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Guest Post: Why I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love The Currency Collapse
Submitted by Christian Gustafson of Deflation Land
Why I stopped worrying and learned to love the currency collapse
For the past 300 years, the historical pattern has been for the era marked by a century to continue into the following century by fourteen or fifteen years.
Let me explain. Everyone knows that the 19th Century, its uprightness, its optimism and sense of purpose, the halcyon days of British Empire, came to an end with World War I, starting in 1914 and building to a nasty crescendo by 1916. The 20th Century had arrived, and it had some real horrors in store for us.
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But if we return back another hundred years, we notice that the 18th Century ends in 1815 with the final defeat of Napoleon, that final project of the Enlightenment and of the French Revolution. With the Congress of Vienna in 1814-1815, we have a new Europe along the lines of Metternich's plan, and the 19th Century at last is here.
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In 1713 and 1714, we have the Treaties of Utrecht, Baden, and Rastatt, bringing an end to the era of Spain as a major power, and the rise of the Habsburgs. Louis XIV dies in 1715, after reigning for 72 years. The Baroque period is over, and we are now firmly in the 18th Century.
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We still live in the 20th Century. Nothing much significant has changed in our lives in the past twenty years. Symptoms of a deeper rot are appearing here and there, foreshadowing a larger crisis, but the crisis itself has not arrived yet. We still live in an era of Pax Americana, the old republic very much a strained and tired Empire now, with the U.S. Dollar as the world's reserve currency.
That is going to change.
The next task for History is to dismantle the untenable structures and institutions put in place by late Modernity, which have been extended now as far as they can go. Our debt-based monetary system will collapse, our unbacked fiats will be worthless. The debts and unmeetable obligations will all default.
There are ironies and great contradictions as the former home and hope of Liberty becomes viciously unfree and increasingly despotic. Our leaders no longer govern, but try instead to rule us -- they are less legitimate with each passing day, their laws corrupt or worse. They are nearly finished, and will be swept away with the tide.
Just as in 1914, the internationalist system will break down, dashing the hopes of the would-be first-world nations. We will probably have a pretty good war as well, or many local ones worldwide. These transitions tend to involve war.
Deflation first -- it clears the way for the complete loss of faith and hyperinflation that will follow. The next big wave down in the financial markets is the battering ram. The U.S. national debt is about faith, so is quantitative easing, and so is the very idea of magical coins that could ever be "worth" a trillion dollars. When this is faith breaks, in concert with loss of faith in perpetual growth and unlimited cheap energy, then things will move very, very quickly.
There is nothing any of us can do at this point, except navigate the rapids as well as possible, and to stay out of the way of a dying empire, which is still very dangerous in its death throes. We are actually very privileged to be alive and witnessing this next transition, to what we do not know just yet. But what an honor to live at this time, not in ignorance but with an existential resolve to come out of it alive and much the wiser.
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Whatever happened to the commenter who posted the hotty pictures every Friday afternoon - this post needs his contribution stat!
Fat "chick" on motorize fat conveyance device is cause Boris small vomit in mouth.
I'd tap that
(Junk away haters!)
Fat girls do have to work harder. "Spoken by a former whaler!"
Great upper-body strength.
There will always be asses as long as there are chics!
That's an anti Viagra pill you got there.
Fat chicks are like mopeds, they are a lot of fun to ride but you wouldn't want your friends to see you on one.
Call me "tide".
Germany 1923 Hyperinflation killed by taking the meat off people's bones, this time they're going to kill by putting too much meat on their bones...
more meat is always good.
THis isn't meat they're putting on; it's "redundant protoplasm" as a certain wise man once said.
Stop staring at my sister's ass.
You are believe, Boris is try look away, but no matter direction, cannot escape specter of sister.
Good God. Is that a thong, or a boy scout rope bridge project?
Those cheeks look like they would slam shut on you and you would never get the hell out. And how the hell would you know if you are even close to the target zone?
Scary, man. I'm shaking.
I was gonna say the target zone has a high moisture level, but sweat production would prolly throw you off course...
^.^
If you're desperate, lure her home with the promise of pizza, roll her around in flour, locate the wet spot, hold a spoon at the proper angle next to your face so that she looks thin, and go to town.
Great, another flour freak. Fuck the fat chick like you have standards; come in your hand and throw it at her.
Is that Janet Yellen Exposed?
Oh, shit, that's a human?!
The US has built that.
...someone else made that happen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLRQvK2-iqQ
Mother Goose! ........... I'd fuck her.
-- Andrew Dice Clay
Little Boy Blue... he needed the money.
Tyler is having that Fat Fantasy again....
