As I wave bye bye at my (meager) retirement, due in 4 years, I think of the idea of the dine and dash, which many of us are guilty of doing once, often in highschool perhaps. But none of us ever thought about simply killing everyone possible in the restaurant and outside too, to avoid being caught. That is what I think has occured, effectually.
Rudy, Clif had it right, they ARE trying to kill us off. At least 50% of us anyway. The World Economic Forum, and those involved, ie...Bill Gates, et all, have 50% population reduction as a goal. Those in the WEC have achieved such unimaginable wealth, that they believe they are smarter than the dregs of society that they share the Earth with, and are unable to see what "they" see and must be FORCED to adopt their program to SAVE THE WORLD. Larry Fink said as much last week. I think it will devolve into an epic battle between International Fascism and America style freedom. There will be 3 groups of people; Sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves. There is a way to win....we must all get on our knees and ask God for forgiveness, guidance, wisdom, and the strength to persevere.
According to Rystad, the current resource replacement ratio for conventional resources is only 16 percent. Only 1 barrel out of every 6 consumed is being replaced with new resources
If there is so much easy oil left, then why are we drilling beneath the ocean, blasting and sucking out the dregs of old wells and steaming oil out of sand?
Most oil is not sitting around waiting to be skimmed off like cream. That was the early stage situation in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Steaming oil of out sands *alone* guarantees enough oil for centuries at current usage rates. Nobody is saying oil will be the primary fuel indefinitely, but there is no danger whatsoever of running out of oil in this century.
There is plenty of oil left - it's not feasible to extract it so it will remain in the ground.
HIGH PRICED OIL DESTROYS GROWTH
According to the OECD Economics Department and the International Monetary Fund Research Department, a sustained $10 per barrel increase in oil prices from $25 to $35 would result in the OECD as a whole losing 0.4% of GDP in the first and second years of higher prices. http://www.iea.org/textbase/npsum/high_oil04sum.pdf
HOW HIGH OIL PRICES WILL PERMANENTLY CAP ECONOMIC GROWTH
If there isn't any more oil why have dozens of oil explorers and oil equipment companies invested hundreds of millions into fracking and pipelines to deliver low cost energy? And if were running out why would our leaders (Joe Biden and the Democrats) actively work to destroy that low cost energy supply in our own backyards for more expensive sources (ie - Russian and Arab Oil/gas, Solar, Wind and Hydroelectric) which can't come close to providing the low cost unlimited energy we need to run and grow our GDP and standards of living and which can be used to hold us hostage financially by Russia and China ultimately resulting in WW3.
Did it ever occur to you that the spin is that they are destroying the US oil production because it's past peak - and they can't admit that...
Most oil producing countries are past peak... so turning to the KSA or other suppliers is not going to save the day.
Overall production peaked in 2005 - that's why we had $147 oil in 2007.
Shale road to the rescue ... but alas... that game is over now.
And we are being exterminated ... before the situation goes critical and we rip each others faces off.
Feel free to reject the reality and embrace the spin on oil (and EVs and renewable energy). Whatever keeps the masses calm is a good thing...the last thing we want is for people to get wind that energy depletion is critical. We don't want the sheeple to panic as they are herded into the abattoir.
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.
If there is so much easy oil left, then why are we drilling beneath the ocean?
No one is saying oil has no value. They drill beneath the ocean to make a profit. There is plenty of fresh water in the world but still people pay for it. Or, if it is cheaper, they will drill a well.
According to Rystad, the current resource replacement ratio for conventional resources is only 16 percent. Only 1 barrel out of every 6 consumed is being replaced with new resources
If petroleum and natural gas came from biological sources, what is the explanation for stuff that is lighter than water being so very deep underground?
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.
I have started a deep dive into UAP/UFO and what I believe is that we have access to incredible energy sources and anti-gravity transportation. We may or may not have mastered that technology yet, but we know it exists.
Most of us have seen the Tic-Tac videos. The military says it is not fake. There is much more our military an Deep State players know about this that they are not telling us.
Clif has a technical data background, some telephone industry if i rememember right, and analysis...martial arts also...he has made an effort to get out ahead of curves with his analysis..I barely have watched him but find him highly rewarding esp. for the spirit.
He's a bit of a guru. Worked in the corporate world in computer systems while coming up with his own machine learning tool that scrapes the internet and analyses language to make predictions about the future. He was one of the earliest investors in Bitcoin thanks to his tool alerting him to its evolution.
He also takes a lot of hallucinogens and claims to have entered other dimensions where he's encountered extraterrestrial beings.
Fascinating stuff though a bit out there. His interview on the Delingpod podcast is a good, accessible intro to his way of thinking.
"He also takes a lot of hallucinogens and claims to have entered other dimensions where he's encountered extraterrestrial beings."
Many people have done this. There is absolutely something uncanny going on with these "trips" -- especially DMT and similar. Assuming these beings are "extraterrestrial" in the sense of little green men seems to me strikingly naïve. Much more likely: demonic entities. I experienced drug-induced extreme hallucinogenic states in my youth and all I can say is: be very, VERY careful.
I feel you have accurately diagnosed the current issue. Even here in the Northeast US (pandemia central outside California) there is little will to enforce measures. Mandates are over, public schools are back to normal kind of, and universities are STILL holding on to a mask mandate (thankfully only in classrooms, because the great scientists have found it doesnt spread at Gyms or the libraries.)
