John Day
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Her left hand looks more normal in this picture, leading me to doubt my assessment of the “withered left hand” from nerve injury at birth, based on her photograph posted a couple of days ago, where she held it in her larger right hand.
Dont’ch think our world is run by sociopaths, with “fools” as a cover-story?
The know just how much “we’ll let them”, and have layers of defenses, fall guys and thugs to control the eventual backlash. PR does most of the work of controlling us, while finance gently exsanguinates…Oh, all-y’all, look at 2 things in that Dorothea Lange photograph of the woman who never left Mississippi.
First, she has a truly beautiful look upon her face.
Secondly, she is holding her withered left hand in her strong right hand.
I suspect she had a left brachial plexus injury at birth, caused from pulling hard and down to the right, on her head, to get her left shoulder out from under her mother’s pubic bone.
This injury used to be more common.@ Dr Diablo,
I nominate (again) Depleted Uranium as the new uber-collateral.
Make it worth 50 times what gold is (whatever that might become).
The biggest financial powers already have plenty of it, so they wouldn’t have to fight this plan.
It’s pretty nasty in it’s current default role of a tank-busting munition, which burns on impact, creating uranium oxide, which is water soluble, gets into the food chain, and causes deformed babies and cancer for thousands of years in Iraq, or Gaza, or Afghanistan…
It’s rare enough, readily identifiable, costs a whole lot to make, and there is ultimately a limited supply. It lasts forever, too.@Dr. Diablo:
You wrote “like wild Indians”.
You’re an oppressor, no matter what you say, and you’d have done the same as the very few elite members of any generation, who get to call the shots, while everybody else punches the clock and pays the bills.
You’re just all whiny ’cause you missed out on the looting.My dad, born in ’28, got to fight in Korea and Vietnam. How bad was that?
I’m a (1958) boomer, who was just young enough to miss the draft, and have dedicated my good fortune to public health.
I have 4 healthy adult offspring that are my investment, only the senior medical student has any debt, and not so much.
I have no other wealth, having sold the house in 2005 to bike-tour and backpack with the family through the youth hostels of the world for 9 months.
That’s an extremely fortunate life, and I never did believe in the retirement fairy.
I hope the kids do well, and after they are all done with school, maybe I can get a little farmland for those golden years, and for them, and any kids they may have.
By the way, I was just picking on you about the “wild Indians” comment, but we can all be insensitive, so my comment remains fair, as I see it.
I did serve on the Navajo Reservation for 2 years as a physician, so I showed my respect.
Merely benefiting from the oppression going on during one’s life doesn’t make one an oppressor, but focusing on how things came to be as they are can help one benefit his and other generations.
There’s still time to do that, for all of us.Ilargu, You got a slew of comments, so that makes this a “provocative” essay.
Good Work!I’m not certain that this IEA statement about definition of “subsidy” for fossil fuels is the right one, but it derives implied-subsidy from the difference between aggregate consumer cost, minus a calculated “market cost”, based on theoretically derived virtual markets in various areas.
https://www.iea.org/publications/worldenergyoutlook/resources/energysubsidies/methodologyforcalculatingsubsidies/
The subsidy numbers given here appear a bit different, but maybe it’s raw/unfiltered.
https://www.iea.org/publications/worldenergyoutlook/resources/energysubsidies/
That’s pretty fancy.
It looks like any government support of transportation infrastructure, like railroads, roads, shipping and pipelines, would count as a subsidy.
Over subsidies like price controls for gasoline in Iran and Venezuela sure count
This analysis makes it look like the implied subsidies are set up in a way to favor economic activity in general. So far, total economy rides fossil-fuel use pretty closely, from what I have seen.
Applying subsidies to certain parts of any economy might help avoid economic collapse/reset and/or revolution.Euan,
Thanks for the insights.
If the definition of “subsidy” is actually the deduction of a routine business expense, such as exploration, then things make more sense, and become less shocking.
I can’t find a definition of “subsidy” in relation to the oil industry.
It’s the critical piece, huh?Smashing VIX (volatility) by short selling it, has made volatility go negative recently.
However high the risk (infinite when VIX is negative, I read) this is a really nifty way to juice the stock market up into the close.
Who would do that?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-11/todays-359-pm-wtf-moment-day@Jonabark,
Here is something about the $US and empire and the workings of global reserve currency, which speculates about a transition to SDRs in the next financial crisis.
The petrodollar has been “defended” against Iraq, Iran, Libya, etc, by devastating them, destroying their “demand” for oil, and everything else.
The US military is certainly a “big stick”.
You see what you see, oily-carrot, deadly stick. It’s the empire.
