May 24, 2023Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
Western governments must have seen all this coming a long time ago so why didn't they:-
1. adopt pro-natal policies years ago instead of doing the opposite (LGBT, feminism etc) and importing often hostile minority groups?
2. implement nuclear power on a mass scale, especially fine tuning the Thorium cycle using molten salt reactors (safe, no waste, abundant fuel)?
3. continue to exploit fossil fuels rather than restrict extraction?
4. prepare to return to a sound money system instead of flogging off the gold reserves and blowing a bigger bubble, i.e. keep digging the hole bigger?
It seems to me that the Eurasian powers are doing all these 4 things and seem to see a bright future of multi-lateral cooperation out from under the Western yoke. Surely they would be in the know too if things were as bad as this guy says? Why aren't they acting like the Western countries?
They value control over anything else. They believe once they have restructured the economy and eliminated freedom of the citizens that they can still have a bright future for themselves.
‘Most’ ‘economic thinking’ is ‘short run’ and ‘redundant’? ‘It’ ignores the ‘supply side’? ‘Growth’ {and ‘civilisation’} depends upon ‘cheap’ F.F. – those so called ‘halcyon days’ are ‘over’. ?
“The crisis now unfolding, however, is entirely different to the 1970s in one crucial respect… The 1970s crisis was largely artificial. When all is said and done, the oil shock was nothing more than the emerging OPEC cartel asserting its newfound leverage following the peak of continental US oil production. There was no shortage of oil any more than the three-day-week had been caused by coal shortages. What they did, perhaps, give us a glimpse of was what might happen in the event that our economies depleted our fossil fuel reserves before we had found a more versatile and energy-dense alternative. . . . That system has been on the life-support of quantitative easing and near zero interest rates ever since. Indeed, so perilous a state has the system been in since 2008, it was essential that the people who claim to be our leaders avoid doing anything so foolish as to lockdown the economy or launch an undeclared economic war on one of the world’s biggest commodity exporters . . . And this is why the crisis we are beginning to experience will make the 1970s look like a golden age of peace and tranquility. . . . The sad reality though, is that our leaders – at least within the western empire – have bought into a vision of the future which cannot work without some new and yet-to-be-discovered high-density energy source (which rules out all of the so-called green technologies whose main purpose is to concentrate relatively weak and diffuse energy sources). . . . Even as we struggle to reimagine the 1970s in an attempt to understand the current situation, the only people on Earth today who can even begin to imagine the economic and social horrors that await western populations are the survivors of the 1980s famine in Ethiopia, the hyperinflation in 1990s Zimbabwe, or, ironically, the Russians who survived the collapse of the Soviet Union.” ?
“It is this belief in a new digital revolution which gave rise to the much-derided article by Danish politician, Ida Auken – originally titled “Welcome to 2030: I own nothing, I have no privacy, and life has never been better.” More popularly known as “you’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.” It is a world of digital currencies and digital IDs, vaccine passports and 15-minute cities, electrification and driverless cars. All of it based around the “energy too cheap to meter” from wind turbines and solar panels, and all of it operated by autonomous artificial intelligence within the “singularity” of the “internet of things.”
It is a mirage, of course… one only visible to so-called “virtuals” – people whose lives and careers are now so detached from the material world that, were there not so many of them, could otherwise be diagnosed as certifiably insane. The real world, meanwhile, looks more akin to the second global collapse – the first being the collapse of the integrated economies of the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean empires sometime around 1186 BCE. The majority of ordinary people have seen their living standards decline over the past two decades – a process compounded and accelerated by two years of lockdowns followed by a year of self-destructive sanctions on key resources.”?
Nuclear power plants are susceptible to cyberattacks. For example the Stuxnet virus which targeted nuclear programs in Iran. This virus could even cross the air gap (zone near the reactors with no internet access).
It crossed the air gap on a thumb drive. The hack required exploiting human nature. All systems are only as secure as the weakest combination of technical and human weaknesses. Has zero to do with nuclear or medical or religious or financial type systems the computers manage. Source: IT expert with 35 yrs experience in enterprise data centers.
I understand that any programmable system can get hacked. What worries me is the consequences if a nuclear power plant gets hacked by terrorists or an enemy. Stuxnet just made the machines break down but what if they had a nuclear meltdown?
To make my point, half dozen electrical substations have been taken offline by shooting out transformers, which take days to weeks to replace. Simple exploitation of an exposed target with a systemic weakness (supply chain). It hacks are just another tool in the disruption toolkit.
May 24, 2023·edited May 24, 2023Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
"Dr. Morgan believes that there are two economies running in parallel. One is “the underlying ‘real’ or physical economy of products and services” and the other is a “financial economy of money and credit”. “Money has no intrinsic worth, but commands value only in terms of the material things for which it can be exchanged”. To better understand that concept, imagine yourself stranded on a desert island. No amount of money, whether that be coins, gold or crypto, would have the slightest value because there would be nobody with which to trade it with for food or water."
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YES YES YES YES! The way that I phrase it is that when the fake economy of money printing/handouts overtakes the real economy of voluntary transactions for goods and services, the wheels come off the bus.
The bankers and politicians will ALWAYS find excuses to print, leaving the rest of us to pay for their actions via devalued labor and savings.
This is what it looks like when the fake economy of being close to the literal money makers overtakes the real economy of people voluntarily trading goods and services. Why bother with customer service or quality when you can just bribe a politician to make your product mandatory, or to eliminate your competition?
The debt will be inflated away, and it’s extremely likely the looter class will grab everything they can while the house of cards tumbles down. It’s likely millions of people will be unable to continue paying for their homes and businesses, and the politically connected will use their newly printed cash to buy up the rubble for pennies on the dollar.
Catherine Austin Fitts has talked about this on Planet Lockdown documentary. Also, Economist and geopolitical author, Prof Michel Chudovdoski is offering free his book on Covid Global Coup D'Etat which can be downloaded from globalresearch.ca. Even I could understand the implications! Technocracy News is worth looking at too.
Yes, enemy soldiers make a lot of sense...they won't hesitate to kill us if they want or are told too.
Currently though they are a net $300,000 drain per illegal on our economy. So even ithough they don't pay taxes, and/or the govt plans to go CBDC, they will definitely kill us old people and take our houses, etc etc...even if not organied into an army.
May 24, 2023Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
Let me explain how I came across Tim Morgan....
In 2008 the GFC smashed into a few businesses I had founded in Greater China and up until then it had been smooth sailing. Needless to say GFC put an abrupt dent in the situation.
Initially I bought the line that it was corruption/stupidity on the part of Bernanke, the Central Banks... and the bankers. How dare they make such a mess of things these self-serving pricks.
At the time I did not think the Fed would be able to right the Titanic and I began some serious bucket listing with my wife... but I will admit I did not understand the fundamental problem... I continued to assume it was one of venality and or incompetence. One way or the other I expected worse to come.
2010 ... I read The Big Short... I recall a veteran mortgage brokers discussing Liar Loans ... he said normally it would take a month to approve financing for someone to buy a house... but now many brokerages were doing it on the spot --- we had no choice -- we either join the fray or we go out of business. How do you vet someone for a loan on the spot? You don't'
I paused after reading that --- and to borrow from Apocalypse now -- And then I realized, like I was shot — like I was shot with a diamond...a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, my God.... the Central Banks KNEW -- surely they knew -- in fact they must have encouraged this seemingly insane behaviour. The number one rule in banking is you do not lend $$$ to dead beats. You want your money back - with interest.