But now is become ghoulish night dream of every other.
(see what Boris is do there, use double entendre to create ironic humor dual purpose prose? "But" as in back of devilish fat girl, not "but" as in conjunctive modifier!)
Boris.. Why do Russian women often have slim bodies but fat heads? And why do American women have fat bodies and slim heads?
Mirror and pirate copy of photoshop? Twinky snack and 32 oz softdrink? Why is bear defecate in wood?
Boom! You just blew my mind.
No, no, "boom" sound is blow out of tire on motorize fat conveyance device.
When along came a spider who sat down besider, and said....... What's in the bowl, bitch?
Fat chicks are like mopeds, they are a lot of fun to ride but you wouldn't want your friends to see you on one.
So happy to never had to concern myself with that issue.Plus you should consider suffocation,if you get caught in a wrinkle.
She's the type you need to roll in flour to differentiate the fat folds from the wet cracks.
Don't laugh at the fat folds. They double as storage. Had 400+ come in as a trauma and suddenly heard one nurse scream as she pulled off her top. Between 3 fat folds on her side were 3 snicker bars wedged in tightly. So tight the skin had grown in to the wrapper and the bars had melted flat ( she must have forgotten them?). I've never eaten a snickers bar since.
Miffed;-)
At least they weren't bugs (insects), Miffed. Fat folds weren't the only place I've encountered bugs but they're right up there on the list.
I'm big on cutting clothes off because there are fewer surprises that way.
We had that too once. I heard " shit there's something moving under the skin". I looked up to suddenly see maggots squirted out all over the floor. I call it my Alien moment. I'm glad to be back in the lab. Ive had enough bad imagery to last a lifetime!
Miffe;-)
Now you've done it...I'm at a complete loss for words...lol.
But look on the bright side, the folks down in laundry, have to eat too ;-)
Ain't my field grand! Once I was in the room as they were trying to remove something stuck up a guys ass. The trauma room Dr freaked when he grabbed two little feet. Then he pulled out a full sized Ken Doll. Poor nurse intern next to me started to cry. " Honey, havent you had something stuck up your ass before?" the gay guy taunted. She looked at me an said " I didn't know nursing was going to be like this!"
Ok I've got to keep ZH at a two shot Scotch max from here on! ;-)
Miffed;-)
lol...I know how it is.
Take care ;-)
lol! The last trauma center I worked in is not far from you, but in a very gay part of California. The stories I could tell about objects embedded in rectums! Absolutely amazing in the size, scope and abject imagination of the er... user. The thing is, no one would believe it unless they lived it.
Societal progress!
I'm going to go stuff a couch up my ass. WHoopie! Or maybe a barbecue grill!
Oh, stop judging, all you haters!
Oh dear God man! Please don't tempt them. Some of these land whales may actually pull it off. We don't need any more Dr leaving the field. I've seen a full liter Coke bottle stuffed up a vagina. The 400 lb woman came in complaining of severe abdominal pain. Dr damn near split a gut when he saw the X-ray. Coke bottle was perfectly imaged. The woman admitted she was masterbating with it and "it just got away from her". I guess we need some super sized dildos now. Or more guys willing to see to their needs.
Miffed;-)
Shouldn't these people tie a long string to all these items?
The fat chic in a thong on a Rascal has to be from the "People of Walmart" website. I tried to get a stelth cell phone picture of an older broad with really, really long grey hair at Walmart. Her hair was so long that a good six inches of it was dragging on the floor acting like a dust mop.
Foreign bodies in the ass are bad enough but the freakish thing about women is that they will get "something" stuck vaginally but they take the wait and see approach, perhaps too embarrassed to seek help. But by the time they come in for an embedded object that has now caused an infection it is a miserable adventure for everyone involved.
An ammonia caplet inside one's paper mask only covers odor to a certain extent.
Ultimate anal enterprise ...
http://www.1man1jar.org/
I work night shift at a Level I trauma center in the midwest. Fruits, vegetables, and dildos lodged in rectums are standard fare. I have encountered a small toy sword, and a tv remote. The usual story is "I was walking (or exercising, painting, etc.) naked, tripped and fell on _______ ".
... a garden gnome.
I blame porn ... see many from the SEC?
Visit "endo" and check out their "private" "for educational purposes" photo collection...
Yeah, that's unfortunate. One way to find the healthy tissue and test everyone's reaction time!
"Work in a hospital, see the world!"
my cousin is an RN and works with a surgeon who does those gastric band surgeries. she told me one day she was prepping some lady for surgery, doing the shave and sponge bath bit before going to anesthesia, this chick has a whole bologna sandwich in one of her fat rolls. she said its not uncommon to find stuff like that because these people get so fat they literally cant wash themselves anymore.
