The MoA Week in Review - OT 2018-57
Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
- October 22 - Khashoggi Drama - A Deal Is No Longer Possible - Erdogan Demands That MbS Goes
- October 23 - How Will Caligula Fall?
- October 25 - Khashoggi Drama - A Deal Has Been Made But Will It Hold?
Erdogan still has the kompromat on Mohammad in Salman and continues to use it. He demands that the Saudis say who ordered the murder and threatens to reveal more evidence:
“And of course, we have other information and documents in our hands. You will collect the harvest when the sun rises. It is not meaningful to rush for now.”
Erdogan also asked for the extradition of the Khashoggi killers. Saudi Arabia rejected that. If Erdogan goes too far -as he is prone to do- and releases all he has, he will also loose his leverage.
Fun read - Mark Ames mocks the war on Syria 'experts':
Use as open thread ...
Posted by b on October 28, 2018 at 17:58 UTC | Permalink
« previous pageFrom an article on the INF treaty by Finian Cunningham:
For a start, the EU states should tell Trump that any plan to re-install medium-range nuclear weapons on their soil is impermissible.
Secondly, the Europeans need to scale back the NATO expansion towards Russian territory.
Thirdly, they need to tell Washington that Russia is a partner, not a pariah to be abused for the benefit of American militarism and hegemonic ambitions.
Will the Europeans do that? Their leaders may not have the backbone, but the citizens of Europe will have to, if they want to prevent their American “ally” inciting a nuclear cataclysm. American arrogance is fomenting a European rebellion against its death-wish criminal leaders. For a start, the EU states should tell Trump that any plan to re-install medium-range nuclear weapons on their soil is impermissible.
Secondly, the Europeans need to scale back the NATO expansion towards Russian territory.
Thirdly, they need to tell Washington that Russia is a partner, not a pariah to be abused for the benefit of American militarism and hegemonic ambitions.
Will the Europeans do that? Their leaders may not have the backbone, but the citizens of Europe will have to, if they want to prevent their American “ally” inciting a nuclear cataclysm. American arrogance is fomenting a European rebellion against its death-wish criminal leaders.
On the face of it, it might seem difficult to believe that the complacent European poodles will react, but consider this: with the support for US poodle Merkel collapsing and the parallel rise of AfD and the Greens in Germany, will the Greens step up to the challenge and take the initiative? It would have to be from a grass-roots level. It would make for interesting times, wouldn't it, not to mention a few interesting parallels and contrasts?
In the 1980's there were large scale public protests across Europe to the deployment of US medium range missiles in Europe, which make Europe the battleground not the US. The Greens took a key role in those protests, including those in Germany. Since then the Greens have been 'tamed' and neo-liberalised. Can they be incited to fetch the rusting gauntlet out of the cellars?
Posted by: BM | Oct 30 2018 13:23 utc | 102
Good podcast:
“We’ve got to put the so-called ‘New Wave’ Democrats on notice that we’re not going to allow them to get elected without clearly stating where they stand on U.S. militarism.”https://blackagendareport.com/democrats-must-be-confronted-militarism
Posted by: Zanon | Oct 30 2018 13:25 utc | 103
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USA has 1,000 Admirals and Generals. That's enough Admirals to have one at the bridge of every naval vessel, barge and LST, enough generals to have a General charging up the hill with every platoon, and still enough Admirals and Generals left behind to sit with the major news networks and give the play-by-play
Thit's just the Military. There are one million or more Civilian Pentagonala, and million a of civilian contractors. When a coffee cup costs taxpayers $1,281, and when the Pentagon was successfully hacked, twice, and is bleeding out over $100B with no stop-loss in place, there is no way either party is going to restrict the military. No way in hell. Ain't going to happen. SS and MC will be bled out first.
