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The Saturation Chronicles - 6

Surf's Up

In the previous post the ocean names were listed but only one graph was used to represent all of the depth levels.

In today's post the individual depth levels each have a separate graph.

Additionally, I am providing the formula for calculating saturation.

It can be applied for all years and all depths, including situations where all depths and ocean areas are presented in one graph and is applied as in the following example:

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pct1950-2022 = saturation percentage for years 1950 thru 2022
pct2023-2024 = saturation percentage for years 2023 and 2024
ho950-2022 = h^o for years 1950 thru 2022
ho2023-2024 = h^o for years 2023 and 2024

So, let's do that, here is the starting point:

pct1950-2022        pct2023-2024
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ho1950-2022         ho2023-2024

Now let pct2023-2024 = X

pct1950-2022        X
-------------------- =  ----------------------
ho1950-2022         ho2023-2024

pct1950-2022 * ho2023-2024 = ho1950-2022 * X

pct1950-2022 * ho2023-2024        ho1950-2022 * X
---------------------------------------- =   -------------------------
             ho1950-2022                     ho1950-2022

       pct1950-2022 * ho2023-2024
X = --------------------------------------
                ho1950-2022

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Fig. 1 All Depth Levels

The way to calculate the "pct" (percent) and h^o (potential enthalpy) parameters is detailed in the first post of this series (The Saturation Chronicles).

Both the year spans and h^o spans can be changed to analyze saturation events  in other situations.

Using that formula structure the individual depth levels can also be analyzed separately from the entire 19 ocean areas (Fig. 1) as I have done in Fig. 2, Fig. 3, Fig. 4, and Fig. 5.

Fig. 2 Abyssopelagic

But remember that this is all presented in the framework of a Dredd Blog hypothesis.

Also remember that science based hypotheses must be presented along with a way of falsifying them.

Otherwise they are not "up to snuff" (Proof of Concept - 11).

This brings up the World Ocean Database manual's maximum in situ temperature and maximum salinity settings for each depth which were set forth in a previous post of this series: 

"The HTML tables have a column that shows the WOD manual's maximum (h^o) at each relevant depth level (WOD Manual) [Appendix 11]".

Those maximum values are calculated from the manual's maximum temperature and salinity values (The Saturation Chronicles - 2).

Fig. 3 Bathypelagic

If for some reason those World Ocean Database maximum parameters, which come from www ncei noaa gov, are not "up to snuff" (too small or too large), then that would possibly falsify all or part of the Dredd Blog saturation hypothesis to the extent that the WOD parameters are too large or too small.

Fig. 4 Epipelagic

But any alleged falsification effort would have to not only challenge those parameters, it would have to add a replacement and the replacement's source.

Think for a minute how unsuspecting we have been in our faith that the ocean could never become "overheated".

And think of that as coral reefs die, as plankton diminishes, as whales, sharks, and myriad other sea creatures wash ashore or disappear.

Also, remember the once abundant and inexpensive table foods that are changing in quantity, quality, and price.

Like Atlantic Cod (A Paper From Hansen et al. Is Now Open For Discussion - 3).

Fig. 5 Mesopelagic

Let's consider what the scientist in the video of the previous post postulated, which is that perhaps 20% of the surprise 2023-2024 global warming increases are from a yet unknown source.

Is heat saturation in the ocean, which causes less absorption capacity, that yet unknown source?

The time-warn mantra of recent years is that 90-93% of the global warming induced heat increases are absorbed by the oceans.

So, 90-93% decreased by 20% means that only 72% (90*.20 = 18%; 90-18=72) to 74.4% (93*.20=18.6%; 93-18.6=74.4) is now being absorbed.

That could easily explain the 2023 and 2024 surprise increase in temperatures.

Closing Comments

Singing these blues does not come easy (A thermodynamic potential of seawater in terms of Absolute Salinity, Conservative Temperature, and in situ pressure).

First one must download WOD data in its native storage form, then convert that to CSV format, which is a difficult chore considering there are ~5.5 billion results (WOD Update).

Next, that WOD CSV format is altered into an SQL format (e.g. ocean area, year, depth) and placed into an SQL database.

Then the data is loaded into software programs that use TEOS-10 functions to calculate TEOS-10 parameters.

Graphs and posts are then generated as a public service (The Saturation Chronicles - 5).

The previous post in this series is here.

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The Saturation Chronicles - 5

Fig. 1 Combined Heat Saturation Percent

Let's consider ocean heat concentration on the average.

