william
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It just occurred to me, looking at the situation, many Christian Zionists will be so confused.
This is not the rebuilding of the old Roman empire, as they believe Revelations requires, but its dismantling. We are not looking at the slow building of a one world government but the global fracturing.
More and more it looks like the EU will fail. Each elected government of each member conceivably has the option of exiting the EU. Its a role of the dice with each election. Eventually one exiting will cause a domino effect.
Unfortunately exiting will not solve global dependence and facing the concepts of sustainability. In independence individual survival depends on ones completeness in providing for oneself. An aging Greek resident will only live as long as the weakest link. Whether it is food, shelter and heat, medicine, or protection your weakest piece is the heart of the matter. No longer having the infrastructure to enable civil decency places the weaker in grave danger.
So it would be nice if the capitalist dream was true and most efficient but it is not. Not when resources are scarce. Nor is capitalism compassionate to the plight of the individual.
I can see how things are going to get very messy and very unfair.
Wow. I was looking for a place to comment on something I have seen for years now and found this little bit about information. I too spend so much time reading and seem to be addicted to the information load.
The complexity is one thing but the lies and double talk makes the new paradigm impossible to figure in any logical manner. Simply put, prior to the collapse of 2008, accounting rules changed to allow better hiding of losses and the complete insolvency of markets world wide. This is a critical piece of the puzzle – hide the truth amongst lies. To justify this position it is claimed – defend the markets and save the world.
Just a few days ago it was brought to my attention the G20 gave $420 billion to the IMF – but its all a lie.
The books actually show around $300 billion in pledges.
These are only pledges and in fact do not directly mean actual money.
You see its the idea of presenting positive messages to save the economy. Any adjustments to the truth for this purpose are the new religion. Faith in lies, the new Christian faith within the developed world, becoming an end in itself.
Carefully listen to the media: Not even one question, not one inquiry, no cross examination, the end to journalistic integrity. The wire releases the data and the actor reads the script. The news stations have not done any research on the data and are no longer producing news.
They are the new spin doctors – check out for yourself. Increasingly it is very hard to find news and it is easy to find the news station government propaganda.
it is a little deceptive to address this oil refining problem and not talk about the fact of surpassing peak oil. Anyone talking about this problem should at the very least talk about the fact that the largest oil field on earth, the one producing a clear majority of the oil, is pumping less oil and that oil pumped has had a salt water content above 25% and rising 2% each year.
Now to say oil exists in North America that could supply a refinery towards the indefinite future is lunacy. Be a detective, examine the facts. Each refinery you speak of is old, really old (some past 100 years). Refineries have placed little money into maintenance. No speculator has come up with money for a new refinery. Conclusion despite having made a tonne of money, even their own CEO s see no great future in this business.
Lets plot along a line of thinking that oil will become significantly depleted. In this scenario countries will take by force oil they need to remain independent. Even though oil is pulled from the ground its price will be set between who has enough money and if it can be resold/re-manufactured into a product that the public can afford. Oil would more and more become a infrequent commodity, not priced too far beyond the publics ability to pay for it but at times reserves would run out. If these things seem to be happening maybe we are past peak.
The demand is too low so we can’t make money at our refinery. The demand is just fine if oil is $3 a gallon but the demand is not fine if oil is $6 a gallon. Face the reality that the consumers of the product are only there at a certain price and scarcity will move you to a different group of consumers. Accept that scarcity will not cause prices to go up past consumers ability to pay. In fact if you run in a mass production mindset you are in trouble. If, due to maintaining market share, certain levels of sales have to be met, and you know the consumers threshold; refineries could end up in a price war that is unwinnable because the consumer will not consume much $6 or higher oil.
like to direct you to an article
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/unemployed-young-people-great-economic-190014821.html
be careful how much debt you get into as jobs that pay more than not entering university just aren’t there.
University may eventually pay off but not in the short term which is where the student loans really hurt
Part of what keeps things going is the simple flow of money. Kind of like a animal in a long death the things get extended with this lumbering flow.
That is what the whole debt thing is about. Companies offer their own financing to sell there own products. Many auto manufactures do this and by it can keep themselves from bankruptcy for a time.
But it is a move of desperation. Don’t pay now we will finance you way into the future and in fact we will give you money now to purchase our fine product.
In the dot com era the message was don’t look at the bottom line, forget about profit and just worry gaining market share at any cost. This flawed logic works for a time.
Now we say don’t worry about debt, in fact worry about not taking on enough debt. Throw trillions in of electronic money. This will increase the movement of money and keep this sick beast breathing. Again flawed logic.
My feeling is this will all end badly.
great to hear others thinking the way I do about this. I am wondering where do I learn about these programs?
I know my town is quite hostile to this and need to show town council and others how it would look in a positive light.
It seems more than ever we have peaked our resource use. One can predict where it will start by following countries that have depleted so much of their own resources that they are completely dependent on outside and thus lose sovereignty.
Spain, like the rest, will be free once it becomes self sufficient and imports luxuries not necessities. Sucks but I believe it could take a while.
And yes that means we are all in a lot of trouble.
I really expect any implementation of the carbon tax to be not too unlike the French Revolution. It may not be the grand star of capitalism but its complete and utter defeat. It sometimes isn’t too popular to steal from the starving to aid the rich even if it is to save the environment.
As I have mentioned to a few in emails the baltic dry index leans towards an excessive problem. It cost $12000 a day to move a container ship at sea in 2008 but today the same ship moves for $650. A price so low, it is the lowest rate recorded ever. It shows how desperate people are to do business. Many are giving excuses but they don’t account for this large a difference.
Things are wrong and further pressure on business for taxes will shut the system down not stimulate. This could be a final blow to consumer capitalism and the start of a possible resource based system.
