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The Breakdown Of International Cooperation

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Submitted by Erico Tavares of Sinclair & Co

The Breakdown Of International Cooperation

Some of the major problems that humanity faces today transcend borders, and as such international cooperation is of vital importance. But recent events make such cooperation increasingly more challenging.

Without going into the wisdom of the decision, sanctions imposed on Russia over its foreign policy in Ukraine have a wide range of implications that go much beyond the economic sphere. For one, international dialogue is breaking down fast; just this week Russian President Vladimir Putin unceremoniously left the G20 meeting early.

Inevitably, this will have repercussions on major international cooperation initiatives, perhaps irreversibly in some cases. Here are a few notable examples:

Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament

It is in no one’s interest that nuclear weapons go rogue. But the fear – or threat – of this happening can still carry some negotiating leverage.

Russia recently signed an agreement to build two more nuclear reactors in Iran, with the possibility of building another six. All reactors will be monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency, with all uranium fuel supplied by Russia and then taken back for reprocessing to prevent Iran from using the spent fuel to produce atomic weapons.

So far, so good. However, the insistence of one of the most fossil fuel rich countries in the world, ruled by a strict theocracy whose leaders regularly demonize the West, to have nuclear power has to raise some suspicion.

And out in the Far East, North Korea, China’s de facto buffer zone against core US allies in the region, is rattling its nuclear saber once again, this time in response to a damning United Nations report stating that the country’s regime is unparalleled in its human rights violations in the contemporary world.

Given the ongoing diplomatic malaise, Western nations may be increasingly forced to deal with these issues on their own.

Fighting International Terrorism and Crime

Rhetorical question: do rising international tensions and conflict promote or lessen international terrorism? It’s rhetorical because the answer is obvious, yet again exemplified by the latest Middle East SNAFU.

Russia supports the Assad regime in Syria, and in response the US and its allies are arming the opposing rebels. However, these opposition forces have gradually coalesced into a much more lethal force with its own fundamentalist agenda: ISIS. The rise of this organization, well armed and with the capability to recruit many fighters across major European countries, shows how things can spin out of control very quickly. Al-Qaeda are amateurs compared to these guys.

It is hard to fathom how ISIS will go away under the current state of affairs. If they prevail in Syria and Iraq they’ll just keep going; if not they may just go underground. They certainly seem to have the funds and the weapons to do a lot of damage in any of those scenarios, possibly much more than any of their terrorist counterparts - just when a broad international consensus needed to tackle them will be lacking.

Climate Change

As the world’s largest fourth carbon dioxide emitter, Russia has never been a fan of international agreements to tackle climate change. Back in 2003, Putin had stated that his country would not ratify the Kyoto protocol because its underlying rationale was “scientifically flawed”.

However, Russia’s position changed (according to less congenial rumors) once they figured out how much money they could make by selling carbon credits from the “savings” related to the collapse of Soviet-era industries – mainly to Europeans, who preferred to use them instead of having to implement more onerous measures on their own domestic industries.

Enlisting Russia’s support to reduce carbon emissions will likely become a much harder sell going forward. Its geopolitical allies may follow suit, and pretty soon the whole effort might become pointless, particularly if it ends up being confined mainly to advanced economies.

Top-15 Carbon Dioxide Emitters in 2013 (MM tons)
Source: BP World Energy Review.

Moreover, it’s abundantly clear that in the current environment nobody will pull back on the regular deployment of carbon intensive military equipment, much of which is excluded from international climate accords in any event. It will take a miracle to achieve any meaningful reductions across the board over the foreseeable future.

Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Project was commissioned by the United Nations Secretary-General in 2002 to develop an action plan for the world to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and to reverse the grinding poverty, hunger and disease affecting billions of people.

These goals are as follows: (1) eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; (2) achieve universal primary education; (3) promote gender equality and empower women; (4) reduce child mortality; (5) improve maternal health; (6) combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; (7) ensure environmental sustainability; (8) develop a global partnership for development.

Last year, the UN secured additional commitments to enhance efforts to make progress in these areas, bringing the total to more than US$2.5 billion. At first blush this may seem like a lot of money; but let’s compare that to how much the world spent on the military in 2013: over US$1.7 trillion.

