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Gail is the best.I am waiting for a peak oil writer to discover that global warming is being replaced by global cooling which will give us Peak Food and Peak Population and a massive die off.
Studying Peak Oil was great training for studying Peak Food.Commodities trading exposed me to all things involved in agriculture including climate cycles and volcanic activity affecting weather.
Our dramatic population increase was driven by an abundant supply of food.
After the last Little Ice age conditions and circumstances came together to
increase food production,store it and transport it cheaply around the world.
America's bread basket fed the world cheaply during a warming cycle which was beneficial to increasing crop yields.
People left the farms and increased their meat consumption.
Now few know how to grow food and many can't even cook.
Peak Oil instability is nothing compared to a global food crisis.We maxed out our global credit cards struggling with Peak Oil's drag on the economy.We needed decades to transition from oil if it is even possible.
Now we are facing shortened growing seasons,swings in moisture and crop disease issues that will see food prices climb like crude oil did.We can't stop the Little Ice age and we can't adjust to the impacts adequately.It's going to get bad very fast from here.
There will be violence as empty stomachs become a new fear for those who have never known or imagined a day without food.
In two years we may see a catastrophic time erupt unlike anything recent history has experienced.
Mother Nature is going to teach a brutal lesson for survivors to use to shape the new world they build.
It's not much fun declaring gloomy forecasts but it helps to have a place to get things out of my head.Thanks for the board!
Re:Carrying Capacity, Overshoot and Species Extinction
Not many see the pending food crisis caused by the new Little Ice we are entering and the likely use of bio weapons to thin the herd in the next few years. By 2020 food prices should be climbing to unacceptable levels for billions which will lead to protests,panic and riots. Fearful leaders will unleash hell to prevent anarchy. Drastic population decline is closer than charts,trends and computer models can indicate. Fear blinds us to cold hard facts. So we are unprepared and counting on the technology gods to save us. They didn't save us from Peak Oil and they can't save us from a Little Ice Age.
Cheers
Al has a good retirement plan.eom
Al is much more entertaining LOL eom
Al's court case and other antics have little to do with the trust. Entertainment and distraction seem to be his job in this saga.
Listen to me carefully: you don't know the facts that have been confirmed. The sting/trust is real.
No worries there. No children yet. After the money comes I'll be helping as many abused and neglected children as I can.
We live in amazing times! EOM
Thank you for your concern. I am sure the trust is in short term funds collecting next to nothing but every little bit helps. lol
I suspect government and financial institutions weighed their options after the CMKX sting and considering the financial crisis at the time decided to print the CMKX problem away like they were doing already. There was real fear then and they hit the panic/print button and dropped interest rates to zero. I believe they have feared to raise rates and pay us because the system is still broken and unhealthy. The confidence game is a big part of this system. Raising rates and risking the truth coming out about the CMKX naked short are real risks to the system.
That would be the fines and penalties that were used to push for closure.
The uncollected F&P plus the original $250 billion collected and protected in the CMKX trust would have resulted in a $7.40 pps or about $4 trillion.
The CMKX team gave up on pursuing the entire F&P.
I'm not a fan of Trump but he is the right person to see us get paid.
The Team has kept their part of the deal and not exposed the failures of the SEC and the results of naked shorting. We will get the money Robert Maheu collected for us and the facts will likely come out eventually.
CMKXers were at the right place at the right time. The CMKX sting was too successful and thus too big to tell. The money has been sitting collecting dust because of fear of exposure with no good explanation and potential market reaction to the news. The Trump team will gladly approve the release of the CMKX trust and welcome the exposure of the corrupt system they are going to attempt to reform. The Obama team feared the release and fought it successfully. The tide has turned. It will be interesting to see if the true CMKX story becomes mainstream news.
The sting was real.The 2.5 trillion naked short was real. The $250 billion Robert Maheu collected is real. The payout will be real.
Not even close.EOM
Jihad Anthony Zogheib and Edwards letters are entertaining.Here:
https://www.scribd.com/document/342776231/Cmkm-Diamonds-Edwards-Letter-to-Judge-3-7-2017-Turino-Stole-Discovery-Show-temp
Robert and Peter Maheu were overseers of the CMKX trust. This has been confirmed and the new trust overseer will find a new and improved atmosphere in DC. I hope to meet you at a celebration. I also hope to meet Al as he has some splainin to do.
