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Man Chelsea seems the bossy controlling type. She may need a neck rub or a glass of wine or something. All that certainty must wear you out by the end of the day. I felt exhausted just reading her mouth-words from this computer thing.
Speaking of which – they really are tricky to makeMadamski just knowing that the cognoscenti are still alive and chatting has my spirits high.
We need some brain in the mother-stuffing game.
Also I frikken love Denninger. A well researched rant is not quite an opinion piece and that is what matters.
Also Western journos got the weird guilts shoved down inside – “I better grab another scotch” moment when Assange was laid before their feet again. I blame central banks for making them pay enormous mortgages because they have to live near the power centres where their masters are and also where all this money funnelled into – stinky pooey asset class housing along way from fly-over zones. They don’t get to talk truth no more or else they got no job. So they write what the boss tells em – something distracting about someone getting offended by their feelings about how they feel about their sexual identity or some other boring power play for little people.
Hey I sound grumpy but I’m not – I think I have been reading from the sidelines too long.Hey Absolute Galore and Raul – I really enjoyed your conversation. I think the points raised are both solid. I admit I am here because I know finding out alternative info to the narrative is hard and Raul’s tireless work saves us precious time, but critical thinking of all the stuff coming at us is so important.
No way I’m getting that jab yet though. I didn’t spend my whole life looking after my health (mostly) to hand it over to lab coats. I’m with Dr. D – sometimes you have to person up and just grow a pair of ovaries and go all Verdana Shiva on Bill Gates’ arse and just resist!
Love you my comrades. All of you here and you have my gratitude deep.
Oh and it’s nice to have 2 shades of Rockstar on the forum Dr. D and Madamski – it’s like red and green or blue and orange or Beer and Wine. Go you good things.Good read, many interesting points but the one that stuck out to me was India not forgetting the actions of the West. I think you are correct and even though Modi is corrupt and can be bought – there are forces in the mind of the people that have influence. In an emerging new Uni-Polar dynamic, strategic mistakes like these can have long consequences in terms of deals and alliances and I can see China smiling and saying quietly – “I told you so, can we be friends now”
That wealth inequality chart would be a flat straight line of zero for Australians from 1300 to 1788 and a sine-wave graph of populations mapping perfectly with drought and flood periods. Temperature not so much. European war-cultures do have their ups and downs.
When you have commercial grown, edible hybrid plants as crops for human consumption you are selecting for market not for environmental fitness or even vigour. Eventually you get to a point where you need countless iterations of externally applied defence mechanisms to keep the vulnerable and weak organism growing. Then further down the track the business model starts to revolve around keeping the plants consuming more inputs as a debt model – roundup ready soy needs the spray the tilling the machines the fertilisers etc.. The EROEI is based on using fossil fuel units and pushing the debt forward not current solar units.
It feels more and more like Corona is the same model applied to human ‘crops’. The human hybrid is getting weaker with shit food and zoom meetings and the genes are a bit crap from plastics and chemicals in the environment. We need inputs in the form of protective vaccines, masks etc. to keep the crops ‘healthy’. A social debt model pushing the payment forward on to the weaker and more heavily vaccinated next generation.
Am I making sense or is my head up my arse.
I am reminded of the loss of the American Chestnut. A little blight came in from an Asian Chestnut and rather than let the fungal network and the trees work it out the learned scientists and businessmen of the day thought they had the answers.
No more native Chestnut trees on the eastern half. 4 billion chances at genetic mutation.Been on the sidelines for a while but I love this article. There is just a sea of uncomfortably numb out there but it wont last.
a species that can’t control its breeding can’t govern itself. – I love that. Thanks. It speaks for how culturally successful Australian first nations peoples were. They controlled that shit tight as can be and it got them 60 thousand years of continuous culture till this modern klusterfuck.Sharon Astyk on fire with some nice system analysis and tainter collapsy-stuff on her facebook. Best read in a little while.
On another note – this has probably been discussed here before (I sometimes miss TAE reading for various reasons) but I wonder when it comes to the extreme reactions that groups and individuals have to the curbing of their freedoms and their proclamations regarding the charter of human rights etc. I wonder why they never break the speed limit or change from one side of the white line while driving at high speed or simply refrain from crossing fence lines or any of the innumerable activities that impose limits on what society and government allow us to do. Everybody has been so compliant with all this shit for so long that a few new rules come in and they scream their freedoms are being taken away! This earth was a garden once. Look at it now. No one is jumping up and down about the proliferation of weapons or the enclosures act! I just think the priorities get skewed at times but I aint taking a hard line any more. There is just so much I don’t know now my brain hurts.
Is there a pattern emerging of collectivism and individualism both coming up with their own organic or intrinsic response (mode) toward this virus and the slant toward collectivism being more effective as a response? The situation in Victoria Australia where I live is that with some very heavy handed and authoritarian mandates regarding the health requirements – eg lockdowns and masks, backed up by wide compliance has delivered incredible returns (for now). We are, for all intensive purposes at a place in time now where we have had 29 days consecutively of zero cases and deaths. This is after over 700 cases per day a few months ago and things really spiralling out of control.
