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Korean War 2.0
China Threatens to Bomb North Korean Nuclear Facilities if North Korea “Crosses Chinese Bottom-Line”, and moves troops to North Korean border.
Chinese diplomacy does Judo with American demands, tells North Korea, “We are not acquiescing to an American attack. This is our business and the PLA will attack if you cause problems.”
China clearly defines sphere of influence, while calling for denuclearized Korean Peninsula.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-11/china-threatens-bomb-north-koreas-nuclear-facilities-if-it-crosses-beijings-bottom-lAs tensions over North Korea’s nuclear program mount, the United States Air Force has deployed a WC-135 (a.k.a. the “Nuclear Sniffer”), an aircraft that specializes in detecting radioactive debris after the detonation of a nuclear device, to Okinawa, Japan to assist with monitoring for potential nuclear tests in the region.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-12/us-deploys-nuclear-sniffer-plane-japan-monitor-north-korea-nuke-testsDonald Trump called President Xi on the phone to discuss trade and the developing North Korean situation. According to China’s state television, Xi stuck with his objective of “denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula, and called for a peaceful resolution of rising tension… “We hope that the relevant parties do not adopt irresponsible actions. Under the current circumstances, this is very dangerous,” Lu told reporters at a regular press briefing… Translation: Trump is strongly urged not to launch a unilateral strike on North Korea as he did on Syria without express Chinese prior approval.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-12/trump-unexpectedly-calls-chinas-president-discuss-north-koreaRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blasted the Trump administration’s “ambiguous and contradictory” foreign policy at the start of talks with Tillerson in Moscow Wednesday calling the demand for the Kremlin to abandon Assad “absurd.” Furthermore, he warned Tillerson that Russia “believes it’s fundamentally important not to let these actions happen again.” The Moscow meeting will “further clarify areas of sharp difference so that we can better understand why these differences exist and what prospects for narrowing those differences may be,” Tillerson told Lavrov.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-12/russia-slams-absurb-trump-demands-warns-tillerson-dont-strike-syria-again“Idlib was a false-flag attack, and we have learned that more are coming.” Vladimir Putin
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-11/putin-russia-has-learned-more-false-flag-strikes-are-being-prepared-damascus-regionAmericans kill Syrian moms and kids on ferry boats, who knows how many?
It’s OK, because it’s just regular bombs and drownings, and we don’t have to look.
https://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13960120000565Trump clarifies everything:
“We’re not going into Syria,” Trump said. “Our policy is the same — it hasn’t changed. We’re not going into Syria.” “We’re not exactly on the same wavelength with Russia, to put it mildly” — again called the nuclear deal with Iran “the single worst deal ever,” and said of the worsening nuclear situation with North Korea: “I knew I was left a mess, but it’s worse than I thought.” Trump also damns Steve Bannon with very faint praise. (Neocons/Neoliberals appear to hold most face-cards again.)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-declines-to-endorse-bannon-says-us-not-going-into-syria-2017-04-11“Who is playing the long game (in geopolitics) and what’s their game plan?” Charles Hugh Smith is not ready to cede (pyrrhic) victory to neocons just yet.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogapr17/long-game4-17.htmlPrelude to WW-3 stories for today:
Speaking at a behind closed doors forum for the highest echelons of government and staff in his home city of St. Petersburg, Putin responded to questions about the metro blast by pointing out who is responsible for the vast majority of world terror attacks: the U.S. deep state, and the radical Islamic groups they sponsor to destabilize key regions in the world… The Russian president said that “95% of the world’s terrorist attacks are orchestrated by the CIA,” and the St. Petersburg metro bombing must be investigated “with this in mind.“
Putin claims that the CIA is a rogue element of the deep state, and “an expression of the will of world oligarchy and their vision for a New World Order.“ “The CIA does not work on behalf of the American people or act in their interests.”
https://www.unz.com/forum/putin-95-of-world-terrorist-attacks-are-orchestrated-by-the-cia/Moon of Alabama says Syrian gas deaths and reprisal attack were “Trump’s theater”, a made-for-TV movie. (A movie like this would take a long time to stage/produce. The script/casting would have already been in place when Trump entered office, right?).
