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Jeb Bush: Warmongering Neoconservative Criminal.
Hillary Clinton: Warmongering Neoliberal Criminal.
The choice is clear, right?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-15/enormous-differences-between-jeb-bush-and-hillary-clintonMeet Josephine Witt, the girl who got the jump on Mario Draghi.
Good pictures.
What a spirited filly! 🙂
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-15/meet-mario-draghis-attacker-her-own-words@Charles Alban,
Thanks for the Marinaleda article. It is righteous.
@jal
None will be spared by the changes.
I want to help as I can, so that I may die easily.
Growing food, year #2 now.@Dr. Diablo
Yep, reset is spreading here in Uh’merica, too.
It started in 2007, right?“Demand will peak way ahead of supply”, at $100/bbl, of course, and for reasons well-explored here, since a $25/bbl economy cannot be sustained at $100/bbl energy cost.
It was a “clever” statement at the time. This year looks like the peak. The Saudis have a strategy, as must China and Russia and the US/NATO/Israeli empire.
It is clear that containable destructive war at the periphery to punish non-compliance, and destroy demand, while maintaining global capitalist structures is the imperial plan.
Other plans may show more subtlety.
Grow food, resist imperialism!(“Inconceivable” , that GE Capital could be considered systemically important after changes, since most action outside US. Heh, heh, heh, Princess Bride reference. Good one 🙂
Greece is auditing it’s debt for legitimacy (or illegitimacy). An important move.
https://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29936-interview-eric-toussaint-of-the-committee-for-the-abolition-of-third-world-debt-discusses-greece-s-new-debt-audit-commissionThe empire is in an awkward position when it must treat NATO “allies” (even junior allies) like enemies, or rebellious vassals to be punished.
It’s cracks like this that should be a big signal of the end of an era.
Quicken this end!
Also, prepare for chaos.Our current society grew, step by logical step, from the feudal world, where we were fully integrated into steady state local ecologies.
It is a reduction to absurdity, yet every step was logical and an improvement of some sort.
We are not the critters we were born to be, but don’t tell us. It’s depressing. We’re fine…
Zoo Animal MDGreek Plan-B is BITCOIN.
Yanis Varoufakis: “Greece Will Adopt the Bitcoin If Eurogroup Doesn’t Give Us a Deal”
BOOM!
Woo-woo!
Greece goes Icelandic.
It’s DIABOLICAL!
I love the concept of Iceland making bankers into simple bookkeepers.
It one-ups the Bank of North Dakota in a way.
Yes, this smacks of the kind of change which could actually be brought about and could dovetail into the transition of money into a steady state system. This is a reset, which could be reset as needed, but politically, not by game theory.
It does not require systemic collapse in order to come about.
Go Iceland!“Knowledge is power”
“Money is power”
“Financial control is power”
“Oil is economy”
“War for oil”
“Truth comes from the end of a rifle”There’s gotta’ be some link, if I could just see it!
@voice_of_reason
Tsipras, Varoufakis, the Troika, and Greek bankers are all in the position of having to each do something they really don’t want, almost daily, to keep the Euro system from collapsing.
They must all be retching each morning when they get out of bed.
Greeks have pulled 15% of their assets out of Greek banks, and the bankers across Europe know those funds are not going back until things are settled. The outflow continues, and the ECB has to provide the funds, and is averse to that, but bound to do it, but just moment by moment, drop by drop.
German, Dutch and Italian governments are massively committed to backing their banks, as Austria is, but that’s awkward at this moment. They can’t really back their banks to the degree they say, so they are sweating bullets through all this, smiling with clenched teeth and blaming Greeks. Everybody knows all of this at the ruling levels, but part of ruling is standing up there day after day and saying your lines.
Not only was money borrowed for short term pension payments this month, hopefully to be paid out almost on time, but pensions in general, and across the world, have been gutted. They just have not widely defaulted quite yet.
There will be a huge global choosing of who gets resources like food, water and fuel.
Africans are getting dealt out of survival by neo-colonialism from Europe, China, global multinationals, Bill Gates, Monsanto, and not just for oil and uranium, it’s for their farms and the biodiversity of their seeds. The African farmers are being genocided, and so are their crops, nurtured for thousands of years, like corn was in Mexico.@ Dr Diablo,
“Backing” bonds is gambling hard with a big pile of chips, which seems to be all the rage.
