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The Gravity Of Our Situation
We have heard all day long what a dismal wreck the Republican Party is about to become, or has, courtesy of the "Wheel of Misfortune" among others. In light of this "fold" we though the following "infographic", courtesy of Jim Quinn's Burning Platform, would help with a "fair and balanced" perspective of just how irresponsible Washington has become, and that at the end of the day, there is no difference between "our" team and "their" team.
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I guess that reality did not fit into the theme:
"Republicans are so irresponsible"
Re; Those sport neither a donkey nor elephant head.
Actually, "fiat currency, central banks and fractional reserve banking" keep the Red and Blue Team in power.
Everybody loves creating free money. And the voters want both teams to keep doing it.
The ONLY thing they disgree about is who should get the most free money.
(Git yer hands off my medicare motor-scooter you goddamn commy libertarian!)
From the blog, "Reading Between the Lines"
For Boehner, the writing is on the wall for the end of his Speakership as he becomes the Obama of the HouseBy Kenneth E. Lamb
For Boehner, this is the end. It is the most devastating disaster of his incompetence as a leader.
So Obama and the Dems win again. They won because the Speaker is an inept patsy for their power plays. He is incapable of managing his own House, and now, again, the GOP looks the fool.
He, and the rest of the so-called GOP leadership, again lost the "words war" to the Dems.
The Dems got America to believe the GOP is the villain, and that all the Dems wanted was a "clean" Continuing Resolution - and for some unknown reason the GOP never rebutted their wordsmithing by calling it The Democrats Filthy Continuing Resolution - filthy with ObamaCare and its catastrophic effects.
I lost count of the number of bills the House passed to keep the government funded - sans ObamaCare.
The GOP even got to the point of doing what it should have done first, and passed a bill to require the Congress, its staffers, and the administration's political appointees - including the president, the VP, and their staffers - to sign-up for ObamaCare themselves - without the ungodly federal subsidies to wipe out the payments from the insured.
(Note to House and Senate members: I want exactly the same Gold ObamaCare policy and federally subsidized net price as you are getting. Let's see your duplicitous selves produce that for me - and for all the rest of us getting stuck with this abomination. We'll be sure to ask when you're going to do that at your next Town Hall.)
But Boehner and his gang of incompetents never got the idea across to America that it is the Dems in the Senate who were keeping the government shut down.
No matter how many times Obama and Reid said they would not negotiate, no matter how many times they said they would not allow the government to be funded on any terms but their own, no matter how many times they lied about a so-called clean Continuing Resolution that was nothing more than a "take it or leave it" acceptance of what they wanted - Boehner and his crew never got the truth across.
That is hard-core incompetence.
Some will blame the MSM. Aren't we at a point now when it has been long enough that the GOP should have built bridges to the American public to make an end run around those propagandists?
There are plenty of conservative outlets - starting with Fox - that offer a forum for communicating the truth; but the GOP could neither communicate the truth nor mobilize the people.
That is also - even more so at this point - hard-core incompetence.
And Boehner is in the power position that he must accept responsiblilty for not doing that.
Of course, all this also lends credibility to the argument that the Congress is a bought-off group of campaign fund whores who do what the oligarchs tell them to do.
If any member of Congress doubts that, get out of The Bubble and walk down the streets of your district or state and just ask anyone you meet. They won't lack for words to tell you off to your face.
Throw in the reality that we now have a Fourth Branch of government - the Money Branch - embodied in the privately held FED and its bank owners - the TBTP (Too Big To Prosecute) Banksters and Wall Streeters, starting with Jamie Dimond - who are now the true source of funding the federal government, and America can see for itself the increasing irrelevancy of Congress in running the country.
Treasury Secretary Lew's crocodile tears warning of fire and brimstone were nothing but a PR stunt in fear-mongering; so what did you expect him to say - that his boss Obama is a lying idiot and nothing big is going to happen to the stock market if the default deadline passes?
Boehner should have vaporized Lew. But instead Lew got away with another Obama lie campaign without a peep from the Speaker.
Let's face it: The stock market is not going to crash so long as the FED keeps printing money out of thin air.
America went bonkers when the elites proposed $800-billion in 1-year for a stimulus plan; Bernanke and his bank-owned FED pump $850-billion into the asset-management firms in just 10 months.
They dump over a trillion dollars a year into stocks through the scam call Quantitative Easing; and they have shipped well over a trillion dollars directly into European banks as well.
If America only knew, and understood, the way it is getting looted by this TBTP criminal class.
But because of the outright powerlessness of Boehner, the poster child for powerlessness, the charade plays on. Only now the House no longer calla the budget shots - the Senate, de facto, does.
Congratulations Speaker Boehner, for abdicating the constitutional power of the House under your watch.
So now the Senate will decide how to spend the money - and the House will again relinquish its constitutional responsibility to decide who gets how much, and when they get it.