It is a real tragedy that still in the 21st century mankind’s priorities are so shockingly skewed. And unfortunately there’s no sign that this will reverse any time soon. Each dollar spent on arming a Syrian or Ukrainian rebel is a dollar not spent on reducing debilitating poverty or child mortality.

Outside of a major world war, never has the future of the global society been so dependent on the cooperation of so many. This makes the current state of affairs all the more depressing.

 

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Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:20 | 5476752 Tao 4 the Show
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Who actually knows who is for and against who? Alliances are changing, in all likelihood and the world situation is becoming more complicated and liable to mishap.

News is what someone wants you to hear. What is under the surface is probably more than most people can begin to take in.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:38 | 5476780 TahoeBilly2012
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If America was fat and happy there would be no motivation to go to war and build a one world Government for the "chosen people".

American is being slowly bled out to keep the tinder dry for the final push for world hedgemony.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:55 | 5476830 CH1
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build a one world Government for the "chosen people".

Fucking troll, trying to be subtle.

Why don't you just say "everything bad is a Jewish plot"?

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:30 | 5476917 Anusocracy
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I would hazard a guess that in a one world government, Jews would be disproportionately represented.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 15:23 | 5477180 Latina Lover
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Summary of the article: One ring to rule them all.  Fuck off Eric.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 21:08 | 5477898 Stuck on Zero
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There is actually greater cooperation among all the governments of the world than ever before.  Not to man's benefit, however.  All the global leadership is cooperatively ripping off the citizenry. 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 23:46 | 5478145 Scarlett
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CH1, the jew-hating in here was relegated to Francis Saywer...  

 

Then we have this flood of morons blaming peak oil and ISIS and Ebola on Jews.  

 

Feels like the .gov is fully infiltrated and ready to shut ZH down the minute the collapse in stocks/Japan/bonds/China begins...  

 

They already have the great excuse of a domestic terrist neo-nazi forum... 

Sun, 11/23/2014 - 07:46 | 5478561 paddyirishman
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see above for typical hasbara troll, good work jew boy, does it bother you that the goyim are waking up to your evil ways

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:38 | 5476940 falak pema
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this is typical of what ZH has become : hate and deniability for interchangeable bogeyman themes ; the race to "individual" freedom in an oyster shell, guns n bible toting (or Von Mises treatise) home making is incredible. 

What happened to a nation indivisible; is that for the Martians? 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:49 | 5476965 Anusocracy
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"What happened to a nation indivisible; is that for the Martians?"

It is for making unquestioning dupes.

The US comes to mind - highly indoctrinated.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 14:12 | 5477028 falak pema
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youre just proving my point. Throw away the whole concept of US and leave it to "every man for himself".

Well done. Your avatar has to be taken as your mantra of peace on earth. 

I guarantee you that in such a situation you will end up in a "non state" as the new American Indians. Watch out for the new Conquistadors, as history always repeats in a vacuum. 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 15:55 | 5477250 ebear
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How do you stand up for people who won't stand up for themselves?

 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 16:31 | 5477325 August
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"Us" is a great concept - worth dying for - for family, friends and neighbors.

But if you think that "us" works for 7 billion people on a non-voluntary basis you are asking for a prison planet.

 

(apologies to Mr. Jones)

Sun, 11/23/2014 - 07:45 | 5478560 paddyirishman
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fuck off hasbara troll

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:20 | 5476754 rejected
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Another Global Warming Expo in disquse...

 

EDIT: They suck you in on a subject of common interest then hit you with the "real" agenda. 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:38 | 5476772 Ignatius
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Once again it is stunning how effective this human-caused global warming (er, climate change) propaganda has been.  I'm first to admit that pollution is a problem, but climate change is many orders of magnitude more complex. 

Fun fact:  NIST couldn't model nor describe the unprecedented total collapse of the twin towers, and it's model of WTC 7 is a bad joke, but the climate propagandists are absolutely sure that humans are altering the infinitely more complex climate in an adverse way. Possible? Yes. Proven?  Not even.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:55 | 5476828 withglee
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I'm first to admit that pollution is a problem,

And you think the global warming nonsense is about pollution? Read the emails!!!

Ssshhheeeeeesch

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:22 | 5476887 Ignatius
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"And you think the global warming nonsense is about pollution?"

No.  People conflate the two, so I was addressing that.  That is, that one can understand the problems of pollution and NOT buy into the "climate change" hysteria and propaganda.