Off balance sheet liabilities do come payable. Apparently that is an issue for Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy, and why they need to push Greece so hard to perform the impossible. They have to support their banks, as they promised, and the numbers are way to big to actually manage.
https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/revealed-how-and-why-the-three-prongs-of-troika-two-are-looking-after-number-1/
The Neocons who own us are running up a bigger and bigger credit card tab for murder every day. The bill is in our name.As long as Russia does not call the Ukrainian bonds it holds, Russia remains able to play that card. I would expect that it would only be played brilliantly, at some truly pivotal moment.
Thank You Euan and Javier.
It is hard to see behind the babmoo curtain.
That being said, the plan to swap those 4 huge coal-fired power plants outside Beijing for even bigger ones running (Russian) natural gas seems like a better investment than ghost cities.In the current situation of trying to get blood from a turnip, it seems fair to try the tactic of offsetting-penalties, there being, in fact 2 bloodless turnips, each owing the other blood. If the unsettled reset of 70 years ago feathers nicely into the reset necessary today, then so may it be.
All humans suffered horribly, and estimates are that 70 million died in WW-2, mostly civilians, and millions in Dresden and Tokyo were burned alive, on the theory that it would depress and dishearten the war efforts of their nations. “Total War” was the catch phrase. It was Churchill’s baby, but the Americans adopted it , too. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were undefended civilian cities.
This article from Veterans Today revisits World War as parts one and two.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/03/21/ww2myths/
It quotes Noam Chomsky’s figures that the US has been responsible for 60 million deaths since WW-2.
Who is the “US”? My kids?
It is time for global debt jubilee, accompanied by equitable redistribution of resources, and more humanly and naturally composed ways of living, like small scale local farming, for instance…A couple billion “unused euros” should kick the can down the road for a week.
Wonder what Victoria Nuland was doing last week, meeting with Tsipras and other EU bigwigs?
It looks like (unpopular in EU) sanctions against Russia won’t automatically time-out in July, as per EU law. They would need a unanimous vote to extend at that point, which seems really unlikely. Therefore, a contingency to let them end is put in place, the perfect fulfillment of the Minsk Agreement. That can’t possibly take place until December, and is being blocked by Ukraine, at US instigation, to the detriment of Russia and Europe. Blocking Eurasian Union is coming along just dandy.
https://fortune.com/2015/03/20/eu-gets-round-its-problem-with-extending-sanctions-on-russia/So Merkel and Tsipras must have talked, after “Godmother” Victoria Nuland had a word with Tsipras the other day, and made a point of “hoping Greece made a good deal with the institutions”, seeming to imply some quid-pro-quo still unsettled.
There’s a lot unsettled…These folks, from homeles to politicians and the wealthy, to native Americans, to Marshall Islanders have all been my patients over the years.
There are so many kinds of homeless folks, for so many reasons and in different ways, voluntary, involuntary, and “least restrictive environment” discharges from state psych hospitals (yep, worked there, too), though clearly not meeting their needs.
It’s not necessarily a bad choice to be an urban-hunter-gatherer in the right setting, at the right time of your life, but there are many older people who have “fallen and can’t get up”.
One thing about staying in shelters is that it is noisy and bright and very anxiety-making. Could YOU sleep on a mattress with the lights on and people awake and about who may well rob you any moment? It sucks, and you get sick in shelters, too. Lots of exposure.
Anyway, being human is not neoliberal economics. It’s one specific thing to experience and understand, then another, then a heartache, then a joy, and so on.
I always try to carry loose dollar bills to give to beggars on my 28 mile round-trip bike commute to the clinic.
On my way home this afternoon, the Mexican guy who calls me “Jefe” was looking pretty down as he crossed the street, not even recognizing me, since I was with 2 other cyclists. “Hey Amigo” I called out, and held up the folded, sweaty bill.
“Thank You, Jefe” he exclaimed, suddenly radiant for a moment.We are unhealthy zoo animals, including the SF “tenderloin”, including “the Haight”, Haight/Ashbury, which was cool in the 1960s/1970s, but now tragic.
We only know the zoo, and each step of the creation of the zoo made sense rationally, from some particular perspective, but it is making us, all of us, very sick.
We can start by sleeping at night, growing and eating fresh veggies, walking and biking places, and giving hugs.
We have to tunnel out of this, somehow.Bravo, Bolivia!
@Raleigh,
What is the secret Chinese Plan-B? Plan-C? Plan-D?
