Remind everyone the amazing depths of Persian and other Middle Eastern cultures. Disabuse them of the idiotic notions held by Westerners of their primitive position Vs Western superiority. Wake up. These ARE brilliant clever people And they’re not giving in.
Indeed they are clever people that have survived well for centuries, with histories that are creditable.
Yes, wars in those olden days were frequent as empires rose and empires fell. It was the way of the world. But nowhere did we see 750 military bases scattered over all the world.
The closest has been the British Empire who exploited half the world for their own benefit, most countries forming part of their hegemonic exploits now have almost shed the influences that resulted from that period of British superiority. Some are still too weak to have shed their final connection to the so called Empire and still curtsy and bow to a couple of old British 'royalty', all white and all Western.
But hegemony, now the realm of the USA every day, is such an inhumane objective as is the ability in a country like the same USA (assisted by Zionists), to be able to buy politicians by the bucketload, own them, control their opinions using bribery and corruption as the order of the day.
This development came about with the assistance of weak geriatric President, a human disgrace, assisted by a parasitic country of 9.5 million people who now own and control a developed warlike country of 360 million, known as the host for the parasites. All through blackmail (Epstein and his buddies), corruption, ( Adelson and Musk), ongoing bribery (the daily activities in elected politicians offices, 86% at least) and hidden from view by a media, the likes of which are an absolute disgrace, deserving of legal action for lies , lies and more lies over a very long period.
Known to the media, known to the people and accepted as the new electoral process. Do you know of any other country in the world that hasn't placed inbuilt protections against such corruption, open and in plain sight. It is almost laughable Democratic USA? Rubbish!
And to top it off, we have a toothless United Nations, a shadow of its former self, which disregards the very principles on which it was based, long ago, controlled daily by a US veto.
I have said to people groaning, IF only we had a group of Nations United to prosecute genocide and war crimes. Followed by it's long past time to dissolve the un lowercase : ) for giving hope when there never will be in that organization. The old your worst enemy is a friend who betrays you.
86% C33? Have you done a calculation? Not contesting, just chuckling; might be low, but certainly in the ballpark. America, based on my daily experience is more like a jostling demanding crowd of malignant narcissists always pushing against one another for something more, "more" meaning most any possession one can think of, or more baldfacedly, just plain old filthy lucre. Or higher ranking or position; or time stolen. And occasionally genuine caring for another, more connection, which creates an island amid the chaos. But I no longer think of it as a functional society as sociologists use the term.
What once was a top, the United Naions tumbled down, because it was built on fictive rocks, in the only interest of one of them. None of these rocks will last.
Except, Megan, that preparing Palestinian food is enormously time-consuming; I grew up enjoying it but recall my mother spending the entire day in the kitchen!
Luckily we are awash with Palestinian and Lebanese restaurants in my county. Take a friend to one, as I have 🙂
Great idea, great food. As an Italian American, I'm an eggplant (aubergine) lover. Eggplant parmigiana is great, but so is baba ghanoush, and other delicacies spiced uniquely from other cuisine. Food is love.
I never got the hang of preparing eggplant. It sounds delish but I would first like to taste it made properly by someone who knows what they are doing!
So many Americans have totally forgotten the benefits of sitting down with family or friends to share food. Part of societies decay and you see the results of marginalizing family. I hate that we have become a country of liars. We are not all that way by any means.
Caitlin, I love your courage and your suggestions. I look forward to your posts and share them all the time.
I could give you my secrets to good eggplant parmigiana al forno (baked), but then you'd share them and everyone would have them. Only kidding of course.
Iran is a mishmash of cultures, including Jewish, that come from all over. Iran should be called Persia but today's Iranians want nothing to do with that.
“Trump’s crazed, thuggish, childishly illiterate screed is so bizarrely wrong on so many levels it’s hard to envision it as an actual statement by a head of state. First and most obviously, that’s not the way to address a revered religious scholar who is seven years your senior and far ahead of you in IQ points, educational attainments, manners and morals, and general gravitas. If Trump’s intention were to make himself a laughing stock, while permanently alienating not just the government of Iran but all Iranians, not to mention most of the world’s population, he could hardly have crafted a more perfect diatribe.”
The “childishly illiterate screed” is one of Trump’s “tweets” embedded in the article. Even better than Barrett’s assessment of the tweet is his own “corrected” version:
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“Why would the so-called “Prime Minister,” Benjamin “Bibi Netanyahu” Mileikowsky, of the war torn Country of “Israel,” say so blatantly and foolishly that he won the War with Iran, when he knows his statement is a lie, it is not so. As a man of Talmudic faith, I guess he is supposed to lie. His Country was decimated, his evil Strategic Sites were OBLITERATED, and I knew EXACTLY where he was sheltered, and would not let the U.S. Armed Forces, by far the Greatest and Most Powerful in the World, terminate his life. I SAVED HIM FROM A VERY UGLY AND IGNOMINIOUS DEATH, and he does not have to say, “THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP!” In fact, in the final act of the War, I demanded that Iran refrain from firing a very large group of rockets, which were heading directly to Tel Aviv, looking for a big day, perhaps the final knockout! Tremendous damage would have ensued, and many Israelis would have been killed. It was going to be the biggest attack of the War, by far. But instead of thanks and a promise to quit starting wars and committing genocide, I get hit with the opposite and immediately dropped all US aid to “Israel.” “Israel” has to get back into the World Order flow, give up its nuclear weapons, apologize for killing JFK and doing 9/11 and committing genocide, or things will only get worse for them. They are always so angry, hostile, genocidal, and unhappy, and look at what it has gotten them - A burned out, blown up Country, with no future, a decimated Military, a horrible Economy, and DEATH all around them. They have no hope, and it will only get worse! I wish the leadership of Israel would realize that you often get more with HONEY than you do with VINEGAR. PEACE!!!”
As a Bioscientist, I can only say that a supercomputer time-mapping of the neurotransmitter dynamics in both Trump's and Bibi's brains would show some interesting chaotic patterns. And of course, that the man (our fearless misleader) is a one-person clown show.
Great idea Caitlin. As a US citizen, I am totally repulsed and disgusted that my Country is enabling this genocide. I have come to understand that the US and Israel are rogue, terrorist states which routinely violate international law, commit crimes against humanity and have no respect for anyone or anything, including their own people. Of course, the overwhelming majority of the Israelis support the genocide because they brain-washed ignorant fools who fail to understand that they are the genocidal, terrorist filth which is committing the genocide of the rightful owners of the land and properties they are wrongly inhabiting. Bless Iran, the Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas for resisting these crimes being committed in Palestine by the criminal states of the US and Israel. To the so-called "Arab countries" - go to hell, you despicable, hypocritical scum. Like the US Blowhard in Chief, you talk a little, but your talk is false. Don' think that we have not noticed this. Jordon, when the next attacks come, have some decency and refuse to fight on behalf of the filthy state of Israel. Go ahead, do something decent for a change - surprise me.
That’s because we’re all Palestinian now, and we are going to take down the vile filth that is Israel and their western crony backers. Death Death to the IDF.
Would or could the Criminal Court prosecute a entity? I am reminded how some countries punish corporations, yet the CEOs and Directors never face and punishment. Sanctions remind of fines imposed on Companies , so the criminal Board of directors layoff the powerless employees, and nations general population suffer all the pains of sanctions
"Deliberately starving a civilian population and then setting up aid sites as a death trap to massacre starving people trying to get food is too evil to wrap your mind around".
Along the same lines was the sniper activity....shooting the little boy in the back to attract adult attention and some aid from others nearby, then bombing all the helpers. A video from Caitlin some time ago. It showed quite clearly what an Israeli is made of.
In a class of their own, worse than anything before. Even the Third Reich pales by comparison.
They're nasty pieces of work, those IDF'ers, from whatever country they come from as Zionist mercenaries to murder unarmed civilians. No doubt well paid by the likes of Adelson and her Jewish fellow travellers, living their double lives as disloyal Americans, hand in hand with Trump and supported by 86% of US politicians, all directed by Netanyahu through AIPAC ad the ADL. Right in front of everyone for all to see using Las Vegas gambling profits to corrupt and buy political power with no action from government for their crimes.
The beginning of the end for the USA....... thanks to the US parasitical enemies from within.
...fuck IDF ....PROUD of slaughtering people in an aide line...hideous deformed animals (no, animals are better than them)....deformed, EVIL SOCIOPATHS.
Isra-Hell is real good at clubbing baby seals. They are not so good at picking a fight that hits back real hard, like Iran. That's when they run crying to big brother to step in.
In a nutshell, "The situation remains contentious, with conflicting narratives from Palestinian sources, the IDF, and international observers." With similar skin/hair and the ready availability of uniforms and arms, it is virtually impossible to know who is doing the killing. My money is on Hamas doing the killing but I can't prove it either. At any rate, there is no proof one way or the other so it's a moot point.
Not really. The IDF is a small institution. Even if it dies, its impact is limited. The LARGER and more important institution that needs to die is the U.S. Empire and the system of Capitalism. What's more likely to happen is that if/when the IDF dies, if the U.S. Empire is still on its current trajectory of global hegemony, it will simply create 'other institutions' to replace the IDF.
You mean the U.S. Empire is the most likely institution in the world to start a nuclear war. Without the backing of the U.S. Empire, Israel does not have the guts (or the resources) to do much on its own.
That's why I corrected you. Without the U.S. Empire and the Western Nations, Israel would not even be existing right now (or if it somehow were, it would be in a very different form) and there would be no Genocide of Palestinians. Israel is ONE of MANY symptoms of the U.S. Empire. The buck stops with the U.S. Empire.
