Observing Proceedings, It is difficult to encapsulate the news today, though the overview is that the human economic world is going through a reduction in availability of the resources upon which our life-support system depends (peak-oil, etc.). That reduction-in-availability is reflected as increased costs, shortages and economic dysfunction in this economy based upon perpetual growth. Massive-"borrowing" has "pulled future prosperity forward" to the present, at least on the books. Investments will quit-paying-out at some approaching point. Faith in the financial economy will soon disappear, as the world faces the fact that it is all current-trade-flows, without the reserves-of-wealth that we had imagined to "own". This is known in the halls of power. There is currently a power struggle over those flows of valuable resources and products, affecting pipelines, railroads, and shipping routes. The producing countries don't want to pay so much rent to the centers of financial empire, and are growing bolder as the imperial armies prove ineffectual again and again. Russia becomes the military-champion and China the economic-champion for the producing countries (BRICS+) who want to trade without a 50% skim by the western-financial-system. Current wars reflect that, and also reflect the reluctance to nuke things you need and will be unable to replace in the leaner-future.
Operation Garden Plot, advance planning in case of too many illegals, seems to be crystal ball use, as are the legislation for "countermeasures" for HHS as unearthed by Katherine Watt. A sane person would be sending soldiers to help Texans defend the border, not fight against them.
Thank you Dr. John for your coverage of the Israel-Gaza War.
I am glad, and relieved, that the ICJ directed Israel to avoid civilian deaths, punish the incitement of genocide, and facilitate the provision of “urgent basic services”. [Much of that text is from a Guardian article today.] Is the court being deliberately naïve? Who is going to tell if civilian deaths were not a goal of property destruction by bombs and missiles — and thus legitimate? “Oh, we did not mean to kill Gazans, they were just in the way of our missiles — it’s all their fault.” Sure. Is the ICJ gutless? Naïve? Why did they not come out and say “no more killing of Gazans”? And what about the Palestinians in the West Bank? Are they the substitute victims?
Netanyahu declared that Israel’s obligation to its Jewish people was an inherent right, and one he would promote endlessly if need be. He stated that “Israel has an inherent right to defend itself” but he clearly meant that only some residents of Israel had such a right, ignoring that some Palestinians live in Israel – although not for long. So far, America’s reaction continues to support Israel’s war with weapons and attacks on the Houthis of Yemen. Such is our commitment to global peace — and the status quo. Because America obviously believes in global peace — after it has aligned all its supporters and intimidated all its opponents.
Are we taking bets on when Israel will extend its western border to the Mediterranean, encompassing the Gaza Strip?
I share your sentiments, but the world is moving very slowly and methodically because Israel is a nuclear power, with global delivery systems and a policy to use them on everybody if the government is about to fall, the "Samson Option".
The economy will keep getting worse and worse, and the shipping more and more constrained, and Israel gets and sends everything by ship, and just a little by air.
Slowly slowly starving the Israeli economy, and slowly peeling away the US support, despite the political power of the Zionist lobby in the US. A whole lot will change in the world in 2024, I think. I just can't predict it in any detail at all. It is all contested.
The rest of the world holds the better long-term hand. Those of us within the empire should expect our needs to get harder and harder to meet. I grow vegetables, bicycle well, and don't have debt to banks. That makes me more secure than most, but my wife is a school librarian and I collect Social Security. There's no real security there if the US goes into turmoil.
The "ruling" puppets in the US do not serve us at all, quite the contrary. I would like to see them broadly replaced with non-elites who rise (somehow) to the occasion. To get money out of politics may mean the collapse of money...
We're on the same page. I lead a simple life. Treat people with kindness. Read the Bible daily. Try my best to apply the council. I'm envious of no man. Harbor no grudge towards anyone. Enjoy the "little things", which I revear with wonder. Hope and pray for God's will to be done on earth as in heaven.
One commenter at the Craig Murray blog (www.craigmurray.org.uk ) made the valuable point that it is pretty impossible for the ICJ to order a ceasefire, as ordering a ceasefire means ordering both parties in the civil war to cease fire and the court only has jurisdiction to give orders to the court protagonists i.e. South Africa and Israel. It does not have any ability currently to judge on Hamas activities as Hamas has not been brought before the ICJ.
So thinking logically, what the court has ordered is pretty much as far as it can go, given the case it was actually trying.
