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There exist better news than golden globe em-bare-sing moments.
Iranian oil tanker burning off China may explode, body found in search for missing crew
authorities work to recover 31 missing crew members.
At least one crew member has been reported dead on the burning vesselIt wasn’t immediately clear what caused the initial collision, but all 21 crew members of the Crystal, which was carrying grain from the U.S. to China, were rescued, the Chinese ministry said. The Crystal’s crew members were all Chinese nationals.
South Korean petrochemical company Hanwha Total Co., a 50-50 partnership between the Seoul-based Hanwha Group and French oil giant Total, said in an email to the AP it had contracted the Sanchi to import Iranian condensate to South Korea.
A Hanwha Total spokesman, who asked not to be named citing office policies, said there is “little possibility” that condensate would leave traces in the ocean after it burned. He added the losses would be covered by an insurance company. The Sanchi’s cargo was estimated to be worth more than $60 million.Question:
Will South Korea now become enemy # 1 for buying Iranian oil?Change is happening.
Are the numbers of commenters on this blog the same as the numbers of readers?
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Todays Modifiers1. Bullies and their victimes – scales from unwanted sexual misconducts to right up to destroying countries and their economic/social structures.
2. Social media – twitters. facebook, e-mails, WikiLeaks
3. Bitcoin
4. Fake news/propaganda
5. Painkillers – cannabis to fentanyl
6. Pension cash flow shortfallhttps://www.technologyreview.com/s/609891/at-least-3-billion-computer-chips-have-the-spectre-security-hole/#comments
As practically all smartphones run on iOS and Android—sorry, BlackBerry holdouts—this pretty much covers the mobile-device landscape.Look at how the majority is treated by the rich and powerful.
The minority are bullies.
Look at what the bullies are doing.sanctions
economic sanctions, typically a ban on trade, possibly limited to certain sectors (such as armaments), or with certain exceptions (such as food and medicine) like sanctions against Iraninternational sanctions, coercive measures adopted by a country or a group of countries against another state or individual(s) in order to elicit a change in their behavior
pragmatic sanction, historically, a sovereign’s solemn decree which addresses a matter of primary importance and which has the force of fundamental law
siege
Failing a military outcome, sieges can often be decided by starvation, thirst, or disease, which can afflict either the attacker or defender. This form of siege, though, can take many months or even years, depending upon the size of the stores of food the fortified position holds.bullying
There is no universal definition of bullying, however, it is widely agreed upon that bullying is a subcategory of aggressive behavior characterized by the following three minimum criteria: (1) hostile intent, (2) imbalance of power, and (3) repetition over a period of time.[13] Bullying may thus be defined as the activity of repeated, aggressive behavior intended to hurt another individual, physically, mentally or emotionally
.Bullying is divided into four basic types of abuse – emotional (sometimes called relational), verbal, physical, and cyber.[8] It typically involves subtle methods of coercion, such as intimidation.I live in community that depends on the income that the seniors spend to survive.
Without our senior income, the dependents will die die die …. before the healthy seniors.
Yes, there are still a few of us that can still forage.
Yes, A few of us are not over medicate, pain free, and sound of body and mind.Kill the pensions and you kill the young ones.
Cut the pensions and you cut off your economic and social nose.Ask the Greeks.
What are the Greeks doing to put food on the table?=====
Biggest fulcrum movers in 20171. Bullies and their victimes – scales from unwanted sexual misconducts to right up to destroying countries and their economic/social structures.
2. Social media – twitters. facebook, e-mails, WikiLeaks
3. Bitcoin
4. Fake news/propaganda
5. Painkillers – cannabis to fentanylWe need a new definition.
A mercenary is a person who takes part in an armed conflict who is not a national or a party to the conflict and is “motivated to take part in the hostilities by the desire for private gain.”
Syrian grandmother defies perils to cross Aegean at age 110
If bullies cannot find a human to be their victims then they will pick on another soft target.
Across Africa, a rhino is slaughtered twice a day and an elephant is killed every 14 minutes.
Biggest fulcrum movers in 2017
1. Bullies and their victimes – scales from unwanted sexual misconducts to right up to destroying countries and their economic/social structures.
2. Social media – twitters. facebook, e-mails, WikiLeaks
3. Bitcoin
4. Fake news/propaganda
What did the educated Canadians learn that I didn’t?
