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    Piet Mondriaan Self portrait 1918   • Western Sanctions Are Great For Russia – Michael Hudson (RT) • Russia Eliminates Dozens Of Foreign Fighters
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 8 2022]

    #113054
    Red
    Participant

    @afewknowthetruth “It’s just a huge ‘farm’, and we are the livestock.”
    Oh more than “just” livestock, we also make great cannon fodder!

    #113055
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Muhammad Ali 1971
    My god; what a briliant, perceptive, and eloquent human being…
    I miss him; he’s so needed in today’s world…

    #113056
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    …and he knew the value of humor…

    #113057
    Red
    Participant

    Principles and consequence

    Under these extreme conditions, it’s necessary to remind ourselves of the ‘three principles, one consequence’ of economic reality.

    The first principle is that the economy is an energy system, because nothing that has any economic value whatsoever can be produced without it. The second is that, whenever energy is accessed for our use, some of that energy is always consumed in the access process. This ‘consumed in access’ component is known here as the Energy Cost of Energy, or ECoE.

    Third, money has no intrinsic worth, but commands value only as a ‘claim’ on the output of the material economy.

    These three principles lead inexorably to a logical consequence, which is that we need to think conceptually in terms of two economies – an energy-determined ‘real’ economy of goods and services, and a proxy ‘financial economy’, consisting of money and credit, which incorporates claims on material economic prosperity.

    The economy can’t be understood effectively unless this conceptual distinction is recognized.

    These principles are well-known to regular visitors to this site but, under current conditions, no apology seems necessary for their brief reiteration.

    Conventional economic models can’t possibly act as reliable guides to our predicament. Their foundation assumptions are fallacious. The economy isn’t entirely a monetary system; resources are not some kind of substitutable adjunct to the economy; there are material and environmental limits to economic activity; and the promise of infinite growth on a finite planet is a delusion arrived at by reasoning from false premises.

    https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/

    #113058
    Dr. D
    Participant

    ZeHeil
    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ZelenskyAmericaQuote-600×600.jpg
    Says a comedian.
    News from Canada:

    So every Squirrely Dan can solve the Canadian energy, emissions, and food problem from their tractor in 5 minutes, but Trudy and all the Brain Trust in Ontario can’t. Yeah, our problems are real. Except it’s not an oil and environment problem: it’s a politician corruption problem.

    “the US has succeeded in eliminating its competition in Europe,”

    What was that quote? Plan A) was to harm or conquer Russia, but as that failed, they rolled seamlessly into Plan B) which was liquidate and consume Europe instead? Why you let us do that? If you stopped them, we’d have a much better chance of Congress and Oligarchs collapsing here and returning the country to Republic and away from Empire.

    “There is a report circulating that says 191,000 Ukr troops have been killed.”

    Biden’s Slavic genocide is going well. There are no Ukrainian men left alive. I mean, there’s Ze, but he’s not a man, nor clearly a real Ukrainian.

    ” Russia Takes Out 45,000 Tons of NATO Ammo – MoD (RT)”

    Modern warfare. Unbelievably easy. Push button: go bang. Bye bye $1B Taxpayer dollars! Congress raises taxes on people down to $30k, which is approaching the effective poverty line in some areas. Why bother raising taxes and not printing is a mystery, except that it’s certain to collapse the economy and the nation, and therefore the people, families, and society. Replaced by government, Argentine-Venezuelan style.

    So we got that to look forward to.

    Only 30% of Ukraine Military Aid Reaches Final Destination (JTN)”

    The rest is sold and the money recycled to Congress, just like all foreign aid for 50 years.

    Hey, we’re sending food for “We are the World” why are people still starving there? A: We’ll never know because like Amnesty International we won’t look or report on it. That was 40 years ago.

    Like Amnesty, if they tell the truth, they immediately retract and apologize. The only enemy is the Truth. #Logos. “In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act” . We sure don’t have any revolutionaries ‘round here! We’ll burn (the black areas of) 15 major cities but tell the truth? Never!

    “Finland Warns About ‘Imminent’ Downturn In Europe (RT)”

    A downturn where they no longer bake bread.

    “it “is impossible to imagine” what form a possible reset in relations between the West and Russia could take after Moscow attacked Ukraine in late February.”

    A reset where Europe tells the truth for once in 50 years and admits they were trying to sneak NATO into surrounding and first-striking Moscow. And that that didn’t work. It’s not that unusual between nations, and clearly between them someone loses. So apologize, eat some losses, and life goes on.