The view of heat saturation in 19 ocean areas combined as an average is shown in Fig. 1.

Those individual ocean areas are:

Equatorial Indian, NW Pacific, Mediterranean, North Atlantic, Red Sea, North Pacific, Persian Gulf, Sea of Okhotsk, Equatorial Pacific, Sulu Sea, North Indian, South Indian, Southern, Bering Sea, Sea of Japan, Equatorial Atlantic, Arctic, South Atlantic, and South Pacific.

The percentages are averages of all in situ measurements at up to 33 depths from  World Ocean Database (WOD), SOCCOM database, and Wood's Hole database files.

Fig. 2 Sniff The Waters

The values of all 19 ocean areas are combined at depths up to the maximum depth of each ocean area.

Temperature, salinity, depth, latitude, and longitude are the in situ parameters used in those calculations.

Those parameters are then used in TEOS-10 functions which calculate height (Z), pressure (P), Conservative Temperature (CT), and Absolute Salinity (SA).

The "ocean heat content" (a.k.a. potential enthalpy or h^o) is also calculated using the TEOS-10 C++ library to process those TEOS-10 parameters.

Note that "it is perfectly valid to talk of potential enthalpy, h^o, as the 'heat content' and to regard the flux of h^o as the 'heat flux.'" (Potential Enthalpy: A Conservative Oceanic Variable for Evaluating Heat Content and Heat Fluxes).

On the Fig. 1 graph, the depth data is as follows:

Concerning colors of lines at WOD and Pelagic depths:

WOD depths (L1 - L9) = epipelagic (0 - 200m) [200 m]
WOD depths (L10 - L18) = mesopelagic (201m - 1000m) [799 m]
WOD depths (L19 - L29) = bathypelagic (1001m - 4000m) [2,999 m]
WOD depths (L30 - L32) = abyssopelagic (4001m - 5500m) [1,499 m]
WOD depths (L33) = hadopelagic (beyond 5500m)

The lines are colored as epipelagic,  mesopelagic, bathypelagic, abyssopelagic, and hadopelagic as noted on the graph.

Note that the old belief, written in textbooks and on various websites, that the deeper the water is the colder it is was a myth.

The Fig. 1 graph shows that the highest heat saturation percentages are not based on depth alone.

That graph shows that heat saturation depends on how many infrared photons have been absorbed by the ocean water molecules (The Photon Current, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 , 17, 18, 19, 20, 21).

Closing Comments

Google's AI says:

" 'Heat saturation' refers to the point at which a substance has absorbed the maximum amount of heat it can hold at a given pressure, meaning any additional heat added will cause it to change phase from liquid to vapor (like boiling), and is essentially synonymous with the term "saturation temperature" in thermodynamics; at this point, the liquid is considered "saturated" with thermal energy and further heat input will result in a phase change, not a temperature increase."

(Thank you Mr. AI). Note that for water (not saltwater) that temperature is about 212 deg. F (100 deg. C).

That is not the focus of this series.

What this series uses is the Maximum temperatures the WOD manual sets as the maximum, NOT the evaporation temperature.

We are not focusing on the temperature at which the ocean turns into steam, no, we are focusing on the temperatures of saturation which cause a RESISTANCE to further photon absorption.

The exercise in this saturation context is the percent of the WOD maximums set by WOD officials.

Then, using the historical 90-93 percent rate of absorption set by oceanographers as the amount the ocean has absorbed during the graph's time frame (1950-2023) we can hope to estimate the decline in that WOD maximum historical absorption percentage as the ocean's potential enthalpy or h^o percent increases.

if the hypothesis is confirmed, we can expect the surprising 2023-2024 temperature increases to continue as the ocean's in situ heat saturation percentage rate increases.

Just sayin' ...

The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.

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The Saturation Chronicles - 4

Fig. 1 Salt Battery Solar Energy Storage

I. Peak Oil Destruction

Does ocean water absorb solar photons in its water molecules (H₂O) alone, or does it also absorb photons in its salt molecules (sodium chloride, NaCL) dissolved in that salt water?

I think it is the latter, which, when that saturation point is reached it will cause peak oil destructive impact on this world's civilization.

That is when "peak oil" is also reached in the sense that peak oil (the peak damage oil does) is when peak saturation takes place as well as peak self-induced destruction due to the ocean no longer being capable of absorbing 90-93 percent of global warming induced heat increases.