Sheeesh.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 16:11 | 5477258 withglee
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I apologize. We're on the same page.

Pollution problems are very local things and only come about with clustering. The best solution is to spread out. But if you must cluster, keep your nest clean.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:37 | 5476935 cynicalskeptic
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Climat change - rising levenls of CO2 are real.  Those rising levels are settign off a cascade effect - more thigns melt, permafrost releases methane - even worse than CO2 for planet warming... oceans are changing, reefs are dying... ice caps and glaciers are melting and local weather is becoming more EXTREME - hot and cold.  That is all real.  And as it all gets worse the change accelerates.  There is a VERY REAL trend towards a planet that is far LESS habitable for humans.

Are you willing to sit back and say 'It will all work out?'  Are you willing to let your children face the consequences?, your grandchildren?

Lets presume that there's only a small chance that human activity is responsible.  

Given the EXTREME consequences of climate change for humans, wouldn't you try and do anything possible to mitgate or reverse those changes?

And climate change due to increased CO2 emissions  by human activity over the last 1000 ... 500... 100.. 50  years is not only increasing with the rising levels of CO2 is just the CONSEQUENCE of a larger issue.  We have consumed more oil coal and other forms of 'stored energy' in the last 100, 50 years than in the history of humanity.  We ARE running out - it takes more and more energy to recover less and less oil..... Drill the Arctic - maybe you get a few decades more....the reality is that this planet CAN NOT support a large porportion of its population at the level of comfort tht we as Americans have become accustomed to ..... YOU go tell a couple billion Chinese that... or Indians or Pakistanis or Indonesians.... or Muslims sitting on remaining oil reserves which the US thinks it can take by force......   I'm over 60 and vividly remember what things were like 50 years back for 'average' Americans - a washing machine was a big deal - you didn't have a dryer (anyone remember clothes lines?) - no dishwashers.... ONE TV - black and white.  ONE car - though many didn't own one.  Going through family records is interesting - looking at where they used to live - even the 'well off' ones were in what today is considered to be a 'small' house.  You lived with your parents until marrried (a trend that is returning) or became a 'boarder' - living with another family and paying for a bed and meals (anyone heard that term in the last 50 years?).

We've been spoiled over he last 50 years and the price is coming due.  Deny all you want - but your descendants will have to bear the consequences.  Am just gad I'm closer to the end of my life than the start.  I pity my kids but they are startign out with a better education and base than most.  The dumb and poor expect the world and are ill prepared for what is ahead when thay have a right' to nothing (the state of humanity for most of its existence).  The sad truth is that our 'leaders; are self centered and unwilling to do what is needed for the long term - so they privaely prepare tehmselves for the worst and are willing to sacrifice all others if they think THEY get to survive.... and don't think they aren't preparing.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:48 | 5476949 Ignatius
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"Climate change" is a tax and control agenda.

Please listen to this presentation by Dr. Easterbrook to the Washington State legistlature:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRw4df4eM2w

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 15:25 | 5477173 Latina Lover
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Cynical Skeptic,

If you cared about the environment, you would be focused on Fukushima. If you really cared about so called carbon pollution, you would be antiwar since the US Military is the single largest producer of CO2.  Instead, you are a cheap whore or deluded idiot that cannot admit he was punked by the Al Gore AGW liars. Too bad that you do not really buy into your anti human agenda, since if the world is overpopulated, and you are over 60, you would lead by example and  eliminate yourself. You have full approval to remove your genes from the gene pool.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:54 | 5476980 Anusocracy
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I'm in awe of all you gods who can predict the future 100 years out.

I bow down to you.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 15:25 | 5477187 Latina Lover
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God with carbon feet, LOL.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 16:00 | 5477273 ebear
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Trees sequester carbon, so clearly we should plant more trees.

 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 18:30 | 5477584 Latina Lover
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Trees also produce oxygen and we really should plant more of them, and save most of the existing trees.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 20:50 | 5477861 Duc888
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....crazy thing is, everyone dies.  Everyone. 

