Stacy Summary: Beware those claiming that major weather disasters like the Moscow heatwaves and fires or the Pakistan floods have nothing to do with the economy, markets or finance. Moscow’s July and August weather has not only impacted, for example, the bond market, but also the wheat market. The floods in Pakistan have not only dislocated millions of people and killed 1600, but have also caused great dislocation in agricultural markets where it has caused inflation in prices of local agricultural goods and is expected to cost the nation up to 10% of GDP. And now it has forced the nation to go to the IMF and plead for restructuring; the IMF is central to the global matrix of ne0-liberal finance so this action, too, will cause unknown knock on effects. Many have an ideology that necessitates weather events NOT be reported on, but these two events will have knock on economic, market and geo-political effects for years to come. Black them out of your memory if you must, but it doesn’t mean the costs will disappear.
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a tour-de-force.
http://thedailybell.com/1323/Meme-of-the-Mosque.html
but bedding down the climate chimera as well.
does anyone care? are you tired of shouting into the wind about everything and simultaneously nothing while danger continues to close in?
Russia Today (RT) interviews an AGW skeptic OH NOES…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRRXZ1B5foE
Please spell out what Pakistan’s alternatives are for Johnny come lately’s like myself.
Is it true that a sovereign nation in charge of it’s own Treasury has alternative measures to the loans from the IMF as they haven’t signed the Maastrict treaty?
The terrible thing here besides the 1600 dead is that many of the 17 million displaced will likely lead much shorter lives – many of them children.
Larry
Could it be that the gods are punishing Pakistanis for being hateful toward cartoonists and women?
Forget the IMF.
Pakistan should sell forward to interested parties a small percentage of future coal mining production from the recent discovery in the Thar region of Pakistan, approximately 185 billion tonnes. (This figure does not reflect recoverable quantity.)
Oops, sorry for the odd punctuation. I am typing on a Droid screen.
Its not nice to fool with Mother Nature. Humans have been doing that for quite some time: cut down a forest, and the weather pattern in that area changes. We in California know the rain patterns changed after the redwoods were logged off. It is no surprise to me that the changing weather patterns also affect the economy. Like Chris.Martenson points out, it is the 3 Es…energy, environment and economy. They are all tied together.
in order to articulate the climate phoenomena, it is necessary to put the horse and cart in proper order. the global self-organizing, self-perpetuating, financing-cum-production system birthed and nutured by the fiatocracy is the fountainhead cause of all pollution, misallocation, overproduction, overconsumption, overregulation, overtaxation, decapitalization, tyranny, occupation, selfishness, myopia, desperation, war, misery, and ultimately, destruction. that is the human’s share of responsibility for climate change. a moloch situation if you will…
climate disasters have everything to do with the economy in an after-the-fact way. why should we fix our eyes in that direction? lets be clear about the true nature and trajectory of the fiat economy which is the real cause of global warming or cooling (or whatever). it is the fiat economy itself and it is an on-going process. any law under the fiat economy itself will by definition have one of two outcomes: neutral (i’m not sure about this one) and worse. that’s it. expect nothing else.
the fiatocracy’s unit of account is it’s source of power. to reverse it all in a stroke, to repent if you will, to crush the serpent’s head if you will, the fiat unit of account must be changed to the monetary unit of account. that is, something (and always and everywhere the same thing) objectively verify-able by anyone on sight. we already have an ordained Constitution. now let us give it life.
yes beware of many people telling you many things. but there’s only ONE cure for fiat confusion and by extension global climate whatever. Sir (did Congress approve it or is he in active Violation of Article I Section 9 last paragraph?) Alan G seconds these comments in the last paragraph of his 1966 essay on gold an economic freedom….
“And now it has forced the nation to go to the IMF and plead for restructuring” ??
It must be incredibly loan-ly at the top when your only friend is the not so local IMF banker. It must mean the guys running the country are afraid to go to their citizens ’cause then the citizens might remind the “leadership” how badly the already high taxes have been squandered. IMF is no better than a paycheck loan shop or car title loan shop in the U.S.
One word for you: geoengineering.
“There may be unintended climatic consequences, such as changes to the hydrological cycle including droughts or floods, caused by the geoengineering techniques, but possibly not predicted by the models used to plan them. Such effects may be cumulative or chaotic in nature, making prediction and control very difficult.”