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/04/trumps-khan-sheikoun-production.html#moreThierry Meyssan also figures it’s Trump’s show.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article195904.htmlFormer DIA Colonel says intel. analysts are freaked out over this sloppy lie and:
Former DIA Colonel: “US strikes on Syria based on a lie”
There are members of the U.S. military who were aware this strike would occur and it was recorded. There is a film record. At least the Defense Intelligence Agency knows that this was not a chemical weapon attack. In fact, Syrian military chemical weapons were destroyed with the help of Russia.
The Russians briefed the United States on the proposed target. This is a process that started more than two months ago. There is a dedicated phone line that is being used to coordinate and deconflict (i.e., prevent US and Russian air assets from shooting at each other) the upcoming operation.
The United States was fully briefed on the fact that there was a target in Idlib that the Russians believes was a weapons/explosives depot for Islamic rebels.
The Syrian Air Force hit the target with conventional weapons. All involved expected to see a massive secondary explosion. That did not happen. Instead, smoke, chemical smoke, began billowing from the site. It turns out that the Islamic rebels used that site to store chemicals, not sarin, that were deadly. The chemicals included organic phosphates and chlorine and they followed the wind and killed civilians.
There was a strong wind blowing that day and the cloud was driven to a nearby village and caused casualties.
We know it was not sarin. How? Very simple. The so-called “first responders” handled the victims without gloves. If this had been sarin they would have died. Sarin on the skin will kill you. How do I know? I went through “Live Agent” training at Fort McClellan in Alabama.
Veterans Today: President Trump is now threatening to take America into a war against Syria, Iran and even Russia, a war he says is justified by “evidence” he has received from the Syrian White Helmets, … a “Deep State” organization, a melding of CIA, al Qaeda and Britain’s intelligence services.
Swedish Doctors For Human Rights (swedhr.org) analysed videos, the rescue after an alleged attack by Syrian government forces. The doctors found that the videos were counterfeit, where even Arabic stage directions were overheard, and that the alleged “Rescue” in actuality is a murder. On first analysis, it looked as though the doctors working on the child assumed he was already dead.
The White Helmets, supposedly an independent NGO, receives up to $100m from the CIA and UK Foreign Office, “dark project” funding. Murdering children is their stock and trade…
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/04/06/swedish-medical-associations-says-white-helmets-murdered-kids-for-fake-gas-attack-videos/Russia and Iran say the US “crossed a red line” in Syria, and that they will retaliate with military force if this is repeated. (Dangerous set-up!)
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-09/russia-iran-warn-trump-they-will-respond-force-if-syria-red-lines-crossed-againSecretary of State Tillerson will not meet Russian President Putin on his upcoming trip to Moscow. He will have talks with Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov (lots to discuss).
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-10/putin-will-not-meet-tillerson-russia-confusion-grows-over-us-policy-toward-syriaFollowing the Syrian attack on a weapons depot 4/4/17, which released toxic chemicals (Sarin too?), Russian President Putin called Israeli PM Netanyahu, castigated him for false-laying-of-blame. Putin also made a deal. Russia has always said East Jerusalem is the future capital of a Palestinian State. Now Russia still says that, but “within that context” West Jerusalem is recognized as the capital of Israel. That is a big present for Bibi. What does Bibi Netanyahu give as quid-pro-quo? Thanks Eleni.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/04/israel-just-received-a-huge-payment-from-russia-what-is-its-side-of-the-deal.htmlChinese paper (presumed government opinion) says that Trump’s attack on Syria is a threat to China that North Korea is headed for a bloody-decapitation.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/10/syria-strike-designed-to-intimidate-north-korea-chinese-state-newspaper-saysMoon of Alabama has the story well encapsulated. Here are excerpts.
(I feel terrible about this neocon resurgence of power at all levels in my country. We are so easily mind-controlled.)
