Temperature Control Towers for Urban Centers: Global Climate Control

I have come across an Economist article which postulated that air conditioning will be required by ever larger numbers of people to survive global warming, which in effect will add to the rising global temperatures. Perhaps there is a way to avoid having to deploy all these new air conditioning units across cities, without resorting to air conditioning entire blocks by using the canopy solution that I've been proposing for shading streets and bringing full on climate control to municipalities. What if we used the geothermal model of heating and cooling, and applied it to atmospheric cooling of urban centers?

Cities could create a climate control mechanism where very tall towers are built for pumping air into the upper atmosphere. This would serve to create an inward draft into the cities which generally experience hotter weather than the suburbs and thus lower the urban temperatures. While the hot air trapped by the city's concrete is cooled as it enters the atmosphere above the weather, new cooler air would rush in from either geothermal vents or from outside of the cities. This can reduce the need for air conditioning in large cities and can actually work as a global climate control technology, if enough cities control their temperature in this manner.

The Chinese have built much lower towers for pollution control, which serve to filter the urban air. This is what came to my mind as a solution for air conditioning. Pollution and ozone in the cities could also be thus put into the upper atmosphere, where carbon dioxide and ozone actually aren't considered to be pollutants. Moreover, the inward draft from outside of the cities would bring in suburban air which is generally richer in oxygen due to larger amount of vegetation. This too would improve urban air quality. The system can have a global effect by lowering or controlling global temperatures as hot city air pupped above the weather will cool off.


A modular approach to build these towers will clearly be the best approach. I have plugged this idea, and the Broad Group has demonstrated how quickly tall buildings can be assembled using my approach. In fact, the company was going to build the tallest building in the world in this fashion. These towers have to go above the weather to create a climate control mechanism. They have to be earthquake and hurricane resistant, as their structural failure would cause them to collapse on top of residential areas. To be cost effective, the climate and pollution control towers have to present a long term utility. Present day global warming and the trajectory for ever greater atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide make this solution into a viable technology.

"The sky temperature is just above freezing (34 degrees Fahrenheit or 1 degree Celsius). The cloud temperature is considerably warmer (65 degrees F or 18 degrees C)." This means that circulating the air, where hot air from city streets is pumped above the weather is cooled or exhausted, and the cool air is pumped back down into the city (clearly not at street level, as people would complain about having near freezing temperatures in summertime) but somewhere higher, probably above the city's tallest buildings, will have a dramatic cooling effect for the entire urban area. Obviously the city temperature can thus be controlled to anything between a few degrees C and whatever it is that people want. Heating can similarly be done with geothermal technology to reduce winter cold. This would create a global climate control capability, provided people could agree on what they want, as far as temperature ranges for particular seasons. Existing buildings that are tall enough to go above the weather can also be incorporated into this city cooling scheme by simply creating heat exchange vents going to the top of the buildings which rise above the clouds.

Comments

kuffodog said…
EA SPORTS UFC 3 | UFC 232 Simulation - Cris Cyborg vs. Amanda Nunes

https://youtu.be/3mvCWhzsm7U

So. Now that this title defense is pretty much settled in a simulation, thank UFC they didn't back out on the co-main event: Jon Jones vs Alexander Gustaffson.
kuffodog said…
Fedor Emelianenko Highlights (HD) 2018 Федор Емельяненко

https://youtu.be/pwHa3KfH274
kuffodog said…
"In purchasing-power-parity terms, China’s economy became the world’s largest in about 2013"

"China is already the world’s largest manufacturer and biggest exporter."

"The biggest effect will be that China becomes the leading beneficiary of what economists call agglomeration effects."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-18/china-as-no-1-economy-to-reap-benefits-that-once-flowed-to-u-s

"Agglomeration economies are the benefits that come when firms and people
locate near one another together in cities and industrial clusters. These benefits all ultimately come from transport costs savings: the only real difference
between a nearby fi rm and one across the continent is that it is easier to connect with a neighbor. Of course, transportation costs must be interpreted
broadly, and they include the difficulties in exchanging goods, people, and
ideas. The connection between agglomeration economies and transport
costs would seem to suggest that agglomerations should become less important, as transportation and communication costs have fallen. Yet, a central paradox of our time is that in cities, industrial agglomerations remain
remarkably vital, despite ever easier movement of goods and knowledge
across space."

https://www.nber.org/chapters/c7977.pdf

Communication wise, my ideas for tech companies to field products like the smartphone and the tablet computer, have pushed the world economy towards informational agglomeration that brings companies and businesses together globally. For instance my programmers could move to Spain, but I could still work with them from Poland using the internet with the servers being in USA. New infrastructure like the New Silk Road, has a similar agglomeration effect. Eurasian Hyperloop system will bring businesses much closer together, especially if it is deployed with package, cargo and passenger services.