Hence, I suggest going to the ROOT of the problem - the U.S. Empire and the system of Capitalism (of which colonialism, imperialism, etc. is a part).
The ROOT of the problem is the way the human brain is cabled. It made us ruthless machines perfectly fit for survival in prehistorical times, but incapable to evolve or adapt to an environment we ourselves "created" (read "utterly destroyed").
And all god fearing idiots still believe humans to be THE perfect creation of an invented lousy engineer.
Homo sapiens, my *SS ! Homo credulous would fit it much better...
Yes! The Amerikkkan empire is collapsing in real time...I'm old, will be without adequate Medicare, inadequate SD....hope I live long enough to see what we are now.....Die.... collapse into and with other decadent, debauched empires. YOUNG PEOPLE: You will face unspeakably difficult work before you....but most of you already appear to have clearly...PLEASE BUILD BACK BETTER ..in EVERY way....including environmental and public services...and a commitment to a quaint concept: THE COMMON GOOD. 👍good luck. Find the joy there is....
I think a lot of self-described progressives or leftists can’t imagine a post capitalist U.S. There’s a residual indoctrinated “truth” that if only the leaders were moral there’d be no need for a revolution because it’s just a corruption problem.
I believe that the mindset that normalizes aggression is the societal contagion that will prove to be the most difficult to kill. There are a slew of unconscious Zionists in our midst.
Perhaps some Americans were pleased at the sight of Israel’s infrastructure crumbling at the Iranian response to Israeli aggression. It can be provocative, even exhilarating to see a criminal enterprise be shut down, but the American war machine isn’t going to willingly put itself on life support. As the American pie gets smaller, the domestic temperature will rise. The injustice that the regime had meted routinely beyond its borders, with scant opposition, will be ramped up on unruly citizens. I think that has to happen to strip the unconscious Zionists of their liberal naïveté.
>>"The injustice that the regime had meted routinely beyond its borders, with scant opposition, will be ramped up on unruly citizens."
💯 Yes, it's only a matter of time. Most people don't realize how the 'outside evils' of the Empire will come home to roost and become the 'inside evils' of the Empire.
Well, sweetie, those days are pretty much done....heading for the alligator gulag soontobe on the FL sewer, er, swamp lands. I - sincerely - hope the absolutely BOUNTIFUL fascist fun to come will bless you and your household. Enjoy....! (The descent into
What a load of nonsense. Where did you go to school?
The holding facility in the Florida swamp is just a convenient, cheap and safe place to keep illegal aliens and deportees until they are processed. The business over alligators is much ado over nothing since detainees won't be coming into contact with them (or the boa constrictors or the water moccasins or the other nasties found in the swamps). Where's the beef?
>>"The holding facility in the Florida swamp is just a convenient, cheap and safe place to keep illegal aliens and deportees until they are processed. "
🤣🤣🤣 That's all I can manage. There are NO WORDS to describe the 'dumb as molasses' comment that you just made. No wonder America is going to shits with MAGA cultists like you.
But thak you for providing relief laughter for everyone here. Appreciate it.
The "City of London" metastazized to New York and some other places, but it may still be the publicity shy old-money at work running "global financial capitalism", might it not? BlackRock seems to be a marker to watch, but it doesn't say whose money it manages.
Capitalism provides your job and the resources to obtain your home, vehicles, clothing, food, etc. Even the Russians and Chinese (and every other country that has a black market) see the benefits of capitalism.
"Capitalism" has shifted meanings several times, hasn't it? It is a name given to western political economy these days, which is in a late stage of "financial capitalism", where "money" is set to be the rate-limiting-factor in the political economy, so that control of the money leads to control of the political economy.
This is not working very well, as resource scarcity and expense is becoming a rate limiting factor, especially energy resources, oil and natural gas, but water is certainly in line for that honor, as groundwater is depleting worldwide.
"Crony-central-bank-global-financial-capitalism-based-upon-exponentially-growing-debt-as-money" is a long descriptive name to make the point that we are far from the 1800s industrial capitalism, which had a lot of problems with workers just dying in cities on bad bread and fouled water...
Human political economy is a complex self-organizing system that is overdue for a self-reorganization. The current apex-predator elites do not want their system reorganized to bypass their parasitic extraction rights to it, as "owners". They have kill-buttons for the rest of us.
This is already getting to be another "selection-event" for survival traits.
Really? From my perspective, the IDF is doing just that, defending Israel against Muslim aggression and slaughter. I would hope that our armed forces would do the same to Mexico or Canada or Cuba under similar circumstances.
The majority of Americans are divorced from any reality other than what they have to deal with daily. Most people I know don’t really care to think about the genocide in Gaza and insist it’s a religious and “clash of civilizations” sort of thing and don’t want to be bothered with it. A recent poll showed high support for bombing Iran that’s not too surprising given the decades of propaganda. Who can forget McCain singing Bomb, bomb, bomb — bomb Iran?
When bourgeois music festivals airing on national broadcasting are more democratic and representative of public opinion than the bourgeois congress/parliament then you know the western so-called "free world" institutions are in trouble.
I question that you even know the definition or use of the word "bourgeois" Your 50-cent words are not impressive nor is your point. The "'free world {sic}' institutions" are doing just fine.
From what I read elsewhere Israel in its short war with Iran had significant damage at multiple essential sites from Iranian ballistic missiles to the point that Israel was days away from further destruction and losing the war. The U.S. backed off of deeper involvement and Trump interceded for a cease fire. The iron dome was inadequate to stop the missiles. Israel has asked journalists to leave country to avoid factual reporting of this event.
Israel has almost no support from other nations other than U.S. The genocide and especially the shooting of starving unarmed people standing in line for food has turned almost everyone against them .
Both sea ports, both refineries, electrical grid, water systems, all the military u.s. contractor buildings and labs. People managed to report with photos as well as satellite imaging. israel cried on it's knees for ceasefire. Sadly we know the story of israel and the Daddy Genocide Don, the war is not over. I wanted to know why Iran stopped the war and looked to the Koran with help from some friends. Iran is not BSing when it said they will not attack someone who is stopped attacking them. It is not the chess game I thought. Iran will never end them. The end will come from China as we attack them now. Yep we never learn at Hypersonic speeds : (
My use of the word support needs clarification as you so note. You are correct that US and Western Europe strongly supported Israel’s right to defend itself and have supplied weapons to Israel after/since the Oct Hamas attack. However, public opinion in these countries is shifting, particularly among younger generations, with more calling for ceasefires and accountability.
The election in the Democratic primary for mayor of NYC by a Muslin candidate against severe prejudicial attacks is an indication the tide is turning even in the U.S. It is difficult to gauge this shift but it is palpable.
Extremely deep thought from Indu though I suggest Caitlin shouldn't feel surrounded by all that rallying.
Indu - organize so the crowd is kept semi-circled behind her. Anticipate where she's going. Maneuver. Talk amongst yourselves. Discuss. Stay out of the way. Strictly follow. Stay safe and don't get trampled underfoot.
Stop rewarding this criminal enterprise with votes for their Red and Blue cabal. It is our vote (as weak as it is) not theirs. The Oligarchy does not own us yet but they do own this corrupt government. Stop voting for their Red and Blue.
The vote went well last time (for a change). Life is getting better. Blue collar wages are up. Maybe Trump can actually expand the Abraham Accords and bring some peace to the region. Winning!
"Facilitate the collective dawning of the realization that everything westerners have been taught about their society and their world is a lie."
Here are our marching orders--get to work now! There's no let up until we've brought the light of dawn into every Westerner's life, and they realize how much they've been manipulated and lied to. No excuses! We've got a world to save from the "real terrorists" of the military-industrial complex.
Another masterpiece Caitlin, thank you. I especially appreciate the helpful guides/ideas you list to help people WAKE UP and see the TRUTH about the U.S. Empire and its hegemony.
These WESTERN narratives MUST be dismantled, and every one doing their little part helps.
One thing I would like to add to your article is -> People MUST similarly WAKE UP to the cannibalistic and annihilistic system that is CAPITALISM. People MUST de-indoctrinate themselves from the narratives and gaslighting of Capitalism. Unless this happens, the problems we humans (and the planet and its species) face will NOT go away but simply morph into other kinds of problems that we will continue to face in the future. Kicking the can down the road only works for so long. Once the end of the road is reached, it might be too late...
The same things happen under other forms of totalitarianism, as Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Adolph were able to demonstrate. Managing very large groups of humans comes down to severe, brutal harshness in the hands of our "owners" from time to time, that 80 year generational cycle thing, or "Kondratiev Cycle", which Comrade Stalin had explained, did not like, and for which Comrade Condratiev went to a gulag, then death.
John May, you're making the rookie mistake that so many others that don't understand the difference between 'economic systems' and 'political systems' make.
Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, etc. are primarily ECONOMIC systems.
Authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dictatorships, monarchies, aristocracies, etc. are POLITICAL systems.
ANY economic system can be subjected to different POLITICAL systems. Eg. Saudi Arabia and many other MENA countries work under the economic system of Capitalism and the political system of monarchies and dictatorships.
Hence, confusing and conflating 'economic systems' with strageties of maintaining 'political systems' and power is INCORRECT.
Also, this is often the EXCUSE that apologists of Capitalism use to fend off criticisms of other economic systems.
To wit, ANY economic system can be ruled in an authoritarian and/or totalitarian way - including capitalism, socialism, communism, etc. Here's the other thing that people seeped in Western narratives often do not understand about other systems such as socialism and communism - and that is that ruling such a system in an authoritarian/totalitarian way dissolves the 'socialism/communism' aspects of such systems so that they are NO LONGER identified as socialism/communism. But of course, if you are a proponent of CAPITALISM, you would likely attempt to reject this.
