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Submitted by James H Kunstler via Kunstler.com,

While the folks clogging the US tattoo parlors may not have noticed, things are beginning to look a little World War one-ish out there. Except the current blossoming world conflict is being fought not with massed troops and tanks but with interest rates and repayment schedules. Germany now dawdles in reply to the gauntlet slammed down Sunday in the Greek referendum (hell) “no” vote. Germany’s immediate strategy, it appears, is to apply some good old fashioned Teutonic todesfurcht — let the Greeks simmer in their own juices for a few days while depositors suck the dwindling cash reserves from the banks and the grocery store shelves empty out. Then what?

Nobody knows. And anything can happen.

One thing we ought to know: both sides in the current skirmish are fighting reality. The Germans foolishly insist that the Greek’s meet their debt obligations. The German’s are just pissing into the wind on that one, a hazardous business for a nation of beer drinkers. The Greeks insist on living the 20th century deluxe industrial age lifestyle, complete with 24/7 electricity, cheap groceries, cushy office jobs, early retirement, and plenty of walking-around money. They’ll be lucky if they land back in the 1800s, comfort-wise.

The Greeks may not recognize this, but they are in the vanguard of a movement that is wrenching the techno-industrial nations back to much older, more local, and simpler living arrangements. The Euro, by contrast, represents the trend that is over: centralization and bigness. The big questions are whether the latter still has enough mojo left to drag out the transition process, and for how long, and how painfully.

World affairs suffer from the disease of terminal excessive complexity. To make matters worse, much of the late-phase complexity operates in the service of accounting fraud of one kind or another. The world’s banking system is mired in the unreality of so many unmeetable obligations, cooked books, three-card-monte swap gimmicks, interest rate euchres, secret arbitrages, market manipulation monkeyshines, and countless other cons, swindles, and hornswoggles that all the auditors ever born could not produce a coherent record of what has been wreaked in the life of this universe (or several parallel universes). Remember Long Term Capital Management? That’s what the world has become.

What happens in the case of untenable complexity is that it tends to unravel fast and furiously. That’s exactly why avalanches and earthquakes happen all at once, not stretched out over a six week period. The global financial scene not so different. It’s just another matrix of linked mutually-supporting relationships that can implode if a few members weaken.

One question worth reflecting on is whether the implosion is actually well underway on-the-ground in real economies, with just the scrim of illusion to make the surface appear intact. That surely seems to be the case in the USA, where the so-called economy has already avalanched into a rubble heap of part-time scut jobs, defaulted college loans, underwater mortgages, and groaning pension funds — with an overlay of pointless and endless motoring.

Over in Euroland, the Greek “no” also implies that every other sovereign nation wallowing in deep financial shit will demand a haircut (and a disinfectant shower). Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and even France cannot possibly meet their debt obligations. Their citizens are being taunted with currency controls, too, and they have every bit as much potential to go ape-y as the Greeks. Notice you haven’t heard much from their leaders and financial ministers in recent weeks. They are all standing on the sidelines watching the Greeks go through the wringer — but you can be sure they are all making plans of their own.

The failure of the European experiment will be extremely demoralizing to the hopeful citizens of that continent, who emerged from the bloodbath of the early 20th century to become the world’s premier peaceful tourist theme park. I don’t know that they necessarily have to go back to fighting each other on battlefields with things that blow up and destroy human flesh, but they surely have to decentralize and re-fashion some kind of simpler, local way-of-life if they expect to remain civilized.

It’ll happen everywhere. The Japanese are next, of course, and they may be the most fortunate, since they retain more than a few shreds of memory for exactly that mode of life: the Tokugawa shogunate (the Edo period, 1600 – 1853), a manner of high pre-industrial economy and culture that might have persisted indefinitely had not Commodore Perry come knocking on their door, so to speak, in his “black ships.”

Ukraine is about halfway back to being medieval with excellent potential to overshoot even that. The Euroland PIIG(F) nations don’t have the energy resources to extend Modernity, even if the banking system wasn’t terminally ill, and then on top of that they have the ethno-demographic quandary of creeping Muslimization — plus the additional flotillas of desperate boat people arriving daily.

America, count your blessings. Tattoos, obesity, drug use, and shiftlessness are all basically behavioral choices. You don’t need a finance minister or a central banker to overcome those problems.

