Friday, February 26, 2016
granny goodness can't even pretend to apologize for the mass incarceration state she helped create...,
By CNu at February 26, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Granny Goodness , necropolitics , political theatre , Rule of Law
it didn't occur to Bill that the terms P (population) and S (services) are negotiable?
Bill Gates: Yeah, it's important for people who care about climate to not think it's easy to solve.The equation is: How many people are there? And that's P, which today is about 7 billion, and will grow to be bigger than 9 billion.Then you take how many energy-related services each person takes advantage of — that's heating, cooling, transport, lighting. We call that S, and that will go up quite a bit as poor people in India are getting lighting, air conditioning, refrigeration. The average number of services used by a person will increase, and it should — that's a very good thing.Then you have E, the energy used per service. In some areas, like lighting, that number can go down a lot. In some, like transport, planes, making fertilizer — those processes are extremely optimized, and so there's not that much room to innovate on the energy-per-service front. Even if you're optimistic about that, maybe you'll get to 0.6. That is, 40 percent more efficient across all services.And so if we take these first three factors — 7 billion going to 9 billion, double the services per person, and efficiency at about 0.6, that's increasing [emissions].The last factor is C, the carbon per unit of energy. And so if you multiply today, you get 36 billion tons. And if you multiply in the future, you need to get zero.And so the first three factors are not going [to change] — the first one is going up; the second one, hopefully, is going up; the third one is going down, but not enough to offset those other two.You have to take transport, industry, household, electricity — and, at least in the middle income and rich countries, put it into a zero emission mode.
By CNu at February 26, 2016 0 comments
Labels: doesn't end well
Thursday, February 25, 2016
skynet, drones, and clones...,
By CNu at February 25, 2016 0 comments
Labels: tactical evolution , What Now? , WW-III
era of u.s. aircraft carrier supremacy coming to an end...,
By CNu at February 25, 2016 0 comments
Labels: tactical evolution , The Hardline
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
frankly I'm elated to see elites coming together to work out fundamental problems...,
By CNu at February 24, 2016 0 comments
Labels: elite , micro-insurgencies , Possibilities , tactical evolution
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
money is sleep, broken machinery, and the death of our civilization and species....,
00:53 So we ran a study on the U.C. Berkeley campus to look at exactly that question. We brought in more than 100 pairs of strangers into the lab, and with the flip of a coin randomly assigned one of the two to be a rich player in a rigged game. They got two times as much money. When they passed Go, they collected twice the salary, and they got to roll both dice instead of one, so they got to move around the board a lot more. (Laughter) And over the course of 15 minutes, we watched through hidden cameras what happened. And what I want to do today, for the first time, is show you a little bit of what we saw. You're going to have to pardon the sound quality, in some cases, because again, these were hidden cameras. So we've provided subtitles. Rich Player: How many 500s did you have? Poor Player: Just one.
01:41 Rich Player: Are you serious. Poor Player: Yeah.
01:42 Rich Player: I have three. (Laughs) I don't know why they gave me so much.
01:46 Paul Piff: Okay, so it was quickly apparent to players that something was up. One person clearly has a lot more money than the other person, and yet, as the game unfolded, we saw very notable differences and dramatic differences begin to emerge between the two players. The rich player started to move around the board louder, literally smacking the board with their piece as he went around. We were more likely to see signs of dominance and nonverbal signs, displays of power and celebration among the rich players.
02:22 We had a bowl of pretzels positioned off to the side. It's on the bottom right corner there. That allowed us to watch participants' consummatory behavior. So we're just tracking how many pretzels participants eat.
02:34 Rich Player: Are those pretzels a trick?
02:36 Poor Player: I don't know.
02:38 PP: Okay, so no surprises, people are onto us. They wonder what that bowl of pretzels is doing there in the first place. One even asks, like you just saw, is that bowl of pretzels there as a trick? And yet, despite that, the power of the situation seems to inevitably dominate, and those rich players start to eat more pretzels.
03:02 Rich Player: I love pretzels.