>>"To divide one thing into two things is false dichotomy."
John Day, I suggest understanding what "false dichotomy" means. A false dilemma, also referred to as false dichotomy or false binary, is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available.
Dividing one thing into any number of things is just that - division, organization, etc. It has nothing to do with options or choices (as in false dichotomy).
Try some more motivated reasoning please - convince the world how 8+ billion people - each and every one of them growing their OWN vegetables and every human on planet earth riding their OWN bicycles will save the planet.
Secure your needs going forward. Modern industrial economy has peaked with oil + condensates, which was November 2018.
Since exponential growth is assumed by the financial system, and is papered over to maintain levels of profit-extraction, the system will crash and will need to be restructured for the long decline.
Our "owners" just want to cull whoever uses resources without being productive and faithful to them. That is no way to revive a self-organizing complex system, as our life support system, "Political Economy" is.
John Day, your solution is not only counter-productive, but is actually HARMFUL. Think big picture (not only just about yourself).
Everyone growing their own vegetables (i.e. 8 billion people growing their own vegetables and 8 billion people riding bicycles is NOT a good utilization or management of resources).
(1) Use mass-public transportation (buses, trains, etc.) to get MORE people to MORE places MORE safely and quicker than 'each individual person riding their own bicycle. This acutally consumes less resources than other methods.
(2) Follow processes of collective, cooperative, and resource-based farming to increase output while simultaneously decreasing input into the process of feeding 8+ billion people. Focus on utilization of water, land, and efficient uses of resources used in the production of food (eg. vertical farming, etc).
Focus on efficient use of resources (and that includes energy and land resources as well as others) at a global level (unless you are thinking just about yourself).
I'm not sure how that helps the Palestinians...If you're promoting the CO2 global warming hoax, you should be aware that the DeCaprios of the world are flying private jets to the latest conference which consume more energy than the average family does in years...They obviously don't belief their own propaganda....
I have noticed some people are conflating hoax. I know from the science the climate is changing via our garbage way of life forced on us. The hoax part might be coming from these odd Green funded grifts, like turning coal plants into Green power plants burning trees, yep many millions into burning trees. Giant solar farms in deserts coated with dust and sand. We may have past the tipping point on painless change, the oceans are and will continue to warm long after we stop buying new phones every day, mass transport etc. A friends Father was the Chairman of the Kyoto Protocols. I think there is even a play now about that part of his life. I wrote a story about climate/resource change, Dirty Dozen to Mars ha. The Androids win, they don't need us or our destruction ha. People hate the story, humans do not win and that's a whole other weird failure coming our way uncontrolled.
Celebrities might fly private jets to virtue signal but that doesn't mean that global warming is a hoax. It is phenomenon that is measured by scientists around the world in multiple ways.
Good on you Chang! But even your community based initiatives won't get us anywhere if there isn't a worldwide revolution with the masses rising up against the empire and its minions.
There are many more, but these should be enough to get you going on your journey of exploration of solutions and alternatives to Capitalism.
I would also recommend checking out Peter Joseph and his 'Revolution Now' podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@RevolutionNowPodcast/videos). Peter Joseph (of Zeitgeist fame) is who I should credit with helping me begin my journey of being an anti-capitalist and making me realize and understand things that I might not have otherwise.
You have taken a bold stance to say that people should be part of a massive life-support machine ONLY and not ride personal bicycles, and not grow kitchen gardens.
Perhaps in a world without wars, depressions, grid and internet failures, your case would be more persuasive, but we are entering times of war, hardship and interruption of supply lines and services, not just in Gaza and Ukraine.
These episodes are cyclic, every 80 years or so.
Count back 80 years a coupleof times to try it out.
I am thinking about myself, my family, my friends, my meditation group, patients, coworkers and society.
Home grown vegetables from gardens in "dachas" provided over half of the fresh vegetables that Russians ate in the 1990s. It was similarly supportive to workers in England during the industrial revolution,and Americans in both world wars ("victory gardens").
I think it was in eastern Oregon I visited a vineyard using lava/basalt boulders in the rows to extend their growing season - maybe something like that would get you a ripe banana.
Maybe you passed through John Day, Oregon, though I never have.
If we would quit getting one climate-zone 6-7 freeze every winter in climate zone 9, then I would get the Orinoco and Namwah bananas, which are the most cold tolerant.
We did not get that one very hard freeze per winter before February 2021.
(1) Few people growing their own gardens and Few people riding bicycles is OK, but it will NOT change anything.
(2) 8+ billion people all trying ro grow their OWN vegetables and all 8+ billion people trying to rely on bicycles ONLY is a recipe for DISASTER on a GRAND scale!
Again, I doubt you bothered to reference my link to 'Resource-Based Economies' and instead chosen to 'double-down' on your pre-existing beliefs.
I have given this long and thoughtful consideration for decades, and in my life by trying the things I advise.
Look at those 3 posts. See my gardens.
I am an American bicyclist. That is odd, isn't it?
Can you ride a bike 100 km if the trains are not running, if you really need to?
It's not an extreme consideration at all. You could do it day after day with a bit of training.
There will be disaster on a grand scale when everything is on a grand scale, as you advise.
People need to have their own margins of safety in dangerous times, as we now enter.
I still eat food from grocery stores, but it is summer and my fairly large vegetable gardens are making a lot of fresh produce for me to eat, preserve and give as gifts.
I have 49 canned jars of hot sauce from my garden prepared for Christmas gifts alreay, as I usually do, and better than anybody can buy.
Technology is something we all count on to live, as you point out, but we all need to hedge those bets.
Lots of people died in the world wars, as you will recall.
Having a bike, good health and a vegetable garden only improves your odds.
You're still not attempting to understand what I'm saying. Let me try this differently ->
John Day, you are doing a commendable job on growing your own food, and playing your part in reducing emissions, etc. (in terms of climate change) by riding your bicycle. It is FANTASTIC that you are doing these things. You don't need to stop doing ANY of what you currently do.
But what YOU do CANNOT be scaled for a population of 8+ billion people on the planet. Systems are needed to produce and distribute food to places where people CANNOT grow their own food (for land reasons, water scarcity reasons, climate reasons, etc.). Many distances are TOO GREAT to travel by bicycle. Not everyone has the LUXURY of time to be able to spend that much of it on bicycling to every place they go.
So while what you do works when the scale is very small/minimal, it does NOT WORK for the scale needed for the survival of 8+ billion people on the planet.
Your solution will not cure world hunger. Your solution will not cure (or address) the energy utilization and exploitation issues our planet has and the system of Capitalism produces.
Let me repeat. You can continue doing what you are doing. But to solve the problems facing the world, we need solutions that SCALE, are EFFICIENT in usage of resources, and are designed to work for MOST (if not all) people in all kinds of lands and climates.
My friend, Chang, I believe I grasped your meaning promptly the first time, and it is part of the current "noble lie" that guides industrial society, here just past the peak of industrial economy (just before or after the COVID-lockdown dip).
Peak conventional-oil was in 2005. Peak oil + condensates/liquids was November 2018. The "Repo Crisis" came in August/September 2019, when the biggest banks and financial institutions in the world could not really trust each other for overnight loans across time zones, because they all knew...
The "Going Direct Bailout" was decided about the same time as Event 201 in New York, followed promptly by the Wuhan games that October, which was the official narrative start of the Event 201 global tabletop exercise of how to manage a global coronavirus pandemic. Not how to treat it, but how to manage the information narrativers and people's thoughts and movements.
You may well live in a large, dense city, as I have many times. I currently live at the edge of Austin, Texas, which has done that boom-town thing a couple of times since I moved here for college in 1076, after graduating high school in Yokohama, Japan. I lived on my grandfather's cattle ranch in rural Texas for 8th & 9th grade, where he taught me many practical things. It was military bases before that, moving, moving, moving, and I have practiced medicine in dense cities, the Navajo Reservation, rural Texas, rural Hawaii, and always as a service to humans, individual humans and smallish groups.
I get the big and intimate pictures. We are not free. We are "owned" as George Carlin (in)famously expounded. We have owners. "It's a great big, exclusive club and we're not in it."
You write some about "Capitalism". I peeked. It is a crony capitalism, "global financial capitalism". It involves "Absentee Ownership", about which Thorstein Veblen wrote his last book in the 1920s, before 1929.
How can there be "absentee ownership"? Why? How does that work? It "works" by letting our apex predator class both support and cull large human grazing herds, which we are. That is the ecological function of our owners, to manage and cull large herds of grazing humans, so as to manage productive resources, which are now more than farmland and grain silos.
Wars for "lebensraum", pitting masses of hungry people against masses of other hungry people, or having hungry people starve to death or die from plagues in dense cities, are how they managed us before. They are using injectables and food additives and mass media now, but they really want to cull a large proportion of us going forward, without spooking us, the productive ones, without making us question their noble-lies/control-narratives.
This is a really difficult undertaking, especially if we have ways to spread rumors and truth, as we are doing here.
Yes, we are sustained by vast, chemicallly fed and managed factory-farms which deplete soil.
Lots of us will not survive the coming couple of decades. A new course, or many courses may become more clear to survivors as the downward trajectory of industrial output becomes apparent.
I am both aware of the big, obvious trends, and the fact that humans solve problems and work effectively in much smaller groups.
I am trying to help you get the larger picture, beyond the control-narrative picture you have been explaining to me. A lot of culling will happen to the people who live in dense cities, without individual and small group supports, when the "owners" decide that they are redundant. Look at the UK. It has begun. Japan has chosen a different trajectory. Russia has enough to still grow and maybe Iran can do a little of that in a rebound.