    “UK Is Facing Dickens-style Poverty, Ex-PM warns (RT)”

    They’re already in it, and have been for some time. You think it was English Channel to Firth of Forth last time? No: some rich, some middle, some poor, same as now. So +5 years after ads to rent the garden shed for sexual favors, “Children white with hunger” throughout the NW, “rape gangs” scandal for +3 years, what Britain are you talking about? Was it great in 1970? Thatcher’s 1980? Blair’s 1990? IT’S SUCKED THE WHOLE TIME. Or at least anywhere out of London. You’ve got no industry, all rapacious finance, tossers out of London driving up housing so no one can get it, same as S.F. and our 12 blessed cities.

    Anyway, they’re not going to pay their electric bills now, and I sort of understand that. But it’s not going to make electric and gas appear. The British people seem to have the same understanding of Economics that the EU does: that is, that they are a monopsony, a single buyer controlling the market. This didn’t work for s—t in Europe and it won’t work for the people of Britain. They think it has to do with “money”, but it doesn’t. The “Price” of gas reflects how many resources it took to create and deliver it. If you’re giving me less resources than it took to create it, I’m simply going to shut off the lights and go home: i.e. no gas at all. Otherwise, I’m going to do all that hard work to PAY YOU to use up my gas and my free time for more than free. Nuh-uh.

    Same as Dickens though: when was he writing? 1836-1870 with a bias toward the early years he grew up in. Corn Laws. Sex trade. Irish famine pulling food out of a colonial starvation, shutting down farmers for palatial estates. Crimean War. Opium War. Indian War. Egypt Ethiopia and Sudan. Sound familiar?

    ““We Regret Any Pain”: CUNY Apologizes, Deletes Article on Depp Lawyer (Turley)”

    Must attack successful women and all black men. Attack literally and personally, at their Comedy Shows. ‘Cause: Socialism? Literally that seemed to be the AWFL attacker’s point, they got a raw deal at work and so wanted to attack and kill successful black comedians.

    But all black people are White Supremacists now. And all Dominicans. White people said so.

    Also, what are trials for? Apparently it demonstrated Depp’s “innocence” or at least her culpability via the institution of law. And NOT the Jr. High School girls’ table. CUNY is run by the Mean Girlz, not rule of law, clearly, and it shows.

    That would be fine but their Mob Rule is running you too, at your house and job.

    “Meanwhile, the Party of Chaos is about to unleash its “Inflation Reduction Act,” which proposes to spend three quarters of a trillion dollars created from thin air into an economy already hyperventilating”

    It’s worse than that: they are doubling(?) the number of IRS agents, and raising taxes on families down to $30K income level. I’m sure Pelosi and Musk are doing fine, still with those tax breaks for developing farmland into condos and pumping oil in ND. Billion in tax giveaways to major corporations and their investors who turn food into gasoline and murder the poor.

    ““23 million Russians died protecting you and me from the Nazi menace.”

    The only enemy is the Truth. #Logos. God himself. Reality. I’m disappointed and taken aback that Waters is the ONLY rock star willing to take this up. Not that everybody always was, but for 50 years, we had “4 Dead in Ohio” “God Save the Queen/ the fascist regime” “99 Red Balloons” constantly. Now: sell your music catalog to BlackRock then nag and scold poor people.

    How is Biden not a war criminal? We presume Cheney is and he was only Vice President. Biden was in similar situation as Obama started 5 new wars against brown people and 15 escalations worldwide.

    “Jim Rickards: “Biden plans to extent the COVID state of emergency. You know, so they can extend the mail-in ballot fraud”.

    Obviously, but they suck so bad they’re being overrun. By the people, as per Sri Lanka. They did the same this week in AZ, counted, and when they lost, stopped counting and froze the election. Overnight, days. Why? Can someone explain how elections keep getting stopped all the time now, and only when they’re in one direction? But they couldn’t find a way to get away with rigging the vote, too many eyes on them, and Lake won. But this will be a far greater call to action for 2022’s vote rigging. So we’re going “Close polling”, “erase voters from voting locations” (already happened), and shut off the power election night. Another great reason for no electronic voting. I’ll vote in one of the big paper booths by candlelight.

    But the point isn’t to WIN, although that would be nice. The point is to DESTROY the election so no one knows who won and erase national legitimacy. This opens the door for corporations and corporate-interest groups like the WEF to run things instead.

