Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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I was thinking something along the lines of Noah’s ark. Get a rhino in there, an elephant, take it from there.
US Announces Near-Total Ban On Trade Of African Elephant Ivory
US authorities announced a near-total ban on the trade of African elephant ivory Thursday, finalizing a years-long push to protect the endangered animals. “Today’s bold action underscores the United States’ leadership and commitment to ending the scourge of elephant poaching and the tragic impact it’s having on wild populations,” Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell said. The new rule “substantially limits” imports, exports and sales of such ivory across state lines, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) said. However, it does make exceptions for some “pre-existing manufactured” items, such as musical instruments, furniture and firearms that contain less than 200 grams of ivory and meet other specific criteria, according to the FWS.
That comment of mine about the deals various news organizations have with Google apparently triggers reactions that would seem to indicate they don’t really want those deals to get overly known. So I got this mail from FT, and I’ll leave it up to my readers to make up their minds. I’ll write a reaction mañana:
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From May 30 thread:
Nassim et al,
Google has these deals with many new organizations, where you can read full articles if you go through Google News for access to FT, WSJ and many more. Type in URL or first few words of headline. I do it all the time, have done for years. Sorry if people didn’t catch on to that yet, I wrote about it many times.
Nassim et al,
Google has these deals with many new organizations. Go through Google News for access to FT, WSJ and many more.
Oh, and BTW, I couldn’t log in to the Facebook account for TAE because, as it said:
“It looks like you’re using your personal Facebook profile to represent an organization, business, brand or public figure It’s against the Facebook Terms to use your personal account to represent something other than yourself. In order to follow the Facebook Terms, you should create a Page based on your profile.”
Now that is partly true, but only partly. I am TAE these days. I may not share pics of my pets or kids or body parts in the shower, but it is very much me. I’m not representing anything that is not me.
So now apparently I need to create ”A Page” . And I don’t know what that will mean. FB doesn’t give me an option to react to their claims that I am ”representing something other than myself”, which therefore looks to be accepted as a given even if it’s not.
I think what might happen is I lose all history, and hopefully keep the 2000+ friends I have there. But I don’t know. Is this gonna take hours of reading through shit to get it right? Should I leave FB like so many young people do and go for Snapchat or Instagram?
The FB account for TAE was set up years ago by a friend, and I think Nicole had a say in the naming, but it ran well for all that time, without doing any harm. Someone ratted on the account? That would be just in style. We’ve had that shit to an extent you would not believe since we started.
Dr., I’ve been ranting against the EU for years, no need to use someone else’s tagline.
Ken, once you take out speculation and leverage – i.e. modern investing- I think you could be halfway there. As long as people keep buying homes with the idea that they’re cash machines and/or retirement vehicles, however, debt is king.
I know what Yanis envisions, Daisy, but I very much question how feasible it is. The EU is not an institution that you can simply put different people in and everything will be whoopsy-daisy. I think Europe needs a whole new model, not a revision of the old one, and Europe is by no means the only candidate for that.
That must be like the worst critique one can get. Got to admit, it’s hard to get the drive and schedule back, to think: this must be out there today! And Brexit is a complex issue, a book about it, already now, is entirely possible. More articles coming up soon, and I may have found my miracle doctor (neurologist) here in Athens. Through a TAE reader, of course. How that connects is amazing. Guy’s the spitting image of Billy Connolly but had never heard of him. Sticks a needle in my arm once a day to heal a pinched nerve in my spine and I have faith in him. What can you do? I never express my love for all you regular TAE readers, do I? Here you go.
Don’t know, John. Everything’s on hold until the Brexit vote June 23. If Leave wins (which I pray for), you’ll get your wish for sure. Happy now?
E. Swanson,
Great example: “..China’s richest man — at least on paper — lost half of his wealth in less than half an hour..”
I’ve been harping on here about China for so long people may have been thinking I was nuts. But China is really just a casino. Xi saw the US and thought: “I have 4 times as many people, so I can bet/print at least 4 times what they have.” And he did just that. Right now, he’s finding that didn’t work. And so….looks to me like double or nothing, all on red.
XYZ,
Steve is simply the no. 1 economist in my view, because he’s a very damn smart man who focuses his life on rigorously trying to lay bare the fallacies of the school(s) of economics that drive us towards not only economic mayhem, but most of our other problems as well. That he doesn’t deal with all the latter at the same time on top of that, I forgive him ;-), and I think it’s up to others, TAE first of all, to do that. Meanwhile his input on the economics side is extremely useful. In the same vein, I can forgive people for focusing on other issues without necessarily getting the big(gest) picture right.
Wel, whaddaya. A double helping of Greenpa. Yes, yes, but there’s no denying that “punctuated equilibrium” sounds a hell of a lot more scientific and impressive than ”jumping”. And Gould DID throw his ‘science’ off its established course, because that’s not how the professors saw things at all. In far too many ways, yesteryear’s evolutionists were like today’s economists. Still are, for all I know.
This is where OpEdNews published the article. They are a ‘progressive’ site.
You’re talking universal problems there, Glennda, in Meadows’ definition. The global ones we cannot solve.
