Debt Rattle July 23 2019
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Odilon Redon Sunset n.d. • US Justice Department Tells Mueller To Limit Congressional Testimony (R.) • What Goes Around (Kunstler) • A Non-Hack
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 23 2019]Odilon Redon Sunset n.d.
Outstanding! One of the myriad, gorgeous, sunsets I missed.
But, one I didn’t miss, standing on the stern of my 9 meter Dutch built sloop Discovery, looking out over the Columbia River bar, was the Green Flash.
People who have been at sea their whole lives have never seen this visual wonder; never to be forgotten by those who have…Regarding the article on Carter yestetday Dr. D wrote: Yes, and all those things are illegal in all “Christian” nations, but are legal in many Muslim nations. Nowhere in the West, at all – and especially among Southern Baptists – are any of these things true, most not for centuries. Yes, thankfully, at last! Carter is going to boycott the Baptists who are A G A I N S T all these things, in order to show those predominantly Muslim nations who are actually FOR them, what-for. Because abandoning the Christianity — one of the ONLY things that has historically stopped these things — is the way to shore up their defense and move forward. By retreating and surrendering, of course! It is tolerance to HATE Christianity for one views, but LOVE other religions for a different view, ones that by his own accounting is about nine times worse. Logic!
I don’t know. Is this an example of the perfect being the enemy of the good? Or is it an ideological purity test where everyone who falls short of God must be banished and purged? Since he spends a lot of time in Africa, among many Muslim nations who do these things (and pushing the subsequent cultural imperialism instead of leaving them alone), shouldn’t he himself be the first one to ostricized and removed from society? I think his own logic says yes. What is wrong with the thinking these days?
Just as i think it would be unfair to blame Christianity for the the Transantlatic Slave Trade, even though the Bible was used to justify it, I think to blame Islam for the dismally low levels of education amongst women in the muslim world today would be equally unfair.
Just as the Bible was used to justify the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Bible was also used by many Abolitionists in their fight against Slavery. Similarly, amongst some muslims, the Quran and the Hadiths of the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him) are being used to stop girls from being educated. However, historically and also presently, those same source have been and are being used to enable and encourage females to become educated.
The first ever university in human history was founded by a muslim women, and if im not incorrect so was the second. Interestingly, this was around the same time that the Bishops held a council in which one of the main points of discussion was whether women had a soul or not. Thankfully, the Bishops had come to a concensus that yes, women did indeed have souls.
By the way, that discussion was never held in Islam, and just by looking at the sheer amount of female scholars that Islam has produced its 1400+ year history (in comparison to many Christian societies that did not even allow women to read or write), I think its fair to say that Islamic civilisations history of how it viewed and treated women is much more admirable than Christian civilisation..
10,000 years ago, humans and livestock were 0.03% of land vertebrate biomass, today we are 98%. Humans and livestock caused 80% of species extinction during the Holocene, most of it in the last 60 years.
The oceans are acidifying 10X faster than in all earth’s history, and when they reach a “critical threshold”, ocean acidification will explode 100X faster than now, killing all sea shell creatures in its wake. These micro-shelled creatures form the basis for food on earth. Life on land depends on life in the ocean. Ocean acidification makes it harder for phytoplankton to absorb nutrients. We need phytoplankton to breathe.
http://news.mit.edu/2019/carbon-threshold-mass-extinction-0708
Micro-plastics in the ocean are killing the plankton that produce 10% of earth’s oxygen.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/plastic-killing-bacteria-oxygen
And that’s just the oceans. On land we have destroyed 98% of the mega-fauna on earth and replaced them with cows. There are 25 billion chickens on earth.
Germany’s green energy miracle is so completely fraudulent as to defy description. Here’s just one example: They burn over 60% of their recycling refuse. They lie about car emissions. Their forests are dying, and they’re moving whole villages to get at some the dirtiest coal in the world.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/germany-recycling-reality_n_5d30fccbe4b004b6adad52f8
The Insurance Journal recently said we have to cut emissions 50% in 10 yrs to avoid 3° C by 2100. Claire Fyson of Climate Analytics says the same thing. Stefan Rahmstorf says we have to cut emissions 100% in 20 years to avoid 2° C.
