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New Year Open Thread
Since readers are likely eager to share their own predictions for 2011, please use the following open thread for that, as well as for anything else that may cross the collective subconscious. Additionally, any suggestions on improving (or deteriorating) the site, as well as all brainstorming, and last but not least threats, are most certainly welcome. Best of luck to all in 2011, especially those who fail in their resolutions to cease feeding the central planning monkeys.
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I would definitely take no pleasure in telling someone "I told you so", especially under such a horrible circumstance as global thermonuclear war.
Of course, the fact that I'm living in North Idaho, and located directly downwind (via jetstream) from Seattle/Bremerton, Portland, and/or the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, this doesn't exactly provide me with much reassurance that either myself, my family or friends would necessarily be safe from fallout isotope contamination.
There are limits to my doom and gloom worldview.
This is an interesting academic exercise, however the reality is almost too terrifying to contemplate.
Excellent post as always JR.
yes, articulate and excellent. Thanks
Arguably, the king of words is "power".
2011 might create broad agreement on that premise, when the oligarchy acts more forcefully ways to protect their divine rights.
A crystal-ball from the Atlas Mountains put the moment "before 2014". Often the c-b is hard to understand...
How can food riot?
Where do banks go on holidays? How long?
What is fiat government? What are pronunciamentos?
What is the sense of holding-tanks and bullpens in our future?
What is copamerica?
Is there a planet called Cinders?
What means cheaplo-yield nooksaplenty?
Why does it call humans exiters?
Can gods have infinite senses of humor?
Predictions? OK, I'll bite...
(1) University researchers will discover cures for cancer, hypertension and every other disease known to man. Previous commitments to publicize "DWTS", "AI", Oprah's latest photo-op and Obama announcements will prevent any word of these discoveries from leaking out, resulting in no net reduction in mortality.
(2) Ben Bernanke will be revealed as a sage, wise economist who WARNED them if they didn't quit spending more tax money than they could possibly collect, he would print money faster than they could spend it to stay ahead. STOP, HOLD IT RIGHT THERE, I REALLY MEAN IT, I'LL PRINT TRILLIONS....OK, YOU ASKED FOR IT, A$$HOLES, NOW YOU'RE IN FOR BUBBLE REINFLATION LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE.....YOU WANT SOME MORE OF THIS? I GOT MORE OF THIS! QE x 10^13 COMING RIGHT UP!
(3) The entire European Economic Community will prove it was descended from lemmings. Germany will hesitate momentarily before jumping, but survive by landing on top of the bodies of the rest of them.
(4) The BRIC countries will prove they have no economists in charge of anything worthwhile either - easy come, easy go, and faster than a speeding bullet.
(5) Mad Max will come to be seen as an optimum practical result.
Happy New Year to all those who enjoy coming here, learning and posting as I do. Great work Tyler, keep your head down. WB7, I may have to learn Photoshop because of you. BK, great to read your posts. All others, keep posting so I can learn even more. Onward!
#5, LOL. This whole mess reminds me of a scene in the movie Waterworld with the old man inside the oil tanker hold, on a tiny dingy afloat on the crude, whose job it is to measure the remaining level of crude. When the main character drops a flare into the hold from above, the old man see's it falling towards him and the explosive cargo. The old man only says "Oh, thank God."
I do love the logo, "On a long enought timeling, the survival rate of everone drops to zero." We made it to 2011 and counting.
I'd be very happy for someone to invent a cure for crazy bad hangovers.
I predict that somehow normal will remain somewhat normal with occasional weird variations
that most people will attempt to ignore.
I predict that it will become apparent the financial meltdown was engineered to destabilize the country to allow easier drafting pics for the military, which will be needed for several questionable land ventures by the military.A draft will be instated.
At some point, the notorious FEMA camps will be being used to house persons, however not much will be being said about this development or the reasons why.
I predict that publicly most people will say things are pretty much ok, but privately they will say things are pretty fucking fucked up.
