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Re: Geopolitics Errata.
« Reply #30 on: December 07, 2021, 06:29:43 am »
Russia has plenty of wheat itself. This is about the ethnic Russian enclaves like Donetsk in East Ukraine. This is also about the meeting next week of a hundred odd countries for democracy meeting up and not inviting Russia and China, but inviting Taiwan. 'for democracy' is not my own words, it's what the US led summit is called.

You can't rely only on msm aka fake news, hegemonic propaganda to know what is happening, alternative media is also necessary to get the side that's left out. I couldn't read the NYT and wapo articles without signing up, but I can guess they are sympathetic to a heroic rather than hopeless Ukraine, with no mention of ongoing attempted genocide of Donetsk and Lugansk, or the ratcheting up of provocations in the last couple of weeks on Ukraine joining NATO.

Taiwan will be even more strongly encouraged to declare independence than usual. We are far more interested in them doing it than they are themselves and if it happens, Russia will move at the same time as china.
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Re: Geopolitics Errata.
« Reply #31 on: December 09, 2021, 02:22:37 pm »

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/20/us-closer-to-civil-war-new-book-barbara-walter-trump-capitol-attack

US ‘closer to civil war’ than most would like to believe, new book saysUS ‘closer to civil war’ than most would like to believe, new book says

Bring out the Gunz (& Roses)



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No way out.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/31/americans-seeking-renounce-citizenship-stuck

Americans seeking to renounce their citizenship are stuck with it for now

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Things appear to be rapidly deteriorating.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/588295-most-americans-expect-a-repeat-of-jan-6-attack-on-capitol-poll

Most Americans expect a repeat of Jan. 6 attack on Capitol: poll

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It's a little hard to imagine how this will help resolve high fuel prices.  Also hard to imagine hoe places like Armenia and Belarus  have "Peacekeepers" to go Globe Trotting to squash riots in other countries.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/05/asia/kazakhstan-fuel-protests-emergency-wednesday-intl/index.html

Russia-led military alliance will send 'peacekeepers' to protest-hit Kazakhstan, Armenian PM says

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Can Vlad Impale enough Khazakis to keep the NG flowing out?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/06/asia/kazakhstan-almaty-protests-explainer-intl-hnk/index.html

Kazakhstan is in turmoil and regional troops have been sent to quell unrest. Here's what you need to know

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Key Kazakh oilfield hit by protests
« Reply #38 on: January 06, 2022, 11:52:54 am »
How many of the local Gestapo has switched over to the protester side?  If the Ruskies are sending in Paratroopers, this is a full blown Civil War.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1999516/business-economy

Key Kazakh oilfield hit by protests

This should be no surprise to readers of the Diner.  All going like clockwork now, just as we discussed.  Who's Next?



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Re: Key Kazakh oilfield hit by protests
« Reply #39 on: January 06, 2022, 05:19:40 pm »
  Who's Next?


Anywhere that tries to implement gold backed currency.
Anywhere that tries to implement non Rothschild central bank.
Anywhere a non compliant govt does not allow easy extraction and exploitation of its resources.
Anywhere on or within the border of a challenger to our unipolar hegemony, as in this case.

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Re: Key Kazakh oilfield hit by protests
« Reply #40 on: January 06, 2022, 06:00:56 pm »
Key Kazakh oilfield hit by protests

This should be no surprise to readers of the Diner.  All going like clockwork now, just as we discussed. 
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Indeed. I recall all those threads about oilfields, and how protests of them was a sign of...... ???... well....something. Not that anyone at the Diner knew anything about oilfields....but I remember the beginning of the right wing race war because someone got shot during a statute protest somewhere in Arizona. And I called crap on that of course and it turns out that...well...it wasn't the start of anything, and nobody even died, and it was just howling over the moon.

Are we sure this isn't just howling over the moon? Again?

I didn't think we were easily mistaken for the 'cant wait to shoot me some coons' crowd.

Oilfields were mainly talked about in context of not being sustainable: The United States has proven reserves equivalent to 4.9 times its annual consumption. This means that, without imports, there would be about 5 years of oil left (at current consumption levels and excluding unproven reserves).

https://www.worldometers.info/oil/us-oil/

 The Standing Rock protest of a pipeline got talked about, a sure sign of things like disrespecting native reservations and endangering rivers and lakes.



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Cut off in Khazakstan
« Reply #41 on: January 07, 2022, 06:17:44 am »
Internet has been down in Kazahstan for a few hours where roughly 18% if Bitcoin's hashrate is.

