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Chris Martenson: The Whole System Is Rigged
As the dog days of summer wind down, it’s hard not to notice how the climate is suffering brutally right now across many areas of the globe.
Crop failures have hit hard across Europe. Australia is under an intense drought. Warm water representing ‘archived heat’ has penetrated deep into the arctic. Coral reefs are dying through mass bleachings. The stocks of ocean fisheries are in deep trouble. Insect and bird populations remain in a state of collapse.
It couldn’t be any more clear that our society’s demands for ever-more “growth” are taking an increasingly dangerous toll. “Growth” is now the enemy of life on the planet; yet there are precious few leaders willing to admit as much.
What we need is less pressure on vital ecological systems and precious remaining resources. But good luck finding a politician willing to admit that.
Though a refreshing exception is French environmental minister Nicolas Hulot who dramatically resigned his position last week, on live television, declaring “I don’t want to lie to myself anymore.” His view is that the government is not addressing the major environmental issues properly and he didn’t want his presence to give the false appearance that it was. Kudos to Nicolas, though I’m not sure that losing such a rare principled person in government is a step in the right direction.
Operating On Blind Faith
Most politicians appear to think that there are no big issues out there ecologically-speaking. Of course, very few of them spend any time outside or understand where their food even comes from. Most subsist on the blind faith that our planet will somehow always bounce back from the abuses we inflict on it, despite reams of mounting evidence that it’s hitting a mulitplying number of breaking and tipping points.
Sadly, the mainstream media chooses to toss wedge issue after wedge issue, ususally in the most inflammatory ways it can, at an increasingly irate general populace that has almost zero clue about the true source of the shocks (financial, economic, and ecological) they are experiencing. This prevents society from having an informed discussion about the real risks we should be concerned with.
As heart-tugging a topic as ‘border kids’ might be, the monster asset price bubbles blown by the central banks get almost no attention in the media — despite their ability to destroy the futures and dreams of pretty much everyone reading this article.
Our media is failing us, badly, by focusing on symptomatic issues that enrage and divide us, while remaining silent on the causal matters of vital importance to all of us.
In other words, you’d do well to ignore the pre-packaged opinions being spoon fed into your mind by the media professionals. Instead, look at the data yourself and come to your own conclusions about what’s happening.
Notice the near complete lack of insect diversity and numbers? What about the collapsing populations of frogs and reptiles? How about the missing seabirds? Did you know that humans have worked their harvesting down to the lowest part of the food chain and are now netting krill — removing the base of the pedestal for the oceanic food chain?
Why is it so hard for our culture to recognize that an economic model founded on the idea of perpetual exponential expansion, while living on a planet with finite resources, is a thoroughly unworkable idea? How can we all so blithely ignore the obvious indicators screaming that we’ve already hit the limits of that model?
The lengths to which humans are now going for new deposits of oil, copper, water, arable land and other essential economic inputs are staggeringly desperate. Each should be a warning sign unto themselves.
But taken together?
Ignoring them requires the same degree of self-deception that addicts employ in their belief that they still have things under control, and can stop anytime.
Yeah, right. Somehow ‘that day’ never arrives. It’s always just one more fix, one more day.
Except in this case it’s just one more election, one more quarter of growth, one more injection of central bank money.
Frustrating? You bet.
Trying to elevate the critical observation that pursuing infinite growth on a finite planet is not only impossible, but a really terrible idea, has been a frustrating endeavor.
We here at PeakProsperity.com have been at this for over a decade, and we can tell you first-hand, Folks, this ain’t easy.
While the logic support it is extremely straightforward, it runs afoul of the majority’s entrenched belief systems. So even the most basic and compelling of data is ignored. Instead, tortured anecdotes are held up as “proof” that their treasured belief systems are correct.
Here’s an example.
Anecdote: “Electric car sales are up 40% in Europe!”
Somehow this is proof that we’re on the right track. Electric cars are going to rapidly replace internal combustion cars, and thereby solve all the issues related to the world’s addiction to fossil fuels.
