Dollar jibber jabber

Posted on November 9, 2009 by stacyherbert| 148 Comments

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janine | November 9, 2009 at 9:26 am |

@ stacy

So normally you are put in a mental institution when you say something like this……

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6907681.ece
snipertrader | November 9, 2009 at 9:33 am |

The quest for 71-72 is on.
Davon Dupree | November 9, 2009 at 9:33 am |

Sunday Video Club link is broken – show URL link for cut ‘n paste?
marietta | November 9, 2009 at 9:35 am |

THanks for the pic of Blankfein
Now I have a new cover for my dartboard
marietta | November 9, 2009 at 9:41 am |

stacy
can you permiantly post the usd chart with the gold charts?
RedZebra | November 9, 2009 at 9:41 am |

re: piracy vs creativity, I’d been wondering about patents, and if they are necessary for research to progress, as is often argued. So I found this article from thie weeks’ Nature Medicine interesting:

Nature Medicine 15, 1240 – 1241 (2009)
Researchers ponder a patent-free world
Lauren Cahoon

[...]
“The standard belief was that you need property rights to support innovation,” says David Levine, an economist at Washington University in St. Louis, “but when we looked at the empirical literature on patents, we found that wasn’t true.” His research with colleague Michele Boldrin indicated that patents actually inhibited innovation, as in the case of Italy. They wrote that prior to 1978 the country had no patent protection, yet it was the fifth world producer in pharmaceuticals and the seventh exporter, discovering 9.3% of the world’s new active chemical compounds. After patent law was enforced, that percentage dropped to 7.5% (Boldrin, M. & Levine, D. Against Intellectual Monopoly. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008).
M | November 9, 2009 at 9:48 am |

The dollar is not that spectacular, now is it? It’s been lower, and it will go lower, but now does seem like the moment for that to happen.
Tony | November 9, 2009 at 9:50 am |

Mr Blankfield says he’s doing God’s work. I ask which God? The First Commandment is to have no other Gods before me. The implication is that their are other Gods. Some say you have to have destruction and death to get life and renewal…Blankfield is a BUDDAH!!!
Will | November 9, 2009 at 10:01 am |

Earlier I posted a link to a story about Russia’s CB buying gold and limiting their exposure to US financial merde. It’s now also on Zero Hedge here.

Note that ZH has at least four stories this AM on gold, which means that gold will be in focus for a lot of new investors who will likely switch some of their debt-chits for gold.

Also note that when the Russians put something out (even if it’s a denial) it’s important. One shouldn’t necessarily put much credence in what is said in these official pronouncements (at least, the literal meaning), but rather try to figure out why they are saying it. This is especially true for Russia and China as they’ve raised this mode of reporting to an artform ;^)
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 10:02 am |

NYT : Flaw in US Data Overstates Growth, Productivity

http://www.cnbc.com/id/33786428

Wow .. that’s gotta be a first !

… A widening gap between data and reality is distorting the government’s picture of the country’s economic health, overstating growth and productivity in ways that could affect the political debate on issues like trade, wages and job creation.

The shortcomings of the data-gathering system came through loud and clear here Friday and Saturday at a first-of-its-kind gathering of economists from academia and government determined to come up with a more accurate statistical picture.

The fundamental shortcoming is in the way imports are accounted for. A carburetor bought for $50 in China as a component of an American-made car, for example, more often than not shows up in the statistics as if it were the American-made version valued at, say, $100. The failure to distinguish adequately between what is made in America and what is made abroad falsely inflates the gross domestic product, which sums up all value added within the country…..

Sheesh … I’ve been saying this for years !

GDP and GNP are different .

GNP = Nationally produced
GDP = Consumed by Domestic

Another Keynsian trick .. talking only about GDP !
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 10:11 am |

@warburg sidney …. Patrick Geryl found and understood old text concerning an advanced theory about sunspots of the acient maya-culture (he has no clue how they got to that knowledge). This theory relates to the idea of a cataclysm in 2012. The interview at Camelot is interesting
http://www.projectcamelot.org/patrick_geryl.html
Geryl is Belgium and has a unusual Dutch arrogance for a person from Belgium (sorry to say) and I hope deeply that he is very wrong!

Did some searches via Google, and it is pretty frightening.
Check out the description on the RHS of the video.
Maybe those “missing” Pentagon Trillions-US$ went missing for good reasons ?

Maybe better NOT to see the film and build a Noah’s Ark instead !
;-(
TSGordon | November 9, 2009 at 10:24 am |

I always find a downward Dollar chart exciting. Hoooray! Let the bitch run down to 60-basis points, and quickly! Please God, let all those sophisticated NYT-reading ‘social democrats’ take it up the.. (Max’s word,) ‘schfinkter’ !

Seriously, any up-tick in metals does mean a direct lack of confidence in the position America will be in- in just a year or so. The idea of a ‘jobless recovery’ being so absurd, those with stocks are truly playing Russian roulette. –Bonuses paid in stock–that must be unloaded as soon as it becomes redeemable– are probably the ‘fundemental’ that has been keeping the market above 9,000. ++
Tony | November 9, 2009 at 10:40 am |

How long until Mish calls the next bottom? (76!! uh, er…)
TSGordon | November 9, 2009 at 10:41 am |

@Phil– Yep, patrick geryl has his hand on part of the story, and I am glad to read how he intends to (and suggests we all) begin NOW to prepare for the worst.

Three things you need know. First, there is a lot more activity underground at the South Pole than we know–(Easily $1.T+ of the pre-2001 Pentagon Black Budget)

Second, the huge collider ilustrates plainly what the military is capable of in therrs of earth-digging eqpt. In fact, it’s probably assembled underground, just so no photos can escape! –Is it not almost unimaginable they can build a perfectly round 25km long tunnel the circumfrence of the World Trade Towers, a mile underground? –cha-Ching!!

Finally, it’s sad to read Patrick’s pleas for money to build a retreat in the mountains of Spain, surrounded as it is by nuclear power plants, -all ideal targets for a surprise meltdown.

