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Forget Stocks - China Is Trying To Centrally Plan Its Way Out Of Another Black Hole
Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,
It’s here in southwestern China’s postcard-perfect Yunnan province that the mighty Mekong River rises.
From its source in a nearby mountain range, the river proceeds south, cutting its way across Southeast Asia’s fertile lands through Burma, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
The Mekong is hugely important; its waters irrigate million of acres of land and provide untold quantities of fish, both of which support tens of millions of people in the region.
So it’s a major concern that China appears to be unilaterally diverting the Mekong to support its own needs.
We’ve discussed China’s worrisome drought several times in the past.
It would not be the slightest overstatement to say that China’s water situation is rapidly approaching crisis levels.
Even China’s Agriculture Ministry is sounding the alarm bells.
The numbers they’re reporting show that China already has to import more water than the United States imports oil.
And this is creating major problems for their food security– for without staggering food imports, China cannot feed itself.
If you add up all the acres of farmland that it takes to grow the amount of food China must now import each year, the total area is larger than the entire state of California.
And this problem is only getting bigger.
Here in Yunnan, the scenic countryside stretches to the horizon with beautiful farms and vast walnut groves, benefiting from the province’s gentle climate.
Yunnan is actually one of the biggest walnut producing regions in China, which itself is the largest walnut producer in the world.
But this won’t last. It can’t. They simply don’t have enough water.
That’s actually the reason I’m here– walnuts.
One of the two major focuses of our Chilean agriculture business is walnuts– something we chose precisely because of the long-term water crisis in China (not to mention the water crisis in California, another major walnut producer).
As Chinese production declines, the resulting shortage should boost prices and substantially benefit our firm.
For now, China’s government is doing everything they can to stem their food security and water crises from getting worse. And that includes commandeering the Mekong.
Over the last few years, the Chinese government has built several massive dams along the Mekong River in Yunnan province.
The Nuozhadu and Xiaowan dams are so large, in fact, that their combined reservoirs have enough capacity to cover the entire state of Maryland in five feet of water.
In addition to providing bountiful hydroelectricity for Chinese industry, these dams are also being used to hoard water.
China has a long history of trying to tame rivers.
It goes back to the days of Mao when legions of engineers did everything they could to alter and divert natural rivers for the betterment of farmers.
(Even China’s former President Hu Jintao started off as an engineer for SinoHydro…)
It didn’t work. And combined with the rest of Mao’s absurd central planning, millions of people starved to death.
Trying to fight nature always ends badly. But governments never learn.
This is exactly what the Chinese government is trying to do right now with its bubbly stock markets.
Like their water crisis, this is a force of nature. When a market bubble gets too inflated, its natural course is to pop.
No amount of clever engineering can prevent this. Delay, perhaps. But never prevent.
China’s response to their financial emergency has been the same as their water emergency: deceit and desperation.
They suspended trading, encouraged small investors to mortgage themselves to the hilt, pushed bank balance sheets onto even shakier ground, and published the most insane propaganda worthy of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
They even took a suggestion from Shakespeare’s Henry VI: “The first thing we do, let’s [imprison] all the lawyers.” And yes, they actually did throw a bunch of lawyers in jail for ‘encouraging dissent.’
But like their water crisis, this isn’t something they can out-engineer.
It would be like expecting a bunch of bureaucrats to centrally plan their way out of a black hole.
It’s just not going to happen– nature is too powerful a force, like an unstoppable train.
And fundamentally in this world, there are two kinds of people: those who see it coming, and those who don’t.
For those who see it coming, you have options. You have freedom.
You can choose, at a minimum, to simply get out of the way, and ensure that the train doesn’t hit you or your family.
Or you might even choose to find a way to profit from it, just as we are doing with China’s water crisis.
Undoubtedly, whenever a nation as large and populous as China’s experiences such severe financial gyrations, there’s money to be made; if nothing else, potentially some great bargains for patient investors.
The other type of person is the one who doesn’t see it coming and must suffer the consequences of ignorance and inaction.
Being one or the other isn’t random. It’s a choice– a decision to be ignorant. Or a decision to be educated and prepared.