 

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Mon, 07/06/2015 - 14:51 | 6277359 LawsofPhysics
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Looks like it's swan (banker/financier) for dinner then...

adapt or die motherfuckers...

same as it ever was...

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:01 | 6277397 UndergroundPost
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Greece exit turns PIIGS into PIIS (pronouced PISS) which is what EU Banksters will be drinking once the contagion starts gushing like a hose.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:03 | 6277406 Publicus
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The Fascists will be defeated once again.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:10 | 6277431 New England Patriot
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Third works in a series usually resemble the original more than the sequel.

 

Good news for World Wars?

 

I don't think so.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:23 | 6277472 Publicus
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Are you saying that someone will be assassinated?

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:26 | 6277483 El Vaquero
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There are a lot of ways that a major war could start.  Assassinations, false flags, or some country just getting pissed enough to say "AWWWWW, FUCK IT!  Roll the fucking tanks!"  There is enough geopolitical tension that I'm hoping for an economic collapse before we can roll the tanks simply because I really don't want to have to worry about the uptake of fallout by crops.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 17:04 | 6277804 espirit
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How about a NORK EMP over NA?

Best false flag evah.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 19:34 | 6278231 Zero Point
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I'm still going with Russian backpack nuke detonated in US sky scraper by Iranians. Their Saudi passports may or may not be found in the rubble.

Dancing Israelis will need to be a bit further back though.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 20:55 | 6278469 bid the soldier...
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Don't break your back.

 

I guess it doesn't matter.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:16 | 6277432 ZerOhead
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Fascists, socialists, communists... it doesn't matter.

They all work for the GLOBALISTS... the banking dynasties that have owned the planet (including ALL political opposition) for centuries. They have unlimited resources (they actually create money after all) and leave NO possible outcome that could deprive them of their power to chance. Sorry but that's the simple truth.

If you want to know how things are going to play out from here you might want to read this...

http://redefininggod.com/2015/07/globalist-agenda-watch-2015-update-56-p...

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:20 | 6277465 El Vaquero
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That's the thing, they actually don't have unlimited resources.  They can only skim off of what the supply chains produce, and if they skim too much, they break the supply chains.  They are not ubermensch, and I guarantee that they'll bleed if you cut them.  Undeserved and disproportionate political and economic power they do have, but they must still work within the laws of physics. 

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:51 | 6277527 ZerOhead
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OK... You have a valid point.

They don't have unlimited resources (although their banking system creates money out of thin air) plus they have infiltrated every significant sovereign government and financial/economic organization on the planet with underlings who will unquestionly do their bidding.

They are the GLOBALISTS and they will do whatever is necessary to control the planet for the sole benefit of themselves and their children.

They are not afraid of a little supply chain breakage (AKA systemic collapse) or even a little nuclear war if it generates the fear and acquiesence necessary to make the sheeple hand over what they want. Namely complete control.

So let's just see if Vlad, China and the rest of the BRICS and the IMF with it's SDR (the real NWO) end up coming to Greece's rescue shall we?

I mean re-e-e-e-ally... who in their right mind is going to lend Greece more money after it has just defaulted on the last 300 billion it borrowed?

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 16:02 | 6277619 El Vaquero
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The problem with that is that their control depends on the supply chains.  If the oil stops flowing, they cannot send their thugs half way around the world.  If food is no longer being produced, they cannot feed an army.  If there is a nuclear war, well, let us just say that they probably don't know how to knap flint or melt steel without modern technology, which will be valuable skills.  There is no such thing as complete control, and if they believe that there is, it will be their undoing.  If the current complexity that is our various governments is their attempt at control, they are going to find that the costs of that complexity are greater than any bill they can foot, and they will lose one of their methods of control.  Just printing money does not reflect that labor and energy must be expended to produce real material wealth.  With the breakage of supply chains, the ability to expend that labor and energy becomes very localized and out of their reach.  They are butting up against the laws of nature, and those are inflexible.  They are homo sapiens, and they are fallible. 

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 16:30 | 6277665 ZerOhead
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Agreed.

A systemic collapse sends you back to the stone ages in short order. At the very least they will use the threat of that in an ENGINEERED CRISIS to get what they want. (Nuclear war with Russia and China perhaps?)

