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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle July 9 2020 #60945
    Carlos Jimenez
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    The Thai King rented a whole hotel in Switzerland for himself and his entourage, allegedly to escape the height of Covid.

    But learning of the quiet success achieved in the control of it, does not redeem his majesty but it puts him in a less egregious context.

    Here in USAkistan, “The city on a hill”, the Fed and its princelings, a de-facto Royal House more numerous than the House of Saud, keep churning fiat money to buy shite (Hertz stock) as well as tangible assets while Rome burns, I miss the circuses though.

    I’m on my 3rd round of listening to John Taverner’s Gaude Plurimum before I hit the pavement inoculated as it were, from the downers of the world we’re living in.

    Such a work of talent and Logos conceived in 16th Century England will keep manifesting the spark of life ’till the end of time.
    While we get stupider.

    God help us.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 4 2020 #60822
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Well Dr. D, the “quality with no name” that California Guru Architect Christopher Alexander referred to in “The Pattern Language” is what I’m sure you express in your work and in your life, same as Raul does in his blog/news aggregate/editorials.

    And that’s what congregate us readers and truth seekers here. Firstly, I can’t hardly exaggerate the brutal effort for peanuts that Raul has put into TAE over the years, all by himself. And the site is getting better. And a great merit of his, IMHO, is that he has allowed counter point opinions like yours to thrive which for an insecure or narcissistic person would’ve been hard to do. It’s close to a hijack! 🙂 As for myself during the lockdown I came to TAE as much for Raul’s work as for your sharp commentary and sure enough others’ own commentary as well. Now that I’m back to work that’s not easy but still I enjoy it in whatever measure my time allows.
    In the tension of counter opinion between Raul’s and yourself I have found a lot to chew on to deal with the CV craze in my own way and that’s no small potatoes
    Having said that I still may take a potshot at you here and there… 🙂
    Gotta go finish my new chicken coop. Best.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 4 2020 #60818
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Raul, indeed, anybody that has read TAE for years can find this exploration into our energy predicament, familiar. Even the phrase “excessive claims (on diminishing assets)” was a regular refrain of Nicole Foss, to define inflation if my memory serves me at all. The wrong definition of inflation being a pet peeve of yours, I excuse myself if I’m wrong.

    Completely agree with you but we will hit the wall, there won’t be any way that we as a organized society will use less energy than available, rather, renewable energy will be hammered for ever as the road to transition. A cruel hoax.

    Yes, we’ll continue to enjoy dog grooming on our doorsteps in 5 tonne air conditioned 600 c.f. vans, 25 gal of pesticides sprayed per 0.10 ac. lawns per month to keep ’em pic. perfect and standing armies of landscapers to keep ’em manicured, Boat Shows to sell even more rec. boats, (a toy as important as the car in Florida), Maryland Lobster FedEx’d to the middle of the Nevada desert for the annual “Burning Man” rave, a total useless navel gazing gathering if you ask me, and all the rest of the accouterments of a society running at the top of historic prosperity highs, on the fumes.

    Incidentally, the Topa Inca ruler could enjoy similar delicacies before the Conquistadors came a-knocking, by virtue of a Chasqui on foot system of relay that could bring seafood on a 150km run in two days.

    Not bad for a people that didn’t come up with the wheel.

    But they did know what sustainability was before it was a thing: the terraces that they built are still in use, and I’d say all of the stones houses in Ollaitaytambo too, are still in use.

    What will survive of our own civ. is a question that may be the answer to what’s the value of it.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 4 2020 #60816
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    On “The Surpluss-Energy Economy”.

    Excellent intro Dr.D. and excellent essay worth reading from beginning to end. In the last few years when peak oil has been poo-poo’d and “debunked” and even a solid geologist, oil expert and peak-oiler as Art Berman comes on the side of subsidizing oil frackers every which way in last May’s Kunstler-cast, probably terrorized by the idea of the end of industrial civ… I guess, this “The surplus-energy economy” incisive digging into the rise and fall of our complex society and the master energy that underpins it, is most indispensable.

    As JHK likes to say, “reality does not negotiate”. And relying on BAU and just-in-time delivery of essential goods to our big metro areas is not the way to weather the ongoing albeit slow, collapse.

    Whatever we have is borrow time to prepare.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 4 2020 #60813
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    “Twas a dark day in Dallas November ’63…”
    Since Dylan’s latest master piece, I can’t look at a JKF picture without that tune streaming in my head.