II. Friendly Salt

There are more ways than one to convert solar energy into electricity (Fig. 1). 

"Salt batteries" is a concept where solar heat is stored in molten salt.

The salt melts but those batteries can hold up to 500 decrees of heat energy (photons absorbed by salt molecules).

That is what led me to wonder how do photons from the Sun get absorbed in salt water.

And to conclude that  salt waters absorb solar photons.

It is most likely that the salt in sea water absorbs photons as they flow through all depths of the oceans (The Photon Current, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 , 17, 18, 19, 20, 21).

III. Closing Comments

If you care to peruse some of the current sea and saturation levels of oceans in the deeps and along coastal areas, check out (The Saturation Chronicles, 2, 3; The US States of Sea Level Change, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9).

The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.

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The Peak Of The Oil Wars - 19

Fig. 1 Who'd a thunk it?

I. Background

I began this series about a decade and a half ago (The Peak Of The Oil Wars, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16).

About three years later a book Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War came out, followed by Partial Hegemony by the same author some years later.

Recently the military think tanks have presented arguments calling the concept of "oil wars" a myth (Oil Wars: Facts and Fictions).

II. History,  Herstory And My Story

Fig. 2 "I'm shocked to find
gambling going on here"

The author of the first two books I mentioned above is Jeff D. Colgan, the author of the book calling oil wars a myth is Emily Meierding, a military person.

Her historical perspective goes back less than a hundred years, and is in conflict with historians who observed official government psychological behavior control (propaganda) during that time frame:

"The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims, while incidentally capturing their markets; to civilise savage and senile and paranoid peoples, while blundering accidentally into their oil wells."

(As We Go Marching, by John T. Flynn, 1944, page 222, emphasis added). Meierding's "contrast" with Flynn and Colgan reminds me of the government official who, while patrolling the gambling casino business in Casablanca, was awarded his winnings as he declared his surprise that gambling was going on there (Fig. 2).

This "play pretend" is an ancient mental condition that has infected civilization after civilization because it is:

"A reality that history and herstory keeps repeating in Groundhog Day fashion (Groundhog Day & The Climate of Fear).

That version is well documented:

But always TCS [the creep state] is primarily the population segment diagnosed as a despotic minority which the once most-often-quoted historian, Toynbee, fingered as one of the members of the trinity of extinction that he found in all civilizations that were about to become very successful at becoming extinct:

That something is the dementia that produces and ends up in suicide:

"In other words, a society does not ever die 'from natural causes', but always dies from suicide or murder --- and nearly always from the former, as this chapter has shown."

(A Study of History, by Arnold J. Toynbee). There is no cure for the final symptom of that group dementia, there is only prevention by way of avoiding it altogether in the first place.

The components of that group dementia were pointed out in an encyclopedia piece concerning that historian quoted above:

"In the Study Toynbee examined the rise and fall of 26 civilizations in the course of human history, and he concluded that they rose by responding successfully to challenges under the leadership of creative minorities composed of elite leaders. Civilizations declined when their leaders stopped responding creatively, and the civilizations then sank owing to the sins of nationalism, militarism, and the tyranny of a despotic minority.

(Encyclopedia Britannica, emphasis added). The show stopper, in terms of remedy, in this type of group dementia is that it is a contagious dementia.

(Etiology of Social Dementia - 18). That particular "minority" is not a racial or ethnic minority, rather, it is primarily composed of a destructive suicidal trance (Choose Your Trances Carefully, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8).

(Arrested Development: The Creep State). The long and the short of it is that cultures devolve over and over again because bad choices exceed good choices."

(How To Enjoy The End Of Bad Choices). My research begins a century prior to the coverage afforded by the aforementioned two authors, and is detailed in several Dredd Blog series.

III. In The Beginning And Sometime Thereafter

 Let's look at a beginning, the first Elon Musk, who was an oil man through and through:

"John Davison Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. In 1870, he founded the Standard Oil Company and aggressively ran it until he officially retired in 1897. Standard Oil began as an Ohio partnership formed by John D. Rockefeller, his brother William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, Jabez Bostwick, chemist Samuel Andrews, and a silent partner, Stephen V. Harkness. As kerosene and gasoline grew in importance, Rockefeller's wealth soared, and he became the world's richest man and the first American worth more than a billion dollars. Adjusting for inflation, he is often regarded as the richest person in history."