1/3 of China's GDP is now in the tech sector. 9 of 10 world's biggest tech companies are Chinese. The reason why their market cap is lower than their American counterparts is because they charge reasonable prices, which is reflected in China's GDP PPP. As the yuan gains in strength, as it inevitably will, the market cap for Chinese tech companies will rise and they will take of for the American monopolists.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-has-9-of-the-worlds-20-biggest-tech-companies-2018-05-31
kuffodog said…
"In purchasing-power-parity terms, China’s economy became the world’s largest in about 2013"

"China is already the world’s largest manufacturer and biggest exporter."

"The biggest effect will be that China becomes the leading beneficiary of what economists call agglomeration effects."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-18/china-as-no-1-economy-to-reap-benefits-that-once-flowed-to-u-s

"Agglomeration economies are the benefits that come when firms and people
locate near one another together in cities and industrial clusters. These benefits all ultimately come from transport costs savings: the only real difference
between a nearby fi rm and one across the continent is that it is easier to connect with a neighbor. Of course, transportation costs must be interpreted
broadly, and they include the difficulties in exchanging goods, people, and
ideas. The connection between agglomeration economies and transport
costs would seem to suggest that agglomerations should become less important, as transportation and communication costs have fallen. Yet, a central paradox of our time is that in cities, industrial agglomerations remain
remarkably vital, despite ever easier movement of goods and knowledge
across space."

https://www.nber.org/chapters/c7977.pdf

Communication wise, my ideas for tech companies to field products like the smartphone and the tablet computer, have pushed the world economy towards informational agglomeration that brings companies and businesses together globally. For instance my programmers could move to Spain, but I could still work with them from Poland using the internet with the servers being in USA. New infrastructure like the New Silk Road, has a similar agglomeration effect. Eurasian Hyperloop system will bring businesses much closer together, especially if it is deployed with package, cargo and passenger services.

1/3 of China's GDP is now in the tech sector. 9 of 10 world's biggest tech companies are Chinese. The reason why their market cap is lower than their American counterparts is because they charge reasonable prices, which is reflected in China's GDP PPP. As the yuan gains in strength, as it inevitably will, the market cap for Chinese tech companies will rise and they will take over for the American monopolists.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-has-9-of-the-worlds-20-biggest-tech-companies-2018-05-31

kuffodog said…
Invoice for 18 years of being a CIA asset under mind surveillance:

$100,000 per year.

That's $1,800,000.00 for 18 years. Deduct Social Security and taxes, each year. Than put the money in my PayPal account.
kuffodog said…
The primary purpose of military and intelligence agencies is to protect the lives, livelihoods and territorial integrity of a country. CIA and the Pentagon are failing miserably at this, as Florida is existentially threatened by the sea level rise, and other athropogenic global warming climate change disasters as they decimate American infrastructure, businesses, residential areas, farm land, lives are lost and livelihoods shattered.

To have a comparison between the effort by CIA and the US military in the so called 'war on terror' one should use but only two variables.

1. Lives lost.
2. Economic damage.

To illustrate the disparity, compare the 6,000 fatalities in hurricane Maria alone, to all the American deaths related to terrorism, and the respective economic damage to $91.61 billion i devastation inflicted by the tropical cyclone on Puerto Rico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Maria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States

In 2,872 terrorist incidents since 1970, USA saw 3,781 fatalities and some buildings were destroyed, worth less than $3 billion combined. Maria alone exceeds that by a factor of 2 in fatalities and by a factor of 30 in economic damage.
kuffodog said…
What if plunder and destruction of the populations of countries US attacks is the objective of the war?

Americans have pretty much engaged in punitive expeditions across the Muslim world, not any attempt to stabilize nation states, develop economies or bring stability to any of them. If that was the goal, then the wars were not lost, but successfully prolonged to inflict maximum pain and damage. I'd imaging that the 'gloves off' approach that CIA had, has never really changed. Provocation and mind control of insurgents to terrorism against Muslim nation states, resulted in those nation states turning against Islamist insurgents (i.e. 'terrorism') regardless of their political convictions; it resulted in authoritarian rulers squashing all efforts to bring democratic change, but ruthlessly destroying Islamist insurgencies. Authoritarian rulers on the other hand are good for the American military industrial complex in three ways: 1.) they buy American weapons as importers, 2.) the insurgents and proxies they foment through oppression are supplied with weapons through various sponsors 3.) as violence persists, USA can justify ever larger military and clandestine service expenditures, which in turn mean more equipment purchases from the US military industrial complex.

Also. The stated goal of Iraq and Afghan wars, as Bush put it, was to bring Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden dead or alive. To smoke them out. Well. If that was the goal... it worked both ways. Either way, they're both dead now. So at least those two 'objectives' of these wars were reached. Now, whether USA remains in Afghanistan and Iraq to control the territories to exploit the countries' resources, that's another question. Clearly Americans want Iraq oil and Afghan heroin to keep flowing into the arteries of the world economy and the veins of geopolitical adversaries, as their oil companies and banks profit on both. If resource grab and plunder were the goals, these have succeeded very well.