Bernanke was not corrupt - or stupid. How could I have been so stupid to have thought this!
But why would they do this - why would they shit on their kitchen table -- why would they burn their house down?
Hours upon hours were spent digging ... then... on a cold winter night in a hotel in Edinburgh (we were on a bucket list journey through Scotland) I found The Perfect Storm - by Tim Morgan.
It's a long paper - and it was the wee hours of the night before I finished it. And a second diamond bullet struck me --- I know understood why they had encouraged Liar Loans... why interest rates had been falling ... why the price of oil was $147 just prior to the GFC.
Increasing production costs as we depleted the low hanging fruit of oil are a huge headwind on the global economy. If the Central Banks failed to act against the headwinds the global economy collapses. The Central Banks had been responding as early as the turn of the century dropping interest rates to offset the rising energy costs.
They had also decided that pumping the housing market would provide enormous stimulus... housing prices rise + this drives economic activity (people buy furniture, appliances, they take second mortgages and buy cars/boats etc...) And this activity impacts the entire economy - everyone parties!
And then it ended.
But it didn't end. The CBs bailed things out - then continued to hose the global economy with near zero cost cash.... setting off another massive bubble that continue right up until 2019.
“The global economy was facing the worst collapse since the second world war as coronavirus began to strike in March, well before the height of the crisis, according to the latest Brookings-FT tracking index. “The index comes as the IMF prepares to hold virtual spring meetings this week, when it will release forecasts showing the deepest contraction for the global economy since the 1930s great depression. https://www.ft.com/content/9ac5eb8e-4167-4a54-9b39-dab48c29ac6c
I had been monitoring the marco picture and thinking --- they are pushing on multiple strings... one was German industrial production - the other was new car sales... despite record low interest rates -- both were plunging ... something's gotta give here.... another GFC?
Then BANG. Covid hits from outta nowhere.... WTF is this?
Initially I was accepting the BBCCNN version that this was the new black plague... but the cracks began to appear when the folks in besieged Wuhan flooded out of the city for Chinese New Year --- I remember thinking -- this will rip through the entire country in a week - why are they allowing this?
But it didn't - I have extensive contacts throughout China ... and nothing... no pandemic. Strange...
In April contacted one of the men who would sub author Great Barrington... an epidemiologist at a top university --and we had a series of telephone conversations and emails.... he said he had the WHO data and he'd analysed it - Covid was no more deadly than a bad flu. Slightly worse for the elderly - slightly less for the young. He was asking why the lockdowns.
A third diamond bullet hit me ... we are being exterminated. I did not know exactly how and initially thought they'd frighten 8 billion humans with the plague -- so that we'd not venture out for fear of death ... place military units on the streets with shoot to kill orders... and promise food would be delivered 'tomorrow'... and slowly weaken us ... till we just laid down and starved...
But then Operation Warp Speed launched -- and the miracle cure was at hand - in less than a year. Hmm... safe and effective and warp speed don't mix... a bit of research brought me here https://www.wired.com/2003/05/feds-race-to-make-sars-vaccine/
A 4th bullet ... these are kill shots. Initially I thought Bossche would nail it - a Marek's like disease was the goal -- but when that did not happen I came across the Binary Poison theory --- the shots damaged the immune system/messed with the DNA of the nearly 6B vaxxers - then when the global economy is looking to implode --- they release phase two --- some sort of virus that kills all the Vaxxers... the No Vaxxers starve.
Why would there be no push back? Because the alternative is 8 billion starving angry predators on the streets - when the global economy implodes. The gates of hell open.
Thus all the leaders of all the countries for the first time in history have reached a consensus. They have agreed to exterminate us --- in a manner that involves minimal suffering.
Tim Morgan's Perfect Storm (which originally appeared on the FT if you can believe it) is a superb essay on the energy story however https://ourfiniteworld.com/ authored by Gail Tvergberg provides a much broader and more accurate analysis of the situation.
The 5th diamond bullet ... is that there is nothing that can be done to stop this plan -- unless someone has a bigger army that the DOD - Russia - China - and every other country --- because they are all committed to the plan and will stop at nothing to ensure it is completed.
I would also say to those who desire to stop the plan from completing -- be careful what you wish for ... if they fail --- the Gates of Hell will open when the financial system implodes.
Nobody wants that. Again - UEP goes into detail...
On that cold night in Edinburgh, blanket of mist increased the foreboding, logfire crackling, bottle of scotch and revovler on the leather armchair side table.....
Sorry got lost somewhere there, when we all dieing ? :)
As a long time follower of the peak oil theory (although its not peak oil its the reducing energy returns on energy investment look at the energy cost of shale oil)
I have always thought covid lockdowns and bio-weapon injections made perfect sense when looked at through the prisim of peak oil production in Nov 2018. Its all about control of dwindling resources, reducing demand and reducing mouths to feed. Its interesting times and the only sane advice I can offer is start a garden and grow food....love your substack keep up the good work
He is a great resource and I loved one of his articles when he said, people we still be saying we can be great again while they are hand ploughing fields with their crumbling capital building in the background. Like the archdruid I think there will be fast step-downs followed by slow decline and then another step-down and the cycle continues. But this is actually extreme hopium(it's the only belief system for me to remain hopeful) however as the catastrophic issues that have been pushed out of sight by surplus energy ie spent fuel ponds, hygienic water, industrial agriculture...ect the list is very long... when they pop its going to be very tough
There must be a slot in your lineup for Rob Mielcarski who tirelessly spruiks an unorthodox hypothesis with a fairly macabre name MORT (Mind Over Reality Transition) 😏 --> un-denial.com/denial-2/theory-short
May 24, 2023Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
I work in financial, not real economy. I ended up there before I knew better. But I always had this feeling that the whole financial economy is smoke and mirrors, devoid of value. And if you knew how much pointless and wasteful, but highly paid, scarce skills, jobs are created by, for example, all the new financial regulations... it's just marvel. What a waste of human potential for all engineers and physicists who decide to take lucrative jobs in this imaginary nonsense
One can see... why ... the PR Team... would do whatever it takes... to lead the mob away ... from the true story.
There are multiple stages of grief
Denial – The first reaction is denial. In this stage, individuals believe the diagnosis is somehow mistaken, and cling to a false, preferable reality. Some may also isolate themselves, avoiding others who may have accepted what is happening.[4] This stage is usually a temporary defense, so long as the person has adequate time to move amongst the stages as they contemplate death.[4] In her book, Kübler-Ross states that technological advancements have caused people to become fearful of violent, painful deaths; therefore, in order to protect the psychological mind, they deny the reality of their own inevitable death. [4]
Anger – When the individual recognizes that denial cannot continue, they become frustrated, especially at proximate individuals. Certain psychological responses of a person undergoing this phase would be: "Why me? It's not fair!"; "How can this happen to me?"; "Who is to blame?"; "Why would this happen?". Some may lash out at loved ones, medical staff, and other family.[4] In Kübler-Ross's other book, Questions and Answers on Death and Dying, she emphasizes the need for people to do their best to let those who are in this stage feel their feelings and try not to take the anger personally. [12]
Bargaining – The third stage involves the hope that the individual can avoid a cause of grief. Usually, the negotiation for an extended life is made in exchange for a reformed lifestyle. People facing less serious trauma can bargain or seek compromise. Examples include the terminally ill person who "negotiates with God" to attend a daughter's wedding, an attempt to bargain for more time to live in exchange for a reformed lifestyle or a phrase such as "If I could trade their life for mine".