    It’s EASY to screw things up. “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.” Why? BECAUSE WE MADE IT SO. All quadrillion dollars in BlackRock, Vanguard, in Soros and Bayer, all focused on this ONE thing: to make a complete riot, a mess of culture, government, environment, gender, economics, medicine, law, everything. You have to break a few eggs, you know, to “Build Back Better.” Build back? From what??? From the complete universal collapse we paid for, silly.

    1871:

    “The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the ‘agentur’ of the ‘Illuminati’ between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion. We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.” -Gen Pike to Italian communist Mazzini.

    It’s a RELIGION. By religious zealots. You can’t understand it without this, knowing that it’s just a plain-old cult. Boring, predictable. Just unusually well connected and funded.

    Quote above true or no? Who cares? It appears to be the present plan, whether this was written at the time or read by them later and adopted as a durn good idea. This follows that other horseman, the Club of Rome and The Green (Chloros) Horse of Environmentalism that kills as many people as War, Famine, and Pestilence.

    The Archdruid points out that the problem doesn’t have to be fake to do that. In fact, better that the environmental problem and limits to growth are real. (and caused by us, our corporations, our jets, and our policies) Only then can you sell the cure is to give more money and power to the same people who caused it,caused the environmental collapse with their existing money and power. Building nuclear plants, inflating money to make businesses run white-hot and waste money and resources, giving tax incentives to rich people drilling, paving farmland, starting wars. Using the same central bank money to remove distributed energy, conservation, and independence. The problems are REAL. They want them to be real: Poverty, Drug Overdoses and murders, no health care, chemical poisonings, starvation, violence, war. They’re just not affected by them, and in fact actively profit with every death, as is easy to verify.

    So they NEED the world to be the biggest mess ever seen, and it’s totally worth blowing $100 Trillion on the project so that they can Poof! Stop paying everyone to poison and kill each other when their hand-picked, pre-arranged savior arrives on the scene like Obama. And like Obama, talks real nice, while foreclosing on black families and starting wars in Africa for Wall Street. Then they finish the game and control it all. “You own nothing.” The game of “Monopoly”.

    But as those things are written, and if the interpretation is correct, this may also only last 3 years. With a V Passport. You can see why: it’s a s—t show that’s barely holding together now.

    Anyway, yes: mess things up is the plan. It’s the POINT. It’s not to “Win” in that way, it’s to “Ruin”, to “Destroy”, to fight and kill and hate. Which always makes the Devil real happy.

    The percentage of money (“wealth”) locked in real estate is much higher in China than anywhere else. Everyone’s betting on the same horse.”

    True and true, but China is not the West. They may have methods and customs that didn’t work when the same people tried the same capture operation here. We are collapsing, but they are in a difference cycle.

    #113059
    Dora
    Participant

    Thanks, Dr. D, for the Canadian farmer’s video. The WEF has started its own Great Leap Forward. How many people will the WEF starve in the name of ideology?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

    #113060
    EoinW
    Participant

    I’m betting on a Thirty Years War conclusion. If you’re lucky, you live in some place where the damage is minimal. Unlucky: Magdeburg 1631. All one can do is try and position themselves in the best location. Red states giving one the best chance. The EU…oh boy! Meanwhile we’ll have elites, like Gustavus Adolphus & Cardinal Richelieu mucking around to make things worse.

    If nothing else, the 30 year time frame may be right.

    #113061
    zerosum
    Participant

    Fixed it – stop worrying

    “Inflation Reduction Act,”

    the rule of law

    legal concerns

    #113062
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    FEVER

    Before penicillin syphilis was sometimes cured by infecting the patient with malaria!

    Syphilis could not survive the high temperature of malarial fever.

    #113063
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    In defense of Boris Johnson : He said Covid would be endemic and we have to live with it. He also removed all restrictions.

    When I read about the draconian measures still being taken in the US, Germany, China and elsewhere I am thankful to him for that as I live in the UK. In this respect it is like living in a civilised country reading about the barbaric wasteland outside.

    I still suspect it was because of this that he was removed by those in power. I hope the new leader will not re-impose this Covid barbarism.

    #113064
    Noirette
    Participant

    Who owns the land? important…

    In the Netherlands, I have read, farmers own more than half (idk if correct)…if so that explains a lot.. I posted before about the Tri-cities project which is driving the anti-farmer blitz in NL.