Say one thing but do the opposite.https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cibc-poll-eighth-straight-canadians-090000514.html
TORONTO, Dec. 28, 2017 /CNW/ – With interest rates expected to rise in the coming year and household debt in Canada still climbing, a new CIBC (CM:TSX) (CM:NYSE) poll finds paying down debt remains the top financial priority for Canadians in 2018, the eighth consecutive year it has topped the list in the annual survey. The poll results also show that investing and building wealth is increasing in importance, compared to more immediate financial concerns.
What about — the pot calling the kettle black.
https://i.huffpost.com/gen/5026956/original.jpg
Is the Average Cost of new house $9.550.00 ?
Lying!!!
How is the truth hidden.
You cannot see the fulcrum.
It will not take you long to figure out how its done.https://www.torontohomes-for-sale.com/4a_custpage_2578.html
Using average house prices on record since 1953, corrected for inflation (for comparison purposes we brought the historical data up to today’s equivalent values), I produced the following graph. The average prices are courtesy of TREB.
https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1953.html
Cost of Living 1953
How Much things cost in 1953 –
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 0.82%
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 2.2%
Average Cost of new house $9.550.00 –
Average wages per year $4,000.00
– Cost of a gallon of Gas 20 cents –
Average Cost of a new car $1,650.00 –
Kodak Brownie Flash Six-20 Camera History $13.00 –
Chain Saw $225.00 –
Below are some Prices for UK guides in Pounds Sterling –
Average House Price 2,006 –Don’t forget that the power that be move the fulcrum so that the bust part of the cycle will not as damaging.
Obviously, by using the printing press and by “inflation”.Because I have been told that this is the season to be joyous, I’m trying to find something that is positive; something that is having or has the potential of having a positive impact on our many different societies.
This means that I’m looking for the domino effect to get to the real lalaland.
https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cycp-cpcj/bull-inti/index-eng.htm
Bullying happens when there is an imbalance of power; where someone purposely and repeatedly says or does hurtful things to someone else. Bullying can occur one on one or in a group(s) of people. There are many different forms of bullying:
Physical bullying (using your body or objects to cause harm): includes hitting, punching, kicking, spitting or breaking someone else’s belongings.
Verbal bullying (using words to hurt someone): includes name calling, put-downs, threats and teasing.
Social bullying (using your friends and relationships to hurt someone): includes spreading rumours, gossiping, excluding others from a group or making others look foolish or unintelligent. This form of bullying is most common among girls.Bullying and the Law
Bullying can be a traumatic experience, and some forms of bullying can even be considered illegal. These include:
Criminal Harassment
Repeated tormenting online, with texts, phone calls, and/or emails causing the other person to fear for their safety
Child pornography
Sharing intimate photos and videos of minors (under the age of 18)
Uttering Threats and Extortion
Threatening to share someone’s personal information to others if they don’t do what you want them to do
Assault
Threats or acts of non-consensual force, violence, bodily harm, or destruction of personal property
Identity Theft/Fraud
Creating a fake online profile to ruin someone’s reputation
Defamatory Libel
Spreading rumors about someone
For all of these criminal offences, it is important to notify your local police detachment or report it to CYBERTIP.CA. Based on the available information, police will decide if an investigation is warranted and whether charges may be laid.
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Merry Xmas
(Huggs and Kisses are still allowed)don’t forget part #2
https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/113569/2017-year-review-part-2There is a lot more that illustrate the may lalalands
“… any system displaced from equilibrium tends to return to equilibrium….”
Question???
Does the fulcrum move to keep the system in equilibrium?
Does inflation move the fulcrum?ful·crum
[ˈfo͝olkrəm, ˈfəlkrəm]NOUN
the point on which a lever rests or is supported and on which it pivots.
a thing that plays a central or essential role in an activity, event, or situation:I’m still reading.
https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/113568/2017-year-review
2017 Year In Review
Markets fiddle while Rome burns
by David Collum
Friday, December 22, 2017, 3:15 PMI’m discovering that there are many lalalands
There is no way out of lalaland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle
it is a one-sided surface which, if traveled upon, could be followed back to the point of origin while flipping the traveler upside down. Other related non-orientable objects include the Möbius strip and the real projective plane. Whereas a Möbius strip is a surface with boundary, a Klein bottle has no boundary (for comparison, a sphere is an orientable surface with no boundary).