We are now back in a rebuilding phase – with the crushing economic cost to small business that Dr. D and others have so eloquently discussed, being more or less helped along via this UBI or semi-socialist or state-backed system.
It is a very confusing time and no doubt the corporatocracy/plutocrtacy are #winning but I feel geo-political trend-lines emerging with the Individualistic or more liberal democracies facing more difficult times.Good to have you back WES. Also have to wonder if Bosco is lurking around… Hope that book is going well.
Got hacked and fleeced a few thousand from my bank the other day. Good to see they are so good at carefully holding my money. They will reimburse I hope. Cyber-security is obviously not my strong point which is okay when nearly all my wealth is on this small farm with my family.
Re Raul’s comment. I think the internet censorship is just getting started.The lies are just taken as truth these days. If you suggest any comment opposite the dominant narrative you just seem like a crazy person. If you work hard and in your community and build your own house with your own damn hands and grow your own fruit and veg and care for your wife and children and do your best by the environment – it doesn’t matter – your just an extremist.
If you just do your best to be a thoughtful and hard working human and try to get to the bottom of things and find the truth of what is happening in the world but still suggest that when the media says (and I mean blanket media – all media) that all of Trumps claims of voter fraud are completely unsubstantiated, that maybe, just maybe – coz it is going through the courts and there have been questionable reports … maybe there may be some substance to Trumps claims..
But I am a russia lover – always have been and the chicks are hot.Sometimes at night I worry that one day there will be no comments section and no TAE and it will be the ministry of truth for me. Orwellian.
Just wanted to say a big thank you to John Day for his long and well considered thoughts on being a person or being fungi. You seem like you would be a fun guy. Get it? I really feel the same pull of broader contributions to my local community but like being on a plane in free fall – I feel like I should put on my breathing mask first before I help others so I am really focused on getting the trees up and growing and my kids fed and schooled and loved.
This year I have been implementing a climate adapted mixed use forest on a few acres here in Central Victoria. Bunya, Stone Pine, Holm, English and Algerian Oak, Carob, Tagasaste, Acacia Dealbata, Jubea Chilensis etc. There was no top soil – it is post gold rush country where all the trees were removed and top soil washed away downstream to look for the alluvial gold deposits (Castlemaine is the siite of the (once) richest alluvial gold field in world). It’s just clay and slate. Really.
The point is I went foraging and collected a huge diversity of locally found mushrooms for their spores and threw them everywhere, was kinda fun – and then applied 30 cubic metres of hardwood chips as mulch. Then we received this wonderful La Nina year of well above average rainfall and those baby trees are just loving it.
The last article you posted really lifted my spirits and validated my extra work. Thank you so much – I want that little forest to be around for hundreds of years.The Social Dilemma is pretty much a ‘must see’ doco. I watched it a few weeks back and it consolidated so much of what gets covered or discussed here and elsewhere regarding the lies vs truth aspect of modern information access and spread.
Really worth a watch. Also Sam Harris podcast interview with Tristan is excellent as well.What a feed! Thanks for hunting down this stuff. It looks like the tech giants are actually owned by power hungry oligarchs with agendas. Oh my what a shock. Looks like we will be in for quite the ride on the downward side of the energy/resource curve.
If psychology is the study of the mind then Buddha and Jesus were obviously engaged in fraudulent fields of study according to Taleb
So Facebook is anti – real world harm hey. OMG the temerity of these arseholes. Are these people really coming up with this or have we actually finally lost the battle to machine-learning?
The pro-life Trump article was weird. Just sayin’. Obviously written by a man. Or someone who wasn’t raped by a family member or whatever…
So, I been thinking Joe Biden is just a senile washed up dodgy dude, but I can read people pretty well and that interview had me questioning that narrative. He seemed sharp and he seemed able to deflect back onto the interviewer with some skill and lack of perceivable staging.
The current humanising of Julian Assange is going to make it harder for them to make him a monster or non-state actor or whatever… they must be feeling a little anxious – oh I forgot – they couldn’t give a shit as they are just doing jobs in the community like lawyering and stuff. Hillary on the other hand maybe perturbedTaking lots of photos of grandparents in case anything happens…
I cracked up. So funny. Man what a world. Young generation are like – eco destruction, intergenerational debt, feudalism, robots – now corona… they are just going along with it like the weather.Dr. D, I did as yoou asked and watched Jimmy for 6 mins at least. Thanks spot on!
Another day of lies.
When you see so much lying everywhere you fall between anger and disappointment.Robot Vines!!!! thanks for that blew my mind.
But…plastic. Still – amazeballs
Assange is the head on the stick staring dead eyed at journalists as was said recentlyI’ve Kunstler a little brittle and maybe a little ‘off’ recently but this piece is back to his brilliant best. Loved it and thanks so much for sharing. Biden’s “end of quote’ was exhilarating. To see such a lack of interest in the subject matter when the subject matter is within the context of an American Presidency was amazing. The USA is at quite the juncture.
Those New York restaurant numbers mirror Melbourne’s. The thing is a lot of people lose jobs, alot of people lose their business but also alot of people lose the house they used as collateral to finance the business. So many people are taking a hit right now it is crazy.
