Legacy Human

A cornered heretic searching for the exit to a saner world of resilient & convivial free-range unmodified humans who prefer a symbiotic & decentralised future.

[Watts Up With That @wattsupwiththat]

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Munich's first Green mayor just hit residents with €50,000 fines for letting kids cool off under a garden hose.

It's the city's first water restrictions ever.

The main water source sits at normal levels, higher than last year.

Read the full article:
https://t.co/zZgJTVK9DI

[UNSHADOWED (formerly IceAgeFarmer) @UnshadowedShow]

UN declares "Global Water Bankruptcy," demands worldwide surveillance of water use and restructuring of water rights
(link in reply, below)

UN just declared Global Water Bankruptcy: not a crisis, but a permanent state requiring global surveillance, enforceable limits, and restructuring of your water rights. All while their data centers guzzle billions of gallons with zero transparency...

This is a hostile takeover of water by the technocrats using the same script they are running on food and energy: create scarcity, centralize control, and prioritize their own infrastructure. The new surveillance and limitations on water will be used to force farmers into using the “precision irrigation” and crops genetically engineered to be “climate resilient.”

Reject the technocrats’ bid for control of our food and water. Sovereign ownership of these resources at the local level IS a human right, and we must defend it.

[Legacy Human @Quillfiller]

@Artemisfornow So, if they do this, then it can't be denied the BBC is our state broadcaster.

A tick box necessity for any aspiring totalitarian regime.

[Legacy Human @Quillfiller]

@GlobalDiss Apps would lock for all ages, if age verification not provided.

Privacy or convenience?

GrapheneOS + (quality) VPN

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

I have to apologize in advance, because I think I’ve failed to explain this with sufficient clarity on my part, and it’s important to get this right. Our current global population of 8+ billion people is only alive because of a supply chain infrastructure built up over the last 60 years or so which saw dramatic scaling of natural gas extraction infrastructure (largely in Qatar and North America), dramatic improvements in oil extraction from existing Persian Gulf wells, and a tremendous amount of downstream chemistry that processes raw gas and oil to produce critical substances for our world such as helium (He), sulfuric acid, phosphate fertilizers, nitrogenous fertilizers, polyethylene, naphtha, aluminum smelting and so on.

The sulfuric acid that extracts phosphate (for fertilizer) from phosphate rock ores, for example, comes from pulling excess sulfur out of “sour” crude oil. (The core chemical reaction converts tricalcium phosphate into phosphoric acid and gypsum, with very high efficiency.) The “sour” refers to sulfur content. Without high-volume oil extraction, you don’t get the sulfur needed to produce this key type of fertilizer. And without the low-cost energy from the gas extracted from gas fields like Las Raffan, you don’t get the Haber-Bosch process that pulls N2 Nitrogen out of the atmosphere and breaks it to form ammonia (NH3) which becomes the feedstock material for nitrogenous fertilizer. (I’m simplifying the steps, but you get the idea.)

If these raw materials that normally pass through the Strait of Hormuz don’t get restored in short order, we aren’t merely facing annoying economic effects like higher food prices, higher diesel prices, fuel rationing, supply chain disruptions, loss of food packaging plastics and so on…
...we’re facing a loss of the infrastructure that keeps 8+ billion people alive on this planet.

If you lose 25% of the global supply of these critical substances, you will sooner or later lose 25% of the global population: 2 billion people. The Persian Gulf, by the way, supplies roughly about one-third of the world’s fertilizer that traded in the global marketplace. Do the math.

Right now, literally 50% of the global population is kept alive from food that’s fertilized using nitrogenous fertilizers derived from natural gas. A significant portion of that gas normally comes out of the Persian Gulf. But no longer. Not since Trump bombed Iran and started this war, resulting in Iran closing off the Strait of Hormuz.

QatarEnergy, which suffered extensive damage to two of its LNG processing trains and suffered a catastrophic explosion when trying to restart one of its processing trains a few weeks ago, has already declared force majeure and publicly announced a 3-5 year repair time for its damaged gas trains. So if we’re lucky, then QatarEnergy’s gas will be fully back online possibly around 2030. That’s if the war stops tomorrow and the repairs can get under way.

