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Post by missouriboy on Mar 2, 2018 16:57:16 GMT
There Are Fewer School Shootings Now Than During The 1990s www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-01/there-are-fewer-school-shootings-now-during-1990sWe have 'censorship' by clickbait. The 24 hour news cycle and internet news have made instant dissemination of news easier so what used to be called 'penny bloods' get far more publicity than they did in the 1990's (when I was on the internet but not many were then). The websites have found what was known in the 19th century - there is a demand for the 'dreadful' but that doesn't mean that there are more dreadful things happening. ”If it bleeds it leads” Naut! Same with weather, every snow storm is an event to go wall to wall with in the media. The Talking Head Industry has to move product. I am particularly disgusted with how social media and the MSM have melded to form a cyclical synergy that fuels a mob of know nothing’s. This of course is nothing new. Mark Twain railed about the quality of the press. Sherman wanted to hang them as spies ... but was sure there would be news from hell before morning. The character of the press, its reporters and its commentators has not changed ... just the speed at which lies are transacted.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 2, 2018 19:22:22 GMT
What happens after the global warming problem is solved?"So today in 2038, the global warming crisis is over. The planet's climate will stabilize. Bill Gates was right: the global warming problem was a technical one that could be solved by technical and scientific solutions." "Global warming was a technical problem and it is solved. Sustainability of human (and other life) on this planet is the real problem. Today, in 2038 the excuses are over, with global warming being a solved problem. Will we now step up to the plate to take on the critical environmental problems facing our species?" cliffmass.blogspot.com/2018/03/what-happens-after-global-warming.html They still cling to the "unproven hypothesis" ... or should I say the "unfalsified null" of the chosen hypothesis. That does not mean that there are not other real issues to be addressed. And if the hypnotic beast in the room (if so she be) didn't soak up so many resources, these other issues might be addressed. Probably won't happen till the end of the next fourth turning ... the 2020s. I'm holding that out as a testable hypothesis. Unfortunately they tend to be rather expensive historically.
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Post by blustnmtn on Mar 2, 2018 21:23:26 GMT
What happens after the global warming problem is solved?"So today in 2038, the global warming crisis is over. The planet's climate will stabilize. Bill Gates was right: the global warming problem was a technical one that could be solved by technical and scientific solutions." "Global warming was a technical problem and it is solved. Sustainability of human (and other life) on this planet is the real problem. Today, in 2038 the excuses are over, with global warming being a solved problem. Will we now step up to the plate to take on the critical environmental problems facing our species?" cliffmass.blogspot.com/2018/03/what-happens-after-global-warming.html They still cling to the "unproven hypothesis" ... or should I say the "unfalsified null" of the chosen hypothesis. That does not mean that there are not couple that with disease andother real issues to be addressed. And if the hypnotic beast in the room (if so she be) didn't soak up so many resources, these other issues might be addressed. Probably won't happen till the end of the next fourth turning ... the 2020s. I'm holding that out as a testable hypothesis. Unfortunately they tend to be rather expensive historically. Mo’boy...if I understand you correctly, I think you’re saying a train wreck is more or less inevitable. I think a global crisis is coming and technology and masters of the universe will be woefully inadequate in dealing with it. 3rd world population growth is going to catch up with food production/distribution at some point. Disease, wars, natural disasters or any combination there of can trigger a cascade of events that cannot be managed. If global cooling is part of the story it will be worse. “Interesting Times”
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 2, 2018 23:22:09 GMT
They still cling to the "unproven hypothesis" ... or should I say the "unfalsified null" of the chosen hypothesis. That does not mean that there are not couple that with disease andother real issues to be addressed. And if the hypnotic beast in the room (if so she be) didn't soak up so many resources, these other issues might be addressed. Probably won't happen till the end of the next fourth turning ... the 2020s. I'm holding that out as a testable hypothesis. Unfortunately they tend to be rather expensive historically. Mo’boy...if I understand you correctly, I think you’re saying a train wreck is more or less inevitable. I think a global crisis is coming and technology and masters of the universe will be woefully inadequate in dealing with it. 3rd world population growth is going to catch up with food production/distribution at some point. Disease, wars, natural disasters or any combination there of can trigger a cascade of events that cannot be managed. If global cooling is part of the story it will be worse. “Interesting Times” We know there are climate cycles. Those nulls are easily falsified. We know there are economic cycles of greater and lesser length and strength. I believe there are also historical cycles ... although some would say that's crap. We know little of what drives them, but we can see them in the record. Some claim that changes in our electro-magnetic universe have subtle (or not so subtle) effects on humans, both individually or in groups. I don't know, but we do seem to be experiencing an increasing degree of divisive social pyschosis ... not just here, but world wide. Forces that accumulate must discharge, either in small increments or sharply (that's the geologist talking). It's been 80 years since the last world cataclysm ... if you include the Great Depression - World War II as a 15-year event. I would love to be wrong, but the 2020s are looking ominous.
