Stacy Summary: Just finished recording next week’s summer special episode of On the Edge. Guest is Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge. Episode will be available next week. By the way, is it hot where you are? It’s sure warm here.
- Warren Buffett’s all-you-can-eat taxpayer buffet (h/t @maxkeiser & @Youri Carma)
- Cash for clunkers myth debunked (h/t @rjstelling)
- Central Bank gold sales down 73% on year (h/t Youri Carma)
- Afshin Rattansi on BBC’s Iran coverage: “Like covering Britain from the streets of Mayfair” (from about 06.45)
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“There is absolutely no hope for this country so long as we allow people with platforms to get away with lying and twisting facts to elevate themselves and their agendas.
[...]
An unnamed Democratic congressman was recently physically assaulted by one of these corporate astroturf protesters.”
Still no evidence, still no names, still no charges. Bring. It. On.
Thanks Stacy. A pain looking at things on my phone. should be more patient and wait till I get home.
@Nat – Here is the link to youtube version of Afshin’s appearance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjOJVlYXKPU
Ahem, Afshin I mean..
Could someone point me in the right direction for the Afshanti BBC. clip please-just comes up with the generic iplayer mobile page. What was the program? Cheers, Nat
P.S. it’s hot in the City of London today – am looking at the new office tower at 25 ropemaker street and wondering if I can get a few floors rent free like that Japanese Bank – might ask at reception..
@ stacyherbert re: “it’s becoming more and more apparent, imo, that there will have to be a debt jubilee”
Er, didn’t the banksters already get one?
No jobs fall in Australia today.
Steady at 5.6% Govt unemployment figures.
Some full-time to Part-Time but economy happy.
Reserve Bank and most economist here say “Next rate move will be up” probably not until December.
We are at 3.25% Central at the moment.
I read that today but can’t remember where.
We are howvever IMHO inside a Govt Stimulus Bubble and the rush for commodities are firing us here in Aus.
@Phil – thanks for the link to the story about half of US mortgages to be underwater by 2011; it’s becoming more and more apparent, imo, that there will have to be a debt jubilee
@Mike/Liverpool – If you look back to the previous Great Depression, you will find many, many similar “Recovery is Here!” headlines all through 1930, 1931 and 1932. Then it seems everyone lost the will to live and you didn’t see so many for awhile.
@Dedo – you think BoE will raise rates today??? Interesting . . . anyone else placing their bets?
AlJazeeraEnglish: Countdown – 5 August 09 – Part 1
Discussion on Arms race between Iran & Israel.
Starts off with Russian Military parade for Victory Day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvl0lg5TTNU
Yeah Baby!
Don’t take this crap…..
http://www.smh.com.au/national/cut-no-action-actors-to-walk-out-20090806-eb52.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSsIO028ZPw
more town hall anger at social health care
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aby2JX6pNYc
Dick Armey “They don’t care about health care in America”
In addition to the bailout congress wants to spend millions on a few nice airplanes to haul themselves around in. http://tinyurl.com/lxrgdx
@ Mep Aug 5, 2009 at 8:25 pm
re: “As far as I know, half of those foreign cars were made in the US.”
By foreign companies.
I’m not interested in one red cent of my (borrowed from foreigners) tax dollars supporting in any way foreign companies, foreign shareholders or foreign workers. That a few American workers might get a paycheck from these foreign-owned companies is a pretty dumb reason to shell out $ to foreign manufacturers to buy their cars. We’d be better off simply giving the $ to American workers outright.
re: “That’s what matters most these days: the labor that goes into making the vehicles.”
What matters is who pockets the profits, and which car companies are able to survive as a result. We apparently just shelled out our $ to help foreign car companies survive and compete against us. That’s just plain dumb.
Job options narrow as U.S. recession bites http://tinyurl.com/lemajn but Guantanamo ex-prisoners get jobs on golf course ??? http://link.reuters.com/pup89c
@Youri:
US Congress House of Reps sets aside time for personal portraits to enrich the lives of ordinary Americans. Note Madame Pelosi in slide 2:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/5966251/The-weirdest-animals-on-Planet-Earth.html
@frances snoot
Europe war risk no longer unthinkable post Georgia http://tinyurl.com/lv8l3p
About half of U.S. mortgages seen underwater by 2011 http://link.reuters.com/pyp89c
Another world war begins in the caucasus region?
