tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post2508671656082734316..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: January 3 2012: The Storm Surge of DecentralizationIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-20423090681839821522012-01-07T14:51:16.047-05:002012-01-07T14:51:16.047-05:00What a great post, thanks.
The ideas of decentral...What a great post, thanks.<br /><br />The ideas of decentralization and sustainability hit on what I've been thinking in regard to the Occupy movement. Here in Oakland the police have consistently cleared the plaza in front of city hall and the vigil comes back again and again. How can this be sustained?<br /><br />What seems to be happening is that the multitude of different people and Glenndahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17018411800955469492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-2013740914789674702012-01-07T13:42:28.542-05:002012-01-07T13:42:28.542-05:00New post up:
Death of an Institution: Desper...New post up:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-7-2012-death-of-institution.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Death of an Institution: Desperate Mergers & Destructive Acquisitions</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-15221132439205353502012-01-07T12:11:37.162-05:002012-01-07T12:11:37.162-05:00Snuffy,
I'm sincerely glad the bee/fly inform...Snuffy,<br /><br />I'm sincerely glad the bee/fly information was useful information for you. <br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Re: my previous post on ZH/Sprott:<br /><br />After reading the comments on this piece, I thought the following comment (from Jeanne d'Arc) was particularly interesting:<br /><br />"KD raised the issue of ZH'Joe in NChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02182396413057310516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-26307067655253510812012-01-07T12:10:17.890-05:002012-01-07T12:10:17.890-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Joe in NChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02182396413057310516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-47585890693361195172012-01-07T11:54:22.408-05:002012-01-07T11:54:22.408-05:00Joe in NC
Thank you for the heads up on the par...Joe in NC<br /><br /> Thank you for the heads up on the parasitic fly.Icky,twisty little bugger..<br /><br /> This was the first I had heard...and will bet that very few in the beekeeping community have heard of this nasty little critter.<br /><br /> It would explain a lot.<br /><br /> I had heard somewhere about a some bees ,when affected by some sicknesses,exiting the colony and flying as snuffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01972064604856045786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-25949653327301123822012-01-07T10:25:10.897-05:002012-01-07T10:25:10.897-05:00I think there was some discussion about ZH and &qu...I think there was some discussion about ZH and "honest reporting" in the comments from the previous post. This caught my eye this morning:<br /><br /><a href="http://screwtapefiles.blogspot.com/2012/01/is-someone-paying-zero-hedge-to-post.html" rel="nofollow">Is someone paying Zero Hedge to post propaganda?</a><br /><br />"An ETF is a stock. It’s a piece of paper that says you Joe in NChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02182396413057310516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-88953899390286633412012-01-06T21:32:01.499-05:002012-01-06T21:32:01.499-05:00"According to the Centers for Disease Control..."According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), there were 86 reported food poisoning outbreaks from raw milk between 1998 and 2008, resulting in 1,676 illnesses, 191 hospitalizations, and two deaths."<br /><br />2 deaths. In 10 years. In Wisconsin alone last year (the Dairy State), there were 600 deaths from automobiles. Farmers that could make a decent living would be able to Nature Creek Farmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11628016586734984351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-5212745228258302312012-01-06T21:21:37.717-05:002012-01-06T21:21:37.717-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.---https://www.blogger.com/profile/15351955410331132836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-68412510761187997372012-01-06T20:02:59.600-05:002012-01-06T20:02:59.600-05:00Greenwood,
Thank you for the education on weather...Greenwood,<br /><br />Thank you for the education on weather manipulation. I especially enjoyed the 11:20 AM post. Scary? sure...but very, very logical to me. <br /><br />I read <a href="http://attempter.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/what-is-organic-part-1/" rel="nofollow">What Is Organic? (Part 1) </a> recently (don't know if it's already been posted here or if you may have seen it Joe in NChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02182396413057310516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-74619840917636721352012-01-06T18:58:51.455-05:002012-01-06T18:58:51.455-05:00>I don't like Israel either. However,
>e...>I don't like Israel either. However,<br />>every time he talked about either<br />>earthquakes or nuclear engineering I<br />>lost confidence in him.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/fukushima.html" rel="nofollow">The guy is looney, but that doesn't necessarily mean that everything<br />he says is wrong.</a><br /><br />As for Israel, I see no proof<br />Bryan McNetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15654543245300079060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-9251271881493462222012-01-06T18:42:41.253-05:002012-01-06T18:42:41.253-05:00I went to his simplified page, hoping to get more ...I went to his simplified page, hoping to get more forest and fewer trees. I did, I now understand what he is claiming, but...<br /><br />I don't like Israel either. However, every time he talked about either earthquakes or nuclear engineering I lost confidence in him.<br /><br />-Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752307987743035281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-79924850315343026772012-01-06T18:13:51.624-05:002012-01-06T18:13:51.624-05:00>I really don't understand this
>fascina...>I really don't understand this<br />>fascination with bombing places when<br />>it always ends with the people there<br />>hating them more than ever before.<br /><br />of course, the goal of bombing people is to subdue them and take their resources, not to make them like you?Bryan McNetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15654543245300079060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-40737637806038863552012-01-06T17:52:52.488-05:002012-01-06T17:52:52.488-05:00Nassim, how about the alternative of just leaving ...<i>Nassim, how about the alternative of just leaving Iran alone?</i><br /><br />Frank,<br /><br />That has always been my preference. I linked to CHS because that is the correct way to do it if one had to do it.<br /><br />Back in November '81, while I was laid up in hospital after a car crash in Jordan, an Iranian lady friend came from London to visit me and stayed at Amman's Holiday InnNassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-17874994529137464052012-01-06T17:22:37.511-05:002012-01-06T17:22:37.511-05:00Frank, like you I'm pretty sure that Jim Stone...Frank, like you I'm pretty sure that Jim Stone is wrong about many things. Specifically, I wasn't impressed by those charts either. <br /><br />The convincing part was the discussion about very low earthquake damage so close to the epicenter, and the inability of a "hydrogen explosion" to pulverize concrete walls many feet thick.Bryan McNetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15654543245300079060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-51852079554485026702012-01-06T17:17:20.875-05:002012-01-06T17:17:20.875-05:00Ash, thanks for the pointer to JHK. He was at his ...Ash, thanks for the pointer to JHK. He was at his scathing best, <i>and</i> managed not to go all 'Mish about unions' when discussing either arabs or the south.<br /><br />Bryan McNett, Jim Stone's physics is blatantly out to lunch. That 44 mph he burrbles about is 64 ft/sec, or the result of 1/2 sec acceleration relative to the building at 4 Gs. The chart he mocks did not show any Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752307987743035281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-22416941560009287682012-01-06T17:05:53.955-05:002012-01-06T17:05:53.955-05:00I think we've decided that we will wait to buy...I think we've decided that we will wait to buy a doomstead until prices are such that we can survive financially if our food-producing property is confiscated outright. I know it sounds utterly paranoid. But I just feel like being tied to a piece of land makes us so vulnerable, as much as it is a critical food source. I think that some land is absolutely necessary, but not if it eats up more Skip Breakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01503427289412937022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-29067018551778438772012-01-06T16:03:29.415-05:002012-01-06T16:03:29.415-05:00>Ash said...
