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Guest Post: Adrift At Sea
Submitted by Jim Quinn of Burning Platform blog,
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The big story this past week, besides the annual State of the Delusion speech by Barack “It won’t add a cent to the deficit” Obama, was the fate of the passengers on the Carnival Triumph as their skyscraper sized ship was left adrift at sea for days without power. This 900 foot long, 100,000 ton goliath is one of the largest passenger cruise liners in the world, carrying 3,400 passengers and 1,100 crew members in luxurious splendor through warm Gulf of Mexico seas to sun drenched exotic isles. These ships are practically floating countries, with passengers treated to an endless American buffet of never ending quantities of bacon, sausage, biscuits, gravy, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, waffles, pizza, cheesecake, soda, beer and the rum drink of the day. It’s as if all 3,400 passengers have a SNAP card with no limit. There are retail stores, restaurants, bars, ice skating rinks, movie theaters, showplaces, and staff waiting on you hand and foot. No cash changes hands. You charge everything to your room number and then just pay with one of your 13 credit cards at the conclusion of your voyage into debt. Then you pay 18% interest on the 25 Funky Monkeys you consumed for the next 14 years. Cruising captures the essence of America as we traverse our voyage to hell.
The ordeal at sea of the Carnival Triumph and the leadership displayed by the Carnival management and executive officers is a microcosm of our declining empire. The $420 million Carnival Triumph was put into service in 1999 and has run continuously for the last fourteen years, with only periodic dry dock maintenance. These massive ships are replenished within hours of docking and depart within twelve hours of dumping their 3,400 passengers back onshore. The CEO and top management of Carnival care only about ROI and whether their stock options are vested. Their goal is to bilk the passengers out of as much cash as possible, while paying their foreign slave labor crew members as little as possible. The ships are registered in foreign countries for tax purposes and the crew members are mostly from third world countries. Carnival executives and shipboard officers have a history of recklessness, mismanagement, and willingness to endanger its passengers in its greedy thirst for short term profits. Ask the families of the 32 passengers killed in the sinking of the Costa Concordia.
The engine room fire that disabled the Triumph was not an isolated instance. This was the fourth engine room fire on a Carnival owned ship resulting in a loss of power, the others being the Tropicale in 1999, the Carnival Splendor in 2010, and the Costa Allegra in 2012. The Carnival Triumph should not have been at sea. It had been plagued with mechanical problems for weeks prior to the engine fire. Voluntarily taking the ship out of service would have hurt the 1st quarter earnings per share of this public company, therefore the leadership of Carnival told the engineers to patch it up and get it back out on the seas. Two weeks prior to the engine room fire the Carnival Triumph experienced propulsion issues that caused it to be five hours late returning to its Galveston home port on January 28, 2013 and delaying the ship’s departure for its next cruise until 8:00 pm that night. The ship departed, but the problems had not been fixed. The Associate Press reported a story about that cruise that provides a different assessment than the public relations drivel released the corporate office:
An email informed Debbi Smedley and other passengers that the propulsion problem would prevent them from docking at two ports. “Due to the limited cruising speed, our itinerary will be impacted. Depending on the progress of the repairs, we will either visit Progreso or Cozumel,” stated the email, signed by Vicky Rey, vice president of guest services. Smedley said the ship was in poor condition overall. During her five-day cruise, a water line broke in the hallway ceiling near her cabin, and a separate sewer line broke outside the main dining hall, she said. Metal was protruding from handrails on the staircases, and the elevators often did not work. Rather than docking in Progreso for only a few hours as planned, the ship stayed in the port for two days, and cruise workers repeatedly told passengers they were waiting for parts to fix a mechanical problem, according to Smedley.
Carnival’s public relations machine then admitted to an electrical problem with the ship’s alternator in the last voyage before the fire, but claimed it was repaired. What they didn’t reveal is that it was a Coast Guard inspection that revealed there was a short in the high voltage connection box of one of the ships generators causing damage to cables within the connection box. A directive with a compliance due date of February 27, 2013 was issued following the inspection requiring that “the condition of the ship and its equipment shall be maintained to conform with the regulations to ensure that the ship in all respects will remain fit to proceed to sea without danger to the ship or persons on board.” The Coast Guard Marine Information Safety and Law Enforcement System showed that this deficiency remained unresolved at the time of the subsequent fire and loss of power while at sea on February 10. So you have a company PR maggot lying and you have another useless Department of Homeland Security branch not enforcing regulations that are supposed to protect passengers. This is par for the course in our corporate fascist states of America today.
Shit Happens
George: Aha. Aha. Could it be because you don’t want him to know that you have a friend who pees in the shower, is that it?!
Elaine: No, that’s not it!
George: Oh, I think it is! I think that’s exactly what it is!
Elaine: Why couldn’t you just wait?
George: I was there! I saw a drain!
Elaine: Since when is a drain a toilet?!
George: It’s all pipes! What’s the difference?!
George Costanza would have enjoyed sailing on the Carnival Triumph as passengers were left to piss in showers and shit in red plastic bags for days. It finally became socially acceptable to pee in the shower. Most of the ship’s electrical power went down after the engine room fire, causing extensive breakdowns of vital shipboard mechanical systems, including taking out sanitary systems. Passengers reported sewage sloshing around in hallways, flooded rooms and trouble getting enough to eat. Passengers waited in line for three hours to get a lousy hot dog. On the lower decks sewage came up through the shower drain, pooling in the sinks and flowing into the hallways. The allegory of the poor people on the lower decks being inundated with feces and living in wretched conditions, while the rich people living in luxury on the upper decks are blissfully ignorant of the fate of their fellow passengers is so easy to apply to our society in this day and age. The 1% glory in their stock market gains, while 20% of U.S. households are on food stamps.