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20090805/155733495.html
“Vice-president of World Government Affairs”?
Did I hear right?
In the first minute or so of the late July CNBC clip, the above expression was slipped in. Is this how we’re being conditioned?
Clip is in the July Peter Schiff archive:
The Oil above $100 by the end of the year Peter Schiff
Peter Schiff on the Kudlow Report : Oil at $100 the Dollar will continue its free Fall
http://12mr.co.cc/
Agenda for the Caucasus region (EU, UN):
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,640252,00.html
Goldman has record trading days: Goldman Sachs traders made more than $100m in revenues on each of a record 46 d.. http://bit.ly/eueNZ
Trading with Whom?
The change that this article talks about may have an impact on how people currently get their news. News Corp is planning to change its business model.
http://tinyurl.com/m4pdxd
@Scorpio – As far as I know, half of those foreign cars were made in the US. That’s what matters most these days: the labor that goes into making the vehicles. In a sense, there are no “American cars” anymore. Parts and technologies come from all around the world; investors are international investors; and “American cars” are made the world over. The best way to “buy American”/support American workers– if that’s what you want to do –is to find out how much of a car contains American-made parts, and more importantly, whether the car was made by US laborers.
This is how Italy functions, says call girl: An interview with Patrizia D’Addario: Guy Dinmore meets the woman a.. http://bit.ly/Klf18
@13BlackCats – I don’t think that by giving a true example of what socialism would look like, I lose credibility. What is insanely ironic is that the majority of rejects parroting GOP lines about “socialism” aren’t even smart enough to realize that if they voted McShame/Palin, they actually voted for the biggest socialist in the country: Palin. She’s the one who buys off (or, bought off) Alaskans by giving them cuts of Alaska’s oil revenues.
About Alex Jones, I think we all need to stop giving people like him a pass. It shouldn’t be good enough that he’s right about some things (e.g. the growing police state) and then jumps on the disinformation bandwagon on political and social matters. “There’s a war on for your mind” is a catchy slogan. But Alex is a fraud for acting as if he’s not part of that war.
There is absolutely no hope for this country so long as we allow people with platforms to get away with lying and twisting facts to elevate themselves and their agendas. Perhaps we would have millions of Americans rising up and taking to the streets if the people we rely on for information were honest brokers and were giving it to us straight instead of lying to us and twisting our minds in an attempt to divide us further.
Political terrorism is on the rise now because corporations, rich Republicans/Republican think tanks, and lobbyists are lying to vulnerable (ignorant) Americans about health care reform, getting them angry, and shipping them off to town halls to harass Democrats and subvert democracy. An unnamed Democratic congressman was recently physically assaulted by one of these corporate astroturf protesters. That can’t be pinned on Alex Jones, of course, but all of the lies, the hate, and fear being ginned up and exploited by people like him only add to the toxicity of crucial discourse and set us all back more than a few paces.
Guantanamo ex-prisoners get jobs on golf course http://link.reuters.com/pup89c
Dr. Maurice Hilleman, explains why Merck’s vaccines have spread AIDS & other plagues worldwide http://tinyurl.com/dj2pb9
Er, if I told you I had a moustache would that help?
Only in Italy http://tinyurl.com/lybct3
More than half of cars bought under ‘Cash For Clunkers’ are foreign brands
The disclosure that 55% of vehicles being purchased under the program are foreign makes — mostly Japanese and South Korean brands — could raising questions about whether the stimulus benefits American auto workers, or those in Asia.
http://tinyurl.com/newz3j
I’d laugh if this wasn’t so sick.
@ Stacy
No, it’s not “hot” here.
Have been in this locale for three decades, but this is the first summer without the need for air-conditioning. Some say it’ll be warmer in September.
In the seventies, falling for the hype about the imminent ice age, I purchased property in the warmer climes, by the ocean. As the hype switched from cooling to warming, I wanted to purchase “safe” property in the hills, but decided to check the facts first. Oh!
