Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "The Jordan Harbinger Show" channel.

  1.  @JordanHarbingerShow  I hope you can get him back on. I'm an engineer and I'd like to see him challenged on a couple of points that I keep hearing him repeat. Sorry this is long, but your interview with Peter was one of the better ones - you asked better questions. 1) He keep saying that once the American service companies leave Siberia those well stop flowing the water in them will freeze and crack all the pipe work. I work in control systems (the computers that run everything) and have some (but not much) work in the oil & gas industry. Yes there's water, but not in massive amounts, so its questionable on that. But more importantly those companies have been there for 20+ years now. To think that the Russians haven't been gaining the experience themselves in techniques and technology for those environments is a VERY BAD ASSUMPTION. Yes their experience will be less and they might miss some experience at the top level of the expertise tree but to claim they are incapable is just foolish. 2) He keeps making claims that Europe is stuffed on renewable energy because of bad locations and to a lesser extent the grid needs upgrading. He's part right on both points. Its great that he is one of the few pointing out that geography is a major part of the energy transition. I have argued with people on the geography subject and its amazing how ignorant BOTH the pro and con-renewable people are on the subject. Peter's right Northern Europe is hopeless for solar for 2/3rds of the year while southern Europe is better but Spain which has the room for extensive solar is also disconnected from the main European grid. Peter doesn't emphasise the grid issue as much as it needs to be. Its arguably one of the biggest issues. We are moving from an energy system with a few major generators that fed energy out through main arteries into a tree like system where all the leaves on the tree CONSUMED energy and ONLY consumed energy. Now we have an energy system where the main generators are scattered and on top of that many of the leaves want to generate energy and inject it into the system. NOBODY anywhere has an energy grid built for that. Its not an undoable task it just has to be thought through which people are NOT DOING. There's some really major level ignorance from people. Here's a story out of my country Australia. I knew about the grid issues a while back but I can barely believe the stupidity of the clown from Windlab (around 1:30) who claims he's a smart investor who's built successful windfarm projects. My question is - If he's so smart then why did he build a wind farm where the grid can't handle what he's generating? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwfsk446iR0 3) This harks back to a much broader topic of basic infrastructure, which Peter does NOT talk about as much as he should. This is arguably the biggest issue the Western Hemisphere has by far. One of the catastrophic mistakes of neo-liberalism has been the "privatise everything" doctrine that's resulted in governments NOT keeping up with infrastructure. Go anywhere right now in the developed world and there's issues with energy infrastructure, transportation infrastructure, water infrastructure, public education (schools, universities & vocational colleges) and public hospitals just to name a few things. Every country has these in different combinations but they all have similar issues. I'd like to hear peter talk more about infrastructure.
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  2. I'd never seen Peter Ziehan until recently. I've been mainly reading and following Mark Blyth the political-economist from Brown U. Peter seems to cover a lot of the same stuff but from the perspective of someone who's concerned about the demographics and how that affects the political landscape while Mark looks at the interactions between economics and the political landscape. Interesting they both have almost the same assessment of Bitcoin and Crypto in general. But I will say this (as I am an engineer) they get their engineering wrong at times, but its mainly in details only an engineer will pick up. I sort of doubted the population of those countries Putin wants control of. They weren't quite right its NOT 300 million its just under 270 million.
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  3. Yeah I watch it too, but his quip about not to trust a Brit with a Pencil and a map is a bit rich coming from an American considering how ignorant of maps most Americans are or do the rest of us need to remind you of the famous Miss Teen America map question. Yeah its from 2007 but its one of those timeless moments that never grows old.
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  4. HEY JORDAN: I normally love these interviews you do but sometimes you NEED TO PUSH BACK instead of just agreeing with everything. This is one of the great failings many people like yourself. Its great that you have people like Marc on to discuss their thing but for things this important you NEED A COUNTERPOINT. FYI - Just like marc I did my undergraduate at the U. of Illinois except I was in aerospace and a few years ahead of him. I was there when they were going through the "what do we do with this" phase of large data bases. We had a system called Plato which was a pre-Internet information system AND IT WAS AWFUL to use. When PCs arrived Apple, IBM, AT& T just dumped machines with various departments. In aerospace we got a truckload (about 50) AT&T PCs with Unix operating systems. They had a amazing computational capacity compared to both the IBMs and Apples but that version of Unix was so damn horrible to use these machines were basically useless. I knew a guy who was working on the Cray Supercomputers it was pretty interesting to here the technical details of what they were dealing with. I have spent 30+ years in industrial control systems, automation and robotics. Mostly I have worked in manufacturing and mining but also water and waste water treatment, energy systems and gas plants. I have seen a lot happen in that time and I can tell you from that experience that Marc is simply dead wrong on a number of topics. No doubt on these AI platforms he knows more than I do but by the same token I know a lot more than he does on industrial issues. In industry we have had so many tech clowns form the IT industry waft in an make pronouncements. What the IT people NEVER UNDERSATND is that industry does not play games with software or any of the technology. When you are working on multi-billion dollar lumps of stuff you just can't take the blasé attitude of the IT industry. these are lumps of stuff that you just cannot have data errors and software crashes. In my field we pay attention when ever the IT people are close because they JUST DO NOT GET WHAT WE DO. You'd be amazed just how lacking in knowledge other engineers are of what control system people do. IT people are just worse than normal. Putting it mildly without control system engineers writing incredibly stable software the world as you know it does NOT EXIST. You wouldn't be reading this now because you wouldn't have electricity. We keep society as you know it working NOT the Marc Andreesens of the world. His claims AI will be running everything are just FALSE. I assure you he has no idea of what we do or he'd never make those claims.
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  5. Another thing when he's talking about the Iranians and Russians infiltrating local groups. WHAT DOES HE THINK AMERICA DOES in a lot of countries????? This is a tactic going back centuries. Go and re-watch the film Braveheart and watch how Edward Longshanks got some of the Scottish Nobles and eventually Robert the Bruce to betray William Wallace. What do you think America did with the Warlords in Afghanistan????
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  6. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: This clown is so full of SHlT its staggering anyone gives him time of day. I went to look for his 60 minutes interview to see what he said. I didn't find it but found some ridiculous stuff. I checked out his Wikipedia page to see what he's actually qualified in. He has a degree in Philosophy and a PhD in History. HE IS NOT QUALIFIED IN ANY WAY TO MAKE THE ASCERTIONS HE MAKES ON TECHNOLOGY. This is 100% conjecture with no basis in fact. Its science fiction and very bad science fiction being presented as science fact. As someone with a technical education I hate these people and hate that fact that so few people in the media ever call them out for the LIARS that they are. He is just another narcissistic opportunist who knows there are enough stupid people out there who will believe the fantasy he's peddling to keep doing this stuff.
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  7. I'm an engineer and even went to college at the same college Andreesen went (U. Illinois) All engineers are over caffeinated to some extent. On his thing of America and China pushing their world view of how things are there's going to be a huge push back from Western developed countries TO BOTH. I'm actually Australian and the amount of American influence here is going to blow up shortly. Its one thing to have friends but there's a certain strain within the American system who just can't help interfering with everyone else's business AND ITS WEARING VERY THIN. Everyone is under a lot of pressure with various things these days. Climate change, changing demographics, precarious economics, immigration (both legal and illegal) are just a few things. Having an overbearing and very pushy friend, even if they mean well, just wears people out. And so we are clear the Chinese are just as bad and just as interfering they just go about it in a different way.
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