Depression – "I'm so sad, why bother with anything?"; "I'm going to die soon, so what's the point?"; "I miss my loved one; why go on?"
During the fourth stage, the individual despairs at the recognition of their mortality. In this state, the individual may become silent, refuse visitors and spend much of the time mournful and sullen.
Acceptance – "It's going to be okay."; "I can't fight it; I may as well prepare for it."
In this last stage, individuals embrace mortality or inevitable future, or that of a loved one, or other tragic event. People dying may precede the survivors in this state, which typically comes with a calm, retrospective view for the individual, and a stable condition of emotions.
The sooner one reaches stage 5... the better ... fortunately the PR Team has also provided much fodder for this in the form of Doomsday Prepper Tee Vee shows and novels... heck even The Road has a happy ending as the father and son are welcomed into utopia...
Many who have realized that we are f789ed... latch on to the doomsday prepper theme... if it makes you feel better then go for it ... been there done that and realized the futility of it very quickly... (also there are 4000 spent fuel ponds waiting for the power to go off and the cooling systems to seize up - then they will release their toxic loads for many years...)
Religion is also a good fallback for those wanting to keep the hopium flowing (after the spice stops)
We know that the 'vaccines' were not purposed to stop the spread of covid - not purposed to stop severe illness or death --- in fact the exact opposite is true.
If we know THEY know. Therefore the intention must involve great harm.
They injected babies. They injected their military. They cajoled mandated and bribed billions to inject. The spent literally hundreds of billions of dollars on the biggest PR and advertising campaign in history to convince people to inject. They censored all dissent.
Every government on the planet is injecting. There is next to no pushback.
They are hell bent on getting this poison into as many people as possible. No exceptions. Celebrities, politicians, athletes -- everyone gets the poison.
Yes ...a hellscape awaits us.
I suspect the big reveal will happen when they release the next virus. I suspect that the injections have messed with immune system leaving the door to the chicken coop -- and that the foxes will walk right in and do what foxes do.
6 billion quickly dead - 2 billion No Vaxxers left to starve.
In a meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sounded an alarm that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over.
“The threat of another variant emerging that causes new surges of disease and death remains,” Tedros said. “And the threat of another pathogen emerging with even deadlier potential remains.”
If you're right, the 'purebloods' are going to be a tad disappointed,
I'm kindof in the ............
dod / biowarfare concerns / mrna platform for the great progress leap forward / mrna as a lucrative platform / regulatory capture / greedy interests X extraordinary power structures in global ( supra-national conglomerates X unprecedentedcultural times X an emergent pattern from humanities natural chaos........
camp
But you make a good argument :), that story starting in China was a read! Cheers
For decades they have been - like a bird feigning injury to lead predators away from the next -- doing whatever it takes to ensure we do NOT get wind of the true situation regarding the depletion of affordable energy.
Then we have Elon Musk anointed as Tech God - he will fix everything! And if he fails he'll fly us to Mars (or an Earth like planet somewhere out there).
I would also argue that the faked Moon landings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpuKu3F0BvY were part of this PR campaign - if we can go to the moon we can colonize space... a comforting thought on a finite planet with depleting resources!
Humans need hope in a bright future where there is always more to be had.... if they notice the party is going to end --- they panic ... if you strip hope from them they fall into despair --- and that is a self-fulfilling situation -- they turn to drugs and booze... they don't invest, study, have kids etc... why bother - we're f789ed...
Nope. Can't have that - so feed them hopium... lie.
It's worked... you ask 100 people - do you think we will run out of oil - most will say yes (although some believe it's abiotic -- courtesy the PR Team)....
Are you concerned? No.
Why not? Cuz we will have transitioned to renewables long before we run out. And EVs.
Thank you PR Team. Brilliant!
Global warming slots in nicely -- we are not running out - we are dumping these vile fossil fuels... they are the villain... we don't need them! That's particularly brilliant PR.
And as we reach the End Game we are seeing all sorts of insanity ... Biden shaking hands with ghosts... trannies in classrooms... hospitals mutilating kids cuz they decided it might be fun to change gender... illegal immigrants being chaperoned into countries... on demand hardest of hard core porn available to 7 yr olds... and on and on and on.
None of this is an accident - it is orchestrated...
And it serves two purposes 1. these are distractions that keep the mob from seeing the nest... (how about a cage match - Biden vs Trump!!!) but more importantly 2. they destroy the ethical foundations of a society --- they leave the mob bewildered -- things are going to pieces and this is not the world I want... so death becomes not so unwelcome.
A question I have for you, Fast Eddy, is if you truly believe the world as we know it is about to end, why waste so much time researching and commenting? Why not just get on with your bucket list?
I continue to bucket list... my current focus is improving my ice hockey skills.
I spent a month in Canada in Feb/March and was on the ice just about every day often with a professional skills coach. I'm currently on ice most days here in NZ continuing to work the drills.
I've been diving in Australia... and spent 10 days in Perth.
I just welcomed one of my longest standing friends -- and we did a back country hunting trip into a region where very few have been (my neighbour has a massive high country station and he organized an epic trip -- have a freezer full of deer meat now)
I am considering an extended trip to central america once hockey season wraps up --- I am keen to tour the archaeological sites --- however this is a slight glitch ... we sponsored a couple of kids to attend school in NZ -- they both just started post secondary school so it's just the wife and I and two dogs on the Goat Ranch... the wife for some bizarre reason decided she wanted to return to work full time a little over a year ago... so she cannot join and even if she did the Goat Ranch could not be abandoned for such a long stretch....
When we were intensively bucket listing we lived on a Goat Ranch in Bali ... and we employed village people to take care of all this sort of thing ... including making sure the two kids got to school on time... much more complicated and expensive to do here...
And at the end of the day travel is not the only bucket listing activity ... for Madame Fast she enjoys her return to work ...
For me... well I am working on perfecting my snap shot ... and if this sucker holds together long enough ... I am hoping that before next season the Rat Juice has destroyed all of the NHL players and that I get a call up from the New York Rangers.
We might try to sneak in a 2 week trip to the Kyoto area though...
May 24, 2023·edited May 24, 2023Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
Like you, the sole motivation for my Substack is to try and determine the actual explanation for all the nonsensical things happening all around us. Also like you I am landing on the same core issue/driver that has concerned me for over a decade; Peak Oil. Ironically, the fact that the notion of Peak Oil is rarely mentioned anywhere anymore makes me even more concerned that this is in fact the actual root cause/explanation.
Peak Affordability is another way to describe it. Plenty of coal, oil and gas in the ground but becoming too expensive to extract, refine, transport to and from distant lands or they are found in the oceans as well as other sensitive areas or occupied lands. The price of Oil has to be high enough to make Fracked Oil and Gas profitable. Competing countries with reserves, a need to import or export heavy or light crude to mix for refining and industries geared towards specific kinds of fossil fuel products are all involved in the complexity side of the equation. Renewables in this context can be added to the mix for generating electricity provided they can harmonize with the existing grid but they need to be backed up by fossil fuels due to intermittency. Big promises about more efficient generation, transmission and battery storage are always a few days, months or years away.
May 24, 2023Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
Overlay this information with the globalist push for a NWO and one world religion that worships satan and the massive poisoning of the population with the CoVid jabs makes more sense also.