The U.S. airstrike delivers a message to al-Qaeda. Whenever under military pressure al-Qaeda can now stage or fake a “chemical attack” and the U.S. will act to destroy its enemy, the Syrian government. Acts as the one last night are then direct military support by the U.S. on al-Qaeda’s request… It severely damaged the main support base for Syria’s fight against the Islamic State in eastern Syria. The event will possibly lead to a much larger war… A similar scheme had earlier been established on the Golan heights. Al-Qaeda, fighting against Syrian government positions, would launch a mortar round that would land within Israeli controlled territory. Israel would then launch artillery strikes against Syrian government positions because “the Syrian government is responsible for what happens in the area”. Al-Qaeda then used the battle field advantage created by the Israeli strike…
[Regarding gas-attack 4/4/17] For a release incident of powerful chemical weapons the casualty numbers were low, lower than the casualty numbers of recent conventional U.S. air strikes in Syria and Iraq. Despite that fact a huge international media attack wave, seemingly prepared in advance, against the Syrian government was released…
U.S. president Trump “responded” to the incident by ordering the launch of 59 cruise missiles on the Syrian military airport Al Syairat (vid). The cruise missiles were launched from sea in a volley designed to overwhelm air defenses. According to the Syrian and Russian military only 23 cruise missiles reached the airport. The others were shut down or failed. According to the Syrian and Russian military only 23 cruise missiles reached the airport. The others were shut down or failed. Six Syrian soldiers were Killed, nine civilians in a nearby village were killed or wounded and nine Syrian jets were destroyed. The airport infrastructure was severely damaged.
The Syrian and Russian governments had been warned before the strikes hit and evacuated most men and critical equipment. (Was the warning part of a deal?) The air attack coincided with an Islamic State ground attack east of the airport.
The Trump presidency had been held hostage by unfounded allegation of “Russian interference” in the U.S. elections in support of the Trump candidacy. The air strikes on Syria might have been the ransom that was demanded for the release of the hostage. His opponents are now gushing about him…
Trump is the third U.S. president in a row who promised less belligerence during his campaign only to deliver more after the election.
Open U.S.-Russian cooperation in Syria will now cease.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/04/syria-us-creates-new-air-support-request-scheme-for-al-qaeda.html#more
On April 3rd, 2017, an anti-Assad journalist tweeted that the next day he would be launching a media campaign to cover airstrikes on the Hama countryside, including the use of chemical weapons. It is not clear how the reporter was able to know that chemical weapons would be used an entire day before the attacks occurred.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-06/evidence-calls-western-narrative-about-syrian-chemical-incident-question
Neocons are creating Trump-their-chump, by getting rid of all those who resist them in the halls of power.
It’s just a little delay. Donald can be Hillary.
“The two sides: The Bannonites believe the liberals staged a coup and will turn Trump into a conventional squish who betrays the very voters who brought him to power. The Jared wing thinks the Bannonites are clinically nuts.
Killing Bannon won’t be easy: His staunchest ally is one of Trump’s closest confidants — Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Kellyanne Conway will go to the mat for him, as will policy advisor Stephen Miller. He’s also built strong relationships with other cabinet secretaries including Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. In the end, though, family matters most and all but dad are done with Bannon and his politics.”
https://www.axios.com/steve-bannon-to-associates-i-love-a-gunfight-2347592148.html
The Washington Establishment has reasserted control. First Flynn and now Bannon. All that are left in the Trump administration are the Zionists and the crazed generals who want war with Russia, China, Iran, Syria, and North Korea… The Syrian conflict is set to be reopened. That is the point of the chemical attack blamed by Washington on Syria despite the absence of any evidence. It is completely obvious that the chemical attack is a Washington orchestrated event… The removal of Assad allows Washington to impose another Washington puppet on Muslim peoples, to remove another Arab government with an independent policy from Washington, to remove another government that is opposed to Israel’s theft of Palestine, and for Exxon’s Tillerson and the neoconservative hegemonists to cut Russian natural gas off from Europe with a US controlled gas pipeline from Qatar to Europe via Syria.
