The permaculture revolution leaps onward

The revolution incorporates cutting-edge science and ancient land/water management systems.  The following two videos show on a small, personal scale the permaculture revolution with its creation of microclimates that ward off desertification and aridification (the gradual change of a climate from wetter to drier) in myriad ways while providing abundant food and water reserves.  Here are illustrations of what you can do with a third of an acre or a flat house roof in a suburban/urban setting. 

 PERMACULTURE FIRST STEPS: Microclimate Mapping - YouTube - (7:54 minutes):

Start your Permaculture Design by mapping the microclimates. Join Andrew Millison in Portland, Oregon to film the urban permaculture garden and green roof of Marisha Auerbach. Marisha has been developing this site for ten years along with her partner Zane and has created a highly productive food system on just 1/6 of an acre. Marisha reveals the first steps to assessing your site and determining the best way to design your system to work with natural forces, creating a dense and abundant permaculture paradise!

Permaculture Garden Tour: YEAR 12 - YouTube - 20:46 minutes)

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison takes you on a tour of his home garden in Corvallis, Oregon, USA. The garden is in its 12th season, and it was filmed on the day before the Summer Solstice, 2021. Corvallis is located at 45 degrees North latitude, at an elevation of 235 ft, 40 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean in the heart of the fertile Willamette Valley, in plant hardiness zone 8b.

See also:

Permaculture Rising - Oregon, North America

Several related links at the two YouTube sites.  And yes, there are courses in permaculture design that award certifications.  

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As if British, German generals in World War I are making Ukraine's battle plans.

Ukraine military is "putting men and machines into a position to be fired upon by Russian forces." The quote is from Brian Berletic's update today (16 minutes) for The New Atlas:

Kharkov Offensive 2.0: Winning Headlines Today, Hastening Defeat for Tomorrow - YouTube

This war is ghostly.  

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EU grabbed most grain shipments meant for neediest countries

Just 3% of Deliveries Under Grain Deal Sent to Needy Countries: Putin - 09.09.2022, Sputnik International (sputniknews.com)

Report lists which countries got the grain and how much they received.

See also:

Russia makes grain promise to poorest nations — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union - 9/9

"Moscow will also supply fertilizers to such countries free of charge, the Russian president said."

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Europe's looming food crisis: "Some farming giants are shutting operations in Europe."

European Farming Giants Are Losing Steam Amid Energy Crisis - YouTube -- Firstpost (India) September 9

Note:  After USA, the Netherlands is world's largest agricultural exporter.

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"They drove deep into Russian territory and now they are surrounded by Russian forces."

Pundita don't you dare laugh.  It's not funny. NOT FUNNY. Quote is from Brian Berletic's war update today for The New Atlas:

Ukraine's Offensive Coincides with US $3 Billion+ Aid Package - Russian Ops in Ukraine Sep. 9, 2022 - YouTube

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"These droughts are pushing the land to the breaking point

Europe's farmers look to a future of long-term drought | DW Business - YouTube

Biden Laptop-FBI Affair: "Sometimes you gotta watch something break before you can fit it."

What's broken in this case is the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  The quote is from the man who accidentally discovered damning information on Hunter Biden's laptop then alerted the FBI to the contents. For his trouble, it's barely an overstatement to say that he's lucky to be alive.  What he went through is quite a saga, which he's written about in a forthcoming book. 

For now, The Duran has interviewed him along with Larry Johnson, who's been on top of the laptop scandal since news of it broke.  He's probably been interviewed several times by now but The Duran's Alexander Mercouris was an attorney for many years -- a courtroom attorney. He knows how to get to the heart of situation, what questions to ask that will quickly explain and clarify a very complicated issue for those who are new to it.  And Larry's presence means that the issue will also be assessed from a defense intelligence point of view.   

The Laptop w/John Paul Mac Isaac and Larry Johnson (Live) - YouTube

The discussion starts around the 3-minute mark after finishing with introductions. 

As to whether the FBI can be fixed -- it's not just the Laptop Affair and clearly the bad actors are no longer confined to the agency's upper echelon.  I keep hearing that there are many good FBI agents.  But it looks to me as if the system has broken to the point where the only real fix is to create a new agency.

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Who is responsible for Ukraine's ridiculous, suicidal battle planning?

Brian Berletic at The New Atlas updates his ongoing analyses of Ukraine's disastrous 'Kherson offensive' campaign. The deconstruction is very troubling because it points to NATO/U.S. rookie miscalculations.  Those people can't wargame their way out of a paper bag.

(2) Kherson: What Happens Next? - Russian Ops in Ukraine Update September 6, 2022 - YouTube

Alexander Mercouris update Ukraine war, latest EU panic response to gas/inflation crisis

 Kherson Offensive at Standstill, US Weapons Stocks Depleted, EU Throws Money at Gas Crisis-Inflation - YouTube

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Rising food protectionism - falling dominoes

Three video reports from Singapore's public broadcasting service:

Indonesia's Soaring Food Prices: Can Export Bans Ease Food Inflation? | Insight - YouTube and

As Countries Ban Food Exports, Is A Global Food Crisis Unfolding? | CNA Correspondent - YouTube and

an in-depth report on the unprecedented heat wave in India, which prompted the government to ban wheat exports

India’s Extreme Summer: Will 45°C Heatwaves Leave Us Out Of Wheat? | Insight - YouTube

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"Not the bridge to victory, the bridge to hell."

 Ukraine Suffers Massive Losses as Kherson Offensive Stalls and Russia Counterattacks - YouTube

Quote is from The Duran's Alexander Mercouris in his report posted two hours ago.