Under the great Sphinx they may well locate the treasure they are looking for, but sadly, access to that info will be so quickly absconded with by the PTB we may never know what happened prior to the building of the Pyrmids, which I am convinced required ‘alien’ technology, +, +. The Great Pyramid is clearly a ram- pump, which most people don’t get.

War, and then a NWO, -this is what the elites think is vitlly important. How ‘they’ plan to survive is no secret, nor are the motives of the real movers and shakers working for the wealthy at the top. I can’t figure out why they keep playing on the public sentiment,as opposed to rampantly killing us all.

But wait!, now we see there’s plenty of Thimerisol & (other crippling adjuvants) for all the little school children. Yeah!!!
frances snoot | November 9, 2009 at 10:50 am |

Here are the “leaders of the free world”: IMF banking governors all:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=adFHWabBXxnY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-20_major_economies

Here’s the communique: from our leaders sitting at the IMF:
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5A61CU20091107
Photoception | November 9, 2009 at 10:56 am |

@ Phil

Thanks for the productivity article, it’s something I’ve been obsessing about. I’m trying to prove this:

“On another front, many argue that labor productivity is rising faster than the pay of workers who made the greater productivity possible. That argument would be watered down if more accurate data showed that productivity had been overstated.”

Even if it is overstated… say over 20 years productivity is steadily rising while real incomes are flat… you’ll have a bunch of working poor people who can’t buy the mountains of excess goods produced. And only way to keep the game going is by handing out credit cards like candy.
Youri Carma | November 9, 2009 at 10:59 am |

Bird shuts down atom smasher http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26328288-23109,00.html
warburg sidney | November 9, 2009 at 10:59 am |

phil what stroke me at that interview is a total absence of Alex-Jones-like-ideas with this patrick person…. so if the global elite is aware of his ideas, he does not known!
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 11:02 am |

@Photoception … And only way to keep the game going is by handing out credit cards like candy.

I agree and I claim it was all deliberate !
In order to pump the market even more, they changed the focus from GNP to GDP. With strong GDP they could thus hype the stock and bond market as if everything is fine. Handing out CCs like candy was of course half the game.

Why are they coming clean “now” is the question !
… looks lie they want the US$ to crash indeed !
Joe | November 9, 2009 at 11:03 am |

The Sun’s magnetic poles will remain as they are now, with the north magnetic pole pointing through the Sun’s southern hemisphere, until the year 2012 when they will reverse again.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast15feb_1.htm
Jeroen Nouwens | November 9, 2009 at 11:05 am |

Down, down, down it goes. It can’t go fast enough for me. When the US dollar crashes, it will be worth it just to see the look of utter stupefaction on Obama’s lying mug. Then he’ll start to lick the fat teets of the UN in earnest, hoping to save his elitist ass.
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 11:06 am |

@warburg sidney .. what IMO is sinister is the missing Pentagon Trillions linked together with pumping the markets knowingly destroying the currency.

And what is rather MORE sinister is that they are building the “Seed Bank” in Norway in record time … with statements like “has to be completed by mid 2012 at latest”.
People like Bill Gates Foundation are big donors to the project.
My first thought it just a “failsafe store” against GMO pollution … in case things go badly wrong. Seems like the 2012 polar shift is more plausible as a reason.
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 11:10 am |

@Joe .. thanks for the link.

…The Sun’s magnetic poles will remain as they are now, with the north magnetic pole pointing through the Sun’s southern hemisphere, until the year 2012 when they will reverse again. This transition happens, as far as we know, at the peak of every 11-year sunspot cycle — like clockwork.

Earth’s magnetic field also flips, but with less regularity. Consecutive reversals are spaced 5 thousand years to 50 million years apart. The last reversal happened 740,000 years ago. Some researchers think our planet is overdue for another one, but nobody knows exactly when the next reversal might occur….

The problem is , what is the truth.
Do you believe NASA or the Egytians + Mayans ?

Sure the Suns’s field flips every 11 years, but the point being made in that video ( & other sources ) is … “is this the big one” , every 11,500 or 24,500 years… due to extra forces and radiation caused by passing through the galactic axis.
warburg sidney | November 9, 2009 at 11:12 am |

phil if this patrick geryl is right then underground bases etc are not save… anything is actually save, and nobody will survive, according to patrick geryl
warburg sidney | November 9, 2009 at 11:16 am |

phil here is some more info from cliff high, who was interviewed at rense.com (link from youri). This high states that all math of patrick is correct!
http://halfpasthuman.com/RadioSpecial.html
WL | November 9, 2009 at 11:24 am |

Re Earths magnetic field

I looked into this a few years ago when the global warming myth was reaching its zenith. Essentially, the Earths magnetic field is caused by molten iron in the Earths core. This moves and migrates from the northern to the southern hemisphere. If enough of it moves the magnetic field will flip. Prior to a flip the Earths magnetic shield weakens, allowing more of the harmful Suns rays to reach the surface of the Earth. This can cause climate changes as the Earths defense against Solar winds is reduced. Recently, the magnetic shied has weakened leading scientists to theorize a magnetic flip may be near. These flips can occur very fast and reverse back quickly or take 100,000s of years. Also, a large pool of this moving molten core is under the Ocean exactly where the El Nino is created by Ocean temperatures.

Now, if we can tax magnetism maybe we can stop it.
Henry Gage | November 9, 2009 at 11:25 am |

Which god?
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 11:30 am |

WL … taxing magnetism … already done .. Marriage !

BTW … I am expecting some upheaval, but the Belgian guy talks about the Earth reversing it’s spin; which would be the cause of major upheaval. AFAIK, I haven’t heard about this possibility anywhere but from him.
WL | November 9, 2009 at 11:36 am |

@Phil

If the earth reverses spin, we would go back in time. I’d buy even more gold under 300 bucks.