I side with the hyperinflationary camp.
Welcome to the NAU/SPP, Comrade.
The global elite are now taking active measures to ensure their own survival. All they needed was a pretext. 9/11 served their agenda well.
I believe that even the elite aren't quite sure how their overall plan for world domination will play out. There are simply too many random variables; too many unknown factors.
As Kayman says: Production cannot grow arithmetically, while debt grows exponentially, forever.
The bankers can’t make a system work with the proceeds of a stock market where 50% of the profits are made overseas, and much of the profits are in the financial sector—TBTFs, hedge funds, insurance companies, creditor loans…i.e., a legion of money changers. They take America’s wealth and game it, being careful to take more for themselves than they pay out.
The money monopoly makes this work with the Fed playing its trump care—inflation, i.e., QE (complex theft), taking value from homeowners, working producers, the frugal, consumers and pensioners and foreign governments… and feeding it into the stock market.
The recession IS America; the Wall Street side car is stock gamblers cashing in on large sales of wealth they do not own by making and bending laws and the playing field in connivance with purchased politicians and the Fed.
Instead of the voice of the people in America, we have the voice of predatory wealth—the MarketWatch/ Bloomberg/ WSJ commentators, the bought university economists, the NPRs and CNBCs, the Barney Franks and banker-financed Presidents—who say they speak for America.
In fact, no one speaks for America and the majority of Americans—i.e., those who produce and pay taxes. Another voice explains how we feel--the voice of the Money Power, who, to make money, has to take it from the man who earned it.
America’s standard of living is dive bombing.
What do I predict for 2011: the system begins to shatter; big government can’t pay its bills and when the bankers and their toadies want the citizens to take the hit they’ll be surprised to find a political firestorm sweeping every meadow and farm, right to the street called Wall.
Boy, I stumbled on where all the trolls are hanging out. WSJ news Blog about Gold's 30% gain for the year. No mention of Silver. Almost worth registering to ask if they have enough room in their ass for a printing press.
Ron Paul will become an overnight sensation when Bernanke feigns a massive heart attack while being grilled by Paul in the Monetary Oversight Subcommittee over new documents subpeoned which uncover the true depth of the systemic fraud in the Western Banking System and also proves once and for all the true cost of Bernanke's Prostitution Ring. Bernanke is taken out on a stretcher and Paul is on the cover as Time's Man of the Year.
saynotocorporateamerica.blogspot.com
The Flash Crash has been forgotten?
http://www.protranscript.com/Flash_Crash
Which one?
So I haven't been reading ZH for long yet, but I get the jist of it. This place is a threshold and a home from home where I like to reside and share my thoughts about the world as it REALLY is before its out of our hands to even discuss such prudent matters.
Shit will hit the fan soon, ZH will become increasingly popular (I'm sure), and I subsequently find myself as a young fellow being queried by the elders, and I quote "Gosh, you should really check out this site called zerohedge.com" where they continue to sell it to me for a further 10 minutes, when I put the fuckers out of their sheer excitement and into a state of shock when I finally reply "yeah, that shit's old school!"
ANYWAY..
Just thought I should say a big thank you to ZH for waking me up to this massive lie that society and civilisation is living and unconsciously witnessing! I can't wait for more cockups by financial 'gurus' this year, just for sheer comic value..
Now tell me, is this a bit too cliche to say gold bitchez'?
Fuck alive, ZH, you are my saviour!
H A P P Y N E W Y E A R X O X O X
DR PAUL thanks for the truth
SANTA SINCLAIR forever in debt 2U
0 HEDGE I used 2 have a life, sort of.
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in 2011 natural and unnatural disasters will continue to increase until the west is on its' knees.
Effigies will weep as basic human needs like water are privatized, through the auspices of corporatism and predominantly in 2011 the organization of international monetary fucks.
here's an old sample from Bolivia, on the eve of their sale of water rights to private industry.
http://www.visionsofjesuschrist.com/weeping68.htm
video at bottom of page.
