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“But how to create such a hidden government? ” – Bardi
The government is not hidden WYSIWYG. The answer to Fermi’s Paradox is greed, call it Baphomet if you wish. Greed driven systems collapse as seeking an “edge” supersedes seeking value. Once again call it Baphomet or call it corruption. Describe the level of baksheesh accurately and look at the culture and how it is limited. There one might find a limit to growth.Dr. D a little thought for today. Government employment by state and district ranges from a low of 10% to the high in D.C of 25%. Did not derive a mean by calculation i will just use 17.5% for example. Each employee in the government sector has a ripple in the environment. Statista has a daily interaction per connected individual of 4785 per day by 2025. I admit i roll my eyes at that number but that would suffice for an upper bound in the ripple. In each case the standard of living of communities with a larger percentage of government employment will have more incentive to maintain the status quo. Upton Sinclair was pretty forward in his assessment of men keeping their job.
Friends, go back to the first comment and read through as far as you are comfortable. An important piece of the puzzle my mother imparted to her children is “Measure the pond first”
The thought creeping up from deep within is: What are we missing? – boilingfrog
Why have we been looking the other way for so long? seems a more pertinent question. What do most think rules based order or full spectrum dominance means? for somebody else?
Oroboros, residential and light commercial planning is my mainstay. One of my clients, a residential builder, has three foundations complete and ready for construction and no incentive to begin construction. The combination of high material costs, industry driven pricing increases and interest rate increases has brought this boom in the cycle to a lethargic pace. Custom homes, my niche, has stopped except for the few for whom price is no object.
A friend, who does steel detailing for engineering, and i speak almost every Friday. The commercial construction world is slowing to a snails pace. The company he sub-contracts from is centered from Pensacola, Florida. The arc of their business is from Biloxi, Missippi to Tallahassee, Florida.
Dr. D.s perspective that the investment bankers led by the FED are pursuing a plotted course has much appeal. The rub is all of the tools in hand create a fraudulent environment. Fraud to heal fraud and the result is as your posted graph shows.
When the pen was first put to paper in the delineation of the Declaration of Independence, put aside for a moment any class based perspectives, the conviction that self-governing men could bond themselves together as a self-governing nation was a radical concept that ran counter to a millenia of modern history. A radical concept. The concept that men are equals in pursuit of a just nation was and is a radical concept. I am a radical.
Are you a radical?
Do you wish to be a radical?
Do you long for Animal Farm?One perspective to press disinformation might be found by having a look at the Continental Congress of the not yet United States. All we hear today is Federalist and Anti Federalist, and this was and has been the story line. There were states rights populists and federalists in attendance. Who owned and controlled the press? The answer to this question may be found in the first contest between Mr. Jefferson and the Federalist Mr. Adams. In support of Mr. Adams Mr. Jefferson was smeared in the press. “All the news that’s fit to print” appeared above the New York Times on an illuminated sign in 1896. Fit to a purpose and that purpose has not changed. Myths die hard and the romance with a fair and open press is born of a myth. Please remember the alleged words of William Casey in 1981. What was your reaction after reading “Killing Hope” by William Blum? What was and is the narrative in the press concerning Mr. Blum’s pamphet? ……”everything the American public believes is false”, how long have you believed in a fair and open press? Gulf of Tonkin?, Weapons of Mass Destruction?, unprovoked Russian Agression? Manifest Destiny?
“He who controls the spice controls the universe” Herbert
Dr. D: “You cannot have two different justice systems.”
Sure you can. We have since the 70sPlease allow me, a certified red clay road trailer trash southern redneck, to draw your attention to the post Civil War Reconstruction.
Dr. D there has been measureable sea level rise. Using the years 1901-2010 and data from tide guages, accepting the upper bound, sea level rose 0.07 inches (1.8 mm) per annum. When the lower bound is examined the rise is calculated to be 0.013 inches (0.337 mm) per annum or about 1.4 inches(3.5 cm) per century. Some of the variation is due to land subsidence in some of the regions where the gauges are located. The rate of increase is estimated to be 0.007mm per annum at the lower bound and 0.12 inches (3 mm) per annum at the higher bound.
We are on the same page, the brush stroke was just a little broad. As noted earlier i am comfortable with anecdotal evidence of 0.1 inches per annum.