It’s a rhetorical question.
These guys are versed in 3200 years of continuous written history of their civilization, and archeology going back way farther.
That’s good and bad, and Chinese history is replete with the “paralysis of analysis”, but not really the lack of analysis…
“We shall see”, as the story about good or bad luck in the sequential events of life keeps repeating.
(Man finds fine horse: Good luck
Son breaks leg falling from horse: Bad luck
Soldiers come to take young men to war and leave son: Good luck
Rinse and repeat)@ Cory and Charles Alban,
Nicole has a family place in Canada, or did already have 5 years ago, and does know what partial-self-subsistence entails. “United we stand”, indeed. I don’t know more about Atamai than I said, but we did bike tour through Motueka in early 2006, as we surveyed New Zealand as a transplant family home.
We didn’t settle, though I did interview for a job, and it was offered (in Christchurch, though).
Not enough factors aligned to make it feasible. We are remarkable dependent upon our place and relationships within that place, especially as we get to middle age. We have so many networked responsibilities, which call us, and so many networked human resources, upon which to call. We have so much social capital, a real social economy.
You don’t know what you’ve got, til it’s gone, or you try to relocate without it.
Maori have to go where the jobs are. There are no Moa to hunt. Extinct.
Lots of native Hawaiians now work in Las Vegas. Jobs.
Nicole did specifically mention the lack of funding for a transition to Akamai.
No jobs. No farm on-site. That narrows the list of who can live there to the “worried well to do” that I mentioned.
It’s not such a good answer to the reasonable worries, since that outside money comes from a distributed and interwoven economy, and will likely evaporate if that economy folds.
I know I’m preaching to the choir on all this. I’ve had some failed transitions, and have concluded that I really have to shelter-in-place at this point (56 y/o) in life. My wife and I have so many ongoing family-care responsibilities to the generation before us, and still to our adult children in college and med school.
Where’s that “12 acres and a mule”?Here’s the 15 second video clip from 2013.
Varoufakis did say Greece should give Germany the finger, and did shoot the bird as he said it.
This was 2013, and he had no official position. He is caught in this, despite having denied it.
He should probably apologize for his former indiscretion as a private citizen (Hell, living in Texas, no less), and promise to never sin again as an elected official.Let’s not put Nicole in an uncomfortable position.
First, go to this site:
https://www.atamaivillage.com/
Then click on the map of the village. It’s like Google satellite view.
Back out a little.
The village is on a hilly spot between an upper plateau and the lower plain.
Upper and lower are obviously actively farmed.
Akamai is the bad part that could not be farmed.
The website itself is not an appeal to somebody who is on the path to building an ecovillage of working, farming, fix-it-yourself type people.
The website is a sales pitch to the worried well-to-do.
This place is short on people with “farm-smarts”.
Anybody who has actually grown some food, or lived on a farm/ranch might look at this and think it is missing the obvious, which is the good farmland that the folks above and below claimed a century before.
I’m looking for the opposite, land that was farmed 150 years ago, but is now fallow, or growing hay, undervalued, good alluvial bottom land, black-dirt. A dam upstream to deal with flooding of the rich flood plain is a nice touch. I’ve found something meeting this description, and if it’s still there in 14 months when all the kids are out of college and med school, I’ll be prone to make an offer, though I hate making deals with banks.
The first step is doing the layout and planting fruiting and fuel trees, to keep an ag exemption. A utility building and a well come next, right?It’s heartening to hear of your travels down under.
Look at the stars at night. It’s often nice and clear down there.
Night sky is our lost birthright.
The Southern Cross is cool, too.
I’m flashing back to our family-of-6-Americans bike and backpack world tour in 2005-2006.
We bike toured the circumference of NZ South Island.
“Oh, you’re the American family. We heard about you” was our greeting at a rural guest house after riding through “Windwhistle”.
I glowed with fatherly pride, though still bluish-white on both my hands..This Just In:
Global CO2 emissions in 2014 were unchanged from 2013.
“CO2 decoupled from economy” is the idiotic interpretation, of course.
Whaddaya think? Still 100% correlated?Michael Hayden is really an ideal poster-ghoul for the neocon-commanded military-industrial-complex.
Merkel “should know her place”, but places change and no battle plan survives the first contact with the enemy, and so on.
There have been lots of different character assassination attempts against Ray McGovern, because he is damned awkward for the empire, and so clear and analytical, and has had a lot of facts supporting him.
