August 29, 2022 • 26 mins
In this episode, we started with an apology to Professor George Kent, whom we had a chance to interview to talk about his article “The Benefits of World Hunger” and his books. We drew some parallels between what’s happening in the world today and what was happening after the fall of the Soviet Union, discussed shrinkflation, and the Swiss government banning electric heaters that the population rushed to buy. The announced planned power cuts, the replenishing Earth’s petroleum supplies, thorium salts fission that is more effective than nuclear and does not kill birds.
Portable electric heaters may face ban in Switzerland
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Taliy (00:00):
Back in the motion.
Alexey (00:01):
There's quite a lot of motion in the Notion this time.
Guys, before we move forward, weneed to correct something. In
the eighth episode from July 11,2022, we talked about an article
written by Professor GeorgeKent, "The Benefits of World
Hunger," I think everyone by nowknows, it made a lot of waves in
(00:25):
the news. And we were telling,like how a professor at the
University of Hawaii,specialized in food insecurities
and children, how can he writesuch atrocities? Luckily enough,
we had the chance to interviewProfessor Kent, actually, he is
a really nice person. And heexplained to us that he is a
(00:47):
retired professor right now, hesaid out of the blue, this
article, which did not gain anypopularity at the moment. And he
wrote it as a sarcastic article,really, to attract attention to
the problem of world hunger, whyit is there. And we had a chance
to clear things up and reallyhad a great talk about all the
(01:09):
problems related to hunger. Andthis is really important to know
that we don't know why UnitedNations published this article
and why they hastily removed itfrom the website. And he told us
that he was not informed ofeither or these things. But the
thing is that he is reallypassionate about human life and
(01:30):
the problems of hunger. And thiswas his way of expressing that
we have these problems preciselybecause someone is interested in
them. And this someone is theelites of this world, who are
benefiting from people havingnothing to eat and being eager
to work for almost nothing justfor food. With these being done,
(01:53):
we present our apologies toProfessor Kent, and I think that
we will have another time totalk with him. And you know,
there's an interesting thing hetold us about, he wrote several
books, and all of them on thistopic. The first book was "The
Political Economy of hunger, thesilent Holocaust," printed back
(02:14):
in 1984, he told us that therewas one book that gained
precisely zero attention. Andafter this, actually, he wrote
this article.
Oh, it's called shrinkflation.
Taliy (02:25):
It's interesting that he was writing books on the topic
of regulating infant formula somany years ago, before it became
the crisis in the US that it wasthis year with infant formula.
And basically, we see how asociety can be polarized on any
topic. They want artificially,like yesterday, the problem did
(02:47):
Yes, it's shrinkflation.
And like for anyone who grew upnot exist, there are 179
countries where this problemdoes not exist. Somehow, it
becomes an issue in one country.
And this is what we see here inthe US today, it is so many
things related to food,especially becoming an issue.
And one of the problems is thatlines becoming larger and larger
(03:11):
in local food banks. And in someof them as much as 30%, more
people come in for free foodweekly. And those are families
that are the first time visitorsat the food banks. So we're
seeing this trend. It's not yeta catastrophe, but it's getting
there. At the very same time,we're seeing that the economy is
(03:35):
deflating. You know, I've beentalking to my friends this week.
And they were complaining notonly about the prices going up
for food in the grocery stores,here and there, you can see like
something you used to buy for$5, all of a sudden is like
6.99, something that used to be$10 as 12.99. But sometimes they
(03:59):
say price stayed the same. Butthey opening the package, and
there is way less food in thevery same box.
in Eastern Europe during the1990s, it's not a surprise like
(04:21):
we've all seen this, we allwitnessed this. We know these
are the signs. That's whathappening when your country is
falling apart, or when italready fell apart, and there's
this is how you Europe theconsequences of the economical
catastrophe. And when I wastalking to this person that grew
(04:42):
up in Eastern Europe, inUkraine, and his friends asked
him what's going to happen tothe US next and he said it's
gonna be 1991. And they say,what, what what happened in
1991? Was it the Iraqi war, wasit the Afghanistan? He said no
Soviet Union fell apart and itwas mostly for economical
(05:03):
reasons. And now we seeing thatUS is getting there with more
than 10% inflation in less thana year. And now we see this huge
bill aimed at precisely makingthe economy green. And we know
that that did not help anysingle country to lower the
(05:24):
prices for energy. So look atthis holistically, you have
inflation of currency, you havelack of basic products like
food, and you printing a lot ofmoney to spend them on things
that makes your energyproduction more expensive. And
the bills for energy is gonna goup. Now look into the future
(05:46):
only like two or three yearsinto the future. And it's easy
to predict the result of thesethings. And of course, like, you
know, when the economy isbooming, when it's thriving,
when you have a lot of extramoney as it was only two years
ago, then people start investinginto innovation technologies,
different projects, they tend torisk more with their money. They
(06:08):
start talking about investinginto NFTs, crypto currencies,
metaverses, but right now, it'schanging a lot. One of the best
quotes of this week was by MarkCuban, he said, the dumbest
thing you can do is to investinto Metaverse property. And if
(06:29):
you did not realize it by now,then I guess people still gonna
learn it right now. Not everyoneunderstands it. But sharks of
the business like Mark Cubandefinitely understand that only,
only the real investments, realproducts, real assets,
threedimensional gonna costsomething, the rest of it all
(06:51):
those booming NFT's andcryptocurrencies are very flaky,
not something that you can relyon during the times of
economical crisis. And we aremost definitely facing it right
now.