    Judas is seen walking behind Kennedy in this Dallas pic, the other missing Judas that was in Dallas that November is not in it, GHWB.

    “Nice group of people. Spacey, Clinton, Maxwell, Prince Andrew. Just lovely.” Indeed. 🙂

    But again, without Charles’ best friend, Lord Jimmy Savile, this mental pic. has a certain je ne c’est quoi of incompleteness.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 2 2020 #60743
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    “What “Capitalism” do you mean? If a Choctaw trades red ocher with a Comanche, do the mountains fall? They are in a state of *perfect* capitalism: they own things, control the equipment to make them, and trade, often using abstract currency. There’s no enforcement, and no one can make them do anything. So the problem is where…? And does the cure to this terrible mountain-felling system kill 100M people per 100 years, beyond the daily terror, oppression, tyranny, and complete environmental ruin? If so, I’d rather have the disease.”

    Well Dear Dr. D. I thought any explanation of “what kind of capitalism” was self explanatory, not the least because I called it “CRAP-italism” or as Noam Chomsky would call it: “REC”, Really Existing Capitalism. Where the financial “industry” makes 40% of the GDP and I can’t think of any economy that can thrive with so much skimming at the top from the labor below. Last time I checked, real wealth comes from labor not from usury. REC socializes losses and privatizes profit, a chosen elite can print money from thin air and charge interest on it. Commercial banks can do same with the full backing of the government stamp, at interest. It’s not counterfeiting is they do it.
    Talk about an “exorbitant privilege”.
    All big corporations enjoy some kind of ‘qualified immunity’, they can sow death an disease for ever and not be accountable. The Price-Anderson Act of 1957 is exhibit “A” of this long American tradition not always put into law but in effect is the law of the land. The “carbon free” “too cheap to meter” nuke power industry could not exist anywhere on the planet save for the goobmint blanket immunity as there’s no Insurance co. that would take that risk. And this works in practice for every other mega corporation.
    I’m sure you didn’t know this… Of course you do, which is more baffling, with due respect, that as an MD committed to the health of the people and the planet too, I reckon, can so cavalierly discount the destruction of our life support systems if it doesn’t surpass your chosen threshold of a 100 million per 100 years deaths.
    Your Choctaw trading with a Comanche is a bit too Disneyesque. That Choctaw and that Comanche and the Seminole down here and most everywhere else in the Indian nations, have bought hook line and sinker into the white man’s magic medicine of the Casino cargo cult and they’re raking it. Yes they did made a Faustian bargain alright. So much so that the IRS is dragging them to court to collect from the independent “Nations”.
    “What we have here…” as the Captain would say in “Cool Hand Luke” “it’s a failuh to communicate”
    I’m certainly not opposed to capitalism neither am I subscribing implicitly to socialism. A man should enjoy the fruits of his labor, store it and trade it or pass It on to his children.
    But our current system is a Death Star with ever more suction power.
    And a system prostrated to Thanatos is incapable of finding anything sacred. Everything is for profit. The mountains, the land, the trees, the rivers and the sea are all for profit or else their existence can not be justified, per se. That’s why we eat plastic from inside our fruits, our fish and our meat, along with the rest of the witch’s brew.

    And your trading injans far from being involved in trading ocher, fur or bison, if they didn’t hit the Casino jackpot, are destined to a short and brutal life of slow genocide extracting dense energy resources in the mines under a slightly better system than ‘encomiendas’.

    Flagstaff, a day’s long travel? from your veggie garden in Austin is poked with a thousand hell holes in the ground from abandoned Uranium mines that will keep on dispensing death to the nearly 10 mn people of the surrounding area but mostly, to the natives of Navajo Res. Even their houses are built with uranium saturated earth. They can’t escape it.
    As they can’t escape the second wave of the curse of resources: the rich coal deposits, so that Sodom and Gomorrah, aka Vegas, Phoenix, LA, etc can enjoy golf courses and swimming pools in the desert.
    Meanwhile, Black Mesa’s water for human (the native kind) consumption was depleted by the coal industry.
    I really don’t care if a million or as little as one life have been destroyed in Appalachia along with a rich environment, all dumped into the hollows and replanted like a Walmart parking lot.
    Still it is a horrible crime. An unsustainable, unacceptable and selfish crime that borrows limited resources from the future to live up the overshoot, today.
    Having said that, from the oposite side of the street as it were, I have enjoyed all along your steady counterpoint to Ilargi’s, it has helped me navigate and find my own position somewhere in between, in reference to the virus. The latter drawed a smile on me when he called you “TAE’s Resident Doctor”. A bit tongue in cheek a bit seriously, you have become that in the end, by way of steady and intelligent argument backed up by real time experience. Thank you for that.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 2 2020 #60717
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    On the Depression Era picture atop, it reminds me of “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive”. Wether by black lung, hunger or the Pinkertons doing the corporations dirty work with Gatling guns.