FWW Superman is the only one that I know that can reverse the spin..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCsHTNP2MaU
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 11:42 am |

@WL … Superman … he’s never there when you need him !
Joe | November 9, 2009 at 11:43 am |

Yeah WL is right on with everything he said including the suns rays effecting the earth more now that the magnetism is weakened. As far as the earth reversing in spin it would wipe everything out except for Goldman Sachs who will be left standing since they are the only ones doing gods work
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 11:45 am |

@WL & @Joe … LOL, you’ve got me surrounded .. I give up !
frances snoot | November 9, 2009 at 11:46 am |

@Joe@Phil@Warburg:

Has anything of what you discussed link to the planetary alignment and the age of Aquarius? Obama uses references to astrology in his announcements: he seemed a lot cockier last spring. Summer didn’t go as planned I would think.

Moon in seventh house, Jupiter aligns with Mars, peace rule the planets…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_zAUrOq-Dc
Joe | November 9, 2009 at 11:49 am |

as far as alignment im pretty sure its will be the first time in hundreds of thousands of years we will align (sun earth, others maybe?) with the milky way galaxy’s center massive black hole. As far as that having any effect on anything i doubt it- but still cool non-the-less
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 11:50 am |

We need 20+% unemployment numbers to get back to Dow 14K by the looks of things !
;-(
Joe | November 9, 2009 at 11:54 am |

The Dollar might be worth a nickel in a year or two – Is Obama just plain economically illiterate? What is this clown good at ?
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 11:56 am |

Germany Jibber Jabber

MSM TV NEws showed a list of all the fines that can be imposed for using insulting language on the roads ot to a policeman .. up to 2,500 Euros.

A friend of mine – who lives in a large City – just told me what happened to him last week :

He left his car parked in front of his house as usual, but the window was not completely closed.
He went out to drive off, and found a Motorbike-Policeman writing a ticket. My friend asked what’s up , the policeman replied :

a) 30 Euros for the open window ( you are inviting theft )
b) 70 Euros for the towing Co. that arrived but wnet away empty handed
c) 69 Euros “Administration cost”

169 Euros for ZILCH !

BTW … the policeman can easily get his address based on the number plate … but he didn’t .
Max’s famous Nickel and Diming at work !
frances snoot | November 9, 2009 at 11:59 am |

The timetable for the G20 freak-leaders seem to be set to astrological order from before: long before Obama.

Here’s Obama’s freakish words:

“That’s why we’ve got to get this done. We’ve got to get it done this year. We’ve got to get it done this year — both in the House and in the Senate. And we don’t have any excuses; the stars are aligned.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Statement-by-the-President-after-meeting-with-House-Democratic-leadership/
warburg sidney | November 9, 2009 at 11:59 am |

frances I try to stick to science and facts here….
but that is already a problem concerning the subject!
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 12:07 pm |

Now they want to regulate the Internet

Judge Napolitano and Shelly Roche Discuss Net Neutrality on Freedom Watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gTp7XKMWQw&feature=sub
skippy | November 9, 2009 at 12:09 pm |

@frances snoot ~ Political Astrology
part 1 of 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHSfPd5OlNI
frances snoot | November 9, 2009 at 12:10 pm |

@Warburg:
Yes, we do. But do THEY?

Obama’s quirky.
Bonn | November 9, 2009 at 12:10 pm |

uns does tress fe gotta fuck this shit n shoot it down
frances snoot | November 9, 2009 at 12:12 pm |

Thanks, Skippy!
Joe | November 9, 2009 at 12:13 pm |

@Phil
Hey lets regulate the ‘free’ internet with the Federal Censorship Commission (FCC)….. Shelly Roche told me on Twitter the senator Markey top campaign contributor this year is… Time Warner.
Dedo | November 9, 2009 at 12:23 pm |

@Frances,…..LOL,..I thought you were referring to Bonn
“skippy” !
(I must read these comments more thoroughly) : )
Dedo | November 9, 2009 at 12:24 pm |

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCHY6n907OE
Mike/Liverpool | November 9, 2009 at 12:24 pm |

Oil Furtures $100 a barrel!
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/09/82126/long-dated-oil-soars/
Mike
Mother earth | November 9, 2009 at 12:28 pm |

It’s interesting to see the comments, nonsense mixed with sense. Compulsive escapism?

2012 is the wrong date I read somewhere.. it should be around ~2050. If you still want to hide you could wonder why anything would happen at all. Reversing the earths spin is impossible, that is like wanting to stop a million freight trains without anything to hold on to. Reversal of the magentic field is possible, but if that would have any impact I doubt it. A lot of compasses need to ve recalibrated and some birds will get lost.

Isn’t the fact that the planet is buring up, we are on the brink of a world war, we might have a biowar ongoing and that ther is a mercyless oligarchy set to bring about a new low wealth high explitation world order enough for you guys?
Dedo | November 9, 2009 at 12:31 pm |

@Mother,…I hear there’s gunna be a tough winter,..: )
frances snoot | November 9, 2009 at 12:33 pm |

Here’s a phony news story to drum up support in phony America for the war in Afghanistan/Iraq/Pakistan for phony reasons:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/09/nidal-hasan-tried-to-cont_n_350468.html

phony baloney
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 12:35 pm |

PS@Germany Jibber Jabber

Here’s a list – page by page :

http://www.abendblatt.de/ratgeber/auto-motor/article1255022/Vogel-zeigen-kostet-bis-zu-750-Euro.html

Bekloppter 250 Euro
Leck mich doch 300 Euro
Dumme Kuh 300 – 600 Euro
Witzbold 300 Euro
Du armes Schwein, du hast doch eine Mattscheibe 350 Euro
Wegelagerer 450 Euro
Zu dumm zum Schreiben 450 Euro
Stupid pig – Du blödes Schwein 500 Euro
Hast du blödes Weib nichts Besseres zu tun 500 Euro
Einen Polizisten duzen 600 Euro
Dir hat wohl die Sonne das Gehirn verbrannt 600 Euro
Bei dir piept´s wohl 750 Euro
Verfluchtes Wegelagerergesindel 900 Euro
Wichtelmann 1000 Euro
Du Wichser 1000 Euro
Bullenschwein (mit Stinekfinger) 1000 Euro
Raubritter 1500 Euro
Trottel in Uniform 1500 Euro
Ihr seid doch alle große Arschlöcher 1500 Euro
Idioten, ihr gehört in die Nervenheilanstalt 1500 Euro
Am liebtsen würde ich jetzt Arschloch zu dir sagen 1600 Euro
Du Schlampe 1900 Euro
Fieses Miststück 2500 Euro
Alte Sau 2500 Euro Zunge rausstrecken 150 – 300 Euro