I get the can't wash themselves part, but how does that explain a bologna sandwich? Who carries a bologna sandwich under their shirts? Or was she trying to make love to it? Sheesh. Maybe we do need FEMA camps.
You guys must be more tolerant these days. If my butt looked like that I don't think a bucket of Viagra and a $100 bill would entice any riding by Mr Miffed. The thong is the give away. She thinks she's damn hot. Do people just not look into mirrors anymore? This self delusion is mind boggling.
Miffed;-)
The thong is the give away. She thinks she's damn hot. Do people just not look into mirrors anymore? This self delusion is mind boggling.
Well its a good reflection of America as a whole...
Maybe perhaps thong is economic approach to undergarment where regular pattern is require excess of fabric? Also, please to consider maybe fat sex girl is not able for seeing back of mirror.
Probably not able for seeing her knees. I'd rather screw a sheep. or a cat. Or maybe a hamster.
Not sure of which to be worse, Boris is refrain from any comment on shave first.
We talked about this.
Boris old buddy, YOU ARE ON FIRE TODAY! :>D :>D
and that thong used to be a mini-skirt....it just got all stretched out into dental floss.
In the parlance of car engines this is known as a V16 ass. Two V8 engines stuck together.
Boris never to floss again, and now is strange fear of drive between two automobile with large engine.
A bucket full of $100 bills AND viagra wouldn't want me to touch it. How fat chicks think they're hot is way beyond me. Glad some dudes think so though, keeps them busy AWAY from the rest of us.
Dear Mr. Food,
Please reduce consumption of viagra. If ingest of whole bucket, you are maybe have prolonged erection and lose blood supply to other appendage. Please first to consult of doctor and read warning label.
Respectfully,
Boris
I would rather lose an appendage than touch that land whale! YUK YUK YUK YUK YUK.
Did I say she is disgusting?
At least you'd have something to carry yer bucket on.
Yeah, she probably does think she's hot, but I've witnessed fat chicks wearing shirts that say things like "Vixen Defender" and "I'm the grenade," so some of them are fully aware.
Most have boyfriends that are 5'2" and 110 lbs.
And more DSM entries than most shrinks are familiar with
USSA? or UASS...
More like Paris, Texas versus Paris, France
http://www.merlinsilk.com/2008/04/24/paris-texas-versus-paris-france/
Only in ONE case can I relate to "...we'll always have Paris". I shudder at the thought of the other. No wonder so many Amerikun women don't like French women.
Bulgarian shot-putter, world class athelete!
Fat Bottomed Girls They Make the Rockin World Go Round!!!
Yeah
... but only with assistance of motorize adipose conveyance device
Agreed, but...
You can drink an ugly girl pretty,
But you can't drink a fat girl skinny.
amen Brother
I'll second that, NO WAY to drink a fat girl skinny fo sho
If you drink, wear oven mitts and boink in the dark, you'll be a lot less aware. It will be kind of like dealing with our government.
Yeah but the smell and texture would still be there.
.....*VOMIT*.
Yeah, just be prepared to gnaw off your arm in the morning.
But fat girls will let you do unbelievable things to them. To get a pretty hot girl to do the same things requires vast amounts of cocaine.
Yes but what unbelievable things would you possibly want to do? Those cheeks are like the blocking pads we hit in High school footbal practice.
How the hell do you tunnel down to the target zone? And do you need a fuckng snorkel?
Fucking that is like being hugged by a giant identical twin mollusks.
Like wading waist deep in an xhibit art side of beef display.
Or like sticking your pecker in between two beanbag chairs.
I'd jump off a roof if that was my future.
Yarrr! I see I left my pearls on your booty.
"Fat girls do have to work harder. "Spoken by a former whaler!""
Hey .....according to Freddie Mercury of Queen, fat bottom girls make the rockin' world go 'round. But how could he know.....he died of AIDS by tapping the WRONG BUTT !!
Saeculum Bitches!
It may not be wise to look into the past for prophets but the three quotes below from the book "The Fourth Turning" are quite prescient. This book was published 16 years ago.
"An impasse over the federal budget reaches a stalemate. The president and Congress both refuse to back down, triggering a near-total government shutdown. The president declares emergency powers. Congress rescinds his authority. Dollar and bond prices plummet. The president threatens to stop Social Security checks. Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling. Default looms. Wall Street panics."
"History is seasonal, and winter is coming. Like nature's winter, the saecular winter can come early or late. A Fourth Turning can be long and difficult, brief but severe, or (perhaps) mild. But, like winter, it cannot be averted. It must come in its turn."
