The US has grown accustomed to being in first place in all things. This comfort zone has been purchased at a dear price: we basically sold our own futures for this boon. The healthcare debate, like the military war spending debate, is conducted on the premise that we have access to infinite credit and the only matter is, on what do we lavish our good fortune. The idea that the day will dawn when we will have no more credit, doesn’t enter anyone’s mind except for a small group of rather noisy but ignored, online commentators. Most of whom also yelled in the past about the credit bubble.
At the end of a very, very stormy day here on my mountain, this was the Gift of the Gods and Goddesses: a rainbow.
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Once again, I wish to address the subject of ‘free trade.’ This is a noxious term. There is no such thing as ‘free trade’ in history. Any country attempting this ideology was destroyed. There are many ways one can look at history. For example, we could do the ‘acts of leadership’ sort of history. This is when we look at the deeds and writings of various kings, queens, emperors, lords and military leaders like Napoleon. We think they issue decrees and this is called ‘ruling’. Only decrees are meaningless unless put into action. But if we look at these same leaders with a full understanding of the economic forces at work which constrain actions and drive entire populations into various directions, we can see which force is greater.
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The greatest force of them all is, as with all populations of any organisms on earth, Mother Nature. How much rain falls, the air currents, the temperature of the oceans, the ocean currents, the movements of tectonic plates, the energy levels of the sun, where our solar system is in relation to the Milky Way galaxy and where our galaxy is in relation to all other galaxies: all of this and more, are drivers of history.
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For example, if we are suddenly plunged into another series of ice ages, this will overrule all social systems, governments and civilizations. If the planet has increased desertification, this will dictate economic and political events. Slight shifts in the jet stream can cause economic collapses and social chaos. Volcanic eruptions can destroy armies marching tens of thousands of miles away thanks to changes in the atmosphere.
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Mother Nature can create global warming or cooling as easily as flipping a switch. Just one major caldera event can make greater changes in our stratosphere than any number of human actions. But enough of fatalism! We know that this is all about death, anyway. Which is a major theme here. Humans fear death. And believe in magic. We hope the ‘gods’ would keep our status quo or make things better for us. We even throw temper tantrums, when things don’t work out the way we desire. This is why the details of how we petition various endless gods is as unstable as the weather.
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On Friday, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist suggested that the Lord has no problem with the Sunshine State. .
Crist said he wasn’t trying to take credit, the Associated Press is reporting, but he told a group of real estate agents on Friday that he had had prayer notes placed in Jerusalem’s Western Wall each year of his administration, and no major storms had hit Florida. He noted that just before his election in 2006, Florida had been affected by a total of eight hurricanes in 2004 and 2005. .
“Do you know the last time it was we had a hurricane in Florida?” Crist asked, according to the AP. “It’s been awhile. In 2007, I took my first trade mission. Do you know where I went?”
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This sort of infantilism is hilarious and revealing. People tell me, they pray to this god, saying, ‘Thy will be done,’ but this is obviously false. All humans, when random chance and natural forces are not killing things, will claim this lack of death is due entirely to prayers to various incurious gods. These gods supposedly control all events and thus, can be bribed or petitioned to not kill. This is a very powerful force in our brains. I suspect, it is very much attached to being descendants of populations that learned to worship fires created by lightning. Only later, did these proto-humanoids figure out how to generate fire without lightning.
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We have no idea, how many generations of proto-humans struggled to keep fires going via tending them religiously. I do mean this most seriously. That is, organisms that didn’t tend the accidental fires very carefully, would LOSE their fires and either have to steal or beg it from other clans that did keep their own fires going. Many religions are based on ‘eternal fires’ which have to be sacred or kept burning no matter what. To tend these fires meant the controllers had to be very special and quite focused.
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Usually, these people were the older members of the clans. To remind themselves of their own duties as well as to gather personal power which protected these proto-fire guardians, they threw a mantle of magic over this whole business. Perhaps, this is the origin of true language. And the handing down of important information/stories. But today, it is laughable that the Governor of Florida dares to suggest the state was spared recent hurricanes due to prayer. The ocean/air currents have been sheering off the tops of Gulf hurricanes for the last 2 years. When this shifts, the hurricanes will be even worse than before due to ocean warming. The world’s oceans are warmer than ever.
