay your heating bill for a month? If a cord of firewood is $500, would that last you an month, or two months, or all winter? How many days work would it take to cut and split a cord of firewood?
Our forecast here is for a very mild winter, so about one cord of firewood will almost certainly get me through the whole winter. I paid $300 for something a bit less than a cord (maybe 3/4 of a cord), and it is not very good wood, as it wasn’t cured long enough. But I have about 1/4 of a cord that is high-quality wood from off this property: hedge and oak. This wood comes from trees that needed to be removed anyway, or large branches that fell to the ground during storms and had to be removed. So part of my winter heating bill is “free.”
Actual money expenditures for heating with wood will be $300 for the whole winter.
I do supplement with the proverbial “oven heat,” and I have a space heater in the bathroom and another under the computer desk. I’m not sure how much it boosts the electric bill to run these.
You forget to mention how much it costs to pay monthly fees for working out at the gym. Cutting, splitting, and stacking wood provides one with a great workout, and it doesn’t cost a dime in membership fees. Not only that, the wood ashes are great for resupplying mineral content to your garden soils. Getting out in the woods, smelling 2 stroke engine exhaust, sawdust and fresh wood, getting out in the woods, etc. priceless!
Old folk wisdom;
Burning wood warms you twice…once when you burn it and one when you are cutting/gathering it (tee hee)!
I absolutely loathe that old, folksy, New Earth Catalog hippie…and dare I say it…Star trek shit…platitudes that pass for wisdom.
Here’s another regarding wildlife eating your garden
; When gardening, you must plant two plants, one for yourin, and one for theirin….
Been my experience, that the deer, voles, rabbits and racoons eat bothin….
I was never any good with a maul. The way I split wood was with wedges and an 8-pound hammer. This works well, and you can do it sitting down.
My electric bill is always higher in the winter than the summer, because I tend to cook soups and casseroles in the winter on my electric stove, in order to help heat the house.
In the summer I don’t cook anything in the oven and no soups.
So my summer electric bill is usually around $50 and my winter one usually goes over $100.
Does it help heat the house? Well, it helps heat the kitchen at least.
My woodheater is an Ashely model that has the sheet metal box around it to keep people, especially kids, from getting burned by touching it. The top sheet metal panel is louvered for air flow, and it’s also mounted on a long hinge. The top of the firebox has two round flat spots stamped into the steel so the heater can double as a cooktop. I’ve experimented with it in winter and use it for making soups and crockpot type fixin’s. It’s not too good for frying but great for slow cooking. In a winter power outage I can still cook just fine using wood. I keep a pot of standing hot water on it sometimes to add humidity and to always have something ready to make hot beverages. .
@ Paula D:
One of my daughters got an apartment with a roommate when she first got out of college. She was shocked that her roommate baked during the summer. (“I never heard of such a thing!”)
Winter soups are great. One of the best winter soups is posole. Or maybe potato soup. Or maybe black beans and rice.
@ Woodchuck:
I’m too old now for the joys of cutting and splitting wood, but cutting wood with a bunch of friends is among my happiest memories–one of which was cutting firewood in the snow on a relatively warm winter day. We were all wearing our thermal underwear, Carharts, and insulated boots. We’d work for an hour or so and then go indoors for coffee and gossip, and then back outside.
Besides the smell of the engine exhaust and fresh-cut wood–and the outdoors in general–there is the joyful sloshing of liquids and the pure fun of running a chainsaw.
When I bought my first chainsaw and was clearing brush from around the property, one of my daughters was about fourteen and was dying the get hold of that chainsaw. I thought I’d never be able to get her to give it back. Using a chainsaw is just intoxicating!
You bring up a good point about complexity. As someone who has worked professionally in many different industries, at age 59 I can tell you that the average task and workday have become vastly more needlessly complex and convoluted than when I first worked in businesses back in the 1980s.
For starters, you have to master about 25-50 different applications/tools in order to do your work. Most of these tools don’t integrate (as we were promised they would) so you end up (stupidly – to someone like me who loves automated processes, using software or not) having to redo work multiple times. This is exactly what tech was supposed to prevent. Young people don’t understand, so doing things over and over is fine for them. Yes, they grew up using tech but few of them know how to use it sensibly – or how it should work to make sense and actually reduce workload (ironically, these systems all promise to do just that – naturally!). Or very few of them do. I also learned from a Silicon Valley programmer how the application/tool companies come into being and are funded. It really has nothing to do with anything but a good ol’ boys network and connections.
It’s such an unbelievable mess. I would have a lot of fun redesigning an actual working product for people to actually be productive. I have tried in a few places to leverage the tools they have, but usually it’s met with resistance, as people are married to their chaos.
It really is surreal out there.
Mary
Do you think all this computer muck is like a language. We do know that young children pick up languages much easier than older kids and adults.
The underlying programming is a language. Kids aren’t learning that, they learn apps.
MQ-
Sounds like you’ve dealt with something like the Oracle implementation I had to fumble with in my former role.
JAZ-
Programming languages are a bit like human languages in that they have their own specific phrasing and rules.
Well, not really. It isn’t a migration – I’ve actually kinda enjoyed when I’ve had to implement them.
This is a kazillion apps for doing everything. Example – for project management, now you might have Jira, Trello, Asana, SmartSheet, Monday, etc. all in the same company. No cohesion.
They might connect, but you have to hire someone to do that – with – you guessed it! Another third party app (at some point they become 4th and 5th party apps). Then you might use google calendar, but then to manage it you need Calendly. Then you might want to do social media – but in order to manage it, you now need HootSuite. Etc. etc.
Being a master of some particular corner of chaos is how people make a living. You would take it away from them? Like what’s her name in Archie Bunker. Archie got her a job at the dock and she thought of a way to get rid of the Longshoreman – which was Archie’s job.
A Universal Language! Sounds like Team Spirit (Globalism). Let’s have all the peeps and computers able to talk to each other. Hell, put on inside each person’s head.
How easily things go downhill when one talks about making things easier, eh?
Yes, I’d take it away from them.
You’re with the Globalists then. They seduce people in many ways – yours is “efficiency and of course anything anti-male.
Nope. It’s the opposite. I’d remove the needless complexity which is a time-waster, and have people doing meaningful work.
Gates always talked about giving people tools to make their lives easier, but in effect he was selling gadgets. It’s what William Burroughs was talking about when he said “The study of the thinking machine teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.”
Burroughs was the scion of the Burroughs Adding machine Co., which was a tool, albeit a primitive one. I shudder to think what kind of a programming language he would have come up with had he lived in this age. Talk about surreal!
Anyone who has read ‘Naked Lunch” or even a few pages of it, will know what I mean.
I only read a few pages of it, because it sucked.
I thought you would say that!
I guess it was interesting, but I’m not sure about the literary merit.
Reading Jame’s latest leaves me filled with hope that the ugliness we all experience will lead to something positive.
Reading Jame’s latest leaves me filled with hope – gilbert
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Haha, I didn’t know that James was the plural of Jame, thus one Jame, many James.
And the possessive of Jame is Jame’s.
httpX://21stcenturywire.com/2022/11/01/interview-f-william-engdahl-on-real-causes-of-eu-energy-collapse-nordstream-sabotage/
Good interview with Patrick Hennigsen and Engdahl.
At ca. 29:00 Engdahl goes into the globalist agenda as opposed to a US agenda. Per Engdahl behind Schwab are the Rockefeller globalists. This makes perfect sense. The Fed’s manipulation of interest rates—basically like a adjustable rate mortgage—is part of the globalist agenda. Apart from the Rocks’ mania for total control, which other group has a mania for total control of the whole world?
IOW, the European Commission, with unelected technocrats in control is the operative model for the whole One World government and economy. No more nation states, except maybe as decorative flags.
I am gob=smacked that any Europeans now see the EU and its commission as a positive thing. It is as though citizens of European countries feel secure if Mommy and Daddy are still in control of your adult life. Some profess ot understand why Dutch farmers must be violently expropriated to meet EU nitrogen goals.
Orban seems to be the only grown-up in the EU room.
I suppose many European citizens do bear permanent scars from the wars they were subjected to in the preceding century.
Your unelected technocrats cannot schmooze enough to get elected, so they promote other ways to get power, like Biden’s entire cabinet.
Too many technocrats, too much bureaucracy, stasis occurs.
A really good example is SW airlines. Just read and article by a pilot who had been with SW for 34 years. He puts sole blame on the transition from an operationally motivated CEO to a bean counter. He stated that many warnings about the workings of SW were sent to upper management during the years.
I think too about the Challenger, where engineers sent info to management that it was too cold and politics ignored the warnings..
Lousy managers and technocrats cause disastrous results for people. Do I hear Covid?
Boeing is of course the textbook example of MBA think run amuck. So much so that you have to wonder if it wasn’t a controlled demolition from the start. The engineers that left in droves certainly suspected as much. Management for short term stock price increases pretty much guarantees that the tech will go wanting.
Taking a productive company and running it into the ground while asset stripping every last value, is how vulture capitalism works.
They have been doing this since the 80s.
Unfortunately, Mommy turns out to be “Mommy Dearest” of the Joan Crawford variety in the form of Ursula von der Leyen. I’ll take my chances with Daddy Orban instead.
“I suppose many European citizens do bear permanent scars from the wars they were subjected to in the preceding century.”
Like the permanent scars born by blacks in the US who missed slavery by several generations – but sure did experience affirmative action?
Sounds like Europeans culturally appropriating pain that only US blacks are justified in bemoaning.
Jim, you attributed to me a quote that belongs to Gail Tverberg. Please correct the attribution when you can. Thanks! Ugo Bardi
The Jan. 6 hoax will go down as one of the most ridiculous hoaxes in US history.
“Ray Epps is on video directing people to attack the Capitol
Ray Epps texted his nephew ‘I orchestrated it'”
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1608851673337982978?cxt=HHwWhMDT2dSE5dMsAAAA
It’s a travesty, what they have done to innocent people. Of course we all know the reason why it was orchestrated (by the deep state). Divide and conquer, make ordinary citizens look like insurrectionists and white supremacists etc.
The big news is that they now have Ray Epps’s own texts in which he tells his nephew that he orchestrated things.
Guy is a fed, just as many have been saying since the start.
Doesn’t matter. We (white people) will be punished.
They are after everyone. The assault on the MAGA folk is simply to show the other compliant cud-chewers what happens if one challenges the globalist deep state.
It should, six months of absolute BS, but it will be buried by the Uniparty.
Well, nail Ray Epps and what have you got? Not much!
Nail Trump, yeah!
Unfortunately people are rotting in prison because of the hoax. What justice will they ever get?
This is amusing! Yet another “hoax of the century”. I can’t wait to read here how Trump’s tax returns are another “hoax of the century”.
And former “retired” Pope Sillyfinger has gone on to the next plane.
Rest in…hmmm…trying to think of the right word here.
But yeah.
Someone wrote the truth about him: https://onlysky.media/dsharp/joseph-ratzinger-obituary-before-the-fact/
The despicable ravings of a ghoul. Do you like it when the antifa burns churches, Mary? This is the mentality that leads to that.
Shame on you Dis.
Shame on you for supporting a man who let pedophiles terrorize children without punishment.
I’ll quote what one of my very astute friends posted about it:
“Pope Ratso Clovenhoof is making his final trip to meet up with the other demons in hell.
Rest in Brimstone”
Testing….1 2 3….Test Test
Well, apparently I’m not blocked after all. I tried four times to post some information from the US Gov’t on COVID vaccine data and was blocked.
Interesting.
WordPress seems to block certain URLs. I have not had any trouble lately, for some reason, but a lot of people here do. I have no idea their rhyme or reason for blocking what they do.
“Using publicly available data from Pfizer and Moderna studies, we found one serious adverse event for each 800 vaccinees.
That translates to about 1,250 serious events for each million vaccine recipients.
US, Spain, Australia.”
–Robert M. Kaplan and Sander Greenwald
Their source:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36055877/
Free full text:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9428332/
To put the above data in perspective:
Swine flu vaccine (1976), 1 serious event per 100,000 vaccinees, Vaccine withdrawn
Rotavirus vaccine Rotashield, (1999),1 to 2 serious events per 10,000 vaccinees, Vaccine withdrawn
Covid mRNA vaccines, 1 serious event per 800 vaccinees, Vaccine officially promoted, enthusiastically.
Note: I now know why my earlier attempts to post this info was blocked. I was including a link to a YT video going over this data.
To find that vid go to John Campbell’s YT channel and look for the” Reanalysis of mRNA trial data” title. It is right now the newest vid on his channel.
Thanks, Mick. Good info.
The difference is the s protein. The vaxx itself injects another bad guy into the system that we still do not know if it ever clears. Medicine figured out in the early 2000s that the real culprit to heart attacks was inflammation causing clots where cholesterol gathers in the coronaries. Hmmm, so know we have a potential inflammation source that will make things worse.
