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Paul dabbled in the Occult
The spirit of Keynes he'd consult
He was told in a trance
To help debt advance
With a system collapse the result
The Limerick King
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Here is a reason for scorn
The bullshit that comes from Paul's horn
His message: "MOAR DEBT"
We soon will regret
The day that this moron was born
The Limerick King
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Indeed, Toolshed, my personal experiences have confirmed yours over and over again, for decades, and still do every day, since in the Canadian context I have an on-going political experiment that I have been working on for a few decades, which PROVES what you and many others on Zero Hedge also observed:
http://www.marijuanaparty.ca/article.php3?id_article=215
For a British perspective on those observations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcGh1Dex4Yo
97% Owned - Monetary Reform documentary
A couple hour long documentary, focusing on the UK.
I liked the points where it explains how and why most average people became so totally clueless, and profoundly unable to understand their reality! During the first half hour, or so, various speakers mention their personal experiences with regard to their attempts to explain money systems to people. What MOST people think about "democracy" and "money" resulted from presuming their common sense is correct, or resulted from beliefs in abstract social principles. WHAT PEOPLE MOST BELIEVE IS BOGUS COMMON SENSE &/OR ABSTRACT THEORIES THAT WERE TOTALLY UNREAL. THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE REFUSE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE WAYS THEY THINK ARE DUE TO BRAINWASHING!
After decades of my efforts to explain the Canadian political contribution tax credit to tens of thousands of various people, I know very well how hopeless it actually IS to attempt "educate" most people! They can not understand that the money system IS the triumph of organized crime (and equally, most monetary reformers seem unable to accept that!) Ordinary people can not accept "money" is made out of nothing, because "money" is based on robbery, backed by murder, (and monetary "reformers" are delusional that money could ever be anything else!)
The conclusion that I have been forced to accept is that the vast majority of people will continue being Zombie Sheeple, who are fleeced and fleeced, until they are massively slaughtered off. Of course, I keep on attempting to change that, and therefore, I try to maintain irrational hopes for a series of political miralces. However, ALL the evidence that I am aware of continues to support the horrible conclusion that by far the most probable outcome of the vast majority of people continuing to be adamant political idiots is that those Zombie Sheeple, and their lambs, ARE going to be mass murdered, as the "resolution" to the social insanities of runaway triumphant financial frauds controlling their lives more and more, automatically, every day!
Maybe the British film got better, but I could not get through the first few minutes.
They seem to be calling for direct government printing. this would of course fix the NHS. (sarc).
Had to comment because who needs to come here for confusion.
The left is with us on the evil of fractional reserve central banking. Unfortunately, they didn't learn about Assignats.
Have them search for the "Mandrake Mechanism."
A loving Dad will do his best to make sure that they have a way to make a soft landing and a bit of cover for when the lights finally come on. When TSHTF they'll need some cover.
I'm 27 and it's incredibly discouraging to see how much people my age just simply don't give a fuck. You can see their eyes glaze over and they go to their happy place once I lay down some explanations and try to, in a very friendly and approachable manner, explain how we're constantly getting fucked without the curtosy of lube.
Case in point, intelligent coworker didn't understand my rant today about the revolving door policy in Washington and how people will bounce from Fannie & Freddie, to the DoT, then to JPMorgan.
No shit he looked at me with a blank face and said, "Who're they?".
I don't even try anymore. If someone comes to me and asks for advice, I give it to him. If they don't ask, I don't give. Why bother?
I think most of the shepple have been conditioned beyond repair. They're already stealing their life savings in front of their very eyes, and they can't see it.
Just leave them be.
Know the feeling, I crack the odd joke or let the odd comment slip, but pretty much keep my mouth shut.
I ran into a fellow zh'er at the last contract I was on. It took awhile to get it out of him as he had been beaten down by other co-workers. Kind of fun when you discover someone, you can instantly talk about so much that you normally keep bottled up.
It is more than that, the oreo clearly don't give a fuck about the economy.
http://socialmediabar.com/obama-vacation
Report: Obama Spent Twice as Much Time on Vacation/Golf as Economyby Brad Harmon | on April 29, 2013
According to a new report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI),
President Barack Obama has spent over twice as many hours on vacation and golf (976 hours) as he has in economic meetings of any kind (474.4 hours).
The report, “Presidential Calendar: A Time-Based Analysis,” used the official White House calendar, Politico’s comprehensive presidential calendar, and media reports through March 31, 2013 to calculate its results.
GAI’s findings may actually understate Obama’s recreational hours.
