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Jim Grant Sums It All Up In 2 Stunning Paragraphs
What will futurity make of the [so-called] Ph.D. standard [that runs our world]?
Likely it will be even more baffled than we are. Imagine trying to explain the present-day arrangements to your 20-something grandchild a couple of decades hence - after the crash of, say, 2016, that wiped out the youngster's inheritance and provoked a cenral bank response so heavy-handed as to shatter the confidence even of Wall Street in the Federal reserve's methods...
I expect you'll wind up saying something like this:
"My generation gave former tenured economics professors discretionary authority to fabricate money and to fix interest rates.
We put the cart of asset prices before the horse of enterprise.
We entertained the fantasy that high asset prices made for prosperity, rather than the other way around.
We actually worked to foster inflation, which we called 'price stability' (this was on the eve of the hyperinflation of 2017).
We seem to have miscalculated."
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Source: Jim Grant's November 2014 speech at the Cato Institute
Full keynote address below: (Grant begins at 10:00)
h/t @Not_Jim_Cramer
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Doom gloom. Boom.
Http://www.hedgeaccordingly.com
Jim Grant is spot on, he knows what Ben Yellen and Greenspunk know, the game is rigged and the house of cards will inevitably collapse. Keep stacking......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCtzQRkrj0U
"NOT NOW CATO"! Inspector Jacques Clouseau
Learn some 18th century skills. Growing your own food, making basic necessities, etc...
This is going to be one of my next projects:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpPnlYj5NPc&list=UU-eicAkiRdGLguiS1dS_N9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XyJ14yeEnI&list=UU-eicAkiRdGLguiS1dS_N9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CaRB1sHVdw&list=UU-eicAkiRdGLguiS1dS_N9Q
(It's a guy making his own bow with nothing but hand tools, telling you why he's doing what he is doing on a lot of it.)
I even have a branch on one of my neighbor's trees picked out. (They don't like the tree anyway, so I'm good to go, LOL.) Instead of letting it cure for a year, I'm going to rough out a few blanks, then let those blanks cure. If you read around, you'll find that some people do it this way and it works fine for them.
Some folks miscalculated.
<Do it over and over and over again.>
Insanity is not doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. It is ALLOWING someone else to do the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Then blaming the (other) insane guy or gal for our problems.
So what do you think of your life's work now, Jim?
And who exactly, is this royal WE?
Are you about to give all of your ill gotten gains to charity?
Riiiiiight!
All these fucking Ads on this page are constantly causing my browser to crash. God damn Tyler. Scale it back a bit eh? Fuck!
Use Ghostery and Adblock Plus. No more ads... page loads are super fast now.
Cato Institute is one of the few honest to god Libertarian Institutions, and I was too harsh on Grant above.
He has been one of the few, consistently rational voices on gold and bond risks.
What ticks me off is the shared "guilt" as if we are all equally to blame, for the crimes of a few. "We" should strive to be clear about who is guilty, and make sure they pay for their crimes.
We hyperinflated some folks.....
Tell us something we don't know.
getting ready
http://y2u.be/tOW5eljyjms
This kind of shit is probably why Denniger is frustrated and selling off Market-ticker.org
Yeah...by now Karl's head should be imploding.
I can't watch.
JamesBond - I like Karl, but the man will ban you or block your email if you discuss supranational groups that manage the planet like CFR and BIS and particular ahem... board members. His ego won't permit him to realize he doesn't drive the bus. He doesn't seem to realize the bus driver can steall all the fares, steer it toward a cliff, then give the passengers the middle finger as he floats gently away on a golden parachute. Sure the passengers get it as they hit the cliff but by then its too late.
I wonder if Karl will be called a sellout when some capitalist buys him out. I hope he gets a great payday for tirelessly educating even if I think he is a little thin skinned.
I learned the hard way by people wanting to talk the talk but not walk the walk. You take the friggin money and steer the bus 1 degree, hopefully in the right direction.
There's so many ads and pop-ups on ZH nowadays I don't even read the articles anymore ... I spend all my time closing the pop-ups and blocking the crummy ads.
"There's so many ads and pop-ups on ZH nowadays I don't even read the articles anymore ... I spend all my time closing the pop-ups and blocking the crummy ads."
DUUUUuuude !!!!!
HAVE YOU NOT HEARD OF AD BLOCKERS ????