Nassim, that Alexa thing you posted is confused. On average 70% or so of readers are still from US. Quite a few Ozzies too. South Africa is very rare.
Venezuela is just another US produced failed state, like Lybia, Iraq, Ukraine, Syria. It’s a policy. They think it makes it easier to take over power. Never works. Those days are gone.
They’re all pathological habitual liars, but he’s so much better at it. And maybe the most important thing of all is he brings humor to the scene. None of the others could even spell the word. When Jeb said he was sick of Trump talking down his family, W, and even his mom Barbara, he added: “she’s the strongest woman I know”. And of course Trump said: “well, she should run then.”
Simply very good, perfect riposte. A disaster for a president, but hey, what else do you got? H.W., Bill, W., Barracks? Really, it can get worse?
It’s Groucho:
“Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.”
“Stand up, stand up, What a Hat!”
It’s genius!
Greenpa,
Have I got just the Trump for you. Brilliant. The entire ‘debate’ has been brought down to his level, which is where he can’t possibly lose. Again, brilliant.
Greer destructs renewables quite well. So we don’t have to do it again.
I certainly never said that low oil prices caused the bad economy. Repeated a thousand times that the financial sector doesn’t need any help in blowing up. It’s the other way around.
But taking out of the economy the enormous amounts of liquidity involved in all sectors linked to oil, and doing it as fast as today, is bleeding the system dry.
Even if that liquidity would show up somewhere else -which it largely doesn’t-, the system would need a lengthy period of time to adapt to the changes. As things stand, we’ll see a lot of bankruptcies and job losses in the energy sector, as well as the financial markets.
Nothing finally about it, GO, that’s what we have always said.
And wakeup, yeah, short term bonds count as cash (closest thing to it).
Daiblo,
Yeah, Charles’ reader is not all wrong, there’s always a point at which ‘trade’ can start up again. Even if increasing amounts of people are locked out, there’ll be some who are not. But when homes can only trade at for example 1% of their building costs ($1000-$5000), we have a problem way beyond Houston. Detroit did it, though.. What I’m trying to say is that such a purely theoretical view is of little value out there. ‘There’s always some point ‘ means little if that point would bring down the entire economy.
Variable,
I think the velocity graph says plenty to prove the Neoclassical theory wrong. Put it this way: there’s nothing that says velocity has any direct connection with supply. It can go up or down while supply goes the opposite direction.
I don’t want to be king. And there are plenty reasons to keep hammering on the inherent failures of the EU et al. Why that should come with a ready-made solution I don’t understand.
Still, to prevent chaos, mayhem and warfare in Europe, first of all the EU must be abandoned and dismantled. But there’s so much interest vested in it, that won’t happen in time.
Instead of a solution, I have earlier written of an approach: put the people first. Don’t let a single refugee child drown if you can prevent it. The best hope we have is human decency and the value of human life. If we can’t do that, we can rest assured there won’t be solution.
Seems to me for the Fed to once again not hike rates there’d have to be a major event. Or no-one will ever believe a single thing they say anymore. Credibility is a real big issue by now (they caused this themselves). But a major event is not impossible in the next few days: junk bonds look like they could fall through the floor at any given time, and stocks can do the same. A sharp devaluation of the yen could do thetrick as well.
Repost of the comment above, this time with active links:
The Enouranois group from Greece screened the following video at one of two anti-climate-manipulation workshops approved by COP21.
https://enouranois.eu/?p=1124In Paris anti-climate-manipulation activists were on the margin of the margins, but this is not true of the Istanbul Security Conference held in parallel (and in competition?) with COP21, where anti-climate-manipulation activists were present as invited speakers. The international media buried this alternative conference to the French COP21.
Those who spoke out against climate modification in Istanbul included the Saudi Princess Basmah Bint Saud bin Abdul Aziz al Saud
https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/2015/12/12/saudi-princess-speaks-out-against-chemtrails-and-geoengineering/There is other evidence of differentiations emerging between the national interests of Turkey and Saudi Arabia and that of the US
https://nsnbc.me/2015/12/12/saudi-prince-alwaleed-calls-trump-a-disgrace-should-quit-us-presidential-race/zander,
I hear exactly where you’re coming from. My bit with the article was that it was all blamed on the left, which seems a tad blindered. It’s been a while since Nicole and I specifically addressed energy and EROEI issues (including that of ‘renewables’), but what we said still stands, and not a lot remains standing when you do the proper math. It’s all about the externalities that get swept under the tapestry. Biggest problem perhaps is that we already wrote it. Maybe I should simply republish those things. For the CON21 summit.
About that first O’Colmain video: weren’t the lights on the Eiffel Tower supposed to have been switched off?
zander
Blaming me for the contents of Debt Rattles, which are an overview, a number of links, is a little weird. Another link in today’s DR says central bankers are heroes. Think that expresses my opinion too?
I have not ‘promoted’ anything in my own articles other than that the only way to handle situations like the refugee crisis – which has nothing to do with the Paris killings – is to put the people first. I’ll stand by that, but I get the feeling I need to add and explain that that in turn has nothing to do with flashy shirts.
‘Stop letting people drown’ is not the same as ‘give them all expensive watches’.
