Submerging Markets
September 15, 2013Off the keyboard of RE Follow us on Twitter @doomstead666 Friend us on Facebook Published on the Doomstead Diner on September 15, 2013 Discuss this article at the Economics Table inside the Diner I remember a time not so long ago, call it 2010 or so, where the ever present meme in the Econ Blogosphere was the RISING STAR of the BRIC nations juxtaposed against the PLUMMETING STAR of the “Developed” countries. China had no where to go ...
Alaska Roads
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Published on the Doomstead Diner on March 9, 2014
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A couple of weeks ago I had reason to rev up the SUV for the 4 hour or so drive down to the Kenai Peninsula here on the Last Great Frontier and burn a whole lot of ever more scarce Fossil Fuels as part of my Job. Nothing compared to some friends of mine who took a 26 minute flight in the Company Jet from Palmer Airport to Soldotna Airport for the same reason though. LOL. I intended on writing this article directly after that, but alas Vlad the Impaler took his own Fossil Fuel driven excursion into Crimea, burning Orders of Magintude more Fossil Fuel than me and my friends together here, so that took Priority here in my last Sunday Brunch article.
Profligate waste of Fossil Fuel energy notwithstanding, particularly on the drive back the weather was very pleasant and I was under no time pressure, so I made lots of [...] Continue Reading…
Deep State Descending
Off the keyboard of James Howard Kunstler
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Originally Published on Clusterfuck Nation March 9, 2014
And so it’s back to the Kardashians for the US of ADD. As of Sunday The New York Timeskicked Ukraine off its front page, a sure sign that the establishment (let’s revive that useful word) is sensitive to the growing ridicule over its claims of national interest in that floundering, bedraggled crypto-nation. The Kardashians sound enough like one of the central Asian ethnic groups battling over the Crimea lo these many centuries — Circassians, Meskhetian Turkmen, Tatars, Karachay-Cherkessians — so the sore-beset American public must be content that they’re getting the news-of-the-world. Perhaps one of those groups was once led by a Great Kanye.
Secretary of State John Kerry has shut his pie-hole, too, for the moment, as it becomes more obvious that Ukraine happens to be Russia’s headache (and neighbor). The playbook of great nations is going obsolete in this new era of great nations having, by necessity, to become smaller broken-up nations. It could easily happen in the USA too as our grandiose Deep State descends further into incompetence, irrelevance, buffoonery, and practical bankruptcy.
Theories abound about what drives [...] Continue Reading…
Ukraine Frenzy and Trapezoid of Doom
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Published on Economic Undertow on March 7, 2014
Ukraine hiccups, Russians double down on ‘blunder’, Pot meets Kettle.
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Figure 1; Cost vs. credit using WTI price from Commodity Charts.com, (click on for big). The premise of the Triangle of Doom is that fuel supply remains both plentiful and affordable until trends collide at the end of this year or beginning of 2015. This is a best-case scenario, with policy makers avoiding errors that damage credit or interfere with world petroleum extraction. Abenomics and the ongoing Russian fiasco in Ukraine look to be fatal errors, the best-case scenario has to be reconsidered, with the triangle morphing into a Trapezoid of Doom with a rapidly-approaching dead end.
Credit and fuel cannot be considered separately, one affects the other. Economic problems tend to be blamed on monetary misadventures, yet our economies run on petroleum … which has become both scarce and increasingly expensive since 2000. Credit is offered as a both a palliative and as a abstract substitute for fuel but it carries its own ballooning costs. Strains ricochet through credit system and emerge unpredictably, [...] Continue Reading…
The Anti-Empire Report #126
Off the Keyboard of William Blum
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Published originally in The Anti-Empire Report March 6, 2014
Ukraine
When it gets complicated and confusing, when you’re overwhelmed with too much information, changing daily; too many explanations, some contradictory … try putting it into some kind of context by stepping back and looking at the larger, long-term picture.