Douchinger bloviates on 'corner-cutting'. He almost gets a few things right on chain of title. However, he forgets that a state is not a State is not a STATE. Neither is a city for that matter, and they all had their treasuries yanked. Surely wonder if he considers FRNs 'good and valuable consideration' in the common law sense.
It is an honor to be banished from the Ticker Forum... so I hear
I gave Karl TWO FULL GOLD DONOR donations and he still BANNED ME HARD.
A simple apology for not understanding the "rules" (not kissing butt). whatever. Much anger in that old man... (he could be my father after all)
Thankfully Zero Hedge allows FULL and FREE speech.
I got banned from Douchenger's forum before it became popular to be banned by him. The guy is a world class cock-abuser.
Anyone notice that he did something to his voice from about a year and a half back? He used to sound all high-pitched and whiny and now he's got this deep-assed Barry White voice, like he's been taking steroids, or maybe he guzzles pint-loads of cum and it gets stuck in his gullet, or something. But his voice definitely changed.
I'm gonna call him up and laugh at him when he's poor.
I am Chumbawamba.
lol! Priceless. Thumbs Up from me.
I think he might be an aspiring politician not yet fully out of the closet.
He never makes much hay about the exorbitant privilige (fractional lending/ thin air funds) and how these proceeds should best be recycled through a functional economy. Metals are poison to him.
What did the palladium chart do in 2010? And S&P? Wouldn't be surprised if he blocks reading only as well. I'm sure he knows how to put in a recognized beningn reader filtration system based on resolved IP address.
Thanks 'someone' for the junk. I'm honored to be off subject on an open thread.
What I like to say is that if your number 707 in this post it doesn't realy matter what you say cause nobody will read it anyways.
Nevertheless Happy New Year Folks! Up to the next crises.
Congratulations, you have reached the end of the new year open thread.
Welcome to 2011. Buy plenty of Au and Ag this year and for God's sake,
never, ever play with weaponized pussy...
IBOVESPA will go down to 1000 points!
MC and a HNY to all zero's. I just want you all to know, that when TSHTF and its TEOTWAWKI, i will be goin down on my sweet little chinese angel , half my age and thrice as pretty ......here in aus things aint so bad that we forget what is important in this world.....good luck to you all . BTW, why dont you elect Tom Waits president?
4chan victim of DDoS as FBI investigates role in PayPal attack
4chan knocked out by ddos attack and also being investigated for role in paypal internet attacks per operation payback.
http://www.betanews.com/article/4chan-victim-of-DDoS-as-FBI-investigates...
somebody may go to jail on this one.
Interesting. Haven't checked the legality of your story. Methinks, its true. Downloading Low Orbit Ion Cannon was stupid mistake.
As stated before, its a flooder program. Anyone who remembers MS chat sites, can recall the host (gold hammer) being hijacked from their forum. All kiddie scripts. SubSeven, Brute-force attack and deepthroat were the BSOD for win 95/98 OS.
FBI should be investigating fraud within the elected US public servants. Computer information can destroy a public servant's career and the FBI agent who is assisting in fraudulent activity. Both work for the taxpayer. If taxpayer can demonstrate government fraud, the taxpayer servant will be fired.
When alphabet soup arrests the culprits, your economy will restore itself. Until then, the taxpayers will blow the whistle. Don't be caught in the corruption cross fire.
Well looks like the goon squad is on the trail. I am afraid someone is going to go to jail on this one. They should not mess with paypal. That is financial internet terrorism, etc. I think they used this operation payback as a kind of honeypot and even if they didn't , it didn't really matter that much. Either way, they get what they want. They get to round ups some script kiddies and of course, in the end, this will send a cold wind across the net, as they in reality want. Any Americans that do this kind of stuff are nuts, especially these days, after the patriot act got passed. Besides anonymous attacks are very difficult at the very least , especially when all the FBI has to do is get a court order and march in and present it to whoever, and they will of course comply to save their own asses.
