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Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament
We face a perfect storm of environmental, social, technological, economic, geopolitical and other global stressors. These global stressors interact in unpredictable ways. The pace of future shocks is increasing. The prospect for civilizational collapse is real. We need to build meaningful resilience.
There are four questions about how to build resilience:
1. How do we prepare ourselves and those we love?
2. How do we prepare our communities, networks, tribes, and organizations?
3. How do we prepare our states, countries, and international communities?
4. How do we prepare at a global level?
This human predicament goes by many names. The global challenge. The global problematique. Limits to growth. The end of the world as we know it. The prospect for civilizational collapse. All refer to the perfect storm of global biosphere and societal stressors interacting in complex and unpredictable ways.
Environmental stressors include:
– Climate change, sea-level rise, and changing weather
– Biodiversity loss at 10,000 times the normal level
– Toxification of all life, insect armageddon
– Ocean acidification, dead zones, plastics, and fish and plankton depletion
– Declining and polluted fresh water sources
– Depleted top soils
– Vanishing forests and many moreSocial stressors include:
– Poverty, racism, and injustice
– Unsustainable economic growth and global debt
– Vulnerable financial systems, supply chains, and power grids
– Population overshoot, refugee migrations, and resource competition
– Uncontrolled technologies, including AI, biotech, nanotech, robotics, cyber threats
– Dysfunctional geopolitics, failing states, and outdated institutions
– War, terrorism, and nuclear threats—defense resources needed elsewhere, and more
Climate change is the greatest global stressor. But a single focus on climate change means other global stressors are underestimated. These stressors interact as force multipliers, increasing unpredictable future shocks and even potential civilizational collapse.
Most people don’t want to think about this. Yet the culture is filled with vivid imaginings of dystopias in books, films, television series, and games. Civilizational collapse lurks at the imaginal edge of collective consciousness. Yet mainstream media and “official” government institutions are largely silent.
People give four excellent reasons for not thinking about the human predicament.
1. It’s overwhelming.
2. I don’t see how to make a difference.
3. I want to focus on things I can change.
4. I have more immediate things to think about.
We won’t argue. We understand. Worry about this can be a poor use of psychic energy for people who barely get by day-to-day—or simply have other priorities.
Likewise, most institutions—governments, corporations, international institutions, and civil society organizations—avoid thinking about our predicament.
They don’t see how they can respond.
They focus on critical sectoral questions.
They ignore future shocks in their planning
They don’t prepare for the high probability of devastating future shocks.
We understand. But we do need a small critical mass of people and organizations who recognize the need to think about our dilemma. The reason is simple. If we prepare, we stand a better chance of surviving than if we don’t. We need to survive these future shocks—up to and including civilizational collapse—if we are to build a greener and more just world on the other side.
RESILIENCE
We can prepare at all four levels—personal, community and organizational, state and national, and global. But the sweet spot for most of us is personal, community, and organizational resilience. We can’t often control what happens at the state, national, and global levels. We have a lot to say about what we do for ourselves and those we love and for our affinity circles.
What does resilience mean? The great resilience philosopher David Fleming offers this definition:
“The capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing changes so as to still retain the same function, structure, identity, and feedback.”
Fleming further says there are two kinds of resilience systems: preventive and recovery elastic. No word is perfect for what we are talking about. The word resilience has many critics. For one thing, bad things can be resilient as well as good things. Second, resilience implies keeping things more or less the same—and there is a great deal that needs changing. Third, resilience does not say much about using these perfect storms as an opportunity to create a just and green world after collapse.
For our purposes, let’s imagine that resilience means arrangements that are both preventive and useful for recovery. Let’s imagine these arrangements preserve as much of what is good as possible, let go of as much of what is bad as possible, and enable us to create a better system on the other side of collapse.
But let’s also acknowledge, realistically, that ideas of what is good, what is bad, and what would be better on the other side of collapse will differ greatly from one community to another, one person to another, and one state or nation to another. In other words, the meaning of resilience will be forever contested. We can’t solve that problem.
At a practical level, when things fall apart, most people and communities have a sense of what works best for them where they are. As global, national, and even state systems begin to fall apart—as they have in many parts of the world, including the developed world—it’s usually pretty clear what needs fixing now.
In a true emergency, what do people need? Here is a list of 14 basic needs:
Air you can breathe.
Water you can drink.
Food you can eat.
