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I’m being entertained by TV reports of Paris burning.
Before the start of demonstration by the yellow vests, there were” swat” dressed police enforcers in the tourist areas of Paris. Now they are going to get more and there will be less tourist paying exorbitant prices.
Yes, its dirty, and full of petty thieves. The trains regularly annouce on the pa system to watch out for thieves.
After the fires have burned out the filth, then the unemployed immigrants can be used to pick up the residue.I’m doing a terrible job of writing/describing about a terrible situation. I’m glad that I’m not living there.
Is London going to be the next city?Re.: Russiangate
The authors have failed to keep the denouement to the end.
The story book that keeps me from putting it down until the end, is the one that has a moving plot, and an exciting denouement. that is made clear only at the end.
(the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
the climax of a chain of events, usually when something is decided or made clear. )• French History Has Never Seen A Protest Like The Yellow Vest Movement (Qz)
“…. the yellow vests began as an organic, grassroots movement, born of the frustration of a small group of individuals who organized the protests entirely on Facebook. Tartakowsky says that’s one way in which these protests are unique. ?
Now, everyone knows how to organize protests.
Giving the people cake to eat is passé
Gov. will try to stop protests by jamming the airwavesWho felt the 3-4% dip?
Since the elites make up the majority of the players of the stock market,
Since the blue collar workers are the majority of those with no savings,
Since the majority of people don’t play in the big casino
I ask who lost their bubble?• Dow Plunges Nearly 800 Points On Rising Fears Of An Economic Slowdown (CNBC)
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen Kendal Street, Byker, Newcastle 1969
has been demolished.
Do a search, (google earth, images) to see what is there now.
In the mid-sixties Newcastle City Corporation took the decision to redevelop the Byker area of Newcastle upon Tyne. Originally Byker was a Victorian working-class area of typical densely-built terraces. By the 1960s much of the housing needed major repair and upgrading.
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/flats/newcastle-upon-tyne/kendal-street/
Compare what you see, from your search, with what you have and stop your whinnying.
The news that will probably affect me the most is from Alberta.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/notley-oil-cuts-1.4929489
With a month to go before the regulations take effect, the response of the market, energy companies, investors and U.S. refiners in the coming weeks will be telling. There will also be hope that job cuts don’t come.Western Canadian Select, or WCS, has been trading at a discount of more than $40 a barrel to the U.S. oil price benchmark, WTI
Why Canadian Oil Stocks Are Soaring Today
The government of Alberta is taking extraordinary measures to boost regional oil prices.My position is to keep the oil and invest in oil refineries, mfg and sell the value added products.
“…. no group ever advocates for their collective interests, that would just be “crazy.”….”
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My understanding of “drain the swamp” is – get rid of the elites in gov. that are enriching themselves at the detriment of the working tax payer.Will Trump be able to drain the swamp?
What will replace the present system of feeding at the gov. trough?
Is there a swap in other countries?
Are there “swamp drainers” in other countries?
Saudi Arabia? China? Turkey? Ukraine? Greece? Italy?What about the latest movement in France?
Are the “gilets jaunes” in France going to become the swamp drainers?
When have there been swamp drained?
Where have the swamp been drained?
Are those countries that have had their swamps drained still functioning as intended (without a swamp)? (Cuba?)https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=List_of_dictators
…. traditional monarchs are not usually described as dictators in historical commentary. Also excluded from this list are those who held absolute power during national emergencies, but restored the rule of law soon thereafter….Does “rule of law” mean that it is only for the little people and that the powerful and rich class are exempted?
Do the Americans think that their system of justice is above petty politics?What does the battle to appoint Brett Kavanaugh suggest?
Those who make the rules of law make sure that they have a “get out of jail card”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_StatesA long, long time ago someone smarter than me wrote this wisdom ….
“Cast The First Stone” In The Bible: John 8:7
Jesus faced a mob that was eager to execute a woman caught in adultery. He put a stop to it with a simple challenge: anyone who has no sin in their life should step forward and throw the first stone.Nobody listened.
