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Kunstler: Rumors of War
The race to economic collapse is an international competition sparking threats and tensions summoning the specter of war. The imploding center of this collapse is that of industrial technocracy based on fossil fuels. All the nations will go through it on differing schedules. It has been playing out slowly, painfully, and deceptively — hence, my term for it: the long emergency.
Following a dumbed-down media unable to parse the delusions du jour, one might think, for instance, that the USA and China are engaged in a symbolic battle for the heavyweight championship of the world. Rather, both are freaking out at a prospective decline in activity that will make it impossible to support their current populations at even close to the levels of comfort they had lately achieved.
For China, that means very lately. Up until the turning millennium, most Chinese lived as though the twelfth century had never ended. For but two decades now, a new and quite large Chinese middle class has been driving cars around freeways, eating cheeseburgers, wearing designer blue jeans, shooting selfies at the Eiffel Tower, and even dreaming of trips to the moon. They’ve barely had time to turn decadent.
Getting to that was quite a feat. China compressed its version of the industrial revolution into a few decades, catching up to a weary, jaded West that took two hundred years achieving “modernity,” and now it is seeming to surpass us — which is the reason for so much tension and anxiety in our relations. The real news is: we’re all already in the climax of that movie. Nobody will surpass anyone.
The reason is the decline of affordable energy to run the stupendously complex systems we have come to rely on. China never had very much petroleum. They import over 10 million barrels a day now, and most of that comes from far far away, having to pass through some very hazardous sea lines like the Straits of Hormuz and Molucca. They run things mostly on coal, and they’re well past peak — and let’s not get into the ecological ramifications of what they’re still burning. Even some intelligent observers in the West think that the Chinese have made gigantic strides in alt-energy, and will soon be free of old limits, but that’s a pipe dream. They have met the same disappointments over wind and solar as we have. Alt-energy just doesn’t pencil out money-wise or physics-wise. Plus, you absolutely need fossil fuels to make it happen, even as a science project.
The US is smugly and stupidly under the impression that the “shale oil miracle” has put an end to our energy worries. That comes from a foolish nexus of wishful thinking between a harried populace, a dishonest government, and the aforementioned brain-damaged news media. We want, with all our might, to believe we can keep running the interstate highways, WalMart, Agri-Business, DisneyWorld, the US Military, and suburbia just as they are, forever. So, we spin our reassuring fantasies about “energy independence” and “Saudi America.” Meanwhile, the shale oil companies can’t make a red cent pulling that stuff out of the ground. For the moment, ultra-low interest rate loans, riding on the back of all that wishful thinking, keep the racket going and sustain America’s illusions.
The disappointment over that error-in-thinking will be epic. In fact, it already is, considering how many working-age people without work or sense of purpose are ending their lives by opioid OD in Flyover country. The hipsters of Brooklyn and Silicon Valley haven’t gotten to that point because so much of America’s diminishing capital productivity still flows into their bank accounts — enabling a sunny life of caramel cloud macchiatos, farm-to-table suppers, and sexual reassignment surgeries.
The US and China are actually more like two passengers of a sinking ship racing to swim to a single lifebuoy — which is drifting ever-beyond the reach of both desperate parties on a powerful current of history. That current is the one telling nations quite literally to mind their own business, to prepare to go their own ways, to strive somehow to become self-sufficient, to finally face the limits to growth, to simplify and downscale all their operations.
Alas, the US and China — and everybody else — will apparently be dragged kicking and screaming to those transformational recognitions. (Thus, the agonies of Brexit.) In the meantime, we may choose to slug it out in pursuit of that chimerical world championship just because we still have means to go at it. Such a contest would certainly speed up the journey to our fated destination, and not in a good way.
110 Comments on "Kunstler: Rumors of War"
Sissyfuss on Mon, 27th May 2019 11:31 am
Kuntski’s refocusing on collapse again after a dalliance in corporate political deciphering, a fools errand. Of course, neither topic offers any entertainment value but they are essential to anyone trying to make sense of our modern maladies, if that is at all possible. Making sense of the senseless is one of humankinds most essential pursuits but it grows more challenging as the Anthropocenes waters grow ever more polluted.
