tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post5085524773200901375..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: March 2 2009: We ain't done yetIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-47244541994679056822009-03-03T16:54:00.000-05:002009-03-03T16:54:00.000-05:00Hey, Nooner, keep your facts straight!"* Stoneleig...Hey, Nooner, keep your facts straight!<BR/><BR/>"* Stoneleigh predicts we are nearing bottom of this decline after which there will be a several month rally; Some wonder if desperation will prevent this; Stoneleight replies desperation will cause this; "<BR/><BR/>it wasn't Stoneleigh who replied desperation causes, it was Greenpa- then she concurred...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-59132460437831055962009-03-03T16:50:00.000-05:002009-03-03T16:50:00.000-05:00@FBSorry, thought you were a native.No, we're a wa...@FB<BR/><BR/>Sorry, thought you were a native.<BR/><BR/>No, we're a ways away from Malmö.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-40308614929316749072009-03-03T16:43:00.000-05:002009-03-03T16:43:00.000-05:00The point that when the Depression started people ...The point that when the Depression started people worked one day and the next day they just didn't sounds eerily like Easter Island. There are still half finished Moai in the quarry. The stone cutters worked one day, went home that night and never returned. I have often thought that much of our economy produces modern Moai - large, expensive, aggrandizing projects that don't do much to provide Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-69012363348428093852009-03-03T16:28:00.000-05:002009-03-03T16:28:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.SAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11302830905147097638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-4938668017485094432009-03-03T16:21:00.000-05:002009-03-03T16:21:00.000-05:00Hello,From Aitrader:Nej, inte Malmö tyvärr men int...Hello,<BR/><BR/>From Aitrader:<BR/>Nej, inte Malmö tyvärr men inte så långt bort. Mer österut.<BR/><BR/>I understood the first and third words. In short, you cannot pick up a package (?).<BR/><BR/>No sweat,<BR/>Thanks anyway,<BR/>FrançoisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-1949786084669690312009-03-03T16:16:00.000-05:002009-03-03T16:16:00.000-05:00When the coming rally finally arrives it could wel...When the coming rally finally arrives it could well be sharp, which could leave the shorts very exposed. In fact short covering is a main reason why bear market rallies are so sharp. Be very careful trying to play the market now. The bulk of this particular downward move is probably over, so you stand to gain relatively little and are taking a high risk.<BR/><BR/>For the person who asked about Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-11686513827122889802009-03-03T16:11:00.000-05:002009-03-03T16:11:00.000-05:00GreyZone (and Goritsas),Our financial system, a sy...GreyZone (and Goritsas),<BR/><BR/><I>Our financial system, a system of myths, legends, superstitions, and voodoo, subordinates the scientific systems around it and makes them obey it. Without dispensation from the econo-political system, the scientific system does not function.</I><BR/><BR/>Exactly. No one builds anything during a depression, no matter what they have available. During the 1930s Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-7269865467122408082009-03-03T15:51:00.000-05:002009-03-03T15:51:00.000-05:00@Grayzone said:This, of course, did not occur, bec...@Grayzone said:<BR/><BR/>This, of course, did not occur, because a real science of resource distribution and management would have meant the end of concentration of power.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Michel Chossudovsky has an interesting take on what will be done with all that bailout money... A further concentration of wealth and power...<BR/><BR/>http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-18452046015523958052009-03-03T15:13:00.000-05:002009-03-03T15:13:00.000-05:00Goritsas, don't argue with S&I. They are s...Goritsas, don't argue with S&I. They are simply citing the historical record. Look at what happened in the Great Depression. Work simply stopped.