Firewood Energy

Hardwood trees store about 1 trillion BTU after 70 years of growth. That's pretty amazing. That's the equivalent of 3000+ gallons of gasoline. A cord of firewood is something like 128 cubic feet, and contains roughly 20 million BTU of heat.

The average american uses about 1 gallon of gasoline per day for travel, so 365 gallons per year (more or less).

If a mature forest is storing somewhere around 3000 gallons/70 years per acre, that's only around 43 gallons of gasoline energy equivalent per year, so it takes something like 8 acres of forest growth to provide the energy equivalent of the driving fuel for just one person.

Obviously, firewood isn't a very good option as a fuel for motor vehicles, but it provides a good data point that shows how solar to biomass conversion is a pretty slow process.

The Mode of Consciousness is the God of the Age

I had a really vivid dream last night: a weird orange firey "sun" consumed a blue world. Then the sky was all fire. There was some dialog in the dream, that unfortunately, I don't remember but I know what it meant.

The "age of fire" was the Age of Aries. There's actually an allusion to that in both the Lord of the Rings (Sauron's firey mordor) and also in the Sci-Fi show Stargate. There's a group of evil Aliens called the Ori (Arians, the Sons of the Age of Aries) who seek to compel belief. (The Arians are also the bad guys in the Conan movie [1982])

In Stargate, the heroes of the show are the Humans--of the Age of Man--attempting to protect their earth from various aliens, who are representatives of the various astrological ages. The symbiotes/snake/slug creatures of the movie and the first seasons of the TV show (the Goa'uld) represent the age of Taurus, an Earth Age--the age of Egypt.

It's kind of clear to me that there never was an Age of Pisces. It was a phony age dominated by a phony church and the hive mind and group thinking people. It's the age of religions and nation states and stupid ideology. The "one world government" that these psychos have in mind is even worse--a giant borg planet dominated by fake AI. Computers + stupid old communism. It's the ultimate "hive mind" retard world.

Humanity needs to move on and evolve. I think shifting human consciousness to emanate more from nature and move with nature is the way forward.

 

Internet Sleuths Found the Waukesha Killer

 

YouTube deleted the video but I watched it. The Ford Escape used to plow through the crowd in Waukesha was featured in this lame rapper's video.

It is bizarre to me that the Ford Escape that was used to plow through a crowd in Waukesha is featured in some dime store rap video. The trashbucket oligarchs think they can foment a race war in the US or something. I hope people are smarter than that.

Here's the alleged story as pieced together by internet randos.

The driver was bailed out of jail on the day Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted. On the day of the parade, he was involved in a knife fight and fled the scene in his Ford Escape (as shown in the video) when he plowed through the crowd and killed several people.

Coincidentally, November 21 is a UN "holiday" world day of rememberance for road traffic victims.

Green and Sustainable is Bad for Governments and Corporations

If the USA were a nation of homesteader permaculturists, the government would be a tiny afterthought annoyance and corporations would be small, too. If the country was really "green" and people really lived a sustainable life, nobody would care about the central authorities beyond seeing them as a major pest and parasite.

If people had core skills and assets to provide their own food and shelter, they would not bow to a central authority. They'd see the government and its employees for what they are.

So what's the "green" rhetoric about: more debt and death. The people in power are complete and total trash. They are not capable of doing anything good.

Corporate Lockdowns in the USA

The structure of the government in the USA seems to be protecting some of our rights from the subversion and cultural warfare that's being waged in the name of "covid". Now that Europe is doing another foolish round of ineffectual, nonsense lockdowns according to the script, it seems likely that various shitty states and localities will follow suit in short order.

However, vast portions of the US have rejected the covid protocols and will continue life as normal. Ohio was on the fence about going full retard about covid, or going the route of freedom throughout 2020. It seems like freedom eventually won out, though. The RINO governor has been sidelined as far as I can tell. So if a purple state like Ohio opted for freedom, then most of the country will too.

Again, the scumbags that are behind this episode will seek to bypass the rights and protections people enjoy in the US via corporations. There will be corporate lockdowns and that will probably cause all sorts of disruptions.

We need to move beyond these people and their bullshit. Start over again from a sensible and moderate foundation.