Robert Inget on Mon, 27th May 2019 12:45 pm
Sissyfuss, make sense, even with a silly handle.
Wake up ‘brave posters’ sign your real names.
If someone as odd as Kunstler does it, so can U.
Davy on Mon, 27th May 2019 12:51 pm
“Wake up ‘brave posters’ sign your real names.”
shut up bob, you talk too much off topic shit and are way too extremist liberal. There is nothing brave about you.
Chrome Mags on Mon, 27th May 2019 12:59 pm
“Kuntski’s refocusing on collapse again after a dalliance in corporate political deciphering, a fools errand.”
And it just may be a temporary refocusing, but at least he came back to the subject he was known so well for. Good for Kuntski – lol.
It is obvious we are in some not so cozy stage of leaning towards collapse. We can expect situations to continuously get tenser from here on out. The blame game will lead to harsher rhetoric, and when things get real bad all hell will most likely break loose with people saying stupid things like, those bleeping Chinese took away our good life. Let’s get them! Of course not realizing there are full spectrum knock on effects from declining eroei.
I AM THE MOB on Mon, 27th May 2019 1:06 pm
According to Pew Research, Muslims have the highest fertility rate, an average of 3.1 children per woman – well above replacement level (2.1), the minimum typically needed to maintain a stable population.
https://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/religious-projections-2010-2050/
The Great Replacement
Davy on Mon, 27th May 2019 1:14 pm
MOBster, I take it you are Muslim. That would explain the white hate.
Cloggie on Mon, 27th May 2019 2:12 pm
MOBster, I take it you are Muslim. That would explain the white hate.
Sigh.
AOL-muzzie-lover-AKAfmr-paultard on Mon, 27th May 2019 2:13 pm
imam supertard fitzgerald (pbuh) is now writiing about the establishment clause and how we’re going to win in the supremes where we have supertards on our side.
this case is about writing the sahada in school. ‘we believe there is no killer chimps but two allah and mohamad’. this started the killing for 1400 years and it’s not stopping.
imam supertard glenn roberts (pbuh) now put the number close to 600 killed with over 2/3 out the way. ramadan is when muzzies intensify killing so be careful.
Cloggie on Mon, 27th May 2019 2:42 pm
Talking about Muslims… the largest Muslim state today is Indonesia, formerly known as the Dutch East Indies, until the US decided otherwise.
Here a virtual reality impression of 1627 Batavia (present day Jakarta):
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/2x10bv
No doubt it has many similarities with that other Dutch town, Nieuw Amsterdam, sometimes misspelled as “New York”. Like the many canals through the city.
https://jhna.org/articles/dutch-batavia-exposing-hierarchy-dutch-colonial-city/
The entire VR film can be seen in the Westfries Museum in Hoorn in the Netherlands.
Real Name on Mon, 27th May 2019 4:04 pm
Man… I need to know what my Man Kunstler thinks of Trump and Jong-un calling Joe Lemme-sniff-you Biden “Low IQ”. With collapse always just around the corner we need these distracts more than ever!
JuanP on Mon, 27th May 2019 4:40 pm
This is a juanpee posting
Davy on Mon, 27th May 2019 1:14 pm
MOBster, I take it you are Muslim. That would explain the white hate.
JuanP on Mon, 27th May 2019 4:43 pm
This is a juanpee posting
Davy on Mon, 27th May 2019 12:51 pm
“Wake up ‘brave posters’ sign your real names.”
shut up bob, you talk too much off topic shit and are way too extremist liberal. There is nothing brave about you.
