Stacy Summary: Calpers not only operated as the Last Ponzi for their clients, they also engaged in loads of socially irresponsible lending . . . despite their frequent statements otherwise.
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@Frances,……it’s right in your face,….and no-one can see it,…….geeezz : )
Where’s my gold,.silver,…Where’s my prrrrrecious!!
@Dedo:
fantastic link
debit/credit carbon units?
who needs cash?
We’d barter for the right to breathe.
Mark these words….Gold will hang around here until the G20 meeting is over….then it will be surpressed again….. exactly as last time……they are allowing a bullshit rally for agenda of motivated attendees at the meeting. A stress if you will. Gold is used in total manipulation and has been for decades. However, currently, they have a minimum price floor to avoid default on the comex….that estimated price at this time is in the vicinity of 925ish as the lowest price.
@Dan…..Avarice is Extremely Good. Thanks
@Dan….. Ryan Grim at the Huffington post is very far behind the curve.
slowly,..slowly catchy monkey,
These proposed “credits” would be used to buy gas and electricity for powering homes, fuel for cars and plane tickets for holidays.
http://itn.co.uk/4b3bac07825b9b32ddfdf8bb1148a4c5.html
Schiff makes some good points, as usual.
Also, tells of announcement to run for Senate. ‘Morning Joe’ 17/9/09.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsY0xD3SCiA
Interesting piece on High Frequency Trading…
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0921/revolutionaries-stocks-getco-new-masters-of-wall-street_3.html
http://www.marketskeptics.com/2009/09/china-hoarding-gold-and-plans-to-issue.html
So we can all now invest in the Yuan through Hong Kong
Watch Elizabeth Warren rake Little Innocent Timmy over hot coals!
http://www.askbutwhy.com/2009/09/elizabeth-warren-goes-after-tim.html
@RUSSIA TV: For those new visitors, Max and Stacy have been like Paul Revere, forewarning us of the coming ‘dollar demise’ for the past 5 to 6 years or so. Frankly, it’s been like a very slow-motion train wreck, or a bad dream where you can’t run away from the giant monster.
Ever the ‘romantic,’ I bought a book: “French Level 1,” but so far I have barely learned to slurr my l’s and roll my ‘r’s’. At this rate, I’ll never be seen fending off the pidgeons in Parc Luxembourg, or found skipping merrily through the Tulleries because (like Max) I was wise enough to buy Gold Ingots as opposed to fancy, ‘state-of-the-art’ Home Theater gear.
(lol) Actually, Max did wisely inform me about the shifting value of things back when the Euro was only fetching 1.17 or so. And, just as true HD specs became affordable, I said to hell with these yuppies and their selfish predispositions. Needless to say I began to study organic gardening and naturotherapy and began to look very closely at the fact that so few in the US have been home-gardening for these past 5 to 10 years.
Now, LOCAL FOOD PRODUCTION is an absolute imperative throughout the West, whether you choose to be found ‘among the living,’ or not. There is no sense in discussing WHEN the Dollar will depart. Like ELVIS, one day it will be gone and justifiably so.
So, my word to the wise is not to ‘buy physical gold,’ far from it. The #1 priority is to be physically as far away from the American consumer as possible when the shit hits the fan. Pessimists are shooting for collapse by October, when we may well see a ‘correction’ of at least -1,000 on the DOW. Lately they say the GAO can keep successfully running the presses through March, which isn’t much help, but could mean life-or-death to those who start now to prepare for bartering under an alternative economic model.
Eviction patrol heats up on U.S. foreclosures http://tinyurl.com/o7la9g
“Because of the sheer size of these institutions, it’s simply impossible to trace.”
Never heard such balony!
Yeah, sorry Judge but since a stole a trillion or wah it can not be traced. ahhaaahh!
Brezinski: ” It’s easier to kill a million people than to control a million people”
Bernanke: “It’s easier to steal a million than to control a million”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eN9Ug6Y1dg
Update about the Audit The Fed Bill…. starts at two minutes…
link
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/10/bailout200910?printable=true
Where did it all go?
Vanity Fair October 2009
Good Billions After Bad
Exactly one year has elapsed since the onset of the financial crisis and the passage of the bailout bill. Some measure of scrutiny and control has since been imposed by the Obama administration, but even today it’s hard to walk back the cat and trace the money. Up to a point, though, it’s possible to reconstruct some of what happened in the first chaotic and crucial three months of the bailout, when Treasury was still in the hands of Henry Paulson and most of the money was disbursed. Needless to say, there is no central clearinghouse for information about the tarp money. To get details of any kind means starting with the hundreds of individual recipients, then poring over S.E.C. filings, annual reports, and other documentation—in other words, performing the standard due diligence that the government itself failed to perform. In the report that follows, we have no more than dipped a toe into the morass, but one fact emerges clearly: a lot of the money wound up in the coffers of some very surprising institutions— institutions that should have been seen as “troubling” as much as “troubled.”
If tarp had been a credit card, it would have been called Carte Blanche. That authority was all Paulson needed to switch gears, within a matter of days, and change the entire thrust of the program from buying bad assets to buying stock in banks.
By and large, the cash that went to the Big 9 simply became part of their capital base, and most of the big banks declined to indicate where the money actually went. Because of the sheer size of these institutions, it’s simply impossible to trace. Bank of America no doubt used a portion of its $25 billion in tarp funds to help it absorb Merrill Lynch. Citigroup revealed in its first quarterly report after receiving $45 billion in tarp funds that it had used $36.5 billion to buy up mortgages and to make new loans, including home loans.
Brazil’s tight bank rules a blessing in disguise http://tinyurl.com/qs4qt6
@dan thanks…will watch
New York housing complex decision seen http://tinyurl.com/oldmgn
To make it complete my Special about Berlusconi http://tinyurl.com/ozre3y
It’s difficult to hate the man ahaaahaahhhaa!
Berlusconi says is best leader in Italy’s history http://tinyurl.com/ogqsh8
@ Dante….a good series …maybe youve seen already
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIe3-5GyopE&feature=PlayList&p=FEC454E538F8CE64&index=0
@youri
Cheers…took a little peek…wow youngish AJ…yeahhh….nooo…thanks, but no thanks. Wasn’t max recently talking about how important your reputation in the media/reporting community is…I know it wasn’t in connection with AJ but I think it is something that applies…sometimes all a person has is their word….I think AJ has blown it with me…but hey I don’t completely give up on him coming up with some worthwhile stuff, but I;m never gonna really be a fan.
The Next Financial Crisis
Banking was once a dangerous profession. In Britain, for instance, bankers faced “unlimited liability”–that is, if you ran a bank, and the bank couldn’t repay depositors or other creditors, those people had the right to confiscate all your personal assets and income until you repaid. It wasn’t until the second half of the nineteenth century that Britain established limited liability for bank owners. From that point on, British bankers no longer assumed much financial risk themselves.
In the United States, there was great experimentation with banking during the 1800s, but those involved in the enterprise typically made a substantial commitment of their own capital. For example, there was a well-established tradition of “double liability,” in which stockholders were responsible for twice the original value of their shares in a bank. This encouraged stockholders to carefully monitor bank executives and employees. And, in turn, it placed a lot of pressure on those who managed banks. If they fared poorly, they typically faced personal and professional ruin. The idea that a bank executive would retain wealth and social status in the event of a self-induced calamity would have struck everyone–including bank executives themselves–as ludicrous.