The United States strives for world domination, hegemony wherever possible, their main occupation for over a century, it’s what they do for a living. The United States, NATO and the European Union form The Holy Triumvirate. The Holy Triumvirate has subsidiaries, chiefly The International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, International Criminal Court … all help to keep in line those governments lacking the Holy Triumvirate Seal Of Approval: the IMF, WB, and WTO impose market fundamentalism, while foreign leaders who act too independent are threatened with being handed over to the ICC for heavy punishment, as the United States imposes sanctions on governments and their leaders as only the King of Sanctions can, lacking any sense of hypocrisy or irony.
And who threatens United States domination? Who can challenge The Holy Triumvirate’s hegemony? Only Russia and China, if they were as imperialistic as [...] Continue Reading…
Ukraine: False Flag Manufacture?
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Published on The Slog on March 6, 2014
The crisis in Ukraine: World Cup needle-match or boring friendly?
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UKRAINE: Analyse it objectively, and you will smell the fomenting of false flags.
FROM FOOTIE TO FASCISM, NEOLIBERAL GLOBALISTS ARE THE REAL ENEMY
With the Arab States playing synchronised Ambassador withdrawal against Qatar, once again one is left wondering exactly what sort of World Cup tournament is going to be possible given the increasingly Islamist slant of the Government, the 45 degree temperatures, and the possibility of everyone boycotting everyone else. The assumption underlying even that, of course, is that there’ll be a world of which to be champion by then. Last night, England scraped a late goal 1-0 win over very poor Danish opposition, in a match so tediously coached on both sides I turned it off after half an hour. Our plucky boys in white have now scored just the one goal in their last three home matches. We simply aren’t good enough, thanks to Rupert Murdoch – the Undead One who sucked all the money out of the grassroots game and gave it [...] Continue Reading…
Feedback for Obama
Off the Keyboard of William Hunter Duncan
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I got an email from the White House. They wanted some feedback. For the record:
We’re looking for your feedback
As a subscriber of White House email updates, you get messages from
us from time to time to keep you in the loop on the President’s
priorities and what’s going on at the White House and around the
administration.
Today, we want to hear from you.
What’s the most important policy area to you?
Energy and Environment:
There is no serious, nor honest conversation going on about either energy or the health of the earth in America, in the mainstream. Cornucopian abundance is the only topic that can be discussed. Fracking exempt from the Clean Water Act? Fracking as a new energy revolution? LOL. Fukushima? Anyone? Anyone? Aging nuclear all over America. Systemic pollution? Loss of habitat? Extinction of the monarch butterfly? The only thing that matters to this administration and most of the American people, is economic growth. To hell with the health of the earth. Burn up it’s resources as fast as possible, to maintain growth. Growth, growth growth. Like it’s the ONLY thing that matters. Well, [...] Continue Reading…
Reasons for our Energy Predicament – An Overview
Off the keyboard of Gail Tverberg
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Published on Our Finite World on March 4, 2014
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Quiz: What will cause world oil supply to fall?
Too little oil in the ground
Oil prices are too low for oil producers
Oil prices are too high for oil consumers leading to recession, debt defaults, and ultimately a cut back in credit availability and very low oil prices
Oil exporters are subject to civil unrest and overthrow of governments, due to low prices and/or depleting reserves
Lack of money (and physical resources that might be purchased with this money) to pull oil out of the ground.
Pollution related issues–too much smog in China; too many problems with fracking; too many problems with CO2.
The financial current system fails, and can only be replaced by one that allows much less debt. Oil prices remain too low under such a system.
In my view, any answer other that the first one is likely to be at least partially right. Ultimately, the issue is that to extract oil or any fossil fuel, we have to keep the financial and political systems together. These systems can be expected to fail, far before we [...] Continue Reading…
Sea Gypsy Clarity
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Published on the Sea Gypsy Philosopher on March
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My hands just would not let go! For 30 seconds they remained attached to my lovely AVENTURA even though I was already standing in the launcha ready to head off on the first leg of a long trip back to the so-called “real world.” Finally, the boatman said, “Ramon, are you okay?” This shook me out of my trepidation trance and I replied, “Sorry, Ignacio, vamanos – let’s go!”