Interstin story on Fox. Seems the CDC issued a report that the s protein and mRNA was removed by the immune system within a few days. I remember that. Three days later, the report was re issued with that statement omitted. Hmmmmm?
Inflammation will be the next calamity facing humanity, especially autoimmune diseases. IMHO, the virus and thus s proteins hide in the GI tract inciting periodic bouts of inflammation. My strawman is from personal experience. Cardiac inflammation is fatal at times. the largest part of the vaxx crowd is going to put up with intermittent inflammation as time passes, arthritis, muscle pain, stiffness, bruising, Malaise, weakness, increased atherosclerosis, and others. Intermittent cardiac too. Sorta like what is being called long term Covid.
Even now, investigation of long term effects is being suppressed, probably for good reason. I think that the official position is that we as a society are just going to have to put up with the s protein side effects to try to suppress the spread. Now, how much sense does that make when it is just another cold with lingering effects.
Another thing that absolutely no work has gone into.
What is the effect of S proteins and the myriad of drugs that people are on?
“Let the RNC and codependent GOP knuckleheads make Harmeet ‘Mo Money’ Dhillon as the head of the Corp w/ Barbour as Co-Chair. [It will still suck]
??Then, break away and push for a 2nd party alternative to the DNC/RNC UniParty using Englebrecht as Chair.”
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1608294419618304006?cxt=HHwWjMC8-ZzQ59EsAAAA
Good strat. for those on the right and center wishing to break out of the parasite system in US politics. A real, viable third party away from the tentacles of the RNC corporation.
Will support just about any viable third party in US.
As there is only one party now, a viable second party would be nice.
With a viable candidate to lead it.
Look at history, 1856 the whigs were going the way of today’s GOP, becoming meaningless. The GOP formed with John Fremont as its candidate. He had been a force in the acquisition of California. They lost, but the foundation was made. Lincoln won the next election.
Think what might happen though. What if a second party does become viable, grabbing the majority of the independents to start beating the uniparty.
CW2!
I like Catherine Englebrecht. True the Vote has done so much good work in identifying exactly how the 2020 election heist was conducted by Brandon. She was arrested briefly from what I understand because her and Gregg Philipps refused to identify the sources that gave them the geofencing data for the ballot mules. Which is really the same type of data the regime is using to dragnet the J6 political protesters.
Harmeet just crushed the latest January 6th attempt to destroy Trump.
Not saying she can save the Republican Party of course. That deserved to die.
Almost like the CDC knows something we don’t. I wonder if they’ve factored in the effect of eating bugs? One would think they would have a moderating influence on blood sugar levels, and indeed, appetite in general. I know I tried Crawdad Gumbo one time while in Loo-Zee-Ann-A. Caught one whiff and sent it back. Appetite thoroughly satiated.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/30/diabetes-on-track-to-increase-700-in-young-americans/
Looks like the NY Post is swirlin down that drain faster every day. Everybody knows there are way too many Americans who are blubbery so that could certainly be a root cause. But it’s interesting that the article concludes that equity and an increased role for the regime in monitoring health are good answers to the quandary. Where’d you try crawfish gumbo? Lol that is funny. You shoulda tried em freshly boiled at a crawfish boil instead.
Down in the lovely burg of Alexandria in the late 80’s while TDY to England AFB. The waitress thought it was pretty funny. She had bet the chef that I wouldn’t eat it, and damn if she wasn’t right. The smell plus the little antennae protruding from the top of the roiling mess was just too much. Another guy at the table was wolfing it down like it was manna from heaven, so maybe bugs have a future after all?
Oh dear!! That isn’t how they should’ve introduced you to it! They should’ve just had the tail meat in there. That’s too bad. Crawfish can be good but in only certain instances imo.
It’s funny because bugs are already eaten in some cases but just not as often as they would like i guess lol. Have you ever had Cuban chocolate covered ants?
Y’know, those were on my shopping list yesterday but the local Smith’s was all out. Is there any particular reason that they’re a Cuban specialty? As in, did you have to be under economic sanctions for decades to appreciate them?
LOL i bet!! You know I am not too sure why the ones I saw were called Cuban. I remember something about the fact that they had these really big ants there and they would dip them in chocolate. For all I know it was made up.
Crawfish etouffee is a delicacy, as are a vat of fresh boiled critters done true cajun style (max salt n cayenne).
Yeah definitely love crawfish etouffee lol! And for the boiled critters as you say its also really good to throw corncobs, onions, garlic, and potatoes in there with em.
You’d think (well, an entry level marine biologist might think) that crawdads, being so closely related to prawns, shrimp, lobster, and crabs, would taste just as good.
Uh uh.
Try to throw corn cobs and potatoes on my slipper lobster, and, well, look out.
Salt water, I think, is the answer. Cleanses you know. Washes dirt away. Makes new…
Yes, salt water has healing and rejuvenation properties so that is definitely true
Gustaf,
…Mudbugs….
Hey, sometimes you have to get dirty LOL
GA
Please look upsream for a post I sent you. Thanks.
Happy New Year (Hogmanay!)
Baba Wawa, at 93, dies suddenly.
I just saw that too! She was battling dementia though. Not sure if it had anything to do with the clot shot. But Pope Benedict has died as well. So now there will be another famous person that will pass perhaps before midnight. This always seems to happen. 3 famous people pass in a cluster around the New Year time.
No doubt interviewing someone on the other side as we speak.
Buh bye Babs.
A few weeks ago I re-saw the clip of Corey Feldman on one of her stupid shows…..in the 90s I think. He was talking about the rampant pedophilia in Hollywood, and how it led to his friend Cory Haim’s suicide after engaging in several years of alcoholism and drug abuse.
What was Bab’s response? “You are hurting an entire industry!” (By saying these things).
That’s all she cared about. Muh Hollywood. Well, she knew who buttered her bread. Most Hollywood folks don’t give a damn about the rampant child abuse, trafficking, and pedophilia. After all, it’s a “conspiracy theory”.
All her words were slurred – as if wearing a human mask over something else. On the other hand, Queen Elizabeth talked perfectly but was in fact a huge Lizard. Two different alien species?
She had a speech defect.
Basically a kind of lisp.
Yes, as if she was wearing some kind of mask…..
It’s just SADS man! No biggie…..
“Huntington’s line” – an established meme from his book, “Clash of Civilizations” has been scrubbed from the internet. But my article mentions “clefted nations” or nations torn between civilizations. Ukraine is one such clefted nation.
If it makes anyone feel better, so is the United States by many estimates. Huntington doesn’t get into this per se, seeming to assume that all minorities had been or would be assimilated into our Western Culture. But in fact we Latin, African, and Sinic at this point, as well as being Western – though the latter is under ferocious attack.
Talk about clefted hooves, eh Islander? I’m sure you can find his book at your better bookstores, if not on the Island, then in Harvard Square.
I don’t know if it’s technically a lisp but you might be correct.
It seems to be an inability to pronounce the letter “R”.
Babs was a massive asshole.
You should watch her interview with Dolly Parton from the 1980s. She was such a condescending jerk to Dolly. But Dolly kept her cool, and came out shining.
There’s still time to wish everyone on CFN a Happy New Year.
Especially Mary, who bears up remarkably well under continuous sniping fire.
i’m trying to think of a good New Year’s Resolution for myself.
Maybe be more self-aware so that when i am “triggered” i can dissolve the instinctive reaction more quickly.
And of course, pray more, because this is a fateful year. And every day takes its chances.
Thanks, niner! Happy New Year to you as well.
🙂
*clink*
Spot on. Excellent. Thank you, Jim. I’m going to read it again later! 🙂 So many of your quotes struck me, but here’s one, “America’s economy largely hinges on finance now that financialization replaced manufacturing as the basis for prosperity.” Financialization is equivalent to freeloading, what parasites do. In at least two religions where the Book of Genesis is relevant, man was made to work, but all through history, man has used man to do his work for him. Religious or not, it’s safe to assume that globalism has enabled the parasites in an artificially constructed world to take over the body. Localism is natural and enduring.
You asked “Is it some natural process of self-destruction? An auto-immune disorder of a giant cultural organism, with parts attacking the whole? ” – Great analogy, by the way. That’s exactly what it is in my view…the remedy in the natural body would be to overpower the bad bacteria with good bacteria and diversify the microbiome, helping the body to heal itself. Right now, the body is overwhelmed with bad bacteria and the “immune system” can’t fight off the disease. Something has crippled the cultural organism’s immune system and confused it with narrative and lies (same thing the vaccine does to the human body). Understandable, since they know how to manipulate and deceive now through all the data collection and research on mind control.
So what’s coming is a natural destructive process of nature. Either this body will die and a new one will be born OR the parasites will somehow control the body longer on life support and suck every last bit of flesh from its bones and then die off themselves. Let’s hope for the former.
As the Orange Bible will say, Thou shalt not make a machine in the image of the human mind.
Meanwhile Mary works to perfect this infernal system of replacement.
Orange Bible?
the great and inimitable Dune series. Frank Herbert.
the humans fought a war against the intelligent machines, and nearly lost.
Herbert’s son, IIRC, wrote a prequel about the man-machine war.
the dune series was herbert’s allegory of the human abilities that will be brought forth by the spice. the continuous evolution of humanity. particularly through the religions we construct.
and then we beat the machines.
i believe this will happen, and i spit on the transhumanists.
I too (would) spit on the transhumanists (once they get in range).
I don’t believe “this” will happen – but then, I don’t believe anything, so there’s that…
But I do wish you would capitalize the first word of your sentences. And “I”.
If you want to beat the machines, learn human language.
the language is well known to me; it’s the typing that i can no longer master.
my fingers simply hate typing.
Wiki
Huntington divided the world into the “major civilizations” in his thesis as such:[19][2]
Western civilization, comprising the United States and Canada, Western and Central Europe, Australia, Oceania and most of the Philippines. Whether Latin America and the former member states of the Soviet Union are included, or are instead their own separate civilizations, will be an important future consideration for those regions, according to Huntington. The traditional Western viewpoint identified Western Civilization with the Western Christian (Catholic-Protestant) countries and culture.[20]
Latin American civilization, including South America (excluding Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana), Central America, Mexico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic may be considered a part of Western civilization. Many people in South America and Mexico regard themselves as full members of Western civilization.
Orthodox civilization, comprising Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Romania, great parts of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.
Countries with a non-Orthodox majority are usually excluded e.g. Muslim Azerbaijan and Muslim Albania and most of Central Asia, as well as majority Muslim regions in the Balkans, Caucasus and central Russian regions such as Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, Roman Catholic Slovenia and Croatia, Protestant and Catholic Baltic states. However, Armenia is included, despite its dominant faith, the Armenian Apostolic Church, being a part of Oriental Orthodoxy rather than the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Kazakhstan is also included, despite its dominant faith being Sunni Islam.
The Eastern world is the mix of the Buddhist, Chinese, Hindu, and Japonic civilizations.
The Buddhist areas of Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand are identified as separate from other civilizations, but Huntington believes that they do not constitute a major civilization in the sense of international affairs.
The Sinic civilization of China, the Koreas, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam. This group also includes the Chinese diaspora, especially in relation to Southeast Asia.
Hindu civilization, located chiefly in India, Bhutan and Nepal, and culturally adhered to by the global Indian diaspora.
Japan, considered a hybrid of Chinese civilization and older Altaic patterns.
The Muslim world of the Greater Middle East (excluding Armenia, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Georgia, Israel, Malta and South Sudan), northern West Africa, Albania, Pakistan, Bangladesh, parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, Comoros, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives and parts of south-western Philippines.
The civilization of Sub-Saharan Africa located in southern Africa, Middle Africa (excluding Chad), East Africa (excluding Ethiopia, the Comoros, Mauritius, and the Swahili coast of Kenya and Tanzania), Cape Verde, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Considered as a possible eighth civilization by Huntington.
Instead of belonging to one of the “major” civilizations, Ethiopia and Haiti are labeled as “Lone” countries. Israel could be considered a unique state with its own civilization, Huntington writes, but one which is extremely similar to the West. Huntington also believes that the Anglophone Caribbean, former British colonies in the Caribbean, constitutes a distinct entity.
There are also others which are considered “cleft countries” because they contain very large groups of people identifying with separate civilizations. Examples include Ukraine (“cleft” between its Eastern Rite Catholic-dominated western section and its Orthodox-dominated east, with Huntington apparently ignorant of the fact that Orthodox Christians actually outnumber Eastern Rite Catholics in eastern Ukraine by a margin of nearly two to one), French Guiana (cleft between Latin America, and the West), Benin, Chad, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Togo (all cleft between Islam and Sub-Saharan Africa), Guyana and Suriname (cleft between Hindu and Sub-Saharan African), Sri Lanka (cleft between Hindu and Buddhist), and the Philippines (cleft between Islam, in the case of south western Mindanao; Sinic, in the case of Cordillera; and the Westernized Christian Majority). Sudan was also included as “cleft” between Islam and Sub-Saharan Africa; this division became a formal split in July 2011 following an overwhelming vote for independence by South Sudan in a January 2011 referendum.