Over the past century, we have moved away from a system where bank shareholders and senior executives paid dearly for bad management–and toward a system where fired bank bosses make off with fortunes or launch brilliant political careers. No one is on the financial hook, other than the taxpayer. Consider the case of Citigroup, a seriously troubled bank. Chuck Prince, the CEO who fell flat on his face, walked away with close to $100 million. Win Bischoff, former chairman and interim CEO of Citigroup during the debacle, has just been appointed chairman of Lloyds Banking Group in the United Kingdom–reflecting the high esteem in which he is apparently still held. And Robert Rubin, Treasury secretary under Clinton, made over $100 million as board member and chair of Citigroup. In an interview late in 2008, he brushed off any responsibility for the mismanagement of anything. And so, our recurring financial crises are not isolated random events; they emerge from a pattern of private and public sector behavior. Enabled by the Fed, our system’s tolerance for risk is out of control. This is an increasingly dangerous system. It is only a matter of time until it collapses again.
http://www.tnr.com/article/economy/the-next-financial-crisis
I have some very funny obama photoshops here but sadly I cannot post them. Ill try to put them on forum
@Mr Supergeek
People where very enthousistic about zeitgeist for some reason but I think it’s 50% bs.
I commend AJ cause all he says is documented. Maybe DARK SECRETS: INSIDE BOHEMIAN GROVE is somtin for ya. I found it exciting. http://tinyurl.com/pw24l3
@phil
I was thinking about all that AJ/charlie sheen bollox while walking home last night….I downloaded that ‘AJ deception’ movie when it came out, I also got another I think it was by the wife of gerry garcia about modern food production…plus zeitgeist…I chose to watch the ‘aj deception’ thingy first….which as I mentioned before came across as a bit desperate….anyway afterwards it just put me off watching the other two movies …..I’ve since read a lot of opinions here about zeitgeist and they made me think I haven’t missed too much but still…..dunno just a thought.
Keep on sliding!
Deere lays off more workers as demand lags http://tinyurl.com/re2a7r
@phil
re:vox…..Sounds good….any charlie sheen?
has max ever worked for a private media company, or only state backed ones?
If only we had heeded the other Dr. Doom, Henry Kaufman.
Bear Stearns Cos. might still be standing. Americans wouldn’t have run up some $34 trillion in domestic nonfinancial debt. And Ben Bernanke could have kept his dollar-spewing helicopter in the hangar.
The nickname Dr. Doom was hung on Kaufman long before it became synonymous with Nouriel Roubini, the New York University gloom meister. Kaufman, a former Salomon Brothers Inc. managing director and economist, has spent decades telling anyone who would listen about the dangers of ballooning debt, deregulation, excessive risk-taking, and the rise of financial conglomerates such as Citigroup Inc.
In “The Road to Financial Reformation,” he recapitulates his past predictions, discusses the consequences for free markets and lays out a blueprint for fixing our broken regulatory machinery. The book makes for painful reading at a time when bailed-out bankers are again scooping up tens of millions in compensation dollars.
From: ‘Dr. Doom’ Might Have Spared Bear, Saved $34 Trillion: Books http://tinyurl.com/p76a25
@Mike/Liverpool .. pretty nasty stuff.
In the USA I presume ?
@Vox Channel
From 20:15 – 23:40 this evening
It’s repeated again until early Friday morning.
20:15 Flight 93 – Todesflug am 11. September
21:55 9/11 Mysteries – Die Zerstörung des World Trade Centers
23:40 vox nachrichten
http://www.vox.de/eoa/tvplaner/content/weekview_r.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p80yb8A5lg0&feature=channel_page
Mike
Amazing 4 hour report on German Vox Channel tonight
On 9/11 … was an inside job they say / prove !
I’m starting to lose count of the # of reports they’re bringing here in German TV. Loads of new ( to me ) evidence presented .. many things I didn’t know before.
They even pointed the finger directly at the US Administration .. SEC, CI A, FB I etc. The documentary was the strongest I’ve ever seen in years.
I mean, they were shouting the evidence in your face .. as if to say “wake up” !
I wonder if this is part of some campaign for something bigger … like a rift / split away from US puppetry ?
2 hours on the preparation for detonation; loads of serious eye-winesses and expert opinions..
Another 2 hours on the aircrew side.
They menioned everything except the missing Pentagon Trillions-$ .. where Rumsfeld was interrogated by Congress on the 10th. Sept. , the day before.
@Mongo
Yes indeed!
Most Recent Insider Selling/Buying Ratio Hits 95x http://tinyurl.com/opd5d7
I can tell you from sources that deep inside the Suriname jungle at the Surinami Brazilian border fights between Surinami and Brazilians have been going on for years now because of the gold mining there.
Ground broken on $3.4 billion Homeland Security complex
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/09/homeland.security.headquarters/index.html
AngloGold, Randgold Risk War-Torn Congo Jungle for Last Mining Frontier http://tinyurl.com/pm7gls
What role in markets, the market is Goldman-Sachs
Geithner Says Government to Reduce Role in Markets http://bit.ly/ltd4y
Krugman is a wanker!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mongo nails it!
@frances…do you think given he can use a can opener he might be able to do more than look after the pigs………I mean, it suggests he can operate tools of some sort.
You’re right, Sharon. But I would disregard the Take Hope! segment of the verses: it is DEDO you know!
@YouriCarma, Yes, I read that article. Puts the dollar in an interresting position.
Jeremy Scahill Exposes Black water – News & Political Commentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GgIXyTPRkE
Hey Max…check out Gary Dorsch’s article over at Safehaven….get your head right Luke!! He didn’t even mention the Chinese money-bomb.
They Chinese avoid the problem they had with the big Iron buy namely because they are the only big buyers on the market everyone is watching them and prices go up rapidly. The best thing the Chinese can do is not to buy to much in one time but wait everytime prices fall back for the next round.
Have to admit that gold is an other trading “environment ” than Iron but the same rules can be aplied here, just buy a little each time and wait till prices fall back to buy more.
This could be an interesting game between gold surpressers and China buying gold.
@frances………..lovely!
You didn’t just make that up in those few minutes did you?
@Mongo
Good hint to look at zero again.
China et al: Puts Floor in Gold Market http://tinyurl.com/qjjn4s
For Sharon: (time folded)
The sweetest cadence man most knew
Is sealed upon thy lips.
And softing droplets time may strew
From dancing fingertips.
What shall we now forget our fear
And turn away from pain?
Wilted flowers pressed forgot
Upon my counterpane.
Gather all upon the glance
Of youth held bright and true
Take Joy! Take Hope! Take Peace! Take Love!
Prefects of winters blue.
Sorry, forgot the exclamation mark:
Dumbass!
@klaos, Krugman is a wanker!
I had some respect for some of his opinions but he is the jester of the global banks.
Actually, isn’t dumb ass a compound word? In which case I meant dumbass.
Wow,…..she is rubbin’ off,…..ain’t she,…..scaaaaary!!!
@Dedo…….btw (I’m doing my frances immitation):
‘hence is spelt with a ‘c’……dumb ass!
@klaos………welcome to the loony bin – sounds like you’ll fit right in!
@Dedo…….it would take a thesis to explain,..hense my bean analogy,…
LOL!………….I’m with you bro’….good strategy!
I’ll open up a can of whoop ass if you both don’t behave,……
also in the NYT:
How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? . . .
by Paul Krugman
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Sorry, it’s just that HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!
@frances…do you think given he can use a can opener he might be able to do more than look after the pigs………I mean, it suggests he can operate tools of some sort.
@Sharon,…..You shouldn’t even rise to Frances’sss inquiring mind,…it would take a thesis to explain,..hense my bean analogy,…
@frances……….do you think he’s reading it? It’s not exactly basic is it? No like them there beans.
Sharon:
LOL!!!
Read Dedo’s bean-can diversion link! (hint: Keats, the Grecian Urn)
@frances………..How is time intertwined in our perception of reality? Is the perception of linear time a failsafe function?
Bloody hell frances!