Anthrax Attack Redux

After 911 someone mailed anthrax to some congressmen and senators. It was probably some agency of the federal government that was probably also involved in 911... They blamed some poor scientist for the anthrax and suicided him before it ever went to trial.

Frankly who knows how all that stuff is structured? It's apparent the government has a dangerous fifth column group high up near the top of the shitty power pyramid who constantly acts contrary to the interests of the people of the US. But who is it? I don't know.

A few days ago, Billy Gates was yammering about smallpox terrorist attacks, then boom--some "vials" are missing or some bullshit. Who even knows. It's all lies.

Anyway, if there's a smallpox outbreak, it's open season on all these assholes involved in all this bullshit. They're trying to kill you and me and everyone else we love. That'll be all the confirmation that's required to act with natural justice on the side of the people.

Easy Credit Makes People Foolish

Easy credit is pernicious. It actually drives "value" out of everything--it's a subtle, but powerful force. It's called "Gresham's Law" when applied to currency. The gist of "Gresham's Law" is bad money drives out good, e.g. people will spend paper money or use a credit card, but will hoard gold and silver, even copper and nickel. This principle applies across the board and it explains many aspects of "consumer" and "worker" behavior.

If you've got a corporate job, and the corporation is tied into the easy-credit financial markets, a task like gardening seems really stupid economically, because you can go throw some funny money at a grocery store clerk and obtain food without much work. That same situation arises over and over again in various ways. Instead of changing your own oil in a car, for example, it's easier to throw money at a professional to do it, etc..., etc....

When you act contrary to that system of incentives--the apparent "value" of the money drops drastically, and the value of your time increases drastically, similarly the potential value of productive assets like land and tools and vehicles goes up.

We have a strawberry patch in the garden that produces a lot of fruit each summer. This year it produced 44 pounds of fruit or 6,000 calories (give or take). It's very low maintenance and is self-propagating with a little human intervention. If the yields remain constant per unit area, an acre of strawberries on my property could be producing something like $20,000 of fruit per summer.

It's very difficult to unlock that value when working full time in a corporate job and under the sway of the easy credit markets.

Stuff is a Burden

The corporate/consumer way of life is predicated on foolishness. In a matter of years, most people acquire enough junk to fill up a large dumpster. Most of the stuff they'd pitch into it was entirely useless since purchase. People accumulate piles of clothes, but generally only wear a handful of outfits that are comfortable, fit well, and look good. They pile up used slave-made clothing as "donations" that just get shipped to Africa where some get used, and the rest pile up in landfills.

The highest cost items people have plague their lives. Houses require constant maintenance and upkeep. In a place like Northeast Ohio, where we have a lot of precipitation and massive variation in temperature through the year, water is constantly wearing away at every part of a house. Vast infrastructure carries people's waste away from their house. Some of the pipes for that stuff in various towns and cities is 50 to 100 years old and too costly to ever replace. Vast infrastructure is required to keep goods flowing to support all this material.

This way of living is based on massive debt. I look at some of the huge homes in my neighborhood and mentally tally up the maintenance costs and I don't see how people do it. Just replacing the shingles on the roof of a huge McMansion with multiple peaks and valleys will be tens of thousands of dollars every 15 to 30 years. Many people will "finance" those repairs with home equity loans. Those loans make sense as long as there's a greater fool to sign up for ownership of a McMansion when it goes on the market. They don't make any sense if the "market" drops, like in 2008.

I've got a small house and it's still a burden, even though I have tools and lots of skills to maintain it. I replaced the roof on my workshop last summer. That was a difficult job and required the rental of a dumpster and it took the better part of a week of brutal labor in the summer heat--that building is only 24 feet by 24 feet! I need to replace the roof on my house, which is approximately 4 times the area, and I'm not looking forward to it. I often think it'd be so much easier to have a disposable house, or something like a yurt or a big tent.

I think people will be looking for different patterns of life in the not too distant future. The exodus from this current system is already underway.

Cheat Sheet on Who to Trust

The events of 2020/21 are apocalyptic in the sense that much has been revealed. One of the key things is the people who run the goverments, like the people in DC or the people in London, are the worst humans on the planet. They're literally incapable of doing anything good.

