Stacy Summary: Some Oracle predictions coming true; Mexico takes first loan from new IMF money printing operation; and police state goes public in UK, where the population seems okay about it.
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James – can you tell me which country you preferred?
I ask because, like you, I see the writing on the wall (albeit 10 years later than you) and feel the need to get out, I’m just not sure if there is anywhere on this planet that is not being threatened by the men behind the curtain – any ideas?
1st off, THANKS Stacy and Max for keepin’, me, one of the unwashed masses of US americans educated on what’s goin on in the rest of the world.
anyway, one thing i’ve having a problem w/ is, for example, when the bankster scam $ are reported. There’s almost no mention of what the amount represents in total % of bank money. or taxpayer $ (even that’s inaccurate considering that’s just fed interest payment, huh?)
ie, like did the banker bonuses represent 1% of the their stolen $? or 50%? did wells fargo profit represent 10 or 2% or 35% increase? or am i just missing this somewhere in all the newz?
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I saw this article in Cryptogram, you may want to post as a new link some time next week.
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Security fears spark Linux drive in Iran
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/21/1095651288238.html
Iran has become the latest country to edge towards ditching Windows in favour of Linux, even if its refusal to abide by copyright laws means that the country does not pay a penny to Bill Gates.
According to Mohammad Sephery-Rad, the man in charge of the government’s computer systems, long-term political and security considerations have sparked a major initiative to make the switch.
“All the software in Iran is copied. There is no copyright law, so everybody uses Microsoft software freely,” said the secretary of Iran’s High Informatics Council.
“But we cannot continue like this much longer,” he said.
The reason has nothing to do with the guilt of using pirated software (a cracked Windows XP CD costs the same as a blank CD), but more pragmatic considerations – not least because of the irony that Iran’s information technology (IT) backbone is based on software from its arch-enemy the United States.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hatRrIxpw2o
Karl Denninger has a new vid up.
Just thought I would throw this in to make your day.. This shit has to stop or we are all going to randomly framed…
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/us/19DNA.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Accounting Gimmicks
Good link this Wells Fargo case which can be put in the “accounting gimmick” basket.
Wells Fargo May Need $50 Billion in Capital, KBW Says ; 13 April 2009, by Ari Levy (Bloomberg)
Ptah – you make some good points, as someone old enough and marginalised enough to have taken part in the riots in ’81′ and helping to effect change as regards ’the poll tax riot’, the g20 protest seemed quite surreal – more media frenzy than protest. In the old days, ie pre ‘Rodney King’, if you got beaten by the police it was a waste of time complaining as it would be your word against the state.
I am proud that the majority of protests are peaceful. The police are usually the instigators of trouble and this was true at g20. I’m glad I went to the g20 protest I always feel better witnessing with my own eyes and I wanted to add my presence and voice to something I feel strongly about.
As I stated previously, I believe that peaceful protest, civil disobedience, politics, art etc all have a part to play and always have – eg civil rights, suffragettes, changes in eastern europe.
Everything counts in the long run even if you can’t win them all.
Blair P, yes i just about remember that one……i didn’t riot myself till Toxeth 81………..:)
Mike
I am curious about the media interest in these G20 riots, there has always been unprovoked – and provoked police aggression toward those who attend – going back to the days of the SPG and Blair Peach. All of a sudden ‘its an issue’. It isn’t just because of YouTube.
I think it is an attempt to quell unrest by pretending something is being done. Max Clifford is representing one of the victims. Which is like leaving a fox to look after the hen house.
Why should Brits worry? Britain is a utopia after all – an island. Last successful conquest – 1066. Yeah, I know BoE may be the domestic enemy, but it is still much better then living in the continental Europe taking into account its record of wars, borders and standing armies. It is much easier to export violence when you share land borders with someone.
Oh, wait, Cornwall Liberation Army? Maybe I am wrong then…
Out of the incredible abyss of apathy that is Britain comes probably the foremost expert on why the Brits and others are they way they are.
The man is ridiculed, call a nut, and basically rejected by all but the most open of inquirer. Proof I suspect he is as close to the ultimate Truths as anyone. Who is this man? David Icke.
The key ingredient to any successful mind control operation is having your subject defend your process against those who would question it.
Most Americans for example cannot ultimately accept what Max is saying and act against the evils for the very simple fact they have been systematically brainwashed to believe there is some good in doing business with crooks. This why karmabanque and similar efforts have trouble gaining any traction.