Brainwashing leads us to live by the clock which is useful in this society in terms of synchronisation but does cause anxiety. Wothout it could we be good robots? The 2nd part of your question – in this society maybe but not if we want to live as spiritual beings in accordance with nature (I’m sure I’ve gone off track somewhere but God only knows where).
Here Dedo: read this. It’s alot nicer than focusing on them bean cans!
http://www.bartleby.com/101/625.html
Wow, HFT is hitting the roof on NYSE.
I really recommend reading the RoboTraders articles over at ZeroHedge.
http://www.zerohedge.com
Sharon:
Thanks…like pinch me this is real time is coming. But all Dedo cares about is opening cans…I think she might be addled.
@Dedo………that’s deep man!
@frances…………..Do we attract reality or create it? Do we procreate it? Are there entities outside our perceptual base?
Mmmm….good questions!
On your 1st question – I would say we don’t attract it so much as find it if we have inquisitive, free thinking minds. But we do create it if there are enough of us thinking along the same lines (100 monkeys rule).
2nd question – I guess yes if the seeds have been planted. For example, fiat currency only works because many people have faith in it so in that sense we were given the option of having the faith (although most probably didn’t realise they had the option).
3rd – yep, definitely!
I don’t like bean neither,….but I sure do like openin’ dem cans,….: )
Yuck. Beans on toast.
@Frances,…..as long as I can open a can of beans,.I don’t give a hoot!!
How is time intertwined in our perception of reality? Is the perception of linear time a failsafe function?
Shassa,
no need to be negative, love peace and happiness is the key.
I studied Ouspensky years ago, he said that there is no sense in worrying about something that you can’t change. The CORP has been running the world for more than 400 years they are not about to give up just because gold goes up or US$ goes down.
The CORP is way too big to fail, just look after yourself and your family,,,
Do we attract reality or create it? Do we procreate it? Are there entities outside our perceptual base?
Or rather 151st (but 1st on new page).
Hah! 1st!
You know, there is something to this ‘you create your own reality’ business imo. So if we are all thinking bad things will happen then they probably will. The ptb know this and have been using it for some time (I’ll try to dig up a bit more info on that). Anyway, if we all imagined peace, harmony, togetherness and love amongst all people it would happen right?
I do worry sometimes that we’re on a self fulfilling prophecy. Kind of makes you think that the sheeple could be doing us a favour. Sorry to use the word ‘sheeple’, I know some don’t like it but it is in a positive context.
Bullish talk on Gold ..
Here’s just a snippet :
… “Andrew Mickey: Let’s switch our gears for a moment here to gold and silver…right at this point, everyone is focusing on the long, long term, say 10 years, 15 years out.
John Embry: I’m focusing on the next two months and I think we are going to have an explosion in the price of gold.
Andrew Mickey: Do you see a specific catalyst?
John Embry: One of the great factors is sentiment right now – the sentiment that you just mentioned. There is currently considerable apathy towards gold and silver. However, demand is exploding on the investment side, for the simple reason that people can see, with each passing day, that the currencies are going to be significantly debased.
You’ve got enormous government financing requirements over the next 12 months. Where is the money going to come from? A lot will be created out of – thin air and, that’s going to result in a huge volume of new currency.”…
http://www.q1publishing.com/dispatch/503/Gold-Outlook%3A-Explosion-in-the-Price-of-Gold-Imminent-(Part-II
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The biggest catalyst for a huge spike in the Gold price is IMO…
#1 when everybody sees the light
#2 when they discover there isn’t enough Gold to go around
#3 the Gold miners have being BK’d or bought up over the last years due to the fact that their Gold mining was unprofitable due to the low Goldprice ; i.e. supplies are limited.
JMHO FWIW
@frances…………Yes, Sharon. I was imagining harnessing your ire and spraying it on baddies like aerosol.
Implying I’m toxic……….Oh well, if it’s effective why not.
However, I can’t get too wound up coz it’ll be beddy byes soon and I need to wind down before then.
With your permission of course.
Yes, Sharon. I was imagining harnessing your ire and spraying it on baddies like aerosol.
@Sharon,……you can start here,.
http://www.freethoughtnation.com/
German TV tonight ..
The main channels here are going to host a talk between the “main” Chancellor candidates Merkel and Steinmeyer ( CDU / SPD ).
The leaders of the other “main parties” – Greens, FDP and Die Linken – are up in arms because they think it’s a disgrace that the viewer should think there are only 2 possible winners to the election.
Too damn right !
Of course, the average salaries of ZDF and ARD people are sooooo nice and big .. they wouldn’t want to rock the boat now would they ?
PS:
I read that the “average” salaries in the ZDF head office in Cologne was 15,000 DMs per head ( x 2000 people ) … and that was way back in the 1980′s !
That’s 25 years ago … imagine what they’re getting “now” in Euros !
PPS:
The private channels have also complained that the “state channels” spend roughly 10x the budget that they have through the private advertising.
The ZDF and ARD ( and ca. 40 other “state” channels ) are the quivalent of the BBC, i.e. we pay GEZ fees every quarter ).
@Dedo…..can you recommend any particular vids/reading material by her that gives an overview of her beliefs/knowledge?
Are you bored frances?
@Sharon,…..not genius,..just a passion for her chosen subject of study,..which in my opinion, makes for a good source of info’
@Dedo…………Just watched a bit of an interview with Acharya S – very impressive. I’m assuming she’s probably at genius level (10 languages) and she seems to find it hard to come down to the interviewers level, but she’s not condescending; just extraordinarily bright I would say.
@Dedo:
You get to be a goodie.
@Sharon:
Are we allowed to direct your righteous fury? Hmmmm….I’ll let Dedo pick then.
Thanks Sharon! Great link!
More J ews where departed from this country than any other. The Netherlands played the main role with the KLM together with the Vat ican helping the Na zis fly away to south Africa.
More Jews where departed from this country than any other. The Netherlands played the main role with the KLM together with the Vatican helping the Nazi’s fly away to south Africa.
@Phil…….PW: sharon is noting all this, so she can guess my age I suppose !
Um…83?
Only joking………poss around 42?
@sharon .. Mozart ?
After all the “Amadeus” (film) hype here in Germany .. I’ve had enough Mozart for a while.
BTW .. nearly all the composers had fascinating and /or sad lives.
Mendelsohn was a very sensitive person.
He sought peace and quiet after becoming suicidal in Duesseldorf Germany , and finally found it in Scotland.
@Phil,…….you should rant more,…..you’re an interesting guy!
@frances ” Can you play keyboard? I like Bach’s fugues.”
LOL .. I moved on to guitar !
I played in 2 groups near Bath , Somerset.
“The Ravings Abbots” and “The Waysiders”.
Was a great time … Johny B Good, Love Potion #9, etc. etc.
We even had “screaming groupies” and had to lock ourselves in the back room until the landrover picked us up.
PW: sharon is noting all this, so she can guess my age I suppose !
@Phil…….why not Mozart? Isn’t he supposed to be the best in terms of brain music?
@Dedo………I agree totally,….
Flipping heck Dedo…..I had to read that twice. We’ll have to get divorced if we start agreeing on things.
@Youri … sheesh , you have my sympathy !
I started getting interested in “political books” ( not politics as such )when I noticed how the “state establishment” was always somehow getting richer and more tightly connected as if in a web; while every year, vast and ever increasing sums of money are spent by them ( and on their salaries, expenses , family connections etc. etc. ) while the tax-payer ( and small/mid-sized companies ) were struggling with the burocracy and taxes imposed upon them.
I think I already posted here that in the book about the ex-Bundesbank President Pohl ( resigned due to Kohl ), it was stated that the “petty-cash” of the German politicians was ca. 4 Bio. DMs per year.
