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Black and White issues so it was said oh so boldly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LYRUOd_QoM

"Take away from Me the noise of your songs; I will not even listen to the sound of your harps. But let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Amos 5

When energy is added to a system then the number of states that the system can take has increased: entropy has increased.
When the boundaries of the system are expanded then the number of states that the system can take has increased: entropy has increased.
When more objects are added to the system then the number of states that the system can take has increased: entropy has increased.
As entropy increases, the probability of the system having one specific state necessarily decreases (as more states are possible). The cost of maintaining a specific state against the tide of other states competing for presence becomes higher and higher as entropy increases.
The problem, therefore, is one of the brittleness of hierarchy. The more hierarchical and inflexible a societal structure becomes in a growing economy, then the more it costs to maintain, and the more likely it is to collapse as the entropy of a system grows. In our case, the biggest drivers of entropy are increasing population, increased extraction of energy resources, and human innovation leading to new products and services. Rigid social structures, such as our governance systems, cannot survive this and it's a disaster to try to keep them going.
The inevitable collapse of a rigid state in a high entropy system does NOT threaten the bottom of the pyramid more than the top. Just like trophic levels in nature, it is the individuals at the top that are most vulnerable to extinction. Although the net numbers of deaths at the lower trophic levels exceeds those at higher levels, this is simply because the population is larger to start with. It is the % of deaths that matters when talking about the classes as wholes. As we see in nature, a moderate % dieoff low down in the trophic layers can lead to 100% dieoff at the top. In the aftermath, the population of the lower trophic levels rebounds, but former top is gone forever. (Over time, a new one may evolve to take its place).
So why does a rigid hierarchy exist in the first place? The answer is that a particular state (or set of states) is declared and is desired, or is simply selected for against a constraint. A Constitution is one such definition, for example. A different metaphor might be software, where out of the endless programs possible, we have defined a particular outcome that we want to achieve. To get to a particular state, entropy must be suppressed at all layers within the solution, something that is best achieved by encapsulation and modularisation.
We build small components within the overall solution, and we robustly encapsulate those components to prevent their inner state interacting directly with the outer state, hence reducing the entropy within the component, reducing the entropy of the wider system as a whole, and making our desired state more probable.
This explains why life exists and has the degree of modularity that it does. The 'desired' outcome is simply genetic continuance. That which failed to achieve it, disappeared from existence, whereas that which survived best was that which evolved into a form that fulfils the requirement. Nature shows us solutions at all levels, from the simplest bacteria to the most complex eukaryotes which are bound by the constraints of complex systems: compartmentalised reaction zones contained in compartmentalised organelles contained in compartmentalised cells contained in compartmentalised organs contained in compartmentalised individuals contained in compartmentalised social structures (families, tribes, small groups) contained in compartmentalised political regions.
It's also the explanation behind the elites' drive for one world government (the EU being a stepping stone on the way to that). They have an outcome that they want to achieve, a particular high-level state for the system to be in, out of an endless collection of possible states. The only way to make that a reality is to suppress entropy at the lower layers, which translates into the elimination of national (and ultimately personal) sovereignty.
Higher-level complexity requires lower-level simplicity. The larger and more powerful a nation state becomes, the more specialised (less free) its citizens must therefore be, so choose where you want to be on the spectrum and seek that outcome. (Why I chose the name Mediocritas - the State can be a good thing, in moderation).
Bringing this back to Gail's article. These realities of complex systems inform the analysis of energy in society and make it obvious that collapse of complex nation states absolutely IS strongly driven by energy scarcity. A larger population and more technological progress increases societal entropy, meaning a larger amount of energy is needed to maintain state. The essential measure is therefore: available energy per capita in light of technological progress. It really is that simple. When this number falls due to higher population, falling energy extraction, more technological development, or a combination of these factors, then it will not be possible to maintain societal state.
The role of debt is largely irrelevant. It merely serves to make the transition between states easier, but it does not change the probability of any particular state occurring (unlike energy). Debt can threaten to break down a particular state by lubricating the motion of an agent of change, but it can just as easily be utilised to revert back to that state again. Debt has never been, nor will it ever be, equal to energy.
Our future of declining available energy per capita and (hopefully) increasing science and technology, will lead to the collapse of our high-level governments. They will try to survive (pointlessly), leading to war. A better course to chart for the future would be to voluntarily and peacefully break up our largest nations into many smaller nations. This is something I have always advocated for and recently it seems that the vibe at ZH is aligning with. It is the polar opposite of the George Soros view held by the current ruling class.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-2 ... ng-answers

http://www.numbeo.com/pollution/rankings_by_country.jsp

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We examined the rider on the white horse. We will now study its successor, the rider on the red horse.