 (A History of Oil Addiction - 2, quoting Wikipedia). Like the current oil war participants in the state department, J.D. Rockefeller used government for personal gain:

"Yes, the foreign policy that fundamentally supports oil barons has never been a big secret: 'One of our greatest helpers has been the State Department' - John D. Rockefeller (1909)."

(Oil's Well That Ends Well - 2). And then there's MOMCOM:

"Then we will compare the warnings about that Bangladesh building to the similar warnings about the structure of civilization, and how the warnings concerning the building in Bangladesh constitute a metaphor or epitome of current civilization:

Long before politicians mewled helplessly about the power of “Big Oil”, carbon-based fuels were shaping our very political, legal, intellectual, and physical structures.
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For instance, the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a pivotal moment in America’s strategic outlook. America, a global hegemon whose empire was weakening, seized the second largest oil deposits in the world as a way of preventing its economic and political decline.
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The last declining global hegemon, Great Britain, also engaged in a brutal and highly controversial British occupation of Iraq, in the 1920s, pressed aggressively by the well-known British conservative, Winston Churchill.

(Book Review of "Carbon Democracy", emphasis added). Churchill was a conservative in the mold of today's American conservatives in government, in the Oil-Qaeda sense, and like them he also believed:

From the moment he arrived at the Admiralty, a young man of destiny, Churchill started to prepare the fleet for the Battle of Armageddon he believed was inevitable.

(John McCain's Book About Churchill, emphasis added). Now, before we begin to analyze this, let me add the third pillar of the structure of current civilization:

Then, in 1911, the German Kaiser provoked the Agadir crisis ... Churchill went to the Admiralty and his outlook transformed. He was immediately confronted with the decisive question: to convert the navy from coal to oil ... the "fateful plunge" was made ... in April 1912 ... five oil-burning battleships were approved.
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Britain was well supplied with coal [but not oil]. It was the Royal Navy which was the impetus for the development of the oil industry in Britain. The problem was supply and the security of that supply. Initially, the British government purchased shares in the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, subsequently, British Petroleum [BP].

(Winston S. Churchill, by Eugene L. Rasor, p. 157-58). That molded the cogs on the gears of U.S. foreign policy ideology too:

Then, to prevent further disruptions, Britain enmeshed itself ever more deeply in the Middle East, working to install new shahs in Iran and carve Iraq out of the collapsing Ottoman Empire.

Churchill fired the starting gun, but all of the Western powers joined the race to control Middle Eastern oil.

(Oil-Qaeda: The Deadliest Parasite Of Civilization - 2). The Dredd Blog series The Peak Of The Oil Wars, The Peak of The Oil Lies, and The Peak of Sanity deal with the events following the design of that foreign policy architecture.

The mentality of the foreign policy that rushes headlong into the destruction of civilization in order to save civilization is obviously insane, however, it is also obviously an institutionalized madness hidden in plain sight (MOMCOM's Dissociation)."

(The Universal Smedley - 2). When I coined the word "MOMCOM" they came after me to give me a spanking (Oil-Qaeda & MOMCOM Conspire To Commit Depraved-Heart Murder- 6).

IV. Closing Comments

The "Father of Public Relations" counseled his first big client (The Department of War) to change their name to The Department of Defense.

They have kept some parts of the name though (National War College).

Olde fast eddie also instigated institutions that fabricate propaganda:

"IS [Naval Postgraduate School] broadly encompasses the design, implementation, use, promotion and evaluation of organizations, processes and systems associated with knowledge, information, data and communication. It includes areas of concentration in information systems, information technology, information warfare, information operations, and command and control ... emphasis on the technological artifacts that enable and support organizations, processes and systems associated with knowledge, information, data and communication. The behavioral approach to IS emphasizes behavioral problems associated with design, implementation, use, promotion and evaluation of organizations, processes and systems associated with knowledge, information, data and communication."

Proper ganda fabrication such as "oil wars are a myth" is one such event; note that Emily Meierding teaches ... "there".

The remaining question is: (Will The Military Become The Police?, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) ?

The previous post in this series is here.

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The Peak Of The Oil Wars - 18

Not so magic mushrooms

Addictions often break up families :

"As with any close-knit family, the transatlantic partnership between the United States and Europe that was forged from a cataclysmic world war has passed through occasional rough moments.

European powers’ refusal to join in President George W. Bush’s “war of choice” in Iraq in 2003 is one example. The fallout from President Barack Obama’s swipe at NATO partners as “free riders” unwilling to pay their fair share for their own security is another.

