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Vortex wrote:
There is no longer a "long term": Peak Oil is upon us.
Oh come on, PO isn't going to kill us in our beds!

Sure, our economies may take a big, big hit ... but going back to say a 1950s standard of living over a decade or so isn't fatal ... just rather tedious.
And the world's population in the 1950s was... about 2 billion (http://www.optimumpopulation.org/opt.earth.html).

Furthermore, our economic model depends on profit, which depends on economic growth. In the 1950s there was growth. But with NO economic growth - i.e. with no increase in either the money supply or the purchasing power of each dollar/pound/ruble - every profit in one part of the economy has to be offset by losses somewhere else. In other words, there is a one-way flow of cash. That means the only companies worth investing in are those making a profit, which means all the others end up closing, which means most people are out of jobs.
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I don't trust the government , I think they could well have a depopulation weapon that they plan to use
So in that case would they:

A) release a less harmful virus first to allow them to put in place mass vaccination in their own countries without too much suspicion, then realease the real virus to kill everyone who wasn't vaccinated

or

B) release a less harmful virus first to allow them to put in place mass vaccination program to kill the people in their own country.

It doesn't make much sense for the USA, UK and european governments to kill their own populations with mass vaccination but not any other countries populations... but then they are quite stupid... :roll:

Or it might just be as simple as the poor drugs companies wanting more money and convincing half witt mp's that it's a good idea to give everyone more drugs.

Anyway, I need to go and buy some more tin foil...
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Vortex wrote:
There is no longer a "long term": Peak Oil is upon us.
Oh come on, PO isn't going to kill us in our beds!

Sure, our economies may take a big, big hit ... but going back to say a 1950s standard of living over a decade or so isn't fatal ... just rather tedious.
What ever happens in the future we are not going back to the 1950s standard of living! Okay a few key metrics (such as net energy availability) might return to 1950s level but so much else is totally different any analogy with past decades is close to irrelevant in my opinion.

A few significant things that have changed dramatically in the last 50 years include population, soil quality, freshwater availability/distribution, medical technology, communication technology, military technology, climate, forestation, the global distribution of energy and other resources, the global political map...
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One of the things you learn when you try serious veg growing is how easy it is to produce an enormous surplus of food. And the better I get at veg growing the more certain I am that feeding the world's growing population is not half the problem some folk make it out to be.

But people who don't have veg plots just don't understand that.
This is going slightly off topic but...

Serious veg growing takes a serious size plot (and committment) - it is NOT that easy to produce all your yearly requirements, especially without fossil based pestisides, fertilisers and niceties such as a greenhouse.

You can go from glut to impoverished in a month... that's fine if you have a freezer to keep your surplus... and there are only so many pickles you can eat (try prepping pickles without boiling and sterilizing your jars for a good case of botulism).

With a UK population as it now stands there wouldn't be enough land for everyone to have a sustainable plot. I'm afraid your garden would not only have to worry about slugs and snails eating the crop... Charlie Chav would be there with his wheelbarrow and his armed mates.

Good luck with your cultivating - I'm at it too. But please don't kid yourself that you can do 'the good life' and we will all be fine if we return to the land. 6.75 billion mouths take a lot of feeding.

I guess that's why De-Pop at some stage is a likely event. If nature wont do it then a helping hand may be required. Not something I want to go along with or even think about! But....
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There are several straw man arguments in your post, maudibe. The critical thing about growing enough food in an oil-poor future is the availability of labour. Lack of land, fertilisers, pesticides, seasonality, storage etc can be overcome if labour is abundant. There is a potential for correlations between population and labour supply.

Right, off to pick butterfly eggs off my brassicas as I won't use insecticide.
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Cran wrote:
I don't trust the government , I think they could well have a depopulation weapon that they plan to use
So in that case would they:

A) release a less harmful virus first to allow them to put in place mass vaccination in their own countries without too much suspicion, then realease the real virus to kill everyone who wasn't vaccinated

or

B) release a less harmful virus first to allow them to put in place mass vaccination program to kill the people in their own country.
Who knows what is going on? I just feel that something is.