My understanding from reading is that the ICJ can order a ceasefire and peacekeeping troops, but cannot administrate those orders. I may well be wrong.
In the current climate, all parties except Israel would be expected to fully cooperate with humanitarian aid, opening of the blockade against Palestine, and massive rebuilding efforts.
Everybody else wants to be the good-guys on the world stage.
"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. "
You will find that if you ask a psychopath if they can please stop killing people... they will laugh at you and continue their evil work.
Maybe Israel was more created-over-time to pose the positional threat of war, and spread division among the people who live over oil. Both Israel and Saudi Arabia were essentially "created" by the British Empire, and both were heavily managed, especially through the rising hegemon, the US.
It is challenging to plan for landing on your feet. I am single with SS. I expect to be ravaged by my govt - how they care for me!. I want a garden but rent with no place to garden. Hope springs eternal.
Living somewhere that was a successful farming town after WW-1, where the weather does not try too hard to kill people, and there is still good local infrastructure, is a good baseline. Having family there is important, if possible, so that is all very narrow in the end.
I have no family. I was raised in CA and VA, that's all I know. Yes, weather that does not try too hard makes sense. My heart is in CA. But no family. I have some fantasies of a home and garden near where I live now. I want to design a building that is safe from EMR and can survve the ossacional wildfire. And drought. Nothing like being short of water during a fire.
I am skeptical about Necons giving away the oil in Iraq and minerals that were mapped by the US in Afghanistan to China to develop. I am skeptical of Russia as it does seem like the Atlanticist faction is not very much interested in winning their dirty little war but very happy with their efforts to bind themselves to China. I read Perestroika Deception and New Lies For Old regarding the thriving of communism and Russia moving towards one red clenched fist. The totalitarian system is running the world. And warfare builds the NWO.
We'll see. I can't tell what WILL happen. I think it is not worked-out in reality yet, and there are so many disparate plans for this biggest-economic-downturn-ever.
Let the world wage war and the Cannon Kings are happy with their decision to take over after the wars. I do not think there needs to be a vast plan. A few people are planning and using their machines to game outcomes and not planning ahead past mass death and destruction. I’m thinking that the Technique is in charge and people in power may have opinions about what Technique should work best but no disagreement about One Global Raj.
Dr. John in your estimation if global population was greatly reduced to 1.6 billion as in 1900 is there enough energy to go around for Empire? If no, 1804 is 1 Billion, is this enough to allow global Empire?
There is no going back to those prior situations in history. The ways of living have been lost. The human and animal energy and farms are mostly lost, though not everywhere. India has a lot of that, but so many people...
To have more levels of complexity in complex systems, more energy is required. The world is in energy decline, but unevenly. The neoliberal economic model is wasteful and cancerous, which is an advantage in certain situations, but those times are past now. It will collapse dramatically due to starvation of its high metabolic needs.
The plans for VRICS+ are distributed at one level down from that, nationalism with respect of borders. Theoretically, that should be more efficient, and should buy a good decade for many countries to restructure out of neo-imperialism.
Further energy declines will require further re-localization.
This will be a long and stepped energy decline. There's lots of dirty coal, but it's not cheap to mine, either. Oil will decline first. Natural gas is spotty in locations, so pipelines are a strategic asset, like the one not yet built from Iran's Pars gas field to Europe.
There is not enough to pillage to support the pillagers going forward.
All the elite hopes seem to be on "efficiencies" chip-controlling all the survivors.
Thank you for this insight. I think alongside your ideas. I wrap my thought around the death and injury by the Covid paradigm that continues. In San Francisco Trader Joe's clerks mask. Mask optional is the new normal. Vaccination propaganda everywhere. So I wonder you know about the slope of deaths. The City has lost 26% of it's population of 2020. It is an expensive town and jobs are few and people move away but deaths are not easy to pin on Covid interventions. My commute to work by a bus is 20 minutes and pre-pandemic it would be 45 minutes due to traffic. So my energy idea is that from a narrow view the elites decided their civilization would be best with one billion. The energy freed up is say that used by 5 billion people.
"Gilbert Doctorow interview and transcript on Ukrainian shoot-down or Russian plane carrying Ukrainian POWs for prisoner-exchange. I think this plane crash is extremely important because of what it says about the government in in Kiev, who is running it, and for what purpose."
_________________
Hmmn, … key words in above: "who is running it, and for what purpose”.