But, knowing many PhDs in biological sciences, they will never give up this prestige. They were absolute nerd nobodies for a while and now, having tasted power and prestige, will throw us all to the ground to be the one turned to during the next pandemic. The energy for Corona is gone, but the energy and capacity for the biosecurity state to destroy our lives at a whim has increased manyfold. Don't know what else will happen up here, I'm moving to Florida.
No. Florida is now a solid red Republican state. Only one Dem holds statewide office -- which she won by a very small margin -- and she is not running for re-election. Rather she is running against DeSantis for Governor in November and will lose by at least 10 percentage points.
The thing is, the good guys in Florida need to keep pressing the advantage. Ron DeSantis is a rare phenomenon. Even settling for a Greg Abbott is liable to result in Florida stagnating into total blue state insanity before too awfully long. If you want Florida to stay free, you guys need to take the DeSantis momentum and push the socialists, commies, and petty bureaucrats right into the sea. The secular trend is toward idiocracy.
I don't understand how Abbott swept that primary. I figure the commies in the blue cities don't vote in that primary. So who the hell voted for this RINO. I had hopes for Allen West.
One can only hope. I live in CA. Charles Manson (D, Dead) wins statewide. In fairness, only by ten points, instead of the usual 20+.
30 years ago, we had the occasional GOP (sort of) governor. Now, I think it is close to a generation since the last statewide Republican was elected. Arnold doesn't count.
Arnold's a full fledged Globalist. Remember what he said to those who did not want to get a vax? He said "screeeew your freedom" Arnold can go fuck himself.
Arnold is just another retarded and scared boomer who's completely terrified of dying which is statistically coming soon. Not meant as a knock against other boomers who are not cowards.
Yes, California is like Illinois. You need a special situation and/or candidate for a Republican to win. This year is shaping up to be the Mother of All Shellackings for the Democrats.
I sure wish the Dems would get shellacked in CA. Unfortunately, there are just too many morons in CA who vote Democrat like it's their religion no matter who the candidate is.
My fantasy is that the Democrats lose 100 seats in the House, with similar results in other races. Then, if the GOP pulls its usual bait and switch--i.e does nothing other than soak up the graft--in 2024 the GOP loses them all back. Plus a few. THEN, we might have a message sent: "Dance with the one that brought you."
Florida once was a toss-up possibility that now seems quite remote given how badly the Dems have shot themselves in the foot. Whether that has any effect in other places remains to be seen. People often hold irrational beliefs and are loath to any change. Florida was lucky to have competent leadership which remains rare elsewhere.
We hope we can resist the continuation of incompetent public health officials that are everywhere. Whether they will accept the recommendations of a careful study proving the mitigations failed is another story.
EXACTLY. We have to stand firm and resist where we are. It's difficult, but worth it. Tyranny knows no borders and the same policies in these tyrannical states are coming to your fake "free states" eventually. If we are cowards where we live now, how is moving somewhere going to give us courage?
Rob, you hit a nerve. We live in Oregon. We've been wanting to move to lower our cost of living since about 2006, and then the market tanked in 2007, 2008 and we lost most of our equity for about 6 years. So now that we have built up our equity, we considered moving again. Then came Covid. We watched as the very states we were considering, went from red to purple and one even went deep blue. You are correct, for those leaving for “greener pastures” what makes anyone think they will be better off in another state? I told my wife and family, there’s no way I’m moving to another red state or purple state, only to live out my life watching another state decline all over again.
We have been praying for answers about what to do for a couple of decades as Oregon is in the running to be at the bottom 1 or 2 states for poverty, bad public Ed, high taxes and a state Gov. that costs each tax payer almost twice the national average for all 50 states. That leaves lots of room for improvement. So we are digging in to finish our lives right here. We will stay until they bleed us dry, or we’re dead. In the meantime we will do a reverse mortgage and secure the roof over our heads and try to make a difference, as long as we can afford to stay.
It’s been a real lesson and now that the left coast migration east and the east coasters going west has begun, we see why God chose to leave us were we are. They will migrate and destroy the places they move to, because they participated in the fall of their previous residence with their votes or lack of them, destroying one of Americas best states and economies ever. CA has achieved many great things but totally failed at self governance. We came to OR in 1979 from the once great Red State of AZ to work and raise a family. It was great when we arrived and started sliding into its current communist block after the world fair in Canada in about 1985. That’s when America and many Californicaters took I-5 to Calgary Canada for the fair, exposing them to the mostly unknown beauty of the PNW. And that began the transformation of what is now the left coast of North America.
It depends on your local situation. If you have or could create a local network of like minded people then maybe staying makes sense. There are however places so overrun with these NPC's (I won't call them liberals because they're really not) that staying really is a wasted effort.
don't forget money. People made a ton of money pivoting to the Corona scare mongering world. My "immunologist" cousin (only when needed, she has a PhD in biology for gods sake) did a guest speaking tour on coronavirus issues around CA and made a mint flaunting her self as an expert on the subject. She also did Ticktock. she just bought a tesla X
Unless a doctor or lawyer is the desired end result, most tech schools teach something they can actually use, with most being hired before they graduate.
Continuing their education in any direction after being hired is always an option.
"tech college" - absolutely! - wish someone had said that to me - many years back - as far as "doctor ... big dream" (AR) - you know (don't you) that a very large portion of MDs totally hate being doctors - large and growing - they are bureaucrats with prescription pads
I went to an Ivy League, everyone here jokes that even if Corona was 0 the "Health Leader" would send an email about being diligent about double masking.