The big global system needs to eat Russia and Iran. Nothing personal... I'm with Joseph Tainter on the system size and complexity declining to what can be supported by available resources. Biggersystems use alot more resources merely to maintain system-complexity atso many levels.
Perhaps I understand you, I am also a avid cyclist and gardener. It`s possible to grasp the big picture while doing the small things. Individually we can`t save the world, but perhaps we can save a few, and in the process, maybe set examples for our neighbors. Wars are after all a magnification of how we treat and interact with our neighbors. So perhaps given that so many of us have the luxury to sit , read and inject our opinions on the tragedies of this world ,we can still make effort , even if its a small, local and unrecognized , its not insignificant
Thank you. Yes, it seems that we have similar vantages. Please see my comments to Chang and Landrew. I have a lot of chores to do in the next few hours, before the sun gets super-strong.
Yes, I agree with Chang, wow, have I ever written that ha. My Fathers farm, my Father was an engineer most of his professional life who never left the farm he grew up on in his mind. When he retired he bought a small farm which was a cut out of a much larger farm. My Father grew large gardens and gave away food. I was working in the garden and at the edge, old corn farm and my Fathers garden. I took a photo I was so horrified, my fathers garden some weeds, worms, Biology, the corn field corn nothing else living. I asked my Father's doctor if my Father's cancer was caused by his proximity to the commercial farm and his well. Blank stare. I agree we need to change how and who we live for. Job well done on the gardens, damn they are a lot of work. My Son is the Dir. of Microbiology for a large co. so we have a garden we share : )
Your description of your father's life and cancer, the "blank stare" when you asked about cancer from Ag-chemicals, your own familiarity with farming and gardenings... All of this contributes to your own path.
"8 billion" human paths... The most ever, and it now looks like that number will peak very soon, because people in big, crowded cities are not having children much, not much at all.
That does not account for big, bad things happening, as our owners cull us.
They do not need so many of us and we are consuming their jet fuel and nice nature.
Birth rates have been declining for years, and life expectancy has recently begun to follow the same trend. It should be clear to everyone that our current levels of energy resources cannot sustain our existing growth rate, as all peaks have either already been reached or are about to be.
When you also consider the actual devastating consequences of climate DRIFT, which can only be exacerbated by global warming, I seriously doubt we should be planning anything for a population of over 8 billion people on the planet.
So, I believe the good doctor is right, and you might want to consider bicycle training; it will at least give you nice calves! :-)
HaHaHa - you're funny Nobody. You must have a SPECIAL 'crystal ball' that no one else on Earth has. I never realized you could look into the future. Or have you been cheating by using a time-machine? Naughty you...
Though I think your crystal ball might be malfunctioning (just like your analytical skills seem to be).
Malfunctioning crystal ball? So I can only assume you haven't been officially promoted to Commissar yet. Don't worry; since you already have the right attitude, I'll do my best to nominate you. In the meantime, learning some Chinese while biking or tending to your vegetable garden could be quite beneficial!
Doc, I think you're very right in advocating small group resilience. Our "massive life-support machine" entirely based on oil is going to stop soon, like it or not.
Too bad your effing country will probably be the last to fail since it has the largest energy reserves. I'd wish it to explode sooner, giving all others a little break, but I sincerely hope people like you -and only them- will survive the breakdown.
We need all kinds of people as a species, I think. Otherwise it would have narrowed down by now.
I hope to make the apex-predator class of elites redundant through cooperating with Divine Guidance, as each of us can decide to do, and work to accept and act upon.
That is evident when you are in a real country. In my part of the u.s. mass transport, the bus goes to the shopping and the jails. The train to the city takes forever and stops at night. What we could have had China, Russia has. We have bombs and not many left.
I have been thinking about where to go. We don't even do science unrelated to the military in the u.s. now. More of my blathering later : )
I kept thinking "Is it the will of Landru?", while mowing the grass for over 5 hours yesterday.
Look for a right-sized small town, with good water supply and goodsoil, maybe even a railline. We have made a homestead in Yoakum,Texas, which has one rail line, used to have more, has lovelyblack-dirt that German/Czech farmers found in the 1850s, fleeing European wars.
It never had a slave economy. It was the tomato-capital of Texas in the 1920s-1930s. It has a good grocery store, several hardware stores, about 6000 people, which is very stable for decades, and mixed economy, including grazing cattle and nearby fracking.
It gets hot & humid in the summer in the Texas coastal plains, but is far enough in to be protected from hurricanes. Winters won't kill people here.
There are lots of considerations to take into account in your search.
>>"Quoting from Ryan Turpin: "The core requirement of resource-based economics is that resources of every kind are plentiful and not scarce."
Yes, though you need to read the rest of the article to understand WHAT EXACTLY he means by that (unless you prefer cherry-picking stuff and using it out of context). The resources he (and other RBE advocates) refer to are the ones needed to sustain life -> water, food, shelter, clothing, electricity (through renewable methods) and not 'stuff like fossil fuels, minerals, metals, etc.'
"Our current planet already contains enough resources to grant clean water, sufficient food, adequate shelter, clothing, and even electricity to every member of the population. Unfortunately, many people do without those things due directly to elements of capitalist systems, including rationing, withholding, and other forms of artificial scarcity. Every day, tens of thousands die because of malnutrition. Millions, meanwhile, are oppressed through slavery and debt-related servitude, both largely driven by capitalist enterprise."
No, the sentence is quite clear and doesn't require further interpretation.
And the further you read the stupider it gets.
Additionally, if you were familiar with basic economic principles, you would recognize that one of the foundational assumptions is that natural resources are abundant and, therefore, considered unlimited and without cost.
It's concerning that we find ourselves in such a difficult situation when our beliefs are based on these assumptions.
I didn't realize you were so out of touch with the current state of affairs.
However, I must express that I'm not inclined to assist those who approach any topic with arrogance.
Wow, I needed this. Spent five hours today listening to someone debate in our “progressive group” how that chant “Death to the IDF.” was so horrific. Can’t wait to forward your article. 👍🏼
Remind everyone the amazing depths of Persian and other Middle Eastern cultures. Disabuse them of the idiotic notions held by Westerners of their primitive position Vs Western superiority. Wake up. These ARE brilliant clever people And they’re not giving in.
Nor should they...
Vin,
Indeed they are clever people that have survived well for centuries, with histories that are creditable.
Yes, wars in those olden days were frequent as empires rose and empires fell. It was the way of the world. But nowhere did we see 750 military bases scattered over all the world.
The closest has been the British Empire who exploited half the world for their own benefit, most countries forming part of their hegemonic exploits now have almost shed the influences that resulted from that period of British superiority. Some are still too weak to have shed their final connection to the so called Empire and still curtsy and bow to a couple of old British 'royalty', all white and all Western.
But hegemony, now the realm of the USA every day, is such an inhumane objective as is the ability in a country like the same USA (assisted by Zionists), to be able to buy politicians by the bucketload, own them, control their opinions using bribery and corruption as the order of the day.
This development came about with the assistance of weak geriatric President, a human disgrace, assisted by a parasitic country of 9.5 million people who now own and control a developed warlike country of 360 million, known as the host for the parasites. All through blackmail (Epstein and his buddies), corruption, ( Adelson and Musk), ongoing bribery (the daily activities in elected politicians offices, 86% at least) and hidden from view by a media, the likes of which are an absolute disgrace, deserving of legal action for lies , lies and more lies over a very long period.
Known to the media, known to the people and accepted as the new electoral process. Do you know of any other country in the world that hasn't placed inbuilt protections against such corruption, open and in plain sight. It is almost laughable Democratic USA? Rubbish!
And to top it off, we have a toothless United Nations, a shadow of its former self, which disregards the very principles on which it was based, long ago, controlled daily by a US veto.
I have said to people groaning, IF only we had a group of Nations United to prosecute genocide and war crimes. Followed by it's long past time to dissolve the un lowercase : ) for giving hope when there never will be in that organization. The old your worst enemy is a friend who betrays you.
86% C33? Have you done a calculation? Not contesting, just chuckling; might be low, but certainly in the ballpark. America, based on my daily experience is more like a jostling demanding crowd of malignant narcissists always pushing against one another for something more, "more" meaning most any possession one can think of, or more baldfacedly, just plain old filthy lucre. Or higher ranking or position; or time stolen. And occasionally genuine caring for another, more connection, which creates an island amid the chaos. But I no longer think of it as a functional society as sociologists use the term.
What once was a top, the United Naions tumbled down, because it was built on fictive rocks, in the only interest of one of them. None of these rocks will last.
An easy thing to do is make dishes from Iran (and Palestine, etc.) and serve them to friends and family.
Except, Megan, that preparing Palestinian food is enormously time-consuming; I grew up enjoying it but recall my mother spending the entire day in the kitchen!
Luckily we are awash with Palestinian and Lebanese restaurants in my county. Take a friend to one, as I have 🙂
Dear gyp, I'm waiting on line for the day it's my turn to accompany you to one of those great restaurants.
Got your ticket? 🙂
I write my ticket just about every day, dear.
Great idea, great food. As an Italian American, I'm an eggplant (aubergine) lover. Eggplant parmigiana is great, but so is baba ghanoush, and other delicacies spiced uniquely from other cuisine. Food is love.
Agreed 💯 🤣
I never got the hang of preparing eggplant. It sounds delish but I would first like to taste it made properly by someone who knows what they are doing!
So many Americans have totally forgotten the benefits of sitting down with family or friends to share food. Part of societies decay and you see the results of marginalizing family. I hate that we have become a country of liars. We are not all that way by any means.
Caitlin, I love your courage and your suggestions. I look forward to your posts and share them all the time.
I could give you my secrets to good eggplant parmigiana al forno (baked), but then you'd share them and everyone would have them. Only kidding of course.