Most Brits-Americans and others will defend the very people and institutions which are killing them. Why? because they have been programmed to.
From what I’ve read about the UK, the police state “coming out of the closet” isn’t a big deal to the population because it’s no surprise at all. Seems to me that they’ve been pretty aware of its existance as it has developed, and the “does nothing” options you mentioned just don’t appeal to the common man. Why protest when you know for a fact it won’t make a bit of difference? For that matter, why bother voting? Most people in America haven’t bothered with it in decades for that very reason.
I think the populations of many countries are simply biding their time until they see a good opportunity to do something about their collective problems (i.e. bankster-crats). I know that’s what I’m doing, I’m just waiting for my government to bankrupt itself…. which shouldn’t take long at the rate things are going.
We are NOT ok with it Stacy, am 45 years old, At 17 i was ina riot here in Liverpool. What you must understand is that “Critical mass” needs to be reached before it blows.
Mike
Have you guys seen Obama’s newest trick?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcxhcMyn8rU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fzaplog.nl%2F&feature=player_embedded
Hi Y’All
In general ex pats make wanna cringe, It’s kinda easy complaining about the old country as you remember it, from afar, looking down on the country and it’s population ie ’the great british rabble’ but the minute things aren’t going your way you leave.
I have always felt that unless you or your family are facing extreme torture or genocide the best thing you can do for your country is stay behind and sort things out, showing some solidarity with the people who aren’t fortunate enough to be able to leave or those people who’d rather stay and defend what they believe in (nobody has to stay anywhere these days), but worth bearing in mind when you start throwing rocks at those you left behind.
Damn not everybody is lucky enough to be white in a country with a reputation for human rights abuse after all.
As for ‘orchestrated protests that do nothing and the vote that in political elections that do nothing’ can I just say these are weapons in the average persons arsenal and have a positive part to play just as much as looking to booshwah media types for inspiration.
(I’ll wear your tshirt if you’ll try mine).
I think l agree with a lot of the debates taking place on this site and those out in my real world, but people need to try and find more common ground, and remember we are all generally travelling in the same direction.
So may I suggest people keep on keeping on even when they’ve lost hope or even if they have succumbed to intellectual apathy .
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This 2006 article somehow hits the spot this weekend.
NZ has had subtitle but also massive shifts in its economy due to the global finsec crisis — but that on the whole still make this article valid but dated.
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7 ways to lose your shirt (or make a fortune)
Investing in movies may be one way to make a fortune (or lose your shirt)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/3/story.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10435345
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For the investor in a hurry who can stomach the prospect of losing large amounts quickly, there are other ways to invest that can provide returns of several hundred per cent over a shorter period – and don’t involve a visit to the casino or TAB.
But given the risk involved, you probably wouldn’t want to punt your life savings or the family home on any of these.
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Yes, I was agreeing with you basically. But by the time they wake up, if they ever do, it will be too late. Creating a police state is a bit like getting obese: very easy to keep putting it on, a lifetime’s struggle to get it off. And I have no faith in the great British rabble. Maybe I can remind you of the gist of that famous poem, “First they came…”
“In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist; And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew; And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up.”
@James The evidence I used for the statement, “the population seems okay about it” is the absence of any outcry. I think outrage gets funneled into these orchestrated protests that do nothing and the vote in the political elections that do nothing But let’s see, maybe as more information emerges about the police state, people might realise that they are next?
You say that the UK population “seems ok about it” — the police state that is. I read the article you linked to, and can’t see any evidence for that claim in it. But I fear you may be right. People in a democracy deserve the government they get. I left Britain the moment I graduated, a decade ago. I could see the writing on the walls. Haven’t spent a single day in the country since, and will never return. I have lived in countries that traditionally are always listed as among the worst human rights violators. Of course, they tend to leave white people alone. But what does it say that the thought of walking down a street in London now fills me with dread. Take a photo of a public building, and they’ll question you as a potential terroist. Smile at a little kid in the local park, and they’ll do a background check on you to see if you are a sex offender. Try finding a decent newspaper, anything worth your while watching on tv (but I get The Oracle on BBC World!). And yes, the majority of Brits just apparently go about their usual bigoted business. They are so dumbed down, so brainwashed that they seem unable even to conceptualize the idea of a police state, let alone rally against it. It’s going to get very, very bad. Thank God I’m out of it.