The German Bundesrechnungshof, or the Federal Audit Office, is an independent government body charged by statute with overseeing the economic management of the Federal Republic.
my problem is that when sick, I simply endure my misery wrapped up in a blanket not going outside, and when not sick I never plan to be sick. but, I will track down the rose-hip tablets for the next virus.
Forgive me for saying--just like a man. I have right now in my pantry a container of German instant vegetable broth for the inevitable episodes of "too miserable to do anything more arduous than put on the teakettle" and three unopened bottles of the 250-capsule size Vitamin C 1000mg. plus of course the opened one on the counter.
I had a virus coming on last week; I could feel it in my throat. I took 35 grams of vitamin c inthe first 24 hours until loose stools happened, then continued with 20 grams the next day, and by the next morning, the sickness was gone.
You know if we had an address for you we would all send you home remedies from all over the world. Lol. You’d never be sick again! I would send my home grown garlic.
They're insufficient for actual covid virus variants since JN.1. Those also require ivermectin. They are sufficient for the feverless "covid". A lot, though, like a gram of ascorbic acid every half hour, along with 30 mg zinc a day.
Begone, dissembler. Humans get sick, and then recover. Healthy-living people get sick less frequently, but it’s a fact of life. No special nostrums, pokes, or treatments necessary
Or you could actually use something with a large amount of papers behind it in regards to viruses, like "vitamin" d3 or its immediate action version...calcifediol...
Good advice on Vitamin D3, yet I invite you to look into D3s roll in mucosal immunity in particular. Seems certainly best preventatively (as so much is). Once you’re sick, you’re sick because your body needs to work through whatever it’s trying to clear.
Thanks.I have several books and hundreds of papers on D3.I am waiting for this
Vitamin D Deficiency and Covid-19: Its Central Role in a World Pandemic
Anderson, Dr David C
"Once your sick your sick"..is asinine.It implies you cannot do anything after....For viral infections you can...Nasal sprays of NO for instance....The point your clearly missing is..the lower the levels of D3 when you do get sick..the worse the outcomes(in many diseases).It helps your body "work through" the viral attack...
Time to remind you once again how lucky you are I am unlikely to ever win the lottery and shall therefore not be showing up on your doorstep demanding to be served every luscious dish you have so cruelly described in comments threads throughout this our Plague Era.
November through about mid-March - this is the "virus season" when many of us get sick every year. This was when millions of people got sick in 2019-2020 - before official Covid.
I don't remember many friends and neighbors having "bug" symptoms in April and May 2020 - but that's when we're assured the coronavirus was ravaging the country and the world.
Don't forget the tests used to detect SARS-CoV-2 also generated positive results for antibodies in blood samples taken in Italy back in September-October 2019.
You also had several cities, one being the one later declared as the epicentre of the spread in Europe, setting up hug-a-chinese campaigns around January-February. With Instagram people gladly filming themselves doing just that; sometimes ripping the dudes mask off and forcing a kiss.. so much for "MeToo" I guess.
Pretty much everything aside from rarity was about promoting covid infections and death. Never seen sooooo much money chasing so much BS in my life before
Cuz it was nearly over. (Spread of the original strain ended in April.) I got it at the end of February. Read your own https://billricejr.substack.com/ about still earlier spread.
I do think virus "spread" had probably peaked by early March 2020. Thanks for plugging my Substack, which is over-flowing with "early spread" articles.
My household all got it buy it wasn't any different than the flu but then again we listened to what the media, news and government was saying only to laugh and have something to discuss at dinner.
A clip from.a Summer nights post dinner discussion in June of.... 2000.
"Babe did you hear on the news the Feds released updated covid infections. This June we're up %300 over last June's covid infections ".
Are you absolutely sure it was a 'virus'? I'm currently reading The Last Pandemic by Drs Sam & Mark Bailey. It appears 'the science' germ hunters have been less than honest... For a very long time, as far back as Koch.
Never apologize for needing time to produce quality. It would be I'll advised and pointless to yell at the seasoned woodworker for not having your chair ready quickly unless you don't care about quality?
Glad you’re recovering, pretty quickly too! I know everyone has their own remedies obviously but I discovered echinacea tincture years ago and it’s still my go to. The only caveat is that you must take a dose immediately upon the first sign of a symptom, just add tincture drops to a glass of water a few times a day. If you still do get sick it’s much milder and of shorter duration, easy to keep a small bottle in a cupboard for when needed as it keeps for a very long time. Feel better soon.
All "freedom writers" on Substack need to write even more about this topic - the Great Green New Deal scam. Climate Change is still the canard that our rulers are using to implement their "OneHealth" agendas.
I did highlight this issue with a recent short article that shows that dozens of people recently got frost bite in Kansas City (and had to have toes and fingers amputated as a result). Many of these people got frost bite from attending the Chiefs' NFL playoff game where the wind chill was negative-27 - the coldest football game in franchise history.
My question: How is this even possible if we've had decades of acute Global Warming?
I honestly have come to the conclusion there is no conscious malevolence in this mess of renewables.....it's the Human Condition in play.....the naive, self-serving public, comfortably ensconced in their convenience and comfortable homes and vehicles have their underlying, sub-conscious angst for their gluttonous consumption based upon carbon, want to 'do' something to quell this guilt.....politicians, corporations and their entities provide that opportunity by positioning themselves to take advantage of this and, in turn gain power and profit .......the problem is the naivete . . . all good intentions, no reality, no engineers, no realists because that smack of reality is not what people want to hear, nor do companies want to invest in because there is nothing to be gained.
My prodigious output of CO2 is feeding thousands of plants. How could that be bad? In fact, these green extremists are denying food to the plants - plant murderers!
I am really tired of hearing this kind of generalized condescension to others.
We dumb deplorables in the working and middle classes know what our electric bills look like, our gas bills, our food bills, and we know all the regulations put on us in real time that we are forced to submit to.
While outside for a walk ,I went past a dark ally way and heard someone calling .Hey buddy want some cheep shots ?Only fife bucks .I think it must have been our crime minister calling .