Looks like the impact on the hashrate is so far 12% drop just in the last few hours since internet went down.


Update: It's now Friday morning in #Kazakhstan where internet has been shut down for some 36 hours, placing public safety at risk and leaving friends and family cut off.

Connectivity levels continue to flatline at just 5% of ordinary levels.


Misery loves company.

Millions of people in Kahzaktan are having the same problems as me.  Right now, I can't even pay a 12 year old bill of $104.31 which I never received in order to get a landline internet installed.  They won't take payment over the phone by debit card, they won't take a check and the office is not open to send one of my PCAs (when they show up) to pay cash.  ::)  I still have only this Smartphone connection, for as long as it lasts.

Interesting that Bitcoin mining is such a big deal in Khazakstan.  Now we know why the locals don't have heat despite being well endowed with FFs.

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Rather than street demos, I think it might be more effective (and safer) if they all call in sick and don't go to work.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/07/asia/kazakhstan-kassym-jomart-tokayev-address-intl/index.html

Kazakhstan leader gives 'kill without warning' order, as bodies lie in the streets

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Legal?

https://vtdigger.org/2022/01/09/vermont-conversation-america-is-in-the-legal-phase-of-fascism-says-jason-stanley/

Vermont Conversation: America is in the ‘legal phase’ of fascism, says Jason Stanley

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Re: Key Kazakh oilfield hit by protests
« Reply #44 on: January 10, 2022, 01:09:15 pm »
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This should be no surprise to readers of the Diner.  All going like clockwork now, just as we discussed. 
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Are we sure this isn't just howling over the moon? Again?

I didn't think we were easily mistaken for the 'cant wait to shoot me some coons' crowd.

Good thing we weren't talking about "shoot me some coons" but rather the claim of how folks bitching about an oil field who don't know much about oil fields is suddenly somehow relevant to the horrific ongoing collapse that can't stop global population growth.

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Oilfields were mainly talked about in context of not being sustainable: The United States has proven reserves equivalent to 4.9 times its annual consumption. This means that, without imports, there would be about 5 years of oil left (at current consumption levels and excluding unproven reserves).

Only by folks who first must pretend that ANYONE else thinks they are sustainable. I agree that won't be ANY diners, for while they might know nothing about basic industry operational procedures, they all know that oil is a depletable natural resource.

Unless you are implying that YOU didn't know these obvious things, and therefore qualify as someone who pretends oil fields were sustainable? Ever?

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The Standing Rock protest of a pipeline got talked about, a sure sign of things like disrespecting native reservations and endangering rivers and lakes.

The Standing Rock protest was a wonderfully publicized NIMBY exercise, with some great branding along the way. The thing I often found so fascinating when watching videos of the interviewers and people in the camps was the number of diesel trucks, generators, propane fired cooking gear all used to sustain the camps and haul in the horses to pretend it wasn't a fossil fuel powered extravaganza.

I was amazed by the restraint shown by the federales. I remember the days of Rodney King and Kent State and whatnot, the ability of the cops to not end up with a bunch of bodies on their hands was evidence of quite a change in police behavior, even with the kind of gear they have at their disposable nowadays.

You said u correctly called some statue shooting event in Arizona as not being the beginning of a race war. U said this in context of a claim that there were threads about oilfield protests on the diner and that we said it was 'evidence of ... well.. something?'

You do not remember what it was claimed to be evidence of by anyone because it never happened as I just told you. At least name the place and timeframe these oilfield protests supposedly occurred.

There is no point mentioning the race war claims which are always being made by white supremacist racists every time they see the status quo in their favour slipping away, as we all know they are empty fantasies. The only point in priding yourself on that is in connecting it to us and again, it never happened. Nobody on DD said this incident would spark a race war. The event was probably after DD moved to GC anyway.

You must have missed the whole BLM movement and ongoing Rodney King type incidents for the George Floyd's of the world, three decades after Rodney King. Heres the restraint of a saint at standing rock by your recollection, but yes compared to the massacre at wounded knee and trail of tears, the Lakota got off lightly this time.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/21/dakota-access-pipeline-water-cannon-police-standing-rock-protest.

Unless you are implying that YOU didn't know these obvious things, and therefore qualify as someone who pretends oil fields were sustainable? Ever?

The only person to say anything like that was you, specifically that there was around 200 yrs of oil left. The only person saying anything about basic industry operational procedures is also you, although Roamer/Nick did work on drilling rigs. The rest of us not knowing or claiming to, being evidence of something?
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