In Ukraine, as in Greece, as in all of Europe and our whole world, this is a really important time to NOT go to war, as a means to work it all out.
We, the human critters on this finite planet, can see that there is less and less to keep going, that acceleration has changed directions already.
Shooting at each other as we plummet from Seneca’s cliff is the proper analogy right now.
Big test, 100% of grade, open-book…@ V.Arnold,
I get a “404 File Not Found” on that, but it’s ok.
This link still works. Same story about Pilot Voloshin.
The story came out in December, and not much has happened with it since then, unless Voloshin provided the facts for the analysis I posted above to confirm, which is possible.Let’s be careful about what Gordon Duff is really saying in that RT piece.
He is NOT saying that an SU-25 didn’t shoot down MH17.
He specifically says that a Buk missile didn’t, or the trail would have been seen, something that many others have said.
He does say that radar “spoofing” technology makes radar identification of planes unreliable, since one fighter with this technology can appear as two, and one plane can show as another model altogether.
So, if a Buk didn’t shoot down MH17, and we cannot rely on radar completely, what other evidence is there to tell us what actually happened?
I’m glad I asked myself that.
Global Research is often a conduit for Russian government information (I have observed).
Look at this, which is clearly Russian government level technical analysis of the wreckage.How the Malaysian Airlines MH17 Boeing Was Shot Down. Examination of the Wreckage
This is very specific, giving angles of attack with cannon, then with air to air missile after damaged MH17 veered to the right.Here’s the Nature article on the Anthropocene
https://www.nature.com/news/anthropocene-the-human-age-1.17085In deflation, property “ownership” has to be enforced, as creditors attempt to take possession from debtors. ‘This leads to violent disagreements, since it is human livelihood at issue.
The bigger ones are wars.
The smaller ones get a lot of different names, depending on size and parties involved, huh?
The enforcers-of-property-rights are all arrayed in their ranks, with their tanks and running practice plays, as far as the eye can see.
@Bluebird
Janet Yellen was chosen to Chair the Fed.
I don’t think it’s an “honor” one can refuse, when one’s shoulder is tapped, no matter what is about to happen.
“We think you’re right for the job.”@V.Arnold
I think Thailand will do relatively well, since it is so diverse, the Thai’s work well together, solve problems, and keep having problems to solve. Agriculture and weather are good, except for flooding, but flooding keeps people problem-solving. Government/military/business corruption is the ongoing big problem, huh?
Chiang Mai would be my choice, but then, I wouldn’t choose to be where I’d be an outsider, either. We left my older son’s appendix in Bangkok. He got very good care.
https://www.google.com/search?q=chiang+mai,+thailand&client=gmail&rls=aso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=jT8AVer9I4e1ggSGlIGIDQ&ved=0CB4QsAQ&biw=842&bih=351&dpr=1.62
@Boogaloo,
It’s all controlled by the system until the system breaks. Then nothing is controlled, and there is financial regime change. This happens periodically in history.
Can you time the market peaks and get in and out just in time?
There is no use in hand wringing, and no use in taking Xanax (or self-delusion) for your worries, either.
What’s useful is preparation and diversification through lifestyle modification.
Downsize, grow food, ride a bike, live with less of energy and stuff, well within one’s means.This is clearly prime time to be getting one’s own affairs, financial and support-system, in good order for a long bad patch.
Get a good food garden going, and figure out how to be comfortable with way less, especially if you can’t control the timing of the way less…@jjhman
Russia is playing completely a defensive game against the Empire.
Ukraine is as close to Russia as Canada is to the US.
We all have a lot to consider going into this world of less squandering.
We are all spoiled princesses, aren’t we.
Don’t worry so much about Putin.
Worry about where you are being directed by the keepers of your zoo.
I’m worried.
I’m growing food and riding a bike.
That’s a small down-payment on change, nothing more…173 Airborne Brigade , paratrooper boots-on-the-ground landing about now in Ukraine.
https://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/04/4100
https://www.defensenews.com/story/defense-news/blog/intercepts/2015/03/03/ukraine-russia-putin-war/24327263/Despite Russian Warnings, US Will Deploy a Battalion to Ukraine by the End of the Week
Here is the plan for QEU:
Start slow.
Make it up as we go.
Do it for as long as we want.
It will all be good.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-05/ecb-releases-qa-and-terms-and-conditions-europes-first-q%E2%82%AC
