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Inflation Wins As Tunisian President Ben Ali Flees Country
It was just 10 days ago (before anyone had even heard of food inflation) that Zero Hedge first predicted food riots were just around the corner (before anyone had even heard of Tunisia). Little did we know how quickly things would escalate out of control. Here is one man who is 100% confident he can leave the country before protests over runaway inflation succeed in getting him to face his (very hungry) population (presumably in close proximity to a decapitation device). This is probably the first confirmed case of a corrupt government overthrown as a result of the daily POMO secret CIA weapon. Certainly not the last. Stocks up on the news that some rating agency has downgraded the country to BBB+ (much higher than Greece) due to revolution. POMO: liberating countries from oppressive governments through excess inflationary liquidity since 2011
As reported by Al Jazeera reporter Alan Fisher.
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if only ben would be next
TUNESIA JUST DECLARED MARTIAL LAW!!
PS: GREECE HAS BEEN DOWNGRADED BY FITCH FROM BBB- TO BB+
PREPARE FOR SELLOFF!!
Actually, it's another GREEN SHOOT!
Actually, it's another GREEN SHOOT!
Green shoot... hmmm, sounds like ecologically friendly (biodegradable?) ammunition.
Got Ammo?
.223 is not humane enough to hunt animals with... only humans..
"Everybody just calm the fuck down, I got this shit!" Said Bernanke as he steered the ship right into an iceberg.
An awesome image of him wearing a captain's hat behind a large steering wheel came to mind.
Apparently the coffee I snorted out my nose laughing at the image made the enter key sticky!
Quiz to all ZH members: where the former president reappear -
1.US of A
2.UK
3.France
4.Bangladesh
5.Other countries.
Pentagon for dinner, just like the top 'Al CIAda' terrorist leaders.
@Eally Ucked
I say this fucking motherfucking midget is next seen sitting next to first lady at the next State of the Union address.
Is he sunni or shiite? Definitely NOT Israel!
Guess he's a sunni, he just showed up, with his family, in Saudi Arabia!
Yes, it is all so brutal, Ben Bernanke in charge of it, this evil of genocidal proportions.
A few months ago, I was reading articles on Zero Hedge, suggesting how the US policies would shortly - and partly intentionally - lead to spiking food prices, riots across the developing world, deaths, and governments tottering.
It is unfolding now, quite as the ZH articles anticipated.
Now, a good economic understanding, directly points not only to tragedy but to the clear evidence of great evil.
It quite weighs upon me, seeing it all happen, and feeling the strangeness that the real issues are not adequately in public debate, while people die and so many millions are hurting, from things that could in fact be fixed, if some governments were not so evil.
So many people don't know ... these things like food price rises, are actually well-understood by some economists and governments.
It is only in small part a question of food supply and harvests. It is much more a question of manipulation of money and credit supply ... of which the US government is the principal actor.
It seems the US quite knew - and intended - that the 'quantitative easing', added to other manipulative factors, would result in food prices going higher and millions facing hardship.
To make matters worse on purpose, the US even has absurd laws requiring that US corn production, be diverted to help produce a cheap-grade petrol for vehicles ... thus taking needed food off the market, and boosting food prices by choking supply.
They have several goals, aside from the constant one of bailing out big banks. One is just to make the dollars worth less to benefit US trade. Another is so the oligarch speculators can profit from the food trading price rises.
But beyond that, they want on purpose to make people hungry, for specific reasons. A big objective is to force China and perhaps some other countries, to raise their currencies in value ... China has been refusing to do this, and the US thinks that this devious leverage upon several hundred million poor Chinese, will force the Chinese gov't to do what the US wants, to avoid riots in China.
And then the US generally wants instability in governments, like Tunisia's President departing, as these things, tend to be profitable and favourable for money inflows into the US debt they want to sell ... and also favour the US military expansion and objectives.
And it is shocking to me when I think that, if this kind of thing is clearly outlined on one of the leading web sites read by investors - ZH at millions of hits a month - it must also be clear to the economists at the UN, IMF, World Bank etc ... who generally must understand as well, how it is that the US printing money and inflating the currency - which is what food is priced in, on international markets - how this leads to price rises in food for the world's poor.
The price rises are not a 'mysterious' process ... when the US gov't is inflating, plus developing world governments are also printing money and inflating on top of that ... it is clear what the result is, for the prices of necessities for common people.
Yet people do not know who is making them hungry, and how.
Is this a "Gray Swan?"
This is just the beginning. Just wait till indonesia goes, India won't be far behind, and then you could see China and India have it out.
http://freedomofoceania.blogspot.com/2011/01/inflation-impact-to-world-e...
Wishful small-town unthinking! Tunisia's Ben Ali is the CIA's and uncle sam's favorite dictator in north africa. American and its 52nd state's interests will be severely harmed if Mubarak or the house of saud goes. I think America will probably go into civil war before Indonesia India and China go. And in case you had been to Mars, Indonesia had their dictator kicked out in 1998. India is not ruled by a dictatorship, nor is Indonesia ruled by an american-style oligarchy! India actually has a free press and the first central bank to tighten this time round.