Maybe there’s a chance that Republicans can do something effective against the Democratic coup perpetraitors after they take the House this week, but I doubt it. Seems like there is a lot there to prosecute, but you know how that lawfare goes. All is not fair in love and law.
Times will grow progressively worse, slowly, slowly, then all of a sudden things explode. The energy crisis is in its early stages, but the financial crisis seems to have reached the ninth inning. What will be the precipitating event causing a really severe depression or worse? In the past twenty years or so we had the LTCM debacle, the Lehman Brothers collapse, and the burst housing bubble along with bailouts and plenty of quantitative easing and pleasing. Now it may just be bail-ins. MMT taking care of business. It’s a wonder that inflation is as low as it is. Is ‘Ice Nine’ right around the corner?
In the long run, it’s nuclear energy if we want to maintain our current standards of civilization and power all those EVs. Fifty years or so and fossil fuels are finished, and the Die-Centennial looms. I’m ready to go back to those horse and buggy days, simpler days, but it looks like collapse is the only way to get there.
If it’s a Die-Centennial type of collapse forget about doing ‘local’ things to survive. Local will come only after all of the mayhem and chaos subsides, and even then its effectiveness will be questionable because of lack of practical ability, farming knowledge, etc.
People with knowledge of carpentry, welding, and guns and the like will be invaluable. Copper, brass, and lead will be the new precious metals. Gunfire will be the medium of exchange.
Let’s not forget something really important. Remember, we’re talking about seriously desperate times here. What’s so important? The willingness and the ability to kill quickly and without hesitation. You and the lives of your family absolutely hang in that moment of hesitation.
Gangs, the military, and the police will have the upper hand here. They will kill you and anyone else to survive.
Maybe we can come to our senses and avoid such a horrible future, but again, I doubt it.
It’s a true but very ominous point. It would be good to have a place to hide if there would be such a thing. They say the very wealthy will have retreats and safehouses or what have you. I’m sure that’s the case. Unfortunately most people will have to face it directly with whatever means they have if any. I do hope that there will be just as many good gestures as there will mean and brutal ones.
Nice point, SSL. The light within us.
It is hard to kick against the clefts, is it not O My Brothers? America is one big cleft and we are going to fall in.
As Texas Arcane used to say, Bosnia times Rwanda. Get someplace White. Many of you are behind enemy lines.
As a so-called ‘white’, I often have more in common than so-called ‘blacks’. Are you (and others) still on about the manufacture of ‘race’? A lot, if not most, so-called ‘black’ so-called ‘Americans’ are so-called ‘mixed’.
When you think hard or harder about reality it can kind of fall apart. If you don’t think too hard about it, I suppose it can help one maintain a certain level of false dichotomies and blinkered perspectives or whatnot.
The above should read, “more in common with so-called ‘blacks’ “.
I share some of Jarek’s race realism, but I also have some feelings in line with this, Zazelle. Whites… are hard to trust as well. And they tend to congregate in some of the worst areas (suburbia), and have the worst mental habits.
My rural southern east coast area is about 50/50 black white, all told. The whites are rednecks, mostly, with a few higher class imports. The blacks are poor. Everyone rubs shoulders, to a degree (not always with grace, but with familiarity).
Do I have more kinship with a poor black local than a New England or California white suburbanite? Almost certainly.
My point was/is, if I can encapsulate part of it, that black, white and race are, in part, social constructs (and that we can often see what we want to see, even if it’s not quite there, like perhaps the Martian canals).
There may be some truths to some of it, but I’d be cautious about extrapolating them and/or running with them (which is what people can do).
There is some argument of course that men and women are in part social constructs too, and that’s what some people appear to be arguing, perhaps often using and/or conflating gender/sex in the arguments, and/but maybe taking the arguments too far.
AFAIU, some of those in Africa– let’s say, for the sake of argument, ‘classical Africans’– are the most diverse genetically (or something like that along those lines) among those on the planet and that the rest’s roots can be traced all the way back to those in Africa, which is where the human race came from apparently.
My contention is in part that there is only one human race and that’s the human race. There may be different ethnicities if we feel we must call some ‘socially-constructed subsets’ that, but even that is problematic and subject again to questionable and limited interpretations and/or social constructions of reality,
why are you here.
Yeah we won’t talk about how they assault, rape, and kill at seven to ten TIMES the White rate.
Or about their abysmal IQ – a well established fact in the branch of psychology that investigates such things.
If race and colour are in large part social constructs, who’s your ‘they’ and what’s ‘white’?
Speaking of social constructs, what else is going on, such as from statistical, criminal, sociocultural and historical standpoints?
And if so-called black Americans are actually mixes of ‘white’ and ‘black’ or ‘whatever’, who or what kinds of manufactured/racist categories occupy your statistics and why?
At the same time, who’s creating the IQ tests, do IQ tests actually measure what some people think they measure, IOW, what are some of their limitations, why are some manufactured categories of people doing worse on them, and maybe in some senses, so what if they are?
Lastly, don’t ignore the embedded crimes of the State and its operatives– often permeated with so-called ‘whites’ if we want to go that route (or the bombing of Iraq and their apparently ‘construction’ of WMDs– that don’t count as crimes and/or are hard to prosecute in any event. Who’s going to stop them? Kunstler’s ceaseless hemming and hawing or text-based hand-wringing on this blog about them?
Whites have the worst mental habits?
You need to get out more.
I am an enemy of incels, misogynists, and racists, nazis and fascists, yeah. What else you got?
You’re an Idiot. I’d be very worried if you were for us.
Can you tell us why the Dalai Lama is piece of shit, btw?
I love it when I hit a chord.
What, not gonna call me a cunt this time?
You love being called an idiot? And a cunt? Perhaps a righteous masochist who knows how wrong they are?
What about the Dalai, dolly?
Of course I don’t like being called any names, but you know that. Your childish retorts are noted.
One may wish to consider that when they stoop to personal attacks/name-calling/ad-homs, they risk undermining anything they they write.
You have left a few off like Satanists, Anarchists, Communist and Socialist scum.
Or are the above-mentioned groups palatable to you?
That’s a weird conclusion to come to, esp. given the comments I leave up here.
Why is anarchists in there?
It has been almost a hundred years but at one time there was a fairly active and destructive anarchist movement afoot.
Okay, there are waaaaay too many ‘wall of text’ postings today.
Even Jarek is joining in on the “fun” with this madness.
Stop it!
(Or not. I don’t read anything more than seven inches long on my screen, especially if there are few paragraph spacings).
It’s useless to fight it. Jarek is usually the worst offender, but tucsonslur gave him a run for his money today.
He’s copying and pasting to overcome his compulsion to talk about anal sex.
He wants to seem normal, so he’s plagiarizing.
Bwahahahahaha…..
I am sooooo glad I didn’t just take a sip of something when I read this Paula.
Lol….
LOL!!!
You didn’t find the information about the different civilizations interesting? You must not be interested in this world or mankine – a dull boy indeed.
I didn’t bother to even look.
When I research civilizations I know where to look. It’s not on a comments section of a blog. Sunshine.
Seriously. Why does Jarek imagine that anyone goes to his comments to learn something? Hahahahahaha!
I learn a great deal from the Comments section – apart from CFN as well. Comments will often tip off trends.
As a living example, the comments following someone famed or important who “died suddenly” (that’s quickly becoming a meme in itself, by the way). 90% of the comments are raging “…clot-shot … poison … depopulation … mRNA experiment, with us as the lab rats …” and so on. The occasional protestor coming in with “sudden death has always existed” gets batted down quickly.
This is a sea change from even a year ago. And it inevitably follows a news article either avoiding the connection with the jab or denying it vociferously.
Mr. and Mrs. Bieber run into Celine Dion at the airport. They likely avoid the Topic of Common Concern, as they twitch and jerk uncontrollably.
“That’s normal. It’s always happened. People all do that.”
Nice, Mick. Why are you here then?
In any case, Mary likes! You’re one of her good boys again…..
Lol… Well it’s good to know that I’m back in the Mary Club!
I tell you what, since I have some time right now, I’m going to scroll back up and read your long post on civilizations.
My New Year’s gift to you.
Jarek has delusions of grandeur.
Yes, I know. Sometimes it’s best to pat his type on the head and say, “Oh yes! You ARE quite special aren’t you.
Wait…..is that a black guy over there?”.
Then he runs off distracted for a while. lol…
Hahahahahaa!
“I have to say, historically speaking, I doubt if hard core Marxist/Leninists, Bolsheviks, Revolutionists down for the struggle, or blood soaked Stalinists, would have much regard for modern day so called ‘Woke’ leftists — Antifa pissants, self entitled Blacks with a chip on their shoulders, or grown men dressing like woman and wearing makeup. Imagine Antifa thugs showing up in Red Square, Moscow in 1936, smashing windows and setting cars on fire, or a bunch of Trannys appearing at the Kirov Public School #18, in Petrograd, to read books to little kids? Some might make it to Kolyma or Vorkuta gulags, most would immediately be dragged to the execution pits at the edge of town. And that would be the end of the Woke Revolution in a Communist country.” ~ BackRowHeckler December 29, 2022 at 7:16 pm (previous threads)
This is kind of trippy/eerie, but after I read that, I thought about the film, Cloud Atlas, by the Wachowsky ‘brothers-turned-sisters’ and then immediately went out to, and just got back from, the grocery store, where I found (and briefly said hello to) a customer who looked remarkably like a young woman I had worked with (and was very fond of) as a fellow wage-slave in our mid-to-late teens. We attended the same college too and I once indirectly helped her cheat on an essay by typing out for her someone else’s essay she somehow obtained (possibly from her brother if recalled) as she recited it to me.
Oh the things we do for love…
Anyway, Cloud Atlas is, if recalled and understood correctly, about how the same people, if born in different eras and contexts, would ‘operate’.
Of course, BRH’s quoted comment decontextualizes everyone, but it does make me ponder that kind of thing.
Have you ever thought about how you’d be in another time and place?
Unsure what my character would do, such as for love, but I might have some ideas.
A hard core Bolshevik would see a Woke for what they are.
Entitled children of the bourgeois who suffer from narcissism so badly they confuse any fantastical thing they wish for and can’t have with oppression.
To be clear: Woke is the product of bourgeois culture in decline. It has nothing to do with Marxism which seeks to eliminate the bourgeois and elevate labor in a more equitable arrangement.
The beginning of wisdom is calling a thing by its real name.
Points taken, KC, but my question would be how a so-called Woke (etcetera, as per Cloud Atlas)– do they encompass a certain personality?– would manifest in different historical/spacial/situational contexts.
There’d be no Woke or Bolsheviks for 2 examples in the year 3000, say, so what form I wonder would their counterparts take.
You would seem to be able to understand and appreciate how new environmental niches can close and open over time, how different people/personalities can occupy them and how those niches can influence/modify ‘natures and nutures’.
OMG, he’s studying us.
Whittaker Chambers wrote a gripping account of the 1930s Communist movement in America in his iconic book Witness. Many if not most of the characters who inhabited this shadowy world would fit comfortably in the modern Woke movement — at the very least as “allies” — but a few of them would not. Marxists today like to put forward an image of the strong proletariat working man as the hero of the struggle but the fact is that they were led by a motley mob of malcontents, most of whom were freakoid weirdo Sam Brinton types just as out-of-step with normal human society as Antifa is today.
Eugene Debs Got 1 Million Votes For President as Convict Number 9653.
Debs ran for the first time in 1900, in the era of the “Robber Barons,” a brutal time economically for all but the very wealthy. The top 1 percent fought tooth-and-nail to keep every nickel they squeezed from wage slaves working twelve and sixteen-hour days.
Malcontents my ass.
Chambers substituted his passion for communism with a passion for God and saw the world in black-and-white terms both before and after his defection.
A good choice. The revolution had been betrayed.
First two paragraphs… so far, so good.
Your error is concisely expressed in paragraph three in conflating the proletarian worker, who made up the vast majority of Debs’ voters, with the professional revolutionaries who led them down the primrose path. Yes, the workers mouthed all the slogans they were spoon-fed by this pseudo-intellectual vanguard, which is the “motley mob of malcontents” I am speaking of. Some proletarian heroes became prominent at the next lowest rung & did indeed lead at the street level by marshalling the muscles of the movement.
Popular democracy inevitably leads to social discord & the plundering of capital by the sons & daughters of the capitalists themselves, i.e., the “motley mob of malcontents.”
Chambers himself was of this class, but kind of a hybrid, since he wasn’t strictly-speaking of the privileged class like Alger Hiss, but came from a ‘disappointed bourgeois’ background, fertile breeding ground for revolution. We’d better hope what’s unfolding on the cusp of the New Year isn’t too calamitous or it will be repeat of the 1930s on steroids. I’m not too hopeful.
In another time and place, but with the same parents?