Have no fear the truth is near.eom
After the court case ends I'll be watching the mailman expecting a packet from Vegas. I will have the last and best laugh.
The average shareholder holding of 11 million shares will get a tax free lump sum of $5,940,000.00 payout. Yes this an extraordinary ROI for a worthless sub-penny exploration mining company. If not for Robert Maheu the 2.5 trillion naked shorted shares would of destroyed the company. Instead Iron Bob collected .10 per share and put the funds in a well protected trust to be distributed by 2008. Unfortunately Robert Maheu died before he could see us get paid. Things look good for our overdue payout. The court case should be over this year and the Trump administration should have no reason to drag this out any longer.
The delay game with the court case was an indication of the too hot to handle CMKX sting/trust. Plea deals will end the case and we should receive the money Robert Maheu collected. The .54 pps is the real deal. The team gave up on the F&P with the .40/.14 agreement but that agreement failed. I hope all of the .54 goes to us this year. It has been too long and too many have passed away. Robert Maheu would have finished what he started long ago. I believe Peter was not the fearless warrior needed to wrap things up. The new administration will handle us favorably as they are a far different breed and likely to embrace what the Obama team resisted. Winds of change are here and the markets have likely topped which will make managing our money difficult.
A long bear market that grinds the DOW down to 5,000 or lower is in the cards. Gold and oil are going lower. I'll be shorting strength and sitting on cash until gold hits it's lows for the next 5 or more years. It will be interesting to see if the FED gets approval to buy stocks and if Trump pays down debt buy selling government assets. So many big risks out there including a serious clash with China and rising food prices that could destabilize the planet more than the debt bubbles. Good luck to us all.
.54 pps payout in 2017 eom
Payout after the court case ends.eom
The Square Roots farms
About the size of the standard one-car garage, each shipping container can produce the same amount of crops as two acres of outdoor farmland.
Kimbal Musk — Elon's brother — just opened a shipping container farm compound in New York City
http://www.businessinsider.com/kimbal-musk-shipping-container-farms-new-york-city-2016-12/#the-square-roots-farms-sit-between-an-old-pfizer-factory-and-the-apartment-building-where-jay-z-grew-up-in-brooklyn-1
https://squarerootsgrow.com/#page-top
They are vertical farms — everything grows inside 320-square-foot steel shipping containers. Each container can produce about 50,000 mini-heads of lettuce per year.
The Growroom
https://medium.com/space10-the-farm/space10-open-sources-the-growroom-aa7ca6621715#.93tdl9grg
The Growroom. Standing tall as a spherical garden, it empowers people to grow their own food much more locally in a beautiful and sustainable way.
From Taipei to Helsinki and from Rio de Janeiro to San Francisco, the original version of The Growroom sparked interest and people requested to either buy or exhibit The Growroom. But it doesn’t make sense to promote local food production and then start shipping it across oceans and continents. That is why we now release The Growroom as open source design and encourage people to build their own locally as a way to bring new opportunities to life.
Robert Maheu The Man With The Plan.eom
We should see our .54 this year IMO.EOM
We mock what we fear.eom
Facts indicate there was a sting and funds collected by Robert Maheu are in a trust. Facts indicate Peter Maheu was beat down and or corrupted by the Obama administration. Facts indicate a Trump administration will be pro Robert Maheu and seek to finish what he started ASAP.
You should of bought some shares.LOL
I'm expecting .54pps this year. The Trump win changes everything including the fear of the potential complications of scandal the Obama administration wanted to avoid by releasing our money. The Trump team will relish the opportunity to complete Robert Maheu's greatest exploit. The CMKX trust is a poster child of the corruption Trump intends to expose and expel. CMKXers now have the wind at our backs.
much beyond $0.80/share A.Clifton Hodges
4. I have been told that the initial payment* to CMKX shareholders will be forthcoming within a few days to several weeks immediately after these “receipt of ER” deliveries.