The dialectic is composed of two competing visions for the NWO. There is the "Bad" Western NeoZioLibConBankster run NWO which has run America and Europe into the ground and is ready to implode and the "Good" Putin China and BRICS bank backed NWO which stands by ready to save us all starting with Greece.

It's ALL bullshit. Both alternatives are 100% owned by the GLOBALISTS.

And just in case American or Chinese nationalists do not wish to cede their sovereingty to a new GLOBAL(ist) government just remember Henry Kissingers wise words...

“Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.”

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 16:32 | 6277706 Citxmech
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Of course today, if you control oil, you do control food to a large degree.  Just like if you control electricity, you essentially control water.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 16:15 | 6277651 bozoklown
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Mr. Putin will be happy to lend a hand in return for a warm water port and the opportunity to turn up the heat on western Europe.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 16:43 | 6277722 goldsaver
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Your comment just reminded me of a fairly recent movie called "Snow Piercer". Basic premise is that humans cause a new ice age (by spraying a chemical designed to stop global warming, Ha!) and the remaining living creatures on the planet are on board a train that circumvents the earth once a year. The train is divided into classes; the tails section (Freeloading Scum!) that are threated as less than humans by the local "army"; the worker class and the front section "first class passengers". The tail section fires up a revolt in an attempt to take over the train.

WARNING, SPOILERS!!!!!

Once the main character arrives at the "sacred engine" the owner and conductor of the train lets him in on a little secret; the revolts are actually orchestrated in order to control the number of humans that the train's closed ecosystem has to support. Overpopulation would hurt all, so the conductor purposely keeps the tail section in bondage in order to foment regularly scheduled "wars" between the tail section and the workers to reduce population numbers.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 17:03 | 6277801 tiwimon
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Just watched that movie and the plot line played out well - we need more than a revolt to settle out this time - the next WW will be a doozy

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 17:17 | 6277838 goldsaver
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Didn't really liked the end.... repopulaiton of the planet would have been impossible under those circumstances but, the rest of the movie was well done.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 18:13 | 6277956 SofaPapa
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@el vaq:

They don't need to have unlimited resources.  They just need to control the resources which are available.  Orwell really was prophetic (or was it Huxley?).  They are willing to have less than ideal growth and material progress, as long as what there is is under their control.  And that is what printing the money means.  The money is the control.  Period.  Full stop.  The politicians work for it.  The militaries work for it.  You and I work for it.  Money is still how we trade.  Much as we might like to dream of pie-in-the-sky ideas like eliminating legal tender laws, etc., it's not happening.  It's nowhere near happening.  People trade using the money, and the money is controlled by the globalists.  That's as close to absolute control as they need.  

The friction in the system exists because there are different factions within the control group.  But in no case will any of them allow popular contribution to control.  It's the one thing they all agree on.  Power is to be held by the few to control the many.  Because - the thinking goes - if the many are free, they go crazy and are animals and there will be chaos!!!  The elite really believe this.  They have zero faith in humanity, and so they hang on as tightly to power as they can.  And because so few understand money and its role at the TOP of the power pyramid, the many keep right on giving our power to the few.

I don't see it stopping any time soon, and as an idealist, that is a sad conclusion for me to draw.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 19:04 | 6278003 ZerOhead
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When 99.9% can't even recognize the origins of the problem it doesn't look good.

After all when you more than enough money to buy anything you want money becomes almost meaningless. Except of course that you want to keep that same wealth out of the hands of anyone else (or nation) who may pose a threat to you.

IT"S ABOUT ABSOLUTE CONTROL OVER THE PLANET FOR ALL TIME

Period... end of story.

 

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:28 | 6277489 Vin
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@ ZerOhead:  You are 100% correct.  Thank you.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:58 | 6277584 ZerOhead
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You're welcome. Took me a couple of years to figure out mind you but then again it's the only solution that makes 100% complete sense (pretty much anyway) of everything we are witnessing.

ITS ALL A SCAM PEOPLE

It's time everyone started doing some thinking for themselves but before you start on your journey may I suggest how to figure out who may be telling you the truth first?...

http://www.truthin7minutes.com/controlled-opposition-how-to-spot-a-fake-...

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 17:02 | 6277800 funthea
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'truthin7minutes" with a video lasting 16:53. Maybe should have been called "sometruthinjustunder17minutes". Just sayin.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 18:34 | 6278020 ZerOhead
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Still worth the 16:53...

