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Explosions And Gunfire At Iraq Central Bank Leave 15 Dead, 40 Injured
Looks like Iraq has had enough of fiat experimentation. Press TV reports that explosions and gunfire at the Iraqi Central Bank have left 15 dead and more than 40 injured. No reports yet if any copies of Hayek's Road to Serfdom (incidentally, #1 at Amazon.com) have been found at the scene. More from the report: "Those behind the attacks on Sunday
triggered eight explosions and took hostages, prompting a siege at the
bank's whereabouts, AFP reported.
Bank workers comprised most of the casualties, said one defense official.
It is yet to unclear whether the assailants had meant to empty the vault, destroy the building or target the employees.
Late last month, 15 people died during a deadly rampage of a series of jewelry shops in the southwest of the Iraqi capital." Is it time yet for an alligator infested moat to be built as a precaution around the offices at 33 Liberty?
h/t Apocalypse Now
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This will not make the evening news in the US.
Because the media does not want to sensationalize the work of Marla and Sacrilege.
No one got hurt during FightClub the movie operations, except for Bob :(
Stay focused Asshat.
To be considered authetic cast must include
Clint Eastwood
Donald Southerland
Don Rickles
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that moat is a brilliant idea, would give us something to aim for while we defenestrate
+10...
Awww, hell, +20...Any appropriate utilization of the word defenestrate gets extra credit...
And here I thought your +10 just got devalued by 100%! :)
You're both right. Though I think the devaluations will ultimately kill us quicker than the upgrades for great comments will save us. :>)
Ahhh... sharks with lasers in the moat!
Very. Dr. Evil.
SEC attorneys in the moat... Since they are ballast anyway...
Well the US Fed may at the end of the day be blamed for the destruction of Europe and the USA.
I note they are out there again today doing their best to pump the market and take down gold with their bankster mates.
Close the Fed.
Road to Serfdom Readers Digest condensed version free .PDF
http://www.iea.org.uk/files/upld-publication43pdf
CD,
This is a bit worrisome, as I believe Road to Serfdom is the real-live equivalent of Catcher in the Rye, as depicted in the movie Conspiracy Theory. I therefore won't click or order on Amazon.
:-)
I appreciate your caution but I refuse to run and hide. "They" know where I am. I've already been visited a few times. I now keep a can of RAID near the door ready for instant deployment.
Wow. Visited? Did they want you autograph or what?
Bear spray works better if not b.u.l.l.e.t.s.
They are harmless. Until they aren't. I also open carry very publicly at least once a month, which has a tendency to attract flies. But I've been doing that for years. I will say that "activity" has gone way up during the past 6 months. And I've also had "visits" when I wasn't home. What can you do. All is fair in love and war. From my conversations with other activists, this is all just intimidation. Either you are frightened away or you're not. I'm not.
I stick out like a sore thumb in my small community. Some people don't like it when I won't tuck my tail between my legs and skulk away. Most of the people who live around me are government workers or government contractor workers. Many are so frightened they will lose their security clearance they don't make any waves. And I'm considered to be such a big wave maker that they're concerned about their own boats.
I've had people cross the street when I'm out walking while carrying. And some of these are nearby neighbors that I've known for many years. People are very frightened of the government and their own livelihood. Perfect time to be a Fascist.
I guess the neighbors find that nail gun a little off putting. They don't want to trip on the extension cords.
"Oh noes! Here comes mister CD. A tsunami off the leash. I won't make retirement if I play 20 questions. Oh fuck. He's looking at me. For crissakes I have grandchildren; won't he leave me in peace to watch the teevee!"
Adam Neira -- this is for YOU!
Thanks CD... perfect... do you read minds?
If so, please be cautious with mine... what with fears of contagion and all!
Moats in the States?! Nah...
Trust me. Asked my iPad the other day if everything is on the up and up, /shook it... and it told me "It is decidely so."
LOL
Stick around. We are all about to be shaken and stirred.
********WINNER*********
Outfrigginstanding, Cincitucky.
"Outlook not so good"
The ghost of xmas future.
Trying to steal the lead bars Halliburton left in there.
Hmmmm Wonder whats IN the Iraq Central Bank?
Paging Triple Canopy!
This happened years ago in Queens. They ran out of toasters for new accounts and people went ape shit.
Looks like it's time to shrink-wrap some more pallets of 100-dollar bills and airfreight them to Baghdad ASAP. Fedex says no signature required.
Notice: delivery man, help yourself with the tip.
Did they get the printing press?
Ben will send them another one just in case.
Glen Beck touting Hayeck and RTS the other day. His recommendations always get a bump at Amazon.
And if Glen Beck's endorsement isn't validation of the Hayeck's value, what is?
It's incredible that an economic philosopher can become such a rockstar simply by ignoring the material operations of capital over 400 years of history.
When you dispose the Iraqi ruling elite, disband the army and put the entire Iraqi middle class into the poorhouse you have to expect things to get messy. Just ask Rummy and Bremmer. It also doesn't help the US, Israel, Iranians ..etc have executed hundreds of academics and have virtually wiped out every highly educated Scientist and Engineer who stupidly stayed in the country.
