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Picture looks a bit overoptimistic to me.
I wonder what the picture would look like for "trust in the IRS"?
That picture is posted directly below this sentence.
Fuck the state... and all its minions.
If the MSM were doing their jobs, there would be zero confidence... The 'watch the shiny object' mantra will work until it doesn't...
All you have to do is ask yourself why the gubbamint deems it necessary to spy on every man, woman and child in the US, while at the same time the border patrol has been ordered to stand down on the southern border and the gates are wide open... If terrorists wanted into the US, all they would have to do is walk in... This is only more proof the TPTB are trying to destroy the fabric of the country while turning it into a fascist state...
"If you want to keep your public confidence, you can keep your public confidence."
I'd say were are getting pretty close to the point where it is no longer profitable for them to maintain the facade.
It also looks like an hourglass growing thin on granules of sand.
They'll just shift some paper to and fro to keep it balanced...for a little bit longer.
Frank Zappa
And they will see a few 5.56 rounds coming inbound.
We are soon to exit Claire Wolfe Time
As we reach the Zappa Moment.
Unfortunately, that is usually the point at which the mountains of bodies start to pile up.
All this mistrust, yet government still exists. How bizarre we human doings are.
People who watch TV and Hollywood's shit are retards who like to be lied to and F'ed over. Are you one of them? Many many movies and TV shows now all have the love Deep State, militarized cops, Al See Eye Aye, surveillance state and on and on. Who do you think finances those films and TV shows?
Fing sheeep. The border invasion is to give them enough fodder to takes us on and destroy the USA for good. Michigan's Repub governor is talking about open arms for illegals especially Detroit i.e. expect an invasion of America by China because China now owns USA INc according to Dr. Jim Willie.
The "sale" of the JP Morgan building was China foreclosing on Amerika.
Gummint: ctrl-alt-del
Gummint: ctrl-alt-del
Gummint: ctrl-alt-del
HaHa - at last, proof Congress is leaning to the left!
Actually, you have perfectly described the importace of which way the collapse occurs. Red or Blue, it is all falling down.
Except if you were on the other side of the building, it would be leaning to the right. It's almost like different sides of the same coin;)
Well Played.
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I guess they just don't care what kind of confidence we have in them.
By the time this thing blows they will all be enconsed in a sacred circle jerk fantasizing about the historic misery they've fostered.
I guess they just don't care what kind of confidence we have in them.
Why should they give a shit? They can do whatever they want and everyone still jumps when they say "jump."
That is the moment I am so looking forward to, and it will come: when they say "jump" and people laugh. It happened in the Soviet Union, and I believe it will happen here. That's one of the few things that keeps me sane when I see how insane they have become.
Didn't most of the KGB and other apparachniks escape any justice?
Of course and Vlad Putin is the proof... Much like Adolf Hilter spent his golden years in Argentina, with the full knowledge of the US gubbamint...
More importantly, Adolph was in jail before being appointed Chancellor. Jail. A Criminal.
That is all we need to know about the types of people who seek power.
Didn't most of the KGB and other apparachniks escape any justice?
Forget revenge, that's a desire that ruins its holder. What matters is escaping the present tyranny.
The collapse of the Soviet Union was scripted, lose your illusions on that. Until the IRS loses the ability to collect taxes, due to massive tax revolts, government will be able to do what it pleases without concern as to what the masses like or do not like.
Cheers
The collapse of the Soviet Union hinged on two factors... Reagan out-spent the USSR in military spending and the big factor was the CIA manufactured currency crisis when they crushed the Ruble...
Or Raygun outborrowed the USSR...from the very same banksters who were also loaning to the USSR.
No. USSR would have collapsed even without Reagan out-borrowing them. Such central planning is an unsustainable inverted pyramid of legalized criminal behavior.
We will be no different. Just feed it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhbHTjMLN5c
Don't worry, the Wookie will save us all with carrot sticks and celery in school lunches for all the future FEMA campers ...
So you're saying we have a Chance!? - Lloyd Christmas
Looks like one well placed Wookie fart and the whole thing goes. Quick...somebody get the Beano.