Boehner, do the right thing by us, our children, our grandchildren, and all who follow, and resign as Speaker. You have no respect from the GOP or the nation.
You have become the Obama of the House.
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I give it 60 days before Bath House Barry is Ruling by 'Emergency Powers.'
He is already.
That we should be so lucky. Anything that takes control away from the insane teabaggers would be an improvement.
Yes, Geruda, heaven forbid that anyone EVER make even a half-hearted attempt at ---- gasp! --- hell, not even rolling back the ever-increasing power of Leviathan government, but merely halting its growth for a while.
What kind of insanity is yours?
How much does Bath House pay you to post here?
I am looking for a side job.
Tool.
just one correction, "the Dem's got their media handmaidens to convince the public that it is now and forever more always the fault of the Republicans".
There fixed it for ya.
Oh, and also, "Boehner, do the right thing and suicide bomb dear leader".
How can you win the 'words war' when the media is 100% with the other side?
+1
There is a revolving door between his admin and all the Tv networks. Until Americans unplug TV and Hollywood - they control the masses. Fox is no better and you cable and sat TV bill supports all of them.
They could ramp up the fear and hate to 11 out of 10. Do a little EBT failure. Send out a memo that food stamps cards might not work.
The EBT situation is the cue that is was all going to come to a conclusion (as if there was any real doubt).
Should no agreement have been reached, that would have created a shitstorm so unbelievable, it is hard to fathom.
Perhaps they are saving that drama for the final act, when the clowns in office need to exit stage right, before the ship finally sinks.
If we are going to continue to base our entire economy on invading other nations, the least we could do is increase pay to the military personel / soldiers and split the booty up with them 50/50.
Hell if we are going to hell, lets go in style.... our soldiers should be driving pimped out escalades with gold rims into battle, our drones should play ride of the valkery on loud speakers while doing runs, our fighter jets should actually land and turn into transformer type mechs with Gatling cannons, and the Commander in Chief should ride Optimus prime into battle............ for 17 trillion dollars, we should expect no less.
What a wate of money, we should of opted for the Death Star instead of health-care, atleast it would of looked cool and we could of used it to threaten other nations into buying more of our worthless papaer.
Re; What a wate of money
Get your commy libertarian hippy hands off of Big-MIC. That's not a crony-capitalist centrally planned monopoly, that's an invest in our children's future!
well as a conclusion if the debt ceiling crisis has now come to resolution : an additional nail in the coffin of PAx AMericana hegemony; that is the general conclusion on the Net about this congressional fiasco.
As for the Tea Party they do not come out of this mess with any honour; all the contrary. They are the laughing stock of the democrats; thats half the nation of USA.
They are also daggers drawn with their other members of the GOP duck soup fraternity.
Not to mention the non american Web which considers the republican right as being the prime troublemakers capable of lighting the fuse to a world financial crisis that would hurt the DC most.
This is only a step on the moving escalator...
Can I just slide down the banister? I want off.
talking about sliding down; Mark Twain once said something that history attributes to Frederick II after he got himself excommunicated for defying the Pope.
Pierro de la Vigna : Well Sire you place in heaven is now "verboten". Pope Gregory IX says you are persona non grata up there.
Frederick : You know coming to think of it, I think I'll prefer the other place, all things said and done. As although its much hotter down there the company is much more lively than of those deadly, boring holy cows living upstairs.
So slide away and happy landings!
Thanks, fp! ;)
The culling shall commence soon!debt based currency.. the destroyer of empires..
I'd say it's time to look into that $250k offer from Antigua
http://world.time.com/2013/10/15/antigua-selling-citizenship-for-250k/
If Cruz, Paul, Lee or even just one of them did the honrable thing - there might be a faint hope
but alas not at this point
enter Chaleston Heston
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb4eZ7Z5yk8
That anyone could think that epicene oily fake Cruz was capable of anything other than sucking on himself, as in, doing something perhaps 'honorable' is remarkable.
It was fun reading the Bloomberg article about Jim DeMint, the "real" Speaker of the House. In it, teabagger Renee Ellmers was detailed as having to be "coached" by some woman in Southern Pines, North Carolina. Seems DeMint adopted Obama's Organizing for America and DeMint had the idea it could be co-opted by him and applied to teabagger causes. Karl Rove was quoted as saying defunding Obamacare would never work. It's cool to see on Mtt Romey Central that RomneyCare has worked for the past 7 years.The article ended by quoting a Democrat operative who said DeMint should speak in every city, every day of the year. DeMint is a great recruiter for the Democrats.
Renee Ellmers was online last Monday running her mouth on CNN. I thought "make your brain blonde." But by Friday, Renee Ellmers had so much contempt poured onto her Facebook page she backed down and had the House of Representatives Comptroller "hold" her salary.