Clothing you can wear.
Shelter you can count on.
Energy for warmth and cooking.
Safety from internal and external harm.
Transportation of some kind.
Communications of some kind.
Ways to learn what you need to know.
Tools to do what you need to do.
Healthcare of some kind.
Justice of some kind.
Community that holds you and those you love.
It’s easy to imagine that in a collapse, the wealthy will always do better than the poor, and those with better educations will do better than those who are less educated. But in a true collapse—where, for example, the energy grid goes down, money no longer means anything, the social order and policing have disappeared, and communities are left very much to their own devices—the question of who is better equipped to survive can look very different.
It may mean more to know how to farm, raise livestock, hunt, fish, repair things yourself, build shelter, make clothes, and have other skills that rural communities have always traditionally known how to do. You may be better off if you have lived on almost nothing in peasant villages and made dangerous treks across forbidding landscapes than if you have spent your life jetting from one conference to another. Hardiness, knowing how to work with your hands, and the ability to live on next to nothing may be a distinct survival advantage. Many millennials exploring alternative ways of living are moving in this direction.
Some countries and communities may have survival advantages. Sweden and Switzerland take war and other emergencies seriously. They advise their citizens to stock necessities and be prepared to defend themselves. The Church of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) advise all members to have at least a three-month supply of food and other necessities. The head of the American Red Cross has called the Mormons an example of preparedness for other communities. Some farsighted resilient communities and corporations are also likely to have survival advantages.
On the darker side, crime syndicates are likely to be very resilient. Any kind of organized armed force may have survival advantages. These extreme scenarios cannot be precluded given the reality of increasingly severe future shocks and the real possibility of complete breakdowns. Such complete breakdowns already exist in the growing number of failing cities and states around the world.
One thing is very likely. In wars, the comparative advantage that urbanites have over rural communities reverses. People flow out of cities into the countryside seeking food and safety. To the extent that rural communities can accommodate these urban refugees, more people can survive, especially those who can adjust to the hardships of rural self-reliance.
As climate change accelerates, there will be massive migrant movements both within countries and from regions around the equator that are simply inhabitable to cooler climes, both north and south. Vast, lightly populated realms like the northern United States, Canada, Chile, and Siberia may be the places that self-organizing, new rural communities can survive. The global question is whether these desperate migrants will be met with walls and armaments, or whether we have merciful plans to welcome migrants to places where new communities can thrive in this new world.
Collapse will take different forms in different places. More likely than collapse is an increasing crescendo of future shocks. People respond to emergencies in two different ways: they come together, or they come apart. Often, they come together in the acute emergency but then come apart as the burdens become more than they can bear, or they become too frightened.
When people do come apart, it is often along sectarian, tribal, or ethnic lines. Different communities can live together in peace for long periods. But when scarcity or emergencies come upon them, resource competition engenders conflict. This conflict is often exacerbated by populist regimes that promise a better future by scapegoating the Other.
It may be that a new consciousness of the strengths of diversity that is growing stronger among young people will change this ancient observation. The United States and Canada have absorbed diverse populations and created a sense of shared nationhood better than most. But more important than a sense of nationhood may be a sense of shared local community. I am more hopeful. The communities I know are unlikely to break down along ethnic or sectarian lines. I believe there will be resilient communities that defy the ancient assumption that we always break along ethnic and sectarian lines in hard times.
What of the hope that if we all get more spiritual we will solve the problems of the world? I would love this to be true. Religious and spiritual communities can call forth the better angels of our nature. But we know the reverse is equally the case. Every religion and spiritual tradition exists on a continuum from a fundamentalist version to an evolved version. The evolved traditions tend to see that all people are created equal and that nature is a sacred trust. Most often, in times of stress, the more fundamentalist versions of the religion or spiritual tradition are mobilized against the Other.
We should, indeed, do everything we can to use religious and spiritual resources to meet the human predicament. The Quakers have been at the forefront of many human advances since the (incomplete) abolition of slavery. In every religious and spiritual tradition, large numbers of people live lives devoted to the good of their families, communities, co-religionists, and even other people. But we should be realistic. Our salvation in the face of the human predicament is unlikely to be enlightenment. That is the tragedy we face. With several dozen interacting global stressors, each of which is profoundly difficult to alter, it is very difficult to decide what to do that will make the greatest difference. Enlightenment doesn’t solve the problems. It may help us bring more wisdom and compassion to the efforts to resolve them.