I AM THE MOB on Mon, 27th May 2019 4:48 pm
Once hailed as the future of television, 3D TV’s have not been produced by any manufacturer since 2016. 3D TV is dead.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/29/3d-television-set-dead-major-manufacturers-stop-making/
Electric cars, and solar, wind power will suffer the same fate.
lol
I AM THE MOB on Mon, 27th May 2019 5:03 pm
Gillette ad shows man teaching transgender son how to shave
https://nypost.com/2019/05/27/gillette-ad-shows-man-teaching-transgender-son-how-to-shave/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow
makati1 on Mon, 27th May 2019 5:51 pm
Sissyfuss, “challenging” is a good term but is likely to be too mild for what is coming. Those highest on the consumption ladder will likely suffer “disastrous” effects. As you move down the consumption ladder, it will go to “painful”, then lower to “challenging”, and then to “difficult” and finally, at the bottom, to “BAU”.
Many millions, maybe billions, will not even notice the change. That is a difficult concept for the consumers in the US to grasp as they are balancing on the top of that ladder and it is a long way down. They are still being told that the ladder has more steps up, if only the rest of the world kissed their ass. Well, I think current events are proving that that future is not going to happen. Get off the ladder now, if you can. If not, buckle up!
Note to Self on Mon, 27th May 2019 6:26 pm
shut up Davy, you talk too much off topic shit and are way too extremist conservatard. There is nothing brave about you.
JuanP on Mon, 27th May 2019 6:29 pm
I am a bad boy. They are sending me back to Venezuela.
https://s.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/styles/embed_tablet/public/2017/12/05/rtsy4j3.jpg
onlooker on Mon, 27th May 2019 6:35 pm
Too little, too late Americans waking up
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/27/army-m27.html
makati1 on Mon, 27th May 2019 6:54 pm
Onlooker, that is a good article. I agree. Too late. A step in the right direction, but I don’t see real action by the tax slaves in the near future. A “let someone else do it” mindset will take a lot of pain to get them off the couch..
TPTB in the US will keep the warmongering going, even against the wishes of the tax slaves, until total collapse of the US occurs. Soon, I hope. Prepare now.
onlooker on Mon, 27th May 2019 6:59 pm
Yes, look at the way we are still war mongering Mak. In Iran, in Vebezuela, Syria. We needed to be taken down a long time ago. The suffering and death in the wake of the US Empire is horrific. Thanks for your constant conviction about this Mak.
makati1 on Mon, 27th May 2019 7:09 pm
Onlooker, it helps to be living in a country NOT the US and to see the real world and what the US has and is doing to it. It has even threatened the Philippines several times recently.
It is interesting that some ISIS terrorists showed up in Mindanao soon after the Philippine president, Duterte, started leaning towards Russia and China for military and investment support. Coincidence? I don’t think so. Yes, the US must go down.
Sissyfuss on Mon, 27th May 2019 10:29 pm
Transparent Rob, I’m sure all the interested parties have every bit of information they need to roust me. I chose my monicker because living in the Anthropocene makes as much sense as pushing a rock endlessly up a mountain. Aren’t you here for the infotainment like the rest of us delinquents.
Cloggie on Tue, 28th May 2019 1:05 am
Brexit and no end. Here are the true UK vote numbers, not clouded by that Anglo “winner-takes-it-all” district system:
https://tinyurl.com/yyl3ar29
Brexit: 32%
UKIP: 4%
Total 36%
LibDems: 20%
Greens 12%
SNP: 4%
ChangeUK: 3%
Total: 39%
There is absolutely no reason to believe that “Leave” would win again in a second referendum. That’s why Brexiteer Corbyn is against it, despite overwhelming pressure from within the Labour party to organize a 2nd referendum.
Such a referendum is my biggest fear that the best tool to drive a wedge between continental Europe and Anglosphere and blow up the West, namely Brexit, is going to be cancelled in the last minute, now that the British population is much better informed after 3 years of intense debate, about the devastating consequences.
Cloggie on Tue, 28th May 2019 1:09 am
Hey look, Great-Britain is actually TWO countries:
https://tinyurl.com/y4sc9zt5
The yellow one wants to be part of Europe, the blue one part of Anglosphere. Let’s have it, everybody happy!