Currently, I’m moving my “office” out of a major metropolis, to a warmer coastal spot a few hours away, where semi-tropical fruit will still be easy to grow during the 20-year cool spell we’re entering.
Strong GS Cartoonz http://tinyurl.com/n4ldmq
What is the main “by-product” of Coca-Cola?
Warren Buffet, the name Austin Fitts cannot whisper.
Financial genius? or Drug peddler?
A major player in The Coca-Cola Company has been Warren Buffet. If you are naive and believe in fairy tales, then you believe he made his great fortune through crafty operation starting with a department store in Omaha.
Few, if any, dare even whisper that Buffet’s fortune is reportedly based on operating companies that are money laundries and propaganda horns for the American seeing-eye-A.. The list would have to include spook adjuncts such as the Wells Fargo Bank, and spookdom apologist, The Washington Post Company.
Is it a mere coincidence that his purported nephew, Jimmy Buffet, and his rock concerts seem to be part of making dope use fashionable? His band, The Corral Reefers, is a word play for narcotics. At his concerts, there is reportedly massive trafficking and use of dope. And the local corrupted police have the badge of the three monkeys.
Some had misgivings about another purported relative of Warren Buffet, the once popular Art Bell, the middle-of-the-night talk show host. Bell was broadcast on hundreds of major wattage radio stations in major markets, never known to broadcast the truth about the Federal Reserve, or political assassinations, and a lot of other suppressed topics.
Above lifted & edited, from:
http://www.skolnicksreport.com/cocaccc.html
Radio NZ: Baxter To Supply the UK, Ireland and New Zealand With SF Vaccine http://tinyurl.com/lnw8st
Coming soon to the UK: negative interest rates?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/edmundconway/100000433/what-britain-needs-now-negative-interest-rates/
… “Did you know that for the first time in history, there is more money parked at the Bank of England in high street bank’s reserve accounts than there is flowing around the country in the form of notes and cash? A lot more, come to mention it.”…
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That link was staring us all in the face … was it posted already ?
@ Phil (others too)
Good stuff tnx!
@Kitty
I love this site.
You guys rock big time.
All my friends are working their butts off, because their bosses are too, and so are their bosses because they are debt slaves too, so are their bosses, and theirs………..
They are all scared of dropping off the debt train, their wives are scared too, and so would the kids be if the parents weren’t busy trying to keep it from them and be strong.
Push, push, push. Best schools, best house, best street….Stop!
Why?
Time to jump off the debt train folks!
Thanks
Just wondering how long it was going to take this site to become a oneness
Bye all
It appears that this stage of the game is grow or die for medium sized banks.
http://business.smh.com.au/business/anz-ready-for-battle-over-merger-ambitions-20090805-ea4i.html
These banks know they will be competing in a global banking system and need to be one of the top 2 in the country to survive.
I always wondered about the odd necessity to be no 1 here in Aus.
We have a competition watchdog here in Australia but its all for show. We will have 2 banks max and 2 food distributors max very soon.
Merge, acquire and grow bigger, then you will survive in the new global corporate village!
Thats the message.
Thanks Max and Stacy.
@kitty
under older comments the topic was why arent usa’ers more angry….or link below halfway down page…by…dedo
http://maxkeiser.com/2009/08/02/why-are-north-americans-docile-in-face-of-large-scale-fraud-and-theft/comment-page-1/#comments
@dedo
……is someone looking for you?
@parasiticCroneyism
Help.
Teacher Suicide Post.
How would I find the post on this site where someone made reference to how a class of school children start to become a faction with one opinion?
You know where if someone who is in with the in crowd is vociferous enough and jumps on any form of dissent no one dares speak their mind anymore?
@Mini US…. “Too fast guys, too fast!”
LOL .. .Yep, they skipped the “exponential” part of Math 101 at school obviously. It’s coming back to hit them in their face !
Hasn’t this always happened.
Boom, then bust….
Property prices, esp. commercial crash.
Banks move in and pick ‘em up cheap and the process all starts again.
These guys have been milking us for years.
Its only when they got sooooo greedy and tried to speed up the cycle that their wicked ways have come unstuck.
Instead of 2 cycles per lifetime, they want about 5 or 6 of these cycles to happen in one lifetime.
Too fast guys, too fast!