Because we working and middle class ( I am one of those) are so busy with Life and work this creates the opportunity to get these absurd 'pie in the sky' policies passed without our knowing it...and in the process our pockets get picked.....directly with the bills we pay for energy and indirectly with the overly generous subsidies for renewables .....and corporations position themselves through lobbyists and politicians to benefit greatly.......it is transactional not malevolent from their perspective which is why it occurs.
BTW, I live in California where the hypocrisy of renewables and the denial of reality are unparalleled ...... we can't even meet peak demand now with current supplies and distribution.
No it's definitely malevolent. No question about it. They've been pushing this energy scarcity agenda fiercely for 60yrs now. Starting with extreme attacks against nuclear energy. And more recently attacking practical fossil fuel energy sources. This is well documented. 100's of $billions spent on disinformation mostly through mercenary Environmental NGOs. For instance:
Come to think of it ... I lived in upstate New York in a time when winters were long and ferocious, temperatures below freezing an everyday thing, even before the big push for insulating old wood frame homes from the attic to the basement. Single-income families did not go broke heating their homes, I knew no one who could not comfortably pay their utility bill. Since then we have been told that "peak oil" arrived. Anyone see any evidence of that? But all the improvers and defenders of the enviroment and professional liars preside over a time of energy scarcity, hardship. I must be missing something.
My Con Edison electricity bill charges 9 cents/kwh for generating or buying electricity that I use, and 17.5 cents/kwh for delivering it to my house over their copper wires. Sales tax is 4% on both. The CEO of Con Ed gets paid $10 million per year.
Con Edison ... boy does that bring back memories. This online: “Tim Cawley (Con Ed CEO) is an accomplished leader with extensive experience in the energy industry. He understands the needs of our customers, our employees and all of our stakeholders" I guess the needs of the "stakeholders" are just greater than yours, Frank. Nothing new under the sun.
I wish you were correct, yet it seems you are describing the hook that our global betters use to put malevolent bureaucracies into a preferred motion. Conscientiousness has been weaponized.
Nothing personal Bill, in saying this, - I'm only using your stupid question to make a point. Citing some normal-range cold event as "evidence" against "global warming", is NOT helpful. There's an inherent logical fallacy at work within the question itself. Please stay on-topic. Germany is FAILING BADLY to meet the U.N. 2030 climate scam agenda. The Stupor Bowl is NOT relevant here, ok?....
I'm relieved to see you are an equal opportunity insulter ... "dude". That is, that you did not direct your malice only against me in particular, for no good reason. Don't know how often you come here. I say that because ad hominem comments are very, very rare here. In fact, yours may be the only examples I've seen. I'm sure I would have noticed you, given that insults and unprovoked aggression seem to be your specialty, in addition to high-school level stuff like "Nothing personal Bill ... I'm only using your stupid question to make a point." Eugyppius runs a good ship here. But I promise you this: I for one will not stand by passively if you return here to insult people. I will engage you and defend my honor and that of others here who are too polite to bother with your troublemaking. Your style is not wanted here.
That’s how Communism operates. It takes a ripe smelly 💩 and candy coats it for the first bite. The Germans I’ve seen have been so reluctant to call this lunacy out, rather they go along so as not to be screamed at about being a Nazi . They simply go right over the cliff like lemmings all the while knowing better, it’s sickening. Meanwhile the streets fill with mostly Muslim minorities who will vote for anything in order to get more free stuff and avoid any sort of work. The Communists really took Germany over without firing a shot🤬
I don't know if it was by design or not (it probably was), but every important institution has now been captured and every part of society that once had traditional standards that benefitted most people ... have been systematically attacked and discarded. It's like the plan was/is to destroy the best parts of civilization ... which actually makes me wonder if one Mr. Lucifer might have been in charge of some of the key brainstorming sessions.
Thank you! He is indeed the mastermind behind the puppets in Davos, Washington, Brussels and wherever we look in amazement at the rapid exhaustion of our civilization.
Dude. Even if it could be proven that satan doesn't exist, enough people would still believe that he DOES, thus it is irrelevant one way or the other. Yes, in fact, many if not most "world leaders" are some degree of satan-worshipping pedophiles. Accept reality, and deal with it like a sane, rational, compassionate adult....
Thanks ... dude. Please tell me more about your definition of reality, and how I can strive to reach the heights of your sanity, rationality, and compassion. Oh, and your fully realized adulthood. I come here only to contribute what I can, however modest, hit and miss. Unlike you, though, I also try my utmost not to insult people who have not wronged me.
They've suckered in commies like Antifa & BLM to do some of the low level dirty work, fulfilling their agenda. Useful idiots. After they've served their purpose, they will be sent to the Russian front as excellent cannon fodder.
In South Africa it is the case without any doubt! We have all you have deal with plus very real criminals in Government and they are going to win the election again.
Thanks, how could I have forgotten. Depends of course on who's doing the insurrecting. Ashli Babbitt was apparently doing the incorrect kind of peaceful assembly, and it cost her everything. RIP
This was written a couple years ago.....And we're here.
According to the IAEA PRIS database, construction of a new nuclear power station takes an average of 7.5 years to build and connect to an existing grid.
This means that it appears that Europe is purposefully creating an optimal environment to cull their own population. Woke = Mind Control.
The leadership of Europe has brainwashed their citizens into believing that green energy is feasible when they know full well it is not. Additionally, they've convinced their population that if they do not act by shutting these power plants down, climate change is going to kill them all.
So they're brainwashing their own countrymen to manifest conditions that will kill them, while promising them salvation for doing so.
Add to that how every country will have to, per UN via EU, shut down ~20% of their food production and "restore" the areas to some lofty "natural" past state.
While also telling them to stop using fertilizer and thereby further limit what is produced from what remains.
It's hard not to see them as some death cult rooted in their lack of a legacy.
Very scary. I don’t think any group of politicians can be as stupid as the German ones appear. Furthermore, this is happening throughout the western world. There is coordination. So I tend to agree this is not incompetence but a far darker agenda.
How is German industry doing with the shortage of energy ,caused by policies to save the planet ?Will Germany become mostly farm land ,growing tender lions ? Ill it feed all the migrants ?