Extremely friendly and yes. Cultured people.
Most of them. Like Christians, it's the extremist 5+% that create all the problems.
Thank you for that. That has been my personal experience as well.
Iran is a 6,000 years old Culture...Unlike the Snake Pit of 200years !!!!
Iran is a mishmash of cultures, including Jewish, that come from all over. Iran should be called Persia but today's Iranians want nothing to do with that.
So you may appreciate this take:
“Trump’s crazed, thuggish, childishly illiterate screed is so bizarrely wrong on so many levels it’s hard to envision it as an actual statement by a head of state. First and most obviously, that’s not the way to address a revered religious scholar who is seven years your senior and far ahead of you in IQ points, educational attainments, manners and morals, and general gravitas. If Trump’s intention were to make himself a laughing stock, while permanently alienating not just the government of Iran but all Iranians, not to mention most of the world’s population, he could hardly have crafted a more perfect diatribe.”
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https://kevinbarrett.substack.com/p/target-bibi?publication_id=314817&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=56ulq&utm_medium=email
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The “childishly illiterate screed” is one of Trump’s “tweets” embedded in the article. Even better than Barrett’s assessment of the tweet is his own “corrected” version:
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“Why would the so-called “Prime Minister,” Benjamin “Bibi Netanyahu” Mileikowsky, of the war torn Country of “Israel,” say so blatantly and foolishly that he won the War with Iran, when he knows his statement is a lie, it is not so. As a man of Talmudic faith, I guess he is supposed to lie. His Country was decimated, his evil Strategic Sites were OBLITERATED, and I knew EXACTLY where he was sheltered, and would not let the U.S. Armed Forces, by far the Greatest and Most Powerful in the World, terminate his life. I SAVED HIM FROM A VERY UGLY AND IGNOMINIOUS DEATH, and he does not have to say, “THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP!” In fact, in the final act of the War, I demanded that Iran refrain from firing a very large group of rockets, which were heading directly to Tel Aviv, looking for a big day, perhaps the final knockout! Tremendous damage would have ensued, and many Israelis would have been killed. It was going to be the biggest attack of the War, by far. But instead of thanks and a promise to quit starting wars and committing genocide, I get hit with the opposite and immediately dropped all US aid to “Israel.” “Israel” has to get back into the World Order flow, give up its nuclear weapons, apologize for killing JFK and doing 9/11 and committing genocide, or things will only get worse for them. They are always so angry, hostile, genocidal, and unhappy, and look at what it has gotten them - A burned out, blown up Country, with no future, a decimated Military, a horrible Economy, and DEATH all around them. They have no hope, and it will only get worse! I wish the leadership of Israel would realize that you often get more with HONEY than you do with VINEGAR. PEACE!!!”
As a Bioscientist, I can only say that a supercomputer time-mapping of the neurotransmitter dynamics in both Trump's and Bibi's brains would show some interesting chaotic patterns. And of course, that the man (our fearless misleader) is a one-person clown show.
:)
"These ARE brilliant clever people"
Dubai shows what they are capable of achieving.
Not sure if this was a sarcastic comment or not.
But if it wasn't, here are some links to check-out and be more informed ->
(1) https://medium.com/@maskedwritr/dubai-explained-0d55706b4d51
(2) Dubai Is A Parody Of The 21st Century (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJuqe6sre2I)
(3) Just Burn the Money: Dubai’s Failed and Failing Megaprojects (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEGuyJrB1Ho)
There is so much more on the false propaganda and narratives about 'how great Dubai is'.
Dubai shows what Big Oil is capable of achieving. Anybody can achieve given adequate resources.
Great idea Caitlin. As a US citizen, I am totally repulsed and disgusted that my Country is enabling this genocide. I have come to understand that the US and Israel are rogue, terrorist states which routinely violate international law, commit crimes against humanity and have no respect for anyone or anything, including their own people. Of course, the overwhelming majority of the Israelis support the genocide because they brain-washed ignorant fools who fail to understand that they are the genocidal, terrorist filth which is committing the genocide of the rightful owners of the land and properties they are wrongly inhabiting. Bless Iran, the Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas for resisting these crimes being committed in Palestine by the criminal states of the US and Israel. To the so-called "Arab countries" - go to hell, you despicable, hypocritical scum. Like the US Blowhard in Chief, you talk a little, but your talk is false. Don' think that we have not noticed this. Jordon, when the next attacks come, have some decency and refuse to fight on behalf of the filthy state of Israel. Go ahead, do something decent for a change - surprise me.
Jordan is on the list, Egypt, Saudi they just think they are part of the club.
JordAN is owned by the USA
Well said Jim Thomas!
There is no genocide. There are more Gazans now than there were on October 7 when 1200+ Jews were raped and butchered.
Said like a good Zionist liar.
Losing a debate, resorting to name calling. Typical.
I can’t think of a more appropriately worded name for the likes of you, Ziofilth.
That’s because we’re all Palestinian now, and we are going to take down the vile filth that is Israel and their western crony backers. Death Death to the IDF.
👍👍👍
Garbage and it has been proven the isralis killed their own people with the hanibal directive and the rape and baby stories are proven lies
" and in 2016 Gadi Eisenkot ordered the formal revocation of the standing directive and the reformulation of the protocol.[3][4]"
Got anything more current that an outdated policy that obviously didn't get used?
"and the rape and baby stories are proven lies
In the face of extant Palestinian videos of the atrocities. Got it. You sound like a Nazi/Hitler denier.
YOU sound like the fucking ZioNAZI that you clearly are.
GTFOH.
Are you for real? How can you possibly believe that?
SMH
I believe in facts. Do you have any?
Do you?
I asked you first, sweetie. Prove your genocide. exists.
Israel has a right to defend itself!
In the International Criminal Court at the Hague.
Would or could the Criminal Court prosecute a entity? I am reminded how some countries punish corporations, yet the CEOs and Directors never face and punishment. Sanctions remind of fines imposed on Companies , so the criminal Board of directors layoff the powerless employees, and nations general population suffer all the pains of sanctions
I love you for that. I'm stealing it : )
Were it not for the obvious, evil bias of that court, I would not see an issue with that.
"Deliberately starving a civilian population and then setting up aid sites as a death trap to massacre starving people trying to get food is too evil to wrap your mind around".
Along the same lines was the sniper activity....shooting the little boy in the back to attract adult attention and some aid from others nearby, then bombing all the helpers. A video from Caitlin some time ago. It showed quite clearly what an Israeli is made of.
In a class of their own, worse than anything before. Even the Third Reich pales by comparison.
They're nasty pieces of work, those IDF'ers, from whatever country they come from as Zionist mercenaries to murder unarmed civilians. No doubt well paid by the likes of Adelson and her Jewish fellow travellers, living their double lives as disloyal Americans, hand in hand with Trump and supported by 86% of US politicians, all directed by Netanyahu through AIPAC ad the ADL. Right in front of everyone for all to see using Las Vegas gambling profits to corrupt and buy political power with no action from government for their crimes.
The beginning of the end for the USA....... thanks to the US parasitical enemies from within.
Con, even Hitler had some admirable qualities.
He was an accomplished artist.
He neither smoked nor drank.
He was a vegetarian.
He banned testing on animals.
Satanyahu? He eats children for breakfast.
Gazan population is greater today than it was on October 7 when Hamas raped, burned, baked and butchered 1200+ Jews.
Put down the crack pipe and slooooowly walk away.
The "Cradle of Civilization" is being Ransacked by the Deranged Illegitimate Capitalist Offspring
The "Cradle of Civilization" is being ransacked by the people of the Quran but that has been going on for millenia.
...fuck IDF ....PROUD of slaughtering people in an aide line...hideous deformed animals (no, animals are better than them)....deformed, EVIL SOCIOPATHS.
"PROUD of slaughtering people in an aide line"
Isra-Hell is real good at clubbing baby seals. They are not so good at picking a fight that hits back real hard, like Iran. That's when they run crying to big brother to step in.
In a nutshell, "The situation remains contentious, with conflicting narratives from Palestinian sources, the IDF, and international observers." With similar skin/hair and the ready availability of uniforms and arms, it is virtually impossible to know who is doing the killing. My money is on Hamas doing the killing but I can't prove it either. At any rate, there is no proof one way or the other so it's a moot point.
Happy to step in to help an ally. Iran might hit back but be careful, you're in the line of fire also.
...wellll...ain't dat the truth...plain as day...
“IDF” is not the name of a person. It is the name of an institution. If that institution doesn’t die soon, the world will.
Not really. The IDF is a small institution. Even if it dies, its impact is limited. The LARGER and more important institution that needs to die is the U.S. Empire and the system of Capitalism. What's more likely to happen is that if/when the IDF dies, if the U.S. Empire is still on its current trajectory of global hegemony, it will simply create 'other institutions' to replace the IDF.
It is the most likely institution in the world to start a nuclear war.
You mean the U.S. Empire is the most likely institution in the world to start a nuclear war. Without the backing of the U.S. Empire, Israel does not have the guts (or the resources) to do much on its own.
Of course you are correct that the root problem is the US empire, and that inclides most of the western nations, but death to the IDF is a start.
Yes, I agree - death to the IDF is a VERY good start.
It is a seed needed to be planted. We all grow from there to plant more, in the "War Again$t the Machine".
Seeds create roots. Help Wanted.
No, I mean the IDF.
That's why I corrected you. Without the U.S. Empire and the Western Nations, Israel would not even be existing right now (or if it somehow were, it would be in a very different form) and there would be no Genocide of Palestinians. Israel is ONE of MANY symptoms of the U.S. Empire. The buck stops with the U.S. Empire.