About half of U.S. mortgages seen underwater by 2011
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090805/bs_nm/us_usa_housing_deutschebank?sec=topStories&pos=1&asset=&ccode=
… “NEW YORK (Reuters) – The percentage of U.S. homeowners who owe more than their house is worth will nearly double to 48 percent in 2011 from 26 percent at the end of March, portending another blow to the housing market, Deutsche Bank said on Wednesday.”…
Seems nobody is talking about Commercial Real-Estate …
… have they forgotten it or what !
@ Mep
What good would nationalizing oil do it there is no political will to exploit it? However it’s good to point out the hypocrisy of Alex Jones; but if you come off sounding like Maxine Waters in doing so, you lose credibility.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW_FXjbt6wY
Although I see your point. AJ should step back, take a deep breath and reassess his position before he blows a mental gasket. He’s a smart boy and should realise even he can’t continue criticising all ideologies at all times to equal extent without eventually painting himself into a corner.
IKEA sells do-it-yourself Guillotine http://tinyurl.com/ns3fog
Bami making Robots http://tinyurl.com/n8eg6a
@OT … PC technical
Has anyone tried VirtualBox ?
It’s a free Virtual Machine Software from Sun.
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
I downloaded it for “Windows” ( ca. 67MB ) and it installed quickly and perfectly under WinXP-SP2.
I then installed Ubuntu as a client, works 100%.
Browsing under Ubuntu is just as fast as using a Browser directly under XP !
IMO, it’s a must have.
If you are worried about security whilst browsing the web, then browser with e.g. Firefox preinstalled under Ubuntu running inside a VirtualBox client is pretty secure !
I liked VMWare, but VirtualBox is free and from Sun, so I’m staying with it.
@Mike,…..they’re only stating that cause Kingy is going to raise interest rates on the morrow!
@Mr Supergeek – Perhaps you’re right. It’s just getting really tiresome. One would think that by this point, the people participating in fearing up the population would have a hard time looking themselves in the mirror. Everything is going to hell and all they can do is fan the flames of ignorance, racism, and paranoia. Of course, the majority of them view themselves as “true patriots/real Americans.” Just disgusting.
Anyway, a headline from Bloomberg:
48% of US mortgages are projected to be underwater by 2011:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20603037&sid=adBYDzUMt68k
@mep
‘BS fear mongering’… I think like attracts like….some people become addicted to the fear, panic and anger thing…I think alex jones recognises this…..it’s what people devoid of charisma, humour and positivity use to get across……just another one trick pony.
Keiser, you got it wronG!
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article6740813.ece
All over, nothing to see, move along, move along
Mike
Something very Freudian slippery about using ‘heresay’ when meaning ‘hearsay’, whoops a daisy.
@”The Internet, shortwave and Satellite have the elitists on the run.”
International Forecaster August 2009 (#2) – Gold, Silver, Economy + More
http://news.goldseek.com/InternationalForecaster/1249492124.php
…. ” You may not know it yet, but we are winning. The Internet, shortwave and Satellite have the elitists on the run. This is even more pronounced today than at the Bilderberger Meeting in Greece in June. Governments and central banks are under severe pressure. Just look at irate constituents at Town Hall meetings and 277 co-sponsors of Ron Paul’s HR 1207, a bill to investigate and audit the Fed. Ex-treasury Secretary Paulson and Fed Chairman Bernanke were just treated to the worst grilling in the history of the House and were called crooks and criminals by Congress people. Bernanke couldn’t explain where $500 billion came from and as well the disappearance of $2 trillion. When these events happened the dollar strengthened, but Bernanke only found this to be a coincidence. Congressman Grayson laughed in Bernanke’s face. We had this tape in the last issue in the US section, and after we ran it, it mysteriously disappeared from C-Span. So much for a free media and open society. ” ….
Thx to “budfox47″@InvestorVillage , Precious Metals board.
http://www.investorvillage.com/iv2/smbd.asp?mb=144&mn=28219&pt=msg&mid=7704119
@Youri .. “300 VPs”
Last time I checked ( 25 yrs. ago ) , Xerox had ca. 250 VPs.