03:05 (Laughter)
03:08 PP: And as the game went on, one of the really interesting and dramatic patterns that we observed begin to emerge was that the rich players actually started to become ruder toward the other person, less and less sensitive to the plight of those poor, poor players, and more and more demonstrative of their material success, more likely to showcase how well they're doing. Rich Player: I have money for everything. Poor Player: How much is that? Rich Player: You owe me 24 dollars. You're going to lose all your money soon. I'll buy it. I have so much money. I have so much money, it takes me forever. Rich Player 2: I'm going to buy out this whole board. Rich Player 3: You're going to run out of money soon. I'm pretty much untouchable at this point.
03:57 PP: Okay, and here's what I think was really, really interesting, is that at the end of the 15 minutes, we asked the players to talk about their experience during the game. And when the rich players talked about why they had inevitably won in this rigged game of Monopoly -- (Laughter) — they talked about what they'd done to buy those different properties and earn their success in the game, and they became far less attuned to all those different features of the situation, including that flip of a coin that had randomly gotten them into that privileged position in the first place. And that's a really, really incredible insight into how the mind makes sense of advantage.
04:50 Now this game of Monopoly can be used as a metaphor for understanding society and its hierarchical structure, wherein some people have a lot of wealth and a lot of status, and a lot of people don't. They have a lot less wealth and a lot less status and a lot less access to valued resources. And what my colleagues and I for the last seven years have been doing is studying the effects of these kinds of hierarchies. What we've been finding across dozens of studies and thousands of participants across this country is that as a person's levels of wealth increase, their feelings of compassion and empathy go down, and their feelings of entitlement, of deservingness, and their ideology of self-interest increases. In surveys, we found that it's actually wealthier individuals who are more likely to moralize greed being good, and that the pursuit of self-interest is favorable and moral. Now what I want to do today is talk about some of the implications of this ideology self-interest, talk about why we should care about those implications, and end with what might be done.
By CNu at February 23, 2016 0 comments
Labels: FAIL , Great Filters , shameless , status-seeking
Peacocks, Porsches, and Thorstein Veblen: Conspicuous Consumption as a Sexual Signaling System
By CNu at February 23, 2016 0 comments
Labels: conspicuous consumption , FAIL , Great Filters
Monday, February 22, 2016
Mr. Miracle provoking previously unseen levels of pearl-clutching and vapor-catching in the Cathedral...,
By CNu at February 22, 2016 0 comments
Labels: agenda , Cathedral , deceiver , elite , establishment , ethics , propaganda
too much utility maximization...,
By CNu at February 22, 2016 0 comments
Labels: doesn't end well , Hanson's Peak Capitalism
Sunday, February 21, 2016
the u.s. economy has not recovered and will not recover...,
By CNu at February 21, 2016 0 comments
Labels: FAIL
protectionism, shaky debt, and weak banking systems have consequences
By CNu at February 21, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Childhood's End , Hanson's Peak Capitalism , institutional deconstruction , What Now?
one nation, under water...,
By CNu at February 21, 2016 0 comments
Labels: debt slavery , doesn't end well
Saturday, February 20, 2016
i guess it's going to be foodstamps...,
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/article60760061.html#storylink=cpy
By CNu at February 20, 2016 0 comments
Labels: clampdown , contraction , doesn't end well
tech-bro calls for final solution for lives devoid of value...,
I am writing today, to voice my concern and outrage over the increasing homeless and drug problem that the city is faced with. I’ve been living in SF for over three years, and without a doubt it is the worst it has ever been. Every day, on my way to, and from work, I see people sprawled across the sidewalk, tent cities, human feces, and the faces of addiction. The city is becoming a shanty town … Worst of all, it is unsafe.
By CNu at February 20, 2016 0 comments
Labels: clampdown , cultural darwinism , doesn't end well
charles koch agrees with bernie sanders on corporatism and criminal justice?