Posted by: Anton Worter | Oct 30 2018 13:46 utc | 104
Update on Bill Blum's condition. He's suffered something similar to what felled my Aunt, quite likely a stroke, and he doesn't have good means of support given that he lives within the Outlaw US Empire. Tom at ICH asks that his item be disseminated globally. Given the work he's done to unmask and report on the true nature of the US Empire, I hope those he's informed, like us here at MoA, will be generous in answering his call for help.
Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 30 2018 15:00 utc | 105
@ Guerrero with the opinion about tariffs.....I strongly disagree
All of the history you refer to has been under the rule of private finance and their myth of capitalism (It does not exist in reality) where the goals are/where control and exploitation of others resources, natural or labor related. Should the use of the natural resources be "taxed" to support the citizens of that city/state/nation for a definable period? Are the labor activities related to the local natural resources usage and complimentary? I encourage you to break the mold of the capitalism myth and start asking the questions humanity and your neighbors need to to be asking, Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 29, 2018 8:59:54 PM | 89
I agree with the last sentence very strongly: to take humanity as a starting point. I agree that Capitalism
is very much a myth, that the Tlahuica did not know money, yet they lived under the same sky as we do.
I was only commenting on the thought-experiment of our friend karlof1 who imagined himself to be the
President of the United States of America announcing the end of sanctions agains other countries;
and with this one heartily agrees. But, in passing, he decrees that all tariffs will be repealed,
as if tariffs and sanctions were two varieties of snake, but without looking more closely at the matter,
As a matter of principle I would object. I am recommending the consideration of a traditional high
tariff policy for the United States as described in Hugh and Matthew Carey's wrtings . And List's.
In a new world, beyond-capitalism will come surprisingly fast I think for most people who will see the transition to practical economic-science-informed national government policies as a bane, yet which, coupled with a series of technological breakthroughs, will lead to double digit growth boom in the future.
NOT double-digit growth in terms of meaningless GDP, I mean a double-digit growth in human potential.
Hoarsewhisperer @94--
Risk--Well, I've already suffered through two heart attacks and am now conducting a war against my heart disease--and I'm just 10 days away from becoming 63. Just taking on the powerful factions of the Deep State that would be impacted by my policy proposals and reforms in order to gain the nomination entails risk. IMO, I don't see how such inherent risk can be excised from the process, although I'm not hiring my own assassins like Bulworth. I suppose it would be safer to keep secret my plans to dissolve most of the National Security State, although decommissioning the Empire of Bases and smashing the Imperial budget would need to be articulated since they're part of overall domestic policy planning.
Clearly, to accomplish anything close to what I've proposed would require a large quantity of Political Capital; but how is one to raise that amount of Capital without divulging the risks involved? I can't tell the electorate to "Trust Me" as that's why we're in the shitty shape we find ourselves in, and IMO the public's much wiser now than even in 2016. And talk about an Outsider--no previous elected office or voting track record to judge.
Anyhow, thanks for putting that challenge to me; it was a good exercise and helped hone my thinking. IMO, I provided an excellent contrast between what's a 100% Progressive Populist political agenda versus the one being promoted by Bernie Sanders.
Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 30 2018 16:24 utc | 107
karlof1
in 2008, Cynthia McKinney ran on a platform comprehensively even more progressive than yours. indeed, being the purest spirit of the prog/left to ever grace our congressional halls. on November 4th, 2008 her Political Capital amounted to 161,797 votes, one of which was mine. last i heard she was teaching in Bangladesh.
anyhoo, if you make the ticket, maybe i'll cast another vote.
Posted by: john | Oct 30 2018 17:45 utc | 108
john @109--
Clearly, much was omitted from the short answer I provided to Hoarsewhisperer's challenge. Two of her votes were provided by myself and my mom, and I advised my daughter to vote for her too, but don't know if she did or not. I know why she only got that small number; do you?
