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New FBI ‘vault’ discusses Utah UFOs, other secrets


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it would sound somehow ironic
if wall street or the vatican
were to be hit by a falling UFO
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LOL
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After Japan's quake and tsunami, freezing weather threatens relief efforts

Many of those hit by the disaster lack blankets, food and fuel, raising fears of a quiet but deadly humanitarian crisis

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Freezing winds, hail storms and thick snow
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not equipped for the care and feeding of large numbers of people
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the first dispatch of reserve personnel since the self-defence forces were established during 1954. They join 80,000 troops, firefighters and emergency workers in the disaster area.
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The main problem is a lack of fuel.
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food trucks and rubbish collection vans remain parked at their depots because they do not have enough fuel.
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Supermarkets and convenience stores across the north-east first sold out of jerry cans as queues lengthened at petrol stations, then they ran out of batteries when the government announced plans for rolling power cuts.
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Panic buying and hoarding are occurring in large parts of Japan and beyond. As far away as Hong Kong, shoppers have reportedly been buying up Japanese milk powder in case future supplies are contaminated by radiation.
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adequate scale. Some needed medicine. Others were desperate for sanitary wear. Many were cold because they lacked blankets and stoves. All were uncomfortable and unhappy about the lack of running water which meant they were having to relieve themselves in plastic bags.
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"I eat one rice ball a day. Of course, I am hungry, but when I think what the other citizens have been through, it's nothing.
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"What we urgently need now is fuel, heavy and light oil, water and food. More than anything else, we need fuel because we can't do anything without it. We can't stay warm or work the water pumps,"
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They also feel they have been treated badly by people from outside the affected areas: they hear people in Tokyo are panic buying whereas people in the affected areas have nothing to buy.
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... here we see a long list of things we have "forgotten" since childhood ...
... we kept old ugly blankets nobody used, just in case, this an example of the case ...
... work and schools cafeterias are not just a "socialist solution" ...
... they are also a civilian protection resource, lets prevent politics from killing us ...
... have we updated regulations for mass recall of military reserve since WWII ? ...
... "fuel", yup, that was "really" unexpected, have a pony and a bicycle ready ...
... "efficiency", barges and "simple" railroad versus the myth of "private transport" ...
... I keep thinking humanity is lacking some brain wheels ...
... since instead of 300 miles per gallon recumbent and hovercraft we build "cars" ...
... but don't mind, I'm just joking, maybe ...
... until the age of cannibals at the local gas station may show otherwise ...
... rubbish collection, second war stoves and garbage burners anybody ? ...
... yes, they pollute, but in emergency unburied frozen dead pollute much more ...
... hoarding, another "virtue" of the monetary system ...
... one more reason to move to a cashless society based on rationing cards ...
... what have we done since the oil crises of 1974 to implement rationing cards ? ...
... what about "portable" and "infrastructure" solar and wind energy ? ...
... oh, forgot we have to fill the pockets of wall street oil-kristo-bankers lobby ...
... sanitary wear, where are the fertilizing bags ? ...
... emergency food, water, thermal cloth, medications, what about air delivery ? ...
... are civilian protection agencies capable of operating "in total absence" of mineral fuels ? ...
... where are the civilian protection agencies airships delivering supplies ? ...
... and what about water ? ...
... nuclear companies that can not even solve "their" problem of water ? ...
... wait a minute, does anybody here can see a problem ? ...

amun
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IEA 2010 World Energy Outlook

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The IEA's vision is unchanged. It's the market and technology paradigm, supported by optimism that reduces serious problems to "challenges"
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The similarities between the IEA projections are that they are invariably pointing upward. Any difficulty can be mastered by technological developments, new finds, and alternatives to fossil fuels. The destruction of the environment, the huge problems connected with unconventional gas and oil are discounted against the "need" for more, more oil, more economic growth, more people on this planet.
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"Peak Oil" is non-existent in the minds of the leaders.
...The Swiss government is still discussing how to fund the construction of more roads and more railway lines and tunnels, without considering the energy question.
Even the Swiss ASPO puts peak oil towards after 2020, happily discusssing so-called "renewable" alternatives, and liaising with the HOT-people of "SwissCleanTech".
(HOT = Hope Optimism Technology)
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The IEA team do not consider the EROEI condition, it seems.
The Energetic Return On Energetic Investment has to be at least five to one in order to maintain present structures. Below 1:1 Energetic Return On Energetic Investment it is more expensive to extract oil and fossil fuels than the fossil energy that is obtained. No technology can undo this basic fact.

Yet the IEA sees technology and the market Demand-Supply-Price mechanisms capable of producing sufficient energy in the future. These are illusions based on economic theory.
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Presently the EROEI lies around 25:1, whereas a hundred years ago it was over 100:1. It could soon be at the minimum useful level, 5:1. Thereafter the party is over. No "market mechanism" will invalidate the EROEI equation.
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It's painful to notice that the IEA projects Aviation oil consumption to rise by more than 50 percent from 2008 till 2035.

Biofuels was a short-sighted model of the past few years. Some say biofuels are a crime against humanity, because of the "Fuel or Food" choice and the disastrous effects on biodiversity. Even if many millions of farmers would produce biomass harvests - e.g. agave trees on lands that have not been used for agriculture so far - these people would still need food, produced elsewhere. Similarly, forests can not produce biomass for fuels and simultaneously be reserved for biodiversity and provide food for people living in or nearby forests.

The equation remains food or fuel.
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On the downslope after Peak-Oil our biggest problem will be how to plant, harvest, convert and distribute food crops with less fossil fuels for tractors and all equipment needed.
Our growth paradigm will be ended by the end of oil. Modernity will end.
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... try my latest version of I=PAT ...
... GMCI=PARTZ ...
... where G is the total planetary available net resource amount ...
... M is the monetary interest inefficiency multiplier ...
... C is the degree of the tradition dogmatic damage multiplier ...
... R is the logarithmically growing residual vapor wealth introduced in the monetary system ...
... Z is the inequality of market wealth distribution parameter ...
... and the other variables are as usual ...

... it can be easy to verify ...
... that where the monetary interest and religion inefficiency multipliers trend to zero ...
... the environmental impact goes to zero ...
... and the global resources depletion versus time curve inverts ...
... this is the picture of a local tribal society ...
... consuming one caloric of energy per one caloric of food ...

... on the right side ...
... neither the technology intensiveness parameter can reach zero ...
... nor can the degree of inequality impact of the market distribution disappear ...
... those are 'solutions" not solving "sufficiently" the main problems ...
... because the residual smoke in the monetary system grows exponentially ...
... and there is no substitute for reduction of population ...

... however it is easy to see ...
... that increase of population and vapor wealth ...
... both increase the impact on planetary damage ...
... in turn destroying resources ...
... forcing a permanent decrease in affluence ...
... and right after a drastic decrease of population ...
... and this is a picture of our global society ...
... consuming ten calorics of energy per caloric of food ...
... and reproducing insanely at a geometric rate ...
... and thus at the verge of of a third world war ...
... the maybe final planetary war ? ...

... don't mind my rants, just joking ...
... try it, insert real 2006 and 2010 data ...
... see what you come out with ...
:)

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