So why release news of the minerals found in Afghanistan? What's the end game of that maneuver? The apparently held that info back, the minerals didn't just fall into their laps last night, and now they are making it public...if it's even true.
Maybe it's the next bullet in their gun to knock the gold price, i.e. when gold is running, they announce that of the $1 trillion, $999 billion is gold bullion ready to ship in bar form?
That's hilarious. But when I finished gut-laughing myself I started thinking...
Would I actually be shocked if they announced this or some similar totally incredible, implausible, 'line-of-thinking' about this 'discovery', tomorrow in the news?
Maybe for a minute or two...
heh
i wonder if they'll discover lots and lots of silver too somewhere soon.
nah. not a chance.
It's all politics: the announcement may mollify those who were only now starting to hedge their support for this military occupation.
The 'alCIAda' fairy tale ain't cuttin' the mustard no more.
No Audit, No Peace!
By golly, Hayek is #1 at Amazon. So much for the theory, often touted never verified, that the people are too stoopid t figure out what's going on.....
how many folks will junk me for pointing out that Glen Beck is the cause? 6+ month backlog on the book.
go Glen.
f--- the shills who only know what they've heard *about* him, and refuse to actually consider his simple *message*. ouch, did i hurt your egos, by calling you out, proud all-knowing readers? (hmm... gold, god (any god), honesty, truth, and obama/bush/clinton/bush+ & FDR progressives have been destroying this country - jeez clearly what a loon he is - none of that's happening... in fact, we're in a recovery, etc.). and who out there might want you to shoot the messenger?
clearly a dangerous idiot and influence, esp. if he's succesfully recommending Hayek's propaganda.
heh. sorry folks, feeling testy today.
I won't junk you but believe me, he has no interest or understanding of gold or it's value.
He's a shill for greedy sellers of gold coins at usury level premiums... nothing more, nothing less. Same as his "principles" and all his other paranoid ranting... he's using his followers for the ratings and the money.
Ironically, he IS the "false profit" he accuses the President of being... enjoy it while it lasts... he has a limited shelf life!
SRV,
<rant on>
i'm not sure why i'm bothering. perhaps it's to let others know they're not as alone as they've been led to believe. i'm certainly *not* going to convince you, as you've clearly drank the NYT kool-aid, and are here to propagate the belief GB is somehow tainted and not-cool, so he must be *entirely* wrong, *everything* he says is bung... yeah, yeah, yeah, - same old talking-points and buzzwords (shill, paranoid, false-profit) as the entire move-on machine uses each day, all day. you don't watch GB at all.
in the late 1930s over millions of Germans thought their leadership was on the right track too. sheeple. couldn't happen again, not here... we're a different kind of human now. we don't respond to fear/power that way... clearly superior intellects. ya.
so, with all due respect, *unless* you are a move-on troll, i believe you are *exactly* who i am referencing as the unwitting targets of the perpetual GB smear campaign - and this isn't tin-foil stuff. 'they' want to shut him down. now. they sponsor progressive seminars on how to "stop the GB nightmare". last week. washington DC.
but why? why the death threats on him and his family? is it because he's completely wrong? heh - think about it...
goldline? i don't know much about them - good or bad. they buy and sell gold to people, and i hope they charge a premium (gotta pay for that GB advertising, etc.). so do the folks on e-bay. so should you. free-market. caveat-emptor. what a user-er. wow. bad man. GB *always* says 'do your homework'. he *always* says it... (and i'm sure that's because his lawyers tell him to...)
so, with him as an avid buyer of gold collectable coins (no capital gains, etc.) he's not a *real* enough gold investor for your taste?
was it the AP/NYT/CNN/MSNBC coverage of House Member (D) Weiner's goldline accusation that makes you so sure? did you happen to glance at weinerfacts.com (a GB hosted site, BTW), about the issue? or are you just trolling - little bird droppings to discredit your effective move-on foe?
so he makes a zillion in advertising with a gold company. and your grumble is??? if his audience is so dumb that they're buying Hayek..., why do you care?
don't you like real capitalism (not the US brand)? hmmm
what about the water purifiers he sells - or the food storage company - or select-comfort beds (is a good night's sleep *not* a good investment? :^)
so - let me see... he speaks of god-given liberty (not the government-given kind), he highlights the ongoing crumbling of this country under a series of 'progressive' leaders (we're all equal in every way, except us leaders, ala orwell), he recommends that you insure yourself both monetarily and physically. he promotes a belief in most any 'god' (i'm deist/agnostic), he promotes honesty and integrity, he promotes *peaceful* revolution, he has little faith in our government and/or it's financial management. he's even skeptical about Ron Paul... GB doesn't seem like he's *that* extreme in any way, to me.
sure he's often shrill/quirky/simplistic, and in a few places simply wrong about the economics he describes, but if he's opening the eyes of millions to Hayek, and the Real US founders (vs the revisionist versions), don't you look like a turd for trying to shut him down simply for his gold advertising? what's your *real* agenda?
and you yell at him for selling gold through someone *you* think charges too much? can i therefore assume that you think *nothing* else he believes in is worth a listen? and that *you* believe the US is doing just fine? it's all hunky-dorey?
if so, why do you 'read' ZH at all? that disconnect alone raises interesting questions...
your presence here is no accident - who is paying you?