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We are in the middle of two days and two nights worth of violent storms due to Hurricane Bob which is a huge hurricane. It will probably hit Nova Scotia and then sail rapidly across the Atlantic, disrupting shipping and is supposed to hit Scotland and Norway with huge waves and lots of violent winds. Are the people of Arcadia or Scotland evil? Do they deserve this? And ditto, Bermuda? What sort of goofy god is this, that delivers Florida, one of the places that is responsible for the effects of the real estate bubble, while punishing Nova Scotia, which didn’t do this stupid thing?
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Now, on to more queer things that interest me greatly. The Chinese created this energy portal that is hidden from view but bodies can pass through:
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‘Hidden Portal’ Concept Described: First Tunable Electromagnetic Gateway
In the research paper, the researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Fudan University in Shanghai describe the concept of a “a gateway that can block electromagnetic waves but that allows the passage of other entities” like a “‘hidden portal’ as mentioned in fictions.”
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The gateway, which is now much closer to reality, uses transformation optics and an amplified scattering effect from an arrangement of ferrite materials called single-crystal yttrium-iron-garnet that force light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation in complicated directions to create a hidden portal.
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All my childhood, I wanted this power. I would stand in front of a wall with my hand out and would stare at the stones and try to insinuate my own atomic structure so it would pass through the atoms of the stone wall. I wanted to disembody and then reform after passing through solid objects. Well, this Chinese magic trick mimics the idea of this sort of wall passage. Of course, they have a real hole in the wall and then disguise it. This also reminds me of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’: Polonius hides behind the arras to spy on Hamlet. And is stabbed to death.
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All systems have these sorts of concealed holes. Madoff operated one such hole where he could steal money but make it look as if he wasn’t stealing money. The Derivatives Beast is also a portal to infinity. This is where bankers have fake insurance against losses so they can lend to infinity. This is why our economic systems collapsed. Then, there is free trade. This has so many concealed holes, it is Swiss cheese and Swiss banking is one of the many concealed portals that are designed to drain wealth from one sector and move it to another. All the British pirate islands are concealed portals, too.
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Congress has concealed portals whereby bribes are secretly moved between people so the laws can be perverted. All social systems have these hidden portals. Detecting these and then arresting the criminals using these is important. NOT CHAOS. A number of people think, if we have no governments, no civic systems, no rules or regulations, there will be no problems. Instead, this will mean we have continuous criminal actions in the open. No need for invisible portals when one can simply rule via killing and looting openly!
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Free trade interests me because it is key to the collapse of empires. The US is collapsing. The impending chaos scares people and at the same time, the same people scared of this impending chaos think they can best deal with it by killing off the empire, the state and all forms of rational government. This is like fixing an illness by chopping off the head of the patient.
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Since all systems are inherently corrupt, we have to look to Libra: she recognizes that there is no black or white but instead, grey. Balancing all forces is important. When we realize we are straying off the meridian, we adjust course. This is how we drive cars. No blindly or ignoring traffic or weather. We correct our direction and speed so we can reach various destinations without being killed. And lots of people fail in this and are killed! This is an ongoing problem when driving. It is not mindless. It takes great care. The Federal Reserve claims, they are driving the car for us in economics. And even said they do this with a blacked-out windshield!
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Well, we better clean it off and take a good look! And what do we see? A sea of red ink. And fixing this is important. And the people running things don’t want to fix this and they want us to run around, being scared of contrails, a very, very, very minor, tiny, infinitesimal worry. I get hounded by people who are scared of their own shadows. And yet, claim they want to challenge the Real Rulers! And at the same time, elevate the supposed power of the Real Rulers to higher levels than GODS!!!
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Talk about insane! The powers of these rulers is tiny compared to the powers of Mother Nature. Or Lady Luck. Or Libra, for that matter! We can only try to understand Nature and cooperate with Her. We have zero chance in influencing luck. Luck happens. It is random chance coupled with natural forces. But Libra: we can influence Her! We can emulate Her! In emulating Her, we discover the power of balance: balancing the books, balancing acts, balancing balls on our noses, standing upright and not falling over! What a wonder that is.