A giant Euro-Siberian naval base in Scotland would solve a lot of Europe’s kosher problems!
Cloggie on Tue, 28th May 2019 12:40 pm
Even some intelligent observers in the West think that the Chinese have made gigantic strides in alt-energy, and will soon be free of old limits, but that’s a pipe dream. They have met the same disappointments over wind and solar as we have. Alt-energy just doesn’t pencil out money-wise or physics-wise. Plus, you absolutely need fossil fuels to make it happen, even as a science project.
Yawn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Howard_Kunstler
“In 1966, he graduated from New York City’sHigh School of Music & Art, and attended theState University of New York at Brockport, where he majored in theater. After college, Kunstler worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff writer forRolling Stone. In 1975, he began writing books and lecturing full-time.”
I can never get enough of opinions from theater folks on engineering! More of it!
Dunno about you, but if my tooth hurts I go to somebody with a theater degree, not to a dentist; if I need legal advice, I go to somebody with a theater degree, not to a lawyer. If my toilet is overflowing, I go to somebody with a theater degree, not a plumber, etc., etc.
Seriously, although I value Kunstler’s columns as a generalist on politics, geopolitics, public life, suburbia, mostly because of his humor, not necessarily his accuracy, but I couldn’t care less about his brain farts on engineering.
Here the judgment of real serious people, the energy specialists from the German Fraunhofer Institute:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/blueprint-100-renewable-energy-base-for-germany/
“Blueprint 100% Renewable Energy Base for Germany”
A 100% renewable energy base is very well possible, at a cost (once installed) comparable to our current energy bill. The transition period is admittedly more expensive, because of all the research and innovation that needs to be done.
James Howard Kunstler, just another Richard Heinberg layman, albeit one with humor.
Cloggie on Wed, 29th May 2019 1:25 am
News from Europe
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7077409/Merkel-warns-spectres-past-amid-battle-soul-new-Europe.html
“Merkel warns of ‘the spectres of the past’ as battle for soul of Europe begins with leaders’ gathering in Brussels after surge of far-right and greens in EU elections”
Libtard #1 in Europe Merkel has hinted that she has a very bleak view of the future. What she means is that she fears for the future of the West and the rising strength of the political right everywhere. She is correct. Now open that champagne bottle.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7077539/Now-Tony-Blair-insists-Remain-votes-add-majority-Euro-elections.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7077539/Now-Tony-Blair-insists-Remain-votes-add-majority-Euro-elections.html
“‘Even Tony Blair cannot spin his way out of this one’: MPs blast ex-PM whose ‘lies’ took us into the Iraq war after he insisted Remain votes DO add up to a majority in Euro elections and prove Labour must back a second referendum”
Why don’t you go to Texas and mow the lawn of GW Bush?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-7080495/Our-United-Kingdom-threat-new-Tory-leader-SNP.html
“Our United Kingdom is under threat if the new Tory leader can’t take on the SNP, writes STEPHEN DAISLEY”
The DailyMail realizes that this Brexit farce could be just the tipping point needed to lose Scotland and 1/3 of UK’s territory. A no-deal Brexit (perhaps prompted by Brussels, fed-up with Britain and keen on setting a harsh example) could provide the pretext for a no-deal Scexit (from Westminster that is), just as a measure of government, no referendum.
#MakeBritainSmallAgain
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7079449/Speaker-John-Bercow-insists-Parliament-say-No-Deal-Brexit.html
“Bercow vows to STAY ON as Speaker and says he never promised to go in July – amid Brexiteer fears he will bend Parliament rules to allow Remainer MPs to block No Deal”
This Jew wants to keep Britain in Europe.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7079731/Farage-says-absolute-rubbish-say-Theresa-Mays-deal-redone.html
“‘EU won’t change one dot or comma’: Nigel Farage declares it is ‘absolute rubbish’ to suggest new Tory PM could renegotiate May’s Brexit deal as he blasts Jeremy Hunt’s No Deal u-turn”
Finally some realism sinking in with Farage. There will be no renegotiation’s. Just.Go.
