Peak everything...

[rogermexico]

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And I always thought "metalman" was in reference to "heavy metal" as represented by your dashing image from cover of LZ II.

I see Lucille Ball on the cover of LZ II, but not Oscar Wilde.

[don]

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Just in: the NYTimes Sunday Magazine is dedicated to The Green Mind. It's a liberal wonderland of BS. One of the feature articles is Why Isn't the Brain Green? "

"Decision scientists are trying to figure out why it’s so hard for us to get into a green mind-set. Their answers may be more crucial than any technological advance in combating environmental challenges."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/ma...l?ref=magazine

Needless to say, 150+ years of industrial capitalism are overlooked. Sort of a crystals approach to the planet. 49ers hosing away the Sierras for gold. A mind thingie.

[cobben]

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It's obviously from a right-wing US neocon propagande site, note the non-US population down in the lower right corner is all RED!

[Guest]

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OK somebody go grab Metalman. We gotta "anneal" his joints toot sweet to repair the wear and tear.

recrystallization by way of annealing...problem solved

[goadam1]

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...or why we need a war that kills off a few billion people...



Just as long as the billions dying are mostly brown or yellow or disadvantaged young men economically, socially and educationally in our own societies huh? would be crazy to be lumping oursleves, our family members or our friends into those to "die" category, anyway decreasing our own consumption habits is so much more difficult then murder

Agreed. The Scots-irish are the most viscous and evil of the races and should survive over the Brownies and yellowies. Not only are whities sneaky and good at the game, they have strong claw like nails. The Jews have some skills too.

[goadam1]

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Cool info-graphic. My vote is for a virus designed to kill all the extra people, but only the kind I don't like.

[Diarmuid]

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Agreed. The Scots-irish are the most viscous and evil of the races and should survive over the Brownies and yellowies. Not only are whities sneaky and good at the game, they have strong claw like nails. The Jews have some skills too.

You may think my quote was hyperbole but here are couple of quotes from articles on the current Iraq war I suppose the same or worse could be said for the other major wars in the past

And although there are many wars around the planet with nothing to do with western powers my comment was made in context of calls we get for population reduction I hear from some quaters, tied to the idea we need a f**king war with the extermination of a couple of billion people which I take grave offence to even if it is a flippant and off handish

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007...q.iraqtimeline

Regarding Consumption

The man once regarded as the world's most powerful banker has bluntly declared that the Iraq war was 'largely' about oil.Appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1987 and retired last year after serving four presidents, Alan Greenspan has been the leading Republican economist for a generation and his utterings instantly moved world markets.
In his long-awaited memoir - out tomorrow in the US - Greenspan, 81, who served as chairman of the US Federal Reserve for almost two decades, writes: 'I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.'


Regarding deaths which are not even officiallly tallied



Previous estimates gave a range between 390,000 and 940,000, the most prominent of which - collected by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and reported in the Lancet in October 2006 - suggested 654,965 deaths.


The ORB survey follows an earlier report by the organisation which suggested that one in four Iraqi adults had lost a family member to violence. The latest survey suggests that in Baghdad that number is as high as one in two. If true, these latest figures would suggest the death toll in Iraq now exceeds that of the Rwandan genocide in which about 800,000 died.


http://www.nationalstrategy.com/Prog...5/Default.aspx


Regarding demographics of recruits



The Demographic Challenges of the US Army
By Lawrence Korb and Sean E. Duggan


In 2006, the Army raised its maximum age for enlistment twice, first from 35 to 40 and then from 40 to 42 while it shortened the enlistment period for some recruits from four years to 15 months.¹⁰ That same year, the proportion of new Army recruits with high school diplomas dropped to 87 percent in 2005 and 81 percent in 2006—the lowest levels in at least 20 years.¹¹ Further, in the last three years, the amount of recruits who scored in the lowest category, Category 4, has gone up six fold.¹² In 2006, the Army even recruited an 18 year-old autistic man to be a cavalry scout - one of the Army’s more dangerous assignments.¹³ To further expand its diminishing pool of recruits, the Army has allowed recruits with criminal backgrounds to enlist at an alarming rate. Such offenders have been allowed to enlist after committing crimes such as aggravated assault, robbery, and vehicular homicide. According to the Department of Defense, their numbers have risen about 65 percent in the last three years alone, increasing to 8,129 in 2006 from 4,918 in 2003.¹⁴ Shockingly, the number of these moral waivers given in 2006 is more than triple the some 2,260 granted only a decade ago.¹⁵
These moral waivers have even been extended to recruits with felony convictions. In 2006, felons allowed to enter the Army increased to 11 percent of the 8,129 moral waivers granted that year, from 8 percent in 2005.¹⁶

[Prazak]

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It's obviously from a right-wing US neocon propagande site, note the non-US population down in the lower right corner is all RED!

Yeah, but so are all their favorite states.

