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8 Things Sleep Experts Do in the Morning After a Poor Night's Sleep

Why Woke Organizations All Sound the Same. Understanding the sociology of institutions

Canada’s ‘expert’ panel recommends the mentally ill be candidates for euthanasia

When Caucasians Cut Rugs: Dance School Boots Ballet Because It's Wickedly White

Monkeypox: What You Actually Need to Know

Forget Jill Biden’s Stupid Taco Quip—There’s Much Worse

When Will They Figure Out That Reducing U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Is Pointless?

Joe Manchin didn't kill the Democrats' climate agenda

Referring to the internal dynamics at CAP, Teixera comments: “It’s just cloud cuckoo land.”

People Really, Really Do Not Want to Work for Kamala Harris

Biden’s Middle East Trip Ends in Fiasco, Fails to Get Arab Support on Oil Production, Security

In The UK, Some Political Movement On The Climate Scare

Unsustainable Sri Lanka

International: The Grand Realignment

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The plot thickens . . .

Gazprom Declares Force Majeure, Will Halt Gas Flows To Germany Indefinitely

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/gazprom-declares-force-majeure-will-halt-gas-flows-germany-indefinitely

Germany's Energy Crisis About To Get Even Worse As Rhine Water Levels Plummet

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/germanys-crisis-about-get-even-worse-rhine-water-levels-plummet

This is a transportayion bottlemeck caused by low river levels. Barge loads have been cut by 2/3 to avoid running aground. The rails lack the capacity to pick up the slack.

#1 feeblemind on 2022-07-18 13:57 (Reply)

Trump has got to be LHAO.

#1.1 snopercod on 2022-07-18 15:45 (Reply)

Dr. Jordan Peterson has a great analogy of Woke Organizations. It's a story about zebra herds; of course zebras have uniquely visible markings, unlike almost any other veldt mammal, whose markings are generally designed for protective camouflage.

A group of scientists was studying zebra herd behavior, and also the predatory behavior of lions, on these herds. Lions have occasional success with hunting zebras. The scientists decided to mark an individual zebra with red paint so that they could easily distinguish it from the surrounding herd, and thus make observations on its unique behaviors.

But as soon as they did, the lions converged on the marked zebra and took it down very quickly. Thus, the beneficial effect of the zebra's markings became apparent: The similarity of their markings made it impossible for the lions to target an individual cooperatively. Once they could, hunting success was greatly facilitated.

Peterson concludes that Woke Organizations function in a similar way - their jingoism is a code of behavior designed for the Woke herd, to protect it from criticism or demands for objective discourse from their critics. But it's a mistake to think this kind of false Solidarity makes them immune.

#2 Aggie on 2022-07-18 13:58 (Reply)

re Unsustainable Sri Lanka

I should have saved the link. I just read a comment that avers organic farming is still "sustainable". Like the belief in Global Warming, I expect efforts to move agriculture to "organic" will continue as if the diasaster in Sri Lanks never happened.

From the liked article:

Sri Lankans are starving so that Western environmentalists can preen.

One mustn't forget that the real goal of the environmental church is to get rid of two-legged carbon units. That's the final solution to reducing CO2 emissions.

#3 feeblemind on 2022-07-18 14:10 (Reply)

Organic farming IS sustainable. If 25% or more of your population are organic farmers providing all the food we need is sustainable. But I'm not sure you can get 25% of the population to willingly become organic farmers AND I'm not sure you can have a 1st world nation under those circumstances.

I read somewhere that in Russia 40%-50% of the food consumed in Russia is food that the individual families grow themselves. It is both a necessity and a lifestyle for them.

#3.1 OneGuy on 2022-07-18 15:15 (Reply)

I used to have an organic "hobby farm". We had horses and chickens and rabbits and composted the manure and spread it on the garden. It really improved the soil but a hobby was all it was. I can't imagine making a going concern out of it.

#3.1.1 snopercod on 2022-07-18 15:59 (Reply)

Organic farming IS sustainable. If 25% or more of your population are organic farmers providing all the food we need is sustainable.

If I may take the liberty of opposing your point of view, I don't see how that statement can be true.

You can't substitute human labor for fertilizer. No matter how many humans you have hoeing and weeding, if the crop doesn't have sufficient nutrients, yields will be sub par.

That goes for the victory gardens you describe as well. While they will mitigate a food shortage, they won't produce to their full potential without adequate plant nutrients. Without fertilizer the resulting yields will just be a microcosm of Sri Lanka.

#3.1.2 feeblemind on 2022-07-18 16:03 (Reply)

On a small scale organic farmers do exactly that. That is through their labor the generate fertilizer. Many small farmers have been doing this for generations and their land still produces. It is very difficult to scale up so it is easier to remain a small family operation. There is an interesting example: A man, one individual, spends his summers in Maine and his winters in Florida where he rents/barters property to farm organic greens and vegetables for restaurants and home sales. In his Florida operation he bartered with half a dozen of his neighbors to use their front and/or back yards to grow his crops. Most of them do this in return for vegetable and greens from his farming operation. He makes about $3000 a month profit. It is 100% organic because that is his selling point. I wish I had a link to this article but I read it years ago and didn't keep a link.

I am not advocating "organic" farming but I do enjoy growing my own foods. I don't do it currently because I live in a travel trailer, sold my house two years ago. But I may do it again after Biden crashes the economy and housing market I may buy another home.

#3.1.2.1 OneGuy on 2022-07-18 16:24 (Reply)

When will they figure out that reducing U.S. Carbon Dioxide emissions is pointless? It's not pointless, it allows the elites to enforce power over the deplorables. Always remember, you are the carbon they want to reduce.

#4 Jerryskids on 2022-07-18 14:37 (Reply)

Sri Lanka and the World Economic Forum

How it started: Sri Lanka PM: This is how I will make my country rich by 2025 (2018)

https://web.archive.org/web/20190122012624/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/08/this-is-how-we-will-make-sri-lanka-rich-by-2025/

How it's going: The WEF questioned after deleted Sri Lanka PM article is recovered by Wayback Machine (2022)

https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/07/13/the-wef-sri-lanka-wayback-machine/

#5 Aggie on 2022-07-18 15:02 (Reply)

The US will be no more sustainable than Sri Lanka if we continue on the build back better road of climate grifting, vaxx grifting, and immigration grifting.
Germany will lead Europe into an unsustainable trajectory if they keep following US mandates on climate and Russia. The Merkel morons cannot admit their political mistakes.

#6 indyjonesouthere on 2022-07-18 15:29 (Reply)

Sri Lanka Is First To Topple In Globalists' Green Energy House Of Cards

https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/18/the-globalist-agenda-destroying-the-economy-and-energy-sources-goes-beyond-sri-lanka/

#7 feeblemind on 2022-07-18 15:55 (Reply)

Since I can't save the world or go around improving everyone*, I'll just start small and have that cold drink of water when I get up in the morning...while the coffee's brewing.

* Spoiler alert: clearly I am not a Wokester.

#8 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2022-07-18 16:28 (Reply)

Please post the recipe or a link to the dish on today's page.

#9 Apple pie on 2022-07-18 21:44 (Reply)

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