This war was not triggered by Ukraine, … and subsequently run by Ukraine to start with, but by forces external to. And so, I do believe Doctorow’s ending speculations of who done it ( shoot-down Russian airplane) are most likely not correct. In fact, I suspect it’s more correctly, who insisted on it to be done! But that’s just me…
Now, addressing the last word in above, "purpose", … What is the purpose of this act? Again, answer - at least to me - is prolonging this war, and I don’t believe that too many Ukrainians - including most of those in Kiev - wish to have this war much, much longer prolonged! But that’s me again, … just musing out loud.
Well, we all know the root causes of the whole tragedy! This will not any time soon, … "The Thucydides Trap” - classic entrapment, … and this time we are witnessing triad, and I don’t mean three notes stacked vertically in thirds!
As to "convertible", … yes, we had quite a warm end of December / early January stretch - as high as +18C - 'definitely convertible time!' - and shortly after, … a low of -34C starting January 11th and few days after. Last two days, however, we are up to +6C mid-day and further prognostication for the next few days is +double-digit C.
Anyway, what do you know, I actually do own a convertible, too - ‘04 Miata - besides my ‘10 Honda Fit Sport. I know, … car fetish! I drive my Miata only in the summer. You know, salt, gravel, ice control chemicals on all roadways, … all not very kind to old cars!
Miatas are good little cars, but I always thought they needed a 6-port 13-B rotary motor in them :-) I used to like to hot rod Wankles in the 1980s when it was still cheap. I did remember that you had a Miata too , somehow.
After a four week pause ( for Christmas etc), the Sunday arvio Pro -
Palestinian Rally & March in Sydney Australia resumed last Sunday
(21 January)...Noticeable was that there was no decline in participation,
and especially, the increase in the number of young Australians...
Heartening to know not all young people are entranced by their smart-
phones...
And the Corporate Propaganda Media (aka - msm) was consistent with
it's lack of coverage...
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw
Operation Garden Plot, advance planning in case of too many illegals, seems to be crystal ball use, as are the legislation for "countermeasures" for HHS as unearthed by Katherine Watt. A sane person would be sending soldiers to help Texans defend the border, not fight against them.
Unless the "sane person" had competing interests...
;-(
Thank you Dr. John for your coverage of the Israel-Gaza War.
I am glad, and relieved, that the ICJ directed Israel to avoid civilian deaths, punish the incitement of genocide, and facilitate the provision of “urgent basic services”. [Much of that text is from a Guardian article today.] Is the court being deliberately naïve? Who is going to tell if civilian deaths were not a goal of property destruction by bombs and missiles — and thus legitimate? “Oh, we did not mean to kill Gazans, they were just in the way of our missiles — it’s all their fault.” Sure. Is the ICJ gutless? Naïve? Why did they not come out and say “no more killing of Gazans”? And what about the Palestinians in the West Bank? Are they the substitute victims?
Netanyahu declared that Israel’s obligation to its Jewish people was an inherent right, and one he would promote endlessly if need be. He stated that “Israel has an inherent right to defend itself” but he clearly meant that only some residents of Israel had such a right, ignoring that some Palestinians live in Israel – although not for long. So far, America’s reaction continues to support Israel’s war with weapons and attacks on the Houthis of Yemen. Such is our commitment to global peace — and the status quo. Because America obviously believes in global peace — after it has aligned all its supporters and intimidated all its opponents.
Are we taking bets on when Israel will extend its western border to the Mediterranean, encompassing the Gaza Strip?
I share your sentiments, but the world is moving very slowly and methodically because Israel is a nuclear power, with global delivery systems and a policy to use them on everybody if the government is about to fall, the "Samson Option".
The economy will keep getting worse and worse, and the shipping more and more constrained, and Israel gets and sends everything by ship, and just a little by air.
Slowly slowly starving the Israeli economy, and slowly peeling away the US support, despite the political power of the Zionist lobby in the US. A whole lot will change in the world in 2024, I think. I just can't predict it in any detail at all. It is all contested.
The rest of the world holds the better long-term hand. Those of us within the empire should expect our needs to get harder and harder to meet. I grow vegetables, bicycle well, and don't have debt to banks. That makes me more secure than most, but my wife is a school librarian and I collect Social Security. There's no real security there if the US goes into turmoil.
The "ruling" puppets in the US do not serve us at all, quite the contrary. I would like to see them broadly replaced with non-elites who rise (somehow) to the occasion. To get money out of politics may mean the collapse of money...