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Balanced people can influence history. So can radicalism. Radical ‘free trade’ has utterly destroyed the economic balance of international trade, for example. This radical ideology has destroyed the British Empire and is now destroying the US empire. Radicalism of all types is by definition, dangerous. I want things to be functional and rational, not emotional and hysterical. I don’t want to see people killed because they won’t toe various ideological belief systems. I want the Age of Enlightenment to return. The Age of Reason. Not the Age of Hysterical Fear or the Apocalypse.
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Below is a website that seeks to do a timeline of free trade:
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Until 1887, the United States was a relatively passive and highly protectionist country within the international economy. U.S. trade policy was nonnegotiable and nondiscriminatory and characterized by high tariffs. By the late nineteenth century, this policy complicated efforts of export oriented sectors that sought to gain access to foreign markets. From the late 1880s, U.S. administrations identified opportunities that the international economy offered these interest groups and attempted to facilitate the expansion of exports on the basis of reciprocity and conditional MFN treatment. But Congress, dominated by powerful Republican protectionists such as Senators Nelson Aldrich and Reed Smoot, remained opposed to trade liberalization on principle. Before World War I, U.S. administrations from Grover Cleveland to Woodrow Wilson focused on export expansion. This was possible because Britain adhered to free trade even as America and Germany challenged and surpassed it in economic productivity and output.
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And here it is!!! HAHAHA. Britain had free trade while the US and Germany overran and overwhelmed the UK by being MORE PRODUCTIVE while also being MORE PROTECTIVE!!! Somehow, this doesn’t amaze me. What amazes me is how this website, for example, can’t see the obvious. This timeline was written by pro-free trade idiots who obviously cannot read what they write. Or at least, are blind to the obvious meanings of words.
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That is, the United States could continue to enjoy the benefits of Britain’s free-trade policy without compromising its own protectionist policy. Yet the United States had limited success in gaining access to major overseas markets. Indeed, after World War I, the United States and its trading partners raised barriers to trade, exacerbating the financial and commercial imbalances created by the war. Both reciprocity and MFN treatment— conditional or unconditional—proved to be poor instruments of trade liberalization as long as U.S. markets remained closed to competing goods from overseas……
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Golly! The US was doing, back then, 100 years ago, exactly what South Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, etc. are doing today. And at every level, this model fits perfectly. That is, the open and concealed protections set up by Asian powers are WORKING. They keep out US production and exports while flooding the US with their own production. How amazing is this? It is as if all of Asia has this hole in the wall which free trade ideologists in the US cannot see. It is invisible. But all the wealth and trade passes through this concealed portal!
. …With the introduction of a statutory minimum-maximum tariff schedule in the 1909 Payne-Aldrich tariff, U.S. trade negotiators held that the minimum rates in effect constituted unconditional MFN treatment as Europeans practiced it. Although the executive branch did not renounce conditional MFN treatment, and therefore remained technically free to alter policy, State Department officials were determined to use the minimum-maximum provisions in the act to embed the nondiscrimination principles of the Open Door policy in trade policy. Trade liberalizers in the executive branch adopted this approach to gain access to overseas markets and to attract the support of agricultural and export manufacturing interests as allies in the battle for a more liberal trade policy.
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The administrative features of the Payne-Aldrich Act, including its establishment of the Tariff Board, also enabled trade agreements to be hammered out within the executive branch, independent of Congress and largely free from public scrutiny. Unfortunately for trade liberalizers, the system proved rigid in operation, because Congress successfully resisted lowering U.S. minimum rates to European levels. Conditional MFN also remained in place…. .
It is much, much cheaper to bribe Presidents than all of Congress. Indeed, the only entity that has managed to do this is the alien AIPAC organization. Now, why would the free traders want to be ‘free from public scrutiny’? HAHAHA. That is the key! They need to operate in the dark. So they opened a secret portal to the Presidency. This way, they enter and exit via the Oval Office and no one can trace their passage to see what they have done. And what they wanted to do and have done is, open trade totally wide so they could profit at the expense of the US wage earners and taxpayers.