Corporations are similar. The bigger the corporation the worse it is. It's a lucky accident if some corporation is doing anything good for anybody.

The media is the same. It's almost all lies. There's no point even paying attention.

Colleges and Universities are pretty bad, too. They're mainly selling debt to dummies. A sizeable fraction of degrees have a negative ROI compared to not going to college at all.

Really, almost the entirety of the "white collar" world is looking pretty suspect and parasitic. How many people are producing things of real value or use? 

Britain Going for Third Mandatory Shot

Boris Johnson the stooge that's the PM of britain announced a third dose of the vaxxes is necessary to be "fully vaxxed".

Obviously that was where this was all going from the start.

I keep going back and forth between: they're trying to kill a huge number of people, and they're inept and corrupt. It really doesn't matter which is the case, by the way.

I think a sizable fraction of the people who signed up for the vaccines won't go for shot #3. Maybe 50% of the people? Most of the people who I know personally who got the vaccines got sick for multiple days to a month from side effects.

A lot of people know the vaccines don't really work.

It's hard to really predict what's going to happen.

It's plausible that this is really a type of economic warfare. They want to massively cripple economies with stupid mandates. They also seem to want to completely discredit governments and other institutions, like corporations, who are going along with this insanity.

Tennessee, Ohio and KY Sue Joe Biden

I was a little worried about the direction Ohio was going to go with respect to covid authoritarianism last year. The RINO fraud DeWine was playing lockdown/masking games for most of 2020 and the state is a mix of red and blue, but is mostly red, especially in terms of geographical area. It took almost the entire year for the state legislature to push him into a corner, but it seems like they finally did. He disappeared from the stage almost entirely at some point.

Now, Ohio has joined the chorus of states suing the Biden administration over the OSHA mandates bullshit. The Supreme Court is a pile of trash, so eventually they will rule in favor of these dictatorial pronouncements from our dementia patient stooge President, but at least the state has the political will to go its own way.

My county (Geauga) Sheriff is a party to the suit as well, so that's good. I think we'll have two Americas when this is all done. Commie-merica with a Matzo ball curtain in New England and some California cities, and the rest of the nation, which will still be free. Goodbye USA and $. Maybe we can restart a new financial system with state banks.

The Most Vaxxed County in Ireland is Sick with Covid

 Link

The bullshittery of the "experts" is staggering. They seem to say, "The vaccines work at not working exactly as planned." The results of people getting sick and being hospitalized are exactly what we hoped for.

As an important aside, imagine two fully credentialed experts in some field.... then imagine they have exactly the opposite opinion on any topic. Is either opinion worth anything in that case? This has been a very common occurrence in life sciences and medicine over the decades I've been paying any attention to their pronouncements. 

Austria Locking Down Unvaxxed

Europe seems to be going full retard. Austria is locking down the "unvaxxed". I hope people just walk away from their jobs and participation in their shitty system in response. 35% of the population is unvaxxed there, if you can believe any of these nonsense numbers. I hope some of the people in the vaccinated population do, also, in protest.

These governments/corporations are trash. It's way past time to take them out.

CDC Stats: Death Rates in 2018 and 2020

 The age-adjusted rate was 828.7 deaths per 100,000 population (2020)

In 2018:

Death rate per 100k in 2018 was higher.

Package Deal Theory

Governments and corporations seem to be pushing for more authoritarian/totalitarian control of individuals and the economy. At the same time, the promoters of this central planning agenda call for new high tech systems.

You can't have both. If you've got top down central planning, you've got a dead economy and zero innovation. Look at the former USSR, China, or North Korea today. Central planning is constant failure. An exception to the totalitarian=technologically backward is provided by National Socialist Germany ironically enough. China grew by leaps and bounds in recent years via an injection of capital and ideas from the free west.

Innovation stops in central planning scenarios because the government and other hierarchical systems prevent it from happening, because they are institutionalized crony control and nepotism. Also those central planning systems train citizens to disengage from helping the central authority in any way. People do the bare minimum to get by. Why would you do anything else? If you participate in the system, you're helping evil. Also, the government involvement in training citizens through education produces slave minded lackeys who are barely capable of innovation.