* Denominated as Fines and Penalties, which is not only tax-free but much beyond the $0.80/share I advised you about some years ago.
Peak Oil is killing off big oil companys.:"END OF THE U.S. MAJOR OIL INDUSTRY ERA: Big Trouble At ExxonMobil"
Nov 04, 2016 - 04:39 AM GMT By: Steve_St_Angelo
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article57065.html
Interesting quotes:
"This is certainly an interesting way for the leading U.S. oil company to use its surplus cash. For those who continue to be skeptics of the peak oil theory, YOU NEED TO WAKE UP AND LOOK AT THE DATA."
"Exxon’s free cash flow of $1 billion (2016 YTD) is down 95% from $24.4 billion in 2011"
"By including dividend payouts, the company was $8.3 billion in the hole in 2015"
"Exxon’s surplus cash declined significantly when the oil price was over $100 from 2011 to 2013. Even though the oil price in 2011 and 2012 was higher than it was in 2008, the company’s free cash flow including dividends was less than half. Furthermore, Exxon made no surplus cash in 2013 when the oil price was above $100."
"When the company realized towards the end of 2013 that the market would not afford to pay $120 a barrel (the cost for new oil projects), Exxon started cutting back on exploration and capital expenditures."
"Exxon Spent The Majority Its Surplus Cash To Buy Back Shares Rather Than Fund New Oil Projects"
"It seems as if Exxon realized early on that peak oil had finally arrived (privately, of course), so it decided to not waste too much money on future oil projects. Instead, the company spent a massive amount of money on stock repurchases over the past two decades… especially since 2005."
"As we can see, Exxon’s long-term debt has exploded from $6.9 billion in 2013 to $29.5 billion in the first half of 2016. Basically, the company is now borrowing money to repurchase shares or pay dividends. This is not a viable long-term business model."
"Chevron is the second largest oil company in the United States. In 2015, Chevron spent a stunning $18.2 billion more on capital expenditures and dividend payouts than the company’s operating cash. Thus, Chevron spent $10 billion more than ExxonMobil did last year ($8.3 billion after capex and dividends)."
"This paints a very gloomy picture for the sustainability of the one great U.S. major oil industry, especially when oil prices continue to decline. As was mentioned in previous articles, the Hills Group and Louis Arnoux forecast that within ten years, 75% of U.S. gas stations will be closed, and the oil industry as we know it, will have disintegrated."
"Exxon Mobil Corp. warned that it may be forced to eliminate almost 20% of its future oil and gas prospects, yielding to the sharp decline in global energy prices."
"Exxon on Friday disclosed that some 4.6 billion barrels of oil in its reserves, primarily in Canada, may be too expensive to tap."
"When Exxon reduces its oil and liquid reserves by 4.6 billion barrels, it will only have 12 years worth of reserves remaining, at current production levels. But, what if the price of oil continues to decline toward the $12 maximum price suggested in The Hills Group Report by 2020? What would that do to Exxon or other U.S. oil companies’ reserves and future oil production??
The 100+ year era of the U.S. major oil industry is coming to an end… and fast. Unfortunately, Americans have no clue just how dire the situation has become as many probably still believe in the delusion of “U.S. Energy Independence.”
"I Have Come Privi'ed To Seeing And Knowing Of Certain Events That Are
Coming To IJJP. I Value The Company At .38 Per Share With The Current
Share Structure." 02/13/2015 ~ACCA
"Accumulate, Do Not Rely On The Chart, All Longs Hold Tight, And Disregard
Volatile Intra-Day Price Movements And Then And Only Then, Will This Be A Game Changer, A Life Changer, And For Some, A Zip Code Changer" 02/25/15 accadacca
04/09/15 "They Acquired Securities"accadacca
Is IJJP trying to become the Uber of the financial markets?
Why not! The "Sharing Economy" holds huge potential for innovative doers.
Article:
"What Should the ‘Sharing Economy’ Really Be Called?"
