Debt Rattle September 5 2019

 

Home Forums The Automatic Earth Forum Debt Rattle September 5 2019

Viewing 15 posts - 1 through 15 (of 15 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • #49570

    Henri Matisse Bathers by a river 1909-16   • UK Government Gives Up Trying To Stop Brexit Delay Bill In Parliament (R.) • Bill Designed To Stop N
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 5 2019]

    #49572
    lasttwo
    Participant

    john doe imho release the name of every single pervert. take their assets and give it to the victims. Turn them out for smokes in prison. let them have the experience they gave those girls and women — just a thought.

    #49573
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Yes, but they are not released en masse, to the public, they are PROSECUTED, as required by and through THE LAW, unless you prefer mob rule to courts, evidence, and procedures. Because if you do, be sure they will be coming for you next for some Post you wrote in 2004.

    #49574
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “John Doe Begs Judge Not to Name Names in Epstein Gal Pal Case (NYP)”

    Unfortunately, this is a problem. Now if they were suing John Doe, or charging him, that WOULD be public record and released. But if there are no charges and no legal interest, you should remain private. But how private? Since court documents ARE public, should the fact that you were the greengrocer for Jeffrey Dahmer taint your reputation? How are you related to his case? And I’m sure among the extensive black book, there ARE in fact many innocent people, caterers, golf partners, even friends who he hasn’t tried to compromise yet. Do they have rights? How is protecting their rights at all hurting the victims, who are not trying to sue those third parties they know nothing about?

    Well, they’ll have to hash it out. You can only tell this by having good faith in the spirit of the law, and executing competing interest as best you can. Really most of the law is this, and not usually the clear and exciting stuff.

    From the spin though, I’m guessing Doe is no innocent.

    “Erdogan Says It’s Unacceptable that Turkey Can’t Have Nuclear Weapons (R.)”

    They can have them. Everyone can. He would just need to do it. Certainly Israel and Pakistan don’t care about the law, so I don’t know what overlord he declares he’s still reporting to. NoKo never signed non-proliferation, so the West and their psychotic handmaidens have no legal right over their program at all. …As if the U.N., and international law, exist, ever existed, or anyone cares about it more than in posture. Lookin’ at you U.S. and Britain and your 15 illegal wars of aggression, including one against civilians in Yemen this very minute. Which country has used nuclear weapons specifically against a civilian targe that was surrendering: Turkey? Or the United States?

    “US Offered Millions in Cash to Captain of Iranian Tanker (AFP)”

    Speaking of no international law, the U.S., piracy on the high seas! Ah, but only in defense of an illegal blockade, which is a de facto act of aggressive war against a civilian population which is itself an international war crime. Impeachment anyone? Of course not! We would never, never impeach for illegally killing millions of people worldwide! That’s what you get medals for, silly-billy. Reported on by Rachel “Russia will shut off your heat” Maddow, Brian “beautiful bombs” Williams.

    BTW, clearly Trump is a Putin puppet to illegally embargo Russia’s regional ally at risk of re-starting the Syrian and thus the Third World War. The Russians are really tricky like that, attacking themselves where you’d never expect it.

    “400 Million Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers Exposed in Privacy Lapse (AFP)”

    Facebook collects the data, then hands it to China and the Deep State ‘by accident.’ Oopsie! Did I forward all top secret emails to my private bathroom server and CC’d every line to a Chinese company? My bad. China and the Deep State use it. The 4th Amendment and its principles become irrelevant in the merger of corporation and state. Democracy dies. No one goes to jail. Oh, except Assange. RussiaRussiaRussia.

    “Plastic Pollution Has Entered the Fossil Record (G.)”

    …Along with everything else, as EVERYTHING is in the fossil record. It’s called “Archeology.” Anyway, better tell Asia and Africa to knock it off, since almost all the ocean plastic comes from them. I’m sure they’ll listen tout suite.

    #49575
    zerosum
    Participant

    The USA news media is unbelievable on its silence.
    Only the USA can do illegal acts with no comments by the news media.
    Yet, …. they call out Iran for “blackmail” instead of denouncing USA and instead of encouraging for negotiation.

    • US Offered Millions In Cash To Captain Of Iranian Tanker (AFP)

    “State Department chief spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus hit back using Zarif’s exact words, accusing Iran of “outright blackmail” with its call for $15 billion from European powers to be paid back from Iran’s future oil sales.

    Iran says that, if it receives the credit line, it will come back into full compliance with a 2015 nuclear accord from which US President Donald Trump withdrew.”