Fate the Magnificent
"Push the Button, Max"
WHY SHOULD ANYONE HAVE ANY CONFIDENCE?
THE FEDERAL RESERVE HAS LOWERED INTEREST RATES TO NOTHING TO PROTECT THE BIG BANKS -- ESSENTIALLY STOLEN THE SAVINGS OF THE MIDDLE CLASS.
THE SUPREME COURT HAS MADE AN ABSOLUTE MOCKERY OF VOTING RIGHTS, AS WELL AS A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO SEEK BASIC HEALTHCARE QUIETLY AND PEACEFULLY.
THE CONGRESS HAS HANDED THE US TREASURY OVER TO THE MAJOR CORPORATIONS AND MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.
AND NO ONE IS EVEN PRETENDING THE MARKETS ARE HONEST ANY MORE -- THEY ARE ENTIRELY AND VERY OBVIOUSLY MANIPULATED TO THE BENEFIT OF THE RULING CLASS & CONGRESS' CRONIES.....
AND LET'S NOT EVEN START ON WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO THE US MILITARY'S RANK AND FILE -- IF EVER THERE WERE A MESSAGE THAT THE PEASANTS SIMPLY DON'T MATTER, THE VA SCANDAL PUTS IT IN HIGH NEON RELIEF 500 FEET TALL ONCE YOU'RE DONE FIGHTING FOR THE CORPORATE AGENDA IN WHATEVER GODFORSAKEN CORNER OF THE WORLD WE WANT TO LOOT, HEY, YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN....
SO WHY, PRAY TELL, SHOULD I, LITTLE PEASANT THAT I AM, EVEN TRY TO PRETEND CONFIDENCE IN THESE PEOPLE? ITS PRETTY CLEAR THEY THINK WE ARE ALL DUMB AS GARDEN TOMATOES AS THEY GO ABOUT RAPING US DEAF DUMB AND BLIND....
BUT, I THINK THEY'RE GOING TO FIND OUT WE'RE NOT QUITE AS DUMB AS THEY NEED US TO BE OVER THE NEXT YEAR OR TWO.....
Why are you yelling?
BECAUSE I'M ANGRY AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
Then open up your window and yell !!
I AM MAD AS HELL AND I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!
What!!! Now there is a Swat Team outside ready to shoot me down for "Disturbing the Peace"?!?
What has this become??? A Police State?
Thanks for the good advice, Seasmoke.
Now there is a Swat Team outside ready to shoot me
Fuck the Swat thugs too!
As long as you are on 'their' turf, you better play by their rules, less you suffer the consequences... All the more reason to exit the US stage left, then watch the meltdown from afar... The last place I want to be in a meltdown is ground zero...
Don't know how these punks manage to keep the lights on. I really don't. What's that saying....? " the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent "
My plan is enjoy the party, but don't wander too far from the exit! Make sure your " gassed up, and ready to roll " if and when the need arises.
Other than that "plan", who can plan for shit?
.....and ...it's gone.
NoPlan - Good sentiment. One has to try and have a little fun in the Dark Carnival cycle.
The GDP report and panic, end of ability to lever-up is something I have been waiting for years and have a plan for in a specific sector. I'll keep that hush-hush for now.
With some cash in hand and seeing a new wave of foreclosures for properties under $100k also going to become a slum lord. Got to make sure to renew passport soon in case I happen to need it over the next couple years.
Remember:" First by inflation then by deflation." Second half of the hurricane where the winds flow the other way. Citizens will get some relief on commodities but paper assets due for sharp correction. There will be knock-on effects in confidence and hence lower sales for many companies. Maybe we'll see a step-down pattern or outright 87' style crash in stock overnight but my general position is to revisit stock in 2016. You have to sit in certain board meetings for exact timing so no need to make wager on exactly when.
@unwashedmass
"BECAUSE I'M ANGRY AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE. "
Well said...this one's for you, Twisted Sister style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9AbeALNVkk
My god they sucked
wtf on earth was that !?
That was Neidermeyer, Mr. Sister!