My message is I scratch a Republican and I find a hypocrite. Renee and Jim: stand by the courage of your convictions. Don't back down, and don't think you look cute having a Facebook page. Your brains are blonde. Take swiftboating as it comes to you. Blacks represent 13% of the US population; teabaggers represent the same percentage, and it ain't Blacks who are stapling teabags to their hats.
You are locked into one pole of a political dialectic, shooting your demons onto the other pole, then reviling those demons, a form of self hatred.
Free yourself Heroic Couplet. Plz.
Over.
I kind of think the drool stains on his Che' t shirt makes him look avant garde.
As soon as Bath House declares his Dicktastership, I will have Che T-Shirts on speshul for ZH members.
If he doesn't beat up That "pole" who will on this site. It's wingerville here. There is boo koo bashing of the Other pole here. Everybody deserves there fair share of abuse. Get over it.
Re; scratch a Republican and I find a hypocrite
Git yer hands off my Medicare you hippy, I'm ENTITLED to that 50th hip replacement surgery and it's a damn shame we don't get boob-jobs included too. I'm the worlds greatest generation, that's makes me ENTITLED!
And get a goddamn haircut, I didn't spend my entire day complaining, i "worked" for a living as a Big-MIC IT contractor makin this great-n-glorous country great-n-glorious.
As I wait in line at my local grocery store and watch that 13% of the population whip out their SNAP cards, I wonder is it really the Teaparty that is responsible for the est: 90 trillion we are in debt? (sarc)
What I find most humorous is quoting Karl Rove as an expert on why we should not defund Obamacare. The stupidity is so rife that these people will soon be watering thier house plants with Gatorade.
It must be very depressing to be you.
The brighter bulbs who visit here know it's good reading when the junk count is high. You almost need to have swig of pepto bismol before reading about that fool, in fact I saw his name in a headline but couldn't bring myself to do it.
I have found that a "high junk" count is especially valued by trolls and, of course the hopelessly un-informed. It's viewed as being "Heroic".
Your screed makes you sound suspiciously like a shithead Democrat. Say it ain't so.
Congrats. Make a clear readable and reasonable 3 paragraphs and on ZH you get answered by a page worth of drunks, meth heads and wannabee intellectuals.
The coming train wreck is inevitable. I believe.
The fall of the dominance of the US dollar is inevitable. I believe.
The fate of the global economy walks a tightrope; countries trying to find bungee cords to insulate themsleves from the coming disasters; and I do mean plural disasters. I believe.
As a Northern neighbour whose resident idiot in charge desires to emulate what is US politics. I pray that the train wreck can hold off a few more minutes. Time enough to beat down gold. Please give me more time to buy on what are inflation-eroded wages governed by job insecurity.
I do believe.
Don't think this is how the slogan was meant to be applied.
We are not Red or Blue, we are the Home Team.
We are not left or right, but square in the middle.
This is our House, they are only the visitors.
It is time to forclose on the visitors and take our House back.
It should be time for actions, just not words.
We are 99 against 1, however powerful the1 may be.
Time to make a stand? You should count on it....beware.
Tick tock...
There are two factions in the Statist Party in Mordor on the Potomac. They only disagree on how they should spend your Federal Reserve Notes (they call it money).
Mordor......the images it conjures when describing the lot of thiefs is appropriate.
Where in finesest rhetorical style the part stands for economic whole. Any theory of markets and men is revolutionary.
In a country ruled by an autocracy, with a completely enslaved press, in a period of desperate political reaction in which even the tiniest outgrowth of political discontent and protest is persecuted, the theory of revolutionary Marxism suddenly forced its way into the censored literature before the government realised what had happened and the unwieldy army of censors and gendarmes discovered the new enemy and flung itself upon him.
Lenin, What Is To Be Done?, “Criticism in Russia” (1901)
Is it time to embrace communism as the way to salvage this farce of a system?
Over.
I do believe that is the plan for us.
USSA! USSA! USSA!
Food will be one of the main weapons used against The People, as Stalin did. You will be happy to sign up for your USSA Govt assigned work detail for enough scraps to feed your family, but they will be working, too. I imagine the Regime will also cut the amount of calories as to starve out undesirables.
Ayers was a Maoist; what permutation of revolutionary socialism they have in mind is yet tobe seen in detail. I would think it will be more National Socialist/Fascist.
The 'won ting wong' deal though is these mentally ill power grabbers always overreach.
Americans may indeed win back their Independence, but the US will be only a shell of its former self. That, in itself, may be a good point to begin again.
PERFECT!
I've been studying this article for years now and I'm ready:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4743101_dress-like-communist.html
Over.
Thanks for the share.
You still don't get it.
Wealth is power. For all practical purposes the only power. The government we have contains the best tools ever conceived for providing an intelligent, caring, informed population the tools for keeping on a correct course.