How do empires collapse?
Really big power and money is spent every day on preparing for every scenario.
We won’t likely get the answer here, until about the time everybody else does, because the empire is trying with vast computational ability, threats, spies, bankers, to keep the power.
https://philosophyofmetrics.com/2014/10/28/something-sdr-this-way-comes/Charles Hugh Smith looks at where the tail-risk-bubble is being hidden lately.
Hey, it’s like the old “Asian Economic Crisis”, huh?Sadly, as the Bolsheviks discovered, creating a new experiment in the monkey cage also involves suffering, group learning, mislearning, and “cultural transmission” of learned lessons.
sigh…
Professor: Agreed on that “breaking windows to help the economy” stuff, yes on people running trucks on natural gas, like in the 1980s, no on the Mercedes with solar panel skin…
Ilargi: I’m not so much cheering deflation, as seeing it as inevitable in our “powering down” process, a term used in the Transition community, for gradually reducing one’s use of fuel/energy. I spend a lot of time trying to envision scenarios where we power down without genocide. It’s hard. I’m constantly on the lookout for ideas.
I know that global elites are not all in one camp, and it should be obvious to all that this is a bad time to destroy global infrastructure at the end of the era of cheap resources.
I can see global banking elites, Jay Rockefeller types, using monetary maneuvers such as those being done in Japan, to induce reduction in the use of fuel by workers and retirees, as long as they get to keep hold of the reins of power.
US military “solutions” have been destroying demand in Iraq and Libya, and keeping that nice, easy-oil in the ground for a bit later.
I’m just trying to see any ways that we can get from where we were 15 years ago, to where we will be in 15, 20, 30 years, without WW-3.
Help me out if you see something.
Here’s the latest by the Archdruid, John Michael Greer, about the collapse of monetary economy to feudalism, and I can’t see how to get there from here.Gail Tverberg has an updated analysis of global oil supply, demand, debt, wage, and other issues.
If I may summarize, she sees the adaptive shifts from years of high oil prices as destroying the wages which allow consumer-economy. (Robots don’t buy stuff. Factories let workers go, or use workers as cheap as robots.)
Drilling and exploration are down, and won’t come up until price projections come up, which is never. The current plays will keep pumping, even if losing money, because governments collapse, otherwise. After 2 years, supplies will start falling, but demand can’t rise enough to fund extraction of expensive oil… Devise your own scenario to follow.
Oil Price Slide – No Good Way OutSo deflation is showing up in decreased demand for oil/energy, the “master commodity”?
That seems ideal from a viewpoint of “powering down”, which is the transition we all need to make going forward.
Weakening the Yen keeps fuel prices in Japan from dropping, keeps Japanese from consuming more fuel. Japan has been using more fuel since shuttering the nuclear power plants. This is effectively more austerity for the Japanese people, and they will consume less from the outside world with their weaker currency.
Europe is already in austerity, but not overtly transitioning the economy into sectors involving more human-input, compared to cheap robot manufacturing.
The Japanese are known for being able to buckle-down and work together, but Europeans, not so much. Individual European states have repeatedly been able to buckle-down in times of adversity.
If this is the clever misdirection guiding us into getting by with less, then EU break-up is necessary pretty soon. Will the UK lead the way? It would be easiest for them.
Central bankers are used to cooperating in one way, while presenting things in another way. Here is more on the purported plan to transition to SDRs (special drawing rights) as the new global reserve currency.
https://philosophyofmetrics.com/2014/11/05/the-ottoman-multilateral-model/
It would seem to make global central banking a supranational authority, and appears to be supported widely, as the world chafes at the boot of the $US regime.Thius article posits, and rather well, that the global central banks are coordinating to create a financial crisis which will require the next step up the ladder of financial complexity, to Strategic Drawing Rights as the global reserve currency.
https://philosophyofmetrics.com/2014/10/28/something-sdr-this-way-comes/
Each important currency is being gutted through debasement, and we see the day approaching when the boy who cried “wolf” will not be able to spend his promissory notes any more.
Of course this is the point of collapse, where complex systems collapse down to whatever level is inherently stable, like the feudal farming community.
We have cut those rungs out of the ladder as we climbed, haven’t we?
They have not been cut out everywhere.
50% of the world’s food is still grown by small farmers, just not where we live/eat.
Growing food on a human scale is really hard work, and unforgiving; no paid sick days…In times past, people grew their food, grew gardens, and it is still like that in most of Thailand, which was just mentioned.
The kind of starving-in-asphalt-jungle poverty that now exists in the industrialized world is extremely harsh, indeed.