On the subject of tariffs, as I predicted, they're doing great damage to US businesses. In the Business section of my local newspaper today is an AP article, "Collateral damage: At US factory, Trump's trade war forces hard changes." A second article says: "Stocks tumble on report of more tariffs." I did a Yandex and Google search using 'tariff collateral damage' as the search terms without quote marks and got many similar articles that began being published as soon as Trump unleashed what ought to be called the Tariffs of Abomination, II. Indeed, the whole operation's completely wrongheaded and is generating a result opposite of what Trump seemingly planned. This article's one example of many. Politically, Trump's unilateral Trade War ought to be even more costly than GHW Bush's "Read my lips: No new taxes" broken promise.
BigLie Media's control over the dissemination of information de facto meddles in the USA's internal affairs--and the world's--to the detriment of the vast majority of citizens in a manner far worse than any foreign meddling--even Israel's. But in some instances as with this economic news, its reports can be politicized by an opposition willing to do so, although that push-back might be ignored despite the cat being let out of the bag. Those who've read my commentary on a regular basis know that I've advocated the formation of a grass roots movement to educate and recruit as the primary steps required if change is to be made soon enough to make a difference for humanity's future--and that's the only way I see of overcoming BigLie Media's power.
Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 30 2018 18:35 utc | 109
karlof1 says:
I know why she only got that small number; do you
well, i can think of a number of reasons, but cutting to the chase obviously because she didn't pony up the billion dollars prescribed by a jaundiced political hierarchy.
you again:
Those who've read my commentary on a regular basis know that I've advocated the formation of a grass roots movement to educate and recruit as the primary steps required if change is to be made soon enough to make a difference for humanity's future
well, as coincidence would have it, this is precisely what Cynthia is trying to do.
Posted by: john | Oct 30 2018 19:17 utc | 110
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Speaking of Big Lie:
"Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds - The huge loss is a tragedy in itself but also threatens the survival of civilisation, say the world’s leading scientocrats."
To be clear 'animals' is non-scientific, and it's not clear if it's 98% of farm animals plus 10% of game animals and a smidge of road kill they're talking about, or Thom Hartmann's hysterical End Times: "100,000s of Species Wiped Out by Climate Change!©," he harps on Paid Advertisement.
The Scientocrats, as it turns out, don't buy the Climate Change© swindle either. They are the 3% Old White Male Deniers, lol, who place the blame correctly on GMO's, habitat destruction, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers and plain human encroachment.
Sorry, Pope Albertus 'Glutinous' Goreious!
So you have to wonder how the Deep Purple Mil.Gov UniParty will spin this? Ahhh, wait for it! Wait. They're going to offer 'investments in habitat restoration' as a loss-leader teaser on their Carbon Tithe and Tax Credits Swindle, allowing industry to continue to pollute and destroy ecosystems, in exchange for buying genocidal palm oil and soy plantations as carbon credits, then the metastasis of those genocidal tax credit plantations growth will drive even more ecosystem extinctions and more human misery!
Brilliant! Back in my day, you would just grab the kid, held a gun to their head, and demand, 'Pay the ×/#/=*'g Carbon Tax, or the Ecosystem gets it!'
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And that's why I can rewire Guerrero's conclusion to a more predictable outcome:
"NOT double-digit growth in terms of meaningless GDP, I mean a double-digit growth in human potential slavery."
They are smarter than we are, better funded, duplicitous, craven, monsters.
E.g. Dick Cheney let 2 BILLION humans almost starve to death under his $147 a barrel Halliburton deferred-pension tax dodge swindle. Then look at Rodham and Haiti. Horrific.
Every nation on Earth has their Cheney's and Rodham's, legions of their sycophants and acolytes and poodles media megaphone. The IoT only amplifies that, promising a flat-earth, a denuded, barren, indefinite dust-bowl.
Sing me 'Blue Skies' Willie. Take us out.
Posted by: Anton Worter | Oct 30 2018 19:19 utc | 111
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While I have no doubt that NASA sent some number of Right Schtuff monkeys *around* the moon, after researching in some depth, and visiting the lander mockup at the air and space museum, and knowing a guy at JPL during that era where we spitballed, I can state unequivoably that we never *landed*.