Bosco, one of my favorite Twain quips: “I was pleased that I could answer promptly and I did, I said I did not know”.
V. Arnold, the Christopher’s motto is : “It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness”. Guard the flame brother.
DBS and upstate, scaling the abyss is indeed more terrifying than scaling the heights of virtue. Experience over the years indicates that fortunately the darkness has not come particularly close to the lives of the majority of human beings. Mercy is one of the cornerstones of this reality.
The Aristoscracy is Eating the Peasants – Rubino. John Rubino of -I can tell you how to best roast a peasant and profit from the coming collapse- cheering team.
US federal deficit 2022 -$1.84 trillion or 30% of the 6 trillion dollar budget. Are you receiving a monthly remuneration from the US Treasury? $1.50 of every fiver is debt. Looking for a little hope and change? Me either.
Consumer Debt – 2022 $4.76 trillion – 2.6 times higher than the US deficit. Maybe some cannabalism here? The TV says you deserve it though i’m not sure about that.
Mortagage Debt – 2022 $11.5 trillion. Buy high sell low, interest rates are rising.
Corporate Debt – Do those guys have any cash or securities beside collarteral debt obligation funds? Oh yes i remember now Fractional Reserve Banking, wink-wink, nod-nod.I don’t have Laffer and Roberts napkin, how about some demand side economics. The US is starting the year 2023 with combined US deficit and private debt of $18.1 trillion dollars with a gig economy. The exceptional and indispensible. “Don’t need a weatherman” On second thought maybe we do deserve it.
Tao
ThirteenAccept disgrace willingly.
Accept misfortune as the human condition.What do you mean by “Accept disgrace willingly”?
Accept being unimportant.
Do not be concerned with loss or gain.
This is called “accepting disgrace willingly.What do you mean by “Accept misfortune as the human condition”?
Misfortune comes from having a body.
Without a body, how could there be misfortune?Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things.
Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.having long considered myself “gone to the dogs” thankyou for todays artwork.
Perhaps the most important task for us at this time is to speak with one another. We have an over abundance ot talking to, talking past, talking over. Some thought has been given to the possibility that human speech is an extension of touch, a means to extend the personal bond across space. Yesterday, January 13, there was some thought given to the Tao. Would you humor a stranger and an old man? A point of history first. My Jefferson first wrote “inalienable rights” these words were edited in the Constitutional Congress to “unalienable rights” to pave the way to the three fifths abomination in the Constitution of the United States.
Please read verse thirteen of the Tao and then ask your four closest acquaintenances to read the verse also. Pose this question to yourself and to your friends.
Have i steeled myself to the necessity to secure my inalienable human rights, have i steeled my self to the need for mercy, empathy and compassion that our future holds?
Could we have some anecdotal comments of hope?
love, crackerkultsommer, let me real in my brashness and be a little more civil. Within 75 miles each side of my residence and indeed centered around my residence there resides all branches of the US armed forces. There is also a large contingent of civil service. The revolving door starts at light bird in the service and at upper mid level in the civil service. Selling how the procurement system works is a quite a lucrative trade. All of the services under the executive branch engage in this system. This is not speculation, i played ball with some of these fellows for over 25 years. The congress is not the only culprit in non-functional overpriced trash.
The US armed services have an up or out policy. Those who advance, remember Lindman, are selected for reasons other than national defense. As one of my acquaintances says, “I thought full birds were special and then they made me one”. Living with the armed services for 60 years takes the shine off the romance. The colonel may be speaking how he “feels”, however he did not get where he is by putting the constitution, the nation and her people first. Not one of those i know in the revolving door serve the nation, they serve someone but not the nation.
kultsommer, los tres amigos are selling entertainment. Considering their stated backgrounds my guess is they are hoping to muddy the water in addition to the P.T. Barnum motif. Give the impression the adversary is stronger than can be justified. Do think any of those mentioned would give you an even break?
good to speak with you
A word about los tres amigos Americanos del Norte, Johnson, Macgregor and Ritter. All of these honorable gentleman have taken a National Security Oath in order to access confidential information. In the event they wish to ever gain a security clearance as consultant they will not break their pledge now. In their world that is honorable.
it is curious that the Western War Alliance spent eight years building the Ukraine armed forces and delivered no NATO arms to said nation. What could be in the salt mines, what could be in the salt mines? How about the NATO armaments that were supposed to be used in the siege of Donbas and Luhansk? The siege Merkel and Hollande tried to stop with the Minsk Accords.
lets go out on a limb and imagine that those repair depots the RF kept destroying were actually assembly points for armaments that were not there and had not been delivered yet. Have you seen any cell phone videos of NATO armaments being moved by rail? Have you seen any videos of RF armaments being moved by rail? Just a coincidence, fer sure.