Because I think that my personality is not just genetic, it was influenced by my upbringing, which includes, of course, not just my parents, but being brought up in a stable society with traditional values.
Drop me in the early 20th century and I would have been shucking oysters or picking strawberries by age 6.
Yep, I think I’d still be opposed to atrocities, given my innate (I guess) rebellious nature and opposition to authority.
Hard to say.
But the whole concept of “being born in the wrong body” wasn’t a thing back then.
That is a topdown agenda being forcibly imposed on society by a ruling class that wants to break people’s minds and spirits.
“How many fingers do you see, Winston?”
The ability to force entire peoples to deny the evidence of their eyes and ears is the final and most oppressive act of Power.
Agree 100%, Paula.
Yes, Paula, born– a few times for simulation fun– from the same parents and you as you, at least genetically, except in totally different environments, situations and times.
That’s what the film, Cloud Atlas seems to be about, although I haven’t seen it in awhile.
Speaking of personality, I don’t generally watch fiction films for myself, usually only if someone else wants to do so with me and prefers that kind. Normally, I prefer to watch non-fiction, such as, lately, stuff on recent advances in cosmology.
As you might recall, I’m a green anarchist, so I’d probably be feeling/doing similar things in your early 20th century time. Maybe even much earlier too.
I actually love smoked oysters, incidentally (not raw though) and have often picked and eaten wild strawberries, especially as a kid.
Well, it’s different eating than shucking and picking.
My dad’s brother, who lived in absolute poverty in Oregon, told me when we visited that when I was 10, I could get a job picking strawberries.
I was quite excited. Picking strawberries? I love strawberries!(That’s probably why that particular job occurred to me here).
But my dad, who was farmed out at a young age and hated it, refused to let me do it.
Thanks, Dad. I now realize how he protected me.
Well of course there’s picking/collecting strawberries/oysters for ourselves and our friends, neighbours and families and then there’s doing so as wage-slaves for commercial enterprises with all the land grabbed, all the means-of-production and all the traditional tight-knit communities demolished.
So now what we have are online surrogate ‘communities’ and ‘friends’ and people wandering around in reality, lost and buried in the glow of their online virtual community-enabling devices.
Well, we were talking about the early 20th century and that had already happened then.
And children got farmed out AND did wage slave jobs like factory work, mining and oyster shucking.
I realize that there are people on this blog, like Uncle Bob, that probably decry the outlawing of child labor, but I’m happy they passed those laws.
Cloud Atlas – couldn’t stand it. Typical woke “You can be anything you want to be” and “Love conquers all” bullshit – from my cynical perspective anyway.
And Tom-Fucking-Hanks. Only movie he didn’t ruin was Saving Private Ryan – but he tried like hell. (No, I don’t care what you did before the war. I assumed you were some mid-level dipshit. And I was right.) Even had Matt “P-51s – tank busters!” Damon on his side. When I die, if I get to at least shake hands with Jesus, I expect Him to say, “You were right about Tom Hanks. Wanna see the videos?”
But yeah, I should have been born early enough to participate in the American War of Independence – and the attempted building of a functioning republic immediately afterwards. Imagine the meaningful life that could have been had back then, cultivating not only your chosen crops, but a whole new nation. One based on reason, and cooperation, and the Golden Rule…
Or at least WWII – mankind’s last great communal event. More of a live fast/die young kinda thing – no point in hanging around for the bullshit sequel.
Or – oh shit – now. The War of Independence, plus WWII (jacked up on steroids and with a head full of crack), plus the Götterdämmerung – all in one lifetime. I kinda asked for it, so I should probably be here for it. And I am.
While the movie has its problems, and I’m inclined to agree with some of them, that’s not really my point.
My point is that it seemed to be more of an exploration of how various personality types and their ethical/moral approaches would be in alternate times/places rather than an oversimplistic ‘You can be anything you want to be’ sort of deal. But maybe the movie is worse than I recall.
In any case, it is entirely possible that those who are unusually successful now in our current systems (large-scale-energy-based globally-connected large-scale State governments) will find it increasingly harder to cope as pendulums of different sorts start swinging other ways or otherwise gyrating chaotically.
It’s how nature operates. Niches open, close and/or change and as such, different ‘animals’ (people) respond differently.
This will inevitably include the ‘sociosexual’ and ‘socioracial’ ‘constructionists’, whoever and wherever they actually are, irrespective of whether we can successfully paint a broad brush over ‘them’ or smoke them out or not.
Over the past 12 months, the share price of Northrop Grumman has surged 40 percent. Raytheon is up by nearly 17 percent. Lockheed Martin has climbed by 37 percent.
The true winners of the war..
Merchants of death.
War is business and business is good right now.
Re “War is business and business is good right now.”
Today it occurred to me that the first “hedgers” were bankers who financed both sides of wars. The poster child for this (at the time) new type of financial activity was the Rothschild banking complex.
If I had taken the money that I didn’t spend on a down-payment for a house in December 2011, and invested it in only Tesla and Apple stock, I could have, only 4 years later, bought that same house with the increased value of my stock purchases – no mortgage.
If
Same thing is going on now. If you’ve got money, you can rob everyone else.
If you hold Federal Reserve Notes YOU are being robbed.
Gold is a sapling, silver is an acorn.
That might be a little better than worse but gold and silver have to be mined for one, for another, are they going to be regulated and is/are the regulation body/bodies going to be accepted as legit, and following those, who or what own most of the gold and silver?
If Goliath owns most of the gold and silver, then if David decides to fight or be free of Goliath, he might find himself in some senses handcuffed to him as he swings David about and smashes him against the rocks and trees.
Some sorts of knowledge might make for better trades in some contexts, so maybe have some gold and silver but don’t have only one basket and think twice about what you are doing and what you are willing to accept.
I need some investment advice. Should I get in on the IPO of the start-up “Soylent Green” now or maybe hold off 6-12 months?
To be explicit, if you hold anything measured in FRNs you are being robbed.
You gotta get in early, saint. Now is a good time, imo. It should be soaring by the end of 2023.
What with my good health and relatively-few vices, my cuts should be quite juicy, tender, tasty, low-fat and free of disease in under a few decades, so invest in me now for the future.
All land, real estate, money, gold, silver, gifts, favours, credit and gift-cards accepted.
shaban
The Case for Wearing Masks Forever
“A ragtag coalition of public-health activists believe that America’s pandemic restrictions are too lax—and they say they have the science to prove it.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-activism/the-case-for-wearing-masks-forever
This is hysterical but also scary because it’s not Babylon Bee.
I am praying that a relentlessly-increasing loss in energy will sufficiently gnaw on the reaches of large-scale centralized State governments.
In the name of the womanly father, the girly son, and the gender-fluid holy spirit, amen.
It took my friend all 6 tries to get yesterday’s Wordle, because she didn’t think that the PC NY Times would use the word “manly”.
Never heard of Wordle, but from what you write, if not for the word, manly, it could be suspected as one device for one subtle form of indoctrination.
Speaking of which, I just got a new Windows 11 laptop and was bothered by how the operating system comes, pre-installed, with a left-side slide-in full of garbage tabloid-style media channels.
And even scarier because – according to my unsophisticated guess – at least one-third of the US population will line-up behind “the Science”. I know too many of them. They live. Well, they exist…
Yep.
Good grief.
America….Land of the slaves…..Home of the Karens
4 hours may be a bit much for anyone.
But I listened to the first hour, with Garland Nixon, and found it interesting.
Sounds a lot like a CFN thread.
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Solutions to the terminal decline do not fit within the neoliberal ideology of the big political parties.
Oui. I have appreciation for this conclusion.
Always enjoy reading your perspective. Thanks and Happy New Year Jim.
“The catch is, it won’t be the WEF’s version of it, their schematic techno-nirvana with a tiny comfortable elite lording over the bug-eating hoi-polloi. They somehow miss the glaring point that the energy required to run their precious transhuman tech won’t be there. By the way, the WEF’s core idea of central control by a coordinated world government is at odds with the core reality of the times ahead, which is that life is about to get much more local and downscaled — the exact opposite of centralized.”
I wonder, if a key element which you seem to disregard were taken into account, if the WEF agenda might still be viable?
At what percent of the current population, would the near term energy availability, satisfy the needs of a reduced population?
Disregarding morality, and thinking in terms of objective, consider the following:
What is a nonproductive segment of the population that could be sacrificed for the betterment of humanity? The elderly and the frail? Was Covid designed to deal with this issue?
Seems that Xi has a format for dealing with a segment of the Chinese population. As the West devolves into a state of lawlessness, will a majority of the population eagerly vote to implement Xi’s format?
A World war works magic on reducing the population. Social and economic despair also contribute to the reduction.
The current air travel fiasco has to take the joy out of air travel for some percent of that population.
If the WEF crowd can pull-it-off, will the existing “you play the game, or lose by default” format still apply, and the majority that are able to operate in a rural setting, will still have the deck stacked against them?
“What is a nonproductive segment of the population that could be sacrificed for the betterment of humanity? The elderly and the frail?
A society the loses the need to show compassion will soon be unable to show any. The unintended consequence of this fascist meme is social implosion.
What was the largest segment of the population that was impacted by the virus?
Who do you blame for that? From my perspective, until proven otherwise, it would be the buck stops here Fauci. Early on he was seen chirping from the WEF bird stand (weforum.org/videos/21428-dr-fauci-shares-4-lessons-the-us-has-learnt-from-the-pandemic-1). My questions would be: Who was he talking to, and what was he saying?
At this point, can you name one moral person in the Biden administration?
Joy and air travel in the same sentence. Wow. When did that happen?
Up to this point, there are many flocks that have visions of annual migration to Europe. When that subsides, then we can claim that the joy has been extracted.
“A World war works magic on reducing the population.”
Ummm, not really.
The estimated world population in 1940 was 2.3 billion. WWII killed approximately 52 million, or 2.2 percent. If you can bury the bodies, you’re not trying hard enough.
Disease, now that’s the ticket. Bubonic plague in the 14th century killed ~one-third of Europe. Smallpox and other novel diseases wiped out as much as an estimated 90% of the population of the New World before the Europeans even arrived in numbers large enough to commence the intentional slaughter.
Want population reduction along with your world war? Go nuclear.
How about a war to bury all the other misconduct?
“A World war works magic on reducing the population. ”
I don’t think this has ever really worked, as long as women remain fertile. A few active men can do the job . . .
But perhaps the spikes’ attraction for female reproductive organs (and males’ too, seems like) will up-end that tradition.
But evolution will win out in the end. Some will survive and reproduce.
Powers That B: “Curses! Foiled again!”
What is your trouble maker credit score?
Humanity is patriarchical and takes after the Chimps, thank God. Sublimating the brutality of our heritage, we have achieved so much.
But the Bonobos are actually genetically closer to us, and obviously some of the women here and even some of the males (I won’t say men) would prefer their model of feminine dominance and living in grass huts.
Only the deep Congo river saves the Bonobos from the wrath of the Chimps. But for that, they would fall upon them like a pack of wolves upon sheep.
And the Bonobos are brutal in their own way: The Sisterhood rules and young males help out mom with enforcement against other males. Or all of the females together against any male who defies them.
As the Buddha said, Woe to any society where women have taken control. The Bonobo program within our species must be suppressed by any and all means. Many have sent their daughters off to college and never saw them again. They returned as strangers, glassy eyed victims of the Women Studies cult, raving against men over Christmas dinner.
Shame on anyone who didn’t believe my chimp story. Why? Because it’s true. It happened.
Have you ever seen a wild bonobo orgy? I heard that the sex goes every which way many times a day, supposedly keeps the peace.
Are they just too exhausted to fight? Too bad we can’t toss Z and P into a group of them, see what happens!
Buddha, this Bud’s for you!
Are you a Star Trek guy like me and Keith? Remember the “givers of pain and delight”? On this fucked up planet, the men lived as stone age savages on the surface of the planet undergoing an ice age. The women lived beneath the surface in a high tech Civilization – but they were utter morons who didn’t understand anything about anything until they plugged into the computer system by wearing a crown. They ruled the men but they were no smarter than the men – until they plugged in. Amazingly prescient. Maybe we’ll go that way: Not Eloi and Morlocks but Men above and Women below. The men afraid of the givers of pain and delight who kidnapped them for sex, keeping a few of them as guards or pets.
Kirk broke it all up, teaching the head cunt that men could be husbands and that she and her sisters needed to learn to be wives so that they could make families.
Enough of your 60’s stuff. Leave off the pipe and think again, White Man!
“Are you a Star Trek guy like me…”
…I knew it….
Lol
“Have you ever seen a wild bonobo orgy?”
Well yes, since you asked. There is a “Bonobo’s Gone Wild” channel on the Pornhub. Pornhub which happens to be Canada’s greatest contribution to the breakdown of society. I guess you gotta watch something on the ‘puter when the sun doesn’t show itself for six month’s out of the year.