Look.....if you are not using Firefox....get it RIGHT NOW !!
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/
Then the FIRST THING you do after isntalling and firing up Firefox is go over to the top right of the browser's window and find a button that looks like 3 horizontal bars stacked on top of each other.
That's your options window. When you click on that button with the three lines you will see at the bottom right hand side of the window a button names ADD-ONS. The button looks like a puzzle piece.
Click that puzzle piece button. Now you will see a window with categories on the left hand side of the screen. They will say GET ADD ONS, EXTENSIONS, PLUG-INS, etc. Click EXTENSIONS
From there you can search for extensions to Firefox such as ad blockers. My favorite is BLUHELL FIREWALL.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bluhell-firewall/
Type that in the search window and it will come up and you can choose to install it. And say BYE BYE to ZeroHedge ads....and other sites as well. I would also install WEBMAIL AD BLOCKER
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webmail-ad-blocker/
This blocks ads in your web based mail client such as Gmail and Yahoo mail. So now you don't have to pay for their premium service to get rid of the ads.
*** NOTE *** If Bluhell Firewall isn't enough on other sites you visit add AD BLOCK EDGE
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
This is a fork of the great Ad Block Plus which does let certain sponsor ads in if they are on a whitelist. AD BLOCK EDGE NUKES THEM ALL ! I used to run both on my browser......but lately have found Bluhell takes care of the certain sites I go to that used to sneak through. So I disbled Ad Block Plus until needed. Speeds up the browser a little bit. But if you need both.....then use both Bluehell Firewall and Ad Block Edge and NOTHING will get through.
My thought also;)
+1 thank you
getting ready
http://y2u.be/tOW5eljyjms
It's all a grand plan to bring the world to it's knees and the new SDR basket currency followed by a world currency unit.
well, whatever
psssst: as of this friday gone, theres only 20 tonnes of elligible gold left in Comex
720 000 oz - thats all we have to take delivery of, and the beast is dead. pass it on.
http://srsroccoreport.com/
"It's all a grand plan to bring the world to it's knees and the new SDR basket currency followed by a world currency unit"
Yeah ~ Because the EURO has been such a spectacular fucking success that most countries in the zone would prefer to go back to their former currencies.
<chuckle>......
Those stupid sons of bitches signed away their sovereignty to the banks of Europe. There's no going back.....whether they bitch or not.
Quick four things about the video:
1) Grant never addressed the issue of how he would create jobs
2) Grant never addressed the issue of who would control the money
3) And he never answered the Q&A ‘softball’ questions properly
Example:
A gentleman asked Grant “compelling other nations to use the dollar by military force” and Grant’s answered: “I have to think the premise of the question, but I don’t think I can accept it.”
Who’s Grant frikking kidding?
Uhmm! Before I forget, here is my fourth question:
Why do we keep listening to these ‘Think-tanks’ and ‘Economists of DC?
I live in DC, and the people that live here are clueless about the real issues… Not that it comes as a surprise to me.
But you, the Hedgers?
Answers:
1) Central planners don't create jobs; employers and the free market do. Just leave them the hell alone!
2) When gold and silver are money, nobody needs to 'control' the money.
3) Who cares!
1) Free market theory will create jobs? How that is different than Noah’s Arch will save the world’s animals?
Let me prove it to you:
Look at “Civilian Labor Participation” during 1950’s and 1960’s compared to the 1980’s and 1990’s at the link below; and you judge it yourself:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CIVPART/
2) Again, who prints the money/gold or silver tokens?
3) Who cares to answer?
Sorry bitch....not playing your Reindeer Games.
When you're done.....come find me.
Noah built an arch too? I must have missed that in the Bible.
So..., stop reading the frikking thing.... if you can't find the answers.
What's the question again?
The question was God or the Angels…, and hell! Who saved the people?
According to one Midrash, it was God, or the angels, who gathered the animals to the ark, together with their food.
As there had been no need to distinguish between clean and unclean animals before this time, the clean animals made themselves known by kneeling before Noah as they entered the ark.
A differing opinion said that the ark itself distinguished clean animals from unclean, admitting seven pairs each of the former and one pair each of the latter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%27s_Ark#Rabbinic_Judaism
And?
Obviously, black Jesus was talking directly to you Excrava
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORIICgi-0GI
Yup its in St. Louis but they may have burned it down.
