Scientist Analyzes 3000 Years Of Data (Video - 1h22mn)

    The subject of this video is as interesting as the author is not. Fortunately, Just the PowerPoint Presentation is enough to follow the progression of the argumentation and the talk is extremely well documented under the video with structure and links which provide the necessary support to understand the reasoning.  

    In a precedent article, we saw how Peter Zeihan was integrating resources and population in his economic analysis: 

The World You Grew Up In Is About to Change Forever by Peter Zeihan

    Here, Simon Michaux is adding the time dimension to the discussion with a fascinating exploration of what happened before. 

    So what exactly happened before? 

    Even without reading Gibbon's Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, most people are well aware of the decline of Rome and the onslaught of the German "Barbarians" 1,500 years ago. But adding the similar crash of the Bronze Age period, 1,500 years before that, adds context to how exactly civilizations fall by exhausting the resources they are built upon. Especially as narrated by the Egyptians with their Empire at the time of Ramses III submerged by the mysterious "Sea People".  

   Simon Michaux believes the warning for us is ominous and explains in detail how he believes, lacking energy, we may lose the ability to manufacture our most advanced products with microchips at the very top of the list. 

Scientist Analyzes 3000 Years Of Data: The Elite Are Preparing For Something HUGE | Simon Michaux

CHAPTERS of the discussion:

00:00 – Introduction: Semiconductors as Modern Charcoal

00:58 – The Concept of Grand Transitions

02:44 – High-Level Policy Meetings & Global Fragility

06:04 – Lessons from Past Civilizations (1177 BC Collapse)

17:00 – A Forest Journey: Wood as the Original Oil

21:23– Our Dependence on Fossil Fuels

22:56 – The 60-Year Evolution of the Automobile & Petroleum

25:50 – Natural Gas: From Waste Product to National Strategy

27:28 – The Rise of Petrochemicals & Synthetic Materials

29:02 – Manufacturing Complexity: From Metal Lathes to CNC

32:05 – Semiconductors: The Pinnacle of Industrial Complexity

35:18 – Industrial Agriculture & The Green Revolution

37:52 – Mining & The Increasing Energy Cost of Metal

41:42 – The Ecological Reality & Planetary Carrying Capacity

42:54 – Money, Banking, & The Shift to Virtual Currency

47:14– The Current Grand Transition Summary

53:50 – The Factor of Time: Why Transitions Take Decades

55:21 – Updated Models: Price Volatility & Resource Declines

59:51 – Preparing for Inevitable Systemic Shifts

01:03:30 – Geopolitics, Bioweapons, & Strategic Conflicts

01:07:41 – Can AI Solve Resource Scarcity?

01:14:45 – Surveillance Grids vs. Resource Management

01:21:09 – Where to Find Simon Michaux’s Work

A $100 Trillion Currency Crisis Just Started (Video - 19mn)

   Let's stay with good news. This video is shorter than the previous one but no less concerning, Is the dollar about to crash... up, and throw the world economy under the bus?  

   It is not only likely but what is actually happening in slow motion right now. The main roadkill may end up being the Japanese Yen since the Japanese are stuck with a very low and repressive interest rate thanks to their gargantuan debt. Korea is also suffering mightily and so will every single developing country soon enough. What could slow down this trend? Well, a recession of course. That one thing which name we cannot say less we slay the market bubble. Did someone called this a bind? 

A $100 Trillion Currency Crisis Just Started

 

The World You Grew Up In Is About to Change Forever by Peter Zeihan (Video - 1h19mn)

   I am not a great fan of Peter Zeihan. He is an ideologue and I find most of his conclusions consequently tainted. But one thing he does better than anybody else is incorporate resources and population in his economic forecast which very few other analysts can lacking the knowledge.   

   In the video below, he makes a few predictions, one of which I have already heard which stipulate that the population of China is not as high as it is said. This looks preposterous at first glance: How could a country like China not count accurately its population? But then, when you look at the details, it makes more and more sense. Is the disparity as large as what he says: 300 millions? There is probably no way to know. But think about it, if this was even remotely true, this would change almost all the other data we think we know about China. First the country would automatically be richer than calculated, and then there is the age pyramid imbalance which he talks about extensively in the video below:   

The World You Grew Up In Is About to Change Forever - Peter Zeihan

 

 

BREAKING-PEPE: SAUDI ARABIA JUST DUMPED AMERICA-Will Pakistan's Nuclear Umbrella Now Cover Saudi ? (Video - 35mn)

   To borrow the words of Pepe Escobar, the realignment taking place in the Middle East right now is "immensely important"! 