“Einen Polizisten duzen 600 Euro”

This one means if you use the “Du” rather than the “Sie” form .
It’s a bit like calling someone John instead of Mr. Brown !
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 12:37 pm |

@Oh Mother …”2012 is the wrong date I read somewhere”

LOL …. Holland MSM said the date was 200 years out of sync. Now that is worrying … that MSM feels the need to tell bare faced lies.
skippy | November 9, 2009 at 12:37 pm |

@ frances snoot …
you think our government would take a page out the the play book from WWII went the sent Japaneses American to Europe to fight not the pacific … why deploy this guy to the ME ? why not send him to korea or europe vs his impeding deployment to the ME …
the war on terror is a war on peace.
Jim ODonnell | November 9, 2009 at 12:43 pm |

Photoception
Nov 9, 2009 at 10:56 am

Productivity On A Desert Island [same everywhere else also]

Keep in mind that productivity is an accounting measure and not a measure of actual productivity:

There is only one “business” on the island which yesterday “employed” 100 natives to gather coconuts. Today the big bossman fired 50 natives and told the remaining empolyees that they had to gather the same number of coccnuts as in previous days. For a while they did and were 100% more productive than before.

Tonight all 100 natives cooked and ate the big bossman for dinner which actually will make them VERY PRODUCTIVE tomorrow.
frances snoot | November 9, 2009 at 12:44 pm |

“Isn’t the fact that the planet is buring up, we are on the brink of a world war, we might have a biowar ongoing and that ther is a mercyless oligarchy set to bring about a new low wealth high explitation world order enough for you guys?”

The gang in charge are seriously preparing for some major cataclysm: roll the dice and go figure which one.

Option A:
G20 successfully limits industrial growth while starving planet’s inhabitants into a slimmed-down version of Prince Phillip’s best wet dream.

Option B:
Planet is on course for a pole shift in which case many people will die in floods and from deprivation.

Option C:
World War 3.

Option D:
Zombies.

Option E:
Plague escapes control of biopoliticos and rages without cessation. GMO crops destroy food. People die in droves except for Lilly Hoo who manages to procure the key to the seed vault and, with the Hoolettes, continues life on earth albeit a bit backwards.

Option F:
A combination of Options A-E precipitated by a false flag Alien attack on Washington.
frances snoot | November 9, 2009 at 12:48 pm |

Skippy:
You are best served if you believe everything you read in comic books and nothing you read from the world’s press.

Arriana is a bit of an unrepentant Neocon. Like a Trojan Neocon pony over at the Yes-We-Could-Except-Fox-News-Won’t-Let-Us Huff and Puff Post.
frances snoot | November 9, 2009 at 12:53 pm |

OOPS.

I forgot to add Joe’s addition of the black-hole Milky Way sucking time/warp to my Options. Please refer to the addendum.
Youri Carma | November 9, 2009 at 1:07 pm |

Thieves might have smuggled mint gold in acid, say experts
http://www.canada.com/news/national/Thieves+might+have+smuggled+mint+gold+acid+experts/1784193/story.html
skippy | November 9, 2009 at 1:08 pm |

Will Fort Hood Shootings be Used to Expand PATRIOT Surveillance?

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/11/09/liebermans-hunt-for-a-lone-wolf/
warburg sidney | November 9, 2009 at 1:18 pm |

frances, astrology and rulers many times go together as you know. In Holland there was ones this problem with queen juliana and an astrologist… the Dutch parliament had to interfere… Who was Ras-putin anyway?
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 1:20 pm |

more than 8,000 tons of physical Gold has left the USA for other countries … at least so he says ….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvAlbpnmsPs&feature=sub

Sometimes , I think he gets a little mixed up .. but still , his message is generally right.
Scott from Oregon | November 9, 2009 at 1:21 pm |

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/11/abjuration-and-recantation.html

an abjuration and recantation of Greenspanism?

Oh my!!
Joe | November 9, 2009 at 1:24 pm |

@Frances
Option: D sounds like the most fun
BlackDouglas | November 9, 2009 at 1:28 pm |

Disinflation? Sounds useful.

A view on dollar resurgence and more:

http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/5917
marietta | November 9, 2009 at 1:32 pm |

because mortgage lenders are loathe to forclose, second lein holders (home equitiy loans) are getting more aggressive:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1324207713&play=1
frances snoot | November 9, 2009 at 1:36 pm |

@Joe:
I like your option best!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/apr/21/space-raspberries-amino-acids-astrobiology

@Warburg:
Rasputin was a supra-sovereign type guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputin
Joe | November 9, 2009 at 1:37 pm |

A List of things Obama has done right :

1)
2)
3)
Mongo | November 9, 2009 at 1:37 pm |

Dude tries to sell an ounce of canadian gold coin for $50 and nobody wants it!

go figure..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk5aRIz17fk&feature=player_embedded

LOL
Joe | November 9, 2009 at 1:39 pm |

Israel proposes work camps for refugees http://j.mp/28Rd7m

Nazis extermination through labor‎ camps http://j.mp/3DvGic
marietta | November 9, 2009 at 1:41 pm |

@frances
maybe someone will run to the top of the Empire state building, give a great big shout out to HOrton, and we’ll all be saved by the big pink elephant.
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 1:42 pm |

@Joe

1) Nothing

OTOH, it seems that the US$ destruction is probably deliberate, while of course the Establish continually tell the world via MSM that it is the last thing they want.
… while secretly making arrangements for the US$ replacement.

A one-world currency ? .. probably not.
An Amero .. probably.
Mexico would say Yes, and Canada, probably, especially if they are asked last .
frances snoot | November 9, 2009 at 1:46 pm |

@Marietta:
Horton’s my hero!

