That's not the issue.

The problem here is that people like power. They like meaning. They like forcing their ideology on other people. They like making money. Civil servants, politicians, and Bill Gates types have their own interests to keep this nonsense going.

Covid-19 was always a joke. I was slow to the mark until May 2020. Just like that, if they can scare enough people, then its lockdowns ago again. The virus in itself doesn't matter as much. Just look at the 3000 dead of our own Irish for example. But wheres the outrage on that? Who is talking about that?

https://t.me/keith_woods/2750

Post by Vox Day on the Fed's interest rate/debt quandary.

I think he's right. Small incremental interest rate increases in order to trigger a deflation in asset prices so that the assets can be gathered up by bigger entities. They can't do what Volker did. There's too much debt in the system.

The next question is: How exposed are the Irish banks to an increase in interest rates?

Because one danger Ireland faces is another NAMA, whereby a significant percentage of Irish assets get bought up by bigger, foreign entities, that won't have our best interests in mind.

Hi there anon!

I'm in charge of running your country! Did you say something racist today? Or maybe something misogynistic? Thats not good enough! Hee hee hee!

I want hate speech laws! And the name of the Passport Express to change because that is how we work at Fine Gael Co! And those are our priorities! Those ten thousand homeless Irish is just because of housing supply! We are worried that you are stirring up populist sentiment and would like you to attend a course on this. You will need, of course, to provide your face for facial recognition!

Would it be possible to get a reply by COB today?

Thanks!

Emer

I think there's eight things going on here.

1: Housing Crisis. People are being increasingly being priced out of living in a commutable distance to places where retail is being provided. Therefore, it is not worth it to travel in for a job.

2: Following on from point number one, the ones who can travel in, can afford to demand higher wages, driving up labor costs further.

3: Following on from the previous two points, if input costs due to inflation are going up. then people in the labor market who are left (because of the housing issue) HAVE to demand higher wages in order to make it worth their while.

4: Declining IQ due to the change in Irish population over time. Less people capable of doing these jobs.

5: Mental health issues. The past two years has affected people to a big degree. Less people in the frame of mind to work these jobs,

6: Adverse reactions. This one is theoretically easy to measure. If more people are badly sick, then less people are able to work, and more disability payments are required to provide for them. Have disability benefits gone up in Ireland? They certainly have in the U.S.A since the vaccine rollout.

7: People becoming more risk averse. Sheltered "I don't want to get it" boomers not as happy to leave the house anymore so less trips to the restaurant or the pub. Could this be the case for the job market?

8: More working from home, means companies trying to appeal to people by offering working from home options. People end up switching out of retail as a result.

Anything I'm missing here?

https://t.me/gearmurphy/1004

Join me and maestro citizen journalist https://t.me/PhilipDwyerMOI for a catch up at 8pm (Gael Time) this evening. https://youtu.be/uDSO-DINAcQ

Dubliners is fantastic. Portrait is good. Ulysees is smart boy trying to look smart at the expense of everything else. Finnegans Wake is unreadable garbage.

I HATE James Joyce.

Excess mortality in Q4 2021 went up by about 16% compared to Q4 2020 according to rip.ie.

The insurance companies know. The Department of Health know. The CSO know. The senior civil servants know.

Whether this is a harmless delay or a spin job, (wait and see how they present the information) the point still stands.

It is hard to make a dead body disappear.

Wasnt planning on posting a video today but here is a quick video on the CSO vital statistics for fourth quarter of 2021 or the lack of....

Great video, but I'll post an answer to this.

They do care about the optics.

It's cringe to you and I because we are not the target audience for this.

The ladder climbing, individualist compliant elites (or wannabe elites) that are what we have now in the west are the target audience for this.

They love this stuff, as they see themselves as enlightened, having the right opinions and fighters against populism and nationalism.

Another thing is that they see themselves at the top of the pyramid. Watching this kind of stuff is a way of knowing how to progress in the system.
https://t.me/MorgothsReview/2797

It's been clipped. Here's the youtube to the original livestream.

He says in the original:

"The number of people in the world who cannot afford our medicines by 50%."

https://youtu.be/9ccd3LMNMl8?t=160

https://t.me/IrelandCritiqued/821

This is a symptom of the rot at the very core of what made the GAA a fierce organisation.