We can see that coordinated interventions on many global stressors could, in principle, make a difference. We would need to solve climate change, reliance on toxic chemicals, an unsustainable economic system, population overshoot, gross inequality, uncontrolled technologies, and the tragic diversion of resources from human and environmental needs to the war system. The key is that when we forge silo strategies, we need to be sure that our silo strategies will not worsen other global stressors.
Global strategies are beyond the ken of most of us living ordinary lives. What is firmly within our ken is to make our lives and our communities and organizations more resilient. What that means will differ depending on circumstance. But the shared intention to make future shocks survivable is something we can all share.
The lingua franca of resilience is emergency planning. Emergency planning is something everyone understands. As future shocks deepen around the world, people naturally expand the list of contingencies they want to be prepared for. In Northern California, for example, we’ve had enough devastating fires so that most people who live in fire territory have given real thought to what they carry in their vehicles at all times, what they are prepared to grab at home and run, and where they will find shelter in the fire next time.
Emergency planning appeals to conservatives and progressives alike. It mobilizes firemen, police, and other first responders, who are accustomed to thinking about emergencies. Emergency planning brings people together across political, cultural, sectarian, and ethnic lines. It works to blend concepts like resilient communities, transition towns, or other metaphors for organizing together. We are unlikely to resolve the human predicament, but we can work to make future shocks more survivable. That work starts with us and those we love and extends into our communities, affinity circles, and organizations.
There is one spiritual awakening that could truly help us. I’ve worked with people with cancer for over 30 years. In the face of a life-threatening illness, some people truly “wake up” to what matters in their lives. For them, a wound is not only a wound but an opening. Great wars and tragedies can transform whole cultures and civilizations—for better or for worse. European and American cultures shifted after both World Wars. It’s possible that future shocks could create collective shifts of consciousness that help us adapt in more fruitful ways to the brave new world we face.
As a practical matter, we need to face this global challenge. We need to build resilient communities and organizations. We need an expanded agenda for emergency planning and coordinated work in critical silos to lessen future shocks so they are survivable. That makes sense across partisan lines and cultures around the world. That’s common sense. We need each other to have the courage and wisdom to do this great work. Join us.
Three books:
1. Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization
2. Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
3. David Fleming, Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It
Selected websites:
Resilience.org (Post-Carbon Institute)
Faninitiative.net (The Fan Initiative)
mahb.stanford.edu/ (Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere)
https://collapseofindustrialcivilization.com/tag/nate-hagens/ (Nate Hagens)
Transitionnetwork.org (Transition Network/Transition Towns/Circular Economy)
Dark-mountain.net (Dark Mountain Project)
Stockhomresilience.org (Stockholm Resilience Center)
cser.ac.uk (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk)
http://thrivingresilience.org/ (Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory)
Resilience.ngo/ (The Resilience Project)
110 Comments on "Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament"
Chrome Mags on Tue, 26th Mar 2019 9:41 pm
Planning to have resilience? Does that really work? If all our species is doing is accelerating to higher population, greater consumption of all resources, aren’t we by definition out of control for what can and will occur down the road?
We give lip service to lofty ideals but in reality all we really do is keep our collective foot on the accelerator of resource consumption, planet and other species be damned. How can there be much resilience beyond some short term supplies stashed away? Not much I would say. We all hit the collapse wall whenever it occurs and every person scrambles around for what’s left and who makes it through the proverbial bottleneck will be the one’s left to keep up the tradition of taking what we can get our hands on as fast as possible and if we get too bored with a low energy existence, we’ll take it out on a neighboring people to pillage what they have and party hard for the short term. That’s our species.
Theedrich on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 4:32 am
Need resilience? Just ask the loony Left. They have all the answers: neo-Marxism, mass murder by Allah-devotees, coombayah techno-fantasies, and extinction of that horrible monster, the White male.
Problem solved.
Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 6:34 am
I have come to the conclusion after years of living what I preach and investing in it that way of life the world will not change enough and soon enough to avoid some very unpleasant consequence. I am no longer a radical doomer. There are stages of doom and prep one must go through. There are basics of both that must be learned then the rest is an art. It really comes down to attitude in the end. There is no set manual for the undertaking because there are so many setting for doom and prep and so many different states of individual meaning. Isn’t meaning what we are after anyway? Those with a brain realize no amount of prepping will save you. Those with a brain realize consequences of collapse are real and the science is real. The problem nowadays is with solutions. Those who think the world will engineer a way out of this mess are in a fantasy world. The solutions are not reality tested with science and human behavior realistically. Most solutions I see are theory.