    In Ukraine the privatisation process of land started before the Maidan (see for ex. report from the Oakland institute + 2014 article by the Ecologist), and while the MSM tells us that Zelensky passed a new privatisation bill (he did), it followed on from one passed by Poroshenko, but I’m not going to go into those weeds.

    Obviously, foreign Joe6 buying a huge farm in Ukr. vs. Blackrock owning X % of shares in Cargill who owns Y shares in the biggest Ukr. land-owning Corp is etc. can’t be compared.

    Celada covers the history, 2020

    Analysis. Despite the moratorium on land sales to foreigners, by 2016, ten multinationals controlled 2.8 million hectares of Ukrainian land. Today, some estimates speak of 3.4 million hectares.

    Cohen, 2022

    It is the thesis of this essay that agricultural competition over land use between the U.S. and Russia—two gigantic capitalist countries with the most powerful nuclear arsenals in the world—is a neglected but important force driving the war in Ukraine.

    The articles cover similar ground, quote each other; the ‘facts’ are hard to verify. (I could not get the world bank data on Land Ukr to work today.)

    A list from 2019 of the top 10 *Ukr.* Land (farm holdings on agri land) from LaScala.

    They tally 2.5 down from 2.9 million ha for the top 10 altogether. (Total arable Ukr is 32 million ha.) All cos. held by Ukr. oligarchs, or in collab. with one other person, Cos. are lodged in Kiev, Lux., Nicosia, Amsterdam, NY. My take is that Ukr. oligarchs aka locals have been loosing badly (banking, holdings, ownership of xyz) for a while .. Again, the classification criteria just look at ‘one chunk’ and relationships aren’t detailed, etc.

    War – it is very costly – is about ressources, land, what is on top of it (e.g. grains, slaves) or under it (e.g. minerals, FF) plus now in 2022 human constructs that allow transport, processing, delivery of vital necessities, they are the essential arteries of profit.

    5 bitly links in next post.

    #113065
    Noirette
    Participant
    #113066
    John Day
    Participant

    @Bill7 (and off topic): The most natural sounding speakers I ever heard, and repeatedly, and always the same, no matter what I compared them to were Diatone full range speakers, 2 per large (3.5 cu.ft. approx) flat front box; in Tokyo’s Akihabara electronics district in the 1970s, when I lived in Kamakura (hence my “Avatar” of the Great Buddha of Kamakura). http://www.glowinthedarkaudio.com/diatone-p610.html
    This write up compares the original (Mitsubishi) Diatone 5.5″ full range speakers, made for the Japanese government NHK broadcast network, to modern Chinese copies, which compare favorably. The writer also likes the Coral Flat-5, which I also liked quite well, but not as much as the Diatones. I liked the Coral “flat” series, but ended up buying a Coral 3-way speaker kit for my first pair of speakers that I built, using Thiele-Small parameters for a 4th order Butterworth bass roll-off. In college in the US, working in a hospital kitchen, I also built custom speakers for friends as a side job. In med school, I did not do this, but built some hot-rod Wankle/Mazda engines for myself when I had time and used parts.
    After med school and training I resumed speaker-building, assuming transistor or big p-p tune amps to drive them. My most natural set of speakers in this epoch (not counting big electrostatics I refurbished) was a copy of the Sonus Faber Extrema speakers, in an improved pyramid shaped floorstanding enclosure. The crossover design is really key, but the bass and treble drivers were excellent, now unobtainium, like Diatone.
    Reviewed here by the venerable Martin Colloms: https://www.stereophile.com/standloudspeakers/915/index.html
    After that I discovered Sound Practices magazine https://www.hificollective.co.uk/magazines/sound_practice_archive_cd.html
    I concurrently flew back to my high school memories of Akihabara, where I always ended up listening at the places that had single-ended triode tube amps driving the speakers I mentioned, and Altech Voice-of-the-Theaters, a pair of which I bought, as I dove into the world of big speakers and exquisite little amplifiers.
    It turned out that the author/creator of Sound Practices, Joe R. lived in Austin, and so began our friendship and collaboration, until the internet killed his business model. https://www.hificollective.co.uk/magazines/sound_practice_archive_cd.html

    Apologies to all except Bill7

    #113067
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    All of that happened – about a week ago – in the dark! Never done, … or known to be done before! Done in the dark, …

    Jeff Bezos’ $500 Million Megayacht Launches Under the Cover of Darkness

    A very controversial chapter in the multi-million saga of Jeff Bezos’ new sailing yacht has closed. Y721 from Dutch shipbuilder Oceanco launched earlier this week, under the cover of darkness, to avoid unwanted attention. […]

    https://www.autoevolution.com/news/jeff-bezos-500-megayacht-launches-under-the-cover-of-darkness-on-secret-route-195205.html

    F.S.