Basic data: “There’s not enough cobalt or lithium to even replace 25% of all cars on the road, let alone 100%. EV cars still consume extraordinary resources, and release a huge amount of carbon in their manufacture. Massive subsidies are required to make them economically attractive, even to wealthy citizens of wealthy nations, so they aren’t well suited to the bulk of the world’s population. And if these cars were somehow all powered by electrcity from solar and wind, those energy sources are still themselves massively dependent on fossil fuels for their mining, manufacture, transportation, installation and replacement.”
The basic data says that instead of salivating over expensive and advanced personal transportation methods designed to preserve the status quo of our current failing infrastructure, we should instead be dedicating a large part of our efforts towards mass transit, relocating our work/play/farm spaces so that they are closer together, and use vastly fewer resources to deliver the same services we rely on.
Recently I’ve been frustrated by the efforts to convince Americans that our democracy is under attack by outside agents when there’s ample evidence — concrete, hard, firm evidence which I’ve repeatedly covered — that US elections have been spitting out improbable and even sometimes impossible election results for the past 14 years, ever since insecure, low-integrity eVoting platforms and central tabulators were introduced.
Yes, nefarious agents may well indeed be undermining our democracy. But the real villains appear much more domestic than foreign.
There’s nothing more poisonous to the notion of democracy than fraudulent election outcomes. Nothing. And yet the number of people rising up in protest on this issue may as well be zero, as long as we’re rounding to the nearest whole percentage. Meanwhile millions are up in arms about the still-unproven allegations that Russia tipped the recent presidential elections with a laughably tiny amount of social media ads.
For those interested in more detail on just how badly manipulated recent voting results have become, read my recent account on the topic here. And then, just for fun, take a look below at the voting “architecture” put in place in Ohio under its disgraced Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell and which delivered a very surprising win for G. W. Bush over John Kerry. The pre and exit polls both showed an overwhelming win for Kerry. Oops! The new Deibold electric voting machines (which Blackwell owned a stake in) instead reported a surprising win for GWB:
You don’t have to be an IT expert to detect that there are numerous places for bad actors to insert themselves into this system and romp about with the vote totals. It’s a ridiculous joke of an architecture that, honestly, seems to have been specifically-designed to allow fraud.
In fact, this schematic reveals that the shady company “entrusted” to add up the vote totals had inserted a key piece of machinery as a “man in the middle” and not as a mirror server. That meant that the vote totals could be easily manipulated in a way that could not be undone or later refuted.
Even the most unschooled of individuals must be aware that vote counting cannot ever be a matter of “trust us”. With so much on the line, it must always be assumed that cheating is going to happen, not that it might happen. Checks and balances need to be in place to counter such abuse.
Several important questions emerge. Why did Kerry, knowing all of this, concede defeat so graciously within 24 hours? Why was such an obviously corrupt architecture put in place and not challenged? Why does it still persist to this day? Why have no major news outlets run a major investigative inquiry and publicized a huge expose on the utter lack of integrity within the US voting system? Why do we have a perfectly secure system in place for using a credit/debt card to buy a $2 slushy at 7-11, but somehow secure and trustworthy voting remains a mysteriously-unachievable outcome for a nation as advanced as the US?
The simple that explains all this: Voting is rigged, and the entire power structure wants it that way.
The wonder of it all is that there are a lot of people in Ohio desperately up in arms about Russian meddling right now, blissfully unaware that their entire state is shot through with election fraud courtesy of both major parties.
Yes, their democracy is under attack, and it has been for a long time. But it certainly isn’t the Russians designing, installing, and defending the Ohio voting systems.
The Outlook Is Deteriorating Fast
There are lots of things that we should be very concerned about and practically none of them are to be found on the news. In the rare cases they are, they’re presented without meaningful context and very rapidly replaced by trivial distractions.
We should be asking ourselves why that’s the case.
More to the point, you need to understand that very serious risks to your future prospects, well-being and liberty are building. The mounting warning signs are all around you if you look for them, though they’ll be carefully filtered out from the nightly news or your social media feeds.
Getting access to good information is difficult these days. And it’s getting harder, not easier. Only a few massive corporations own nearly all of our media outlets. They have a narrative they want sold, often developed with the goverment, and they invest billions to refine their craft of delivering it. Better algorithms, in-product placements, and mentally-addictive formats for delivering you distracting, emotionally manipulative context that has practically zero positive bearing on your life.
