Debt Rattle September 8 2015
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 8 2015]“Hollande Readies Syria Air Strikes as Response to Refugee Crisis”
There’s no bombing problem that can’t be solved with more bombing. Oh wait: “[Cameron] believes the answer to the problem is more bombing. If the best part of two years of bombing with more than enough high explosive hasn’t solved this problem, how would Britain’s widow’s mite of a few extra bombs help?”
Just pointing out the geography of this situation. There’s only one way refugees are (suddenly or not) arriving in Europe. Turkey is letting them through without resistance anywhere from the Syrian border to the Greek isles. Why aren’t they in the news? It certainly seems, like Orban in Hungary, they got their orders from further along, and open and shut the borders at their master’s command. Who is that master? Why did they suddenly decide to take this approach? Why did the news suddenly care about it one Tuesday in August? I don’t know, but it starts in Turkey. …After the initial attack, of course, but we have the names and addresses of those responsible already. On that note, pointing out that any U.S. involvement in Syria is illegal. Any. At all. They were not invited there and are acting against the express will of a sovereign nation with an elected leader. This is against all international law, yet all I hear are crickets from the U.N., NATO, Germany, the U.S. left and right, the press, the media, the humanitarian commenters, everyone. It’s almost as if there is so little law we now forget to refer to it even in theory. It matters. Every act is illegal from the very first. Want to solve this “crisis” that magically appeared? Start there.
“China Has Spent $236 Billion Trying to Rescue Its Stocks (Bloomberg)”
What makes you think so? Maybe they just needed an excuse to dump their US Treasuries–the oft-discussed “nuclear option.” Surprise!Also many have commented on how there appears to be an unusual number of industrial accidents in Asia since Aug 12. That seems worth reporting on in news aggregation. Might be interesting later on.
It took ONLY one WHITE drowned 3 year old boy to wake the world up.
The world did not cry for the dead black kids from N. Africa.Syria had a pop. of 18 M
There are 4 m of them as refugees.The business opportunities are just starting.
Life jackets to kleenex.
Travel agencies to tent housing.
Sandals to shovels.Yesterday is gone.
Aquarian Revolutionaries
Water Bearers,
First, the song, of course (background music…):
Our species is entering a revolutionary time again, like the Agricultural Revolution, like the Industrial Revolution in vast implications for us, and necessarily including a stewardship of all planetary life.
The physical and cognitive processes and organizations that we have developed in the Industrial Age have consumed half of the available fuel, the easier half, and have multiplied our numbers by 10, feeding, clothing, sheltering and watering us in variously zoo-like cities.The skills and methods we must employ in this transformation are different from the skills and methods we see at the apogee of industrial civilization, which surrounds us, and has informed us.
The good news is that what we are now enmeshed in is inefficient and counterproductive in meeting our human needs. We can meet our needs better and use the efficiency “dividend” to explore our way into a more living world, an ecosystem which we support and which nurtures us. This is a process of gradual transformation, of learning, exploring, of working together, experimenting, and making best use of experimental results, especially when we are initially disappointed.300 years ago, the transition from burning forests to coal in England, did not conjure the vision of automated factories spitting out Toyota Camrys. It really could have gone differently.
Right now, our human needs are being substituted for, not met. That’s the illusion of consumerism. Our need for food is substituted for with industrial foodlike products, which are addictive, but do not satisfy our requirement for the micronutrients we get in fresh, living plants. When we eat plants, we get the benefit of modern selection for market attributes, not nutrition or even really flavor (but looks). Tomatoes grow faster and are evenly red. The gene for even redness excludes a gene for rich flavor. People don’t know that the unevenly red tomatoes are always more flavorful. They are. Try. Don’t refrigerate them. That kills flavor, too.
These fruits and vegetables are bred to get bigger , faster and bear more per acre, with lots of irrigation and chemical fertilizer input, and they have correspondingly less of commonly measured nutrients, probably less of what we don’t measure, but crave, too.
We are led by our cravings to buy what does not satisfy our cravings. We keep consuming and stay hungry, unsatisfied. The pictures of “perfect” women on the magazines at the check out are there to make real women feel uncomfortable in comparison, and to buy what is advertised to remediate their inferiority. They are sold another lie. It’s all like that. Our whole economy is lying to harness our efforts to a machine world that will never satisfy us.
Our satisfaction will kill this economy.We can band together to develop satisfying lives. It’s been done before.
The technology is not the key. Our humanity is the key.
We can grow food in a vegetable garden, and realize our transformation by just this process. This alone chips the paint off the facade of consumerism, because we realize that we can occasionally buy food this fresh and nutritious at a farmer’s market, but we can’t purchase the transformation it has triggered in our persons to grow the plants and accept the harvest from them.We can share and refine our concepts of the world, and realize that what we have been handed as an absolute is merely a current prevailing conceptual framework. It’s pretty new and about at it’s end, at the same time. Capitalism requires exploitation, which is valued, but it has to end, since the exploitation is hitting bounds like over fishing, loss of old growth forests, California’s desertification, oceanic acidification, global warming, and the air in Beijing.
