Monday, March 07, 2016
the most racist places in america according to google
By CNu at March 07, 2016 0 comments
Labels: American Original , Race and Ethnicity , weather report
Thursday, March 03, 2016
the graveyard of the elites
“History,” the Italian sociologist Vilfredo Pareto wrote, “is the graveyard of aristocracies.”
The carnival of the presidential election is a public display of the deep morbidity and artifice that have gripped American society. Political discourse has been reduced by design to trite patriotic and religious clichés, sentimentality, sanctimonious peons to the American character, a sacralization of militarism, and acerbic, adolescent taunts. Reality has been left behind.
Politicians are little more than brands. They sell skillfully manufactured personalities. These artificial personalities are used to humanize corporate oppression. They cannot—and do not intend to—end the futile and ceaseless wars, dismantle the security and surveillance state, halt the fossil fuel industry’s ecocide, curb the predatory class of bankers and international financers, lift Americans out of poverty or restore democracy. They practice anti-politics, or what Benjamin DeMott called “junk politics.” DeMott defined the term in his book “Junk Politics: The Trashing of the American Mind”:
It’s a politics that personalizes and moralizes issues and interests instead of clarifying them. It’s a politics that maximizes threats from abroad while miniaturizing large, complex problems at home. It’s a politics that, guided by guesses about its own profits and losses, abruptly reverses public stances without explanation, often spectacularly bloating problems previously miniaturized (e.g.: Iraq will be over in days or weeks: Iraq is a project for generations). It’s a politics that takes changelessness as its fundamental cause—changelessness meaning zero interruption in the processes and practices that, decade after decade, strengthen existing, interlocking American systems of socioeconomic advantage. And it’s a politics marked not only by impatience (feigned or otherwise) with articulated conflict and by frequent panegyrics on the American citizen’s optimistic spirit and exemplary character, but by mawkish fondness for feel-your-pain gestures and idioms.
He went on: “Great causes—they still exist—nourish themselves on firm, sharp awareness of the substance of injustice. Blunting that awareness is a central project of junk politics.”
Our constitutional democracy is dead. It does not work. Or rather, it does not work for us. No politician or elected official can alter anything of substance. Throughout the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama there has been complete continuity on nearly every issue. Indeed, if Obama has a legacy it is that he made things incrementally worse. He has accelerated the assault on civil liberties, expanded the imperial wars—including empowering the government to order the assassination of American citizens—and opened up new drilling sites on public lands as if he were Sarah Palin. He has failed to rein in Wall Street, which is busy orchestrating another global financial meltdown, and turned our health care system over to rapacious corporations. He has made war on immigrants and overseen economic collapse among the poor, especially African-Americans. He appears to be powerless to shut down our torture center in Guantanamo—a potent recruiting tool for jihadists—or place a new justice on the Supreme Court. His successor will be as impotent.
Obama, now a charter member of our ruling elite, will become rich, as did the Clintons, when he leaves office. The moneyed elites will pay for his two presidential libraries—grotesque vanity projects. They will put him on boards and lavish him with astronomical speaking fees. But as a democratic leader he has proved to be as pathetic as his predecessor.
By CNu at March 03, 2016 0 comments
Labels: 2parties1ideology , global system of 1% supremacy , weather report , What Now?
Monday, January 18, 2016
nothing is moving
Commerce between Europe and North America has literally come to a halt. For the first time in known history, not one cargo ship is in-transit in the North Atlantic between Europe and North America. All of them (hundreds) are either anchored offshore or in-port. NOTHING is moving.This has never happened before. It is a horrific economic sign; proof that commerce is literally stopped.
By CNu at January 18, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Peak Capitalism , weather report
Thursday, January 14, 2016
poor canucks aboot to get the sharp short end of the stick...,
By CNu at January 14, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Collapse Casualties , contraction , weather report
oil and u.s. share prices tumble, even yeezus have to slash prices...,
The S&P 500, which closed at 1,890 points, suffered its worst day since September and has fallen by 10% since its November peak taking it into “correction” territory, something that has not happened since August 2014.
The Dow Jones industrial average dropped by 364 points, or 2.2%, to 16,151, and the Nasdaq composite dropped 159 points, or 3.4%, to 4,526. This deepened the New York stock exchange’s already worst start to a year on record.
Wednesday’s stock market declines were triggered by new figures showing US gasoline stockpiles had increased to record high, which caused Brent crude prices to fall as low as $29.96, their lowest level since April 2004, before settling at $30.31, a 1.8% fall. The oil price has fallen by 73% since a peak of $115 reached in the summer of 2014.
Industry data showed that US gasoline inventories soared by 8.4m barrels and stocks of diesel and heating oil increased by more than 6m barrels – confirming the forecasts of many analysts that a huge oversupply of oil could keep prices low during most of 2016.
Analysts said that growing fears of a weakening outlook for the global economy, made worse by falling oil prices, was behind the steep falls. Some oil analysts this week predicted that the price could fall as low as $10.
In recent days several analysts have warned that the global economy could suffer a repeat of the 2008 crash if the knock-on effects of a contraction in Chinese output pushes down commodity prices further and sparks panic selling on stock and bond markets.
By CNu at January 14, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Collapse Casualties , contraction , weather report
Friday, September 25, 2015
kansas city becomes 6th regional fed survey flashing red
regional Fed survey collapse goes on... Dallas, Richmond, New York, Philly, Chicago, and now Kansas City... |
By CNu at September 25, 2015 0 comments
Labels: contraction , quorum sensing? , weather report
Thursday, May 14, 2015
remember back in the good old days when it was just waterheads stealing copper?
By CNu at May 14, 2015 0 comments
Labels: Collapse Crime , Irreplaceable Natural Material Resources , musical chairs , weather report
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
what a lake mead water shortage will mean in practice
Lake Mead Water Level |
- It takes many more years of shortage before California loses a drop.