Similar situation in NZ but it's country wide with a stupid 'traffic light' system. We are currently in Red which means the health system is in danger of collapsing only it isn't and never was. At Green most of the covid theatre is 'recommended' only but you can guess what will happen in big institutions etc. When I'm at the lights and they change to green, I go, go, go. But they are not going to go away or give up on this thing. Probably will switch to the fake climate emergency.
Please, stop feeding these beasts. These universities hate us. Woke and admin corruption have captured them. They breed the likes of Antifa. The few conservative, moderate, and old-school liberal profs are only kept around as tenure-mandated Potemkin decorations. There is a whole network of conservative and Great Books oriented colleges struggling to get adequate enrollment--w/ a bit of research you can figure out who they are. You cannot continue to live as if it's still 1994 or something. It's like your open enemy demands that you buy them ammunition, and you say "How much would you like?" and "Who should I buy it from?" Actually, that is a very weak analogy, as what they really are demanding is your child's soul.
You’re on the right track with your thinking. Tell your student to check out Hillsdale or Preger U. Anything public will come at about the same costs and your student will be forever damaged or resentful about the money spent for so little real education. Just a party for some, a negative transformation for others and of course those that it destroys completely.
I went to a store yesterday and it's been 5 days since the mask mandate has been dropped. Almost 90% of people in the store were masked anyways. I asked the clerk checking me out if she was being forced to wear her mask or if she did it on her own. She told me she is high risk and has a lot of medical issues. I just thought she was fat...but anyways...the point of her being high risk is like a badge of honor now. It's like the Oppression Olympics for these people. The more scared you are and the more pills you take...the better person you are in their eyes. People are just too weak and meek in the West....and we are somehow proud it...crazy.
If she is high risk and wishes to protect herself, it's N95 (or better) or it's a good luck charm. Worn like medical professionals are trained to use them-- well fitted and so tight it causes pain and bruises on the face.
I think not. Not even that. Masking is not a 'thing'. It is a process. You don't just buy a thing and fit it and that's that.
It is a process you must participate in.
It has a start, a middle and an end.
There's rules and procedures throughout.
In short: where you use it and how you use it. Common sense really isn't it?
It matters how you go into it. it matters how you do it during and it matters how you come out of it.
Go into it dirty it won't clean you.
Use it improperly and it won't work.
Come out of it improperly and you undo any good that's been done.
It is a process you employ at times of necessity. So surgeons used to employ this masking process during their surgeries, their operations. In some hospitals they abandoned it simply because the recorded results and discovered there was no difference in the infection rate - either way, in the patients or in the surgeons - when they didn't use them.
Some, of course, still do. Probably the majority. Nevertheless it remains true that quite prestigious hospitals have abandoned the process.
And that's assuming they work as advertised.
Actually aerosol virus and eyeball membranes mean you'd need eyeball masks wouldn't you for the period of your 'masking process' ?
They're still running around in various places spending taxpayers money 'deep cleaning' and fumigating, sterilizing, etc - from fear of fomite infection.
It is all quasi science at best. And it rarely rises to 'best'.
Yes, this has been my experience with people who still choose to mask - everyone is now "high risk" (and in appearance that risk is obesity). Not only is being "high risk" a vaunted status, we have also sanctified obesity (even more) when we should be doing the exact opposite.
I'm in my 50s, male, and heavier than I should be, which ostensibly puts me in that category. That said, I haven't been sick in the better part of a decade, and I haven't ever been the type to get a cold every year (I can't even imagine being sick that often). I am unvaccinated and I do not use a mask, and I don't hide myself either.
The thing is, life isn't safe. You can spend your whole miserable existence hiding under a rock for fear of what might happen... and yes, sometimes bad things do happen to people who come out from under that rock. But hiding under the rock isn't living! It's merely existing, by default. No matter how good your hiding skills, your time will come too. So yes, do what you can to mitigate legitimate risks, but don't let them rule your life. For just one overused example, I wear a seat belt in the car, but I don't avoid driving or riding as a passenger (car accidents being one of the leading causes of death). Being ruled by fear is a death unto itself... the death of the human spirit.
The source of fear must be discovered. If you recycle the newspaper without reading it and turn off the television, the fear evaporates. Even the fearful people become objects of curiosity. If there is nothing to fear, it’s very simple to avoid being manipulated.
You can still manipulate masses without fear through sheer direct force/violence, it's just far more difficult and expensive. Fear is simply a cheap tool to have the masses control and even kill themselves. Jim Jones and Pfizer come to mind. Remember that the Jones people knew it was poison.
Relative to what you're saying I find the principal evil of the masks what they do to the embryonic human spirit: the little children all the way down to the most tiny.
'Imprinted' with the sight and sound of a human beings as dangerous, to be shunned, masked 'monsters'.
They're deliberately imprinting fear of ourselves into the youngest.
What's that going to do to a race? Kill it from within.
Yes, from the very beginning there have been no calls to the human spirit. No calls to arms as in warfare. No calls for courage and enterprise, initiative, hope, positivity.
There's never been any propaganda meant to uplift our spirits, enhance our own prestige and denigrate the might of the enemy.
There's never been any assistance offered, suggestions as to what we can do at home to help 'the war effort' and ourselves, strengthen ourselves, make stronger...
Instead instructions to cower in the dark out of reach of each other, not to leave home, not to mix, not to mingle, not to participate, to sanitise, fumigate, avoid... think of ourselves as abject prey, weak, vulnerable...