Those same script kiddies and code monkeys will no doubt be offered highly lucrative employment opportunities with the NSA.
Kind of like Kevin Mitnik, served 4 years solitary confinement, they finally get around to trying him, and he gets probation plus time already served, gets out and gets a job in computer security and now is a consultant.
My prediction for 2011:
American males, also known as Homo Penguinicus, will on average become even heavier during the course of the year, due to their eating worse quality foods thanks to the Fed inducing inflation. Penguinicus' numbers will shrink significantly/birthrate will contract due to a number of factors, including, but not limited to: lack of testosterone, lessened egos, weaker puchasing power, etc.
American women will become more revolting than they already are, and will become bigger whores, bitches, and overall swine.
American children will become weaker bitches over the year, especially white kids. Due to heavy TV-parenting, they will be brainwashed into thinking blacks, mestizoes, asians, etc. are smarter, stronger, better looking, and tougher than themselves. They will end the year being weaker and fatter.
Happy New Year Bitchez. Glad I'm not you!
I am glad too....that you are not.
Hey, we're just putting on weight in preparation for the apocalypse.
Right. Plus, we float better when the ship goes down.
The future belongs to the glossy.
Friggin jealous foreigners are growing tiresome.
Hark! The sound of a tiny sputtering engine. A horrible, brightly colored tiny vehicle slides into view.
Looks like the ZH clown car has rolled into the center ring with 10 week member Tsukato at the wheel.
Let's see how the new kid deals with the tension of the eyes of a thousand strangers staring at his every move.
Wow, that is hate. We're all niggers now!
Cheers!
I am Chumbawamba.
Ah he just got turned down by some chubby American lass with big tits and a weaponized pussy cause he was short, bow legged, buck-teethed and fell kinda short in what my wife calls a man's "rape device."
I'm 29 years old. Married, with 3 kids. I lost a couple jobs during the recession, and now I deliver pizza. I've been doing what I can to prepare, buying silver and food. But I don't know what else to do. I try to read zero hedge everyday, and while i see a lot of talk about what's coming, I don't see as much talk about what we can do/should be doing right now. How bad it will likely be. I don't know what to do to best prepare my children. Could anyone speak on what they are doing now to prepare?
Everyone on here can, and will, offer you advice, including me. But to start, just make sure you do not incur too much debt (if possible), save money, or PM's or whatever you believe is best for you, keep you family together, learn how companies and banks and local govs rip you off, and how to avoid it, and keep reading...but keep a level head about things you read here. I am pretty bad for dumping bullshit in just for the hell of it....it is my nature and is just for fun. But, there are some serious people here with good advice. Good luck, my friend.
First thing: don't waste your time preparing for a catastrophic collapse of society. If there was ever going to be a sudden collapse, it would have happened in Sept/Oct 2008. It didn't. Instead, the growth of our country and any semblance of prosperity will have increasing downward pressure from all the debt hanging over us. It will be a long slog, not a sharp collapse. Countries like Japan have twice our debt to GDP, and they are still slogging it out - no collapse, but no growth either.
Knowing that, don't spend your time digging bunkers in your backyard or joining militia groups. Spend virtually all of your free time educating and interacting with your children, making sure they are raised by you and your wife, not the television. By the age of 18, make sure your children are the smartest, sharpest, shrewdest kids that your time and resources could have produced. One of the great rewards in life is to see your children live a better life and have more opportunities than you. That education will be immeasurably more important as our country "slogs" its way through our problems.
Remember that happiness is not a function of money. Some of the richest people I know are also some of the most miserable and shallow motherfuckers on Earth. But that doesn't discount the importance of money because it does make life easier. Anytime that you spend away from your wife and kids, try to find a way to make more money. Buying gold/silver doesn't matter much if all your paychecks go straight to bills.
Lastly, a little cheesiness about life: The best way to predict the future, is to create it yourself. God will rise the sun for you and set the sun for you - it's up to you to figure out what to do in the middle.