They all cast their stones at the same time/together.
Who tells the truth?
Who doesn’t have a hidden motive?
Who doesn’t want an advantage?
Who has nothing to lose?Now …
We have Trump shinning a light on himself and everyonea person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.See more synonyms for hypocrite on Thesaurus.com
When I was young, we got our news highlight from the movie theater before the movie.
Now, I get my news highlight from TAE and my movie entertainment from TV.
Since the younger generation do things differently, I assume that they get their news and entertainment from their smart phones.The blue collar workers are at the end of the line.
“Remind me, what did it cost to keepGM alive?”“Remind me, what did it cost to keep the rich out of the poor house?”
What!!!
What happened to Rusiangate? What happened to interference to elections?https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-27/inside-americas-scheme-wrestle-julian-assange-ecuador
The CIA and the national security state reacted to the Vault 7 release by targeting Assange for arrest and prosecution.
When and whether that will happen remains unclear. What is not in doubt, however, is that the Ecuadorian and British governments, working on behalf of the Trump administration, are trying to make it as difficult as possible for Julian Assange to avoid extradition by staying in the Ecuadorean embassy.
Update2: Following WikiLeaks’ categorical denial that founder Julian Assange ever met with Paul Manafort, The Guardian has stealth-edited their article to include a massive hedge:
“Totally False And Deliberately Libelous”: Manafort Plans To Explore “All Legal Options” Against The Guardian
As for Mueller’s Julian Assange allegations,
See my response in your 27/11/2018 article.
re.: Matrix
Its all an illusion.
There is no spoon to bend.I’m agreeing with you.
“The Guardian report cited “sources” saying Manafort saw Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London “in 2013, 2015 and in spring 2016,” with the latter meeting reportedly taking place “around March 2016.” The Democratic emails were released months later.”I’m not a detective. I’m being asked to be on a jury to evaluate the info presented.
Here is a sample of sources that would help to convince me.Phone call records
Airline reservation recordsTaxi records to and from airports
Taxi records or car rental records
Hotel reservation recordsRestaurant records
Video records of all the above
Credit card records of all the above transactions.
“@WikiLeaks is willing to bet the Guardian a million dollars and its editor’s head that Manafort never met Assange,” the group tweeted.
Here is a game changer.
WikiLeaks Categorically Denies Assange-Manafort Meetings
ALL KINDS OF WAR EVERYWHERE!!!
There are more than the traditional wars of the middle east.
Close to me, in Canada, I see the following hidden wars.https://www.x-rates.com/graph/?from=USD&to=CAD&amount=1
1.32https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/09/27/oil-prices-canada-discount_a_23543941/
Oil Prices Soar, But Canadian Crude Sells At ‘Ridiculous’ 58% Off
Western Canadian Select — the benchmark price for oilsands product — was trading at just above US$30 per barrel on Thursday, a 58-per-cent discount compared to West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark price for North American oil.
Canadian oil is currently the cheapest in the world, according to data compiled by OilPrice.com.https://www.businessinsider.com/bombardier-cuts-5000-jobs-sells-q-series-airliner-program-2018-11
Canadian plane- and train-making giant Bombardier is firing 5,000 employees and just sold off one of its most famous assets for $300 million
Benjamin Zhang Nov. 8, 2018, 5:53 PMhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-26/gm-to-cut-10-000-jobs-targets-5-factories-for-closing-next-year
GM Plans 10,000 Job Cuts, Five Plant Shutdowns in North America
Total of seven factories globally may cease operations in 2019
By David Welch
November 26, 2018 7:36 AM PST Updated on November 26, 2018 8:17 AM PSThttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-morning-update-gm-closing-oshawa-plant-abandoned-wells-piling-up-in/
Arik Ligeti
Published 6 hours ago
Even if back to work, Canada Post is still plagued by deeper issuesGM is going to announce closing and restructuring.
Workers walk out.
Stocks frozen. (Therefore, markets are up)How will the immigrants feed, house etc. themselves?