Alexey (07:05):
Yeah, just a quick aside on the shrinkflation, just
today, we've been with the kidsto grab a snack outside, I
ordered a large bottle of water.
Oh, it was a glass bottle andstuff. But the kids they poored
the glasses, oh, the bottle isfinished. And my daughter is
looking at the back of thebottle and says it's 70
centiliters. And I said, yeah,you see, this is shrinkflation.
(07:27):
Because usually a big bottle ofwater, it was one liter, than it
was 0.75, and now it's 0.7. AndI remember also, when my
parents, it was in beginning ofthe 2000s. My mom is saying,
look, I remember these big barsof chocolate, they were 500
grams, and they cost I don'tknow, two Swiss francs or
(07:51):
something like that. And rightnow there are 400 grams, and
they cost six and a half. Sothis is what you see how you can
notice the shrinkflation. Andthis is why I always teach my
kids look at the price perounce, because this is what
you're paying for. Don't look atthe size of the box, because it
can be a small box, but it canbe full. Otherwise it can be a
(08:12):
big box, but really likethere'll be now maybe 1/5 at the
bottom of the actual productitself. Going back to this topic
of Metaverse, I don't know man,I send you this article today
about Switzerland's thinkingabout banning electric heaters.
Because with the rising gas andoil prices, people are thinking
(08:32):
ahead. They are buying theseelectric heaters the sales
during the summer period rose300% .This is enormous. I mean,
usually you either already havea heating system and or like
your maybe need to buy once in alifetime one extra heater where
you don't have enough if it's aprivate home, something like
(08:54):
that. 300%! And the governmentis already fast on its tracks,
you know, oh, we need to banthese because our power grid
will not support it. And justbefore that I told you this
story that they're saying,making this announcement that
this winter we may have powercuts, power shortages. So buy
(09:15):
candles. I mean guys, why are weeven talking about Metaverse if
we don't have enoughelectricity, because we went
green? If we don't have enoughelectricity to heat our homes,
do you think we will have enoughelectricity to power all the
server farms? And even acomputer at home used to access
(09:38):
this metaverse? I am confused.
Either we have these things likeeither the metaverse is
something that we all going toaccess. This is why people are
buying real estate because laterthey think that they will be
leasing it or renting it. Idon't know like whatever or
(09:59):
somehow have a return oninvestment. But if people
generally are advised to buycandles to prepare for power
shortages during the winter?
Yeah, I don't know, I don't seepeople powering up these
powerful machines required forvirtual reality. Because you
know, anyone who dealt withcryptocurrency mining, or
(10:23):
anything like that knows thatthese beasts, the graphic cards
they are power hungry, youreally need a lot. Well, on the
other hand, they might serve asa heater. But I think that a
normal heater consumes lesselectricity. In general, when we
see this kind of contradictinginformation, I think it's really
done, you know, to create thissituation where your brain just
(10:46):
says, Stop, I'm out of here.
Taliy (10:52):
Yeah, definitely. When I was watching news about
Switzerland, you know, theheaters going up, and the
government already has to takelimitation measures. Like, you
know, I think whenevergovernment is trying to put
their hands on to something likethis strictly ban heaters or it
(11:14):
already sounds like you've guys,you failed somewhere, like you
messed up. And now you're justtrying to force people to do
something against their will. Soyou executing your power against
the people, why provide themwith energy, you've been elected
to create a safe environment tocreate a safe space there where
(11:36):
people feel like they don't haveto over prepare for the winter,
just not to freeze to death intheir houses. That's so simple.
But when government startsadvising people that you should
buy an extra blanket, you shouldwear a warm jacket at home, you
should not take shower. Thequestion is like, why do I need
(11:57):
such government? Get me agovernment who can provide me
enough energy. And if thisgovernment cannot, maybe some,
some other government will. Andthe what we've been seeing this
past winter was quite crazy,because switch to the green
energy completely destroyedEuropean energy production. And
(12:17):
those countries who rely onnuclear, by the way, the
cleanest and most reliablesource of energy, nuclear and
gas, we cutting those. And wegoing back to coal, and we
trying to replace it with solarpanels in those parts of the
world where it doesn't makesense. I understand if it was
(12:38):
Sahara Desert, or I don't know,anywhere by the equator, but
they've placed them at them, oneof them most northern European
countries. The solar panels gotcovered with snow. And it just
doesn't make sense from theperspective of a normal person.