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….After World War I, Republican Congresses and administrations rejected reciprocity altogether and reestablished protectionism. In this context, Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes used the equality-of-treatment clause in section 317 of the 1922 Fordney-McCumber Act to put U.S. trade policy on an unconditional MFN footing. But this failed to increase international economic cooperation, since Congress also precluded any liberalization of the tariff in the act….
. From 1923 to 1930, the State Department negotiated trade treaties with forty-three countries; twenty-one of them contained unconditional MFN clauses. Nonetheless, in the context of the financial chaos and the payments imbalances created by world war and the postwar Versailles settlement, important markets such as Canada, Britain, France, and Germany increasingly shut their doors to U.S. exports. .
U.S. trade negotiators had little to offer any country that accepted unconditional MFN treatment and equal treatment for U.S. exports. The Fordney-McCumber Act raised the average tariff on dutiable items some 38 percent and on all imports to an average of almost 14 percent. This was lower than the average rate of the Dingley tariff. Yet the new tariff granted more protection than its 1897 predecessor, since Congress also instructed the executive branch to adjust duties by up to 50 percent to equalize production costs between home and foreign manufactured products. Moreover, the act redefined dumping to include any product imported at a price below the U.S. cost of production (rather than the producers’ own costs). In addition, Congress allowed the president to strip MFN status from any country that discriminated against American products or dumped goods into the U.S. market. The tariff now effectively excluded all competing goods…… .
There was this depression. Prices and wages were dropping. Now, is this time to open markets so domestic workers must compete with dropping wages and dropping prices? Obviously, not. This is a KEY DISPUTE. The dogma in the US school system is, protectionism is evil and open door trade is good.
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When Britain hammered open China’s front door, did China get richer and stronger after 1850? Or weaker? The answer is obvious: China DISINTEGRATED. And was thoroughly looted. And this destruction was immense and lasted for generations. Not one or two but for over 100 years! Imagine us being in chaos until 2100? Free trade killed the Chinese empire. The British Empire exploited cheap Chinese labor and used it to keep British labor cheap. The British ideology was very, very anti-socialist to the point, Germany’s socialist system nearly wiped out the UK not once but twice in less than 25 years. Only the US saved the British.
. U.S. trade policy under the Fordney-McCumber Act, together with congressional insistence that allies repay their war loans to the U.S. Treasury, undermined international efforts to stabilize and reconstruct the post–World War I international system. Rather than assume the mantle of global leadership as Britain’s economic power waned, the Republican administrations of Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover relied on private capital flows to ameliorate the payments imbalances created by war debts and reparations. These flows ultimately proved insufficient to overcome the foreign economic policy of these administrations.
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The US had absolutely no reason to reconstruct the international system Britain and France wanted. Namely, both Britain and France sucked in even more colonies and provinces into their empires AFTER WWI. And they wanted us to bankroll this! When the US tried, both empires dumped ever-increasing loads of messes onto the US banking system, seeking loans to keep their fragile empires afloat! And the Germans had no empire but were determined to create a third empire, the Third Reich of Hitler!
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Both the UK and French empires were bankrupt after WWI. Both refused to fold. Both wanted to be even bigger empires. Both needed vast seas of credit to do this. Both bear a great deal of responsibility for the ensuing messes this desire for vast empires created. Now, on to today’s news. China has rebuilt itself after the horrors of free trade destroyed the previous Chinese empire:
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China: The new Big Oil – Aug. 17, 2009
Over the past few months, the Chinese government — or its big government-controlled oil firms — have closed or floated a slew of deals in countries all over the world. These deals have expanded the nation’s oil reach and may one day position the nation to match the skills of western oil firms. .
The deals include a $10 billion loan the Chinese government extended to Russia’s Rosneft in exchange for a guaranteed cut of that company’s production. The Chinese have also gotten in tight with Brazil’s Petrobras, arranging a similar deal with the firm that is developing a huge new offshore field – one of the biggest new discoveries in decades. .