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Post by blustnmtn on Mar 3, 2018 0:51:55 GMT
Mo’boy...if I understand you correctly, I think you’re saying a train wreck is more or less inevitable. I think a global crisis is coming and technology and masters of the universe will be woefully inadequate in dealing with it. 3rd world population growth is going to catch up with food production/distribution at some point. Disease, wars, natural disasters or any combination there of can trigger a cascade of events that cannot be managed. If global cooling is part of the story it will be worse. “Interesting Times” We know there are climate cycles. Those nulls are easily falsified. We know there are economic cycles of greater and lesser length and strength. I believe there are also historical cycles ... although some would say that's crap. We know little of what drives them, but we can see them in the record. Some claim that changes in our electro-magnetic universe have subtle (or not so subtle) effects on humans, both individually or in groups. I don't know, but we do seem to be experiencing an increasing degree of divisive social pyschosis ... not just here, but world wide. Forces that accumulate must discharge, either in small increments or sharply (that's the geologist talking). It's been 80 years since the last world cataclysm ... if you include the Great Depression - World War II as a 15-year event. I would love to be wrong, but the 2020s are looking ominous. I’m with you. I think generational memory (lack of) has a large role in this phenomenon. However, as the globe shrinks and time compresses, the forces seem greater...but my perception is biased by my limited stay here. Certainly, the 1930’s and 40’s were a time of horror that baby boomers have not witnessed on a global scale. Unfortunately, the tools at our disposal are many orders of magnitude more potent now and the people wielding them haven’t improved at all.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 3, 2018 6:07:15 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Mar 5, 2018 13:16:50 GMT
An important read: www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/03/04/mansour-free-trade-absolutism-is-surrender-in-the-face-of-chinas-economic-warfare/Interesting to note the nexus of 'globalists' and 'greens' wanting to deindustrialize the USA. A quote on the radio yesterday was that the USA only has one factory capable of producing armor plate for military uses. Interestingly, one of the problems the UK military had was that its ammunition was sourced from European countries that did not agree with some of the UK military actions ceasing supply to the uk and that caused severe shortages of small arms ammunition. There have been repeated occasions with for example Chinese built Lenovo computers and huawei phones with built in back doors, yet quite a lot of the microchips in weapon systems is similarly sourced. Free trade - >>Genuflect<< is a globalist ideal that doesn't work if countries wish to be independent.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 5, 2018 15:53:54 GMT
Mo’boy...if I understand you correctly, I think you’re saying a train wreck is more or less inevitable. I think a global crisis is coming and technology and masters of the universe will be woefully inadequate in dealing with it. 3rd world population growth is going to catch up with food production/distribution at some point. Disease, wars, natural disasters or any combination there of can trigger a cascade of events that cannot be managed. If global cooling is part of the story it will be worse. “Interesting Times” With population growth I would put disease right up there at the top. Historically, disease has been the "great leveler", particularly when coupled with famine. One must hope that our medical infrastructure can cope ... but would I bet on it?
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 5, 2018 16:32:19 GMT
Lots of talk of steel/aluminum import tariffs in the USA.
I am all for it! Maybe??? some countries will REDUCE or eliminate THEIR tariffs on American goods? Cause the way it is working TODAY, they get to have tariffs but expect the USA to NOT have tariffs.
China, has TARIFFS on Soybeans FROM the USA. Try and ship a spud to Canada? Damn near impossible, but they can ship them down here with ease!
About TIME someone STOOD up for SANE trade!
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Post by nonentropic on Mar 5, 2018 17:15:57 GMT
There needs to be some care Sig. In NZ virtually no oil field casing is imported from the US due to import tariffs into the US on steel allowing US casing prices to be high. Its hurt a lot of people and opened the way to other producers all around the world.
In addition the US is a massive subsidizer of agricultural products all the way from sugar to corn we are all for reduction of barriers and the world has moved that way for a long time but Trump is not going to make things better but worse I fear.
