John Day
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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!Here is something instructive, “Nutrition in Neo-Peasant Wessex”, where a small farmer across the Atlantic from us yanks works out what can reasonably done to subsistence-farm 10 hectares in Wessex.
There is so much questioning of what to do, questions I have long asked myself.
Any answer must evaluate baseline assumptions, such as immediacy and mobility, “fungibility” of assets, places and people.
The fungibility is what has to be removed in a time where the elites will commandeer everything which can be taken away.
Don’t merely have a very small farm/homestead on fertile soil with access to water, but grow sweet potatoes, not wheat or corn. An army will take wheat and corn from you.
One (really a small, coeherent working group) must also maintain a foot in the other camp, or simply be evicted and the homestead given to somebody who does support the system.
Where should such a place be located? Not Phoenix, Arizona.
Any “solution” to such a complex and pervasive threat becomes extremely constrained. We need to be close enough to the worlds we are part of to maintain the value of those ties.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.html
The picture at this link is of me in the garden 7/4/16, which was a smallish back yard of a duplex unit, until 3 years ago. It’s not a “solution”. It’s a step.
The article describes a 3-bed and 5-bed succession/rotation growing system for Climate Zone 8A (sub tropical, modest freezes), which is a partial-solution.Mish anticipates social mood getting very ugly. Not directly mentioned by Nicole, though alluded to, is the righteous wrath of the robbed. Lynch-mobs…
Eye on Social Mood: Stock Market Bubble Will Pop, Social Mood Will Get Extremely UglyDavid Stockman says that the current central-banking financial regime is about to go down.
It has repeatedly threatened to take all of us and our business and groceries, and so on, with it.It Won’t Be Long Now—-The End Game Of Central Banking Is Nigh
Gotta’ get rid of cash faster, so “only outlaws will have cash”.
It’s gonna’ be a rough ride.
I feel like I’m gonna’ throw up…Hi Ilargi and Commentariat,
Raul, you asked me to write up the composition of an off grid solar electric system, and I have not forgotten that, but I keep feeling like things need to be specific to the application.
I got some 12V LED string lights and a 12V wall-wart power supply to play with for $20 from Amazon. I’m thinking of keeping an essential core package of lights and laptop and cellphone at 12V, with 12V panels and just diodes between panels and batteries. The AGM (adsorbed glass mat) lead acid batteries are the best of that sort, but you really have to avoid dropping below 30% charge or the get weaker on what they will hold. Nickel-iron are heavy, expensive and take a beating and last a hundred years if you change the potassium-hydroxide and distilled water electrolyte every decade or so. Lithium ion take a beating pretty well, too.
Anyway, at the opposite end of the complexity spectrum is this, from Gizmodo. It’s a hand-truck with battery that does everything, put together by a guy who sails, and has a sailboat system, he has lived with.I’m going to get 100 t-shirts and tank-tops made (bright lime green tanks, deep Irish green t-shirts) with the US Green party logo where a pocket would be, with VOTE GREEN 2016 under it
Same logo on back right, bigger, with 2 lines of text to left/top
Jill Stein MD for President 2016
No Excuses This Time
I’ll give them away locally. These shirts will never be regrettable, as those 2008-2012 Obama paraphenalia are.
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/pacificgreens/pages/1128/attachments/original/1415996114/logo-of-the-gpusa_square_weblogo_0.png?1415996114Hey, what will there be to leave? The EU could not be sustained, because it could never actually even be created. A lot of lies have been built into a huge imaginary house of cards. It just doesn’t exist at all…
Kingsnorth has the right approach. Natural mind is way more vast than human mind. Ask anybody who has lived on Hawaii (the island) about their will vs Pele. Hahahahaaa!In collapse, having a plot of land, water, soil amendments, tools, seeds and guidance helps people survive with much fewer external inputs. This is our species. We work very well together in small groups growing, harvesting and processing food-plants. It is so much more work for a small pot of black-eyed peas than you would imagine, but it is also our nature, which is discovered in the process. Patience, observation of patterns in the garden, insight, foresight and cooperation arise.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.html
This is the grassroots local economy, the actual foundation, and a really clear vantage point, from which to begin anew.