But if Iran chooses to strike additional gas trains – a feat that is easily achieved by Iran, possibly in retaliation for Trump’s latest threats to target and destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure – the repair time grows to ONE DECADE. And that assumed Qatar could even get the financing to fund such an effort, which itself seems doubtful.

Should that scenario unfold, the entire planet will be lacking critical energy, helium, nitrogenous fertilizers and their parent molecules (ammonia, urea, etc.), affordable aluminum smelting and other outputs that are downstream from Qatar’s gas production. This shortage will last ten years in a best-case scenario. During that decade, it is impossible that all 8 billion people will have enough to eat. It is also impossible that all the world’s current industrial manufacturing operations will economically survive, which means widespread global job losses.

The lack of fertilizer means a mass die-off on planet Earth is unavoidable if the infrastructure destruction in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, etc., escalates to the point of all-out war. Iran has so far decided to refrain from achieving the near-total destruction of critical infrastructure across the region, but that restraint may end quickly if Trump escalates the U.S. bombing campaign to target Iranian power plants, bridges, water treatment facilities and other key civilian infrastructure.

Stated differently, the fate of some significant portion of the world’s 8 billion people now rests in the hands of an orange mad man who demonstrates zero understanding of the ramifications of his escalation actions. And if he proceed to make good on his threats, he will unleash a series of events that will make the continued survival of the full 8 billion people on planet Earth quite literally impossible, likely for a decade or longer.

This would plunge Earth into a 10+ year “dark ages” and likely see the loss of billions of lives, the fall of numerous governments around the world, and economic destruction on a scale no living person has ever witnessed. Nor has history ever witnessed that we know of. Add in a dose of civil unrest, large-scale uprisings and regional warfare, and you have a recipe for global instability and systemic collapse that no one in a position of power has seriously pondered. The impacts of this would be, arguably, similar to planet Earth being struck by a high-velocity (and large) asteroid, unleashing mass kinetic destruction and a dimming of the sun, causing photosynthesis collapse on a global scale, lasting several years while food crops fail, famines take hold and nations tear themselves apart from the inside. And I haven’t even covered the climatic changes that would end civilizations around the world.

It almost seems like a cliché to state we are facing, “the end of the world as we know it,” but hell, we are literally facing the end of the world as we know it. And Trump, infused with all the madness and arrogance of a rogue emperor who has lost the plot, is pushing us all right to the edge of the abyss.

I would normally say, at this point, “I hope you have a year’s supply of food” to make it through what’s coming, but honestly that won’t be enough if Trump pushes us into an all-out infrastructure destruction war. The loss of the 60+ years of human infrastructure that has allowed the population to double from 4 billion to 8 billion over just a few decades will be REVERSED, and the population will shrink from 8 billion to 4 billion or possibly even less, depending on wars and economic strife.

Trump isn’t merely at war with Iran, in other words. He’s waging war on the entire human race. He is assaulting the very civilizational infrastructure that made our modern population possible to sustain. That infrastructure can be destroyed in an instant, with a rebuilding time of a decade or longer. And once it’s gone, there’s no going back to the way things were in 2025.

And during the new dark age, what will billions of human eat if there’s no fertilizer available for agriculture?
The honest answer is that they’ll sooner or later start eating each other.

Prepare accordingly. And demand an end to this senseless war before we all find ourselves in the cross hairs of global destruction and the death of billions of human beings.

[Legacy Human @Quillfiller]

@permacultureGB Either a very large number of us refuse to pay taxes all at once, otherwise they prosecute manageable numbers of us one by one.

You can see why controlling social media is so important to them, to prevent a successful networking campaign!

We need to be resourceful and wily.

[Legacy Human @Quillfiller]

You Can't Patent a Trench: The Real Biotechnology the Green Revolution Forgot https://t.co/zQYhyhFqjq Traditional, ecological wisdom is not primitive, it's the most resilient, efficient and sophisticated bioengineering we have ever known.

[Legacy Human @Quillfiller]

@autocar Is there a Hot Wheels version?!

[Legacy Human @Quillfiller]

@FarmingUK I already buy raw milk from a local dairy farm.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇪🇺 The EU just passed Chat Control 1.0 in Brussels.

Platforms can now scan your private messages again, officially "voluntary," in practice blanket surveillance.

Here's the democratic scandal: 314 MEPs voted against it. Only 276 voted for it.