The government is only a tool.
Who uses the tool determines the outcome.
The Oligarchy has seized the tool. How blind do you have to be not to realize that when 40% of the wealth is in the hands of so few, something wrong has taken place and no form of goverment can fix it. If any could it would be ours. Look around, if you think the tea party politicians are stupid, have a look at who keeps them in office. Start by hanging out at gunshows and titty bars. From there check out the fatasses who listen to Rush Limbaugh and his types. The guy breaking his ass re-roofing your house and leaf blowing your yard won't likely be one of them, I reckon.
From your thesis set forth I say that you good sir do not get it.
But thanks for playing and remember you cannot be awarded this prize more than once every 3 months although you can still post your submissions for consideration.
The guys who are roofing your house and blowing your leaves don't listen to Limbaugh, they listen to La Movida. (and so do I)
Did a long criticism of Boeing today (on that Air India Dreamliner mishap), and a rant about the fucking hypocrisy of yanks who delight in the misfortunes of others, ceaselessly complain about shoddy foreign shit while selling even shoddier domestic crap, always deflect blame abroad - it's offshoring donchaknow -, and get into hysterics for months if some other country was equally as bad as them. I mean, just imagine the msm hyperbole if Boeing were a British or Chinese company.
But I refrained from posting because, let's face it, it reeks of schadenfreude and there are quite a few yanks on ZH who are pretty decent and do a better job of being acerbic. The only thing that fits what I wrote there and this article is this: None of this should come as a surprise to those who gaze in open mouthed disbelief at the insane antics of the powerful whenever they talk on the msm.
These "people" who are at the top echelons of every industry sector, including politics, are invariably loud, infantile morons who live for greed and instant gratification. They are the magnified reflection of the typical materialistc consumer, the King Shit on a heap of shitty people who despise liberty if it hinders their safety, applaud subjugation, mass murder, torture and theft as long as it happens to some other guy on the planet. Whose only answer to the befouled constitution and ignoring the warning words of wisdom from Ben Franklin, Jefferson, Twain, through to Eisenhower are the two numbers, 9-11, to evoke the bogeyman and rationalise their insane behaviour on debt, surveillance, injustice, war, propaganda, and more fucking debt to fund the whole charade.
If you wonder, as I do, why we keep getting shitty people in positions in power, all you have to do is look at the 'talent' pool from whence they sprung: The general population of the stupid, violent, hate mongering, entitled, exceptional brigade screaming, "We're No.1" until their ears bleed and tears of ecstasy fall. Every country has them, even mine, but I dare say none so shamelessly vocal as in the MIC.
"The only thing that fits what I wrote there and this article is this...."
Wrong. Nothing fits
Ya missed the Syrian debacle / embarrassment ... don't blame you though... so has Lame Stream media.
"Son......you're on your ownnn"...
American democracy, where the most adept liar is voted in by the most ignorant voter without any qualification of any sort by either participant. Hell, you don't even have to be a citizen.
So,
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?
My wife says that in the Philippines the politicians provide the entertainment and the actors provide the politicking.
The sooner we can all see that it's NOT different HERE and NOW the sooner we discover what the "solution" is (and those who are familiar with me will know that I'll claim that governments are not the "solution," and as much as Reagan suggested this, I take it farther- we need to get rid of them COMPLETELY).
In fact, I am amused to death...
Roger has been onto this shit for years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-P614lmP3Y
750 MILLION folks in India live on $0.50/day.
"Americans' are so caught up in their sense of entitlement that they don't realize that most of the world is far more fucked up.
"Middle class," globally speaking, is really something like "middle class in Albania."
Great example, Rex. Pretty much the same with Filipinos, except that they tend to smile more. I think that my wife's family when they were growing up were more middle class than lower, but this isn't saying a lot when toilet paper is still a luxury item...
So, I am firmly grounded.
The rubber band was streteched really tight and there's no such thing as releasing it a little, or a lot, as it's just going to be one big fucking SNAP! I guarantee that politics and all this shit will end up being the LAST things people will be worrying about.
First-world problems are a bitch.
Not all Americans, but tea bagger mentals so fucked up the average makes it look like everyone...
Great way to provide some sort of actionable info!
There's a bit of truth in just about everything. I never wear blinders when I'm looking for truths...
But as I noted above, it's al going to vanish, GUARANTEED: and I'm happing to keep suckers' credentials up-to-date via wagers. Can't have perpetual growth on a finite planet. Your move...
Geruda, I liked you much better as a dumbfuck Indian.
The median income worldwide — the amount that is dead middle between the least and the highest amounts — is $850 US Dollars (USD). People who have incomes of $41,000 USD are in the top 3% in terms of the richest people in the world.
Bo Money , Bo Problems !
