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EURO GHouLS: THeY SuCKeD THe YouTH oF EuRoPe DRy To SaVe THeiR ZoMBiE BaNKS...
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They squandered four whole fucking years devising ever more deceiving ways to innovate the financial truth in order to bail out their banksters by means of fabulously opaque feats of smoke and mirror financial engineering.
They have no concrete plan or faintest inkling of a concrete plan for returning the peripheral economies to growth other than fast tracking privatizations and dreaming about cash rich Chinese investors clamoring to dump their fat wallets on airports, ports and hotel chains.
They lied about the purpose of austerity and they lied about the efficacy of mirage structural reforms.
They are always eager to bludgeon those who would have the audacity to publicly complain about the genuine hopelessness of their economic predicament.
They pay themselves fat salaries to write and sponsor stupid assed regulations concerning such idiocies such as the dangers of unsealed olive oil servers in Italian restaurants.
They constantly proclaim that the crisis that never existed is once again finally over. Yes finally finally over.
And now, they suddenly want all to believe that they are so terribly and genuinely concerned...concerned with the human plight of the their newly minted and rapidly hardening lost generation of youth.
You know what?
Fuck them, fuck banksters and fuck the EURO Austerity Frau they all rode in on!
And fuck you Ben Bernanke!
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I knew I recognized him, but couldn't quite place the face.
Same here.
I used to see Kohl's face on The Economist in the 1990s. But that was another century ...
Apparently the cabbage-meister is still around. But (understandably) he's keeping a low profile.
I'm sitting here in my Gold plated boxers and platnum kimono burning Euro bills to light my hopium hookah. Six Asian art geisha groupies are dying to give me an austerity shiatsu but I'm too busy taking phone orders on my diamond encrusted iPhone.
It's hard work being a struggling artist. But at least I can float in a cloud above worldly events making whimsical images saleable to the wives of banksters, Chinese tycoons and expatriate oligarchs who lurk on Zero Hedge and Keiser.com.
Next week I'm thinking about embalming a hedge fund manager and putting him in a glass display table. I'm sure a shark will buy it.
You should do that even if you don't think a shark will buy it.
How much for that SAC guy? And as an option may I have a "Visible Combat/Asian art geisha groupies" coffee table phot album to place on top? For conversation you know.
I'm hoping I can sack him for a good price on Craig's List ;-)
WB7 its been a while my man. Im digging the page. Your post here reminds me of a great song called
"Tiger In My Tank" by The EELS and I hope you dig it for the laughs
I bought some rock star ashes
From the back of rolling stone
I guess he wouldn't mind it
They couldn't sell his soul
The tiger in my tank
Is going to go extinct
And i'm not feeling so good myself
I think i'm on the brink of disaster
I had a dream last night
The tv and the phone
Grew some legs and took a walk
And left me all alone
The tiger in my tank
Is going to go extinct
And i'm not feeling so good myself
I think i'm on the brink of disaster
When i grow up i'll be
An angry little whore
I'll give you all the finger
I'll sell you all what for
The tiger in my tank
Is going to go extinct
And i'm not feeling so good myself
I think i'm on the brink of disaster
Hope you are doing well.
Great imagery. Are you spying on me?
you're almost casual about your success B, don't knock it bud, it's what everyone's waiting for, some hard-to-achieve adulation and pay days
you deserve your diamond encrusted iPhone, the losers/also-rans carry chintzy garish Androids trying ever so desperately to look like an i
on that note how about swapping a Hedge manager for embalming in a display coffee table for an absolute turkey of an accountant who is loooooong overdue Christmas? ...i have a known buyer for this item who would like to rest his morning Earl Grey tea on the trophy table (I missed the 'Leo Dining Table Set' ..Akak got in before me!)
trophy hunters of the blogsphere
Karma is what counts, and I am happy and grateful to be well off in this respect. Something that success in my previous career could never deliver.
