“A broken supply chain isn’t a problem for the logistics industry. It’s a moneymaking opportunity”
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“The weekend was a crazy leftist idea. In 1886, 7 union members in Wisconsin died fighting for the 5-day work week and the 8-hour work day.”
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Boycott Kellogg’s (list of products):
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“No One is Telling You the Truth About High Fuel Prices, So I Have to”
American lady (Vanessa virginiensis)
Driftless Area South Central Wisconsin, Dane County USA
2019-07-08 _F2A0936aaap
“Were quits grew the most in September”
“Where U.S. Workers Are Quitting Jobs at Record Rates
In September, 4.4 million workers in the U.S. resigned; here are the states and sectors that led the wave”
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Patagonia clothing company severs ties with a Resort after its owner held a major fundraiser for Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows. Patagonia was Jackson Hole Mountain Resorts’ single largest customer.”
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“Biden-Harris dream team suddenly Dems’ worst nightmare after just 10 months”
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Climate Scientist being censored by FaceBook:
“"User opted out of platform: The action attempted is disallowed, because the user has opted out of the Facebook platform."
The above message popped up when I tried to share Guy's latest presentation directly from You Tube.
Normally Guy's work is 'just' shadow banned. How long before talk of extinction will be banned?
Subscribe to Guy's channel and click the 'Bell' icon to receive notifications of new posts.”
“Video: Terms Used to Describe Global Warming”
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Democrats are not delusional. The appearance of them we see comes from a party who in reality are very deliberately following calculated plans to serve not America, not the economy, or the 99% but a few super rich
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“THE PARIAH
He Declined the FBI’s Offer to Become an Informant. Then His Life Was Ruined.”
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Historically Nation’s who exploit the cheapest overall (as in including externalities) energy available to the day do the best:
“Mapped, Solar Power by Country in 2021”
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“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions – poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed – which are the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.” Howard Zinn
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“Under capitalism, it’s normal to let children go hungry, let banks forced people out of their homes, let sick people die for lack of access to healthcare. But the idea that billionaires could just be less rich – not poor, not struggling, just less rich is considered insane.”
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Thor ChristianHempel
A growing body of economic and political-science research demonstrates that Gilded Age–type inequality does not just mean having too many with too little. It is warping the very social fabric of the country, stifling mobility, innovation, investment, and growth, and putting the country at political risk.
“Cancel Billionaires
Wealth inequality hurts society.”
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Sam Carana:
“Rainfall in the Arctic will soon be more common than snowfall
Changes will happen decades earlier than previously thought”
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“New climate models reveal faster and larger increases in Arctic precipitation than previously projected
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“More rain than snow will fall in the Arctic, and this transition will occur decades earlier than previously predicted, according to a new study led by the University of Manitoba and co-authored by NSIDC scientists”
“Models show a steep increase in the rate and range of precipitation expected to fall in the Arctic, and that most of these future events will be rain. This shift is occurring due to rapid warming, sea ice loss, and poleward heat transport in the Arctic. Learn more:
“Rainfall in the Arctic will soon be more common than snowfall”
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“BIG's floating city to be built in south korea as part of UN-backed plan”
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“The problem with capitalism is that if you aren’t born into wealth, your only capital is your labor. So automatically, your human body, is not a commodity that you must sell, and if you can’t sell it for enough, you won’t be able to care for it and will lose your capital.”
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Val Eisman:
BIDEN'S COLD WAR AGAINST CHINA COULD STYMIE ITS EFFORTS TO CHANGE TO CLEAN ENERGY BY HOLDING BACK CERTAIN KEY RAW MATERIALS NEEDED TO PRODUCE CLEAN ENERGY SOURCES LIKE WIND POWER!
"Last month, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order to review the American supply chains for semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, car batteries and rare earth elements that are crucial to the technology and defence sectors in an effort to reduce reliance on overseas producers. This could create greater competition of key raw materials."
Excerpt of important article.
"China will need to spend US$6.4 trillion to build the new green power generation capacity needed to meet its goal of reaching carbon neutrality in 2060, but may fall short on the supply of key raw materials required, according to energy analysts Wood Mackenzie.
Solar, wind, storage and nuclear power projects are set to take centre stage to produce enough electricity to accommodate an estimated 75 per cent increase in demand and to replace lost energy from slashing fossil fuel sources by 2060, the “Tectonic shift: China’s world-changing push for energy independence” report from Wood Mackenzie said.
In addition to its carbon neutrality goal, China has pledged to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by “at least” 65 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030.
While China pushes ahead with its plans – it is already the world’s largest manufacturer of wind turbines and dominates global solar module production – it will have challenges in securing certain supplies of critical raw materials, mainly copper, aluminium, nickel, cobalt and lithium, the report added.
Most notably, China’s dependence on foreign miners for its copper supply is a major concern. This has fuelled the country’s determination to seek greater control of other raw materials Yanting Zhou
“Most notably, China’s dependence on foreign miners for its copper supply is a major concern. This has fuelled the country’s determination to seek greater control of other raw materials,” said Wood Mackenzie senior economist Yanting Zhou, one of the report’s authors.
Copper is China’s “Achilles’ heel” in its quest to create green energy, the report added, as it is essential for electricity transmission, wiring and wind turbines, but China controls only 16 per cent of global mining of the raw material.
China will need another 7.5 million tonnes of copper every year based on current levels of usage, but it has yet to secure more supply despite a decade of investments in overseas copper mines, the report said.
China is also the world’s leading producer of electric vehicles batteries.
This achievement will help the nation accelerate the electrification of the nation’s transport network, which is critical to decarbonisation, but it will be competing with other countries for key raw materials for electric vehicles and their batteries, such as lithium, nickel and cobalt."