It's not free market "theory" that will create jobs, whatever that means, but the self interests of the employees and employers that will, if allowed to do so. But your question glosses over a more fundamental issue: jobs are not ends in themselves, they are simply means to getting the things as humans we would like to have. In other words, they are they way we PRODUCE what we need. That's only the briefest sketch of a much more complex and fascinating issue.
As to who "prints" (by which I presume you mean "mints") gold/silver tokens, there are at least 2 free market alternatives here. 1. The official mint does so in a process called free coinage. Miners sell ore to the mint (in exchange for already minted coins of a specified weight and purity) and the ore they trade is then refined and minted into new coins. 2. Private mints (with reputations to protect) do likewise.
As for question #3, answering complex questions extemporaneously and in just a minute or two is a tough job for anyone. That Grant didn't deliver the answers to your satisfaction is a failing I suppose he'll have to live with.
In sum, just because YOU can conceive of an answer to a difficult question or problem does not necessarily mean that answers dont exist.
Withdrawn Sanction
Grant cannot address the issues of “Money-Power” such as:
a) The ability of “Private-Money” creation by debt; and servitude through interest rates
b) The “Global Reserve Currency” (money backed by military force)
c) And the government cut (Tax)
Because he will be choked in his bowtie, in some balcony.
You see, as long as Martin Luther King was speaking about racism (against the south), that was fine. But, once he opens his mouth about financial inequality (against the north), Mr. King didn’t last 24 hours.
Anyway, when there is NO more growth and not enough for everyone; what are you going to do?
Let me guess: You answer will be #2.
How did I do?
How did I do?
Never ask a question you absolutely don't know the answer too.
That's lawyer 101.
You're welcome.
''The most awful dictatorship that humanity has known is the dictatorship of the proletariat.'' - Armando Valladares, a Cuban poet freed last week after 22 years in prison. (A8:2.)
now shut the f#$k up
When Hitler came to power, Germany was the poorest country in Europe at the time. Hitler had no gold or hard currency but his government printed money that was used to hire the unemployed anyway. In short four years, Germany became the richest country in Europe and the first country out of the Great Depression in the world. The difference is that there was NO any fucking interest on all the money the National Socialist government created. "What you know for sure is ain't so."
Are you retarded or just plain stupid? Germany ran out of everything, that's why they desperately needed to expand to obtain resources. They couldn't buy oil anymore and other commodities. All they could produce domestically was heavy weaponry since they had sufficient coal and iron ore deposits...
Do you think this stupid recipe of yours would work for countries without natural resources, like Japan?
Hitler's Germany bartered with other nations for international trade, and obtained oil chiefly from the Soviet Union. Large-scale Rearmment was a few years after Hitler came to power when the International Bankers decided to act against his alternative way of banking. What you mentioned is the brainwash not the truth.
read this:
Hitler's revolutionhttp://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-revolution-Richard-Tedor/dp/0988368226
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/09/13/hitler-and-the-banksters-the-abo...
and watch this: http://thegreateststorynevertold.tv/
Lex_Luthor
Both you and reader2010 posts are, absolutely, right.
Germany was very successful and prosperous during 1930's; but, not for the Germans Jews, of course.
The main problems of humanity are our inability to understand exponential, and to face the truth honestly.
We live in a finite planet but the population growth and our material expectations grow exponentially.
Globalization, either by invasion (Romans, US invading Mexico and taking half of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, or Hitler in Europe) or by Proxy-Wars (military coup d’état in South America, Contras, Mujahidin’s), or by Currency-Wars (US, Japan, and Euro in Europe) have been very enriching and prosperous for the Western world but a political mayhem and social disorder for the rest of the world.
The reason that we rarely understand these realities, it’s because we live in a world of constants self-delusion.
Our ‘dumbdown’ indoctrination starts at home with the need to conform, and to listen to stupid religions. Then, when we go to school, the focuses are in “don’t dare say the truth, and even worse, don’t even dare thinking the truth”. The Ivy leagues and the military are very good at it.
The dumbdown of the population is so efficient that we have ‘these simplistic’ posts, like the one below by J J Pettigrew (Supply and demand of labor has exceeded its demand because of the open border) cliché, while missing the conundrums that we must face.
“The naive might think that indoctrination is inconsistent with democracy. Rather, as this whole line of thinkers observes, it is the essence of democracy.” – Noam Chomsky
"The reason that we rarely understand these realities, it’s because we live in a world of constants self-delusion."