But I have started organizing my portfolio into a gallery and I must say, so far it looks pretty fucking good:
WilliamBanzai7 Fine Art Gallery
But I must admire your good taste in not mentioning your heated and vibrating toilet seat made with Panda fur.
That sort of excess will arouse anger (and envy) in the great unwashed proletariat.
The problem is getting the Panda to sit still.
Love your Gallery B, the quality is just what im looking for, message you shortly on some music work if you like
If you seek Karma as in peace and some spiritual tranquility you'll never find such, you were never designed for such, throw such empty trash ideas in the bin
If you seek Karma in a gorgeous rough and tumble way through life and seek a balance between making money and enjoying the workload you have then I'm 'In to the End'
those that promise salvation and peace, like politicians, Budhist Monks and other religous scum, are all without exception parasites on society living off its donations for an easy ride
Peace is a flatline, you can have it when you're laid to rest. Life is up and down, rough and smooth, soft and hard, success and failure, knocks and rewrads ...enjoy the textures, every texture, and the fucking ride, and every curve ball it throws you to keep you thinking, changing, growing... Yehaaaaa ;)
I'm thinking more along the lines of you reap what you sow or give and the universe will give back...yadda yadda ;-)
Balls and Brains
...if you want to get into, and stay in, the top 1-3% of any human activity (eg. business, industry, sport, graphics, even art) you need 95% balls and the brains are optional ...well you need 5% brains because you have to pierce the envelope of conformity to get ahead, you cannot establsh something/anything with normalacy and existing thinking, you have to be radical and break the mould of society, to go it alone and put yourself at risk to change the norm
if you want to avoid risks and stay well tended as a herd member amongst the 97% you follow the leaders in any activity after they've taken the risk. This is life's most successful strategy, low risk, as nature designed you to be, a follower and a reactor to events, not a future changing high risk adventurer who could fuck up and lose it all
the passive flight risk averse animals, the 97%, out-number the risk seeking predators, the 3%, 2,000 to 1... don't believe the academics pecking order of predators at the top of the food chain, it's total crap like everything academia produces as 'education', the passives are waaaaay more successfull than predators, the sheer numbers over-whelmingly favour risk aversion/flight animals... avoiding risk pays dividends as a lifetime strategy but it would be completely stagnant and in fact rot/die without the change the 3% bring to refresh the herd
after 3 years doing nothing/zero/fuk-all (but free thinking) I'm ready to pierce the envelope.. i've never been short of balls ever in my life, sport or business, now I have brains too...yadda yadda ..we'll see! ;)
And here I thought you lived a lavish lifestyle, when in fact you are a veritable plebian, staying in solidarity with the poor of the world.
Good for you!
I like the hedge fund trader table.
Why are you disrespect of Mr. Banzai!? Where is your art, Mr. Nobody!?
He gets to admire his talent everytime he wipes his arse and then flushes the toilet.
I can hear the TP now. Don't smear me bro!
One time I wiped my butt and the face of ben was imprinted on the toilet paper. At first it was exciting but I flushed it as fast I could. A scary but artistic moment.
then you can count me as one of those "Austerity Pigs" who sincerily thinks that balanced budgets are necessary, in the long run
or, writte differently, that sizable deficits can't go forever
but I can't connect the baton-wielding goon hitting someone with the EUR sign - I presume you mean figuratively
nevertheless, even if I disagree: good work, from an artistic and protesting point of view. wish you'd find more european politicians that are so easily recognizable as Merkel and political symbols that aren't also monetary symbols. though I can understand that since you want to sell your art, it's the best way
if you transferred the situation to this country, do fiscal deficits matter? sure they do, but we see what sort of disruption the sequester caused, while Bernanke continues POMO and QE in order to put money in the wall street account. voters in the US won't tolerate (any more) austerity for the 99% and subsidies for the 1%. (which is why rumors of BBs replacement are already circulating) only a few percent respect Congress, largely because Congress has ceded all its power to the executive and his central bankers. its hard to respect any group when it has no standing and no power to do anything (even symbollically impeach their POTUS) to ask a question, what would the US economy look like it if was run for the 99%?
the battle over that image is what keeps us from making any progess. The CBs think it would look like the depression, the Tea Party thinks it would look like Russia. The OWS movement think it would look like Norman Rockwell America. the battle is between competing images.
the EURO is a symbol of power held over the people by the central planners. including the way the petrodollar oppresses the ME. break the image you break the oppression.