This should not matter to you the individual. Quit worrying about society and worry about your little world and meaning can be found. Maybe solutions will occur but probably not. This conclusion has pushed me towards individual solutions and small scale reclamations of life. These efforts may be the seeds of the future if a lucky environment is found for those who come after. You are leaving something like an artist leave art. If they fail then does it matter? It is the journey that matters in the end in my opinion. In the end we are all dead anyway. I find meaning in my way of life. I have learned so much. I feel blessed because I can do it.
I am specializing in dispersed energy gathering and harvesting while still utilizing the high intensity energy the status quo offers us. I do this with animals, solar panels, and biomass from the forest and fields revolving around permaculture. I am using the status quo to leave it. I will give what I learned to anyone interested. I do not claim to be special or above anyone. I am just lucky and enlightened. I have been awakened and so many others remain unawakened. Many because they are not capable but many others who have not had the right circumstances to change their status quo behavior. This is about behavior in the end. It is about the individual. Survival is about the community and landscape but the reasons are individual. This is not concerned with a higher power. What I am preaching is an add-on to what you have now. It is a way to navigate the decline of human affluence and environmental succession.
The numbers don’t add up doing cost accounting unless you place high value on real value. Real value is sustainability and resilience with a lower footprint. I can’t live like I do without the status quo but I do participate in the status quo less than others. I call that the honesty of Real Green. Gardening is not cheap. Wood does not pay and solar is overpriced. I have to use machines to cultivate the fields and gather wood. I could avoid this if I had a large family or slave like the old days. If I made the large investment in work animals I could do more without equipment. It is only the wife and I so I have no choice but to use money from my investments and modern equipment.
For me it is not about leaving the status quo it is about a hybridization of it. It is about localism and collapsing in place. The word collapse is misleading. It is more declining in place. I would love to be totally off the grid and out of the consumeristic world. That is not realistic for anyone but a few. What I am preaching is relative sacrifice that attempts to harness old ways combined with new ways to achieve a more resilient way of life. This is with the understanding the trajectory of the planet and society is in succession with decline, extinction, and dysfunction of human complexity. The individual can navigate this. The individual can yield to larger forces. Many of us will not make it with or without what I am doing. What I am saying is you can find meaning and feel good about something by following a path to a more sustainable and resilient life that acknowledges the awful consequences ahead. We are going to be less affluence. We are going to experience more pain. We are going to see death and dysfunction more. You can face that now and be more prepared when it comes.
You can also just do what you are doing if it is easier. What I am preaching is a lot of work. I am beat by the end of the day. I could have just retired by the ocean in a warm climate. Instead I am pursuing something that is a project of hard work and financial investment. I had the money to do it but many don’t. For those who don’t you can still make some changes. Those who have the money need to realize the economics of the status quo are such that permaculture and homesteading do not add up in the world of financialized globalism. This life does work if you use globalism to leave it creating meaning in the process out of noise and chaos of the status quo. In the process you can make the planet a little better and your life a little more meaningful. That is the best it gets.
forbin on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 9:45 am
But when scarcity or emergencies come upon them, resource competition engenders conflict.
– As was and will be in future times – this is MANKIND !
This conflict is often exacerbated by populist regimes that promise a better future by scapegoating the Other.
– yah , but really do we need to bring Venezuela into this ? ah yes we do , all populist states , be they left or right wing , end up in authoritarianism and the little people suffer….
Mind you I think the author thinks “populist ” means just right wing , and that’s part of the problem.
then we get “poor use of psychic energy ” uh oh , another outdated 1960’s view of the world .
too little too late , LTG was the plan don’t you know ? eheheh
As for the Anthropocene Thermal Event ( ATM ) / Anthropocene Thermal Maxima ( ATM ) well that’s firmly “baked” into the cake so to speak .
So enjoy it whilst you can , time is short …
Forbin
Bob Poulton on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 9:53 am
Davy, very well said. Regards. Estamos Jodidos
estamos jodidos on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 9:54 am
Davy, very well said. Regards. Estamos Jodidos
Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 10:19 am
Thanks Estamos. I put a lot of effort into my redundant word salads. Good to see at least one person reads them.