May 24, 2023Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
This is the Peak Oil Theory...and I have heard of it...along with the cost to produce energy as above.
The only thing I DO NOT GET, and maybe you cannot help me (anyone?)...since our illegals TAKE MONEY out of our TAXES to get free phones, free housing, free medical, free school and special services, and free heating assistance, plus food stamps etc. and we already feed their kids twice a day....the illegal immigrants flooding our country DO NOT PAY TAXES...so there is nothing to prop up our retirement funds.....Which is why I think they wanted to kill all the old people and there was such a push for EVERYONE to get the jab...
Comments anyone? Why would they want to replace us with people who DO NOT PAY TAXES...they work for cash...unless they are gonna spring the FED NOW CBDC on the new immigrants???
Incoming CBDC, Social Credit and UBI. The plan is to march everyone off into the #SmartCities as part of the #GreatReset being implemented by our Luciferian overlords. The population is being culled as we speak #COVID1984
All rural and suburban areas will be used strictly by mega-corporations under their control. The general populace will not be allowed to own property or travel outside their assigned localities, except in service to The Machine.
Welcome to the Hunger Games. May the odds be ever in your favor.
That's partially 'brave new world', if they get the soma, castes and entertainment right, might get there, the upcoming generations are ripe, restart the eugenics programs full-blown, transhumanist future, musks descendents rule mars, this is starting to sound appealing, and if I can save the beetles as well, hallelujah
yeah I can help you out, for every illegal immigrant there are 25 legal immigrants. i.e. dinghy refugees is a red herring and possibly there to antagonise or distract from the bigger truth. Gloabalists are intentionally cross-pollinating nations to reduce the probability of nation vs nation wars (side benefit you can get anything anywhere and do more business everywhere).
So if there's 40,000 illegals there's 1,000,000 legals. Imagine walking down the high street and shaking 26 hands to find one.
I agree somewhat with UK refugee in that it could be a global melting pot strategy. Remove the visible and cultural homogeneity of sovereign states to eliminate a sense of nationalism and replace it with a sense of global community. Fits with the notion of establishing a one world government/control.
Yes I wonder on this point, my impression is that the bulk of immigrants are a net drain on society, this is from various things I have read and that the areas with highest immigrants in the UK have the highest unemployment rate, so the mass immigration still doesn't make sense.
May 25, 2023Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
No ‘BAU’?
‘Most’ ‘economic thinking’ is ‘short run’ and ‘redundant’? ‘It’ ignores the ‘supply side’? ‘Growth’ {and ‘civilisation’} depends upon ‘cheap’ F.F. – those so called ‘halcyon days’ are ‘over’. ?
“The crisis now unfolding, however, is entirely different to the 1970s in one crucial respect… The 1970s crisis was largely artificial. When all is said and done, the oil shock was nothing more than the emerging OPEC cartel asserting its newfound leverage following the peak of continental US oil production. There was no shortage of oil any more than the three-day-week had been caused by coal shortages. What they did, perhaps, give us a glimpse of was what might happen in the event that our economies depleted our fossil fuel reserves before we had found a more versatile and energy-dense alternative. . . . That system has been on the life-support of quantitative easing and near zero interest rates ever since. Indeed, so perilous a state has the system been in since 2008, it was essential that the people who claim to be our leaders avoid doing anything so foolish as to lockdown the economy or launch an undeclared economic war on one of the world’s biggest commodity exporters . . . And this is why the crisis we are beginning to experience will make the 1970s look like a golden age of peace and tranquility. . . . The sad reality though, is that our leaders – at least within the western empire – have bought into a vision of the future which cannot work without some new and yet-to-be-discovered high-density energy source (which rules out all of the so-called green technologies whose main purpose is to concentrate relatively weak and diffuse energy sources). . . . Even as we struggle to reimagine the 1970s in an attempt to understand the current situation, the only people on Earth today who can even begin to imagine the economic and social horrors that await western populations are the survivors of the 1980s famine in Ethiopia, the hyperinflation in 1990s Zimbabwe, or, ironically, the Russians who survived the collapse of the Soviet Union.” ?
“It is this belief in a new digital revolution which gave rise to the much-derided article by Danish politician, Ida Auken – originally titled “Welcome to 2030: I own nothing, I have no privacy, and life has never been better.” More popularly known as “you’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.” It is a world of digital currencies and digital IDs, vaccine passports and 15-minute cities, electrification and driverless cars. All of it based around the “energy too cheap to meter” from wind turbines and solar panels, and all of it operated by autonomous artificial intelligence within the “singularity” of the “internet of things.”
It is a mirage, of course… one only visible to so-called “virtuals” – people whose lives and careers are now so detached from the material world that, were there not so many of them, could otherwise be diagnosed as certifiably insane. The real world, meanwhile, looks more akin to the second global collapse – the first being the collapse of the integrated economies of the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean empires sometime around 1186 BCE. The majority of ordinary people have seen their living standards decline over the past two decades – a process compounded and accelerated by two years of lockdowns followed by a year of self-destructive sanctions on key resources.”?
May 24, 2023Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
It's simple. Governments want to control us by buying us off or using fear. What they should be doing is the opposite. They are now between a rock and a hard place. Read Atlas Shrugged or the Bible for details. As Margaret Thatcher said something like govt is ok until they run out of other people's money.
May 24, 2023Liked by NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter
From an energy perspective you can divide the world into the West(US,UK,Europe,Japan) and everybody else. “Everybody else” is not going along with the Green Energy nonsense and they are never going to. China, Russia, India, Africa, South America, Southeast Asia..... they think we can take our Green New Deals and our windmills and solar panels and shove them where the sun doesn’t shine(pun intended). Think about it. This whole energy Revolution is for roughly 12% of the world’s population. The 88% will not be denied their fossil fuel generated growth and renaissance, just like the West enjoyed for 175 years. We are, to continue the pun, having smoke blown up the same sun deprived region, and we are living a farce. The Great Reset is more propaganda piece than it is reality.
Western governments must have seen all this coming a long time ago so why didn't they:-
1. adopt pro-natal policies years ago instead of doing the opposite (LGBT, feminism etc) and importing often hostile minority groups?
2. implement nuclear power on a mass scale, especially fine tuning the Thorium cycle using molten salt reactors (safe, no waste, abundant fuel)?
3. continue to exploit fossil fuels rather than restrict extraction?
4. prepare to return to a sound money system instead of flogging off the gold reserves and blowing a bigger bubble, i.e. keep digging the hole bigger?
It seems to me that the Eurasian powers are doing all these 4 things and seem to see a bright future of multi-lateral cooperation out from under the Western yoke. Surely they would be in the know too if things were as bad as this guy says? Why aren't they acting like the Western countries?
They value control over anything else. They believe once they have restructured the economy and eliminated freedom of the citizens that they can still have a bright future for themselves.
No ‘BAU’?
‘Most’ ‘economic thinking’ is ‘short run’ and ‘redundant’? ‘It’ ignores the ‘supply side’? ‘Growth’ {and ‘civilisation’} depends upon ‘cheap’ F.F. – those so called ‘halcyon days’ are ‘over’. ?