Segregation in universities hey… Weird.
Kunstler sounds a bit provocative – like the guy deserved it or something – getting shot in the back. Dunno, just threw me – his tone.
If police can’t be trained to deal with that situation properly they need to get trained in other countries where it doesn’t get to that. American cops just seem like crap cops who don’t really know how to do their jobs or are lazy or unorganised or something. I just can’t get my head around the absolute mind-boggling incompetence of Law Enforcement in the US. Just buy more guns and tech. That’ll work. Not.
Wouldn’t happen in Russia.Thanks for letting Dr.D jump on the mic. I like his rap style. Alot. Sometimes he misses the mark but who doesn’t. He/she should be allowed a voice just for the sake of his literary style. I absolutely love it. It’s just fluid and ranty and thought provoking and juicy.
My opinion is to go the art of war on this one, all Chinese and tactical – STOOP TO CONQUER. Wear the damn mask. Wait the thing out. People more mad and ill prepared than you or I will crack first. Hell people in power will crack first. Concessions will be made, drawn lines will be rubbed out. Just hang in there the herd will change direction quick.
Also, if anyone wants a laugh and understands “Australian” – mad as hell was brilliant tonight. From 9 minutes some hilarious insight into financial response by govt to covid. Trust me.
John, fabulous take on things. Re avocados, I have tried Rincorn, Hass, Bacon and Fuerte. we get to minus 4C with longish winters but it is the hot summer sun – up to 45c that burns the bark and causes the cambium layer to suffer badly – I have given up but if you make sure young trees have humidity and protection with limewash on the bark you should be fine in Texas.
Pollination is a pain but ants helpThe Roots of Wokeness article is really fantastic – coming from my perspective as a white middle aged male – so it must be an oppressive power based article 🙂
Thought and reason always have a place over the shadows of shifting identity. I don’t know if I am making sense… but there is a lot of horse-shit and identity politics going around and I found it quite refreshing to readI liked this very much but agree with V that having the civilization skills are a bit over rated when there is a world of junk money and left over tools already out there.
Thanks for posting the new york city article Raul – I read the whole thing and it was great. Years ago I toyed with the idea of a podcast about self-reliance and some TAE related subject matter around energy and finance. It was to be called ‘Run to the Hills’. It looks like I didn’t need to sell the idea. I think this stuff will happen in Melbourne too. So many people have freaked themselves out with what is happening and are aware of risks around price falls in housing. Restaurants are closed, commercial real estate is getting smashed and the cbd will not resemble what it once did. So many changes to work routines means that people want to be somewhere nicer and perceived as safer. Many will try to cash out or just move out.
I am watching this space. I think NYC is a good lens to look through. The cops don’t help. A man was fined over $1000 and hauled out of his won car for trying to get some sleep as the baby was crying and lockdown was difficult for him. My own family have taken to stupid songs made up on the spot and sung quite loudly to beak the valve and release some pressure. We are all seeing a hell of a lot of each other, which is nice but the socials would help right now.
Keep up the good workHusky, They are definitely going to double down on sheep-like compliance. She’s got celebrity spray on here now and people want to feel special.
The photo is great and the moon is amazing but places without trees always make me feel a little sad and suspicious. I remember Bill Mollison saying years ago that based on available tree cover the population of Greece import oxygen from Macedonia – probably not true but at a certain point removing your natural resources becomes your problem and then you die – think easter island.
Everyone thinks trade will save them till it doesn’t and trees are your nest egg par excellence – if your portfolio is just fish then you need to diversifyAlso as for Judge Baraitser, Berate – scold or criticize (someone) angrily.
Maybe every time she heard her name growing up she became programmed to be a harsh scolding hard-hearted person?
Just a musing. I guess I could look into her star sign now I’m going left-field…..Looking forward to a payment coming through shortly – I’ll make a donation to TAE ASAP
Carol, Huskynut and others from yesterday’s thread – yeah thanks for the support. I’m glad others find their way through the madness. I know Raul has said he is angry a lot of the time because there are just so many malevolent forces – read people – out there doing us as humans harm. I feel that way at times and then other times I have such optimism and joy at living in the forest with my wife and 2 beautiful children repairing soil and ecosystem. Working hard for clients planting fruit trees and oaks and the rest and generally going for whatever level of right livelihood I can get to with what I have to draw from. Still it bugs me to think of all those good people who are having a crack at the same and some asshole comes along and says – “hey the queen has sanctioned me to take what you have and kill you, or how about I steal you and make you work for me”. I just want people to be nice to each other but there are so many wounded crazy bastards out there who think they can complete themselves with the stuff of the world at others expense. Dick Cheney’s a real stand out but so is Schiff and the other power players around the world.
I guess I’m intolerant of a system that is hard to tolerate.
Thank you all again.I just can’t wrap my head around the epsilon theory article and Dr D’s take on it. My mind just can’t account for this shit…..
It makes me feel like all my composting and clothes mending was the dumbest shit a guy could do. Growing Vegetables! What sort of a moron am I? I could be swimming with sharks but I’m looking at other fishes assholes through muddy water….
Sorry about the language