The cost of the energy transition is mostly put through to the consumer. I remember to recently read sth that energy prices for industry are only 5-10 % higher in Germany than in other European countries, but they are much higher for private households and small businesses
I think the key word that you used is “fantasy”. The promoters of green energy here in the US, and apparently everywhere else, are living in fantasy land. I am a conservative who is going to vote for Donald Trump and we have solar panels and an electric car. We have the solar panels because our house is positioned for full sun and they were heavily subsidized. I have electric Volvo C40 because I love the 400 hp instant acceleration, the range fits my needs and again it was heavily subsidized and discounted because they weren’t selling well. I explain this craziness to my 13 year old and then go further. I explain to him that the same fools who think an electric car is going to save the planet will do everything they can to prevent mines from opening that are required to produce the batteries. They also protest and try to prevent the construction of new powerlines and power plants that will be needed to charge the millions of electric cars because solar and wind can not do the job. The best example is California where they already have brown outs in the summer and last year on a few occasions asked people not to charge their cars. Because the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine all the time(frequently both at the same time) you have to have backup capacity to handle the maximum possible load. Even at 13 years old he understands that this green transition is pure fantasy with a large doses of stupidity and ignorance. If they are going to spend this money it should go toward hardening the power grid against cyber attacks and EMP not subsidizing products that can’t stand on their own technical and economic merits.
That's routine here in every municipality that uses EV-buses for public transport.
Well, they have to heat the bus slowly first, when it is inevitably towed back to the garage, having lost its charge in no time flat in -25C or lower, which is not uncommon in Winter.
Not to mention the damage done to battery-casings and potentially the battery itself from salt-water seeping in during warmer weather; we spread salt on the roads when it's close to 0C, for some stupid reason.
What the cost of EVs being towed by diesel-trucks is, and the cost of people being late for work/appointments is - including everyone stuck behind the bus - and the cost in diesel and power to fix the EV-buses is, no-one wants to talk about.
Woodgas-powered vehicles or even DKWs are better than EVs; that's how poor EVs perform outside Kalifornia.
This entire renewable/interruptible problem has been known for decades, as well as the high cost of the spinning reserves that it requires...Germany is just now noticing it? Simple physics tells you that the all-in cost of these renewables is prohibitive...The cost of wind generators, including maintenance, is very high, and it doesn't produce enough energy...Solar is much cheaper to build, but Germany doesn't have enough Sun for it to be economic...It's just barely economic here in Arizona, where we have lots of intense Sun...The whole proposition in a place like Germany is looney tunes...
It's worse than that in Germany! The wind predominantly blows at the other end of the country to where all the main industrial centres are...
I read a couple of weeks ago about a hail storm in Morocco which destroyed a huge number of solar panels worth £ Millions in minutes - smashed them to pieces. Guess where the UK is trying to source solar power from? Via underwater cables which will cost many £ Millions (if it works at all).
Like Germany with their nuclear reactors, in UK we're scheduled to decommission all our coal power stations in 2025. Buying Candles!!!
I was watching a video about the Spanish Armada of 1588 the other day. Apparently it was the gulf stream that sank half of the Spanish fleet on the rocky coast of Northern Ireland as they tried to escape back to Spain.
The Spanish Armada arrived in the English Channel to pick up soldiers from Holland that would then be landed on the English south coast as an invasion force, but the wind changed to stop this plan. In the meantime the English fleet were using their high powered cannon on their swift naval vessels that severely damaged the Spanish galleons, causing them them to retreat northwards into the North Sea to round the north of Scotland to get back to Spain.
But the Spanish navigators were not aware of the gulf stream,that drove them onto the rocks of Northern Ireland.
Wales! It's a long way to Wales from here, just to go skiing, and unfortunately all the climate nutters are in charge there. They all have to drive at TWENTY miles per HOUR! Takes weeks to get anywhere...
While I lived in Arizona, I got to talk to some of the engineers at APS. They all said that the biggest problem with solar is load balancing. What happens when a cloud passes over the sun and your plant output suddenly drops by 35 %? You need instant switching and standby power, huge battery farms if you want to stay green, plus extra solar capacity to fill the batteries. All that infrastructure is expensive.
Germany may not have enough sun to power the solar panels .But scientists developed panels that operate very well with moon shine and I don't mean the moon shine you drink from a bottle or maybe ?
Lots of Tesla Walls, flywheels, and pumped hydro storage, then?
My BiL is descended from Mormon settlers in Bunkerville. They slept under wet sheets hanging from clotheslines, and threw another bucket of water on them when they dried out. Early version (not counting the Minoan version) of a swamp cooler.
105°F is right at the limit of tolerability of a swamp cooler alone. Bunkerville gets over 120°F, daytime, anyhow.
Those people are delusional, probably because they do not have any skin in the game. Western Europe is steadily worsening in terms of economic prosperity and civil liberties. The main stream "conservatives" have just picked Ursula von der Laien (it's not a typo) as their candidate for the head of the European Commission. You can't go more delusional than that, can you?
We urgently need Milei to succeed in Argentina, because when people get poor and hungry they'll look around for solutions and I'd hate them to pick Russia and China as role models.
It’s not only Habeck and the Ampel Koalition who are deluded (or lying on purpose), it’s across pretty much all DE MSM. In our rather pretty town, settled in the early Middle Ages, we’ve had to endure regular protests by Fridays for Future & Letzte Generation dolts every weekend. As far as Kreis Lüneburg is concerned, there are no adults in the room, especially as we also have a Bürgermeister from the Green Party constantly spouting tosh from the Book of Green. As previously mentioned by others here, our “illegals” just want the freebies to keep coming without working, so they don’t care and adults here mostly seem to believe what’s being rammed down their throats by our media. It really is plain to everyone that the emperor has no clothes but for many to admit it’s the case, is a bridge too far. The self-delusion must continue.
We may take comfort that globally we have passed peak-climate delusion already, and everywhere realistic thinking is returning. Hopefully. it will reach Germany eventually.
We have now much more fossile energy in the world, nuclear energy is developed mightily, and even solar and wind add to an abundance of energy. Once this ESG madness is over, we may thrive again. Unless in the next years they manage to destroy Germany industry and society completely.
Sadly, death and destruction will come in the meantime due to this madness and the accompanying furor that will invoke in the powerless, but this too shall pass and common sense will prevail as it must. I only hope that I am here to see it.