I extrapolated this into Euros for a 20+ year period at 4% interest and dicovered it respented ca. 7% of the national debt !
i.e. If they had “not spent” their petty cash, we’d have now 7% less debt !
… and that is JUST the petty-cash !!!
Many German professors have written excellent books on the subject ( “Das System” is IMO the best one ).
I noticed ( via amazon.de ) that the number of readers of such books is very small .. even some of those books are now being sold for less than 1 Euro.
The son of the farmer that sometimes delivers wood teaches History at the local Uni.
I’ve spoken to him at some length about “what’s really going on” and asked him about whether he’d read any of those (German) books or even other works from the same authors. Not a single one he replied !
OK .. he has to keep his “party line” job at the Uni I suppose and has a lot of other reading to do.
BTW … re: INDIA
… which is why I was so impressed with the IIT students I spoke to ( mentioned earlier, that Stacy should get together with them ).
Those guys were so lateral , critical and open minded in their thinking .. I just didn’t want to stop listening to them.
What a difference to (many) students here in Germany and the UK.
OTOH, most of those Indian students already had a job in the US ( 1980′s ) lined up for them , and probably came from richer parents AFAIK.
Which comes back to :
“most people don’t have time to sit back and think, because they’re too busy struggling to pay their rent etc.
.. which is of course ideal for the PsTB.
Sorry about the rant !
@Youri…………..I am being prosecuted by the government right now. Phone is being tapped. My house is under surveillance. I am fighting with half baken advocates to get to work. At this time I have a ban to do any activity
Aren’t you in Holland? If so that surprises me. I know it’s not as liberal as it’s cracked up to be but blimey Youri, I didn’t know it was that bad.
@Sharon,….I agree totally,….this has been going on for thousands of years,…now all the chess pieces are in order it’s time to make the move.
The Wolves are coming… USJFCOM-GIG to fully go online in days/weeks http://tinyurl.com/r74k3q
Tiny Tim Geitner is doing a new stand-up routine on c-span right now.
@frances…………Drats. We need her ire.
What do you need me to get p*ssed off about? Not sure Dedo can take much more.
If anyone wants an insight to the ancients, look up this woman (Acharya S), that’s her pseudonym obviously.
When I first heard her name I thought she was one of those tree huggers(yeeuuch)
Her work gives a greater perspective on whats happening at present IMO,….and she doesn’t mention lizards,.honest Stacy,..: )
@Dedo………..she’s so full of energy
You would know honey.
Sorry…didn’t just mean China.
@Phil & all……….Again, the power-structure in the West is the “old” establishment ( MIC, WB, UN, etc. ).
The “new” world power structure is just crystalizing together it seems.
I dunno guys. I get the feeling that the old power made a deal some time ago with China and that is who is standing behind them. Remember, they always back both sides and were behind Russia and Germany and UK and US. I’m not sure it’s ‘countries’ anymore that have the power but rather the oligarchs behind those countries using them as their chess peices. I could be wrong but it just makes more sense to me.
@Frances,…..can I be a goody and a baddy,.
@Blackcats,……..was the guy singin’ a secret Asian man,.: )
(I know,..lame)
For frances……….you’ll enjoy this one (I hope). Re: Obama’s health care reform:-
http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2009/09/americans-have-become-weak-and-fearful-things.html
@Phil:
Can you play keyboard? I like Bach’s fugues.
Your Mother probably loves the memories!!!
@Phil:
Good Lord! How could you manage that?
@Youri:
You are valient. It is your government that is upside down, just like ours: baddies on top and goodies subjugated. But I believe that it will not remain so.
@13BlackCats:
Great link! Those dogs sound nasty!
@frances .. Beethoven
PS:
I drove my poor mother mad swatting for music !
I played their works ( e.g. Handel’s Chandos Anthems ) over and over again , 8 hours per day .
She now hates Handel !
@Youri
your song…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iaR3WO71j4
@frances .. Beethoven
Some of his stuff – but I actually prefer the softer guys like Debussy, Mendelsohn, Vaughan WIlliams.
I did classical music as school ( violin ) and had to study Bach, Handel and Mendelsohn. It was the most difficult exam .. much harder than maths ( easy anyway ).
We had to recite ( write down ) music-scores for e.g. 8 instruments ( synchronic of course ) for say 16 bars … from memory !
Sheesh .. was I glad when that was over .. I’ll NEVER do it again !
I was helping my farther who came out of the hospital and was prosecuted cause they claimed that I was not living in my Home.
So you understand I want nothing to do with this country anymore.
sigh
I THINK I REALLY PISSED OFF MIKE KING.
@Phil
I agree with you. The risk for intelectuals not going into politics is being governed by the dumb. I would take the decision going into politics if I where in a “normal” position but I am not.
Besides I can stand the whole decieving atmosphere surrounding politics. I would be kicked out some party in a day cause I can’t shut my mouth for the truth somthing whch is expected in these environments. lieing and decieving is not my greatest quality.
I am being prosecuted by the government right now. Phone is being tapped. My house is under surveillance. I am fighting with half baken advocates to get to work. At this time I have a ban to do any activity on the Internet to get on with my work from my own government! I have to find another advocate cause the one I have refuses to help me anu further. Can go on for hours here but I know what a NAZI regime means.
@Phil:
Do you like Beethoven?
Until we common folk stop putting on Big Time wrestling outfits for the elite enjoyment and edification, we will never get the ‘revolution’ going.
@Dedo:
Drats. We need her ire.
The change is that the fences are being knocked down (frb) and we are being herded into sardine-like units to stack our potential.
The change is that the illusion of freedom is over, or soon will be after the milking of the masses is finished.
@Frances,….she’s so full of energy,..just wants to keep going on missions,…..can’t stop her,..over and out,.!
Castro using sniffer-dogs to track down political dissidents…
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1225982.html
“this is an Orwellian thing, a routine thing,” said Havana human-rights activist Elizardo Sánchez, [...] “Criminality here continues to rise in an alarming manner, but they continue to prioritize the political repression.”
@frances .. “So how do you propose to get the UN to sanction the UN?”
LOL … I thought that was what you were getting at !
Yes .. I agree !
Again, the power-structure in the West is the “old” establishment ( MIC, WB, UN, etc. ).
The “new” world power structure is just crystalizing together it seems.
@Dedo:
Did Sharon leave for France without us?
@Frances,…….Carbon(human) credits,…..
@frances .. I thought were already were seen as “commodities” in many senses by our “own” Govts. ?
#1 they send our kids to fight their wars
#2 they number us, tax us, and cheat us
#3 they let Big Corporations prey on us
etc. etc.
What’s the change ?
PHIL! I picture you in a library positioned between Yeats and a bust of Beethoven.
So how do you propose to get the UN to sanction the UN? And isn’t the UN just an arm of service for the Financial Stability Board members at BIS? Hasn’t everyone always been flowing along the same conduits since the wars?
Anyway: who says the little-aged-old person behind the screen isn’t a Japanese woman?
“new” world to accept their ponzi Fiat/CB/FRS system…
The new world is rejecting the ponzi fiat/cb/frs system. The new order will not be based on fiat paper, gold, silver, or commodity speculation.
We will be the commodities.
@frances .. what’s there to say .. he’s right IMO
“The two aggressive militarist powers, the US and Israel, should be sanctioned by the UN and embargoed. Instead, Europe is complicit in US and Israeli war crimes.”
Phil, think about those two sentences. Get back to me on it.
@sharon … quiet suddenly !!
I hope you’re still not trying to figure that out (36) !
@frances … bald headed financial gods
Well, not one, but quite a few of them working in concert.
The battle really does seem to be crystallizing 2 parts IMO.
The “old” versus the “new” world.
