Despite the global ponzi-fiat-debt-scheme imploding, I hope you’re Friday night is a good one wherever you are. What are you doing? Outdoors? Indoors? Football/soccer? Movies? Friends? Family? TV? Warm? Cold? Sunny? Rainy? I’m going out for a Greek dinner and then an Italian ice cream in the pleasant and sunny evening here in Paris! The local Italian ice cream just raised their prices by 15% (in euros) this week, however, so glad I don’t hold many euros!
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Q&A from Australia on European financial crisis. The answer is “Bailout.”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/05/20/2905304.htm
FreeMarkets – When my painting is finished I’ll post a pic of it on flickr and link to it here. Hopefully be the end of next week, but you never know with me and my crazy family – anything could happen . ‘pyramid symbol’ I tend to use diagonals a lot but you are giving me ideas for another one there I must say.
@Flicks – I would be interested in buying a copy of your painting. I could tell you a story of bankers which is almost beyond belief.
I think you should find a very large market for this painting as there are plenty of normal people who have been had over by these thieves.
Without giving to much away does your painting have the bankers pyramid symbol in it! This symbol is noticable in all the corporations that this group of shis!ers operate
Hmm.
Gold in dollar: record high.
Gold in euro: sideways.
Why?
I think Stacy was asking you all some questions.
Anyway, I’m in Japan and I’m going to go out in the most expensive city in the world and grab dinner which I will probably spend anywhere from 3 – 5K JPY and not get very filled. I’ll also grab a couple import beers for around 1K JPY.
Who was saying there’s deflation in Japan again??? Where is it, I’m looking for it….
People worry about Greece and Spain when California a much larger economy than either is on the brink;
Arnella Sims has seen a lot in her 34 years as a Los Angeles County court reporter, but nothing like this.
Case files piling up by the thousands, phones ringing off the hook, forced midweek courthouse closings and occasional brawls as frustrated citizens queue for hours to pay parking fines.
“People think we’re becoming a Third World country,” said Ms. Sims, 55. “They don’t understand.”
It’s a story that’s being repeated all across California – and throughout the United States – as cash-strapped state and local governments grapple with collapsed tax revenues and swelling budget gaps. Mass layoffs, slashed health and welfare services, closed parks, crumbling superhighways and ever-larger public school class sizes are all part of the new normal.
California’s fiscal hole is now so large that the state would have to liberate 168,000 prison inmates and permanently shutter 240 university and community college campuses to balance its budget in the fiscal year that begins July 1.
Think of California as Greece on the Pacific: bankrupt and desperately needing a bailout.
Eat Greek food all the time – I’m half Greek, also make curries being as turmeric is very good for you – like the taste and use greek yogurt with it . Last night it was warm in the UK but not hot and I worked on my painting called : ‘Fucked over by a fucking banker’ which will be dedicated to anyone and everyone who has been fucked over by a fucking banker.
Stacy – go for the non-fat yogurt instead. Ice cream is loaded with fat. Yogurt tastes the same. Now to ruin your dinner ==> CEO Salary Watch ==> Behold!
http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch/paywatch/
Yeah, ruined my day too, but the wife is cookin’ something that smells tasty!
Let the good times roll. How about Santana live at Woodstock?
Santana – Soul Sacrifice (Woodstock 1969) Incredible drum solo by 20 yr old Micheal Shrieve!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLDalZ4-53g
@youri. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5i4-rWh44
@Youri. in my first band we did dock of the bay. cool you know it. hahaha. also did norweigen wood.
From another Time and planet when looks and hair mattered LOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFe4BMgcSd0
(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nA18g_PwG0
Animals Please Don’t let me be Misunderstood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2FT4FprxDg
My favorite: We Gotta Get out of This Place http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUpED0f778
@ronron
Yeah, ahah Looks from another planet now. Little guy singing like a little girl about big girls….very suspicious ahahaah!
The harmony singing holds a quality in itself tough.
This has bin number one for many years in those years: The Animals – House of the Rising Sun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmdPQp6Jcdk
top of the line. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alhjd8ILjlA&feature=PlayList&p=C6EDB5760CF84012&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=13
Bout Gold ralley
Dennis Gartman Says Euro a Completely Doomed Currency http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCe3OePooNw
this did happen. hahaha. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN1f2y8wbx4
@ fransix, from what I’ve read for a while now. The big war doesn’t start till around july 1st. So you have two weeks or there abouts to eat your salmon.
I hope all the information I’ve heard is wrong. ONly crazy people start keeling one another.