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Post by icefisher on Mar 5, 2018 19:43:27 GMT
There needs to be some care Sig. In NZ virtually no oil field casing is imported from the US due to import tariffs into the US on steel allowing US casing prices to be high. Its hurt a lot of people and opened the way to other producers all around the world. In addition the US is a massive subsidizer of agricultural products all the way from sugar to corn we are all for reduction of barriers and the world has moved that way for a long time but Trump is not going to make things better but worse I fear. Certainly Trump could make it worse, but he has a high bar to reach to do that considering how badly free trade philosophy in the US has been mindlessly abused. Regarding subsidies its a matter of what kind of subsidies. Corn prices are pushed up not down by ethanol subsidies and are also called corn subsidies, but these kinds of subsidies aren't the kind that makes for unfair trade. Trump has the only answer for fair trade and thats one on one trade deals. The only alternative is globalization and nation building all that implies. Cost of production in the US is high because of high salaries in relationship to the world average. Environmentalism is probably still number 2 on the list. We can't have the standard of living we desire while negotiating from a position of dogma about free trade. Only a small percentage of the population benefits from that, namely anybody with a patent, copyright, trademark, or a major investment in foreign business or resources. That includes virtually nobody from the middle class down. The US won WWII because of the production of steel, fossil fuels, and aluminum. Raw materials produces the highest economic multipliers as it spurs business in machinery, transportation, energy production and jobs at all levels of the economy. From my perspective I have to believe that Wilbur Ross has the right numbers on the steel and aluminum as if he doesn't have it, probably nobody does. So yeah Trump can easily screw the pooch but he is the first guy in a long time to actually approach the subject and not just sell out to those few elitists who benefit from broad trade agreements that bring the US riches that funnels entirely to those who essentially hire no one.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 5, 2018 23:03:04 GMT
There needs to be some care Sig. In NZ virtually no oil field casing is imported from the US due to import tariffs into the US on steel allowing US casing prices to be high. Its hurt a lot of people and opened the way to other producers all around the world. In addition the US is a massive subsidizer of agricultural products all the way from sugar to corn we are all for reduction of barriers and the world has moved that way for a long time but Trump is not going to make things better but worse I fear. Certainly Trump could make it worse, but he has a high bar to reach to do that considering how badly free trade philosophy in the US has been mindlessly abused. Regarding subsidies its a matter of what kind of subsidies. Corn prices are pushed up not down by ethanol subsidies and are also called corn subsidies, but these kinds of subsidies aren't the kind that makes for unfair trade. Trump has the only answer for fair trade and thats one on one trade deals. The only alternative is globalization and nation building all that implies. Cost of production in the US is high because of high salaries in relationship to the world average. Environmentalism is probably still number 2 on the list. We can't have the standard of living we desire while negotiating from a position of dogma about free trade. Only a small percentage of the population benefits from that, namely anybody with a patent, copyright, trademark, or a major investment in foreign business or resources. That includes virtually nobody from the middle class down. The US won WWII because of the production of steel, fossil fuels, and aluminum. Raw materials produces the highest economic multipliers as it spurs business in machinery, transportation, energy production and jobs at all levels of the economy. From my perspective I have to believe that Wilbur Ross has the right numbers on the steel and aluminum as if he doesn't have it, probably nobody does. So yeah Trump can easily screw the pooch but he is the first guy in a long time to actually approach the subject and not just sell out to those few elitists who benefit from broad trade agreements that bring the US riches that funnels entirely to those who essentially hire no one. Well said. I've still got to believe that a nation that loses the ability to build and maintain its entire physical infrastructure from the bottom to the top is no longer a great nation. Trade should not be about a race to the bottom of the price chart. Moderately higher prices for products made in the USA is likely much cheaper than an increasingly welfare-ized population that no longer produces much of anything. International competition provides a check on domestic industry greed and laziness.
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Post by Ratty on Mar 6, 2018 0:04:39 GMT
[ Snip ] Well said. I've still got to believe that a nation that loses the ability to build and maintain its entire physical infrastructure from the bottom to the top is no longer a great nation. Trade should not be about a race to the bottom of the price chart. Moderately higher prices for products made in the USA is likely much cheaper than an increasingly welfare-ized population that no longer produces much of anything. International competition provides a check on domestic industry greed and laziness. Did you have Australia in mind, Missouri?
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 6, 2018 0:37:56 GMT
[ Snip ] Well said. I've still got to believe that a nation that loses the ability to build and maintain its entire physical infrastructure from the bottom to the top is no longer a great nation. Trade should not be about a race to the bottom of the price chart. Moderately higher prices for products made in the USA is likely much cheaper than an increasingly welfare-ized population that no longer produces much of anything. International competition provides a check on domestic industry greed and laziness. Did you have Australia in mind, Missouri? Australia. Home of one of the largest bauxite fields on earth. Where is another smelter being built? Iceland, because of thermal power which is considered "green". Iceland thinks it is a grand idea to build a smelter there, even tho economically it is completely a daft idea.
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Post by nonentropic on Mar 6, 2018 3:55:33 GMT
Aluminium is described as solidified electricity.
We to have Geothermal energy and it is only moderately low cost the dirty little secret with Geothermal energy is the CO2 emitted during the steam production.
China uses thermal coal to produce electricity at 4Cents/Kwh they don't really get caught up in the CAGW madness so attribute the outcome to the correct problem and Australia will have virtually no energy intensive industry as long as electricity is 30C/Kwh plus.
If I were in control of Iceland I would get to work and build a DC high voltage supply to Europe and get a really good price for the electricity. Leave China to the Aluminium.
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