But expanding on proofs, like expanding on 9/11 proofs, will just get me banned, so I'll offer you this teaser. The first proof was right there at the bottom of the ladder. Just think it through.
Now get back to work. The Right Schtuff has run up a $24,000B bar tab, and we are the last generation able to pay down the principle. Our children will be interest-only debt slaves ... FOREVER.
Posted by: Anton Worter | Oct 30 2018 19:37 utc | 112
@Anton Worter @112
I understand well why you have been banned from several other sites.
Your comment is a factless rant if which you throw together stuff that has absolutely no relation to each other.
Why don't you go and find yourself a street where you can scream out such bullshit. It is not welcome here.
@b 114
Thanks for saying that. I find those posts unreadable, so I don't even try. But looking at the last few, I confirm that they're just noise to drown out the signal.
Posted by: Grieved | Oct 31 2018 1:44 utc | 114
Below is a link from Xinhua.net that I feel compelled to share and comment on
China's 12th National Women's Congress opens
The 1st picture they show is of 7 men in front and a bunch of women in the back which some could say shows horrible optics given the headline. But that would mean you have not read the article about what President Xi said to these women.
The point in showing this link is the window it shows into the way China men treat China women which, at least on the surface, is significantly more respectful than women are treated in the West and ME.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 31 2018 4:52 utc | 115
On the subject of tariffs, as I predicted, they're doing great damage to US businesses... In the Business section of my local newspaper today is an AP article, "Collateral damage: At US factory, Trump's trade war forces hard changes." A second article says: "Stocks tumble on report of more tariffs." I did a Yandex and Google search using 'tariff collateral damage' as the search terms without quote marks and got many similar articles that began
Please don't conclude that I am standing up for Trunp's Trade Wars or anything like that.
I am merely observing that Hamiltonian protective tariffs against British free trade
is as American as apple pie. The arguments of F. List, of Hugh and Matthew Carey are good
and ought NOT be blithely dismissed out of hand, just because of a man with orange hair.
I am not necessarily recommending a high tariff policy for the USA, only to be aware of it,
since when this policy was effected in the 19th Century, it caused a humongous budget surplus.
Guerrero
Those tarrifs protected US manufacturing. Trump has levied tarrifs on materials US manufacturers need to compete, and on products US manufacturer no longer make. About the only thing they do is increase inflation and provide revenue to replace that which was lost from tax cuts to the rich. Complete opposite of Hamiltonian tarrifs at a time when there was income or profit tax and government relied on tarrifs and bond sales to fund infrastructure projects, and economic growth made possible with immigration. Trump is anti-immigration and the population fertility rates are below replacement level so no economic growth beyond increased debt (which increases GDP) is possible.
Posted by: Pft | Oct 31 2018 7:54 utc | 118
Ockhams razor vs the duck test.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
"Occam's razor (or Ockham's razor) is a principle from philosophy. Suppose there exist two explanations for an occurrence. In this case the one that requires the least speculation is usually better. Another way of saying it is that the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation. Occam's razor applies especially in the philosophy of science, but also more generally."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_test
The duck test is a form of abductive reasoning. This is its usual expression:
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
The test implies that a person can identify an unknown subject by observing that subject's habitual characteristics. It is sometimes used to counter abstruse, or even valid, arguments that something is not what it appears to be.
Posted by: Peter AU 1 | Oct 31 2018 8:44 utc | 119
@115 grieved...ditto for some time. now.. thanks b
@119 peter... lol... hopefully we are on the right track in our observation-speulations...
Posted by: james | Oct 31 2018 8:56 utc | 120
A Rules-Based Global Order or Rule-less US Global ‘Order’?
"Trump loves the leverage Bolton seems to magic out of his NSC ‘black box’, but does the US President appreciate how ephemeral leverage can be? How quickly it can invert? He cannot – Canute like – simply stand on the sea-shore and command the rising tide of US bond interest rates to recede like the tide, or the US stock market, just to levitate, in order to multiply his leverage over China."