    The newer Devil’s trick is ‘mountaintop removal’ same killing machine different operation. Crapitalism will never stop until all resources are exhausted and all life on the planet is choked up by waste to the point of death.

    No better voice than Natalie Merchant’s to ask the question: “Which Side Are You On”.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 2 2020 #60716
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Tucker’s the master of sarcasm. May be that’s why he’s got the highest count of viewers on cable ever as opposed to CNN making stuff up every minute.

    Talking about that, I thought I was reading The Onion when: “Mercedes Benz paints its race cars black to combat racism”. Apparently not, they’re picking up the mission that CHOP dropped.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 1 2020 #60694
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    My “hope” was completely flippant. Next time I’ll put a sarc. warning. :). The BLM “movement” is a sac of croc.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 1 2020 #60687
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    That was fast! It was just a summer of love until Jenny Durkan’s own mansion was threatened to finally order the clearing of CHOP. No matter. The wokester crowd is demanding her head. What a pity. I had high hopes of seeing systematic racism canceled for good.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/seattle-police-dismantle-chop-after-protesters-threaten-mayors-7-million-house

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 30 2020 #60650
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    This Apocalypse Never is a book I’ll never read. What a relief, so little time and so much to read.

    I’m with oxymoron on this one. There’s so much BS in just the presented excerpts of the book that it would take me time I don’t have to unpack it and it doesn’t have to do with the Climate Change debate.
    It has to do with embracing all the life killing features of mega capitalism, like industrial farming or nuke power that we’re supposed to accept because this guy is a credentialed dissenter or a road to Damascus convert from the environmental cult and thus more credible?

    Richard Manning laid out the insanity of industrial agriculture, even agriculture, period, in his books “Against the Grain” and Grassland and in the documentary “What a Way to Go”. He can say it better than me anyway.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 30 2020 #60649
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    “I don’t think anyone fully appreciates what actual unrest or an actual civil war would look like in America, but we could kill 100,000 in 4 hours, easy. For months. So basically, this little dust-up is a joke, simply to illustrate where things can go and how lucky you are right now.”

    It only takes a look back at the Rwandan genocide, a million dead give or take in about 3 months, machetes did all the handy work. All it took was the relentless prodding from the radio stations to go and dispose of the reviled Tutsis and the mob went insane. We’re not much different under the patina of civilization and the prodding of much more sophisticated media is regularly adding fuel to the fire.
    Money and political cover helps a big deal too for the organizing and set up of street revolt, destruction and burning. Hey, it’s all for the birthing of Wakanda and the end of ‘systemic racism’.

    Yes, in Second Amendment America, there won’t be a lack of deadly tools to upstage the 600k body count of the War of Northern Aggression.

    I just don’t want to believe it yet.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 30 2020 #60626
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    “Wokester Central has already established the story-line that the USA was a criminal enterprise from the start and that it must be smashed to set free the genius energies of Wakanda — currently misdirected in the suicidal gunplay seen in Chicago and other places of concentrated urban poverty.”

    This line from JHK yesterday, made me crack up.

    Alas the outlook, is somber. The many warnings of a prelude to a civil war from Kunstler to Ilargi and others, are looking less and less paranoid. This amidst the pandemic/plandemic/scamdemic which ever it is that is keeping many of us from visiting loved ones, for an undetermined amount of time.

    While the piece above about the digitalized mob has a point, I think it’s more sinister than that and there are dark forces behind the curtain organizing the mayhem like any other color revolution.
    Some are even mask-less in plain sight: the lie stream media and politicians like Schummer and Nadler characterizing the looters as peaceful protesters and “…we have listened to you, we’re gonna change the laws”.