Definition of la-la land
a euphoric dreamlike mental state detached from the harsher realities of life
Definition of euphoric/euphoria
Euphoria ( /juːˈfɔːriə/ ( listen)) is an affective state in which a person experiences pleasure or excitement and intense feelings of well-being and happiness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep
Sleep is a naturally recurring state of mind and body, characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles, and reduced interactions with surroundings.[1] It is distinguished from wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli, but is more easily reversed than the state of being comatose. Sleep occurs in repeating periods, in which the body alternates between two distinct modes known as non-REM and REM sleep. Although REM stands for “rapid eye movement”, this mode of sleep has many other aspects, including virtual paralysis of the body. A well-known feature of sleep is the dream, an experience typically recounted in narrative form, which resembles waking life while in progress, but which usually can later be distinguished as fantasy.
My preferred state of sleep is to escape to spacetime.
War with NK is hot air.
The USA military establishment does not need a war to get money from the printing press.
We don’t need a nuclear winter.
Regular winters are cold enough.
We can do without the resulting radiation to warm our appendages.I found this analysis interesting.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-16/debunking-myths-about-attack-north-korea
I looked deeperDebunking the flagwaving myths about an attack on North Korea
I looked even deeper
https://www.unz.com/tsaker/debunking-the-flagwaving-myths-about-an-attack-on-north-korea/
The Unz Review: An Alternative Media SelectionA Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media
Well!!!, zero hedge, copied it.
I suppose that this means that zero hedge is not mainstream mediaIt’s difficult to find the truth when it comes to the military.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russias-military-presence-syria-191522363.html
AFP•November 24, 2017
Russia’s military presence in Syria
The Russian military says it has begun scaling back its deployment to Syria more than two years after Moscow’s intervention in the conflict on the side of the Damascus regime.
Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia’s general staff, said there would be a “extensive” reduction of troops by the end of this year. He spoke after President Vladimir Putin said that a military campaign in Syria was coming to an end.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-military-syria-5th-anniversary-war-assad-putin-claim-success/
CBS/AP March 15, 2016, 4:17 AM
Tuesday’s statement came a day after President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military to withdraw most of its forces from Syria, timing his move to coincide with the resumption of the Syrian peace talks in Geneva.https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/us-military-bases-around-the-world-119321
Where in the World Is the U.S. Military?
By DAVID VINE July/August 2015
Despite recently closing hundreds of bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States still maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad—from giant “Little Americas” to small radar facilities.
Britain, France and Russia, by contrast, have about 30 foreign bases combined.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_overseas_military_bases
List of countries with overseas military bases
@ v Arnold
OTTAWA — Statistics Canada issued its sixth and final batch of 2016 census numbers Wednesday, this one focused on education, labour, journey to work, language of work and mobility and migration. Some highlights:
— Canada ranked first among OECD countries with 54 per cent of residents having college or university degrees in 2016, up from 48.3 per cent in 2006.
— Of women aged 25 to 34, 40.7 per cent had a bachelor’s degree or higher, up from 32.8 per cent in 2006. Among men of the same age, 7.8 per cent held an apprenticeship certificate, up from 4.9 per cent 10 years earlier.My Question:
“– Canada ranked first among OECD countries with 54 per cent of residents having college or university degrees in 2016, up from 48.3 per cent in 2006.”Canadians are the most in debt.
What did they learn about being in debt that I did not?There are some web pages where you cannot just “Click, copy, paste”
Here is one of them for me.
I found a way around..
ps.
I remember when the “experts” told us that the “one child policy” would result in a shortage of women and that it would destroy the Chinese social structure and its economy.
The results shows that the “experts” were wrong.https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151113-datapoints-china-one-child-policy/
In 1979, the government introduced the one-child policy, under which most couples are allowed to have only one child or else face the possibility of fines, sterilizations, and abortions. Looking at just a half century of data on China, we can see peaks and valleys in the birthrate reflecting pro-reproduction attitudes, famine, and the one-child policy.
From 1959 to 1961, the Great Chinese Famine killed an estimated 15 to 30 million people.
In 2013, a relaxation of policy allowed over 12 million couples to apply to have a second child.
Only about 12 percent of eligible couples applied. When the one-child policy ends in 2016, most couples will be restricted to two children. But that may not address all of the issues. After decades of the one-child policy, coupled with new economic and social pressures to succeed, many couples have decided to stop with one child, or to not have any at all. So with a national birth rate well below replacement level of 2.1 and some urban birth rates under 1,
China faces a new challenge. How do they provide for an older population while also encouraging younger residents to have more children?