I have now returned from that journey – and my hands were right. Each reunion with “normalcy” staggers me so thoroughly that I wonder whether I can ever go back again. For a sea gypsy like me, who experiences it only every few years, the modern world looks like low-grade lunacy.
The frantic yet fruitless frenzy of the car culture – accelerating up to sixty mph even though the next gridlock stoppage is clearly visible 100 yards ahead.
The sad and tragic disconnection of those who believe that they are so “connected.”
The cultural mean-spiritedness that worships competition and power and ridicules co-operation and sensitivity.
The Everywhereness [...] Continue Reading…
Post Peak Poster Child #1: Yemen
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Published on Cassandra’s Legacy on March 2, 2014
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Post peak countries: the collapse of Yemen
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When I saw for the first time the data about oil production in Yemen, I was so impressed that I wanted to know more. I found a news source in English – the “Yemen Times” and I placed the link in my feed. For several months, by now, I have been reading the news from a place where I have never been and, probably, will never go, but that I find incredibly fascinating.
The stories in the Yemen Times read as a tragedy written by Shakespeare: for a taste of this feeling, you may read the article titled “Carrying out a death sentence,” but it is just an example of a never ending series of disasters taking place in the country, which include some 4000 people murdered every year, including a few taken as target by American drones flying over the country.
Surely, not everything that’s taking place in Yemen is to be attributed straight to crude oil but, surely, with oil production now crossing [...] Continue Reading…
Devolution or Life
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Confronting our Toxic System
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I was saddened recently to read of the death of Bob Casale, a guitarist who was an original member of the rock band Devo. I listened to them back in the 1980′s and liked the name of the edgy, socially relevant band. It refers to the concept of de-evolution. Years ago I wrote how our Cannibalist economic system reduces us from higher to lower evolutionary species by replacing our cooperative social nature with the competitive self-centered ethic of “I’ve got mine and to heck with everyone else.” Like lower animals, we snarl over our possessions and are ready to kill each other to defend them, seeing no connection to where they came from or the reality of our interdependence — even on nature. We justify throwing families out into the cold for their inability to pay rent; condemn children to hunger and ignorance. We abandon workers to permanent unemployment and homelessness to further enrich the few, and proudly sacrifice our loved ones to wars we have no real interest in based on the latest flimsy lies. This is, in essence, [...] Continue Reading…
Totem Shift
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Published on Epihany Now on March 2, 2014
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Jumping to the Grave
Around about the time I resigned from the Matrix I had a dream in which the fox came to me. He scampered out of the woods and made himself visible to me, and he looked me in the eyes to transfer his magic. To prepare my mind for entrance into a glitch which would allow me to mostly be left unhindered from the Matrix’s control. Fox imbues the magic of invisibility in plain site. I recognized him, and his teaching, and then he disappeared back into the woods, and I woke up. It was a dream vision. I dubbed our new home the “Fox Den” and gave the fox a pedestal at Epiphany Now. About a year after my resignation a real fox was delivered to the Fox Den, and her name was Pepper (but she went by Bo Beppa). She was born from domestic dog parents, but she was no dog, she was a fox. She was the most beautiful animal I’ve ever had the pleasure of [...] Continue Reading…
Let’s You and Him Fight
Off the keyboard of James Howard Kunstler
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Originally Published on Clusterfuck Nation March 3, 2014
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So, now we are threatening to start World War Three because Russia is trying to control the chaos in a failed state on its border — a state that our own government spooks provoked into failure? The last time I checked, there was a list of countries that the USA had sent troops, armed ships, and aircraft into recently, and for reasons similar to Russia’s in Crimea: the former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, none of them even anywhere close to American soil. I don’t remember Russia threatening confrontations with the USA over these adventures.