<BR/><BR/>I've noted this before but in the US the unemployment rate reached 24% - in a nation in which 70% were still farmers. In other words, about 6% of the population remained employed in non-agricultural work. If we look at parts of Greyzonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03675706201111951125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-76053344579845314502009-03-03T15:02:00.000-05:002009-03-03T15:02:00.000-05:00Noon Summaries are awesome! :DNoon Summaries are awesome! :DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-21539249414569450282009-03-03T14:58:00.000-05:002009-03-03T14:58:00.000-05:00Uh, ok. Gravity are you hanging out with the dude ...Uh, ok. Gravity are you hanging out with the dude who wants to pave Antarctica...?<BR/><BR/>And now for something completely different,<BR/><BR/><I>I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK<BR/>I sleep all night and I work all day<BR/>I put on women's clothing<BR/>Some panties and a bra<BR/>I wish I were a girlie<BR/>Just like my dear Pa-paaa</I><BR/><BR/>Pfffffffft!<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.theoildrum.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-72804478577556562022009-03-03T14:45:00.000-05:002009-03-03T14:45:00.000-05:00Thanks, I&SThe Capital Gravities35. The Gravit...Thanks, I&S<BR/><BR/>The Capital Gravities<BR/><BR/>35. The Gravities choose <BR/>good things, as good things.<BR/><BR/>36. Time is a Divine thing.<BR/><BR/>Carrot is a Divine Thing.<BR/><BR/>37. Law is humane.<BR/><BR/>38. Malice is the nourishment <BR/>of the World. <BR/><BR/>Malicious Law is the nourishment <BR/>of the Paulson.<BR/><BR/>39. Time is the Corruption of Man.<BR/><BR/>Carrot isGravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-6760334168177822162009-03-03T14:42:00.000-05:002009-03-03T14:42:00.000-05:00With my respects to the Goatner.The Relative Gravi...With my respects to the Goatner.<BR/><BR/>The Relative Gravities <BR/><BR/>29. All that is incorporeal, <BR/>is void of Lying.<BR/><BR/>30. Everything that is made <BR/>fluffy is corruptible.<BR/><BR/>(That which is always made <BR/>fluffy is always corrupted.)<BR/><BR/>(That which is made fluffy <BR/>but once is never corrupted, <BR/>neither becomes any other thing.)<BR/><BR/>31. Nothing good Gravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-15453190196562350102009-03-03T14:31:00.000-05:002009-03-03T14:31:00.000-05:00Thanks, gravity, for this bunnitization of the Cor...Thanks, gravity, for this bunnitization of the <A HREF="http://www.levity.com/alchemy/ch1.html" REL="nofollow">Corpus Hermeticum</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-19535745475077504142009-03-03T14:25:00.000-05:002009-03-03T14:25:00.000-05:00The Lesser Gravities24. The Mind in Gravity.25. Re...The Lesser Gravities<BR/><BR/>24. The Mind in Gravity.<BR/><BR/>25. Reasoning (or disputing <BR/>or discoursing) in Man.<BR/><BR/>26. Reason in the Mind.<BR/><BR/>27. The Mind is void of suffering.<BR/><BR/>28. No thing in a bunny true.<BR/><BR/>(Everything that is, is doublespin.)Gravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-13871796168290956752009-03-03T14:17:00.000-05:002009-03-03T14:17:00.000-05:00The Bunny Dissolveable 17. Everything that is, is...The Bunny Dissolveable <BR/><BR/>17. Everything that is, is double.<BR/><BR/>18. None of the things that <BR/>are stand still.<BR/><BR/>19. Not all things are moved by <BR/>a soul, but everything that is, <BR/>is moved by a carrot.<BR/><BR/>(Of the Soul; that part which is sensible is mortar, but that part which is reasonable is immortal.)<BR/><BR/>20. Everything that suffers <BR/>is sensible; Gravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-25027634591809859492009-03-03T13:58:00.000-05:002009-03-03T13:58:00.000-05:00* Map shows world at +4C; Who will pay for the hig...* Map shows world at +4C; Who will pay for the high rise buildings in the Antarctic and solar panels in Africa; Borderline delusional; Whole exercise is ridiculous; Even so DIYer calls dibs on Antarctica; Snuffy wants some of the author's weed; Some doubt the ability of Siberia to become breadbasket despite this experts assertions <BR/>* aitrader - "Fanatics do not have a sense of humorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-47796004388259792032009-03-03T13:50:00.000-05:002009-03-03T13:50:00.000-05:00From the first book of Hermes Hare, the thrice gre...From the first book <BR/>of Hermes Hare, the thrice greatest discounting intelligencer.