    #113068
    John Day
    Participant

    @Bill7: Here is the cheapest I could find for Chinese Diatone copies in alnico magnet version:
    https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2251832799933857.html?spm=a2g0o.ppclist.product.4.3594wcx3wcx3d4&pdp_npi=2%40dis%21USD%21US%20%24186.12%21US%20%24176.46%21%21%21%21%21%402101d1b416599722621448114e8506%2166898108408%21btf&_t=pvid:1b86b16d-e517-4716-87d4-4d90345f66c3&afTraceInfo=32986248609__pc__pcBridgePPC__xxxxxx__1659972262
    The Vas is 60 litres, over 2 cubic feet, explaining my visual estimate of 3.5 cu ft vented box for the 2 driver cabinets which always held such an allure for me.

    #113069
    EoinW
    Participant

    @ anticlimatic

    Good point about BoJo. I remember that he was the first to blink last winter and lift restrictions. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what cost him his job.

    #113070
    Mr. House
    Participant
    #113071
    Bill7
    Participant

    Real good stuff, John Day- thank you for those posts, and the links. You were in much, much deeper than I was, in the early-70s through mid-80s when prices
    and marketing demographics started to quickly change things.. ahh, the Reagan Years. 😉

    I had to find acceptable and hopefully
    artful compromises among the budget hi-fi
    stuff. Had a few sets of Spicas that had
    some very nice qualities, and I always liked LS3/5As, even with their limitations. Always solid-state amplification for me- alas- though I got to hear a lot of nice tubed stuff. As I said, a relative piker..

    #113072
    TDub
    Participant

    Request for help
    My son is starting 1st grade in a week and his pediatrician has recommended the vaccination for him. My wife (vaxxed) and I (unvaxxed) are divided on the issue. In her mind, a medical professional recommending it (and saying that they arent seeing side effects) outweighs what I say. He had covid (omicron in Jan) though no symptoms, only way we knew is we all had it and got tested.

    Can anyone help point me to studies from respected journals like BMJ, Lancet, etc, that show the risks and/or similar arguments against vaxxing kids?
    Thanks

    #113073
    Bill7
    Participant

    Adding: thanks in particular for the Sonus Faber review; there’s a lot in
    there about crossover and driver design that I’ve forgotten about, or never knew.

    My car rat-hole was a’67 MG Midget MkII with the 1098; lot of money went into that engine rebuild that could have been better spent.. fun car, though!

    #113074
    willem
    Participant

    I have read comments about James Kunstler here before. I still read him regularly, but I think the guy is a bit delusional. Most of what he says never seems to happen. Rather, he writes as thought what he WISHES would happen is somehow inevitable. In a sane world perhaps it would be.

    His offering today is so “optimistic” that I actually find it discouraging. That is because after the momentary pleasure I get from imagining things transpiring, I return to earth and realize that it just isn’t going to work out that way.

    https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-sickening-quickening/

    #113075
    Bill7
    Participant

    Kunstler has been running the “the Perps will be brought to justice very soon!”
    thing for years, now.

    ’tis strange..

    #113076
    citizenx
    Participant

    Why don’t they call it Whitemail? They Lie too…

    Epstein- CIA- Mossad, they Lie too.

    Black Sheep, White Sheep, Lone Wolves

    Where does the term “lone wolf” come from?

    So really, a “lone wolf” isn’t one who wants to be alone because they don’t like being around others. They’re a wolf who elects to be alone temporarily as they try to find a mate and find a place to have a family. They are the key to the genetic survival of the species.

    #113088
    Polder Dweller
    Participant

    Noirette,

    The big idea apart from ze bugz, of course, is vertical farming. The food factories can be built in the cities and so close to the consumer, which is green, right? Therefore the traditional farms can be done away with and houses built on them or returned to “nature”. What’s not to like? Well, pretty much everything really, as with all things WEF, it totally sucks.

    https://verticalfarmingplanet.com/why-is-vertical-farming-bad-9-disadvantages/

    #113089
    BoomerDoomer2
    Participant

    @TDub
    I would recommend RFK Jr’s latest: A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals (Children’s Health Defense). The kindle edition is $3.99 and has live links to all the data. It’s a quick read and was published only 6 days ago so it is up to date through June 2022 or so.