Some people prefer typing in uppercase and when older at times easier to read.
However, some are so sensitive and PC correct, they take it as 'yelling' when it may not be that at all.
I think they are just old farts thinking of the internet as a big Teletype.
Technically it is a digital teletype medium.
No, it's the principle of the thing man. In all my years here, people using all caps have never been tolerated. If you set a precedent and let one Caps Crispy start their silly shit here, the next thing you know, the whole place will be overrun with idiotic posters, prolix prose pukers, govt. trolls, and ....oh, wait.
Err, fuck you and the horse you rode in on... Now, is that better THAN CALLING YOU A DICKHEAD IN CAPS? See how that works....
@ Ralph Spoilsport - 2/3 of the population are made up of 'rule followers' who also respect whatever 'authority' figures they are taught to kneel to. They are the same types who get all anal at the local 'homeowners' association over the length of their neighbors hedges and put liens on the old vet who displays an American flag in his yard.
They are easily manipulated since they only seem to be able to see the trees and not the forest. They make excellent Nazis.
GET THE POINT ?
A little outrage is good
It's about time we all start to push back from the statist bloodsucker
The Military and Pentagon sold the troops out. They always do. Third world countries have more honor in the officer corp or is it corpse men. Obam would have last 1 year as dictator in other countries. Fools and cowards like General Betrayus. Anyone is an idiot if they allow their kid to join the military.
The Framers were totally against military involvement outside the USA. Fools, cowards and traitors. Many Germans died fighting against Hitler.
A recent survey gauged the public's trust and respect for various institutions. Of course congress got very low ratings.
Sadly, the military and police got very high ratings. (IMO any government institution should be viewed with some healthy skepticism.) The very people who are the (relatively) low paid, clueless enforcers for the criminal oligarchs - are practically worshipped in America. Decades of propaganda delivered through cop shows, war movies, etc have been very effective. If men in uniform arrive at Americans doorsteps to haul them off to concentration camps, many would go there and see it as their 'patriotic duty'. Stupid b*stards.
I'm not a democrap or a republicant.
I am a tax paying charter member of the Angry Sumbitch Party.
Hey now, "Garden Tomatos" are good.
That's why Dc is bunkered up like wartime Berlin.
And Mayberry gots a MRAP...
For Aunt Bee??????????
I heard her say: "Well Andy, I guess if the neighbors aren't making a fuss, we should just keep the Goddamn thing."
I read on Drudge earlier that Rand Paul called out neo-cons a year ago for starting the Iraq war to enrich Halliburton. Later in the article, it explained how he's now walked those comments back. For the first couple of paragraphs of the article, I thought I was wrong about him for being a corporatist. Then I was reminded that all of these guys want votes and corporate money is where it's at.
No matter what they believe, they must first sell their soul. Their ends justify their means, except the loss of their soul also takes the memory of what they ever hoped to achieve.
A large centralized government cannot function to the benefit of its people, only itself. All governments are the potential seat of corruption, but the larger they are the more absolute that reality becomes.
If you agree that huge multi-national corporations created and fund this monster and are not the answer to the problem, you and I agree completely.
its the chicken or egg debate. I believe that government has made it possible for these monsters to exist. I believe that competition based on basic laws makes most of these huge corporations impossible to exist. It is a symbiotic relationship for sure. Ultimately neither the government at its current size or corporate power as we now know it can exist without each other. The constitution and its separation of powers as well as it federalist model where most of the power remains with the states was our best shot at preventing this from happening.
Listening to talking heads this morning, democrats are excusing Obama's abuse of power because they claim he has a public mandate to do what he has done and is doing. No claim of constitutional rights, simply populist agenda negating any restrictions from the constitution. AS Barney Frank said when asked about the constitutionality of his agenda, he simply said the constitution was irrelevant as he was doing things that "helped" the people.
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help"
It's not a chicken and egg problem. It's a sociopath problem. Who let sociopaths be Kings and Queen throughout most of history? The answer is simple -- they did not ask permission. And they won't ask permission from the free market competition you espouse. The free market has no tool against power by violent force.
