Monday, November 25, 2013
why tepco is risking the removal of rods without further delay?
By CNu at November 25, 2013 0 comments
Labels: Great Filters , unspeakable
on fukushima beach
By CNu at November 25, 2013 0 comments
Labels: information anarchy , institutional deconstruction , The Hardline , truth
Sunday, November 24, 2013
how capitalists learned to stop worrying and love the collapse....,
There is, however, a prior question that few if any bother to ask: Do capitalists want a recovery in the first place? Can they afford it?
On the face of it, the question sounds silly: of course capitalists want a recovery; how else can they prosper? According to the textbooks, both mainstream and heterodox, capital accumulation and economic growth are two sides of the same process. Accumulation generates growth and growth fuels accumulation, so it seems bootless to ask whether capitalists want growth. Growth is their lifeline, and the more of it, the better it is.
Or is it?
Accumulation of What?
The answer depends on what we mean by capital accumulation. The common view of this process is deeply utilitarian. Capitalists, we are told, seek to maximize their so-called ‘real wealth’: they try to accumulate as many machines, structures, inventories and intellectual property rights as they can. And the reason, supposedly, is straightforward. Capitalists are hedonic creatures. Like every other ‘economic agent’, their ultimate goal is to maximize their utility from consumption. This hedonic quest is best served by economic growth: more output enables more consumption; the faster the expansion of the economy, the more rapid the accumulation of ‘real’ capital; and the larger the capital stock, the greater the utility from its eventual consumption. Utility-seeking capitalists should therefore love booms and hate crises. [2]
But that is not how real capitalists operate.
The ultimate goal of modern capitalists – and perhaps of all capitalists since the very beginning of their system – is not utility, but power. They are driven not to maximize hedonic pleasure, but to ‘beat the average’. This aim is not a subjective preference. It is a rigid rule, dictated and enforced by the conflictual nature of the capitalist mode of power. Capitalism pits capitalists against other groups in society, as well as against each other. And in this multifaceted struggle for power, the yardstick is always relative. Capitalists are compelled and conditioned to accumulate differentially, to augment not their absolute utility but their earnings relative to others. They seek not to perform but to out-perform, and outperformance means re-distribution. Capitalists who beat the average redistribute income and assets in their favour; this redistribution raises their share of the total; and a larger share of the total means greater power stacked against others.
Shifting the research focus from utility to power has far-reaching consequences. Most importantly, it means that capitalist performance should be gauged not in absolute terms of ‘real’ consumption and production, but in financial-pecuniary terms of relative income and asset shares. And as we move from the materialist realm of hedonic pleasure to the differential process of conflict and power, the notion that capitalists love growth and yearn for recovery is no longer self evident.
The accumulation of capital as power can be analyzed at many different levels. The most aggregate of these levels is the overall distribution of income between capitalists and other groups in society. In order to increase their power, approximated by their income share, capitalists have to strategically sabotage the rest of society. And one of their key weapons in this struggle is unemployment.
The effect of unemployment on distribution is not obvious, at least not at first sight. Rising unemployment, insofar as it lowers the absolute (‘real’) level of activity, tends to hurt capitalists and employees alike. But the impact on money prices and wages can be highly differential, and this differential can move either way. If unemployment causes the price/wage ratio to decline, capitalists will fall behind in the redistributional struggle, and this retreat is sure to make them impatient for recovery. But if the opposite turns out to be the case – that is, if unemployment helps raise the price/wage ratio – capitalists would have good reason to love crisis and indulge in stagnation.
So which of these two scenarios pans out in practice? Do stagnation and crisis increase capitalist power? Does unemployment help capitalists raise their distributive share? Or is it the other way around?
By CNu at November 24, 2013 4 comments
Labels: cultural darwinism , Deep State , global system of 1% supremacy
fukushima released up to 100,000 times more cesium-137 in surface ocean waters than Chernobyl or nuclear weapons testing
By CNu at November 24, 2013 0 comments
Labels: cull-tech , weather report , What IT DO Shawty...
Friday, November 22, 2013
long overdue time for a steer roast...,
By CNu at November 22, 2013 3 comments
Labels: common sense , What Now?
the treason trilogy: capitalism, terror, doom...,
By CNu at November 22, 2013 0 comments
Labels: de-evolution , institutional deconstruction , Peak Capitalism
Thursday, November 21, 2013
as for the people and planet being subordinated to power and profit - they barely even register
By CNu at November 21, 2013 17 comments
Labels: People Centric Leadership , presstitution , propaganda
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
is ethical revitalization the secret to avoiding collapse?
By CNu at November 20, 2013 2 comments
Labels: not gonna happen...
the bugs in darwin?