    #49576
    zerosum
    Participant

    If you’re retired and got free time then you could read the latest on Brexit
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49588186
    Brexit: Bill designed to stop no-deal ‘will clear Lords’

    #49577
    lasttwo
    Participant

    Then lets hope the DA has the guts to prosecute, to the fullest extent, the people that abused the girls and women with Epstein. Then make the names public and share the assets amongst the victims and the rest of what I said earlier. Lets hope the DA is an angry women. Maybe there is a use for Kamala Harris after all. .I don’t mean the greengrocer but I do mean anyone from any of the three branches of government or law enforcement who turned a blind but well paid eye to the serial rape and abuse. but we all know better it will all be hidden and covered up and lied about unless it will make for a diversion of some other horrific screwing of the 99%

    #49578
    John Day
    Participant

    http://www.johndayblog.com/2019/09/gray-champions.html
    With your leave, I will advance a thesis that we can look at “history rhyming” within a generational framework, which has periodic growth decay, crisis and restructuring, 4 seasons: summer, fall, winter and spring.
    This is not a new model of looking at history, and any good model can have great utility going into a historical epoch.
    The Bolshevik Economist, Nikolai Kondratiev postulated waves of economic/financial cycle, posthumously named “Kondratiev Waves” (“K-waves”) in his honor, after Comrade Stalin found them to be counter-revolutionary or something, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondratiev_wave

    A more recent adaptation of generational cycles of history is that of American authors, Strauss and Howe, who wrote “Generations” and “The Fourth Turning” in the 1990s.
    Basically, there are 4-generational cycles of crisis, rebuilding, health, decay and again, crisis.
    I’m a “baby boomer”, which is a “prophet generation”. My kids are millennials, “hero generation”.
    It is a little hard to find a likable explanation of this theory, but this guy does pretty well.
    https://medium.com/@moshemodeira/strauss-howe-generational-theory-is-the-closest-thing-we-have-to-a-crystal-ball-part-1-f9bc21e3fc75

    The military industrial complex swallowed Red-Riding-Hood’s Grandmother and the economy.
    There’s no way out, and the wolf is dying of peritonitis. The vast “hidden spending” is not even included here.
    ​ ​In the almost 12 hours of Democratic Party presidential primary debates on June 26-27 and July 30-31, the words “Pentagon budget” or “defense spending” were not uttered, except for a fleeting, unanswered comment from Senator Bernie Sanders. (Hmmm, Tulsi Gabbard?)
    C:\Users\Winslow Wheeler\Documents\1 President Campaigns and Politics\2020\PastedGraphic-3.png
    … Fo​r 65 years the military budget’s inexorable expansion has not been controlled by the dramatic changes in America’s actual national security needs but by political and independent cash flow demands from inside the Pentagon, Congress, industry, and think tanks.
    ​ ​Secondly, we need to recognize that this inexorable money growth has shrunk our forces and weakened their capabilities so dramatically that today we would be utterly unready for and incapable of supporting–much less winning–Korean or Vietnam war sized campaigns. War with Iran would be disastrous according to insightful current military assessments.
    ​https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/30/bankrupt-and-irrelevant-the-presidential-debates-and-four-recent-studies-on-pentagon-spending/

    The promises of a better future down this road are what politicians have to sell, no matter what they see themselves. I personally think the things Bernie Sanders proposes are dual-use, such as a government jobs program, which is currently needed, and will be needed worse in the next financial crisis, which won’t be papered over. Bernie Sanders is an archetypal Gray Champion, focused more on building and protecting than on battle. I am coming to think that he could actually work well within the country, while Trump fights global trade war. Sanders has said a lot of bad things about Trump, but both men have long personal histories, which show that they don’t dwell on such things when there are deals to make, neither of them… (Yeah, Biden is “gray”, but he’s a senile, corrupt pedophile, washed-up.)
    A few highlights from the Democratic Climate Town Hall statements last night:
    ​ ​“The truth is it costs a lot more to build a new nuclear plant today than it does to build solar or wind,” said Sanders at the town hall. “I think it is safer and more cost-effective to move toward sustainable technologies like wind, solar and geothermal.”
    ​(Nuclear reactor retirement and failure costs are infinite.)
    ​ ​Biden also noted that he plans to double the rate at which the U.S. is currently installing solar and wind. In 2018, according to Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, the U.S. installed about 10.7 gigawatts of solar, a decline of 2 percent from additions in the previous year. The wind industry is slated to install 11.9 gigawatts in 2019 and 14.6 gigawatts in 2020.
    ​ ​Several candidates, including Biden, Warren, Harris and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, also floated plans for drastically increasing electric vehicles and charging infrastructure.
    ​ ​The Green New Deal — which many candidates credited for the very existence of a televised climate-focused town hall — also featured prominently, with candidates promising millions of good-paying jobs and support for marginalized communities that have faced disproportionate impacts from pollution and climate change.
    https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/clean-energy-highlights-from-cnn-climate-town-hall#gs.14yt85