Posted by: BM | Oct 31 2018 12:40 utc | 121
pass the popcorn..
"One of the most senior members of the royal family, bin Abdulaziz - who has been living in the United Kingdom - is said to have agreed to return to Riyadh only after receiving security assurances from the UK and United States."
Posted by: mina | Oct 31 2018 14:44 utc | 122
Looks like my reply to john's last reply to me was eaten by the cloud.
IMO, the entities known as Guerrero and Anton Worter are one-in-the-same troll and I refuse to feed them, thus my silence.
Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 31 2018 16:01 utc | 123
Guerrero
Those tarrifs protected US manufacturing. Trump has levied tarrifs on materials US manufacturers need to compete, and on products US manufacturer no longer make. About the only thing they do is increase inflation and provide revenue to replace that which was lost from tax cuts to the rich. Complete opposite of Hamiltonian tarrifs at a time when there was income or profit tax and government relied on tarrifs and bond sales to fund infrastructure projects, and economic growth made possible with immigration. Trump is anti-immigration and the population fertility rates are below replacement level so no economic growth beyond increased debt (which increases GDP) is possible. Posted by: Pft | Oct 31, 2018 3:54:14 AM | 119
Again, I am not arguing in favor of a high-tariff policy for the USA, only noticing that a high-tarrif policy was the mainstay of the Republic Party in the post Civil War era. This was not any sort of utopian pure-Hamiltonian protectionism a la F. List, and the Careys, it was a bastard political economy that accompanied perhaps the most corrupt of all eras of the USA republic.
Still, it did produce a humongous budget surplus; so perhaps somebody told that to D. Trump?
Just noticed NYT and WSJ reporting on the jury selection Monday doesn't mention the anonymity of the jurors. I worry that the seeming extraordinary gaming in the US prisons might be related to policy change toward the Southern Cone in conjunction with the situation in Brazil.
Posted by: Ralph Reed | Oct 31 2018 20:14 utc | 125
Very interesting piece by Habakkuk over at pat Lang's sst. It links to an equally interesting piece by Publius Tacitus on same site regarding new FOIA information plausibly confirming Seth Rich Wikileaks connection.
https://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2018/10/loops-of-lies-re-sigint-by-david-habakkuk.html
Posted by: WJ | Oct 31 2018 21:04 utc | 126
IMO, the entities known as Guerrero and Anton Worter are one-in-the-same troll and I refuse to feed them, thus my silence.
Wrong! Ha,ha,ha! Now why would you think that, I bet Anton has never even gotten on a bull!
Guerrero@125
Perhaps yet his tax cuts and increased military spending end any chance of a budget surplud even with tarrifs. Not that a surplus is a goal of Republicans or Trump, nor should it be
Maybe somebody should have told Trump Tarrifs caused the Civil War as they benefitted the North and the South faced retaliatory tarrifs on their exports. The biggest loser over tarrifs today will be the middle class . Maybe this will spark a new civil war which would be a class war. Unlikely though since most of the middle class is divided by party, religion, race and gender. They have no idea they are victims of a class war. Perhaps lithium and fluoride in tap water and beverages helps keep them oblivious.
Posted by: Pft | Oct 31 2018 22:14 utc | 128
Maybe somebody should have told Trump Tarrifs caused the Civil War
as they benefitted the North and the South faced retaliatory tarrifs on their exports.
The usual reason given for the USA Civil War is 'slavery';
I do not recall them old boys fighting over the tariff issue.
Let's say there had been a low-tariff policy, or a NO tariff policy in early 19th C. USA
Why, a NO tariff policy is the very "Free Trade" of the hated British East India Company.
The 'Free Trade' of Adam Smith Wealth of Nations was published in 1776.
I had understood the Northamerican patriotic revolution
to be in opposition to the British Free Trade ideology.