Now about the bloodshed. Muslims dying as punishment for 9/11 is part of the 'never forget' motto. These wars and provocations can go on in perpetuity. Just as with creating market demand for American weapons and profiting from occupied countries' resources, bloodletting may very well be the unspoken goal of these wars.

So let's see whether Americans are losing the Iraq and Afghan wars:

1. punitive death tolls, disabilities and suffering: genocidal levels. objective gained.
2. exploitation of invaded countries resources. objective gained.
3. killing or capture of Hussein and bin Laden. objective gained.
4. creation of demand for US arms export & domestic purchases. objective gained.

then there is oil production control...

5. control of oil prices by militarily & clandestinely engaging (as ally or foe) of hydrocarbon exporters. objective gained (even in Ukraine! paradoxically, the warring sides there are calling each other 'terrorists')

That's 5 of 5. If these were the objectives. The question remains: at what point will Americans have enough of Muslim blood, money and oil? Also, as authoritarian regimes persist and new insurgent groups resort to terrorism, so will calls for new dictators and terrorist group leaders to be eliminated. Libya's Qaddafi is dead, its regime gone, so is Saleh in Yemen, just like bin Laden, and Hussein. What where the objectives of these wars if not regime change? Bloodshed and oil price control by taking production off line in Yemen and Libya resulted in USA as number one oil and gas producers completely recovering its economy. So did USA really lose in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Syria? It depends on what you consider the goals to be. If you consider what I've listed as the goals, then USA is batting 5 for 5.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/12/united-states-military-defeat-afghanistan-iraq
kuffodog said…
IDEA: compile the data from all the Wikipedia entries for battles & wars, and create statistics, like which side won based on number of combatants.

- Did those superior numerically win?
- How often were wars won by those who fought on their own territory?
- What was the reason for war? Territorial dispute? Political dispute? Maritime dispute?
- Was territory ever gained by the loser in wars?

kuffodog said…
China's GDP growth has dropped from over 12% in 2010 to around 6.5% now. Except did it? That's the NOMINAL GDP growth. At what rate did GDP PPP grow? Let's compare the starting points and thus the aggregate GDP growth for both nominal and PPP metrics.

Nominal GDP

2008 4.598 trillion to 2017 12.327 trillion - GDP grew by a factor of 2.68

PPP GDP

2008 7.973 trillion to 2017 23.120 trillion - GDP grew by a factor of 2.90

Thus, GDP PPP grew by a factor of 2.90 vs nominal by a factor of 2.68. This means present Chinese growth as reflected in nominal terms does not correctly reflect Chinese growth in GDP PPP terms, there exists a growth rate discrepancy, if this trend continues the gap will widen; meaning that in the long term the GDP nominal and GDP PPP will further shift apart. It also means that China get much more bang for the buck, literally, PRC 2017 military spending was worth 23,210/12,237 or 1.9 times as much as the nominal dollar amount. China has spent about 1.02 trillion yuan on the military in 2017, or $161.9 billion, but the actual PPP value of that spending is $307.08 billion in terms of purchasing power. Then there are other considerations, like conscription and veteran services, on the one hand China doesn't pay as much for its soldiers and it doesn't have many veterans to take care of, because it's not perpetually entangled in wars... this means most of Chinese military spending goes to new equipment which results in economic and technological growth.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/05/c_137018039.htm

kuffodog said…
Insurgents in war zones where Americans operate do not attack the foreign occupying forces, but instead attack their own countries' civilians. I find that highly suspicious. Why in the world would they attack their own people whom they are trying to free from foreign rule and invasion? This is true of Iraq, Bahrain, Syria, and Afghanistan. There exist 3 historical precedents where successful attacks on American military targets resulted in the US pulling their forces out of Muslim lands. This is true of Lebanon, Somalia and Yemen. Instead, "terrorist groups" attack their own mosques, town squares, markets, schools and gov't offices. Strategically this make little sense. Why attack the civilians whom you mean to liberate of foreign invaders and not the invaders?! The result is obviously that the civilians who are attacked turn against the insurgency and aid the invaders. Are they really this STUPID? I don't think they are. That leaves only ONE other explanation: these are proxies working for Saudis and Americans who under mind control slaughter Muslims to perpetrate wars indefinitely, because they get paid for it. In other words these are criminal groups working FOR the invaders and are funded by the invaders' Muslim allies as proxies. More importantly, how is it that attacks on legitimate military targets are considered 'terrorist attacks' by Americans and prosecuted as such? Americans bomb schools, hospitals and Mosques full of civilians and not one law suit resulted! This is all ASS BACKWARDS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings#Aftermath

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_(1993)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing#Aftermath
kuffodog said…
Cops kill over 1,000 people a year in USA. Getting murdered, tortured, or raped by a cop in the United States has a greater probability than getting 5 numbers right on a Lotto ticket. Those who are visa overstays or who are in the country illegally are headed straight for "CONCENTRATION CAMPS". Places where Americans torture, rape, rob and kill... even 8 year old kids.