“The crisis now unfolding, however, is entirely different to the 1970s in one crucial respect… The 1970s crisis was largely artificial. When all is said and done, the oil shock was nothing more than the emerging OPEC cartel asserting its newfound leverage following the peak of continental US oil production. There was no shortage of oil any more than the three-day-week had been caused by coal shortages. What they did, perhaps, give us a glimpse of was what might happen in the event that our economies depleted our fossil fuel reserves before we had found a more versatile and energy-dense alternative. . . . That system has been on the life-support of quantitative easing and near zero interest rates ever since. Indeed, so perilous a state has the system been in since 2008, it was essential that the people who claim to be our leaders avoid doing anything so foolish as to lockdown the economy or launch an undeclared economic war on one of the world’s biggest commodity exporters . . . And this is why the crisis we are beginning to experience will make the 1970s look like a golden age of peace and tranquility. . . . The sad reality though, is that our leaders – at least within the western empire – have bought into a vision of the future which cannot work without some new and yet-to-be-discovered high-density energy source (which rules out all of the so-called green technologies whose main purpose is to concentrate relatively weak and diffuse energy sources). . . . Even as we struggle to reimagine the 1970s in an attempt to understand the current situation, the only people on Earth today who can even begin to imagine the economic and social horrors that await western populations are the survivors of the 1980s famine in Ethiopia, the hyperinflation in 1990s Zimbabwe, or, ironically, the Russians who survived the collapse of the Soviet Union.” ?
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2022/07/01/bigger-than-you-can-imagine/
“It is this belief in a new digital revolution which gave rise to the much-derided article by Danish politician, Ida Auken – originally titled “Welcome to 2030: I own nothing, I have no privacy, and life has never been better.” More popularly known as “you’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.” It is a world of digital currencies and digital IDs, vaccine passports and 15-minute cities, electrification and driverless cars. All of it based around the “energy too cheap to meter” from wind turbines and solar panels, and all of it operated by autonomous artificial intelligence within the “singularity” of the “internet of things.”
It is a mirage, of course… one only visible to so-called “virtuals” – people whose lives and careers are now so detached from the material world that, were there not so many of them, could otherwise be diagnosed as certifiably insane. The real world, meanwhile, looks more akin to the second global collapse – the first being the collapse of the integrated economies of the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean empires sometime around 1186 BCE. The majority of ordinary people have seen their living standards decline over the past two decades – a process compounded and accelerated by two years of lockdowns followed by a year of self-destructive sanctions on key resources.”?
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2023/03/01/paradise-postponed
Nuclear power plants are susceptible to cyberattacks. For example the Stuxnet virus which targeted nuclear programs in Iran. This virus could even cross the air gap (zone near the reactors with no internet access).
It crossed the air gap on a thumb drive. The hack required exploiting human nature. All systems are only as secure as the weakest combination of technical and human weaknesses. Has zero to do with nuclear or medical or religious or financial type systems the computers manage. Source: IT expert with 35 yrs experience in enterprise data centers.
I understand that any programmable system can get hacked. What worries me is the consequences if a nuclear power plant gets hacked by terrorists or an enemy. Stuxnet just made the machines break down but what if they had a nuclear meltdown?
To make my point, half dozen electrical substations have been taken offline by shooting out transformers, which take days to weeks to replace. Simple exploitation of an exposed target with a systemic weakness (supply chain). It hacks are just another tool in the disruption toolkit.
"Dr. Morgan believes that there are two economies running in parallel. One is “the underlying ‘real’ or physical economy of products and services” and the other is a “financial economy of money and credit”. “Money has no intrinsic worth, but commands value only in terms of the material things for which it can be exchanged”. To better understand that concept, imagine yourself stranded on a desert island. No amount of money, whether that be coins, gold or crypto, would have the slightest value because there would be nobody with which to trade it with for food or water."
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YES YES YES YES! The way that I phrase it is that when the fake economy of money printing/handouts overtakes the real economy of voluntary transactions for goods and services, the wheels come off the bus.
The bankers and politicians will ALWAYS find excuses to print, leaving the rest of us to pay for their actions via devalued labor and savings.
Edit to add proof:
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/the-slow-motion-trainwreck-of-the
This is what it looks like when the fake economy of being close to the literal money makers overtakes the real economy of people voluntarily trading goods and services. Why bother with customer service or quality when you can just bribe a politician to make your product mandatory, or to eliminate your competition?
The debt will be inflated away, and it’s extremely likely the looter class will grab everything they can while the house of cards tumbles down. It’s likely millions of people will be unable to continue paying for their homes and businesses, and the politically connected will use their newly printed cash to buy up the rubble for pennies on the dollar.
Catherine Austin Fitts has talked about this on Planet Lockdown documentary. Also, Economist and geopolitical author, Prof Michel Chudovdoski is offering free his book on Covid Global Coup D'Etat which can be downloaded from globalresearch.ca. Even I could understand the implications! Technocracy News is worth looking at too.
Bingo.
"...attract young workers..." This is not what is being attracted though. Enemy soldiers is a far more apt moniker.
To me it is amazing that what was so clearly described in Das Kapital and other works of the 19th century is being rediscovered as if it was new.
Under capitalism, recurring crises are not a bug, it's a necessary feature.
Yes, enemy soldiers make a lot of sense...they won't hesitate to kill us if they want or are told too.
Currently though they are a net $300,000 drain per illegal on our economy. So even ithough they don't pay taxes, and/or the govt plans to go CBDC, they will definitely kill us old people and take our houses, etc etc...even if not organied into an army.
See my comment above...
So even though they don't pay taxes currently...
They won't pay enough on their own lifetimes, and neither will their children. A divided diverse population is easier to control.
Let me explain how I came across Tim Morgan....
In 2008 the GFC smashed into a few businesses I had founded in Greater China and up until then it had been smooth sailing. Needless to say GFC put an abrupt dent in the situation.
Initially I bought the line that it was corruption/stupidity on the part of Bernanke, the Central Banks... and the bankers. How dare they make such a mess of things these self-serving pricks.
At the time I did not think the Fed would be able to right the Titanic and I began some serious bucket listing with my wife... but I will admit I did not understand the fundamental problem... I continued to assume it was one of venality and or incompetence. One way or the other I expected worse to come.
2010 ... I read The Big Short... I recall a veteran mortgage brokers discussing Liar Loans ... he said normally it would take a month to approve financing for someone to buy a house... but now many brokerages were doing it on the spot --- we had no choice -- we either join the fray or we go out of business. How do you vet someone for a loan on the spot? You don't'
I paused after reading that --- and to borrow from Apocalypse now -- And then I realized, like I was shot — like I was shot with a diamond...a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, my God.... the Central Banks KNEW -- surely they knew -- in fact they must have encouraged this seemingly insane behaviour. The number one rule in banking is you do not lend $$$ to dead beats. You want your money back - with interest.
Bernanke was not corrupt - or stupid. How could I have been so stupid to have thought this!
But why would they do this - why would they shit on their kitchen table -- why would they burn their house down?
Hours upon hours were spent digging ... then... on a cold winter night in a hotel in Edinburgh (we were on a bucket list journey through Scotland) I found The Perfect Storm - by Tim Morgan.
It's a long paper - and it was the wee hours of the night before I finished it. And a second diamond bullet struck me --- I know understood why they had encouraged Liar Loans... why interest rates had been falling ... why the price of oil was $147 just prior to the GFC.
Increasing production costs as we depleted the low hanging fruit of oil are a huge headwind on the global economy. If the Central Banks failed to act against the headwinds the global economy collapses. The Central Banks had been responding as early as the turn of the century dropping interest rates to offset the rising energy costs.