Maybe I have understood it all wrong? As for Trump's
economic policy I don't claim to understand it even
on the surface, I only made a passing observation
to the effect that high-tariff policy used to be
the standard Republic Party position and that
maybe Trump is returning to the traditional
political position of the grand Old Party?
Well, the Civil War was certainly not fought over slavery. Lincoln had no intention of freeing the slaves before the south seceded over tarrifs. They were assisted by British agents of the City of London who saw an opportunity to split the union and colonize the south with the power of their money. Lincoln did use slavery as justification to gain support for the war, and nothern banks controlled by the City of London would not lend money at teasonable rates to fight the war so he resorted to greenbacks.
So Lincoln won the war, which cost him is life as agents of the City of London took him out for winning and also the greenbacks, and by freeing the slaves to punish the south and win support in the north, he is remembered for freeing the slaves . His biggest accomplishment is forgotten, that is preventing the British from colonizing the south and eventually recovering America. Failing that they eventually recovered America by other means thanks to Cecil Rhodes and the Round Table, although thats another deep secret.
US is just a crypto Commonwealth nation whose leaders get knighted by the Queen and military used to expand the Empire and protect the City of Londons Money Power in London, the tax havens and Wall Street
As for British Free Trade. Another myth. Their population got to big too big to feed itself on a small island, and recognizing this reality as well as the threat of competition to their industry on the European mainland they opened the doors to agricultural imports , with no tarrifs believing this would slow industrial growth in Europe. They still levied tarrifs on products like tobacco and alcohol. Colonies and unfair treaties signed under threat subsidized the lower or eliminated tarrifs. However they still were required to implement an income tax to make up for the lower revenues, and lack of protection for industry eventually forced them to embrace tarrifs again in 1932
So now we are all back to Free Trade but guess what. The US, UK and Europe have lost their manufacturing base to China/Asia. Tarrifs are back.
Like in 1932 Tarrifs provide only a temporary respite during the depression. Despite bogus economic indicators saying otherwise, the west has been in a depression since 2008. Another great war will be needed
Interesting read here
https://ips-dc.org/kicking_away_the_ladder_the_real_history_of_free_trade/
Posted by: Pft | Nov 1 2018 7:36 utc | 130
November 1 PacNW Climate Report
Well, today marks the fourth day of the winter monsoon, and right on schedule, overnight rains stripped the leaves from the trees, and autumn in all its beauty, has come to an end, right on the day after Halloween, as it has, without change, for the last 40 years.
Magic CO2!
The 2002 IPCC spokesperson, self-promoting Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, brought the Global Warming Myth to such a large audience that he encouraged that former tobacco lobbyist, failed presidential candidate and NAFTA pimp-daddy Al Gore to develop (with the aid of professional media Scientocrats) his mythically-flawed roadshow 'Inconvenient Truth'.
Anthropocene! they shrieked. The End of the World!
Pachauri, you will recall, gained global headlines with his claim the Himalayas would be free of glaciers 'within a decade' and sent panic-stricken Green students hammana-hammana'ing through the streets with billboards shouting 'The End is Nigh!' More stable geniuses pointed out that Pachauri was full of aloo phujia, and there really wasn't any significant change, as evidenced by old 1930s newsreels from Tibet, which nascent Deniers can observe here.
Global Warming! They howled. We're all Gonna Die!
But, Pachauri's 'One True Science' (sic) 'informed' (as they say) the politicians, and so here we are, about to vote-in a State carbon tax without limit, as determined by 'The Board', a carbon tax that may rise, at 'The Board's sole discretion, to the IPCC mandated $400 a ton, or $8.67 a gallon for petrol. That's a staggering €2 a liter!
It's Towering Inferno Meets The Impossible!!!
End Times is the predominant trope of Evangelicals and Rabbinical theocracy, a carry-over from a Dark Ages where papal theocracy 'informed' the monarchy of the need to torture the population for more tithes for Pope and King. And now we have a nascent Third Temple, in the form of a Carbon Tithe and Tax Credits Scheme and New Energy Revelations Catholic.