The answer to life's problems does not lie in an economics textbook, novel, or treatise. Economics are what you argue about when you have a functioning society of laws.
Power has to be accumulated, aggregated incrementally. It doesn't just appear out of the blue. Governments, big business, super wealthy people grew their power. It didn't happen over night. The only reason it hasn't reached its full potential, absolute tyranny, is that they still, even now, much operate with some cooperation from the population. Competition is not the end of all corruption, but it goes a long way towards stifling the massive power we see today. There is no law, no system as such, that uses the massive power of government to restrain corruption. It is impossible as it is THE SOURCE of all corruption. The very seat of it.
The oligarchs do not need elected government -- they use it. It is an impediment they have figured out how to circumvent and use to their advantage. By definition using your own words, they corrupt it. Our government was corrupted more than 100 years ago by the likes of Morgan and Rockefeller, long before it was the monster we see today. They created the monster, not vice-versa. And Kings and Queens existed long before elected government. How do you explain them?
Everyone, every person on earth can be bribed. Its one thing to have the local sheriff corrupt, it something else when virtually every aspect of our economy and our life is run by corrupt people. The people you despise can only do what they do with the power of government. Size insulates accountability and enables corruption. The size and SCOPE of government has to be reduced to take the power of corruption out of these people's hands. There is no absolute answer, but if you want to prevent forest fires, the easiest and best way is to minimize the fuel, not outlaw matches.
I think we agree on the basic idea that small government is desirable, but we disagree about what the small government should do. My point is that big business grew and became oligarchs in a largely unregulated, small government model. So small government by itself is not the answer. The small government needs to regulate business to prevent monopolies and other toxic accumulation of wealth. The oligarchs figured out that elected government is an excellent cover for oligarch rule. They grew the government for themselves, to control the people. The guys who corrupted our small government 100+ years ago were capitalists who had few if any regulations. Do the math.
And so we agree.
I am not foolish enough to believe that a small government by itself will solve anything. We need laws, especially to control monopolies. Its just that I don't think it can be done with a government as large and entrenched in so many layers, so many ways as it is today. We need to eliminate as many departments as possible, and focus everything into our legal system. No government involvement in ANY industry. We must remove all government funding that is not absolutely essential to its base mandates. All welfare and healthcare should be turned over to the states, along with education. We have to get their hands out of commerce and focused on the enforcement of laws, and if we don't like the laws we change them, not ignore them or selectively enforce them. We must have accountability form our government but its overwhelming scale makes it impossible.
So, tell me exactly how long it took after 1913 for the Federal Reserve to collect absolute money power and therefore absolute power to establish, corrupt and direct its own government for the US?
And, how exactly have thee people had a choice in this?
So, tell me exactly how long it took after 1913 for the Federal Reserve to collect absolute money power and therefore absolute power to establish, corrupt and direct its own government for the US?
And, how exactly have the people had a choice in this?
Hmm, yet you support using that "violent force" to collect taxes for roads...
Check yer premises, because it appears that you have no principles.
The problem with government lovers is that it is okay point guns at the heads of people to do the things they want .gov to do, but it's wrong if someone else has a different agenda for .gov.
Simple-minded fools that are the wellspring of the evil that is government.
The only solution to a psycopath, is the sight of another psycopath dangling from a rope / decapitaped and being dragged in the streets by the peasantry.
It's the only solution.
Speaking of getting called out...
Katrina Vanden Huevel to the smarmy cunt and chicken-hawk Bill Kristol:
from: http://www.salon.com/2014/06/29/katrina_vanden_heuvel_calls_out_bill_kri...
The image is pretty correct in its depiction of confidence. Everything will seem pretty much normal, public confidence hovering at a marginal level, until it suddenly collapses.
Like our bodies, we spend years abusing ourselves, ignoring all evidence and advice that it will eventually kill us. We start feeling weakness and fatigue and assume as in the past, a little rest and we will be back at it. That is until the continual abuses degenerate our ability to heal and we fall prey to chronic illness. Then it becomes a matter of time. Those who die of these diseases don't typically die of the actual disease. It is usually something mundane like a really bad cold or pneumonia. The black swan of death. We always knew it was coming. We didn't know for sure what it would look like, but we have always known it would be of our own making.
