tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post5535554036193997633..comments2023-11-28T09:02:03.742+01:00Comments on The Seneca Effect: Turning the West into a new Soviet Union -2: the Demise of RestaurantsUgo Bardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18231859786466899924noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-84576689699993171682022-03-03T18:06:59.355+01:002022-03-03T18:06:59.355+01:00Just to remember that "eating out" was i...Just to remember that "eating out" was in the way the norm in European cities before cooking stoves came into fashion. From ancient Rome to the early 20th century, even if people did not always "eat out" they would buy street food.Miguel Martinezhttps://kelebeklerblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-7385162662634107002022-03-01T00:30:03.021+01:002022-03-01T00:30:03.021+01:00I follow both MSM, Russian and Ukrainian propagand...I follow both MSM, Russian and Ukrainian propaganda, Ukrainian prop is winning at the mo, why? Because they are young and tech savy.<br /><br />Both Orly is agreeing with this "military operation"<br /><br />"First, a couple of words about the Ukraine, because it is such a hottest topic. Smart people have been warning the Ukrainians for 20 years. If they did not hear and did not understand, they alone are to blame. I believe that the decisions taken by the Kremlin were correct and timely, and the good results are plain to see." <br /><br />The Kremlin (putin) were right? To send thousands of 18/19/20 yr olds to their deaths?<br /><br />Nice<br /><br /><br />PS I dont support any imperial war mongering be it US, UK EU or RU<br /><br />Small is beautiful and Russia is ugly huge!<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-65346245905274040512022-02-28T22:46:56.504+01:002022-02-28T22:46:56.504+01:00Right. Let's follow the MSM propaganda instead...Right. Let's follow the MSM propaganda instead. The Mighty Wurlitzer, it's been called.<br /><br />I would reserve judgment of any kind at this juncture.Cynthia Qhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13166723409526875626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-80752575807712389242022-02-28T08:22:24.407+01:002022-02-28T08:22:24.407+01:00Might I suggest we all ignore Orlov or at least no...Might I suggest we all ignore Orlov or at least not support his finances. For repeating Putin's propaganda. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-70252496608793014352022-02-26T21:21:15.906+01:002022-02-26T21:21:15.906+01:00Arizona is also number one or two in excess deaths...Arizona is also number one or two in excess deaths (fighting with MS for that dubious honor), having lost 0.5-0.7% of the population.<br /><br />And this is just the start, most of the mass mortality from this virus is in the future.<br /><br />We were supposed to be way past allowing that sort of thing to happen as a "civilization", but there we are.Georgi Marinovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12226357993389417752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-70582496183171528682022-02-26T17:46:05.404+01:002022-02-26T17:46:05.404+01:00Here in Tucson, the restaurants never closed and a...Here in Tucson, the restaurants never closed and are doing great business, but Arizona and several other States in the South and Southwest have apparently been islands of sanity in a sea of madness...pyrrhushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06150605108788285274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-49936693404115048182022-02-23T21:06:49.311+01:002022-02-23T21:06:49.311+01:00Great comment, anonymous. Now, using the same kind...Great comment, anonymous. Now, using the same kind of logic you use, let me say that I guess you think it should still be okay to forcibly sterilize inferior humans. Ugo Bardihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18231859786466899924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-4408501674490414582022-02-23T19:40:59.764+01:002022-02-23T19:40:59.764+01:00Just finally watched the youtube with Enzo....than...Just finally watched the youtube with Enzo....thanks for the intro!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-33549526438877739322022-02-23T13:20:36.325+01:002022-02-23T13:20:36.325+01:00Total nonsense. Restaurant failures were high befo...Total nonsense. Restaurant failures were high before Covid. Too many lousy operators.<br />Stop sniveling because you don't like governments trying to keep people safe from their irresponsible neighbors. <br />I guess you think it should still be okay to smoke on airplanes. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-14937197429623210562022-02-23T12:41:16.192+01:002022-02-23T12:41:16.192+01:00On a different note there is a worthwhile intervie...On a different note there is a worthwhile interview with Dr. Meadows of LTG fame just published on Resilience. <br /><br />Spoiler alert... Dr. Meadows talks about oil.And war.<br /><br />Ugo recentely mentioned that it's time to be careful about what we say on a public forum...<br /><br />attempt to link<br />https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-02-22/dennis-meadows-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-publication-of-the-limits-to-growth/<br />Art Decohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12955243137081184262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-27912199347081692652022-02-22T14:03:14.741+01:002022-02-22T14:03:14.741+01:00Keep learning new things! Thanks!Keep learning new things! Thanks!Ugo Bardihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18231859786466899924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-49658648209204425102022-02-22T12:10:43.173+01:002022-02-22T12:10:43.173+01:00>The concept never really caught up in the West...