Mexico’s incoming government denied they had struck any deal.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/migrants-wont-see-armed-soldiers-border-213733264.html
There are no tents or camps being set up to house migrants, McCullough said. Medics are on hand to treat troops and border patrol agents — not migrants — for cuts, bruises and any other problems.
Combat engineers — whose duties on the battlefield include setting up tactical obstacles to prevent the enemy from moving freely — are using their expertise to string wire on border walls and erect temporary fencing, McCullough said.Construction engineers have been assigned to weld together barriers and move shipping containers to act as walls.
The current mission is scheduled to end Dec. 15 for now. It’s unclear how much it will cost and military leaders have refused to provide an estimate.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/active-duty-troops-at-southern-border-to-cost-72m-pentagon-says
The cost of sending approximately 5,900 active-duty personnel to the U.S.-Mexico border to provide support to Customs and Border Protection amounts to $72 million, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday.
In its report to Congress on Tuesday, the Pentagon said the estimated $72 million cost includes $19 million for personnel, $20 million for transportation of personnel, equipment and supplies, $28 in operating expenses and $5 million for concertina wire and other border barrier materials.
The report added that as of Nov. 14, about $14 million in actual payments for expenses such as travel, supplies and transportation had been reported by the units involved.The rich and powerful have made a BIG DEAL about cheap labor
A group of business leaders in the city said they have thousands of job openings at the city’s assembly plants, or maquiladoras, inviting Central American migrants to work in the factories. Though wages there are a small fraction of U.S. pay, Mexican officials said the work offer was one reason they believe the Remain in Mexico plan will succeed. Across the country, there are 100,000 jobs available to Central American asylum seekers, officials said.
Here is a long essay supporting my previous post.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-24/its-mad-mad-world
This madness and abnormality is clear to me. I can’t understand why it isn’t clear to others. Am I mad? Am I the one who is abnormal? How can so many millions of people be oblivious to the facts and reality of our situation?
It boils down to a whole lot of people not getting paid, one way or the other
Let me fix this sentence.
It boils down to a whole lot of rich and powerful people not getting paid, one way or the other for creating rigging, gaming, and jacking systems
I’m going to make a list of all the social problems and economic problems that have been caused by the socialists, the poor, the powerless, the disenfranchised, the immigrants, the slaves, the non-elites.
1. Getting scamed by the powerfull
2. Getting scamed by the rich
3. Getting scamed by the elites.
Now, you make the list of social/economic problems that have been caused by the rich and powerful.
I don’t give a s*** about The Kashoggi murder if you don’t give a shit about the murder of Yemen or the murder of …..
I don’t give a S*** about abortion if you allow the murder of hundreds, thousands, millions
I don’t give a s*** about you if you support a system that creates poverty, misery, hate and people that don’t give a s***.
Go and eat you salad.
• A $9 Trillion Corporate Debt Bomb Is ‘Bubbling’ In The US Economy (CNBC)
Who will do the collecting and for whom?
• Salvini Ready To ‘Confront EU’ After Italy’s Budget Rejected Again (G.)
Did I hear someone say Juncker for the EU?
Canada is being forced/conned into selling its oil at approx. $40.00 discount. Alberta is trying to find a way of leaving the oil in the ground rather than continue giving it away.
Here is another reason to reduce the production of oil.
• Dead Whale Washes Ashore In Indonesia With 6 Kilos Of Plastic In Stomach (AP)
We are getting a tennis neck pain watching the market is bouncing around like an addict on a pogo stick.
We are a community ….
“I am still doing my bit as a chronicler of collapse, but what I want to emphasize is that a meaningful and fulfilling life can be lived even in the midst of collapse, which, with the right preparations and the right mindset, can be relegated to its proper use as a particularly macabre form of entertainment.”Dead by any means is still dead.
Its closer to home. We must ignore it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/its-a-crisis-of-civilization-in-mexico-250000-dead-37400-missing/ar-BBPIgFT?ocid=spartandhp‘It’s a Crisis of Civilization in Mexico.’ 250,000 Dead. 37,400 Missing.