I do like Cindy-Loo Hoo too.
Joe | November 9, 2009 at 1:47 pm |

Feds seek 30 year sentence for congressman William Jefferson – John Bresnahan – POLITICO.com http://bit.ly/3xKUAE
marietta | November 9, 2009 at 1:48 pm |

my daughter’s name is Cindy and she looked just like Cindy Loo Hoo when she was 4
frances snoot | November 9, 2009 at 1:51 pm |

@Marietta:
Well, at least the Grinch got nice. Maybe there’s hope for Geithner?
Danny | November 9, 2009 at 1:55 pm |

@Joe
Re: A List of things Obama has done right…

Thanks. Just finished a long day at work; made me giggle.
marietta | November 9, 2009 at 2:00 pm |

Geithner could be this guy too
http://www.retrojunk.com/img/art-images/drsuess_lorax1.jpg
Mep | November 9, 2009 at 2:07 pm |

Pepsi Co. trying to win consumers by spending $20 million on community projects:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/09/pepsi-pledges-20-million_n_351103.html

This disgusts me on so many levels.

I wonder if they will brand their projects like KFC branded the potholes they filled in Chicago?

Pic of KFC pothole: http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/kfcpotholes.jpg
Joe | November 9, 2009 at 2:24 pm |

Pepsi for the people!

TheOnion : Warning!: WHO finds traces of ‘food’ in KFC chicken
Youri Carma | November 9, 2009 at 2:25 pm |

Larsonstdoc asked me: Is this the beginning of hyper-inflation? I think so.

My Answer: Think it’s a little bit more complicated.

In fact producing prices but also wages are going down, that’s deflation.

But because the dollar is depreciating faster than the declining prices around you it will feel like inflation when you are living in the U.S. and the U.K.

This depreciating of the dollar is mainly driven by the lost in trust in the dollar as reserve currency around the globe not by the money supply. The pond doesn’t even have that supporting “reserve currency” role.

There is so much debt deepening in defaulting credit card holders, mortgages, companies and banks that the money poored in by Bernanke can’t keep up with the destroying in the real economy.

In fact the big banks hoard their taxpayers recieved money so isn’t getting into the real economy that’s why it’s still imploding.

The hyper inflation will come when everybody around the globe is going to dump their dollars when the finaly understand they will end up with a empty green bag.

Till that time the dollar will just decline in depreciation with some spikes up, maybe from unwinding dollar carry trades, but with the long term perpective down.

So in short it’s not so much the gold going up in dollars but the dollar going down which makes the gold more expensive.
ronron | November 9, 2009 at 2:26 pm |

youri i was going to pirate a film called where’s the fricken gold. ron in ontario canada
marietta | November 9, 2009 at 2:33 pm |

Geryl forgot to mention that the most likely to survive the pole shift will be Afghan tribes living above 2km. There’s irony for ya
Adam C | November 9, 2009 at 2:36 pm |

75% of Potential Recruits Too Fat, Too Sickly, Too Dumb to Serve

“More than three-quarters of the nation’s 17- to 24-year-olds couldn’t serve in the military, even if they wanted to. They’re too fat, too sickly, too dumb, have too many kids, or have copped to using illegal drugs.”

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/11/75-of-potential-recruits-too-fat-too-sickly-too-dumb-to-serve/

What a shame.
Mother earth | November 9, 2009 at 2:46 pm |

Funny.. trying to sell one ounce of gold and not getting anywhere..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk5aRIz17fk
Thomas | November 9, 2009 at 2:49 pm |

Brave hearts from the land of the Eagle remember their history
The spirit of their founding fathers remains in some hearts
And ignites passion in those who resist tyranny
Supergeek | November 9, 2009 at 2:54 pm |

@Y’all
Fat americans… smile, $50etc… er… lot of repeitish in the links… people stopped reading the comments or what???
Charles Rossi | November 9, 2009 at 3:00 pm |

World running out of oil a lot faster than was previously thought.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/09/peak-oil-international-energy-agency
Dedo | November 9, 2009 at 3:16 pm |

Guy tryin’ to sell an ounce of gold for $50,..unbelievable!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk5aRIz17fk
marietta | November 9, 2009 at 3:19 pm |

Dedo
was he a fat american?
Supergeek | November 9, 2009 at 3:23 pm |

@d3dp
Smile!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SarkLG7ghQ0
Dedo | November 9, 2009 at 3:23 pm |

@marietta,…nah, he wasn’t a fat person.
Why,..would that have made a difference?
Dedo | November 9, 2009 at 3:24 pm |

@Super,..LOL,..now THAT was funny!! : )
Youri Carma | November 9, 2009 at 3:25 pm |

@ronron

Classic on this site but maybe you havn’t seen it yet: Brad Neely: Bring The Gold Vid http://tinyurl.com/cefb2k
Joe | November 9, 2009 at 3:33 pm |

Rupert Murdoch’s comments about NewsCorp blocking Google search’s access to their content? http://bit.ly/NvBSR
WL | November 9, 2009 at 3:41 pm |

11/9/09 Peter Schiff on Fox Business: $5000 for Gold, or Even Much Higher!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iHWcaf7OV0
Adam C | November 9, 2009 at 3:43 pm |

8,000 tonnes of gold has left America??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvAlbpnmsPs

00:01:29
frances snoot | November 9, 2009 at 3:56 pm |

@Supergeek:
I guess he shouldn’t have asked “Why”.
Mep | November 9, 2009 at 4:05 pm |

Re: American fatness, it’s funny to make fun of fat Americans, I know . . . I do it sometimes, too. But it’s also reason for concern. There are people who believe that today’s American kids will be the first to see a decline in life-expectancy b/c of obesity and health risks associated with it:

http://web.mac.com/sjayo/SJayOlshansky/Background_files/NEJM2005final.pdf

I’ve also seen reports that Americans are packing on pounds now b/c they cannot afford decent food. “Poor people food” is high in fats, carbohydrates, sugars, and calories.

Our food system needs a complete overhaul, which is very unlikely to happen anytime soon.