By CNu at November 20, 2013 0 comments
Labels: de-evolution , Genetic Omni Determinism GOD , narrative
how, if, and why species form?
By CNu at November 20, 2013 4 comments
Labels: de-evolution , Genetic Omni Determinism GOD , narrative
Monday, November 18, 2013
sleepers will find collapse swift, brutal, and shocking...,
By CNu at November 18, 2013 5 comments
Labels: Collapse Casualties , weather report
remove tepco before removing the fuel rods
By CNu at November 18, 2013 2 comments
Labels: corporatism , egregores , unspeakable
there were not just three, there were EIGHTY damaged fuel assemblies at fukushima, seventy in reactor one
According to Kahoku Shinpo, a Fukushima local paper, TEPCO admitted on November 15, 2013 that there are 70 fuel assemblies with damaged fuel rods in the Reactor 1 Spent Fuel Pool, located on the operating floor (top floor) of the reactor building whose air radiation levels are measured in millisievert/hour and sievert/hour (first floor).
There are also three such fuel assemblies in the Reactor 2 SFP, and four of them in the Reactor 3 SFP.
Total 80 spent fuel assemblies in the SFPs in Reactors 1 - 4 are damaged.
The damages had been there long before the March 11, 2011 accident, and TEPCO claims it properly notified the national government as they discovered the damages. But the company has come clean in public only now.
Kahoku Shinpo article below suggests that the oldest of such damaged fuels may have been there for 40 years in the Reactor 1 Spent Fuel Pool. (Reactor 1 started generating electricity in 1971.)
Reactor 1 at Fukushima I Nuke Plant is TEPCO's oldest nuclear reactor; it was entirely the project by General Electric of the US, a turnkey.
By CNu at November 18, 2013 0 comments
Labels: cull-tech , unspeakable
a visual tour of the fuel pools of fukushima...,
tangled wreckage inside the pool |
The pools at each reactor are thought to have contained the following amounts of spent fuel, according to The Mainichi Daily News:
- Reactor No. 1: 50 tons of nuclear fuel
- Reactor No. 2: 81 tons
- Reactor No. 3: 88 tons
- Reactor No. 4: 135 tons
- Reactor No. 5: 142 tons
- Reactor No. 6: 151 tons
- Also, a separate ground-level fuel pool contains 1,097 tons of fuel; and some 70 tons of nuclear materials are kept on the grounds in dry storage.
Reactor 3 . . . uses highly dangerous mixed oxide fuel, Tokyo Electric has reported.
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No. 3 reactor is the only one at the crippled power station that was powered by the plutonium-uranium MOX
35 ton machine blocking the pool |
Unit 3 is worse [than No. 4]. It’s mechanically, it’s rubble, the pool is rubble. It’s got less fuel in it. It faces the same problem. Structurally the pool has been dramatically weakened. And, god, nobody has even gotten near it yet.
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Friday found that a 35-ton machine had dropped inside the spent fuel pool of the No. 3 unit, possibly because of a hydrogen explosion that occurred in the early stage of plant’s nuclear accident last year.
Tokyo Electric Power Co., commonly known as TEPCO, reported the finding after placing a camera inside the water-filled pool the same day to prepare for removing, as part of the decommissioning process, the nuclear fuel stored there.
One photo showed part of the machine, originally located above the pool and used to insert and remove fuel, appeared to have dropped onto the nuclear fuel storage racks.
By CNu at November 18, 2013 0 comments
Labels: not a good look , unspeakable
Sunday, November 17, 2013
dubya picking up an honorarium from the messianic jews...,
By CNu at November 17, 2013 0 comments
Labels: Race and Ethnicity , the wattles , theoconservatism
a child-rape assembly-line
By CNu at November 17, 2013 0 comments
Labels: the wattles , theoconservatism , What IT DO Shawty...
Saturday, November 16, 2013
google map reveals the devastating rate of deforestation across the globe..,
By CNu at November 16, 2013 0 comments
Labels: weather report , What Now?
seen in the scene from the anthropocene in the philipines....,
By CNu at November 16, 2013 0 comments
Labels: Collapse Casualties , What Now?
awareness required to handle climate change impossible...,
By CNu at November 16, 2013 0 comments
Labels: weather report , What Now?