 

Just another brain fart.  Any volunteers to cut the overall human / carbon "footprint" by....sayyyyyyy  50%?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWHNA_j7h5A

 

We had a PEAK Cinematic crescendo in da 70's

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 15:28 | 5477168 Latina Lover
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Thank you ZH, for reminding me that guys like Eric show their real selves when they talk about global warming and the 'need' to reduce populations..  In my day, we called them Nazi's.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 16:46 | 5477347 August
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>>>Lets presume that there's only a small chance that human activity is responsible.  

Given the EXTREME consequences of climate change for humans, wouldn't you try and do anything possible to mitigate or reverse those changes?

This hearkens back to the Clarence Thomas lynching:  it's the gosh darn seriousness of the charges that is so overwhelmingly significant, not the presence or absence of evidence.  

And if it saves the life of one adorable toddler, every object less than 2cm in diameter must be strictly controlled.

It's always about control.  Always.  And, yes, we used to call such people "Nazis".

Do anything possible?  If you somehow actually believe this disingenuous argument, the answer is "no".

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 18:30 | 5477583 Latina Lover
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Yeah, lets burn the village to roast the pig.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:27 | 5476765 dogfish
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No mention of Zionist murdering Palestinians.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:30 | 5476769 Dagny Taggart
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No mention of a banking cabal controlling politicians.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:58 | 5476831 CH1
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No mention of Zionist murdering Palestinians.

And never any mention of Palestinians killing Jews.

That part's okay, right?

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:37 | 5476907 Ignatius
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"And never any mention of Palestinians killing Jews.  That part's okay, right?"

I'll mark that one to propaganda, 'cause I don't want to believe you're that ill-informed or stupid.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:50 | 5476970 BigJim
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 No mention of Zionist murdering Palestinians.

And never any mention of Palestinians killing Jews.

That part's okay, right?

You occupy someone else's land, you gotta expect trouble.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 16:49 | 5477361 August
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Back off, BigJim. 

They have documentary proof that The Land belongs to them; their scriptures are quite clear.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 15:44 | 5477225 Taint Boil
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In the past 10 years 28 people have been killed by the Hamas homemade tubes (they call rockets) with no war head or any guidance system.

 

Addendum: This link says 44 now - Link

So let’s assume I live in Detroit and I fire a homemade tube into Windsor, Canada and kill a person. Does that give Canada the right to slaughter a couple thousand civilians in Michigan……….??

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:29 | 5476766 basho
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this writer is so amatuerish, so naive, so utterly amelikan. 

but then that's exceptionalism for you. lmao

get a life, dude

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:27 | 5476905 disabledvet
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"The indispensable power." Certainly an indispensable dollar would appear.  Not saying I understand it..seems pretty obvious though.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:35 | 5476774 Reaper
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The world all work together for whose goals? Sounds like One World Consensus government. He wants lower infant mortality, have a sustainable environment and more development, while according to his beloved UN, reducing population and energy use. Which Central Planners must we trust and empower?

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:37 | 5476776 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen Zero's.

Today for dinner I made a Curry chicken pot pie with a crusty Filo dough. Now the trick to excellence was adding the curry to the chicken broth at the very end so as to not over heat it.

Yummy! Dinner was excellent.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:41 | 5476790 Bollixed
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Lol, clearly your desperation for attention is mounting. ZH sould remove the link from the Romper Room website to here.

Banhammer time...

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:32 | 5476921 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen.

Take it easy and read this bro.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-22/breakdown-international-coopera...

I just do it the polite way.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 15:48 | 5477240 Taint Boil
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A teaspoon full of matter from a Neutron Star weighs a billion tons.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:43 | 5476798 angel_of_joy
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Fuck Off ! I hate curry...

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:56 | 5476825 TheGreatRecovery
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I think you can make curry with just about any mix of spices you want.  I think a lot of curry has a lot of turmeric in it.  Turmeric is supposed to help lessen the chance of Alzheimer's.  Indians eat a lot of curry.  I have heard that not many Indians get Alzheimer's.  So, not that you have to eat curry, but you could keep turmeric handy.  I do.

On the other hand, my doctor tells me not a lot of Indians live past their 60s.  Apparently, not a lot of Indians get routine checkups from their doctors.  They just ignore whatever is wrong with them, until it makes them sick enough to die.

 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:40 | 5476947 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen.

Turmeric contains Curcumin, a very powerful antioxidant. Good for eliminating free radicals. No I'm not talking about "nwmen". I'm talking about unstable molecules that damage healthy cells.