In short: it’s a rigged game. Perhaps it always has been, but in today’s digital age, the tools of state are becoming ever more crafty, sophisticated and complete.
Gone are the days when our financial markets served as important signals about the health of the economy. Today, they’ve been replaced by ““markets”” that central bankers and other bureaucratic planners utterly own and control. The only signals they send are what those running the show want us to hear.
Our precious ecosphere is disintegrating. The fossil fuels bonanza we are hopelessly addicted to is ending. But there is no Plan B to deal with these existential challenges (beyond the elites’ private plans to bunker down and ride out the trouble when it begins).
The message to take from this is: You are on your own. There’s no benevolent government preparing to step in and sort things out for you if/when collapse arrives. Your pensions are already gone — the math is cruelly certain on that. Self-interested corporations set the rules. Power will never be fairly redistributed due to elections.
Were a future of unlimited growth possible, these worries wouldn’t really matter. But it isn’t. So none of this is fine. Now that the pie is no longer growing, the obvious truth is that the rigged system is handing over a larger and larger portion of that stagnant pie to fewer and fewer people.
That’s an incontrovertible fact. But it’s reported by the media as if it were a wayward comet nobody expected that just showed up in the night sky. Rich people getting richer, what are you gonna do?
Never mentioned is that the system is rigged to create that outcome. And that the central banks have engineered it on purpose.
It’s time to wake up and see what’s really going on.
This is especially true right now for anyone with assets in the US equity ““markets””. With indices back at all-time highs, record complacency reigns. But scratch lightly on the “everything is awesome!” veneer, and an ugly picture of accelerating rot and instability immediately appears
In Part 2: The Outlook For The Markets Is Deteriorating Fast we expose the truly frightening contagion currently decimating a long list of emerging market countries and explain how it threatens to bring down the world economy with it. Collapse happens from the outside in, and the periphery is falling fast…
Yes, the entire system is rigged. But when a breaking point is reached, and things get so bad they spiral out of the control of the manipulators, Look out below!
58 Comments on "Chris Martenson: The Whole System Is Rigged"
Dredd on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 8:29 am
Well said.
Mister French on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 8:44 am
We have NO choice but to rig the system now or it would of collapsed long ago…capisce?
Donad J Chump on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 8:49 am
The system of white supremacy is collapsing.
Oh, dear, I suppose that means the Earth can’t survive without whites terrorizing and exploiting its resources.
How can the animals survive without the whites?
Jef on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 8:49 am
We have NO choice but to kill millions of innocents around the world or BAD people would just come in and do it.
deadly on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 9:29 am
The system is rigged is just more fake news, another Chicken Little screaming at the top of his lungs. News The Onion would find fit to print.
New fake news: The Onion Special Report
Duncan Idaho on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 10:13 am
Martenson obviously gets it, but the right wing idiots he often has on his podcast are laughable.
Rusty Baker on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 11:09 am
Why does Chris Martenson even entertain a whole slew of far-right wing conspiracy theorists on his podcasts?
Bloomer on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 12:22 pm
The game is rigged so the big corporations can make mega profits at the expense of everything else. This includes the environment, workers and the consumer.
And while the corporations are extracting they give little back. Whenever I hear a politician talk about tax cuts, they are speaking on the behalf of their corporate masters and the mega wealthy. When the politicians talk about the socialist they are referring to policies that help the masses and not their masters. This is how they rig the game.
Dredd on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 12:28 pm
“Warm water representing ‘archived heat’ has penetrated deep into the arctic.”
In that area (the Arctic) Greenland only has about 21.5 feet of sea level rise potential. Antarctica, on the other hand, has about 242 feet of potential sea level rise.
Furthermore, Antarctica is receiving orders of magnitude more warmer water than the Arctic is (Mysterious Zones of Antarctica – 4).
We are majoring in the minors eh?
onlooker on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 12:41 pm
The Game is rigged but it goes even deeper than that. It is about how our nature as humans is now working against us especially due to how many of us are now inhabiting the Earth. I speak about the sexual instinct. About our desire to “feel good” and so are “happy” with our modern lifestyles. Our entire species is in one form or the other now exploiting and pillaging the resources of the Earth to satiate our needs and wants. If the Amazon rainforest is being cut down it is partly about money but partly to feed ever more people. In summary, we have overshot the carrying capacity of our planet as a species, simple as that.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 12:57 pm
Onlooker
Chris Hedges talking about his book America: The Farewell Tour on MSNBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H07ygGZxjE
Enjoy my friend!