The idea is if you’re a VP, you get all the shares and option awards ! My old Co., knew personally quite a few of the CEOs like Stan Bernold, Dwight Ryan, Paul Allaire etc. etc.
Just BTW, is ACORN now being investigated ?
State Investigates ACORN
AG’s office mum on line of inquiry
http://www.pelicaninstitute.org/files/pdf/ACORN_PELICAN.pdf
http://www.pelicaninstitute.org/main/page.php?page_id=1
This is the BBC World Service and I am the voice of authority.
Here here, rhubarb rhubarb.
Now listen swarthy type Afshin (what sort of name is that? is it honest, is it cricket?) ‘you are entitled to disagree’ because even as I patronize I offer a testimony to the wonder that is our free and demoncratic (I think I spelt that right) system.
Child, I let you object and then I persuade you of the error of your ways.
and of course there’s scones for tea…
Everything is OK http://tinyurl.com/mqwvdh
Newsnight doing a piece on twitter where first they offer it as an information source and tie that in to Iran reporting. Then they get Objective about its value.
By which time the message has been given. Twitter is newsworthy. Debating it’s legitimacy as newsworthy content.
The ‘information ecosystem’ is how the twitter guy phrased it. In court they would call it ‘heresay’.
Has anyone ever ever ever heard a word said on the BBC against the Pope? The Dalai Lama? The Queen?
(I just picked out three I kind of think they don’t really ever ‘dis’.)
I have to wonder if Alex Jones is mentally incompetent. How in the world does he reconcile putting up articles about privatization/theft of public assets and then sucking up to right-wing blowhards and playing into their “Obama is a socialist who wants to kill old people” BS fear-mongering propaganda? It is the right-wing, after all, that is heavily invested in privatizing government (they did a great job of it under Bush), in ending all programs/services that actually benefit people, and in turning EVERYTHING over to private hands.
Truth is that if Obama was a socialist, we’d be a hell of a lot better off than we are right now. At least we’d be nationalizing things that are worth something. If he was a good socialist, he’d start with nationalizing oil.
@mike
What if we are playing right into the PLAN?
“Shell’s Leaked 300 VPs List Shows Deepening Restructuring” http://tinyurl.com/mex3nf
@ Stacey
Coldest summer in living memory here. Today people at work were complaining about their furnaces coming on last night. Thanks for asking though.
@dedo
On a slightly serious note I think when somebody doesn’t give you a clue to what sex they are it helps you concentrate on the comments rather than the person…..and a bit of mystery is sometimes a good thing….also I think people quite enjoy seeing someone tag them with the wrong sex…eh frances?
Well, here is a funny article for ya’
“As part of the plan, Finance Minister Einars Repse asked commercial banks to write off 10 percent of their loans for those who were struggling the most.
The government said part of the plan is to freeze credit and interest payments on at least 20 percent and in some cases up to 50 percent of loan amounts for borrowers who lose their jobs.
‘We support this idea in general (to aid borrowers) but we have one big issue – writing off 10 percent of loans is not acceptable for us,’ Teodors Tverijons, president of Latvia’s Commercial Banking Association told Reuters.”
http://www.lse.co.uk/MacroEconomicNews.asp?ArticleCode=xv6mrvyakxq5zjh&ArticleHeadline=latvian_banks_air_mixed_views_on_debt_write-off_plan
@dedo
Ummmhhh….sweet confusion…either way I can tell when somebody don’t like being on top.
Goldman Sachs, the lords of time http://tinyurl.com/lvumbq
@Mike/Liverpool and Phil
I have a better understanding thanks to FOFOA
When PAPER GOLD ETF is purchased it waters down the price!!!
When REAL GOLD purchased concentrates and puts up the price!!
Only a chump would own paper in this market in my opinion and I dont think the Central Banks are chumps, what is good enough for them lol
Read this
http://fofoa.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html
Dedo has the E,……Dido,.is self explanatory ; )
Read FOFOA !!! You will be glad
http://fofoa.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html
@Dedo…………Oops! BTW I also wanted to ask if Dedo is a chick’s name……and don’t bother replying with ‘big boy’….lol…. coz you’d be wrong on so many counts.