But then you have to see thegoal of the people who doing it,
(12:59):
like if the goal was to makemoney, or let your friends make
some money on the solarproduction, or whoever got the
contract. Like, you know, it'svery interesting. From any
perspective, again, we takingconsumerism in general, we're
not only talking about theenergy production is just one
standout industry. It's the samewith refugees, like only in one
(13:23):
year in 2015-16. So evenoutdated statistics. Right now
the situation didn't get better.
But only that year, Germany hasspent on refugees $20 billion.
And most of them went ascontracts for the companies who
built this not even a hotels,it's not a sustainable place for
(13:43):
living. It's a temporaryhousing.
Alexey (13:48):
You mean like shelters or something like that.
Taliy (13:50):
Yeah, shelters, they have warehouses turned into shelters.
But not only they paid for likeconstructing those which were
construction companies, but theyalso were paying something like
25 euros a day per person pereach person in that shelter camp
only for staying there. So it'sa very profitable business, it
(14:12):
became a super profitablebusiness. And those, of course,
those who got involved intothose schemes, they are
interested in constantlymaintaining that high level of
unemployed or immigrants whohave no other place to go to
sustain themselves. They wantthem to stay there because it's
(14:32):
profitable. Same here with agreen energy. If you invested
into production of solar panels,you're gonna be pushing for this
kind of laws. You're gonna befinding scientists who backing
up this crazy idea that theclimate change on Earth has
never had natural variability.
It never went up and down thetemperature was always the same
(14:52):
even though it's against notonly common sense, but hard
evidence as we know from thehistory.
Alexey (15:02):
It's really sad that being, let's say, so
technologically developed,having all these gadgets,
computers, cameras, microphones,what have you, and not being
able to use them. Because wewere so dumb to switch to
renewable energy, but when willit rewnew? When will it renew,
(15:22):
like, will it renew for the nextcivilization that will live on
this planet or for whom will itrenew? We need to all think
about what are our needs, andwhat we need to do in order to
fulfill this need. You know,also, we need to think about our
planet, as a closed ecosystem.
Everything stays on this planet,every molecule is being reused.
(15:46):
Everything like there is a cyclelife cycle for each molecule.
Well, maybe we don't knowsomething yet. And I also read
this thing about fossil fuelsare renewables, that actually
they renew as well, because wewere told this over and over
that oil is precious. So it willend we will run out of oil very
(16:07):
soon, very soon. This is why theprices are going up. But then
there are facts that prove thatwherever they were pumping oil,
it came back, it wasreplenishing. So this whole idea
of saying, Oh, it's precious, wecan not have any more, once it's
finished, it's finished, youwill not be able to fill up your
(16:29):
tank and everything. That is nottrue. At the end of the day, we
don't even know how our planetworks. Yet, we're making
assumptions, and already movingstraight to the edge of the
precipice, you know, to jump alltogether, without food without
electricity, I mean, without anyform of energy. When we look at
all this progression, we arealmost on the edge of becoming
(16:53):
something bigger with theinternet, that we can connect
all together and create betterthings. We are saying, no, no,
guys, please turn off everythingin your house and go buy a
candle. It's sad...
Taliy (17:10):
Yeah. And you know, I just cannot wrap my head around
how this narrative came out thatwe have to choose only between
something that's bad for theenvironment, or the solar panels
and wind turbines. If you goonline, which reels of Donald
Trump ranting about windturbines, New York Times or Fox
(17:31):
they making fun of that, like,they kill birds, they kill
birds. Well, they do kill birds,but they say, Oh, the cats are
killing more birds. Yeah, butthe cats killing like small,
tiny little birds. And the windturbines are killing the Red
Book, eagles, and so on the bigamazing birds that are really on
(17:51):
the edge of extinction. When itcomes to solar panels, it's not
even that you have to collectthis energy from the solar
panels, you know how the powergrid works, whatever energy is
being produced has to beconsumed somewhere or stored in
the batteries. So the problem isnot the solar panel itself,
although it's not recyclable upuntil these days, but the
(18:11):
problem is where to store thisenergy. And then it comes to the
problem of batteries and thebatteries is the real problem.
And with all this renewables,it's crazy, because we still
have as you said, we don't knowhow oil is being produced we
know. Like theoretically, theysay it is basically renewable
(18:31):
because it is the CO2 that wastaken out of the atmosphere,
through the trees throughwhatever is stored in the earth.