MASTERMIND on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 2:10 pm
Confederate monument destroyed in Georgia; reward offered
http://www.augustachronicle.com/news/20180831/confederate-monument-destroyed-in-sylvania-reward-offered
The people are rising up!
Cloggie on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 2:22 pm
“The people are rising up!”
On both sides.
And the world knows it can only end well… for the world.
https://youtu.be/f9xHhbG3wvk
https://youtu.be/45uy-TtkD1k
MASTERMIND on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 3:17 pm
Clogg
Your people are all senior citizens and are too low IQ to lead a revolution…
A group of angry incels isn’t a movement..
Cloggie on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 3:32 pm
“A group of angry incels isn’t a movement..”
DJT is busy turning the GOP from an NWO party into a party flirting with white nationalism. Don’t take it from me, I might be neo-nazi, you can never be too prudent these days…
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/the-battle-that-erupted-in-charlottesville-is-far-from-over/567167/
I call that a movement alright.
There is not a snowball’s chance in hell that the US can avoid CW2 and Anglosphere WW3:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2018/06/11/cw2-brewing/
Cloggie on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 3:41 pm
Reserve currency as accurate indicator of geopolitical power:
https://goo.gl/images/wmjbmV
Just like a human gets 80 years, a geopolitical top dog gets a century. Asking for a second American century is just as silly as an 80 year old man demanding a new life
Davy on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 3:48 pm
“There is not a snowball’s chance in hell that the US can avoid CW2 and Anglosphere WW3:”
In a nazi world of history revisions and fantasy futures I can see that.
Davy on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 3:50 pm
“Asking for a second American century is just as silly as an 80 year old man demanding a new life”
Eurotard land is already buried and moldering. Little chance of a rebirth to its 19th century greatness it ruined when it tried to destroy itself twice in the 20th century.
Cloggie on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 3:56 pm
Anglo-French Sea War 0-1 and escalating.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6126279/Scallop-wars-row-escalates-French-fishermen-venture-British-waters-net-44-bluefin-tuna.html
Britain is no longer our friend and no longer obeys common European law, so now it is Wild West, according to the laws of the Darwinian Universe. Other Europeans must come to the aid of our French brothers and show the Anglos who is boss.
These kind of prestige battles are very useful in that they make it ever more difficult for the British to return to the EU in case of a Bregret.
Britain out, Russia in, U-turn towards Eurasia. Winning formulae, for Europe. Russia and China are waiting.
http://thesaker.is/back-in-the-great-game-the-revenge-of-eurasian-land-powers/
Britain to become to the US what Cuba was to the USSR: a shabby isolated and economically enpoverished island and client state of an all-powerful (US) overlord.
Cloggie on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 4:04 pm
“it tried to destroy itself twice in the 20th century.”
The little weasel tries his sniping tactics again and never engages in a debate, he knows he would lose.
WW1: initiated by Britain
WW2: initiated by “World Jews”, using the US for the dirty work.
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/britain-masterminded-ww1/
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/chamberlain-and-the-forrestal-diaries/
Neither Britain nor the US are Europe, but instead our deadly enemies.
And now the time had arrived for you to get your teeth kicked in. Payday has arrived. You are geopolitically cornered and on top of that split in the middle.
Davy on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 4:11 pm
yawn. try referencing real history not your personal WordPress. Nazi were victims according to neder. lol
Cloggie on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 4:27 pm
“Nazi were victims according to neder.“
They were, intentionally slaughtered by ff Anglos twice.
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/bullitt-reveals-in-april-1939-that-war-has-been-decided-upon/
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/justice-jackson-has-to-admit/
But why don’t you make your case that Germany wanted to conquer the world, where everybody knows the US wants to conquer the world, is it not, Davy-Sum?
But lying Davy will NEVER engage in debate, he is smart enough to know he has no case.