Read everything here > http://redefininggod.com/  and I do mean everything.

It will beat not really knowing WTF has been going on when the plug gets pulled (pretty soon now as the dervivative shuffling as of late at the big banks suggests...)

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 17:03 | 6277784 Bob
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Gotta chirp in with my +1 too, ZerOhead.  God knows the "unipolar" world is in deep shit, given the nature of the current Empire, but to imagine that Russia is, or will be, anything more than the neo-liberal monstrosity it explicitly embodies reveals childish naivete, imo. Corruption reigns in these days of Mordor.  How could the Russians be left out--they got no oligarchs or what?

I know who the baddest guy is on the stage at present, but as somebody who can see all that . . .  it would be ridiculous to develop a man crush on Putin. Seriously?

I'm guessing, as a simple realist, that he has a shitload of dedicated "social network" agents assigned to . . . various places.  Hell, if you were him, you know you would, too. 

Spy vs Spy action full time these dayz a la cartoon network:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww56yoRoiww

 

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 20:51 | 6278456 bid the soldier...
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Wow.

It sounds like you believe John McCain et alia who say that Putin dreams of the Soviet Union redux.  

That lie is the Negro's version of Weapons of Mass Destruction and obviously doesn't deserve a response.

 

Everything you said about Russia is wrong.

to imagine that Russia is, or will be, anything more than the neo-liberal monstrosity it explicitly embodies reveals childish naivete

Here's what Russia is.  Russia is analogous to the Spartan forces at Thermopylae.  Allied with China, Iran, Belarus, etc. Russia so far has prevented America from taking over moar of the countries of world.  Especially, those countries with natural resources that America has squandered or never possessed.

 So save your breath telling us about 'evil Russia'. Since World War II there hasn't been a nation in fact or fiction that can measure up to America.  From the overthrow of Mossadegh in 1953, to Allende, to Diem, to Saddam, our attempt at Assad, our success with Gaddafi, our failure with installing Morsi, and the piece de resistance, Ukraine, Kiev, Yanukovych, Poroshenko, Nuland, Right Sector.

We're not just backing any horse in Ukraine.  We are backing the Pale Horse of the Apocalypse.

It is time for you to quit your denial of who is the most villainous country of all.

Mirror mirror on the wall

Who is the most monstrous of them all.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 21:04 | 6278494 Bob
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Apparently my veiled reference to that evil you mention was lost in translation.  How could anybody here not understand the status of the US of A? 

Needing other world powers to provide some balance and appropriate boundaries doesn't make those who answer the call--grateful as I am that some may--into necessarily virtuous characters. 

Putin is doing a good job with what he has to work with.  But fanboy worship seems foolish to me. 

How often has that worked out in modern life?  Especially with powerful people. 

Tue, 07/07/2015 - 01:24 | 6278947 bid the soldier...
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But how long has 'modern life' enjoyed the awesome power of "The Internet"?  Barely 20 years.

Meanwhile, Tyler has graciously (I hope he's not offended by that adverb) offered fanboiz of every stripe a venue for their fandance.

The number of the Putin 'boiz here and the quality of their arguments attests to the great man's genius.

Do you know that since the arrival of Snowden in Moscow, when I started to pay attention, Putin has never lost his temper or gotten angry, whilst the Negro has lost his cool on several occasions. 

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:48 | 6277560 Grimaldus
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Here in the States, if the Federal Reserve is ended permanently, it's current staff/and crony politician suckups all shot by firing squad, all of a sudden there is a light at the end of the tunnel! That would put a big dent in the "globalists", right?

I just thought of something, maybe not shot by firing squad, maybe tied to a bit of fence on the border with mexico and then hit with a big napalm drop. That would enable an "Apocalypse Now" moment with the smell and all that "bankers don't surf" stuff.

Grimaldus

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:50 | 6277573 J Jason Djfmam
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The REAL reason they don't want Greece to leave the EU.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 16:21 | 6277667 ajax
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I'm still waiting for Nassim Taleb to step away from his gyroscopes and publish something on Greece.

In England only the Royal Family can eat swanmeat and I certainly wouldn't wish to partake in black swanmeat without Taleb in the kitchen...