The phones at the White House and the congressional offices ought to be ringing off the hook with angry US citizens objecting to the posturing of our elected officials. There ought to be crowds with bobbing placards in Farragut Square reminding the occupant of 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue how ridiculous this makes us look.
The saber-rattlers at The New York Times were sounding like the promoters of a World Wrestling Federation stunt Monday morning when they said in a Page One story:
“The Russian occupation [...] Continue Reading…
Spider Sense
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Published originally on the Doomstead Diner March 2, 2014
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“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
–James Thurber
She battles insomnia and never sleeps well. But this night was different. She was convinced we had an intruder.
Contrary woke and put on her robe, and crept downstairs to investigate; nothing but an old house, an empty downstairs, and the winter breezes softly sighing. In the morning, as she recounted the story, I noted that she had gone downstairs unarmed. I asked whether she was going to shoo any intruder off with a broom– what? She replied that, yeah, she’d fly circles around him.
So there was nothing inside our house, but as I was to shortly learn, there was a predator in our midst. And Contrary’s spider sense, with which she is well in tune, and which has served her well in the past, sent off an early warning signal and put her on alert…
Fugitive Colorado sex offender Eric Hartwell, who apparently cut off his ankle monitor and left a group home, has been apprehended in Norfolk, Virginia, the U.S. Marshals [...] Continue Reading…
…and so it BEGINS
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Published on the Doomstead Diner on March 2, 2014
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The Frosbite Falls Daily Rant is the latest Feature of the Collapse Cafe on the Doomstead Diner. It can be found daily on the Homepage of the Diner on the right menu bar.
The transcript for this rant can be found at the bottom of this article.
Day 2 has arrived here in the Valve War between Ukraine and Russia, centered mainly in Crimea at the moment, but bound to move Eastward as time goes by here. I covered a few of the main issues in the daily rant yesterday, for today we will look a little more closely at the logistics involved here.
As you can see from the Infographic at the top of the page, this isn’t a small military exercise by any means. More than 10,000 troops are being repositioned, which is quite a tidy sum considering the Ruskies were downsizing their Military.
2008 Russian military reform
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While the Ruskie military is still pretty large, you have to remember that all “active personnel” are not [...] Continue Reading…
12 Signs That Russia Is Ready To Fight A War Over Crimea
Off the keyboard of Michael Snyder
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Published on Economic Collapse on February 27, 2014
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Russia will never, ever give up Crimea without a fight. Anyone that thinks otherwise is just being delusional. The Russian Black Sea fleet’s main base at Sevastopol is far too strategically important. In addition, ethnic Russians make up approximately 60 percent of the population of Crimea, and most of the population is rabidly pro-Russian. In fact, many prominent Crimean politicians are already calling for reunification with Russia. So if you have been thinking that Russia is just going to fold up shop and go home now that pro-European protesters have violently seized power in Kiev, you can quit holding your breath. The truth is that Russia is more than willing to fight a war over Crimea. And considering the fact that vitally important pipelines that pump natural gas from Russia to the rest of Europe go right through Ukraine, it is not likely that Russia will just willingly hand the rest of Ukraine over to the U.S. and the EU either. If the U.S. and the EU push too hard in Ukraine, a [...] Continue Reading…
Turning Points and Peak Customer
Off the keyboard of Steve from Virginia
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Published on Economic Undertow on February 26, 2014
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Turning points come and go without notice, they are hard to pick out of the background noise, and are usually only recognized long after the fact and after much dispute. A good example is peak oil; did it really occur, if so when … ? Did it slip out of town under the cover of darkness in 2005 or in 2009; is such a thing even possible with the substitution effect; when higher retail prices invariably make new forms of energy available?
Right?
Figure 1: It certainly looks like a peak of the oil thingy from here: S&P 500 divided by Brent crude price from the FRED; the S&P is a proxy for the private sector, equity is its ‘money’. Crude oil has never been so affordable in post-WWII America as it was in 1998-99. This major turning point came and went and nobody bothered: no recession, no clowns or cocaine parties, no fireworks displays, wars or parades down Main Street; no billabongs, panda-bears or double-headers, just a change in the modern world’s way [...] Continue Reading…
Do No Evil Google…
Off the keyboard of Jim Quinn
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Published on The Burning Platform on February 24, 2013
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…Censor and Snitch for the State
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.
