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More from the Bank of England. Fortunately everything is so stable at the moment, who needs the bank at work?!

“In light of the period of national mourning now being observed in the United Kingdom, the September 2022 meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee has been postponed for a period of one week. The Committee’s decision will be announced at 12 noon on 22 September.”

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NE- this is totally understandable as Her Majesty the Queen's death was totally unexpected and rocked everyone very deeply as it happened suddenly. No Majesty should pass at a young and just starting out age of 96! There were a lot of experiences ahead of her!

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what i wonder is, whats being buried? the media and government will use this time of focusing on the royals to do shit we really wont like

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The booster or the thought of another black grandkid

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The most concerning aspect of the death of Queen Elizabeth II is that her successor, Prince Charles, is a rabid enthusiastic of the new world order courtesy of Klaus Schwab and his great resetters.

As a British expat, I shudder to imagine what lies ahead for my homeland, reeling from the controlled economic and social demoliton inflicted by the shamdemic, and now ripe for plucking by the globalists and their Fauci-style little technohitlers.

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“Scamdemic”

“Technohitler”

Now in my vocabulary 👍🏻

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They are doing the same to food and energy that they did to health care, which they have destroyed. They are telling us that the “age of abundance” is over, but what they aren’t saying is that they(governments and globalists) are the ones who have ended it. A free people needs 3 things: Cheap and abundant energy, food and health care. They are creating scarcity in all 3 in order to support the control and depopulation agendas.

The Great Collapse is necessary for The Great Reset.

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This. And you are absolutely spot on.

Health. Food. Shelter (home prices through the roof thanks to BlackRock, and now soaring interest rates). Now moving onto energy, which heats or cools our Shelters, and fuels our food, transportation and every facet of our economies.

It is so blatantly obvious and our governments are deliberately following the orders.

Because I am sorry, no one is that incompetent.

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Continuing manufactured crisis to enable micromanaging populations. Brazen, heroically subsidize energy bills, caused by opportune scarcity, via war in Ukraine, and governments become rescuers. Same will likely happen with food. This is very transparent to some of us.

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freeze and starve for Ukraine!

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Just as the narrative s rapidly and uncontrollably falling apart .... ooh look, bright shiny thing - the queen, surviving just long enough to see in the new p.m. goes and turns her heels up. Handy, that.

I reckon she has been dead a long time but it wasn't quite the right time to annouce it. She hasn't been properly seen for ages. ... the woman in the liz truss photo looked nothing like the woman at the G7, but they were both called the queen.

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Using less energy in various ways is in itself not a bad idea. But with "leaders" who are psychopaths or brainwashed machines, and there always being another agenda behind the flat words said that pretend to be caring ... makes it all untrustworthy.

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Tyranny always seems "nice" to the "lucky winners" (those who get to consume the wealth others produced), like "free healthcare" and "free education." It takes a while for anybody to eventually note that their healthcare and education were substandard, highly rationed, and very expensive (just not directly out of pocket, but via taxes and inflation).

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And to top it all off, no one could have written a better parody speech than what King Charles III actually delivered.

(PS: I tested posting this comment, as a non-paying subscriber, and am glad to discover I've been let out of Siberia. So to speak.)

(PPS: I fully support proprietors setting whatever terms they choose for their own Substacks. I just felt quite sad about it...)

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What do you mean? You’re glad this isn’t just for paying subscribers or you haven’t been able to comment?

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I haven't been able to comment for a couple of weeks. When I tried (on your posts available for all subscribers) a pop-up told me commenting was only for the paid ones.

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Weird, I don’t restrict comments on articles open to everyone

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It had never happened before and I'm glad I decided to try again today...

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This is a good stack. You should consider being a paid subscriber.

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It's not for lack of regard that I'm not one.

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Substack glitches sometimes. I have experienced the same several times, and also that I can't see a new article until maybe ten or so hours after it went up, according to the timestamp.

Frustrating when it's 23:00 and I do a quick check as I go to bed, seeing no new article and then by 07:00 seeing "Posted 12 hours ago".

Must be Putin's fault.

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Ain't it great to have a genuinely loathsome fall guy?

But glad to know I hadn't been singularly and cruelly deprived of playing in the courtyard. I was aggrieved but tried to be a big girl about it...

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It is a nice change of pace from the seemingly eternal hop-scotch of scapegoating the old favourites, true.

From heretics, heathens, jews, and gypsies to white men, cis-gender, heterosexuals, nuclear families to meat-eating car-owners to Putin.

They're running out of targets, aren't they?

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Well, to be sure, "the other guy" is an always available target. It's really that the definition of "us" keeps changing...

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Reminds me of a t-shirt slogan I saw at a festival once:

"It's Us Who Are Them".

I'm not judging. Mine at the time was "I'm not as think as you drunk I am".