And now we basically by diggingit out, we just return it back
to the atmosphere or we're nottaking it as an additional CO2
from somewhere there. It's goingback to the atmosphere where it
(18:52):
was taken from. But also we havenuclear plants and they are the
cleanest and they're the bestand most reliable source of
energy. We're closing thoseinstead of making it really
safe. Instead of finding spotson our planet where we can build
those safely. We are closingwe're shutting them down. You
(19:12):
know, when I was checking howthey're being made and different
countries are taking differentapproach. So after what happened
in Fukushima, Japan shut downall of its nuclear plants.
Germany did the same withtheirs. And that's when I
remember even some politicianswere making fun of them, like
you making yourself so dependenton Russian oil and gas. But for
(19:35):
some reason, they didn't listen.
And it also made them dependenton French nuclear power, because
that's where they buying theirelectricity now and what they
did in France, it was actuallyvery interesting. They were
building nuclear plants on topof the hills and the hills
inside they emptied them out. Soif something's happening with a
(19:56):
nuclear plant, there explosivesinside of the hill, they blew it
up. And the whole thing goesunderground and burries itself.
So it's like, Wow, you reallythought it through, if something
happens, the whole thing is justcollapsing goes underground. And
you can have it as a measure ofprecaution. So we can just shut
down this technology to say,we're not gonna use it, or we
(20:19):
can figure out ways of actuallydeveloping it. And if we look
even more into the past, we'restill returning to the beginning
of 20th century, when so manybreakthrough technologies were
introduced. And so many greatscientists were thinking towards
getting the energy fromunlimited source getting free
energy. But then the official socalled promoted science, which
(20:41):
mostly was theories of AlbertEinstein, and so on, they were
opposing strictly to it. Andthey also came up with things
like the highest speed in theworld is the speed of light, and
nothing can be faster than speedof light, which is a ridiculous
statement, because of thequantum physics proved that this
(21:01):
is, this is ridiculous, itdoesn't make sense. There are
much faster connections betweenthe elements than speed of
light. And we know nothing aboutit. And we don't even learn it
because of the dogma that existsin physics. And this dogma is
set by big names like Einstein.
(21:22):
And this is really slowing downthe progress of the humanity. So
the fact that they put this samestigma on free energy, and they
stopped developing it. And evennow, there are companies that
invest into magnet energygenerators, and they get in some
results over there. If oursociety wasn't that stigmatized
(21:43):
and that much keen on the ideathat free energy is impossible,
maybe we could get something outof that to at least it would be
a better investment than thesolar panels and windmills for
sure. Because those energysources are just the most
damaging for the environment andthe most unreliable, you cannot.
(22:03):
You can have it as an additionto your whatever backyard here
and there, or you can put it forfun on your car. Yeah, I'm
talking about solar panel, it'llbe fun to watch a huge propeller
on the car. But it's notreliable to replace their whole
energy production with thisthing, simply because it doesn't
(22:24):
work.
Alexey (22:25):
I remember we had an interview maybe about a year ago
with a guy named Jeremiah Josie,and he's the founder and CEO of
the Thorium Network. And he toldus that everything even nuclear
power, the coefficient is at thebest 80 to one, you know,
(22:47):
whatever energy you'reproducing, and the thorium
salts, actually it's molten saltreactor, we will link to it to
their website, it's calledthethoriumnetwork.com. And they
explained that actually, heexplained to us during the
interview that you have salt andthey call it fission, and they
(23:07):
don't call the reactor, theycall it a burner. Basically,
these things like 2000 to one,the coefficient of energy being
produced in compared to what youintroduce. The idea is not new.
It was available since 1945.
Somehow, one PhD in physics, Ithink it was Dr. Victor Stenger,
(23:27):
who discovered it in 2012. Wewill not go into detail at how
this works. But basically, it'snot a nuclear reactor, but you
don't have the radioactive wasteor whatever. But the funny thing
is that there are more simpleways of as you said that the
(23:48):
generators using for example,magnets or vortexes of gas
injected into water and theyalready worked. In Eastern
Europe, there was one I think,in Ukraine, one in Russia, or
whatever it was in the USSRanyway. And they were heating a
hangar with school buses, let'ssay like this. They were heating
(24:14):
up this whole thing, highceilings and everything during
winters to 25 degrees and itconsumed only 2000 kilowatts or
something like that. Why am justtelling all this, it's not to
tell about different options andstuff. But just to say that we
have many possibilities that arealready existing. We don't even
(24:37):
have to imagine because we arefacing an energy crisis right
now. We are facing an energycrisis, because when the
government says prepare forpower cuts, we are not looking
at these technologies that couldsave lives. And why? Maybe it
was for the same reason thatProfessor Kent wrote his
sarcastic article that no one isreally interested in solving
(25:01):
these problems. Because whileyou have people who struggle,
they don't have adequate food.
They don't have adequate energysupplies. They're freezing to
death. You can basically doanything to them, and then they
will accept whatever you wantfrom them just to be able to
(25:22):
sustain the life of theirfamily.