These direct quotes from passengers and pictures taken onboard this voyage from hell provide a taste of what our future portends:
“We have to urinate in the shower. They’ve been passed out plastic bags to go to the bathroom. There was fecal matter all over the floor.”
“They’re walking around in a lot of urine and fecal matter, and the sewers are backing up.”
“The sanitation situation was gross and the stench was awful.”
“Just imagine the filth. People were doing crazy things and going to the bathroom in sinks and showers.”
“A lot of people were crying and freaking out.”
“We are trapped aboard a floating petri dish without power, air conditioning, or fresh water.”
“It’s degrading. Demoralizing, and then they want to insult us by giving us $500″

After reading a number of articles describing what happened before, during and after the engine fire aboard the Carnival Triumph, the parallels between this Ship of Horrors and our Ship of State become self-evident. You have the CEO and top executives of Carnival only concerned about their wealth, power and control of the company. Rather than thinking long term and making decisions that might be detrimental to their short term quarterly earnings, but insure the long –term financial health and reputation of the company, their decision was driven by their true masters on Wall Street. Instead of taking the ship off-line to make vital repairs and necessary investments, they just papered over signs of an imminent disaster and turned to public relations spin and propaganda as there preferred course of action. When disaster “suddenly” struck, the management and executive officers were unprepared, slow to react, and more concerned with their reputations than about the health, safety and welfare of the passengers. Much more could have been done to alleviate the misery of the 3,400 passengers. Carnival could have had a large generator helicoptered onto the deck and used to produce enough electricity to run some lights, ventilation, refrigeration and toilets. It appears that this ship had two engine rooms and only one was damaged by fire. They could have restarted the undamaged engine room and would have had enough power for most normal functions in the cabins of the ship, and probably some capability to propel the ship towards port. The disgraceful lack of urgency and refusal of top management to attempt every possible solution to this crisis is a lesson to be learned by passengers and citizens alike. They don’t care about you.
Rev. Wendell Gill’s experience onboard the Triumph provides a glimpse into our future. He immediately recognized the leadership of the ship was non-existent and it would be up to people helping people if they were to make it through the ordeal:
“What you had was a tale of two ships. You seldom saw a deck officer. I never saw the captain. Some of the people in the upper areas had plenty of air, but down below, it was unlivable. It was like a sauna of sewage. It was the people on the boat that saved Carnival. In an adverse situation, most people will rise to help — that’s just the human spirit.”
Reverend Gill and his wife noticed that no one from Carnival was stepping up to help the elderly and sick get around. The Gills, along with other concerned passengers, decided to take matters into their own hands, carting mattresses and bedding up from the lower decks. They witnessed the worst side of human nature in the inaction of Carnival leadership, along with some people becoming drunk, disorderly and fighting over food. But they also witnessed people coming together under difficult circumstances, with many in the upper cabins sharing their space with those from the lower uninhabitable decks. The passengers created their own shanty town of tents on deck and in the cooler hallways. The vast majority of people acted like decent human beings. Kindness, sharing, and helping one another won the day. This voyage through hell is a precursor of what lies ahead for everyone in this country. When vital systems fail, the lights go out, and your beloved government leaders are nowhere to be found, how will you fare? Don’t count on someone from the government to lead when we are set adrift in a sea of chaos created by them. The politicians, bankers and bureaucrats will be scrambling to save themselves. Your family, friends, and neighbors will be the only people you can rely on. Your caring government doesn’t really care about you.
Cruisin for a Bruisin
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
The similarities between the horrific voyage of the Carnival Triumph and the tragic voyage of the dysfunctional ship of state we call America are many. We have a ruling class consisting of the President, Congress, Judiciary, Central bankers, Media titans, and goliath corporation CEOs who care not for the citizens of this country. You are ignorant peasants in their eyes. They only care about maintaining and expanding their wealth, control and power through the complete capture of our financial markets, political system and media propaganda to the masses. The health and welfare of the peasants isn’t even on their radar screen. The ruling class steering this ship of fools have no interest in the truth or the best long –term interests of the country. The vast majority of the passengers on this impaired listing ship prefers to believe the propaganda and lies spewed by the captain and his minions. They prefer the illusion of safety and security to the truth about the real condition of this ship. When the engines of this ship come to a grinding halt, their illusions will be shattered. Big government will come up small when it counts. The government propaganda and public relations will be revealed as nothing but hot putrid air and fecal matter.
Speaking of fecal matter, President Obama’s State of the Union address, which was watched by 33 million (down from 52 million in 2009) believers, was a perfect reflection of the thinking that led to the Carnival Triumph disaster. The reality facing the country is: $220 trillion of unfunded entitlement liabilities; a $16.5 trillion national debt; annual deficits exceeding $1 trillion; 48 million citizens on food stamps; 11 million people on SSDI; a true unemployment rate of 23%; true inflation exceeding 5%; record high gasoline prices; 0% interest rates for senior citizen savers; free money for criminal bankers provided by their sugar daddy Bernanke; not one criminal prosecution of a Wall Street executive for the greatest financial fraud in history; a war department that spends $1 trillion per year and fights undeclared wars around the world; a chief executive that invokes dictatorial executive orders to murder Americans with his fleet of predator drones and imprison citizens indefinitely without charges; and a bureaucratic nightmare called Obamacare that will drive up deficits, drive up healthcare costs for every family, enrich the healthcare industrial complex, drive doctors into retirement, and drive small businesses into bankruptcy.