    From Amazon’s intro:
    Kennedy invites readers to look at the data in order to answer questions such as:
    Did COVID vaccines really save millions and end the pandemic?
    Why were the lowest COVID death rates in countries and states that relied on therapeutic drugs, and in countries with the lowest vaccination rates?
    Did vaccines prevent infection or transmission as officials promised?
    Why do COVID vaccines appear to show “negative efficacy”—making the vaccinated more susceptible to COVID.
    Why does the most reliable data suggest that COVID vaccines do not lower the risk of death and hospitalization.
    Should government technocrats be partnering with media and social media titans to censor and suppress the questioning of government policies?
    And why have so many liberals abandoned fundamental Constitutional principles in their headlong rush to embrace pandemic policies pushed by captured bureaucrats, feckless politicians, a compromised news media, and Big Pharma?
    In his November 2021 book The Real Anthony Fauci, which sold over 1,000,000 copies, Kennedy made predictions that have matured from “conspiracy theories” to proven facts. Among these:
    Masks Are Ineffective and Dangerous
    Social Distancing Was Not Science-Based
    School Closures Were Not Science-Based
    Lockdowns Were Counterproductive
    Vaccinating Children Causes More Harm and Death Than It Averts
    Officials Wrongly Used PCR Tests to Justify the Countermeasures
    COVID-19 May Have Come from Wuhan Lab
    Natural Immunity is Superior to Vaccine Immunity
    Kennedy throws down the gauntlet for the kind of vigorous scientific debate that liberals have long stood for and strives to ensure that unbiased honesty and well-researched thought is brought to bear on one of the most important and still unfolding chapters in human history.

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text/11717443011/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_digital-text

    #113090
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraines-first-grain-shipment-gets-snubbed/
    Ukraine’s first grain shipment gets snubbed
    The buyer in Lebanon refused to accept the cargo, citing delay of delivery terms.
    BY SARAH ANNE AARUP
    AUGUST 8, 2022

    #113091
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Thank you ‘Red’.

    There are numerous terrible realities that are impinging on the fake narratives of politicians, economists, bankers and bureaucrats right now.

    1. Without energy nothing happens.

    2. Increasing amounts of energy are being expended to acquire useable energy.

    3. The pollutants that are generated when energy is acquired and used within the industrial system continue to accumulate. The geochemical-geophysical effects of pollutants are both instantaneous and cumulative.

    4. Whenever energy is utilised in the industrial system a substantial portion is ‘lost’ as heat. No industrial system is 100% efficient, and many operate at around 30% efficiency. All energy cascades down energy transition steps to end up as heat. Dispersed heat cannot be harnessed, and ends up radiated into space.

    5. The effect of greenhouse gases is to cause heat radiated from the Earth towards space to be absorbed and re-emitted back towards the Earth, creating an energy imbalance relative to previous (pre-industrial) conditions, i.e. atmospheric CO2 190 ppm above the long term average of 230 ppm. This result on long-term overheating relative to the conditions during which humanity evolved, and during which human civilisations emerged.

    6. The effects of overheating include: increasing atmospheric instability; increasing [thermal] expansion of oceans -leading to inundation of coastal regions where most human live; disturbance to growth of organisms and yields of crops etc.

    6. Every activity within the industrialised system exacerbates our longer-term predicament.

    7. There are no technological solutions to this complex mega-predicament because:

    1.Without energy nothing happens.

    2. Increasing amounts of energy are being expended to acquire useable energy.

    3. The pollutants that are generated when energy is acquired and used within the industrial system continue to accumulate…..

    Thus, we need to recognise that those of us alive right now are the last generations to live in complex societies with industrial systems (perhaps the last humans ever to live on this planet), and HOW WE LIVE is what matters.

    Just how fast the fraudulent systems of governments, banks, corporations and economists will last is anyone guess (up to a point) but I am planning on the basis of the whole ‘rules based’ (Anglo-American rules imposed on others by intimidation and force) system reaching the terminal collapse point within two years.

    #113092
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    I see that Europe, as well as being short of energy and resources, is rather dry at the moment.