    “Ground Control to Major Tom/ take your pills and put your helmet on…”

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 27 2020 #60576
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Raul if I may say, I disagree with you. 52 years later there’s a lot of hindsight to take on. Another government program? more social engineering and welfare? The results are in and are dismal. For starters MLK’s children’s long legal fight over his estate just finished 4 years ago, there it probably went up in smoke the money that M.Brando donated to the foundation.
    For the record, I’m not white and I don’t want to be either. For becoming “white” comes with the automatic stamp of “racist” whatever the f that is.
    I am an imported and grafted member of this culture.
    But I’ve been grafted long enough to have seen the damage of so many programs, quotas, preferential treatment, EOE, Section 8, University admission quotas and all the rest to come to the conclusion that so much help to the black community or the AA community if your prefer the cant, has only destroyed it. First, substituting the father in the home by the state. Fathers are no longer necessary as providers let alone as legal husbands since that would preclude the financial help from the goobmint. Children without a father or a father figure in the home are the “at risk youth” in the making.
    I know all about the injustices and segregation the black folks suffered, furthermore, I listened for decades to Chris Hedges and Cornel West in their soaring rhetoric tell it to me but not any more. Not when there’s not a single line in them to the subject of personal responsibility. Just couple weeks ago brother Cornel was on CNN vouching for the homies and not a single exhortation to stop the mayhem and looting. I might go with that probably if they went for the Eccles Bldng… or Goldman Sucks but not wanton destruction.
    Marlon Brando’s proposition could’ve been brilliant at the time or more like par with the course of events but today it sounds like utter bollocks to me. The logical conclusion of the gov. programs to repair the damage done to the black community are insane and regular outcomes like it just happened last week when UCLA Prof. Gordon Klein was fired for not committing to full leniency or positive grades to the black students in their coming exams after the traumatic death of George Floyd.
    As James Kunstler proposes time and again, the first order of biz for the colored people would be to learn proper English to advance their prospects of employment as opposed to yet another gov. program to recognize Ebonics as a second language as Oakland School District did and I suspect many others did as well. When the village idiot, GWBush read that famous line “…the soft bigotry of low expectations” he wasn’t far off the mark for once.
    This is exactly the kind of social engineering that devalues a diploma that a black student gets not unlike the Fed printing money as electronic confeti.
    The awe inspiring quality of the paragraph that you published here, by Fredrick Douglas could hardly be written, save for historical and cultural style differences by any of the black students helped along by a myriad of crutches and gov. schemes to bring the disadvantaged students up to par. Douglas did it alone after knowing slavery in the flesh. Malcom X too not so long ago in his jail cell. Neither enjoyed any targeted assistance. Nor do today the thousands of Haitians and Caribbeans that come to Florida and get ahead even without legal status. Probably they never woke up to the existence of systemic racism and went along their way.
    For that matter all citizens in this country get royally screwed everyday by the oligarchy that it’s running this decadent empire to the ground, not just blacks.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 27 2020 #60575
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Boscohorowitz, I pretty much concur with what you said. Or put another way, it was the very Nicole Foss that hammered so many times in these pages or in her vids about the shrinking “confidence horizon” from the goobmint and institutions to the edges of our family and friends and not beyond. Who needs another failed gov. program? I do same, I help whoever I can in front of me and that’s it.

    I can’t read your short story right now, heck I haven’t finished reading the piece on debt that you or Dr.D put up here the other day.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 26 2020 #60503
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Bosco, that pic of the future president and First Lady? conveys a lot of hard to grasp discomfort and dread, to me. kind of like the reverse of Whitman’s line in Song of the Open Road “I didn’t know I held so much goodness”. Make that *evil* written all over their faces.

    I quit Fartbook about 3 years ago. It’s also part of the social media plantation and not a place for free discourse.
    I did use the term “house negro” all the time while we were under #44 for whom I voted in ’08, so mightily pissed was I. Nobody dared to shoot it up.
    I think it’s a very appropriate term even now. Malcom X used it. I feel free to use it. It conveys best the nature of this very sophisticated and sleek operator.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 26 2020 #60493
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Anthony Bourdain is very much missed. And his twit is 100 % on point. But at the source of the tweet there’s also a pic of him with Nobel Peace laureate president Obomber which shows how contradictory we humans are. He didn’t have a issues at all sitting with Barry “I’m good at killing” Obama. The uniquely responsible figure for bringing open air slave markets to Lybia. A country that to this day remains a dystopian hell hole, its former wealth gone like the Sahara dust plume now overtaking the American South. Ditto Somalia, Pakistan, Syria, “Bashar al-Assad must go”, Ukraine with Maidan square killings to boot, “Tuesday’s Killing” was a thing during Obongo’s presidency. When his W.H. spokesman was confronted with the fact that a 15 y.o. American born citizen, Abdulraman Awl Awlaki and his cousins were blown to pieces in a drone attack while having a BBQ, he said: “well, his parents should be more responsible.” By all means Bob Dylan’s Masters or War fits every bit of the scumbag that Kissinger is but it does as well rObama, because there’s hardly anyone better than a charismatic House Negro to do the bidding of the Plantation owners.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 26 2020 #60491
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Raul, I’m disappointed in you… The boy at Dorothea Lange’s pic is eating Betsy Ross sliced bread? I’m afraid the woke commissars would not let this slip up go.

