The UK had to go cap in hand to the IMF back in 1976. North Sea oil bailed us out of that spot of bother but since it peaked in 1999 we have had to get by by using some very clever financial smoke and mirrors.
We ceased to be a sovereign country decades ago and are now totally dependent on the kindness of strangers(buying UK Gilts)
But at least they now have a good idea of how to keep us all locked down. Having said that it looks as though the power-house of Europe, Germany is holed below the waterline and could sink below the waves at anytime as well.
My household celebrates the Winter Solstice not the birth of some character invented by the Flavians, back in the day, in order to control the Jews in Palestine. Good to see nothing really changes. Anyway Keep Calm and Carry On.
Conventional Oil Sources peaked in 2008 and the Shale binge has now spoiled US reserves, top investor warns Financial Times.
Preface. Conventional crude oil production may have already peaked in 2008 at 69.5million 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 82.9mb/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 read that book 2 summers ago, and I read a bunch of other books about a the Rwanda Congo area including Stanley’s book and the fictional pool by Kigali in the summer or whatever it was called. They were all good and very interesting. I read about the massacre. It was terrible. A lot of Rwandans who used to be religious are not anymore because a lot of people were killed right at the church and the church did not save them.
I also read the book about that white woman who lived in Rwanda with her husband and even when they got divorce, she stayed. She had a very interesting book. She had a lot of good things to say about the people.
She had a white friend who had a son and friend who visited. When they were going back to the airport, they went to the congo by accident and got stoned to death by the people there. Both of them. It took hours because in Italian national saw them and someone else heard a soldier asking are those boys still alive hours later? Then he said to kill them. The woman was so dedicated to Africa she still stayed there. I know I definitely couldn’t even after having a lot of sympathy from the different books, I read about the region. The woman was also friends with the gorilla woman as well. Rawanda has the very best way to interact with the gorillas. The Congo jungle is too thick and they are the only gorilla like that in the world.
I've read a few books on the massacre in Rwanda ... one of them provided a detailed account of people killing all of the stray dogs in the cities... because they could not bear to listen and watch them ripping the guts out of the dead bodies and eating them....
That bloke from NZ First would say we all had the wrong attitude. Quite what attitude has to do with the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is rather beyond me. Why is it that all the people who get given the microphone in our culture are as thick as two short planks?
Fast Tracking building projects is apparently going to life NZ out of it's economic malaise... a malaise that is caused by a dearth of affordable energy...
Of course the media will not ask the obvious question -- so the barnyard animals will believe the Fast Tracking policy will Make NZ Great Again... because they are morons.
Anyone with half a brain would be looking at this ... and getting ahead of the curve and selling everything and exiting... because once the mob sees that the malaise is worsening ... it won't be possible to sell
it's true - the only cure for stupidity is the covid vaccine
You already know the answer it’s a paraphrase of that voting phrase misattributed to Stalin, it’s not who gets given the microphone it’s who gives the microphone 😂
Sharon. My take away from the Rwanda thing is that two tribes of people can live along side each other for years until one of the elders who control the world narrative tells them to murder each other.
Were we close to the vaxed murdering the untaxed quiet recently? It seemed that way to a lot of people at one time. Folk by and large mostly do what the elders suggest it's always been that way.
The UK had to go cap in hand to the IMF back in 1976. North Sea oil bailed us out of that spot of bother but since it peaked in 1999 we have had to get by by using some very clever financial smoke and mirrors.
We ceased to be a sovereign country decades ago and are now totally dependent on the kindness of strangers(buying UK Gilts)
But at least they now have a good idea of how to keep us all locked down. Having said that it looks as though the power-house of Europe, Germany is holed below the waterline and could sink below the waves at anytime as well.
My household celebrates the Winter Solstice not the birth of some character invented by the Flavians, back in the day, in order to control the Jews in Palestine. Good to see nothing really changes. Anyway Keep Calm and Carry On.
Next year promises to be one long pantomime.
Coming soon to the USA.
The rest of us are not far behind.
Conventional Oil Sources peaked in 2008 and the Shale binge has now spoiled US reserves, top investor warns Financial Times.
Preface. Conventional crude oil production may have already peaked in 2008 at 69.5million 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 82.9mb/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.
Scary..
I read that book 2 summers ago, and I read a bunch of other books about a the Rwanda Congo area including Stanley’s book and the fictional pool by Kigali in the summer or whatever it was called. They were all good and very interesting. I read about the massacre. It was terrible. A lot of Rwandans who used to be religious are not anymore because a lot of people were killed right at the church and the church did not save them.
I also read the book about that white woman who lived in Rwanda with her husband and even when they got divorce, she stayed. She had a very interesting book. She had a lot of good things to say about the people.
She had a white friend who had a son and friend who visited. When they were going back to the airport, they went to the congo by accident and got stoned to death by the people there. Both of them. It took hours because in Italian national saw them and someone else heard a soldier asking are those boys still alive hours later? Then he said to kill them. The woman was so dedicated to Africa she still stayed there. I know I definitely couldn’t even after having a lot of sympathy from the different books, I read about the region. The woman was also friends with the gorilla woman as well. Rawanda has the very best way to interact with the gorillas. The Congo jungle is too thick and they are the only gorilla like that in the world.
I've read a few books on the massacre in Rwanda ... one of them provided a detailed account of people killing all of the stray dogs in the cities... because they could not bear to listen and watch them ripping the guts out of the dead bodies and eating them....
This influenced this https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/the-ultimate-extinction-plan-uep
When the global economy collapses permanently... it won't be the dogs ripping the guts out... it will be other humans fighting to survive....
Nobody will survive because they will run out of dead bodies to eat.
That bloke from NZ First would say we all had the wrong attitude. Quite what attitude has to do with the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is rather beyond me. Why is it that all the people who get given the microphone in our culture are as thick as two short planks?
Fast Tracking building projects is apparently going to life NZ out of it's economic malaise... a malaise that is caused by a dearth of affordable energy...
Of course the media will not ask the obvious question -- so the barnyard animals will believe the Fast Tracking policy will Make NZ Great Again... because they are morons.
Anyone with half a brain would be looking at this ... and getting ahead of the curve and selling everything and exiting... because once the mob sees that the malaise is worsening ... it won't be possible to sell
it's true - the only cure for stupidity is the covid vaccine
You already know the answer it’s a paraphrase of that voting phrase misattributed to Stalin, it’s not who gets given the microphone it’s who gives the microphone 😂
Sharon. My take away from the Rwanda thing is that two tribes of people can live along side each other for years until one of the elders who control the world narrative tells them to murder each other.
Were we close to the vaxed murdering the untaxed quiet recently? It seemed that way to a lot of people at one time. Folk by and large mostly do what the elders suggest it's always been that way.