The question is. Is goldman sachs gonna start ww3 anytime soon with having thier mercenary military force the state of israel to attack iran. In which the state of the usa owned and controlled by the elites to follow suit against other countrys.
I only hope I don’t get stranded in the next few days, as I am on the road and the company where I work was given strike notice. The cosnwervative Labour Minister had threatened to table back to work legislation which could trigger a national strike of all labour unions in Canada during the G20. As far as I gather, the note has already been rescinded.
I am having Salmon here, thinking we are on the cusp of ‘nirp’ – negative interest rate policy, as there is another meeting at the fed regarding the Discount Rate.
I am also thinking that the Yuan peg may be weighing adversely on short term interest rates, and that a Yen meltup is in the cards.
That’s it as the iPhone is cantankerous to work with.
-F6
@Febo
TnX Rickards is always full of good stuff!
I don’t think we are given “overt salvation by the establishment”. It is more that there are a lot of people waking up on gold and we’ve read that there are a lot more investors taking part in it. Gold is a relatively small market so can be manipulated easily on the other hand if there are more parties jumping in it gets more difficult.
More and more advisors are advising their clients to take at least 10% in gold from their total portofolio. Hedge funds and even pension funds got in. Soros got in etc…
Stacy, Max, Max, Stacey, please ramp this:
We need to get the facts about monetary reform into everyone’s faces – by ending the banks’ free lunch of being allowed to create the money supply we could gain billions for the public and have more transparancy. I believe the argument is so compelling that it cannot be ignored. Look at North Dakota etc.
Me, I did Italian then theatre, Shakespeare’s 12th Night with family. The guy who paid for it all has a boat. I’m sitting here wondering how to word an email so that he at least thinks about turning his pension, savings, assets into (at least) 30% PM kitting his boat out for carrying cargo. Personally, I like the idea of olive oil, sun-dried tomatoes and wine from the Iberian peninsula to North West Scotland, Iceland and Norway. By the way, if anybody’s interested, I’m looking to set up various trading colonies / Pirate Utopias up and down the west coast of Europe/Scandinavia.
See you at the barricades (or the harbour)
love
les
China 1 Month Interbank Rate At Multi Year Highs, More Than Doubles In One Month http://www.zerohedge.com/article/china-1-month-interbank-rate-multi-year-highs-more-doubles-one-month
I reckon this may be behind the new gold spike
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2010/6/15_Jim_Rickards_-_Discovers_IMF_Document.html
Are we being offered covert salvation by the establishment – the few left with some savings, brains and an opinion – a liferaft?
Chossudovsky: “Major currencies can simply collapse” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mUSY81rgos
Sorted
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10349212.stm
@ Stacy—dont count the Euro out yet, the USA and the UK want to see the only real competitor to a world currency taken out, Im not sure that they will succeed once the EU breakaway from the US$ hegemony is completed.
The Brit national food is now Indian curry—and a poor one at that
Regulators close Seattle bank, total now 82 11 June 2010, Washington (Reuters) http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65B04U20100612?type=domesticNews
Also see FDIC Bank Failure list: http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html
@norcalkid – I once saw one or two thousand chicks in stacked boxes. So much tweeting! And more than a few beaks and fuzzy yellow wings sticking out of holes in the boxes.
I will be working in the garden this weekend; there are still vegetable plants that need setting out before the solstice. I have some nice looking tomato plants already, and I need to harvest the garlic.
Weather- on the cool-ish side for mid-June, but we had lots of late rain this spring. Sunny, highs in the low 80s F and lows around 50 F.
If I get time, I might try out an inflatable kayak on the lake.
@Youri
RE: Fake Businessmen
Ever wonder if that is all that wankers like Tony Hayward really do?
No gold, but just bought three more chicks (as in baby chickens). At least I will have eggs. Omelets at NorCalKid’s place!
Bob Chapman on Discount Gold and Silver Trading 16 june 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NebsY3f-hY
I fully agree with Bob. Every bodie’s waiting for a false flag attack and Celente has been predicting it also but the Guld spill is it!
Main reason is to get the Cap and Trade (which the sneakely gave an other name now) trough.
But the Illuminati never do somthing only for one beneficial reason.
Other beneifit is that this is a big distraction from the economy and the run up for WWIII.
At the same time sea live is killed and will make sea food very expensive and kill many jobs.