    #49580

    From yesterday’s thread:

    V. Arnold,

    I’ve been sharing a lot of Brando and Ali videos lately with a dear friend in the US. Unfortunately, there is not an endless supply of those. And yes, both men were exceptional in their craft as well as their intelligence and courage.

    (Come to think of it, I don’t know if they ever met).

    But they are the kind of people a nation needs, because they build awareness and conscience, and courage in the rest of the population.

    Who is there now that you could compare to either, or to MLK, MalcolmX?

    I know who: Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Jeremy Hammond, the “Stratfor hacker” who just got sucked into that vortex again after serving an almost full 10-year sentence.

    See, I think the question is: if Muhammad Ali were the champ today, and spoke out now the way he did in the 1960s, what do you think the odds are he would ever box again?

    You know, vs the odds he’d be in prison for the rest of his life?

    #49582

    Also, on a much unhappier note, Google appears to step up its efforts to de-bank or de-monetize the Automatic Earth. We’re down 90% easily by now.

    Over the past while, I’ve been receiving no-reply mails such as this one today:

    AdSense

    That’s a screenshot, so you can’t click it, but believe me, every time I click the first link, “AdSense Policy Center”, I get a screen that says:

    “We apologize for the inconvenience, but we are unable to process your request at this time. Our engineers have been notified of this problem and will work to resolve it.”

    The other links lead to never ending pages of ‘policies’ which would only lead me to guess blindly which one would apply to us.

    Meanwhile, TAE revenue has gone down even more. 1000s of visitors, but ad revenue now down by 90+%. And you know, I can’t ask these people what it is I violate, because they hide behind a no-reply mail address and they tell me nothing. Same thing as when Facebook shut our account there.

    I literally have zero idea what we are accused of doing in both cases. I could venture a guess, but what use is that?

    Should I write an article about this? Maybe. For now, I’m thinking about how things have changed since we started in Jan 2008 and Google and Facebook could not do these things to people like us. They can now, that much is obvious.

    But yeah, very much yeah!, if you appreciate what you read here every day, do become a subscriber to the Automatic Earth through Paypal, and/or a patron through Patreon, details all at the top of the sidebars on the site, because this is not going to last much longer the way it’s going.

    #49584
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    every time I click the first link, “AdSense Policy Center”, I get a screen that says: “We apologize for the inconvenience, but we are unable to process your request at this time.

    FWIW, a page in AdSense Help gives this advice about that problem:
    “Make sure you aren’t using any sort of VPN to access your account and turn off any ad-blockers, security, or privacy plugins when trying to access pages in your AdSense account.”

    #49585
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Brando and Ali with others

    #49587

    Yeah, let’s find excuses for Google not to communicate with people who make them money.

    #49588
    lasttwo
    Participant

    Well there are many parks and roads and public lands that were built by the ccc and the wpa. Probably better than people starving in the streets. And I think you are correct John for lack of a better term we are facing the fourth turning and corruption and manipulation of our corporations and governments have reached the point where the greed will become our undoing. the media has become babel and to Rauls point the hero’s are silenced. There is no longer a collective consciousness in journalism so even if Ali or Brando did talk his words would be lost in the babel of the fake news information age. By the time his words were repeated and massaged he would appear to be an insane person. Too much boxing for the old boy wouldn’t you say? Why Mr Brando has appeared to lose his mind over having a wounded knee or something. I am afraid for the future of what we have become/ I want to believe that we are capable of solving the problems of the future and we are but not if a few greedy people control the means to solve them . On another more positive note our solar panels have produced 6 MWH since april 18th Our all electric for our home and small shop has been supplied and our power bill for the last 2 months in negative 92 dollars. way better than money in the bank. but as we sit here right at this very moment there is a power outage and my grid tied system leaves us sitting in the quiet of no power while generating 6.7 kwh of electricity every hour that goes nowhere. just came back on

    #49591
    lasttwo
    Participant

    never mind I will trust it went where It was suppose to

Viewing 15 posts - 1 through 15 (of 15 total)
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.