Which one will you decide?
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Its not nice to fool Mother Nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLrTPrp-fW8
... and this is the result of diverting the Mekong waters ... >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaVTZOKSuHs ... check the 2:05 marker ...
... or dump of bloating swine in river.
We dam, and so we are damned.
Over and over...
https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/the-year-the-time-and-the-pl...
once Canada creates a national hydro and water exporter, China will be it's primary customer
at 8 billion mutha nature pucks up 4 billion corpes to fertilize the land, hope it rains enuf to get the cycle going again. oh where oh where has all the water gone? a zero sum game, but, my oh my, where are all the corpes located? HA, da wong places, ha/...
If you were to dam the Mekong right above the delta .... you would flood an area the size of New Jersey .... that kind of sounds like a recommendation ?
It was a marketing error .... to name a margarine .... after a popular toilet tissue ?
Let's hope they don't take over the world, they can't even run their own country.
Wait...
"...nature is too powerful a force, like an unstoppable train."
ROFLMAO
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/
Pretty much every state in this nation as well as the Federal government have geoengineering departments and projects. The US military claims that they will have full control of the weather by 2025. Legislature and treaties have been written in an attempt to prevent geoengineering to be used as a weapon. (my guess is that it is either too late or has has been ignored)
Too much generalization as usual.
Yes we can manipulate our environment but our primary struggle with nature is our own. We are constantly reaping the harvest of our natural tendencies, our inability to resist something for nothing, to believe impossible lies because we simply want to, and all those who are smart enough to see through the mist of our nature and see how easily it can be used to master us, like the way we have domesticated our livestock, to harvest our needs from their stupidity. An intelligent and plotting cow could easily have their way with us but they are not and will not. Especially if we make sure to not teach them, to make them aware of their circumstances.
As we see all over the world, the mastery of nature is at work, mostly on humans themselves. And it is working...sort of. Our assumption is that nature will win out in the end, that this manipulation will not stand, but what we refuse to acknowledge is that this IS the norm, this IS our nature. War, pestilence an famine.
moar we try the moar unintended consequences. revert to the nominal historical increase to the threashold of natural cycle capacity. 50 percent retrace of population. guessing 4 billion one way or another. anomoly times...oil the fuel to 8 billion, then econ collapse as plateau oil costs escalates to the point of poverty, famine and water wars. may the best military take out the most useless drinkers and eaters, ha...
There is no doubt that the cheap energy of oil fueled much of our prosperity. A lot of that has been replaced with technology however and that shows no plateau. I would contend that our lack of personal productivity is going to contribute more to our collapse than expensive oil. The profligate use of debt has allowed a theme of subsidized unemployment which has hidden from view unemployment's toll on our prosperity.
Now, on top of the burden of this accumulated debt, we have made nonproductive lifestyles socially acceptable, something that only a few decades back would have never been tolerated. The concept that we are all owed some baseline level of existence is farcical and will ultimately lead to our demise. Look at Greece. Look at who is in the streets. It is those who think they are owed something, a social promise THAT CANNOT BE FULFILLED.
Cheap energy, just as with technology, is simply a lever to our productivity. It is our productivity that is key to our prosperity.
Watch it Simon, the new Maunder Minimum might get your trees in Chile too.
Costa Rica is looking better all the time.
"Fighting nature" .... isn't that what communism is all about .... fighting human nature is fighting nature .... fighting physical nature is less of a jump from reality ?
China can import Fukushima bottled water source as a backup plan.
China has been dierting rivers for thousands of years, this has shit to do with Mao. And the irrigation projects were some of the biggest successes of the great leap forward. talk about bullshit.
The Great Leap Forward .... in the year of the rabbit ?
Simon Black ? He's gonna profit from the increased price of walnuts; twenty years from now >? Man, am I glad I'm not as stupid as Simon Black.
Didn't someone write a book about this in the 70's?
Oh right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth
It's amazing how accurate the World3 forecasts ended up being. Of course this is not the story that gets told in the media whenever the Club of Rome is mentioned.