By CNu at February 20, 2016 0 comments
Labels: corporatism , Rule of Law , The Straight and Narrow
Friday, February 19, 2016
the fault-line in american politics
By Dale Asberry at February 19, 2016 0 comments
Labels: 2parties1ideology
Thursday, February 18, 2016
the zenith of Bee Dee high-civilization - racial hygiene - the best of intentions...,
By CNu at February 18, 2016 0 comments
Labels: American Original , big don special , History's Mysteries , not-seeism
the land of the thief and the home of the slave...,
Believe it or not, the US Marshals Service in Houston is arresting people for not paying their outstanding federal student loans.Paul Aker says he was arrested at his home last week for a $1500 federal student loan he received in 1987.He says seven deputy US Marshals showed up at his home with guns and took him to federal court where he had to sign a payment plan for the 29-year-old school loan.Congressman Gene Green says the federal government is now using private debt collectors to go after those who owe student loans.Green says as a result, those attorneys and debt collectors are getting judgements in federal court and asking judges to use the US Marshals Service to arrest those who have failed to pay their federal student loans.Our reliable source with the US Marshal in Houston say Aker isn’t the first and won’t be the last.They have to serve anywhere from 1200 to 1500 warrants to people who have failed to pay their federal student loans.
Unfortunately, it looks like it was a lapse in communication that landed Aker in handcuffs (to be clear, he did not spend time in jail — he was escorted by Marshals to court). And, to add insult to injury, he was ordered to pay more than $1,200 in fees back to the U.S. Marshals service for the cost of arresting him.
By CNu at February 18, 2016 0 comments
Labels: debt slavery , peasants , Rule of Law
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
voting with your middle finger cause you smell that naaassssstidddy hyperhydrosis....,
On the Republican side we have Donald and the Seven Dwarfs. I previously wrote that I consider Donald to be a mannequin worthy of being installed as a figurehead at the to-be-rebranded Trump White House and Casino (it is beneath my dignity to mention any of the Dwarfs by name) but Donald has a problem: he sometime tells the truth. In the most recent debate with the Dwarfs he said that Bush lied in order to justify the invasion of Iraq. Candidates must lie—lie like, you know, like they are running for office. And the problem with telling the truth is that it becomes hard to stop. What bit of truthiness is he going to deliver next? That 9/11 was an inside job? That Osama bin Laden worked for the CIA, and that his death was faked? That the Boston Marathon bombing was staged, and the two Chechen lads were patsies? That the US military is a complete waste of money and cannot win? That the financial and economic collapse of the US is now unavoidable? Even if he can stop himself from letting any more truthiness leak out, the trust has been broken: now that he's dropped the T-bomb, how can he be relied upon to lie like he's supposed to?
And so we may be treated to quite a spectacle: the Flying Lizard, slouching toward a federal penitentiary, squaring off against the Donald the T-bomber. That would be fun to watch. Or maybe the Lizard will implode on impact with the voting booth and then we'll have Bernie vs. the T-bomber. Being a batty old bugger, and not wanting to be outdone, he might drop some T-bombs of his own. That would be fun to watch too.
Not that any of this matters, of course, because the country's trajectory is all set. And no matter who gets elected—Bernie or Donald—on their first day at the White House they will be shown a short video which will explain to them what exactly they need to do to avoid being assassinated.
By CNu at February 17, 2016 0 comments
Labels: 2parties1ideology , American Original , The Hardline
Granny lying to kneegrows in Harlem yesterday and choked on her own BS...,
By CNu at February 17, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Clintonian Imperative , Granny Goodness , professional and managerial frauds , Race and Ethnicity
kneegrows for Granny Goodness ignore her proven dangerousness at their own and the world's peril...,
But I would add this. You know, the Security Council finally got around to adopting a resolution. At the core of that resolution is an agreement I negotiated in June of 2012 in Geneva, which set forth a cease-fire and moving toward a political resolution, trying to bring the parties at stake in Syria together.
By CNu at February 17, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Clintonian Imperative , Granny Goodness , necropolitics , unspeakable
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Granny Goodness pocketed $3.5 million in pro-israel speaking fees...,
By CNu at February 16, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Clintonian Imperative , Granny Goodness , psychopathocracy
Granny Goodness the enemy of iran
“Obama was asked the same question Hillary was asked —‘If Iran nukes Israel, what would be your reaction?’ Hillary said, ‘We will obliterate them.’ We . . . will . . . obliterate . . . them. Four words, it’s simple to understand.
By CNu at February 16, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Clintonian Imperative , Granny Goodness , necropolitics , predatory militarism
AIPAC Powered By Weak, Shameful, American Ejaculations
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