"Remember that happiness is not a function of money. Some of the richest people I know are also some of the most miserable and shallow motherfuckers on Earth."
Right on Bro.....
Tyler’s Third Rule of Innovation:If you’re going to evolve and grow as a creative person, you’re going to make mistakes. In fact, you should start making twice as many mistakes as soon as possible if you want to have an innovative breakthrough.
Make mistakes and let the chips fall where they may. You might like the landing.
Well, Hell Pug. Just when I figure you've completely rocked off the tracks, you come up with something that is really useful and thoughtful.
Thank you.
Now please go back to being an asshat. I can't handle all this nicey nice stuff.
+1 and a free get out of jail card.
Welcome to the new year sluts..I'll save you from the familiar word as in bitchezz! You are nothing but a Bernanke slut, whore, legs spread wide.. waiting for the next big artificial cock to be inserted. HARSH? give me a break, i'm being gentle. Without the big artificial dildo what type of orgasm do you really have?? Ah,Ah,Ah,Ah I think I feel something... You got nothing bitch, you will never get off because it is only a dream. 13.5 TRILLION DOLLARS has brought you to the edge but you will never climax because we know it is not enough. Fact of the matter is it will never be enough. 1.4 quadrillion in sythetic derritive debt...1.8 TRILLION IN MBS JUNK...1.5 TRILLION IN NATIONAL DEBT, 13.8 TRILLION TOTAL NATIONAL DEBT +++ 180 trillion in obligations. HAPPY FUCKING NEW YEAR BITCH!!! SO all I got to say is fuck you!@!!! Rub yourself off bitch... I boycotted Walmart 3 years ago so thank god I don't have to walk into to one and see that ugly mugg telling me to watch the people around me...WHAT THE FUCK???
I don't need to make any predictions because the hand has been dealt and it is a pair of dueces.. Hold EM UP WITH YOUR BEST GAME FACE BEN...it won't fricken matter. We have played kick the can for too long and the can is nothing but tin dust. The black swan of 2011 will actually be red as in CHINA, so prepare yourself for the rising sun to set in your backyard...They led us into their trap and now they are going to shut the door on us...plain and simple...NO NUKES NEEDED! Just kill the dollar and we are done...fini, cooked, history, say la vie....2011??? will be a red year....count on it!
And to add a bit more predictions to the fire count on Matt Simmons being correct in saying the Gulf Of Mexico is filling up with oil, because it is and they are using corexit on the bottom to cover it up! $$$100 million a day and they still have 3 roaming platforms in the DWH vacinity to ensure nobody knows the truth... 2010 WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE YEAR OF LIES AND MANIPULATION!!! AND 2011 WILL BE THE YEAR THEY TRY TO SAVE FACE BUT IT WILL BE TOO LATE!!! YOU READ IT HEAR FIRST....HAPPY NEW YEAR BITCH.. LOVE YOU ALL!!!
Well....I guess then it goes without saying that I need to kill my wife and kids, and hide out in the Ozarks in a cave with a cache of weapons, gold, food, matches, saltpeter (dual purpose here....gunpowder, and to take daily to forget about weaponized pussy), a vicious dog, and a satellite link to ZH's secret broadcast locale. Well, it has been fun, but I guess I better get busy.
If you kill off the wife who is gonna pick berries and dig up root veggies while you are out hunting? Just cuz it's the end of the world is no reason to do any more work than necessary.
Many wishes for a happy and prosperus new year!
Sometimes when your server is down I get a feeling that something is very wrong out there! Keep up the good work! Your site is almost indispensable.
Predictions for the New Year?
Well I think haircuts and writeoffs are the only viable solution.So the sooner a fair deal is reached the better for everyone.It's just too much money...
This site should be required reading, say at a minimum, 24 hours of reading the archives for every CFA candidate. But those CFA dudes don't believe in charts so hard to figure how they could understand anything.
Homeland Security reads Zero Hedge; shouldn't you?
+1 confidential file entry