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 16:56 | 6277783 The Carbonator
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PISS ... I just LOL'd at work.  Fucking-A+ bro.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:03 | 6277403 Winston Churchill
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Bankers would be an albatros LoP.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:14 | 6277449 LawsofPhysics
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You remain the optimist I see.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:10 | 6277429 Consuelo
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But that's the problem LoP --- it can't adapt, but at the same time, the f--cker just won't DIE...

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:15 | 6277451 LawsofPhysics
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and it won't until their fiat paper is no longer accepted...

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 14:55 | 6277365 JustObserving
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America, count your blessings. Tattoos, obesity, drug use, and shiftlessness are all basically behavioral choices. You don’t need a finance minister or a central banker to overcome those problems.

US debt and unfunded liabilities are over $1,400,000 per taxpayer compared to Greek debt of $65,000 per taxpayer.

America is Greece on steroids. But don't expect the free and fair financial press to report that:

The U.S. has a $210 trillion “fiscal gap” and “may well be in worse fiscal shape than any developed country, including Greece,” Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff told members of the Senate Budget Committee in written and oral testimony on Feb. 25.

“The first point I want to get across is that our nation is broke,” Kotlikoff testified. “Our nation’s broke, and it’s not broke in 75 years or 50 years or 25 years or 10 years. It’s broke today.

 "Indeed, it may well be in worse fiscal shape than any developed country, including Greece," he said. 

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/economist-tells-co...

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 14:56 | 6277381 cossack55
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I'm thinkin' about getting fat so I can get some more tats. Mo' fat, mo' tat.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 16:41 | 6277736 combatsnoopy
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Don't get gangsta tats on your upper thighs unless it jiggles like cottage cheese jello and don't even bother with the cleavage tat if it aint' sinking yet. 

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 22:09 | 6278705 Buster Cherry
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Don't do it. Tatoos are disgusting

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:01 | 6277390 LawsofPhysics
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Please "modern finance" is utter bullshit.  "mark to fantasy" horseshit everywhere.  America is not Greece, America is not China, nor mexico nor canada... ...in fact, if the reset were to occur in earnest you wouldn't recognize what came next, that's how evolution works.  Adapt or die, the point being who the fuck knows what everyone's assets etc. really are, no fucking way to know.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:03 | 6277402 disabledvet
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"And YOU will pay for that!"

So far appears to have worked like a charm.

The word "incredulity" does come to mind...but the facts are the facts too.

i agree at some point this "outlier" will revert back to the mean...until then the sheer magnitude of the asset growth inside the USA is wreaking all sorts of problems world wide...not least reason being the outsize influence of all things the US dollar.

I am of course "clowning around" when I keep repeating Greece should go "off grid " in every sense of the word here...but only to a point.

This "clowning" does in fact offer an ACTUAL SOLUTION unlike what everyone else is saying and what they're being told.

And of course who doesn't love the Spectacle of "sticking it to The Man" in he process...

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 18:56 | 6278096 bullybear
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America is not broke until A) we can no longer make interest payments and/or B) we cease to have trade deficits which virtually guarantee trade surplus nations to buy our debt.

Right now A is only about $450B annually - just about 15% of annual revenue. And B) we no longer have the manufacturing base to see trade surpluses. Seems like this charade could go on for quite some time here.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 19:42 | 6278254 bid the soldier...
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correction

America is not broke until A) we can no longer make interest payments 

Don't you mean print interest payments?

just askin'

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 14:57 | 6277382 farflungstar
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"Ukraine is about halfway back to being medieval"

I feel bad for Dumbfuckisgrad. They got shafted and they get to blame it ALL on Russia.

Meanwhile AmeriKa can blame itself for its failures.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:11 | 6277411 DetectiveStern
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Just a little bit of History repeating. During the Ukrainian Revolution after WW1 the east of the country rose up to demand self rule backed on the sly by the Soviets coming to power in Russia. Nearly 100 years later the same thing happens again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Territory

 

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:11 | 6277383 Al Huxley
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I think if there's one thing we can be certain of, after 7 years of searching and false sightings, its that there's no such thing as black swans.  And thank god for that, if I had to worry about stuff, how would I enjoy my shows, and my social media?