Thank you for your candor!! Figuring out the possible future is hard, let alone trying to fnd a place that is "safe" (whatever that might mean)
We're on the same page. I lead a simple life. Treat people with kindness. Read the Bible daily. Try my best to apply the council. I'm envious of no man. Harbor no grudge towards anyone. Enjoy the "little things", which I revear with wonder. Hope and pray for God's will to be done on earth as in heaven.
Indeed, and all of that is an entire way of living and seeing "reality".
:-)
John
One commenter at the Craig Murray blog (www.craigmurray.org.uk ) made the valuable point that it is pretty impossible for the ICJ to order a ceasefire, as ordering a ceasefire means ordering both parties in the civil war to cease fire and the court only has jurisdiction to give orders to the court protagonists i.e. South Africa and Israel. It does not have any ability currently to judge on Hamas activities as Hamas has not been brought before the ICJ.
So thinking logically, what the court has ordered is pretty much as far as it can go, given the case it was actually trying.
My understanding from reading is that the ICJ can order a ceasefire and peacekeeping troops, but cannot administrate those orders. I may well be wrong.
In the current climate, all parties except Israel would be expected to fully cooperate with humanitarian aid, opening of the blockade against Palestine, and massive rebuilding efforts.
Everybody else wants to be the good-guys on the world stage.
Israel was created for one purpose only... WAR.
The third World War
"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. "
You will find that if you ask a psychopath if they can please stop killing people... they will laugh at you and continue their evil work.
Only by the threat of death they will stop.
Maybe Israel was more created-over-time to pose the positional threat of war, and spread division among the people who live over oil. Both Israel and Saudi Arabia were essentially "created" by the British Empire, and both were heavily managed, especially through the rising hegemon, the US.
Oil was proven to be the master-resource by WW-2.
So defeat both sides...
Energy from water.
Been saying that all along.
https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/a-revolution-of-ideas
It is challenging to plan for landing on your feet. I am single with SS. I expect to be ravaged by my govt - how they care for me!. I want a garden but rent with no place to garden. Hope springs eternal.
Living somewhere that was a successful farming town after WW-1, where the weather does not try too hard to kill people, and there is still good local infrastructure, is a good baseline. Having family there is important, if possible, so that is all very narrow in the end.
I have no family. I was raised in CA and VA, that's all I know. Yes, weather that does not try too hard makes sense. My heart is in CA. But no family. I have some fantasies of a home and garden near where I live now. I want to design a building that is safe from EMR and can survve the ossacional wildfire. And drought. Nothing like being short of water during a fire.
Water is problematic in most of California, though weather is usually mild. People may become more problematic.
I'd do comparative searches of these 3 maps and then research "organic-prepper" groups to cone down better:
Google map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/California/@38.7251472,-121.0715528,9z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x808fb9fe5f285e3d:0x8b5109a227086f55!8m2!3d36.778261!4d-119.4179324!16zL20vMDFuN3E?hl=en&entry=ttu
Rainfall map: https://www.eldoradoweather.com/californiaannualprecip.html
Elevation map (Elevation is good and also channels water runoff): https://www.pinterest.com/pin/274297433538688364/
I Googled Lake Tahoe agriculture: https://agriculturalwithdrlindsay.com/tag/lake-tahoe/
https://www.edcgov.us/Government/ag
https://ntcd.org/urban-agriculture/
https://www.localharvest.org/south-lake-tahoe-ca/farms
I am skeptical about Necons giving away the oil in Iraq and minerals that were mapped by the US in Afghanistan to China to develop. I am skeptical of Russia as it does seem like the Atlanticist faction is not very much interested in winning their dirty little war but very happy with their efforts to bind themselves to China. I read Perestroika Deception and New Lies For Old regarding the thriving of communism and Russia moving towards one red clenched fist. The totalitarian system is running the world. And warfare builds the NWO.
We'll see. I can't tell what WILL happen. I think it is not worked-out in reality yet, and there are so many disparate plans for this biggest-economic-downturn-ever.
Let the world wage war and the Cannon Kings are happy with their decision to take over after the wars. I do not think there needs to be a vast plan. A few people are planning and using their machines to game outcomes and not planning ahead past mass death and destruction. I’m thinking that the Technique is in charge and people in power may have opinions about what Technique should work best but no disagreement about One Global Raj.