They had also decided that pumping the housing market would provide enormous stimulus... housing prices rise + this drives economic activity (people buy furniture, appliances, they take second mortgages and buy cars/boats etc...) And this activity impacts the entire economy - everyone parties!
And then it ended.
But it didn't end. The CBs bailed things out - then continued to hose the global economy with near zero cost cash.... setting off another massive bubble that continue right up until 2019.
“The global economy was facing the worst collapse since the second world war as coronavirus began to strike in March, well before the height of the crisis, according to the latest Brookings-FT tracking index. “The index comes as the IMF prepares to hold virtual spring meetings this week, when it will release forecasts showing the deepest contraction for the global economy since the 1930s great depression. https://www.ft.com/content/9ac5eb8e-4167-4a54-9b39-dab48c29ac6c
I had been monitoring the marco picture and thinking --- they are pushing on multiple strings... one was German industrial production - the other was new car sales... despite record low interest rates -- both were plunging ... something's gotta give here.... another GFC?
Then BANG. Covid hits from outta nowhere.... WTF is this?
Initially I was accepting the BBCCNN version that this was the new black plague... but the cracks began to appear when the folks in besieged Wuhan flooded out of the city for Chinese New Year --- I remember thinking -- this will rip through the entire country in a week - why are they allowing this?
But it didn't - I have extensive contacts throughout China ... and nothing... no pandemic. Strange...
In April contacted one of the men who would sub author Great Barrington... an epidemiologist at a top university --and we had a series of telephone conversations and emails.... he said he had the WHO data and he'd analysed it - Covid was no more deadly than a bad flu. Slightly worse for the elderly - slightly less for the young. He was asking why the lockdowns.
A third diamond bullet hit me ... we are being exterminated. I did not know exactly how and initially thought they'd frighten 8 billion humans with the plague -- so that we'd not venture out for fear of death ... place military units on the streets with shoot to kill orders... and promise food would be delivered 'tomorrow'... and slowly weaken us ... till we just laid down and starved...
But then Operation Warp Speed launched -- and the miracle cure was at hand - in less than a year. Hmm... safe and effective and warp speed don't mix... a bit of research brought me here https://www.wired.com/2003/05/feds-race-to-make-sars-vaccine/
A 4th bullet ... these are kill shots. Initially I thought Bossche would nail it - a Marek's like disease was the goal -- but when that did not happen I came across the Binary Poison theory --- the shots damaged the immune system/messed with the DNA of the nearly 6B vaxxers - then when the global economy is looking to implode --- they release phase two --- some sort of virus that kills all the Vaxxers... the No Vaxxers starve.
Why would there be no push back? Because the alternative is 8 billion starving angry predators on the streets - when the global economy implodes. The gates of hell open.
Thus all the leaders of all the countries for the first time in history have reached a consensus. They have agreed to exterminate us --- in a manner that involves minimal suffering.
I have provided much more detail on what I refer to as the Ultimate Extermination Plan here https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220
Tim Morgan's Perfect Storm (which originally appeared on the FT if you can believe it) is a superb essay on the energy story however https://ourfiniteworld.com/ authored by Gail Tvergberg provides a much broader and more accurate analysis of the situation.
The 5th diamond bullet ... is that there is nothing that can be done to stop this plan -- unless someone has a bigger army that the DOD - Russia - China - and every other country --- because they are all committed to the plan and will stop at nothing to ensure it is completed.
I would also say to those who desire to stop the plan from completing -- be careful what you wish for ... if they fail --- the Gates of Hell will open when the financial system implodes.
Nobody wants that. Again - UEP goes into detail...
On that cold night in Edinburgh, blanket of mist increased the foreboding, logfire crackling, bottle of scotch and revovler on the leather armchair side table.....
Sorry got lost somewhere there, when we all dieing ? :)
Dr Morgan is an optimistic, Gail Tverberg at https://ourfiniteworld.com/?amp is a realist, Tim Watkins athttps://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2023/05/23/welcome-to-the-internet-death-spiral/ is a pessimist, and Ugo Bardi https://www.senecaeffect.com/2023/05/renewables-are-not-cleaner-caterpillar.html?m=1 is a fantastist and Fast Eddie is a prophet....lol.
As a long time follower of the peak oil theory (although its not peak oil its the reducing energy returns on energy investment look at the energy cost of shale oil)
I have always thought covid lockdowns and bio-weapon injections made perfect sense when looked at through the prisim of peak oil production in Nov 2018. Its all about control of dwindling resources, reducing demand and reducing mouths to feed. Its interesting times and the only sane advice I can offer is start a garden and grow food....love your substack keep up the good work
John Michael Greer aka the Archdruid is a proponent of slow collapse. He's worth a look too:
https://www.ecosophia.net/stumbling-through-the-fog/
He is a great resource and I loved one of his articles when he said, people we still be saying we can be great again while they are hand ploughing fields with their crumbling capital building in the background. Like the archdruid I think there will be fast step-downs followed by slow decline and then another step-down and the cycle continues. But this is actually extreme hopium(it's the only belief system for me to remain hopeful) however as the catastrophic issues that have been pushed out of sight by surplus energy ie spent fuel ponds, hygienic water, industrial agriculture...ect the list is very long... when they pop its going to be very tough
There must be a slot in your lineup for Rob Mielcarski who tirelessly spruiks an unorthodox hypothesis with a fairly macabre name MORT (Mind Over Reality Transition) 😏 --> un-denial.com/denial-2/theory-short
I work in financial, not real economy. I ended up there before I knew better. But I always had this feeling that the whole financial economy is smoke and mirrors, devoid of value. And if you knew how much pointless and wasteful, but highly paid, scarce skills, jobs are created by, for example, all the new financial regulations... it's just marvel. What a waste of human potential for all engineers and physicists who decide to take lucrative jobs in this imaginary nonsense
I remember reading 'Dark Pools...' 10 years ago and thinking that the financial jobs will all go, maybe we're reaching the end of a plateau
May i recommend Gail Tverberg? She's like Tim Morgan but better, with more detailed analysis.
Oh and Gail's site is where Fast Eddy hangs out, delighting us all with his theories.
https://ourfiniteworld.com/
Well this is a hellscape
One can see... why ... the PR Team... would do whatever it takes... to lead the mob away ... from the true story.
There are multiple stages of grief
Denial – The first reaction is denial. In this stage, individuals believe the diagnosis is somehow mistaken, and cling to a false, preferable reality. Some may also isolate themselves, avoiding others who may have accepted what is happening.[4] This stage is usually a temporary defense, so long as the person has adequate time to move amongst the stages as they contemplate death.[4] In her book, Kübler-Ross states that technological advancements have caused people to become fearful of violent, painful deaths; therefore, in order to protect the psychological mind, they deny the reality of their own inevitable death. [4]
Anger – When the individual recognizes that denial cannot continue, they become frustrated, especially at proximate individuals. Certain psychological responses of a person undergoing this phase would be: "Why me? It's not fair!"; "How can this happen to me?"; "Who is to blame?"; "Why would this happen?". Some may lash out at loved ones, medical staff, and other family.[4] In Kübler-Ross's other book, Questions and Answers on Death and Dying, she emphasizes the need for people to do their best to let those who are in this stage feel their feelings and try not to take the anger personally. [12]
Bargaining – The third stage involves the hope that the individual can avoid a cause of grief. Usually, the negotiation for an extended life is made in exchange for a reformed lifestyle. People facing less serious trauma can bargain or seek compromise. Examples include the terminally ill person who "negotiates with God" to attend a daughter's wedding, an attempt to bargain for more time to live in exchange for a reformed lifestyle or a phrase such as "If I could trade their life for mine".