@Snoot. i’m still in big trouble. i remember when bogdan puchinic was in big trouble.
yo Snoot. hahaha. cool
COT Weekly Data Discloses Biggest Euro Short Covering Episode In History http://www.zerohedge.com/article/cot-weekly-data-discloses-biggest-euro-short-covering-episode-history
- Two Jupiler
- Carpacio and Parma ham with olives and some artichoke leaves
- Crab soup with hand made crab ravioli
- French Cabernet Sauvignon.(deep red and smooth)
- Grilled Gamba salad
- Cappucino, Remi martin and Almond icecream
- Slighly therapeutic converstation and a lovely waitress
I didn’t see the sign.
Well, get yur head outta yur ass.
Where am I? You didn’t indicate what town this was when I got pulled over.
It’s Snootville. That’s S-N-O-T-V-I-E-W, way we say it round hair. Gotcyur license?
Yessir. My name’s Jim. That J-I-M. Pronounced Jim, not Ji-im. Keep the vowel short, please.
I’ll call yur Jiminy Cricket if’n I wanna. Hmmm. Yur furin. Whatcha doin’ drivin’ so lickety-split fur?
I’m lost, sir. I got off an aeroplane, but I was back at the same destination as when I took off. It seems I’ve got Alabama on the brain. Is there anything ‘real’ about this place?
This hair place is just-ass good ass airyotha. Y’all gotta sattle down and learn to tawlk like-we’uns do round hair. Ain’t noth-ung wrong bout Alabamee. But yur pushin’ the peddle down to Floridee. Aintcha got no sense?
Good Lord! Florida! The land of BP and Baptists?
Now that last leetle sass gonna costya, Ji-im. I’m the head deecum down’ta the church. I’m sayin’ y’all gonna have to cum in fur a bit and answur sum quest-shuns.
No! NOT AGAIN! SNOOT! SNOOT!
Nope, that’dabee Snootville, Ji-im. Iffn’ y’all just wanna mosey over to my veehickal, w’ell see ’bout “reality”.
STACY! MAX! SNOOT!
Y’all seem a mite touched-in-the-head, Ji-im. Might-be the mental be the best place for y’all. Yep. Reckon so. They’z holp y’all not to go’an call fur people that ain’t. Y’all see ‘real’ right soon enuff, Jim. It’s a big heaped plate-special round hair!
as Snoot knows. if you have hot itchy nuts and apply a ten ounce bar of silver to said area. instant relief. who says PM’s don’t pay dividends?
Speaking of metals
Report forecasts shortages of 14 critical mineral raw materials
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/752&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
“The expert group considers that 14 raw mineral materials are critical for the European Union: Antimony, Beryllium, Cobalt, Fluorspar, Gallium, Germanium, Graphite, Indium, Magnesium, Niobium, PGMs (Platinum Group Metals), Rare earths, Tantalum and Tungsten. Forecasts indicate that demand might more than triple for a series of critical raw materials by 2030 compared with the 2006 level.”
“Many emerging economies are pursuing industrial development strategies by means of trade, taxation and investment instruments aimed at reserving their resource base for their exclusive use.”
Well that’s got to change…The cunning part of it all is that EU through WTO will force the resource producing countries to limit their right to impose export taxes or other measures on commodity exports.
One way or the other EU will have it their way and it goes to show that WTO is just another tool for controlling nations. Free trade . . . hah! more like chisel trade.
Saw Dark City (1998) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118929/ yesterday. Was very impressed with the move a mix of SF, MKUltra memory wiping and planting and The Truman Show with Jim Carrey.
I slept in when I should have watered some of my plants, so I watered them oh so carefully in full sun, and now I’m having a strange but tasty breakfast of various things I foraged from my kitchen
okay maybe not that big a smile.
Barack H Obama Born in Kenya The REAL Birth Certificate at last?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSiz49IWJH0
2008 Chief Elections Clerk in Honolulu Says Obama Not Born in Hawaii, No Long-Form Exist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AV4YxiD7Jo
Hawaii elections clerk: Obama not born here
Official who oversaw ballots in 2008 race says hospital birth certificate non-existent
Posted: June 10, 2010
By Joe Kovacs
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
A college instructor who worked as senior elections clerk for the city and county of Honolulu in 2008 is making the stunning claim Barack Obama was definitely not born in Hawaii as the White House maintains, and that a long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate for Obama does not even exist in the Aloha State.
Tim Adams, a former senior elections clerk for Honolulu, now teaches English at Western Kentucky University.
“There is no birth certificate,” said Tim Adams, a graduate assistant who teaches English at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Ky. “It’s like an open secret. There isn’t one. Everyone in the government there knows this.”
Adams, who says he’s a Hillary Clinton supporter who ended up voting for John McCain when Clinton lost the Democratic nomination to Obama, told WND, “I managed the absentee-ballot office. It was my job to verify the voters’ identity.”