No sizable deficits cannot go on forever, but that will never deter the statist bullshit artists and the entrenched parasites whom they serve so very well to use their disingenuous austerity meme as stealth cover for klepto-bailout-capitalism.
And trust me Mack, if selling the art was to be my primary or even secondary objective I would have chucked this exercise long long ago.
Perhaps you have not been around long enough to realize this.
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the original "lost generation" was btw the youth that died by the millions in the trenches of WWI - a fight mostly between europeans
A fight mostly between europeans enabled by european banksters.
Now the combatants are not able to offer comment, all kinds of tinfoil-hatted theories are popping up. Mutual defence under Treaty obligations? Nononono - it was all about stopping the Berlin-to-Baghdad railroad, etc.
and those who lived in Remarque's world of "Der Weg Zurueck" until rescued by Freikorps and SA. The only generation to have been especially lucky was that of Cohn-Bendit, the selfsame Apparatchiki that have caused this political nightmare by their self-indulgence and detachment from reality.
The "revolution" will come as it did in 1933 in the form of National Socialism in various countries in Europe. An Authoritarian borderline Totalitarianism will rebuild national identities and cast aside the US-propagated Globalism.....for good or ill.....it is hard to see leadership in the present, but events will take their course
Historically, it is unlikely the "original". If you mean relative contemporary, you may have a candidate.
Governments love to kill people. Its what they do best.
I know something about that, btw, since half my family are of European origin.
World Bank Insider Blows Whistle on Corruption, Federal Reserve
Written by Alex Newman
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A former insider at the World Bank, ex-Senior Counsel Karen Hudes, says the global financial system is dominated by a small group of corrupt, power-hungry figures centered around the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve. The network has seized control of the media to cover up its crimes, too, she explained. In an interview with The New American, Hudes said that when she tried to blow the whistle on multiple problems at the World Bank, she was fired for her efforts. Now, along with a network of fellow whistleblowers, Hudes is determined to expose and end the corruption. And she is confident of success.Your name:
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Citing an explosive 2011 Swiss study published in the PLOS ONE journal on the “network of global corporate control,” Hudes pointed out that a small group of entities — mostly financial institutions and especially central banks — exert a massive amount of influence over the international economy from behind the scenes. “What is really going on is that the world’s resources are being dominated by this group,” she explained, adding that the “corrupt power grabbers” have managed to dominate the media as well. “They’re being allowed to do it.”
According to the peer-reviewed paper, which presented the first global investigation of ownership architecture in the international economy, transnational corporations form a “giant bow-tie structure.” A large portion of control, meanwhile, “flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions.” The researchers described the core as an “economic ‘super-entity’” that raises important issues for policymakers and researchers. Of course, the implications are enormous for citizens as well.
Hudes, an attorney who spent some two decades working in the World Bank’s legal department, has observed the machinations of the network up close. “I realized we were now dealing with something known as state capture, which is where the institutions of government are co-opted by the group that’s corrupt,” she told The New American in a phone interview. “The pillars of the U.S. government — some of them — are dysfunctional because of state capture; this is a big story, this is a big cover up.”
At the heart of the network, Hudes said, are 147 financial institutions and central banks — especially the Federal Reserve, which was created by Congress but is owned by essentially a cartel of private banks. “This is a story about how the international financial system was secretly gamed, mostly by central banks — they’re the ones we are talking about,” she explained. “The central bankers have been gaming the system. I would say that this is a power grab.”