Depression – "I'm so sad, why bother with anything?"; "I'm going to die soon, so what's the point?"; "I miss my loved one; why go on?"
During the fourth stage, the individual despairs at the recognition of their mortality. In this state, the individual may become silent, refuse visitors and spend much of the time mournful and sullen.
Acceptance – "It's going to be okay."; "I can't fight it; I may as well prepare for it."
In this last stage, individuals embrace mortality or inevitable future, or that of a loved one, or other tragic event. People dying may precede the survivors in this state, which typically comes with a calm, retrospective view for the individual, and a stable condition of emotions.
The sooner one reaches stage 5... the better ... fortunately the PR Team has also provided much fodder for this in the form of Doomsday Prepper Tee Vee shows and novels... heck even The Road has a happy ending as the father and son are welcomed into utopia...
Many who have realized that we are f789ed... latch on to the doomsday prepper theme... if it makes you feel better then go for it ... been there done that and realized the futility of it very quickly... (also there are 4000 spent fuel ponds waiting for the power to go off and the cooling systems to seize up - then they will release their toxic loads for many years...)
Religion is also a good fallback for those wanting to keep the hopium flowing (after the spice stops)
So a hellscape it is then
We know that the 'vaccines' were not purposed to stop the spread of covid - not purposed to stop severe illness or death --- in fact the exact opposite is true.
If we know THEY know. Therefore the intention must involve great harm.
They injected babies. They injected their military. They cajoled mandated and bribed billions to inject. The spent literally hundreds of billions of dollars on the biggest PR and advertising campaign in history to convince people to inject. They censored all dissent.
Every government on the planet is injecting. There is next to no pushback.
They are hell bent on getting this poison into as many people as possible. No exceptions. Celebrities, politicians, athletes -- everyone gets the poison.
Yes ...a hellscape awaits us.
I suspect the big reveal will happen when they release the next virus. I suspect that the injections have messed with immune system leaving the door to the chicken coop -- and that the foxes will walk right in and do what foxes do.
6 billion quickly dead - 2 billion No Vaxxers left to starve.
In a meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sounded an alarm that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over.
“The threat of another variant emerging that causes new surges of disease and death remains,” Tedros said. “And the threat of another pathogen emerging with even deadlier potential remains.”
https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/the-next-pandemic-even-deadlier-than-covid-is-coming-warns-who/news-story/20be6a458bf55b01143d752b2b0fa1d6
Tick tock? Just waiting till the global economy is about to implode before making their move?
If you're right, the 'purebloods' are going to be a tad disappointed,
I'm kindof in the ............
dod / biowarfare concerns / mrna platform for the great progress leap forward / mrna as a lucrative platform / regulatory capture / greedy interests X extraordinary power structures in global ( supra-national conglomerates X unprecedentedcultural times X an emergent pattern from humanities natural chaos........
camp
But you make a good argument :), that story starting in China was a read! Cheers
Adding to this ... the PR Team responsible for UEP https://www.headsupster.com/forumthread?shortId=220 is tasked with ensuring the mob does not get wind of The Plan.
For decades they have been - like a bird feigning injury to lead predators away from the next -- doing whatever it takes to ensure we do NOT get wind of the true situation regarding the depletion of affordable energy.
They have fed us all sorts of nonsense including renewable energy, EVs, thorium... and there's my all time favourite https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181119-why-flammable-ice-could-be-the-future-of-energy
Then we have Elon Musk anointed as Tech God - he will fix everything! And if he fails he'll fly us to Mars (or an Earth like planet somewhere out there).
I would also argue that the faked Moon landings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpuKu3F0BvY were part of this PR campaign - if we can go to the moon we can colonize space... a comforting thought on a finite planet with depleting resources!
Humans need hope in a bright future where there is always more to be had.... if they notice the party is going to end --- they panic ... if you strip hope from them they fall into despair --- and that is a self-fulfilling situation -- they turn to drugs and booze... they don't invest, study, have kids etc... why bother - we're f789ed...
Nope. Can't have that - so feed them hopium... lie.
It's worked... you ask 100 people - do you think we will run out of oil - most will say yes (although some believe it's abiotic -- courtesy the PR Team)....
Are you concerned? No.
Why not? Cuz we will have transitioned to renewables long before we run out. And EVs.
Thank you PR Team. Brilliant!
Global warming slots in nicely -- we are not running out - we are dumping these vile fossil fuels... they are the villain... we don't need them! That's particularly brilliant PR.
And as we reach the End Game we are seeing all sorts of insanity ... Biden shaking hands with ghosts... trannies in classrooms... hospitals mutilating kids cuz they decided it might be fun to change gender... illegal immigrants being chaperoned into countries... on demand hardest of hard core porn available to 7 yr olds... and on and on and on.
None of this is an accident - it is orchestrated...
And it serves two purposes 1. these are distractions that keep the mob from seeing the nest... (how about a cage match - Biden vs Trump!!!) but more importantly 2. they destroy the ethical foundations of a society --- they leave the mob bewildered -- things are going to pieces and this is not the world I want... so death becomes not so unwelcome.
Death they will get. Extinction.
A question I have for you, Fast Eddy, is if you truly believe the world as we know it is about to end, why waste so much time researching and commenting? Why not just get on with your bucket list?
I continue to bucket list... my current focus is improving my ice hockey skills.
I spent a month in Canada in Feb/March and was on the ice just about every day often with a professional skills coach. I'm currently on ice most days here in NZ continuing to work the drills.
I've been diving in Australia... and spent 10 days in Perth.
I just welcomed one of my longest standing friends -- and we did a back country hunting trip into a region where very few have been (my neighbour has a massive high country station and he organized an epic trip -- have a freezer full of deer meat now)
I am considering an extended trip to central america once hockey season wraps up --- I am keen to tour the archaeological sites --- however this is a slight glitch ... we sponsored a couple of kids to attend school in NZ -- they both just started post secondary school so it's just the wife and I and two dogs on the Goat Ranch... the wife for some bizarre reason decided she wanted to return to work full time a little over a year ago... so she cannot join and even if she did the Goat Ranch could not be abandoned for such a long stretch....
When we were intensively bucket listing we lived on a Goat Ranch in Bali ... and we employed village people to take care of all this sort of thing ... including making sure the two kids got to school on time... much more complicated and expensive to do here...
And at the end of the day travel is not the only bucket listing activity ... for Madame Fast she enjoys her return to work ...
For me... well I am working on perfecting my snap shot ... and if this sucker holds together long enough ... I am hoping that before next season the Rat Juice has destroyed all of the NHL players and that I get a call up from the New York Rangers.
We might try to sneak in a 2 week trip to the Kyoto area though...
Why can't it just be humanity's psychopathic fellow travellers gone global, and networking their cold reptilian hearts off to beat the band?
Like you, the sole motivation for my Substack is to try and determine the actual explanation for all the nonsensical things happening all around us. Also like you I am landing on the same core issue/driver that has concerned me for over a decade; Peak Oil. Ironically, the fact that the notion of Peak Oil is rarely mentioned anywhere anymore makes me even more concerned that this is in fact the actual root cause/explanation.