@Phil……………. Afshin Rattansi … just in on YouTube
He’s very good isn’t he? I have heard the presenter (Anita Annand) many times and so I could tell where she was trying to take the interview at certain points. It became obvious that Afshin also knew and cleverly put across all of his points before she went too far with it.A true professional.
@Mr SuperGeek,…….I’m whatever you want me to be,..big boy!!
I’ve just plagerized this, thought it might help !
“Since the power of all the professions that [ostensibly] serve the public rests in large part on their loyal members’ ability to confuse and thus dominate the public, it should not surprise us that not only the languages of medicine and psychiatry, but also those of education and law, are composed mainly of what Orwell called “ready-made phrases” whose function is to “anesthetize the brain”… “Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable. and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one’s own habits”..
Yeah a lot of people don’t notice frances with an ‘E’ is the femalle version and ‘I’ is for a man…is dedo a girls name?….just curious.
Afshin’s comment starts at 8:25.
The sweet spot comes at 9:10.
Props to him.
* Afshin Rattansi on BBC’s Iran coverage: “Like covering Britain from the streets of Mayfair”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p003v0nb
or is that,…..chiche
@Sharon,……I thought Frances was a chick!!
FOFOA Great Educational Blog Archive
Why in the end its good to be a squirl, as they collect real nuts and don’t recognise paper ETF nuts, why, they want to eat, read on?
http://fofoa.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html
It is 2:40 p.m. in central Texas and my temperature reading is a cool 101 today. Last weak the average daily temp was about 103.
@sharon … Afshin Rattansi … just in on YouTube
“Like Reporting from Mayfair” Afshin Rattansi talks to BBC Radio 5 Live’s Anita Anand about Iran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjOJVlYXKPU
@sharon .. “thought Goldman Sachs was run by the German elites.”
Listening to the MSM here in Germany , I get a strong message that the Germans don’t think much of the Anglo/Saxon monetary system and look down on it intellectually.
Maybe the Austrian School ( von Mises ) has influence here, although nobody mentions them.
There are many books written by German professors that criticize the current monetary system. They blame the politicians ( German ones as well ) for colluding with CBs to continue their spending of future taxes at our expense.
I mentioned a book called “The System” , which explains how the German Govt. System has become a massive parasite and is getting bigger each year. His writings are all based on pure facts … nearly as scary as the US Trillions being spent. 80% of the German politicians come from the civil service ( that is, they were “Beamter” in their earlier trade ).
As to German private banks or similar ruling the world .. I don’t think so personally.
The Royal Bank of Scotland is actually the biggest Co. – by assets – in the world AFAIK.
@Mike/Liverpool
My thought is that they are misinformed and live in some illusionary world about the real economic state. For many years there has been a perception of growth and now there is a sense of denial to the mess that is occurring and unfolding. They are still wearing the mask and refuse to take it off. To some the good times continue to roll, and others are finally realizing that the game is changing faster than they are. I think perhaps it’s a matter of doing things to soften the blow whether it’s for themselves or the public.
@Stacy…….do you know what happened to Afshin? He was the best presenter on Press TV, shame his not there anymore.
@sharon .. “Gold and the PTB”
Are you thinking that once everyone’s bought Gold, they’ll (ptb) tank the price ? … to impoverish us !
They might try, but they’d be competing against a whole world that sees Gold as the only trusted asset.
Further to my previous post re: whose side is US president on. I was just watching Russia Today and they were running an article on what Israelis think of him. The vast majority do not trust him and believe he is more on the side of the Palestinians (which is obviously good news imo). They are setting up anti-Obama websites and are clearly not happy. Now, as far as I know the Israeli lobby has their roots in the Rothschild camp and what was the Hasburg empire (Bush camp). So, the question is which group/s are in opposition to the Rothschild/Hasburg cabals. Pilgrim society? Russia/China/Iran pact (bit too obvious). Any ideas anyone coz this is really intriguing. Could it be that the Germans are now against the Anglo/American model. Frances snoot mentioned in his post that he thought Goldman Sachs was run by the German elites. @Phil – any ideas based on your German knowledge?
@Phil & Danny……….re: Gold.