The end result; Pakistan going to the IMF. Brilliant!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering
@Stacy
Nothing wrong with pointing out weather events. It is when you use them to promote the AGW narrative that is dishonest. It is context.
Low sunspot activity combined with La Nina is causing the current weather changes and it portends a colder winter.. will you then blame a colder winter on AGW. Probably…
Why have you never mentioned significant natural climate change factors like La Nina
La Nina – expected through 2011
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.html
Sunspot activity – low
http://www.solarcycle24.com/sunspots.htm
HAARP -> Floods :-> IMF Loan ;-> Privatization of Pakistans Natural Reserve
Question is what Minerals does Pakistan Have ????
Errrrr.
Do economics impact the weather or the weather impacts economics?
seosamhogallunai – Its Caravaggio and everyone else to date.
Many artists are just plain lazy today, and talk bollocks because its easy.
I call it blabbing art it goes with Blab mainstream media, they are mostly funded through art centers that are in turn funded (down the line) by banks and hedge funds – blabbing bollocks art that brown noses the sadists.
Flicksyou may this artist’s work interesting and pretty fearless.
http://www.projectartscentre.ie/archive/archive-va-detail/583-seamus-nolan-
http://www.modernart.ie/en/page_170676.htm
http://acw.ie/comments.php?id=122_0_1_10_C
I want to go to my little grass shack in ‘ol hawaii….
GATA on the mainstream media patronizing cowards :-
http://www.gata.org/node/8953
Dear Stacy and Max,
Thanks for all your great work illuminating the nature of the money-power.
However, regarding climate change, may I suggest that you research HAARP ( along with its connection to the persistent, world-wide aerial spraying of aerosols) and its possible uses as a climate modification weapon. Is it just coincidental that Russia, China and Pakistan have all been hit simultaneously by freak weather? Who benefits? Could it be the same criminals who orchestrated the financial crash?(carnicom.com is a good place to start).
All the best to you both and thanks for sticking to the truth.
regards
John
Step out of line and the good old US of A switches HAARP in your direction. This is the “Climate Change Weapon”. The US has realised it cannot “win” wars by conventional means so you are either zapped by the US Financial Terrorists or you get a dose of HAARP. Or maybe even both.
It’s worth remembering that ‘fear’ is the emotion that keeps most of us compliant.These Neo Liberal types are not the majority of the people who live on the globe. Even a banker ‘friend’ i know sayes with great disconsolation ‘this is the endof Capitalism’. These guys are in ‘the kings new clothes’. It is only our fear, which is stimulated through rigged media that keeps the farce going. What we choose to replace Capitalism with is now the real issue at stake. Shall we allow it be facism or shall we get over our fear and choose a better model of operating affairs in our world?
The real issues, as Stacy righly points ou,t are happening all around us causedby eronious economic models with enourmous consequences in human suffering terms both locally and globally.
@fang
cultural deficit, and quake!! stop SHOUTING you pussy cat. save your anger you’ll needed soon enough.
mae’s fanny – its important curators of important art institutions and important
collectors, influential dealers who give value to art works. As said before they are like a central bank- make money from nothing. Here is one example :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Soutine
Paul Guillaume pushed Soutine’s work and important American collector Albert C. Barnes buys 60 of his works on the spot.
“In February 2006, an oil painting of his controversial and iconic series Le Boeuf Ecorche (1924) sold for a record £7.8 million ($13.8 million) to an anonymous buyer at a Christie’s auction held in London”
PS@ZH: IOU Part Two:
With the growing use of IOUs , it should imply that they’re on their way to using a local currency … which they will not do of course.
However, to me , the “IOU use” is effectively a new local currency.
ZH: IOU Part Two: California To Issue IOUs For Second Year In A Row
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… As a result, it has just passed a measure which for the second time in as many years (going all the way back to the Great Depression), will allow it to use IOUs in lieu of payment on everything from supplies to contracted services and health-care costs, so it can actually preserve cash to make payments to its generous debtors. On the road to banker serfdom, California has once again reached its goal….
…
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/iou-part-two-california-issue-ious-second-year-row
Well thank goodness SOMEONE is bringing us the Miss Universe results.
John Smith: “Either way serfdom is inevitable.”