Rather than deal with this reality, Obama chose the Carnival Cruise Line method of public relations, misinformation, denial and delusion. He has embraced the Big Lie concept as if he had created it. With a straight face he proposes “investments” in infrastructure, new jobs programs, new education initiatives, more green energy projects, pollution control schemes, bailing out more underwater mortgages, and raising the minimum wage, all done for the children – and it won’t add one cent to the deficit. Instead of leveling with the American people and explaining the dire economic issues confronting our nation that require sacrifice, reality based thinking, and tough choices, we got more platitudes, class warfare, divide and conquer, phantom spending cuts, disingenuous twisting of the truth, intellectual dishonesty and fuzzy math. Public relations spin created by Madison Avenue maggots and pronounced grandly by corrupt puppet politician hacks will not prevent the catastrophic engine failure that will leave this country adrift in a sea of its own feces.
Our cruise of illusions and delusions is headed for troubled water. The math challenged citizens on this ship have been enjoying the 24 hour pizza buffet without the labor required to pay for the bounty. When your leaders boldly lie and tell you we don’t have a spending problem, refer to proposed spending increases as “investments”, and hail $1.6 trillion of spending cuts that did not happen, you’ve got a ship that will be signaling SOS in the imminent future. Both political parties are laughable in their blathering about spending cuts as Bush and his Republican cronies drove spending from $1.9 trillion in 2001 to $3.0 trillion in 2008 with their unfunded wars, unfunded new entitlements (Medicare Part D), Wall Street bailouts, and creation of police state agencies (DHS); while Obama and his Democrat co-conspirators have driven spending up to $3.8 trillion in four years with new unfunded entitlements (Obamacare), expansion of warfare in the Middle East (they sit on top of “our” oil), $800 billion stimulus handouts, $60 billion hurricane relief pork handed out for $25 billion of uninsured losses, and bailing out banks, auto companies, homeowners, and other gamblers who took undo risks and lost to the tune of hundreds of billions. Politicians and the inhabitants of this country have forgotten there are consequences to their actions and inactions.
Carnival Cruise Line is trying to buy off the passengers with refunds and $500 bribes to keep them quiet and sedated, while protecting their continued hundreds of millions in profits and million dollar bonuses for their executives. The ruling class in the United States has bought off the American people with entitlement promises that can’t possibly be honored, food stamps, SSDI, tax rebates, homebuyer tax credits, loan modification programs, Cash for Clunkers, payroll tax cuts, $1 trillion of taxpayer financed student loans, taxpayer financed subprime auto loans, and a myriad of other handouts designed to keep the masses sedated, while the ruling class continues to pillage the national wealth. It’s as if the entire country has been charging their food, drinks, excursions, and purchases to their room number and the bill has reached $16.5 trillion, rising by $3 billion per day. This voyage is reaching an end and the bill is coming due. The engine is on fire but the captain is telling us all is well. Eventually, everyone will know the captain lied.
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
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Honest Trailers: Titanic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6mMvBeEPT4 (2:36)
@Goldilocks
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That's the funniest shit I've ever seen... Better than THE ONION...
“What you had was a tale of two ships. You seldom saw a deck officer. I never saw the captain. Some of the people in the upper areas had plenty of air, but down below, it was unlivable. It was like a sauna of sewage."
It has always been thus, the difference being that 100 years ago, nobody in steerage complained about it, or at least nobody gave them coverage.
Ha Ha...on the Titanic, they locked the doors to the lower decks.
Yeah ~ but Leonardo DiCaprio & his Italian buddy got some people together, pulled a bench out of the floor & busted everyone out...
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As usual, nobody ever bothers to ask the fcking obvious question...
What the fuck do you need need locked doors [or gates] for on a cruise ship?... I mean ~ does some architecht or engineer, when drawing up blueprints, sit there and say "OK ~ here is where we put the locked gates between the classes so that in case we hit & iceberg & start to sink, we can lock all the lowlifes in steerage"...
In an emergency rely on yourself and take care of your loved ones. Most likely no one else will.
Absolutely. This methodology got me thru Irene, Sandy and Nemo. House motto: "I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it." Others in my family have tipped their ears and asked what I have and do. I then point them to Zerohedge. I just turned mom onto it.
MOLON LABE
Great motto. I look around at all the stuff I have for prep and that motto will fit right in. When I croak my gkids and kids will know why it's there and what it is to be used for. (providing that I haven't used it by then).
That's a horrible crass way of looking at the world. I am certainly no optimist and probably border more on the pessimist side of pragmatism but thankfully not everybody shares this viewpoint. It would be a pretty horrendous place if we did.
No one's stopping you from chanting 'Kumbaya' and depending on the charity of others when a real emergency hits. Knock yourself out, Bubba. If nobody feeds/shelters/aids you after a few days, try that 'pointing out they're being horribly crass' thing. See how that works for ya.
You are wasting your breath, these type believe The State is God. Nevermind that a fruit of self-sufficiency is volunteerism.....and nevermind that natural selection can be horribly crass as well..
I suspect natural selection, crass as it can be, must be a rock ribbed conservative. Molon Labe.