Responding to Trump’s unexpected military attack on Syria in which 59 cruise missiles were launched (of which only 23 allegedly hit their target), Russian President Vladimir Putin “regards the strikes as aggression against a sovereign nation,” his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, noting that the president believes the strikes were carried out “in violation of international law, and also under an invented pretext.” The Kremlin spokesman insisted that “the Syrian army doesn’t have chemical weapons,” saying this had been “observed and confirmed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a special UN unit.” “This step deals significant damage to US-Russian ties, which are already in a deplorable state,” Peskov said and added that the US has been ignoring the use of chemical weapons by terrorists and this is dramatically aggravating the situation, in Putin’s opinion… Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said the US missile attack on a Syrian airbase is an act of aggression under a far-fetched pretext and is reminiscent of the 2003 invasion of Iraq… “It is regrettable that all these causes do more harm to the already damaged relations between Russia and the United States. Hope remains that these provocations will not entail irreversible effects.” .. Moscow suspended its memorandum of understanding on flight safety in Syria with the US following the missile strike, calling the attack “a demonstration of force.” The Russian military has supported the Syrian government’s version of the events in Idlib, saying that Damascus attacked an arms depot where chemical weapons had been stockpiled by Islamic State and Al-Nusra Front militants…
“Without bothering to investigate anything, the US went forward with a demonstration of force, a military confrontation with a country that is fighting international terrorism,” the Foreign Ministry’s statement reads. “Obviously, the cruise missile attack was prepared beforehand. Any expert can tell that the decision to strike was made in Washington before the events in Idlib, which were used as a pretext for a demonstration.” https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-07/putin-responds-syria-strikes-cripple-us-russia-relations-deploys-cruise-missile-frig
Damage from US strike was less than “militarily efficient” for the very high expense of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles. Pictures and details, here:
“Russia says Syrian air defense systems will be bolstered after 6 jets and the radar system was destroyed in the airstrike. 4 Syrian military are reported dead and 2 missing after strike.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-07/first-images-aftermath-inefficient-us-missile-strikes-emerge
Last night the Russians canceled the memorandum of understanding they had with the U.S. which made them share information with us on flights and locations of their attacks on the CIA’s moderate terrorists. Today they are carpet bombing al Qaeda and the other “moderates” in Idlib… When they stopped sharing information with the U.S. they prevented the Pentagon from warning the terrorists about impending Russian airstrikes.
Russia is Currently Bombing the Shit Out of The CIA’s “moderate” al Qaeda Terrorists in IdlibWhat will happen before the Turkish vote in April, and how will that influence the French vote in May?
Will Turkey invade Greece in April?
How big a nationalistic crisis will Erdogan need to win?Turkish-Agent-Man, there are probably still more shoes to fall in explaining Michael Flynn’s resignation…
Meanwhile, I’ve been eagerly awaiting this Moon of Alabama update on the Byzantine intrigues in the Syrian war. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/03/syria-preparing-for-the-idlib-attack.html#moreThis is all appreciated. There are many forms of slavery, and both the native American captive slaves and the European indentured servants had high death rates.
Most Europeans did not survive their terms of indenture. Sometimes, over half died on the boat over, just for starters.
I have seen the hypothesis supported that racism was a construct to enlist the class of former white slaves to control the class of hereditary black slaves. It makes sense…
Here is How Debt Conquered America, excellent historical perspective and analysis:Thank You Dr Hall and everyone who has left comments on this and the previous essays in this series.
When I was in 10th grade in Yokohama, Japan, one of our teachers told us about a computer projection at MIT, presented in a book called “The Limits to Growth”. It seemed obviously true, but the consequences seemed a long way off. Now they seem imminent in Austin, Texas, and have been imposed upon humans in much of the world, already. I have been digging in the soil and becoming a gardener since the move to sustainable-paradise (rural Hawaii) broke-down in 2013, when the clinic I worked for there had hard times, and needed me to see half-again as many patients every day as before. I worked all the time, never had a garden, and returned to Austin humbled yet again.
We are where we are now. It’s no time to move. Here is the result of my serious vegetable gardening project in a “postage-stamp” back yard in central Texas. I get good vegetables, only what’s in season, and I spend more on this project than I save on groceries, a lot more. This is way more work than people conceptualize, but it’s a work-out, too. I’m actually becoming a moderately good gardener. I’ve put in a vegetable garden at work in the break area. Most people I work with live in apartments. The sugar snap peas are being discovered, though I really had to pick them and walk them around the clinic again and again, making people try them. I still haven’t figured out how I can get people a plot to garden… The garden and gardener are pictured last July 4.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.htmlI remember 1969 as better than 1970. That first moon landing was a real high point for all of us.