"German energy policies have [] made us the laughingstock of the developed world..."
For what it's worth, I'm not laughing at the takeover of your historically industrious nation by scientifically illiterate utopianists. It's too appalling to be funny.
Another tangent is the greens also hate mining. Yet their endless prattling about renewables requires vastly more icky and Gaia raping mining to bring the green “revolution” into being. Thus only true way to go green is to get everyone to “use less” and “do their part”.
Comrade Stalin and history has shown them the way forward.
They don't mind raping the Earth with their giant lignite strip mines. They are even OK with them destroying historic German towns when the coal seam goes underneath them. They obviously have an agenda, and it has nothing to do with clean & green. It is all about punishing the consumer forced servitude, impoverishment, degrowth, deindustrialization, depopulation. Climate change, "green" is just an excuse.
Our author mentions expansion of the grid as an overlooked half of the story. While it is an important oversight, a few other pieces of these wonderful renewable energy sources are just as overlooked, if not moreso: overbuild capacity, backup energy sources and battery storage requirements. The Germans have already stepped on their cranks by closing the last of their nuclear power plants and are now mooching, so to speak, off the French. If the Greens have their way, fossil fuel plants are not long for this world, and then it's on to batteries. For those who are so inclined, the Manhattan Contrarian has done a yeoman's job of calculating the requirements and costs using the state of New York, here: https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-8-new-york-getting-totally-lost-with-energy-storage. MC has also dealt with the grid and overbuild issues. To be blunt, it's gruesome. Germans can assuage themselves in the knowledge that their politicians have no monopoly on brute technical ignorance and utopian stupidity.
...and until those blogs are cancelled as hate speech (which seems to be the direction Germany is going) you and those others need to keep publishing on this topic.
At current prices and lifetimes, the cost to provide firm power using lithium-ion batteries would be only about thirty times total USA GDP -- every year.
Apologies for the past three days of silence. I have been sick with a bad virus, but now I am recovering.
so sorry. Get completely well very soon!
Take care of yourself!
Have you tracked down those lovely German rose-hip tablets to make delicious hot comforting and immune-strengthening drinks with yet?
Anyway--feel better soon!
my problem is that when sick, I simply endure my misery wrapped up in a blanket not going outside, and when not sick I never plan to be sick. but, I will track down the rose-hip tablets for the next virus.
Forgive me for saying--just like a man. I have right now in my pantry a container of German instant vegetable broth for the inevitable episodes of "too miserable to do anything more arduous than put on the teakettle" and three unopened bottles of the 250-capsule size Vitamin C 1000mg. plus of course the opened one on the counter.
In this, if nothing else--be like The Bad Fairy.
I had a virus coming on last week; I could feel it in my throat. I took 35 grams of vitamin c inthe first 24 hours until loose stools happened, then continued with 20 grams the next day, and by the next morning, the sickness was gone.
You know if we had an address for you we would all send you home remedies from all over the world. Lol. You’d never be sick again! I would send my home grown garlic.
They're insufficient for actual covid virus variants since JN.1. Those also require ivermectin. They are sufficient for the feverless "covid". A lot, though, like a gram of ascorbic acid every half hour, along with 30 mg zinc a day.
Begone, dissembler. Humans get sick, and then recover. Healthy-living people get sick less frequently, but it’s a fact of life. No special nostrums, pokes, or treatments necessary
Bye! You ain't no Ambrose!
Or you could actually use something with a large amount of papers behind it in regards to viruses, like "vitamin" d3 or its immediate action version...calcifediol...
Good advice on Vitamin D3, yet I invite you to look into D3s roll in mucosal immunity in particular. Seems certainly best preventatively (as so much is). Once you’re sick, you’re sick because your body needs to work through whatever it’s trying to clear.
Thanks.I have several books and hundreds of papers on D3.I am waiting for this
Vitamin D Deficiency and Covid-19: Its Central Role in a World Pandemic
Anderson, Dr David C
"Once your sick your sick"..is asinine.It implies you cannot do anything after....For viral infections you can...Nasal sprays of NO for instance....The point your clearly missing is..the lower the levels of D3 when you do get sick..the worse the outcomes(in many diseases).It helps your body "work through" the viral attack...
Same here. I literally wrap up in a knit blanket like I'm in a sleeping bag and snooze
If it's available in the US at a reasonable price, try rose-hip soup!
https://www.swedishfood.com/swedish-food-recipes-desserts/217-rosehip-soup
Home-made is best of course, but it's a hassle and no mistake cleaning the rose-hip fruits from seeds.
Time to remind you once again how lucky you are I am unlikely to ever win the lottery and shall therefore not be showing up on your doorstep demanding to be served every luscious dish you have so cruelly described in comments threads throughout this our Plague Era.
November through about mid-March - this is the "virus season" when many of us get sick every year. This was when millions of people got sick in 2019-2020 - before official Covid.
I don't remember many friends and neighbors having "bug" symptoms in April and May 2020 - but that's when we're assured the coronavirus was ravaging the country and the world.
Don't forget the tests used to detect SARS-CoV-2 also generated positive results for antibodies in blood samples taken in Italy back in September-October 2019.
You also had several cities, one being the one later declared as the epicentre of the spread in Europe, setting up hug-a-chinese campaigns around January-February. With Instagram people gladly filming themselves doing just that; sometimes ripping the dudes mask off and forcing a kiss.. so much for "MeToo" I guess.
Pretty much everything aside from rarity was about promoting covid infections and death. Never seen sooooo much money chasing so much BS in my life before
Cuz it was nearly over. (Spread of the original strain ended in April.) I got it at the end of February. Read your own https://billricejr.substack.com/ about still earlier spread.
I do think virus "spread" had probably peaked by early March 2020. Thanks for plugging my Substack, which is over-flowing with "early spread" articles.
My household all got it buy it wasn't any different than the flu but then again we listened to what the media, news and government was saying only to laugh and have something to discuss at dinner.
A clip from.a Summer nights post dinner discussion in June of.... 2000.
"Babe did you hear on the news the Feds released updated covid infections. This June we're up %300 over last June's covid infections ".