Without humans, would other species become extinct?
“Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million animal species in total. …. forming intricate food webs. ….”
https://gizmodo.com/bizarre-microbes-represent-a-major-new-branch-on-the-ev-1830496441
“This discovery literally redraws our branch of the ‘Tree of Life’ at one of its deepest points,” explained Alastair Simpson, the lead author of the study and biology professor at Dalhousie, in a statement. “It opens a new door to understanding the evolution of complex cells—and their ancient origins—back well before animals and plants emerged on Earth.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development. Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million animal species in total. Animals range in length from 8.5 millionths of a metre to 33.6 metres (110 ft) and have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs. The study of animals is called zoology.
Life vs humans
http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/features/152208/do-plants-have-brains
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150424-animals-that-lost-their-brains
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161026-the-secret-of-how-life-on-earth-began
https://www.nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol201648
Figure 1 : A current view of the tree of life, encompassing the total diversity represented by sequenced genomes.https://www.nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol201648/figures/2
Figure 2 : A reformatted view of the tree in Fig. 1 in which each major lineage represents the same amount of evolutionary distance.
From: A new view of the tree of lifeDid you find the human branch on the tree of life?
Keep reading.
Keep learning.
You are fortunate to be able to do both.
You are fortunate to actually live during the time of the end of great empires.In other news, the sun is producing less sunspots.
Lack of sunspots mean record cold, warns NASA scientist
https://weather.com/storms/winter/news/2018-11-14-winter-storm-avery-snow-ice-east-midwest-south
Winter Storm Avery Wrapping Up in the Northeast Friday After Dumping a Record Early 6-Inch Snowstorm in New York CityIMAGINE
imagine ….Life can continue without humans.
Life can continue where there is liquid water in the universe.The chart, “the world’s 100 largest arms seller” tells us how the non-elites can become puppets/employees of the elites
One day, yes, maybe, one day, somebody will know what is happening and write the truth about it.
Therefore, I’ll keep reading.
eg. My understanding is that printing a lot of dollar should make it worth less.
What do traders know that I don’t know?
Traders attributed the sharp morning losses in the yuan to broad strength in the U.S. dollar, which hit 16-month highs against a basket of six other major currencies.
Again, according to Macron, you can’t be both. You think about that. What are you?
What the elites say and think about Nationalists and Patriots are two different thing. They are Hypocrite.
( definition, a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess.)What about the rest of us?
Pick your favorite decription
defrauded
bamboozled
beguiled
bilked
burned
conned
deceived
duped
finessed
gypped
hoodwinked
overcharged
swindled
tricked
victimized
ripped off
scammed
taken in@ dr d
The elites made windmills.
Are you showing us examples of the windmills.
We do not have the wealth or the power to fight the elites made windmills.But is any of this news? “Same as it ever was.”
Alexander Aston is using a different approach to try to understand and to explain life
It is through redesigning our developmental environments for dynamic equilibrium that the next system will coevolve with the planet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life
Life is a characteristic that distinguishes physical entities that have biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased (they have died), or because they never had such functions and are classified as inanimate. Various forms of life exist, such as plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaea, and bacteria. The criteria can at times be ambiguous and may or may not define viruses, viroids, or potential synthetic life as “living”. Biology is the science concerned with the study of life.The definition of life is controversial. The current definition is that organisms are open systems that maintain homeostasis, are composed of cells, have a life cycle, undergo metabolism, can grow, adapt to their environment, respond to stimuli, reproduce and evolve.
To survive, all life must prey and consume other forms of life.
To put it another way, all living things are cannibals.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism
The rate of cannibalism increases in nutritionally poor environments as individuals turn to other conspecific individuals as an additional food source.[3] Cannibalism regulates population numbers, whereby resources such as food, shelter and territory become more readily available with the decrease of potential competition.
I’m waiting for part #3 that will explain “….the next system will coevolve with the planet….” and will not be dependent on canibalism