"A Digital Archive Documents Two Decades of Torture by Chicago Police"
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/10000-files-on-chicago-police-torture-decades-now-online/504233/

"Fatal Force: 987 people have been shot and killed by police in 2018"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/police-shootings-2018/

"Police officers in the US were charged with more than 400 rapes over a 9-year period"
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/19/us/police-sexual-assaults-maryland-scope/index.html

"Yes, you can call the border centers ‘concentration camps,’ but apply the history with care"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/06/20/yes-you-can-call-the-border-detention-centers-concentration-camps-but-apply-the-history-with-care/

"‘A Breaking Point’: Second Child’s Death Prompts New Procedures for Border Agency"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/us/felipe-alonzo-gomez-customs-border-patrol.html

"DETAINED, THEN VIOLATED: 1,224 Complaints Reveal a Staggering Pattern of Sexual Abuse in Immigration Detention. Half of Those Accused Worked for ICE."
https://theintercept.com/2018/04/11/immigration-detention-sexual-abuse-ice-dhs/

"Immigrant detention: Detention centers deaths raise immigrant rights questions"
https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/detention-centers-deaths-raise-immigrant-rights-questions

Naturally when a visa overstay gets attacked, and they actually do have a weapon which they can use to protect themselves from a Nazi, rapist, murderer hiding behind a uniform... they are VERY tempted to use it.

"Suspect in fatal California cop shooting is in US illegally, authorities say"
https://www.foxnews.com/us/suspect-in-fatal-california-cop-shooting-is-in-us-illegally-authorities-say
kuffodog said…
The Nazis used "Reichstag fire"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

and the "Gleiwitz incident"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident

Americans conduct sabotage, acts to terrorism, proxy and false flag operations routinely across the world to mass murder, rob, invade, terrorize and enslave world wide, including domestically. Americans are NAZIS.

"A Timeline of CIA Atrocities"
https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-timeline-of-cia-atrocities/5348804

"35 countries where the U.S. has supported fascists, drug lords and terrorists"
https://www.salon.com/2014/03/08/35_countries_the_u_s_has_backed_international_crime_partner/

"CIA had tampered with the software so that it would “go haywire, after a decent interval, to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to pipeline joints and welds"
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2010/07/01/war-in-the-fifth-domain

"THE CIA'S APPALLING HUMAN EXPERIMENTS WITH MIND CONTROL"
https://www.history.com/mkultra-operation-midnight-climax-cia-lsd-experiments

"U.S. SILENTLY TORTURES AMERICANS WITH CELL TOWER ELECTROMAGNETIC NEUROWEAPON"
http://viclivingston.blogspot.com/2011/12/u.html

"It’s Been 50 Years Since the Biggest US-Backed Genocide You’ve Never Heard Of
As many as 1 million people were killed by Indonesia’s Cold War regime—and we still don’t know the full story of our government’s involvement."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/its-been-50-years-biggest-us-backed-genocide-youve-never-heard/
kuffodog said…
Americans already balked on selling F-35s to Turks, now Russians will likely balk on delivery of the S-400 system, otherwise their own planes may very well be hit by these missiles. In fact, Turks already did attack Russian planes.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/americas-big-fear-turkey-mixing-f-35s-and-russias-s-400-air-defense-system-25152
kuffodog said…
The Turkish regime sponsored AQ and ISIS in Syria, on the one hand against Assad to gain territory in Syria, on the other hand to conduct genocide against Kurds, in both Iraq and Syria. What else could possibly explain the ISIS Sunni faction attacking Kurds instead of the Assad regime and committing genocide against Kurdish civilians in BOTH Syria and Iraq?! Kurds with the backing of USA and EU defeated the Turkish ISIS proxy in Syria and Iraq, so Turks now openly attack Kurds on their own, both domestically and in Syria. This is now all completely transparent. Turkey should be thrown out of NATO. USA, EU and Russia should consider sanctions against Turkey and the Erdogan regime in particular, as a state sponsor of terrorism. Turks murdered the Russian ambassador and set up Americans for it, now they've deep faked the Saudi killing of a reporter, just as they've been blaming the Saudis as ISIS sponsors.

FACTS to consider: who actually FOUGHT the Turkish proxy ISIS?