"The next Fourth Turning is due to begin shortly after the new millennium midway through the Oh-Oh decade. Around the year 2005, a sudden spark will catalyze a Crisis mood. Remnants of the old social order will disintegrate. Political and economic trust will implode. Real hardship will beset the land, with severe distress that could involve questions of class, race, nation and empire. Yet this time of trouble will bring seeds of social rebirth. Americans will share a regret about recent mistakes - and a resolute consensus about what to do. The very survival of the nation will feel at stake. Sometime before the year 2025, America will pass through a great gate of history, commensurate with the American Revolution, Civil war, and twin emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCUmINGae44
one of the best movies every.
"Congress rescinds his authority"
Not very likely...
Ever hear of Divide & Conquer? Perfect set up in my opinion for
FEB. 2014
"An impasse over the federal budget reaches a stalemate. The president and Congress both refuse to back down, triggering a near-total government shutdown. The president declares emergency powers. Congress rescinds his authority. Dollar and bond prices plummet. The president threatens to stop Social Security checks. Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling. Default looms. Wall Street panics."
Uncannily accurate prediction, except for the Wall Street panics part. What the Fourth Turning failed to predict was the runaway use of the printing presses to stuff Wall Street's coffers. Not only does near economic catastrophe not cause Wall Street to panic, but it serves to excuse even more stuffing of Wall Street coffers.
The Forth Turning is an excellent book, truly a must read. One question they left open in the book was whether the US would deal with its decline rationally and manage it the best they could for the good of the country or whether TPTB would throw gasoline on the fire and build us up to a final flame-out crescendo of total chaotic collapse. Well, I think now we know the answer to that question.
I'm not sure you could get in close enough to reach the honey pot. You would either be obstructed or eaten...maybe both.
Don't breath in the fungus and wet mold growing in her skin folds when you dive in...that stuff gets in your lungs and you're done for...careful.....
Like they say in the military, your gear should be "clean, dry, and servicable"
I wouldn't fuck her even with a virtual dick.
I wouldnt fuck her with your dick and him pushing.
In which flap? You might need gps.
Ground penetrating sonar? Good way to find those hidden cavities.
No one understands my love....
And everyone who junks me is a democrat
"I'd tap that
(Junk away haters!)"
I'm not junking you....just wondering if you did tap that would she jiggle like an underinflated water bed for days on end once you got done?
How do you know you are "in" ???
Spray comes out of her blow-hole.
@ The They
"I'd tap that
(Junk away haters!)"
So far you got +58 vs -58
That's a pretty amazing split. No wonder she thinks she's hot wearing the thong. I'm curious if the opposite extreme, an overly thin woman, would get a similar result.
Boris: I have seen whole families using similar scooter. They must be very rich to afford eh? Is not America wonderful?
Whole family is fit on scooter? What is horse power of scooter?
20 mule team power Borax Boris.
Kinda like the new German microwave ovens -- they seat 20.
(That should step on a few toes...)
Yeah...well tell that to the chicks in Moscow who used to be so damn hot just a few years back...but seem to have put on a kilo per year since the millennium. Economic success has a way of making hot chicks into fat bitches.
... at least there's still Belarus.
Is not economic success, is tough anti-meth law in Moscow. Russia woman is normal become Fat Babushka by age of mid 30.
I remember an issue of "The eXile", the hysterical Moscow expat pamphlet, that had a picture of a Russian hottie making the horrrible transformation to her mid-thirties.
"From Princess to Plowhorse" --- the traditional lament of most 30-something Slavic married men.
Maybe lament for some, but should see Boris' mother-in-law extract copper ore. Sometime is want plowhorse, not princess.
How about Boris wife - look like Kournikova?
Boris....i dated a nice looking and intelligent russian woman years ago. she always said 'Oy' in the bedroom...was that good or bad?
"Oy" is common expression for Russian, so is depend on tone and expression and how long, how many time. For example, "Ooooooooooy", maybe is good, but "oy, oy, oy, oy,..." is maybe not so good. Some woman is say "oy" while think about daily chore, so is also not so good.
According to Amazon, Matt Taibbi wrote four of the eight chapters. That alone makes it worth a perusal IMO.
Causality example: "Gluttonous maximus leads to gluteus maximus." -old Starfleet proverb.
Ladies im you back door man But,that pooper would have me using the back door of the trailer!
Im with Boris on this one -Ick!
Why the `Obsession` with big people Boris? Does Boris swing both ways?
Fat "chick" on motorize fat conveyance device is cause Boris small vomit in mouth.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Longest, hardest laugh I've had in months. Still catching my breath.