There's never been any welcoming of input from us on what we've found might be effective, no invitation to participate with all others, high and low, in this 'war'.
Quite the contrary. We cannot 'pull together' - we can't even act together, can't occupy the same rooms, can't be by the bedside of the stricken. Can't link arms, can't stand shoulder to shoulder, can't be in counsel together.
Forbidden to speak, even.
Back in the days when they believe in the Devil and Evil Incarnate and wrote such words with a capitalised first letter they would have said the Evil has taken possession of the land, that the Devil has gained control.
" being high risk is like a badge of honor now". Excellent observation. I remember a few years ago adults were proudly saying they had Attention Deficit Disorder. I think a large part of the population has Covid Deficit Disorder . It has given them a sense of purpose and meaning to compensate for a lack of purpose and meaning in their daily lives.
A doctor I used to see tried to force that Adderall crap on me for years. It's another utter scam. That stuff is nothing other than pharmaceutical-grade speed. It is highly dangerous and doesn't make your life better at all. Smiling soccer moms and quinoa eaters of both sexes line up to give it to their rambunctious boys in droves. It is truly vile.
Good one. Best laugh of the day for me so far. Humor is the best form of medicine. The transgender bandwagon in action. Taking puberty blockers and encouraging young adults to chop off various body parts seems a bit extreme to me.
That's right. Prior to this, these podgy, thirty-something women would openly discuss what antidepressants and stimulants they were on among people they barely knew or had only recently met. They had no sense of shame about that and, more importantly, they have a sense of pride that one should openly discuss such things (the cult of "mental health"). The widespread soul sickness that allowed all of this to happen with relative ease is by far the greatest problem. Without it, these power-hungry experts would have been able to accomplish nothing.
I see nothing wrong with people like this being injected with an experiment that will ultimately exterminate them. It's a good thing... and nobody should try to dissuade them ... as we know that is impossible so why bother.
Sad for the clerk. With as much contact with people, she is probably already immune since early 2020.
I was at a funeral last year, and I met two friends who wore the mask. I told them we are outside, it is sunny, they can take off the mask. Both told me they weren't even aware of the masks anymore, and are more comfortable with the masks.
My 19 year old niece told me she prefers masking, and not seeing peoples faces.
In my darkest moments, I paraphrase Clif High "Absent the idea that they are trying to kill us,none of this makes any sense."
As I wave bye bye at my (meager) retirement, due in 4 years, I think of the idea of the dine and dash, which many of us are guilty of doing once, often in highschool perhaps. But none of us ever thought about simply killing everyone possible in the restaurant and outside too, to avoid being caught. That is what I think has occured, effectually.
Wait for the fireworks when they start conscription.
Rudy, Clif had it right, they ARE trying to kill us off. At least 50% of us anyway. The World Economic Forum, and those involved, ie...Bill Gates, et all, have 50% population reduction as a goal. Those in the WEC have achieved such unimaginable wealth, that they believe they are smarter than the dregs of society that they share the Earth with, and are unable to see what "they" see and must be FORCED to adopt their program to SAVE THE WORLD. Larry Fink said as much last week. I think it will devolve into an epic battle between International Fascism and America style freedom. There will be 3 groups of people; Sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves. There is a way to win....we must all get on our knees and ask God for forgiveness, guidance, wisdom, and the strength to persevere.
That's why The Great Reset makes sense...
The oil is gone. There will be no reset
Did people think that when we hit peak oil there would be headlines announcing this?
Plenty of oil. Peak oil is a scare tactic. Europe could be free of Russia but their green asses are more attractive than shale gas extraction.
Oil Discoveries are at record lows https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/icbkDFACM4iA/v2/800x-1.png
According to Rystad, the current resource replacement ratio for conventional resources is only 16 percent. Only 1 barrel out of every 6 consumed is being replaced with new resources
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Biggest-Oil-Gas-Discoveries-Of-2019.html
If there is so much easy oil left, then why are we drilling beneath the ocean, blasting and sucking out the dregs of old wells and steaming oil out of sand?
Looking forward to your response
Most oil is not sitting around waiting to be skimmed off like cream. That was the early stage situation in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Steaming oil of out sands *alone* guarantees enough oil for centuries at current usage rates. Nobody is saying oil will be the primary fuel indefinitely, but there is no danger whatsoever of running out of oil in this century.
There is plenty of oil left - it's not feasible to extract it so it will remain in the ground.
HIGH PRICED OIL DESTROYS GROWTH
According to the OECD Economics Department and the International Monetary Fund Research Department, a sustained $10 per barrel increase in oil prices from $25 to $35 would result in the OECD as a whole losing 0.4% of GDP in the first and second years of higher prices. http://www.iea.org/textbase/npsum/high_oil04sum.pdf
HOW HIGH OIL PRICES WILL PERMANENTLY CAP ECONOMIC GROWTH
For most of the last century, cheap oil powered global economic growth. But in the last decade, the price of oil production has quadrupled, and that shift will permanently shackle the growth potential of the world’s economies. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-09-23/how-high-oil-prices-will-permanently-cap-economic-growth
Shale was the only source of oil that was increasing :
Shale binge has spoiled US reserves, top investor warns Financial Times. https://energyskeptic.com/2021/the-end-of-fracked-shale-oil/
Shale boss says US has passed peak oil | Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/320d09cb-8f51-4103-87d7-0dd164e1fd25
Oh and shale never made a dime: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/22/shale-industry-will-be-rocked-by-300-billion-in-losses-and-a-wave-of-bankruptcies-deloitte-says.html
If there isn't any more oil why have dozens of oil explorers and oil equipment companies invested hundreds of millions into fracking and pipelines to deliver low cost energy? And if were running out why would our leaders (Joe Biden and the Democrats) actively work to destroy that low cost energy supply in our own backyards for more expensive sources (ie - Russian and Arab Oil/gas, Solar, Wind and Hydroelectric) which can't come close to providing the low cost unlimited energy we need to run and grow our GDP and standards of living and which can be used to hold us hostage financially by Russia and China ultimately resulting in WW3.