It’s Happening (Almost) Everywhere
China is not alone in this dilemma. Low birth rates are also a product of personal choice, and the UN predicts we’ll see a considerably older world population by 2100. Countries including the U.S., Canada, Chile, Brazil, Russia, and Australia will likely reach a point where a quarter or more of their populations are above the age of 65, not working, and depending on a pension. On the other hand, most African countries, many former Soviet states, and large portions of Asia will remain young. But the younger populations of these countries won’t stop populous aging countries from reshaping the global population to the point that almost a fourth of all people on Earth will be over 65 by 2100.“… Belt and Road projects “aren’t transparent or consensus driven,” …”
Traditionally, the center builds roads etc. so that products can be delivered, (imports), to the center.
I informed that there are consumers in China that need to eat.
🙂
I don’t buy the explanation that “the Belt and Road projects” are for making exports cheaper and easier for exporters.The problems with using islands as prisons, is that they get overcrowded unless the inmates are released.
” The mayors of five Greek islands facing the coast of Turkey are demanding that the government and EU end a policy of containment for migrants – introduced last year as a deterrent against illegal migration – because living facilities are severely overcrowded.”
Using a credit card cost money.
Using a bitcoin cost money.
Banks make money from you using credit cards.
Exchanges make money from you using bitcoin.
Printing press make the most moneyThe people will not pay the Brexit divorce bill. They got no money.
The rich will not pay. (That’s why they are rich.)
Therefore, one printing press will pay the other printing press and all will be forgiven.
Anything else is extortion.” …. the British public will be forced to pay to settle the Brexit “divorce bill”. MPs and peers, including former cabinet ministers, say that with the bill agreed this week and likely to be between £40bn and £50bn, …”
With 1/5 of the people in poverty!!!!!
I have stupid question???
Why would anyone pay back any kind of loans that originated from the printing press?
Borrowing from the printing press is done by central banks and gov.
Defaulting/forgiving makes the loan disappear and there is no one injured.
If you, as a purchaser, are broke and cannot pay for any purchases, want/need something and you have only a credit card, then you, as the purchaser, can get what you need/want for as long as the seller keeps thinking/believing/expecting that the credit card company will refund the seller for the transaction.
(The seller must, also, believe that he will be going to heaven.)
The U.S. is bankrupt; both financially and morally.
There is no nobles oblige.
There is no rule of law.
There is no ethics.
Therefore, the end of our social/economic system is near.
OTTAWA — Statistics Canada issued its sixth and final batch of 2016 census numbers Wednesday, this one focused on education, labour, journey to work, language of work and mobility and migration. Some highlights:
— Canada ranked first among OECD countries with 54 per cent of residents having college or university degrees in 2016, up from 48.3 per cent in 2006.
— Of women aged 25 to 34, 40.7 per cent had a bachelor’s degree or higher, up from 32.8 per cent in 2006. Among men of the same age, 7.8 per cent held an apprenticeship certificate, up from 4.9 per cent 10 years earlier.My Question:
“– Canada ranked first among OECD countries with 54 per cent of residents having college or university degrees in 2016, up from 48.3 per cent in 2006.”Canadians are the most in debt.
What did they learn about being in debt that I did not?I don’t own bitcoin.
The rich own bitcoin.
When the bitcoin bubble breaks, how will that hurt me?Who got hurt when the tulip bubble broke?
“Of course there are alternatives. But will they arrive in time? Perhaps the existing paradigms are destined to endure a while yet …”
There is no austerity for you if you benefit from QE or if your credit card still works.
“Where do we go from here? A continuation of the existing financial paradigm is what everyone believes; what everyone expects (wants) – and is what we likely will get.”
“To put that in numbers, there’s a current shortfall of $18,176 between the standard of living and real disposable incomes. In other words, no matter how much people are borrowing, their standard of living is in decline.
Your standard of living in not declining if your credit card still works.https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-24/us-saudi-starvation-blockade
The US-Saudi Starvation Blockade
Is this now the American way of war? Are we Americans, this Thanksgiving and Christmas, prepared to collude in a human rights catastrophe that will engender a hatred of us among generations of Yemeni and stain the name of our country?