Everybody thought 1971 sucked.
Things were different after November 1963. LBJ was a “sonofabitch”, as he put it.
It’s hard to nail a year down, but after we lost our president, things were never the same.What will the next Bretton Woods decide?
When?
Tennessee is pushing a convention of the States to put a balanced-budget amendment in the Constitution. Conventions of the States are a dangerous wild-card, but the time will probably soon call for that. This would essentially end the current mutated global financial arrangement. Will the States be convened when the crash happens?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-22/how-tennessee-could-be-about-start-constitutional-crisis“We should do our very best to train people for the jobs of the future,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at Davos.
That would be some subsistence farming close to your cooking area, and any other skill you can market a bit of in the collapsed “salvage-economy”.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.htmlGerman Gold Repatriation moved up to 2017.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-bundesbank-gold-idUKKBN15O192
Less fear of Moscow than New York, London, Paris?Scott Adams (Dilbert) has had good insights into the tactical Trump, but just his (impressive) tactical abilities. Trump isn’t in this alone, and there is obviously strategy involved, too. The rapid-fire attacks on the status-quo have been disorienting and disarming in the political landscape. There’s no time to fight back on one thing before it changes and there is a new threat.
This has looked military to me, a counteroffensive to the fourth-generation warfare we have been subject to since the 1980s, and which has become the state religion, the “Blue Church” as it is presented here. Jordan Greenhall is an impressively clear analyst of human society. This is war, war among the elites, and their constituencies, war on every level, including military. This is military war in American deep state politics, and NATO/Europe/Global, by extension.
https://medium.com/deep-code/situational-assessment-2017-trump-edition-d189d24fc046#.goksec60u@Oxymoron: Good-on-Ya, Mate!
@Dr Diablo: Thanks for the Mish link and Limits-to-Growth (Duh, where have you been, dude?) context for the Spiegel article.
Here is something to consider, though only roughed-out, not well defined. I have been seeing evidence that I construed as a rift in “our” shadowy-puppet-master ranks, between the global-empire-as-usual neocon crowd and what is being called the “rationalists”, who are accepting of the implications of the “standard run model” of The Limits to Growth. The rationalists have taken control with the Trump election, and the format is Right-authoritarian-populist, like Mussolini, more than Hitler, so far. The Scott Adams piece is useful in that context.
This article posits that Trump is the Rothschild-contingent point-man. Plausible, and we know the “rationalists” in the US military-intel complex have been disgusted by the stupid political management of the military for about 15&1/2 years… https://www.fort-russ.com/2017/01/is-trump-rothschilds-president.htmlBloomberg: “Trump loves debt, but it won’t love him back”
Ellen Brown: “Lend it to yourself, Duh!”Trump and the Debate on America’s Infrastructure: How to Cut Infrastructure Costs in Half
Hi Chris,
I think we agree.
I’m beginning my fourth year of this kitchen garden, in what was an over-shaded back yard. https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.html
JohnApologies for posting this to yesterday’s thread first:
@ Joe and Chris
Karl Marx is relevant again. Henry Ford got it. When labor is not adequately paid, the market for products and services collapses, because laborers are also the market. An increased carve-out of the pie for capital will eventually destroy markets. Globalization and massive borrowing gave capital a large carve-out of profits, but ultimately destroyed the biggest market ever, that provided by working class Americans, Henry Ford’s workers, buying Ford cars. We are now poised for global financial reset, the second-leg-down of 2008. This happens periodically, the generation that knows nothing of collapse, manages to collapse. It happens every 4 generations. Strauss and Howe describe it. This time it’s different, because the easy oil is in terminal decline, and that is what funded the party and fed us all.
Charles Hugh Smith looks most clearly at how the left deserted labor, especially in the US, and how the betrayal led ultimately to the gutting of markets after capital scored a decisive victory.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan17/collapse-Left1-17.html
Brandon Smith gives clues as to knowing the minds of our shadowy puppet masters, behind the curtains. He has a fairly good recent prediction record. He sees the touting of populist threats in the media last year, and the passing of Brexit, and election of Trump, in that context. Populism will be at the wheel of the Titanic as it hits the iceberg and sinks. Globalism will take the stage once and for all.
https://www.alt-market.com/articles/3112-how-to-predict-the-behavior-of-globalists
I don’d disagree with his analysis of reading elite intentions, shared in code with the in-crowd, but I disagree that the free-energy will exist to rebuild globalism. In “complex systems” each level of complexity imposes further costs, which have to be supported at the base level of production. As long as there is more easy-oil to pump, and more forest to fell, and more fish in the ocean, increasing complexity will facilitate more rapid consumption of the resource base, and will be supported. That was the 20th century story. The resource base is now in decline, at least the easy-oil is in decline.