I have known people who lived to their nineties and smoke and drank
We are all going to die anyway. Personal abuse can be many things, but some people have genes that seem to defy everything the med profession tells us. Who is right?
I have a theory that may be related to reduced stress/inflammation. Happy people tend to live longer.
There are measures you can take now.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/277860.php
Results of a new study on mice and a phase 1 trial of humans suggest that prolonged cycles of fasting - for 2-4 days at a time - not only protect against toxic effects of chemotherapy, but also trigger stem cell regeneration of new immune cells and clearing out of old, damaged cells.
The study, by researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, and published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, is the first to show that a natural intervention can trigger regeneration of an organ or system through stem cells.
The team believes the findings could benefit people with immune system damage, for example if they have received chemotherapy treatment for cancer. It could also benefit the elderly whose immune systems are weakened through aging, making them more susceptible to disease.
The scientists say prolonged fasting appears to shift stem cells of the immune system from a dormant state to an active state of self-renewal.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140605141507.htm
In both mice and a Phase 1 human clinical trial, long periods of not eating significantly lowered white blood cell counts. In mice, fasting cycles then "flipped a regenerative switch": changing the signaling pathways for hematopoietic stem cells, which are responsible for the generation of blood and immune systems, the research showed.
The study has major implications for healthier aging, in which immune system decline contributes to increased susceptibility to disease as we age. By outlining how prolonged fasting cycles -- periods of no food for two to four days at a time over the course of six months -- kill older and damaged immune cells and generate new ones, the research also has implications for chemotherapy tolerance and for those with a wide range of immune system deficiencies, including autoimmunity disorders.
"We could not predict that prolonged fasting would have such a remarkable effect in promoting stem cell-based regeneration of the hematopoietic system," said corresponding author Valter Longo, the Edna M. Jones Professor of Gerontology and the Biological Sciences at the USC Davis School of Gerontology, and director of the USC Longevity Institute.
My father and his brother both smoked until they were in their forties and I got to watch them both die of lung disease. As long as people insist on making their choices based on the exception of the rule, we will continue to see the same results. Don't get me wrong though, I have no problem with any person abusing themselves in any way they please, just don't make society pay for it out of some misplaced notion of social justice or egalitarian theft.
My point is that our inherent weaknesses, combined with our actions typically are the direct contributors to our demise.
Our economy has been "abused" with government and defacto banking manipulation. Bubbles and recessions, inflation, sovereign debt, personal debt. Years of this abuse has simultaneously created the myth that nothing can kill us while weakening the foundation of our society.
One is exception to the rule until he's not. Exceptionalism is a fallacy resting upon time lag between cause and effect, the bigger the lag, the worse the abuse and rationalization of the wrong choice.
What, you think you'll live forever?
What, do you think this economy will live forever?
It doesn't matter what the sheeple say about confidence in government. It's when they do something about it.
but, CONgress is going sue Barry, so that should shore-up some CONfidence?
It may be a ruse or a waste, but someone has to do something. We are watching while what is left of our constitution is being burned. I have little hope that the republican congress will accomplish anything except another demonstration of their weakness, ineptitude and corruption.
Oldwood..
I'm to the point that I really don't believe this thing can be saved any longer, thinking about it leads me to believe that this relatively recent off the wing notion of the Representative Republic being established was in fact engineered to make the oligarchs job of governing sheep that much easier.
I wish some leadership would surface to prevent the further shredding of the document but frankly I don't see anyone and daylight's burning.
Nearly seventy now my options right along with my expectations are diminishing, our generation prospered during a near magical era of increasing expectations based on a foundational economic distortion that probably won't be duplicated in either of our life times.
Things change as they stay the same, as Henry Mencken once said.."The only good place for a gun is at the bureaucrat's head.. put it in his hand and it's goodbye Bill of Rights"..
The only thing that makes sense to me some days is the thought "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places".