And Us vs Them is fundamental to human existence, or any existence. We recently moved the latest batch of chickens into a larger chicken run to merge two small groups. First week they stay as two groups, getting the feel for eachother, sorting the pecking order and any fowl play. Then, they'lll be one group, hopefully without anyone becoming the "hackkyckling" (means the one who get picked on/bullied iiomatically and "peckchicken" literally).

I mean, Us vs Them originates in Me vs not-Me, so there's no way around it, it can ever only be managed.

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Infant creatures don't survive very long if they can't tell the difference between "us/not us." Then hopefully one lives in a civilization where superficial visual and auditory identifiers are explained to be not the important ones as children grow.

Those ducklings adopted by cats, they better have good instincts for when the mood changes...

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But as a heretic, Jew, heterosexual, nuclear-family maker meat-eater who approves of gas-fueled cars, I'm always up for someone's best shot.

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I got a little shiver when I read your first lines because I wonder if you read an article of mine on loss and mourning in The Journal of Social History from 2014? It’s entitled “A Garden from Ashes: The Post-9/11 Manhattan City-Shrine, the Triangle Fire Memorial March, and the Educative Value of Mourning.”

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No but add a link and I’ll have a read

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This winter in Europe and beyond could well set itself up for a forced version of property confiscation with guaranteed income as the cookie. I am not sure if the globalist are running scared...losing influence...or if things are going as planned. So many players and plays up in the air any given second it is difficult to keep track of.

Charles is hard core globalist...so his new role could well speed up the mission.

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Put it like this:

Almost any human may be conditioned to feel empathy. Towards rocks. That tells you something about the value of empathy as a tool for mass control. I'm not kidding. Paint some eyes and a sad childish face on the rock, then smash it with a hammer. The majority of people watching (especially of you couch the event using the right music, lighting etc) will feel a twitch of empathic (or is it empathetic?) sympathy for the rock.

Whereas someone like me looks askance at the group and thinks: "Really? It is a rock. What the fudge is wrong with you?" But since normality of behaviour and social psychology is completely derived as a quantative measure and effect, I'm the odd one out. Goes with being a throw-back primitive atavistic reactionary I guess.

Hence, millions crying over Diana or the british queen or 9/11 or Hiroshima or Lennon - if it is (made up to be) relatable, you will "feel for real" if you have normal psycho-social pathology. You can't help yourself. And in a group this is re-inforced in a loop curving in on itself, perpetually reinforcing the feelings, justifying them and making you feel good about feeling sad and bad.

While the tiny percentage not functioning like that (for whatever reason) looks on, head tilted, and thinks: "What is wrong with you? Yes, thousands died at 9/11 in the US. Horrible. How many children starved to death on the same day? And the day before, and the day after? Don't see you crying over them, ever. Why do you people always have to be told by others what to feel?"

Part of the answer is of course TV and radio and nowadays social media (still curious what "asocial" or "antisocial" media would be - "Let me read your paper, please?"; "No! 's mine!"?). Global village, but at the speed of electricity, sort of. The man meant the term as a warning.

I fear this "herdification" is inevitable as the only way to have mass-societies of culturally and racially disparate groups of people living close to each-other; empathy and sympathy in the psychological sense is after all dependent on how well you can perceive the Other to be similar to yourself. The stranger and the further from you the less empathy you feel, unless conditioned and ordered to.

The one who controls your perception controls your reality.

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"You saved your granny from Covid by locking down but now she will freeze this winter, it’s for the greater good."

Success at WARP Speed too!!

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Running out of cheap energy is a bitch...

Shale binge has spoiled US reserves, top investor warns Financial Times.

Preface. Conventional crude oil production may have already peaked in 2008 at 69.5 million barrels per day (mb/d) according to Europe’s International Energy Agency (IEA 2018 p45). The U.S. Energy Information Agency shows global peak crude oil production at a later date in 2018 at 82.9 mb/d (EIA 2020) because they included tight oil, oil sands, and deep-sea oil. Though it will take several years of lower oil production to be sure the peak occurred. Regardless, world production has been on a plateau since 2005.

What’s saved the world from oil decline was unconventional tight “fracked” oil, which accounted for 63% of total U.S. crude oil production in 2019 and 83% of global oil growth from 2009 to 2019. So it’s a big deal if we’ve reached the peak of fracked oil, because that is also the peak of both conventional and unconventional oil and the decline of all oil in the future.

Some key points from this Financial Times article: https://energyskeptic.com/2021/the-end-of-fracked-shale-oil/

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Does anyone ever notice China is on track to build more coal plants??? They are not cutting emissions, or going without energy.....

What the hell is wrong with the West?

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This might be unpleasant speculation, in the scheme of things, but wondering, you know, if the vax contributed to her demise. Yeah, I know at 96 people just wear out, but I was struck by the bruising on her hands and wondered if internal bleeding was a complicating issue. She was a pretty tough athletic well-cared for elderly person and had been upright and smiling two days earlier.

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