Debt Rattle July 16 2019

[Raúl Ilargi Meijer]

Jack Delano South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago 1943   • US “Transportation Recession” Gets Uglier (WS) •
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 16 2019]

[Dr. D]

“rather than telling kids to unplug the TV or video games, go outside and don’t come back until dinner,”

…Where Epstein would rape and murder them. This hasn’t been possible since 1965, or at least 1985, when they put all the Epsteins in power. Is anybody going to update their map here? If it weren’t the Jeffies of the world, it would simply be the cars, the toxic lots and waters, the collapsing houses, the crooked police, the universal drugs, and the down-low violence of overwhelming crime. But I guess when you go to Yale and live in a gated community, you don’t notice all that. Their overwhelming immorality is to rob a billion out of fraudulent mortgages rated AAA and call it moral, while the kid’s immorality is to meet someone who will double-cross them on stealing copper from the Yalesters’ summer cottages. One is a $500 crime, one is a $500,000 crime, but obviously, the burglary is much worse, with no bail and NOT serving time in your $70M mansion under your own armed guards.

But hey, since they’re kids, and therefore are expressive, energetic, and have poor impulse control, it’s safer to kill them with Xanax and Ambien and Coca-cola than to kill them with your local Epstein. Your choice. It’s the world the Boomers made.

“The True Cost of Cheap Food Is Health and Climate Crises (G.)”

Fear not! Food will be going up 10-fold shortly, and still not be high enough. People want all the solutions to these problems, and when you tell them their pension has to disappear, their house falls 90%, food rises 20x, and there’s a worldwide depression that cuts GDP in half to shut off all this oil usage, they get all bent out of shape! Save the whales, will ya? Think of the childrens™.

“Our own health and the health of the land are inextricably intertwined [but] in the last 70 years, this relationship has been broken,”

Strange this is in UK, as in France there remains some 2,000 year farm market connection, and the U.S. they are building it steadily against a strong headwind. Besides, “The Guardian” is the one who broke it, promoting sales, oil use, poisons, centralization, industry, and calling the complete destruction of every farmer, every ruralite, and their very culture inevitable, mocking these dirty, stupid, backward people clinging to their bible and guns. Learn to code, Yorkie! Now when they’ve completely succeeded and got everything they want down to the letter, they long for the days of (pedo) Edward Heath and “Butter Mountain”. No satisfying some people. Just because they’re Intellectual-yet-Idiot progressives who constantly trample everything, tell everyone else what to do, and destroy everything they touch in their narcissistic arrogance.

So, “The Guardian”, are you going to call for banning sales and profits of RoundUp, establishing food import tariffs, lowering production by re-introducing the hedgerows, and putting 20% of London back to hoeing the fields, by having a “cash-for-tractors” crushing of all those CO2 burning mega-machines? Or are you just going to sigh and flap your gums like a moron?

Just kidding. We wouldn’t let you have an opinion on farming anyway. You’d probably kill the remaining 5% of farmers, and every bee and badger left hiding from your rural genocide in the darkest hole of Crickhowell.

[John Day]

http://www.johndayblog.com/2019/07/biotic-pump-world.html
I am delighted to present this novel (to me) scientific theory of the causal mechanism for airflows which contain water vapor on the surface of our fair planet. It has important implications for the course of our bucket-ride-to-heck. Charles sent the link to Ugo Bardi’s site, Cassandra’s Legacy, with the link to the 27 minute video of Dr Makarieva’s lecture, which uses the text and images in the first link. Go from page 1 to page 4 in sequence. Page 3 is physical mathematics, but also good footnotes. Page 4 is bye-bye.
The video is much easier to follow after reviewing the text.
Basically, forests draw water vapor to themselves from the ocean. It is an act of the complex life forms they are. It is an act of agency.
The mechanism is straightforward physics, and is somewhat mysterious why the power of it remained shrouded in mist these many eons.
Water vapor in air is a gas, mixed in with nitrogen, oxygen and CO2, but with different physical characteristics at temperature and pressure.
At the warm surface of the planet, air can hold lots of water vapor, a high gas pressure of water vapor.
A couple of miles up, where it is much cooler, the vapor condenses to liquid or ice, so the air holds zero water vapor. This creates a continuous pressure gradient for water vapor, much, much higher below than above and the vapor follows that gradient ever upward.
This is high over warm bodies of water and zero over the Sahara.
It is considerably higher, still over the warm Amazon rainforest, with so many little leaves and small life forms transpiring moisture into the air at ground level. That moisture moves up, up, up from the Amazon, over vast expanse, pulling in moist ground-level air from surrounding oceans, which deposits water as rainfall or condensate. Also, the high level condensation has to fall as droplets somewhere, so typically falls back on the rainforest. This was such a novel idea that it took a few years to get published in a scientific journal in 2007.
It’s kind of embarrassing to the established science, and it’s Russian, too…
https://www.bioticregulation.ru/pump/pump3.php
https://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2019/07/how-we-keep-destroying-things-that-make.html