Did it ever occur to you that the spin is that they are destroying the US oil production because it's past peak - and they can't admit that...
Most oil producing countries are past peak... so turning to the KSA or other suppliers is not going to save the day.
Overall production peaked in 2005 - that's why we had $147 oil in 2007.
Shale road to the rescue ... but alas... that game is over now.
And we are being exterminated ... before the situation goes critical and we rip each others faces off.
Feel free to reject the reality and embrace the spin on oil (and EVs and renewable energy). Whatever keeps the masses calm is a good thing...the last thing we want is for people to get wind that energy depletion is critical. We don't want the sheeple to panic as they are herded into the abattoir.
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/
Shale boss says US has passed peak oil | Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/320d09cb-8f51-4103-87d7-0dd164e1fd25
Ask the Russians?
If there is so much easy oil left, then why are we drilling beneath the ocean?
No one is saying oil has no value. They drill beneath the ocean to make a profit. There is plenty of fresh water in the world but still people pay for it. Or, if it is cheaper, they will drill a well.
U.S. Shale Has Lost $300 Billion In 15 Years
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/US-Shale-Has-Lost-300-Billion-In-15-Years.html
Hmmm... now why extract oil from shale ... and lose money ... if there is so much profitable oil remaining?
BTW - oil production peaked in 2005... in 2007 oil was $147 a barrel - guess what would have happened without the 'shale revolution'
And now shale - is crashing:
Shale binge has spoiled US reserves, top investor warns Financial Times. https://energyskeptic.com/2021/the-end-of-fracked-shale-oil/
Shale boss says US has passed peak oil | Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/320d09cb-8f51-4103-87d7-0dd164e1fd25
because it is economical to do so.
"Peak oil" has been debunked so many times that it's pointless debunking it further since it is now an article of faith rather than a rational belief.
If you want to investigate something that truly is contentious and unknown, try the abiotic origin of petroleum.
Ah yes.. abiotic... little men are in the centre of the earth working the oil factories to produce new oil. hahahahaha
Someone better crack the whip cuz they aren't doing a very good job!!!
Oil Discoveries are at record lows https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/icbkDFACM4iA/v2/800x-1.png
According to Rystad, the current resource replacement ratio for conventional resources is only 16 percent. Only 1 barrel out of every 6 consumed is being replaced with new resources
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Biggest-Oil-Gas-Discoveries-Of-2019.html
If petroleum and natural gas came from biological sources, what is the explanation for stuff that is lighter than water being so very deep underground?
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/
Shale boss says US has passed peak oil | Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/320d09cb-8f51-4103-87d7-0dd164e1fd25
There is loads of oil Slow Eddy, loads of it.
No there isn't. There are a few photo-op shots... and that's it
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/03/20/the-fake-news-matrix/
I have started a deep dive into UAP/UFO and what I believe is that we have access to incredible energy sources and anti-gravity transportation. We may or may not have mastered that technology yet, but we know it exists.
Most of us have seen the Tic-Tac videos. The military says it is not fake. There is much more our military an Deep State players know about this that they are not telling us.
It is time we demand the truth.
And having not quite succeded, Net Zero and Russian sanctions are back-up.
I've watched a couple of interviews with that cat. He's interesting. But who is he?
Clif has a technical data background, some telephone industry if i rememember right, and analysis...martial arts also...he has made an effort to get out ahead of curves with his analysis..I barely have watched him but find him highly rewarding esp. for the spirit.
He's a bit of a guru. Worked in the corporate world in computer systems while coming up with his own machine learning tool that scrapes the internet and analyses language to make predictions about the future. He was one of the earliest investors in Bitcoin thanks to his tool alerting him to its evolution.
He also takes a lot of hallucinogens and claims to have entered other dimensions where he's encountered extraterrestrial beings.
Fascinating stuff though a bit out there. His interview on the Delingpod podcast is a good, accessible intro to his way of thinking.
"He also takes a lot of hallucinogens and claims to have entered other dimensions where he's encountered extraterrestrial beings."
Many people have done this. There is absolutely something uncanny going on with these "trips" -- especially DMT and similar. Assuming these beings are "extraterrestrial" in the sense of little green men seems to me strikingly naïve. Much more likely: demonic entities. I experienced drug-induced extreme hallucinogenic states in my youth and all I can say is: be very, VERY careful.
So he's really, dons sunglasses, high...
I feel you have accurately diagnosed the current issue. Even here in the Northeast US (pandemia central outside California) there is little will to enforce measures. Mandates are over, public schools are back to normal kind of, and universities are STILL holding on to a mask mandate (thankfully only in classrooms, because the great scientists have found it doesnt spread at Gyms or the libraries.)