Three years ago I spoke with a 'Globalist' who seemed to know stuff. I thought his Globalist view were "interesting" when he said:
"There two ways to address the huge disparity in affluence between the Developed world and the Under-developed world: We can either bring them up to our level, or we slide down to theirs. What will likely happen is a bit of both."
Seems to me that the sum total of (a) fiat dollars & global trade, plus (b) offshoring & outsourcing, plus (c) technology & automation have helped achieve this. Most of them are better off, most of us aren't.
And unless we also get a grip on global population growth in these "under-developed" places, our sense of 'altruism' will only have delayed the inescapable Endgame: Hot/Kinetic competition for earth's remaining resources.
What will likely happen is a bit of both."
Same thing happens if a crocodile eats you. Some of YOU becomes IT and the rest turns to croc shit.
Shipping our production offshore and bringing in the cheap technically skilled to replace those of our own who benefited us all by sharpening home grown skills thus ensuring we have a chance to stay in front is just one of the myriad ways the obscenely wealthy oligarchy has fucked our social experiment, the one initiated by the founding "Fathers".
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.Thomas Jefferson
"Shipping our production offshore and bringing in the cheap technically skilled to replace those of our own who benefited us all by sharpening home grown skills thus ensuring we have a chance to stay in front is just one of the myriad ways the obscenely wealthy oligarchy has fucked our social experiment, the one initiated by the founding "Fathers"."
Ever consider that things change?
The "experiment" was chalk full of abundant resources. BIG wealth was extracted out of the ground. That fountain has shrunk, especially in proportion to population size. And the US's population is aging. Look at the demographics. Look at it in OTHER countries and you'll see how the pattern goes: ramp up when median age is lower; sophistication starts being seen and GDP levels rise; as wages and infrstructural costs increase product costs are increased; population starts aging and companies start looking for places in which to maintain/improve their margins.
I found obvious clarity by looking at population growth, age curves and energy consumption (always seeing energy imports grow to offset export revenue).
No, it's been NO conspiracy. This is how it works!
That's the bad news. The good news is that there really isn't anywhere else to exploit, and there isn't much natural capital left to incite any lifts to growth for anything but the shortest amounts of time (if even at all).
In the future when we look back on it all we'll likely say that it was pretty smart to off load auto and TV manufacture elsewhere, as we're sitting around a wood stove or camp fire, no TVs or autos in sight...
Ever consider that things change?
Do I come off as that stupid to be asked such a question? Can you think of a thing that doesn't change.
The little realized fact is that we bring into existence the world we experience. We have no idea the potential that exists.
spurious jefferson quote. Please refrain from using.
They will be confronted with Resource limits as much as anyone else I think.
90% of the large fish in the ocean are gone.
Water problems everywhere
Energy Density/Supply problems (Peak Oil and other Physical realities)
Global movement of goods even with cheap labor at one end will not be as possible or as cheap.
They won't see it coming either. They are in essence are building an Maginot Line for defense made out of money. Little do they know the "War" won't come to Them on that front..... If you catch my drift.
Read an article today about the French Rev. The 40,000 or so nobles who while on their way to the guillotine wondered how it had come to this. They couldn't believe that the poor were that pissed. Only days before their life was all parties and such.
"Most of them are better off, most of us aren't. "
Huh?
I repeat what I posted above: 750 MILLION people in India live on $0.50/day.
"most of us aren't." Maybe it's because we were blowing through a good 200, 400 times that?
That "our" party won't be continuing (has stopped for many) is more to do with this over-consumptive society than it has to do with others' inability to control their population sizes.
'And unless we also get a grip on global population growth in these "under-developed" places'
It's about CONSUMPTION! And the so-called "developed" countries have depended on the exploitation of resources in "non-developed" countries.
"our sense of 'altruism' will only have delayed the inescapable Endgame"
That 'altruism' is the spear of exploitation, that's how it's always worked: in present history it's been about promises of a better future via "democracy," in the past it was about promises of a better future via "religion." No, the altruistic part is nothing but a fraction of the mechanism, it's the sales job done on ourselves (to excuse our exploitation of people in other locations) to stave off guilt.
"Hot/Kinetic competition for earth's remaining resources." Aye it is. It won't be the Endgame, it'll be the New Game: pure survival.
Must have been one of those "exceptional" "American" down-voting me...
Piker couldn't stand in the ring with me for more than a couple of volleys. Go hide you coward.
Hear, hear Seer. +1000.
Yooz gots it all wrong muthaffukkerz, it's all Bushs fault.
There I fixed it.
What do it mean "has become"...
Long time has been, sure as hell is now, always will be as darwinism kicks in...
As Nature's capital depletes. Using Darwin's name (though much of what he was trying to get across got intepreted incorrectly) only opens it up to this being some conspiracy by non-religious types (or such). Nature and Nature's God... one and the same...