Whatever, Davy should take care he won’t end up blind-folded and executed by a deplorable, when CW2 will be in full swing, like in Donbass, Syria, Iraq or some other hapless country, turned into a hell hole because of US imperial designs.
Cloggie on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 5:05 pm
Deafening silence, as usual, from our self-styled “neuterer and moderator”
He has even given up on defending the US government regarding 9/11:
https://peakoil.com/publicpolicy/cia-and-saudi-arabia-conspired-to-keep-9-11-details-secret
Davy on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 5:14 pm
Neder, your WordPress is your personal fantasy history. It is not legitimate and it is a product of your fraudulent personality. You need to spend time in an outpatient psychiatric ward undergoing reality testing strategies. You are losing it.
Cloggie on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 5:23 pm
“Neder, your WordPress is your personal fantasy history.”
No it is not, it refers to legitimate historic sources: Life Magazine, Nuremberg Tribunal.
As always you evade discussions, because you know you are covering up for a massmurdering global terrorist empire. YOU are the terrorist, Davy-Sum, and not a very smart one.
But your time is up. Eurasia is going to deal with you.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 5:41 pm
CLogg
Put your blog WW2 theories to the test of an actual historian..Prove that you aren’t a nut job..
PROVE YOURSELF!
You won’t accept the challenge which proves that you know they are bullshit..
You have been hoodwinked by amateur youtube videos..
LMFAO!
MASTERMIND on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 5:43 pm
Trump warns Assad against ‘reckless’ attack on Syria’s Idlib
https://www.rt.com/usa/437551-trump-assad-idlib-warning/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=push_notifications&utm_campaign=push_notifications
Third false flag’s a charm..
Trump is the deep state rubber stamper!
Nut&yahoo says JUMP and Trump says “How high” master!
Cloggie on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 6:06 pm
“Put your blog WW2 theories to the test of an actual historian”
Why should I do that? I have total air supremacy here in matters concerning history and self-styled “masterminds” like you are standing there with their mouth full of teeth, without having a clue what to say, while I stump you relentlessly. I should be prosecuted for child molesting.lol
You are so low-IQ that you are even too stupid to remember the lies of the empire (“US good, Germany evil”).
Now how does it fill to be completely outsmarted? To be exposed as the total dummy that you are?
How about you seeking help with an historian to get me defeated?
I’ll give you two historians who could come to your aide:
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/index.html
http://ihr.org/
Contact data on site.
David and Mark are sympathetic fellows and always willing to support an oligophrene like you.
Davy on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 6:17 pm
nederfraud, start a nedernazi blog so these fraudulent historical claims made with cherry picked historical happenings can be put to the public test. You won’t do that because your historical fantasies will be ripped to shreds.
Cloggie on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 6:43 pm
“nederfraud, start a nedernazi blog so these fraudulent historical claims made with cherry picked historical happenings can be put to the public test. You won’t do that because your historical fantasies will be ripped to shreds.”
Why don’t YOU “rip my historical fantasies to shreds”?
Because you can’t.
You and millimind are without any serious education, complete intellectual impotents. Airheads, unable to write a single coherent sentence.
If I had a rudimentary brain like you both have, I would be depressed too and also talk about collapse and suicide 24/7. Life must be horrible for you both without the ability to make sense of anything
Davy on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 6:53 pm
Nederfraud, I routinely hand you your ass especially with business and finance related issues? Your extremism always gets in the way of factual and accuracy.
makati1 on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 7:25 pm
Cloggie, did you notice that the deniers have no ‘reputable’ sources to back up their brainwashed idea of history? We who have lived thru most of what they are denying have perspective and experience. They only have the fake history that was taught to them by their government in their propaganda mills called schools and universities. And by twisted Hollywood.
They have no clue how Us’ “enemies” switch at the whim of TPTB. If it kisses the imperial ass, it is a “friend” and good. If it refuses, it is and “enemy” and bad. Especially if it has resources that the Us oligarchs want, like Russia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, etc..
Davy on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 7:31 pm
“Cloggie, did you notice that the deniers have no ‘reputable’ sources to back up their brainwashed idea of history?”