But, knowing many PhDs in biological sciences, they will never give up this prestige. They were absolute nerd nobodies for a while and now, having tasted power and prestige, will throw us all to the ground to be the one turned to during the next pandemic. The energy for Corona is gone, but the energy and capacity for the biosecurity state to destroy our lives at a whim has increased manyfold. Don't know what else will happen up here, I'm moving to Florida.
Sorry.
As you know, Florida is not an island, so it will be subject to the same great reset the rest of the world will experience....if we let it happen.
And I would suggest that Florida is just one governor away from going full blue woke....
No. Florida is now a solid red Republican state. Only one Dem holds statewide office -- which she won by a very small margin -- and she is not running for re-election. Rather she is running against DeSantis for Governor in November and will lose by at least 10 percentage points.
The thing is, the good guys in Florida need to keep pressing the advantage. Ron DeSantis is a rare phenomenon. Even settling for a Greg Abbott is liable to result in Florida stagnating into total blue state insanity before too awfully long. If you want Florida to stay free, you guys need to take the DeSantis momentum and push the socialists, commies, and petty bureaucrats right into the sea. The secular trend is toward idiocracy.
I don't understand how Abbott swept that primary. I figure the commies in the blue cities don't vote in that primary. So who the hell voted for this RINO. I had hopes for Allen West.
One can only hope. I live in CA. Charles Manson (D, Dead) wins statewide. In fairness, only by ten points, instead of the usual 20+.
30 years ago, we had the occasional GOP (sort of) governor. Now, I think it is close to a generation since the last statewide Republican was elected. Arnold doesn't count.
Arnold's a full fledged Globalist. Remember what he said to those who did not want to get a vax? He said "screeeew your freedom" Arnold can go fuck himself.
Arnold is just another retarded and scared boomer who's completely terrified of dying which is statistically coming soon. Not meant as a knock against other boomers who are not cowards.
Yes, he is now a big disappointment. Climate Change scammer.
Yes, California is like Illinois. You need a special situation and/or candidate for a Republican to win. This year is shaping up to be the Mother of All Shellackings for the Democrats.
I sure wish the Dems would get shellacked in CA. Unfortunately, there are just too many morons in CA who vote Democrat like it's their religion no matter who the candidate is.
My fantasy is that the Democrats lose 100 seats in the House, with similar results in other races. Then, if the GOP pulls its usual bait and switch--i.e does nothing other than soak up the graft--in 2024 the GOP loses them all back. Plus a few. THEN, we might have a message sent: "Dance with the one that brought you."
Unless they cheat at the polls again and they will!
Florida once was a toss-up possibility that now seems quite remote given how badly the Dems have shot themselves in the foot. Whether that has any effect in other places remains to be seen. People often hold irrational beliefs and are loath to any change. Florida was lucky to have competent leadership which remains rare elsewhere.
We hope we can resist the continuation of incompetent public health officials that are everywhere. Whether they will accept the recommendations of a careful study proving the mitigations failed is another story.
Yes, Florida has been moving to the right, and covid and migration have only accelerated that trend.
And, the current governor was elected by the narrowest of margins.
Yeah, barely beat a meth smoking fool
And if Florida was an island, do you think it would sink or flip over because of all the people moving there? 🤣🤣
sadly, there are likely many international readers who may miss this reference.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q
Thanks for the link. Soldier: “Uh, we don’t anticipate that.” 🤣🤣🤣
EXACTLY. We have to stand firm and resist where we are. It's difficult, but worth it. Tyranny knows no borders and the same policies in these tyrannical states are coming to your fake "free states" eventually. If we are cowards where we live now, how is moving somewhere going to give us courage?
Rob, you hit a nerve. We live in Oregon. We've been wanting to move to lower our cost of living since about 2006, and then the market tanked in 2007, 2008 and we lost most of our equity for about 6 years. So now that we have built up our equity, we considered moving again. Then came Covid. We watched as the very states we were considering, went from red to purple and one even went deep blue. You are correct, for those leaving for “greener pastures” what makes anyone think they will be better off in another state? I told my wife and family, there’s no way I’m moving to another red state or purple state, only to live out my life watching another state decline all over again.
We have been praying for answers about what to do for a couple of decades as Oregon is in the running to be at the bottom 1 or 2 states for poverty, bad public Ed, high taxes and a state Gov. that costs each tax payer almost twice the national average for all 50 states. That leaves lots of room for improvement. So we are digging in to finish our lives right here. We will stay until they bleed us dry, or we’re dead. In the meantime we will do a reverse mortgage and secure the roof over our heads and try to make a difference, as long as we can afford to stay.
It’s been a real lesson and now that the left coast migration east and the east coasters going west has begun, we see why God chose to leave us were we are. They will migrate and destroy the places they move to, because they participated in the fall of their previous residence with their votes or lack of them, destroying one of Americas best states and economies ever. CA has achieved many great things but totally failed at self governance. We came to OR in 1979 from the once great Red State of AZ to work and raise a family. It was great when we arrived and started sliding into its current communist block after the world fair in Canada in about 1985. That’s when America and many Californicaters took I-5 to Calgary Canada for the fair, exposing them to the mostly unknown beauty of the PNW. And that began the transformation of what is now the left coast of North America.