Taliy (25:25):
Yeah, absolutely.
Whenever a new bill is beingpassed, ask yourself a question
who's making money out of it,who did pay the lobbyists to
bring this paper into the officeof a politician in Washington,
who later turned it into somesort of a bill which is being
passed.
Back in the motion.
Alexey (00:01):
There's quite a lot of motion in the Notion this time.
Guys, before we move forward, weneed to correct something. In
the eighth episode from July 11,2022, we talked about an article
written by Professor GeorgeKent, "The Benefits of World
Hunger," I think everyone by nowknows, it made a lot of waves in
(00:25):
the news. And we were telling,like how a professor at the
University of Hawaii,specialized in food insecurities
and children, how can he writesuch atrocities? Luckily enough,
we had the chance to interviewProfessor Kent, actually, he is
a really nice person. And heexplained to us that he is a
(00:47):
retired professor right now, hesaid out of the blue, this
article, which did not gain anypopularity at the moment. And he
wrote it as a sarcastic article,really, to attract attention to
the problem of world hunger, whyit is there. And we had a chance
to clear things up and reallyhad a great talk about all the
(01:09):
problems related to hunger. Andthis is really important to know
that we don't know why UnitedNations published this article
and why they hastily removed itfrom the website. And he told us
that he was not informed ofeither or these things. But the
thing is that he is reallypassionate about human life and
(01:30):
the problems of hunger. And thiswas his way of expressing that
we have these problems preciselybecause someone is interested in
them. And this someone is theelites of this world, who are
benefiting from people havingnothing to eat and being eager
to work for almost nothing justfor food. With these being done,
(01:53):
we present our apologies toProfessor Kent, and I think that
we will have another time totalk with him. And you know,
there's an interesting thing hetold us about, he wrote several
books, and all of them on thistopic. The first book was "The
Political Economy of hunger, thesilent Holocaust," printed back
(02:14):
in 1984, he told us that therewas one book that gained
precisely zero attention. Andafter this, actually, he wrote
this article.
Oh, it's called shrinkflation.
Taliy (02:25):
It's interesting that he was writing books on the topic
of regulating infant formula somany years ago, before it became
the crisis in the US that it wasthis year with infant formula.
And basically, we see how asociety can be polarized on any
topic. They want artificially,like yesterday, the problem did
(02:47):
Yes, it's shrinkflation.
And like for anyone who grew upnot exist, there are 179
countries where this problemdoes not exist. Somehow, it
becomes an issue in one country.
And this is what we see here inthe US today, it is so many
things related to food,especially becoming an issue.
And one of the problems is thatlines becoming larger and larger
(03:11):
in local food banks. And in someof them as much as 30%, more
people come in for free foodweekly. And those are families
that are the first time visitorsat the food banks. So we're
seeing this trend. It's not yeta catastrophe, but it's getting
there. At the very same time,we're seeing that the economy is
(03:35):
deflating. You know, I've beentalking to my friends this week.
And they were complaining notonly about the prices going up
for food in the grocery stores,here and there, you can see like
something you used to buy for$5, all of a sudden is like
6.99, something that used to be$10 as 12.99. But sometimes they
(03:59):
say price stayed the same. Butthey opening the package, and
there is way less food in thevery same box.
in Eastern Europe during the1990s, it's not a surprise like
(04:21):
we've all seen this, we allwitnessed this. We know these
are the signs. That's whathappening when your country is
falling apart, or when italready fell apart, and there's
this is how you Europe theconsequences of the economical
catastrophe. And when I wastalking to this person that grew
(04:42):
up in Eastern Europe, inUkraine, and his friends asked
him what's going to happen tothe US next and he said it's
gonna be 1991. And they say,what, what what happened in
1991? Was it the Iraqi war, wasit the Afghanistan? He said no
Soviet Union fell apart and itwas mostly for economical
(05:03):
reasons. And now we seeing thatUS is getting there with more
than 10% inflation in less thana year. And now we see this huge
bill aimed at precisely makingthe economy green. And we know
that that did not help anysingle country to lower the
(05:24):
prices for energy. So look atthis holistically, you have
inflation of currency, you havelack of basic products like
food, and you printing a lot ofmoney to spend them on things
that makes your energyproduction more expensive. And
the bills for energy is gonna goup. Now look into the future
(05:46):
only like two or three yearsinto the future. And it's easy
to predict the result of thesethings. And of course, like, you
know, when the economy isbooming, when it's thriving,
when you have a lot of extramoney as it was only two years
ago, then people start investinginto innovation technologies,
different projects, they tend torisk more with their money. They
(06:08):
start talking about investinginto NFTs, crypto currencies,
metaverses, but right now, it'schanging a lot. One of the best
quotes of this week was by MarkCuban, he said, the dumbest
thing you can do is to investinto Metaverse property. And if
(06:29):
you did not realize it by now,then I guess people still gonna
learn it right now. Not everyoneunderstands it. But sharks of
the business like Mark Cubandefinitely understand that only,
only the real investments, realproducts, real assets,
threedimensional gonna costsomething, the rest of it all
(06:51):
those booming NFT's andcryptocurrencies are very flaky,
not something that you can relyon during the times of
economical crisis. And we aremost definitely facing it right
now.