American obesity, to me at least, is not something that should be seen as any individual’s disgrace. It’s a societal disgrace.
Youri Carma | November 9, 2009 at 4:11 pm |

Hoeeee! That Red head is hot with the greenspot boobies. And she’s playing Devils Advocate..Yeah baby ..get kinky on me!

It’s not solid enough yet, she says…..Oeehhh Behave!

Than Peter get’s solid and all she can do is give in.

Did you hear her sigh when Peter wipped her Devils Advocate pearl white redhead ass! Whoee that was kinky! And solid.
Mep | November 9, 2009 at 4:12 pm |

@ Max – RE: your comments about government being able to efficiently run health care, I agree with you on principle. However, I think its been shown pretty clearly that in the US, our government is not currently capable of passing sane legislation that will improve our sickness-care system. The majority of our Congress is captured. Until we find a way to change that, we’re destined to be held hostage to the insurance and PhRMA cartels.
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 4:14 pm |

@Adam C … Phil
Nov 9, 2009 at 1:20 pm

Yes, I mentioned that already … but nobody seemed to think it’s important. Berninger said he’ll tell more in his next video. Whether that’s just a teaser to watch his next, or whether he has something new , we’ll see.

Just FWIW, there was a rumor in 2008 that shiploads of Gold-Ameros were leaving the US for China.
Supergeek | November 9, 2009 at 4:17 pm |

@youri
I enjoyed the acid/gold link… er cheers!!!
frances snoot | November 9, 2009 at 4:18 pm |

“American obesity, to me at least, is not something that should be seen as any individual’s disgrace. It’s a societal disgrace.”

Why not let the people pork on some fat before the starving time comes? It is coming, you know.
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 4:22 pm |

Nov. 10 2009
Where does the price of gold go from here?

….This current bull market in gold is not about jewellery, but is about the value of paper money; in particular the US dollar. And, one of the ways to protect your wealth in such times is to own gold. And, it is for this reason it is imperative for investors to diversify and allocate a portion of their capital to the precious metals gold and silver…..

http://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/news/3202/where-does-the-price-of-gold-go-from-here-3202.html?
BondiBhoy | November 9, 2009 at 4:26 pm |

Mep – the types of people who eat processed food on a very regular basis (from both the supermarket & Mcdonalds) are just lazy. Most may well be from lower socio-economic groups but it’s ultimately cheaper to buy fresh food & cook your own meals. A meal for a family of 4 @ McDonalds will cost you between $20-30. Why dont these people realise that cooking doesnt even have to be a daily chore if you buy in bulk, cook & then freeze the end product. It’s just people being thick & lazy, nothing to do with wage packets I believe.
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 4:26 pm |

Another war front …

Official US Air Force Document Reveals the True Intentions Behind the US-Colombia Military Agreement

…An official document from the Department of the US Air Force reveals that the military base in Palanquero, Colombia will provide the Pentagon with “…an opportunity for conducting full spectrum operations throughout South America…” This information contradicts the explainations offered by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and the US State Department regarding the military agreement signed between the two nations this past October 30th. Both governments have publicly stated that the military agreement refers only to counternarcotics and counterterrorism operations within Colombian territory. President Uribe has reiterated numerous times that the military agreement with the US will not affect Colombia’s neighbors, despite constant concern in the region regarding the true objetives of the agreement. But the US Air Force document, dated May 2009, confirms that the concerns of South American nations have been right on target. The document exposes that the true intentions behind the agreement are to enable the US to engage in “full spectrum military operations in a critical sub-region of our hemisphere where security and stability is under constant threat from narcotics funded terrorist insurgencies…and anti-US governments…”

…

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15951
Mike/Liverpool | November 9, 2009 at 4:27 pm |

Forget Gold!

PEEK OIL
PEEK Oil
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/09/peak-oil-international-energy-agency

Mike
Dedo | November 9, 2009 at 4:28 pm |

@Frances,…..What are these for I wonder,..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWXBHdTsAZQ
frances snoot | November 9, 2009 at 4:31 pm |

@Mep@BondiBhoy:
Lordy? Why don’t you both just STONE those fatties to death with dried out-doughtnuts? For Christ sake: if ya’z gonna try to make the “Great Society” just leave out Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia. Maybe Mississippi and Alabama as well. It would be too DISAPPOINTING to the collective to have to DEAL with those people, right? Seems what is right to one might not be another person’s CHOICE.

And last time I checked, Americans are still free to make free choices: good or bad.

Not really anybusy-body’s business to check up on other’s people’s habits. Rather, well…snooty I think.
Mongo | November 9, 2009 at 4:32 pm |

@Mike/Liverpool, why forget gold.. when we use horse and carriage again gold will be the de facto currency (besides silver and other precious metals perhaps).
Ptah | November 9, 2009 at 4:33 pm |

The Telegraph is not a reliable picture of the world, its a distorted view of the world as Bilderberg would like to see it, dovetailed to morsels of reality to appear a bit convincing. This story stills sends goosebumps all over me:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/6533107/Every-phone-call-email-and-internet-click-stored-by-state-spying-databases.html

The bit which really does it is where it is claimed that companies such as Orange and Vodaphone will be paid by the taxpayer to hold private data on … the taxpayer.

I suppose the taxpayer – sort of – gets the last laugh as the money is next to worthless anyway. However these bastards certainly are not working for the electorate when they concoct stuff like this. Should I be surprised… probably not!

Maybe the establishment has leased the anal passage of every UK person to the Chinese, we are really in for a rough ride over the next few years.
Mep | November 9, 2009 at 4:33 pm |

The truth about health insurance reform:

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/9/house_passes_healthcare_bill_with_amendment
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 4:36 pm |

FROM DR. DAVID KAISER…

History Unfolding

I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.

Something of historic proportions is happening
. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it.. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.

We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?
…
…
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.