Both the scenarios you describe seem plausible to me - so should one get vaccinated or not?

Given the apparent mildness of the swine flu virus, I suspect a lot of people will refuse to have the vaccination. If the vaccine then DOES turn out to be a killer, those who weren't vaccinated will take to the streets. NOT, I would imagine, what the Government wants. So on balance I doubt that THIS vaccination will kill people in significant numbers.

The question then arises as to what compulsory swine flu vaccination WILL do. One thing is this: it will give the Government a list of people who think for themselves and don't do everything they're told. These people could then, ironically, find themselves first in the queue for kill-off.

What I'm about to suggest is pure speculation, so please don't jump down my throat. Once the Government has a list of sceptics and dissenters from the current round of vaccination, it COULD give those people their own vaccine when the next - and I'm guessing, much more serious - virus comes along. THIS might be the vaccine that kills people off in significant numbers.

In the end it seems to me a numbers game. There need to be enough people remaining to keep civilisation together, but few enough that it is sustainable. I am guessing in Britain, the optimum is 10-20 million people. So what filter do you use to get that number: those who accept a vaccine, or those that refuse it?

My guess is that most people will accept the vaccine. As I said, I DON'T think this vaccine will be a killer. My hypothesis is that it is a stage in a longer process of population filtration: a trial run for psychological purposes, maybe; a means of getting a list of potential future troublemakers; or the first in a series of jabs that will finish by killing the right number of people.

As I say, pure speculation; all I know is the whole thing feels funny to me.
It doesn't make much sense for the USA, UK and european governments to kill their own populations with mass vaccination but not any other countries populations... but then they are quite stupid... :roll:
They won't want to kill their entire populations - just bring them down to sustainable levels. As I mentioned above, I don't know exactly how one might splice the population to achieve this.

As for other countries' populations: it would make sense for other countries (China, for example) to be participating in a parallel programme with regard to their own populations. This makes more sense to me than international germ warfare, for which the MAD model applies as much as it does to nuclear war.

Or it might just be as simple as the poor drugs companies wanting more money and convincing half witt mp's that it's a good idea to give everyone more drugs.
Possible, but there seems to me a lot of evidence for this motive fitting into a much bigger picture.
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All this talk of manufactured viruses, compulsory vaccinations with ulterior motives and the western politicians and doctors being in some way in on it is absolute rubbish in my opinion.

Anyone who seriously thinks our elected officials or the civil servants would entertain such activities for a moment are in my opinion way way out of touch with reality.
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clv101 wrote:All this talk of manufactured viruses, compulsory vaccinations with ulterior motives and the western politicians and doctors being in some way in on it is absolute rubbish in my opinion.

Anyone who seriously thinks our elected officials or the civil servants would entertain such activities for a moment are in my opinion way way out of touch with reality.
Chris, we've become a branch of LATOC, if you hadn't already noticed.

I suppose the (possible) postponement of PO by the recession is leading to mental meanderings amongst the inmates.

We need the oil price to CLIMB ... and SOON!
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clv101 wrote:All this talk of manufactured viruses, compulsory vaccinations with ulterior motives and the western politicians and doctors being in some way in on it is absolute rubbish in my opinion.

Anyone who seriously thinks our elected officials or the civil servants would entertain such activities for a moment are in my opinion way way out of touch with reality.
I really don't fancy an argument about this but your strongly worded post prompts me to respond.

As your post makes clear, at the bottom of this whole debate is not the question of evidence, but of what we each think our leaders are capable of.

In times of crisis, governments lie to their populaces and frequently exploit them. Do you think in WW1, the Government sent hundreds of thousands of mostly uneducated men to the trenches imagining anything other than that they would be slaughtered? Do you think the American Government and the CIA gave a fig for the lives of the soldiers in Vietnam? All they cared about was eradicating communism, at a very high cost if necessary, as long as it was not they personally who had to bear it.