Last year, Obama told CBS News that playing golf is “the only time that for six hours, I’m outside.” But instead of six hours, GAI counted a round of golf as taking just four hours. Likewise, for presidential vacation hours, researchers attributed just six hours of any day of vacation to leisure activity.
“Like most people, presidents still do work while on vacation,” said GAI President Peter Schweizer. “So we really went out of our way to fairly and accurately reflect how the president spends his time.”
The study applied a similarly generous assessment to Obama’s time spent in economic meetings by counting anything on the official White House calendar even remotely related to the economy as an economic meeting. For example, “Obama meets with Cabinet secretaries” and “Obama has lunch with four CEOs” counted as economic meetings.
GAI’s new report dovetails with its presidential calendar analysis last July that found Obama devotes little time to economic meetings.
Asked whether the latest numbers paint a negative portrait of presidential economic leadership, Schweizer says that is for others to decide.
“People understand that presidents have the most stressful job in the world and need a break from time to time,” said Schweizer. “There will be some who will be encouraged by the numbers and some who will wish the president spent more time in economic meetings. As a government watchdog group, we just tabulate the numbers and let others decide how to interpret them.”
It is more than that, the oreo clearly don't give a fuck about the economy.
http://socialmediabar.com/obama-vacation
Report: Obama Spent Twice as Much Time on Vacation/Golf as Economy
A central planner shows he doen't care about the economy by spending time away from his legislating it out of existence?
I haven't played a round of golf since 11 years ago.
I have the same problem with my adult children. Mine are in their late teens and early 20's, and when I start talking about real world events, their eye's glaze over.
They're just taking their Soma.
The culture is inherently selfish these days simple as that. As long as I am doing good I don't want to know about anything else. The culture teaches narrowmindness and reinforces it by education instead of knowledge. There is difference between the 2 as there is a difference between being smart and being wise. Nothing worse than a smart narrow minded individual when it comes to selfishness and hubris, they KNOW better since they are educated and therefore smarter than you.
I don't know that people now are any worse or more selfish than they used to be. Look at all the shit that was pulled throughout history - with the tacit acceptance of the populace - and it's clear the vast majority of people will go with the flow to get an easy life... even if their lives aren't particularly easy. Change is scary, change when everyone else is still doing the same everyday stuff is terrifying.
I was a sheep until 6 years ago... when I discovered how the world actually worked, I wanted to shout it out from the rooftops, tell all my friends, talk about it at parties.
Everyone thought I was a weirdo, of course. And why not? People have been worrying about TEOTWAWKI for a long time, and it never happens.
Except when it does (Weimarian Mark, Hungarian Pengo, US Continentals, Greenbacks, etc, etc, etc). But it can't happen here! Our central planners have learned from history, right?
The fact is, the majority of doomsayers throughout history have been dead wrong. So for the average schmuck, ignoring them is just playing the odds.
And what if the doomsayers are right? Then you'd have to research their claims... and turn into one of them! Who wants that? The guy who keeps babbling about hyperinflation at parties, that no one wants to talk to because of his monetary system monomania.
Anyway, if it all goes down tomorrow, I'll be one of the many, so Gubmint will take care of me. They have to, or I'll vote for the other guy.
I really enjoyed that movie.
Don't tell PUD that --- he will accuse you of being "an immoral person of low moral fibre".
Well... they aren't liable personally, so why would they ever want to account for it that way?
In the EU...absolutely. Listen my learning curve still isn't steep enough to figure this QE out. Having said that...and I haven't said this in a while...this really is "humor with an edge." (and hopefully mine has given ya'll one ; )
they aren't sure what they're doing either. they do believe the more interdependent the players in the global economy are, the safer the system will be. Greenspan thought derivatives were a good thing too, he thought they made the market more stable. and while they want a seamless transition between G20 economies, they also need their little hot money destinations, and off balance sheet transactions, which is all a debt swap is, 30yr UST bonds for crap MBS. that destroys the long bond as an investment and real capital. in broad terms that's whats happening to gold, they're destroying capital value, and gold is capital. naturally people then buy gold on weakness which is the counterintuitive reaction to their schzoid policies. its like the zen one hand clapping, together in a duet.
Great works and big thanks WB7.
Like Benvenuto, just a little bit of necromancy can raise a whole lot of demons.
Release the Kraken!
http://tinyurl.com/cla4p6y
The anti-debt people ... a/k/a 'austerians.'
As my buddy John Mauldin says, austerity isn't a punishment --
it's a consequence.
Great work, Banzai sensei.
Love to see a poster of "The Three Bankster Stooges": Pauly, Barry, and Timoe!