My guess is that there certainly is a “secret group” ala Bilderbergs who are trying to stay on top of the game by getting the “new” world to accept their ponzi Fiat/CB/FRS system.
The battle becomes clearer every day …
China/Russia + all their supporters
US/UK + all their supporters
100 years ago there would already have been a war IMO.
Thanks to the Internet ( the biggest Public Library ever ), each side can now spy on each other and read opinions of easterners and westerners.
… and nobody wants to be seen actually “at war” … so I just hope they keep to their “chess” game.
Trade war with China heats up. US slaps tariffs on Chinese steel pipe. Smoot, meet Hawley…
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idAFN0935526220090909?rpc=44
“The U.S. Commerce Department said on Wednesday it had imposed preliminary duties ranging from 10.90 percent to 30.69 percent on $2.6 billion of steel pipe from China used to transport oil…
@Youri, Phil:
If there is a little, aged, bald-headed man running things from behind a screen, do you believe he is an American?
Do you believe in puppets operating without human agency?
Do you believe if it were possible to *poof* wipe America off the wipe/on/off board of world events that peace would happen?
Mr. Paul Craig Roberts would say yes to every one of my questions.
Isn’t that view rather naive?
@Youri … PS
Of course, I was NOT suggesting that you belong in those categories !
… my Dad used to say ” think before you speak ” …. how right he was
@Youri … ever thought about going into Politics ?
… not meant as an insult of course …
Seriously, I would EVERYONE to become a politician.
The pay’s good.
The pension’s good.
You just have to be able to lie , and not even well !
It would certainly keep everyone off the streets !
PS:
I had an old friend in Germany who was a political and Economic expert …. he made (local) politicians out of loads of destitute people ( drop-outs , druggies, unemployed students etc. ) that otherwise couldn’t pay their rent.
And seriously .. that was his advice !
@Phil
Have a lot of ideas but speculation has no use since the governments won’t listen to us anyways. The fools are in the majority unfortunately. There are no new parties comming up to replace the old. People are completely asleep. This really fucks me up but that doesn’t help me. Can’t blame myself for being human.
I think we saw the Beijing put today in the gold market.
Pats on the back all round lol!
@Youri,…..I was being sarcastic!
Didn’t think there were any Protestants in Mexico, lol.
Treasury says millions more foreclosures coming http://tinyurl.com/pzwo4g
@Youri .. Paul Craig Roberts
#1
….”How should Europe react? Europe should disassociate from the United States and go into active opposition to US foreign policy. Europeans should demand that their governments withdraw from NATO as it serves no European interest. The two aggressive militarist powers, the US and Israel, should be sanctioned by the UN and embargoed. Instead, Europe is complicit in US and Israeli war crimes.”….
#2
….”We in America need to hear many voices telling us that it is self-defeating to become like an enemy in order to defeat an enemy. As Germans learned under Hitler and Russians learned under Stalin, it is the internal enemy–the unaccountable elite that controls a country’s government–that is the worst and most dangerous enemy. “….
#1
The UK wouldn’t do that of course ( disassociate from the United States ).
OTOH, could Nostradamus be right ?
… UK helps France defeat a Muslim attack, and then France sticks a dagger in their back.
… UK becomes a satellite state of the US ( like now )
#2
Yes – 100%
“unaccountable elite that controls a country’s government–that is the worst and most dangerous enemy. “
@lastoftheantimodernists
US Taxpayers Lose Big on Auto Investment, Panel Says http://bit.ly/CEDeb
Forex autopilot trading software offers robot-driven automatic trading of the forex market. Creators of these automated forex trading systems claim you can make simple profits with very little time invested, and without having to understand complex algorithms. http://bit.ly/PSlg7
Chart o da do da Day..
http://quotes.ino.com/chart/?s=NYBOT_DX&v=s
This car fundamentalism makes me sick. These civil minds, limited ideas and lack of vision of Merkel now again spending MILLIONS on keeping cars being VOMITED on roads!
Where is any site that will discuss FUTURE ideals and NOT be occupied in these limited visions of this economy and NOT to prolongue the life of that visionless economy.
Europe’s Complicity in Evil by Paul Craig Roberts http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23454.htm
@sharon .. ” How could you have possible known?!”
Simple deduction my dear Watson !
U.S. foreclosures near record, peak in late ’10: report http://tinyurl.com/o2qt24
Michael Price Says Stocks May Climb, Repeat 1975-1982 http://tinyurl.com/mf5t3d
@Dedo
We pay the Banksters all the time to get back at the Poker Table so why the should pay us? If they pay us it’s our own money.
@Youri,…..Why don’t the bankers pay for the health care,….they’re the cause of all the freakin’ pain and misery!!
(wow,.that was harsh)
@Phil……….My guess is 36 !
You’re absolutely spot on! How could you have possible known?!
Obama projects $900 billion to fix health care http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32752036/ns/politics-health_care_reform/
@sharon .. . was waiting for Richards comment first !
“We’re starting to sound like an old married couple.”
Is that an admission of your age ?
My guess is 36 !
@Dedo……….Okay Darling.
Venezuela recognizes Georgia rebel regions: agencies http://tinyurl.com/mra9xj
@Sharon,…….so,..when I bring home the bacon,…don’t ask how I got it,..OKAY!!,..: )
@Larry Edelson on Gold
He sees the “big one” coming in maybe a year !
Thinks the market still has wind in it’s sales and that investors WW think the worst of the crisis is over.
OK .. he’s been trading gold for 31 years; but seems to only trade on Technicals.
I think he is missing the bigger picture – the fundamentals of Gold , not as a traded-commodity , but as a risk hedge.
FWIW
@Dedo………..lol!
See, you don’t want me to disagree with you in silence!
You know what? We’re starting to sound like an old married couple. Now that’ll please Phil and Richard.
Van der Moolen, once one of the biggest market makers on the New York Stock Exchange, has filed for bankruptcy in Amsterdam after administrators at the Dutch brokerage failed to find a buyer or construct a business plan as a smaller company.
The 117-year-old company filed for bankruptcy late on Wednesday, saying it could no longer pay salaries or ongoing expenses in September. It had already sought creditor protection a month ago and will now be liquidated.
From: Van der Moolen files for bankruptcy http://bit.ly/rG448
Van der Moolen reported a net loss of €10.5m for the first half of 2009, compared with a profit of €12.7m in the same period a year earlier, as sales fell 73 percent to €24.9m.
The company cited its failure to recover from losses in the US and a sharp decline in sales. http://www.financierworldwide.com/article.php?id=4964
@Sharon,……yep,..I like the reaction though,……lol
@Dedo………..and remember, this all started off when you said anyone with my view (on 9/11 trading) was talking crap. Applying your own suggestion would have meant you kept that one to yourself, no?
Larry Edelson on Gold
Gold Breakout??
http://www.uncommonwisdomdaily.com/gold-breakout-2-6732
@Dedo…………if I’m wrong,….is it okay if “I “make that discernment or will you like to kill me for not agreeing with you,….
We’re having an exhange of words/ideas. I disagree with you; you disagree with me. What you are suggesting is that it’s only OK if you disagree. I could disagree in silence but where’s the fun in that? Sometimes a disagreement can become heated because one side perceives the other side’s position as ludicrous/gobsmackingly unbelievable. Perhaps it is the passion with which the objection is made that you are criticising?
Netanyahu draws fire in Israel over secret trip http://tinyurl.com/ld47jn
@Youri … BRIC countries
Chávez Backs Moscow on Rebel Regions
…”Mr. Chávez visits Moscow regularly, often seeking to procure Russian-made weapons. In a visit last year, he signed an agreement for a $1 billion loan from Russia for weapons purchases and military development.”…
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/world/americas/11moscow.html?ref=global-home
I postulated over a year ago that the BRIC countries will form a front against us .. the “industrialized West” !
