Debt Rattle April 10 2019
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Marcel Duchamp The chess game 1910 • Putin Derangement Syndrome After Mueller (SCF) • ‘Mountain Brought Forth A Mouse’: Putin On Mueller Report
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 10 2019]Marcel Duchamp The chess game 1910
As a used-to-be avid chess player; interesting painting and probably accurate as well…Zager and Evans – In The Year 2525
Wow, flashback time; all the way to 1968; quite prescient for a couple of rockers…“At moments, we all wish to retreat to an imaginary place: a womb with a view, if you will.”
Hilarious! And spot on, IMO…Marcel Duchamp The chess game 1910
Certainly not a fave of mine, cleaning up inventoryZager and Evans – In The Year 2525
They have the dates wrong, I think, no way we’ll last another 5,000 years or so. But some good lines. Don’t know them: one-hit wonders?!Basil Fawlty
As a symbol for Britain as a whole, perfect.*A 100% Private Carbon Wealth Tax*
It takes 1 ton of coal to make 3 solar panels.After 30 years of trying, solar + wind now make up less than 2% of the world’s total energy demand.
The reason it’s not higher is because electricity is only 25% of the world’s total energy demand.
Solar + wind only work at their full power rating less than 30% of time, and after 30 years, they’re toxic waste.
It will take solar + wind 70 years to reach 100% of the world’s total energy demand.
The massive steel and mineral infrastructure will cause more emissions than we save.
We have to reduce emissions 100% in 20 years to avoid runaway mass extinction.
50% of Europe’s renewable energy comes from burning imported clear cut forests.
They burn palm oil in their cars and lie about emissions.
Sweden burns their recycling garbage for electricity.
Solar panels in Northern Europe work at full power 15% of the time.
China is building 400 nuclear plants and 700 coal plants.
Getting methane from sea bed ice is the new gold rush in Asia.
Methane is the oil of the 21st century.
All the killing in the middle east is about who is going to sell methane to Europe.
A 100% private carbon wealth tax is the only hope.
Corporations, NGOs and governments hate 100% private wealth taxes.
Corporations, NGOs and governments have been fixing the climate for 30 while emissions went up 60%.
Here’s the secret. We have to reduce emission 100% in 20 years and they’re set to go up 10% in 10 years.
2 F35 fighter jets crashed, 2 Boeing 737 jets crashed, and god knows how many self-driving Teslas crashed because money walks and bullshit talks.
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NooBoob.
If you pile up numbers and statements like that they seriously risk losing all meaning. Sources are a first step. One step at a time.
They have the dates wrong, I think, no way we’ll last another 5,000 years or so. But some good lines. Don’t know them: one-hit wonders?!
Raúl Ilargi MeijerPretty much one hit wonders as I recall; but they do press the point.
NooBoob smothers with data; I pretty much bypass his posts.
Pretty good advice to him though. It’s like he doesn’t know he’s preaching to the choir… 😉“Wikileaks has uncovered an extensive spying operation against Julian Assange within the Ecuadorean embassy,” Kristinn Hrafnsson, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief, said today.
As for a Assange, his best hope may be if Moreno is taken to court and impeached.
But US agents are actively working to prevent just that.
Tyler:
A trove of audio and documents purportedly taken from inside the embassy were recently used by a shadowy Spanish group to try and extort €3 million from Assange.
WikiLeaks has said it has uncovered a surveillance operation at the Ecuadorian embassy against Julian Assange and that images, documents and videos gathered have been offered for sale.
Spanish police mounted a sting operation against unnamed individuals in Madrid who offered the material for sale in what lawyers and colleagues of Assange said on Wednesday was an attempt at extortion.
Some of the material came from video cameras with the capacity to record audio and had been installed last year after a new government took power in Ecuador, a press conference organised by WikiLeaks was told
While we’re at it: saw things about first black hole pics coming up this morning, they were just presented now. Note that the one they chose, Messier87, is a pic of the state as is was 55 million years ago, and the hole is 6,500,000,000 times the mass of our sun.
I suppose it is quite comical to try to stand up for democracy against the onslaught of totalitarianism and Guardian bigotry. So I give up completely. But what is the justification for this (below)? How does it help anyone? or is it just supposed to be a punishment for daring to leave the regime? It confirms to me we are absolutely right to leave.
2/3 of glacier ice in the Alps will melt by 2100
Not to worry. By then there will be (by hook or by crook) far fewer Europeans and far less demand. Bank on it.
http://www.johndayblog.com/2019/04/undercurrents.html
“It belongs to the people, not the bankers”, Italy moves to seize gold from Italian central bank.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-05/it-belongs-people-not-bankers-italy-moves-seize-gold-central-bankItalian populist politicians may see the writing on the bathroom walls of the “gnomes of Zurich”…
According to Basel-III rules, gold is money again. (Thanks Bill for unreadable article in machine-translated Russian to prompt finding this other article).
In 2018, central banks added nearly 23 million ounces of gold, up 74% from 2017. This is the highest annual purchase rate increase since 1971, and the second-highest rate in history. Russia was the biggest buyer. And not surprisingly, the lion’s share of gold is flowing into central banks of countries that are in the sights of America’s killing machine—the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned us about in 1958.
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), located in Basal, Switzerland, is often referred to as the central bankers’ bank. Related to this issue of central bank hoarding of gold is the fact that on March 29 the BIS will permit central banks to count the physical gold it holds (marked to market) as a reserve asset just the same as it allows cash and sovereign debt instruments to be counted.
There has been a long-term view that China and other nations dishoarding dollars in favor of gold have been quite happy about western banks trashing the gold price through the synthetic paper markets. But one has to wonder if that might not change, once physical gold is marked to market for the sake of enlarging bank balance sheets.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-17/jay-taylor-under-basel-iii-rules-gold-becomes-moneyCharles Hugh Smith has a thumbnail strategic sketch of Brexit:
In sum: Britain’s participation in the EU was always contingent, and despite the continental urge to punish Brexit, Britain’s exit doesn’t really damage the balance of power. In terms of balancing land-based power, U.S. and NATO engagement with the Eastern European nations is far more consequential to continental Europe than Brexit.
In addition to geography, there’s democracy and the asymmetry of the neoliberal economic order. Not to put too fine a point on it, but democracy only works for the political and financial elites as long as the people vote as they’re told.
Once democracy becomes a source of resistance to the Power Elites, then elections that go counter to ruling-elite wishes must be declared illegitimate or reversed. (Hence the Power Elite’s furious battle to delegitimize Brexit and Trump’s election. Little wonder that the infamously bogus Steele Dossier was concocted by MI6 operatives.)
In other words, democracy is only acceptable if the voters rubberstamp the ruling elites’ centralized control of capital and power.
The last mechanism clanking away beneath the surface of Brexit is the hollowing out of economies ruled by centralized neoliberal (i.e. globalized) elites. High Street (Main Street in America) is simply not profitable to financial elites, and neither is a decentralized economy that serves localized needs rather than centralized profit centers.
So the economic and social fabric of the nation is ground down to dust in favor of Amazon, Wal-Mart, a handful of banks in London and New York and regulatory satraps in the central state who protect and serve the financial elites and their political and Deep State partners.
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2019/04/beneath-surface-of-brexit.htmlClicked on the “7510” video and all I get is the message
VIDEO UNAVAILABLE. Yhis video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
I Googled SME and got lots of suggestions including the Society of Mechanical Engineers, but I’m picking it might be SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.Life “Down-under” can be frustrating at times.
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