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Ever stop to think that with the Strait of Hormuz blocking all that oil from getting to refineries, that pumping it out of the ground has to stop at some point? I did. It hit me that the system is geared for a fairly constant level of output that’s matched to a fairly constant level of refining capability and subsequent storage for a gently fluctuating market. A reasonable balance must be maintained between production and storage.

It turns out that THIS IS VITAL. This balance absolutely must be maintained, because once most oil wells are shut down, they’re lost. They can’t be started back up again. For instance, “Oil sands or thermally-assisted wells (like those in Canada) cannot just be switched off. Reducing steam injection quickly causes the reservoir to lock up or experience water intrusion, risking millions in lost future production.” So Canada is about to lose some/many/all of it’s oil wells.

Iran has only about two weeks left of oil production before they have to shut down their wells because they’ll be out of storage capacity no later than June 16. Doing so will damage their oil wells and fields. Google says, without explanation, that “Sudden and long-term halts at oil production plants risk permanent damage to a fuel reservoir and make it increasingly difficult to restart operations and reach the same level of output as before.”

On researching this, I found that reasons for it are plentiful and the most common are that most of the oil is forced out without pumping by natural gas and that the gas pressure is often lost when shutting down a well, and that water which normally lies under the oil tends to rise and cover the oil if the well’s shut down, destroying the well.

So when Iran’s wells shut down, their economic problems are multiplied and they may not recover. The same thing is happening to all the OPEC states and the Saudis, they’re already running out of storage space and have had to drastically reduce or stop both oil and natural gas production. 35% of the world’s total energy supply passed through the Strait.

If the Strait of Hormuz opened back up today, the wells would still have to be shut down because it takes about 45 days for a supertanker to go from, for instance, Iran to China. Once emptied, it’s another 45 days back to load up with more, so starting from RIGHT NOW, there will be no more storage space available for oil for another three months.

When the Strait finally is opened, all the oil wells in the entire Middle East will be shut down and inoperable, and they may never recover nearly what their former production was.

Inflation is going to keep increasing rapidly, it has to, the energy shortage is causing higher energy costs and it takes energy to do make everything, do everything, and get it to the stores. Poverty is going to greatly increase while food and shelter become harder to get. Famine brings disease. Ebola may become the next panic button, watch out for new “vaccines” being pushed at us.

So here’s the Bottom Line, courtesy of the Mind of Black Sheep (what would you do without me?): The USA, being the world’s largest producer of oil, and now with Venezuela’s oil fields also at their command, will dominate the world’s oil supply and therefor the world’s economy. The USA is leading in the fight for Planet Master, and is poised to win it. All other nations will become USA’s economic partners, it will be a sort of Super European Union, with the USA making the rules and everyone else following them or suffering severe consequences. That’s the short version, the world is diving straight into major change but it won’t happen overnight.

The EU is dying and the funeral looms closely by. China’s Communist Party will become much more amenable to cooperation with Xi’s inevitable departure, and Russia will follow suit. The UN will be stripped of it’s headquarters because of it’s uselessness, most likely to be exacerbated by the usually rabid and unreasonable Middle Eastern members. The bickering will no longer be tolerated. Those 18 incredibly prime and valuable Manhattan Island acres may become, with the buildings, the new home headquarters of the United World, instead. Seems appropriate.

This is the plan and it’s working. Iran will economically collapse and no longer be able to fund proxies to wage wars. China and others will aid Iran’s nuclear ambitions at their economic peril, if they want to benefit from adequate oil at low prices from the USA/Venezuela bloc. Some of the M.E. states have turned to tourism for income as their oil reserves dwindled, but none of them are going to be able to do more than raise their voices anymore at Israel. They won’t dare to make war or support proxies any more because what oil production they can rebuild will still be thick crude compared to the sweet crude of Venezuela and the USA that they will easily lose any price war to.

The Great Islamic Caliphate will die on the vine as the money runs out. Islam will always be a problem, of course, but moderation will win out and Islam may eventually die out with China in the partnership, considering the Chinese intolerance for any religion. Of course, at this point my certainty has devolved into speculation. Time moves on.

Are you paying attention? It’s nearly June and the Strait of Hormuz is still closed. Oil is now being pumped across Saudi Arabia from where it normally loads, and over to their Red Sea port. Since this is only a pair of pipes of moderate size, they can’t handle the 25 Million Barrels Per Day (MBPD) that’s produced and normally shipped out of the Strait. Five to six MBPD is their current limit. Work is ongoing to expand this to ten MBPD but when completed that’s still 10 MBPD short of what the world needs.