Looks like it’ll be a currency front as well , what with China now selling it’s Yuan Bonds.
I consider the change good, despite it having a negative effect on us – wrt oil and our dependence on it.
The Israeli thing wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Remember Biden ( inadvertantly ) gave then Carte Blanche a few months ago; and they’ve been practicing along the Med. / Gibraltar and back.
Financial reform may fail to avert another Lehman http://tinyurl.com/mbd5v5
@s.herbert
I’m just glad that get max keiser visit your town thingy…is gone…signed up voted….got other people to sign up…woopee…london won…max keiser sis coming to our town….not…now I have to unsign form that website to avoid all the spam…oh you usa’ers you always talk the talk…but aint got enuff rythmn to walk the walk..grumble,grumble …moan…moan…like Palantíri, I’m off….well got three weeks worth of TAM wow still to catch up on.
PS thanks for trying to get max visit…blah blah..ok bye gotsta go.
@Danny,……just heard they found an eight thousand yr old axe head in your neck of the woods,…..not yours is it,.
http://www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com/archaeology-8000-year-old-axe-head-discovered-in-ireland-2009041314311
Afghanistan by the Numbers http://tinyurl.com/necxpt
Arch-super-criminal Greenspan says “market crisis will happen again”
….no shit…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8244600.stm
@The Snoot,……..(LOUD APPLAUSE) !!! : )
@Phil
Could be true but there are also rumours that the Iraniens recieved some missiles from the Russians and could shoot down the Israeli plains.
New York’s Tavern on the Green files bankruptcy http://link.reuters.com/daj85d
The Lion thought it might be as well to frighten the Wizard, so he gave a large, loud roar, which was so fierce and dreadful that Toto jumped away from him in alarm and tipped over the screen that stood in the corner. As it fell with a crash they looked that way, and the next moment all of them were filled with wonder. For they saw, standng in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little old man, with a bald head and a wrinkled face, who seemed to be as much surprised as they were. The Tin Woodman, raising his axe, rushed toward the little man and cried out,
“Who are you?”
” I am Oz, the Great and Terrible,” said the little man, in a trembling voice, “but don’t strike me–please–don’t!–and I’ll do anything you want me to.”
Our friends looked at him in suprise and dismay. “I thought Oz was a great Head,” said Dorothy. “And I thought Oz was a lovely Lady,” said the Scarecrow. “And I thought Oz was a terrible Beast” said the Tin Woodman. “And I thought Oz was a Ball of Fire,” exclaimed the Lion.
“No, you are all wrong,” said the little man, meekly. “I HAVE BEEN MAKING BELIEVE.” The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
making believe… with the help of the media of course
Rumour or Reliable ?
Russian report: Netanyahu may be planning attack
PM’s rushed visit to Moscow under cloud of secrecy occupies Russian media. Kommersant paper quotes ‘informed Israeli’ source as saying ‘It can’t be ruled out that Israel may be ready to move on to decisive actions with regards to Iran, and Netanyahu decided to inform Kremlin of this’
Olga Gouresky Published: 09.10.09, 14:16 / Israel News
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3775025,00.html
Or .. just more political chess ?
It’s best to have varying perspectives, be it big picture (macro) or micro, and all the in-betweens
And that’s not an opinion, it’s the best way as far as decision making processes are concerned.
Hense why there is such a big push on data collection from the masses.
So anyone who is stuck in their personal paradigm,….get over it!!
@stacyherbert
1,5 million is quiet a shocking number. What are these people gonna do to get around? Where are they, wonna see them. Maybe someone makes a docu about them?
@ Mike King
The Chinese will buy Gold a a price of they choose, a gift price
They have control now, total long term control, because they have a long term outlook we left with the short term panic. This is not planned its incompetent.
I don’t see conspiracy i see selfish stupidity to protect the very short term and could not give a stuff polices as Im all right Jack im on the bus. Its even more scary.
Dont let the gold go you will never get it back ever.
Now try and get the good stuff back once its gone,
got a pan and shovel ! Zimbabwe here we come
@WS at it’s best – GNBT – Generex Biotech this morning !
They announced this pre-market :
9:02AM Generex Biotech announces FDA approval of use of its flagship Buccal Insulin product, Generex Oral-lyn under the FDA’s Treatment Investigational New Drug program (GNBT) 0.68 :
http://finance.yahoo.com/marketupdate/inplay#gnbt
The stock then climbed nearly 50% pre-market.
Then this came some time after the open :
CORRECTED – CORRECTED-BRIEF-Generex drug approved for investigational treatment
(Corrects headline to show that the Generex drug was approved as an investigational treatment for patients with life-threatening conditions, and has not received marketing approval from the FDA)
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idINWNAB828720090910?rpc=44
AMAZING !
Down from UP 50% ( 1.01$ ) to UP 22% ( 84 cents ) now.
US foreclosure filings remain near record high http://bit.ly/1qsVCm
The drug war is ludicrous. Looking at it in another perspective I would speculate that it is probably the hidden economy propping up economic statistics.
CNBC article: Marijuana Farming Increases Amid Ailing Economy
http://tinyurl.com/kmrwrn
The price of gold is experiencing a few price swings right now but my guess is that it dropped because of speculators cashing in on some gains. This is probably a normal recovery from a quick high. I don’t think it’s time for the speculators to jump back in just yet since everything is at the top. Looking at the charts, it may even go lower before it returns. Again to reiterate Stacy’s comment, It’s the bigger picture in the long term.
@Youri Carma – there will 1.5 million fewer continuing claims by the end of the year as people lose their unemployment benefits; and each of those 1.5 million who fall off the unemployment rolls will be celebrated by the markets as somehow good for the economy
The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits fell last week to 550,000, according to a government report on Thursday that also showed the number of those collecting long-term aid tumbled.
Analysts polled by Reuters had expected initial claims to drop to 560,000, after reaching 576,000 the prior week, which had previously been reported as 570,000.
Continued claims fell to 6.088 million in the week ended August 29, the latest for which the data is available, from 6.247 million the prior week. That was the lowest level since the week ended April 4.
JIPPIE ! 10,000 Jobless less. Bring in the Tequila cause Tequila is God (or somtin like that).
@Dan…. it is not the Federal Government at the helm of the United States Government. It is not Congress. Congress is one very small step above the people in both understanding and power to change what is truly going on. We should have some phone conversations. Take Care. hope biz is good for you. Mike
@Sharon,….if I’m wrong,….is it okay if “I “make that discernment or will you like to kill me for not agreeing with you,….
@Stacy….. Gold will fall after the G20 meeting.
Nobody cared…sort of like today:
If you have seen this pass it on, if not watch it.
Reflections And Warnings – An Interview With Aaron Russo {Full Film}
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAaPjqdbgQ
U.S. Jobless Claims Fall More Than Forecast http://url4.eu/PQoJ
French industry output disappoints; Bank of Korea signals tightening; Japan machinery orders slide
U.S. trade gap widens on record import surge http://tinyurl.com/kwqn99
=Multiplier Leakage, remember?
Savings and Taxes are two other.
@dan valley that group think article on economists explains a great deal…always amazed me how guys who get their paychecks direct deposited, eat on school plans, get their insurance (health/life/ etc) through university, and retirements through govt/school systems…could make decisions for the rest of us on free market and capitalism..they don’t even participate so where is their expertise?..all modeling..pie in the sky…rational expectation bs…they would not know a price increase if they sat next to one…always being comped.