<BR/><BR/>The Bunny Immoveable<BR/><BR/>01. All things that are moved, <BR/>only that which is not <BR/>is immoveable.<BR/><BR/>02. Every body is changeable.<BR/><BR/>03. Not every bunny <BR/>is dissolveable.<BR/><BR/>04. Some bunnies are dissolveable.<BR/><BR/>05. Every living being <BR/>is not mortal.<BR/><BRGravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-24475141014799013122009-03-03T13:17:00.000-05:002009-03-03T13:17:00.000-05:00Re: home energy.@Stoneleigh: The key to a home/mic...Re: home energy.<BR/><BR/>@Stoneleigh: The key to a home/micro energy is, to my mind, a zero energy home. That is, it should need little to no energy for heating and cooling. Is that the case for you? If not, then I can understand why your system isn't enough to maintain your lifestyle. <BR/><BR/>But, hey, it's going to be a different lifestyle anyway, so why not get a jump on things?<BR/><BR/>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-78448073725484835052009-03-03T13:02:00.000-05:002009-03-03T13:02:00.000-05:00@BigelowRentech, Inc. (RTK)Energy Recovery, Inc. (...@Bigelow<BR/><BR/><I>Rentech, Inc. (RTK)<BR/>Energy Recovery, Inc. (ERII)<BR/>Terra Nitrogen Company, L.P. (TNH)</I><BR/><BR/>Thanks for the tip. I'll give them a looksee.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-30227491755039798452009-03-03T12:41:00.000-05:002009-03-03T12:41:00.000-05:00That should be the kick off for a significant rall...<I>That should be the kick off for a significant rally lasting perhaps as long as several months. Such a rally could retrace a relatively large percentage of the preceding decline (from October 2007).</I><BR/><BR/>From your keyboard to whatever gods there may be's ears. It takes time to get visas processed... Man, are we cutting it close...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-50191763962975750642009-03-03T12:38:00.000-05:002009-03-03T12:38:00.000-05:00Stoneleigh,Further down the line the mindset is li...Stoneleigh,<BR/><BR/><I>Further down the line the mindset is likely to be different, but by then there will be little capital available to do what would need to be done.</I><BR/><BR/>Could you explain what you mean by little capital available? What, are countless thousands to be dead? Will the metals of the Earth have evaporated into space? Will the libraries have all turned to dust, their book goritsashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09767556060065779629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-17838001457802797992009-03-03T12:19:00.000-05:002009-03-03T12:19:00.000-05:00At the off, let me say these are “exploratory calc...At the off, let me say these are “exploratory calculations,” in the spirit of E. F. Schumacher in Small is Beautiful. They are here simply to investigate some of the possibilities we might face and some of the consequences.<BR/><BR/>According to the CIA Fact Book there is 148.94 million sq km of land. Of this, arable land is 10.57% and permanent crops are 1.04%. The total of land under goritsashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09767556060065779629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-13653877603798982732009-03-03T12:12:00.000-05:002009-03-03T12:12:00.000-05:00Brian M. You left out LaoZi. (I was recently acc...Brian M. You left out LaoZi. (I was recently accused of BEING LaoZi, over on my blog... ) :-)<BR/><BR/>Yeah, sure. Good analysis- we went through all that in 1970. The attempt to use religion as a rationally designed tool for directing herds is fun to talk about, but extremely slippery in execution. And would be highly labor intensive- the actual martyr involved would be the one who had to Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-50861605570681181032009-03-03T11:41:00.000-05:002009-03-03T11:41:00.000-05:00Stoneleigh "Personally I agree, but that would be ...Stoneleigh "Personally I agree, but that would be a hard sell at the moment. People here have great faith in the existing system and would generally be far too risk averse to agree as a group to cut the ties. <BR/><BR/>Further down the line the mindset is likely to be different, but by then there will be little capital available to do what would need to be done."<BR/><BR/>Oh, I agree. Surprise!!Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.com