Hence, I suggest going to the ROOT of the problem - the U.S. Empire and the system of Capitalism (of which colonialism, imperialism, etc. is a part).
The ROOT of the problem is the way the human brain is cabled. It made us ruthless machines perfectly fit for survival in prehistorical times, but incapable to evolve or adapt to an environment we ourselves "created" (read "utterly destroyed").
And all god fearing idiots still believe humans to be THE perfect creation of an invented lousy engineer.
Homo sapiens, my *SS ! Homo credulous would fit it much better...
I’m not interested in your “correcting” me.
Yes! The Amerikkkan empire is collapsing in real time...I'm old, will be without adequate Medicare, inadequate SD....hope I live long enough to see what we are now.....Die.... collapse into and with other decadent, debauched empires. YOUNG PEOPLE: You will face unspeakably difficult work before you....but most of you already appear to have clearly...PLEASE BUILD BACK BETTER ..in EVERY way....including environmental and public services...and a commitment to a quaint concept: THE COMMON GOOD. 👍good luck. Find the joy there is....
I think a lot of self-described progressives or leftists can’t imagine a post capitalist U.S. There’s a residual indoctrinated “truth” that if only the leaders were moral there’d be no need for a revolution because it’s just a corruption problem.
I believe that the mindset that normalizes aggression is the societal contagion that will prove to be the most difficult to kill. There are a slew of unconscious Zionists in our midst.
Perhaps some Americans were pleased at the sight of Israel’s infrastructure crumbling at the Iranian response to Israeli aggression. It can be provocative, even exhilarating to see a criminal enterprise be shut down, but the American war machine isn’t going to willingly put itself on life support. As the American pie gets smaller, the domestic temperature will rise. The injustice that the regime had meted routinely beyond its borders, with scant opposition, will be ramped up on unruly citizens. I think that has to happen to strip the unconscious Zionists of their liberal naïveté.
>>"The injustice that the regime had meted routinely beyond its borders, with scant opposition, will be ramped up on unruly citizens."
💯 Yes, it's only a matter of time. Most people don't realize how the 'outside evils' of the Empire will come home to roost and become the 'inside evils' of the Empire.
The system that gave you the ability to make comments like that on Internet web sites? Yeah, great idea. sheesh
Well, sweetie, those days are pretty much done....heading for the alligator gulag soontobe on the FL sewer, er, swamp lands. I - sincerely - hope the absolutely BOUNTIFUL fascist fun to come will bless you and your household. Enjoy....! (The descent into
H E L L 😈)
What a load of nonsense. Where did you go to school?
The holding facility in the Florida swamp is just a convenient, cheap and safe place to keep illegal aliens and deportees until they are processed. The business over alligators is much ado over nothing since detainees won't be coming into contact with them (or the boa constrictors or the water moccasins or the other nasties found in the swamps). Where's the beef?
>>"The holding facility in the Florida swamp is just a convenient, cheap and safe place to keep illegal aliens and deportees until they are processed. "
🤣🤣🤣 That's all I can manage. There are NO WORDS to describe the 'dumb as molasses' comment that you just made. No wonder America is going to shits with MAGA cultists like you.
But thak you for providing relief laughter for everyone here. Appreciate it.
The "City of London" metastazized to New York and some other places, but it may still be the publicity shy old-money at work running "global financial capitalism", might it not? BlackRock seems to be a marker to watch, but it doesn't say whose money it manages.
Capitalism provides your job and the resources to obtain your home, vehicles, clothing, food, etc. Even the Russians and Chinese (and every other country that has a black market) see the benefits of capitalism.
"Capitalism" has shifted meanings several times, hasn't it? It is a name given to western political economy these days, which is in a late stage of "financial capitalism", where "money" is set to be the rate-limiting-factor in the political economy, so that control of the money leads to control of the political economy.
This is not working very well, as resource scarcity and expense is becoming a rate limiting factor, especially energy resources, oil and natural gas, but water is certainly in line for that honor, as groundwater is depleting worldwide.
"Crony-central-bank-global-financial-capitalism-based-upon-exponentially-growing-debt-as-money" is a long descriptive name to make the point that we are far from the 1800s industrial capitalism, which had a lot of problems with workers just dying in cities on bad bread and fouled water...
Human political economy is a complex self-organizing system that is overdue for a self-reorganization. The current apex-predator elites do not want their system reorganized to bypass their parasitic extraction rights to it, as "owners". They have kill-buttons for the rest of us.
This is already getting to be another "selection-event" for survival traits.
Jeez, where do such gaslighted (and obviously indoctrinated from birth) geniuses come from? No wonder America is in the deep shit that it is in.
Really? From my perspective, the IDF is doing just that, defending Israel against Muslim aggression and slaughter. I would hope that our armed forces would do the same to Mexico or Canada or Cuba under similar circumstances.
The majority of Americans are divorced from any reality other than what they have to deal with daily. Most people I know don’t really care to think about the genocide in Gaza and insist it’s a religious and “clash of civilizations” sort of thing and don’t want to be bothered with it. A recent poll showed high support for bombing Iran that’s not too surprising given the decades of propaganda. Who can forget McCain singing Bomb, bomb, bomb — bomb Iran?
Which poll are you mentioning... People do want to be bothered, but are just too busy trying to survive in our jungles that some call civilized. .
It was mentioned on Michael Tracy’s X that 81% of Republicans support bombing Iran and 15% of Democrats. It’s a graph from Quinnipiac Poll.
When bourgeois music festivals airing on national broadcasting are more democratic and representative of public opinion than the bourgeois congress/parliament then you know the western so-called "free world" institutions are in trouble.
I question that you even know the definition or use of the word "bourgeois" Your 50-cent words are not impressive nor is your point. The "'free world {sic}' institutions" are doing just fine.
From what I read elsewhere Israel in its short war with Iran had significant damage at multiple essential sites from Iranian ballistic missiles to the point that Israel was days away from further destruction and losing the war. The U.S. backed off of deeper involvement and Trump interceded for a cease fire. The iron dome was inadequate to stop the missiles. Israel has asked journalists to leave country to avoid factual reporting of this event.
Israel has almost no support from other nations other than U.S. The genocide and especially the shooting of starving unarmed people standing in line for food has turned almost everyone against them .
Both sea ports, both refineries, electrical grid, water systems, all the military u.s. contractor buildings and labs. People managed to report with photos as well as satellite imaging. israel cried on it's knees for ceasefire. Sadly we know the story of israel and the Daddy Genocide Don, the war is not over. I wanted to know why Iran stopped the war and looked to the Koran with help from some friends. Iran is not BSing when it said they will not attack someone who is stopped attacking them. It is not the chess game I thought. Iran will never end them. The end will come from China as we attack them now. Yep we never learn at Hypersonic speeds : (
Little UK IS supporting them and many European countries AND Australia.
My use of the word support needs clarification as you so note. You are correct that US and Western Europe strongly supported Israel’s right to defend itself and have supplied weapons to Israel after/since the Oct Hamas attack. However, public opinion in these countries is shifting, particularly among younger generations, with more calling for ceasefires and accountability.
The election in the Democratic primary for mayor of NYC by a Muslin candidate against severe prejudicial attacks is an indication the tide is turning even in the U.S. It is difficult to gauge this shift but it is palpable.
It needs a VERY 'HUGE" shift.
Economically the US is a disaster already happening.
I agree...the shift, however, has to be political and not financial.
Nobody of influence and authority cares about public opinion. They crave American carrot and fear American stick.
Yes, as will be the results. NYC will become a ghost town if that man is elected mayor. Best of luck to those who remain.
Michael, it’s now known as the “Iron Sieve” 😁
"Spread distrust in the imperial propaganda services known as the western press by spotlighting their deceptions and manipulations".
I like to think that we are doing a little bit of this by rallying round Caitlin.
Protest outside MSM.
Preaching to the choir. lol
Extremely deep thought from Indu though I suggest Caitlin shouldn't feel surrounded by all that rallying.
Indu - organize so the crowd is kept semi-circled behind her. Anticipate where she's going. Maneuver. Talk amongst yourselves. Discuss. Stay out of the way. Strictly follow. Stay safe and don't get trampled underfoot.
russian_bot, Hello to you too!
I love that expert sarcasm, my friend : )
And how I love that expert brown-nosing you have no idea 😉 The apparent pleasure it brings to both parties. The cringe aspect of it.
Glad you're listening. Safety first. One can learn so much from this blog.
Stop rewarding this criminal enterprise with votes for their Red and Blue cabal. It is our vote (as weak as it is) not theirs. The Oligarchy does not own us yet but they do own this corrupt government. Stop voting for their Red and Blue.
The vote went well last time (for a change). Life is getting better. Blue collar wages are up. Maybe Trump can actually expand the Abraham Accords and bring some peace to the region. Winning!
"Facilitate the collective dawning of the realization that everything westerners have been taught about their society and their world is a lie."
Here are our marching orders--get to work now! There's no let up until we've brought the light of dawn into every Westerner's life, and they realize how much they've been manipulated and lied to. No excuses! We've got a world to save from the "real terrorists" of the military-industrial complex.
Another masterpiece Caitlin, thank you. I especially appreciate the helpful guides/ideas you list to help people WAKE UP and see the TRUTH about the U.S. Empire and its hegemony.
These WESTERN narratives MUST be dismantled, and every one doing their little part helps.
One thing I would like to add to your article is -> People MUST similarly WAKE UP to the cannibalistic and annihilistic system that is CAPITALISM. People MUST de-indoctrinate themselves from the narratives and gaslighting of Capitalism. Unless this happens, the problems we humans (and the planet and its species) face will NOT go away but simply morph into other kinds of problems that we will continue to face in the future. Kicking the can down the road only works for so long. Once the end of the road is reached, it might be too late...