This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.
…
…
… Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years …
…
http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/profiles/blogs/from-dr-david-kaiser

Interesting read – whether it ends like Germany did, I doubt it.
OTOH, the evidence of a deliberate destruction of the US currency as well as the US economy is shouting you in the face.
It’s just too obvious to be believable I suppose !
Mep | November 9, 2009 at 4:39 pm |

@ Bondi Bhoy:

Most may well be from lower socio-economic groups but it’s ultimately cheaper to buy fresh food & cook your own meals.

That’s just not true. Not only is fresh food more expensive, there are also numerous studies that show that fresh foods and fish are near-non-existent in many poor areas; studies also have consistently shown that food prices–no matter if they are unhealthy or healthy foods–are more expensive across the board in lower-income communities (where people also have less access to transportation to shop elsewhere).

Where I do agree with you is on cooking more homemade meals and freezing. This presumes, however, that people have money in the first place to purchase bulk items.
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 4:45 pm |

Obama’s Reign of Error

http://www.caseyresearch.com/displayCdd.php?id=271
dan valley | November 9, 2009 at 4:51 pm |

Wall Street Bonuses Rise as Big 3 May Pay $30 Billion

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aR0E6lSBRfs8&pos=11
WL | November 9, 2009 at 4:57 pm |

We have reached

Peak oil
Peak gold
Peak debt
Peak US superpower

Buckle up ladies and germs this is gonna be a ride

After researching German Hyperinflation:

Foreign debts were high

There was initially deflation then government intervention created inflation

Stocks dropped initially then recovered and did ok if they had real assets

Debtors did very well as debts were wiped out

German cash and bond holders were wiped out

Farmers became the very wealthy

Landlords suffered under rent controls

Foreign cash and bondholders did well

1 OZ of gold could have bought a city block

Disclosure, I am in the inflation camp since that is the best option for central banks. To avoid deflation they will create inflation. The rise in the stock market is inflationary though nobody seems to realize it. The question is: high inflation or the psychological hyperinflation?
Joe | November 9, 2009 at 5:11 pm |

@MEP

Your exactly right on the food issue. Someone just argued w/ me that the problem is from an over-abundance of food | which is false on so many levels. The processed foods are cheaper and obviously worse for a person like how highly processed white bread is less expensive than wheat bread.
BondiBhoy | November 9, 2009 at 5:20 pm |

@frances

Not against the McDonald-worshippers stuffing their faces. Heck I’m partial to late night greasy offerings myself from time to time. I’m just not buying the argument that the ‘poor’ have no alternative, particularly when a lot of junk food is rather dear.

@Mep

I imagine that in the States you have cut price food stores as we do in Oz where it is possible to buy both fresh food, as well as more bulk items. The likes of Aldi are generally within poorer areas too. I agree with you on items like fish. I too would regard fish as a bit of a luxury even with my average income and having easy access to it. And i’m not talking about pineapples, saffron & peppers, just good old bags of potatos, tomatos, apples etc which are still way cheaper in weight terms & healthier than the packs of frozen pies, chips and what have ya that I see people flinging into their shopping trolleys. Even in the mass media these days (certainly from what I’ve seen in the UK & Oz) there is a growing tendancy to market cheaper, fresh food that is not time-consuming to prepare towards lower income families.
Tofu Charlie | November 9, 2009 at 5:40 pm |

Taliban – a phanton enemy?

http://mondediplo.com/2009/11/02pakistan
Phil | November 9, 2009 at 5:40 pm |

Nov. 2 – Russia Today on the Ukraine …

Not Swine Flu , but something worse it seems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF3EzY7TVkk

A lot of buzz as to why the MSM is not mentioning it.
Joe | November 9, 2009 at 5:47 pm |

Good article

“Free Market” Capitalism Gets Thumbs Down in 27 Countries, Including US « naked capitalism http://bit.ly/1l3Qd1
marietta | November 9, 2009 at 5:53 pm |

different kind of real estate crash:
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/11/different-kind-of-real-estate-crash.html
Justget Itright | November 9, 2009 at 5:55 pm |

The Mayans read right to left, Therefore we have more
time to live ya’ll. Right? It’s not 2012, let’s just get it right.
2102 is the rapture …. Ha!
marietta | November 9, 2009 at 5:56 pm |

60 deaths is a tragedy but it seems very low when compared to a total of 200,000 cases
marietta | November 9, 2009 at 5:59 pm |

regular seasonal flu has mortality rate of 0.1%
Joe | November 9, 2009 at 6:03 pm |

who else feels as though ‘free-market’ capitalism isn’t a viable system and nationalization of banks and others would be better for the public? She seems to not like the libertarian view of things, seeing it as an exploitation of workers. I think she’s naive.
Justget Itright | November 9, 2009 at 6:15 pm |

This evening on local news, they commented
on swine flu tests not being accurate. Said,
“even if the test comes back negative, you may
actually have the swine flu”

Any info from ya’ll about the accuracy of the HINY
flu test?
white hunter | November 9, 2009 at 6:39 pm |

let he who is without sin, cast the first doughtnut.
Palantíri | November 9, 2009 at 7:26 pm |

University of Woolloomooloo – Bruces’ Philosophers Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE7Fe1cGLPk

*sing along*

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable,
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy begger
Who could think you under the table.

David Hume could out-consume,
Schopenhauer and Hegel.
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

There’s nothing Nietzche couldn’t teach ya
‘Bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates himself was permanently pissed.

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say could stick it away,
Half a crate of whiskey everyday.

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram.
And René DesCartes was a drunken fart
“I drink, therefore I am.”

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he’s pissed.