The converse is also true, a country like the USA enjoys innovation and creates technology, but also has a depraved, corrupt culture and disgusting political leadership. People waste their lives chasing money and dumb ideas to create things like smartphones, Netflix, battery powered tools and the like. If individuals were more disciplined and had a keener focus on the meaning of life and their own mortality, there would be fewer people in corporate America, and fewer giving away their energy and value to corporations.

Wealth

I never sat down and calculated the resource requirements for myself or the people I live with. It's really instructive to do it.

There's a lot of studies about nutrient production per acre. I haven't surveyed them, and frankly, for the back of the envelope calculation purposes, who cares? I am using the first one I looked at.

Here's a little table of calorie/protein production per acre:

For my county, with a population density of ~230 people per square mile, about 17% of the land would need to be planted for food crops--probably more for the sake of safety and variety. Plus you'd want some land for animals. The rest of the land could go to forest. In fact, it would make way more sense to do that instead of having homes with big yards--that is the most retarded practice of our time.

The rest of the land would go to a hardwood forest. A puny amount of wood is needed to heat each 1000 square feet in our cold climate. It's really absurd how little wood is needed for that purpose. Each home requires something like 80,000 BTU per 1000 square feet in our cold climate.

A 70 year old forest stores around 1 TRILLION BTU of energy per acre. A forest yields something like 50 cords of wood over that time span, and a cord is around 20 million BTU. The forest yields around 8,000 gallons of gasoline equivalent over that time.

It would be extremely trivial to produce all the food and energy required for 95,000 people in my county with just the resources of my county, which is a resource rich county with low population.

Are we really resource constrained? We are hypnotized by cretins and live like fools. That's the real problem of humanity.

Bill Gates says the Vaccines Don't Work.... So Why???!

 Bill Gates recently gave an interview where he complained about the general suckiness of the current vaccines. They don't prevent the transmission of the disease, nor do they prevent people from getting sick. It's not clear they offer much benefit at all. However, they come with known risks, and as of yet unknown long term risks.

It's perverse they're still being pushed so hard, even by a creature like Billy Gates who says they don't work. It's hard to understand until you realize that Bill Gates and his colleagues are psychopaths and have no concern about people's health or well being, nor do they care about the health or well being of any other living thing, except maybe their immediate families.

They do not care if the vaccines have harmful side effects but offer minimal benefits. They want to see what happens with this mass dosing of the public. They want to prove their shitty gene therapy "the rapey" invention works, or not, or if it has long term side effects. If you took the vaccine you are Bill Gates lab rat. If you were irresponsible and stupid enough to get your kids vaccinated, they're lab rats too.

The people pushing this stuff are not capable of producing "good" outcomes in the world. They're broken weirdos. All their products really fundamentally suck.

Our civilization is massively flawed. We keep allowing these freaks to set the course for humanity.

Mordor IRL

I've been thinking about the Mordor imagery in the Lord of the Rings movies.

There's an "all seeing eye"--the flaming Eye of Sauron--atop a phallic tower. The tower is crowned with horns.

There's a fiery mountain--Mount Doom.

The land of Mordor is dead and artificial. The orcs are fabricated by wizards. The beings who run Mordor are all dead ghoulish things and demonic spirits. They wish to remake the world in their image. They wish to destroy the Shire, etc...

I think the horns that hold the all seeing flaming eye represent the Age of Aries (~2000BC) . Aries is a fire sign. The old testament biblical "god" of moses was the god of the age of aries. That's why there's fire imagery in the old testament, at least according to some. The Age of Aries is long dead, but lives on, apparently via some cult/priesthood.

There's some penis worshipping cult associated with that--thus the phallic tower? I've read about it, watched videos to understand the esoteric practices of the cult, but find it too bizarre to really delve into much--basically they think use of tantric sex and not blowing your load increases your personal power and can even give you psychic powers.

Anyway, I think we still live with this cult. They really do want to replace the natural design with their own. Some asshole like Bill Gates thinks his plans are better than nature's.

Building the House of Cards Higher

The party line about humanity's future is: "our civilization is too energy intensive" so we need to replace our entire technology base with something new. It's absurd.