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 14:58 | 6277388 Al Huxley
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And thank god Kunstler's back on his tattoo ranting, I was afraid he'd lost his will to fight that important battle to restore some nostalgic faux-Rockwellian vision of America.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 17:15 | 6277836 MsCreant
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LOL. Kunstler must have read that.

I too think he goes on too much about tattoos and baggy pants. It really does detract from his message by making him seem obsessed with something trivial.

Still think he has it right with The Long Emergency perspective. End of Suburbia was an important film for me.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 21:02 | 6278486 FixItAgainTony
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Yea, J.H.K. helped me to realize that a Cassandra doesn't have to be correct about everything, as his views on the W.o.T. middle-east occupation were ludicrously xenophobic in _T L E_ but his insights into decentralization=resiliency were eye-opening enough to seed my doubting of the dominant paradigm.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 14:58 | 6277389 Chuck Knoblauch
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The biggest lie ever told.

Convince the world it's heating up when it's really cooling down.

What going to happen when the crops fail?

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:00 | 6277395 LawsofPhysics
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You think that temperature is the only important thing with respect to agriculture?  LMFAO!!!

I know people growing a shitload on the fucking roof of their condos for fucks sake.

adapt or die you stupid fuck.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:04 | 6277410 mojojojo
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I suggest lowering co2 to 0 ppm.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:10 | 6277427 LawsofPhysics
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So long as the world is burning I would not count on that happening any time soon.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:16 | 6277454 mojojojo
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A wise plant once told me that dihydrogen monoxide is the root of all evil.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:20 | 6277467 gregga777
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Without ammonia-based fertilizers produced from natural gas crop yields will collapse to at best 20% of current levels, back to the pre-ammonia based fertilizer peak yields of 1906 or less. Then it won't matter where crops are grown because there isn't enough arable land in the world to grow food for 7 billion-plus hungry people.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:41 | 6277525 mojojojo
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That is a problem for overpopulated regions dependant on food imports. The biosphere will reach equilibrium. We're not short on numbers, so we'll make it through.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 16:34 | 6277716 Citxmech
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Except that in 1906, we actually had some viable topsoil. . . 

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 17:18 | 6277841 JuliaS
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"There is only one place on this planet doing any research into this and it’s the Ecology Institute in Willits, California. And their statistical modelling starts on the assumption that there will be 7.5 billion of us on this planet in the middle of the 21st century. OK, this being so, they ask: what, then, is the minimum amount of land per person we would need to devote to agriculture to support a population that size? The figure they came up with:  2000 square feet per person. Doable. I should say, however that their statistics are based on: a strictly vegan diet biointensive farming and the composting of all plant and human waste, including post-mortem humans, a somewhat skanky concept at first, I’ll grant you. But I think in time it could develop it’s own dignity and gravitas especially if the rich and famous lead the way."

- Robert Newman

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 19:59 | 6278305 acetinker
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Same dude who did "History of Oil"?

THAT dude abides.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 20:55 | 6278470 JuliaS
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That quote is from "The History of Oil". There's a full transcript available online.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 21:12 | 6278512 acetinker
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Allow me to introduce you to Robert Newman.  It's much more powerful than the transcript.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DCwafIntj0

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 19:11 | 6278152 bid the soldier...
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put the obese on mandatory diets.  

a lot moar food for everybody else.

 

problem solved

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:12 | 6277398 mojojojo
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You are not insinuating that co2 is plant food and not pollution, are you?

You are not insinuating that global cooling is the real danger, are you?

You are not insinuating that the IPPC has fraudulent data, are you?

 

Maybe I like believing that greenhouse gases are evil, global warming is an anomoly, and I like trusting political organizations to generate science for my fragile little mind.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 19:06 | 6278133 bid the soldier...
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but but but

Convince the world it's heating up when it's really cooling down.

We had to tell them something.

Where would our paychecks be if we didn't?

 

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 14:59 | 6277393 mojojojo
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Let Islam conquer Europe. It's a good idea, no?

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:21 | 6277469 mojojojo
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Isn't Mohammed the most common name for children under 5 in England?

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 18:59 | 6278110 bullybear
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Why not? We're all going back to the 18th Century before the end of this one and they do seem to be the experts in running such societies.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:02 | 6277401 KnuckleDragger-X
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Hell, this is just the warm up act, things will get much worse. The ECB surprised me I didn't think they'd go full retard till Friday to let Greece stew over the weekend.  The Greeks will now need to do something foolish immediately. Don't forget the markets, half of which will manipulate while the other half panics. Almost popcorn and insanity time.....