*dam di dam*
Bonn | November 9, 2009 at 7:51 pm |

ROLDFL
I really thought that people cared about other people ROFL PMSL i believed tis till 33 what a stupid ass i was LOL
Scott from Oregon | November 9, 2009 at 7:52 pm |

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), who was the sponsor of an amendment that would have allowed individual states to create a single-payer system – essentially a Medicare-for-all bill – voted against the legislation. Kucinich’s amendment was stripped from the House bill at the request of the Obama administration when it wasunveiled more than a week ago.

http://www.truthout.org/1108091

Well we can’t have the federal government nixed out of control, can we?
Bonn | November 9, 2009 at 7:54 pm |

Oh i got creative Roll on the Dance floor laughing
RODFL
Bonn | November 9, 2009 at 7:56 pm |

Hey maybe thats why the bugger came up with the name Roodolf well he may have had a stutter RODFL PMSL
Bonn | November 9, 2009 at 8:24 pm |

@ Stacey
you know why we guys love Max ?
Because he gets straight to the point. RODFL
Otherwise most people who use english try and Describe the event with lotta superlatives which just irratates in the genrel. Max calls a Spades a Spades.
Go On Max if there is a NWO i want u to run it RODFL just kidding
WL | November 9, 2009 at 9:20 pm |

The Sound of One Hand Clapping – What Deflationists May Be Missing

Friday, October 9, 2009, 6:19 am, by cmartenson

http://www.chrismartenson.com/blog/sound-one-hand-clapping-what-deflationists-may-be-missing/29151
WL | November 9, 2009 at 9:27 pm |

45-Minute Crash Course Seminar
Summer 2009, Boulder, Colorado

http://www.chrismartenson.com/page/crash-course-one-year-anniversary
marietta | November 9, 2009 at 9:57 pm |

Inquiring minds want to know “is Max Keiser a UFO?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK-Kv4tFzXM&feature=PlayList&p=75B04220C9B7651D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=39
Airin | November 9, 2009 at 10:06 pm |

Looks to me like its actually being defended around the 75 mark. I wouldnt’ be suprised at all if it bounced back up to 80. But nothing is making sense. The market keeps on going up, Dollar carry trade yadayada, Its still got 2 years left. Who knows. Get a farm.
Gerry | November 9, 2009 at 10:34 pm |

‘… Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years …’

IT LOST A WORLD CUP!
Mep | November 9, 2009 at 10:39 pm |

Rachel Maddow revealed tonight that the Stupak-Pitts abortion ban amendment is a product of “The Family.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/

Anyone who lives in the US should take the time to learn about The Family/The Fellowship. It is a 70-old-fundamentalist-religious group that likes to call itself “The Christian Mafia.”

Rachel Maddow is one of few journalists who has reported on C-Street and The Family, but all prior reporting of hers centered on the group being a right-wing fundamentalist group. This seems to be mostly because up until this point, all Family members involved in sex scandals (Mark Foley [gay sex w/ congressional pages], Mark Sanford [hiking the Appalachian-trail adulterer], John Ensign [had an affair with a staffer and had his parents pay off her husband & children while also getting her husband a job as a corporate lobbyist & allowing him to lobby Ensign's office], and David Vitter [prostitution/D.C. Madam scandal]) have been Republicans; the reason that the Family really became visible is because of these scandals.

Doug Coe, the group’s preacher, has openly lauded the likes of Hitler, Stalin, and even Osama bin Laden. These people are all about power and control, and believe very deeply in biblical capitalism. (Which helps explain why all members are against health care reform.) The group was founded on the belief that Christianity went all wrong because of the strong focus on the poor and the downtrodden. They’re Calvinistic in the sense that they believe that the wealthy and the powerful are chosen by God. But they’re scary in the sense that they are well-funded; part of an international ring; they spread their dogma across the globe; they have a track-record of supporting dictators; they operate in complete secrecy; they are misogynists; and they believe in Christian world control.

The C-Street home that “The Family” lives in is on the books as being a church, and it is owned by the group Youth With A Mission . . . the group behind the propaganda film “The Path to 9/11″:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/discover-the-secret-right_b_29015.html

More on the Family/The Fellowship/C-Street here, here, here, here, and here.
Pez | November 9, 2009 at 11:25 pm |

“If you prick us, do we not bleed jelly?”
Max Power | November 9, 2009 at 11:42 pm |

The USD index does not include any Asian (save the Yen, that since the 1990s has been misleading) or Southern Hemisphere currencies.

The bucket used to derive it is rather dated, and lacks the AUD / SGD — two important FOREX currencies.

IT is a better basket than nothing, but the basket should have at least 10 currencies it in.

This 1998 solution has not taken full hold yet :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Weighted_US_dollar_Index

Except for the massive distortion caused by the somewhat fixed Yuan of China, the Trade index is otherwise less misleading.
Scott from Oregon | November 10, 2009 at 12:12 am |

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704402404574525570583604860.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Hey, some Fed guy says not to peek too closely or it will cause inflation…
presence | November 10, 2009 at 12:17 am |

@WL

not only that but we are moving to a post-institutional society, the power is made in the realm of communication now, mainstream media atm, and when that loses all credibility, new media and mass self-communication through web -based techs. true hyperrealism. jon stewart is the most trust newsperson in america. but its fake news, its news satire, its a critique of the news. but this is where power is made, and so it is the real news now. baudrillard always said that hyper-reality was imperceptible but its reaches in these end stages make it too visible to contemplate. without hyper-reality we are all dead. this is the nature of man, and progress, and so all we can do is hedge zero in preparation.

transformative times indeed
frances snoot | November 10, 2009 at 5:42 am |

“In fact, “The Path to 9/11″ is produced and promoted by a well-honed propaganda operation consisting of a network of little-known right-wingers working from within Hollywood to counter its supposedly liberal bias. This is the network within the ABC network. Its godfather is far right activist David Horowitz, who has worked for more than a decade to establish a right-wing presence in Hollywood and to discredit mainstream film and TV production. On this project, he is working with a secretive evangelical religious right group founded by The Path to 9/11′s director David Cunningham that proclaims its goal to “transform Hollywood” in line with its messianic vision.”

@Mep:
Supposed liberal bias?

Don’t you think the article is a tad high in hyperbole? Both the liberals and the conservative forces enjoy ‘distorting history’. Any retelling of an event is a subjective distortion sure to forward the interests of the tale-teller irregardless of ‘messianic visions’.
Bill Stewart | November 10, 2009 at 8:42 pm |

According to Steven Long of ABC Lateline (AU) :

…. The Australian Dollar has had the greatest appreciation against the USD of all (major) currencies…

This is as of last Friday AEST, when he said it.