    in reply to: The Importance Of Where And What #60489
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    I think Dr. D said it best. But I’d like to ad that Bruce doesn’t read TAE because recently there was a good article on the mechanism of how Wall Street moved the whole manufacturing base of America to China. We can’t solve a macroeconomic issue by microeconomic behavior modification.
    This is delusional, my usual choice is not between American made or S.E. Asia made. It’s more like between China and Germany, still the second exporting powerhouse in the world behind China. All major brand of tools for instance are made in China no matter how American they sound. The biggest pork producer in the USA, Smithfield, is now Chinese owned for crying out loud. The best plier ever made is not Channellock but Knipex made in Germany and that’s the only one that I buy, at a premium. For most of the rest of my purchases I don’t have a choice whether I buy it locally or at Amazon, and that includes the pair of Crocs I got yesterday, made in Vietnam. Yes, I try to buy locally anyway because a fraction of that spreads around locally but in the big picture, the rustbelt is not coming back ever even if all the citizenry now turned “consumers” were to buy from the local Dollar store which BTW, last time I took a trip around the bowels of the Florida peninsula, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar and any other iteration of that vomite inducing franchise that only sells China made crap, pop soda and Cheez Doodles, dots the small town landscape end to end. No mom and pop stores, no local flavor, no independently owned stores, zip, zilch, nada.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 25 2020 #60435
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Last night driving back home from work on ‘miraculously’ light traffic freeways since Covid, I thought of the plethora of biz that are not coming back and how longer the perpetual growth system can keep the Wile E. Coyote moment of levitation.
    In this neck of the woods it seems, for quite some time but for Covid turning into a sort of the Antonine plague: the $ 1bn David Beckham stadium is going to go ahead, with a sister development by the Graham family. Elsewhere and anywhere in SoFlo you can’t swing a cat without hitting expressway expansions, cranes and luxury high rises going up along with the rental condo ‘communities’. To whom they shall rent, idk. An arrangement without a future, Kunstler would mutter. And I nod too.

    The low fatality rate of Covid, might never turn into the plague that Marcus Aurelius had to run the empire over but the ominous increase of infections without a foreseeable end might just be the stake that goes through the heart of the ‘growth machine’ and leaves millions of hapless unemployed
    without food and shelter, in concrete jungles… A worst prospect than the virus itself.

    It’s becoming apparent to me that the economy will go down with or without a lock down. It’s an interesting time to live. In an earth ship bereft of any frontiers the only outcome may be a brutal contraction for the ages. Yet, slaves to industrial society we are. For who’s gonna mind the 400 ticking time bomb-nuke plants ’round the world without a complex society?

    We are called Homo sapiens and science is our god. What a joke.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 23 2020 #60357
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Indeed Raul, he got a sweetheart deal from then US Attorney and later Obongo’s Labor Sec. Alex Acosta
    WITHOUT notifying the victims as mandated by the law.
    The plea agreement left any and all co-conspirators free from prosecution. Coincidentally, Dershowitz happened to be one of them as a frequent flyer in the Lolita Express. The Miami Herald scored a Pulitzer price for this expose.
    Recently, Dershowitz dared Virginia Roberts to tell it to his face that she was pimped out at least six times to him. Well, she volunteered… but all I heard is crickets.
    You’re right Raul, he’s most known for this latest dark chapter.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 23 2020 #60323
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    “Dershowitz, the storied Harvard law professor and noted proponent of civil liberties,…”

    “Dershowitz, the infamous Harvard law mandarin and noted proponent of forced vaccination on everyone also known as a plagiarist and a lier, exposed in Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now” by Prof. Norm Finkelstein, make that utterly humiliated…”

    There I fixed it for JTN

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 20 2020 #60204
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Steve Keen always brilliant but seldom this straightforward with non-academic language talking about the elephant in the room.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 20 2020 #60198
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    McEnany runs over the fake journos like driving a Cat D11 with one hand on the wheel another holding a beer. It’s the best entertainment I’ve been having since George Carlin left his mortal coil.

