The World is Going to Burn Baby

[I'm With Stupid]

The EU isn’t protectionist. No organisation that establishes frictionless trade between 30 countries and the abolition of borders and barriers within those countries for trade, capital and people can be described as protectionist.

In most areas, yes. But go to your local supermarket and see if you can find any German beef or French chicken. Never mind anything from outside the EU.

 

[bluethrunthru]

One thing that seems to be common with these populist nationalist chaps is that when they get the hands on power they really seem to know what they are doing.

Turkey is fast going down the toilet with the performance of Erdogan citing the power of Allah to smite the markets and raise the Turkish lira followed by his economic czar (his son in law) who sweated buckets and didn’t say anything remotely sensible. Trump then weighed in and made it worse. Expect the EU having to organise a bail out once the kiddies have finished shitting everywhere.

Italy has moved to discourage vaccines as the new Govt is convinced herbal tea and chanting will do the trick. Expect a further uptick in measles etc.

And who said trade wars can’t be fun?



Yeah we all going to burn through stupidity lol

some of the poor buggers will burn unnoticed though

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/08...meless-are-not-even-counted-that-says-it-all/

 

[bluethrunthru]

In most areas, yes. But go to your local supermarket and see if you can find any German beef or French chicken. Never mind anything from outside the EU.

Plenty of Irish beef in ASDA - lots of fruit and veg - particularly when out of season - comes to our supermarkets from South America and Africa - lots of frozen products don't specifically identify other than say "made in the EU" - supermarkets are full of produce from home, the EU and around the world.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Just read a frightening new book by a big player security expert about a fictional nuclear war between North Korea and USA.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....ommission-report-jeffrey-lewis-book-interview

I am increasingly of the belief, given the geopolitical events of the last few years, that the world is destined to burn in a Nuclear War.

I think it is almost inevitable. I think that the majority of people in the world now are fucking morons.

I'm waiting for a copy of this.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I'm waiting for a copy of this.

Starts a bit slowly but it’s a great, and scary, read.

 

[doobyedoobye]

Noam Chomsky's "The Shock Doctrine" is a decent read

 

[Damocles]

Just read a frightening new book by a big player security expert about a fictional nuclear war between North Korea and USA.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....ommission-report-jeffrey-lewis-book-interview

I am increasingly of the belief, given the geopolitical events of the last few years, that the world is destined to burn in a Nuclear War.

I think it is almost inevitable. I think that the majority of people in the world now are fucking morons.

Have you ever heard of Filter Theory?

It's a sidenote to the Fermi Paradox that attempts to ask the question "where are all the aliens?"

Filter theory says that as the basic ingredients for life are the same everywhere, and the Universe is billions of years old, there must be a particular barrier that it's extremely difficult for life to hurdle over on its way to becoming what humans are now. Otherwise we'd see aliens everywhere.

Some people believe that that barrier is way behind humanity and in the very early stages - the merging of mitochondria and single celled organisms into a symbiotic cell that allowed for complex multicelluar life to emerge is a possible contender for where the filter is. However, there are some who believe that the filter is actually in front of humanity. That civilizations rise up all the time, all over the Universe, but then hit a certain point whereby the same evolutionary desires of competition and exploration that allowed them to colonise their entire planet will lead them to ultimately develop weapons that can destroy it.

It's an interesting idea. There's a filter SOMEWHERE along the timeline of humanity. It's just a debate about exactly where it lies.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

One thing we can probably all agree on, politicians are ****s

Yer've got a * missing. Skunks needs five asterisks and then an 's"!

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Have you ever heard of Filter Theory?

It's a sidenote to the Fermi Paradox that attempts to ask the question "where are all the aliens?"

Filter theory says that as the basic ingredients for life are the same everywhere, and the Universe is billions of years old, there must be a particular barrier that it's extremely difficult for life to hurdle over on its way to becoming what humans are now. Otherwise we'd see aliens everywhere.

Some people believe that that barrier is way behind humanity and in the very early stages - the merging of mitochondria and single celled organisms into a symbiotic cell that allowed for complex multicelluar life to emerge is a possible contender for where the filter is. However, there are some who believe that the filter is actually in front of humanity. That civilizations rise up all the time, all over the Universe, but then hit a certain point whereby the same evolutionary desires of competition and exploration that allowed them to colonise their entire planet will lead them to ultimately develop weapons that can destroy it.

It's an interesting idea. There's a filter SOMEWHERE along the timeline of humanity. It's just a debate about exactly where it lies.

Interesting theory. I like it. To put it even more simply, the aggression which man, or any species, requires to evolve will ultimately be its downfall.

 

[bluethrunthru]

It certainly is...