Debt Rattle June 22 2018
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle June 22 2018]Because of seasonal flooding, Thailand, under King Rama IX, initiated a series of reserviors (called gam ling [monkey cheeks) to store excess water for when the damns were at capacity.
So far so good; we’ll see…
Large areas of the N.E. have been under draught for as long as I’ve been here (15+ years).
Israel has been stealing water sources for decades and while a nuclear conflagration is a possibility; water wars are and will be a certainty; violent and brutal.
With RO, virtually all of Thailands water can be made potable very inexpensively.
More expensive is RO for salt water; but still viable given adequate power resources.And here in Christchurch New Zealand we have had so much rain we feel waterlogged! Day after day of grey skies. So unusual. Times they are a’changing…
Patricia
Indeed, aren’t they though?
Our rainy season started almost 2 months early (very unusual IME).
It has also been cooler than past years; 35°c or less, days, as opposed to 38° – 40°c in years past.
We’ve hardly used our air-con this year. 🙂
Oh, I forgot; your winter just started yesterday…
We’re up yonder @ 13° N. LatitudeA “policy that …prosecutes all adults caught crossing the border illegally.”
This is the pivot sentence and belief. This is what “illegally” means. This is where you decide if there are borders and therefore nations and sovereignty, or not. If you do not “prosecute all adults caught crossing the border” then you have no nation. At the very least, they need to present at a proper crossing to be processed, same as I do, and I guarantee if I don’t I will be arrested and jailed, whether in Windsor, Warsaw, or Wellington.
However, if you both a) stop people and/or b) start proceedings then you instantly have detention centers, and if the unexpected, unauthorized immigration is large, mass detention centers that overwhelm the system and the budget. In fact, the larger the flow not done by the legal process, the more certain the conditions will be inhumane and appear in the news. But the U.S. did not create the problem (at this level), but after many decades of ignoring enforcement, migration was superpowered by DACA, where Central America realized children could be accepted as an anchor, then to bring the whole family thereafter. This created massive perceived incentive that the news covered way back with the “migrant child train” in 2014, an incentive to send and traffic children so large and well-understood it prompted the hiring of 6,000 new agents, and for Obama to make record deportations, which is really saying something.
The illegals are almost certainly safer in a U.S. detention center than with human traffickers in the deserts of Mexico. Yet the U.S. and the Border Guard who feed, house, provide water and health care are the bad guys, and the people who send 80% of their children unaccompanied with known human traffickers, with Plan B pills because they expect their 12 year old daughters to get raped, whose skulls are yearly found in the desert, and when not detained disappear in the U.S. as child labor and sex trafficking victims, are the good guys. What is our comparative level of responsibility here? We bear responsibility, yet they bear no responsibility? One group rapes, abandons, and kills migrants, and sends them off, another takes non-citizens for whom they have no national responsibility with food, clothing, medicine and due process at their own cost. We don’t even do that for our own citizens.
But they (must) provide that care while under detention so people like children can’t just wander off, be picked up, sold to non-parents, and disappear, so that care is therefore bad. We should allow tens of thousands of people with a verbal claim and no papers, who we don’t know are the parents, to wander off into massive, dangerous, impoverished America with nothing but a summons because the alternative is proper legal processing that requires time, evidence, and detention. It’s love to allow heavily armed international organized crime syndicates to profit on unrestrained human trafficking, drug-running, and multi-billion dollar illegal activity, but hate and racism to stop it. To dream of America is grand, but to stand and fight with your countrymen for better conditions back in your nation of birth is terrible. It’s bravery and hope to sell your children into this but cowardice to remove them as a screen for violent, organized crime and feed them if they remain under your wardenship. Rejecting your personal and national responsibility for your actions is good but upholding national responsibility with legal process is bad. Got it.
So the media was appalled at a policy and procedure in place since the 90’s by Clinton, Bush, Obama (following the LAST multi-million mass amnesty), and is now recreationally opposed by the first ladies whose husbands put this into place, the media who ignored it, and by Congress who oversaw it all. –The 40 years of quotes from Clinton, Bush, Obama, Clinton2, Pelosi which perfectly mirror Trump’s 2018’s policies are truly epic. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFC3rXN0J1s
And their argument, the people, media, Congress, is that the President should NOT ENFORCE THE LAW THEY WROTE, which is what “DACA” is: an executive order prohibiting the enforcement of law, declaring Congress’s hard work – and therefore Congress itself — null and void. Not enforcing law is arguably an impeachable act by a President they openly wish to impeach. So the President enforces the law more or less in the same way it’s been done for 20 years running, and suddenly, this week, it’s inhumane. Got it.