Complexity in systems collapses rapidly, “Seneca’s Cliff”. When complex systems collapse, the collapse down to the level of complexity which is inherently supportable, under prevailing conditions of production. The world is in overshoot, but it is “granular”. What regions will collapse to what levels? Can any region survive without healthy local agriculture? Will we be able to plow, irrigate and fertilize enough? How long can this be done in each place? Can some places and groups actually make a transition to “sustainable civilization”? What might that eventually look like? We are the animals we have evolved to be over eons. We should consider what we are and what we can do in modest sized working groups of around 100, with some good shovels, knives, and things like that.@ Joe and Chris
Karl Marx is relevant again. Henry Ford got it. When labor is not adequately paid, the market for products and services collapses, because laborers are also the market. An increased carve-out of the pie for capital will eventually destroy markets. Globalization and massive borrowing gave capital a large carve-out of profits, but ultimately destroyed the biggest market ever, that provided by working class Americans, Henry Ford’s workers, buying Ford cars. We are now poised for global financial reset, the second-leg-down of 2008. This happens periodically, the generation that knows nothing of collapse, manages to collapse. It happens every 4 generations. Strauss and Howe describe it. This time it’s different, because the easy oil is in terminal decline, and that is what funded the party and fed us all.
Charles Hugh Smith looks most clearly at how the left deserted labor, especially in the US, and how the betrayal led ultimately to the gutting of markets after capital scored a decisive victory.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan17/collapse-Left1-17.html
Brandon Smith gives clues as to knowing the minds of our shadowy puppet masters, behind the curtains. He has a fairly good recent prediction record. He sees the touting of populist threats in the media last year, and the passing of Brexit, and election of Trump, in that context. Populism will be at the wheel of the Titanic as it hits the iceberg and sinks. Globalism will take the stage once and for all.
https://www.alt-market.com/articles/3112-how-to-predict-the-behavior-of-globalists
I don’d disagree with his analysis of reading elite intentions, shared in code with the in-crowd, but I disagree that the free-energy will exist to rebuild globalism. In “complex systems” each level of complexity imposes further costs, which have to be supported at the base level of production. As long as there is more easy-oil to pump, and more forest to fell, and more fish in the ocean, increasing complexity will facilitate more rapid consumption of the resource base, and will be supported. That was the 20th century story. The resource base is now in decline, at least the easy-oil is in decline.
Complexity in systems collapses rapidly, “Seneca’s Cliff”. When complex systems collapse, the collapse down to the level of complexity which is inherently supportable, under prevailing conditions of production. The world is in overshoot, but it is “granular”. What regions will collapse to what levels? Can any region survive without healthy local agriculture? Will we be able to plow, irrigate and fertilize enough? How long can this be done in each place? Can some places and groups actually make a transition to “sustainable civilization”? What might that eventually look like? We are the animals we have evolved to be over eons. We should consider what we are and what we can do in modest sized working groups of around 100, with some good shovels, knives, and things like that.Garden in place, y’all.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.html@Joe Clarkson
Trump seems to be egotistical, but not necessarily narcissistic. He looks to be an effective egoist, which is a certain role for a chess piece on the global board. Hubris (literally “erect penis”) is the tragic flaw, and I’m not certain that Trump has it.
He plays a loose-cannon on TV, but I would not be so certain that he really is that caricature.
Trumps negotiation-style is like the “Drunken-Monkey” style of Kung Fu, which keeps the opponent guessing. It has its weaknesses, as well as strengths, and can only be effectively practiced by a master. I think Trump pulls it off.(Last chance for Neocon Nuland’s team)
Negotiations regarding the status of Cyprus, between “security-guarantors” Turkey, UK and Greece, with interested-party EU, have been reported as “promising” or “at impasse”.
