Stupid World

[mashman]

[Brian d marge]

Club Orlov has a nice little post last week.......

post http://cluborlov.blogspot.ca/2014/09...dity.html#more

Lovely little ditti for the oldies then.......



Stephen

[mashman]

Lovely little ditti for the oldies then.......

Stephen

Don't post shit like that as you'll drive the ACC hearing aid repair bill through the roof. Much better:

[Brian d marge]

And its not even Xmas yet ......I must get off me arse and see whats in the shops ......

Because these idiots , have finally done it ,,,,,,

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29321136

and we all know who has an agreement with one and the other !


http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...263739,00.html

So we just sit back and see the response


Wot an absolute arsse the warmongering pricks are


but dont worry We get a new Flag , that will fool em !!!




Stephen

with musical background as suggested

[mashman]

I was looking for the article that Iran had recently allowed a chinese warship to dock. Little did I know that whist searching that I'd find some fear that's putting the west and the east in close proximity with each other i.e. syria. The great game of chicken goes on

Have some fear:

[mashman]

"The Israeli army says it has killed two Palestinians suspected of kidnapping and murdering three Israeli teenagers in June."

"We have visual confirmation for one. The second one, we have no visual confirmation, but the assumption is he was killed."

Eh? Is there anyone left that isn't trying to kill someone?

[Brian d marge]

"There is plenty in that for Tony Abbott to emulate: even more so as the scale of the National Party's success is only rivaled by that of Labour's humiliation."
Meanwhile in Israel, the Haaretz newspaper reported that Jewish people in New Zealand would be "relieved" at Key's re-election.
"Jogn Key's government has in the past shown greater sympathy to Israel and the Jewish community than the previous government, and during the most recent conflict with Gaza the foreign affairs department was not very outspoken and was reasonably balanced in their comments," Jewish Federation of New Zealand president Alison Dyson told the paper.


Now that is a surprise.......

Stephen

[Brian d marge]

Jamie want big boom boom

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/us...arms.html?_r=0


Stephen

[yokel]

get ready to say good by to the middle class, and may other things

[Brian d marge]

get ready to say good by to the middle class, and may other things

Middle class went back in the late 80s . .
Sorry to report

[yokel]

Middle class went back in the late 80s . .
Sorry to report

all the wealth in the middle class has been transferred to the elite since the 1950's
I wonder who thinks their kiwisaver will still be there when they retire? haha

[Brian d marge]

America to send up to 3000 troops to help Ebola

Snip
WASHINGTON — Under pressure to do more to confront the Ebola outbreak sweeping across West Africa, President Obama on Tuesday is to announce an expansion of military and medical resources to combat the spread of the deadly virus, administration officials said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/wo...nst-ebola.html

Handy dandy to , can set up a few command centres , ...Help Syria to win the war ...........

Stephen

[Akzle]

America to send up to 3000 troops to help Ebola

yeeeeaaaaa!
bomb the fuck out of that cunt!

o....wait on...

[avgas]

America to send up to 3000 troops to help Ebola

That should really help it.
It keeps running out of stupid Africans to spread, but seems to spread well onto stupid Americans.

But don't worry about the Americans - "God" will save them

[SPman]

Just been reading Dmitry Orlovs "The Five Stages Of Collapse". Interesting stuff.

Stage 1: Financial collapse. Faith in "business as usual" is lost. The future is no longer assumed resemble the past in any way that allows risk to be assessed and financial assets to be guaranteed. Financial institutions become insolvent; savings are wiped out, and access to capital is lost.

Stage 2: Commercial collapse. Faith that "the market shall provide" is lost. Money is devalued and/or becomes scarce, commodities are hoarded, import and retail chains break down, and widespread shortages of survival necessities become the norm.

Stage 3: Political collapse. Faith that "the government will take care of you" is lost. As official attempts to mitigate widespread loss of access to commercial sources of survival necessities fail to make a difference, the political establishment loses legitimacy and relevance.

Stage 4: Social collapse. Faith that "your people will take care of you" is lost, as local social institutions, be they charities or other groups that rush in to fill the power vacuum run out of resources or fail through internal conflict.

Stage 5: Cultural collapse. Faith in the goodness of humanity is lost. People lose their capacity for "kindness, generosity, consideration, affection, honesty, hospitality, compassion, charity" (Turnbull, The Mountain People). Families disband and compete as individuals for scarce resources. The new motto becomes "May you die today so that I die tomorrow" (Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago).

The thing is, ALL civilisations/societies collapse at some point - it's just a matter of when.

The USSR collapse of 1991 got as far as stage 3 before it was pulled back, due to the structure of Russian society more than anything else - when the US goes, it'll probably go all the way (as they tend to do anyway....)


The "Limits to growth" study in 1972, often derided and marginalised, but frequently updated and checked against "progress", still suggests we are on track for societal collapse by mid 21st century. Combined with some predictions of runaway global warming of up to 4C by 2050,

Some reports by the likes of the World Bank, pdfs here, and here , the International Energy Agency and Price Waterhouse Cooper suggest that 4 degrees C of warming above pre-industrial global temperatures could be experienced by as early as 2040-2050 . ( p1 para 4 and 5)

4 degrees warming isn’t an option for us either biologically or in terms of having a civilisation. That level of warming is widely seen within the scientific community as being incompatible with any kind of organised global community. So we have to avoid it. No ‘ifs’ and no ‘buts’.
It could well be an interesting next 30 yrs! What a bugger I won't be around to see it.......