It depends on your local situation. If you have or could create a local network of like minded people then maybe staying makes sense. There are however places so overrun with these NPC's (I won't call them liberals because they're really not) that staying really is a wasted effort.
don't forget money. People made a ton of money pivoting to the Corona scare mongering world. My "immunologist" cousin (only when needed, she has a PhD in biology for gods sake) did a guest speaking tour on coronavirus issues around CA and made a mint flaunting her self as an expert on the subject. She also did Ticktock. she just bought a tesla X
Rule number one of vaccinology:
Never Deploy Leaking Vaccines During Raging Pandemics
Rule number two: ignore rule number one and run around panicking making stuff up
Come to NH instead - we love freedom here
The misses wanted to go to NH, maybe in a few years.
Yes, Florida. No Zombie Apocalypse here. 🦩🌴
Two words for your senior.
"Technical College".
Unless a doctor or lawyer is the desired end result, most tech schools teach something they can actually use, with most being hired before they graduate.
Continuing their education in any direction after being hired is always an option.
"tech college" - absolutely! - wish someone had said that to me - many years back - as far as "doctor ... big dream" (AR) - you know (don't you) that a very large portion of MDs totally hate being doctors - large and growing - they are bureaucrats with prescription pads
I hate to admit it, but you're right.
The days of the doctors that made house calls and worked for minimum or less wages are few and far between.
We have one in my area that actually works in the ER in order to keep his general practice afloat.
That's dedication.
I went to an Ivy League, everyone here jokes that even if Corona was 0 the "Health Leader" would send an email about being diligent about double masking.
I'm thinking that "elite" should be replaced by "dysfunctional".
Similar situation in NZ but it's country wide with a stupid 'traffic light' system. We are currently in Red which means the health system is in danger of collapsing only it isn't and never was. At Green most of the covid theatre is 'recommended' only but you can guess what will happen in big institutions etc. When I'm at the lights and they change to green, I go, go, go. But they are not going to go away or give up on this thing. Probably will switch to the fake climate emergency.
They are strained even in non pandemic times. If they’re strained now it’s because of vax injuries not Covid
Vax injuries are very reluctantly being acknowledged here but most people are struggling with them.
Nobody seems to remember that hospital staff make these claims every single Winter!!
Please, stop feeding these beasts. These universities hate us. Woke and admin corruption have captured them. They breed the likes of Antifa. The few conservative, moderate, and old-school liberal profs are only kept around as tenure-mandated Potemkin decorations. There is a whole network of conservative and Great Books oriented colleges struggling to get adequate enrollment--w/ a bit of research you can figure out who they are. You cannot continue to live as if it's still 1994 or something. It's like your open enemy demands that you buy them ammunition, and you say "How much would you like?" and "Who should I buy it from?" Actually, that is a very weak analogy, as what they really are demanding is your child's soul.
“Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The result of my attending 12 years of parochial Catholic school is that I rebelled against all of that.
You’re on the right track with your thinking. Tell your student to check out Hillsdale or Preger U. Anything public will come at about the same costs and your student will be forever damaged or resentful about the money spent for so little real education. Just a party for some, a negative transformation for others and of course those that it destroys completely.
Take a gap year and hope it changes?
Actually it won't this is as good as it gets. We are being put down
I went to a store yesterday and it's been 5 days since the mask mandate has been dropped. Almost 90% of people in the store were masked anyways. I asked the clerk checking me out if she was being forced to wear her mask or if she did it on her own. She told me she is high risk and has a lot of medical issues. I just thought she was fat...but anyways...the point of her being high risk is like a badge of honor now. It's like the Oppression Olympics for these people. The more scared you are and the more pills you take...the better person you are in their eyes. People are just too weak and meek in the West....and we are somehow proud it...crazy.
If she is high risk and wishes to protect herself, it's N95 (or better) or it's a good luck charm. Worn like medical professionals are trained to use them-- well fitted and so tight it causes pain and bruises on the face.
See the only "mask" that will work against SARS-CoV-2 at Steve Kirsch's Substack:
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/how-to-protect-grandma-or-yourself?s=r
That last line has me rolling lolllll
I think not. Not even that. Masking is not a 'thing'. It is a process. You don't just buy a thing and fit it and that's that.
It is a process you must participate in.
It has a start, a middle and an end.
There's rules and procedures throughout.
In short: where you use it and how you use it. Common sense really isn't it?
It matters how you go into it. it matters how you do it during and it matters how you come out of it.
Go into it dirty it won't clean you.
Use it improperly and it won't work.
Come out of it improperly and you undo any good that's been done.
It is a process you employ at times of necessity. So surgeons used to employ this masking process during their surgeries, their operations. In some hospitals they abandoned it simply because the recorded results and discovered there was no difference in the infection rate - either way, in the patients or in the surgeons - when they didn't use them.
Some, of course, still do. Probably the majority. Nevertheless it remains true that quite prestigious hospitals have abandoned the process.
And that's assuming they work as advertised.
Actually aerosol virus and eyeball membranes mean you'd need eyeball masks wouldn't you for the period of your 'masking process' ?
They're still running around in various places spending taxpayers money 'deep cleaning' and fumigating, sterilizing, etc - from fear of fomite infection.
It is all quasi science at best. And it rarely rises to 'best'.
Facts.
Yes, this has been my experience with people who still choose to mask - everyone is now "high risk" (and in appearance that risk is obesity). Not only is being "high risk" a vaunted status, we have also sanctified obesity (even more) when we should be doing the exact opposite.
I'm in my 50s, male, and heavier than I should be, which ostensibly puts me in that category. That said, I haven't been sick in the better part of a decade, and I haven't ever been the type to get a cold every year (I can't even imagine being sick that often). I am unvaccinated and I do not use a mask, and I don't hide myself either.