It’s over. We can see that. We can take individual steps to meet and do projects with friends and family, instead of spending on a credit card to be passively entertained for awhile. We have to stop taking habitual steps further into a world of lies and distraction (and that hole we are about to step into).
The initial tools are already in our hands, and the concepts already have names, and people are already making these transformations. We can read about it in so many different disciplines. The time has come for these ideas, making them powerful.The fear of changing is thrown at us by the dying system, and it is a lie.
The dying system says we must remain hungry and desperate and sleepless and sick and irritable, because it is what supports us.
We will involuntarily change when the dying system dies a little more. It’s better if we go into this time making our own decisions, trying things out that are not products-for-sale. We can try all the various kinds of food gardening. It’s interesting, engaging, surprising, and there is reward, then more reward. It is a naturally rewarding process, which fulfills us and informs us of our actual human nature.
We become different. We become networked with others who are transforming. We have other transformative ideas. We experiment. Some things that “don’t work out” actually open broader doors than we knew existed.
In the process of gardening we become part of the change of the seasons, and we see our garden transforming, flowing like a river through time, building up the soil in our beds, supporting this group of plants, then that group which likes to follow it, and another which helps fix nitrogen into the soil, while still feeding us. It is a complex dance this garden succession and rotation river, flowing through the seasons and years and steadily improving garden beds.We have learned that the complex ecosystem of bacteria within us is important to our health and well being, and the complex ecosystem within living soils is important to the health of plants, food gardens, and is intimately linked to our own “microbiomes” when we garden and eat fresh produce.
At this moment in time, we have the benefit of vast knowledge. It is sort of staggering, but we can find paths into the knowledge, like this short Geoff Lawton video about a 2000 year old food forest in Morocco/ This is a really long term embodiment of stewardship, wisdom and peaceful coexistence to show what nature exists within us as a seed, ready to grow.
To bring on the Aquarian Revolution we need to seek truth, speak truth, explore the complexity of living relationships, with our own bodies and spirits as the probe. We need to love. We need all these things, and we can do all of this ourselves, alone and in collaboration with friends and family, and we will benefit at every step. We don’t need to fear a step which is already common, and which benefits us.
That fear of the first step and the second step is projected into our minds by the gasping machine which needs to contain us, as it lumbers toward a cliff.
Don’t look. Don’t step out onto the broad plateau. It’s too big. You’ll be exposed.
Look! There’s somebody I love, smiling gently, walking this way.
Maybe I can step out for just a hug. This thing is going fairly slowly. I can get back in.I have heard that the magic of capitalism is illusion. If you saw all the kids working in Asian sweatshops it would take the shine off those new sport shoes. But even if the sweat and hardship in the farmer’s market, were visible, or all it took to make a medieval flask, one might be embarrassed. I don’t mind this as to some extent the market and the public is always the place to wear your best, but it seems the illusion has reached a demented extreme.
Although creating your garden or life is possible, at the same time it is not the human function. We cannot each provide for ourselves as an island and must specialize to our talents and trade–and we most like to. Like a beehive, to some extent our community is one body that needs the other, different pieces to be complete. Therefore, we cannot merely stay in our own gardens with our own looms, for it is not in our nature. At the same time, we must find a way to branch out that is healthier and more successful. And that is the challenge of our age.
Yep, we should all have useful trades, AND tend our gardens.
We have become “alienated” from the products of our labor.
We can be “intimate” with them, and ourselves in our kitchen gardens.
It’s instructive of an approach to the paths we travel in life.
I have a day job/calling/career, as a family medicine doc in a community clinic.
Trying to be a whole human. 🙂Hi All,
Why are people still talking about capitalism and socialism like it has ever existed? If you think that capitalism or socialism exists then you aren’t thinking, your are regurgitating oligarchical nonsense that is trivially proven false with some independent observation based thinking. Let me be clear:
1. Capitalism doesn’t exist. What does exist is a form of debt-money authoritarianism masquerading as capitalism. In a capitalist society, a small coterie of people do not define and create money to serve their personal agenda – and they surely don’t get to define money as debt and collect money as interest such that their earnings are everyone else’s INEXTINGUISHABLE DEBT.
2. Socialism doesn’t exist. What does exist is a more structured form of debt-money authoritarianism – at least outside the Muslim countries that haven’t been overthrown by the debt-money countries so that their money systems could be converted to debt-money systems.
Believing illusions doesn’t afford root cause analysis and actual problem solving.
To paraphrase Spike Lee, “It’s the (debt) money, Money!”
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