No, a "horribly crass" way of looking at the world is allowing your loved ones to be at the mercy of whatever happens rather than taking reasonable precautions to take care of them yourself.
Every man for himself and the Devil take the hindmost
Had to go to HD yesterday afternoon.There was a broken sewer on the next lot.
Nice and ripe,said to the bagboy that it smelled worse tha a Carnival Cruise ship.
He was still rolling on the ground, laughing, as I drove off.
The retards/vampires are waking up. Time to get some exorcise.
'They' are very symbolic...and follow astrology, numerology and sacred geometry. They think* they are gods and its their divine right to rule over us and slaughter us off for profits and power and control.
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They follow and believe in a differnt set of 'laws.'
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Carnival logo, dot in circle = all seeing eye?
CONCLUSION RE Costa Concordia
The sleek luxurious Costa Concordia represents the perfection within mankind's reach. But humanity has been subverted and colonized by a vicious satanic cult, the Illuminati. The capsized vessel symbolizes the fact that our "captains" are in the pay of this cult.
They are waging a covert war on mankind. Wars are their primary weapon. But periodically they inflict "accidents" such as Fukushima and the
BP Gulf oil blowout, or "natural disasters" like Katrina. The Costa Concordia may have been one of these. (See- Kabbalist Doctrine May Explain World Events.)
They want to replace God. Who knows what further destruction they will wreak to get their way. But with tensions over Iran mounting, it's possible Costa Concordia wasn't an accident but a portent.
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http://henrymakow.com/run_aground_cruise_ship_a_meta.html
illuminati is just a pretty sounding word for ugly talmudic satanists...
I ponder and think. Are the Jews 10 feet tall. Are they brutes? Are they Strong. Are they mighty my Gawd? Why are these people scared of these few little people?
Ever see those 'visuals' that show joobux stacked on pallettes as high & wide as a dozen New York skyscrapers?
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I'm pretty sure they feel strong & tall because that mountain of fortress is a formidable barricade... Someone ought to bring a match to the party...
Hey good news, I found out yesterday that my application to the illuminati was approved. Right after my marriage to Lisa Rothschild next month, I will take my place at the conference table of the Bilderbergs in Davos, Switzerland and find out who really was behind 9-11. See ya, suckers.....
Won't you be shocked [& maybe 'turned on'] to discover, in the bedroom chamber, on the night of your nuptials, she pulls off her mask & you realize you're fucking a half goat/half lizard...
Might beat Japanese Anime obsession with "Tentacle Sex" I suppose . . . . .
I know you're rather fond of these words, because you use them quite often here,
I'd just like to say that "astrology" is just geometry, with all interpretations in the eye of the beholder - the beliefs of the interpreter vary hugely, and historically always have, but the math is a constant.
as to,
whose "God"? which one are you referencing? there are sooo many in the Pantheon to choose from - like "astrology" the beliefs vary hugely. . .
...the lawless one will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. (2 Thessalonians 2:9-10)
It would be nice to believe that the bad guys get it in the end.
Not going to happen.
The team with the printer wins every time.
The 99 or whatever percent have nothing working in thier favor - if the whole thing were to collapse which it has been they will still be on the bottom and it will continue to be bullshit.
Bullshit
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- Greeks, gone
- Romans, gone
- Egyptians, gone
Sure ~ remnants of those survive... But the truth is, it is VERY LIKELY that there were even greater civilizations that existed for 100's of thousands of years before the Sumerians [which is as far back as 'modern' ancient recorded history dates]...
Everybody 'gets it' in the end... The only difference is who gets to be the master the next time around...
The fruits of the Spirit, Karma, God's anger...call it what you like but there is a consequense to each action.
Darkness tends to feed on itself when it has used up the easy stuff.
They forgot to mention that the other ships that we look to jump on when it goes down, are even more full of shit. An endless sea of centrally planned and printed SHIT!
PERFECT.....................as the Dr. Bernank and DR. Greenspan say, its about creating a wealth effect, not real wealth, just the illusion....
"Brilliant"
Full steam ahead! The faster this shitboat economy crashes, the faster we can move on.
absolutely fantastic read!!!
Bravo, Mr. Quinn
:-))
Ps. I've never had to comment-- no, never once, on your many exquisitely written post! And, that my friend is a compliment to your vast-integrity as a truthsayer!!!
Interesting that whilst reading the above article, I was somewhat "bombarded" by TWO banner and side-panel ads for - Carnival Cruises! ($300 off if I book on-line right now!)
Wonder if they also provide a "basic survival package" just in case of the unexpected slight delays . . . . .
(Maybe I should rent my own life-raft - the accommodation in said raft would seem preferable to the accommodation the "guests" had to put up with!)
anyone remember the vending machines, in airports, selling flight insurance?
People will start taking food instead of clothes on these things lol. Why couldn't that had airlifted food? Or was there really no shortage? I don't really know and not taking the time to look into. You want to get on a floating piece of steel that ways gazillions of pounds and go out into the ocean then be prepared for what might happen.
That's something I don't understand. How could those ships run out of food? I thought they loaded up all the food for the voyage at the beginning before they leave. Seems like the all-you-can-eat buffet supplies could keep them going for awhile. Or maybe the land whales that go on those cruises need an enormous amount to sustain their bulk?
From what I gather, there was an extensive refrigeration system failure (no power); Most of the fresh produce would need refrigeration / freezing, so in the high ambient temp. environment it all started to "go off", or maybe the risk of bacterial food poisoning was a little too great!