But it doesn’t end with loans. Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that China National Petroleum Corporation is interested in buying all or a part of Argentina’s YPF for $14.5 billion, although a deal is far from certain. .
In Africa, CNOOC and Sinopec are buying a $1.3 billion stake in offshore Angolan development rights from American oil firm Marathon. Angola has recently overtaken Nigeria as Africa’s biggest oil producer, and is one of Exxon Mobil’s (XOM, Fortune 500) favorite countries to invest in. .
And rumors are swirling that the China National Petroleum Corporation will take the majority stake in Iraq’s Rumaila oilfield from BP (BP). Rumaila produces over 1 million barrels a day, and is Iraq’s biggest oil field.
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The US buys oil by asking China for loans. Our empire is kept afloat by the Chinese lending and China runs the biggest trade surplus with the US. And our empire is on the verge of bankruptcy. And China is now aggressively resetting world markets not to be ‘free’ or ‘open’ but to be flowing to China, NOT to the US. And we sit here, passive? Instead of treating oil as a precious resource we must use carefully, we are wasting it.
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And the useless, goofy ‘clunckers for cash’ deal used up $3 billion in Chinese loans! And produced very little for the US. It only expanded our trade deficit as Asia exported cars to the US during this fire sale! Misunderstanding history means, applying the wrong solutions to very real problems. And we aren’t even tackling the issue of climate hazards created by humans! Not to mention, all goofy, silly things that seem to be bedeviling much of the ‘conspiracy’ side of the road! Anyone who hates the concept of ‘government’ will have a wonderful time, coping with chaos. I strongly suggest reading the history of China in the 19th century. It is grim reading, very grim. And trust me, the Chinese know this history by heart.
Today’s sunset had the entire West afire.
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nice editorial and view p0int,, so many good points to mention.
for the structure of what is happening
goofy being an operative word. lol
the fire in the west was a grand final..
Nice work Elaine!
You hit the free trade myth hard and often.
If nothing else, you owe it to your trading partners to be able to manage your balances in maintaining your credit worthiness.
If a nation cannot protect it’s internal quality of life by providing “fair trade” then it is whoring out it’s people to work cheaper than anyone else.
The wealth gap keeps increasing only because those with real wealth and their gang control our monetary system.
Please keep hitting “free trade” – we need fair trade!
Larry
I know the difficulty of competing with the Chinese and the exchange currency games that make it almost impossible. While it’s true that a slew of cheap imports allowed the middle class to live the illusion of debt based “wealth”, it was in fact an advance payment for the liquidation of the very foundation of our societies wealth…manufacturing.
School kids laugh at the manhattan purchase..obtaining the valuable property for beads and trinkets, but it’s no different than what we just did over the last decade.
we are waking up with a groggy debt hangover that may never go away.
Good analogy, Jim D.
The Chinese are reportedly going to invest in US mortgages which brings to mind the Japanese real estate investments in the US in the early 90′s, except then they purposely inflated for income tax evasion purposes. The Chinese it would seem are gambling, a characteristic of their ethnicity. http://tinyurl.com/mdhu2v
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The more things change the more they stay the same. Except now pretty much everyone with a brain is on to the manipulation and corruption in the private banking, housing, stock market, etc. etc., ad infinitum. Marc Faber explains it well, and his timing is impeccable: http://tinyurl.com/ngeezu
” A number of people think, if we have no governments, no civic systems, no rules or regulations, there will be no problems. Instead, this will mean we have continuous criminal actions in the open. No need for invisible portals when one can simply rule via killing and looting openly!”
Conclusion asserted does not follow from hypothesis presented. Logic errors abound.
1) Having not seen a patrolcar or policeman in the last week, I feel it necessary to rob rape and murder today? My neighbours likewise?
2) Not having a govt of whores articulate sin, peacefully smoking a well manufactured, quality controlled MaryJaneDoobie in the open would not be a crime. Making living arrangements among adults as suits those adults would not be illegal. Loving who you want when you want would not be a crime ( as long as you didn’t frighten the horses ).