Robert Inget on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 10:21 am
Israel prepares to invade Gaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKc6qBqNLVA
This is where it all began.. and ends.
For several days Israel has been bombing Gaza.
When Trump seeded Golan to Israel (going back on 45 years of US policy, UN, and International law), Hamas began launching rockets toward Israeli cities.
“There’s good people on both sides”
Not Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 11:25 am
JuanP posted this
Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 10:19 am
Thanks Estamos. I put a lot of effort into my redundant word salads. Good to see at least one person reads them.
Dredd on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 11:32 am
Excellent post by Mr. Lerner.
We have been here long enough to have realized “where we are” (You Are Here).
What Mr. Lerner points out is that we are still lost here.
Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 11:45 am
In my above comment I said that I am beat by the end of the day.
What I meant by this comment is it’s tiring posting endless word salads, identity thefts, clowning, and sock puppeteering on PO.com from 4:00 AM until 11:00 PM. This is my full time job.
Not Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 11:46 am
JuanP posted this on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 11:25 am
Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 12:21 pm
I posted this
Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 10:19 am
Thanks Estamos. I put a lot of effort into my redundant word salads. Good to see at least one person reads them.
We welcome anyone that reads my word salads to stay in my country. We don’t even care if your a dirty wetback gimmigrant like juanpee.
Do not deport dirty wetback gimmigrant Estamos!
Not Dirty Wetback Gimmigrant Juanpee on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 12:41 pm
Estamos jodidos is Spanish for us Americans are screwed Davy.
Peter on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 1:07 pm
Actions speak louder than words.
Not Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 1:40 pm
JuanPee posted this
Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 12:21 pm
Not Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 1:44 pm
JuanPee posted this
Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 11:45 am
Cloggie on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 2:12 pm
The victory of the right in Europe!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/27/eu-to-stop-mediterranean-migrant-rescue-boat-patrols
“EU to stop Mediterranean migrant rescue boat patrols”
Europe has something far more effective than a Trumpian Wall: the Mediterranean.
Now the EU, no doubt because they are shitting in their pants in the face of the upcoming EU election, with a professed massive rise of the right, has announced it stops picking up wannabee gate crashers from the Mediterranean.
Europe.is.saved.
Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 2:20 pm
Out of all the enemies I’ve made for myself here at PO dot com, JuanPee is my favorite!
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 2:38 pm
What about me Davy??? We are so close you and I. A lot more than that dirty immigrant you are so obsessed with. Its not fair.
Not Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 2:48 pm
JuanPee posted this
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 2:38 pm
Not Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 3:18 pm
JuanP posting
Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 2:20 pm
Not Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 3:20 pm
JuanP posting
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 2:38 pm
What about me Davy??? We are so close you and I. A lot more than that dirty immigrant you are so obsessed with. Its not fair.
Not Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 2:48 pm
JuanPee posted this
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 2:38 pm
intellectual nematode Word Salad Alert! on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 3:21 pm
Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 6:34 am
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 3:27 pm
Clogg
Your economy is still not growing.. stopping migrants won’t solve your problems..you aren’t even able to cope with the problems, let alone solve them.. All you have to look at is Europes GDP
Enjoy the oil shortage
Cloggie on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 3:41 pm
Clogg
Your economy is still not growing.. stopping migrants won’t solve your problems..you aren’t even able to cope with the problems, let alone solve them.. All you have to look at is Europes GDP
Enjoy the oil shortage
Really? Yawn…
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/03/26/european-countries-are-the-most-ready-for-global-energy-transition/
“European Countries Are The Most Ready For Global Energy Transition”
…says World Economic Forum.
Not Dirty Wetback JuanPee on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 4:04 pm
Davy posting
Not Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 3:18 pm
JuanP posting
Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 2:20 pm
Not Dirty Wetback JuanPee on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 4:06 pm
Not Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 3:20 pm
Davy posting
JuanP posting
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 2:38 pm
What about me Davy??? We are so close you and I. A lot more than that dirty immigrant you are so obsessed with. Its not fair.
Not Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 2:48 pm
JuanPee posted this
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 2:38 pm
Cloggie on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 4:36 pm
Vaudeville time!
Looking straight into the ugly face of the American left:
https://www.infowars.com/watch-msm-coverage-of-the-russian-collusion-delusion/
The defeat is total!
Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 5:17 pm
Show me where I ever called JuanP a wetback.