So let it be open...only to those stupid enough to see it that way. We're long past the point where trying to use intelligent arguments on those folks has any payback.
Using the modern idiom in any case - Darwin awards etc...
"We're long past the point where trying to use intelligent arguments on those folks has any payback."
Sadly, the fallacy would be in believing that it EVER did. Besides, "intelligence" is relative. What gets you by today might not work tomorrow. But, the masters of power are more than happy to define what "intelligence" is/means (as they manipulate such to control [think of the "educational" system]).
People, in my opinion, ought to focus on thought over trigger words/names. Yes. names and such provide a basis for connection, but they're also tools that are masterfully used by TPTB, and you cannot beat them at their game.
EXCELLENT!!!! Best cartoon I've seen in decades. Great work!
<--- On our team: free markets, small government, personal liberty, the civil society, capital accumulation, high wages, stable dollar, low taxes.
<--- On their team: Obama, government employees, crony capitalists, tax eaters, the legacy media, the total state, the Democrat party, the Fed.
"Our team" fails because it cannot persist. Never has there been any continuing "small" government (unless it's at a tribal level). And, because this is a FINITE planet, continued accumulation of capital cannot occur in perpetuity. But it sounds good enough, doesn't it? I'm sure that, just like all other promises, it'll get folks to buy in to it...
Oh, and yes, it's ALWAYS the "other team" that's at fault. I know because I'm never wrong and I'm on "a team."
Its free money!! Interest rates are at an all time low while the deficit and debt are at near all time highs. Can we double the spending without any cost? Why not try? Obama/Ben have found an unlimited source of free money. The only thing that will change this condition is if/when China links its currency to gold. That may never happen. So all currencies are worthless, debt will never be repaid and there is no inflation since jobs are not being created and there is no wage pressure. Robots are replacing fast food workers, grape pickers, truck drivers so millions of crappy jobs will continue to be eliminated. Dow 21000 next year.
Black Swan: the house of cards catches on fire.
Saw an article the other day about people looking to sell body parts. I'm thinking that it's going to be a race between Dow 21000 and there being enough actual humans to consume what that Dow number "produces."
I'm thinking that people are finally getting it that the deck of cards is loaded. The flames will add extra disincentive to play the game...
Its free money!! Interest rates are at an all time low while the deficit and debt are at near all time highs. Can we double the spending without any cost? Why not try? Obama/Ben have found an unlimited source of free money. The only thing that will change this condition is if/when China links its currency to gold. That may never happen. So all currencies are worthless, debt will never be repaid and there is no inflation since jobs are not being created and there is no wage pressure. Robots are replacing fast food workers, grape pickers, truck drivers so millions of crappy jobs will continue to be eliminated. Dow 21000 next year.
Infinite debt ceiling and borrowing until the US dollar crashes and burns.
Allows for more Fed printing. Rinse and recycle until the currency crisis.
I'm thinking that trade wars are going to start heating up. Politicians have no more ammo with which to affect anything in which case they'll resort to "championing" national industry. And at some time we'll see a policy of giving tax breaks to our companies who have offshored and need to come back home to roost (heat produced from trade wars will cause their host countries to make things really tough; likely some take-overs happening). It'll be patriotic don't ya know! Cannot wait until we're making TVs here in the USofA once again! (</sarc on the last sentance>)
This might be true. But I just want to throw something your way. What if these companies are provided incentives by the host country to stay? What if these companies realize that employees in other countries, in some cases, are just as educated (or better). Speak multiple languages (at least two - English and X ), and expect (or are happy to accept) lower wages due to their location. Add to that the fact that industry has virtually disappeared in the US, and the tax breaks would have to have a benefit greater than the cost of doing business overseas, and it starts to look like trouble.
Just a thought. And I can't claim to be an expert on such things.
There won't be any trade wars. The rulers of the world are internationalists.
Oh no! A nuclear Iran! Why then we wouldn't be able to bully them?! That would be terrible for the transnationals and bankers pulling the strings! Someone's got to protect the bloodthirsty murderous thieving oligarchs!
Also like the one about "intel leaks" - since NSA spying on every single person in the entire world is not an issue, the revelation of it is.
?Missing Nukes?
So where is "Fukuppy" in this menagerie depiction of planet earth?
Between the worst commercial nuclear disaster and a President and Congress hell bent on planning another war in the Middle East, you might as well add to the collection of dysfunction and psychopathy that is the American Government and the "gift(s)" it keeps bringing to the rest of the World.
Interesting the environment isn't listed as one of our current problems. the free market fallacy is in 100% in effect. nature is an externality! until we have none left...then what?
The only REAL capital is Nature's Capital. That's the shit that's actually generated wealth.