“There is a “Bonobo’s Gone Wild” channel on the Pornhub.” I’m shocked that I hadn’t known of it until now…
There are too many people in this country – and in the mindfucked west as a whole – who would like to see us return to “our bonobo roots”. They think that if we follow the mantra of “Everyone fuck everyone” humanity will dissolve into a swirling light brown mass of love. Fortunately they also tend to be pro-Vaxx.
Jean Raspail played into this meme in his classic, Kampf of the Saints. The ships carrying the brown hordes would periodically devolve into mass orgies of tens of thousands of people, engulfing the whole ship.
One is reminded of the “Mongol hordes”. In fact, their armies were much smaller than the European forces they thrashed, depending on superb organization and tactics.
Europeans were flummoxed by mobile mounted archers, the Knights and their horses turned into pin cushions. If his armor was good enough to stop the arrows, his horse could be taken down by them, and then he could be lanced and/or put to the sword at leisure.
Of course, according to Burton, the Southern Caucasians have higher libidos than we do. And Southern Europeans more than Northern Europeans, either naturally and/or because of the inflow of genes from the Middle East and North Africa.
One more reason to keep them out, eh? The dirty bastards!
Healthy hate lives here. Love must choose. The higher love does not – and such lovers must renounce the world or if unwilling, be renounced by the world. Any society that listens to morality from them has begun to die.
Where/when did the Mongols encounter European “knights”?
Are Your COVID-injected Friends and Family Members Brain Damaged?
Neurological damage is slow to manifest. Are you seeing it now?
The list of complications, conditions, and diseases resulting from the COVID shots is nearly endless and can affect any organ system in the body. Pfizer knew. Here’s their document. Look at the last 8 pages at the list of more than 1100 serious side effects and life-threatening illnesses Pfizer knew would happen to those who took even ONE shot. And the FDA gave them a pass, approving the shot with an Emergency Use Authorization, so they could not be sued.
h.t.t.p.s://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf
Here’s the list from the eBooks: (MOI = Mechanisms of Injury)
MOI # 9 – Loss of Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) integrity
MOI # 10 – Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
MOI # 11 – Frontotemporal lobe degeneration: (multiple types)
MOI # 12 – Circulating S1 spike protein and brain damage
MOI # 13 – Spike protein binds to the acetylcholine receptors (AChR)
MOI # 14 – Visual disturbances
MOI # 15 – Miller Fisher Syndrome (MFS) – variant of GBS
MOI # 16 – Facial paralysis
MOI # 17 – Multiple sclerosis
MOI # 18 – Immune response to stimulate spike proteins against brain cells
Since these reference documents were published, (between the end of 2020 through mid-2021), I have identified several more MOI and it seems that each week, more studies come out that confirm the 40 mechanisms I originally identified.
How Does SARS-CoV2 Affect the Brain and Its Implications for the Vaccines Currently in Use (Oldfield, et al)
This study published by Oldfield in January 2022, is really eye-opening. Here’s just the abstract, edited lightly for clarity:
This mini-review focuses on the mechanisms of how SARS-CoV-2 affects the brain, with an emphasis on the role of the spike protein in patients with neurological symptoms.
Following infection, patients with a history of neurological complications may be at a higher risk of developing long-term neurological conditions associated with the ?-synuclein prion, such as Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia.
Compelling evidence has been published to indicate that the spike protein, which is derived from SARS-CoV-2 and generated from the vaccines currently being employed, is not only able to cross the blood–brain barrier but may cause inflammation and/or blood clots in the brain.
Consequently, should vaccine-induced expression of spike proteins not be limited to the site of injection and draining lymph nodes [we now know they do NOT remain localized] there is the potential of long-term implications following inoculation that may be identical to that of patients exhibiting neurological complications after being infected with SARS-CoV-2.
?-Synuclein: This is the major component of Lewy bodies, which are characteristic of Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia. There are many speculations on what the primary function of ?-synuclein may be under healthy conditions. However, the accumulation of this protein when it is folding abnormally seems to be central to neurodegeneration. Since the culprit of chronic illness has been widely described as being the spike protein, a 2021 study of monkeys provided compelling evidence that the spike protein associated with SARS-CoV2 is responsible for Lewy body formation.
Parkinson’s disease: This is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system affecting the motor system. The most obvious early symptoms are tremors, rigidity, slowness of movement, and difficulty with walking.
Lewy body dementia: This is a type of dementia associated with difficulty thinking, movement, behavior, and mood. Lewy body dementia is one of the most common causes of dementia, affecting more than 1 million individuals in the United States and millions more around the world.
Both Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia are both characterized by intracellular aggregates of misfolded ?-synuclein protein in brain neurons. The two diseases together are the second most common cause of neurodegenerative dementia after Alzheimer’s disease.
I could post the rest but what is the point?
Sewagerunner is not here to learn he is here to attempt containment for some reason.
“Are Your COVID-injected Friends and Family Members Brain Damaged?”
Yes, but it was a pre-existing condition…
Those that took the Vaxx say, “It didn’t hurt me, obviously it’s safe”.
If they have complications later, “It’s just a coincidence that half my face is frozen”.
When they eventually die, “It would have happened so much sooner and would have been so much worse if I hadn’t been vaccinated”.
There is no reasoning with these people.
Nailed it.
So if the virus is real and does these things it really doesn’t sound like any other coronavirus. So it sorta goes full circle back to the reality that the virus, if there is one, is a bioweapon. And the “vaccine” developed for the virus is a bioweapon.
Another small piece of the puzzle for those that believe in the virus fantasy: check out the excess mortaltiy stats. EM went up (now 20 percent in Germany) after the shots were rolled out.
Covid wasn’t killing anyone according to the actual stats. Because Covid is not novel. It was rebranded flu.
From ex-Pfizer VP Dr. Mike Yeadon’s Telegram channel:
“If you’ve not seen this short (30minute) film by Children’s Health Defense, I strongly urge that you do so now.
What was uncovered in Kenya, involving WHO & later on, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is truly shocking.
For a number of years, there was an official if unpublicised campaign out of WHO to develop then deploy vaccines designed to induce infertility in African girls and women of childbearing age.
WHO publicly stated the vaccination campaigns were against tetanus. However, careful analytical work undertaken by a number of independent companies and universities confirmed the presence in batches of vaccines destined for use in the field contained not only tetanus toxoid (as expected) but hCG, a essential hormone of pregnancy. It’s also the hormone detected in urine & is the basis of widely-used pregnancy test kits you can buy in any pharmacy.
The government officials claimed there was contamination and that the Catholic Doctors association were scheming in some way.
They failed to anticipate the quality of the analytical work. If the presence of hCG was a contaminant, it would easily be separated from the tetanus toxoid.
Horrifyingly, they found that the hCG was CHEMICALLY JOINED to the tetanus toxoid. This leaves no room for doubt that it was like this at the time of manufacture. It cannot be made like this afterwards, by adding it to finished vaccine vials.
There is absolutely no doubt that the WHO & the BMGF have for many years been surreptitiously developing & deploying sterilising injections masquerading as needed vaccines in girls and women in Africa. There was an additional, separate scandal in rural villages in India, also involved the BMGF.
I share this again in case anyone doubts that powerful people are cold and diabolical enough to inject innocent people with materials designed to harm them.
It’s not a stretch to see that “Covid19 vaccines” are designed to be toxic. There’s no doubt in my mind as a trained toxicologist and experienced new drug designer & former pharmaceutical company R&D executive that this is the central intention of these vaccines.
PLEASE SHARE this note & the film.
Anyone with uncertainties will find this very helpful.
Best wishes
Mike
Dr Mike Yeadon”
https://rumble.com/v1twn2s-infertility-by-vaccines-a-diabolical-agenda-chd-films.html
Are you saying Bill Gates has a private army of Dr. Mengels? Where does he find his staff. Does he use temp agencies that are sworn to secrecy or what? I’d like to know.
Most doctors are Dr. Mengeles these days. That’s obvious. Ever check the stats re: doctor-caused deaths? It’s like the number one cause of death, in the US, anyway.
Gates practices eugenics, and yes, he has an army. He has all of the people who answer to WHO and CDC etc. That’s a lot of Mengeles.
Do you think this is altruism?
LOL.
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/11/20/bill-gates-pledges-7bn-in-aid-to-nigeria-other-african-countries/
This whole angers me more than most.
Who went and made him God?
He was a decent manager but a piss poor engineer as most of Microsoft material has been released with known faults in place.
Kinda reminds you of what he has done with the vaccines, injecting them en masse with known glitches in them.
Whole Should be ahole.
According the Whitney Webb, Jeffry Epstein actually groomed at least one Gates Foundation operative from teenagerdom up, including through college and advanced degrees. Melanie Something.
Each new WW interview covers a lot of similar manterial but then brings in something new (that is covered in her book).
In a recent interview with Dr. Mercola, she goes into quite a lot of detail regarding the overemphasis on Epstein’s trafficking and abuse crimes and yuge underemphasis on his dealings with top-level NGOs and other entities that are involved in technologies that intersect with social control, including via “health care,” as ways to gain total control over humans and the earth.
Look at this twaddle.
You aren’t equipped for this, Mao-bro.
@K-Chien:
Vaccines used in Africa were proved to be purposely designed to be harmful. Hence (to answer your question), it is a certainty that there was a small army of Dr. Mengeles involved–unless the doctors administering the vaccines did not know they were harmful. If they did know, they most likely shared Gates’s view that inducing infertility in African women was a good thing.
What I’d like to know is why you couldn’t figure this out for yourself.
Yes, monstrous. A crime against nature – as was giving them unlimited medical care so they could outbreed their own capacity to take care of themselves and then come knocking, pounding, and demanding to be let into our Civilization.
Nature and its many diseases kept their numbers in balance. They had not escaped her clutches on their own power – so obviously they don’t have the Wisdom to deal wisely with any aid given. And we haven’t escaped Nature either, only overcoming the most basic challenges. If we had any real Wisdom, we wouldn’t have enabled them to over breed as they have done. Or done a lot of the things we have done for ourselves.
Now “we” (our most ruthless members) try to rectify our error thru secret mass murder.
Yeah it is definitely criminal. Their thinking is probably to get the areas of the world where birthrates are still extremely high. Decreased birthrates and increased death rates and bada bing you have a depopulated world and Bill Gates et al are like the gods of the new world. That’s their theory I think.
Re up-thread:
“All of those hostilities engendered and exacerbated by the CIA/Mossad are falling aside as Chinese and Russian diplomacy (the real deal, unlike Blinken & Co) work their pragmatic magic.”
Iran and Saudi Arabia are now being integrated into the BRICS/SCO framework, if not officially, then at different levels of economic and military “interoperability.” Russia and Iran have just signed a new military deal. The Saudis also see which way the wind is blowing. India kind of remains on the fence, ideologically, but I believe has signed long-term contracts for RF gas and oil.
IMO one reason that Putin/Russia did not respond immediately to the 2014 provocation and the subsequent assaults on the Donbass was because the Maidan was just one in a series of provocations that started at least with the Orange thing in 2004 and the insertion of Yushchenko (BTW chekc out the bio of his wife: “Kateryna Yushchenko was born Catherine Claire Chumachenko in Chicago to immigrants from the Left-bank Ukraine. She is a former U.S. State Department official . . . ). At that time the intention of integrate both the Ukraine and Georgia into NATO were clearly and publicly stated.
Putin/RF might have hoped that a change of administration in DC would allow coooler heads to prevail in the West. But things actually got worse under Obama/USA. The State Dept. was infested with Necons; the VP’s family were a bunch of grifters deeply compromised in the Ukraine. I am sure that those at the top of Gazprom knew all about the shenanigans with the gaz business in Ukraine: there were, historically, huge shenanigans with all Russian gas that passed through Ukraine. It is not credible to think that the RF did *not* know *exactly* what was going down with Burisma and other oligarchic stitch-ups.
The Maidan was in effect merely a more violent replay of the Yushchenko stunt.
Putin/Russia could not let this go forward. But they were not ready to risk a head-on confrontation with NATO/USA in Europe. They had to deal first with Georgia, for starters.
Then, I believe, the long-term strategy was to build a “deep” defense around the whole rest of periphery of the Russian Federation, to the south, southeast, and east. They saw what happened to Trump: Any US president, like him or hate him, who tried to calm things down with Russia would be neutralized/removed/discredited. The USA/NATO/Deep State long-term strategy was obviously to attack and dismember the RF.
Putin/RFthus created a similar long-term, generational strategy to stymie the USA/NATO and preserve the Russian state. Now also the WEF had become a dynamic factor in the Western Deep State, adding a layer of “globalist” danger to Russia’s state sovereignty and power—bottom line, its ability to protect its citizens. Putin actually cares about this.
IMO that partly explains why Putin didn’t come to the aid of Donbass earlier. Russia did what it could for those beleaguered people being shelled, maimed, and killed—by inviting them to seek shelter and new lives in Russia. But Putin couldn’t risk all of the RF by confronting the West over the Donbass without first building a deep defensive moat.