It passed anyway... because an absolute majority of all MEPs was required to reject it, not just a majority of those present.

More people voted no than yes. It still passed.

Pushed through on an urgent procedure just before summer recess, when absences are highest and attention is lowest.

This is how rights disappear folks. Not in one dramatic moment, but in procedural fine print, on a slow news day, while everyone's looking at Tehran.

Source: @Fidias0 / Writer: Oliver

[Legacy Human @Quillfiller]

SignalTrace Just Weaponized Your AirPods With License Plate Readers Nationwide https://t.co/DTTzp5PmlN
Will regulators move to restrict this capability before it becomes embedded in traffic infrastructure?

[Toby Rogers @uTobian]

One of the astonishing revelations of the Covid era is that the nation-state no longer exists.

There are only corporations, cartels, mafias, militaries, intelligence agencies, and the owners of capital.

These groups are supranational, above any law, and they believe they are allowed to kill people (through wars, assassinations, and profitable stochastic harms including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and pollution).

While there are subtle differences and ongoing rivalries between these groups, they share the goal of wealth, power, and control over others.

Over time they are merging into one giant predatory blob — Global Monopoly Capitalism.

Now with AI they have the ability to shape nearly all knowledge production and thus our perceptions of reality itself.

[Legacy Human @Quillfiller]

@permacultureGB For me, the scales fell from my eyes in April 2020 - jolted out of normalcy bias.

Lost both my closest friends due to disagreements over it all.

Still, there are a growing number of us who "know", who are resourceful and are determined not to let us slip into the abyss.

[John Michael Greer @JMGreerWriter]

This is an early stage of what Giambattista Vico called “the barbarism of reflection” — the privileged classes become so thickly insulated from reality in a wrapping of high-level abstractions that they don’t notice what’s actually going on around them. Later, the abstractions become more and more actively psychotic as problems get worse.

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

Britain is doomed if Andy Burnham lurches sharply left

We risk a 1976-style crisis if the prime minister-in-waiting caves to the Labour party power brokers who are putting him in Number Ten.

UK government borrowing is out of control – we're adding more than £20bn per month to this country's national debt.

Since 2023, more than 80pc of the money the state has borrowed has been spent on debt interest – a bill that now exceeds 3.5pc of annual GDP.

This is akin to a Ponzi scheme.

Appointing trade-union fanboy Ed Miliband as Chancellor may well buy Burnham time, mollifying the massed ranks of economically-illiterate Labour MPs and party activists.

But Miliband in Number Eleven would cost Britain another £20bn-£30bn a year in debt interest – adding to an annual debt-service bill that has been consistently above £100bn since 2024 and is heading for £140bn by 2030.

And that’s if the hard-nosed, faceless institutional investors bankrolling profligate Britain don’t veto Miliband's appointment altogether – by sparking absolute chaos in the form of a payments crisis.

That would result in an IMF-style external bailout, with Britain run by unelected global technocrats, amid a crippling slump, pulverising austerity measures and a deep cost-of-living crisis – during which, of course, low-income households would suffer the most.

The economic, political and societal damage would be huge.

And it’s not just me warning of this – so are some of the world's most respected and distinguished economists, formerly holding senior leadership positions at @IMFNews, @bankofengland and @NIESRorg

My latest weekly @Telegraph "Economic Agenda" column (no paywall)

https://t.co/mKQ1xouw4r

[Legacy Human @Quillfiller]

@tsmiggy Normally, previous govts have been careful not to upset pensioners, as often they turn out to vote more than younger people. Makes you wonder if they're doing this because they believe no General Election coming/ WW3/ emergency powers by 2029?

[Legacy Human @Quillfiller]

@pjcboro @stuey_beef So you believe Burnham will suggest we pay less?!

[Legacy Human @Quillfiller]

@stuey_beef You mould likely get more favourable terms if dealing with the mafia or Mexican cartels!

[Legacy Human @Quillfiller]

@ToryFibs We need to be as canny as millionaires in managing our assets. Careful what you officially own. Pensions anyway losing purchasing power at a rate of knots, if looking to get useful income in years to come anyway. Possibly all on UBI by then.

[Legacy Human @Quillfiller]

@DIRE20211 @zerohedge At least we can say we tried, even if it turns out to be fruitless.