But the stark message of fraying bonds, growing disregard, and diverging values that senior Trump administration officials laid out for shocked European leaders last week has diplomats and seasoned observers asserting that this is more than a passing family spat."

(More than a rift, CSM News, emphasis added). Yes, addicted family members even sometimes kill one or more other family members.

This Dredd Blog series has detailed what one president called our "oil addiction", which is an ancient family affair in western civilization:

"The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims, while incidentally capturing their markets; to civilise savage and senile and paranoid peoples, while blundering accidentally into their oil wells."

(On The Origin of The Bully Religion - 2)  Russia was not the first nation to subdue "enemy" nations in order to blunder "accidentally" into their oil wells (The Peak Of The Oil Wars - 17).

Anyway, when the addiction combines with the religion, all hell can break loose again (Doing The Right Thing - Mithraism - 2). 

The previous post in this series is here.

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The Saturation Chronicles - 3

Fig. 1 Alaska

I. Background

Today's graphs contrast the heat saturation of the deep ocean with their coastline waters (Appendix 1, Appendix 2).

Fig. 2 Hawaii

Previous posts had other  interesting takes on the global oceans, but without contrasting the coastline waters of those states that have shores on those oceans (The Saturation Chronicles, 2).

Only two oceans are featured in today's graphs.

They are (1) the "North Atlantic" which means the Atlantic ocean north of the equator; and (2) the "North Pacific" which means the Pacific ocean north of the equator.

All of the states featured in the graphs have coasts on those oceans (the two gulfs, Mexico and Alaska are contained in the calculations  because the ocean saturation details are covered by coastline calculations).

II. Graph Details

The red lines on the graphs detail the whole ocean area, while the green lines detail only the coastal waters around the land areas. 

There are three lines for each color representing three depth levels epipelagic, mesopelagic, and bathypelagic.

The graphs show that a lot of saturation has taken place in the vast oceans which cover over 70% of the Earth (but you may find that a related series is also helpful to understand the changes taking place in the ocean now (The US States of Sea Level Change, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)).

Notice in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 that while Hawaii and Alaska have great contrasts in their land areas, they are more similar in their ocean area contrasts.

The North Pacific in which both of them are located has the same red graph line, in each state, along the 40% saturation level, but notice that one of Hawaii's green lines (in situ h^o) registers about a 60% saturation level. 

III. Closing Comments

I suspect that ocean heat saturation, as a cause of the surprising temperature accelerations of 2023 and 2024, is a hypothesis that will eventually make its way into the warming commentariat (The Warming Science Commentariat, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15).

In the mean time I intend to keep an eye on it and them.

Stay tuned.

The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.

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APNDX 1 TSC - 3

This is an appendix to: The Saturation Chronicles - 3

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The red lines in the graphs below represent the larger ocean, while the green lines represent only the coastal water near land in the relevant US state.

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APNDX 2 TSC - 3

This is an appendix to: The Saturation Chronicles - 3

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The red lines in the graphs below represent the larger ocean, while the green lines represent only the coastal water near land in the relevant US state.

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Jabber The Whut? - 6

Jabber The Whut?

Has the book "The Chronicles of Jabba The Hutt" been written?

His cousin Jabber has been featured here on Dredd Blog (Jabber The Whut?, 2, 3, 4, 5). 

Jabber's cousin is infamous:

"Jabba the Hutt (/ˈdʒɑːbə/ JAH-bə) is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He is a large, slug-like crime lord of the Hutt species. Jabba first appeared in the 1983 film Return of the Jedi, in which he is portrayed by a one-ton puppet operated by several puppeteers. In 1997, he appeared in the Special Edition of the original Star Wars film, which had been retitled Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope. Jabba made his third film appearance in the 1999 prequel film The Phantom Menace. He is voiced by Larry Ward in Return of the Jedi and by Scott Schumann in A New Hope and The Phantom Menace.

Jabba lives in a palace on the desert planet Tatooine. He places a bounty on the smuggler Han Solo, and sends bounty hunters to capture him. After Darth Vader freezes Solo in carbonite, the bounty hunter Boba Fett delivers the frozen Solo to Jabba, who puts him on display in his palace. A group of Solo's friends attempt to rescue him, but Jabba captures them; he enslaves Princess Leia and decrees that Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, and Solo will be fed to a Sarlacc. Luke orchestrates an escape, and during the chaos Leia strangles Jabba to death"

(Wikipedia Jabba Der Whut). That "Leia" was Princess Leia.