Over under on Presidents that flee their country this year?
6 Presidents?
How much does organizing a presidential election cost?
6 presidents...
Countries that must borrow to organize their elections...
Wont help much, I think.
In the US that figure is now up to 3 trillion
I'll take the over! We're already 1/3rd of the way there and it's only January!
Over
The over/unders are right here, although not that liquid:
http://www.intrade.net/market/listing/showEventGroup.faces?eg=368
Unfortunately no contract was available for the President of Tunisia.
Rule number 1: Cardio
Exactly. Remove their hearts.
is always a crowd favorite. Very fitting for failed tyrants.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eviscerate
OT
There is only one dictionary, and Merriam-Webster is its name.
Rule number 1 is never leave suspects together. This is clearly a violation of rule number 3: never be unreachable.
And don't forget the twinkies.
I certainly hoped they stretched before running him out of the country.
I salute Bernanke as a freedom fighter for using POMO to liberate Tunisians from an oppressive regime.
I heard POMOs are now the device of choice for radicals like Bernanke. +10000
Time magazine's Man-of-the-Year, again?
I am thinking Nobel Peace Prize. How hard can it be?
And yes, with both he and Obama recognized for peace the world over, no one will question the reasons that the most recognized person in the world (Obama) and the most powerful man in the world (Bernake) get together with their friends and launch yet another war. After all, they are peaceful men, so someone must deserve the next invasion.
Uh, what are you referencing when you say Obama is "the most recognized person in the world?"
hmm this country has two problems
...the most recognized person in the world.
... ...and the most powerful person in the world.
Time person of the year 1938- Adolf Hitler
Time person of the year 1939 & 1942- Joseph Stalin
It's not that hard
Bernanke=Army of One
the tunisian situation would have been worse without qe2. the president would have left yesterday without qe2.
Same with Marie Louie Antoinette.
IF (x)
THEN (bifuknDip)
RETURN
Stocks up on the news that some rating agency has downgraded the country to BBB+
Damn, I thought stocks were up on Intel's stella earnings report
stocks are up because today is a day with the letter "a" in it.
+100 LOL
Naah! stocks are up coz my dog is peeing with its right leg up today!
Clear case for me: stocks are up because I have none.
Copy that! Waddya say we crash the market(s) and buy a share of AAPL? :>D
LaRouche writes ..who's eating you?
Got bread? http://larouchepac.com/node/17199
Tunesian president named partner at Goldman Sachs
flag as outstanding (1)
.........and gets added to McCrudden list, bringing new count total to 48.
Welcome to the new normal.
Doesn’t the Bernanke talk constantly about TARGETING inflation? Surely with the new rules being put forth by Congress about labeling those who use inflammatory words like this will finally get the Bernanke the terrorism recognition he so rightly deserves. Since the US doesn’t export goods any longer our government has to rely on exporting inflation. They seem to be pretty adept at this as well.
"....Tunisian President Ben Ali Flees country"
If only it were that easy........
Do you believe in yourself? What would it take to make you move?
[just think; no need to answer in public]
So, just where did he jet off to? Sicily?
Malta. Some outlets speculate France next.
Won't it be a bitch when we discover that Ali "kind of fled" was kind of "overthrown" by the military who doesn't think he has done enough to quell the protests. We'll know soon, no?
Dont worry, the UN (aka the US) will pressure for elections. A bit more debt for that country...
Tunisian President's son-in-law has a mansion in Montreal..."it is good to be the King"
http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110113/mtl_tunisianmon...
Hopefully, the next will be Berlusconi, then Sarkozy, then...
did you see Berlusconi´s new hottie.....I want some
I was watching the news...they closed the airport.....I thought that was wierd......what does and airport have to do with riots in the streets....now I know why...the dude was running away.....
This will spread outward and envelop many other countires before its over.
Or cause countries to step in and quell protests more quickly (and violently)... or both.
Gerald Celente called this several times on Lew Rockwell's Podcast, King World News and Alex Jones. He said we would see "food riots", this is it.
Here comes the 'flation...
Why aren't gold and silver doing better?
Run Ben Run ...
US markets could care less, SPX next stop 1300 by next week
Being hired by Goldman soon
Greece will default around their Easter. I've been predicting this for a long time. Not too sure if it's going to be before or after.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR6oYX1D-0w
Whip Inflation Now
It's gettin', it's gettin', it's gettin' kinda hectic......
and it will soon .. snap.
Is it me or is gold down $30?
No, that's a salami.
Is it me or has platinum moved up from its new support of $1800.
Stop beating off on gold's pullback, Master Baiter. That is something one does in private or on Karl Dennenger's site.
Since it bothers you, I'm pleased with gold's wipeout
You have not read my other post to you then. I care not what gold's price is. Gold is money. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust/Gold will have not a spot of rust!
And by the by, platinum is sofa king awesome!
BTFD!
a 11 dollar drop or rather less than a 1% move is hardly a "wipeout". I am pleased with your stupidity as it assures one less person buying gold.
damn straight, it allows citizens to buy more real stuff with their worthless fiat dollars
Or 20 bucks in 2008 dollars.