People like Bill Gates push the "nuclear power is green" idea, which is retarded. Nuclear power sucks, mainly because the spent fuel is dangerous and there's no economical way to store it forever. It's pure insanity, actually, that any nuclear power plants are operating today without a solution to that problem. It's quite possible there's no viable or economical solution to that issue.

Humanity should be moving full speed down the staircase of the house of cards. It's very obvious to me. Instead, people like Gates push for new technologies all the time. A new gee whiz thing is going to save everyone at the 11th hour in spite of the long track record of total failure to do so. I doubt it.

Hold Out: The Mandates Probably Disappear.

I think the OSHA rules route for attempting to force vaccinate people in the US will fail completely.

Biden exempted truckers--if he hadn't the economy would implode. The companies that are going to attempt to force their workers to inject a potion against their will to retain a job might think twice about doing that if they're not retarded. These exemptions open barn door sized holes in this stupid mandate thing.

These exemptions show how arbitrary and capricious the mandates are, plus the vaccines don't even work, and they can cause injury or death. It seems almost impossible to believe this insanity can continue much longer.

How can a nation "of laws" function with a host of arbitrary and capricious rules? Even some shitty corporation won't be able to function if employees realize that the "policies" of their stupid employer are arbitrary and foolish.

Biden Exempts Truckers

I've seen reports that the Biden administration exempted truckers from the mandates. So that's a pretty good data point.

If they didn't the economy would have collapsed within days of enacting the mandates, because so few truckers took the potions. I think the Biden administration is simply corrupt and incompetent. I think there are larger agendas at play and various groups used "covid" as a vehicle to move their stupid ideas forward, but it looks like there's no larger "war on the people" agenda. If there were, why would Biden exempt the truckers? That'd be like the detonator that blows up the USA.

DC and the federal government are not reformable or recoverable. Most corporations are total trash. Their management are feckless pussies with zero principles.

The People and the Oligarchs are Bad

The world has been plagued by oligarchs for millennia. The common people aren't saints, though.

If the oligarchs were wiped out, would people live good and simple lives? Probably not. There's a lot of vile people out there.

In fact, the oligarchs and the people are really very similar. The common people hope to live like an oligarch, so they play the lottery, or have dreams of a sudden gain in future wealth. The oligarchs basically won the lottery, or stole what they have, or in some cases "worked" for it--really conned others into working for them. How different are they except in their success at acquiring money? They both have massive appetites and a desire for power and control over others.

30% of Truckers Vaxxed

 I recently saw a poll that said less than 30% of truckers were vaccinated.

There is no way companies can lay off a significant fraction of their truck driving work force and still function.

No food. No fuel. No stuff.

What's going to happen from the OSHA mandates?

In Canada, jurisdictions that threatened to fire a bunch of health care workers over the vaccines suddenly changed their "policy" when it was obvious that the health care system was going to collapse due to lack of workers.

I think the feds and corporations will keep changing policies to:

1. not fire workers they need
2. increase the harassment of those same workers.

It's absurd some doofus in an HR department is implementing what amounts to a "law" about a substance you put in your body. Some fucking retard with a psychology degree who backed into an HR job is now making medical and legal decisions for employees just because they work at some shitty corporation making useless shit?

The relationship between individuals and these corporate and government entities needs to drastically change.

Governments should be tiny.

Businesses should be tiny.

Worshipping the CPU

I think western philosophy is dominated, currently, by the concept that the universe is mathematical. That is, there's no distinction between the numerical and algorithmic systems devised by man and the universe itself. Some people imagine you can basically create an equivalent model universe in a computer simulation.

(My personal belief is the essence of the universe is un-readoutable, so it really can't be duplicated. There's no way to decode its essence, because it's not in code.)

There's a sect of people who want to transform the world of man into a computer model. These people seem to hate the natural order. Ironically, they're people who claim to want to save "nature", typically by killing everyone that opposes their insanity and hubris.

The computer is the house of their god. People who have been working in tech have been helping build their holy-of-holies--which is really a shrine to Satan. A mechanical and electrical abomination.

