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Steve had a lot more than Triangle of Doom.  You missed quite a bit of good stuff.

Far as changing ideas, when I began I wasn't interested in Peak Oil and energy at all.  Just curiouss about the reasons behind the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros.  I ran across a paper by Antal Fekete that led toexploring the debt which led to energy costs which led to resource depletion.  I spent more time on economics blogs than Peak Oil at the beginning, but PO was livelier back then.  Lookking at long term effects, at first I was in the Amish preindustrial cam, eventually moving to the stonee age camp.   Never bought into NTHE and Guy McDoomster theories.

As you collect more data and do more research, over 20 years your thinking has to evolve,otherwise you haven't learned anything.

Anyhow, I'm not going to die too soon, I just don't get why I deserve so much attention.  Why waste the time?  I have no credibility.  Seems silly.

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[K-Dog]

They say everyone in America is a child of immigrants.  ( I have a great-grandfather who was naturalized, this is not strictly true.)

No so for this GI Joe apparently.

His great-grandparents emigrated from Calabria to Pennsylvania in 1909, becoming naturalized citizens in 1927.


The mans Karma account is seriously overdrawn.



Dude has issues.

[K-Dog]

THEM.US • 2026-01-14

Federal Prosecutors Resign as DOJ Launches Investigation into Renee Good's Widow

At least 10 staffers in the department have left their posts.

THECANARY.CO • 2026-01-14

At least 6 federal prosecutors resign over DOJ investigating murdered Renee Good

At least six prosecutors working for federal law enforcement in Minneapolis have resigned over the US Department of Justice (DOJ) targeting the widow of ICE's murder victim Renee Good.

TECHDIRT.COM • 2026-01-14

Prosecutors Flee DOJ After Being Told To Investigate The Murdered Woman, Not The Murderer

Six Justice Department prosecutors who've spent their careers putting away fraudsters, drug dealers, and actual criminals said we want no part of this.

[K-Dog]

SCHEERPOST.COM • 2026-01-14

"Federal Invasion" of Minnesota

Thousands of masked DHS officers flooding neighborhoods, residents being seized off the streets, and local governments scrambling to defend constitutional protections that are being shredded in real time.

SCHEERPOST.COM • 2026-01-14

Richard Wolff: ICE Terror, Executive Policing, and Why a General Strike Could Flip the Script

The escalating ICE crackdowns and the creation of a new federal police force signal not strength but a presidency under mounting pressure.

SCHEERPOST.COM • 2026-01-14

'ICE Has Gone Rogue': Khanna Demands Arrest, Prosecution of Jonathan Ross for Murder of Renee Good

Rep. Ro Khanna on Monday called for the arrest and prosecution of the federal immigration officer who killed Minneapolis resident Renee Good last week.

[TDoS]

Steve had a lot more than Triangle of Doom.  You missed quite a bit of good stuff.

Maybe. But I had scientists within the government, academic PhDs of various stripes from a couple of countries, ex-industry experts writing books, and legions of enthusiastic amateurs....including "lawyers"...all arriving with the internet, building sites trumpeting the end and spouting off the most entertaining interpretations of....stuff.

Far as changing ideas, when I began I wasn't interested in Peak Oil and energy at all.  Just curiouss about the reasons behind the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros.  I ran across a paper by Antal Fekete that led toexploring the debt which led to energy costs which led to resource depletion.  I spent more time on economics blogs than Peak Oil at the beginning, but PO was livelier back then.

It certainly was. I got involved on the economics side, but it took half a decade or so or untangling the techinal malfesance first.

As you collect more data and do more research, over 20 years your thinking has to evolve,otherwise you haven't learned anything.

But of course. So after learning everything everyone else thought about peak oil, it became time to solve it. Once that was done...well....after that it was just waiting around to see the ending to an interesting fad.

It isn't lively much now.

Anyhow, I'm not going to die too soon, I just don't get why I deserve so much attention.  Why waste the time?  I have no credibility.  Seems silly.

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The number of data points certainly matters, but the temporal component can't be ignored, in terms of how, after decades, and with hindsight, their previous positions have evolved.

And as most have ghosted their audience and websites and whatnot (or been abandoned by their audience?), the data points are far fewer with increasinng longevity. 

[K-Dog]

More Minneapolis mayhem.



Words were passed, three shots were blast, troubled times had come

To my hometown, to my hometown
My hometown, to my hometown

CBSNEWS.COM • 2026-01-14

ICE officer shoots man in leg in north Minneapolis after shovel attack, officials say

A shooting occurred Wednesday night in north Minneapolis after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were attacked by men with shovels

[RE]

It isn't lively much now.