The Greek word John uses for "red" is purros or pyrros, meaning "the color of fire" (compare our words "pyre," "pyromania," "pyrosis"). This is not the normal Greek word for red (eruthros), but a more specialized term that suggests fieriness or flickering reds, oranges, and yellows like a flame. It is the same word that John uses to describe the redness of the Dragon (Satan) in Revelation 12:3 (the third and only other occurrence is in a proper name, Sopatros Purrou, which is strangely not fully translated in Acts 20:4). This particular color intimates heat and ferocity like an out-of-control wildfire.

The Hebrew language does not have a similar, biblical term. However, the color red or scarlet in the Old Testament frequently symbolizes blood, whether the blood of sacrifice (Leviticus 14:4, 6, 49-52; see Hebrews 9:19) or the blood of violence (II Kings 3:22-23; Isaiah 63:2-3; Nahum 2:3; etc.). Scarlet has two other interesting meanings: that of wealth and luxury (II Samuel 1:24; Proverbs 31:21; Lamentations 4:5; etc.; see Matthew 27:28; Revelation 17:4; 18:12, 16) and of sin (Isaiah 1:18; see Revelation 17:3). One could make a case that all these meanings could apply to the second seal.
The horseman's "great sword" is a translation of máchaira megálee. Again, this is not the ordinary sword of war (romfaia) but a short sword or long knife like a dagger. Frequently, máchaira is the knife used to prepare a sacrifice or to slaughter an animal for food. It is also the sword worn by magistrates and executioners. That the red horseman's sword is "great" (megálee) means either that it is larger or longer than usual or that it is highly effective in doing its job. Surprisingly, romfaia appears in Revelation 6:8: "And power was given to [the four horsemen] to kill with sword, with hunger, with death.
A great sword," then, is the equivalent of a thoroughly effective instrument of death.
The sword is often a symbol of God's judgment. David writes in Psalm 7:12, "If [the wicked] does not turn back, He [God] will sharpen His sword." In Isaiah 34:6, 8, in the context of the Day of the Lord, God combines the sword of judgment with the idea of sacrifice and slaughter. richard

http://accesswdun.com/print/2016/7/426889

He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. 2 Peter 3:16 we are all warned since Psalm 56:5
All day long they distort my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.

His name is Rev. Jacques Hamel a servant of his true Master https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Rev.+Jacques+ ... ra&ia=news

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/acatholict ... lav-writes

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-2 ... -inflation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0

https://www.amazon.com/Dietrich-Bonhoef ... 0802806325

I have made ready for you twelve trees laden with different kinds of fruit, twelve fountains flowing with milk and honey, and seven great mountains covered with roses and lilies. There will I fill your sons with joy. Champion the widow, defend the cause of the fatherless, give to the poor, protect the orphan, clothe the naked. Care for the weak and the helpless, and do not mock at the cripple; watch over the disabled, and bring the blind to the vision of my brightness. Keep safe within your walls both old, and young. When you find the dead unburied, mark them with the sign and commit them to the tomb; and then, when I cause the dead to rise, I will give you the chief place. Be calm, my people; for your time of rest shall come. Care for your children like a good nurse, and train them to walk without falling.

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http://blogs.barrons.com/focusonfunds/2 ... yptr=yahoo

Jim in Greensboro wrote:
I wouldn't buy a variable annuity with YOUR money!

Just buy the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index fund and be done with it Buy it and hold it forever.

Joe in Avalon wrote:
For those who wanted an alternative, take a look at Vanguard Equity Income (VEIRX for Admiral class shares), also managed by Wellington. It holds somewhat more individual names and yields a little more than VDIGX, but has very similar performance numbers.


As we have seen the backbone of productive capital looks concentrated.
The older thought of $40.00 has been covered from many perspectives.
Here we are and we has and will see who and why going forward.
Nature could care less about the black and white issues as
night and day consider facts going forward.
Crude Oil 40.73 -0.41 (-1.00%)
Crossroads or cultural pivot I know not.
Normalcy bias as more run out others people money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60
Have you covered your shorts? Nope and no damn way.

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what does individual "liberation" mean in a neofeudal society of indebted financial serfs?

Secular stagnation and decline by designers.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-2 ... p-plotters

totalitarian political system masquerading as a religion
moderates understand confusion shelters corruption
just that simple

They make it very clear: the enemy is liberty.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries. James Madison

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=immigration+l ... era&ia=web

Any one associated with the MB is a traitor. Long live France, get to work.