They will reconvene Wednesday, 2 days before the change-of-administration in the US. Turkey demands it’s army-of-occupation stay. Other parties say “go”.
This Maltese representation is different from others I have seen, including this potential opening for agreement.
“Turkey is demanding that all Turkish Cypriots receive full rights to EU membership., while Greece is pressing for the 30,000 Turkish troops to leave the island over a fixed timetable and for Ankara to end its right to intervene. Turkey has so far refused to make that concession, saying it is “out of the question.” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said troops would remain unless Greece also agreed to withdraw its forces.”
https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/world/73420/cyprus_reunification_talks_stall_over_security_question#.WHjpAVMrLIUI postulate that Donald Trump is intimately aware of the analysis presented by Kyle Bass.
For Bass to present this information so thoroughly now (after alluding to “big opportunity” recently) means that all his positions are taken, and he is “talking his book”.
Let’s also presume that Bass is right.
We have been hearing this story of Chinese banking having vast leverage and hidden losses for over 5 years, already.
But when does the crash happen? Chinese government authorities exercise a lot of overt and covert control. The fact that more of it becomes overt means it is strained.
Trump’s talk is to pushing what is soon to fall.
“China saved global finance” was one of the 2009 -2011 themes. By 2011 we were getting stories about unprecedented credit expansion and shadow-banking.
If 2017 is the year that global finance experiences the “second leg down” of 2008, then laying the blame on China will be an important battle for western banking, and US hegemonic interests.
A lot of interests, everywhere, are on the “wrong side” of any such event.
Poor Mr. Soros has lost $1 billion since the US election, I read.
The whole of the reset has been delayed since 2008, by promising away all the rosy future scenarios that anyone can imagine.
How are populations going to be fed, watered, clothed, housed and create ways to constructively and cooperatively employ their talents for the common welfare and support of their societies?
I recommend growing vegetable gardens, while this gets figured out. Expect the first year to be way more work than you ever thought, with meager production, The next year is not really less work, but more satisfaction of reduced expectations, and better systemic understanding of watering, mulching and other garden-ecosystem support. Third year garden is refining the ecosystem, which is largely in the living soil. https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.html
Vegetable gardening helps the human being and small working group to put things in a useful context and build a new economy from there.Oh, we should watch the Cyprus “guarantor” meeting 1/12/17. That’s where the Nuland/Kissinger coup d’etat may go down, like the rejected Annan plan… What’s up with NATO tying up the Russian border with massive troop/armor movements?
I think the Russian prostitutes peeing on the bed the Obamas slept in is great circus, and then the fact that it was a hoax, so quick on the heels of the story.
All of this has been known since October, so this is a vaccination against negative fake-news for the incoming Trump admin, isn’t it?
Fake-fake-fake news. How many negatives make a positive? I lost count.I suspect that private UK debt rose after the Brexit vote because sterling went down, prices went up, and people had to borrow, because they were as extended as they could be already.
Like American debt, really.We have grown up as zoo animals. It’s all most of us know. We can prepare garden beds and plant and tend and weed and water vegetables. That brings us closer to ourselves. It’s our real heritage. The shovel and fork we use have embedded energy. The city water does not fall from the sky, but when we put all the work it takes into growing our vegetables, we get wonderful vegetables. They are qualitatively different. Each of the first 3 years gets better as the soil comes to life Here is how it can be done in central Texas. https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.html
For now, this costs more than buying vegetables at the store, even though they are expensive, but that baseline expenditure has fallen a lot in the third year. As I get better at growing from seed I will “come out ahead”.
The needs of a kitchen gardener are very different from those of a commercial grower, who plants and harvests all at once. The work is humanizing, and fills a template, which already exists in us, mostly unused.
Riding a bike is efficient, if you have enough skill and experience to avoid injury.
Big “if”. I’ve been doing it since 1965.I put in a plug for your “The Other Human” benefit on my (Russian propaganda, too) blog, and to the 200 people who get it as an email. PayPal sent’cha my lunch-money by now, I’m sure.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/11/critical-winter.html@Nassim,
The new religion is already here, Bokononism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokononism
The primary tenant is, “Truth is a lie”.