- Russians.
- Americans and the coalition, which included Saudi Arabia
- the Assad regime
- Kurds in both Syria and Iraq
- Iranians
- Lebanese

... but NOT the Turks. Not even when ISIS conducted GENOCIDE against Kurdish civilians in a town near their border. That kind of demystifies the whole war, doesn't it?!

See the side that conducted air strikes against Turks' ISIS proxy: it INCLUDES both USA and Saudi Arabia. How realistic is it that Saudis or Americans continued to sponsor ISIS as a proxy, even as they bombed them to stop a genocide of Kurds?! Who actually wants to mass murder Kurds and has conducted a policy of ethnic cleansing for nearly half a century? Who is NOT on the allied side backing the Kurds against ISIS? Yeah. TURKEY. The Battle of Kobane took place in 2014, ISIS continued as a Turkish proxy until its near demise for another 4 years! Who supplied them? Where did their manpower come from? Not Jordan. Not Shia Iraq. Not the Assad regime. Not Lebanon. Not Israel. TURKEY!

Siege of Kobanî
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Koban%C3%AE
kuffodog said…
Finally, ALL the terrorist attacks by ISIS in Europe originate from Turkey or happened in Turkey. What does that tell you?

- Europe did not sponsor ISIS
- Turkey does not police ISIS activities on their territory
- ISIS linked attacks in Turkey targeted REGIME OPPONENTS or FOREIGNERS
- Turkey used this proxy against Germany and EU for refusing to admit their regime into EU
- Turkey used ISIS proxy to retaliate against EU & USA for backing Kurds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_linked_to_ISIL
kuffodog said…
Also, even if CIA did have a hand in the Turkish 'coup attempt', was it not JUSTIFIED, considering that Erdogan was sponsoring ISIS and working towards GENOCIDE of Kurds in both Syria and Iraq? Even if Saudi Arabia and the United States in the early stages of the Syrian War did sponsor a Sunni insurgency that later morphed into ISIS under Turkish coercion and was turned into a genocidal force of evil intent on the extermination of minorities like Christians and ethnic groups like Kurds... whom did they serve if not TURKS who were the only ones in the region to historically practice GENOCIDE AGAINST CHRISTIANS and GENOCIDE AGAINST KURDS!
kuffodog said…
Now let us see. The lying genocidal regime in Turkey that routinely murders reporters, is rife with terrorist attacks against opposition parties, sponsors terrorism across Middle East and Europe, then blames Saudi Arabia for the disappearance of a Washington Post reporter. Too convenient. Is it not possible that the Saudis simply left, the reporter left. The Turks captured him, murdered him, made a tape and accused the Saudis of doing it? How difficult would that be with modern day technology of VIDEO DEEP FAKES?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/world/europe/turkey-saudi-khashoggi-dismember.html

Want to test this? Make a tape of someone that is living, being murdered and present it as evidence. Then produce that living person as someone who cooperated in making of the tape. Remember this is just an AUDIO take. The noises of torture and murder could come from ANY single one reporter being tortured the murdered by Turks.
kuffodog said…
The Erdogan regime has mind control technology like any nation state. Now consider this: if Turks used a COP to kill the Russian ambassador and framed a political opponent in USA for it, how credible are Erdogan regime's Turkish forensic and investigation officers poking about at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul? Also, what did they find? Nothing? How unsurprising. That's because there is NOTHING to find. Also, why is there an audio tape? The consulate is Saudi sovereign territory. There's not SUPPOSED to be SURVEILLANCE of it or a TAPE! More importantly, if the Erdogan regime routinely kills political opponents and reporters, what is stopping them from faking this? The regime in order to prove the tape is authentic would have to provide the EQUIPMENT which was used to create the tape and explain how it conducted surveillance. Even then this would not be proof, as they could have simply staged the recording and authentically used this equipment record their own torture and killing of the Saudi journalist or have faked it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/world/europe/turkey-saudi-khashoggi-dismember.html

Which brings us to the mysterious disappearance of Austin Bennett Tice. ISIS never claimed to have him. Assad never claimed to have him. Kurds would never hold him captive. So where is he? The only rational explanation is the Turks have him. Next thing you know there'll be a tape of CIA showing up in Istanbul and a tape of Tice being cut into pieces will surface. You watch.
kuffodog said…
"Byron Smith murder recording: Audio of Minnesota man killing teens Haile Kifer and Nick Brady"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6RGXGgTr6g

compare to the tape that Ergodan's regime has fielded:

- there are bodies
- there is a suspect
- there is forensic evidence
- the suspect corroborates the tape
kuffodog said…
"I would think that almost all the trend lines are bad right now so rather than seeing the Middle East somehow, having been exhausted moving towards peace or anything like that. I think you are looking at a part of the world where borders count for very little. Where there is no serious negotiation. Where countries are beginning to break down from within and if you are not worried about this part of the world, you are not paying attention. And what happens there won't say there. It ain't Las Vegas. The bad things when they happen in the Middle East have a way of spreading around the world." - Richard Haass, CFR

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/12/27/richard_haass_iran_is_the_most_likely_setting_for_a_major_new_war_in_2019.html
kuffodog said…
Combined after re-unification, Koreans will have a population of 77 million which is a country bigger than either France or UK, and nearly as big as Germany. They will be a nuclear power. If the two militaries are put together, they'll have the largest military in the world, with world's largest pool for reserves. The country's economy will have the potential for rapid economic growth, resulting in two digit percentage annual GDP increases. The combined naval power of Korea will be able to challenge Russia, Japan, USA and even China in the western Pacific.