You guys are just trying to make me look like a far right extremist racist redneck scumbag.
Not Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 5:31 pm
JuanP posted this
Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 5:17 pm
Not JuanP on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 8:24 pm
Davy posted this
JuanP posted this
Davy on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 5:17 pm
Cloggie on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 8:59 pm
The hydrogen economy is being shaped on the British Orkney Islands:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190327-the-tiny-islands-leading-the-way-in-hydrogen-power
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 10:19 pm
Neo-Nazi sympathizer pleads guilty to federal hate crimes for plowing car into crowd of protesters at ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/neo-nazi-sympathizer-pleads-guilty-to-federal-hate-crimes-for-plowing-car-into-crowd-of-protesters-at-unite-the-right-rally-in-charlottesville/2019/03/27/2b947c32-50ab-11e9-8d28-f5149e5a2fda_story.html
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 27th Mar 2019 10:36 pm
TRUMP ! TRUMP ! TRUMP ! Man make a ass out of him self at a McDonald’s.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/b63rdj/trump_trump_trump_man_make_a_ass_out_of_him_self/
That cracker got his ass tossed!
Cloggie on Thu, 28th Mar 2019 1:26 am
Neo-Nazi sympathizer pleads guilty to federal hate crimes for plowing car into crowd of protesters at ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville
For Europeans unimaginable, but in the US they have a medieval institution called “plea bargain”. That works like this: prosecutor against somebody he doesn’t like: “listen sucker, I am about to throw you in jail for 20 years, but if you confess, it will be only 10 years. Now what is it going to be”.
Uh-uh, I confess…. sir.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/driver-deadly-car-attack-charlottesville-white-nationalist-rally-pleads-guilty-n987961
U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia Thomas Cullen said his prosecutors kept victims and their families regularly updated on plea-bargain talks — and that he needed ultimate approval from Attorney General William Barr to finalize his deal with Fields.
The US “justice” system is disgusting. A terrorist organization.
Theedrich on Thu, 28th Mar 2019 1:27 am
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. America is descending into madness. Its self-justifying DeepState intends to overpower the world through war and the threat of war. The planet is consequently slouching toward self-destruction. The expansion of U.S. nuclear forces is a main driver behind this unstopping trudge. This, even though a few voices in the House of Representatives are trying to “prohibit the research and development, production, and deployment of the Trident D5 low-yield nuclear warhead.” A new bill, the “Hold the Low-Yield Nuclear Explosive Act” (or “Hold the LYNE Act”), is, in a rare moment of candor, prefaced by a few rarely acknowledged facts:
– (1) The United States has an unparalleled nuclear arsenal, including 1,350 strategic nuclear warheads deployed on intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and strategic bombers.
– (2) A new low-yield nuclear weapon to be carried on a ballistic missile submarine risks lowering the threshold for nuclear use and increasing the chance of miscalculation that could escalate into all-out nuclear exchange.
– (3) When launched, such a low-yield nuclear warhead would be indistinguishable to an adversary from the high-yield W76 and W88 submarine-launched warheads.
– (4) On January 25, 2018, former Secretary of State George Schultz testified before the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate that “A nuclear weapon is a nuclear weapon. You use a small one, [and] then you go to a bigger one. I think nuclear weapons are nuclear weapons and we need to draw the line there.”
– (5) Former Senator Sam Nunn and former Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz stated in an op-ed on February 1, 2018, that, “The most immediate priority should be to structure and posture U.S. and Russian nuclear forces to deter nuclear use and reduce the risk of an accidental, mistaken or unauthorized launch. Against this backdrop, the current Russian concept of ‘escalate to de-escalate’ — i.e., limited nuclear use designed to create a pause in the conflict and open a pathway for a negotiated settlement on Moscow’s terms — and U.S. calls for more ‘usable’ nuclear weapons taken together make the world a vastly more dangerous place.”
– (6) The ballistic missile submarines of the United States have never carried low-yield nuclear warheads, and setting a historical precedent could undermine the unique and paramount role of ballistic-missile submarines as the assured, survivable second-strike capability of the United States to deter large-scale nuclear war.
– (7) The United States should reject policies that increase the likelihood of nuclear war and weaken national security, including investments in low-yield nuclear weapons.