He says during the 2008 campaign when the issue of Obama’s constitutional eligibility first arose, the elections office was inundated with requests to verify the birthplace of the U.S. senator from Illinois.
The hottest book in America is the one that exposes the real Obama and all his men (and women)! Get your autographed copy only from WND!
“I had direct access to the Social Security database, the national crime computer, state driver’s license information, international passport information, basically just about anything you can imagine to get someone’s identity,” Adams explained. “I could look up what bank your home mortgage was in. I was informed by my boss that we did not have a birth record [for Obama].”
At the time, there were conflicting reports that Obama had been born at the Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, as well as the Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children across town. So Adams says his office checked with both facilities.
“They told us, ‘We don’t have a birth certificate for him,’” he said. “They told my supervisor, either by phone or by e-mail, neither one has a document that a doctor signed off on saying they were present at this man’s birth.”
To date, no Hawaiian hospital has provided documented confirmation that Obama was born at its facility…
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=165041
Hi Max,
Thank you for all your hard work bringing the world’s scandals to my desktop. I enjoy listening to you and Stacy every day.
I live in St. Joseph MO, a far cry from Paris to be sure. We don’t have a French or a Greek restaurant in this backwater town, so if we want to have a good meal I prepare it myself or we head to Kansas City.
What will I do this weekend? Our 8-month old granddaughter will be spending the night Saturday, and I’ll be watching the US Open golf tournament. If I have the energy I’ll be working on my ’65 Caprice, then hope I have enough money to fill the tank. This auto takes 110 octane fuel, which runs me $6/gallon, shades of what’s to come with regular gas!
Thanks again for the fearless reporting, and watch your back my man!
God moves in mysterious ways …..
Latest Assault on Goldman Sachs: Bed Bugs? http://abcnews.go.com/Business/goldman-sachs-sprays-jersey-city-office-bed-bugs/story?id=10917635
Chinese Companies Are Paying White Males To Pose As Fake Businessmen http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/rent-a-white-guy/8119/
Sounds like a trip to Rue Mouffetard, n’est-ce pas? We had greek for dinner at home, sans gelato.
China’s economy shows signs of slowing, says World Bank http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/7836993/Chinas-economy-shows-signs-of-slowing-says-World-Bank.html
BP Oil Spill: Against Gov. Jindal’s Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spill-gov-bobby-jindals-wishes-crude/story?id=10946379&page=2
Two days ago sold most mining stocks to see that they are up an average 8% today so missing out on over 4000 Euro in two days..
For the rest working hard to restore equilibrium at home after my OSX server broke down. This was after my laptop broke down. Guess there must be a lot of solar storms or are they testing HAARP?
@ Stacey
My wife and I had a fantastic braised lamb at a restaurant near Piccadilly Circus a couple of years back (I can’t recall the name, but maybe later I’ll have a run at google maps and see if I can locate it for you). The mint jelly was more of a ‘coulis’, and DAMN was it fine.
I know this is probably moot, but: Don’t order Pasta in Paris. Or Lapin (pronounced ‘Lah-pihn’, not ‘La-peen’, as I was mortified to discover). Could have just been the place, or my atrocious French, but what was delivered to our table was positively ‘Au gauche’!
@Stacy,….I’m moving to France !
It’s impossible to move in London, without knowing who and when, England are playing,..sooooooo annoying ! ; )
Speaking of food, Huffingtonpost has a link to something called the Titanic Food Awards for nations with worst food in the world, UK tops it, followed by US, China, Russia, Germany, Australia, Ireland, Phillipines and The Netherlands: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-lansky/the-9-countries-with-the_b_617386.html
Brits care to defend your national food?
EU leaders agree to publish stress test results, among other initiatives http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=bff17001-2f0f-4778-97e2-ea60c1951c66
@Pez – good god, 100 euros for a lamb dinner? I think you’d get a whole lambs for that! the agneau at the most excellent greek place near our apartment is 12 euros . . . but you can find it for maybe at most for 25 euros
@Paul – oooh, is hotplate similar to hotpot? . . . I worked on a script for a Chinese film company about hotpot . . . very fascinating . . . was yours hot? and what are you doing in Shenzen? how are things looking from inside China?
@Majestic – yeah, going to enjoy the Greek; sorry you have your winter, we had a mild one until it wasn’t . . . ha ha, very late (March arrival) cold winter that still has me on edge
@naomi – re: wet, cold summer, see above; why are you selling? new job? want to rent? Washington always looks so beautiful to me, never been though
@Dedo – is Algeria playing tonight? or are you just going to paint your face in their colors?