Only a fool discounts out of hand something that can't be disproved- yes to all the doubters, it was the Cloward Piven strategy after all.
I'm right there with you. At this late date it seems as anything but accident or coincidence. AS it has been written, it is highly predictable. So many feeling so powerless, and government offered as the only POWER to bring justice. Unfortunately as we weaken, judgement wanes, desperation takes over. Politicians cannot achieve what must be done as they are incapable of achieving our goals while pursuing their own. It is the flaw of our system that political power is required to preserve our freedoms. If our constitution had been preserved as it was written and intended, we might have had a chance, but too many have come and gone offering gifts of wealth and security at the unseen cost of our freedoms. We will end up with neither.
However the cold hard facts are the Constitution was under assault before the ink was dry.
Sometimes I get these crazy thoughts like one I had watching the sunset tonight.. what if someone like myself could be transported back in time to a week before the Titanic launched it's maiden voyage?
A principled person might go to the newspapers or even go to the docks telling people of certain doom, but what would have happened to that principled person?- they probably would have been arrested, jailed and after the tragedy brought charges by the State of Conspiracy against the People ..and hung shortly thereafter.
Of course there is the ubiquitous element who would go back and try to profit off the tragedy by shorting the ship line- and either way it would be a fools errand for hoping to save lives because things already set in motion are integral parts of the greater plan- ask the remaining Gypsies and Jews of Europe.
Arizona has the best sunsets- I try never to miss one.. sometimes it's just a matter of putting your mind in the right frame of thinking to regain a semblance of sanity.
Having one's personal awakening is a two edged sword, on one hand it eliminates forever the bliss of the truly ignorant, however it assures you that no matter your wishes gravity wins every time and the world in general will hate you anyway.
Look at the sheep around you, I never talk to a real person that has an inkling of what is really happening, the beauty of zerohedge is at least I can live the fantasy that there are like minded people that think at all- plus it can be prime evidence in the future People vs ________ show trial (that is not out of the realm of possibility.) What it will take to wake the herd is what it always takes to wake the herd; that's why they are buying hollow points, when it's time to flip that switch they will flip it and make no mistake, whoever is not prepared will suffer the consequences- fear and panic have been a predictable method of control respected by dictators throughout history and it will happen when the oligarchs in charge decide to move the hand of the various dictators. With Dick Cheney tipping off the next shot I imagine the next national crisis is not far off.There can be no political solution for the exact reason there was no political solution in the founding of this nation, there will be no second chance once this experiment has ended; our only hope is to somehow preserve the notions based on truth we grew up treasuring before our education system was trashed right before our eyes.
At least we still have great sunsets.
"what if someone like myself could be transported back in time to a week before the Titanic launched it's maiden voyage?"
Ah, but if you DID somehow manage to save the Titanic victims, it would probably turn out that you save someone who then later goes on to kill the woman who was to become your grandmother, meaning that you will never be born.
Of course then that means that you CAN'T go back in time to save the Titanic victims.
You'd all end up in some kind of time-warp feedback loop.
That would actually make a great short story. A guy goes back in time, stops the Titanic disaster, which has the result that makes his own birth impossible. Since he isn't born, he can't go back in time, which means the Titanic DOES sink, and he IS born so that he can go back in time, and so on and so on...
I'll have to play with that one...
Oh I got a better one! Some guy HAS done this with some historical event, and all of US are now stuck living in his feedback loop, because Time itself can't progress now.
Someone has to stop that guy from starting the feedback loop in the first place...and would that start yet another feedback loop?
You couldn't go back in time to kill the guy who started it, because then you'd just create another loop. So, you'd have to kill the guy in real-time. That means someone would have to get the message to him over the repeating generations so that he'd know at that moment to kill him. Something passed down by someone in another time that eventually gets to our hero, who then knows what he has to do...maybe it turns out the guy he has to kill is his best friend or something.
OR...it turns out that it is HIMSELF, HE'S the guy! But if he kills himself, does that end the loop, or only create yet another?
How would that work?
The Titanic metaphor I tossed out there reflects the mood of what is happening today.