American duplicity has contributed greatly to the heightening of global danger. Iraq and Libya gave up their WMD programs and shortly thereafter were invaded and destroyed, its leaders executed, by the U.S. and its vassals, who had previously demanded that those programs be dismantled. Is anyone so obtuse as to imagine that North Korea is going to surrender its nuclear and missile developments?
In addition, nukes enable others to think of themselves as supernaturally important. Pint-sized “Great” Britain, captured by its own culture of overweening arrogance, maintains a small nuclear force (~216 nukes, including 4 subs with 16 warheads each), which makes it an easy target for utter extinction in a matter of minutes, if not seconds, by any serious countervailing power such as Russia, or even by nuke-supplied Allah worshippers. Similarly France. Not just NoKo, but Israel, India and Pakistan are also on the list of nuclear nations. Because they all regard atomic weapons as “deterrents.” And so they are — for a historically short while. But it is self-delusion to regard them as a permanent safeguard, as former British naval commander Robert Green explained in a TEDx talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH6xkjMNdnk. Eco-scientist Brian Toon has laid out what even a “small” nuclear war (e.g., between India and Pakistan) would mean for the planet at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7hOpT0lPGI. And yet our leaders continue to prate on about the virtue and glory of America, its “warriors,” and its nukes, as if there were no tomorrow.
And, given such prattle and wanton criminal aggression by Yankeeland against all life on earth, there may not be.
JuanP on Thu, 28th Mar 2019 1:38 am
Theedrich, I am terribly disappointed in your post below. How could you possibly forget the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered community.
“Need resilience? Just ask the loony Left. They have all the answers: neo-Marxism, mass murder by Allah-devotees, coombayah techno-fantasies, and extinction of that horrible monster, the White male.
Yep, I’m still here moderating and neutering when necessary!!!!
JuanP on Thu, 28th Mar 2019 1:42 am
“America is descending into madness. Its self-justifying DeepState intends to overpower the world through war and the threat of war.”
Come now, Theedrich, what’s to worry about? Your hero and The Dear Leader is the only person authorized to launch America’s nuclear arsenal.
Stop being such a drama queen. You’re sounding more and more like DavySkum.
Cloggie on Thu, 28th Mar 2019 1:46 am
TRUMP ! TRUMP ! TRUMP ! Man make a ass out of him self at a McDonald’s.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/b63rdj/trump_trump_trump_man_make_a_ass_out_of_him_self/
That cracker got his ass tossed!
For Europeans: this is in NYC, a useless darkie-town, that once loved to see itself as the center of the world (LOL), but now a self-respecting European wouldn’t want to be found dead in that stinking third world hellhole. That drugged & tattooed white kid is a perfect representation of the state of white America: completely demoralized and nihilistic as a result of his country being ruined by mobsters tribe:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321318694_Jewish_Involvement_in_Shaping_US_Immigration_Policy
http://www.lbjlibrary.org/assets/uploads/lbj/Press/a1421-30a_med.jpg
(LBJ-kike signing the death warrant of the US in 1965)
Drug-deaths per million:
US 800
UK 60
EU 20
For us Europeans, this is not too bad news: the country is about to fall apart and we can be a great help in bringing that mega-event about and liberate our fellow Euro’s from the tentacles of Uncle Schmull, after Trump. We owned the place between 1492 and 1783 and it were continental Europeans who played a decisive role in pushing the US into independence (in order to give the British a thorough haircut, who wanted entire North-America for itself). That may not have been a very bright idea in hindsight.
That poor white kid in the video would be much better off being owned by benevolent Europeans than by mobster and his water carrier empire dave.
EU = 500 million
Slavic world (those with the nukes) 200 million
China = 1350 million
Should be a walk-over, certainly if we promise the Mexican government a large chunk of the US-SW plus most of Texas, so we can use Mexico as a launch pad, initially for smuggled weapons and freelancers-without-id, later for regular troops. The Chinese could enter the country via Hongcouver and the Russians via Alaska.
Cloggie on Thu, 28th Mar 2019 2:14 am
European countries best positioned for the renewable energy transition:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2019/03/28/energy-transition-index-2019/
Antius on Thu, 28th Mar 2019 4:45 am
“That drugged & tattooed white kid is a perfect representation of the state of white America: completely demoralized and nihilistic as a result of his country being ruined by mobsters tribe:”
It would be of enormous benefit to European peoples if they had at hand a book detailing exactly how the ‘tribe’ have cheated and manipulated the western world over the past 200 years.