    This line also makes for a good LOL:

    “In other science news, we discover that larger countries have more people than smaller ones:

    “Brazil Coronavirus Total Tops 1 Million, Second Only To US: Live Updates”

    Genius!”

    Down here in South Flori-duh I observe the minimum of protective measures: mask on when going into the stores, washing hands when coming home and so do all the people I know and certainly we all avoid large crowds. I know not one person directly that has caught the virus. Did I say not one?
    Friends that were absolutely paranoid and hysterical when I showed up in their backyard 3 months ago, now were having a get together in a water front lawn and didn’t freak out upon seeing me coming.

    I interact with a lot of people because of the nature of my work and my conclusion is that most if not all have normalized the existence of the virus and go on with their lives because… who can stay locked up indefinitely even while having unlimited financial resources? I certainly can’t and don’t. I get the serious consequences of catching this Frankenstein’s lab virus but down here in the land of sprawl and social distancing baked into the monoculture of detached homes and one car per dweller, I fail to match the alarming increase in numbers with the reality of everyday life. Will it happen later? Maybe.

    At the onset of the contagion the Mayor of Key Biscayne, average household income $125k, all white, cheapest house $ 1 mn., put a lock out on all contractors and workers. The resulting traffic jam up at the checkpoint made it unfeasible but the ban remained for 8 weeks. Yet, the BLM protest wildfires reached this toy town, now gone fully woke and a gathering of 100 plus teenagers were allowed to bunch together to protest in the main crossing under police protection. So which is it? The virus doesn’t infect virtue signalers?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 18 2020 #60107
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Jerry Nadler and his ilk, or even the “promising” rising stars like AOC, Warren, Tulsi, are the reason why I don’t listen to any politician at all. One has to have serious brain impairment or zero cognitive abilities to swallow their stupid sxxt. The perks and dough that come with the position are a powerful incentive to keep making sxxt up. I understand that. I once flew in a Gulfstream V, while enjoying such orgasmic experience I thought “this type of luxury is what makes telepreachers and politicians sell their soul to the devil”. And they don’t want to end up either like Paul Wellstone & family, James Traficant, Louis T. McFadden or Cinthya Mc Kinney and Ron Paul just to name a few.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 16 2020 #60082
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Since Raul is stuck at and in between airports today, here’s a fun vid of Shangri-La in ‘murica courtesy of the anti-racist revolution. If you don’t believe me you may believe Kshana Sawant at the 5:45 mark. “The Autonomous Zone is an incredible area of peace and friendship.” Indeed incredible. And Sad. I had lot of sympathy for her. It turned out to be another hustler with a stubborn Indian accent. Kamala shares half of Sawant’s ancestry but has parlayed that into blackness privilege very deftly a-la-Rachel Dolezal with better results though. It helped that at her peak of hotness she advanced a lot faster by practicing the oldest trade in the world, with the Mayor of Frisco, Willie Brown…https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=16&v=aEWjQOnrZRg&feature=emb_logo

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 15 2020 #60040
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Wellcome to Wakanda!
    We have a lotta experience in supporting a little country with a supremacist/totalitarian/genocidal bent, this one is going to be more pigmented though which is a diversity double plus. Chief Seattle would be proud. Time for Congress to appropriate funds to support this fledging nation while taking a knee. What an uplifting development amidst the depressing Covid outlook.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 14 2020 #59994
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Sorry “…not that I…”

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 14 2020 #59993
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Raul, great find of the SMH article with link to the book on how Wall Street spearheaded the hollowing out of American industry. And continues to do so. Not that we I didn’t know it, I just lacked the operating details. Finance capitalism is the cancer that if not extirpated kills the host that produces real wealth. Jefferson prophecy has come to pass.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 8 2020 #58555
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Dr. D. Thank you for the tip on the “Down Shifter’s Guide to the Future” Gotta have that.

    The time to read it, am not so sure, my list of half read books keeps growing but gotta try.

    What a good title, it synthesizes our only predicament’s option.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 8 2020 #58554
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Yes, Capybaras eat their own poop, but their meat is a delicacy.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 8 2020 #58553
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    I’ve been a busy and catching up now with the last two days’ posts.

    Raul’s “wanker and rodent” has the same minting material quality as Matt Taibbi’s famous ” G.S. …vampire squid blood funnel wrapped around humanity’s face…etc”.

    I think it fits his punchable face like a glove.

    I read D. Robinson’s posting and the citations do throw a shade of suspicion on her work. Not that I would ever doubt the integrity of the FBI… but Dr. Mikovits claims those items were planted by the gum shoes. The lack of results in replicating tests by fellow scientists is more damning though.