Care to dispute?
🙂Seychelles,
I believe her. This is a bidness-opportunity.
Jill Stein MD took flak for saying Trump was clearly the lesser evil, compared to Clinton, back in October.
The Green Party collected more than twice as much in 2-3 days of recount donations as it did in the entire election season. The fine print says the Green Party keeps any leftovers.
The Green Party gets paid extra for its hard-earned niche-position in history.
Who is picking up the tab? Take their money, whoever it is.
I have seen evidence that BOTH sides were rigging this election. Look at Bev Harris’ Black Box Voting https://investmentwatchblog.com/bev-harris-of-black-box-voting-says-that-the-hillary-campaign-did-steal-votes-but-not-enough-to-stop-the-trump-landslide/
My personal suspicion is that the Bush vote-rigging machine was behind Clinton, until it was behind Trump, and that surprised Soros and the Clintons. I have no proof, but it fits.So many assassination attempts, and Castro dies at 90 of old age, not even lung or throat cancer, and surely not the “cancer-shot” which was worked out for him by the CIA, so long ago.
What is the next page for Cuba?Hi Debtserf.
It’s clearly some kind of administrative oversight at a start-up website, which has a lot of promise, but might just be one guy part time in Langley, or even Bangalore. This could be a Clinton Foundation employee, and their donors are dropping like flies. Norway quite tithing. Australia just quite sending checks, Saudi Arabia has too cut costs, and I suspect the teenage-girl-party-favors on Epstein’s Island or in Haiti just went away, too.
TAE is on ZH and NC quite regularly and prominently, and has been bigger than ZH and earlier, as I recall. I discovered ZH through TAE, not the other way around. ZH started very modestly.
Anyway Propornit, just look at the comments. Everybody in the commentariat here is subversive, too, tinfoil-hat-conspiracy-theorists talking about elite pedophilia and stuff.
MURDERS; the Clintons have murdered people for decades, too!
There, that should do it…Hi Ilargi,
I’m not sure how to say this, but The Automatic Earth didn’t make the list of subversive-Russian-tool-propaganda websites. Zero Hedge made it, and Naked Capitalism, and even Charles Hugh Smith at Of Two Minds made it. https://www.propornot.com/p/the-list.html
I emailed them and asked politely for Johnday’s Blog, http://www.johndayblog.com to be added to the list.
My contention is that since I link mostly to sites on their list, I should also qualify for membership.
I almost feel that any site that I link to has a right to be included, and yours sure does.
I hope they start catching up soon.The National Enquirer is probably about to get some more anthrax in the mail:
https://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/hillary-clinton-lesbian-sex-claims-vince-foster-fixer/Did Assange get secretly extradited on the “Gitmo Express”?
Fears Grow Julian Assange Was Extradited On ‘Guantanamo Express’
@V.Arnold
The election is an opinion-poll the elites take.
It’s legitimate to make a “protest vote”, which shows an appropriate intellectual response to the process. I agree, the Clinton/Trump Hobsen’s Choice is unpleasant. Agonizing about it implies acceptance of the whole false-construct.
I just believe that this Clinton-Trump choice reflects the fact that the world is screwed, a fact I have held self-evident for decades.
I’m personally responsible to do whatever I can personally do.
Last evening I stood with Jill Stein for a couple of minutes, after having given out the last 40 of the 100 I Vote Green, Jill Stein MD, President 2016, bright green t-shirts I made in June. She spoke here in Austin last evening. Lots of folks were glad to have a free t-shirt, and that’s my political free-speech for this year. (Well, I keep bike commuting in the t-shirts I use myself.)A Washington State school will have to allow “after school Satan” classes, or face lawsuit for religious discrimination. (I know, trivial, but this will be a hard-fought reductio-ad-absurdum.)
https://www.sott.net/article/329181-Allow-After-School-Satan-programs-or-face-costly-lawsuits-Washington-state-school-toldIf our real masters are ready to accept their losses, keep their heads down for a decade, and get on with the massive reset, they can substitute-in Elizabeth Warren, and she can announce that Sanders will be Secretary of Labor, right away.
Swallow that medicine fast boys, because you may not get another chance!