He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. 2 Peter 3:16 we are all warned since Psalm 56:5
All day long they distort my words; All their thoughts are against me for evil.

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a stake into the wheel itself” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Inflation NGNP targeting "IT" is alive and well. No you will not be allowed to decide with what you earned.
As we warned the energy node usury cluster sites are up and running node #096421 has slipped in sales so we will
shift output under the seven year reeducation GAAP ACRS plan. We will get our euro to franc discount
window to buy the unfortunate distressed assets back. http://www.atr.org/full-list-hillary-s- ... -tax-hikes

http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/f ... tbb_71.pdf
The bloated debt corpse will explode and you know what, they are already gone and what you thought you knew is already gone with it.
The GNP numbers we seen are those buried up to there neck and the tide of reality moving in since global per capita debt is all
that matters. Every .INC will tell you we are not historian's.

Budweiser, now owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev N.V., which is based in Leuven, Belgium
Alka-Seltzer, now owned by German company Bayer Schering Pharma AG
Ben & Jerrys, now owned by British-Dutch Unilever
AMC theaters, now owned by the Chinese
7-Eleven, now owned by the Japanese company, Seven & I Holdings
Woman’s Day Magazine, now owned by the French company, Hachette Filipacchi Médias, S.A
Purina, now owned by the Swiss company, Nestle
Gerber, now owned by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, Novartis
Firestone, now owned by the Japanese Bridgestone Corporation
Citgo, now owned by the government of Venezuela
French’s Mustard, now owned by Reckitt Benckiser, a British conglomerate
Frigidaire, now owned by Sweden’s AB Electrolux
The Plaza Hotel in New York City, now owned by Israeli billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva’s El-Ad Group
Trader Joes, now owned by German billionaires Karl and Theo Albrecht
Dial soap, now owned by Henkel KGaA, based in Dusseldorf, Germany
Sunglass Hut, now owned by Italian eyewear seller Luxottica Group
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Are you starting to get the picture?
Our economic infrastructure is being absolutely gutted and more than 46 million Americans are now living in poverty.
And if you are waiting for the jokers in Washington D.C. to fix things, you are going to be waiting for a very, very, very, very, very long time.

America’s Economic Descent into Colonial Status is coming to a close and you thing the Blue team loves you?
Delusionary educational standards have sealed them. http://economyincrisis.org/

1.As of February, Yellen had not “fully investigated” the legal issues of negative rates.
2.As of May, Yellen was unwilling to state the Fed had legal authority to go negative.
3.As of June, Yellen had no doubt the Fed could legally go negative.


"Zersetzung, as a concept, involves the annihilation of the inner-self."
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/socio ... m#Contents
It calls for,

"[The] targeted spreading of rumors about particular persons with the aid of anonymous [means]... making compromising situations for them by creating confusion over the facts... [and] the engendering of hysterical and depressive behaviors in the target person."

"Directive Perceptions," another program designed to "develop apathy (in the [targeted] subject)... to achieve a situation in which his conflicts, whether of a social, personal, career, health or political kind are irreversible... to give rise to fears in him... to develop/create disappointments... to restrict his talents or capabilities... to reduce his capacity to act and... to harness dissentions and contradictions around him..."

These directives were used by the Ministry for State Security against state security. In other words, they were massively used on the population to maintain a quo.

These programs were designed to secretly destroy a target's personal and professional life, ruin them financially, and prevent them from reaching their potential, with the intention to produce irreversible depressive and panic-stricken behaviors. What the Hidden Evil appears to be, is a combination of various Cointelpro operations used by oppressive regimes on their civilian population. It has been refined and deployed globally.

Isa66: They have chosen their own ways, and they delight in their abominations; so I also will choose harsh treatment for them and will bring on them what they dread. For when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, no one listened. They did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me.” Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word: “Your own people who hate you, and exclude you because of my name.......
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http://www.hightaxhillary.com/

The 7000 year forecast I mentioned is confirmed. The red horse appears to be ready.
We will see soon enough and have as it was conveyed from Joel also.
https://prezi.com/bvwyzyvkrc9j/how-to-r ... edium=copy
Those who had an eye and ear have seen enough to understand what is as we speak.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-3 ... citizens-s

Ending on a more positive note, Hawking said: "We can and will succeed. Humans are endlessly resourceful, optimistic and adaptable. We must broaden our definition of wealth to include knowledge, natural resources, and human capacity, and at the same time learn to share each of those more fairly. If we do this, then there is no limit to what humans can achieve together."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMSph5hsKrY

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https://prezi.com/mtwshkc4-k2p/how-to-c ... -and-odds/ john5v43
behold the mirror of events


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