civilization collapse

wednesday nov 10 financial times says belarus is instrumentalising migrants. humans makes other humans into weapons to extract resources from other humans. belarus is bringing migrants from syria and iraq to polish border putting pressure on eu and poland. this is strategic from belarus. low risk and low cost attack. it is hard to see what a measured response by poland would be. what can poland do to extract resources from belarus at low cost and low cost? because of its moral commitments poland cant imprison or threaten migrants - but they could promote hussar history in migrant source countries - proudly promoting christian militarism defeating the ottomans. how about the hodow? https://amp.ft.com/content/5524378f-f141-4f6e-8ea4-0f3be0bf27af

 Studying how humans hunt is crucial as resource limits are reached and boundaries are crossed. How humans hunt as a field of study has been overlooked in favour of history, political science, geography, anthropology or economics for studying conflict. They are unable to predict or model outcomes that are outside of their field of study. Studying the unique ways humans has been completely missing from existing disciplines. 1. what are the ways that humans hunt that are shared with animals? 1. what are ways do human human that are unique to humans? 1. with agriculture what species controls the largest share of gains? 1. what species is best target for hunting? 1. what special hunting techniques have developped unique to that species? 1. how does hunting lead to rise and fail of civilizations? Studying the way humans hunt has been missing for the religious narrative traditions. For thousands of years gods and prophets have spoken and taught and yet we have gone from city collapse to ...

site works best with firefox: https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/stele-vultures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stele_of_the_Vultures from page 21 of  Tracing the Earliest Recorded Concepts of International Law While the “Stele of the Vultures” does not disclose the full terms of the agreement reached between Eanatum, ruler of lagaš, and Enakale, ruler of umma, further details are given in the inscription of Enmetena, Eana- tum’s nephew, E1.9.5.1. According to that inscription, Eanatum, despite his victory over umma, left a strip of land over one km. deep, belonging to lagaš, along the border under umma’s control, According to Eanatum’s inscription on his “Stele of the Vultures” (E1.9.3.1), the ruler of umma was obligated under oath to “exploit the field of Ningirsu as a(n interest- bearing) loan.” According to Enmetena’s inscription, the amount of land umma could use was stipulated by the acreage needed to produce 1 guru (5184 hl.) of grain, at the current ...

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I am interested in collapse, when things fall apart. Sometimes collapse is a divorce of two formerly allied alphas battling for supremacy of their smoking rubble empire, while civilians die or if they have the means, flee with their lives. However other collapses are the result of bankruptcy. Alphas gamble resources to acquire competitive advantages or they have nothing left to lose. Sometimes there are no other choices but to gamble and risk losing. When you have nothing left to lose the best choice is to pay criminals to cross the Mediterranean and risk death or the US border and risk imprisonment. Civilizations require electricity. New coal generation is out.  Sometimes the only choice is to hire the company that built the 3 Mile Island disaster to build new power plants on your property. And they were first approved since the disaster. Utilities in the South Carolina and Georgia contracted Westinghouse to build 4 reactors designed to solve problems wi...

If the ice in Greenland and Antartica was as valuable as the damage losing it would cost - how valuable would that ice be? The 20 cities listed in "Future flood losses in major coastal cities" published by NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE - put the cost at $1 Trillion per year. So - any ideas on how I can short these cities?  Credit default swaps on global warming bonds? Wall Street - can you figure out how to make billions saving the planet from carbon? Be quick about it - Manhattan is almost under water... Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/science/global-warming-sea-level-carbon-dioxide-emissions.html?_r=0 By  JUSTIN GILLIS MARCH 22, 2016 Continue reading the main story Share This Page https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/4bixv4/scientists_warn_of_perilous_climate_shift_within/ The article cites the work of Dr James Hansen. He has prepared a video - watch the video presentation by Dr J...

Avis car rental company Wizard booking software introduced in 1972 IBM Mainframe SNA Every month on a Saturday, the entire system goes down Everywhere From 12am to 6am all orders are entered by hand while the system is offline for maintenance Of course, staff call in sick