"North and South Korea are celebrating a new rail line they can’t construct"
https://qz.com/1508036/north-and-south-korea-celebrate-a-new-rail-line-they-cant-construct/

"Is ‘radar feud’ sign of future military confrontation between (South) Korea and Japan?"
https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2018/12/26/is-radar-feud-sign-of-future-military-confrontation-between-south-korea-and-japan/
kuffodog said…
"Just a week before the radar face-off, South Korea staged annual drills to defend the Dokdo islets, mobilizing battleships and combat airplanes. The exercise triggered an angry backlash from the Japanese government.

According to officials of Seoul’s Ministry of National Defense, North Korea would not be described as an “enemy” for the first time in the soon-to-be-published 2018 Defense White Paper. Instead, the biennial paper is to describe the term of enemy as “every force that threatens the lives and property” of South Korea."

https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2018/12/26/is-radar-feud-sign-of-future-military-confrontation-between-south-korea-and-japan/
kuffodog said…
Ceremony held to reconnect N and S Korea - BBC News

https://youtu.be/XewnyUJgyA4
kuffodog said…
Food for thought:

USA is a belligerent state actor that criminally invades and ruins other countries one after another. It conspires to overthrow other countries' gov'ts, and has done this dozens of times. It now possesses a criminal arsenal of nuclear weapons, banned by the UN, as well as biological and world's largest stockpile of chemical weapons. It threatens to wipe out countries in a nuclear holocaust routinely to terrorize them to do their bidding, and can point to a historical precedent where it nuclear bombed civilians in at least two cities when their ultimatums were not complied with.

Let us assume that China, also a nuclear power, demands that USA disarms. Then China places sanctions on USA. USA wants to build the Keystone pipeline (a violation of the Paris Agreement) and to connect rail road links to Canada to import its oil. Canada wants to do this to make money, so China threatens Canada with sanctions to stop it, because the American war criminals refuse to give up weapons of mass destruction. See the picture?

Now tell me that Americans telling North and South Koreans they can't connect their families with a railroad aren't TOTALLY absurd.
kuffodog said…
Republicans serving the fossil fuel oligarchy and the genocidal regime in USA, have refused and in effect killed high speed rail in United States for at least a decade. When they do this domestically, it is their ecocidal choice. When they impose denial of new infrastructure abroad, and do so criminally based on libel and nuclear terrorism against independent or occupied nation states by military, clandestine and economic blackmail, the whole world should rise up to defend Americans' victims.

"How Republicans Killed America's High-Speed Rail Plan"
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2013/11/how-republicans-killed-americas-high-speed-rail-plan/7458/
kuffodog said…
In 2015, Americans linked to Mexico's rail system as part of NAFTA for the first time in 100 years. Now Republicans are killing NAFTA and have build concentration camps for foreign nationals in USA.

"US and Mexico open first new rail link in more than a century"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/25/us-mexico-first-new-rail-link-texas
kuffodog said…
If Russia and USA are at war due to use of intellectual and info-weapons...

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1077977121476222976

...then United States is at war with the world, and the European Union in particular, because it uses not only propaganda and hacking, but cybernetic weapons, mind invasion, mind control, torture, terrorism, financial attacks, blackmail etc.

Also, USA has been at war with the Soviet Union in this manner and it has NOT been a Cold War. USA used cybernetic weapons to blow up gas pipelines. USA used terrorist proxies in Afghanistan to mass murder Russian civilians and attack Russian military and its equipment. USA attacked nuclear infrastructure. USA used massive state propaganda and electronic warfare, not limited to Voice of America or some books like Doctor Zhivago, but malicious attacks across all fabrics of economic activity and life in the Warsaw Pact.

Finally, USA has not stopped these attacks which include, financial fraud, economic attacks, and internet monopolists attacks on countries' economies and political systems using US regime controlled communication and computer equipment. The American regime uses companies like Apple, Google or Facebook to destroy the European Union by obtaining political objectives like referenda to split it apart, defraud taxes, rob people of patents and technologies, destroy public trust in European institutions as they've done in Poland, sink countries into economic collapse like they've done defrauding Greek national debt and then crying wolf about Grexit in corporate mediate for over a decade until British were manipulated by Facebook which also participated in a coup in USA.