Climate Cri$i$! They roared. "It's Payup Time!™"
UK is suffering from massive deforestation, not from too much CO2, not from Climate Cri$i$, but from rampantly growing herds of Cervus, deer and elk to the layperson! Here in Washington State, with regular clearcut logging and regular hunting seasons, there are still massive forests!
Australian reefs are suffering from massive deterioration, not from too much C02, not from Climate Cri$i$, but from mile after mile of Queensland plantations on a typhoon coast, where supertyphoons first pound the reef physically, then massive flows of silt, fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides and sewage flow back into the sea and suffocate the coral. Mid-Pacific, on little-populated aboriginal populations, where the calm lagoon water is so hot you can dive all day in a loin-cloth, the corals are still pristine!
Temperatures that used to be measured ±1.0-degree have only been measured digitally to ±0.1-degree for a few decades, yet the Scientocrats tell us with fervor that we are warming at only 0.04-degree per year! This is well within statistical error!
Sea levels that used to be measured ±1.0 foot have only been measured digitally to ±0.1 foot for a few decades, yet the Scientocrats tell us with fervor that sea levels are rising at only 0.008-feet per year! This is well within statistical error!
This is truly the Tipping Point. We can restore the environment and stop the degradation, or we can be ruled by a supra-governmental Third Temple in a New Dark Ages Theocracy, organized solely to profit from the trade in carbon tithe dispensations!
Posted by: Anton Worter | Nov 1 2018 23:33 utc | 131
Pinche Tejano once told me "tone down the volume, dude".
It pissed me off at the time but looking back he was correct.
Posted by: donkeytale | Nov 2 2018 0:16 utc | 132
I keep looking for insights into what sort of society China is and how that might project into the bigger world. And especially I am interested in what they call the China system of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The link below from Xinhua.net contains some interesting statements from XI at a recent symposium on private enterprises, one of which I quote below the link.
Xi stresses unswerving support for development of private enterprises
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The basic economic system of retaining a dominant position for the public sector and developing diverse forms of ownership side by side is an important part of the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and crucial for improving the socialist market economy, Xi said.
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Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 2 2018 4:13 utc | 133
@134 Obviously it is necessary to strike a balance between state control and some kind of laissez-faire capitalism. China needs entrepreneurs and people who are ready to invest in China rather than trying to get their money out. Xi doesn't want to upset those people.
Looks like Trump may have blinked on resolving the trade war with China BTW...now all he has to do is sell it as a huge win for the US.
Posted by: dh | Nov 2 2018 13:08 utc | 134
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Don't worry, it will all 'tone down' once the Third Temple is established in USA, in, of all places, Washington State, land of the Wobblies, and once more Populist than Vermont.
But over the same period of Gramm-Liech-Bliley slash TBTF slash Citizens United, *massive structural adjustment* and more *unparalled $25,400B credit-debt*, than any time in human memory, Washington State has become a tax dodge for The Borg at MicroSoft, Amazon, Starbucks and Cisco.
Nobody 'toned down' that incredible wrenching change, and if the Third Temple establishes an Carbon Catholic archbasilica in Seattle, you'll be begging Pope Albertus to 'tone it down', riding the bus as your car is AEFI'd.
We'll know in 5 more days whether we have all become pentitents, creeping on burlap sacks towards the ICCP altar for our €2 per liter carbon tithe dispensation.
Posted by: Anton Worter | Nov 3 2018 5:03 utc | 135
Great Vax Report at a time when a dozen or more USAryan 2-year old children have experienced a polio-like disease with amputations, ... but not one word from FDA or CDC whether those children had received a polio booster vax!
Will will never know the true extent of AEFI in the USA, so it's nice to know other countries like Brazil are attempting to metricate, rather than obfuscate.
Posted by: Anton Worter | Nov 3 2018 5:09 utc | 136
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Thanks Mina all of those are brilliant links I recommend to everyone.
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