US and Venezuela oil production is already maxed out. The sudden loss of about 15 million barrels of oil a day to the world economy is a tremendous shock and the waves from it are only starting. It’s going to be a tsunami. A massive number of common products are produced from oil. Almost all plastics, fuel including gasoline and diesel fuel, road surfacing, FERTILIZERS, insecticides, medicines, aircraft and auto parts, clothing fabrics. It’s endless. The shortfall has increased the cost of everything. The poor are fast becoming poorer. And hungrier. Hungrier because nearly One Third of ALL artificial fertilizer in the world has to come through the Strait.

The whole reason farmers are still able to feed the 8.3 billion population now is because of artificial fertilizers. We just don’t have enough natural manures to do it and there’s a war on beef cattle to make things worse. One third less fertilizer means at least one third less food can be grown, and much of the world’s best farmland now has homes and roads built on it.

Trump keeps saying that he’s in no rush to get a deal with Iran because of the US blockade, that Iran will have to relent eventually or their economy will collapse. Oh, no doubt, eventually it will, along with the economies of many other nations. Not the US, of course, being the world’s largest oil producer at over 13 MPD, or the Saudis, now that all of the other M.E. oil producers are totally reliant on that Saudi pipeline to sell any oil at all. We and the Saudis will be just fine, those of us who are financially sound. The rest of the population, not so fine. But hey, no rush, says Trump.

Piper Sandler, one of the worlds oldest, at about 150 years, and largest investment banks, says that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed for months yet. Because Trump. So, Question: If Trump is such a great conservative hero protecting Christian values of the world, why did he arrange for the Strait to be closed and is allowing it to remain closed when this will result in millions of deaths through starvation in the poorest nations? Because he’s not what he’s presented as? Because he’s part of a Globalist cabal?

The world no longer runs entirely on oil now that there’s solar and nuclear power plants, but there’s so many more people than there were and so much less oil being shipped now. Just a few more weeks and the planting season in the Southern Hemisphere will be over with, and the Super El Nino fully upon us.

Isn’t this fun? See how Mother Nature works hand in hand with Humanity to bring forth a New Globalised World? Of course, with decades of efforts to control the weather on the parts of China, Russia, the USA and whoever else felt like trying it, this Super El Nino may not be all Mother Nature’s doing. It’s said that this one will be historic, and perhaps in more ways than one, hmm?

The word is, that people are deliberately misspelling words in things they write to prove that it’s authentically human and not something some AI program wrote.

When AI first started getting good, the first use of it that really got some attention was in Hollywood, where real actors were being replaced with AI creations, and the music world, where songs started coming out that were written and produced by non-existent musicians. All of the above is still going on, of course, only better and much more realistic as the technology improves.

The problem here is that everything is electronic now. How does anyone prove that an image is an actual photograph and not an AI creation? It’s a real problem for those for whom it’s a real problem. The rest of us don’t give a shit, of course, so this is about the It’s A Real Problem people and I have a solution.

Yes, jadees and lentilmen, I can Fix This, all I need is a few billion dollars and some laws passed by Congress, and signed by Pres. Trump, of course. What we have to do is bring back Kodak Film and the thousands of little Fotomat film processing kiosks in mall parking lots.

An actual photograph taken on light-sensitive material is of the actual scene. It can be a staged illusion but it can’t be electronically manipulated unless it’s copied to an electronic format. The original photograph stays the same.

Of course, it won’t take long for an AI program to start creating totally bogus pictures and exposing film to them, so you end up with the same thing anyway, but it would give the people in Washington a new and creative way to waste more of our money. I would welcome this, I’m so bored of failed weapon projects, shipbuilding cost overruns and trains and bridges to nowhere. They used to spend it all on studies, like $50 million to find out if houseflies get enjoyment from sex and $80 million to find the lowest temperature that chickens will still lay eggs at. One of my favorites, actually, and one that I found really interesting and hoped I could get a piece of the action on, was the $800 hammers. Just making the little steel wedges that hold the hammer part to the handle would have made me rich. Oh well.

“Bongo bongo bongo, I wanna leave the Congo, ’cause I don’t want Ebola…”

Yes, beloved, the Words of Fear are spreading even faster than the disease is in the Congo. Stay armed and if you see any mask dealers lurking about, shoot them on the spot and help prevent the spread of the real disease, which is Fear.

Another news bit of note, or bits since the news is plainly spreading, is that this is a Super El Nino, it’s just going to cause so much hell, so much damage and devastation and blablablabla Fear.

All I can tell you is that if you want the real truth, which is frightening enough, read it here. What the Gov’t tells us is mostly lies and misdirection. Whatever they see fit to tell us is always stuff that doesn’t matter. Remember Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who escaped to Russia to keep from being killed by his employers? “I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions,” but “I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.”

I’ve been telling you for a long time now that the world is run by at least one cabal and I never had access to top secret NSA information, as he did. I just look at the world and what people are doing and it’s pretty damned obvious what they’re doing. Ignore what they keep saying and look at what they keep doing. It’s easy, anyone can do it.