Tactical Error: Health Care vs Finance Regulatory Reform
What we got instead, was the usual lobbying efforts by the finance industry. They own Congress, lock stock and barrel, and they throttled Financial Reform. It did not help that the Obama economic team is filled with defenders of the Status Quo — primarily Summers, but it appears Geithner also — the dynamic duo that fiddled while the economy burned.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/09/finance-reform-vs-health-care-reform/
@Fibon………….I hear ya!
@Dedo………You could apply that to9 every person throughout history who went against the grain and attempted to change things for the better……..get over yourself and accept you were wrong…..
All it takes for evil to thrive is for good me to do nothing (paraphrasing).
Also don’t forget that the majority are usually wrong – you need not look far to agree with that view.
@Gerry,…….definition of Sharon:
Children who think that the word ‘no’ means if you throw a wobbly it will miraculously turn into yes’
(Regarding the right and wrong paradigm) : )
@http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/6164141/Children-in-modern-Britain-living-like-times-of-Dickens.html
‘In her speech, Mrs Ward said: “I am talking about perfectly healthy children who enter school not yet toilet-trained.
“Children who cannot dress themselves, children who only know how to eat with a spoon and fingers, and have never sat around a table to enjoy a home-cooked family meal. Children who think that the word ‘no’ means if you throw a wobbly it will miraculously turn into yes’
Uh…. I think I know those children..
Pesticides fingered in UK honeybee wipeout
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09…ticide_report/
A new study appears to have confirmed suspicions that the neonicotinoid group of pesticides is in part responsible for the dramatic decline in UK honeybee numbers, the Telegraph reports………
How The Federal Reserve Bought The Economics Profession
http://tinyurl.com/kvyhv3
@Fibon11235
nice post
@ Alister
Thanks for posting link to Murdoch. What a slimeball… even looks like Lex Luther.
Moodys will NOT down greade UK debt………You was WRONG Max…no TOB!
Mike
stacy,
i was kind of freaking out – thought that only i had it for some reason!
“The Financial Times tonight reports that Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein made “startling” remarks in Germany, for instance, that a lot of banking activity is rather thin on redeeming social value. Oh, and he admitted bankers might be paid too much, too.”
http://tinyurl.com/nba77t
a must read
The Economy Will Not Recover Until Trust is Restored
http://tinyurl.com/kryfyn
really good piece on trust, happy talk (then & now) and holding people responsible for the crash
@Mike2Liverpool my rant, I would not worry about the Gold Price just because others have not woken up to the inevitable yet, so what. Its all well and good, to be selfish. Here how deep I think its going to go. Some sarcasm to start with ( For the American).
I think its very generous of the Central Banks to support the Chinese Saver / Pensioner giving away the real stuff at their long term expense, by allowing them to buy the dips?
Have I missed anything? O yes the Gold Carry Trade mmmm
What I don’t understand is why the west don’t seem to support their own native populations very much. After all conspiracy or no conspiracy they represent their future more so than a foreign land.
Are they really so remote and inhumane to have lost completely a constructive touch? Why defend the indispensable, the Chinese will only enter a war they think they have already won, that’s my fear.
Is it because the Chinese have a long term 100+ year plan and the West has a millisecond plan? Who is the daddy the predator?
We lost our industry base over the last 30 years we can loose are finance industry over 3 months, but it always feels like the same old same old miss management, what a bloody shame !! Stupid is what stupid does or something like that.
I don’t like decline I really don’t, I think were in for a shocker.
Look at our society broken beyond repair in so many ways as a result of these ridiculous policies, shattered tattered and gutted, and becoming more mad. The policies / trend has in my opinion completely succeeded in destroying social cohesion in many areas of the UK.
I find this more frightening than any terror plot x 1000 in fact it a bit of a joke the idea of terror against this social back drop.
Government involved in everything, a historical model of future efficiency, I don’t think so.
The future is grim… What did Margaret Thatcher There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
This has succeeded and we will suffer the results
@gb – the fatal error is caused by a plugin called simplepie; i was going to use it for a poll or something; anyway i deleted it almost as soon as i plugged it in and now its code is still caught in our server somewhere; impossible to get rid of it at this moment . . . still trying to figure out what to do and am writing to the person who created the software . . .
i now never use any plugin for wordpress as they all seem to mess with the code of the main core
Jones attacks Michele Maulkin:
http://www.zimbio.com/9+11+conspiracy+theories/articles/26/Alex+Jones+Attacks+Michelle+Malkin
Musician smells coffee and concludes: don’t make an enemy of your customers:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8247376.stm
In the battle for hearts and minds on the topic of internet downloads, the establishment has long reasoned that the most economical method is to take a blunt instrument and cut out the heart and the mind of most people. This has been done very effectively in the UK. Ministers are racing to implement legislation that is divorced from reality, and counters all expert advice.
As the linked article suggests, It would appear that some musicians would take an alternative view, and this is a promising sign. Radio Caroline helped ignite a multi-billion pound industry. Seminal figures acted as evangelists and presto…. a music industry.
Personally I would like the word ‘pirate’ re-allocated to the re-al pirates. People in suits who lock creative work up behind bars of legalese. Downloaders are the copyright liberation front.
Now, to counter my argument slightly – mmm maybe its a whole other thing – you, my dear reader, can decide. I would like to take issue with the Internet Manifesto – even tho its intentions are no doubt very good.
I want to relate it to the story of non-revolution. Early 19 century England was ripe for revolution. A cruel regime turned people into monsters and slaves. It was a powder keg. If it had blown, maybe England would have had a similar experience to that of the French. However, The Great Reform Act of 1832 eased the pressure and allowed the establishment to continue with only moderate compromises. The workers were bought out cheaply. They even grew to describe themselves as working class, learnt to enjoy toxic food and practiced self-mutilation in the form of fags and booze.
Schemes such as the Internet Manifesto represent the same in my view. Why bother trying to negotiate with scum on the same level. Fuck em. Don’t bother explaining what journalism is, move on and leave those who do not ‘get it’ in the mud. Take full market advantage of the fact you bother to stay real and oppose any move to slow you down.
AN ITALIAN BOY’S CONFESSION
‘Bless me Father, for I have sinned.
I have been with a loose girl’.
The priest asks, ‘Is that you, little Joey Pagano ?’
‘Yes, Father, it is.’
‘And who was the girl you were with?’
‘I can’t tell you, Father. I don’t want to ruin her reputation’.
“Well, Joey, I’m sure to find out her name sooner or later
so you may as well tell me now. Was it Tina Minetti?’
‘I cannot say.’
‘Was it Teresa Mazzarelli?’
‘I’ll never tell.’
‘Was it Nina Capelli?’
‘I’m sorry, but I cannot name her.’
‘Was it Cathy Piriano?’
‘My lips are sealed.’
‘Was it Rosa DiAngelo, then?’
‘Please, Father, I cannot tell you.’
The priest sighs in frustration.
‘You’re very tight lipped, and I admire that.
But you’ve sinned and have to atone.
You cannot be an altar boy now for 4 months.
Now you go and behave yourself.’
Joey walks back to his pew,
and his friend Franco slides over and whispers,
‘What’d you get?’
‘Four months vacation and five good leads.
@alister
Murdock Jr’s speech was self serving toss.
a good rebuttal here
http://tinyurl.com/m7fpke
How The Federal Reserve Bought The Economics Profession
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/07/priceless-how-the-federal_n_278805.html
Update on the Plans for a National ID
Either government controls the people or the people control the government
Once again, security for the country is what we are told is the motivation for allowing the government the capability to listen to phone calls or monitor our emails. We are asked to believe that agencies and departments of the federal government will not use all the tools in the technological cookie jar that Congress has provided.
I am bewildered as to why anyone would trust that the NSA, FBI or DHS will start obeying the law. The FBI scripted their own version of FISA (which eavesdropped on American citizen’s phone calls, intercepted emails and monitored financial transactions). The FBI abused National Security Letters. DHS’s Mocny conceded that the DHS can and will ignore federal privacy laws.