Curry, is good for you.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 15:36 | 5477212 smacker
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"Curry, is good for you."

Then Indians should be pleased that the Brits took curry to India.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 13:00 | 5496718 TheGreatRecovery
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They curried it to England, where it curried much favor.  :^)

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:51 | 5476969 tarabel
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Every time I read one of your posts, I laugh at the concept of the alleged Angel of Joy saying such things.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:46 | 5476958 tarabel
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Pay Attention, Envious Null

I've been dining on home made loaves of sour cream and chive sourdough bread. Got to wake up the cultures every couple of months to keep them fed, so I might as well make bread while I'm at it.

But the real issue isn't one of gastronomic excellence but of furthering the goal of self-sufficiency. No matter what sort of crisis may come in the future, one of the side effects of it is likely to be a seizing up of the wheels of commerce for an indeterminate period of time.

There is very little that an individual can do about things at the current moment in time. The hand is going to be played out regardless of what we want.

Ride the storm out in safety. Preserve your options and your ability to act when the time comes. A crisis will reduce many, if not most, people to a state of obedient dependence regardless of whether they wish to kneel in submission. In order to eat, they will temporarily jettison their principles on the assumption that it will be possible to resume their previous world outlook once the crisis has passed. This may be true or it may prove to be a delusion they use to justify their desire for food over freedom.

I do not believe that it is possible to fix a course of action at this time except to make sure that I retain the ability to say no to whatever offer is placed on the table. Saying yes may be the proper course, but I wish to have a choice. 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 17:00 | 5477380 Bangalore Equit...
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Listen tarabel,

Yes indeed I got turned on to sourdough from
http://ruhlman.com/2009/07/simple-sourdough-starter
who brought to light the use of purple cabbage as the source of wild yeast. Anyhow, yes, a little garden (with purple cabbage), gold, a flour mill, and a fucking shotgun to maintain ownership.

The little Zero's are many steps ahead of the rest.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:40 | 5476782 cherry picker
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In the end it really doesn't matter does it?

We have no control, except how we react and act as individuals for the only lives we can live are our own.

I prefer to work on me as a human, trying to achieve what I believe is important, than what someone tells me what so and so is doing or what nation or instituion is doing what.

I think we have a choice as to what rules us as individuals in this world and I don't see any human, institution or country that is worth submitting to and still maintain my soul, so to speak.

 

 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:10 | 5476869 livefreediefree
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Hey, let's go to fairyland
fairyland, fairyland
Hey, let's go to fairyland
And bury our heads in the sand

Hey, let's go to my-ass-land
my-ass-land, my-ass-land
Hey, let's go to my-ass-land
And bury our heads in each other's asses

Hey, let's go ... uhhh ... Hey, Boris, where in Russia is it not fucking freezing cold 24/7/365?

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:41 | 5476785 Lea
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When one major country goes rogue and stops abiding by the international laws, the stability of the whole planet is destroyed. Of course they all want weapons. We've gone back to the bad ole times, when only your military might could protect you.

I'll let you determine who is the rogue country that's the root cause of this worldwide mess. 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 14:04 | 5477013 cynicalskeptic
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Empires all overextend and collapse when unable to feed the bloated mess they have become with food and goods and ENERGY (slaves in the days of Rome - oil today).

The rise and fall of Empires is accelerated today - we went from Republic to Empire and bwgan collapse within 250 years.   We are trying to force the restof the world into supporting us at the end of a guun (ofter carried by mercenaries) or through the threat of 'remote' force (think planes and drones).   But no matter how much force is used the result is always the same.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:41 | 5476787 agent default
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They seem to be cooperating just fine when it comes to your assets.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:43 | 5476795 kchrisc
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Thanks for the article, but "climate change?" Seriously?

Next you'll be telling me that it was only Oswald from the sixth-floor.

An American, not US subject.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:47 | 5476804 Perimetr
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"just this week Russian President Vladimir Putin unceremoniously left the G20 meeting early"

He left after being repeatedly insulted by Obama and the rest of the US vassal-state leaders of the G-20. 

Either the author has his head up his ass, or is being funded by Langley . . . actually, probably both

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 15:30 | 5477201 HowdyDoody
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Actually Putin had finished all the talks with the adults and had no desire to waste more time with the imbecile western 'leaders' like Obama, Cameron, Harper, Hollande and Abbott.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:46 | 5476806 shovelhead
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"Yo bitch, sup wid dis 'bovine methane emitter tax' on my Big Mac?