Want to fight climate change, plant a trillion trees!
Charles also sent this, and these folks don’t know about the biotic pump model, but there is a convergence of remedies, so it’s time to plant. There are better and less better ways to plant trees, extending mature forest edges is best, but treeless areas along bodies of water also need trees to start drawing the moisture inland (Maybe avocado trees, maybe in Yoakum, Texas, for instance.)
https://www.livescience.com/65880-planting-trees-fights-climate-change.html

Climate Change and Capitalism, a Political Marxist’s View
(Doesn’t that title fail to entice you? It is piss-poor advertising, but actually an excellent article. It explains how the technology of mining coal and processing iron ore was known in many places in the world, such as China, but why capitalism and the industrial revolution were able to coalesce and co-evolve in England, not in China. The rest is our recent history. Again, capitalism is unstable, always lurching forward as fast as possible to avoid collapse as it consumes everything within reach as rapidly as possible to create “products” for us to purchase and send to landfills.)
https://newsocialist.org.uk/climate-capitalism-political-marxism/

[zerosum]

I had prepared a nice rant about trying to find the truth, but the blog dropped my “logged in” status and therefore I’m too lazy to try to redo the rant.

To Attack Julian Assange, CNN Twists Embassy Surveillance Records That Were First Covered By Spanish Newspaper

[anticlimactic]

SHALE OIL – ANOTHER QUIRK

I read an article which said the shale oil was too light to be processed by US refineries unless it is blended with a very heavy oil like Canadian tar sands, so it HAS to be exported AND the US MUST import oil suitable for its’ refineries.

On paper the US may appear to be independent in terms of oil supply but in the real world it still depends on imported oil.

[ezlxa1949]

Cooling the Planet

Thanks, John day, for that message. A countryman, Walter Jehne, soil scientist and microbiologist, has much to say on ways to cool the planet, rehydrate the soils and improve agricultural output. He reckons we’re concentrating on the wrong variable. Not CO2, it should be water vapour. We can’t do anything about CO2 levels, currently 406 ppm, for a thousand years. The key is water vapour, globally about 40,000 ppm, i.e. air is 4% moisture even over deserts. A column of air 1 cm2 in area and ascending to the top of the atmosphere is water for the first 50cm. We must fix the land system to capture and cycle this moisture. At present globally we are aridifying and heating up the land by destructive land management practices. Invest 2 hours and watch this lecture he gave in Vermont:
The Soil Carbon Sponge, Climate Solutions and Healthy Water Cycles

There are plenty more enlightening videos.
He speaks in international forums, e.g. the UN Conference on Climate this September. The FAO have invited him to India in the same month to address a conference on Zero Budget Natural Farming. This makes fascinating reading:
http://www.fao.org/agroecology/detail/en/c/443712/
Wow, the FAO strongly critcises neoliberalism and the harm it has done to India’s famers and farming sector! Time for a change. May it spread.

Julian

That picture of Assange is just pathetic. Solitary, lonely, a living death really. No wonder his health is bad, and if the venomous hatred against him has its way, he is due for a lot more until death do us part.

[John Day]

Hi, Ezixa1949
I’m in the choir, already,picture of garden & gardener in post
http://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.html
I’ve not been idle, either. I’m now tending 3 gardens.

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