This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.” – Edward Bernays – Propaganda
I find the quote above by Edward [...] Continue Reading…
Paranoia Squared
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Published on the Doomstead Diner on February 26, 2014
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Communicating on the Internet is full of all sorts of hazards. Two of the biggest are the loss of Privacy resultant from dropping your thoughts on far distant Disk Drives run by other people and the fact that both Da Goobermint and Private Individuals can ascertain who you are and in some cases also where you live.
Over my years participating on the Internet in chat rooms and on forums and blogs, I have pursued a semi-Anonymous paradigm. I write under a Nom-de-Plume, and my email addresses don’t feature my real name, like say Joe.Sixpack@beer.com. 
So for the typical user who reads something I write, I am anonymous to them. Reason for this is that dropping your real name out there to the world at large can cause you all sorts of problems if somebody is annoyed at what you wrote. They can find out where you work, and you can get harrassed on the job because of it. In fact, going back to my earliest years in internet participation, I actually [...] Continue Reading…
Savagery for All
Off the keyboard of James Howard Kunstler
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Originally Published on Clusterfuck Nation February 24, 2014
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A glance through the annals of history tells us that the Golden Age of Ukraine occurred just as western Europe was emerging from its long, dark, post-Roman coma around the 10th and 11thcenturies, A.D. After that, it was a kind of polo field for sundry sweeping hordes of mounted hell-bringers: Tatars, Turks, Cossacks, Bulgars, Napoleon’s grand army. In modern times, its population was divided between allegiance to Russia or to the Germanic states of the west. The Russian soviet regime treated it very badly. As many Ukrainians starved to death under Stalin’s “terror famine” of 1932-1933 as Jews and others were killed later in Hitler’s death camps. Stalin went on to try and totally erase Ukraine’s ethnic identity.
The Nazis wanted to go even further: to erase the Slavic population altogether so that the great fertile “breadbasket” of Ukraine could provide lebensraum for German colonizers. Stalin foolishly signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler in 1939 — had he not read Mein Kampf? Less than two years later, Germany turned around and invaded Russia, using Ukraine as doormat and mud-room for [...] Continue Reading…
Unfinished Lives
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Originally published on the Doomstead Diner on February 23, 2014
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True freedom “means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.”
–David Foster Wallace
This story has been in draft form for months, because I have not known how to write it. Also because the subject is so sensitive, so personal, and remains filled with grief such that one fears to tread for fear of setting off a mine and injuring others. It has been percolating for months; so it is time.
OBITUARY
Thomas A. L.
Thomas A. L., 18, of Virginia Beach, VA passed away Sunday, November 24, 2013. He graduated High School class of 2013, was a Computer Science major at a local university and enjoyed drawing, making animation videos, and classical music.
Left to cherish his memory are his parents, sister, brother, extended family, friends, colleagues etc, etc.
A memorial service will be held . . . and hundreds of people attended his memorial service.
Why?
His name was [...] Continue Reading…
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U.S. Military Changes Drone Rules to Make Targeting of Civilians Easier
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David Cameron has turned cowardly yellow with 'green crap' comments
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Arctic oil spill is certain if drilling goes ahead, says top scientist
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Pure manure: City uproots FL couple’s 17-year-old garden
Fed Minutes Reveal a Dangerous Power Grab by New York Fed
America And Turkey Are Killing Anti-Al Qaeda Activists In Yemen And Syria
China establishes 'air-defence zone' over East China Sea
Toxic Lakes From Tar-Sand Projects Planned for Alberta
An Orgy of Thieves
Huge area around Fukushima to be waste disposal site
'Cinderella' gas a threat to climate and ozone layer
China's villages vanish amid rush for the cities
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