Friday, November 15, 2013
too hot to touch the problem of high-level nuclear waste
By CNu at November 15, 2013 2 comments
Labels: unspeakable
visit sunny chernobyl
By CNu at November 15, 2013 0 comments
Labels: unspeakable
Thursday, November 14, 2013
unspeakable atomic plague inexorably spreading...,
By CNu at November 14, 2013 0 comments
Labels: cull-tech , Great Filters , weather report
highest-stakes pick-up sticks game of all time...,
By CNu at November 14, 2013 0 comments
Labels: cull-tech , Great Filters , unspeakable
scenes from the anthropocene...,
By CNu at November 14, 2013 0 comments
Labels: Collapse Casualties , weather report
pacific ocean warming faster...,
By CNu at November 14, 2013 0 comments
Labels: weather report
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
kufi on too tight....,
Now, the great Sam Peckinpah was intensely fond of this particular term of endearment, and he used it whenever and wherever possible in his westerns. It turns up in both Major Dundee and in the Wild Bunch. So Bro. Makheru, in partial answer to your rhetorical kwestin, "why don't we hear black soldiers using these specific derogatory terms" - I'ma go with the answer "you better have been a very special brand of badass back in the day to have had the nerve and audacity to say it and live to tell of it", and, in consequence of this fact, it never caught on and became popular outside a small circle of intensely identified folk who LOVE to use these terms of endearment when they gather together to reminisce about the glory days of the early 70's.
quoth Bro. Makheru: “Where men are required to depend on one another, the spoken word doesn't even come from the same psychological spigot…” That is pure unadulterated, historically revisionist, bovine excrement!
Because I'm decidedly not a team player, you won't find me representing on behalf of either the Amerireich or the NBUF..., as a species-level guy, I find it preferable to observe and assess the antics of deuterostems in more universal and powerfully explanatory ethological terms, thus my preference for "killer-ape" on the small scale, "dopamine hegemony" on the largest scale, and global system of 1% supremacy to identify the controlling minority who rules it all.
quoth Bro. Makheru: The above mentioned derogatory words all come from the same psychological spigot--the spigot of white supremacy. Epithets don’t lose their meaning, particularly when a specific epithet is repeatedly used by the same group of people with violent intentions.
As the nominal and symbolic commander of the whole and entire machinery of global supremacy, the boss is not merely a figment of the imagination. The Hon.Bro.Preznit signifies where black Americans stand in the fourth and final quarter of this game. With nothing else left to prove. Everything else is - as they say - merely conversation.
By CNu at November 13, 2013 39 comments
Labels: school , tactical evolution
world at the crossroads - free computer game
By CNu at November 13, 2013 0 comments
Labels: edumackation , Peak Capitalism , What Now?
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
the real danger will come from the government clampdown
Other officials joined in ringing an alarm bell. Margarette Purvis, head of New York City's Food Bank – the largest one in the nation – also suggested that food riots were likely to break out in NYC. In a well-timed interview with Salon (10/29/13), Purvis hinted she might not even be averse to unrest. Salon reported, “Rather than 'trying to raise a dollar' to avert disaster privately, she [Purvis] said, a solution will require Americans to 'raise their voices', because 'the avenue has to be activism'.”
The proximate cause of the expected unrest was November 1st cuts to the food stamp program, which resulted from the expiration of a 2009 stimulus bill. The New York Times estimated that benefits for a family of four will fall $36 a month; for a single adult, it will fall $11. The most current data available (July) indicates that nearly 48 million Americans are on food stamps, or approximately one-seventh of the population. More reductions are expected over coming months as a result of Congressional renegotiations on a farm bill.
It is difficult to know how seriously to take the fact that the term “food riots” has entered the vocabulary of the American media and its bureaucrats. Both parties have a vested interest in creating panics. The media wants ratings and government wants an excuse for more social control. But a few aspects of the food riot talk seem clear enough.
The government seems to have been shaken by a glitch that occurred last month, bringing down part of the Electronic Benefits Transfer System (EBT); the system enables electronic food stamps. When recipients were not allowed to 'purchase' food, they flooded twitter with threats of rioting. When two Wal-Marts in Louisiana allowed purchases even though they could not verify the e-balance on the EBT cards, the stores were “legally looted”; that is, people with next to no balance stripped them of hundreds of dollars in goods. One woman with a balance of .49 cents tried to 'buy' $700 worth but was thwarted when EBT reconnected.
But the real danger is more likely to come from a government clamp down rather than from rioting. The cut backs have not been severe. Heritage Foundation policy analyst Rachel Sheffield explained that food stamps is “one of 80 federal means-tested programs that provide food, housing, medical care to poor and low income Americans.” And the government certainly continues to promote the program. An October 16th, 2013 Cato study entitled “The Food Stamp Program Needs Reform” found that over $41.3 million was being spent annually to market food stamps to prospective recipients. Nevertheless, the government is not likely to waste a good crisis. Fist tap Dale.
By CNu at November 12, 2013 2 comments
Labels: clampdown , FAIL , governance
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