The thing is, life isn't safe. You can spend your whole miserable existence hiding under a rock for fear of what might happen... and yes, sometimes bad things do happen to people who come out from under that rock. But hiding under the rock isn't living! It's merely existing, by default. No matter how good your hiding skills, your time will come too. So yes, do what you can to mitigate legitimate risks, but don't let them rule your life. For just one overused example, I wear a seat belt in the car, but I don't avoid driving or riding as a passenger (car accidents being one of the leading causes of death). Being ruled by fear is a death unto itself... the death of the human spirit.
The Litany Against Fear from Dune seems apt here:
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
The source of fear must be discovered. If you recycle the newspaper without reading it and turn off the television, the fear evaporates. Even the fearful people become objects of curiosity. If there is nothing to fear, it’s very simple to avoid being manipulated.
You can still manipulate masses without fear through sheer direct force/violence, it's just far more difficult and expensive. Fear is simply a cheap tool to have the masses control and even kill themselves. Jim Jones and Pfizer come to mind. Remember that the Jones people knew it was poison.
Oh wow, thank you for this. <3
You're a good one.
Relative to what you're saying I find the principal evil of the masks what they do to the embryonic human spirit: the little children all the way down to the most tiny.
'Imprinted' with the sight and sound of a human beings as dangerous, to be shunned, masked 'monsters'.
They're deliberately imprinting fear of ourselves into the youngest.
What's that going to do to a race? Kill it from within.
Same here... from the beginning they absolutely horrified me to the core. It was so easy to see the evil behind the cultish ritual.
Yes, from the very beginning there have been no calls to the human spirit. No calls to arms as in warfare. No calls for courage and enterprise, initiative, hope, positivity.
There's never been any propaganda meant to uplift our spirits, enhance our own prestige and denigrate the might of the enemy.
There's never been any assistance offered, suggestions as to what we can do at home to help 'the war effort' and ourselves, strengthen ourselves, make stronger...
Instead instructions to cower in the dark out of reach of each other, not to leave home, not to mix, not to mingle, not to participate, to sanitise, fumigate, avoid... think of ourselves as abject prey, weak, vulnerable...
There's never been any welcoming of input from us on what we've found might be effective, no invitation to participate with all others, high and low, in this 'war'.
Quite the contrary. We cannot 'pull together' - we can't even act together, can't occupy the same rooms, can't be by the bedside of the stricken. Can't link arms, can't stand shoulder to shoulder, can't be in counsel together.
Forbidden to speak, even.
Back in the days when they believe in the Devil and Evil Incarnate and wrote such words with a capitalised first letter they would have said the Evil has taken possession of the land, that the Devil has gained control.
And they would have had a point.
Very well stated!
Very well said!
The age of Lizzo.
BINGO.
" being high risk is like a badge of honor now". Excellent observation. I remember a few years ago adults were proudly saying they had Attention Deficit Disorder. I think a large part of the population has Covid Deficit Disorder . It has given them a sense of purpose and meaning to compensate for a lack of purpose and meaning in their daily lives.
A doctor I used to see tried to force that Adderall crap on me for years. It's another utter scam. That stuff is nothing other than pharmaceutical-grade speed. It is highly dangerous and doesn't make your life better at all. Smiling soccer moms and quinoa eaters of both sexes line up to give it to their rambunctious boys in droves. It is truly vile.
Exactly. Not to forget Ritalin as well to control those pesky rambunctious boys.
What's a little amphetamine for a seven-year-old lad? Introduce him to opioids and puberty blockers and you're good to go.
Good one. Best laugh of the day for me so far. Humor is the best form of medicine. The transgender bandwagon in action. Taking puberty blockers and encouraging young adults to chop off various body parts seems a bit extreme to me.
O tempora, o mores.
O monstrous *unts. Leave them kids alone.
Autistic too! I remember that little blonde twit singer Billie Eilish announcing she was "autistic" which is if course absurdity itself.
I like to think of most people as MOREONS. They have an intelligence deficit
Watching them engrossed in their smartphones with the Android OS I call them merely: "Androids".
In my young day that was science fiction talk for a humanoid robot.
Not even the most far sighted and imaginative writer of those days saw that it would come like this. But here it is.
An intelligence deficit disorder! Love it.
That's right. Prior to this, these podgy, thirty-something women would openly discuss what antidepressants and stimulants they were on among people they barely knew or had only recently met. They had no sense of shame about that and, more importantly, they have a sense of pride that one should openly discuss such things (the cult of "mental health"). The widespread soul sickness that allowed all of this to happen with relative ease is by far the greatest problem. Without it, these power-hungry experts would have been able to accomplish nothing.
I see nothing wrong with people like this being injected with an experiment that will ultimately exterminate them. It's a good thing... and nobody should try to dissuade them ... as we know that is impossible so why bother.
Because they didn't keep that shit to themselves. They decided to ruin or at least seriously affect our lives too.
Sad for the clerk. With as much contact with people, she is probably already immune since early 2020.
I was at a funeral last year, and I met two friends who wore the mask. I told them we are outside, it is sunny, they can take off the mask. Both told me they weren't even aware of the masks anymore, and are more comfortable with the masks.
My 19 year old niece told me she prefers masking, and not seeing peoples faces.
Aren't we the adaptable species .... (Somehow I'm not reassured)
YES! When in the everloving H??? did it become admirable to be a coward??? Surreal.
Since social media came along. Every whiny ass broke di!! Has power now.