tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post5422314769204106481..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: June 30 2011: The Impossible and the InevitableIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger163125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-58635231432891472812011-07-04T09:39:10.184-04:002011-07-04T09:39:10.184-04:00New post up.
Serfdom Day
.New post up.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2011/07/july-4-2011-serfdom-day.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Serfdom Day</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-32774294513757767682011-07-04T08:33:54.695-04:002011-07-04T08:33:54.695-04:00Will Stewart: American Dystopian Future,
worth to...<a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-29-2011/broke-bank-mounting---america-s-dystopian-future" rel="nofollow">Will Stewart: American Dystopian Future</a>,<br /><br />worth to look,<br /><br />cheersAlexander Achttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16845172528191878930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-89721009877835337802011-07-04T08:06:15.869-04:002011-07-04T08:06:15.869-04:00@SecularAnimist, the claims that Dan Pink presents...@SecularAnimist, the claims that Dan Pink presents on motivation need further/deeper support. Did he do the research himself?Somehow I don't think so.<br /> I would like to know how the participants in the challenges were selected.For instance was the right prefrontal lobe of each participate in equal state of health, equally developed?<br />Was a needs assessment completed? If I needed food scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-39529789280553070322011-07-04T07:35:53.300-04:002011-07-04T07:35:53.300-04:00""We, The People have to work to get con...""We, The People have to work to get control of our government or else we are at grave risk, PREPARED OR NOT.""<br /><br />Right, "prepared" boils down to narrow, short-term thinking while broad institutional changes need to be made. This has zero chance to happen from voting. <br /><br /><br />""i'm not particularly interested in who's in the SecularAnimisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00391479249569818914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-82115772455350447752011-07-04T06:48:53.426-04:002011-07-04T06:48:53.426-04:00"""i do not believe it is an accide..."""i do not believe it is an accident that this crisis was engineered just before the baby boomers were set to retire en masse and stake their claim on social security.""<br /><br />Of course, it was right on the doorstep to peak oil as well. And Bernanke is an expert in the Great Depression and wrote papers on oil shocks as well.<br /><br />Yep, looks like a managed SecularAnimisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00391479249569818914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-47439445919462681722011-07-04T05:39:45.280-04:002011-07-04T05:39:45.280-04:00I do not know if this link was mentioned previousl...I do not know if this link was mentioned previously - but <a href="http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/" rel="nofollow">Global Property Guide</a> is highly recommended for assessing the global housing bubble,<br /><br />cheers,<br /><br />AlexAlexander Achttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16845172528191878930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-48260415115583337882011-07-04T05:08:29.330-04:002011-07-04T05:08:29.330-04:00OpenID skilo said... IMN,
in my view though, i...OpenID skilo said... IMN, <br /><br />in my view though, if the people don't take some kind of action and find a way to control their government then the "prepared for" future looks pretty dim, too.<br /><br />I agree entirely.<br /><br />RobertBiologique Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410194284794713409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-4415479510745949152011-07-04T04:31:47.329-04:002011-07-04T04:31:47.329-04:00Hello,
@ p01
About Tricastin, it would appear to ...Hello,<br /><br />@ p01<br />About Tricastin, it would appear to be a minor incident, however the press has been stressing the fact that the power station is old and not ageing well.<br /><br />@ El G<br />About DSK, my immediate reaction was that he could well be the next president. Imagine, a Frenchman going through the U.S. justice system and coming out clean ?!? There will be parades.<br /><Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-72959905397222751382011-07-04T04:10:31.550-04:002011-07-04T04:10:31.550-04:00IMN,
the ad hominem is pretty much useless. it a...IMN,<br /><br />the ad hominem is pretty much useless. it also appears to have biased you and led you to impute ideas to me that i don't hold and never advocated.<br /><br />you seem to conclude that i've excluded a military coup take over of the current powers that be.<br /><br />i have not excluded that outcome at all. or an outcome i can't even imagine.<br /><br />what i did say Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-58955870758875996862011-07-04T03:51:05.798-04:002011-07-04T03:51:05.798-04:00@Ash,
check out "the corporation" for f...@Ash,<br /><br />check out "the corporation" for free on hulu.com, if you haven't already. it is an excellent documentary - and the first place i heard about privatized rain water.<br /><br />i also learned the news has no legal obligation to not purposefully falsify the "news."<br /><br />it is an excellent documentary.<br /><br />@el g,<br /><br />>>Is the currentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-7759776478255538782011-07-04T03:28:10.268-04:002011-07-04T03:28:10.268-04:00>>Ron Paul is a genius! But why stop at the ...>>Ron Paul is a genius! But why stop at the Fed burning the treasury bonds it already owns? Why not have the fed buy all the government's debt and burn it. For that matter, what's to stop the Fed from buying every debt on the planet and burning it?<<<br /><br />why don't sharks break their teeth off?<br /><br />why don't wasps get rid of their stingers?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-16590535131997676202011-07-03T23:13:41.891-04:002011-07-03T23:13:41.891-04:00el gallinazo,
My actual proposition is that the P...el gallinazo,<br /><br />My actual proposition is that the POTUS is, at least most of the time, basically a figurehead. POTUS gets to announce the decisions, but I think it's pretty clear that someone else usually writes them down.<br /><br />For the running of the Empire, there is hardly any better position from which to write them than DCIA. Any fool can be King. It takes a fair amount of Phlogiston Água de Beberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269917130349144430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-60482370646653303372011-07-03T22:33:36.552-04:002011-07-03T22:33:36.552-04:00IMN