Naturally my wife smirked and said nothing
And we know better than to question our betters ( as they view themselves) right?
Poor eugyppius ,you did not get enough shots of the kind that are save effective .
Are you absolutely sure it was a 'virus'? I'm currently reading The Last Pandemic by Drs Sam & Mark Bailey. It appears 'the science' germ hunters have been less than honest... For a very long time, as far back as Koch.
as opposed to a good virus?
Never apologize for needing time to produce quality. It would be I'll advised and pointless to yell at the seasoned woodworker for not having your chair ready quickly unless you don't care about quality?
Substack needs verbal artisans
Glad you’re recovering, pretty quickly too! I know everyone has their own remedies obviously but I discovered echinacea tincture years ago and it’s still my go to. The only caveat is that you must take a dose immediately upon the first sign of a symptom, just add tincture drops to a glass of water a few times a day. If you still do get sick it’s much milder and of shorter duration, easy to keep a small bottle in a cupboard for when needed as it keeps for a very long time. Feel better soon.
No worries, I spent the weekend up in the hills snowboarding, so I wouldn't have gotten to any of your articles anyway.
Here's to a full recovery.
Prost!
Get well soon. Look after yourself.
Get well soon! Thank you for this.
You'll be lucky to get over it soon.
Wife and I have been down for a week.
Purebloods, too.
Are you up on to date on all your boosters? 😁😁😁
Gute Besserung x
All "freedom writers" on Substack need to write even more about this topic - the Great Green New Deal scam. Climate Change is still the canard that our rulers are using to implement their "OneHealth" agendas.
I did highlight this issue with a recent short article that shows that dozens of people recently got frost bite in Kansas City (and had to have toes and fingers amputated as a result). Many of these people got frost bite from attending the Chiefs' NFL playoff game where the wind chill was negative-27 - the coldest football game in franchise history.
My question: How is this even possible if we've had decades of acute Global Warming?
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/climate-change-causes-mass-amputations?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
I honestly have come to the conclusion there is no conscious malevolence in this mess of renewables.....it's the Human Condition in play.....the naive, self-serving public, comfortably ensconced in their convenience and comfortable homes and vehicles have their underlying, sub-conscious angst for their gluttonous consumption based upon carbon, want to 'do' something to quell this guilt.....politicians, corporations and their entities provide that opportunity by positioning themselves to take advantage of this and, in turn gain power and profit .......the problem is the naivete . . . all good intentions, no reality, no engineers, no realists because that smack of reality is not what people want to hear, nor do companies want to invest in because there is nothing to be gained.
Speaking for myself, I have no "sub-conscious angst for (my) gluttonous consumption (of) carbon."
My prodigious output of CO2 is feeding thousands of plants. How could that be bad? In fact, these green extremists are denying food to the plants - plant murderers!
Life on earth would not exist ,without carbon .Governments are busy removing carbon and give us shots in exchange .
speak for yourself, Peter,
I am really tired of hearing this kind of generalized condescension to others.
We dumb deplorables in the working and middle classes know what our electric bills look like, our gas bills, our food bills, and we know all the regulations put on us in real time that we are forced to submit to.
While outside for a walk ,I went past a dark ally way and heard someone calling .Hey buddy want some cheep shots ?Only fife bucks .I think it must have been our crime minister calling .
Because we working and middle class ( I am one of those) are so busy with Life and work this creates the opportunity to get these absurd 'pie in the sky' policies passed without our knowing it...and in the process our pockets get picked.....directly with the bills we pay for energy and indirectly with the overly generous subsidies for renewables .....and corporations position themselves through lobbyists and politicians to benefit greatly.......it is transactional not malevolent from their perspective which is why it occurs.
BTW, I live in California where the hypocrisy of renewables and the denial of reality are unparalleled ...... we can't even meet peak demand now with current supplies and distribution.
Peter just wait ,nirvana will be free for all ,when everything is made electric with wind mills ,even cars will have a windmill on the roof .
LMAO......and we will all be wearing propeller hats to charge our brains, right?
Yes Joe, with the windmill on the roof, the faster you drive, the more power you create! (I actually had someone tell me that).
Can we push coastal Kalifornia into the Pacific depths with crowbars or something?
I live in the Central Valley so fine by me!
No it's definitely malevolent. No question about it. They've been pushing this energy scarcity agenda fiercely for 60yrs now. Starting with extreme attacks against nuclear energy. And more recently attacking practical fossil fuel energy sources. This is well documented. 100's of $billions spent on disinformation mostly through mercenary Environmental NGOs. For instance:
https://environmentalprogress.org/the-war-on-nuclear
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/the-anti-industry-industry
Come to think of it ... I lived in upstate New York in a time when winters were long and ferocious, temperatures below freezing an everyday thing, even before the big push for insulating old wood frame homes from the attic to the basement. Single-income families did not go broke heating their homes, I knew no one who could not comfortably pay their utility bill. Since then we have been told that "peak oil" arrived. Anyone see any evidence of that? But all the improvers and defenders of the enviroment and professional liars preside over a time of energy scarcity, hardship. I must be missing something.
My Con Edison electricity bill charges 9 cents/kwh for generating or buying electricity that I use, and 17.5 cents/kwh for delivering it to my house over their copper wires. Sales tax is 4% on both. The CEO of Con Ed gets paid $10 million per year.
Con Edison ... boy does that bring back memories. This online: “Tim Cawley (Con Ed CEO) is an accomplished leader with extensive experience in the energy industry. He understands the needs of our customers, our employees and all of our stakeholders" I guess the needs of the "stakeholders" are just greater than yours, Frank. Nothing new under the sun.
BOOM
Or maybe our elites wish to enslave us?
Essentially they already have.....golden handcuffs
I wish you were correct, yet it seems you are describing the hook that our global betters use to put malevolent bureaucracies into a preferred motion. Conscientiousness has been weaponized.
Nothing personal Bill, in saying this, - I'm only using your stupid question to make a point. Citing some normal-range cold event as "evidence" against "global warming", is NOT helpful. There's an inherent logical fallacy at work within the question itself. Please stay on-topic. Germany is FAILING BADLY to meet the U.N. 2030 climate scam agenda. The Stupor Bowl is NOT relevant here, ok?....