The most together people I have ever met work together to grow food in agrarian communities, with or without a shared spiritual practice. (It’s easier if you are accustomed to doing that kind of work though. Otherwise you might just be another lazy-asshole in hell/paradise.)@V.Arnold
You live in a nice area of the world. It’s easy to arrange things to keep you more comfortable than one would think from the numbers. I caught malaria trekking in Thailand, and my older son got appendicitis in Cambodia, so I shot him full of antibiotics, got the family to Bangkok the next day, and he left that traitorous appendix at Sririraj Hospital. He got wonderful care and we left a big thank-you gift. That was December 2005. Obviously, we chose not to travel there in the summer, which my wife and I once did. Mountains or ocean in the summer…@V.Arnold: “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Pogo, Walt Kelly
We are all part of this, living as we do, and we didn’t know it, or plan it this way. We’re animals with food and fuel and opportunity. Maybe it was our destiny to bring all that fossil carbon and water to the surface, for the eventual use of planetary life forms. It has created a fossil-fuel life-support-system for our species, which has allowed a brief epoch of almost unrestricted doubling, and doubling and doubling of our kind. It’s over, but life is not over, and our species and other species are not over. We are the most dominant apex-predator ever, and this is the ecosystem of our making. We can also be stewards, tenders of the garden of life. Really. We have this talent. Some may pull it off. We should help that get underway, while we still draw breath. Here is a link to a succession/rotation vegetable gardening protocol, which can be run with 3 or 5 garden beds, and will produce vegetables year round, in all beds, in a sub-tropical climate. I have devised it, and now tested it for 3 full years. It’s getting better each year, building soil.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.htmlWhat if the EU rules governing member-state-exit through the famous article-50 change on April Fool’s Day 2017, and suddenly require approval of a mojority of EU member states/ Yeah. that’s how the treaty is written. That’s the date things change. “Take your time. Take years” (snicker)
https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/fact-if-the-uk-doesnt-have-a-signed-deal-by-april-2017-brexit-is-in-grave-danger/
https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/brexitmarch-2017-stitch-up-rebutting-the-charge-of-nonsense-about-earlier-slogpost/Massive losses will be “realized” throughout the world by second-tier and lower elites. Soros bet hard against markets, bought gold, and warned how everything would be so chaotic and bad in finance if Brexit was voted in. Did top tier elites make it look like they would rig this vote, then not-rig-it on purpose? Big head-fake, if so. The BIS boot was full of busy bankers yesterday and today. Looks like globalism just got an embolism.
With half the vote counted, “Leave” is a little ahead.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-23/nailbiter-continues-here-are-first-official-results-and-they-give-bremain-some-hopeThat’s it? That obvious? Right there in plain view? Is that old, dead bugger Monnet right about just tricking people into compliance? Why hasn’t anybody else ever thought of this in the history of the world?
<yes, sarc>
The sooner we all take our bitter medicine, the less-worserer things may be.
That will be very hard to see…All Your email Are Belong To Us, Love, Vlad.
The reports indicated that the decision as to whether to reveal the intercepts would be made by Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, and it was possible that the release would, if made, be through a third party, such as Wikileaks.
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Russia-Is-Reportedly-Set-To-Release-Intercepted-Messages-From-Clintons-Private.htmlHere are a couple of alternative views:
An essay looking at Vladimir Putin, the foremost leader on the world stage right now, and saying he has a “third way”. There is a lot of reference and struggling to explain, but basically it says he is a benevolent-despot, a philosopher-king, a godly-champion.
https://journal-neo.org/2016/06/14/what-if-vladimir-putin-does-know-a-third-way-for-society/
Not-dead-yet Fidel Castro talks about the war of ideas, truth vs deception, and the very real threat of “practical” nuclear war from the neocon ideologues, fronted by Hillary Clinton.Julian Assange announces that Wikileaks has another batch of Hillary Clinton’s State Dept. emails to publish, and mentions that Google is doing it’s best to help the old girl out while still keeping up appearances.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/12/wikileaks-to-publish-more-hillary-clinton-emails-julian-assangeGood thread, guys, especially Nassim.
Netanyahu DOES listen when Putin speaks to him, doesn’t he?
You are suggesting a Reverse-Samson-Option?