    Ditto the point brought by Raul. Fair enough. I didn’t stop to think about that. I’m all in for verifiable facts.

    The accusation against Dr. Fauci and Dr. Gallo of having stolen Dr. Garcetti’s work in replicating the isolation of the HIV virus of the French Dr. Montaigneur I think his name was, to personally profit for dirty rupees and personal prestige on the way up the food pyramid, still stands.

    That makes Dr. Fauci not just a wanker rodent, it makes him the biggest rodent on earth, the Capybara of the South American swamps.
    And how about Dr. Fauci’s holding patents to his name? Or his involvement with the funding of the Wuhan lab for ‘gain of function’ of the Corona virus? I’m not gonna throw the baby with the bath water. Not at all. Not yet anyway.

    BTW, the Capybara is becoming an invasive species here in Floriduh.https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/11/12880474/capybara-florida-invasive-animals-science

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 8 2020 #58552
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Mr House, great piece apropos of passivity under oppression and/or occupation. A keeper. However, no attribution?

    I’d like to know who wrote such a good insighit.

    Boudica’s name perdures in time but few people know the name of the Queen that apparently poisoned her…

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 7 2020 #58461
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Spell check: Dr.Judy Mikovits and Dr. Olson Frank Olson, a bacteriologist and biological warfare specialist out of Fort Detrick.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 7 2020 #58459
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    I first learned of Dr. Judi Miskovits a week ago in an inteview, now there’s this one as part of the documentary Plandemic. I think it summarizes like a Coroner’s report how the cancer killed the country’s science community or shall we call it Science Complex?
    I’m somewhat surprised she didn’t get flying lessons from a high rise building like Dr. Olsen did, or James Forrestal for that matter.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 31 2020 #56369
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    The EU will have to throw out Hungary.

    – State of emergency w/o time limit
    – Rule by decree
    – Parliament suspended
    – No elections
    – Spreading fake news + rumors: up to 5 yrs in prison
    – Leaving quarantine: up to 8 yrs in prison

    Or vice versa?
    Orban may have gone a little bit overboard but… is the EU the epitome of Greek Democratia? A cenacle of unelected officials deciding over the subjects across the board for all “Europeans”? And the Parliament can not propose and pass laws? last time I checked?. And let’s not get into how the French the Irish and the Portuguese if memory serves me, were made to vote twice ’till they voted “the right way” to implement the treaty. LOL. This EU that has such high standards of human rights and values in its foundational docs., bombs and invades any country it likes at a drop of a hat. I remember when Ca-moron sent Brit planes to bomb Syria because…he didn’t like what Bashar Al Assad said… The unending flow of refugees is a direct consequence of that, just as Gadafi “prophesied” it would happen were he to be removed. Duh. Well, he was a bit more than simply removed, he was sodomized with a bayonet up his arxse. Sarkozy was first in line to bomb the shxte out of Libya. The “liberation” of Libya under Samantha Power’s “R2P” gave rise to open-air slave markets… how’s that for the standards of the free world? I could go on quite some ways here but I won’t, I just want to close with a look at the elephant in the room: people are jailed in the EU for not having the “correct” version of history. For questioning, or mocking, a historical event that is already “proven” by fiat. I would like to think that this kind of coercion was left behind with the fading into history of the Inquisition and the flowering of the Renaissance and free thought. But no, questioning the established history can land you in jail if that history is the Holocaust by gas chambers. You can piss on a cross or piss on Jesus’ image and call it art, make a movie or a play about a gay Jesus or whatever you like but nothing happens, as it should, in a world of free men. Not so sure though that you could do same to Mohamed… Be that as it may, dare to question the veracity or accuracy of the gas chambers or the 6 million and you’ll find yourself in jail like the 90 y.o Ursula Haverbeck, conveniently dubbed the “Nazi Granny”, the Canadian Monica Schafer snatched while in Germany for posting a video asking forgiveness from her late parents for having been hostile to them in this subject, or Attorney Silvya Stolz for defending Ernst Zundel and presenting evidence on a subject that was already deemed established and closed. There are dozens if not hundreds more in jail for this same thought crime. Others not so lucky, ended up in the hospital., Prof. Faurisson and Joe Cole/Stein, a Jew himself, come to mind. Joe had to disappear for 8 years and change identities because the ADL put a prize on his head. I’m sorry Raul if am not too upset with Orban’s power grab, I should, freedom as a value is ingrained in the human condition and behooves us to defend it, but to implicitly put the EU as a moral arbiter in this matter invites derision. I will let somebody else make the point:
    “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
    John Milton, 1644