3) It is only because humans go from social interatction to armed govt that rapine, theft and legalized murder occurs.
4) None of us who articulate for 0 govt have ever stated that there will be no problems, it is human there will be problems. We do suggest that problems solved on the basis of mutual gain lead to better results than problems solved because one side has the right to kill the other.
5) Your understanding of trade is surprisingly flawed. If one were to follow your suggestions, NY would be instituting tariffs against PA Corn and whiskey. And PA would institute counter tariffs against NY magazines and maple syrup.
Interesting site you chose to do the merkin foreign policy from, another wiki. Another agenda.
Enjoy your postings, CK, however ..
Your understanding of trade is surprisingly flawed. If one were to follow your suggestions, NY would be instituting tariffs against PA Corn and whiskey. And PA would institute counter tariffs against NY magazines and maple syrup.
.. neither does this conclusion follow the hypothesis very well.
The anti-free-trade position taken by Elaine, is, I presume, intended as protection for Americans. The states have a commonwealth trade arrangement, which by and large, ensures a common standard of living among participating states.
The internationalist free-trade agenda should, eventually, arrive at a similar arrangement amongst the nations.
The problem with this is that the averaging of global living standards will inevitably result in a downgrading of the average American’s standard of living. Or to put this another way, the much-touted race to the bottom.
Now, I don’t mind so much that everything is gonna be made by the cheapest labor possible. If only we could also find some cheaper replacements for the obscenely overpaid morons in DC.
Actually, the states within the united states have a common fiat currency. So intra state trade has minimal effect on local standards of living and allows each state to proliferate at whatever its agricultural endowment encourages. In a gold standard world, free trade works because gold is a universal currency; in a one currency world, free trade works for the same reason free trade works within the US, within China, within Russia. In a world of nation states, with Sovereign fiat currencies, free trade does not work. In a world where one nation’s currency becomes the tradereserve currency, that nation must inevitable become a huge debtor … when there is no means of discipline to the flow of debt, debt will proliferate.
The logical development is that production will be moved to wherever the components of production have the lowest marginal cost.
For things with huge uneducated labour input ( pyramids, ditches, highways ) the production of same will be moved to wherever there are huge reserves of uneducated labour. For those things that need an educated labour input to go with a capitol input, the things will be produced wherever the labour cost is lowest because the capital cost is basically constant across nations. ( When I say capital cost, I do not just mean the interest rate on borrowing, but also the associated costs and bribes and taxes and fees and politcal purchases necessary to emply capital in the various political entities ) So production that requires some degree of education within the workforce moves to China, Vietnam, Central Europe where the educational attainments are similar to or better than what is available domestically and the hourly costs are lower. The production does not move to Africa or south america even though the educational attainments may be similar because the extraneous costs to do business within these entities outweights any labour savings.
It does not require a high tech labour force to make high tech items. But the availability of high tech items leads to improved tech for those countries that have lower marginal cost labour. Ta Da they win.
If the US dollar had not been made the reserve trading currency, the US would not be in the stupid debt trap that it currently enjoys. And while there would have been outsourcing thanks to the internet and the Zirp, the outsourcing would not have been so rapid, so prevalent and so vivisectionist of the economy.
There is this terrible war between the states! States that have little to no worker protections or social services can undersell states within the US that do have these things. The ‘race to the bottom’ is also internal.
This is unfortunately also connected with the flood of people migrating to low wage/ LOW WATER states. Which is stressing the systems out tremendously. It is doomed to collapse unless something smart is done about this population transfer.
1. Tesla was a genius.
2. He invented AC power that was much better then Edison’s DC system.
3. He also invented electromagnetic directed energy weapons that could impact the ionosphere.
I won’t waste much more time talking about technical science here (bldg 7, etc) but anyone interested in how this technology could be used to potentially create earthquakes or create holes in the ionosphere and kill with gamma radiation might want to read the patents to that affect discussed in this book. It also discusses these dimensional portals mentioned above.
If you want to invest a feeble amount of energy researching, google ‘chinese earthquake rainbows’ for pictures of the sky over China right before the big earthquake there. electromagnetic rainbows.