I'm relieved to see you are an equal opportunity insulter ... "dude". That is, that you did not direct your malice only against me in particular, for no good reason. Don't know how often you come here. I say that because ad hominem comments are very, very rare here. In fact, yours may be the only examples I've seen. I'm sure I would have noticed you, given that insults and unprovoked aggression seem to be your specialty, in addition to high-school level stuff like "Nothing personal Bill ... I'm only using your stupid question to make a point." Eugyppius runs a good ship here. But I promise you this: I for one will not stand by passively if you return here to insult people. I will engage you and defend my honor and that of others here who are too polite to bother with your troublemaking. Your style is not wanted here.
Wow. Now there's some commitment!
About the football fingers and toes
In answer to your question: the models are wrong.
That’s how Communism operates. It takes a ripe smelly 💩 and candy coats it for the first bite. The Germans I’ve seen have been so reluctant to call this lunacy out, rather they go along so as not to be screamed at about being a Nazi . They simply go right over the cliff like lemmings all the while knowing better, it’s sickening. Meanwhile the streets fill with mostly Muslim minorities who will vote for anything in order to get more free stuff and avoid any sort of work. The Communists really took Germany over without firing a shot🤬
I don't know if it was by design or not (it probably was), but every important institution has now been captured and every part of society that once had traditional standards that benefitted most people ... have been systematically attacked and discarded. It's like the plan was/is to destroy the best parts of civilization ... which actually makes me wonder if one Mr. Lucifer might have been in charge of some of the key brainstorming sessions.
Thank you! He is indeed the mastermind behind the puppets in Davos, Washington, Brussels and wherever we look in amazement at the rapid exhaustion of our civilization.
Put it this way: Even if he's not, he likes what he's seeing.
The MOB picket Davos as it's capital .
Dude. Even if it could be proven that satan doesn't exist, enough people would still believe that he DOES, thus it is irrelevant one way or the other. Yes, in fact, many if not most "world leaders" are some degree of satan-worshipping pedophiles. Accept reality, and deal with it like a sane, rational, compassionate adult....
Thanks ... dude. Please tell me more about your definition of reality, and how I can strive to reach the heights of your sanity, rationality, and compassion. Oh, and your fully realized adulthood. I come here only to contribute what I can, however modest, hit and miss. Unlike you, though, I also try my utmost not to insult people who have not wronged me.
What can I say? I'm a Joe Biden Democrat.
Klaus Slob is pontificating in Davos yet again.
What makes you think it is communism ?
Are Merkel, Soros, Sergeant Schultz and Baerbottle communists now ?
I don't think so.
They've suckered in commies like Antifa & BLM to do some of the low level dirty work, fulfilling their agenda. Useful idiots. After they've served their purpose, they will be sent to the Russian front as excellent cannon fodder.
Communists, Capitalists, Fascists, they will be whatever they need to be to stay in power.
I read in the underworld press ,that governments are organized crime .
In South Africa it is the case without any doubt! We have all you have deal with plus very real criminals in Government and they are going to win the election again.
That could be an accurate description of the USA this year.
I think it's quickly becoming a reality of EVERY country. Our "leadership" all over the world are up to their necks in corruption and criminality.
"Willingness to commit high treason in high office" seems to have become part of the job description.
It's not crime if we sanction it.
Who said we sanctioned it?
I don't see any pitchforks, torches, tar, or feathers.
Unfortunately, anything against the narrative and you are a Nazi!
Then comes Fewdalism as Gates comes up with more killer shots
Spot on
Kill Bill with vitamin D
Exactly!
They do change the language don't they?
man is woman, girl is boy, theft is redistribution, looting and arson are the right to assembly
You forgot; peaceful assembly is insurrection.
Thanks, how could I have forgotten. Depends of course on who's doing the insurrecting. Ashli Babbitt was apparently doing the incorrect kind of peaceful assembly, and it cost her everything. RIP
Politicians are like cavemen. Once and a while they need a good club on the head.
Security opens the gates to let you in = trespassing
Now climate emergency has morphed to extreme weather.
The fires in Texas melt aluminum structures, leaving trees untouched just like Maui.
Could it be caused by an energy weapon deployed by the military, because the governor of Texas closed the border with Mexico ?
This was written a couple years ago.....And we're here.
According to the IAEA PRIS database, construction of a new nuclear power station takes an average of 7.5 years to build and connect to an existing grid.
Here is an article about Germany shutting down half of its nuclear plants amid an energy crisis: https://tritorch.com/suicide/!GermanyShutsHalfOfItsNuclearPlantsAmidEnergyCrisisSmall.png [image]
When a country in Europe shuts down a power plant they usually do not just take it offline, and instead deliberately reduce it to rubble so it cannot be restarted: https://tritorch.com/degradation/EuropeSuicide/%21FormerGermanNukePlantTowersDemolishedInMorningBlasts.png [image]
This means that it appears that Europe is purposefully creating an optimal environment to cull their own population. Woke = Mind Control.
The leadership of Europe has brainwashed their citizens into believing that green energy is feasible when they know full well it is not. Additionally, they've convinced their population that if they do not act by shutting these power plants down, climate change is going to kill them all.
So they're brainwashing their own countrymen to manifest conditions that will kill them, while promising them salvation for doing so.
Excerpt from: https://tritorch.com/suicide
Add to that how every country will have to, per UN via EU, shut down ~20% of their food production and "restore" the areas to some lofty "natural" past state.
While also telling them to stop using fertilizer and thereby further limit what is produced from what remains.
It's hard not to see them as some death cult rooted in their lack of a legacy.
To be clear, it's a death-of-others cult. You don't see Soros, Schwab, Habeck, Macron, Arndern, or Trudeau offering to lead the charge.
Very scary. I don’t think any group of politicians can be as stupid as the German ones appear. Furthermore, this is happening throughout the western world. There is coordination. So I tend to agree this is not incompetence but a far darker agenda.
Green energy IS feasible, if you want to live like they did in the late 19th century. Electricity will be for the rich.
You mean tax-rates under 10%, as opposed to above 70% as it is today?
Don't count on any tax cuts. Governments have gotten used to taking most of your production.