I still cannot understand why one of more containerised generators were not airlifted aboard. Surely there's provision for connection of shore power? ANY generating capacity would have been better than absolutely nothing (and the pay-off in terms of keeping the "Guests" happy would have been substantial - at $500 a head "compensation", that's still over $1.5 million (and Heavens knows how much lost future custom)).
There MUST have been a far better way to resolve this public (and P.R.) shambles!!
At first I thought this was going to be a weak oped that just largely took advantage of the Carnival cruise incident to score some cheap points. It wasn't and turned out to be a nice coherent piece that tied together several issues succintly and thoughtfully without getting into a rant.
While most of the op-eds on here are pretty weak to downright terrible, I do generally like what Jim Quinn has to say.
“All the time People don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” –Friedrich Nietzsche
there i fixed Nietzsche
and listen to Cohen's First We Take Manhattan
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. -Friedrich Nietzsche
"cunning gangs of CIA drug-runners and President-killers;" WISHFUL FUCKING THINKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SS Porta-Potty Theme Song by Poo Williams
Shite, exciting and poo
Crap Aboard. We're expecting you.
Poop, life's sweetest reward.
Let it flow, it floats back to you.
Triumph! Soon will be making diarhea runs
The Triumph! Promises feces for everyone
Set a course for the nearest toilet,
Your mind on a new red bag!.
Crap won't hurt anymore
It's an open ass on a friendly shore.
Yes POOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! It's POOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (hey-ah!)
Triumph soon will be making diarhea runs!
The Triumph promises red bags for everyone
Set a course for the nearest toilet,
Your mind on a new red bag!.
Poo won't hurt anymore
It's an open ass on a friendly shore.
It's POOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! It's POOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! It's
POOOOOOOOOO!
It's the Shit Boat-ah! It's the Shit Boat-ah!
Iridium: I just shat myself laughing!
I like how they compare these massive ships to a high rise building. Can you imagine what would happen if a high rise office building had the same problems these floating shit boxes have? Nobody would work or live in them, yet people pay thousands to be stranded at sea in a floating toilet or Norovirus infected incubator. UN.FUCKING.REAL!
Good. Most important thing to have in this world is a sense of humor.
+1
That turd's a floater.
Did you know the Costa Concordia from the incident back in Jan 2012 was owned by Carnival Corp & PLC as well?
Since Concordia I`ve been wondering if they're letting these things happen intentionally to their ships to slowly shrink their way instead of admitting there may be a slowdown in business and avoiding further costs. How much insurance money they can get for these events.
i think that the usa gov should provide free cruises for all food stamp and welfare hoes...now wouldnt that be a hoot to be on a ship with the average welfare baby mama. they are already flying around the country. this would make the horror stories even funnier on the ships....
Will the ship sink?
Carnival Triumph is a metaphor for US and all European countries. It big, shiny and gliders in sunlight. But come closer and it smell of shit. Toilets are overflowing and no one know how to fix it. The crew is from some third world country that never saw running water. The captain and offices are clueless. The ship just drifts in the middle of the ocean with no particular direction.
I thought [Zero Hedge] was a (radical) fringe blog when I started posting over 2 years ago. I was really wrong with my assumption.
Zero Hedge is more REAL than standing on train tracks at midnight, with a freight train coming full bore @you!
There certainly is including a bunch of conspiracy nuts or white supremacist trash. Find the posts and who comments on them varies greatly depending upon the topic. Anything mentioning Israel or Obama typically gets the biggest responses but also a ton of sheer garbage too. I prefer the ones that address a specific economic or business story/issue. Posters tend to have more insightful/interestig commentary instead of ranting.
That was an eloqent RANT, If I ever read one. You're hooked and love it!
I agree 100%...
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I'd much prefer to hear calm rational debate on how 'traders on the floor' are reacting to the BLS reports, & the 'Fed Minutes', than all this mumbo jumbo about phantom string pullers...
We'd be MUCH CLOSER to the truth if we could just focus... You know... on 'the reports' & stuff... I especially like the wise & intelligent commentary made by those scholarly fellows named Krugman, Greenspan, & Bernanke...
You, are the best of the best. Thanks for your kind comment. I'm looking forward to London. London believe it or not, has X6 times the flow of New York. Transaction taxes will never float in ponzi London clearing houses. Personally, I love London. If you are going to bullshit traders, "do it London style".
London style.
Umm, sounds like a catchy You tube vid...I like it.
the one and only.... 5.5 mil views
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMmyeXeXeK0
filmed at 60 Vic I hear......
I'm English,(blonde fair skinned) and find it hard to deal with Brittish {asshats}. I envy you. Matter of-factly I would employ you to deal with all the "horse shit".
If you want to play mahjong, do it Shanghai style.
A top ten for ZH
Very well done:)
the big story of the week for the US sheople might have been the stranded carnival cruise ship, but the big story of the week for the world's central bank sheople is that the NY Fed's gold is 100% pure, no tungsten found! The just released Treasury Dept audit says so!
http://www.silverdoctors.com/treasury-dept-releases-findings-of-ny-fed-g...
I take that as confirmation that the NY Fed's gold isn't even tungsten, but clay bricks dipped in yellow paint.
People complain too much, bid deal, you had to go a few days without air conditioning, humanity survived thousands of years without running water.
Who is so stupid to go on a ship of fools, deserves to bath in shit.