The same things happen under other forms of totalitarianism, as Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Adolph were able to demonstrate. Managing very large groups of humans comes down to severe, brutal harshness in the hands of our "owners" from time to time, that 80 year generational cycle thing, or "Kondratiev Cycle", which Comrade Stalin had explained, did not like, and for which Comrade Condratiev went to a gulag, then death.
John May, you're making the rookie mistake that so many others that don't understand the difference between 'economic systems' and 'political systems' make.
Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, etc. are primarily ECONOMIC systems.
Authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dictatorships, monarchies, aristocracies, etc. are POLITICAL systems.
ANY economic system can be subjected to different POLITICAL systems. Eg. Saudi Arabia and many other MENA countries work under the economic system of Capitalism and the political system of monarchies and dictatorships.
Hence, confusing and conflating 'economic systems' with strageties of maintaining 'political systems' and power is INCORRECT.
Also, this is often the EXCUSE that apologists of Capitalism use to fend off criticisms of other economic systems.
To wit, ANY economic system can be ruled in an authoritarian and/or totalitarian way - including capitalism, socialism, communism, etc. Here's the other thing that people seeped in Western narratives often do not understand about other systems such as socialism and communism - and that is that ruling such a system in an authoritarian/totalitarian way dissolves the 'socialism/communism' aspects of such systems so that they are NO LONGER identified as socialism/communism. But of course, if you are a proponent of CAPITALISM, you would likely attempt to reject this.
"Political Economy", Chang. To divide one thing into two things is false dichotomy.
>>"To divide one thing into two things is false dichotomy."
John Day, I suggest understanding what "false dichotomy" means. A false dilemma, also referred to as false dichotomy or false binary, is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available.
Dividing one thing into any number of things is just that - division, organization, etc. It has nothing to do with options or choices (as in false dichotomy).
Try some more motivated reasoning please - convince the world how 8+ billion people - each and every one of them growing their OWN vegetables and every human on planet earth riding their OWN bicycles will save the planet.
«The same things happen under other forms of totalitarianism»
Indeed, and with all other government systems ending in ism' s. I also disagree with Kondratyev waves theory regarding our future.
Secure your needs going forward. Modern industrial economy has peaked with oil + condensates, which was November 2018.
Since exponential growth is assumed by the financial system, and is papered over to maintain levels of profit-extraction, the system will crash and will need to be restructured for the long decline.
Our "owners" just want to cull whoever uses resources without being productive and faithful to them. That is no way to revive a self-organizing complex system, as our life support system, "Political Economy" is.
I do, as do you, Sister Caitlin: https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/red-carpet-off-ramp-for-bibi
Grow vegetables and ride your bike, too, circumstances permitting...
John Day, your solution is not only counter-productive, but is actually HARMFUL. Think big picture (not only just about yourself).
Everyone growing their own vegetables (i.e. 8 billion people growing their own vegetables and 8 billion people riding bicycles is NOT a good utilization or management of resources).
Instead, look into Resource-Based Economies, SHARING (instead of everyone doing their own thing), co-operating on different processes, etc. (https://onecommunityglobal.org/resource-based-economy/)
Here's some alternatives to your suggestion:
(1) Use mass-public transportation (buses, trains, etc.) to get MORE people to MORE places MORE safely and quicker than 'each individual person riding their own bicycle. This acutally consumes less resources than other methods.
(2) Follow processes of collective, cooperative, and resource-based farming to increase output while simultaneously decreasing input into the process of feeding 8+ billion people. Focus on utilization of water, land, and efficient uses of resources used in the production of food (eg. vertical farming, etc).
Focus on efficient use of resources (and that includes energy and land resources as well as others) at a global level (unless you are thinking just about yourself).
I'm not sure how that helps the Palestinians...If you're promoting the CO2 global warming hoax, you should be aware that the DeCaprios of the world are flying private jets to the latest conference which consume more energy than the average family does in years...They obviously don't belief their own propaganda....
Ok, I'm not going to get into a discussion with a 'climate-change-denying' idiot/moron. Too many of those on Substack.
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I have noticed some people are conflating hoax. I know from the science the climate is changing via our garbage way of life forced on us. The hoax part might be coming from these odd Green funded grifts, like turning coal plants into Green power plants burning trees, yep many millions into burning trees. Giant solar farms in deserts coated with dust and sand. We may have past the tipping point on painless change, the oceans are and will continue to warm long after we stop buying new phones every day, mass transport etc. A friends Father was the Chairman of the Kyoto Protocols. I think there is even a play now about that part of his life. I wrote a story about climate/resource change, Dirty Dozen to Mars ha. The Androids win, they don't need us or our destruction ha. People hate the story, humans do not win and that's a whole other weird failure coming our way uncontrolled.
Celebrities might fly private jets to virtue signal but that doesn't mean that global warming is a hoax. It is phenomenon that is measured by scientists around the world in multiple ways.
Good on you Chang! But even your community based initiatives won't get us anywhere if there isn't a worldwide revolution with the masses rising up against the empire and its minions.
Indu, I didn't mean to imply community-based initiates (the resource-based economy link I used was just an example).
For a more thorough examination of a model that is VERY DIFFERENT from Capitalism, I suggest checking out some of the following resources ->
(1) A Global Holistic Solution: Resource Based Economy (https://www.thevenusproject.com/resource-based-economy/)
(2) What is a Resource-Based Economy, and How Could it be the Answer to Sustainability? (https://medium.com/predict/what-is-a-resource-based-economy-and-how-could-it-be-the-answer-to-sustainability-5a6d452b8f0c)
(3) What is a Resource-Based Economy and Why is it Humanity's Best Hope? (https://www.resourceism.com/2022/03/what-is-resource-based-economy.html)
There are many more, but these should be enough to get you going on your journey of exploration of solutions and alternatives to Capitalism.
I would also recommend checking out Peter Joseph and his 'Revolution Now' podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@RevolutionNowPodcast/videos). Peter Joseph (of Zeitgeist fame) is who I should credit with helping me begin my journey of being an anti-capitalist and making me realize and understand things that I might not have otherwise.
You have taken a bold stance to say that people should be part of a massive life-support machine ONLY and not ride personal bicycles, and not grow kitchen gardens.
Perhaps in a world without wars, depressions, grid and internet failures, your case would be more persuasive, but we are entering times of war, hardship and interruption of supply lines and services, not just in Gaza and Ukraine.
These episodes are cyclic, every 80 years or so.
Count back 80 years a coupleof times to try it out.
I am thinking about myself, my family, my friends, my meditation group, patients, coworkers and society.
Home grown vegetables from gardens in "dachas" provided over half of the fresh vegetables that Russians ate in the 1990s. It was similarly supportive to workers in England during the industrial revolution,and Americans in both world wars ("victory gardens").
Here, consider these steps carefully:
Deciding where To Grow Vegetables: https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/deciding-where-to-grow-vegetables
Preparing Your Kitchen Garden: https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/preparing-your-kitchen-garden
Growing Food: https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/growing-food
holy shit - bananas, do those grow back every spring?
Yes, the big rhizome is under the ground and the "trees" are just one-time shoots to grow fruit.
Very jealous
I think it was in eastern Oregon I visited a vineyard using lava/basalt boulders in the rows to extend their growing season - maybe something like that would get you a ripe banana.
Maybe you passed through John Day, Oregon, though I never have.
If we would quit getting one climate-zone 6-7 freeze every winter in climate zone 9, then I would get the Orinoco and Namwah bananas, which are the most cold tolerant.
We did not get that one very hard freeze per winter before February 2021.
Wassupwiddat?
No, you misunderstand my comment completely.
(1) Few people growing their own gardens and Few people riding bicycles is OK, but it will NOT change anything.
(2) 8+ billion people all trying ro grow their OWN vegetables and all 8+ billion people trying to rely on bicycles ONLY is a recipe for DISASTER on a GRAND scale!
Again, I doubt you bothered to reference my link to 'Resource-Based Economies' and instead chosen to 'double-down' on your pre-existing beliefs.
I have given this long and thoughtful consideration for decades, and in my life by trying the things I advise.
Look at those 3 posts. See my gardens.
I am an American bicyclist. That is odd, isn't it?
Can you ride a bike 100 km if the trains are not running, if you really need to?
It's not an extreme consideration at all. You could do it day after day with a bit of training.
There will be disaster on a grand scale when everything is on a grand scale, as you advise.
People need to have their own margins of safety in dangerous times, as we now enter.
I still eat food from grocery stores, but it is summer and my fairly large vegetable gardens are making a lot of fresh produce for me to eat, preserve and give as gifts.
I have 49 canned jars of hot sauce from my garden prepared for Christmas gifts alreay, as I usually do, and better than anybody can buy.
Technology is something we all count on to live, as you point out, but we all need to hedge those bets.
Lots of people died in the world wars, as you will recall.
Having a bike, good health and a vegetable garden only improves your odds.
You're still not attempting to understand what I'm saying. Let me try this differently ->
John Day, you are doing a commendable job on growing your own food, and playing your part in reducing emissions, etc. (in terms of climate change) by riding your bicycle. It is FANTASTIC that you are doing these things. You don't need to stop doing ANY of what you currently do.
But what YOU do CANNOT be scaled for a population of 8+ billion people on the planet. Systems are needed to produce and distribute food to places where people CANNOT grow their own food (for land reasons, water scarcity reasons, climate reasons, etc.). Many distances are TOO GREAT to travel by bicycle. Not everyone has the LUXURY of time to be able to spend that much of it on bicycling to every place they go.
So while what you do works when the scale is very small/minimal, it does NOT WORK for the scale needed for the survival of 8+ billion people on the planet.