>The concept never really caught up in the West, but it seems to be popular in Japan. <br /><br />Vending machine restaurants are popular in the Netherlands, almost every city center has one.<br /><br />That is where extremes touch: Soviet materialism and Protestant thriftiness.DiSchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08653531570001815576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-83460421105025598332022-02-22T08:56:57.399+01:002022-02-22T08:56:57.399+01:00It's the same here in Australia although we se...It's the same here in Australia although we seem to be moving towards the English idea of dropping even the QR codes. They only remain for restaurants and other hospitality venues which fits nicely with your point. Restaurants are very wasteful of food from what I understand.<br /><br />Anyway, I've been having friends over to my house where I grow a lot of my own food. It turns out I can cook a better breakfast than most cafes. My homemade pesto is a particular favourite combined with fresh eggs from the backyard chickens. If people can throw off the shackles of ideologies and expectations they might find in some ways life can improve in the time ahead.<br /><br />Simon Shttps://simonsheridan.menoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-89976672110430200232022-02-22T00:37:59.668+01:002022-02-22T00:37:59.668+01:00Yes. Another big problem with restaurants is the f...Yes. Another big problem with restaurants is the fact that being in financial distress, they are temped to save on the quality of the ingredients. And that means at best stomach aches, but it could be worse. I must say that after a few months of no restaurants, my digestive system seems to have been doing very well. <br /><br />Glad that you liked my post. I have also eaten fish from the Red Sea, in Jordan. It was very good, indeed. But you CAN eat good fish from the Mediterranean Sea, but you must buy it in places where you know they won't poison you.Ugo Bardihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18231859786466899924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-62281343032721614392022-02-21T22:56:31.150+01:002022-02-21T22:56:31.150+01:00Ugo, this post is so rich that I don't think a...Ugo, this post is so rich that I don't think a comment can do it justice, however, just a couple of months ago my 30ish nephew and his bride to be toured Italy (pretty much the way I toured it with someone in the 80s....Gritti Palace, nice restaurants, Amalfi, Florence)....with no fear of covid, no hyperventiliating about covid. You know 4 of 5 people who contact covid barely know it. And they aren't afraid of it.They followed this with a birthday eating weekend in NY with no fear either...Korean, Russian, bagels. What on earth goes on in the risk calculator of the covidiots is beyond me...and I'm 73 and have had cancer twice, with death threats, yet, local restaurants that I know, neighborhood super spreader gatherings are just fine for me. I go out less now because I don't go into town that often, using my time in the country to prepare for nuclear war (lol)...and, I have fewer guests at this point in history.<br /><br />Now, having said that, the reason I am more difficult about unknown restaurants has nothing to do with people breathing in them or covid crazies. It's knowing that the ingredients are often cheap and contaminated and the treatment of the food and animals horrid. Teaching environmental law in Egypt I realized only a fool ate fish from the Med...and in fact at a dinner party in Cairo one night an Iraqi steel merchant told me no self respecting Italian would eat from the Med, (my god the illegal pollution from the factories dumping in France, Italy, Spain not to mention the cruise ships using the whole place as a toilet...) they got their fish from the Red Sea...as we knew we should, and that didn't even begin to touch watching in horror as the "best" lamb in Egypt was eating plastic bags on the road when we drove out to Marsah Matrrouh....or knowing about the toxic carcinogenic sludge used for potatoes in Washington state....or the Egyptian salt flats where poisons went straight to sale. And, of course, with low attendance, food poisoning is possible...why we eat as high turnover taco carts (or koshary, high turnover, vegan in Cairo) comfortably and happily here, why our fish comes from Baja or Nayarit...not the oil platform side.<br /><br />The WEF can take the QR code and shove it. I don't even own a smartphone, but I'm not eating poisoned trash from Monsanto, restaurant or not. There's an excellent book, Several Ways to Die in Mexico City about the terrible deterioration of Mexican food after NAFTA and the damage to the health of Mexicans....My campesino neighbors have virtually all organic food they raise themselves...ergo general good health in my community. <br /><br />Restaurants aren't going to die here; but local ingredients, and well priced, nice owners we know are thriving now....as is right. This is the only restaurant I want to see thrive....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-60176368303417559472022-02-21T15:38:52.621+01:002022-02-21T15:38:52.621+01:00Those who lived under the Soviet Union know very w...<b>Those who lived under the Soviet Union know very well that the finest of the food could be ordered in Moscow and other major cities' restaurants. But why so?