"Science will never be used chiefly to pursue truth, or to improve human life. The uses of knowledge will always be as shifting and crooked as humans are themselves. Humans use what they know to meet their most urgent needs — even if the result is ruin. History is not made in the struggle for self preservation, as Hobbes imagined or wished to believe. In their everyday lives humans struggle to reckon profit and loss. When times are desperate they act to protect their offspring, to revenge themselves on enemies, or simply to give vent to their feelings.
These are not flaws that can be remedied. Science cannot be used to reshape humankind in a more rational mold. Any new-model humanity will only reproduce the familiar deformities of its designers. It is a strange fancy to suppose that science can bring reason to an irrational world, when all it can ever do is give another twist to the normal madness. These are not just inferences from history. The upshot of scientific inquiry is that humans cannot be other than irrational. Curiously, this is a conclusion few rationalists have been ready to accept."
- John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, 2007
Yes, the only systemic remedy to our circumstances is to replace people with rational machines, but of course they will be programmed by humans also.
We have always struggled to be rational. We will always only have so much success as there is too much profit to be gained by using our irrational emotional behaviors against us.
their response is bascially the same as the goldman sachs led cartel that cannibilized BEAR AND LEHMAN before carrying through their predetermined plans for bialing themselves out with printed money from thin air. and also some ergulatory bullshit.
the only difference is the chiense did them quicker and without hestiation.
i think simon black is full of sheeeiiiite.
da print mon, bringing fwd tuesdays bone dry burger doom much sooner than anyone can fanthom...
I believe China will be successful
Good wishes & show the world how it can be done.
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But be wary of the western & Cabal strategy to loot the stock markets using the following method :
(1) Foreign Investors invest billions in country's stock markets in a short time. The govt welcomes them thinking they get dollars (euro, pound whatever)
(2) The stock market sees a sudden jump which keeps on growing sharply and reaches point A.
(3) Employ many agents in whole country who will phone & tell common people & small investors how well the stock mkt is doing and their money will become double & triple at this rate in a short time.
(4) Driven by false propaganda, huge number common people & small investors put their savings in the stock market and expect huge returns , wait & see their share prices growing & growing and they wait & wait with glee & great expectation.
(5) The country's people's huge money is so invested in the stock market and the graph reaches point B.
(6) Suddenly these foreign (cabal & western) investors pull the plug , sell sell sell , mop up the money (their and of common ppl) make huge profits and leave the country in a very short time.
(7) Stock market crash , and common people's money vanished who are left poorer & poorer , they take loans which will make them more poorer. Rich & poor divide widens more & more becuz the poor cant make out the strategy & the game that they are being played at, as pawns.
Sounds plausible.
But in the longer view, the earth is drying out.
Water is life; human beings (and stock markets) will cease to exist in the future.
If all the brainpower, capital and energy devoted to war was channeled into finding a solution of the drying earth; maybe we as human beings would have a chance, maybe not.
But, alas. It is not in the cards.
It's going to be a slow, painful extinction...
Long walnuts when the worlds second largest producer, Iran, is about to get access to global markets. Pass.
I agree with the author in some ways. Only time will tell whether it is a death spiral or not. Humanity manages to find a way out in ways that are unthinkable. We are probably trying to eliminate that option too ....
zh, I will come up with very fundamental questions ... try attepting some ... and you are not the only one who I ask... I will ask as many people as possible.
http://just-a-thought-from-thinair.blogspot.com/
http://www.rt.com/news/floating-nuclear-plant-russia-759/
http://www.rt.com/news/251709-russian-arctic-nuclear-powerplant/
One Russian floating nuclear plant is able to produce 240.000 cubic meters of fresh water daily, and I am sure if build specifically for desalination purpose, the productivity of such or similar plants would be even greater.
On a side note, Murica has big problems with drinking water. Do you understand that fracking has basically polluted all those underground aquifers, hm? Contamination of underground waters has probably been a depopulation plan of your rulers upon which you like to bestow some divine attributes. Add to that GMO poisons and venoms, and you clearly get the outline of the tools and weapons your oligarch rulers are using for the execution of their plan.