Comments on: [1046] The Truth About . . . IOUs – 11 July 2009

By: Kricke242

Kricke242 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:42:38 +0000

Wanted to comment about the negative 0.25% interest rate in Sweden, which Max mentions. This is not true. No one in Sweden has a negative rate on their a vista account (salary account is like +0.25% and savings account is like +0.95%). I would remove my money from the banks if that would be the case, and tell my boss to pay my salary in cash . The negative rate is ONLY what the central bank (Riksbank) is taking in excess money from the commercial banks at over night. They basically says they don’t want it and try to force the banks to lend to each other instead. I don’t know where this idea that citizens in Sweden has a negative rate in their accounts came from? Well it is not true and it will never be true, because banks will have to pay more to lend from the central bank over night (+0.75% over night) and will rather lend from people, so that rate will be some were between 0%-0.75%. Which is not much but not negative (in nominal terms), and in addition there would be a run on the banks if rates for people went negative. But I suspect it will end bad anyway… :/

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:24:06 +0000

Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen in the US claims American intelligence sent Afghan mercenaries into Iraq, in order to attack the country’s civilians and military personnel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2licF3t49zc

By: Ingvend Storrs

Ingvend Storrs — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:25:00 +0000

@Youri Carma

In the world of Mental Oatmeal, what you say is true. In the real, complex world, not true. Sloppy terminologies rise from sloppy thinking.

By: Aridzonan

Aridzonan — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:47:39 +0000

This is one of the most important shows you’ve done. It lines up with everyone from Catherine Fitts to Cliff High and George Ure’s WebBot project, where: info will come out that will prove the markets are rigged!!

How can anyone invest in these criminals? Stop the abuse pull your money, credit, stock out of these Wall Street Bankster Gangster / FedGov.Inc firms!. Invest in locally owned and operated institutions. Find a farmer and do a direct local investment. You don’t support the criminal behavior and the abuse by doing business of any kind with be tapeworms that’s sucking us dry!!

By: frances snoot

frances snoot — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:49:00 +0000

“Our “own” definition of intelligence is a somewhat “mechanical” intelligence .. and doesn’t allow for anything outside the realms of logical and physical determination IMO.”
@Phil:

So you agree a lot of scientists (mainly male) are pompous egoists? The system set up to coddle the eggheads to maturity and further more pompous postulations?

Scientists used to be cool and dabble in alchemy and hide their findings in closets while sipping out of beakers. Now they are befuddled servants of the state. See:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/sorry-absinthe/

By: Richard@lattitude30N

Richard@lattitude30N — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:35:00 +0000

@Sharon: yes.Sharon..you may dream…But if I get esoteric and say that maybe the mythical civilizations Lemuria and Mu were such places and if they did exist than one might say you are channeling that reality….Much like the patriarchal and matriarchal forms of culture at variance as in the books of Robert Anton Wilson ( where I first heard the word Illuminati as in the title to his book The Illuminati Trilogy )….just maybe apart from this still embryonic form of neo-fascism there is a way out….also much like James Redfield’s books ( Celestine Prophecy, Shambala, etc…) ….a place where sanity for humans resides….a physical place…so Sharon dream on and take us with you when you go to that eco-off grid rural village..

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:20:51 +0000

@PL …. ” John Gray’s Straw Dogs attempts to present a world view in which humans are not central and which argues against the humanist belief in progress. The heart of the book is summed up in the idea that modern humanists have still not come to terms with Darwin, still not come to terms with the idea that humans are like other animals. Christians and modern humanists in the Platonic-Cartesian tradition typically think of humans enjoying a special relationship to God, or a special status in nature in a way that other animals do not. Even the great debunkers–philosophers such as Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Heidegger–end up making human beings the centre of things or the end point of some world-historical process. By contrast, in a Taoist, Shinto, Hindu or animist culture Darwin’s discovery would have been easily accommodated since these faiths see humans and other animals as kin. ”

Surprise Surprise !
I bought a book in 2001 about the same topic … the (German) author won the 1999 Booker prize.

The Lives of Animals
J.M.Coetzee

A very short book … but hits the point IIRC.
Talks about the egoism of humans in not respecting that animals also have lives ( and souls ).

Actually , this subject is very dear to me.
Humans conveniently define their “own” intelligence e.g. Mensa & Co. and assume there is no ther “sort” . The mistreatment of anything that doesn’t adhere to their own definition is disgusting.
Just imagine if Aliens landed and told us “you are stupid beings, we’ll just blow up your planet” ( Hitch Hiker’s Guide … LOL ). Now what would these mensarians say to that ?

Our “own” definition of intelligence is a somewhat “mechanical” intelligence .. and doesn’t allow for anything outside the realms of logical and physical determination IMO.

etc. etc. … I’ll stop here .. .as I could g on for hours .

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:02:23 +0000

@PL … did you mean “StraW Dogs” ?

Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (Taschenbuch)
von John Gray (Autor)

By: PL

PL — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:57:40 +0000

@Phil

Start with STRAY DOGS by John N. Gray. Its like reading a hand grenade with wine and cheese.

thx

By: sharon

sharon — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:11:05 +0000

@ Frances………lol. No but my children might be.

By: frances snoot

frances snoot — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:21:22 +0000

@Sharon:
Good Lord! Are you a blue-blood? LOL!

By: sharon

sharon — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:00:33 +0000

@ frances………………By ‘they’ I assume you mean the bondholders of the international banks that did the funding.

Back in the day it was the Rothschild clan and various others – I generally call them the Nazis or Robber Barons. I guess today it would be them and other directors of the Bank of England et al, including the Dutch heirarchy. Funnily enough I was looking through some details of the Hasburgh empire recently and I remembered that my ex (father of my children) had ancestors who were aristocrats within Austrian society (even had their own coat of arms) and when I was looking through some names of those within the Hasburgh empire lo and behold there was my children’s ancestor, right under Rothschild. Wonder if I can use that to my advantage when they start rounding us up…ha, ha.

By: frances snoot

frances snoot — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:45:46 +0000

@Sharon:
By ‘they’ I assume you mean the bondholders of the international banks that did the funding.

By: frances snoot

frances snoot — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:44:01 +0000

@Dedo:
All part of Brezinzki’s great plan. Here’s a quote:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BRZ110A.html
(interview with Brezinzki)
Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?

B: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.

B: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn’t a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.

@Sharon: well done!

The destablization of Afghanistan and Iran (future) is part of Brezinzki’s grand chessboard ambitions: control of Eurasia.