Y'all be trippin on dis nigga?"

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:02 | 5476850 actionjacksonbrownie
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^^^ this...

 

From the beacon of humanity and freedom:

 

I give you the pinnacle of human achievement

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 14:18 | 5476808 falak pema
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An historical perspective brings all these issues into focus; if we ask ourselves WHY these issues were not resolved ONCE the BERLIN WALL had fallen and geopolitical global Armageddon risk had disappeared.

As always in History, to understand the evolution of events one has to look into the Historic lens post factual events and ask ourselves ONE question that often provides the key answer in a post-Machiavellian world : CUI BONO.

1° Non profileration.

The US didn't want to make the world disarm. It FROZE the status quo post USSR implosion, which had given it a feeling (illusion as current events prove) of irreversible massive military supremacy. It was its own political surrogates which hottened up the arms race : Israel, Pakistan and India.

It is to be noted as Benazir Bhutto admitted she supplied the Pak nuclear centrifugual technology to North Korea in exchange for Korean know how on vector technology. Both countries benefitted from this secret exchange which made them mutually nuclear capable from bomb to delivery weapon.

If the US had insisted on nuclear disarmement all over the world taking along the Salt discussions one step further to full completion, to world banning of nuclear missiles, this would not have happened.

But Bush Snr didn't want that neither did his successors. They wanted to keep their juiced up arsenal in the belief that NWO made them invulnerable and the others paid serfs working for outsourced Oligarchy mantra.

2° Fighting terrorism and Crime.

How can you when you USE terrorism and crime to Nation destroy all over the world, from Nam to Syria today, including Africa and South/central America. Enuff said on that. The Oligarchs wanted "owned" nation states or their destablised "terrorised" non states like Libya/Syrac/Somalia today. And they got it thanks to global MIC plays. 

3° Climate Change

All you have to listen to is the Oil lobby and then you know WHY US was against Porto Allegro 1992, Kyoto 1997, Copenhagen 2009 and all the rest. The US believes "our way of life not negotiable, come what may."

CUI BONO...as some of you Tea Drinkers in ZH try and deny all the time, in your bogeyman, revisionist rants of libertarian anarchistic anti-statist delusionalism. 

To address the issues you have to know whats what and not bury your head in the sand. 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 22:44 | 5478051 Dickweed Wang
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To address the issues [on climate change] you have to know whats what and not bury your head in the sand.

Yeah right, just like the IPCC "knew the issues" when their "study" on global warming/climate change SPECIFICALLY excluded anything other than human related activities that could impact the environment - like the effects of the sun, vulcanism, forest fires, etc.  Real scientific . . . . no agenda there right?

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:01 | 5476841 silverer
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The IRS is not holding back its contribution: Bitcoin fans, read it and weep:

Taxpayers may soon have to report bitcoin and other virtual currency accounts held in foreign exchanges to the IRS as the agency's focus on foreign assets sharpens, experts told Bloomberg BNA in interviews in October and November.
 
They said there is a strong possibility that bitcoin accounts could fall within the scope of assets individual taxpayers must reveal to the Internal Revenue Service on the Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR).
 
Eventually, experts said, it is even possible that the foreign exchanges themselves may be considered foreign financial institutions (FFIs) that have to report the accounts to the IRS under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:02 | 5476845 TheGreatRecovery
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Nothing about controlling over-population, which from a practical standpoint means that NONE of the other problems will ever be mitigated.  And I see the environment is next to last, the last being the joke, "develop a global partnership for development", which is the exact opposite of everything Major Powers have always done, and presumably will always do.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:08 | 5476849 ebworthen
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You started to lose me with the "kumbaya" theme at the start, but completely lost me when I hit "Climate Change".

It is precisely these kind of "global initiatives" that have taken power away from individuals and their sphere of influence to better their lives and the lives of others.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:27 | 5476902 paint it red ca...
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I have to laugh every time I see mentioned 'climate change'.

What started as self explanatory but speculative  'global warming', clandestinely evolved to 'climate change' a more genetic reference to observed warming or cooling.