Just how much luck have you had convincing anyone who believes the stock market is somehow different this time and unsinkable.. why every expert in the field is on board!
The metaphor works because it accurately reflects street level human nature highlighting the insurmountable amount of normalacy bias firewalled behind a wall of indifference that exists today.
Yes the Hindenburg had a great safety record right up to the last minute it existed-
.. after all, no one could have seen that coming.
Every point in history is actually the result of countless smaller events that have led to that point. Alter one tiny thing in that chain of events, and you are in a very different place.
But you can only see that from outside the loop. Everyone living IN the loop simply sees the progression of history from where they are at the moment. To them these events have a sense of forward momentum and inevitability to them. The Titanic passengers only saw the huge ship. Viewed from their place in history, it wasn't hubris to see it as unsinkable. It had never sunk before, and mankind was on a tear of industrial development that had already produced what seemed like miracles. It's not that it was unsinkable, it was unthinkable. So no one ever gave thought to the fragile chain of events that led them there. Small decisions here and there, like how to design the hull, how many lifeboats to put on board, or a captains wish to make good time, ended up killing them. They never stopped to consider that human element, because the audacity of the ship itself blinded them to the fact that it STILL all comes down to human error.
Yes, those passengers would most likely have thought you were nuts, and would have hopped on board anyway.
Do not sepak ill of dear leader. We are all Amerikans now.
weebles wobble
...am pretty confident that by next week, all that will be showing gonna be:
PUB_IC
CON_____
'confidence' needs to be replaced with 'subservience'. as long as they remain subservient to any and all authority, believe what the teevee tells them, tptb will go on their merry way.
its gotten to apoint where language is changing. "we built a house" translation: we bought a new house from a builder. "we painted our house" translation: we paid someone else to paint our house. "we took a break and went on vacation" translation: we borrowed money we didnt have to spend too much money on worse food than we make at home, to stay in a place that costs more and is smaller than our home, and bought imported katchkees that will break before were home, to reember the trip from people whose job is primarily to smile otherwise they will be fired and be homeless".
that vacation was double plus good hon!
It might soon become apparent the economic efficiency of credit is beginning to collapse and the additional money poured into the system coupled with lower rates can no longer drive the economy forward. At some point the return on loaning money is simply not worth the risk!
Why do you want to loan money if most likely you will never be repaid or repaid with something that is totally worthless? The collapse of credit can pose major problems such as what we saw when many sellers were forced to demand payment up front before shipping goods in 2008.
When this happens the only safe place to store wealth will be in "tangible assets" and the only lenders will be those who print the money that nobody wants. More on this subject below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-economic-efficiency-of-credit...
CONfidence in CONgress?
The picture is missing the guillotines waiting to devour their the trash. And the banksters are missing as well.
To improve confidence with a bandaide rip.
-Polygraph all 545 politicians as to who really puls their strings.
-Congressional term limits of 2 terms.
-Audit the FED and fort Knox.
-Punish or exicute D.C. criminals and lobbyists who corrupt our system.
-Consider making an exception for 'Cruel and unusual punishment'. For constitutional corruption.
-Make it a 15 year prison term to leave office with more money than you started with.
-Make it a law that all previous laws that congress passed that exempted themselves, or granted them special rights are null and void.
..Polygraph all 545 politicians as to who really puls their strings.
*edit*
Use an electric drill and a blow torch on all 545 politicians as to who really puls their strings.(even tho we already know that answer and don't really need it)
..no thanks required..
I'm afraid it more looks like this:
http://wissen.de.msn.com/history/mord-macht-und-intrigen-die-gr%C3%B6%C3...