Martyanov considers himself western. Proof? Everyone is stupid but himself. Exceptional!
Amittedly it is a toss up as to whether my mental capacity is that of a box of rocks or a sack of hammers. Six hundred years of Enlightenment has produced a civilization that reserves to itself the right to muder indiscriminately. Within this civilization are societies comprised of individuals prepared to surrender liberty and autonomy, perhaps life itself, to retain material possesions.
Bosco could you please point out the virtue to be found, i am at a loss. (perhaps a tune from the Hot Club de France would set me straight)
Items of agreement:
The atmosphere on planet Earth, Terra is in flux. The gaseous mass, atmosphere, is acted upon by forces exerted from within the Local Group, the Milky Way, the local Heliosphere and from Earth’s moon. The climate is the state of the atmosphere and can be described locally and globally. The atmosphere, the climate, is in flux.There is a parcel of land in Northwest Florida on Santa Rosa Sound that i have known for sixty years. The mean hightide is now in the range of six to eight inches higher today than in 1962. There has been some drift of the nearshore due to development along the shoreline. The majority of the parcel is in it’s native state and circa one third is in old field succession. The native wild flowers in this region which were once seasonal now flower throughout the year. The brown anole lizard, native to Cuba, has extended it’s range into Northwest Florida. The hurricanes during the last forty years have distributed non-native flora that have found niches in the environment. The Yaupon holly still ties the scrub together and the ecosystem is thriving. The upper edges of wetlands are working overtime extending the pine savannah. The cycles of precipitation are returning to those experienced in the mid nineteen sixties and seventies. Santa Rosa Sound, a portion of which was decimated by runoff from a nearby testing range, is finally showing signs of marine flora. The environments locally and globally are in flux.
Carbon dioxide was identified as a greenhouse gas by Eunice Foote in eighteen fifty six. Mauna Lua began testing for the presence of carbon dioxide in nineteen fifty eight. The role of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas has been a matter of scientific enquiry for one hundred and sixty six years. The continous single point used to calculate the rise in carbon dioxide has a history of sixty four years.
To the interested observer there seems to be no effort to quantify the loss of carbon sequestration from the following:
1. The loss of habitat to the housing booms of recent decades.
2. The loss of diversity in the flora where vast areas have been placed within palm platations.
3. Desertification that is part of historical environmental knowledge.
4. The vast swaths of environment that have been cleared for wind and solar electrical generation.
5. The development of the Amazon watershed.
The increased amount of carbon dioxide does not at first glance have the loss of botanical sequestration included as a part of the calculation. Define the percentage of carbon dioxide increase attributed to lost biosphere.That conservation has been removed as a possibility for mitigation and only the abandonment, sequestration, of fossil energy is presented is obvious. Starting with The Limits to Growth in nineteen seventy two through today in twenty twenty two the western nations and their peoples have refused mass transit in all forms and have expanded the use of fossil energy with abandon. The western societies have even demanded that peoples poised to gain an improved standard of living be denied even an opportunity for improvement so the use of energy by the west would not be limited. These same societies are now poised to impoverish a vast swath of their own populations rather than accept a modified lifestyle.
When one divides the years of knowledge of carbon dioxide as a green house gas by the age of The Quartenary Period 166/2.58ma(million years) the quotient is 0.000064. All of the data, coincidental and measured is defined in this timeframe. When the time frame of accurate single point measurement is given a similar treatment the quotient is 0.000025. The data that we have may be considered by the interested observer as insufficient for extrapolation of a convincing argument for carbon dioxide derived from use of fossil energy destroying Earth’s ecosphere. The final thought is the micro-biome, the force that created the atmosphere, does not seem to play any role in the current debate surrounding our atmosphere.
Please friends, economy often guilds the text. One might say:
I am firmly convinced that the use of fossil fuels is destroying the ecosphere.
The ecosphere is in flux and I am not convinced that the use of fossil fuels is the main driver.cracker