Alexey (07:05):
Yeah, just a quick aside on the shrinkflation, just
today, we've been with the kidsto grab a snack outside, I
ordered a large bottle of water.
Oh, it was a glass bottle andstuff. But the kids they poored
the glasses, oh, the bottle isfinished. And my daughter is
looking at the back of thebottle and says it's 70
centiliters. And I said, yeah,you see, this is shrinkflation.
(07:27):
Because usually a big bottle ofwater, it was one liter, than it
was 0.75, and now it's 0.7. AndI remember also, when my
parents, it was in beginning ofthe 2000s. My mom is saying,
look, I remember these big barsof chocolate, they were 500
grams, and they cost I don'tknow, two Swiss francs or
(07:51):
something like that. And rightnow there are 400 grams, and
they cost six and a half. Sothis is what you see how you can
notice the shrinkflation. Andthis is why I always teach my
kids look at the price perounce, because this is what
you're paying for. Don't look atthe size of the box, because it
can be a small box, but it canbe full. Otherwise it can be a
(08:12):
big box, but really likethere'll be now maybe 1/5 at the
bottom of the actual productitself. Going back to this topic
of Metaverse, I don't know man,I send you this article today
about Switzerland's thinkingabout banning electric heaters.
Because with the rising gas andoil prices, people are thinking
(08:32):
ahead. They are buying theseelectric heaters the sales
during the summer period rose300% .This is enormous. I mean,
usually you either already havea heating system and or like
your maybe need to buy once in alifetime one extra heater where
you don't have enough if it's aprivate home, something like
(08:54):
that. 300%! And the governmentis already fast on its tracks,
you know, oh, we need to banthese because our power grid
will not support it. And justbefore that I told you this
story that they're saying,making this announcement that
this winter we may have powercuts, power shortages. So buy
(09:15):
candles. I mean guys, why are weeven talking about Metaverse if
we don't have enoughelectricity, because we went
green? If we don't have enoughelectricity to heat our homes,
do you think we will have enoughelectricity to power all the
server farms? And even acomputer at home used to access
(09:38):
this metaverse? I am confused.
Either we have these things likeeither the metaverse is
something that we all going toaccess. This is why people are
buying real estate because laterthey think that they will be
leasing it or renting it. Idon't know like whatever or
(09:59):
somehow have a return oninvestment. But if people
generally are advised to buycandles to prepare for power
shortages during the winter?
Yeah, I don't know, I don't seepeople powering up these
powerful machines required forvirtual reality. Because you
know, anyone who dealt withcryptocurrency mining, or
(10:23):
anything like that knows thatthese beasts, the graphic cards
they are power hungry, youreally need a lot. Well, on the
other hand, they might serve asa heater. But I think that a
normal heater consumes lesselectricity. In general, when we
see this kind of contradictinginformation, I think it's really
done, you know, to create thissituation where your brain just
(10:46):
says, Stop, I'm out of here.
Taliy (10:52):
Yeah, definitely. When I was watching news about
Switzerland, you know, theheaters going up, and the
government already has to takelimitation measures. Like, you
know, I think whenevergovernment is trying to put
their hands on to something likethis strictly ban heaters or it
(11:14):
already sounds like you've guys,you failed somewhere, like you
messed up. And now you're justtrying to force people to do
something against their will. Soyou executing your power against
the people, why provide themwith energy, you've been elected
to create a safe environment tocreate a safe space there where
(11:36):
people feel like they don't haveto over prepare for the winter,
just not to freeze to death intheir houses. That's so simple.
But when government startsadvising people that you should
buy an extra blanket, you shouldwear a warm jacket at home, you
should not take shower. Thequestion is like, why do I need
(11:57):
such government? Get me agovernment who can provide me
enough energy. And if thisgovernment cannot, maybe some,
some other government will. Andthe what we've been seeing this
past winter was quite crazy,because switch to the green
energy completely destroyedEuropean energy production. And
(12:17):
those countries who rely onnuclear, by the way, the
cleanest and most reliablesource of energy, nuclear and
gas, we cutting those. And wegoing back to coal, and we
trying to replace it with solarpanels in those parts of the
world where it doesn't makesense. I understand if it was
(12:38):
Sahara Desert, or I don't know,anywhere by the equator, but
they've placed them at them, oneof them most northern European
countries. The solar panels gotcovered with snow. And it just
doesn't make sense from theperspective of a normal person.