But only if they cull 90% of the population. (Don't remind them).
"...But to say that the German government is not doing enough (...) is an astonishing assessment that has nothing to do with reality.”
From where I sit, it sounds like the German government has done entirely too much.
Soros, the front man for the Rothschild banking dynasty, told Frau Merkel to shut down Germany's nuclear power plants, ahd she caved in.
"The German energy transition threatens to be an unaffordable, unrealisable disaster, according to the government's own independent auditors"
I can think of only one explanation for this. The auditors must be racist.
I thought everyone knew that people of color are disproportionately impacted by power outages. It's called structural racism, I think.
That is why a vaxxine is already on the market to change the color of the colored to the colors of the rainbow .
Hence the terms "brown out" and "black out"; clear proof of racism.
How is German industry doing with the shortage of energy ,caused by policies to save the planet ?Will Germany become mostly farm land ,growing tender lions ? Ill it feed all the migrants ?
Tender lions? More like dandelions, which will become a primary food source. Although, you can't rule out cannibalism and "Eating ze bugs".
I meant real lions
The cost of the energy transition is mostly put through to the consumer. I remember to recently read sth that energy prices for industry are only 5-10 % higher in Germany than in other European countries, but they are much higher for private households and small businesses
I think the key word that you used is “fantasy”. The promoters of green energy here in the US, and apparently everywhere else, are living in fantasy land. I am a conservative who is going to vote for Donald Trump and we have solar panels and an electric car. We have the solar panels because our house is positioned for full sun and they were heavily subsidized. I have electric Volvo C40 because I love the 400 hp instant acceleration, the range fits my needs and again it was heavily subsidized and discounted because they weren’t selling well. I explain this craziness to my 13 year old and then go further. I explain to him that the same fools who think an electric car is going to save the planet will do everything they can to prevent mines from opening that are required to produce the batteries. They also protest and try to prevent the construction of new powerlines and power plants that will be needed to charge the millions of electric cars because solar and wind can not do the job. The best example is California where they already have brown outs in the summer and last year on a few occasions asked people not to charge their cars. Because the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine all the time(frequently both at the same time) you have to have backup capacity to handle the maximum possible load. Even at 13 years old he understands that this green transition is pure fantasy with a large doses of stupidity and ignorance. If they are going to spend this money it should go toward hardening the power grid against cyber attacks and EMP not subsidizing products that can’t stand on their own technical and economic merits.
One of the funniest things I've ever seen was a photo of a AAA truck using a gas generator to charge a stranded electric car.
That's routine here in every municipality that uses EV-buses for public transport.
Well, they have to heat the bus slowly first, when it is inevitably towed back to the garage, having lost its charge in no time flat in -25C or lower, which is not uncommon in Winter.
Not to mention the damage done to battery-casings and potentially the battery itself from salt-water seeping in during warmer weather; we spread salt on the roads when it's close to 0C, for some stupid reason.
What the cost of EVs being towed by diesel-trucks is, and the cost of people being late for work/appointments is - including everyone stuck behind the bus - and the cost in diesel and power to fix the EV-buses is, no-one wants to talk about.
Woodgas-powered vehicles or even DKWs are better than EVs; that's how poor EVs perform outside Kalifornia.
This entire renewable/interruptible problem has been known for decades, as well as the high cost of the spinning reserves that it requires...Germany is just now noticing it? Simple physics tells you that the all-in cost of these renewables is prohibitive...The cost of wind generators, including maintenance, is very high, and it doesn't produce enough energy...Solar is much cheaper to build, but Germany doesn't have enough Sun for it to be economic...It's just barely economic here in Arizona, where we have lots of intense Sun...The whole proposition in a place like Germany is looney tunes...
It's worse than that in Germany! The wind predominantly blows at the other end of the country to where all the main industrial centres are...
I read a couple of weeks ago about a hail storm in Morocco which destroyed a huge number of solar panels worth £ Millions in minutes - smashed them to pieces. Guess where the UK is trying to source solar power from? Via underwater cables which will cost many £ Millions (if it works at all).
Like Germany with their nuclear reactors, in UK we're scheduled to decommission all our coal power stations in 2025. Buying Candles!!!
Start knitting. You're gonna need the blankets and sweaters.
Canada will provide loads of bear skins ,to keep you warm .Black bear skins for the sheeple and Grizzly skins for the politicians .
Will you provide stone spears with those bear skins? It kind of completes the look.
In Canada where I live stone spears have not been invented yet .
Just so long as they're not the 'endangered' Polar bears.
Polar bear skins for the British royals ,because they are endangered by frost bite not by a bear bite .
Lolol
And to top it all off ,the Golf Stream is changing direction ,away from the U.K. making the UK the new Green Land
I was watching a video about the Spanish Armada of 1588 the other day. Apparently it was the gulf stream that sank half of the Spanish fleet on the rocky coast of Northern Ireland as they tried to escape back to Spain.
You can't escape to Spain ,by going up to the rocky coast of northern Ireland ,was the golf stream taking them there ??
The Spanish Armada arrived in the English Channel to pick up soldiers from Holland that would then be landed on the English south coast as an invasion force, but the wind changed to stop this plan. In the meantime the English fleet were using their high powered cannon on their swift naval vessels that severely damaged the Spanish galleons, causing them them to retreat northwards into the North Sea to round the north of Scotland to get back to Spain.
But the Spanish navigators were not aware of the gulf stream,that drove them onto the rocks of Northern Ireland.
Thank you ,it's always good to learn something new .
Well no wonder they had problems - that's nowhere near London!
Yippee! Year-round skiing! (Not that I've ever been).
If only we had some mountains around here....
If you don't know how to ski ,than use a sled with a dog team .
You'll just have to go to Wales.
Wales! It's a long way to Wales from here, just to go skiing, and unfortunately all the climate nutters are in charge there. They all have to drive at TWENTY miles per HOUR! Takes weeks to get anywhere...
Than the UK may become the worlds largest ice creme producer .
As well as the world's second largest arms producer?
While I lived in Arizona, I got to talk to some of the engineers at APS. They all said that the biggest problem with solar is load balancing. What happens when a cloud passes over the sun and your plant output suddenly drops by 35 %? You need instant switching and standby power, huge battery farms if you want to stay green, plus extra solar capacity to fill the batteries. All that infrastructure is expensive.