Bringing us round to where we began, which is why it's well past time to let it go and focus on more proximal existential problems.

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[K-Dog]

It isn't lively much now.

Bringing us round to where we began, which is why it's well past time to let it go and focus on more proximal existential problems.

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Just a lyric in the song I edited out.  Not too relevant.

I read an account of a guy who pulled up next to ICE and then started following them.  He followed ICE all the way back to his own house.  Using the MN state resources obviously.  I can relate to his existential dread when he realized what was going on.  Freaky.

Trump is starting wars everywhere.  Rubber bullets in MLPS right now as I type.  This is very existential.  There must be a dead girl in the Epstein files.  Has to be.

[RE]

Trump is starting wars everywhere.  Rubber bullets in MLPS right now as I type.  This is very existential.  There must be a dead girl in the Epstein files.  Has to be.

On the international level,  Trumpolini is trying to control the oil trade by preventing anyone with oil available for export to sell to anyone he perceives as an enemy, aka shithole countries populated by brown people with socialist goobermints.  For the exporters, this starves them of FOREX needed for food imports, thus raising the price of food in those countries.  This is destabilizing gooberments of both exporters and importers in South America, the Middle East and Africa.  Economic sanctions alone weren't sufficient because of the so-called "shadow fleet" of tankers, so he has escalated it to using the Navy to pirate these ships.  As a result of the destabilizattion, war is breaking out just about everywhere now.

Nationally, he is trying to ethnically cleanse Amerika not just by shutting down immigration, but also deporting any brown people who migrated to the FSoA over the last 30 years or so.  Cities like MPLS which have large easily identifiable communities of these immigrants are the primary target.  The escalating violeence gives him still more excuse to send more Gestapo and double down on the whole process.  That bizness is destabilizing the goobermint here and further polarizing the population.

With Free Elections, I'm pretty sure at this point the Repugnants would lose both houses of CONgress, we'd get an impeachment and there might be some chance of stepping back from the brink.  I'm just not real hopeful we'll get free elections.  By Nov I expect more federal gestapo in the cities. challenges to election results and refusal to seat newly elected Demodopes.  I would not be surprised by a major false flag terrorist event here to justify Martial Law in the next 6 months either.

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[TDoS]

It isn't lively much now.

Bringing us round to where we began, which is why it's well past time to let it go and focus on more proximal existential problems.

RE

Indeed. And I have been focused on those, as far as they relate to geology anyway, critical minerals is a hot topic now. But keeping track of the golden olddie is still a favorite pasttime. And tangential questions do keep cropping up, I have been asked quite a few questions on Venezuela as of late. Someone finds my name on a study, and suddenly my phone starts ringing. Happened earlier this week. Twice.

[RE]

And tangential questions do keep cropping up,

Oh come on.  This thread was about ICE.  Bringing Pea Oil into it stretches the concept of tangential past the elastic limit.

J6P fell for peak oil hook/line and sinker decades ago now

Yeesh. 🙄🙄🙄

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[RE]

More evidence the likelihood of fair elections in Nov grows slimmer by the day.  Now Trumpolini is suggesting they should be cancelled altogether, forget just trying to fix them.  Short of declaring Martial Law he has no authority to do that, but of course lacking a legal recourse has never proved an obstacle for Dandy Don.  The only law restraining his Trumpness is his own (lack of) morality. lol.

2026 is living up to its billing as a watershed year in collapse.  Freequency of crises is up to every day.  No rest for the weary in the newz cycle.  The tea kettle is getting ready to boil over.


Trump: "We shouldn't even have elections"

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DEMOCRACYDOCKET.COM • 2026-01-15

Trump: 'We shouldn't even have an election' 

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that "we shouldn't even have an election," as he complained about the political risks his party faces in the 2026 midterms and boasted about his accomplishments.

[K-Dog]

J6P fell for peak oil hook/line and sinker decades ago now

Yeesh. 🙄🙄🙄

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When did J6P find out about peak oil?  I must have missed the news. 🤨🤨🤨

[RE]

When did J6P find out about peak oil?  I must have missed the news. 🤨🤨🤨

True.  If you asked 10 average J6P getting off the subway what is meant by "Peak Oil" and why it's important, 9 of them would have no clue what you were talking about.

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[TDoS]

And tangential questions do keep cropping up,

Oh come on.  This thread was about ICE.

The Orange One has found his Gestapo, and its name is ICE. "Das Papier bitte".....or ELSE.

America voted for him. Those that didn't aren't required to like it...particularly those who voted for him and he didn't do what he lied about when selling himself to the public.

All we are left with for the next 3 year is...patience. To see how hard he tries to get a 3rd term if nothing else.