The Fed in particular is at the very center of the network and the coverup, Hudes continued, citing a policy and oversight body that includes top government and Fed officials. Central bankers have also been manipulating gold prices, she added, echoing widespread concerns that The New American has documented extensively. Indeed, even the inaccurate World Bank financial statements that Hudes has been trying to expose are linked to the U.S. central bank, she said.
“The group that we’re talking about from the Zurich study — that’s the Federal Reserve; it has some other pieces to it, but that’s the Federal Reserve,” Hudes explained. “So the Federal Reserve secretly dominated the world economy using secret, interlocking corporate directorates, and terrorizing anybody who managed to figure out that they were having any kind of role, and putting people in very important positions so that they could get a free pass.”
The shadowy but immensely powerful Bank for International Settlements serves as “the club of these private central bankers,” Hudes continued. “Now, are people going to want interest on their country’s debts to continue to be paid to that group when they find out the secret tricks that that group has been doing? Don’t forget how they’ve enriched themselves extraordinarily and how they’ve taken taxpayer money for the bailout.”
As far as intervening in the gold price, Hudes said it was an effort by the powerful network and its central banks to “hold onto its paper currency” — a suspicion shared by many analysts and even senior government officials. The World Bank whistleblower also said that contrary to official claims, she did not believe there was any gold being held in Fort Knox. Even congressmen and foreign governments have tried to find out if the precious metals were still there, but they met with little success. Hudes, however, believes the scam will eventually come undone.
“This is like crooks trying to figure out where they can go hide. It’s a mafia,” she said. “These culprits that have grabbed all this economic power have succeeded in infiltrating both sides of the issue, so you will find people who are supposedly trying to fight corruption who are just there to spread disinformation and as a placeholder to trip up anybody who manages to get their act together.… Those thugs think that if they can keep the world ignorant, they can bleed it longer.”
Of course, the major corruption at the highest levels of government and business is not a new phenomenon. Georgetown University historian and Professor Carroll Quigley, who served as President Bill Clinton’s mentor, for example, wrote about the scheme in his 1966 book Tragedy And Hope: A History Of The World In Our Time. The heavyweight academic, who was allowed to review documents belonging to the top echelons of the global establishment, even explained how the corrupt system would work — remarkably similar to what Hudes describes.
"The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole,” wrote Prof. Quigley, who agreed with the goals but not the secrecy. “This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations."
But it is not going to happen, Hudes said — at least not if she has something do to with it. While the media are dominated by the “power grabber” network, Hudes has been working with foreign governments, reporters, U.S. officials, state governments, and a broad coalition of fellow whistleblowers to blow the entire scam wide open. There has been quite a bit of interest, too, particularly among foreign governments and state officials in the United States.
Citing the wisdom of America’s Founding Fathers in creating a federal system of government with multiple layers of checks and balances, Hudes said she was confident that the network would eventually be exposed and subjected to the rule of law, stopping the secret corruption. If and when that happens — even if it may be disorderly — Hudes says precious metals will once again play a role in imposing discipline on the monetary system. The rule of law would also be restored, she said, and the public will demand a proper press to stay informed.
“We’re going to have a cleaned-up financial system, that’s where it is going, but in the meantime, people who didn’t know how the system was gamed are going to find out,” she said. “We’re going to have a different kind of international financial system.... It’ll be a new kind of world where people know what’s going on — no more backroom deals; that’s not going to keep happening. We’re going to have a different kind of media if people don’t want to be dominated and controlled, which I don’t think they do.”
While Hudes sounded upbeat, she recognizes that the world is facing serious danger right now — there are even plans in place to impose martial law in the United States, she said. The next steps will be critical for humanity. As such, Hudes argues, it is crucial that the people of the world find out about the lawlessness, corruption, and thievery that are going on at the highest levels — and put a stop to it once and for all. The consequences of inaction would be disastrous.
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Alex Newman, a foreign correspondent for The New American, is currently based in Europe. He can be reached at anewman@thenewamerican.com This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .The "small core" of control is actually a union. Collusion is OK !
Carry on.
Scary work, WMBanzai7 - World War Z with a twist. Should name a drink after this!