The truth is that Ebola can’t spread in the US except among immigrants like the Somalis, Kenyans, Congolese and so forth because of their unsanitary habits, as Ebola is spread through physical contact with an infected person’s body fluids.

The truth about El Nino is that we won’t know if it’s going to get bad until it does. It’s expected to bring a lot of violent weather ranging from floods in some places to severe drought in others, and the weather being what it is, predictions are only that. So if you live in a drought area, put in a good water supply, dig a well or whatever and if you live in a flood zone, dig some drainage ditches, invest in sandbags, buy a rowboat, get some purified water, good rain gear. Just prepare, just in case, then go on about your life. Whatever happens, you’ll very likely have some time to see it coming. Remember the wise words of Muad Dib: “Fear is the mind killer”. You’re welcome. Now be strong, brave and happy, and march forward with your right middle finger raised high on the end of your arm.

Trump’s latest blurts on Iran are that they’re either 80% or 50% at a deal, depending on which blurt you read. He says they agreed to give up their uranium, they say “No, they didn’t” and then he says “Oh yes they did”.

While this public bickering goes on and everyone keeps being assured of a peaceful diplomatic solution that the Iranians will never keep even if they agree to it and sign it with their blood at the UN, any more than they ever have of any other agreements they’ve made, while this goes on the Strait continues to stay closed to shipping. Oil shipping. Trump did casually mention that the Strait may be closed for another 60 days yet.

Trump is making sure that those he wants to have oil still get it and those he doesn’t, don’t. Between the Texas oil fields and our hold on Venezuela’s oil, the US is controlling much of the world’s oil supply now instead of the Middle East producers. At the same time, as long as the Strait stays closed, market reports say that all the world’s big oil companies are reaping major fortunes from the closure. Haven’t researched that so I’ll take their word on it, it sounds reasonable if they have a lot of full reserve tanks.

My concern in all this is that Iran will keep their IRGC-controlled government and continue to be a plague on the rest of us until someone, most likely Israel, has no choice left but to nuke them to stop them.

Meantime, this is all about keeping the Strait closed, as I’ve previously ranted about. I toldja so that this is going to be prolonged and I said why. If you skipped that part, scroll down.

Stupid people think that they’re just as smart as smart people. I noticed this when I was young, they know that they’re not smart but make up for that by convincing themselves that Yes, They Are, By God. The only difference is that they can never be doctors or scientists or college professors and get mostly C’s and D’s in high school but That Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Smart and they can prove they are anytime by punching someone in the face who calls them stupid, and anyway the only reason they don’t become doctors and stuff is because they don’t want to. They could if they wanted to, easy. Ayup.

Stupid people will always try a new line of stupid reasoning when the last one doesn’t get the desired results. If they’re accused of cheating at something, and the stupid reasons they give why it’s not cheating don’t work, they’ll create all new stupid reasons and when none of them work, it won’t matter, you’re just wrong, that’s all.

Stupid people can never understand why smart people see straight through their bullshit. When they get fired from a job for being too stupid, that doesn’t stop them from going right out and getting another job exactly the same as the last one. It’s the Peter Principle in action, except when stupid people rise to their level of incompetence, they usually get fired and go rise to it again somewhere else. Stupid people are the ones who will keep trying to do something the same way every time and expect a different result even though they keep failing.

There’s nothing worse in this world than a stupid Liberal. The smart Liberals are just evil, it’s the stupid ones that take the orders, follow blindly and do all the real damage. The human race needs a serious DNA cleansing. It’s not the fault of stupid people to be born stupid, but the age of ditch diggers and cabbage pickers is ending as AI machines take over, and we’ve been seeing the proof of this grow with the swelling homeless encampments spilling over the sidewalks and filling up the storm drains. Besides, stupid people are all just So Fucking Boring and the stupid Liberals are the worst, everything you say to them is Racist or Just Wrong and Offensive. You can’t even mention the fucking weather, it turns into Global Warming. Me, I’m hoping for an invasion by some otherworldly alien race to clean the place up. Or maybe a nice nuclear war?

This morning I listed an old lapidary machine on ebay. I have a few of them lying around that I’d acquired in trade back when the craft store was busy struggling to survive, and failing, and there’s a fair pile of stuff left yet just taking up space and contributing to the general clutter. I’ve been looking at it long enough, time for it to go. Now that I’ve broken the ice and navigated ebay’s current listing form, that seems to change more often than the tides, and succeeded in getting a first listing up, more will follow. This is my New Year’s Day Resolution that I committed to today, which I’ve officially declared to be the real New Year’s Day. Calendar printers, take note.