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:05 | 6277415 mojojojo
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Dont forget Greece dug its own grave, the creditors just gave it a shovel

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:16 | 6277452 KnuckleDragger-X
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Well it's faster than using a teaspoon.....

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:18 | 6277457 mojojojo
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They had to loan the shovel

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 16:36 | 6277719 detached.amusement
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lol,....they had goldman tell them, here dig this hole and we'll take care of you

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:05 | 6277414 stormsailor
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i know that there are few traders left on this sight, but there is a beautiful head-and-shoulders built up in the /es, and back in the day when charting actually worked, it shows a break down to about 2018.

 

but now the maket is bought everyday by yoohoo it will probably not play out.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:13 | 6277441 LawsofPhysics
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Good to see that there are a few optimists out there.  I have been watching from the sidelines, for the most part since the begining of the year.  Let's see what kind of real contagion we get.  We are most assuredly at another "time to change the rules" point.  Let's hope the Cayman islands don't get "Cyprus'd"...

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:07 | 6277420 Atomizer
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The new 2015 form of humanitarian economic gas chambers. Starve the fucker's, loot their bank accounts until they comply. We know who pushed this Euporean Union. Go ask him, oops he's dead. 

Hello Merkel, look at yourself in the mirror. I say no more. 

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:12 | 6277438 wendigo
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Not disagreeing, but what's with the hate for tattoos? I have two very visible ones and plan to get more. One is the symbol for pi and the other is a diagram of the moon orbiting the earth. 

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:43 | 6277535 Atomizer
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When generation Y gets older, they'll ask if you worked in the circus. Perhaps a carny thrill ride amusement park operater. You set yourself up for that. Hey kids, look at grandmother's sagging tatoos.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 16:32 | 6277708 Volkodav
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I am reminded of Siberian Lady friend described a not that old Dutch woman at beach wearing

small Dutch colors orange two piece...."tittes like spaniel ears"

 

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 17:15 | 6277817 ajax
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@Volkadov: A Musical Interlude

The Fat Lady of Limbourg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CAcNPYfUns

From "Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy" - 1974

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
- Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:46 | 6277556 Armed Resistance
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That's funny, because I have one of the sun orbiting my moon. Or was it Uranus orbiting my anus? I can't remember.

Actually, I just made that up. It's really of two elves holding my sack and the side of my junk reads "Santa's Coming". No, not really- but we non-tattooed can dream, right? I honestly could care less what people do with their own bodies but I can tell you this- there's going to be a whole generation of old, fat, saggy inked people.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:56 | 6277598 J Jason Djfmam
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Just draw it on with a sharpie and laugh for a while.

It'll go away long before you get any older/fatter/ saggier.

Santa's Coming!

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 18:56 | 6278095 bid the soldier...
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I heard that your junk read

Abandon Ye Hope

there are a lot of stories out there

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 16:00 | 6277612 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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Have you ever noticed that people with tattoos tend to wear them on their sleeve everywhere they go? Take a look at television when they show someone with a tattoo. Narcissists love to make everything revolve around their own materialistic perspective on the World by mentioning their tattoos, or displaying their tattoos. You are not able to display your tattoos so you are bringing your narcissistic tattoo wearing attitude into discussion on Z/H so that you achieve the same effect of displaying the tattoos for everyone to somehow 'admire' you for being so self centered, and egotistically bound in narcissism, that you describe in detail what your tattoos look like. Don't you get that you are fixated on tattoos to the point of compulsiveness and obsession?

 

p.s. did you tattoo these symbols to your forehead, or your neck?

 

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 16:03 | 6277624 wendigo
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Fuck you dude. What was the last thing you ever achieved? Fluffing your wife's lover? I bet your mouth is real popular with his meaty black cock. 

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 16:13 | 6277642 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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A tattoo is not an 'achievement', BuckO.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 17:38 | 6277875 markpower49
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No fats, tats or brats. Tattoos are for identifying losers.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 18:47 | 6278067 g speed
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and lamp shades in some cultures

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 18:50 | 6278078 bid the soldier...
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yep.

when the culling comes, it will be easy to eliminate the tattoo people.