Let us all write to our reps in Congress and inform them that according to polls, up to 95% of the American people think that they are worthless Buffoons...both Parties
You will get a form letter back, saying thank you your opinion counts. Now would please support my efforts to blah blah blah
main problem, to me, is not even the way polit_X run, not how economy runs, it is just that even as fucked/rigged it is, it is not equal, not well balanced, even start falling, still running.
what next is the main question, not every body got garden to grow vegetables, get chicken & a barn & farm for cow milk & so long...
money is shit, ok, but money buy everything ( even humans, unfortunatly ) but what when system is down... price beyond milkey way lead to not be able to get anything, just because when actual goods in any stores vanished, nothing more. preppers got stocks, but what about others.
what such situation leads to.
stretch it to world wide scale... seems world cup is funneling the feelings of people, for now, but what next...
can we rich 2014 ?
can we go over 2015 ?
can you not vote hillary 2016?
can be my dick & my bk2 enough ?
There should be no such thing as the Public having any Confidence whatsoever in government. With lesson after lesson otherwise, the premise of the cartoon is faulty.
The country was infiltrated as early as Aaron Burr, who convinced Thomas Jefferson to let foreigners own US land and investments. Then the The Holland Land Company (Dutch) bought Wall Street and the Anglo-Dutch Empire was in the country. Then he killed Hamilton, to be sure America did not have a top down credit system of finance. Which is required of the free-sovereign state to exist. Civil War came, debt created, Rothchilds in UK failed to support the South, the south sold cotton backed bonds, that failed when New Orleans was captured. Lincoln tried the greenback, Income taxes came, then the Fed based on the central Bank of England.
The Anglo-Dutch Empire then ran the US like a British East Indies Company, shipping weapons and drugs around the world, to support an British Empire economic model that will fail. They use the US Military and Intelligence Agencies to enforce that economic model. Global Economy was failing in the 1900's, start WWI. The OSS-CIA was run by the same guy who ran the ESF (Exchange Stabilization Fund), that was created from the confiscated gold in 1934, that allowed the CIA to go on a off the books rampage that overthrow or subvert 48 governments around the world. Prescott Bush and bankers set up Hilter, WW2. Once the law enforcement systems were corrupted it was in the final stages. Some folks like JFK died tying to challenge that Empire...(which moved over the millenia from Rome to Venice to UK). Why is the queen still around ? No one saw it coming ? How can you elect President's that are drug addicts, known pedophiles, or the sons of financiers of Hitler, how can you permit constant and continuous abuse of the law of the land the Constitution.
We are in the slow burn end of a giant "pump and dump" cycle, the time to pay the piper is here...or as Vin Diesel so eloguently said in Pitch Black..
"Once the lights go out, and the dying starts, Carolyn this psycho f'k family of ours is going to tear itself apart".
Attention Wal-Mart shoppers! We have a special announcement: We now officially have a corrupt federal government consisting of corrupt federal agencies run by corrupt politicians who have zero regard for the Constitution, the sanctity of our borders, hard working yet struggling Americans, and the God given right to freedom. The president has crowned himself king of the realm, I believe it was reported in the New York Times – or not. Congress has pounced at the chance to be as useless as the hind tit on a flea bitten bitch. We the people have been transformed from citizens to subjects (wait, did I vote for that, or was it just another executive order). It no longer matters what the people want, what the hell do they know? The all knowing fearless leaders think that they know best, in spite of the fact that they can FUBAR our country and do it with a smile on their Botox impregnated, expressionless collective faces. It is imperative that they keep their approval rating below 10% at all costs (because if it was higher it would mean that they were actually doing something FOR the American people and not TO the American people). Our monetary system is run by a select bevy of fiscally irresponsible coward elitists at the Federal Reserve System that seem to have invested long in printing ink. The long standing trait of individual privacy has become nothing more than smoke in the wind. Speaking of wind, anything that anyone living in or near Washington, D. C. says should be considered as nothing more than wind from a fool’s behind, only not as sweet. But I digress, everything is really fine. Honey Boo Boo is doing well after her auto accident, Hillary was never really broke, and Luis Suarez just got a Dentucreme commercial, cha-ching! Never mind! Keep moving for Christ’s sake. Cashier number three is now open for business and ready to take your fiat money. Be quick about it, time really is money – prices have risen three time since you entered the store. And thank you for shopping at Wal-Mart. Now get the hell out until your next government check arrives. Ah yes, I love the smell of creeping fascism in the morning along with my daily cup of reality.