Oh Nigel, remember the British food blockade of the winter 1918-1919, where Britain killed 1 million Germans through starvation?
You should.
Cloggie on Wed, 29th May 2019 2:12 am
Good news for mobster.
The lefties of der Spiegel can’t believe their luck: America, the country of turbo-capitalism, is flirting with socialism:
https://m.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/usa-amerika-zweifelt-am-kapitalismus-a-1269693.html
Friendly advice from the country where capitalism was invented: don’t exagerate. Don’t follow the example of the USSR, Cuba, Venezuela or North-Korea, follow Holland instead: higher minimum wage, higher benefits, higher (progressive) taxes to fund it. Nothing wrong with millionairs but billionairs are a no-go area.
Don’t destroy capitalism, a system that works. Just tame it.
Theedrich on Wed, 29th May 2019 3:40 am
American “interests” are leading man to doomsday. The megalomaniacs at the apex of our government are incapable of dealing with reality in virtually any realm. They think only in terms of upheaval, destruction and war, and are obsessed with lucre. To begin with, the U.S. has poisoned itself and the world with its production of nuclear weapons and nuclear power, for whose radioactive waste there is no solution. The “radioactive coffin” it left in the Marshall Islands half a century ago (see https://futurism.com/the-byte/radioactive-waste-coffin-leaking-pacific and https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/un-chief-concerned-nuclear-coffin-leaking-in-pacific/ar-AABrcbn) will still be leaking nuclear poison thousands of years from now. (And Fukushima only makes the problem worse.) The DC demigods threaten every other nation on earth with annihilation if they can concoct enough suspicion through false flags to make it seem that the godly USA is virtuously defending truth, justice and the American Way.
Meanwhile the rot on high and low continues, and the nation continues to import human trash from World3 in order to accommodate the political obsessions of mentally diseased Democrats and unbalanced RINOs. Plus, the development of new cyber weapons increasingly puts both the entire nation and the entire West at risk. Health systems, banking organizations and governments are under constant cyber attack, and often have to pay enormous sums in bitcoin secretly to undo the lockups inflicted on their computer systems by malware launched from a different part of the globe. Although our oh-so-honest U.S. government tells us that our military systems are perfectly safe and immune from similar attacks, we have no idea whether anything is in fact going to work as advertized.
The anti-White propaganda machine likes to portray the U.S. military with Hollywood-like scenes of fast-acting, always successful strategies, coloreds, and toys that destroy the (Russian/Chinese) enemy and quickly allow us to go back into a cannabis-induced stupor. But there is little mention that all of our “anti-Nazi” Captain America activities are predicated on the smooth and flawless functioning of trillions of lines of perfect and uninterruptible computer code.
Not to mention that the disruption of oil transportation, be it from KSA, Russia, or elsewhere, is becoming more and more likely. Indeed, it has already happened in the case of chloride-contaminated oil flowing through Russia-to-Western-Europe pipelines. And if John Bolton and Mike Pompeo succeed in generating a war against Iran, the world economy will suffer unrecoverable damage. Never mind the counterfeit $trillions Washington is printing in order to maintain its façade of indispensability.
We can expect that the current administration will ensure that the American economy remains buoyed up through various financial tricks until after the presidential election in November of 2020. Thereafter it will take all the psywar capabilities of the Democrat-sycophant media and Chosenites to keep the American funny farm on life support.
JuanP on Wed, 29th May 2019 5:00 am
“follow Holland instead: higher minimum wage, higher benefits, higher (progressive) taxes to fund it. Nothing wrong with millionairs but billionairs are a no-go area. Don’t destroy capitalism, a system that works. Just tame it.”
Holland is a postage stamp country that is postioned well with good neighbors in Northern Europe. Saying this is the Dutch way is low IQ.
JuanP on Wed, 29th May 2019 5:02 am
“Thereafter it will take all the psywar capabilities of the Democrat-sycophant media and Chosenites to keep the American funny farm on life support.”