Here’s the problem, 2° C on earth is the equivalent of the critical threshold danger for our oceans. Hitting 2° C will trigger five major feedbacks, which will trigger 8 other major feedbacks, leading to runaway mass extinction and runaway hothouse climate catastrophe.
Here’s the really, really bad news: even if we managed to increase our carbon budget 50%, we would only gain 10 years to cut emissions. But there’s a flip side to this because arctic methane emissions are not modelled, and will likely cut our carbon budget by up to 50%, meaning we will have 10 years less to cut emissions. Arctic methane from sub-sea clathrate and tundra thermaklasts will combine with unreported human methane emissions and sink the boat
But it gets worse still, because we are slamming headlong into runaway mass extinction *ahead* of runaway hothouse climate change. Both runaway hothouse earth and runaway mass extinction cannot be stopped or reversed once they tip past that critical threshold. There’s no guarantee earth will recover. But it gets worse.
We have to cut emissions 50% in 10 years to save the planet, otherwise ocean acidification will go into overdrive and reach mass extinction escape velocity, but China will not even begin to **significantly** reduce emissions until 2030 at the earliest. But it gets worse. Emissions have to go down **significantly** now, not 10 years from now. China has recently cut solar production 40%.
https://lokisrevengeblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/fuel.jpg?w=696
**If the IT sector were a country, it would rank 3rd in energy use, after China and the USA**
The 4 main sub-sectors to IT are: 1. devices 2. networks 3. data centers 4. manufacturing.
Data Centers: Used 21% of total IT energy use in 2017.
– Google uses 16 data centers to run 40,000 searches/second.
– Data centers used 320 Terra Watt Hours (TWHs) of energy/yr in 2012.
– 320 TWHs of data center energy use was 2% of total energy use in 2012.
– Streaming video is projected to increase data center energy use from 2% up to 13% of total energy use.
Networks: Used 29% of total IT energy use in 2017.
– Network energy use increased from 219 TWHs, in 2007, to 354 TWHs in 2012.
– 354 TWHs could power 32 million US homes for 1 year.
– Network energy use is growing 10% / yr.
– Steaming will grow to 80% of internet traffic by 2020.
Devices: Used 34% of total IT energy use in 2017.
Manufacturing: Used 16% of total IT energy use in 2017.
IOT devices marry micro-plastics with metals. They flood the air with toxic radiation. If you want overwhelming evidence about how toxic our world is, click here. We are headed into food shortages, while we flood the world with toxic IOT bugs.
The Withering Bones of Humanity
**The Potsdam Institute on the IPCC Special Report:**
To stay below 1.5 C we have to cut emissions 100% by 2050.
To stay below 1.5 C we can only emit 420 gtons C02 total.
Even if we managed to change the 420 gton budget by 50% up, or by 50% down, we only get 10 years more, or 10 years less time to cut emissions 100%.
If methane emissions increase enough to shrink our carbon budget to 220 gtons, then we have to cut emissions 100% by 2040 they say.
Mass extinction not included.
I think this means if we don’t cut emissions 50% in 10 years, we’ll never make it.
Emissions will go up between 10-15% in the next 10 years.
If you are 15 years old, emissions went up 30% in your lifetime.
If you are 30 years old, emissions went up 60% in your lifetime.
After 30 years trying, solar and wind are < 3% of total world energy use.
Just think of the last 10 years. since 2009, emissions went up some 15%.
Can you take 10 more years of the same old bullshit, I know I can’t.
Oh sure, quite so. Both Christianity and Islam, and indeed all religions — even Buddhism, but especially the new Scientific Materialism/Aetheism — have a record of both great success and terrible injustices rising and falling on the wheel of time. That’s exactly the point: these things are in the hearts of MEN, his heart as well as mine, and also the heart of the Southern Baptists. They were in the European slaverunners (250 years or 13 generations ago) but also in the hearts of the African Muslims who beat up their neighbors and sold them off when slavery was legal there under Islam too. Now oh-so enlightened and scientific NeoLiberalism supports slavery in Libya and in Apple/Nike factories in Asia, and also somewhere on planet earth since Christ was a Corporal. In any case, both of us are cherry-picking time; you for a long-historical Islam of 1,000 years ago but now in crisis, and me for a Western “Christianity” gone for 50 or 100 years that we essentially no longer have and indeed are violently attacking/rejecting.