The Stop Real ID Coalition and the Constitutional Alliance work around the clock attempting to stay current on the laws, initiatives and programs that impact our freedom.
If as a country, we make a conscience decision not to accept risk but rather “at all costs” institute any and all measures that might protect us from a terrorist attack, we will not remain a free country. We must be willing to accept some risk if we are to preserve our liberty, rights and freedom.
Make no mistake about it. As a country we are giving the federal government the laws and tools (technology) to control us. We have not learned the lessons of the McCarthy era. We also have not learned from our experience while J. Edgar Hoover was the Director of the FBI. We have not learned from the abuses of power witnessed under the Bush administration or those already taking place under the Obama administration.
I do not know what the “trigger” will be the provides government with the “excuse/reason” to take full control. The trigger might be an economic collapse, a terrorist event, a pandemic or even a natural disaster. The fact is a number of possibilities real or imagined exist that can be the trigger. What I do know is once government has power it does not relinquish it.
We at the Stop Real ID Coalition and the Constitutional Alliance fully support the people in law enforcement, our military and our intelligence community. We recognize the federal government has a responsibility to protect the citizens of the United States. That being said, protecting does not equate to controlling. We support state driver’s licenses with document integrity. We do not want to see counterfeit driver’s licenses used to facilitate any criminal activity including acts of terrorism. We have an alternative to the Real ID Act 2005, PASS ID Act and the REAL ID Repeal and Identification Security Enhancement Act of 2009
UPDATE ON SB1261 AND HR3471
There have been some articles about SB1261 (Providing for Additional Security in States’ Identification Act of 2009) or the PASS ID Act. Very few people if any are talking about HR3471 (REAL ID Repeal and Identification Security Enhancement Act of 2009, short title).
What is important for all citizens to realize is the Real ID Act, PASS ID Act and the REAL ID Repeal and Identification Security Enhancement Act of 2009 all either do or will require that Americans be enrolled into a single global biometric identification system. If one supports any of these bills then they support the federal government intervening in the issuance of state driver’s licenses.
I am absolutely besides myself attempting to understand why we are so blind about the power we are giving to the federal government. The federal government has set 29% as being an acceptable rate to catch people and goods entering our country illegally through authorized Customs Border Patrol checkpoints.
If our government has the biometric information of terrorists then why not focus on terrorists at our checkpoints instead of all U.S. citizens? If we do not have the biometric information of terrorists then why are we collecting the biometric information of American citizens?
I get emails and telephone calls everyday asking me about the status of the aforementioned legislation.
1) PASS ID Act has passed with an amendment added, in committee (Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee). It is my opinion that the PASS ID Act will be attached to other legislation before being heard by the full senate. The Real ID Act 2005 was attached to other legislation (military spending and tsunami relief). I believe PASS ID will be attached to an appropriations spending bill. I do not believe the senate will take the time to debate PASS ID on its own merits. Some will see the attachment of PASS ID to other legislation as a way to avoid debate or at least limit debate on PASS ID. Others will argue attaching PASS ID to other legislation is a logical thing to do in order to best utilize the time the senate has to hear legislation. In either case the result will be the PASS ID Act will pass in the senate.
2) REAL ID Repeal and Identification Security Enhancement Act of 2009 (HR3471) has been referred to two house committees, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary. HR3471 repeals Title II of the Real ID Act 2005 just as the PASS ID Act does. HR3471 will reinstitute section 7212 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.
Not confused yet? The Pass ID Act calls for a non negotiated rulemaking process while HR3471 calls for a negotiated rulemaking process.
The point is there is no way most people are going to understand the many nuances that are a reality when speaking about the path legislation can take to become law. It is equally true that the rulemaking process is not easily understood.
While the country is focused on healthcare, cap and trade, immigration and other issues the federal government is pulling the rug right our from underneath our feet. The federal government has gone from protecting citizens to now wanting to control citizens.
I have been on the phone all morning working with our contacts to open the door to my testifying in opposition to HR3471. I have been put in contact with the people on “the Hill” that can make my testifying a reality.
If we need the support of citizens to make calls we will put out an Action Alert.
On a final note-HR3174, Photo Identification Security Act has been referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement. HR3174 mandates that all federal agencies/departments and financial institutions require a Real ID compliant driver’s license. If Real ID (Title II) is repealed then HR3174 will be amended to change from Real ID to PASS ID or whatever replaces Real ID, compliant driver’s license.
@gb .. Yes , it’s been there awhile.!
Can’t be difficult to correct !
@stacy
something that talks about a fatal error appears on the right, where the links to other sites used to be. Am I the only one that sees this?
pitiful
Fed survey shows US recession may be over
Associated Press
Just in : How Gold and Silver prices cause currency systems to crash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK05ppmyPQw&feature=sub
Jberni again !
@Sharon,……..grrrrrrrr
Love the internet manifesto! Now I might be seeing what I want to see but to me it seems like a clever way of saying to those who would police/legislate the internet to ‘back off!’ Seems to cover most of the important bases and makes some very good points imo.
@Palantiri………You decide; who’s the bigger asshole, the one selling this stuff or the one buying this stuff?
You’re a man after my own heart. Some seem to think that so long as they are making money on an event/circumstance that they didn’t actually cause then morality doesn’t come into it. Whereras I take the view that if morals have become redundant then we are all screwed. You listening Dedo?
@Mike2L … as Stacy said .. step back and look at the longer term Gold chart versus US$-value – i.e. “inflation” adjusted.
I got 80,000 DMs per Kg. in 1986 from a German bank for my gold.
That’s 40,000 Euros today … 2x current price !
My mistake was NOT buying when it was 250$ ca. Y2000 !
Damn !
Max was smarter AFAIK !
Gold is hardly falling like a rock. It’s down less than 1%. Big deal. Plus it’s just the trading herds anyway. Bank of England held rates at what .25% and didn’t announce any new quantitative easing. Woohoo. So the herds went long dollar and short gold for today. Big deal. If you want to stay sane you have to step back a bit and look at the bigger trend because short term stuff will slaughter your account.
Interest rate flat,…….over and out,.
What time is The Keiser Report on today??
…..look at gold!!!
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
– John Adams
Gold falling like a rock!
Mike
max seems to have issues with murdoch – bad mouths him every now and then… etc
should listen to this; http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article6814178.ece
This few days old story was in my news paper today:
Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Life Insurance http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/business/06insurance.html?scp=1&sq=securities%20by%20life%20insurance%20policies&st=cse
For f#ck sake, that is just sickening… if you had any doubt of how morally screwed the Wall Street Investment banks are then read that story. It may still be in the planning stage but the idea itself is repulsive and worse if it is carried out. Even though one financial bubble burst the Wall Street Gang is fixed upon inflating another bubble apparently no matter what it is, don’t they learn or do they not want to learn from the past?
“…The earlier the policyholder dies, the bigger the return — though if people live longer than expected, investors could get poor returns or even lose money…”
“…Goldman Sachs has developed a tradable index of life settlements, enabling investors to bet on whether people will live longer than expected or die sooner than planned…”
“…A bond made up of life settlements would ideally have policies from people with a range of diseases — leukemia, lung cancer, heart disease, breast cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s. That is because if too many people with leukemia are in the securitization portfolio, and a cure is developed, the value of the bond would plummet…”
You decide; who’s the bigger asshole, the one selling this stuff or the one buying this stuff?
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On a different matter, as Kevin Orrick and David McAlvany have said, there are 30 times more sellers than buyers in the market now, where do the money then come from to make the market grow the way we see it does? Is it driven by the companies’ excess liquidity (given to them by the public…)?
Well I’m off.