</b><br /><br />The plumber that fixes for <i>Mr Gates</i> the kitchen cannot ride on a donkey going to site - owing to poverty. <br /><br />Even if forced to be that poor to ride a donkey, his tools must be made of expensive hard metals;<br /><br />Making those tools requires <b>armies of other people</b> manufacturing the plumber's tools, and the bigger tools that manufacture the smaller tools - who cannot be kept riding donkeys to work forever - this is why humans have stopped building Great Pyramids long ago...<br /><br />Gates will never enjoy the energy-luxury of fossil fuels alone - even if he wants to take all fossil fuels to himself - and himself only...<br /><br />It cannot be right that the gallon of gasoline a burger-flipper purchases to drive to work has taken millions of man-hour until made it into the fuel tank - but the flipper is able to pay for all that - by burger-flipping from 9 to 5...<br /><br />Humans have enjoyed the abundance of finite fossil fuels traded cheaper than water as if looted - thank only to our mentally-compromised Western Civilisation...<br /><br /><b>That is why our Western Civilisation feels and acts - like having all the right to decide - who lives and who dies....</b><br /><br />Since James Watt, what's called <i>Capitalism</i> has proved Communistic at core - <a href="https://the-fifth-law.com/pages/the-peak-oil-musical-chairs%E2%84%A2-calculator?ugo=https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2022/02/turning-west-into-new-soviet-union-2.html" rel="nofollow">schitsopherinic enough to always hide behind its back a periodical genocide cycles and Gulags - rhythmic like a metronome</a><br /><br />Gates will never be able to be the only person affording buying gasoline - while the rest are forced to ride donkeys...<br /><br />The heavily-popularised narrative on the internet 24/7 all last 2 decades - claiming it is <b>Price</b> which what's self-organising the international fossil fuels market (often called Neo Peak Oil Movement and Finite World Oiliers) - <b>is shenanigans...</b><br /><br />So why Gates doesn't declare all the richest oil fields in Iraq his own property, for example, never sharing a drop of it with others...<br /><br />He needs people to extract the stuff...<br /><br />These people cannot ride donkeys to work extracting the stuff, or having their tools made of wood or clay.<br /><br />What is the minimum number of those people Gates needs for the task - keeping the oil in Iraq for himself and himself only?<br /><br /><b>8 billion people - flat out - including B-52 and Sukhois crewmen...</b><br /><br />One would think that <b><a href="https://home.solari.com/?ugo=https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2022/02/turning-west-into-new-soviet-union-2.html" rel="nofollow">Catherine Austin Fitts</a></b> is really talking <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/DYixvvZR9d5O/" rel="nofollow">Crypto Currencies here</a>...<br /><br />Actually - she is trying too hard not to let the audience realising the real problem is that - there is no such thing called Capitalism - it is all about finite energy resources, or the lack of them...<br /><br />Fitts' turns circular, confusing, blunt, mishmash and never possible to understand from her - something explaining head from tail. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsjgtp9XZxo" rel="nofollow">See here</a> how this <b><i>rewarding art of communications-for living </i></b> is strongly seen in the field of Physics, too.<br /><br /><b>Thermodynamically, there is no such thing called Capitalism - the rest is shenanigans and choreography</b> - whether that be the 20th Century Physics, Crypto Currencies, going to a Moscow's restaurant during the Soviet Union era - or becoming Mr Gates.<br /><br />"<a href="https://the-fifth-law.com/pages/press-release?ugo=https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2022/02/turning-west-into-new-soviet-union-2.html" rel="nofollow">Energy, like time, flows from past to future</a>"<br /><br />Wailing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-1648399564403960852022-02-21T13:13:33.133+01:002022-02-21T13:13:33.133+01:00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSXPLVkfsNc
I nam...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSXPLVkfsNc<br /><br />I named my perrita after Adelita....cooked for the soldiers...(!!!) The Red Army Choir does a version of this song....revolutions being revolutions...<br /><br />Pancho Villa had 24 or 25 wives....that idiot Pershing never could catch him. Finally a Mex president assassinated him. I guess he just wouldn't die of the 1918 flu....lol...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-58128120289152976512022-02-21T12:00:55.156+01:002022-02-21T12:00:55.156+01:00Viva Mexico! Viva Zapata! Viva Pancho Villa! https...Viva Mexico! Viva Zapata! Viva Pancho Villa! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlxAhvi-j_UUgo Bardihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18231859786466899924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-12404897903130430992022-02-21T11:39:09.505+01:002022-02-21T11:39:09.505+01:00You are right on both the points!You are right on both the points!sanpeihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12556637106512130256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-8590201079348656782022-02-21T10:16:18.884+01:002022-02-21T10:16:18.884+01:00You know, Georgi, this comment of yours makes me t...You know, Georgi, this comment of yours makes me think that at least one line of my post was completely correct.Ugo Bardihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18231859786466899924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-31430158861385560322022-02-21T10:15:39.676+01:002022-02-21T10:15:39.676+01:00And, indeed, I can imagine that adding water to a ...And, indeed, I can imagine that adding water to a bear can be dangerous!Ugo Bardihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18231859786466899924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-48915663913639761832022-02-21T10:15:06.094+01:002022-02-21T10:15:06.094+01:00I think it was Khrushchev who banged his show on t...I think it was Khrushchev who banged his show on the table, wasn't he?Ugo Bardihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18231859786466899924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-37024367891882319532022-02-21T06:22:29.552+01:002022-02-21T06:22:29.552+01:00"it is not so much because the PTBs are evil ...