WTF, of course it is warming or cooling. It's more traditionally called 'WEATHER".

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 18:55 | 5477647 Dickweed Wang
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What started as self explanatory but speculative  'global warming', clandestinely evolved to 'climate change' a more genetic reference to observed warming or cooling.

WTF, of course it is warming or cooling. It's more traditionally called 'WEATHER".

What really disgusts me is the total lack of knowledge on the part of those that espouse the issue of anthropomorphic (i.e. CO2 emission related) "global warming/climate change".  You know something stinks to high heaven when the "scientific study" done by the IPCC SPECIFICALLY excluded any causes of climate change outside of those caused by man.  Therefore their "conclusions" about climate change did not include minor issues like; the effects of the sun, the effects of volcanoes and forest fires - just to name a few.  When this is considered along with the fact that you always hear things like "carbon credits" as a so-called solution to the problem, you know who is really behind all of this  - the same banker elite scum who have caused most of the other major problems in the world today.  Unbelievably this line of logic totally escapes the anthropomorphic "climate change" crowd.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:43 | 5476952 THE DORK OF CORK
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I disagree with this narrative,

 

Its always about these big titanic forces.?........

 

The great problem in Europe is one of lack of local purchasing power , first extracted by nation state monopolies and now by the euro market state.

If you return local buying power then these titanic forces cannot exist in the first place.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 14:13 | 5476976 falak pema
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Lol, Dork you are rewriting history like Merlin's lost child.

It is what it is 'cos thats human nature. People love power. And they know how to get it in a vacuum.

that vacuum is called anarchy and its the dark hole that invites then next Oligarch.

The only way to fight is was the Enlightenment. But it has a price a Nation State and it requires permanent surveillance, separation of powers and a free civil society with bill of rights. 

And we are losing that precious heritage under the Oligarchy gun once again, as Enlightenment vanishes from the Horizon. Titanic forces can only be tamed by a resolute people meme. Its not these tea drinkers who spout libertarian anarchy as they are false noses for the Oligarchy and enemies of a nation state which is the only rempart given to the people. The Republic, of which an honest state structure  is the first element. 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 14:36 | 5477057 THE DORK OF CORK
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My life experience has been changed by perhaps over a year if not two sleeping under Scots pine trees or inside dirty mountain cabanes for months at a time.

This was not so much as into the wild but.  A Observation of how mountain villages and market towns interacted on a real level.

Now the wild wood has returned to these French places some 100+ years ago and Spanish locations a mere 50 years ago .

The agrarian lifestyle is therefore within living memory in Spain and Greece.

Now these banking bastards want to charge us rent when they have stripped us of all redundancy.

Climate change is yet another banking scam.

I can just feel it - yet another mechanism of capitalistic control.

 

We can see clearly how the French banking state destroyed the regions in the interests of standardization back in the 19th century.

We can see almost exactly the same bland dynamics played out on a European level today.

 

 

 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 13:44 | 5476955 escapeefromOZ
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Quote " So far, so good. However, the insistence of one of the most fossil fuel rich countries in the world, ruled by a strict theocracy whose leaders regularly demonize the West, to have nuclear power has to raise some suspicion. ". Oh yeeeee ! very suspicious , but 

what about  the 25 nuclear devices hidden away in the USA by Israel ?  If Iran is a theocracy what is Israel ? 

I found it strange that the USA administration trots out that garbage while hiding the fact  that the are being blackmailed by their great friend Israhell ? 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 14:01 | 5477007 THE DORK OF CORK
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If we observe little old Ireland between 1990 &2013 we can see how "internal cooperation' is merely extraction of the periphery by the core.

 

All Irish economic sectors have seen a decline or at least a stability of co2 discharge since 1990 except one - transport' which has doubled and is now the biggest sector.

This is despite a 1 million increase in population since 1990.

So Ireland will pay on the double for core capitalist capital goods dumping( cars) and Jewish migration policy.

Please no more fucking cooperation.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 14:08 | 5477021 gorillaonyourback
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On the surface sounded like a good read.......... But the writer is a retard.  I don't want to explain.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 14:19 | 5477047 glenlloyd
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This piece ended up being rather fluffy.

Climate change is pretty much bad science because there's no real evidence that the alleged changes aren't normal for the planet. Planets do not exist in stasis, this may just be a mean reversion back to a prior state and we've been living through the exceptional period since we've been around.

