Comments on: Mish: A decade of zero and a massive jump in emergency unemployment compensation

By: The Underfundedmentalist

The Underfundedmentalist — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:18:39 +0000

@schralper
Smedley Butler, a hero for freedom!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml
Prescot Bush, Du pont, goodyear, heintz, General mills, general motors, American Liberty League, hamburg-american airlines,
and other new world types were involved.
This is how forgotten histories become “conspiracy theories’.

By: Dedo

Dedo — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:51:51 +0000

@Schralper,..If you put that together with Eisenhower’s speech, it doesn’t take a lot of working out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY

By: The Underfundedmentalist

The Underfundedmentalist — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:42:06 +0000

@ dan s
‘until Pearl Harbor catalyzed them’
Seems every war the USA has been in was started by some ‘catalyzing event’
the lusitanania
the maine
the gulf of tonkin
pearl harbor
9/11
all specifically designed for their catalyzing properties.
The panic of 1837, a real estate bubble durring the expanse of the railroads created by a flood of bank paper, lead directly to the civil war. I think we are repeating this phase of history.

By: Schralper

Schralper — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:58:57 +0000

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC 1935.
2 time Congressional medal of honor recipient

By: Mr Unemployed

Mr Unemployed — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:55:20 +0000

I suck at HTML

By: Mr Unemployed

Mr Unemployed — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:54:29 +0000

@Stacy

Mish is still on a roll with this new piece:
href=”http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/01/jobs-contract-24th-straight-month.html” Jobs Contract 24th Straight Month; Unemployment Rate Stays At 10.0%

By: Marc Authier

Marc Authier — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:48:03 +0000

@Dedo.
An empire is an empire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8QDMORWWPc

Ludwig Von Misses and imperialism. It’s about the best source I can think about imperialism.

By: Dedo

Dedo — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:15:44 +0000

@Marc,….your reply seems rather skittish,.not unlike someone who feeds on information only to regurgitate it for others to feed on!
I’m sure you mean well,. : )

By: frances snoot

frances snoot — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:06:55 +0000

Money is labour and stuff, what souvereign country in its right mind will hand over all their labour and stuff to a supranational entity?

The point to the G20 system is that the regions called sovereign have ceded rights to the BIS through their central bank cooperation to the currency gyres. The reserves are becoming a proprietorial interest of the IMF banking interests through sdr allotments and voluntary trading vehicles.

Here come the cowbird eggs:
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2009/pol082809a.htm

http://www.sialis.org/cowbirds.htm

By: Daniel S

Daniel S — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:04:39 +0000

Tsar – yes, people describe things differently afterwards, but at the time people were talking about how it’d be over in a few weeks and they’d get to see some of the world. Afterwards they say they went to stop Fascism, save the Jews and fight for freedoms blah blah, but American’s generally thought of that as the Jew’s and Europe’s problem and didn’t want to get involved until Pearl Harbor catalyzed them.

By: Marc Authier

Marc Authier — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:00:50 +0000

@Dedo.

You should read about imperialism. The USA is indeed an imperial power even if it pretends being a republic. The Americains should stop pretending that are different from the russian, from the french or the british or spanish empire. The whole thing was disguised in globalisation mumbo jumbo. But absolutely, it’s an empire in a very sick state indeed. Empires in the long run are anti-economic. Don’t think that the russian, japaneese, european and chineese colonies will indefinitely finance the empire. It didn’t happen for the Romans or the Greek empire. And it won’t neither for the USA. There is always a limit. We are very close to it.

37 million Americans are now using food stamps.

By: Dedo

Dedo — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:47:39 +0000

@Marc,..The people have never become “the” empire, only a few, who realized a long time ago, how to manipulate “Joe Average”,..
go figure!! : )

By: Tsar Caustic

Tsar Caustic — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:43:50 +0000

@Daniel — sorry – meant “WWII” in my previous post not “WWI”

By: Tsar Caustic

Tsar Caustic — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:42:38 +0000

@Daniel — I’m not sure what you’re trying to say there, I’ve never heard a WWI veteran describe things that way, but nevermind.

Here’s a google search for you:

“military recruitment up”

The first page of hits for me is all about how the US military saw record enlistments in 2009 as a direct result of the bad economy.