Finally, the criminal genocidal American regime TORTURES and MURDERS European Union citizens globally in directed energy cybernetic attacks like those against myself and my family, as well as false flag attacks on European civilians like those on board of flight MH-17 set up to be killed by Russian air defenses in Eastern Ukraine. Then there is physical kidnapping, torture and murder of EU residents and citizens, as part of CIA criminal conspiracies to destroy human rights values across the European Union by corrupting clandestine services of individual nation states to become murderous sadistic terrorist regimes like they are, which was done with both terrorist proxies, CIA kidnapping, extraordinary rendition program, or American programs of biological weapons of mass destruction like the one in Georgia which murdered nearly 100 civilians. These actions aren't simply self serving criminal acts of the American regime, they are aimed at subjugating individual states to act against European law in defiance of human right and to force them to deny this publicly. They are attacking the European Union and European unity in this way, while pretending to fight terrorism and THAT is their desired intent, not any interrogations of kidnapping victims. The targets and suspects they value Americans murder, not capture.
kuffodog said…
“We invite the Syrian government forces, which are obliged to protect the same country, nation and borders, to assert control over the areas our forces have withdrawn from, in particularly Manbij, and to protect these areas against a Turkish invasion,” - YPG, or People’s Protection Units

https://www.rt.com/news/447570-ypg-syria-army-manbij-turkey/
kuffodog said…
When I advised JCP not only was the company able to retain market share but kept profitable. Now their stock price is under $1 per share. Good lesson for Americans. This is the fate that awaits your economy without my help. Continue to torture me and persecute my family you stupid sadistic animals. You'll make America great again. As in: a great dust bowl, with poverty, disease and death sinking you into the abyss of misery.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jc-penney-stock-price-falls-below-1-a-share-for-second-trading-day-in-row/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=61629873
kuffodog said…
"There are three main factors that drive economic growth:

1. Accumulation of capital stock
2. Increases in labor inputs, such as workers or hours worked
3. Technological advancement"

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2015/june/what-drives-long-run-economic-growth

First let us note that availability of resources isn't one of these factors. Resources can be purchased on global markets which means whoever has the capital is better positioned to compete against those who don't have it, resources can also be mined or conquered in war. Let's review this backwards.

3. China is at the forefront of technological advancement. It also can acquire newest technologies by buying patents and training its labor force by educating it abroad and gaining intimate knowledge of technologies, before they are deployed by doing research for foreign companies and governments.

2. Chinese labor market does not discriminate based on gender, due to which Americans for instance lose 5% of their GDP. The country has a decent social safety net, an increasingly educated labor force, is engaged in a program to improve intelligence population wide, is deploying robots and AI which removes constraints on the labor force productivity, and it has the LARGEST labor force in the world.

1. Yuan is a reserve currency. Chinese interests will be protected by an increasingly modern and more competent military able to project power globally. China is generating billionaires at the fastest rate in the world. Accumulation of wealth is measured in a number of ways, including the value of new infrastructure, household wealth, and actual capital accrual as defined by monetary instruments. This last part is where China can do better. The AIIB is one way to finance Chinese projects around the world. The Eurasian Entrepreneurship Bank which I've proposed is another. However, China should also take advantage of its vast computing power and embrace cryptocurrency. It should mine whatever cryptocurrencies are available world wide to control a dominant market share. This will serve as both a reserve and a means of generating purchasing power by the Chinese government without actually issuing new currency on its own, thus raising the value of Yuan without investing in American dollar denominated debt, which props up the value of a competitive reserve currency. China should also look to issue new currency as Americans have done and simply spend it by putting it into circulation without generating new debt. The Chinese economy grows at some 6% or more per year, this mean China should be able to add at least 6% in new Yuan liquidity to the markets on annual basis. As Yuan gains its share as a global reserve currency, China should also take that into account and increase liquidity as its share rises. Issuing and spending more Yuan denominated capital will not cause its inflation, if there is a corresponding economic growth domestically and globally which needs additional liquidity.
kuffodog said…
"The Russian nuclear forces are ahead of U.S. ones by some 10 to 15 years, Yury Solomonov, general designer of the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology (MITT), said Thursday."

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-12/28/c_137703036.htm

...and yet the sycophantic Polish vassals decided to buy an obsolete missile defense system designed in 1970's to suck up to their American masters. Why?

https://www.defence24.pl/wisla-i-patrioty-za-475-mld-dolarow-kontrakt-podpisany
kuffodog said…
Scuds were made in the 1950's, aren't accurate and Americans could stop less than 50% of them in the Gulf War. In fact, any long range ballistic missile has yet to be stopped by a Patriot battery, so what are Poles planning to use them against? $50,000 low flying drones? Civilian aircraft steering off course?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud

"I am deeply skeptical that Patriot has ever intercepted a long-range ballistic missile in combat — at the least, I have yet to see convincing unclassified evidence of a successful Patriot intercept. During the 1991 Gulf War, the public was led to believe the that the Patriot had near-perfect performance, intercepting 45 of 47 Scud missiles. The U.S. Army later revised that estimate down to about 50 percent — and even then, it expressed “higher” confidence in only about one-quarter of the cases."