Alexander cited an estimated seven to eight thousand Ukranian casualties over a three-day period but said although there are much higher estimates.  The Ukranian troops have as much been ordered to march by the thousands toward certain death. To what end?  Reportedly the Ukranian military command has washed its hands of the matter after protesting against Zelensky's orders.  

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Government by secrets means death of freedom in a society, and America is no exception

American Attorney Robert Barnes began his discussion at The Duran yesterday by untangling what the Justice Department is doing to Trump. He goes on to cover a range of government actions that enforce their power against the law and Constitution through the use of secrecy. 

The discussion also covers legal maneuvers against Julian Assange and James O'Keefe (Project Veritas), which are an abrogation of legal procedure.  Barnes also provides an informative explanation of the abuses of polling by political interests. 

Barnes does foray into his geopolitical opinions as a long-winded way of saying that sometimes governments are right about things. He should have stuck with disturbing illustrations of how the American justice system is now twisted by those who are tasked to carry out justice.  But given how much valuable information he provides, it's a minor criticism, which is why I suppose The Duran hosts -- Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris -- let him rattle on a bit.

'The Enemy Within' strategy w/Robert Barnes (Live) - YouTube

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"This isn't bad policy. This is nuts."

Tucker Carlson in fine form. Quote is from his explanation yesterday that things are falling apart very quickly.  

Zuckerberg throws FBI under the bus

Zuckerberg's public admission underscores "The extraordinary connection between social media giants and agencies of the United States government." Quote from The Duran's ten-minute discussion of the bombshell news:

Zuckerberg goes on Rogan [show] and blows apart FBI, laptop, censorship narrative - YouTube

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The Duran with Brian Berletic discuss Ukraine and China, U.S. struggle to maintain hegemony

Russia and Ukraine, China and Taiwan w/Brian Berletic from The New Atlas (Live) - YouTube

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Dressed to kill the planet. "The textile industry is the second biggest polluter in the world after oil."

Quote is from an eye opening 40-minute report from Germany's Deutsche Welle:

Fast fashion - The shady world of cheap clothing | DW Documentary - YouTube

It's not that there are too many of us; it's just too many with disposable income, access to credit, and an insatiable desire to keep buying affordable stuff displayed on the internet. This combination creates a staggering level of waste and pollution that surprisingly extends to clothing.  

The DW report explains that the insatiable desire to keep buying is rooted in how the brain works -- a topic of crucial importance to the marketing industry and retail sellers. 

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"Americans don't understand how bad the situation in Britain and parts of Europe has become."

That's a quote from The Duran's Alexander Mercouris today.

August inflection point (Live) w/Andrei Martyanov & Larry Johnson - YouTube

 (Andrei and Larry, both American citizens, reside in the USA.) Americans don't understand because the U.S. news media is greatly downplaying the situation and even ignoring many aspects of it. But there is no question it's becoming dire in Germany, which is Europe's powerhouse economy, and it's already dire in Britain.  

The Duran has been at the forefront in analyzing Europe's spiraling social/economic crises for as long as I've been listening to them, which was since the start of Russia's military operation in Ukraine.

It's a fair guess that the vast majority of Americans also aren't aware of how bad things are for Ukrainians and the country's regime but in this case it's because they have been blatantly and repeatedly lied to by the American government and its military spokespeople, including those at the Pentagon, by so-called academics who purport to analyze Russia and the war in Ukraine, and by virtually all mainstream media reporters on the war.  When they can't lie enough, they suppress information.

The lies go beyond war propaganda; the news media and government have created a kind of Digital Curtain, in the manner of the Soviet Iron Curtain and Maoist China's Bamboo Curtain. Western control of information about the war is just one part of the curtain that has descended on the American people. 

The Duran is an indication that there are holes in the Digital Curtain; the digital era transcends any one country and security regime's ability to impose blanket control. But not without trying.  The attempts to control every aspect of information that relates to politics, economics, and war across such large areas and populations are perhaps the most troubling aspect of this era.

Where is it all heading?  Mercouris, who is based on London, gives an indication when he discusses the growing outrage in Britain as people there wake up to the fact that there never was a Great Kherson Counteroffensive, and that they had been lied to about the actual war situation in Ukraine.  The British government has prided itself in being able to tamp down public outrage, but the war situation has combined with an economic nightmare for the British.

We'll see where it leads, as West Europeans also start to wake up. 

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Pakistan's twin glacier melt/drought disasters extend far beyond the country

For more than 300 days a year the Indus River no longer reaches the Arabian Sea.  

Temperatures in parts of the country are 55C (131 F)

Very informative report from Singapore government's CNA Insider posted on August 2 of this year:

Poland buying Ukraine at bargain-basement prices

From Intel Slava Z - August 8:

The main thing from the statement of the press bureau of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service:

▪️Poland is preparing to establish control over the most promising sectors of the Ukrainian economy;
▪️Ukrainian authorities, in fact, have already begun to sell their sectors of the economy to Poland;
▪️Polish companies are buying grain from Ukraine at low prices, dooming Ukrainian enterprises to bankruptcy.

Telegram: Contact @intelslava 

"War at its most overpowering and its most terrible."

Crisis in Donbass, Kiev Officials Say Ukraine Only Capable of Limited Counteroffensive in Kherson - YouTube - Alexander Mercouris

My view is that U.S./NATO tutors gave the Ukranian military such bad training and tactical/strategic advice that it verges on a war crime.  

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