    ‘More than 100 French municipalities have no running drinking water and are being supplied by truck, green transition minister Christophe Béchu said, adding: “We are going to have to get used to episodes of this type. Adaptation is no longer an option, it’s an obligation.”

    With surface soil humidity the lowest ever recorded and July rainfall 85% lower than usual, water restrictions including hosepipe and irrigation bans are in place in 93 of the country’s 96 mainland départements, with 62 classified as “in crisis”.

    ‘Amid rising food prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, France’s agriculture minister warned the corn harvest is likely to be more than 18% lower than last year, while farmers’ unions say a shortage of cattle fodder as a result of the drought could lead to significant milk shortages in the autumn and winter.

    The electricity utility EDF was last week forced to reduce output from one of its nuclear reactors in south-western France because of high water temperatures in the Garonne River, and has issued multiple similar warnings for reactors along the Rhône.

    Spain’s water reserves are at all-time low of 40% and have been falling at a rate of 1.5% a week through a combination of increased consumption and evaporation, according to the government, in what is likely to be the driest of the past 60 years.’

    I’m not a fan of The Guardian (terrible political bias) but they do sometimes report interesting aspects of our collective demise.

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/08/the-new-normal-how-europe-is-being-hit-by-a-climate-driven-drought-crisis

    #113093
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.yahoo.com/now/fbi-raids-donald-trump-mar-230902268.html
    FBI Raids Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Resort, Former President Says
    Nick Visser
    Mon, August 8, 2022 at 4:09 PM

    #113094
    John Day
    Participant

    @Bill7 : It’s good chatting DIY hi fi and cars with you. I never had the money in any of this that one might think, but we had a great electronics surplus store in an out of the way part of Austin that had a lot of military and spook electronics contractors, so good, weird stuff of all vintages. Likewise with the rotary engines, mainly used parts from various years and cutting my own street ports in the housings with a high speed grinder.
    I intend to set up a big listening system in the Yoakum homestead. I still have the tube amps and speakers stored in the garage here in Austin.

    #113095
    aspnaz
    Participant

    @TDub My wife and I found this site to be a gold mine … https://swprs.org/facts-about-covid-19/

    #113096
    John Day
    Participant

    Any rocket can become a dirty-bomb if you can hit a nuclear reactor with it. Ukraine tried last night.
    https://sputniknews.com/20220807/ukrainian-troops-shell-zaporozhye-nuclear-power-plant-overnight-local-authorities-say-1099354466.html

    #113097
    willem
    Participant

    @Dr. D: Thanks for the great video on the Canadian Fertilizer Ban.

    #113098
    Bill7
    Participant

    I enjoy it too, John Day, and wish I had done more DIY in audio. The Diatone (?)
    driver appears to be a full-range one, no? I was on the mailing list for a supplier of parts at one time, but got overwhelmed.. the crossover being typically in the ear’s most sensitive region sure makes for some problems, I think. At the moment I solve that by mostly listening through headphones (Sennheiser HD580s, usually) and age-related hearing loss “helps”, too.

    An old interview with John Bau of Spica, much of which goes over my head; but interesting about his wanting substantial baffle around the HF driver:
    https://www.stereophile.com/interviews/694/index.html

    #113099
    Bill7
    Participant

    > I intend to set up a big listening system in the Yoakum homestead. I still have the tube amps and speakers stored in the garage here in Austin. <

    There you go! Nothing like having a good system in adequate space..

    #113101
    TDub
    Participant

    BoomerDoomer2 and Aspnaz – thanks for the links.

    #113103
    WES
    Participant

    TDub:

    Please realize that doctors are not allowed to say anything negative about the covid vaccine nor speak about ivermectin or they will lose their medical license.

    This is especially true in Canada. Same goes for pharmacists too. Bring up the subject and watch them quickly change the subject or walk away. They will say nothing.

    #113104
    WES
    Participant

    TDub:

    Please note that many doctors are paid extra money by the gov for each person they inject the vaccine into. Children probably bring in more money than an adult does. So keep this conflict of interest in mind.

    #113107
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @zerosum

    Unfuckingbelievable. It’s approaching JFK Level shit coz nothing’s left except imprisonment and assassination.

    Desantis couldn’t have responded more fecklessly while imparting the notion his state Government participated in the raid.

    The FBI managed the impossible. Turned a completely unsympathetic character into a martyr

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