SmokeyQuinn "is so stupid to go on a ship of fools" and he took his entire family along a year ago.
Go on over to his blog and ask him about it.
Here’s another analogy.
Those phat phuck Boomers like Quinn on that cruise are mostly all A BUNCH OF PUSSIES !!!!!!!!!
The only people deserving respect are the ones that got drunk. You’re stranded. On a boat. In the middle of a large body of water. With not a goddamnthing to do. What better time is there to get drunk??? Fuck the tea totalers.
Yea. And I’ve been reading all over the internet (cuz I never watch MSM cable horseshit) about the trials, tribulations, and “horrors” …… yes, HORRORS!!!!! …. these phat phuck pansies “endured”.
Oh, cry me a goddamn river about waiting “four hours for a hot dog”.
You pussified phat phuck elite pansies wouldn’t starve if you went 30 days without food … in fact, Quinn MIGHT actually become a normal weight.
Goddamn whiners and complainers.
In not too many more years we will all be hungry and up to our ears in sh*t. Consider this a preview.
We need a name for this new "Artificial Reef". S.S. Bernanke comes to mind?
These prose are so boring to read.
We get it. It's over.
Wake us up when things get interesting.
Excellent comparison between government and a floating tub of shit.
I know a woman who loves going on these idiotic cruises at least twice a year. She's probably spent enough money to have purchased her own ocean going yacht over the years with maintenance & marina fees included.
So true. Brilliant!
Do you get out of the shower to pee?
Anybody who has worked in the private sector over the past 30 years must have experienced the evolution from caring, industry knowledgeable, long range thinking management to short term, what is today's stock price, management who know nothing about the business but is only there to make the big bonus or get the big contract to make the big bonus even when results are poor.
Corporations are hollowed out. They consist mainly of marketing/sales/PR that tells everyone that there is a good product regardless of what the truths are.
The charade goes on with big bonus payouts, cooked books until the company goes under or is bought out by someother big company trying to pretend growth.
This situation is very hard on workers who pride themselves on a job well done, not to mention the theft of employees that occurs when corporate bigwigs renege on all the promised pensions and retirement benefits and themselves run off with big payouts.
Here we go again: bad Obama, bad Carnival Triumph. You know things are still working. No one was killed.
You're making too much of both situations. Obama has his hands full with the economy and the wars. He's getting some bad advice, but things are still working, and they will after things come apart if we don't lose our heads. We'll get home, we'll be okay.
Chill out! Stop being so negative.
The Dude
Are you being sarchastic?
There is nothing wrong with theft, enslavement or murder.
Just have a better attitude about it.
You made my day. Long> FoxxCon.
"Obama has his hands full w/ the economy".... You still think the community organizer in chief has a fucking clue what spurs an economy and what makes it shrink? No, this fucker hasn't a clue and quite frankly doesn't give a shit.
Shovel (of Bullshit) Ready
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows...
Carnival Triumph = Ship Of Stools
Robert Plant - Ship of Fools
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc-eDaEZ4LU (5:01)
THe one that came to mind immediately for me was:
World Party - Ship of fools
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHh0V7UjVXI
"ssaaaaaaave me - save me from tomorrow - I don't want to sail with this ship of fools"
I liked the article very much.
Obama gets paid to lie. In Argentina everybody knew who they voted for was going to lie to them. That's how the banksters work it once they are in control.
But they don't have a clue if or not they will get through this one alive. They are gambling and partially blinded by group think because there's a gang and a gagle of them.
Jung went on to explain some reasons behind Nietzsche's quote. Jung elaborated stating that it was because the group entity cannot posses the human quality of morality--because they are not individuals--and, despite obtaining rights of individuals in the U.S. (which they did not do legally BTW; the judge never ruled on it.)
Civilization In Transition from the Collected Works of Jung is a great read and very appropriate for this time.
The [Petri Dish] of humanity is about to get tested. The candles are short and RED<
bearish engulfing candle.
not similarities, mirror image. whoda thunk it possible?
This needs to go viral, the best editorial in YEARS !!! Great writing, great perspective...bravo
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Is ZH a group? Seems like it has a pretty stong identity, common symbols, rituals, formalized denunciations of outsiders, sanctions against dissenters.....
We're hairless apes. Duck! Someone is throwing shit!
Space monkeys, each and every one.
sociologist said:
Fuck off, dickhead. Your mom's an economist!
"It's an ill wind that doesn't blow someone some good"
Just think of all the people who will have jobs cleaning out this tug boat of shit. And they will be getting $9.00 an hour instead of $7.25. Unless they tow it to China of course.
I know how much some people love their cruises. I once had a neighbor who unrealistically said they would live on one if they could. But why anyone would put themself through being on a ship that big with over 4000 people who they've never met before is beyond me. The thought of a Carribean cruise does nothing for me. MAYBE Alaska or a really high end Mediteranean cruise. And I heard years ago that Carnival is the last cruise line you want to be on. Supposedly Norweign is the best.
My friend worked on one for years and met older people who had lived on boats for years because it was cheaper than assisted living, healthcare and food.
She understands delta! +1
Absolutely correct.
And, unlike "Assisted Living" you're not stuck with the same elderlies forever (or until you pop your clogs)!
Better food, REAL entertainment, and plenty of changes of scenery.
What's NOT to love about it!!
(P.s. - I've got the bloody Carnival Cruise Lines ad. back again - $300 Cash Back! (per cabin in VERY small print!!)