I will even write the response any official agents can copy and paste into the comments.
“this is crazy. the ruling elite don’t want to control the weather; they are scared of it etc.”
without prejudice. all rights reserved.
The half-life of the residues after a HAARP sneak attack on other nations is measured in seconds. Much cheaper, much more profitable than all those super scary nukie thingies that aren’t even that efficient as is shown at Nagasaki ( a concrete and steel city not as was Hiroshima a wood and bamboo city).
There is a very major problem with the conspiracy community’s belief systems: all the supposed schemes to kill everyone are exactly the sort of things that will kill EVERYONE. So why on earth would the ‘elites’ do these things? That is, if vaccinations killed everyone, HAARP caused earthquakes, etc. Gads.
Silly, silly, silly! Look, dams can cause earthquakes! Does this mean, the elites build dams so they can have earthquakes?
NO! They build them to produce energy and control water flows in rivers! When governments do ‘chemtrails’ ie: cloud seeding, they do this at the request of the farmers in a drought region! The farmers don’t howl with fear, they applaud this! When they want rain, they want rain.
Down the line we go: if HAARP is so destructive, why would it be applied to destroy? The nuclear bombs and all the germ and other warfare stuff was created to instill fear in our ‘enemies’ but NOT to be used against home populations, indeed, it has become literally impossible to use these things aggressively because we will be annihilated and the ‘elites’ will die with us and if they survive, they will have nothing to live with since civilization will be dead.
They do keep these things to intimidate the unarmed nations. But can’t use these in wars.
ON THE OTHER HAND, when the elites choose to control their own populations, they use clever means, not chemtrails, not bombs in buildings. They use…hold onto your tinfoil hats: the MEDIA! Whooo hoo.
They use education. They also use prisons. They will shoot you if you get too out of line (antiwar demonstrators, for example). But they don’t have to cover the entire sky with clouds to control you.
People who are in the conspiracy community are cut off from all other people because they cannot accept the fact that whole populations support things like ‘let’s pollute the air, we don’t care’ or ‘let’s be Law and Order and build vast prisons’ or ‘let’s go to war against the Afghanis’. These things are POPULAR. They may be less and less popular over time, but the impulse is always popular.
Why are these things popular? Because people like doing these things! People like to kill peasants living in distant lands, especially peasants who have no nuclear bombs! People like to have the rain turned on and off via fiat! People want total control of everything and I do mean ‘people’ in general. Not some spooky elites.
Years ago, I wished that all human populations be confined to space colonies so we could leave this poor planet alone to resume its organic life cycles. If there was an elitist conspiracy, it would be for all humans to be herded off-planet, leaving the very rich and very powerful to dwell in Eden again.
As the great Japanese series, ‘Gundum’ shows clearly, the space colonists will attack the earth’s elites in endless wars using robots and spaceships. This is because Eden isn’t a good military base system. Whereas, space colonies can drop things down on everyone’s heads.
An interesting view of things and the main impulse behind Asia’s race to the moon.
interesting the atomic stories .. well not interesting but sad. truman danced with glee
many do not know that after these savage blows ,, the airforce delivered devastation tokyo other places with brutal bombing killing more than the twin cities attack
How droll is this? Years ago I believed that the Stars would be my destination; that humans would burst forth from this small prison planet and explore the solar system;
that individuals would conquer the moon, settle the planets, mine the asteroids, control the sun, and leave the boundries of this small solar system behind. Oh well, not so much and not so shiny. Maybe you will get your LaGrange point prison cylinders eventually Elaine. Navel gazing, fearful, little, feral creatures humans turned out to be. Scared of the yellow man, scared of the black man, scared of the backside of the moon…how did cowardice become the operative imperative of humanity? How did fear of a fiction become a reality…
CK
August 22, 2009 at 4:23 pm
How droll is this? Years ago I believed that the Stars would be my destination; that humans would burst forth from this small prison planet and explore the solar system;
and this will still be the case,
a poem
This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven,
And I said to my spirit, When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be filled and satisfied then?
my spirit said no . we but level that lift and pass and continue beyound
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 46