Your solution will not cure world hunger. Your solution will not cure (or address) the energy utilization and exploitation issues our planet has and the system of Capitalism produces.
Let me repeat. You can continue doing what you are doing. But to solve the problems facing the world, we need solutions that SCALE, are EFFICIENT in usage of resources, and are designed to work for MOST (if not all) people in all kinds of lands and climates.
My friend, Chang, I believe I grasped your meaning promptly the first time, and it is part of the current "noble lie" that guides industrial society, here just past the peak of industrial economy (just before or after the COVID-lockdown dip).
Peak conventional-oil was in 2005. Peak oil + condensates/liquids was November 2018. The "Repo Crisis" came in August/September 2019, when the biggest banks and financial institutions in the world could not really trust each other for overnight loans across time zones, because they all knew...
The "Going Direct Bailout" was decided about the same time as Event 201 in New York, followed promptly by the Wuhan games that October, which was the official narrative start of the Event 201 global tabletop exercise of how to manage a global coronavirus pandemic. Not how to treat it, but how to manage the information narrativers and people's thoughts and movements.
You may well live in a large, dense city, as I have many times. I currently live at the edge of Austin, Texas, which has done that boom-town thing a couple of times since I moved here for college in 1076, after graduating high school in Yokohama, Japan. I lived on my grandfather's cattle ranch in rural Texas for 8th & 9th grade, where he taught me many practical things. It was military bases before that, moving, moving, moving, and I have practiced medicine in dense cities, the Navajo Reservation, rural Texas, rural Hawaii, and always as a service to humans, individual humans and smallish groups.
I get the big and intimate pictures. We are not free. We are "owned" as George Carlin (in)famously expounded. We have owners. "It's a great big, exclusive club and we're not in it."
You write some about "Capitalism". I peeked. It is a crony capitalism, "global financial capitalism". It involves "Absentee Ownership", about which Thorstein Veblen wrote his last book in the 1920s, before 1929.
How can there be "absentee ownership"? Why? How does that work? It "works" by letting our apex predator class both support and cull large human grazing herds, which we are. That is the ecological function of our owners, to manage and cull large herds of grazing humans, so as to manage productive resources, which are now more than farmland and grain silos.
Wars for "lebensraum", pitting masses of hungry people against masses of other hungry people, or having hungry people starve to death or die from plagues in dense cities, are how they managed us before. They are using injectables and food additives and mass media now, but they really want to cull a large proportion of us going forward, without spooking us, the productive ones, without making us question their noble-lies/control-narratives.
This is a really difficult undertaking, especially if we have ways to spread rumors and truth, as we are doing here.
Yes, we are sustained by vast, chemicallly fed and managed factory-farms which deplete soil.
Lots of us will not survive the coming couple of decades. A new course, or many courses may become more clear to survivors as the downward trajectory of industrial output becomes apparent.
I am both aware of the big, obvious trends, and the fact that humans solve problems and work effectively in much smaller groups.
I am trying to help you get the larger picture, beyond the control-narrative picture you have been explaining to me. A lot of culling will happen to the people who live in dense cities, without individual and small group supports, when the "owners" decide that they are redundant. Look at the UK. It has begun. Japan has chosen a different trajectory. Russia has enough to still grow and maybe Iran can do a little of that in a rebound.
The big global system needs to eat Russia and Iran. Nothing personal... I'm with Joseph Tainter on the system size and complexity declining to what can be supported by available resources. Biggersystems use alot more resources merely to maintain system-complexity atso many levels.
Yours in Service, John.
Perhaps I understand you, I am also a avid cyclist and gardener. It`s possible to grasp the big picture while doing the small things. Individually we can`t save the world, but perhaps we can save a few, and in the process, maybe set examples for our neighbors. Wars are after all a magnification of how we treat and interact with our neighbors. So perhaps given that so many of us have the luxury to sit , read and inject our opinions on the tragedies of this world ,we can still make effort , even if its a small, local and unrecognized , its not insignificant
Give a vegetable to a friend : ) Sounds like a campaign : )
butterfly's wings, if nothing else
Thank you. Yes, it seems that we have similar vantages. Please see my comments to Chang and Landrew. I have a lot of chores to do in the next few hours, before the sun gets super-strong.
Yes, I agree with Chang, wow, have I ever written that ha. My Fathers farm, my Father was an engineer most of his professional life who never left the farm he grew up on in his mind. When he retired he bought a small farm which was a cut out of a much larger farm. My Father grew large gardens and gave away food. I was working in the garden and at the edge, old corn farm and my Fathers garden. I took a photo I was so horrified, my fathers garden some weeds, worms, Biology, the corn field corn nothing else living. I asked my Father's doctor if my Father's cancer was caused by his proximity to the commercial farm and his well. Blank stare. I agree we need to change how and who we live for. Job well done on the gardens, damn they are a lot of work. My Son is the Dir. of Microbiology for a large co. so we have a garden we share : )
Your description of your father's life and cancer, the "blank stare" when you asked about cancer from Ag-chemicals, your own familiarity with farming and gardenings... All of this contributes to your own path.
"8 billion" human paths... The most ever, and it now looks like that number will peak very soon, because people in big, crowded cities are not having children much, not much at all.
That does not account for big, bad things happening, as our owners cull us.
They do not need so many of us and we are consuming their jet fuel and nice nature.
@Political Commissar Chang:
Birth rates have been declining for years, and life expectancy has recently begun to follow the same trend. It should be clear to everyone that our current levels of energy resources cannot sustain our existing growth rate, as all peaks have either already been reached or are about to be.
When you also consider the actual devastating consequences of climate DRIFT, which can only be exacerbated by global warming, I seriously doubt we should be planning anything for a population of over 8 billion people on the planet.
So, I believe the good doctor is right, and you might want to consider bicycle training; it will at least give you nice calves! :-)
HaHaHa - you're funny Nobody. You must have a SPECIAL 'crystal ball' that no one else on Earth has. I never realized you could look into the future. Or have you been cheating by using a time-machine? Naughty you...
Though I think your crystal ball might be malfunctioning (just like your analytical skills seem to be).
But thank you again for the laughs. 🙏
Malfunctioning crystal ball? So I can only assume you haven't been officially promoted to Commissar yet. Don't worry; since you already have the right attitude, I'll do my best to nominate you. In the meantime, learning some Chinese while biking or tending to your vegetable garden could be quite beneficial!
Doc, I think you're very right in advocating small group resilience. Our "massive life-support machine" entirely based on oil is going to stop soon, like it or not.
Too bad your effing country will probably be the last to fail since it has the largest energy reserves. I'd wish it to explode sooner, giving all others a little break, but I sincerely hope people like you -and only them- will survive the breakdown.
We need all kinds of people as a species, I think. Otherwise it would have narrowed down by now.
I hope to make the apex-predator class of elites redundant through cooperating with Divine Guidance, as each of us can decide to do, and work to accept and act upon.
That is evident when you are in a real country. In my part of the u.s. mass transport, the bus goes to the shopping and the jails. The train to the city takes forever and stops at night. What we could have had China, Russia has. We have bombs and not many left.
I have been thinking about where to go. We don't even do science unrelated to the military in the u.s. now. More of my blathering later : )
I kept thinking "Is it the will of Landru?", while mowing the grass for over 5 hours yesterday.
Look for a right-sized small town, with good water supply and goodsoil, maybe even a railline. We have made a homestead in Yoakum,Texas, which has one rail line, used to have more, has lovelyblack-dirt that German/Czech farmers found in the 1850s, fleeing European wars.
It never had a slave economy. It was the tomato-capital of Texas in the 1920s-1930s. It has a good grocery store, several hardware stores, about 6000 people, which is very stable for decades, and mixed economy, including grazing cattle and nearby fracking.
It gets hot & humid in the summer in the Texas coastal plains, but is far enough in to be protected from hurricanes. Winters won't kill people here.
There are lots of considerations to take into account in your search.
Quoting from Ryan Turpin: "The core requirement of resource-based economics is that resources of every kind are plentiful and not scarce."
It's hard to think of a more devastating blow to the concept of RBE as a viable solution for escaping the deadlock we put ourselves in!
>>"Quoting from Ryan Turpin: "The core requirement of resource-based economics is that resources of every kind are plentiful and not scarce."
Yes, though you need to read the rest of the article to understand WHAT EXACTLY he means by that (unless you prefer cherry-picking stuff and using it out of context). The resources he (and other RBE advocates) refer to are the ones needed to sustain life -> water, food, shelter, clothing, electricity (through renewable methods) and not 'stuff like fossil fuels, minerals, metals, etc.'
"Our current planet already contains enough resources to grant clean water, sufficient food, adequate shelter, clothing, and even electricity to every member of the population. Unfortunately, many people do without those things due directly to elements of capitalist systems, including rationing, withholding, and other forms of artificial scarcity. Every day, tens of thousands die because of malnutrition. Millions, meanwhile, are oppressed through slavery and debt-related servitude, both largely driven by capitalist enterprise."
No, the sentence is quite clear and doesn't require further interpretation.
And the further you read the stupider it gets.
Additionally, if you were familiar with basic economic principles, you would recognize that one of the foundational assumptions is that natural resources are abundant and, therefore, considered unlimited and without cost.
It's concerning that we find ourselves in such a difficult situation when our beliefs are based on these assumptions.
I didn't realize you were so out of touch with the current state of affairs.
However, I must express that I'm not inclined to assist those who approach any topic with arrogance.
Wow, I needed this. Spent five hours today listening to someone debate in our “progressive group” how that chant “Death to the IDF.” was so horrific. Can’t wait to forward your article. 👍🏼