The ever-deepening relationship with China and the BRICS/SCO initiative was the keystone of this strategy.
Duh?
So few ask, why, as in, why is this all happening (now)? Depletion, overshoot, degradation.
The first oil crisis was back in the 1920s. Production simply couldn’t keep up with the massive needs created by the demand for automobiles.
Hubbert formalized the function, as realized since in every subsequent peak and decline, whether n America, mena, n sea, et al
Since the effects of scarcity were well know to anyone in leadership, our current state of affairs was entirely expected generations ago.
It was always understood that a fight over the last great stores of natural resources would need to be fought and thus usa policy since at least Regan Bush has prioritized this objective
You can always tell someone who is late to the party (awareness) by the degree of hand wringing, complaining and general emotional distress exhibited as they witness the planned destruction of their cherished belief structures
Ironically, it’s the Russians who have collectively passed through the 5 stages and are ready to rock and roll. With that resolve, They are going to take Ukraine and threaten poland/NATO.
The brics will drive a petro dollar substitute comprised of a composite of commodity goods. Their own swift system is in the works that will allow non imperial payments and trade.
When the US loses the dollar reserve status, welfare, ss and the mic will no longer be able to be funded by conjured mouse click money created out of thin air.
Covid/Vax, wef, woke, etc will all become dated jokes as the 4 horsemen force survivors to focus their thoughts and actions in a new world were the US once again becomes a regional power limited to n america
So it is fine that a small number of white quasi-intellectual racist assholes with the unaccountable power of deep state agencies sets foreign policy and America’s future?
Maybe shoiuld you need to be silenced they can just explain you are not with the program and need to get on board. The guy in the black suit might say something like:
“It is going to be tough but America will get through this.
They can’t know what is going on because American’s won’t be told what to do.”
They might say something like that if you are deemed a problem child.
Then they might tell you about something like the Boston Bombing a couple of months before it happens.
Actually, I think you might be right to a certain degree.
As the operational situation continues to degrade, we may begin to see renewed efforts to restrict contrary news/opinion.
However, similar to wef and other centralized schemes, fed.gov is running against both time and events (aka “reality”) that will compromise their enforcement abilities.
The real point of my comment above was not to endorse, but rather to identify. Religion, whether secular or ecclesiastical, is designed to confuse and destroy critical thought.
I’m not sure a population has ever been as thoroughly brainwashed as usa children from 1945 to 2005. The effects are obvious as fully grown adults still cling to fantasies completely unhinged from reality.
“I’m not sure a population has ever been as thoroughly brainwashed as usa children from 1945 to 2005. The effects are obvious as fully grown adults still cling to fantasies completely unhinged from reality.”
I agree with the above quoted paragraph.
I’m interested to know why you say just to 2005 though. I think the brainwashing is ongoing.
Why would Russia want Poland and NATO?
The West is destroying itself. Russia is not a wealthy nation, they cannot afford to Duke it out with more than Eastern Ukraine. Once the barrier to attack from Europe is in place, they will just settle in with BRIICS and laugh as the NATO/US debacle collapses.
To them, not worth a single Russian life after Ukraine.
Duh?
All wars are resource wars.
That goes without saying.
Duh.
Neo-Marxism – the philosophy of pigs. Culture is just the play of material forces. If so, why not go to war – since that matter is all that there is? That’s how Marx saw it and he is correct from his pov.
In contrast, your philosophy hangs in the air, supported by nothing since you think matter is the ultimate morality.
All your morality – you think that comes from matter somehow? Ok, how?
Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Father.
Jesus Christ
Your concern comes from above, though horribly tainted by your materialism of course.
I agree; In a continuous iteration, which duh invites another duh as you demonstrated so well?
So yes, it’s always been about resources ever since the first single cell organism absorbed its neighbor as they both peacefully basked in the sun.
Since this is the case, why does this blog suffer endless peripheral conversations that completely ignore the central thesis?
I believe it is partly due to jim abandoning his decades long head start regarding the big 3 constraints, coupled with a laissez-faire attitude regarding comment moderation
That being said, his year end summary was a master stroke. He perfectly described the entire arc from A to Z, coupled with his unsurpassed writing ability.
JAZ: you cannot compare a financialized economy like the USA to productive, real output such as Russia, much less priced in dollars rather than ppp (purchase price parity).
Ukraine is simply the present theater; Russia is demanding Nato return to pre 1999 borders sans Poland, et al
With 1/2 -1 million troops sitting on the polish border within say the next 3 months, Nato will have no way of preventing any type of conventional strike.
As has been said for 70 years, all euro war games result in either ussr/Russia winning, or nukes are used as a defensive weapon.
The larger battle in Russia was to get the nation behind the idea of a ‘patriotic war’. Like pearl, only this time with the US playing the role of the Japanese, we help unify their country not seen since ww2
Almost every high ranking official from putin down includes references to Satanic, demons, anti human, etc when describing the west. Sounds like Iran and other assorted sworn mortal enemies we’ve made around the world, no?
“Hubbert formalized the function, ”
It’s not too late to have William Engdahl send you some info of Hubbert’s actual background (referenced by me up=thread or maybe last week.
You can always tell who is late to the party . . . they always assume they are the only ones “early” to the party and get a charge out of putting down the “late comers.” Of course, sometimes these eager beavers end up at the wrong party . . .
You shouldn’t have thrown Night Owl that piece of flotsalm or was it jesalm? He grabbed on to it and now he thinks it’s the Titanic…..
It was one of many things I brought up while waiting for you to tell us how you know the earth has “reached carrying capacity.”
Still we wait. Stormfront approves of culling the excess vermin, right?
Science.
How is it different than over-population which you admitted could happen?
It’s flotsam and jetsam
They are two different things.
Back your claim.
(I know you can’t)
Oh? How are they different?
Assertion is the lowest form of argument – in reality none at all.
I asked first. Make your case.
I asked you first, over a month ago and repeatedly since. You still have not answered. Special rules?
But I can easily answer your question: one is an assertion of fact (yours), the other is a statement regarding a plausible occurence.
Your turn.
The RF will not “threaten Poland” unless Poland gets too unruly.
Or the rest of Europe.
My point is that BRIICS etc is going to win the world economically. War is obsolete!
Bravo, John – that’s why we attacked them. If we win, their stuff is ours. War is good for the economy if you win, bad if you lose, you see.
Instead of reinventing the lightbulb, you turned it on and then smashed it because offended by the light.
Almost! You almost got it right, but for 180 degree of difference. War is thus not obsolete.
Rt
Given that “Ukraine is receiving more and more and better Western weapons,” the FM said Russian forces are now formulating plans to disrupt the arms shipments, adding that “Railway lines, bridges and tunnels” are being considered as targets to “make these deliveries more difficult or, ideally, stop them altogether.”
FM Lavrov
Not one stone shall be left upon another.
Jesus Christ
Russia will march on Europe.
Our Lady of Fatima
Jarek: The Poles are assholes and losers in the aggregate. Often nice people as individuals. They always act badly when they get power. And they always get smashed for it.
What is the best indicator of the future? The past. They will act badly again and get smashed again.
“Russia will march on Europe. ”
I doubt it.
Supply lines get too long.
Russia will not put its troops in any potential “cauldron” scenarios a la Nappy/Hitler/Debaltseve.
Night Owl has latched on to the abiotic oil theory like a lamprey. It’s become the cornerstone of this worldview, though a few weeks ago he knew nothing about it.
Thanks to efforts of Islander and Gustaph, now he does. Needless to say he has no interest in their caveats about it not being able to solve our energy crisis even if true.
A drowning man will grab onto anything. The American way of life is non-negotiable – Dick Cheney, George Bush, Nightowl. Only one them really believes that.
I was the one who brought it up.
Do tell us again about how the earth is at “carrying capacity” Nazi bro.
Good speculation there, Islander.
A defensive moat lol. Some things never change i guess 🙂
What got me thinking was a video with William Engdahl commenting on the gas politics in Ukraine **thirteen years ago.**
A lot of people—call them “late comers” for short! (:-))— do not understand the background, and how long this s— has been going on, the gas BS and the USA meddling BS.
I had some idea because, as I think I previously mentioned, I had worked on a book about Gazprom and it included not only explanations of the the infrastructure, the history of GP’s commercial relations with Europe since the early seventies, the geology, the storage issues, the role of Gazprom in Russian life, the constant BS with Ukraine (the raison d’etre of Nord Stream 2) and, latterly, the new BS coming from the EU Commission, trying to micromanage Gazprom’s pricing structure and using the Ukraine to do away with Gazprom’s long-term contracts (which were *extremely* favorable to the buyers).
Simultaneously the USA was using the EU Commission and Ukraine to drive a wedge between Russia and Europe.
The USSR built basically all of Ukraine’s infrastructure and also gifted the country with cheap gas for decades. This is the background to Engdahl’s comments in the video, and it reminded me of the heaps of information about these ongoing problems with the Ukraine that I had read about in the ms.
Russia knew since the Orange Revolution—remember that?— exactly what “the West” was up to. Anyway that got me thinking . . . .
Here is the video—remember, this was 13 years ago:
“Russia Ukraine Gas Dispute” from 2009.
httpX://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsJJsdYgO1Y
BTW, “moat” is just a handy metaphor. . . . It is quite common in the investment context.
Isn’t the orange revolution the Maidan coup? I do recall hearing that both Russia and Ukraine share the same style of railroad tracks that are actually different from the railroad tracks found in other European countries. This ties into the infrastructure built out by the USSR that you are discussing I imagine. And because of this little fact, Russia is able to get supplies into Ukraine by rail but rail shipments from the west from like Poland or Romania are not possible. So that is clearly a major disadvantage for Ukraine during the Russian invasion.
“Isn’t the orange revolution the Maidan coup?”
No. Orange Rev. was 2004.
Maidan Coup, 2014.
Check out the Engdahl interview/video. It is just ca. 8 mins and explains a lot. Also provides maps.
I think you are right concerning the gauge of the railroad tracks. Google provides this answer:
“The Ukrainian rail network currently uses 1 520 mm broad gauge, the gauge which was adopted by the Russian empire and thus inherited by the Soviet Union and its successors, as well as Finland and Mongolia. Most EU countries use 1 435 mm standard gauge.”
Infrastructure rules!
Just read a report that Trump has stated that if the RINOs have their way, he will form a third party. If he takes his base with him, the GOP is finished.
It will finally be a Patriotic America against Deep State contest maybe in 2024.
Will it be an extension of the Libertarians?
To answer the last sentence question:
No.
There aren’t enough true small “l” libertarians in the whole country to register as a stat.
I saw the same thing too. I think it’s a fabulous idea. However, It seems like he should have done this on Jan 7 2021. But hey, better late than never!
MAGA is not Libertarianism. The latter is letting the Beast do what it wants with its right hand (conservative!) – and a very strong hand that it. The Corporations, guided by Scwhab and Co, are quite able and willing to rule the world if that’s the form the rubes are most willing to accept.
Nightowl works for one of them. There’s a man who knows which side his bread is buttered on. The women shriek, He’s taking care of his family! Did I say he wasn’t or that he shouldn’t? I like toast too but I can just eat bread without toasting it. And if I don’t have to have butter, I can use olive oil (butter jumped from 3.99 – 4.29 to 5.49 overnight). And if need be, no lubricant at all but water.
He could do something else…..
i assume you are not a fan of peanut butter or nutella, something like that? Or perhaps a jam of some kind? You can find those things for less than the price of butter you know. Water on toast? No way, you can’t be serious lol
I love Nutella!
And butter.
Not together, though.
Nutella on banana bread is the best.
Olilve oil is a seed oil and should be used sparingly.
Meanwhile, Mr. Jay, did you get around to telling us what you do for a living?
How many people you support and the number of children you have raised?
I thought not.
So STFU, you Karen.
(Wait for it . . . tee hee)
I’m pretty sure olive oil is made from the flesh of the fruit not the pits which would be the seeds. Similar to avocado oil. I may be wrong. Greasy wop that i am I drink it straight from the bottle.Not really but my wife does use a lot of the stuff.
One of the pundits of Western Rifle Shooter said he’s seen special forces guys just sit down and eat a stick of butter. If you need fat, you need fat.
My brother heard about similar guys who eat dried coffee – why take the time to “make it”? Maybe they picked up the habit out in the field where you can’t make it.
stelmo, you are correct, that’s why they are good for you and most seed oils are not.
I have read that olive oil is a seed oil. I think it is Dr. Mercola who is now down on olive oil.
Which kind of surprised me.
I can’t find what he said about it because now all of Dr. M’s material is hard to find.
I use quite a lot of it, for salads, but don’t much cook with it. I prefer butter or bacon fat for cooking. I think perhaps one point about olive oil for cooking is that heat changes the molecular structure in a bad way.
Oh lol I love nutella too. And definitely banana bread! I always usually have avocados in my home as well. If you were looking for something nutritious with natural fat and oil and not sweet per se.