Many aren’t familiar with the term that encompasses businesses like Uber and AirBnB, while others argue that the phrase may be deceptive.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/05/sharing-economy-airbnb-uber-yada/484505/
Among the surprises in last week’s Pew Research Center survey on the new digital economy was the revelation that the phrase “the sharing economy”—the collective and most broadly accepted term for some of the on-demand apps and platforms that have seemingly seized the world of commerce—is overwhelmingly unknown to most Americans. In other words, while AirBnB may have Super Bowl commercials and Uber may have graduated to being used as a verb, 73 percent of Americans are unfamiliar with the banner under which they operate.
More curiously, those who had heard of “the sharing economy” (or at least claimed to have) frequently defined it as an altruistic endeavor. “The most common description of the sharing economy emphasizes the ‘sharing’ component of the phrase while ignoring the ‘economy’ aspect,” Pew analysts wrote, noting that 40 percent of Americans polled expressed this view.
So how has a ballyhooed economic trend managed to elude mainstream detection? One possibility is that the trend might not be nearly as big as headlines make it out to be, but it could also be a problem with the trend’s name itself. “It may be a consequence of the fact that the label is being used to describe a pretty broad range of things that don’t necessarily all look like each other,” said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University and the author of the forthcoming book The Sharing Economy. AirBnB, for example, is an online apartment-rental platform, Uber is an on-demand car service, and TaskRabbit is an online labor marketplace. “The sharing economy” often also includes peer-to-peer lending platforms and crowdfunding sites with varying profit models.
Conceding that the term “sharing economy” has stuck best (hence his book title), Sundararajan also points to the relative newness of these platforms. “My guess is that the fraction of people who are familiar with these services that we put under the label of the ‘sharing economy’ is probably greater than the fraction of people who have heard the term ‘sharing economy.’ In a sense there’s still an education going on,” he says. He points to the early days of Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn, prior to when they were lumped into the catch-all of “social media”—a term that has its own shortcomings, given the varying degrees of social distance between users across these platforms.
Not everyone feels the term “sharing economy” fails. “It is a kind of awkward label, but it does get the idea across: building a new or sub-economy around sharing under-utilized assets,” Michael Cusumano, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, wrote in an email. “The sum of many of such ‘platforms’ is what creates the sub-economy.”
But the question of what these business models should be called is not some philosophical thought exercise. For some, the idea that the industry is motivated by compassion or goodwill is objectionable; Uber has inspired transcontinental protests and even been likened to ISIS, while AirBnB has been targeted by legislators in dozens of states. “Obviously ‘the sharing economy’ is a misnomer, which the industry no doubt likes a lot,” said Dean Baker, an economist and the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. “It’s got nothing to do with sharing. They’re profit-making companies.”
Baker argues that many of the new businesses use a halo of positive branding to avoid the discussion of what regulatory structures need to be modernized to deal with these platforms. One example is the ongoing debate over whether a driver for Uber or Lyft should qualify as an employee of the company with a right to protections and benefits or should simply be considered an independent contractor.
As these businesses remain in their early stages, it’s important to consider how the label affixed to them affects their public perception. So, if the term “the sharing economy” is inaccurate at best and pernicious at worst, what would be a better name? In his book, Sundararajan suggests “crowd-based capitalism.”
“To me, what these sharing economy platforms represent is early examples of a different way of organizing economic activity, which sits somewhere between the 20th-century organization and even the 18th-century one-person shop selling to an individual market,” he said. “It’s not a pure sort of marketplace... It’s not a traditional organization like a hotel or a train company, but it’s somewhere in between.”
The think tank JPMorgan Chase Institute has settled on a different term. Its researchers have been referring to these businesses as being part of “the platform economy”—a term that is useful because it allows for neat distinctions between “labor platforms” (like Uber) and “capital platforms” (like Airbnb).
Baker offered another option. “It’s not terribly catchy, but ‘Internet-Based Service Providers,’ in a nerdy economist sort of way, captures what they’re doing.” Accurate? Maybe. But will it stick? Probably not.
In the short run, it matters which term journalists, economists, and academics settle on, because it clearly can shape consumers’ perceptions of these businesses as they take shape. “But after a point they become labels for something that is well understood,” Sundararajan says, “They become part of the cultural dialogue.” For better or worse.