Kind of like the faux growth the economy experienced since 2000. Everyone seems to want to use that as a baseline for what things ought to be like now when we know for a fact that all that 'growth' was nothing more than easy money policy gone crazy.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 18:19 | 5477560 falak pema
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here is your answer if you can understand the premises :

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/22/-sp-climate-change-specia...

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 14:30 | 5477080 Cloud9.5
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All of the citizens of the world types are men without a country.  Here is the deal.  We have gone over the hump of Hubbert’s Peak.  We are on the downhill slide.  We are in the collapse.  All the happy talk is the same hopeful conjuring that was going to save Detroit.  Energy is bleeding out of the system.  Entropy is winning.

 

Cooperation is predicated on the assumption that there is enough to go around.  We are whistling through the grave yare.  Seneca’s cliff is on all sides of us. I wish I could save the world, but the truth is I will be exceedingly lucky if I can save me and mine.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 14:48 | 5477117 THE DORK OF CORK
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I direct yee guys to the Egyptian Marxist economist samir amin.

 

His writings about the implosion of European society is especially good.

 I regard Marxist thought much like Goldstein's book.

A good observation of current dynamics but as a solution , not so good.

Only a bottom up redistribution can be made to work while amin as a typical Marxist regards this as  impossible.

However these French n Spanish villages still exist - it just that few people live in these places all year round.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 14:55 | 5477129 q99x2
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The best the west can hope for is that Putin destroys the western banking system and incarcerates the bankers that are attempting to use it as a means to conquer the world.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 15:07 | 5477146 THE DORK OF CORK
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Watch European co2 emissions fall if we all return to village life.

However for this to be viable you need local buying power.

The Anglo Dutch Jewish cartel will not allow this.

They would much prefer us to die on the urban street for lack of company tokens.

 

This is current EU co2 policy - we take up the US slack by not existing.

 

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 15:48 | 5477239 corbeau
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Sinclair & Co is affiliate to Fox news? Seems very much so. Pumping, pumping, pumping... fresh air into empty heads.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 16:45 | 5477351 Dickweed Wang
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This piece is a prime example of pure and simple propaganda bullshit.  No-where is there any criticism of the banker elite and the roles they have in fomenting most of the problems in the world - from funding both sides of most (if not all) major military conflicts to the role commodity trading has in increasing world hunger through the driving up of basic foodstuff prices.  The icing on the cake in this dribble is the part about carbon dioxide emissions and their supposed effect on "global warming". . . . makes me want to gag.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 18:40 | 5477600 honestann
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O2 is good (for animals).
CO2 is good (for plants).
Warm is good (for both).

The entire AGW scam is an absolute, complete, utter total fraud.

Sun, 11/23/2014 - 01:13 | 5478302 Al Tinfoil
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But very profitable if you know how to play it.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 19:39 | 5477728 theyjustcantstop
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when knowing the end game of the un's millennium project, and it's no secret, (get rid of 1/2 the worlds population), the fixes for their 8 part action plan, (by the way 1/2 are already in action), are easy.

#1-#5 birth control, and abortion.

#6 i;m sceptical on, if you live in a third-world country you don't see many people on tv, or in the movies, that have been cured, just as ebola america sees the few that are cured, or died, third world countries estimate by the 10's, and 100's of thousands of deaths, and how many more will get infected.

then we hear of the govt. spending a fair amount of dollars, and time to weaponize the same diseases their trying to cure.

for decades the un has stated africas population explosion needs to be curtailed, maybe thats why they turned africa into the worlds petri dish.

#7 yea, and i've paid thousands of dollars to people who ENSURED, (not money back guaranteed), ESURED me. i'd grow hair, look younger, and lose weight, then i read the disclaimer, may have different effects on different people.

i always have to reminise on the good times, back when i just turned drinking age, there was global cooling, i'm pretty sure it was climate changes first aniversary, at the same time women libs were very active.

yes, i did go to the rallies, drink a couple drinks, and watch, mostly young, mostly college girls burning bras, and running around topless, why do you think they had so many people show up.

now though, the same women who were running around the rallies have had a shift in their figures, so now they say it's demeaning to women to show their bodies.

#8 must have been thrown in between kumbaya sessions, and bowls.

 

 

 

 

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