Maybe we could hlep the Ukraine conquer the Russkies with Nutella and banana bread snacks. Distract the troops long enough with the snacks for the Ukraine to recover the Crimea (and also locate and restore the lost definite articles)!!!
I always usually have avocados – SSL
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Come on, is it always or usually?
Islander, I read Mercola’s article on seed oils. I think it needs to be taken with a grain of salt. I have spoken to other people who are health-oriented and have done a lot of study into this. I said i was disappointed that apparently sesame and grapeseed oils are bad for you, and was told they are not. Some others are, but they said not sesame, or grapeseed. Which makes me happy, as I use sesame (very rarely), but have really substituted avocado for grapeseed, but would still like to use grapeseed. I LOVE olive oil. I just eat it with balsamic vinegar and bread.
Oh wow well if I have to pick I would say somewhere between usually and always. Gosh I see how I was not specific lol. Sorry about that Q!
EsEsEl: Soggy bread? No, bread washed down by water – a feast for gods if hungry enough. Are you? Hungry enough?
But your philosophical point is a good one: It’s all going to the same place, what matter the sequence, eh? Some Indian ascetics mash all their food up into balls, say peanut butter with meat with asparagus and then down it that way – just to chastise their inner gourmand.
Islander: Putin isn’t going to invade!
Nutso.
When you say words i take them at face value exactly. Then I build out my thoughts from there lol so it takes a while to realize that yes, you meant that you eat plain bread with water to wash it down. I suppose if that is all you have that it would suffice to help you not be hungry. Knowing myself i would probably ask is this it or is there like more to choose from somewhere lol. But not in a bad way or anything just like asking you know.
You will never get the image of me eating soggy break out of your mind. Do you see me dipping it or just pouring a jug of water on it? Or pretending the water is butter and applying the water with a butter knife?
The nut butters are nice, but I don’t want protein first thing in the morning. They’re good to have around since they keep for a long time. Good survival rations.
LOL I imagine you pretending that water is butter and applying water droplets to your bread with the butter knife. And you do that while carrying on a very normal conversation with no indication that anything is different or noticeable and you might even find it strange that someone would question you lol 🙂
Where does your $$ come from, Jarek?
How many kids do you have? Where’s the wife you’re insisting all men have?
I never said people who don’t want to be married should marry.
For you to marry would be a disaster, just like it was for Anthea.
Me? I never met the right girl! But alas, how many women could put up with me, although a wonderful person in my own way, not so much of a “catch” if you catch my drift.
Is that alright for men? Or only for women?
You’re obviously not a ‘catch,’ what with hating women and all. I am guessing that women sense that pretty quickly.
And such a wonderful person that most up here at CFN can’t stand you, either.
LOL.
Walking it all back.
What a wuss.
Do as I say, not as I do blah blah.
Change jobs when I tell you to—me being an expert in supporting a familiy and all . . .
I hope you have enough shame DNA to slink off and spare us your stupid Dear Jabby nostrums for this day forward.
not so much of a “catch” if you catch my drift. – Jar
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Short, homely and, worst of all, under resourced.
There went my chardonnay, Q., right out my nose.
Al contraire ladies, you are verifying all that I have said. Your utter viciousness and lack of compassion are on display. Why would any man want to be with she jackals like you?
Islander wants men to earn big – so why didn’t she catch a catch? Perhaps she wasn’t up to the job?
Jarek takes the prize for viciousness.
Dumps on the female sex for being witches and then wants them to be bleeding hearts for him!
@ Jarek:
If you were a wonderful person, you would not be living a life of near-complete isolation.
Jarek:
It’s “au contraire.”
It’s “flotsam and jetsam.”
No, you are not the “most educated” person who posts here.
But you are the most emotionally stunted.
I used to work for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, too.
They are worse than my current employer where the agenda is concerned.
Depopulationist pro-Schwab Nazibros will never be our moral overlords.
LOL.
Let’s hope that happens without America triggering a nuclear World War Three. (Yeah, “hope” is not a plan. Try prayer, then.)
Already on it and have been for quite some time, now.
well, brazil is lost for the foreseeable future.
bolsonaro has fled to florida.
httxx://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/bolsonaro-cheered-fans-orlando-lula-communists-brasilia/ ;
notice Lula’s honored guests:
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Members of the Communist Forum de São Paulo Presidents Daniel Ortega from Nicaragua, Gabriel Boric from Chile, Gustavo Petro from Colombia and Alberto Fernandes from Argentina attended.
The São Paulo forum was founded by Lula and Fidel Castro and has ties to the cartels and FARC guerillas.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro canceled plans to attend over security concerns.
”
The USA already sent a team to welcome Lula.
Washington is so down with communism, they should change our 50 stars to 5 on a red background.
it’s a race to own nothing.
this is a decent site to follow brazil:
httxx://t.me/s/thebrazilianreport
I’m really sad about what is happening in Brazil. Apparently not enough of the military agreed to do anything about the election theft? Saw some reports that the situation may devolve into civil war as there is at least 50% of the population that is against Lula’s installation.
one good thing about Russia —
at least they are not communists.
Good one!
They are now Byzantinists.
For the times, they are a changing, indeed.
Happy New Year folks.
Read the headers at countdowntothekingdom or afterthewarning dot com to see what comes slouching through the miasma
And yes, PRAY!
Xoxox am
Happy New Year to you too ani!! U+2764,
Aww shucks! The heart emoji didn’t work! Oh well, you know what i meant
Cheers, anmari. Still vividly remember your insights from Japan. The era of the two popes comes to a close. I think Bergoglio is thinking of pulling a Ratzinger himself now.
Turned on the New Year’s show last night: It was Miley Cyrus flirting with Dolly Parton. Very weird. Apparently Dolly is her god mother. She turned out great, eh Dolly? Dad must be so proud. All love must be sexual just as all wars are resource wars, so since she loves Dolly (if she does), she has to flirt with her or hit on her.
Dolly just kind of ignored it. Too bad she didn’t slap her down.
Was surprised to read this in the WSJ today:
Are Vaccines Fueling New Covid Variants? – WSJ
Allysia FinleyJan. 1, 2023 10:08 am ET
It isn’t clear that XBB is any more lethal than other variants, but its mutations enable it to evade antibodies from prior infection and vaccines as well as existing monoclonal antibody treatments. Growing evidence also suggests that repeated vaccinations may make people more susceptible to XBB and could be fueling the virus’s rapid evolution.
Prior to Omicron’s emergence in November 2021, there were only four variants of concern: Alpha, Beta, Delta and Gamma. Only Alpha and Delta caused surges of infections globally. But Omicron has begotten numerous descendents, many of which have popped up in different regions of the world curiously bearing some of the same mutations.
“Such rapid and simultaneous emergence of multiple variants with enormous growth advantages is unprecedented,” a Dec. 19 study in the journal Nature notes. Under selective evolutionary pressures, the virus appears to have developed mutations that enable it to transmit more easily and escape antibodies elicited by vaccines and prior infection.
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The same study posits that immune imprinting may be contributing to the viral evolution. Vaccines do a good job of training the immune system to remember and knock out the original Wuhan variant. But when new and markedly different strains come along, the immune system responds less effectively.
Bivalent vaccines that target the Wuhan and BA.5 variants (or breakthrough infections with the latter) prompt the immune system to produce antibodies that target viral regions the two strains have in common. In Darwinian terms, mutations that allow the virus to evade common antibodies win out—they make it “fitter.”
XBB has evolved to elude antibodies induced by the vaccines and breakthrough infections. Hence, the Nature study suggests, “current herd immunity and BA.5 vaccine boosters may not efficiently prevent the infection of Omicron convergent variants.”
A New England Journal of Medicine study published last month provides more evidence of the vulnerability caused by immune imprinting. Neutralizing antibodies of people who had received the bivalent were 26 times as high against the original Wuhan variant as they were against XBB and four times as high as they were against Omicron and the BA.5 variant.
Similarly, a study this month in the journal Cell found that antibody levels of people who had received four shots were 145 times as high against the original Wuhan strain as the XBB variant. A bivalent booster only slightly increased antibodies against XBB. Experts nevertheless claim that boosters improve protection against XBB. That’s disinformation, to use their favored term.
A Cleveland Clinic study that tracked its healthcare workers found that bivalent vaccines reduced the risk of getting infected by 30% while the BA.5 variant was spreading. But, as the study explained, the reason might be that workers who were more cautious—i.e., more likely to wear N95 masks and avoid large gatherings—may have also been more likely to get boosted.
Notably, workers who had received more doses were at higher risk of getting sick. Those who received three more doses were 3.4 times as likely to get infected as the unvaccinated, while those who received two were only 2.6 times as likely.
“This is not the only study to find a possible association with more prior vaccine doses and higher risk of COVID-19,” the authors noted. “We still have a lot to learn about protection from COVID-19 vaccination, and in addition to a vaccine’s effectiveness it is important to examine whether multiple vaccine doses given over time may not be having the beneficial effect that is generally assumed.”
Two years ago, vaccines were helpful in reducing severe illness, particularly among the elderly and those with health risks like diabetes and obesity. But experts refuse to concede that boosters have yielded diminishing benefits and may even have made individuals and the population as a whole more vulnerable to new variants like XBB.
It might not be a coincidence that XBB surged this fall in Singapore, which has among the highest vaccination and booster rates in the world. Over the past several weeks a XBB strain has become predominant in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts, making up about three-quarters of virus samples that have been genetically sequenced. The variant has been slower to take off in other regions, making up only 6% of the Midwest and about 20% in the South. The Northeast is also the most vaccinated and boosted region in the country.
Hospitalizations in the Northeast have risen too, but primarily among those over 70. One reason may be that the T-Cell response—the cavalry riding behind the front-line antibodies—is weaker in older people. The virus can’t evade T-Cells elicited by vaccines and infections as easily as it can antibodies. Because of T-Cells, younger people are still well-protected against new variants.
Another reason may be that monoclonal antibodies are ineffective against XBB, and many older people who catch Covid can’t take the antiviral Paxlovid because they have medical conditions such as severe kidney disease or take drugs that interfere with it.
The Biden administration’s monomaniacal focus on vaccines over new treatments has left the highest-risk Americans more vulnerable to new variants. Why doesn’t that seem to worry the experts?
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“the virus appears to have developed mutations that enable it to transmit more easily and escape antibodies elicited by vaccines and prior infection.”
Isn’t this ADE? Predicted by Geert van den Bosch way back at the beginning of the jab rollout?
““We still have a lot to learn about protection from COVID-19 vaccination, and in addition to a vaccine’s effectiveness it is important to examine whether multiple vaccine doses given over time may not be having the beneficial effect that is generally assumed.””
No shit, Sherlock.
Like, this is why new vaccines and “vaccines” alike are tested for 5 to 10 years.
Not rolled out at “warp speed” in order to serve various political agendas and hasten the kill-off.
Meanwhile, this.
httpX://dailysceptic.org/2023/01/01/unprecedented-vaccine-disaster-an-interview-with-professor-masanori-fukushima/
Mea culpa for long copy and paste. But this is quite startling in its clarity. From the interview (but do read the whole thing):
“MF: [comment about Dr. Nagao, Professor Sano, Professor Kojima from Nagoya University. ]Professor Kojima is a very significant person who identified the vaccine problems using very important analysis.
PP: So, the group is getting bigger?
MF: Bigger, but I am not [organising it]. I am involved because I was asked to write papers about COVID-19, and one was on how to avoid COVID-19 and deal with COVID-19. I advised appropriate use of steroid therapy without delay. When COVID-19 arrived in Japan for the first time in February 2020 I gathered information from China and concluded that the critical point was to stop the development of interstitial pneumonitis. The answer is to detect the drop in oxygen level in the blood. If it is below 95% then check the CT and if there is an infiltration sign, start the treatment.
PP: So existing treatments were enough?
MF: Principally yes, and if you attack the virus with an anti-viral drug it [just] evolves. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, etc. ***All viruses evolve through communication with the host. This is a biological principle.***
PP: So, the vaccines are useless?
MF: Useless. I think so.
PP: One theory is that interventions such as lockdowns, separating people, closing schools, etc., have influenced the development of the virus, interrupted its natural evolution, possibly causing it to become more transmissible. Would it have been better simply to behave normally, allow the virus to spread, and just treat the sick promptly, as you have described?
MF: This is quite difficult to give a clear-cut answer [to]. The virus evolution is based on communication with host so we can’t [exactly] predict the evolution of the virus but ***in general viruses develop to become more symbiotic with the host.*** At first, I thought COVID-19 would be similar. The mortality rate has decreased and plateaued, and I cannot totally disprove that vaccines have been effective but really, we have to think that doctors have improved their techniques and that the virus has become less toxic.
PP: So, it’s not justifiable to link reduced mortality to the virus. It’s post hoc ergo proctor hoc reasoning.