Russia to Help Spur New Economic Order, Medvedev http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aZrlKSRbkcRk
Played some tennis with some friends. Ate at a hotpot place in Tsim Sha Tsui. Tomorrow I am heading towards Shenzhen to report for work. Just checked the current gold and silver prices and i’m thinking that the loss of 200 HKD playing cards with my bestfriend’s in-laws wasn’t so bad afterall.
I’m going into the City,…and paint my face with the Algerian colors,..see if I can cause some chaos !,….; )
BP considering debt financing options – sources http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-49404820100618
@All,
Somebody posted a link here to a story called “49 Amazing facts about the economic collapse”…or something like that.
I like the article, but I lost the link. Could anybody repost it for me?
Thanks!
Embattled BP asks 7 banks for $1 billion each – bankers http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLDE65H1G420100618
My pet dog of 16 years (got him when I was nine) died so I’m gonna have a jar in his memory. Heading to the buddies gaff for beer and cheering on Algeria!
I’ve noticed a big deflation in beer alcohol here; cheap as chips.
The local Italian ice cream just raised their prices by 15%
Inflation in fiat
Deflation in Gold
Same here, virtually all prices creeping up (We have a strong fiat)
Yessssss!!!! Gold Always believe in …. Gold, Your indestructible, GOLD!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntG50eXbBtc
Bring The Fuckin Gold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qO66Rmi1Mw
who cares about GOLD
JOSE SARAMAGO is Dead
“The real power is economic, it is meaningless to talk of democracy”
Jose Saramago
“Political news are nothing more than statements. It’s like the football world, presidents slander, intrigue, protest, but who governs the country? International finance.”
Jose Saramago
Companies are apathetic and even the evidence of the facts do not stop them or moves them. If there is no resistance societies can be lead anywhere by the companies. Civil society, so aclaimed, and applauded by politicians is the most manipulated and beyond is the case of multinationals undermining democracies. In a democracy the citizen can choose, I do not know of multinationals that are standing for election althoug they have the real powerl. It’s a comedy of deception.
Jose Saramago
Tonight rainy and overcast in Olympia WA. Very wet summer. Summer hasn’t even shown it’s face yet.
Roast chicken, curry Quinoa piliaf with apples, french green beans with tarragon.
The rest of the weekend is finishing the projects to put the house on the market. 3000 square feet on 7 acres with access to Totten Inlet……gorgeous rainforest surrounding it. Birds, deer, rocky racoons and other furry friends. A steal folks.
Best regards to all and stop by for coffee. If you get here early, you can have some chicken.
I’m going to shave off a few grams of a gold coin and go on a fishing trip!
methane. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill;_ylt=Ao9IH5BvU4goKm0ZQOsngTqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNoOTB0azQ3BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNjE4L3VzX2d1bGZfb2lsX3NwaWxsBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMgRwb3MDNwRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDZ3VsZm9pbGZ1bGxv
http://www.finviz.com/forex.ashx
What’s a lamb dinner go for in Paris? 100 Euros? If it was in Paris you were probably skewered.
@ Stacy
Greek food sounds nice.
Cold and wet down here in the southern hemisphere. I simmered a 5-hour bolognese for my own dinner tonight (was yum!) so good simple but heartwarming fare was on the menu for moi.
But now that my insomnia is losing it’s grip on me, I’ll be off to the land of nod. Have a nice evening @all!
@MirrorMirror
Question with the IMF is: Is it real or fake. Everytime gold goes balsistic they panic at the IMF and begin the bogus “we gonna sell gold stories”.
But we’re on to them and don’t give a fuck about what they say anymore and buy gold anyways!
This Website sort of reminds me of “The Restaurant at the end of the Universe” … from Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Everyone has a window seat to watch !
IMF has sold its gold a long time ago. In reality it’s paper gold.
@Marc … IMF selling 35 tons of gold.
The Headline should actually read :
Someone is buying 35 tons from the IMF !
IMF Gold is a joke anyway.
Countries pledge their Gold to the IMF’s trust … so maybe some country is taking it back from them ?
i’m going looking for the fucker that stole my golfclubs.
Where is Mikie ?
Up strongly even if the IMF selling 35 tons of gold.
Scored a bit of an own goal there.
How are France doing, by the way? Fnaaar fnaaar
First?
Tonight: Footy. England. Cider.
First! Speaking of euros, here is Medvedev on possible collapse of euro and on Russia helping to “lead the effort to recast the world economic hierarchy after the global financial crisis“