[jtabeb]

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Regarding demographics of recruits



The Demographic Challenges of the US Army
By Lawrence Korb and Sean E. Duggan


In 2006, the Army raised its maximum age for enlistment twice, first from 35 to 40 and then from 40 to 42 while it shortened the enlistment period for some recruits from four years to 15 months.¹⁰ That same year, the proportion of new Army recruits with high school diplomas dropped to 87 percent in 2005 and 81 percent in 2006—the lowest levels in at least 20 years.¹¹ Further, in the last three years, the amount of recruits who scored in the lowest category, Category 4, has gone up six fold.¹² In 2006, the Army even recruited an 18 year-old autistic man to be a cavalry scout - one of the Army’s more dangerous assignments.¹³ To further expand its diminishing pool of recruits, the Army has allowed recruits with criminal backgrounds to enlist at an alarming rate. Such offenders have been allowed to enlist after committing crimes such as aggravated assault, robbery, and vehicular homicide. According to the Department of Defense, their numbers have risen about 65 percent in the last three years alone, increasing to 8,129 in 2006 from 4,918 in 2003.¹⁴ Shockingly, the number of these moral waivers given in 2006 is more than triple the some 2,260 granted only a decade ago.¹⁵
These moral waivers have even been extended to recruits with felony convictions. In 2006, felons allowed to enter the Army increased to 11 percent of the 8,129 moral waivers granted that year, from 8 percent in 2005.¹⁶

For the airforce it's just as much fun.

Today 3 in 10 meets the MINIMUM basic qualifications for service, in 1990 it was 7 in 10.

There goes our "envy of the world" military. ( I see it every day, those who can leave, those who stay, well we like gubmnt cheese on our whoppers) I'm only eating "cheese" till my commitment is up, B.T.W., then it off to where the real money is, foreign mercenary work! (okay, just kidding, defense contract training in a foreign oil producing country is what I meant)

[vanvaley1]

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For the airforce it's just as much fun.

Today 3 in 10 meets the MINIMUM basic qualifications for service, in 1990 it was 7 in 10.

There goes our "envy of the world" military. ( I see it every day, those who can leave, those who stay, well we like gubmnt cheese on our whoppers) I'm only eating "cheese" till my commitment is up, B.T.W., then it off to where the real money is, foreign mercenary work! (okay, just kidding, defense contract training in a foreign oil producing country is what I meant)

jtabeb, read an article about culling the officer corps of those not with the 'right program' attitude. Don't remember where I read it...maybe here. Have you noticed a culling of flag, senior, and even colonels and majors with a political propensity other than that which is 'approved'?

[cobben]

Peak beer

in Sweden occured in 1994 @ 67.3 liter/Swede per year, in 2007 it was down to 51.
Article Jan. 2008 in Dagens Industri says food inflation has reached the brewers, and the critical psychological level of SEK 10:- / beer can will soon be breached. :eek:

And the Chinese, already eating your lunch, are now also drinking your beer - they are importing more hops & barley from Europe as Australian harvests have been poor, driving up prices here also.

Adding insult to injury, the Swedish state just raised the beer tax by SEK 0:62/can.

(I wrote this in Jan. 2008, have no idea what has happened since then on the beer barricades.)

[jtabeb]

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Have you noticed a culling of flag, senior, and even colonels and majors with a political propensity other than that which is 'approved'?

Ha, that's funny. You're kidding, right? Did you see what occured during the Ronald Dumbsfield reign of terror. (Speak the truth and you too can find yourself retired).


Up to O-5 it's about the kind of officer you are, after that, it's how politically connected you are (in the POL-MIL complex)

[Andreuccio]

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Agreed. The Scots-irish are the most viscous and evil of the races and should survive over the Brownies and yellowies. Not only are whities sneaky and good at the game, they have strong claw like nails. The Jews have some skills too.

For an extremely offensive, but hilarious, look at different races and ethnicities in the same spirit as the quote above, check out P.J. O'Rourke's "Foreigners Around the World", from the May 1976 National Lampoon, linked here:

http://www.olimu.com/notes/Foreigners/Foreigners.htm

I won't quote any, because it's pretty awful, but, in fairness, he does manage to insult pretty much everybody.

[leegs]

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. . .extremely offensive, but hilarious, . . .

Yes, on both counts!

[goadam1]

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For an extremely offensive, but hilarious, look at different races and ethnicities in the same spirit as the quote above, check out P.J. O'Rourke's "Foreigners Around the World", from the May 1976 National Lampoon, linked here:

http://www.olimu.com/notes/Foreigners/Foreigners.htm

I won't quote any, because it's pretty awful, but, in fairness, he does manage to insult pretty much everybody.

lol. Great stuff. In college (late 80's) I was a lonely o'rourke fan. I love a contrarian.

Anyway, it's easier and more fun to be a misanthrope than a racist.