There is no growing of food, no useful chores to do, just exploitation and dehumanization.The game will go on as it is, until there is suddenly nothing left in the game.
We should do what we can to get our little “dachas” and grow some veggies, and figure out how to get water, beans and some cooking fuel.
It’s strange that the west has become so complacent, and Russia jumps into action to increase domestic agriculture, manufacturing, and self reliance.
Russia has a good spot now, in an otherwise bad 25 (or more) years, and sees the opportunity to avoid ruin. This is uniting Russia, and it’s impressive.
That’s not happening in Austin, Texas.
We’ll have to find ways to work on self sufficiency on a much, much smaller scale.Hey Christiangustafsen,
How did you get that nice picture to show up?
I want to do that, too.
😮
John@Raleigh,
It sure seems like HIV and Ebola could have been “adapted” from what already existed in nature, such as the Simian Lymphocyte Virus in chimps, and the naturally occurring Ebola virus, one of several hemorrhagic fevers. The Russian were working on weaponizing these things, too. https://www.stripes.com/news/europe/ebola-crisis-rekindles-concerns-about-secret-research-in-russian-military-labs-1.310409A can of worms is here from the Church Hearings into the CIA and NSA, a last gasp of democracy in America, just after the Nixon downfall.
MKNAOMI was a chemical/biological secret weapons program started in 1952. Some big names in medicine and US foreign policy play prominently.
AIDS and Ebola look to have been strategic projects, and aligned with specific stated objectives of Secretary of State Kissinger.
We are still getting blasted from the past, it seems.
Shudder… Sorry…
https://greatgameindia.com/ebola-cia-project-codename-mknaomi-hi-tech-assassinations/We’re all resonating on this post, so it must be good.
I have had so much humanity happening this year; lots of illness and death and hospital time with loved ones, some now dead.
Directly engaging the dying with honesty, compassion and presence is tiring.
It’s a treatment for loneliness, though.
I feel larger for it, but somewhat blurred and unfocused, too.
Howzit for you?@Galacticsurfer,
When you are trapped in a dream, no way out, all channels closed, doom crashing down upon you, you awaken, and it is as if it never happened.
That’s the freedom, the freedom from total belief in this context.
Within this context, what you say is certainly right.
I seek that freedom, but I still work each day and do all that I can, and am helping 2 (youngish) relatives with strokes in hospitals this weekend.
One will come home tomorrow.
One might “go-home” tomorrow.
Each has been able to experience some peace today.Antibodies work against Ebola virus.
Zmapp is genetically copied antibodies from mice that survived Ebola virus.
The DNA coding these antibodies is inserted into tobacco plants, making genetically modified tobacco plants, which produce copies of mouse antibodies against Ebola.
These are purified and given to humans.
When the antibodies attack the virus, it is common to get an acute crisis of fever as the immune system releases cytokines throughout the body. The blood vessels dilate, there may be circulatory compromise, loss of blood flow to vital organs, swelling, drop in blood pressure, etc.
When antibiotics work against bacteria, a similar sign of success is the Jarisch Herxheimer reaction, which can be seen when Lyme Disease is treated, or syphilis…
The problem with Zmapp, which is self evident, is that you cannot make it fast, or a lot.@V.Arnold,
We tried to get good stuff for the kids to watch, avoid crap, and no video games.
They are good kids. The oldest will be a physician next May, her brother is an employed engineer since this summer. Second son is a veteran bike-mechanic, racer, and engineering student, and younger daughter has an associate’s in math, teaches study halls, and is working on her BA in math, with teaching certificate.
Neverending Story was a regular at our house.
Remember VHS?Here is the assertin, by a Liberian Professor of Plant Pathology, that Ebola and AIDS are bioweapons, and that Africans know it.
this is not a new premise, at all. This is the best presentation I have seen of it. It is plausible. I cannot prove or disprove it. I present it for consideration. Our military is very interested in Ebola, and has funded a lot of research we know about in the past 12-13 years. They always do secret research, too. Red-team, Blue-team, is their way, offensive and defensive applications go together.
https://www.zengardner.com/africans-know-ebola-aids-bio-weapons/
The CDC is finally acting as if it considers aerosol spread of Ebola virus possible, even if not saying so, and is looking at all the passengers on the plane the latest infected nurse from Dallas just flew on. It’s about time they took this as seriously as Nigeria did.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-15/cdc-demands-132-passengers-flew-2nd-ebola-patient-report-testingYves Smith looks at the Saudi oil weapon in another good article 10/14/14.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/10/saudis-deploy-the-oil-price-weapon-against-syria-iran-russia-and-the-us.htmlHere is the best fit I’ve seen for the high transmission rate of Ebola virus in medical settings where there is good contact isolation, but not respiratory isolation.
