Debt Rattle February 13 2026
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the pronouncements by Elon Musk and Mustafa Suleyman concerning jobs are doing quite a public service by aiding in the clarification of the definition of “Useless Eaters”.
“we can count over 93 million professionals working in the U.S. in 2023, making up 57.8 percent of the total workforce.” – https://www.dpeaflcio.org/factsheets/the-professional-and-technical-workforce-by-the-numbers
Management occupations (20,906,000);
Business and financial operations occupations (9,638,000);
Computer and mathematical occupations (6,502,000);
Architecture and engineering occupations (3,602,000);
Life, physical, and social science occupations (1,870,000);
Community and social service occupations (2,879,000);
Legal occupations (1,897,000);
Education, training, and library occupations (9,403,000);
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations (3,478,000); and
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations (10,099,000).[1]this fact sheet counts employees in all occupation groups as professionals if they have at least an associate’s degree in an academic program. Thus, professional employment outside of the professional occupation groups in 2023 totaled 22,816,000, including:
Healthcare support occupations (1,468,000);
Protective service occupations (1,340,000);
Food preparation and serving related occupations (1,264,000);
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (758,000);
Personal care and service occupations (1,281,000);
Sales and related occupations (5,890,000);
Office and administrative support occupations (6,163,000);
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations (151,000);
Construction and extraction occupations (1,139,000);
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations (895,000);
Production occupations (1,510,000); and
Transportation and material moving occupations (2,096,000).[2]October 8, 2024
“he average duration of a job search for Americans in September was 22.6 weeks,” – https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2024/10/08/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-current-state-of-the-white-collar-job-market/let’s be optimistic and say only 1/3 of professional jobs are going to replaced by Ai. My calculator tells me that would be 19.37% of the workforce.
Once again let us be optimistic that only 10% of non-professional job will be lost, 4.22% of the workforce.
Now convince me that the loss of 23.59% of the workforce can be absorbed in the current economy.
There will be quite a number of USELESS whether or not they will be eating is another question.Da Moon:
Hey, Elon Musk!
I am not quite sure how to break this to you, but nobody seems very interested in going to da moon!
Da moon, just doesn’ have the sex appeal of going to a certain death on Mars!
US silver Refineries:
There is no shortage of silver in the US!
US silver Refineries are so busy making good delivery bars 99.999% for the CME, that they will only accept 99% and higher silver scrap.
So if you want to sell grandma’s silver set, you won’t get a very good price, because silver buyers can’t sell this low grade silver to their silver wholesalers who are only buying 99% and higher scrap silver that the refineries currently want.
Then add in the lack of timely free market price discovery confusion.
Nobody believes in the paper silver prices anymore.
So physical silver gridlock!
Buyers aren’t buying and sellers aren’t selling, because they don’t want to be cheated by the current cheap paper prices!It has been known for a long time and that is what has been considered by Russia’s strategic planners since 2013 at least, in reality since 2008.
Former Texas Representative Ron Paul said the U.S. economic order rests on “fraud” rooted in the 1971 break from gold and warned that the current system is nearing its end, in a wide-ranging 90th-birthday interview on The Tucker Carlson Podcast released Thursday. Paul, a Republican-turned-Libertarian-turned-Republican, tied his warning to the end of dollar convertibility into gold under President Richard Nixon, calling it the nation’s “first declaration of bankruptcy,” and argued that persistent money printing and deficits have created a brittle order primed for a severe correction.
The US has been into FIRE economy transition since 1980s, but it was in 1990s when the process of deindustrialization and Wall Streetization of the economy went into the overdrive. Today we have economy of this type:With a bunch of morons who continue to believe in gimmicks and the idea that you can “make money” which are not supported by anything other than zeros in computers. As long as “growth” was provided by inflating the capitalization of some pseudo-techno mambo-jumbo they thought they should be fine. Well, no. Ponzi schemes do not last long. For a country such as the US 50 years is a short time. So, the chickens are coming home to roost. That also has been demonstrated by SMO.
Meanwhile, 404 is now “drafting” … midgets, FFS.Meanwhile:
A majority of Germans support direct talks between German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Russian President Vladimir Putin on ending the Ukraine conflict, the DPA news agency reported on Thursday, citing a recent YouGov poll. Some 58% of respondents said they would somewhat or strongly support such negotiations, according to the survey. Just over a quarter of respondents opposed the idea. Support for direct talks was especially high among Merz’ conservative voters, with 64% responding positively. The YouGov survey was conducted online over four days last week among more than 2,000 Germans.
There is one, well–two problems with that. There cannot be a “dialogue” anymore, only reading of the articles of capitulation. But most important one–majority of Russians do not want this “dialogue”, they didn’t forget German Leopards in Kursk Oblast. It is all too little, too late. This doesn’t mean that normal Germans will not be met in Russia with open arms when immigrating, but Germany as an entity and as a nation is Russia’s existential enemy, as is most of Europe.