So not just being attempted on the initial presidential push last year, but seeing this coming now, the President tells Congress “Put a law on my desk and I’ll sign it tomorrow.” Do they do this, Democrat or Republican? Nope. Despite shrieking attention, both short-term and long-term bills failed both House and Senate, same as always. Why? It would require standing for something and solving something, where they want to play both sides, the same arc as the Senate’s collapse in Greece and Rome. So the President signs another executive order, subverting Congress and the representative, democratic process, and people are happy. So breaking law = good, enforcing law = bad. Dictatorship = good, democracy = bad. When we do it it’s good, when you do it it’s bad. Right?
So…now this process has fully authorized “keeping families together” big cheer! but still requires mass, indefinite detention while their cases are being adjudicated. Congratulations, you just re-created open-air Japanese internment camps: families together, in houses, with food, surrounded by guards and barbed wire. So look for that to be next year’s sudden, amazing offense only Trump did and nobody knew about.
And I, other Americans with 100M out of work, 25M on food stamps, and 150M of whom couldn’t raise $400 if their life depended on it, pay for it all. We can’t take in all of South and Central America, folks. We either have borders or we don’t. We either have laws or we don’t. Take your pick.
Discussions about the problems of socialism + active CIA involvement in murder and massive election tampering Latin America? None.
Patricia and V Arnold,
Here, at -17 degree latitude, it has been a cool start to “Winter” – with temperatures well below normal.
The government-owned ABC.net.au has been reporting it tangentially. Instead of outright admitting that their multitudinous fake stories about record high temperatures are false, they are reporting cold weather while not pointing out that records are being broken to the downside. The whole thing is just such an obvious scam.
Frozen knees and numb fingers: A photographer’s pain to capture the perfect frosty morning
The earth gets much of its heat from the tropics and the winds disperse it away from the tropics. It will be interesting to see what sort of Winter Europe and North America will get. If I were a gas speculator, now is perhaps a good time to buy options for next January and Febrruary in the UK – where their storage capacity is much diminished.
Water is definitely going to be the cause of new wars. Israel has repeatedly invaded and occupied Southern Lebanon for that very reason – and been kicked out a similar number of times.
Australian physicist’s space mission to aid in discovering world’s groundwater stores
How exactly is India going to be such an economic powerhouse in the future when their population is exploding and their water tables are dropping fast? I suspect the smart Indians will make a move for the West – which they have been doing for quite a long time now.
Correction:
I should have written “ocean currents and winds disperse it away from the tropics”
The water moves an awful lot more heat than air.
Dr. D, a very articulate comment and how true. I don’t know what can be done but I suppose it has been happening forever and not just in America but wherever there are no natural boundaries like the sea. Perhaps we should just let people come and go like we now do with capital….
The USA need to build a big beautiful siege wall.
The chinese had on to try to keep out the ignorant savages.
There use to be a wall between east and west germanyA wall keeps people out and keeps people in.
Canada needs to seriously consider putting up a cedar edge on the USA border.
Well that is a good idea Zerosum. Mr Trump wants to build a wall between America and Mexico so why not continue it right around. The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans provide natural boundaries so in reality it won’t cost much just a North and South wall. Nothing in nothing out. Problem solved.
I think it should be “Nothing illegal in. Problem solved” 🙂
There are countries in Africa with 4+% annual population growth. Cairo had 4 million people when I was born there and now it is perhaps 25 million.
When Nixon went to China, he started criticising the Chinese and their one-child policy. Chou en Lai – Zhou Enlai – asked him how many Chinese would he take? That put an end to the sermonising. If you want more illegal immigrants, invite some to stay with you.
Dr. D I hear where you are coming from-well said. So much is missing from what we hear in the media on this issue.
Perhaps religion is the problem with population increases. I haven’t ever met a woman who just regards herself as a a machine to push out babies. Perhaps the men need to be encouraged to have a vasectomy after having produced two children. Much cheaper than women having their tubes tied. I can’t imagine any Government, other than China, who would legislate for that though. I have always thought, apart from religion or perhaps coupled with it, most people have a lot of children because there is no social welfare to care for them in their hour of need. Perhaps if there were more social welfare provisions in a country there would be less need to have children.
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