MF: Yes, and one more point – the clinical guidelines for treating COVID-19 is now in its 8th edition. It’s very meticulous and helpful. If the practitioner adheres to it the patient will be more likely to recover.
PP: A few more medical points. In the recording you said that the Japanese were relatively lightly hit because they had prior immunity perhaps because of previous exposure to coronaviruses?
MF: Yes, and this finding is very important. There is evidence from doctors at Kanagawa Dental University and they found that non-vaccinated non-infected care givers had high percentage of cross reactive IgA to SARS-Cov2 virus in their saliva. This is very important because if we make a vaccine for such a respiratory disease, we have to make a mucosal or nasal vaccine, not [an] injection, because injections make only IgG, not secretory IgA anti-bodies. Injection type vaccines only produce serum level IgG just blocking the virus in the body. We need to make an oral or nasal vaccine, but it is still difficult.
PP: Finally, in your reports you said, perhaps particularly the booster shots, are damaging people’s immune systems, opening them up to all kinds of problems?
MF: Yes, this has been known from the early days of the vaccine, that it may trigger ADE which is when the antibody accelerates cellular infections. And if you are repeatedly dosed this can lead to original antigen sin. The first-generation vaccine was designed to attack the first variant and second Delta. This was already clearly demonstrated by Catherine Reynolds’ report. So, vaccinated people do not produce appropriate anti-bodies for Omicron. The vaccines can shut down the innate immune system due to the first design of the vaccine.
PP: People are finding that old conditions are coming back because the immune system has been damaged by the vaccine?
MF: Yes, yes.
PP: I don’t know if you know Dr. Aseem Malhotra in the U.K. He first defended the vaccines, then his father died, and he is now an articulate and powerful critic of the vaccines. And his position is that they should be stopped immediately – until a thorough analysis of vaccine harms has taken place. Would you agree?
MF: Yes, of course. Stop immediately. Governments around the world have the data. Release the data. Stop the immunisation and start the scientific discussion. And we need to examine the long-term effects of the mRNA vaccines. The Government should not hide and manipulate the data.
PP: Thank you professor. And thank you for speaking truth to power.”
Islander, you seem to follow the vaxx news carefully. Have you heard any reports about China using Ivermectin/HCQ as early treatment and palliative.
I can’t understand why there is no news of this easy and extremely well know preventative.
Surely, the Chinese could import IVM on the black market even if the CCP forbids it.
I keep hearing all the awful stats of covid infections in China, 10s of millions.
But why don’t they get the treatment????
Niner:
I have asked that question myself—what is the status of treatment in China?—and I don’t know the answer.
I think that question came up a couple of threads back.
I believe China is still trying to manage the out-of-control population.
They could lose several hundred million and it would not matter to the government.
Really curious if the mountain festivities kicks off into a wider set of hostilities between India and China.
“clinical guidelines for treating COVID-19”
What dice are you rolling for early treatment?
Are there any guidelines to submit to a PCP for administration of Ivermectin/HCQ as early treatment and palliative?
TPTB:
Of course there are numerous protocols for early treatment.
As is well known by anyone who has been following this story since the beginning, in ca. March 2020.
Thank you for the reply, but my experience has been that such references will not even be considered.
Near the start, Dr. Peter McCullough, and other doctors he collaborated with throughout the world, were having success in treating patients who had covid, and wanted to share their early treatment information. MSM’s and Fauci’s focus was on identification, isolation, vaccination, and any focus on early treatment was minimized/ignored, or outright slandered. Dr. McCullough, and others like him, were continually encountering obstacles that prevented the dissemination of information that he contends would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
It would be foolish for a PCP to jeopardize their career by administrating treatment according to an unapproved protocol, and PCP’s that are part of a clinic have got their hands full just dealing with the daily patient load, and it would take countless hours to come up with a treatment routine and CYA.
So, in an attempt to be more clear, are their currently any government approved early treatment protocols that a PCP would consider?
Also, did the Chinese require mass injections with one of the rMNA vaxxes? They did all the forced PCP tests, and made a huge show of that.
But I never heard much about the actual vaxxing programs or boosters.
If they did the forced vaxxes, then perhaps this tidal wave of Covid (so we are told) is related to the mass injections.
I can’t believe how bad and slanted and superficial the global vaxx news has been.
So thank you for the report from Japan. At least they seem to want to protect their own people.
And no reports from Africa, as to percentage vaxxed, and Covid stats. Of course, Pharma/MSM want to avoid mentioning that HCQ and analogs are handed out weekly for free in some African nations as preventatives against malaria, river blindness, etc. And have been used for years now as major public health initiatives.
And the side effect is, they don’t get Covid.
Those public health initiatives preventing malaria, river blindness and many other tropical parasite diseases, are why the IVM discoverers got the Nobel.
Niner:
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Yes, and this is the pracitcal evidence that was suppressed and ridiculed by the MSM way back in 2020. And there was a big PR push to ridicule ivermectin as “horse dewormer.” A lot of very smart people just parroted the negative propaganda against HCN and Ivermectin.
I believe that the BRICS countries navigated their own responses to the Covid pandemic. Russia early on released their Sputnik V Covid vaccine which was a traditional type vaccine whereas the west forged ahead exclusively with mRNA technology. Russia further offered to share this vaccine technology for production outside of Russia in exchange for royalty payments by subscriber nations. Eventually Sputnik V Covid vaccine was approved for distribution in 59 other countries.
Beyond limiting Covid vaccine to the risky mRNA technology there was a concerted campaign in the west to suppress and discredit any early treatment of viral infection. In the US and western Europe HCQ and Ivermectin were made unavailable to the public for use in combating viral infection. Whereas in many developing nations these medications were freely available for over the counter purchase. My daughter traveled to Colombia last year and brought back with her a supply of both those medications. With Elon Musk’s release of Twitter information we see how extensive the Covid treatment disinformation campaign was in the USA.
Russia’s ‘vaccine’ isn’t a traditional-type vaccine – it is the same as the Astra Zenica ‘vaccine’. They both use an adenovirus (I think Sputnik uses two) to carry the DNA, which is a more robust messenger than mRNA (hence not needing to be kept super-cold, although they seemed to have magically dropped this requirement with the mRNA vaxxes as well now). So Sputnik is a genetic technology the same as the mRNA injections. Also people are dropping dead in Russia too – see Mark Crispin Miller’s weekly global ‘Died Suddenly’ emails from his Substack.
There is plenty of information on the Russian vaxx programme, as well as their digital surveillance agenda (which matches that of the West) in Riley Waggaman’s ‘Edward Slavsquat’ Substack.
The Russian people, on the other hand, are traditionally distrusting of their government and therefore have not taken up the quacksines in huge numbers. Nor do they like the QR code society that is being ushered in.
I believe the Russian Gamaleya Institute (who developed Sputnik) are also now developing an mRNA ‘vaccine’.
I am a follower of Tom Luongo and I accept his thesis that the actions of the Fed, the financial establishment in the US stands opposed to the agenda of the Davos crowd with the EU as their power base. The financial core of their plan is the elimination of commercial banks and the issuance of central bank digital currency. Eventually all of the individual central banks would be combined into a single central bank which would control everyone’s economic life. The Fed is unique among western central banks in that it is a private bank owned by a collection of commercial banks. It is not in the interest of these bankers to become extinct. So the US federal government may be onboard with the Davos agenda but the Fed is not. What Fed Chairman Powell has been doing, raising interest rates at a very fast pace runs counter to what the ECB wants and needs. Look at the fall of the Euro relative to other world currencies (now worth slightly >$1 US). By raising interest rates the Fed is effectively financially weakening the Davos. Also, I never before supported the banks’ suppression of the gold price, but the ECB needs to raise the price of gold in order to stay solvent. So the actions of the Fed and the US banking system are driving a stake through the heart of the interests of Klaus Schwab and his psychopathic minions. This is a battle presently going on behind the scenes and TL’s thesis can explain a lot of otherwise inexplicable events. It explains why in the summer the JP Morgan gold trader was being prosecuted in IL and then subsequently a Soros backed Forex trader was indicted last fall in Manhattan. The suppression of the gold price has been going on for the past 50 years, it’s nothing new.
I also accepted Luongo’s thesis, and it left me slightly optimistic.
But then i read that the Fed is beta-testing its own digital currency rollout.
So . . . . I don’t know what Luongo said about that.
Awoj–
You have presented Luongo’s theory better than he has; certainly, more succinct.
There does seem to be a fight among the money powers.
But they all seem to lust after the control that social credit digital currency will give them.
Whether or not the commercial banks in USA still keep their fingers in the pot, will not stop the general scheme from going forward, once surveillance is perfected in real time.
Armstrong says there will always be a black market, and thus, there will always be cash. And probably the US paper dollar will be a form of accepted payment. As well, of course, as silver, the eternal people’s money.
I’d have to wonder if the fight is not one side is opposed to digital currency, and the other isn’t. Rather, it is which side will control the main data bases and the AI which will oversee the transfers and make judgments about what the peons can buy, and if each one has been obedient.
that will take a very big AI for a central clearing and up-to-the-minute data through-put.
CBDC can’t possibly be managed by humans.
One thing for certain, every experience the modern world has had with controlled markets has failed badly. The wheels come completely off.
I’d say, that CBDC can’t be effective without a perfected biometric/frequency ID in every person. The totalitarians, they must have both the accurate ID of the transactors, as well as the details of the every proposed transaction, at the point of sale.
Else they don’t have the power to forbid, which is the power they crave.
And thanks, Awoj for your report on the Russian vaxx status. If you find out more, please post.
Check out Riley Waggaman’s ‘Edward Slavsquat’ Substack for the latest on the Russian vaxx (see my post upthread).
edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/russias-bio
metric-nightmare
edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/maternal-mortality-in-russia-tripled
edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/world-leaders-agree-to-cattle-tag
Just a selection …
So tragic, GA.
And so much for the Prophecy of Fatima. How can Russia save the world, when it will be convulsed with vaxx injuries, and a surviving birth rate less than1%.
Very sad news for the white race.
Putin won’t escape blame, any more than Trump has.
Forced vaxx in all of Russia.
”
In October of the same year—when every region in Russia imposed some for of mandatory vaccination—Murashko reminded pregnant and lactating women of the “importance” of getting Sputnik’d.
”
httxx://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/maternal-mortality-in-russia-tripled ;
“… frequency ID in every person” and “the details of the every proposed transaction, at the point of sale”.
I don’t see these requirements as being major obstacles.
“The WEF went on to say that the American space agency NASA has developed “a system that can ID you from your heartbeat using a laser”.”
breitbart.com/europe/2021/08/20/world-economic-forum-says-lasers-will-track-people-by-heartbeat/
… and as for the details, seems this might already be in the works with the likes of $600 withdraw requirements (can’t imagine that TPTB would be concerned with the chicken feed).
There is no reason to believe the NASA program operates at the mass level of continuous location and perfect recognition of individuals.
although the geofence tracking of cell phones has got to be very close to the total number of cell phones in private hands.
but still the ID system must be unhackable so the state can forbid sales of items which have been prohibited to designated individuals. If they are not watching each of us at every second, and can block our purchase of items forbidden to us specifically, then the power of the CBDC means nothing.
if the peons can avoid the tagging and tracking, and blocking of CBDC bank cards, at the point of sale, then the social control is weak and useless.
i don’t think the computing power and AI required to manage the data flow of tracking and activities (such as purchases) has yet been perfected.
much less the algorithms needed to make the system seem fair and impartial.
the surveillance system is not just about buying and selling. it is most of all to spy out “seditious” anti-gov’t speaking and meetings and plottings.
“i don’t think the computing power and AI required to manage the data flow of tracking and activities (such as purchases) has yet been perfected.
much less the algorithms needed to make the system seem fair and impartial.
the surveillance system is not just about buying and selling. it is most of all to spy out “seditious” anti-gov’t speaking and meetings and plottings.”
So all they have to do is keep tabs on the “Uyghurs”?
If the US can’t do it, then we can always farm the task out to Xi.
As for fair and impartial, that obstacle was side-stepped several years ago.
Sounds like hopium to me.
The big fight is whether the banking establishment and WEFers can realistically implement a CBDC-only society at the global level.
Many will resist, and there are already initiatives underway from us Lilliputians to preserve cash.
As I have said for a while, the true fight will begin as the parasites are forced to drop the mask and reveal themselves. Whole Foods has seen quite a bit of negative publicity since trialing digital stores, as has the criminal Amazon enterprise.
Great podcast this week (Coup D’etat) with the cracking Nicola Charles.
Covers the cataloging of human, animal, and plant life that is part of Agenda 2030/50; geo-fencing; and the various trickery underway to force people into “smart” cities, where they can be controlled both digitally and physically (as in China).
Remember, Klausi said again recently that China is the model for the West.
https://open.spotify.com/show/7lRoCNvW89sWSbKp6sxL8A
Do you think that Xi and Biden are bed mates with the exact same agenda?
A new look. Are the changes skin deep?