Comments on: Captured presidents, imploding LBOs

By: Dante

Dante — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:47:56 +0000

We discussed the purchase of International Monetary Fund gold by the Reserve Bank of India, the purchase of gold by the Sri Lankan central bank, the observation by Bloomberg News London bureau chief Mark Gilbert that pervasive government intervention has distorted all markets, and the continuing destruction of the middle class in the United States. You can listen to the interview at the King World News Internet site here:

http://tinyurl.com/yhc4jfg

By: Richard@lattitude30N

Richard@lattitude30N — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:03:31 +0000

@Merci: “how far down…….”…..well that all depends on how much deprogramming you require….and other pertinent circumstances…FYI…”Don bag of chicken” is now in Belize….he was a thoughtful ( and sometimes still contributes ) contributor to this forum…Max and Stacy as you know have departed for Paris and are expats there….Ilya keeps talking about a villa on Isla Margarita,Venezuela….yet two Chavez soldiers were recently killed on the Columbian border…read several books: The Creature from Jekyll Island comes to mind…The Politics of Heroin in SE Asia ( maybe out of print by now ); subscribe to various websites: this one, maybe alex jone’s infowars.com, or jeff rense @ rense.com or halfpasthuman.com w/ Clif High or denninger’s blog, or the one by Jim Willey or even Peter Schiff( now he has become very mainstream>>>currently running for Senator from Conn….); or also anything that C.A. Fitts has to say @ solari.com but basically if and when you come to the conclusion a select elite have been performing mind control find a method to deprogram…yoga, meditation, thai chi, massage, find a love for nature, even certain natural ( yet currently unlawful ) hallucinogens….but above all find peace within and after you can differentiate the truth from the lie ( and the Big Lie )…you will IMHO be a better person for it…it’s an ongoing process, the opposing system of thought is an ever evolving snake that morphs whenever you least expect it…

By: frances snoot

frances snoot — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:57:58 +0000

@WL;
Just more money in some pot they can siphon. Looks like they are set to move the 401K’s into the empty social security pot. Sickening.

Who’s paying for the illegals? Watch: citizenship requirements to change soon as well. It will be a privilege to be a citizen that one earns: not a right inherent from birth country.

By: merci

merci — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:36:28 +0000

@Merci: Do you think hope is foolish? What choice did we have? Palin??? OMG.

To quote our Bonn…. ROFL, PMSL

Hope is not foolish, but it can lead one astray. As far as the vote, it was as much against the alternative as it was for Obama. As we now know, the candidates are basically the same and answer to the same masters.

The illusion that we actually have a say seems daft and sadly comical now. Not too cynical, eh?

Richard, The Matrix does describes it perfectly. I’ve swallowed the red pill and I have yet to hit the bottom of the rabbit hole. How much further down do we have to go before it is ALL clear?

This here hole is deep

By: WL

WL — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:26:39 +0000

PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail
JCT Confirms Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail
Friday, November 06, 2009

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

http://republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=153583

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:02:06 +0000

PS@Option Trader Friday Outlook: Is the Dollar Going UUP?

I’m surprised ZeroHedge isn’t onto to this ?
Sure, they mentioned it .. but I think there’s more behind it !

…The Shares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT) fund lit up our Heat Seeker tracking program today as new money streamed into the November 95 calls. Most of the large trades in the ETF priced for $0.35 to $0.40, and volume in the strike was more than twice open interest at 14,418 contracts….

And this from us2u001@IV-PM board :

… Strikes me there is concerted effort to rally the dollar, even to the point that the Treasury Department brought in independant financial bloggers a week ago for a 2 hour meeting and discussion. What do you suppose they were encouraging? Do you think any supporters of the Treasury now show up on these kind of BB’s given their new friends the bloggers are seen as a circle of influence?

http://seekingalpha.com/article/171297-linkfest-for-treasury-blogger-meet-up

If the Fed can print money with their pixels those pixels can just as easily buy options , piece of cake to prime the pump and convince the world they should remove their shorts from the dollar and quit buying gold. Trouble is the fundamentals just don’t work for them. We have been hearing this chant for a month now as the dollar goes sideways and gold continues higher. If sideways is the best you then the boys at the Treasury and Fed are not working hard enough !

Seems to me the consensus is now that the dollar rally is overdue but it just isn’t happening. So get Goldman along with its surrogates and Deutsche Bank to send a message thru the options , just one more tool in the box.

Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t , either way the Treasury will keep working at it. You can’t borrow trillions and sell Treasury bills without creating demand can you !

http://www.investorvillage.com/iv2/smbd.asp?mb=144&mn=33298&pt=msg&mid=8154924
…

Try this link, if the IV doesn’t work directly :

http://www.investorvillage.com/iv2/smbd.asp?mb=144#top

Message #s 33298 & 33299

By: Adam C

Adam C — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:52:13 +0000

True.

zero hedge — The Fed Balloon(s)
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/fed-balloons

By: Richard@lattitude30N

Richard@lattitude30N — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:49:25 +0000

@Merci: no need to apologize…much like the Matrix and Neo…you may have wished you didn’t take the red pill..the rabbit hole goes deep and holding to any “construct” that keeps your world together and possibly realizing the “truth does not hold” may be difficult at times….use matchsticks if necessary…(HA! that was my comical nature)…be well

By: frances snoot

frances snoot — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:42:15 +0000

I was a fool.

@Merci: Do you think hope is foolish? What choice did we have? Palin??? OMG.
Can’t you just imagine all the years of listening to her bright-as-bunny comments about foreign policy while McCain shirked about Corporate functions?

I didn’t vote for anyone. Made me feel foolish as well.

By: merci

merci — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:38:29 +0000

Richard, I agree. I admit I was asleep, half way believing that this presidential campaign was somehow different. I was a fool.

I come here to learn from Max and all the erudite comments that shed so much light on history and the present situation. I cannot say enough positive about your learned observations and appreciate you sharing them and educating.

I am awake now and do not plan on slipping back into slumber. You and Frances snoot (and so many others here) are daily must reads to open the eyes, heart and mind.

The information discussed here is important, beyond words and a source of sanity in attempting to put the puzzle together.
I thank you for helping me understand.