Peak Oil,Peak Debt and Peak Food are about to combine. The New Little Ice Age is going to force change in a hurry. The echo bubbles will likely top in 2017 with the DOW exploding towards 30,000 which should be called the Clinton Climax.Growing seasons are expected to shorten starting now.Food prices are going to climb and bring an end to the bubbles as Peak Food does what Peak Oil did to the system in the prior financial crisis.There are no economic models for prolonged decline and the world will trend towards a Mad Max future. That will be unacceptable for those who with "control issues" and have the means to fix the problem.
Enter phase one of a planned die off using bio weapons and 500 million dead in only a few weeks.When? Perhaps as early as 2019.The powers that be can't print food and they can't stop the chaos of hunger related panic.Got climate change? Yes but not the kind the masses are focused on. Commodity traders are familiar with the effect of sun spot cycles on climate and food production. Don Coxe follows this closely.
http://coxeadvisors.net/Don_Coxe_-_Coxe_Advisors/Sunspots.html
http://www.barrons.com/articles/as-sunspots-fade-will-crop-yields-fall-1446267575
"As Sunspots Fade, Will Crop Yields Fall?"
NASA predicts fewer sunspots, which may mean cooler weather, lower crop yields, and higher prices. Betting on a correlation as old as Galileo.
In fact, says Don Coxe, of Coxe Advisors, “It’s a coincidence that has occurred consistently since Galileo’s time.”
These links will keep you updated our New Little Ice Age: https://www.youtube.com/user/MyanmarLiving
Adapt 2030 "With the new solar minimum upon our planet, think about prosperity and thriving with your communities during this next 30 years.Adapt 2030 brings you barely reported cold weather events across our planet"
http://iceagenow.info/
Robert W Felix, author of Not by Fire but by Ice began publishing iceagenow.com in 1997.
HAPPY 4thJul 4, 2016 Post by alch11 on Jul 4, 2016 at 12:20pm
Gentlepeople:
On this day of American celebration I want to take a moment, and to encourage each of you, to remember and reflect on the context, the import and the courage of those who labored so heroically before us to introduce and establish America as a land of true freedom and liberty in this world. Although I fear we have not been very good stewards of the rights and benefits made possible by our forebears, I am even more convinced that it is not too late to step up, to assume our necessary responsibilities, and to make this land free again. The quiet, bloodless revolution which has been secretly conducted in the shadows for the last two plus decades, is now at the point of denouement; and, I wish this day to invite each of you to take a moment to join me and dedicate your selves, your fortunes and your honor to ensuring its success. My love and very best regards to each of you.
Blessings,
Al
Jul 5, 2016 Post by alch11 on Jul 5, 2016 at 6:42pm
famous Indian legend,
It was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.
The First approach'd the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
"God bless me! but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!"
The Second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried, -"Ho! what have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me 'tis mighty clear
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear!"
The Third approached the animal,
And happening to take
The squirming trunk within his hands,
Thus boldly up and spake:
"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant
Is very like a snake!"
The Fourth reached out his eager hand,
And felt about the knee.
"What most this wondrous beast is like
Is mighty plain," quoth he,
"'Tis clear enough the Elephant
Is very like a tree!"
The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,
Said: "E'en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most;
Deny the fact who can,
This marvel of an Elephant
Is very like a fan!"
The Sixth no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Then, seizing on the swinging tail
That fell within his scope,
"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant
Is very like a rope!"
And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right,
And all were in the wrong!
MORAL.
So oft in theologic wars,
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean,
And prate about an Elephant
Not one of them has seen!
Good report but they don't consider the potential for the new Little Ice Age on sudden massive crop failures and the reaction of elites to deliberately thin the heard to maintain order. I believe a country like North Korea will develop or acquire bio weapons and provide them to a group like ISIS. The results could be 500 million dead in a few weeks with the biggest resource eaters in the West being the targets. We could see the U.S.,Europe,Japan and other friends of the West take huge hits overnight. That is what I expect to see between 2019-2025. Nukes can't be an option as it poisons the planet. Who makes the call and who gets blamed? That's the trick isn't it. It's too late for a smooth transition. A natural die off is too slow and unmanageable. Someone will attempt a violent solution in my opinion. People and debts will be wiped away making room for a growth cycle until limits are hit again.