The problem was, after 90 years in Christianity, Carter SUDDENLY NOTICED that Christians have biblical views. Really, Jim? Worse, he then attributed VERY SPECIFIC problems, which at the moment are illustrated largely by (Sunni) Muslim Fundamentalists, as being the reason he can’t support who could even be described as their primary political enemy: American Southern Christians, disproportionately in the U.S. military. …And believe me, I’ll be happy to take up their Christian support of aggressive war and murder of possibly 6M mostly Muslims into its own article. But that’s moving away from Carter’s jaw-dropping nonsense of fighting the enemy of his enemy and attributing the actions of his enemy to his friend. “A house divided” and all that.
For: “The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” … Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Instead, the refrain is, “My side, right or wrong.” And if opposed, they will destroy you by any means, but especially with lies, as for them there is no truth but power, a new fake scandal, story, or accusation daily. There is no #Logos, (in Greek, the “way, the truth, and the light” but also the “logic”) instead there is only #ME, a thing a certain famous angel once said. Have these people no self-awareness or humility? Unlike me, they not only know what THEY should do, as they feel themselves already perfect, they’ll tell everybody ELSE what to do…or else. And as possibly a guy in “Koso” or Kosovo” you may know more about that than I ever wish to. Believing, knowing in your heart you’re a sinner who mostly falls short is a Christian value, although there may be a parallel in Islam and everywhere. This lack of awareness, WHILE HE GOES AROUND THE WORLD TELLING FUNDAMENTAL MUSLIMS THEY’RE BAD AND WRONG, then ATTACKS THE VERY PEOPLE WHO AGREE IT’S WRONG, is a great example of not being Christian, so maybe it’s better he does remove himself from Baptists before he spreads his bad name. My point would be: “That’s their way, in their land. I may disagree with it, but who am I to say?” And thank God I only have to deal with my own town, state, and nation, because that’s about 1,000x more than I can get to in one lifetime, coming from a nation where raping kids may be a blood sport of the rich.
But hey, Socialists: A religious belief in telling everybody how to live and what to do, right down to the shoes they can buy and the words they can use. And so Carter, too, makes the turn to the left, away from #Logos and #Logic and into “there is no truth any more: only power.” He’ll have a lot of company where he’s going, but I don’t intend to follow: that way there be monsters: madness, despair, and war, the wages of #Antilogos.
Nooboob: thankfully, science has basically been wrong about everything since Malthus in 1798, so I figure we’ll muddle through yet.
Just today: DON’T take aspirin for your heart, after selling 20 years of product unsafely. Really? You can’t tell even this one simple thing honestly and safely? And you think they can tell the actual “tipping point”? If Chaos theory defines anything it defines why that is specifically unknowable, but who follows science and math, right? We follow #Antiscience and #Antimath. Whatever gets #MoreCashToMe.
“A mere four days after the WikiLeaks release, a well orchestrated Democratic Convention nominated Clinton, while many Sanders supporters loudly objected.”
And thus assuring a margin of Bernie voters would stay home, and they would lose. It wasn’t the Russians that made them cheat, right after being caught cheating with Donna Brazile, and they’re not making the DNC cut Yang’s mic and deep fake a pimple on Tulsi’s face. (What are we, 6 years old here?) Oh, P.S. assuring they will lose 2020 at current projections, where a Tulsi would have a fair chance of winning. That ain’t race, and that ain’t gender. That’s being crooked, and it drives me crazy because the last thing we need is one-party rule. The MIC would like it though.
“Inequality is Destroying Democratic Capitalism (Deaton)”
I’d say absence of the rule of law is destroying it. How does inequality matter if no one’s taking bribes and cases all are equally prosecuted? Instead, they’re all taking bribes, they are reported every day, and no one has been prosecuted in decades. It’s not even a scandal, as the only scandal is when you attempt to tamper with the mass-bribe/kickback industry. But if the people aren’t moral, and have no scandal left in them, how will “government” help? “Government” is drawn from the (lowest) body of the people and a people cannot be more moral than themselves, only less.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams
The other way to limit corruption is to limit power. That is, the government is of no use to capture if it weren’t already (illegally and unconstitutionally) regulating everything and therefore able to carve out special favors and exceptions, pick winners and losers. You do this by pushing power as far down to the ground, to the people, as is possible. Since this is the written authoritative law, you’d think this would be easy, but you’d be wrong. We haven’t followed the law or our principles for 100 years and JP Morgan and Halliburton aren’t going to start now.