Sounds like you are talking about me, thee! lol
More Insane Davy Identity Theft on Wed, 29th May 2019 5:05 am
JuanP on Wed, 29th May 2019 5:00 am
JuanP on Wed, 29th May 2019 5:02 am
Cloggie on Wed, 29th May 2019 9:21 am
Lock him up!
PM candidate BoJo to be prosecuted for lying
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7081793/Boris-Johnson-summonsed-court-face-misconduct-accusation.html
The Brexit campaignbus and the 350 million/week lie played a central role in the runup to the feferendum that paralysed UK society for more than two years.
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 29th May 2019 9:57 am
European Central Bank sends Italy a warning over debt
https://apnews.com/c8b9dcf74c2d4883b85f1db50333c7e0
Another domino about to fall!
HAHAHA
joe on Wed, 29th May 2019 10:24 am
If they should lock up Boris Johnson then they should lock up Merkel for saying importing a million jihadis was a moral duty.
Lets be honest, the NHS was not the main reason people voted leave, that system of totally free healthcare to the customer is absolutely under pressure from the importation of migrants. While 350 million per day is over inflation (actually the UK will save 49 million per day without the rebate)
“https://fullfact.org/europe/our-eu-membership-fee-55-million/”
I don’t see how employing the same tactics as Taip Erdogan uses (ie suing people in court for political gains to silence oppoants) will garner sympathy for remain.
If the case for remain was really that strong then any claims by leave, true or false should not have made a difference. The British people didn’t need much of a push to leave the EUSSR if they believed a bunch of political parties outrageous claims. And the accusations made against him ‘misconduct while in office’ are not likely to stick, since he was campaigning like many other people who also held office and theye might be also under threat of prosecution since the criteria for the hearing is the words used by him, not because his side won. I wonder if Remainer bullshit might also be heard in court since Bo Jo has a right to his defence.
Cloggie on Wed, 29th May 2019 10:32 am
No more EU-UK Brexit negotiations as EU dismantles negotiation team.
Message to UK: before October give us a phone call with three possibilities:
No-deal
Remain
May-deal
Please do not visit Brussels in the mean time, we’re done with Brexit. If you can’t make up your mind we kick you out by October.
Cloggie on Wed, 29th May 2019 10:33 am
Link:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-theresa-may-eu-deal-barnier-juncker-negotiations-a8934601.html
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 29th May 2019 10:39 am
Clogg
Nobody cares about your stupid politics..You are just stupid old man..Who is desperate for power..
Get a fucking life..
Cloggie on Wed, 29th May 2019 10:46 am
“Nobody cares about your stupid politics.”
You do, otherwise you would not react.
Just like empire dave, you are a foaming-at-the-mouth mpotent wannabee moderator and neuterer.lol
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 29th May 2019 10:48 am
Bannon: Trump Will Fall When People Realize He’s ‘Just Another Scumbag’
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bannon-trump-will-fall-when-people-realize-hes-just-another-scumbag
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 29th May 2019 12:49 pm
Italy is the next Greece..And could bring down the whole EU..Which would lead to civil war (part 3)..
And we will pick up the crumbs after they destroy themselves from within..Just like we did after WW2..
HAHAHA
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 29th May 2019 12:53 pm
U.S. Believes Russia Conducting Low-Level Nuclear Tests, Official Says [Defying Test Ban Treaty]
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/05/29/us-believes-russia-conducting-low-level-nuclear-tests-official-says-a65797
Just wait Putin..You are going to end up like Saddam or Gadfyi..
HAHAHA
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 29th May 2019 2:26 pm
Miami’s ‘Billionaire Bunker’ is a high-security island that has a 13-person police force for its 42 residents. A real-estate agent got me past the guardhouse — here’s what the exclusive community looks like.