There is some skuttlebutt that Jabber was brought to the Whut House by a prisoner trade done between the Prison at Whut? Gaza on the Island of Sand Just south of Mars.

Reportedly, Elan Must negotiated the art of that deal.

Happy Felontines Day!

The previous post in this series is here.

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The Peak Of The Oil Wars - 17

The Long Distance From Ear To Brain

Two of the longest distances are the distance from eye to brain and the distance from ear to brain.

Yes, it's many long years in distance because the trip is often taken on Highway 61, so, in this opening up of  today's post, let's bring the Dredd Blog history of oil wars up to date once again.

One reason for doing that is to inform readers that the Ukraine / Russia war is an oil war which the current administration is trying to "settle" differently (CNN, Hegseth rules out NATO membership for Ukraine), and I do mean differently:

"European nations must provide the 'overwhelming' share of funding for Ukraine, the new US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has said, as he signalled a drastic shift in Washington's position on the war."

(BBC, Hegseth sets out hard line on European defence and Nato). But first, let's get up to date with a quote from a decade old Dredd Blog post:

"In closing for today, (more in future posts), let's bring oil wars up to date:

When Russia seized Crimea in March, it acquired not just the Crimean landmass but also a maritime zone more than three times its size with the rights to underwater resources potentially worth trillions of dollars.

Russia portrayed the takeover as reclamation of its rightful territory, drawing no attention to the oil and gas rush that had recently been heating up in the Black Sea. But the move also extended Russia’s maritime boundaries, quietly giving Russia dominion over vast oil and gas reserves while dealing a crippling blow to Ukraine’s hopes for energy independence.

Russia did so under an international accord that gives nations sovereignty over areas up to 230 miles from their shorelines. It had tried, unsuccessfully, to gain access to energy resources in the same territory in a pact with Ukraine less than two years earlier.

(In Taking Crimea ..., emphasis added). Our current oil-based civilization has been warring over oil for over a century because of the mindset of Oil-Qaeda, the current "Jim Jones" that is deceiving and leading us toward mass suicide (MOMCOM's Mass Suicide & Murder Pact - 5)."

(The Peak Of The Oil Wars - 10; cf The Peak Of The Oil Wars, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16).

The current Secretary of Defense points out that battle lines are being redrawn and the US seems to be intent on working out a deal with Russia so as to substantially weaken the old deal with NATO (Selecting A Leader From The Asylum).

The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.

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When You Are Governed By Psychopaths - 9

“Insanity in individuals is something rare
but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Why Did We Fail To Listen?

This series began over a decade ago (When You Are Governed By Psychopaths, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8).

Undoubtedly  it has been considered to be a mythical conspiracy by those suffering from The "It Can't Happen Here" Trance.

One of the main revelations in this series is how long the relevant information has been available:

"I would not say that such an attempt to apply psychoanalysis to civilized society would be fanciful or doomed to fruitlessness.
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The diagnosis of collective neuroses, moreover, will be confronted by a special difficulty. In the neurosis of an individual we can use as a starting point the contrast presented to us between the patient and his environment which we assume to be normal. No such background as this would be available for any society similarly affected; it would have to be supplied in some other way. And with regard to any therapeutic application of our knowledge, what would be the use of the most acute analysis of social neuroses, since no one possesses power to compel the community to adopt the therapy? In spite of all these difficulties, we may expect that one day someone will venture upon this research into the pathology of civilized communities."

(When You Are Governed By Psychopaths - 5, quoting Civilization And Its Discontents, S. Freud, 1929, p.39). The revelation that some civilizations are murdered, but most commit suicide is also relevant ancient history:

"In the Study Toynbee examined the rise and fall of 26 civilizations in the course of human history, and he concluded that they rose by responding successfully to challenges under the leadership of creative minorities composed of elite leaders. Civilizations declined when their leaders stopped responding creatively, and the civilizations then sank owing to the sins of nationalism, militarism, and the tyranny of a despotic minority."

(How To Enjoy The End Of Bad Choices, quoting Encyclopedia Britannica, emphasis added). 

Perhaps there are sociopath groups and psychopath groups (2 Ways to Tell Psychopaths and Sociopaths Apart)?

Ok, enough of this Dredd, time for a movie (see video below).

The previous post in this series is here.

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