</rant off>
yeah, i know, my opinions are now worth 40% less for defending Glen Beck. ooooohhhh darn. junk me junk me junk me
baaaah meeehh baaaahhh munch munch munch
Funny close. Salient post.
I will junk you and admit it.
I have studied propaganda and manipulation technique and in technical terms:
Beck is a self serving ass hat busy pushing your buttons for his own profit.
He will be in favor of sex change operations for YOU tomorrow if he can make an additional buck... That is the beginning and end of his motivation...
Facts and hypocrisy never get in the way of his charlatanism...
[edits all over the place]
kudos for signing your junking.
and i'm just sending GB all my cash... nothing better to do with it.
so just look at all of those hollow words... arm-chair critic.
what *exactly* do you disagree with? what does he say that makes him such a charlatan?
back it up... c'mon... just a point or two... or are you just another source of hollow character insults (sex change?, gah)?
either you're a cruddy judge of character, or (more likely) you've never *actually* watched him directly...
or are you just reading snippits from your favorite ideologues? if so, your opinion makes much more sense. wrong, but it makes more sense.
(my propaganda is better than your propaganda... :^)
Hayek's message:
1. Ignore capital's behavior, even when it's kicking you in the face.
2. Blame government, even when government is put in power by capital.
Really complex stuff, that economics in the absence of history.
not bad for 40-ish words... misses some of the more subtle points, but...
sadly, most of us are ignorant of history - economic or otherwise - myself included.
Zbigniew (yeah, that Zbigniew) had go shoot off his loud mouth and wake up a bunch of the sleeping sheeple. (he was suprised by this, apparently thinking that he is subtle in his ways)
No problem, the new meme is already being propagated that Mises, Hayek and the rest of the Austrian school is full of extremist ideas and that folks who study or espouse the ideas of the Austrian school are to be regarded in one or more of the following ways:
1) nutjob, whack-job, insane, _____tard (choose your prefix)
2) living intellectually in a bygone era, incapable of understanding modern economic 'innovation'
3) extremist (weasel-word) which is meant to imply dangerous
I dunno, that was the old tactic. Now it's at the rhetorical mollification stage.
For example, P-Krug picked a fight with dead Austrians today. I suspect that he's too cowardly to argue with the living ones.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/antipathy-to-low-rates/
Here's the response from the Krugman-in-Wonderland blog:
http://krugman-in-wonderland.blogspot.com/2010/06/krugman-fa-hayek-wants...
Extremist is juuuust about synonymous with terrorist, which can get you life without habeas corpus in a dark hole plus "enhanced interrogation" whenever they feel like it. Psychopaths don't have to maim, kill, scatter dead animals anymore - they get to practice on real live people! Exciting!
Is this the version that GM printed up and shucked for 2 bits?
Is it coincidence that Iraq's Central Bank was targeted yesterday?
Not at all.
The Iraqi Dinar is about to revalue anytime as the new parliament meets and chooses the new Prime Minister. The UN Security Council meeting on Iraq's Chapter VII sanctions is scheduled for tomorrow...afternoon. IMF and CBI agreements have been signed, Iraq has been receiving tons of gold ingots & frozen assets from Saddam's era, in addition to IMF loans to back its currency. The CBI has been buying back trillions of dinars in the last few months thus removing liquidity. Iraq will have a strong currency: it's going to happen very soon.
I have invested in a few hundred thousand Iraqi Dinars with what's left after making the car payment with my unemployment check. Should I buy gold or platinum? I'll get land, farm machinery and livestock.
Wow, you bought into the Iraqi dinar scam, huh?
Here's a hint for you: fiat currencies NEVER appreciate in real terms. If the Iraqi government gets a big inflow of frozen funds, they can be counted on to either spend it or disappear it into the hands of countless corrupt bureaucrats.
Leaving aside the general fact that this remark is either obvious nonsense or an unfunny joke: does this attack look like a great advertisement in favour of backing all the currency in circulation with PM sitting under the central bank's vault?
Yep, it looks like we can declare victory there and pull out on schedule this summer. It only took 8 years but democracy finally won out (sarcasm off).
If anybody remembers Viet Nam history... 6 months after our pull out on "face saving" terms, the north invaded again. We just closed our eyes and pretended not to notice.
and after watching our (US) wonderful form of democracy at work...
is it any wonder that the rest of the world seems to want to pull the IV as soon as we leave the room?
what a mess.
Do you mean after Uncle Sam murdered 3 million Vietnamese - mostly in the South - through a policy of chemical warfare and genocidal extermination?
Because they wanted their own government?
It's not clear in your response.
If Iraqi teabaggers can figure out where to point their arms... How come Amerikan teabaggers can't figure out the same thing?
This falls under the same category as "youth is wasted on the wrong people..."
Okay
Where is it going now
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/917980/posts
what did happen to saddams gold
Watch the film "Three Kings".
That will answer all your questions.
LOL watched that with a friend who did a tour in desert storm.