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/02/this-is-not-news.htmlDr. D your piece on labor at the time of the transcontinental railroad was one of the most obtuse you have penned. Ayahuasca delivers a state closer to reality.
The percentage of the workforce in agriculture declined from 74% in 1800 to roughly 50% by 1880. The combine harvester and mechanization played a role as did the rapid increase in population in the US.
The transcontinental was finished in 1868, WTF do factory workers in 1900 have to do with the discussion?Necessity may be the mother of invention but necessity IS the father of risk. You are a rare breed of capitalist that advises against risk. Did you ever read about sweat shops and the struggle of labor?
what was your occupation from age 20 to 40? Tell me that before you speak against those “who never worked a day in their sorry lives”.
sometimes it i best to remain silent………….than to speak up………
2+ years of genocide. 5+ years of jewjab sickness and death. Epstein. 109 countries over 1000 times. Wake up, before it’s too late..
Bradley Madden
https://www.youtube.com/@BradleyMadden-l5b
This channel has many videos
starting 2 weeks ago
With the oldest video about president trump not wanting to stand in court when the judge entered and legal issues he and his wife are having
And videos about Canada carney and trump actionsHere’s the oldest
the people who’ve gotten rich because we purchase a certain lifestyle from them now want to remove us from the planet because we live a certain lifestyle we’ve purchased from them.
Canada kicked out of NORAD control
Where is the proof?
All of these posts may be just narratives
Starting to resemble matrix
New character/ last time it was a girl with the same message
Every day brings new sordid and reprehensible details about the practices of Jeffrey Epstein and his collaborators and “guests.” Some speculate that the point of his operation was to compile incriminating documentation of high-powered individuals to be used to control them through blackmail. But this hypothesis misses the broader cultural point of sadistic depravity: the formation of a cadre of “elite” individuals willing to advocate and implement policies that ordinary human conscience would reject.
Although these hidden facts are now seeing the light, we can look at what has not been hidden, and ask: How did we get here? How does the world come to a point where a gruesome genocide is televised? Where the threat of nuclear devastation is treated cavalierly? Where economic despair is waved away by pointing to charts of the stock market?
Epstein’s circle did not arise in a vacuum; elite imperial cultures have long trained their successors to separate power from empathy.
The British elite are infamous for the abuse and torment characteristic of the “public schools” that have prepared scions of high rank for their future roles as administrators of the brutish empire. What image of man must be beaten into children to prepare them to treat their fellow human beings with the disdain required to maintain a hegemonic system? Has this abuse been tolerated for centuries precisely because it is an integral part of the pupils’ “education”?
The Epstein affair, far from being simply a scandal, is a verdict on culture. It forces the question: What image of humanity is shaping our institutions? If power is divorced from moral and intellectual development, strategic recklessness and social decay follow naturally. No reform limited to prosecutions or policy tweaks can address that root problem. A civilization survives only when its leadership orients toward the advancement of human creativity and dignity.
What would such a leadership do today?
The collapse of the trans-Atlantic financial economic system—the elephant still in the room—forces a choice: either cling to a fading, anti-human system, or reorganize society around real production, science, and culture.
The United States Centennial Exposition of 1876 represented a very different kind of culture than that prevailing today. The exposition was a grand world’s fair that drew millions of visitors to Philadelphia, showcasing breakthroughs in technology, manufacturing, and global cooperation as a celebration of the hundredth anniversary of American independence. Exhibits of industrial engines, productive machinery, communication innovations, and artistic pavilions from dozens of nations glorified human ingenuity and shared advancement on a truly universal stage. The celebration assumed that progress was the purpose of civilization.
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Look forward to the 300th anniversary: What should it showcase?
Imagine a Tricentennial Celebration of the future: fusion energy projects providing power around the world, and in space; human settlements on the Moon and reaching toward Mars; advanced infrastructure and scientific education initiatives that uplift the lives of billions and make poverty a museum exhibit rather than a daily experience. Such a celebration would declare the success of a new renaissance—where human potential is the central measure of civilization’s success.
This is the culture we should choose: one that elevates the human spirit through creation and discovery, that seizes the vast promise of scientific and economic progress rather than the undignified search for domination. Culture becomes strategy: an engine of development that shapes policy, fuels diplomacy, and inspires every generation to expand what is possible for all mankind.
https://eir.news/2026/02/daily-brief/eir-daily-news-friday-february-13-2026/
The collapse of the trans-Atlantic financial economic system—the elephant still in the room—forces a choice: either cling to a fading, anti-human system, or reorganize society around real production, science, and culture.
OLD story
– reorganize society
This effort has existed and failed, since and before recorded history. — religions, and failures of empires and vanished societies.6-7
a meme that is meant to drive teachers crazy. It is dada (though those who use it have no clue that it is). It’s so cool that dictionary.com chose it as the “word” of the year for 2025.
It is used to indicate brain rot. (I take that to mean “boring”).A generation of kids who function only in a stimulus/response existence will (I think) produce some pretty ugly mob behavior.
6-7 is new to me.
@Tboc: You are welcome.
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