>the Godzilla syndrome up in
&g...>Ash said...<br />>the Godzilla syndrome up in<br />>Fukushima<br /><br />Try as I might, I can't buy the mainstream media's Fukushima story, mostly thanks to <a href="http://jimstonefreelance.com/fukushima.html" rel="nofollow">Jim Stone</a>.<br /><br />I was done in by the fact that no tsunami videos display any earthquake damage, despite the proximity of a 9.0 earthquake.<br />Bryan McNetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15654543245300079060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-44147968417483014082012-01-06T15:42:32.523-05:002012-01-06T15:42:32.523-05:00JHK waxes an epically comprehensive rant on the ne...JHK waxes an epically comprehensive rant on the new year, for anyone who missed it earlier in the week like I did. One of my favorite parts:<br /><br /><i>"Turning to Japan....That sore beset kingdom is suffering all the blowback of modern times at once: the Godzilla syndrome up in Fukushima; a demographic collapse; an imminent bond crisis; the collapse of export market partners; and a long,Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10873953851816670692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-65215656922329008242012-01-06T14:41:05.881-05:002012-01-06T14:41:05.881-05:00A primer for "plucking money from thin air&qu...A primer for "plucking money from thin air"<br /><br />http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aK9BWCFSRPnM<br /><br />http://www.usatoday.com/weather/forecast/2008-06-09-weather-derivative_N.htm<br /><br />http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=9757635<br /><br />http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/weather/files/WeatherRisk_CEO.pdf<br /><br />http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/---https://www.blogger.com/profile/15351955410331132836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-26086837658565972142012-01-06T14:32:17.537-05:002012-01-06T14:32:17.537-05:00Forgive me if someone already posted this link, bu...Forgive me if someone already posted this link, but great article from The Guardian:<br /><br /> "'Just-in-time' business models put UK at greater risk in event of disasters, warns thinktank. Britain could only withstand a week of disruption after a major event before spiralling into chaos."<br /><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/06/AllGood4Allhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00795028307491349008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-17146772073481264232012-01-06T13:54:45.125-05:002012-01-06T13:54:45.125-05:00The Honeybee Decline Story: Neonicotinoid and Spin...<a href="http://bigpictureagriculture.blogspot.com/2012/01/honeybee-decline-story-spinosads-and.html" rel="nofollow">The Honeybee Decline Story: Neonicotinoid and Spinosad Insecticides which Harm Honeybee Central Nervous Systems</a>Bigelowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16883913065391637120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-31203687263705449742012-01-06T13:33:13.554-05:002012-01-06T13:33:13.554-05:00Greenwood,
If expatriates SOTB could talk...
You...Greenwood,<br /><br />If expatriates SOTB could talk...<br /><br />You'd better believe the weather is a commodity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_derivative<br /><br />and a weapon http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO409F.html<br /><br />and as for this problematic ch-word which will attract paid trolls like flies if I were to type it, do you realize that the phenomena was "---https://www.blogger.com/profile/15351955410331132836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-24576673614882658522012-01-06T13:08:02.121-05:002012-01-06T13:08:02.121-05:00>Ash said...
>Here's an idea: how about ...>Ash said...<br />>Here's an idea: how about we don't<br />>do anything to influence the<br />>economies and politics of other<br />>nations,<br /><br />Ah, but if we didn't, then whoever else did would profit grandly, and use their profits as leverage to come influence our economy. It's the prisoner's dilemma.Bryan McNetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15654543245300079060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-77571825326111900562012-01-06T11:20:40.072-05:002012-01-06T11:20:40.072-05:00Manipulating weather is an express train to war.
...Manipulating weather is an express train to war.<br /><br />Manipulating weather, whether it works or not, sets up the dynamic for another country claiming you ruined their crops, by drought or deluge, and starved their children.<br /><br />Guaranteed act of war.<br /><br />Manipulate food commodity futures?<br /><br />No problem, just cause a weather disaster to wipe out the crop.<br /><br />Greenwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875577399877213343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-13227588962515520492012-01-06T10:10:36.645-05:002012-01-06T10:10:36.645-05:00Cow excrement is being used for fertilizer. Soon t...Cow excrement is being used for fertilizer. Soon the goberment will be taxing the crap out of cows!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com