Its all about fantasy, and it keeps repeating itself until the end. I think of Edward G Robinson in Soilent Green, He basically exchanges his life and the proteins remaining in his body for a half hour of fantasy, watching films of a past time and listening to cultured music. I fear we will all trade our soul for something like this before its over. Ever think about the words sold and soul and how they sound so much alike?
Is "Soilent Green" the contaminated version??
Seems very appropriate re. this particular article!!
Well Played Sir!
More Cohen please. I'm late for the Carnival.
O's Cruise and Economy CZAR as heard on MSDNC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAmPIq29ro
"Cruising captures the essence of America as we traverse our voyage to hell."
"The disgraceful lack of urgency and refusal of top management to attempt every possible solution to this crisis is a lesson to be learned by passengers and citizens alike. They don’t care about you."
"Instead of leveling with the American people and explaining the dire economic issues confronting our nation that require sacrifice, reality based thinking, and tough choices, we got more platitudes, class warfare, divide and conquer, phantom spending cuts, disingenuous twisting of the truth, intellectual dishonesty and fuzzy math. Public relations spin created by Madison Avenue maggots and pronounced grandly by corrupt puppet politician hacks will not prevent the catastrophic engine failure that will leave this country adrift in a sea of its own feces."
This is a serious piece of writing right here. Nice.
Tyler, this was agreat article. When the big correction hits the problem will be that no everyone will figure out what went wrong and correct their behavior. I can assure you that you will hear people saying that "it's Bushes fault" or "Reagan started this mess". These will be the people who will knock on your door, demanding free food and shelter.
Also the quote from the passenger was enlightening:"What you had was a tale of two ships. You seldom saw a deck officer. I never saw the captain. Some of the people in the upper areas had plenty of air, but down below, it was unlivable. It was like a sauna of sewage. It was the people on the boat that saved Carnival. In an adverse situation, most people will rise to help — that’s just the human spirit." That is what will happen during the big correction, only the individual people will help out.
The government will be too busy delivering what little mail there is and processing individual FEMA claims. Or they may be shooting at us for curfew violations.
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen. –Friedrich Nietzsche
Cruise ships, those for the regular folks, are notorious for rapes/sexual assaults, where alcohol is consumed more than water and management employs gulag tactics to keep offenses repressed. Also, a high percentage (greater than the norm in U.S.) of crew members have criminal records, including rapists and pedophiles. Think of all those children put in organized activities all day with someone whose background has never been checked.
Sounds like Vichy DC.
U.S.S.A. Titanic sailing into the sunset.
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE (3:02)
Barack Insane Obama, the Deceiver in Chief!
Where's Gilligan. Maybe he can help straighten this drifting depression downward out of the Hole?
The Skipper ate Gilligan. Next weak/week , that fuzzzy 105% GDP is going to get eaten. Prepare BitcheZ.
Why didn't they just create makeshift chamber pots and throw the sewage overboard every morning? jesus, what the hell is wrong with people?
Hell, I'd hang my ass over the side of the boat, and let it streak down the side. Fuck 'em.
You know, comparing the Ship of State to the Triumph (ha, as if) or Titanic (too big to sink) is totally appropriate and bringing in the terrorism (false flag) of 9/11 is appropriate too. Think of 9/11 as the bottle of champagne smashed accross the bow of this Ship of State before her maiden voyage.
Pick you who want for claiming "King of the World" as it sails ramming speed toward destiny.
Sometimes I tend to feel Mr. Quinn gets repetitive, though when the intended audience fails to consider his points, what he says probably does bear repeating. In this essay, however, he polished the message better than in any of his other writings. Though it is depressing, it is accurate: someone afforded the privilege of leadership must begin to lead.
Fine piece of work, Mr. Quinn.
"...besides the annual State of the Delusion speech by Barack"
When one looks at the big picture from outside of the box, it is plain Jane obvious that people have come a long ways in the modern terminology that describes exactly what it is when it does come to certain things. We all should be darn grateful that so many people do get it, and more and more are every day. It was very difficult telling people to wake up two weeks after 9/11 when it became painfully obvious by the reports of remote-controlled planes being used, and the sudden collapse of building number 7 at 5:30 pm that afternoon from no real traumatic reason, that something was definitely horribly wrong. Looking back retrospectively, and comparing the darkness then to the new state of light we all live in now, we have come a long ways good people. What remains to be seen is, can the American people see all the evil corruptions and anti-American activities too rally together to save the country? Can they pull it together as One People following the collapse, and reset after the banks go off the cliff?
Many people say good riddance to them evil banksters and yes, it is possible to revive and power-up all the old infrastructure to rebuild America. It is possible to stop spending so much on the out of control war business for the profits of foreign banksters and corrupted US politicians, returning all that tax money into being recycled in to the country, instead of it going out of it. It is still all possible if some crazy hateful puppet apartheid evil murderous country of not God's people at all working for their lord bankster owners the rottenchids do not do something absolutely insane during the time of Purim that is coming next Sunday and Monday (24-25th) of February. Those Japanese folks have been pretty laid back lately, so everything should be OK. The last tick-tick of the banksteronians can come on any Friday?
http://www.zengardner.com/purim-why-war-on-persia-iran-could-start-march...