Peak Affordability is another way to describe it. Plenty of coal, oil and gas in the ground but becoming too expensive to extract, refine, transport to and from distant lands or they are found in the oceans as well as other sensitive areas or occupied lands. The price of Oil has to be high enough to make Fracked Oil and Gas profitable. Competing countries with reserves, a need to import or export heavy or light crude to mix for refining and industries geared towards specific kinds of fossil fuel products are all involved in the complexity side of the equation. Renewables in this context can be added to the mix for generating electricity provided they can harmonize with the existing grid but they need to be backed up by fossil fuels due to intermittency. Big promises about more efficient generation, transmission and battery storage are always a few days, months or years away.
Overlay this information with the globalist push for a NWO and one world religion that worships satan and the massive poisoning of the population with the CoVid jabs makes more sense also.
This is the Peak Oil Theory...and I have heard of it...along with the cost to produce energy as above.
The only thing I DO NOT GET, and maybe you cannot help me (anyone?)...since our illegals TAKE MONEY out of our TAXES to get free phones, free housing, free medical, free school and special services, and free heating assistance, plus food stamps etc. and we already feed their kids twice a day....the illegal immigrants flooding our country DO NOT PAY TAXES...so there is nothing to prop up our retirement funds.....Which is why I think they wanted to kill all the old people and there was such a push for EVERYONE to get the jab...
Comments anyone? Why would they want to replace us with people who DO NOT PAY TAXES...they work for cash...unless they are gonna spring the FED NOW CBDC on the new immigrants???
Incoming CBDC, Social Credit and UBI. The plan is to march everyone off into the #SmartCities as part of the #GreatReset being implemented by our Luciferian overlords. The population is being culled as we speak #COVID1984
All rural and suburban areas will be used strictly by mega-corporations under their control. The general populace will not be allowed to own property or travel outside their assigned localities, except in service to The Machine.
Welcome to the Hunger Games. May the odds be ever in your favor.
There will be no smart cities because…net zero. They’re banning concrete and steel so no building . Smart tent cities coming your way?
James Lindsay on a plan that has characteristics of a middle school group project: https://youtu.be/uF9LcEGk4aw
Ok so I am not crazy?
Maybe, but not because of this :)
Perfect riposte!! and my first laugh out loud
of the day!! Bless you!
That's partially 'brave new world', if they get the soma, castes and entertainment right, might get there, the upcoming generations are ripe, restart the eugenics programs full-blown, transhumanist future, musks descendents rule mars, this is starting to sound appealing, and if I can save the beetles as well, hallelujah
yeah I can help you out, for every illegal immigrant there are 25 legal immigrants. i.e. dinghy refugees is a red herring and possibly there to antagonise or distract from the bigger truth. Gloabalists are intentionally cross-pollinating nations to reduce the probability of nation vs nation wars (side benefit you can get anything anywhere and do more business everywhere).
So if there's 40,000 illegals there's 1,000,000 legals. Imagine walking down the high street and shaking 26 hands to find one.
And the lines are becoming increasingly blurred, migration pact for example. Assuming your ratio is correct it could start shifting big time
I agree somewhat with UK refugee in that it could be a global melting pot strategy. Remove the visible and cultural homogeneity of sovereign states to eliminate a sense of nationalism and replace it with a sense of global community. Fits with the notion of establishing a one world government/control.
Yes I wonder on this point, my impression is that the bulk of immigrants are a net drain on society, this is from various things I have read and that the areas with highest immigrants in the UK have the highest unemployment rate, so the mass immigration still doesn't make sense.
Demographics is destiny. They're destroying traditional European culture.
We are constantly told of the benefits, so you'd have to wonder how bad it is.
No ‘BAU’?
‘Most’ ‘economic thinking’ is ‘short run’ and ‘redundant’? ‘It’ ignores the ‘supply side’? ‘Growth’ {and ‘civilisation’} depends upon ‘cheap’ F.F. – those so called ‘halcyon days’ are ‘over’. ?
“The crisis now unfolding, however, is entirely different to the 1970s in one crucial respect… The 1970s crisis was largely artificial. When all is said and done, the oil shock was nothing more than the emerging OPEC cartel asserting its newfound leverage following the peak of continental US oil production. There was no shortage of oil any more than the three-day-week had been caused by coal shortages. What they did, perhaps, give us a glimpse of was what might happen in the event that our economies depleted our fossil fuel reserves before we had found a more versatile and energy-dense alternative. . . . That system has been on the life-support of quantitative easing and near zero interest rates ever since. Indeed, so perilous a state has the system been in since 2008, it was essential that the people who claim to be our leaders avoid doing anything so foolish as to lockdown the economy or launch an undeclared economic war on one of the world’s biggest commodity exporters . . . And this is why the crisis we are beginning to experience will make the 1970s look like a golden age of peace and tranquility. . . . The sad reality though, is that our leaders – at least within the western empire – have bought into a vision of the future which cannot work without some new and yet-to-be-discovered high-density energy source (which rules out all of the so-called green technologies whose main purpose is to concentrate relatively weak and diffuse energy sources). . . . Even as we struggle to reimagine the 1970s in an attempt to understand the current situation, the only people on Earth today who can even begin to imagine the economic and social horrors that await western populations are the survivors of the 1980s famine in Ethiopia, the hyperinflation in 1990s Zimbabwe, or, ironically, the Russians who survived the collapse of the Soviet Union.” ?
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2022/07/01/bigger-than-you-can-imagine/
“It is this belief in a new digital revolution which gave rise to the much-derided article by Danish politician, Ida Auken – originally titled “Welcome to 2030: I own nothing, I have no privacy, and life has never been better.” More popularly known as “you’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.” It is a world of digital currencies and digital IDs, vaccine passports and 15-minute cities, electrification and driverless cars. All of it based around the “energy too cheap to meter” from wind turbines and solar panels, and all of it operated by autonomous artificial intelligence within the “singularity” of the “internet of things.”
It is a mirage, of course… one only visible to so-called “virtuals” – people whose lives and careers are now so detached from the material world that, were there not so many of them, could otherwise be diagnosed as certifiably insane. The real world, meanwhile, looks more akin to the second global collapse – the first being the collapse of the integrated economies of the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean empires sometime around 1186 BCE. The majority of ordinary people have seen their living standards decline over the past two decades – a process compounded and accelerated by two years of lockdowns followed by a year of self-destructive sanctions on key resources.”?
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2023/03/01/paradise-postponed
I’ve seen this expressed in other but similar ways, but yes. Dr. Morgan is spot on.
I recommend https://ourfiniteworld.com/
It's simple. Governments want to control us by buying us off or using fear. What they should be doing is the opposite. They are now between a rock and a hard place. Read Atlas Shrugged or the Bible for details. As Margaret Thatcher said something like govt is ok until they run out of other people's money.
Remember Frankie Boyle's about the 21 gun salute, they should have shot the coffin
From an energy perspective you can divide the world into the West(US,UK,Europe,Japan) and everybody else. “Everybody else” is not going along with the Green Energy nonsense and they are never going to. China, Russia, India, Africa, South America, Southeast Asia..... they think we can take our Green New Deals and our windmills and solar panels and shove them where the sun doesn’t shine(pun intended). Think about it. This whole energy Revolution is for roughly 12% of the world’s population. The 88% will not be denied their fossil fuel generated growth and renaissance, just like the West enjoyed for 175 years. We are, to continue the pun, having smoke blown up the same sun deprived region, and we are living a farce. The Great Reset is more propaganda piece than it is reality.