Germany may not have enough sun to power the solar panels .But scientists developed panels that operate very well with moon shine and I don't mean the moon shine you drink from a bottle or maybe ?
The moonshine from the bottle will probably keep you warmer. Burn some in a furnace, then drink the rest.
I'm unaware of that...can you give me a link? Moonshine of the radiation variety is very weak...
You can read all about it in the German Government Almanac
Are Arizona air conditioners and car chargers turned off at night?
That's a joke right? Try sleeping in Arizona when it's 105 degrees at night. I've had to do it when my AC died. It's brutal.
Lots of Tesla Walls, flywheels, and pumped hydro storage, then?
My BiL is descended from Mormon settlers in Bunkerville. They slept under wet sheets hanging from clotheslines, and threw another bucket of water on them when they dried out. Early version (not counting the Minoan version) of a swamp cooler.
105°F is right at the limit of tolerability of a swamp cooler alone. Bunkerville gets over 120°F, daytime, anyhow.
Those people are delusional, probably because they do not have any skin in the game. Western Europe is steadily worsening in terms of economic prosperity and civil liberties. The main stream "conservatives" have just picked Ursula von der Laien (it's not a typo) as their candidate for the head of the European Commission. You can't go more delusional than that, can you?
We urgently need Milei to succeed in Argentina, because when people get poor and hungry they'll look around for solutions and I'd hate them to pick Russia and China as role models.
Try "von der Liegen".
Autsch!
Could someone explain these plays on her name for us poor non-native German speakers?
Laien is laiety, and Liegen is Dutch for lies.
This woman deserves to be called a lot of names ...
Milei is an economic moron. He thinks that borrowing US dollars from the IMF is a good idea.
He should read " Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins.
Holy shit the graphic! Lmao...it can't be real!
I mean if that doesn't tell you how unaware these fucktards are...I don't know what will.
It’s not only Habeck and the Ampel Koalition who are deluded (or lying on purpose), it’s across pretty much all DE MSM. In our rather pretty town, settled in the early Middle Ages, we’ve had to endure regular protests by Fridays for Future & Letzte Generation dolts every weekend. As far as Kreis Lüneburg is concerned, there are no adults in the room, especially as we also have a Bürgermeister from the Green Party constantly spouting tosh from the Book of Green. As previously mentioned by others here, our “illegals” just want the freebies to keep coming without working, so they don’t care and adults here mostly seem to believe what’s being rammed down their throats by our media. It really is plain to everyone that the emperor has no clothes but for many to admit it’s the case, is a bridge too far. The self-delusion must continue.
if you want some relief from the local insanity i can only recommend rural bayern. here at least most of your neighbours are not crazy.
Started with Schroeder sell-out to Putin, gone downhill since.
We may take comfort that globally we have passed peak-climate delusion already, and everywhere realistic thinking is returning. Hopefully. it will reach Germany eventually.
We have now much more fossile energy in the world, nuclear energy is developed mightily, and even solar and wind add to an abundance of energy. Once this ESG madness is over, we may thrive again. Unless in the next years they manage to destroy Germany industry and society completely.
You will not survive mass immigration. Which is intentional. Alien peoples do not mix. And theirs are young men.
Sadly, death and destruction will come in the meantime due to this madness and the accompanying furor that will invoke in the powerless, but this too shall pass and common sense will prevail as it must. I only hope that I am here to see it.
"German energy policies have [] made us the laughingstock of the developed world..."
For what it's worth, I'm not laughing at the takeover of your historically industrious nation by scientifically illiterate utopianists. It's too appalling to be funny.
Another tangent is the greens also hate mining. Yet their endless prattling about renewables requires vastly more icky and Gaia raping mining to bring the green “revolution” into being. Thus only true way to go green is to get everyone to “use less” and “do their part”.
Comrade Stalin and history has shown them the way forward.
They don't mind raping the Earth with their giant lignite strip mines. They are even OK with them destroying historic German towns when the coal seam goes underneath them. They obviously have an agenda, and it has nothing to do with clean & green. It is all about punishing the consumer forced servitude, impoverishment, degrowth, deindustrialization, depopulation. Climate change, "green" is just an excuse.
It's Agenda DumbAsses Now! The whole lot of them have been carefully screened and selected by virtue of being borderline mentally retarded.
Green must also be outlawed ,because it means it is much too warm on earth .The new motto must be white ,for coldness sake .
Our author mentions expansion of the grid as an overlooked half of the story. While it is an important oversight, a few other pieces of these wonderful renewable energy sources are just as overlooked, if not moreso: overbuild capacity, backup energy sources and battery storage requirements. The Germans have already stepped on their cranks by closing the last of their nuclear power plants and are now mooching, so to speak, off the French. If the Greens have their way, fossil fuel plants are not long for this world, and then it's on to batteries. For those who are so inclined, the Manhattan Contrarian has done a yeoman's job of calculating the requirements and costs using the state of New York, here: https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-8-new-york-getting-totally-lost-with-energy-storage. MC has also dealt with the grid and overbuild issues. To be blunt, it's gruesome. Germans can assuage themselves in the knowledge that their politicians have no monopoly on brute technical ignorance and utopian stupidity.
there are so many problems with the energy transition, you could run a whole blog on the topic – and many have (and do).
...and until those blogs are cancelled as hate speech (which seems to be the direction Germany is going) you and those others need to keep publishing on this topic.
Take a look at "Eigen Values" substack, by David Turver
Francis's computations using New York data turn out to be too conservative. Read also http://vandyke.mynetgear.com/Worse.html
At current prices and lifetimes, the cost to provide firm power using lithium-ion batteries would be only about thirty times total USA GDP -- every year.
Well, throwing stones from the swedish glass-house, it looks very very soviet.
Grand plans, enormous grift and corruption, and to getting within 1/10 of the goals in the allotted time.
Great article. Spread far and wide. More people need to wake up to the insanity of the anti-carbon agenda.
The beastly carbon must be replaced with the Whyrusses AS THE FOREMOST AGENT ON PLANET EARTH .