   Forget what you hear on the news, There are basically no negotiations between the US and Iran contrary to the media show taking place in Switzerland. The "real" negotiations are between Iran and Saudi Arabia by the intermediary of Pakistan and concern a new security arrangement for the whole Middle East.  

   The issue is not the simplistic concept of who won and lost the war. What really happened is that Iran single-handedly resisted the onslaught of the US war machine and by this feat alone redistributed the cards in the Gulf. 

   Long term, this means the exit of the US from the area and a more "local based" structure to maintain both peace and the flow of oil guaranteed by Pakistan (with China behind?). 

   This said, there are elements missing from the analysis of Pepe Escobar. The Israels of course are fulminating and have said publicly that they would NOT respect any specific clause from such agreement. More silently, the Emirates cannot welcome with open arms something which favor so obviously Saudi Arabia. Finally, India, the main buyer of Iranian oil looks strangely absent from an agreement centered on its archenemy, Pakistan. 

   What is certain is that the whole post-1973 petro-dollar arrangement of the last 50 years is now at stake. This concerns absolutely everybody and that indeed is "immensely important".  Uncovering and understanding such seismic shifts is what this blog is about, not commenting the news which nowadays is mostly hogwash of propaganda and misdirection. With this context in mind, let's prepare for a turbulent Summer. Here's the details on YouTube:  

BREAKING-PEPE: SAUDI ARABIA JUST DUMPED AMERICA-Will Pakistan's Nuclear Umbrella Now Cover Saudi ?

Your Money Is About To Be Worth A Lot Less (Video - 25mn)

   Everything is about narrative these days including and especially the market.

   Get it right and people will accept almost anything. Get it wrong, they revolt. 

   The job of the Fed of course it to get it right. This is how it's done: 

Your Money Is About To Be Worth A Lot Less

   Plus an update on Iran and the oil market.

   To say that we are in deep sh!t is an understatement! 

Iran Negotiation DESASTER & Russia in Full War Mode | Larry C. Johnson

 

No New Laws Required... Private Biometrics Are Building The Digital ID Prison

   The days of this blog and almost everything interesting on the Internet are counted. Soon, you will need a selfy, or real government issued ID to long on, first to the Internet then to participate to society, at which stage I will log out permanently. 

   We knew this was coming. It was just a matter of time and pretense as well as opportunity to have the right reason to do so. From the very beginning of this blog I warned this was coming, just as it was already being tested in China then. At one stage, the Covid crisis was used to push the idea with "vaccine" passports strongly promoted by the usual suspects. People pushed back and consequently, that angle of approach didn't work. 

   "Protect the children!" it will be, then. Who could be against? Unfortunately, what most governments want to do, especially in Europe, has nothing to do with "nudity", they couldn't care less, [LGBTQ are already in the classroom in many countries under the guise of "tolerance".], and everything to do with purging "wrong-think" and cleaning up Social Medias of "dangerous" ideas, like the government works for you and not the opposite. 

   What could and hopefully will save us are not whistleblowers which most people won't hear, but a major economic crisis could do the trick. Those pulling the strings in Europe know this of course which is why they are so busy demonizing Russia which will be used later to focus the hatred of the common people and justify more control down the road.     

   If all this doesn't remind you of "1984", then you didn't read the book carefully. 

   PS: The article is long and full of references so I only copied the Introduction below. Please follow the link here to read the examples:

by Patti Johnson via The Burning Platform blog,

That “black pill moment” is arriving faster than many realize. Not primarily through sweeping new government mandates, but through private companies quietly normalizing biometric data collection under the banners of “security,” “fraud prevention,” and “child protection.” They are erecting the infrastructure for a world where you cannot easily participate in daily life, commerce, or even basic online access without surrendering your face, your license scan, or other biometrics. Once the systems exist and the data flows, laws can simply ratify what private actors have already made routine.

In a recent commentary “Digital ID Black Pill Moment”, I highlighted a sobering reality: 186 out of 198 countries already have digital ID systems in place. Only a shrinking handful of nations lack foundational national digital IDs. As I wrote, “the global push for digital IDs is far advanced, likely past the point of no return, aligning with the UN’s 2030 goal of universal legal identity and enabling a globalist digital currency system that could control access to everything.”