<br />"it is not so much because the PTBs are evil -- they are no more evil than most categories. "<br /><br />This could be true, and if the elites continued to act as ever, without bothering for our health, they could be excused in this way.<br />But now the PTBs pretend they do care a lot about our health, so I imagine they won't be forgiven at all.<br /><br />This resembles something you can find in the gospel (John 9:41)<br />“If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.” <br /><br />In other words elites are acting as hypocrates.<br />This is not a good way to rule.<br /><br />It is like during the french revolution. As long as the king<br />did not try to run away abroad with his family, <br />majority only asked about a reformed monarchy.<br />But when it was sound clear that his formost<br />concern was about himself and his family,<br />nonarchy and the king were doomed.<br /><br /><br />So I suspect that the elites would not survive the upcoming of thruth.<br />Technology and the medias give PTBs a power far greater than in the past.<br />And maybe they could still manage to suppress the truth.<br />But I love truth far more than actual elites.<br />And THEY chose to lie, deliberately.<br />Was Louis XVI evil? No, he was a poor fellow and I pity him<br />and his family. I could not pity the elites now; I am not<br />sure if, in the future, I should pity them <br />or just myself and my <br />family. <br /><br />Everybody that is working for the truth to emerge, is against the <br />elites, this cannot be avoided any longer. PTBs chose to refuge abroad in lies; it is their responsability, and it is very dangerous, even for them. Maybe someone will recognize them, however disguised and bring back to Paris!<br /><br /><br /><br />sanpeihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12556637106512130256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-17526462339548842202022-02-21T02:51:02.087+01:002022-02-21T02:51:02.087+01:00Well Ugo, this is funny and enjoyable and there is...Well Ugo, this is funny and enjoyable and there is much to add after I consult some of my many food anthropology books in my 600 cookbook collection! Fortunately I am living in Mexico where we (thank god!) have not been hysterical about "transmission" and I've been eating in Luna de Queso's garden restaurant, Companios and Bove and other places...both inside and out...since the beginning of this covidiot show...of course, none of my friends believe there is a "vax" which is true, and we are all cheerfully uncontaminated by the spike protein being injected into us. There are no dictated QR codes and non one has suggested one in two years. Nor do I know anyone who has had "covid"....nice large parties out here in the campo too....So, the unpretentious restaurants with excellent Mex food I go to are full and fun and doing well and with good food turn over, one isn't afraid of being poisoned by old, leftovers. Too bad for the rest of the world. Thank god for Mexico!!!! Viva Mexico!<br /><br />Now Diamond Jim Brady and Lillian Russell....and their restaurant going....not middle class and huge fun. Thanks for this. More later. ChristineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1585995614037680457.post-26828193804281447942022-02-21T02:29:53.413+01:002022-02-21T02:29:53.413+01:00Not quite, this wasn’t Iron Age notables entertain...Not quite, this wasn’t Iron Age notables entertaining each other and it wasn’t an ego boosting show. <br /><br />The Iron Age notables were more like Mafia bosses than nobility. Their social position and power was utterly dependent on the size of their following. The more clients you had, the more power and wealth to you and your followers. The feasts and lavish entertainments declared the host to be a man of great skills and leadership, one worthy of being one’s patron. Good clients increase their patron’s power and received support and protection in return. The clients in early days were warriors who would fight for their patron, traders who would give a share of their profits for support and protection.<br /><br />Iron Age society was stateless, anybody without a protector could be robbed, killed or enslaved with impunity, the whole patron-client system created a stable structure and the feasts were part of the social rituals that maintained it.<br /><br />This extended even to the religious sphere where relationships with the Gods were conducted according to these rituals. Iron Age society lacked any concept of a divinely ordained social order, it was fluid and egalitarian.<br /><br />No Ugo, there was no Roman state as we understand it, there was a supersized Iron Age chiefdom where the legions were the Emperor’s personal clients and members of his personal household staffed the administration, a formal bureaucracy was formed only under Diocletian and Constantine as the traditional social ethic was crumbling. MonSeulDesirnoreply@blogger.com