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/28/patriot-missiles-are-made-in-america-and-fail-everywhere/
kuffodog said…
"Iskander was designed to evade missile defenses. According to Missile Threat, the weapon can maneuver at more than 30g during its terminal phase. It’s also equipped with decoys to spoof interceptor missiles. As such, the Iskander is extremely difficult to intercept with current missile defense technologies."

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-russias-iskander-missile-killer-26216
kuffodog said…
The nearly $5 billion Poland is paying Americans for a missile defense system that only has ONE potential adversary whose missiles it cannot defeat, Poles should have used that money to build a national hyperloop mail and package transportation system. Then they could have exported the technology, and build their own missile deterrent in addition to the hybrid drone fleet I recommended.
kuffodog said…
Trump and the Republican cohorts will likely throw some snowballs in Congress as soon as gov't shutdown is over. It is summer down under and 120+ degrees F, or 49.3 degrees C. It is hot. Very hot. In fact it is so hot that it hasn't been this hot ever before, not since 1901 when people in Australia started to measure daily temperatures to keep a record of how hot it gets.

https://twitter.com/BOM_WA/status/1078269283094982657/photo/1
kuffodog said…
"Australia's vast continent is sizzling through extreme heatwave conditions this week, with temperatures reaching record highs and emergency services on high alert for bush fires.

The mercury is up to 16 degree Celsius (29 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than usual for this time of the year for southern Australia, with numerous towns setting new December records, the Bureau of Meteorology said Friday."

https://phys.org/news/2018-12-australia-swelters-record-breaking-heatwave.html

kuffodog said…
Recall my prediction that 60 degree C heat waves will create dead zones on land, like there are dead zones in the sea. Australia saw 16 degree C rise over seasonal temperatures, which means that 11 more degrees will get them there... Australia is 2/3 of its way to becoming uninhabitable for most land life, wherever the 60 degree C heat waves hit. They only need to hit ONCE for a few days.

kuffodog said…
"The lifetime in the air of CO2, the most significant man-made greenhouse gas, is probably the most difficult to determine, because there are several processes that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Between 65% and 80% of CO2 released into the air dissolves into the ocean over a period of 20–200 years. The rest is removed by slower processes that take up to several hundreds of thousands of years, including chemical weathering and rock formation. This means that once in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide can continue to affect climate for thousands of years."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jan/16/greenhouse-gases-remain-air
kuffodog said…
"Economic > The agricultural sector, at farm-gate, contributes 3 percent to Australia's total gross domestic product (GDP). The gross value of Australian farm production in 2016-17 was $60 billion. Australian farmers export about 77 percent of what they grow and produce."

https://www.nff.org.au/farm-facts.html

Australia may lose all its plant mass cover within 20 years, which means outdoor farming will become impossible. Water resources will evaporate, making them seasonal, but that can be managed. 1% of Australia's GDP is enough to keep agricultural self sufficiency. Even if all of food production is changed to indoor farming, raising the cost of food production by a factor of 3 thus keeping agriculture at the same percentage of GDP, the continent will remain food self sufficient.
kuffodog said…
"While we seriously welcome the announcement that Japan will cease whaling in the Southern Ocean, we are disappointed it is leaving the commission with an intention to resume commercial whaling within Japan's own exclusive economic zone," - New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Winston Peters

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-12/26/c_137700383.htm
kuffodog said…
"Syria army enters Kurdish-held Manbij: state media

Reported troop entry into Manbij comes after Kurdish YPG asked for government help in preventing a 'Turkish invasion'."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/12/syria-army-enters-manbij-state-media-181228092705808.html
kuffodog said…
Trump threatens to close southern border entirely, if Democrats don't fund the border wall and threatens to cut aid to Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, if they don't stop another large group of migrants from heading out for USA.

Foreign aid does not create economic development necessary to create employment, tax revenue and better governance to keep migrants from leaving their home countries in search of better opportunities elsewhere. Investment does.
kuffodog said…
"Sears on death’s doorstep for good this time, this may be my final written piece on the former iconic retailer. And I am OK with that, really. It’s time to move on, for both me and Sears."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-sears-officially-cease-exist-145752499.html
kuffodog said…
"Documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden conclusively prove that the United States has been ruled by a race of tall, white space aliens who also assisted the rise of Nazi Germany in the 1930s."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2014/01/13/iran-says-tall-white-space-aliens-control-america/#3b74d3d1f2cd

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