Who finds that attractive?
The company that markets those scooters and then gets Medicaid to pay them top dollar for them. Market expantion. Now they can be marketed not just to the elderly and those unable to walk, they can market them to the legions of obese! This photo means market penetration baby! (Just hope the seat holds up)
Sold by the "Quaker Oat Cocoon Man"
Did you really have to use the word "penetration"?
Just roll her in flour, then find a damp fold and fuck it.
had a friend of mine that got on the 'scotter' selling bandwagon a few years back......sold them hand over fist. the only reason he stopped, medicaid/care would authorize the purchase then hold back the money for months (up to years)....he couldn't continue the business. if they would've paid, he would have been a millionaire.
Who finds that attractive? The pieces of space debris that orbit her due to the force of gravity. She likely influences the tides as well.
The waves created from pounding that ass could take out a nuclear power plant.
I've said it before; I'll say it again: You're a funny guy, McMolotov.
McMolotov is damn smart funny! But hope is not literal descendent of infamous (more than is famous) Vyacheslav Molotov, First Secretary to Stalin, is responsible for million of dead Ukranian. Not funny.
Yeah, but he made one hell of a cocktail.
Russians didn't invent the molotov cocktail! It was us - the Finns, who did it. They were used during winter war. Here are the stats for both of the sides ;) http://www.online-trash.com/files/trash/800/finland.jpg
We just had to find a way to battle 6500 tanks with 30 tanks.
...and black guys
Space debris?
I figure it would be chocolate donuts and M&M's orbiting her.
... and rainbow color skittle (because trace is show in massive trench).
she had to get baptized at Sea World.
when she was in school, EVERYBODY sat next to her.
you have to take two buses just to get to her good side.
in her class picture, she was the third row.
when she ran away from home as a kid, her picture was on all four sides of the milk carton.
she's on both sides of the family.
she wears an asteroid belt.
when she went to the beach, everyone said 'Free Willy,' and pushed her in.
when she swims in the ocean, people think there's a new island.
whenever she turns around, it's her birthday.
her birthday is June 4th, 5th AND 6th.
she walked in front of the TV and i missed three seasons of Seinfeld.
ok, i'm done...
"whenever she turns around, it's her birthday."
OMG !! <snort> LOL!!!!!! Now THAT'S FUNNY !!!!!
That chick IS Planet Claire !!!! LOL !!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUXRu1LPF2Y
Yo mama so fat she fell in love and broke it!
What!, you don't like `Big` people, big people still have rights, br careful!
" Who finds that attractive?", asks Stacks retoricaly, You'd be suprised Stacks at the people who stare, with near uncontrolable lust and wonder, at we XXX extra `Large` folks as we roll around on our scooters, of course as any of the other, more well known Stars can tell you, being `Exceptional` isn't all fun, although we enjoy the attention, sometimes it is difficult to deal with the physical aspects of our lives, my goal, if I live that long, is to be able to touch the floor standing up, this places a heavy strain on the back so when I'm home I swing the protuberance onto a table and rest a while, this does wonders for my digestion.
Clothing is a problem for the `Exceptional` I simply cannot buy trousers anywhere not even at Walmart, a custom tailor made some trousers for me, and they looked good, because of my physique they had a long waist and eight inches long legs, Oh, Oh!, Let.s chat later, Mother has just come back with the large bucket of fried chicken so I'll have to `run`, only 3-7/8" to go!
Tyler, maybe it's not too late: Why I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love The Thong
For those of you who may have missed it:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i3U2uHoqimo/Ul9xV0SBAzI/AAAAAAAAECU/AxNHRC-m3Us/s1600/people_of_walmart_7398.jpg
Bigger is not always better.
Hey, sometimes it works out in your favor. I've been in line once and had to snap a discrete photo.
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/60809/wwib-winter-booties/
Short, butt sweet.
My god, I'd heard of that site but never looked at it, that's insane.
It's so bad it's inspirational ...
Where's Monica now:
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/61032/drop-the-anchor/
Let me know if you find a copy in 3D. I have glasses and tissues.
You must be talking about Money McBags. That dude was the shizzle....
You mean Money McBags, right? He's off in northern British Columbia, waiting for the next credit event to happen.
RobotTrader used to post some high quality soft pornage...then people started reading the articles and it all went down hill.
That was the guy with the lingerie babe at the end of 20-chart articles, right? Yeah. I do miss him.
It wasn't Robottrader, it was RoboTrader, if I remember right. He used to piss off all of us perma bear gold lovers off with visions of optimism in his observations and chart analysis. I do miss his posts, however. He might still be lurking around with a different pseudonym.