I think that one world government can't be sustained as energy available declines. We'll see.
Dr. John in your estimation if global population was greatly reduced to 1.6 billion as in 1900 is there enough energy to go around for Empire? If no, 1804 is 1 Billion, is this enough to allow global Empire?
There is no going back to those prior situations in history. The ways of living have been lost. The human and animal energy and farms are mostly lost, though not everywhere. India has a lot of that, but so many people...
To have more levels of complexity in complex systems, more energy is required. The world is in energy decline, but unevenly. The neoliberal economic model is wasteful and cancerous, which is an advantage in certain situations, but those times are past now. It will collapse dramatically due to starvation of its high metabolic needs.
The plans for VRICS+ are distributed at one level down from that, nationalism with respect of borders. Theoretically, that should be more efficient, and should buy a good decade for many countries to restructure out of neo-imperialism.
Further energy declines will require further re-localization.
This will be a long and stepped energy decline. There's lots of dirty coal, but it's not cheap to mine, either. Oil will decline first. Natural gas is spotty in locations, so pipelines are a strategic asset, like the one not yet built from Iran's Pars gas field to Europe.
There is not enough to pillage to support the pillagers going forward.
All the elite hopes seem to be on "efficiencies" chip-controlling all the survivors.
That is a severe form of evil.
;-(
Thank you for this insight. I think alongside your ideas. I wrap my thought around the death and injury by the Covid paradigm that continues. In San Francisco Trader Joe's clerks mask. Mask optional is the new normal. Vaccination propaganda everywhere. So I wonder you know about the slope of deaths. The City has lost 26% of it's population of 2020. It is an expensive town and jobs are few and people move away but deaths are not easy to pin on Covid interventions. My commute to work by a bus is 20 minutes and pre-pandemic it would be 45 minutes due to traffic. So my energy idea is that from a narrow view the elites decided their civilization would be best with one billion. The energy freed up is say that used by 5 billion people.
Bronson Battersby. Bronson Battersby. Dear dear Bronson Battersby. My tears. My gut. My god the gnostics are right.... Dennis. Boston
Good opening synopsis John.
Thanks Amigo. Things are all over the place right now.
Debt Rattle alright
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyEunQW2TIU Los Terapeutas – Candombe Del No Sé Quién Soy - Side B Pause, accidental find, you may find nice....quite upbeat
Sort of reminds me of Goao Gilberto.
:-)
"Gilbert Doctorow interview and transcript on Ukrainian shoot-down or Russian plane carrying Ukrainian POWs for prisoner-exchange. I think this plane crash is extremely important because of what it says about the government in in Kiev, who is running it, and for what purpose."
_________________
Hmmn, … key words in above: "who is running it, and for what purpose”.
This war was not triggered by Ukraine, … and subsequently run by Ukraine to start with, but by forces external to. And so, I do believe Doctorow’s ending speculations of who done it ( shoot-down Russian airplane) are most likely not correct. In fact, I suspect it’s more correctly, who insisted on it to be done! But that’s just me…
Now, addressing the last word in above, "purpose", … What is the purpose of this act? Again, answer - at least to me - is prolonging this war, and I don’t believe that too many Ukrainians - including most of those in Kiev - wish to have this war much, much longer prolonged! But that’s me again, … just musing out loud.
Best,
F.S.
Thoughtful points, my Canadian-brother. Driving the convertible much lately?
Well, we all know the root causes of the whole tragedy! This will not any time soon, … "The Thucydides Trap” - classic entrapment, … and this time we are witnessing triad, and I don’t mean three notes stacked vertically in thirds!
As to "convertible", … yes, we had quite a warm end of December / early January stretch - as high as +18C - 'definitely convertible time!' - and shortly after, … a low of -34C starting January 11th and few days after. Last two days, however, we are up to +6C mid-day and further prognostication for the next few days is +double-digit C.
Anyway, what do you know, I actually do own a convertible, too - ‘04 Miata - besides my ‘10 Honda Fit Sport. I know, … car fetish! I drive my Miata only in the summer. You know, salt, gravel, ice control chemicals on all roadways, … all not very kind to old cars!
… only very best,
F.S.
Miatas are good little cars, but I always thought they needed a 6-port 13-B rotary motor in them :-) I used to like to hot rod Wankles in the 1980s when it was still cheap. I did remember that you had a Miata too , somehow.