The ebay listing form has gone through a myriad of changes since I first joined up in 1995, and most of them have been confusing as hell. Then, just when you think you’ve mastered the damn thing, everything changes and you get to do it all again. If ebay isn’t the cause of the expression “If it ain’t broke, DON’T FIX IT”, then they should be.

Of course, everything they’ve done, every change they’ve made, has been for their benefit, not for those of us who use their online auction service, to make them more money, more more more money, as we watched in dismay while their rates and fees increased and more were added and the cost to us just kept on increasing in direct proportion to their hold on online auction selling. The greater their share of the market, the less competition they had, the more they charged. They called themselves ebay, but for us users, it’s Feebay.

I’m not even sure anymore. When they started out the fees were around 7% of the sale and now it’s at least 13%, maybe more. Sotheby’s Auctioneers charges less. I know, I’ve sold with them, and they have the wealthiest clientele on the planet. But for us general riffraff, it’s ebay because Sotheby’s has no interest in our cheap junk and no one forces us to use ebay. The plain truth is that they’re a lot more profitable than selling stuff at a yard sale on our front lawn.

They have refined their methods of making sure they get theirs first so exact and perfect that I don’t see any need for them to keep coders on the payroll anymore and chances are they already fired the ones who wrote them all that perfect, money-grubbing code. Less employees, more money for them. Yes, I do see ebay as being run by the living avatars of Ebeneezer Scrooge. So sue me for my opinion. I have good reason for it. Yes, I know that businesses are not charities but does ebay have to be quite so ruthless? It’s just offensive to me.

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© The Face Of A 3,500 Year Old Mycenaean Woman Has Been Revealed. Image credit: Juanjo Ortega. Dr. Emily Hauser, a historian and author, commissioned a digital facial reconstruction based on a clay mold of the woman’s skull.

Blacks do their best to come up with imaginative names for their children. Like Trayvon. It wasn’t until one named Trayvon got shot and Obama claimed him as a surrogate son that anyone had ever heard of that name, but it caused interest in black naming to greatly increase in the public mind.

In light of this wonderful imaginative naming trend, I have some suggestions to offer. Granola, Canola, Victrola and Shinola would make great names for black girls. I was thinking maybe a new TV game show modeled after Name That Tune, called Name That Coon could prove to be really popular, what do you think?

The name I’ve been saving for last is Ebola, since a lot of blacks all have it now and more are getting it, wouldn’t it make a great name for some little black infant girl? Ebola Jackson. Ebola Obama. Come on, tell me if that doesn’t really have a great ring to it, huh?

W.H.O. chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the very same person who backed Fauci and the Covid fraud, declared the Ebola outbreak to be a global emergency last week because the W.H.O. needs money to keep living it up in luxury. Ebola will have to spread out from Africa and into Europe and the Americas before it’s a global emergency, and that isn’t real likely since most people don’t get physical with the dead. The Africans do, someone dies of Ebola, they’re practically taking bites of the body in all the little rituals for the dead that they practice.

That’s why Ebola spreads among Africans, it’s their filthy practices. GOOGLE SAYS: Ebola spreads only through direct contact with body fluids of an infected, symptomatic, or diseased person. Google failed to mention that it’s also spread by handling a diseased corpse and then sucking on a finger, rubbing an eye or picking one’s nose or handling food and eating it without washing hands.

ANYWAY… this is the Afternoon Newsbleat Topic for today because there’s a genuine effort afoot to bring Ebola here and spread it around to start another Covid type panic scenario. Don’t go for it.

As we enter a brand new Fire Season here in sunny and Very Dry California, the two reservoirs above Los Angeles are both literally bone dry. Not a drop of water in either one, they were both completely drained shortly before the Pacific Palisades fire started and burned down the 16,000 homes that the water was supposed to be there to save. The reason the mayor gave for draining the water away is patently moronic and plainly invalid, and extremely suspicious to someone looking at land values. Fortunes may be made by opportunists because of this, and I’ll say no more about it. Not my concern.

As heavily populated as the whole Los Angeles basin is now, from the ocean to up and beyond the Hollywood Hills behind L.A., which are heavily forested with very dry and volatile brush, it will only take one idiot with a match and a westerly wind to wipe out a large portion of Southern California because there’s not enough borate powder on the planet to stop a fire that big, and there’s sure no water for it either.

All they have water for is drinking water and water rationing is coming soon as the summer comes on. Water rationing in California is a common occurrence in summertimes, people are told to flush toilets less, are fined for washing their cars in their driveways and watering their lawns.

Dirty cars and dead lawns have been the modest price that So. Californians have had to pay over the years because of the periodic water shortages, but things have changed. Now there’s so very many people living in all those wood houses that burn so brightly that were open land before, that will be cinders without water to put out fires when they start and which is exactly why the Pacific Palisades homes all burned down, all Sixteen Thousand of them.

I have a bad feeling about this year’s fire season.