And what is currently at stake is at least an order of magnitude more serious than the survival of our political system. One way or another, the world WILL be depopulated over the next few decades. It seems to me you don't accept this as inevitable. As I read in a review on DODGY TAX AVOIDERS recently, if any other species had swelled to the numbers that humankind has, we'd think it long overdue for a cull. Many here, despite being atheists, are still in thrall to the Christian doctrine that we should not kill members of our own species.

I also think many people here, having grown up in by far the cushiest society and time in history, don't have the imagination to realise that bad stuff and impure motives are not just things that happen in films, novels and history books.

Do you really doubt that elected leaders are capable of acting cynically, dishonestly and callously? Are you, for example, the one person in the country who thinks Tony Blair told the truth about Iraq?

I think some people are incapable of accepting the grey area between believing everything and believing nothing. You and Vortex believe nothing but what's in front of your noses. You are, it seems to me, both fundamentally decent but unimaginative people, who have difficulty accepting that the world might be an unjust and complicated place.

No one here has said they believe outright that there is a programme for depopulation. There is no irrefutable evidence for it, so it remains merely a possibility. How serious a possibility one thinks it depends partly, no doubt, on one's view of human nature. I think human nature is highly malleable - people can change their interpretations of morality and what's acceptable very quickly, in response to changing circumstances. You and Vortex seem to think that human nature is essentially static, and good.

My guess is that many doctors have serious reservations about the vaccination programme, but prefer out of fear or just the desire for a quiet life not to speak out. I have personally witnessed adverse situations in which people who I thought possessed integrity have kept their mouths shut, their heads down and their noses clean, and dispassionately watched their fellows take the bullet. I would actually say that this is by far the most common human response to any kind of moral dilemma. History, I think, bears me out quite well. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I suspect neither you nor Vortex has studied history much.
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I think you're way out of touch with reality and you think Vortex and I are unimaginative and ignorant of history. Fair enough, it would be a dull place if we were all of the same opinion. :) I for one have no further interest in discussing this further though of course can't disagree with you that is is a "possibility".
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If this vaccination program does have a sinister motive then it won't be due to the involvement of doctors or MP's. These people will simply be implementing what they believe to be the right course of action as you'd expect them to. Of course they could be inadvertently doing what those in power hope they would.
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Anyone who seriously thinks our elected officials or the civil servants would entertain such activities for a moment are in my opinion way way out of touch with reality.
I for one have no further interest in discussing this further

our elected officials have just LIED TO US TO GET US INVOLVED IN A WAR and covered a country with du and their allied to people who have secret torture camps where they have been torturing and raping kids .

thats in the public domain partly because of dr kelly who later cut his own wrists with a pen knife in a remote field
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you think Vortex and I are unimaginative and ignorant of history.
I create and edit all my websites and also my print media copy including pictures. I even wrote (but didn't speak) the copy of a radio advert once. I still write a bit of software now and then - but nowhere near as much as I used to. I also have two patents - they might be a bit creative I suppose.

Over the weekend I read "Dining With Terrorists" and "My War Gone By, I Miss It So" ... these are (gruesome) history / political works.

Will that do?
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Post by Cran »

Anyone who seriously thinks our elected officials or the civil servants would entertain such activities for a moment are in my opinion way way out of touch with reality
If such a conspiracy was to happen our elected officials and civil servants wouldn't have much say in it, and most probably wouldn't know what was really happening.
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Post by bigjim »

I don't like this conspiracy theory nonsense about vaccines. I had the 'normal' flu vaccine last winter and I'm still around; surely that would have been a good opportunity to kill people off? Or any of the childhood vaccinations like MMR, if there was a conspiracy theory to kill us all with that surely we would have heard more than some dodgy unsubstantiated attempts to link it with the rise in autism. Or that HPV vaccine that they're giving out to girls, why have there been no mass reports of death attached to that?
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