It does not rely on blaming the nurse.
In the last 3 days of life the exponential growth of Ebola virus in people oozing blood from every opening has created trillions of little virions, which are small enough to be easily airborne under the right conditions.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-13/cidrap-we-believe-there-scientific-evidence-ebola-has-potential-be-airborneHi Raleigh,
The rats could go to another town, but they usually did so stowed away on carts or ships.
The fleas went on the rats, but fleas can live free in a dormant state for months, too.
There is not, I think, one solution, but all of us must face this in every way that we can.
I think that includes all of what is being tried, being suggested, has been helpful and is not yet discovered.
I think it’s already bigger than any one solution, and it won’t burn out easily from here. There will remain embers, and just like bubonic plague, it can jump up a level and get even worse.Bubonic Plague adapted by mutation to Pneumonic plague, spread through the air to the lungs. That could never happen again…
Meanwhile global financial war games are ongoing in Washington.
https://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-british-regulators-test-readiness-for-big-bank-failure-1412978403Cuba is punching way above her weight class again, providing the largest medical contingent to Sierra Leone.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/12/cuba-leads-fights-against-ebola-africa
I do believe that fighting Ebola where there is the most of it is necessary.
It is still growing exponentially in West Africa, and we are a connected world.
The numbers are still relatively small compared to what they will be in 6 weeks, 4 times as many.
What is happening is that isolation is not working this time, as it did not work with any global pandemic. It helps on a personal scale, but there are so many little failures, and so much variability, that we can all find cases to support any viewpoint.
I really think we have to see this as OUR problem.
We are all the same to this virus, no matter where it came from, which is not known this time around.
Again, this virus behaves differently from all prior human Ebola virus outbreaks.
It spreads far more effectively, somehow…Nigeria got Ebola in Lagos, a vast city, and responded immediately, sending 18,500 contact tracers out into the streets, alleys and doorways, finding anybody who had touched anybody who might have had Ebola.
The Nigerian elites are known for corruption, thumb twiddling and serving their own interests first and foremost.
This was a spirited and unfettered case of the latter.
Good work (this time)!
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/12/ebola-texas_n_5972246.html
Personally, I’m more than suspicious of the foregone conclusion that anybody who catches Ebola, while wearing protective gear, “breached protocol”.
What it looks like, is that people who care for those dying of Ebola are at very high risk of getting it no matter what they wear, no matter how careful they are, short of respiratory isolation, which doesn’t seem to have been studied…yet.
We know a bunch of chimps seemed to spread it between separated cages a decade ago, and had to be put down, when spread could not be stopped, but that’s a different primate. That’s not applicable here.
Nurse’s fault, same as usual.Dmitry Orlov has “Ebola and the Five Stages of Collapse”.
Financial collapse is Stage One…
https://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/10/ebola-and-five-stages-of-collapse.html
I think it starts Monday.Financial war games on Columbus Day, a US bank holiday, but not globally, suggest the probability of financial WW-3, the “Columbus Day War”.
War games corresponded to 9/11/01, and the London Bombings in 2005, but were not mentioned by mainstream media.
We have seen the end of inflationary control, and deflation will be harsh, sudden and inescapable, unless you saw the 666 signal in S&P Futures on Thursday.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-09/did-todays-satan-signal-sp-futures-give-all-clear-selling-beginJohn Michael Greer, the Archdruid, has a look at the breakdown phase of empire, as the complex class structure, too expensive to support, breaks down, and sophisticated elites are replaced by unsophisticated warlord/gangster types.
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-10-10/dark-age-america-the-collapse-of-political-complexity
“Clerisy class” takes a hit here.Raleigh,
The “inside” and “outside” of “self”, when considering consciousness can be really slippery.
There is ESP.
What is “inside” or “outside” of “self”.
Shamanism and spiritual disciplines explore this.
It’s an exploration, more than an explanation, unintelligible to the non-seeker, eh?
🙂 JohnEbola Pandemic and Global Economic Reset will cohabitate.
It’s not even speculation any more…
“Discuss amongst yourselves”Now for something completely different, the proposition that modern humans were created through the discovery of hallucinogens 40,000 years ago, and that the current ban on shamanistic practice with these is leaving us at the mercy of rationality, which has no mercy, and no vision.
A Banned TED TALK, really: “The War on Consciousness”
My own life was changed in a “Purification Sweat” April 1994 on the Navajo Res. in Arizona.
Thanks, Paul Tohlakai.Global Markets start to puke blood.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-08/markets-turmoil-update