A World of Warrior Priests

We're watching the 1970s TV show "Kung Fu" on DVDs. The series is great. The characters and acting and fight scenes are hilarious in retrospect. I was too young to watch the series when it was originally aired, but I'm sure I've seen at least one or two of the episodes here and there. The series was extremely influential as a pop-culture piece.

The hero of the series is "Caine", which is obviously a reference to the biblical Cain of the Cain and Abel story and an indication that the writers and producers of the series adhere to the gnostic interpretation of creation.

Caine is a true individual and adherent to principles of natural law and justice. He's a one man army, and a one man nation. The type of education he is shown to receive in the series seems pretty close to ideal. Imagine a world of such men. The system we have today is setup to massively enrich merchants and financiers.

It seems very likely that most of the concepts in "Star Wars", like the Jedi Knights, the Force, the character Yoda, etc... are really drawn from Kung Fu.

The Dream of Total Electronic Control of People

There are many people working to totally track and trace everything in the world using computers.

Why?

That's a really good question.

It seems fairly obvious that "managing" everything is a bad idea. It actually doesn't achieve the intended goals at all. The MBA/technocracy world just won't work. It's the exact opposite of what's proven to work best, i.e. a laissez-faire approach. In fact, I think the heavy bureaucracy/financialized/managerial world we have today is really just cashing in on the previous productive economy's success and rapidly spiraling into a destructive end.

As fewer people in a hierarchical system make decisions, the decisions get worse. It's really obvious.

The fantasy is the top of the pyramid will use computers and AI to leverage their insane, retarded, inbred brains to enact their stupid plans. Good luck with that.

The managerial/bureaucracy system we've got now is a side effect of the parasitic financial system. It's like fungus in a log or rust on a car. It's not really producing anything, just consuming resources.

Are People Really This Dumb?

 

Something like 1/5000 young people get heart damage from the vaxxes according to various studies. Who really knows, though. Why would you subject a young man to it? You'd have to be retarded, especially if you were a doctor. Is that guy in the tweet real? It seems almost impossible to believe that someone would publish such a thing.

I'm starting to think intelligence as a trait follows a power-rule distribution like 10%/90% rather than a normal distribution. Lots of people seem to lack an ability to even think. They just recite a script they heard on the news and are terrorized their whole lives by the government and the media that they continue to trust for some strange reason.

Here's another one. Is it real? Who fucking knows?

At least that woman realized she got got.

Feckless Trashbuckets in Corporate America--Go Fuck Yourselves

I used to work at a "tech" company. I got suckered into that field over my life because of the easy money and the propaganda about how important it was to help build the bizarro world we're living in today.

Anyway, it's pretty obvious now that the "dream" of tech-topia world is really a total nightmare.

The corporation I worked for, and many others, are led by feckless trash people. They have no backbone and are driven by a combination of greed and ambition and total obsession with the opinions of others in their little clubs. They're gross, little twisted cretins.

Maybe in five or ten years in the post-apocalyptic world of New America there might be good places to work, but for now, it seems like they're few and far between.

The Vaccines Really Do Not Work

One of the propaganda talking points about the "vaccines" is that they will protect others. It's really not true at all. They do not appear to have that affect whatsoever. "Peer reviewed" studies seem to indicate that as do the publicly available stats--if you can believe anything about this episode.

The propaganda point persists and continues to be pushed maniacally by a bunch of actor type people in the media. It's very weird. I think at least a handful of people are snapping out of the hysteria every single day, but it's probably too little too late.

Don't take it to keep your job. Nobody is going to have a job pretty soon, so I wouldn't worry about it.

Noam Chomsky. Another Fraud.

 Noam Chomsky published a book "manufacturing consent". I think--who cares?--not so long ago. Now he wants to manufacture consent for big government and giant pharma companies by coercing people to get vaxxed by cutting off access to food. What a fraud.

I'm pretty sure a lot of the creatures, like Chomsky, who are on the public stage are script reading actors. They're empty shell footsoldiers in the army of Satan Incorporated. The dude is a non entity. Whoever the actor is, he probably has whatever random private thoughts and interests, and then his public personae is as fake as Greta Thunbergs. What a weird way to live that must be!