"We don't have the players"

I'll explain that better if I can;
The GAA was never a sporting organisation, it was a cultural one. It didn't so much care if two rival villages got on well in the pursuit of tropies, as it cared more about the state of those villages and what made them worth living in and fighting for.

It doesn't matter if its guns and bombs like the Battle of Pettigo a century ago, it was the fact you're fighting for your place in the world. Pettigo can take a hammering, I remember they lost by 14 goals and a countless amount of points in a match years ago, they were bottom of the table and had already played "the easy teams", but every single one of those players was back at the pitch to train the next day to get abuse, physical and mental over the things they did and didn't do.

They were fighting for their village and the people around them. Glory wasn't what they really were looking for, it was a bit of honour. And fair fucks to them for that. They are the GAA, and the Gaelic culture.

Bitta respect, bitta honour in what you do.

Sportsball is a foreign invention, but Pettigo was there long before even the Danes landed.

Being out and about over the past few days, talking to people I get the feeling there's a real sense of palpable, raw anger, combined with this utter cynicism and nihilism on what is going on right now. Let's call it existential tiredness.

I get the feeling that there's going to be something significant, something profound is going to happen by the end of this year.

What that is though I don't know.

As mad as it sounds, there's a really dark point to this.

Intelligent people are an extremely powerful resource in your society.

It's going to be harder to stand your ground against other people/other countries/other elites when everyone ends up with an IQ boost because of a microchip lol.

Your country might not do it, but then as a result, you end up dominated by the other countries.

Why? Intelligent people get there (as in to the goal) faster.

https://t.me/ComputingForeverOfficial/1988

Just listened to an Auron McIntyre/Morgoth stream there. Very good stuff in particular the end.

I know things are a bit gloomy right now but there is quite a bit to be positive about, even if the short term is likely to be very painful for all of us.

1: Bioleninism. If the ruling structure of the west is built on giving low status people artificially high levels of status through loyalty, then you end up building organizations that filter out competent people at the expense of minority groups. This leads to organizations that become increasingly dysfunctional and silly over time.

2: Two years of the coof. In Ireland, they've alienated and isolated 10% of the population who chose to be vaccine free, even more than that, considering the people who felt forced into it. You now have 20% of the population or so who are very angry with the regime right now in some shape or form and that is not going away.

3: Geopolitics and multipolarity. Like Morgoth said, there's a bloc forming between Russia/India/China and the west. This is some bit of evidence that they don't have everything is as tied up as they would like. Not every country is going along with everything that is going on, though there is a bit of dispute on that one.

4: Localism. The way the west is built, it becomes harder to impose this stuff at a more local level as power becomes more centralized and fragile. This in tandem with the previous points, makes it harder for the regime to impose policies.

5: Quality of the elites. Irish example. Compare Eamon De Valera (this is not a political good or bad post btw), who was considered one of the best mathematicians in Europe (quaternion calculus was his area) and an excellent athlete, to a loser nerd like Varadkar. Same at all levels. They may be smarter than you or I, but they are far more prone to make massive mistakes, especially when combined with hubris and the general decline in IQ of the west. They are not the people that came before.

6: Hope. There is nothing inspiring these people offer. Nothing hopeful. Nothing meaningful. You can't sustain a population on "saving the environment" by eating less meat. You need something bigger than that.

It will be the people that walk away from this clownshow who inherit the earth.

Based on the new CSO numbers that came out today, I had adjusting for year, an excess mortality of 2500-3000 (3620 was the overall figure, but that was adjusted for our population being older, etc) , when in reality it's more like 2100. So a 7% rather than a 12% increases as I had here.

Usually rip.ie is 2%-3% higher than the CSOs official figures because of outside notifications on the website. This year it was more like 9%, which in itself is interesting.

Anyway, my figures are too high here.

https://t.me/LastGael/110

On my previous comment, the CSO have a post here on late registered deaths, where by an additional 600 deaths were added to the 2019 number.

So, assuming the same number is added on in 2023 going forward (and it will be higher to be honest) , we are to some degree underreporting deaths here. The numbers will probably be higher for 2020 as well.

When the late registered deaths are counted, we are probably going to be closer to the 3000 call I made earlier.

Sudden and unexplained deaths have to be investigated by the coroner service. Therefore, a lot of the died suddenly/unexpectedly in the younger cohorts are going to end under the banner of these late registration deaths.

The death numbers are worse than their being made out to be.