But then you have to see thegoal of the people who doing it,
(12:59):
like if the goal was to makemoney, or let your friends make
some money on the solarproduction, or whoever got the
contract. Like, you know, it'svery interesting. From any
perspective, again, we takingconsumerism in general, we're
not only talking about theenergy production is just one
standout industry. It's the samewith refugees, like only in one
(13:23):
year in 2015-16. So evenoutdated statistics. Right now
the situation didn't get better.
But only that year, Germany hasspent on refugees $20 billion.
And most of them went ascontracts for the companies who
built this not even a hotels,it's not a sustainable place for
(13:43):
living. It's a temporaryhousing.
Alexey (13:48):
You mean like shelters or something like that.
Taliy (13:50):
Yeah, shelters, they have warehouses turned into shelters.
But not only they paid for likeconstructing those which were
construction companies, but theyalso were paying something like
25 euros a day per person pereach person in that shelter camp
only for staying there. So it'sa very profitable business, it
(14:12):
became a super profitablebusiness. And those, of course,
those who got involved intothose schemes, they are
interested in constantlymaintaining that high level of
unemployed or immigrants whohave no other place to go to
sustain themselves. They wantthem to stay there because it's
(14:32):
profitable. Same here with agreen energy. If you invested
into production of solar panels,you're gonna be pushing for this
kind of laws. You're gonna befinding scientists who backing
up this crazy idea that theclimate change on Earth has
never had natural variability.
It never went up and down thetemperature was always the same
(14:52):
even though it's against notonly common sense, but hard
evidence as we know from thehistory.
Alexey (15:02):
It's really sad that being, let's say, so
technologically developed,having all these gadgets,
computers, cameras, microphones,what have you, and not being
able to use them. Because wewere so dumb to switch to
renewable energy, but when willit rewnew? When will it renew,
(15:22):
like, will it renew for the nextcivilization that will live on
this planet or for whom will itrenew? We need to all think
about what are our needs, andwhat we need to do in order to
fulfill this need. You know,also, we need to think about our
planet, as a closed ecosystem.
Everything stays on this planet,every molecule is being reused.
(15:46):
Everything like there is a cyclelife cycle for each molecule.
Well, maybe we don't knowsomething yet. And I also read
this thing about fossil fuelsare renewables, that actually
they renew as well, because wewere told this over and over
that oil is precious. So it willend we will run out of oil very
(16:07):
soon, very soon. This is why theprices are going up. But then
there are facts that prove thatwherever they were pumping oil,
it came back, it wasreplenishing. So this whole idea
of saying, Oh, it's precious, wecan not have any more, once it's
finished, it's finished, youwill not be able to fill up your
(16:29):
tank and everything. That is nottrue. At the end of the day, we
don't even know how our planetworks. Yet, we're making
assumptions, and already movingstraight to the edge of the
precipice, you know, to jump alltogether, without food without
electricity, I mean, without anyform of energy. When we look at
all this progression, we arealmost on the edge of becoming
(16:53):
something bigger with theinternet, that we can connect
all together and create betterthings. We are saying, no, no,
guys, please turn off everythingin your house and go buy a
candle. It's sad...
Taliy (17:10):
Yeah. And you know, I just cannot wrap my head around
how this narrative came out thatwe have to choose only between
something that's bad for theenvironment, or the solar panels
and wind turbines. If you goonline, which reels of Donald
Trump ranting about windturbines, New York Times or Fox
(17:31):
they making fun of that, like,they kill birds, they kill
birds. Well, they do kill birds,but they say, Oh, the cats are
killing more birds. Yeah, butthe cats killing like small,
tiny little birds. And the windturbines are killing the Red
Book, eagles, and so on the bigamazing birds that are really on
(17:51):
the edge of extinction. When itcomes to solar panels, it's not
even that you have to collectthis energy from the solar
panels, you know how the powergrid works, whatever energy is
being produced has to beconsumed somewhere or stored in
the batteries. So the problem isnot the solar panel itself,
although it's not recyclable upuntil these days, but the
(18:11):
problem is where to store thisenergy. And then it comes to the
problem of batteries and thebatteries is the real problem.
And with all this renewables,it's crazy, because we still
have as you said, we don't knowhow oil is being produced we
know. Like theoretically, theysay it is basically renewable
(18:31):
because it is the CO2 that wastaken out of the atmosphere,
through the trees throughwhatever is stored in the earth.
And now we basically by diggingit out, we just return it back
to the atmosphere or we're nottaking it as an additional CO2
from somewhere there. It's goingback to the atmosphere where it
(18:52):
was taken from. But also we havenuclear plants and they are the
cleanest and they're the bestand most reliable source of
energy. We're closing thoseinstead of making it really
safe. Instead of finding spotson our planet where we can build
those safely. We are closingwe're shutting them down. You
(19:12):
know, when I was checking howthey're being made and different
countries are taking differentapproach. So after what happened
in Fukushima, Japan shut downall of its nuclear plants.
