By Bill Rees: On the Virtues of Self-Delusion—or maybe not!

Hagens interviewed Ehrlich today. A little too much denial of how bad our situation is for my taste. Empowering women to reduce the birth rate was a good idea in 1970. We need much stronger medicine today.

Gail Tverberg today explains how energy is a key driver of Russia’s actions.

In summary:
– Desperation causes desperate actions.
– Russia fears a repeat of the 1991 Soviet Union collapse that was caused by low energy prices.
– Russia needs higher energy prices to prevent its economy from collapsing.
– The west needs Russia’s energy to not collapse but cannot afford higher energy prices.
– Russia intends to shift its energy exports to China because China might be able to afford higher energy prices.

The scary thing is that our idiot leaders do not understand any of this, and so may be doing more harm to us than to Russia.

https://ourfiniteworld.com/2022/03/02/russias-attack-on-ukraine-represents-a-demand-for-a-new-world-order/

I’m beginning to wonder if world leaders have been quietly reading my blog 🙂 and now with their veil of denial lifted see the merit in my argument that the only good path forward is a planned economic contraction because the alternative is an uncontrolled and violent economic explosion.

Given our leaders’ aggressive opposition to any covid policy that would calm panic and reduce harms, it is reasonable to wonder if they wanted to slow the economy.

Now with the stated goal of punishing Russia, they are again pushing policies that will probably not deter Russia but will definitely slow the economy.

I also observe that our leaders are reckless. In the case of covid they underestimated the risks of a new vaccine technology. In the case of Russia they underestimate the possibility that Russia will let nukes fly before it gives up a buffer in Ukraine.

After refusing a reasonable request to keep NATO out of the Ukraine, our brilliant leaders appear to be going all in despite having the weaker hand.

How SWIFTly will the energy valves close? Then what?

We should stand down and let Russia have its buffer zone.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/devastating-move-us-weighs-sanctions-russias-central-bank-germany-backs-targeted

Didn’t know Russia was the biggest exporter of nitrogen fertilizer.
h/t Panopticon

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/nitrogen-fertilizer-prices-spike-after-russian-attack-on-ukraine

Fertilizer prices are skyrocketing on concerns that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will curtail global supplies.

Prices for the popular nitrogen fertilizer urea in New Orleans surged Thursday to $700 per short ton versus $560 earlier in the week, a 25% jump, according to Bloomberg’s Green Markets.

Russia was the world’s largest exporter of nitrogen products in 2021. The risk of disruption to shipments comes as costs for fertilizers have already been soaring because of high prices for natural gas in Europe, which forced some plants to halt or curtail production. The spike for the nutrient is stoking concerns about rising food inflation as crop prices climb.

More evidence of the Pfizer fraud.

https://etana.substack.com/p/pfizer-data-manipulation-a-piece?utm_source=url
https://www.iambrookjackson.com/

On September 25, 2020, Brooke called the FDA directly and was directed to their website to file a complaint. She filed a complaint with 14 issues, beginning with the words “It is without hesitation that I’m reporting patient safety issues”.

A few hours after filing the complaint, Ventavia called and fired her. She called an attorney and filed a “false claims act” against Ventavia and Pfizer. In doing that, the case immediately went under seal, meaning she was not allowed to discuss the study, and it stayed that way for over a year. Now that the US govt has declined to open an investigation themselves, the case has become unsealed and Brook has been unsilenced.

Good morning. No mushroom cloud on the horizon and there’s still coffee in my pantry. It’s gonna be a good day.

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick today explains that the word “vaccine” has nuance, and reminds us that corners were cut despite the approved narrative, and discusses the worrying myocarditis signal.

https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2022/02/23/a-few-thoughts-on-covid19-vaccination/

Yet, we are still informed by the BBC, in all seriousness, that no corners were cut, or will be cut. The fact is that corners were absolutely one hundred per cent cut. Slashed to the bone would perhaps be more accurate. To pretend otherwise is simply to deny reality.

It normally takes around ten years for any drug, or vaccine, to move through the clinical trials process, with each step done in series. COVID19 vaccines took around six months from start to finish, with critical steps done in parallel, and the animal testing was rushed – to say the least. To claim that no corners were cut is nonsense. Nonsense that we are virtually forced to believe?

…we are talking about a ten-year process, cut down to six months, or thereabouts. An additional concern is that this happened using mRNA vaccines, which represent a completely new form of technology. One that has never been used on humans before at all, ever.

As you can tell, I still cling to the concept of ‘first do no harm.’ Today, with COVID19, it seems this this idea has become hopelessly naïve. The current attitude seems to be. ‘We are at war; you must expect casualties’ ‘Also, careless talk costs lives.’ So, my friend, I advise you to keep your ‘vulnerable’ mouth shut, if you know what is good for you.’

Well then, I just hope for everyone’s sake, that these figures are completely wrong. They are, after all, only a model. A worst-case scenario created using the most accurate information available at this time. However, as per the SAGE underlying philosophy, I believe it is important to present the information whether uncomfortable or encouraging.

The thing that most concerns me the most is that we have a worrying signal emerging about the mRNA vaccines. A signal surrounded by a lot of noise, admittedly. Yet, the ‘official’ response continues to be to sweep the entire thing under the carpet. ‘Nothing to see here, move along.’

Every covid rock you turn over exposes something slimy.
I don’t have an opinion yet if this is legit but it smells bad.

https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/moderna-patented-cancer-gene-is-in?utm_source=url

First, a recap: Sars-Cov-2 virus has a genetic insert that exists ONLY in Moderna patent 9,587,003 from 2018. Obviously, bats could not copy the patented insert into their viruses by themselves, right?

Nice interview today by Richard Heinberg of the 80 year Dennis Meadows who is the author of Limits to Growth, the most important book ever written, and ignored.

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-02-22/dennis-meadows-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-publication-of-the-limits-to-growth/

It’s not a question of whether policymakers are open or not; it’s whether they’re more likely now to take constructive action than they were 50 years ago. That’s a complex question, and I don’t know the answer. Action requires not just openness, but also resources and concern. I’ve been able to convince people that, for example, climate change is coming. They don’t take action, not because they don’t believe me, but because they just don’t care. They’re focused on a short-term perspective within which the current system is giving them the power and the money they aspire to. They see no need for change.

It’s ironic, but with these kinds of problems over time, the concern tends to go up, but the discretionary resources tend to go down. And it’s often the case that, by the time policymakers become sufficiently concerned about something to start wondering what to do, they no longer have sufficient discretionary resources to be very effective. And this is all compounded with what I call the time horizon vicious circle. Because we haven’t taken effective action in the past, crises are mounting. It’s in the nature of the political response that, when crisis comes, you focus more and more on the short term, and your time horizon shrinks. And because that leads you to do things which fundamentally don’t solve the problem, the crisis gets worse. So, as the crisis gets worse, the time horizon shrinks even more, bad decision making increases, and the crisis goes up even further. That’s where I see us now.

I’ve used the metaphor sometimes of the roller coaster, which, for my German audiences, the most prominent example would be the one at Oktoberfest in Munich. In 1972, using this metaphor, I could say that the situation was kind of like a group of people standing at the ticket window and wondering whether or not they ought to get on the train. They still had a chance not to do it. But, in this analogy, they did. They got on the car, and they enjoyed a short period of growth up to the top of the first hill. Now they’re about to start to descend, and they no longer have much room for constructive action. All they can do is hold on and hope to survive the trip. That’s a simplistic way of understanding our situation, but it puts policymaking into a useful perspective.

Recent Joe Rogan interview of Maajid Nawaz is a must listen.