I am becoming a tad suspicious about gold. I say this because, as you point out Danny, it would appear that the ptb/countries are selling off their gold. Then we had that guy on with Max on France 24 saying it’s too late for gold. Plus, there are so many adverts asking people to sell their gold. So could it be that the ptb (though their various agents) have conned people into thinking they should buy lots of gold knowing that if they pull the rug out from under us we will be left impoverished which is part of the plan. I’m not explaining myself very well but I just get this funny feeling about it. What do you reckon?
Go on Afshin! – legend.
Why would the central banks be selling their gold? It makes no sense to me, when China is hoarding it. hmmmm….
Do they know something we don’t?
“Public property being sold off for knock down prices to private oligarchies “–Indiana, a leader in outsourcing governmental functions to private corporations, gave the servicing of the state’s welfare program to IBM. According to the Indianapolis Star, error rates since corporatization have risen 17.5 percent last November and 21.4 percent in December.
The myth that corporatization is “better, faster, and cheaper” is falling apart. This year, the IRS announced that it will end the use of private tax collectors after consumer groups argued that taxpayers were subjected to immediate payment demands by private collectors while IRS employees would offer citizens an array of options to help pay their tax debt.”
It’s a way for Americans to claw back jobs! Catherine Austin Fitts was on Coast-to-Coast the other night and told a software engineer who had been out of work for months (his friends, too) to track down the jobs being outsourced by his local govt. and demand them back. People may have to rely on skill-sets to do it rather than doing the exact type of work they had previosly been doing, but it could be done. It is easier to pressure and embarass local govts–the US Govt is prety shameless.
@Sharon .. Germany’s Private Banks .. from today @ FT Germany
Das sind Deutschlands Privatbanken
http://www.ftd.de/unternehmen/finanzdienstleister/:Traditionsinstitute-Das-sind-Deutschlands-Privatbanken/549668.html
Metzler – konstanter Überschuss
M. M. Warburg – große Ambitionen
Hauck & Aufhäuser – Ausbau des Investmentbankings
Merck Finck – Verzicht auf eigene Produkte
Berenberg Bank – Traumrendite
Bankhaus Lampe – Nutznießer in der Klemme
Fürst Fugger Privatbank – von Augsburg nach Rom
It was a guy at the Lampe Bank that told me to hoard Gold … 25 years ago !
I have a feeling that while the whole world is swapping fiat paper money between them, the private bank customers have probably been building physical gold reserves at cheap prices all this time .
Cash for Clunkers
Who cares about the terms of use ?
These people can’t read anyway.
The real story is the waste of tax payer money on an idea so stupid that only fluoride drinking zombies need apply.
Crush-em if you got-em
I haven’t paid much attention to the cars.gov deal, but I was under the impression that there were concerns over malware (virus/spyware/government snooping through your browsing history, files, etc.).
@sharon ..” Catholic bank owns shares in contraceptive pill…”
Just saw your post on an older thread.
Yes, it’s been known for a long time.
A book I read on the Falklands war – forgotten the name – said that the Exocet missiles were sold by the French to Argentina using the Vatican bank as a middle man.
Have you ever read “God’s Banker” ?
The Chicago Bishop was supposed to have been one of the big money washers of this world. God’s Banker = Sindona, who was actually arrested by the FBI and jailed.
@Mike & Sharon,……Me thinks there’s going to be some fun,..remember,..it’s not when you die but how,….huuaaahh (apparently it’s when you make the most money, according to Rothschild, when the streets are running with blood) So place you bets !!
I think they understand that everything will be privatized, so why not benefit now.
@Mike/Liverpool
Don’t know. Some days I think they’re losing power and other days I don’t. One thing I do believe is that they are in a panic and realise they have to put certaiin things in place much quicker than they realised. Possibly because they know many are waking up. For example:-
“Plans for “vaccine” bracelets to be forced on people at road blocks
Former Kansas State Trooper Greg Evensen reports that there are plans for road-blocks to force vaccines with military personnel putting bracelets on people. Those who refuse to take the steel band with a microchip will be put on a prison bus and taken to a quarantine camp.”
http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/plans-for-vaccine-bracelets-to-be-forced-on-people-at-road-blocks/
A question for everyone………..
Do you think “They” know its over?
Do you think they just gutting what’s left?
Mike