But I’m sure Deaton will have a solution: more laws, more power, more government! I’ve got a simpler idea: enforce the laws we’ve had since 1700: fraud, graft, bribery, and murder, maybe by prosecuting a high-profile extortion ring, I dunno.
Btw, if you click on the article, he’s apparently against meritocracy. Interesting position.
Another quote? “The US has licensed pharma companies to sell opioids to the general public, including for chronic pain, which ignited an epidemic of addiction and death with a cumulative death toll larger than all Americans lost in both World Wars.”
No one cares, because happily they are Red people in Flyoverland and deserve anything we can do to them, but especially to be exterminated like the vermin they are. …Or so I read every day, of these same people who voted for Obama. Twice. Being called Nazi racist scum after voting for a Black President twice may not exactly inspire their support in 2020.
“If you watch Fox News, you will believe Bill Clinton was Epstein’s No. 1 pal and enabler. If you watch MSNBC, this scandal is usually all about Donald Trump.”
Well that’s pretty easy: under whose administrations were his crimes overlooked? Got those three guys in mind? Okay, so you’re telling me Donald decided to prosecute and put it on the front page so he could arrest himself publically? That’s what CNN/NBC are saying. I’d say maybe not.
“denying reports that the former First Daughter was close friends with Ghislaine Maxwell,”
Well Maxwell was at their wedding, so I can only guess what that means. I mean, I always invite people I hate and don’t know to all my weddings. I’m guessing since they funded the original Clinton Foundation and Chelsea ran it, there will be more connections and knowledge, not less.
“London described the seizure of the Stena Impero as “state piracy”
Funny, that’s just what Iran said when you did the same thing. How about nobody steals anybody’s ships? Then nobody can go to war and we all spend the money at home.
From one crisi to another ciisi
We are still here.https://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2008/01/cds-report-what-we-saw-in-july-was-just.html
Debt Rattle, January 22 2008
V. Arnold, I’ve seen the Green Flash under certain conditions. Seems magical whenever it happens. Usually there’s too much haze or slight cloudiness at the horizon that prevents seeing it. The Green Flash had a role in one of the Pirates movies.
Hector Barbossa: “Ever gazed upon the green flash, Master Gibbs?”
Joshamee Gibbs: “I reckon I seen my fair share. Happens on rare occasion. The last glimpse of sunset, a green flash shoots up into the sky. Some go their whole lives without ever seeing it. Some claim to have seen it who ain’t. And some say-”
Pintel: “It signals when a soul comes back to this world from the dead!”
– Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
INEQUALITY
Economies are mostly driven by consumers. By effectively reducing wages buying power is reduced, damaging the economy. More pressure is put on wages and jobs ending in a down ward spiral. This also leads to what I think of as the ‘supermarket effect’, where people are always looking for ever cheaper goods, ignoring higher quality home-made goods and buying cheaper foreign produced goods, again damaging the economy.
Lending/debt for the very rich is at very low interest rates, zero in some cases. The cost of debt for everyone else is very high, possibly 20% or higher. Again this damages the economy.
The rich will often spend their money on property, land and shares, pumping up the costs while not actually producing anything. This has a ripple effect inflating all property prices; farmers can not afford to buy extra land or may sell up to conglomerates; pension funds will get lower returns on investments. All this is bad for the economy.
The balance needs to be restored for a healthy economy.
Doc Robinson
V. Arnold, I’ve seen the Green Flash under certain conditions. Seems magical whenever it happens. Usually there’s too much haze or slight cloudiness at the horizon that prevents seeing it.Congrats; you’re the first person I know of who has seen the green flash.
There is absolutely no chance of mistaking the sight for anything else…Both Christianity and Islam, and indeed all religions — even Buddhism,…
Strictly speaking; Buddhism is not a religion. A deep study and understanding of the teaching (Dharma) supports the truth of that…
Unfortunately humans have done a splendid job of making Buddhism into a religion; which is evident all across Asia.
One has to seek out the forest monks to find the original teachings…
The other option is to seek out translated ancient texts which are available.
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