TATTOO == CULL ME

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 19:20 | 6278189 Lin S
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Classy.

I guess my long-held view of the uber-tattooed crowd as 60-IQ, lowlife cretins was completely in error.

Or not.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:17 | 6277456 BeaverCream
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Was that new mad max movie about greece?

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:18 | 6277458 great_scot
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I'm all for getting sent back to the dark ages if it means I get to live in a castle.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:24 | 6277477 Winston Churchill
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Dungeon living is all its whipped up to be.

Be careful what you wish for.i

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:20 | 6277463 Tarshatha
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lol,

"Merkel putting in an all nighter it seems."

https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/618134134876172288?autoplay=true

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:22 | 6277470 Species8472
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Tattos arn't a problem, they act as a filter, showing the wearer who the ass holes are. They find and filter out A-holes like Kunstler.

 

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:31 | 6277501 FredFlintstone
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Tats also act as a filter for the asshole hiring managers, especially in a field like nursing.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:37 | 6277521 BidnessMan
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Agree about WW1 - Austria and Serbia get the nod. But who invaded Poland in 1939? Generally considered the start of WW2.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:41 | 6277537 Al Huxley
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I think he's referring to the international banking community that financed Hitler's rise to power and stood in the shadows like Lady MacBeth, egging him on - 'go on, invade Poland, what are you, a coward?  Be a man...'

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 16:02 | 6277622 The Delicate Genius
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who?

The Nazis followed 10 days later by the Bolsheviks.

The English and French, no strangers to conquest, declared war on the Nazis, but not the Bolsheviks, for invading Poland, bits of which had formerly been part of Germania, certainly largely German-speaking, no such thing for the Russians...

Of course, after the war, the Bolsheviks were allowed to keep all of Poland, as well as a handful of other countries whose resistance movements were crushed.

All of which makes one wonder if Poland was the reason.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 16:18 | 6277664 Volkodav
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you only repeat the party line

both wars premeditated to stop rising Germany

 

 

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:27 | 6277485 The Delicate Genius
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Also just like before ww1 - Zionists, with disproportionate money, influence, and power, are doing their best to get the United States to enter wars having nothing to do with its own national security or the wishes of its citizenry, but everything to do with Global Zionism.

http://theunjustmedia.com/jewish%20zionists/zionism%20and%20world%20war%...

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:31 | 6277500 Atomizer
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Just for clarification,  Pierre Werner and Jacques Delors. Not Hitler. This was fabric of creating the European Union. There are others who are just steering committee members. Mumbling talking points. 

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:35 | 6277515 Downtoolong
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Just waiting to hear about the first murder in Greece, probably over the last loaf of bread on the shelves or something like that.

And, don't think for one second that any banksters will even give a shit, let alone assume any responsibility for it.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:58 | 6277607 J Jason Djfmam
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Unless, of cousre, that first murder is of a banker.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 17:31 | 6277856 Atticus Finch
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Unless the first murder is a banker. That might pique their interest.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 15:39 | 6277529 22winmag
Mon, 07/06/2015 - 16:03 | 6277623 The Delicate Genius
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VICE sold out to the usual suspects...

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 17:40 | 6277884 markpower49
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Vice is now a leftist rag. Ignore it.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 20:20 | 6278355 22winmag
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Where else can you find over 100 videos that really show you how it is on the ground in Ukraine?

 

You can't.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 19:14 | 6278161 Lin S
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VICE News was cool in the beginning.

Now, they're pretty much just an Establishment agitprop outlet. I call them SOROS News.

Propaganda for the hipster pussies.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 17:29 | 6277852 Atticus Finch
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"plus the additional flotillas of desperate boat people arriving daily."

 

Thanks to NATO. Oh, yeah, that's Europe too. Oh, or is it the US's vassal states? It's so confusing!

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 17:40 | 6277888 Sanity Bear
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It's only a black swan if you can't see it coming a mile away.

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 17:52 | 6277921 Urtica ferox
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JHK, you're slipping!  Not a single mention of twerking jezebels in this article!

Needs more twerking jezebels!

Mon, 07/06/2015 - 20:53 | 6278462 kareninca
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Didn't express contempt for Southerners  -  must be a faux Kunstler post.

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