I don't begrudge the notion of "free market." The "problem" is that we bought into the line that we can have perpetual growth on a finite planet, That was guaranteed to fail (and IS failing). We're all a bunch of drunks refusing to admit that we have a drinking problem. We'll blame our failures on anything and everything EXCEPT our drinking. And in this case the failure is caused by our inability to understand the consequences of growth, don't understand the exponential function. After collapse we'll still miss this and look for scapegoats ("socialists," "fascists," whatever-ists).
yes we'll blame every 'ism, except our own greed and wanton desires for material fetishes.
I don't think that it's bad to have desires and whatnot. I just see things for what they are. But, yes, it's a survival means for people, being too sensitive would result in tunring into a fetal position. And, really, there is most certainly a minimum for subsitance. Those that continually go past that point and come to expect it are only running on borrowed time: nature tends to even things out, and excess just doesn't work too well in nature.
The System is starting to eat itself. I'm not thinking that it's a place to go for a meal...
it's interesting to think our 'leaders' have unhinged the economy from the environment, and believe in an 'invisible' hand...it's all too sad really.
it's not about desires, but the depth of those desires...and in this culture i think we place too much emphasis on desires...
I'm thinking that the basis for "failure" goes back MUCH farther. "Go forth and multiply" w/o any restrictions seems a recipe for disaster in a finite domain.
I do not judge "culture" because someone may judge my "culture" (though I struggle with defining what that might be; check that, I don't struggle because I have no interest in assigning any label to/on myself).
It's about sustainability. Western "culture" is on top (and US at the very top, thanks to its military arsenal and masters of deception [financiers]). This will not hold/last, as nothing holds/lasts forever.
i agree there are too many people...but i think the bigger problem is how small sliver of that population is choosing to live...too resource intensive...and most of this living is done at an unconscious level...people have no idea what they're consuming, they just consume...
"how small sliver of that population is choosing to live"
the application of natural selection
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_25
now apply that to the FSA post apocalypse.
natural selection fails to explain what's going on because the sliver i am referring to is across the face of the earth, it knows no geographic, cultural, religuous, political, or societal boundaries...
natural selection fails to explain what's going on because the sliver i am referring to is across the face of the earth, it knows no geographic, cultural, religuous, political, or societal boundaries...
The source of wealth is not nature but human intelligence. And that IS infinite. Constraints on growth are social, not natural.
you are totally delusional, and must believe in the 'invisible hand' as well...while at the same time railing against bible thumpers of all kinds....
Precisely. Notice the words that allude to 'lacking empathy' and being' antisocial'.
Let's face it we won the biggest World War that claimed more than 40 million lives 68 years ago that brought with it the awesome responsibility of war technologies that should have never seen the light of day especially -when you consider the incalculable threats and destruction they bring and the overwhelming cost to build and maintain them for military as well as civilian use.
I keep shaking my head in absolute horror and disbelief that the very same Country we destroyed with not one but two detonated thermonuclear weapons is the very same one that is undergoing the worst commercial nuclear disaster thanks to the same Country that brought it to them the first time which in all fairness is ultimately not the reason for it's destruction 2 1/2 years ago. But if we are examining the "chicken and egg" in it's entirety and GE had never been given the permission to build them 37 years ago, then neither would there have been a security contract with Magna-BSP either? To make it all much worse, for 2 1/2 years no U.S. involvement to help with any clean-up efforts and to enforce trade restrictions as necessary if TEPCO and the Japanese Government were non-compliant. Instead? The U.S. enforces new trade deals in agriculture and fishing that looks the other way to accommodate higher levels of radiation in those food sources and gives them a vote up for a summer Olympics in Tokyo that is if anyone will be healthy enough to build that complex and live there when it’s “show time”. You can forget the flocks of tourists with their iodine tablets at the ready.
Wonder what our debt ceiling would be like if we never had a Manhattan Project with John Oppenheimer and a President Truman. Let's hope that if there is a life hereafter that punishes, they are both roasting in a furnace somewhere for all eternity.
it's interesting germany is the only country to react sensibly to the fukishima debacle...they shut down their nuke program...and increased subsidies on renwables...and they are the only country to officially recognize peak oi.
I wish I could shake your hand...
Regarding Oppenheimer, are you talking about J Robert Oppenheimer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer)?
My apologies Seer.
How I could ever associate someone who is regarded with such patrician characteristics with a name like "Julius" to be associated with a "John" should be considered utter blasphemy given his importance.
My bad.
P.S.
Still hope he burns in Hell!
Thank you for bringing up his name (well, close enough :-)), as it forced me to re-research him. I had always been under the impression that he'd been somewhat repentant, but according to Wikipedia that was not the case.
Yeah, "Julius." He probably felt as powerful as Julius Ceasar when he'd seen the results of his work.
What we need someone to start a Second Party platform.