The billionaire investor Carl Icahn, the supermodel Adriana Lima, the Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, and the former Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula are among the island’s elite residents.
https://www.businessinsider.com/miami-billionaire-bunker-private-island-tour-police-mansions-photos-2019-5?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar&utm_term=desktop&utm_source=reddit.com
Hello on Wed, 29th May 2019 2:34 pm
>>> Italy is the next Greece
Got an article?
Cloggie on Wed, 29th May 2019 3:23 pm
“Italy is the next Greece
Got an article?”
It is BS.
He pulls it out of his *ss.
https://www.dw.com/en/italy-not-eurozones-next-greece/av-45771227
Public debt is high, 135% gdp.
But on the plus side, the average mortgage on private property is merely ca. 18%
Italians prefer to pay off the mortgage over paying taxes.
Davy on Wed, 29th May 2019 4:00 pm
“This Is Not “Normal”: US Suffers More Than 500 Tornadoes In The Last 30 Days”
https://tinyurl.com/y48co3f7 the end of the American dream
“Since 1998, there has been an average of 279 tornadoes during the month of May. So the fact that we have had more than 500 over the last 30 days means that we are running way, way above normal…In the last week alone, the authorities have linked tornadoes to at least seven deaths and scores of injuries. Federal government weather forecasters logged preliminary reports of more than 500 tornadoes in a 30-day period — a rare figure, if the reports are ultimately verified — after the start of the year proved mercifully quiet.”
“Oklahoma and Arkansas were bracing for their worst-ever flooding as a new wave of storms forecast to roll through the region threatened to further bloat the Arkansas River that already has reached record crests in some areas.”
“For example, In Vicksburg, Mississippi, the river went above flood stage on Feb. 17, and has remained in flood ever since. The weather service said this is the longest continuous stretch above flood stage since 1927.”
“None of this is “normal”, and prior to the month of May we had already witnessed the wettest 12 months in all of U.S. history. All of this wet weather has been absolutely disastrous for Midwest farmers, and so far in 2019 agricultural production is way, way below expectations. In the months ahead, we should all be prepared for much higher prices at the grocery store.”
Davy on Wed, 29th May 2019 4:03 pm
Oops, sorry everyone. Wrong link again
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-29/not-normal-us-suffers-more-500-tornadoes-last-30-days
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 29th May 2019 4:06 pm
Declining use of nuclear power may increase reliance on fossil fuels: study
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/445815-collapse-of-nuclear-would-increase-reliance-on-fossil-fuels-study
Good luck increasing fossil fuel usage when oil, coal and gas are peaking soon..
And solar and wind are false hopes..
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 29th May 2019 4:07 pm
Clogg
Greece went bankrupt when their debt to gdp hit 145%..
You are so naive and uneducated..
Enjoy the fall of Europe..
LOL
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 29th May 2019 4:09 pm
Clogg
Italy could blow up Europe as we know it
https://www.politico.eu/article/silvio-berlusconi-beppe-grillo-antonio-tajani-5stars-forza-italia-italy-euro-how-italy-could-blow-up-europe-as-we-know-it/
Italy has excessive economic imbalances, a risk to euro zone: EU
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-eu/italy-has-excessive-economic-imbalances-a-risk-to-euro-zone-eu-idUSKCN1QG1GF
Europe Is Emerging as the Real Weak Link for Global Economy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-13/europe-is-the-real-weak-link-for-global-economy-eyeing-trade-war
makati1 on Wed, 29th May 2019 5:46 pm
Theedrich, I agree with your summation of the near future for the US. TPTB will do everything to keep Trump on track for another four years. After he is reelected. (“elected”…huge joke!) the shit will hit the fan big time in so many ways.
The US is trying desperately to get a ‘yuge’ war started. Distraction caused by the antics in insane DC is getting boring. They need something new and really, really big. If not, the tax slaves may wake up and realize what is happening in the real world and revolt. Well, we can dream that they will. Depends on how hard they are hit when the SHTF, but I suspect it will be very painful. We shall see. Pass the popcorn, the 3rd act is just beginning and the ending is guaranteed to be exciting. Stay tuned…