It needs names, specifics and good references. Knowing your enemy is the key to winning any war. A publicly available volume detailing the crimes of these people and how they work, would be a significant blow against them.
No publisher would dare touch it; but the internet is a creative commons.
Davy on Thu, 28th Mar 2019 5:18 am
“That cracker got his ass tossed!”
MOB, your world is falling apart. You are ever more desperate and dismissing the lies of the left with half hearted examples of right wing extremism. You are one big fucking joke. I imagine at some point with nothing left in your life you will off yourself.
Antius on Thu, 28th Mar 2019 5:21 am
These two articles lay bare the dystopian nightmare that the EU is gradually evolving into. A place where all are monitored and controlled, all of the time, in accordance with the absolute values of Frankfurt school Marxism.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-27/can-eu-survive-its-own-censorship
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-27/european-cars-will-soon-slow-down-automatically-if-youre-speeding
What bothers me most about ‘smart cars’ is not the speed limiting devices; but the way that they make it easy to track movements, something that can already be done with GPS, if you have it fitted. In the UK, every main road is in the process of being fitted with banks of cameras every kilometre, allowing motorists movement to be continually monitored. Eventually all of this high-tech shite will be tied into a supercomputer, allowing everyone’s movements, internet traffic and verbal ramblings throughout life to be recorded and catalogued to build a profile that can be used against them.
The world is gradually moving into a sort of electronic slavery; where men are treated as soulless components within a colossal machine. Who better to spearhead this movement than the Western USSR, also known as the EU? This vile organisation must collapse before it can be replaced by something better and freer. I only hope that collapse does not imply substituting ZOG domination with Chinese domination.
Antius on Thu, 28th Mar 2019 5:32 am
“MOB, your world is falling apart. You are ever more desperate and dismissing the lies of the left with half hearted examples of right wing extremism. You are one big fucking joke. I imagine at some point with nothing left in your life you will off yourself.”
Imagine a point where there are simply too few white Americans left to stop these people; however psychotic you happen to think they are. You will be getting to that point in another 10 years (at most).
Consider this: The Democrats won control of the house of representatives and continue to achieve level poling with the Republicans. They do this even though they are leaderless and clearly bat-shit crazy; with nothing to offer anyone that works hard and has more than two brain cells. Part of the problem is ZOG brainwashing through the media and education system. An equally significant part of the problem is demographic change (also Yid driven). The displacement of the European American people in their own country is now inevitable. You are the new Sioux and Trump is your Crazy-horse, battling vainly against the inevitable.
Davy on Thu, 28th Mar 2019 5:33 am
About time the FBI make an attempt to uphold the rule of law after a couple of years of being hijacked.
“FBI Investigating Sudden Dismissal Of Smollett Hate-Crime Hoax”
https://tinyurl.com/y5tnn72o zero hedge
Update2: According to ABC7’s Rob Elgas, the FBI is reviewing the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of criminal charges against Smollett.
Davy on Thu, 28th Mar 2019 5:43 am
“Imagine a point where there are simply too few white Americans left to stop these people; however psychotic you happen to think they are. You will be getting to that point in another 10 years (at most).”
Come on Antius you are showing your widdle hurt white racist extremist feelings. Sniffle-sniffle the world is coming to an end because “WE???” don’t control things. This is more about extremism of all colors. Your and my white European culture brought us to this end and now your high and mighty racist white alligator tears are whining a river. Extremism of pissed off people is the problem. Whites took over the world and now some of it is being returned rightfully to that world that was raped and pillaged and you are whining. What a joke. In some ways you, cloggo, and Thee are as bad as MOB. You extremist will cancel each other out eventually. Whites need to get a backbone and go through the stages of death. Whites need to acknowledge their problems and quit just pointing fingers because true mental health comes from looking in the mirror.
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 28th Mar 2019 6:38 am
When the economic collapse occurs, it will be just like the soviet union where 90 percent of the population lost their entire savings accounts..
Better spend it now because it will either be gone later or it wont be worth shit when hyperinflation kicks in..
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 28th Mar 2019 6:43 am
Antius
Whites dont want to have children anymore..They want to dress in drag and wear panties..The great whitey has turned into the old circus side show freaks..
LOL
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 28th Mar 2019 6:46 am
NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern calls for global effort to shut down online hate speech
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/111598755/jacinda-ardern-welcomes-tightening-of-facebook-rules-on-hate-speech