“When President Xi Jinping announced the country’s carbon neutrality goal, he was not simply saying that China would adjust its energy mix to reduce emissions,” Wood Mackenzie research director Miaoru Huang said."
“He was giving notice of the complete transformation of its economy and how it produces, transports and consumes energy. This transformation or ‘dual circulation’ is the pivot point to China’s balancing act on its climate change goals, energy security concerns and economic ambitions.”
“China’s carbon neutral ‘transformation’ could cost US$6.4 trillion, but plan has ‘Achilles’ heel’”
“Solar, wind, storage and nuclear power projects are set to take centre stage, according to a report by energy analysts Wood Mackenzie
But China faces challenges in securing certain supplies of critical raw materials, mainly copper, aluminium, nickel, cobalt and lithium”
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“Kyle Rittenhouse admitted in a video to pointing his AR-15 at a protester. He confessed in court to knowing his first victim was unarmed. Case closed. Kyle is guilty of murder.
You do not get to aim a gun at people, execute them when they try to stop you, and claim "self-defense." Not even if Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson chases you and throws a plastic bag.”
“Kyle Rittenhouse testifies he knew Joseph Rosenbaum was unarmed but acted in self-defense during fatal shooting”
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“Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997. She is an outspoken advocate of environmental and human rights causes, which has often placed her at odds with Indian legal authorities and her country’s middle-class establishment.”
“The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ides, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they may be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” – Arundhati Roy
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"As long as advertising and the grow-or-die logic of capitalism keep stoking the desire for objects we don't really need, may not even really want, and will sooner or later toss on a garbage pile in this or some other country, truckers and warehouse workers will keep damaging their health."
“Why Do We Need a 24/7 Economy?
The "graveyard shift" in a pandemic world.”
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“Striking US coal miners say windfall for private equity forced pay to be cut
Unions argue dividends taken by Apollo, Blackstone and KKR when Warrior exited bankruptcy came at workers’ expense”
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“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality. Its futility. Its stupidity.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“A Group of Midwestern Retirees Are Trying to Stop Wall Street’s Abuse of Retirement Funds”
“Ohio retirees and whistleblowers are on the verge of exposing how hedge funds and private equity firms are abusing workers’ retirement savings.”
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Our Judiciary needs to be overhauled.
CORRUPTION & POLITICIZATION - Wisconsin Supreme Court decides in favor of gerrymandering, as elsewhere courts rule in favor of high capacity gun magazines, and strike down mask mandate. Abortion rights next
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Don’t be confused. An equally deadly Fourth Reich has taken over us govt\judiciary, they just aren’t wearing swastikas. So even with a potential civilization ender like Omicron the people aren’t guaranteed health care - premature death is death
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“Arctic Sea Ice temperature 11 29 2021”
“Polar Portal, Monitoring ice and climate in the arctic”
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Excerpt from: “Killing the Host” by Michael Hudson
“The classical critique of economic rent
Classical value theory provides the clearest conceptual tools to analyze the dynamics that are polarizing and impoverishing today’s economies. The labor theory of value went hand-in-hand with a “rent theory” of prices, broadening the concept of economic rent imposed by landholders, monopolists and bankers. Rent theory became the basis for distinguishing between earned and unearned income. Nearly all public regulatory policy of the 20th century has followed the groundwork laid by this Enlightenment ideology and political reform from John Locke onward, defining value, price and rent as a guide to progressive tax philosophy, anti-monopoly price regulation, usury laws and rent controls.
Defenders of landlords fought back. Malthus argued that landlords would not simply collect rent passively, but would invest it productively to increase productivity. Subsequent apologists simply left unearned income out of their models, hoping to leave it invisible so that it would not be taxed or regulated. By the end of the 19th century, John Bates Clark in the United States, and similar trivializers abroad, defined whatever income anyone made as being earned, simply as part of a free market relationship. Debt service and rent made little appearance in such models, except to “trickle down” as market demand in general, and to finance new investment. (Chapter 6 will deal with this pedigree of today’s financial lobbying.)
Instead of acknowledging the reality of predatory rentier behavior, financial lobbyists depict lending as being productive, as if it normally provides borrowers with the means to make enough gain to pay. Yet little such lending has occurred in history, apart from investing in trade ventures. Most bank loans are not to create new means of production but are made against real estate, financial securities or other assets already in place. The main source of gain for borrowers since the 1980s has not derived from earnings but seeing the real estate, stocks or bonds they have bought on credit rise as a result of asset-price inflation – that is, to get rich from the debt-leveraged Bubble Economy.
What makes classical economics more insightful than today’s mainstream orthodoxy is its focus on wealth ownership and the special privileges used to extract income without producing a corresponding value of product or service. Most inequality does not reflect differing levels of productivity, but distortions resulting from property rights and other special privileges. Distinguishing between earned and unearned income, classical economists asked what tax philosophy and public policy would lead to the most efficient and fair prices, incomes and economic growth.
Government was situated to play a key role in allocating resources. But although nearly all economies in history have been mixed public/private economic systems, today’s anti-government pressure seeks to create a one-sided economy whose control is centralized in Wall Street and similar financial centers abroad.
Democratic political reforms were expected to prevent this development, by replacing inherited privilege with equality of opportunity. The aim was to do away with such privileges and put everyone and every business on an equal footing. Economies were to be freed by turning natural monopolies and land into public utilities.
This is how classical free market reforms evolved toward socialism of one form or another on the eve of the 20th century. The hereditary landlord class was selling its land to buyers on credit. That is how land and home ownership were democratized. The unanticipated result has been that banks receive as mortgage interest the rental income formerly paid to landlords. The financial sector has replaced land ownership as the most important rentier sector, today’s post-industrial aristocracy.”
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