Gee, they really are doing God's work, 40 fortnight days and 40 fortnight nights of liquidity rain, and where the new ark is filled, pair by pair, with equities and instruments...
and yet his sons built their ark from gold and the storms washed over it and it was submerged beneatyh the seas forever
Golden ark found thousend of years later.
Guess what,gold still there,can be traded
all over the wold.You really made the best
case for gold tnx goldmiddelfinger.
President flees country, moves to Brasil, and buys stock in Whole Foods. When is the market going to crash anyway? That guy who owns Xe knows. Soon....
One by one, Ben will conquer every country on the map.
Paint it all green, mister Chairman.
To think that a few NYU students on circa-2005 desktop computers could lead such an impressive military campaign!
It will be over as soon as S&P hits 1300 which is "almost there"!
Isn't it amazing how an incredible, masterful, all-powerful, forward thinking, deliberating, and unassailable government turns in an instant into just a bunch of greedy, cowardly idiots rushing pell mell for the exits?
You must be new here?
Yes, by all means he should go directly to France where 10 fellow Muslims will welcome with open arms.
I bet Canada doesn't let him in.
Tunisia is a terrible place. I was there two years ago. Some people I know made the mistake of going into a shop to look at rugs and they locked them in and would not let them out until they bought a rug.(probably exiled banksters) I made the mistake of pointing my camera a Ben Ali's palace. The guards raised their machine guns at me. They just built a new port for cruise ships to stop at. Guess that is over.
Thanks for the word up as we may be in that general area next year. What you describe speaks to the people's hatred of government.
The rug peddlers in the souk are probably in with the deposed govt. and the local thug police and are sweating bullets about now.
I have been in some bad places, I would never go back to Tunisia. They have real hate for Americans
Americans: Ben, Alan, George W, George HW, Timmah, Barack Hussein, Jeb, Nancy, Rahm...
The world hates Americans because they can't and don't do anything about the Government's unchecked power. It's the abuse of power that has allowed the Federal Government to export inflation to other countries, create perpetual war and ransack its citizens and restrict liberty at home and abroad that makes others despise this country.
- Let's thank our "leaders" -
Whatever. They hate us for our FREEDOM!
inflation is the 'little white bunny' in this Monty Python skit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg
run away, run away ...
Good quote on the news...." the people look at this with hope...the leaders of other countries with fear""
This is great news. A dictator just fell.
If there are enough riots at other places, it may result in the world refusing to accept any more dollars. That will be the end of the pump monkeys mischief as the chairman of the fed.
Do you grow weary of the tyranny yet?
Tired of gazing at chemtrail-laced skies?
Frustrated at the corporate governments lead by psychopaths determined to rule all life that is left once they complete the "culling of the herd" now underway?
Withdraw your consent.
http://republicoftheunitedstates.org
Join us?
Liberty and justice for all.
ZH - Connecting the dots. I'm not getting the POMO connection on Bloomberg. Good call on food riots.
The powers that be are doing the most they can to push gold down, before inflation comes back with rage and make their plans fade.
When will the Hang-low Sex-nons grow a spine and start rioting?
This is what you do with worthless cocksuckers that run your country, you run them out of town. See ya biotch.
In India as well there is a run away inflation. Food price inflation is especially a serious issue and is a major reason for governements loosing power. It's especially tough on the 40% of the Indian population who make less than $2 a day. The Fed expansionary policies are making life really tough for the lower classes.........but who (in power) really cares?
Spain and Tunis look very alike.
I said it earlier today! The demonstrations spreading to other nations is a sign of something a lot bigger to come. And there may be big consequences for US investors, despite the complacency
Incredible.
Tyler, your on the right track (IMHO).
http://spookterror.blogspot.com/2011/01/obama-preparing-coup-in-tunisia....
Regime change in the cards. suddenly we have street riots. Imagine that.
What is it they want in this little North African country?
Hmmmm. Well they have oil of course. But they also have rare earth minerals.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/wh8462xpq5627026/
So we have our paid agents get in the street and start some rumbling and then the sheep think its their idea to get rid of their worthless President.
http://maniftunis.tumblr.com/
Case in point. Never, ever think that something you see is real, unless you can prove its real or that you know without a shadow of a doubt its real. These are the days we live in. The same thing could happen here and the sheep might think that what is happening is in their best interest. But be warned and watch and pay attention and keep your eyes and ears open and above all else, do not trust anybody.....
The nation to watch is egypt. Many analyst have stated that Egypt is one riot away from total islamic revolution. If that happens Israel is screwed because Egypt's military is pretty adavanced. Anyway the egyptian people are angry at the "Pharoh" Mubarack and his police state. The Islamic Brotherhood is gaining traction in Egyptian and revolution happen in the nation this would change everything.
Just because the AMERICAN PEOPLE are being SCREWED and led down a PATH to SOCIALISM doesn't mean we can't sit back and relax occasionally, right???
Light a blunt and listen to some Pink Floyd while enjoying the video "SUNSETS ON AMERICA" at (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfJFGQiK3nc) for a little relief and escape from the TYRANNY.
Anonymous-
This ocean view really ties the rug together dude!! Puff..Puff..