And those babylonians are on the run too, because they are being uncovered all over the globe as the evil they are. Everybody knows and yet, the hoax of the moneychangers goes on day after day to the slow death it is headed towards. Let us all hope that Justice and Truth snips the buds now before these crazies start yet another war for profits, and the destruction of most peoples way of life world-wide to cover up the crash. Let Justice stop any contrived false flag event that may or may not be forthcoming soon to again purposely change history from it's natural progression. Anyone who actually thinks they can escape the already accumulating radiation around the world after even one huge detonation goes off anywhere, is just plain ol stupid. Each and every soul on board should be working ferociously to save the ship, expose the criminals for the hand of true Justice to deal with, and to bring home ALL our troops from all over the world to become farmers, and not murderers and killers of innocents.
We the Heart of America are truly sorry for what our out-of-control govt has done to the peoples of the world for the last decade and more. If all the people had all the truths, maybe they would ALL make better decisions and stop electing these criminals over and over and over again to keep the corruptions rolling and rolling and rolling along with no abatement. The greatest most horrendous evil and enemy of America ever in history is the main stream media propaganda machine. It alone will be responsible for the destruction of this country and remaining free world. Those criminals that spew the lies and dis/mis-information daily are the lowest of the scum bucket slop and when the hands of real justice have their way, there will form a new place in hell for them to ALL suffer in. Hang a reporter next to a bankster and it will be the best pay per view entertainment around. The long short of it all is, will the history books reflect that the great American people were just to stupid and uninformed to learn form history? Will they even in the face of all the knowledge that is available today, let the criminals kill their country and ways of life? Is this really the change they wanted?
“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become to self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us, then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”
President Abraham Lincoln
April 30, 1863, Proclamation for a National Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer.
To hell with the damm cruise vessels. Real vacationers know to head for the mountains.
WEEKEND WARRIORS RULE!
CCL is the symbol for those want to short this turd of a company.
SILVER is the symbol for those who want to short this turd of a country.
Silver For The People
Great description of the problem (with the usual blindspot of observation that there is no law, and no sovereignty because there is no Constitution when the republic has been Usurped by an illegal putative President) without describing how to regain the republic, and take back our country from the criminals whom have captured it.
Barack Hussein Obama (that IS his middle name) is a foreign agent domestic enemy sitting in the WH playing with his favorite toys– the drones. He was born British of a British subject father, and is therefore ineligible, (not a natural born Citizen), no matter if born on the Oval Office desk. Here is US law, with respect to that definition (and which JQ refuses to even consider— like I made it up):
“The Constitution does not in words say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners”. Minor v. Happersett, 88 US 162, 167
Barack Obama’s foreign father makes him ineligible— if found so, and the people wake up, all of the bills, executive orders, and appointments of the Usurper become null and void. The Treason committed by Congress and protected by the useful idiot media would become apparent. the curtain would be pulled back on the Wizard Central banker criminals behind the curtain. Yet JQ refuses to make the most important subject of all part of his talented scribbles. Why? Supposedly he must think that it is nit picking (like obeying the security requirement for the highest office in the land is “nit picky”— like it’s somehow not fair). Or, like others, he thinks that the Usurper is another in a long line of puppets. However this is a particularly destructive puppet, one which destroys any semblance of law, because when the President, whom is the executor of the law is illegal, then there is no law! What other reason would there be to muscle in an illegal President? Seen any bankers go to jail? Obama is the poster child for whom the founders did not allow to be President— the British subject son of a British subject Kenyan father, raised and immersed is a hotbed of anti-American thought, and steeped in a caustic worldview gleaned from Communists, Islamists, Black Nationalist, and Alinskyan Community organizing. Barack Hussein Obama is EXACTLY whom the founders were preventing from the Presidency. See Federalist 68– Obama is not a “creature of our own” because his father was an “improper ascendant” (IMPROPER ANCESTOR).
Yet JQ is demure to all of that. To him Obama is an affable fellow in over his head and no worse than any other puppet, when in fact Obama represents the death of the Republic. Why this blindspot? Is JQ a coward, and told to shut up, or is he a steam vent purposefully planted to provide a relief valve to the disgruntled public? Is he just not that smart? Is he afraid of the ramifications of the Obamanation exposed and rioting in protection of their master? Were his parents not US Citizens when he was born, and feels it unfair that he is not an eligible natural born Citizen (I see this a lot)?
The point is that the way back is directly in front of us, and JQ refuses to take that path of exposing the true treason. Of course he will attack me as some sort of loon, without refuting anything that I have cited— I have given you all proof that Obama is a Usurper.
And what abot TD?
And there are other illegal vandidates waiting in the wings. Rubio and Jindal are both not eligible, as they were born to non US Citizen resident alien parents. Santorum was not eligible either. His father was not naturalized by the time he was born. McCain was born in the PCZ, and needed US Code 8 S. 1403 to be considered a US Citizen. When born on US soil to US Citizen parents there is no need for any statute to gain citizenship--- what else would that child be but a US Citizen--- thus that child is a natural born Citizen.
McCain is the biggest traitor of all--- a supposed American hero that sold out the Republic, and shielded the ineligibility of Barack Obama --- see Resolution 511.
Think it's a coincidence that all these ineligible candidates are flying around? The push for the next one (Rubio) is already under way--- even at Time Magazine.
Can you imagine the 4000 giant arses deficating after an orrgy of face stuffing? The giant sized arses filling red bag after bag, holy crap.
5,000 red plastic bags? Check.
One catapult? Check.
All set for the apocalypse.
This is an excellent article. It gives me hope that maybe, just maybe, when the SHTF, decent, good people will help one another instead of turning on each other.