Only for the fearful and weak-minded. You never know: there just may be one guy in the US left who will stand in front of fascism’s tank. One guy in the US left who will climb up on the troops tank, the fascist’s troops tank, and talk to the driver, and turn him to the Light.
Or maybe one million. Or 10 million. Or 100 million.
Or maybe all it takes is one mother that lost her only son to a illegal occupation and invasion based on lies, and STOOD UP TO FASCISM and SPIT IN IT’s FACE, it it’s HQs: Texas.
Aren’t you as brave as one 50+ year old lady, John? I hope I am.
You DON’T KNOW. Because we do not control the message. But this machine KILLS fascism. Takes the controls away.
Max: work on your server farm idea in Iceland: it may be needed pronto.
However as far as “inevitable serfdom,” well, I be taking notes.
I “took notes” on how the US first secures the airwaves before anything else in it’s Imperial conquests…..I took notes.
I took notes on how some of the Storm Troopers at “Globalization” events in US and Canada (Fascists R Us Anonymous) are hot heads, Like to dive in and swing clubs. Cahse Free Speech advocates threatening violence. Hahahaha: easily culled from the herd….lured. I took notes.
I know jamming signals is not a” legal” form of protest…or is it? If I am opposing those looting my SS Trust Fund, my country’s Treasury, bribing the Regulators, bribing and owning my “representatives”, twisting the ethics and morals of my country to reflect those of an inbred, racist, belligerent and delusional (God gave ME this land!!!!, and tells me every day at 5:00 to go kill some infant in Palestine!!!!)) and zenophobic nation?
The GLOVES COME OFF. You hear that Ron Susstein? OFF…. RON??? RON SUSSTEIN??? DO YOU HEAR farang? F.U. boy!!!!
I can not certify who the Ron-paid propagandists are littering (fouling and shaming America, seems their goal) the internet comment sections. But I know they are there: THEY TOLD US.
I KNOW Megaphone is too..THEY TOLD US. Hubris. Hahahaha, keep laying in on you clowns, keep laying it on.
You just never know, Mr. Smith, you never know….not all were raised with the serf attitude.
@flicks
If the auctioneer sets min. bidding at 150000, it must be at least worth that.
seems there is also a parallel cultural deficit along side economic deficit.
Mexico won the miss universe title. Isn’t it arrogant to declare some one the most beautiful in the whole universe?
BTW 6.1 quake in mexico.
@flicks
If the auctioneer sets min. bidding at 150000, it must be at least worth that.
seems there is also a parallel cultural deficit along side economic deficit.
Mexico won the miss universe title. Isn’t it arrogant to declare some one the most beautiful in the whole universe?
BTW 6.1 quake in mexico
Saw a headline stating “Thousands of fish turn up dead at mouth of the Mississippi” and immediately wondered: wil they attempt to even TRY to misdirect from the BP disaster.
Is the pope German?
Yes, MoFo, “JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS!!!” you dildo:
Mon Aug 23, 7:33 pm ET
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) – Thousands of fish have turned up dead at the mouth of Mississippi River, prompting authorities to check whether oil was the cause of mass death, local media reports said Monday.
The fish were found Sunday floating on the surface of the water and collected in booms that had been deployed to contain oil that leaked from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Times-Picayune reported.
“By our estimates there were thousands, and I’m talking about 5,000 to 15,000 dead fish,” St Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro was quoted as saying in a statement.
He said crabs, sting rays, eel, drum, speckled trout and red fish were among the species that turned up dead.
Taffaro said there was some recoverable oil in the area, and officials from the state’s wildlife and fisheries division were sampling the water.
But he added, “We don’t want to jump to any conclusions because we’ve had some oxygen issues by the Bayou La Loutre Dam from time to time.”
Stacy, you can’t make this shit up. Oil washing up on the beach, and they are being careful “not to jump to any conclusions” on why fish, shrimp, crabs etc. are belly up.
Makes me ashamed to say I am a southern American.
Banks and the art world – no regulation in the art world. Don’t artists just love to trash themselves by getting brought up by these repulsive abusers .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/7958752/Lehman-Brothers-art-auction-offers-glimpse-into-the-secret-world-of-corporate-collecting.html
It’s all too easy. If they don’t screw you through manipulation of your economy, they’ll manipulate your climate. Or both. Either way serfdom is inevitable.
The inflexion point for mass dissent will be an inflation in the price of chocolate cake.