Germany did the same withtheirs. And that's when I
remember even some politicianswere making fun of them, like
you making yourself so dependenton Russian oil and gas. But for
(19:35):
some reason, they didn't listen.
And it also made them dependenton French nuclear power, because
that's where they buying theirelectricity now and what they
did in France, it was actuallyvery interesting. They were
building nuclear plants on topof the hills and the hills
inside they emptied them out. Soif something's happening with a
(19:56):
nuclear plant, there explosivesinside of the hill, they blew it
up. And the whole thing goesunderground and burries itself.
So it's like, Wow, you reallythought it through, if something
happens, the whole thing is justcollapsing goes underground. And
you can have it as a measure ofprecaution. So we can just shut
down this technology to say,we're not gonna use it, or we
(20:19):
can figure out ways of actuallydeveloping it. And if we look
even more into the past, we'restill returning to the beginning
of 20th century, when so manybreakthrough technologies were
introduced. And so many greatscientists were thinking towards
getting the energy fromunlimited source getting free
energy. But then the official socalled promoted science, which
(20:41):
mostly was theories of AlbertEinstein, and so on, they were
opposing strictly to it. Andthey also came up with things
like the highest speed in theworld is the speed of light, and
nothing can be faster than speedof light, which is a ridiculous
statement, because of thequantum physics proved that this
(21:01):
is, this is ridiculous, itdoesn't make sense. There are
much faster connections betweenthe elements than speed of
light. And we know nothing aboutit. And we don't even learn it
because of the dogma that existsin physics. And this dogma is
set by big names like Einstein.
(21:22):
And this is really slowing downthe progress of the humanity. So
the fact that they put this samestigma on free energy, and they
stopped developing it. And evennow, there are companies that
invest into magnet energygenerators, and they get in some
results over there. If oursociety wasn't that stigmatized
(21:43):
and that much keen on the ideathat free energy is impossible,
maybe we could get something outof that to at least it would be
a better investment than thesolar panels and windmills for
sure. Because those energysources are just the most
damaging for the environment andthe most unreliable, you cannot.
(22:03):
You can have it as an additionto your whatever backyard here
and there, or you can put it forfun on your car. Yeah, I'm
talking about solar panel, it'llbe fun to watch a huge propeller
on the car. But it's notreliable to replace their whole
energy production with thisthing, simply because it doesn't
(22:24):
work.
Alexey (22:25):
I remember we had an interview maybe about a year ago
with a guy named Jeremiah Josie,and he's the founder and CEO of
the Thorium Network. And he toldus that everything even nuclear
power, the coefficient is at thebest 80 to one, you know,
(22:47):
whatever energy you'reproducing, and the thorium
salts, actually it's molten saltreactor, we will link to it to
their website, it's calledthethoriumnetwork.com. And they
explained that actually, heexplained to us during the
interview that you have salt andthey call it fission, and they
(23:07):
don't call the reactor, theycall it a burner. Basically,
these things like 2000 to one,the coefficient of energy being
produced in compared to what youintroduce. The idea is not new.
It was available since 1945.
Somehow, one PhD in physics, Ithink it was Dr. Victor Stenger,
(23:27):
who discovered it in 2012. Wewill not go into detail at how
this works. But basically, it'snot a nuclear reactor, but you
don't have the radioactive wasteor whatever. But the funny thing
is that there are more simpleways of as you said that the
(23:48):
generators using for example,magnets or vortexes of gas
injected into water and theyalready worked. In Eastern
Europe, there was one I think,in Ukraine, one in Russia, or
whatever it was in the USSRanyway. And they were heating a
hangar with school buses, let'ssay like this. They were heating
(24:14):
up this whole thing, highceilings and everything during
winters to 25 degrees and itconsumed only 2000 kilowatts or
something like that. Why am justtelling all this, it's not to
tell about different options andstuff. But just to say that we
have many possibilities that arealready existing. We don't even
(24:37):
have to imagine because we arefacing an energy crisis right
now. We are facing an energycrisis, because when the
government says prepare forpower cuts, we are not looking
at these technologies that couldsave lives. And why? Maybe it
was for the same reason thatProfessor Kent wrote his
sarcastic article that no one isreally interested in solving
(25:01):
these problems. Because whileyou have people who struggle,
they don't have adequate food.
They don't have adequate energysupplies. They're freezing to
death. You can basically doanything to them, and then they
will accept whatever you wantfrom them just to be able to
(25:22):
sustain the life of theirfamily.
Taliy (25:25):
Yeah, absolutely.
Whenever a new bill is beingpassed, ask yourself a question
who's making money out of it,who did pay the lobbyists to
bring this paper into the officeof a politician in Washington,
who later turned it into somesort of a bill which is being
passed.
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