- Arizona’s major on-river agricultural water users, primarily the Colorado River Indian Tribes and the farmers of the Yuma area, also would not lose a drop under a shortage. Their rights are older, and not crimped by the 1968 California bargain.
By CNu at April 21, 2015 0 comments
Labels: Irreplaceable Natural Material Resources , weather report
Sunday, April 19, 2015
primed primates believe climate change is happening, just not to them...,
By CNu at April 19, 2015 0 comments
Labels: ethology , partisan , weather report
Thursday, March 26, 2015
california farmers skip planting and sell their fresh water to thirsty cities instead...,
By CNu at March 26, 2015 0 comments
Labels: Irreplaceable Natural Material Resources , weather report
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
storm clouds approaching...
By Dale Asberry at March 25, 2015 0 comments
Labels: complications , Hanson's Peak Capitalism , weather report
Sunday, February 01, 2015
the military understands that civilization, even the most rigid is only six missed primary meals thick...,
By CNu at February 01, 2015 0 comments
Labels: quorum sensing? , tactical evolution , weather report , What Now?
Thursday, October 30, 2014
the ebola weather report
MoBS Lab | The 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak is so far the largest and deadliest recorded in history. The affected countries, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and recently Senegal have been struggling to contain and to mitigate the outbreak. We have developed a modeling approach aimed at assessing the progression of the epidemic in West Africa and its international spread under the assumption that the EVD outbreak continues to evolve at the current pace.
Our results have been published in PLOS Currents Outbreaks. However, our modeling work has been motivated by the need for a rapid assessment of the EVD outbreak trends and the obtained results may change as more information becomes available from the EVD affected region and more refined sensitivity analysis can be implemented computationally. For this reason, the paper on PLOS Current Outbreaks shall be considered as a live paper that is constantly updated with new data, projections and analysis.
In this web page we try to provide a home for such a "live" paper. More in general we link to constantly updated versions of the paper, new figures/analysis and supplementary data files.
By Dale Asberry at October 30, 2014 1 comments
Labels: doesn't end well , weather report
Thursday, October 23, 2014
who ebola sitrep
Data for epidemiological week 41 are incomplete, with missing data for 12 October from Liberia. This reflects the challenging nature of data gathering in countries with widespread and intense EVD transmission. These challenges remain particularly acute in Liberia, where there continues to be a mismatch between the relatively low numbers of new cases reported through official clinical surveillance systems on one hand, and reports from laboratory staff and first responders of large numbers of new cases on the other. Efforts are ongoing to reconcile different sources of data, and to rapidly scale-up capacity for epidemiological data gathering throughout each country with widespread and intense transmission.
It is clear, however, that the situation in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone is deteriorating, with widespread and persistent transmission of EVD. An increase in new cases in Guinea is being driven by a spike in confirmed and suspected cases in the capital, Conakry, and the nearby district of Coyah. In Liberia, problems with data gathering make it hard to draw any firm conclusions from recent data.
There is almost certainly significant under-reporting of cases from the capital Monrovia. There does appear to have been a genuine fall in the number of cases in Lofa district, but a concerted effort will be required to sustain that drop in cases and translate it into an elimination of EVD in that area. In Sierra Leone, intense transmission is still occurring in the capital Freetown and the surrounding districts.
Of the countries with localized transmission, Nigeria and Senegal are now approaching 42 days since the date of last potential contact with a probable or confirmed case. Both Spain and the United States continue to monitor potential contacts.
By Dale Asberry at October 23, 2014 0 comments
Labels: cull-tech , weather report , What Now?
the ebola done partying in december
By Dale Asberry at October 23, 2014 0 comments
Labels: Possibilities , weather report
the ebola: flying the friendly skies
WSJ | While a number of researchers are modeling the spread of Ebola in West African countries besieged by the deadly virus, a group led by Alessandro Vespignani at Boston’s Northeastern University has used air traffic connections to explore how the disease might spread to the rest of the world.
By Dale Asberry at October 23, 2014 0 comments
Labels: weather report
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
exponential increase and widening geographic footprint...,
By CNu at October 14, 2014 3 comments
Labels: doesn't end well , weather report
Monday, October 13, 2014
why dispersal may be our only option...,
By CNu at October 13, 2014 0 comments
Labels: Great Filters , weather report
Thursday, October 02, 2014
the only thing between u.s. and a massive ebola outbreak is winter weather and one ebola infected sneeze...,
Sources Preparedness for Prevention of Ebola Virus Disease
http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/4/10/2115/pdf
US ARMY Says EBOLA = FLU in Airborne Stability, Needs Winter Weather To Go Airborne
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0041918
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1997182/
http://vet.sagepub.com/content/50/3/514.full
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113787/
Ebola Bodily Fluids Readily Weaponizable Using An Ultrasonic Humidifier
Ebola Emergency ZMAPP Production Rates & Costs
CDC's "Lesser Of Evils" Double Standard On Health Care Worker Protection Indicates They Expect a Large Ebola Outbreak In USA
CDC Warns Hospitals On EBOLA "CONTAMINATED AIR" and Directs use of "Airborne Infection Isolation Room"s
Inhalation Ebola: Governments Ready For World War Ebola
CDC Sees AIRBORNE EBOLA Transmission, Issues Guidance For Aircraft Flight Crews, Cleaning & Cargo Crews
CDC is already evacuating DOUBLE the number of expected Ebola infected personnel at a rate of 7 doctors per month
By CNu at October 02, 2014 0 comments
Labels: cull-tech , unspeakable , weather report
Trash Israeli Professional Boxer Spitting On And Beating On Kids At UCLA...,
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