(NOT a 3rd party platform)
change will not, and in fact, can not come from a 'party', it has to be at the indvidual level...billions of people working quietely, silently, trying to consciously create a better world...we will either do this, or we will no longer be a species.
A party is "those who defend a particular social framework". People may work "quietly" but social constraints create a framework under which they work, that is, what they can and cannot do. Example: I cannot sell melatonin because the parties that hold power over my society have determined that they don't know enough about it to know exactly how to control its trade, and they cannot possibly allow such a horribly dangerous chemical to be traded freely.
I agree with what you're saying, but the sticking issue is of SIZE.
I believe that folks should be free from forced coersion to do what they want, organize however they like. I do not see any monolithic uniformity occurring. And let's face it, that's what EVERY ideologue pushes.
If you want to sell melatonin they find a society that allows you to do that. If that's not possible then I don't know why one would endeavor to bash one's head against the wall, unless it's a desire to be a martyr, and, well, people are free to do what they want (until it no longer works or they get caught).
We need a 3rd Party. The 1st and 2nd Suck!
let me tell YOU about gravity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raiFrxbHxV0
a down arrow?
someone must drink Monster.
http://news.yahoo.com/congressional-deal-includes-nearly--3-billion-for-...
Is this unusual?
This is only good if one want to go bezerk.
I remember that champion of small government Newt Gingrich pulling down more pork for his district than anyone else except for the District of Columbia.
There's only ever been but a small handful of folks that have been reasonably honest. The System tolerates a few token ones here and there.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~William Colby, former CIA director (which would suggest that they also own the politiicians)
All hat no cattle? Can't get it up? Hmm... weakest sauce in the room? At the end of the day, the Republicans in congress seem to pretend that they can go the distance, then fall short. Its as if their brains were sucked out by aliens and replaced w/ Mac N Cheese. Its really sad to see them get so trounced by Democrats at the political game. Its as if the Republicans elected the dumbest people in their party to office....come on... they can't even filibuster properly, let alone successfully pull off the debt ceiling dance.
McConnell pulled out a sleazy 3 billion in pork for his troubles. The irony of adding 3 billion in additional expediture, despite the fact that we are flat broke, was not enough for him to refrain from the greedy corrupt temptation his position affords him. Truly sickening. I guess he can thank Cruz for that one.
Washington D.C. has declared war against the United States of America.
Help.
Gravity sucks.
What happened to Francis?
the joos got him
I like revolution. I think they are selling something and not certain what it is yet.
"Every good occupation deserves a resistance."
Could be that people with money are getting nervous and putting up resistance.I'd prefer the military just move in and take advantage of the goldern opportunity that awaits them--for doing what is right, necessary and rewarding.
The war is building.
Civil war will mean more quantitative easing, more drones and more NSA activities.
So nothing changes for the better unless the FED, the army and Yellen drastically reduce their business activities.
Why did gold just spike 40 bucks?
IMO, to the rest of the world, getting a giant, huger, bigger credit card is a bad idea.
Hand grenade monkey now has an unlimited CC.
While the US serfs have been told it's doom unless we go more into hock, the rest of the world sees the greenbacks going down. It will be interesting to watch the dollar index thru the weekend.
I just read Richard Russell's piece in KWN. The guy has been around, like my dad was. His experience was enlightening.
China/Russia, BRIICS are going to make a move. The Euro is not too well, either.
I suspect next month may bring a financial crisis.
So, Au going up in this case is normal. It is exactly what should happen when a reserve currency is on the ropes.
I got more fizz at the current bottom, awoke at o-dark thirty and as I suspected, it was going North.
From here the ride gets worse. Giving in to the Hand Grenade Monkey will only issue in Dictatorship, (or Dicktastership in the case of The Monkeyman).
Keep Stackin'
Keep Packin'
Raise the Flag of Black Bart!
Gold went up today now that the debt limit was raised. Counterintuitive.
Laughing stock comes to mind.
Woot it's been a while since we saw a blue team vs red team type of entry here :lol:
Always the same crap imo, both the blue and the red are responsible for nowadays dreaful situation, I guess people are dumb in those times of instant information, people overloaded with fresh information can't process it properly, something takes time to unwind, Rome was not done in one day, neither it felt in one day.
I guess Romney would have saved the day :lol:
Are they serious? I guess not it is just a cartoon.
No dem would have signed over unilateral debt ceiling approval the way the Rhino's did. This is the hyperinflation guarantee.
Everyone know O'Care was designed to fail.
I would think immigration and then repeal of presidential term limits are the next 2 on the agenda.
This is just like the movie Braveheart. The English and Scottish armies line up and wave flags and stomp their feet, the Scottish noblemen get lands and titles, and the Scottish army returns home to their fields to face higher taxes that must be paid to the king of England.
Consciousness is not restricted by the laws of gravity...