What history are we talking about Billy? The whole of human history of nedernazi’s 20th century history revisions?
makati1 on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 7:55 pm
“It was the Golden Age of the US economy, the quarter century between 1948 and 1973, when America reigned supreme, manufacturing exploded across the country and the American middle class greatly expanded. Those days are gone as the empire is in structural decay.”
1948 to 1973, I was there. It was the only time the “American Dream” existed. It was a great time to be young and enjoy America. Now it is a time to get out of America. The dream is now a nightmare.
“The “greatest economy ever” was actually during the post–World War II economic expansion, where the male of the household had one high paying career as his wife stayed home raising the children. That was enough to buy a home, auto, and experince the “American Dream” of consumerism without massive amounts of debt.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-03/american-dream-has-vanished-greatest-economy-ever
” Americans are discovering the “dream” was merely a fantasy provided by the government and blended with corporate propaganda. Many have also figured out their existence is meaningless as the institutions of what made this country great are being systematically dismantled. America is entering its terminal stage — the damage has been done — and today is by far not the “greatest economy ever.”
Slip slidin’…
makati1 on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 8:01 pm
Only in America: “Company Making Bulletproof Backpacks For US Students Flooded With Orders”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-01/bulletproof-backpacks-are-we-militarizing-our-schools
“…with a nation in chaos and desperate to avoid another school shooting, it has become increasingly common for teachers and students, and even some parents to now demand bulletproof backpacks.”
Slip slidin’…
makati1 on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 8:26 pm
The ’empire’ is getting desperate. After promoting/causing WW1 & WW2, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and on and on, the empire is now desperately attacking anyone who says “No!” to its world domination plans. Big China, strong Russia, even the little Philippines. If you want the true events, read this article:
https://journal-neo.org/2018/09/03/the-real-stakes-of-the-usa-china-trade-wars/
China is surpassing the Us and has become a serious threat to the empire’s existence. Throw in Russia and the empire is on life support. Slip slidin’…
makati1 on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 8:52 pm
America – Bits and Pieces: “The shale oil “miracle” was a stunt enabled by supernaturally low interest rates, i.e. Federal Reserve policy. Even The New York Times said so yesterday … If the Fed reverses its current course, then the shale oil industry has perhaps three more years before it collapses on a geological basis, maybe less….
The perceived solution is to run all our stuff on electricity, with the electricity produced by other means than fossil fuels, so-called alt energy. This will only happen on the most limited basis and perhaps not at all.(And it is apart from the question of the decrepit electric grid itself.)…
The nation is groaning under despotic corporate rule. The fragility of these operations is moving toward criticality. As with shale oil, they depend largely on dishonest financial legerdemain. They are also threatened by the crack-up of globalism, and its 12,000-mile supply lines, now well underway. Get ready for business at a much smaller scale…. (Note: smaller scale, not total collapse.- Makati1 )
Misc: The implosion of national chain retail is already underway. … Agri-biz style farming, based on oil-and-gas plus bank loans is a ruinous practice, and will not continue in any case … a lot of people will starve to death … A lot of colleges will go out of business. … Medicine will have to get smaller and less complex and that means local clinic-based health care. (What the Ps already has outside of the cities.) … this means close as many overseas bases as possible, as soon as possible.” I’m cheering that last one on!
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/09/03/the-uncomfortable-hiatus/#more-182647
Slip slidin’…
makati1 on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 8:56 pm
This made me laugh:
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/09/03/made-fresh-daily/#more-182636
So true!
makati1 on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 10:11 pm
“India and Pakistan have fought three wars in the past half-century, and both have nuclear weapons on a hair trigger. But the two countries are now part of a security and trade organization, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), along with China, Russia and most of the countries of Central Asia. …
After years of tension in the South China Sea between China and a host of Southeast Asian nations, including Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei, on Aug. 2 Beijing announced a “breakthrough” in talks between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). After years of bluster— including ship-to-ship face-offs—China and ASEAN held joint computer naval games Aug. 2-3. China has also proposed cooperative oil and gas exploration with SEATO members….
The Modi government also made it clear that New Delhi will not join U.S. sanctions against Iran and will continue to buy gas and oil from Teheran. India’s Defense Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman also said that India would ignore U.S. threats to sanction any country doing business with Russia’s arms industry….