I am afraid you might be on to something ther...IMN<br /><br />I am afraid you might be on to something there. As Bush the Evil Elder (as opposed to Bush the Dolt) demonstrated, the directorship of the CIA is a viable course to the virtual throne despite the delay caused by Reagan's unexpected animal vitality.el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-58550099498995042702011-07-03T22:21:58.663-04:002011-07-03T22:21:58.663-04:00@ scandia
Are you playing Sancho Panza to Don Qui...@ scandia<br /><br />Are you playing Sancho Panza to Don Quixote er I mean Supergravity while he tilts at his windmills? <br /><br />According to various sources (I must be fairly bored to even bother looking it up) there is no basis for impeachment of Congresspersons, it was unsuccessfully attempted once, nor even a possibility of Recall Elections. Congress can expel its own members and that is Phlogiston Água de Beberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269917130349144430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-1137241449123969132011-07-03T21:32:42.196-04:002011-07-03T21:32:42.196-04:00@scandia
The remaining 49% would have no other rec...@scandia<br />The remaining 49% would have no other recourse than to also impeach the 51% who would not impeach the POTUS for treason against congress, for dereliction of duty resulting in recursive treason against congress, whereas a house voting against itself cannot stand, and whereas the act of voting against presidential impeachment [for an act of treason against congress by unauthorised Supergravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16330259051452619245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-43652915337015642032011-07-03T21:31:10.738-04:002011-07-03T21:31:10.738-04:00Guess we will have to wait for Nassim to weigh in ...<i>Guess we will have to wait for Nassim to weigh in on this.</i><br /><br />Your translation is quite correct, but Google Translate cuts out the definitive article ("al").<br /><br />I tried another translator, this one does not cut it out but does not join it properly either.<br /><br />I guess this article says it all:<br /><a href="http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Nassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-19251338242470945082011-07-03T21:18:46.215-04:002011-07-03T21:18:46.215-04:00""Just watched that Dan Pink video on mo...""Just watched that Dan Pink video on motivation. I wasn't so impressed as he comes across as a Tony Robbins clone with ADD""<br /><br />LOL. It's not about him personally. It's about the information regarding monetary incentive and motivation. That it's really only motivation for manuel labor. Once you get into innovation and creation it actually has an SecularAnimisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00391479249569818914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-41359582504199069352011-07-03T21:15:46.022-04:002011-07-03T21:15:46.022-04:00""we're nowhere near that far along....""we're nowhere near that far along. Counting from WWII we seem to be zipping along at 3-5x Roman speed.""<br /><br />Rome is not a perfect example. While the US does exhibit similar characteristics of the old empire model. The capitalist world economy differed from earlier empire systems because it was not a single political unit. Empires depended upon a system of SecularAnimisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00391479249569818914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-61623430540193833062011-07-03T21:01:10.769-04:002011-07-03T21:01:10.769-04:00@Secular Animist, Just watched that Dan Pink video...@Secular Animist, Just watched that Dan Pink video on motivation. I wasn't so impressed as he comes across as a Tony Robbins clone with ADD. I prefer the approach of someone like Gabor Mate and his ideas on how the brain is wired, how access to the motivational centre in the brain can be impaired. Pink seemed to be missing the spirit of compassion which I like to see in conjunction with scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-48232704416829786292011-07-03T20:38:59.909-04:002011-07-03T20:38:59.909-04:00@Supergravity, I don't know anything about the...@Supergravity, I don't know anything about the process in congress. I am assuming if 51% vote against impeachment then the remaining 49% have no other recourse.scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-84872601912130902452011-07-03T20:23:51.703-04:002011-07-03T20:23:51.703-04:00@IMN, we're nowhere near that far along. Count...@IMN, we're nowhere near that far along. Counting from WWII we seem to be zipping along at 3-5x Roman speed.<br /><br />I put us somewhere around Diocletian. We're still 50 years (our speed) from Ricimer, by which time even the Blankfeins of Rome were doing their best to keep TS away from TF.<br /><br />Also, don't forget that even after Ricimer, Aureolanus (Arthur that would be) and Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752307987743035281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-29659039949295586582011-07-03T20:07:12.260-04:002011-07-03T20:07:12.260-04:00@scandia
"If it turns out both the President...@scandia <br />"If it turns out both the President and Congress have committed an impeachable offence then who can file impeachment charges? I don't think a citizen's arrest would be heard by the courts?"<br /><br />Members of congress who are rendered impeachable for not impeaching the POTUS [for treason against congress by unauthorised warmaking], must be individually Supergravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16330259051452619245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-11183379737654315492011-07-03T20:04:04.038-04:002011-07-03T20:04:04.038-04:00@Secular Animist, I just googled Lynn Margulis. Fa...@Secular Animist, I just googled Lynn Margulis. Fascinating life she's had. I sense she and Stoneleigh are cut from the same cloth.<br />Amazing that Margulis attended the University of Chicogo at age 14 because "she wanted to and they let me in". Which brings me to " desire " and wondering what role desire has in evolution. Perhaps Dan Pink touches on that in motivation ?scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-36018874285691169922011-07-03T19:22:55.974-04:002011-07-03T19:22:55.974-04:00el g,
Try focusing your attention on the Barbaria...el g,<br /><br />Try focusing your attention on the Barbarian General Ricimer who though disqualified, as a non-Roman, to be Emperor, effectively ruled the remains of the Western Empire just before its final days.<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricimer" rel="nofollow">Ricimer</a><br /><br />I guess if I wanted to get a shot at ruling the empire without having to risk election results Phlogiston Água de Beberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269917130349144430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-21302712631692213372011-07-03T19:13:27.064-04:002011-07-03T19:13:27.064-04:00sorry, working link to the neil kramer interviewsorry, working link to the <a href="http://www.veritasshow.com/guests/2011/01jan/VS-110114-nkramer.php" rel="nofollow">neil kramer interview</a>benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07338619620804720116noreply@blogger.com