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 27 2020 #56126
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Dr. D your post brings a needed counterbalance and a sense of perspective. After 2 weeks of self isolation at home on my return trip from Argentina I decided to get out and visit my GP’s office with all the regular tests in hand that I run through down there on the free public health system and let him have a look. Total uneventful if not for the absence of patients. From there on it was a short hop over the bridge to Key Biscayne from Miami so I went to have lunch with a cousin working off his cabana and on to drop by unannounced to other friends’ home that were shooting the breeze in the back patio… and they backed off as if a leper with a bell breached their security perimeter! “What are you doing here?, you shouldn’t be here!” -well I just come out of Ocean Club and I figure I’d stop to say hello- “Ocean Club? there are 5 covid cases there, oh no blah blah blah”. I left feeling guilty and perturbed at the same time because of the obvious histeria and fear about somebody standing 10 feet away or more. Far from being cavalier about this pandemic I’ve been reading up on it extensively and early on, to the point of paranoia. It just so happens that I was moved to reposition my stance on this issue, giving priority to look into the health of my soul and then my body because in the end, in a long enough time line we all… unless you are American and believe death is optional…better self examine to be ready for the ultimate Panagra flight. And so I relaxed my fears and decided to go out the house. Yet, Doctors are dying, 9 yesterday in the Philippines, one near home today. Two Italian nurses checking out under unimaginable stress… Hard to keep a cool head. That’s why, thank you for your well thought out perspective, it gives us the chance to expand the limits of our options.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 8 2020 #52581
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    V. Arnold, I read the whole D.Orlov article and didn’t come out with the same perception. Perhaps it is that I’m used to that kind of smugness coming from him, or Kunstler or myself or I’m so tired of the unstoppable overarching decline of the US that I think there’s still room in Orlov’s piece if not for more smugness for more sarcasm. The closing line, you might be inclined to agree with me, is a very sharp dagger…as there are folk being condemned to long prison time for burning the lgtbqqqxyz flag, the new American symbol to which we all must vow, as now “America is a Gay Disco”, E.Michael Jones averred.
    Think about it, 15 years for burning a gay flag and a golden parachute for the parasites that looted the economy and the treasure of this country that led to a lot of suicides including the 22 Vets that check out every day. That kind of scenario can bring out all kinds of responses on anybody having still some dendrites at work, smugness and sarcasm is in the low end of intensity if you ask me.
    The rest of his essay is no less damning and unassailable I reckon.
    I myself see Ozymandias written all over this place.
    https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/21/us/iowa-man-burns-lgbt-flag-church-trnd/index.html

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 3 2020 #52494
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Dr. D. I enjoy reading your comments whenever time allows but I feel compelled to impose a little editing on your first paragraph:
    “Ugh, worst ever. “Bad guy” just means he was a fantastic general who was effective and not corrupt in the service of his country. Can’t let a guy who put the whole U.S. to rout in a war-crimes war in Syria on behalf of the violent, genocidal Saudis get away.”
    I think the last line should read: “…on behalf of the violent, genocidal Israelis and Saudis get away”
    The absence of the former in your statement leaves a hole the size of a Peterbilt 18 wheeler that can not go unnoticed for anybody that’s not out to lunch.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 27 2019 #47597
    Carlos Jimenez
    Participant

    Thanks Raul for bringing Karen Dalton from obscurity. My obscurity anyway. I got to read about her life and sad end. Is it not usually like that? The pain tends to refine the musical expression to its essence. No pain no gain? Janis comes to mind.
    She is not a voice for everyone like Iris DeMent is not either. But heck, for everyone else you’ve got Beyonce and Britney Spears…

    “Is it safe to say Karen had a fairly depressive side to her?
    I don’t know. I don’t remember Karen being a depressive person. You know, what was going on in this world was enough to depress anybody. Also, of course, I know she was frustrated by her lack of recognition and success. And it was hard for her to do much about that. All those things added up. And I think what was happening to our planet affected her more than most people. So it wasn’t just her personal life, and, anyway, I don’t think she was more depressed than just about anybody else who was living in poverty, broke and hungry most of the time. It’s not a real happy existence for a lot of people”

    Touche. “…what was happening to our planet affected her more than most people.”

    Nothing much has changed other than deeper down the drain we go.

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