Even such a staunch ally as Australia is having second thoughts on who it wants to align itself with in the Western Pacific. Australia currently hosts U.S. Marines and the huge U.S. intelligence gathering operation at Pine Gap. But China is Canberra’s largest trading partner, and Chinese students and tourists are an important source of income for Australia.”
https://dispatchesfromtheedgeblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/29/asias-shifting-alliances-in-the-time-of-trump/
West moving East and away from the US. Slip slidin’…
MASTERMIND on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 11:53 pm
Chris Hedges talking about his book America: The Farewell Tour on MSNBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H07ygGZxjE
The reporter’s head was going to explode if the interview went on any longer..
“No….No…. DON’T TALK BADLY ABOUT OUR CORPORATE OVERLORDS!!! CUT HIS MIKE NOW!!!”
Cloggie on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 1:03 am
Nederfraud, I routinely hand you your ass especially with business and finance related issues? Your extremism always gets in the way of factual and accuracy.
OK, so you admit that history is not exactly your fort…
Sissyfuss on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 7:37 am
Your forte.
Davy on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 7:55 am
“Expect More Pain”: As EM Contagion Goes Global, Wall Street Sees No Way Out”
https://tinyurl.com/ycoh35we
“the emerging market contagion vortex is starting to take on a life of its own and as Bloomberg notes this morning, “even when the most vulnerable countries vow to protect their currencies, the dollar steps in to rain on their parade.”
“Meanwhile, in addition to the imminent announcement of a new $200BN in China tariffs, US investors are now eyeing the Fed’s September rate hike which now appears inevitable, helping the dollar extend gains which in turn is further pressuring emerging markets amid deepening worries over idiosyncratic risks in emerging markets including Argentina’s fiscal woes, Turkey’s twin deficits, Brazil’s contentious elections and South Africa’s land-reform bill. And after observing developments in emerging markets with a sanguine eye for months, Wall Street analysts are finally starting to get concerned, and as the following soundbites demonstrate, as long as the Fed keeps tightening rates, virtually nobody sees a quick – or any – way out to break the global emerging markets contagion “doom loop” The dollar is winning by default, according to Kit Juckes, a global strategist at Societe Generale: “There’s not much to make me think the dollar should be going up, but there’s plenty to make me nervous about other currencies. The dollar is very strong and lacking rate support, but other currencies are worse.”
Cloggie on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 8:08 am
“Your forte.”
ce n’est pas sont fort.
The word “fort” is of French origin. That you don’t know how to spell it is your problem.
WhenTheEagleFlies on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 1:51 pm
Why is such little attention given to Obama’s lack of commitment to peak oil and global warming? His behavior finally made me to decide the dems ain’t no better than the gop in these matters and I’ve left the dems for good. Clearly, Obama dipping into the SPR while claiming to fight global warming stands as the symbol of Mr. Change being no change at all. It gives one good reason to become cynical. I’m a former petroleum explorationist and now more than ever I aver that oil will go away only when it’s impossible to get at it economically.
Boat on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 2:19 pm
The eagle falls flat
Obvious foreign gibberish with no understanding of US politics or oil.
roccman on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 2:41 pm
The whole system is ridged? Coming from a guy who buys the official 911 story? …. too funny.
Boat on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 2:55 pm
Mak
Are you admitting tensions existed for years with a host of nation’s going head to head with China? Wow, how your version of recent South China Sea history took a flip flop. Exceptionals don’t do that. Lol
makati1 on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 6:53 pm
Boat, did you miss your meds today? Any “tension” in the SCS is mostly caused by US meddling, not what the USMSM ‘news’ reports. China has been a nation, with a survival culture, for about 5,000 years and will continue as long as there are people on the earth.
The US will not last much longer as it has no culture or real history except as a warmongering nation depending on the rest of the world to support its wasteful economy.
Anonymouse1 on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 7:30 pm
Mak, boatretard does not even understand what any of the words he is trying to say even mean. The places, names, concepts, none of it really mean nothing to him. They are like shiny little beads that rattle around his cranium for a while. Then once in a while, he will try to sting the ‘words’ together, and he farts something out that only make sense to him, apparently. And no one else of course.
That is what it is, to be legally, and clinically retarded.