So, enlighten us. How did you manage to avoid self-delusion?
PS ANY growth rate > 0 (even a fraction of a fraction of 1 percent) will eventually produce an exponential function. If growth is part of life, what is no growth?
Man! You will need lots of therapy….
Couple months ago, I was having a drink in a bar in Georgetown, DC with a girlfriend.
She works raising money for a nonprofit military organization. Anyway, she was curious about the current state of the economy. She told me that she was amazed in how much money some people were making, her boss was one of them, but things did not look good. She could not understand why.
I tried to explain to her, in the most diplomatic way, not to upset her.
Then, I went to the restroom. And when I came back, there were these 3 guys talking to my friend. So we exchanged names and one of the guys noted my accent and asked me where I was from. I said, Brazil.
He told me that he spent lots of time there because his brother was a diplomat at the US embassy in Brasilia. So he got to travel by car in Brazil because his brother spoke Portuguese.
So, my friend asked them what they were doing in a bar because they had weeding rings. So they told us that they were from out of town. They were historians and they came to DC for a convention at Georgetown University.
I couldn’t help myself and started laughing. I told them: “You see, my friend here wants to know how this ‘American Experiment’ ends”.
One of them said something like this: “You mean, bad… There is no other analogy”.
growth of debt and the servitude that comes with servicing it.
the control "WE" give these phd''d'd'dumb muthafucks
and the absurdity of it is that the money is created by decree!
and backed by nothing of substance, other than blind faith. ok, ok,U and I know all this, what next?
that is why we come to this blog. what the fuck next? try not eating for a week and let me know how you are thinking...
"Before someone accuses me of being a libertarian in disguise, or a Jewish troll… let me explain what my ideal banking system would be like.
– A new currency (let’s call it the omega) is launched by creating a fixed amount of it. The nominal number does not matter, except for aesthetic and practical purposes. I would create 1 000 000 omegas. After this initial launch, no supplementary unit will ever be created. This is Murray Rothbard’s ideal currency, meaning, a fixed one, a dead one. It annihilates all risks of inflation and redirects the economy toward the natural state of deflation.
– The banks are under total State ownership, simply to make sure that the interests of such powerful agents are compatible with the interests of Aryans. Simply to make sure that the CEO is called “Heinrich Himmler” rather than “Jerobodah Jerusalem”.
– The banks can then practice capital lending at a price (usury), with a contract (islamic banking), or at no price (social lending), depending on their desired social function and their personal greediness. It is not necessary to interfere.
– Fractional banking is totally forbidden, ostensibly to prevent banking crises.
I believe in all honesty that such a system is, under the light of economic science and history, simply the best."
/quote
Interestingly, the Nazis developed a method to produce oil from coal.
Later apartheid South Africa also made oil from coil when they suffered international sanctions.
Again, both oil and coal are finite resources.
Producing oil from coal, for what I read, it is very inefficient. And the process takes lots of energy.
Also, to dig the holes, extract coal, transport, and so on take lots of 'embedded' oil.
Let me console you.
Maybe you can look at it this way :
Energy in a closed system can neither be created, nor destroyed. Now, it seems the earh is not a closed system, but the Sun adds energy to the earth whole the time. Almost all energy resources on earth ( except geothermal I guess ) are indirectly ( photosynthesis ) derived from the Sun. The Sun shines for free. And we are to believe that the earth is going to warm up, so more energy will be added to the system. The myth of energy scarcety was created to justify high prices.
And if that did not work, a Poem by Hafiz ( disputed ) :
The Sun Never SaysEven after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
“You owe Me.”
Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.
Energy from the sun is far too diffuse to be a replacement for fossil fuels. Energy density is the operative variable here and the sun simply doesn't have enough. If it did, you'd be fried the minute you stepped outside, assuming your house didn't burn down first.
try running a steel mill or a manufacturing plant, or a jet liner on solar power then get back to us.
In the meantime, study some physics with particular attention to thermodynamics.
Thanks!
It is not about energy density, but rather the total amount of energy that the sun puts into the system. You can put many thousands of windmills in the sea, you can put up huge amounts of solar panels on land or floating in the sea, you can grow huge areas of crops for biofuel, biogas, production of plastics ( recently read an article about the Dutch planning to dramatically increase sugar beet production to make plastics from it ). Huge dams can be constructed in rivers, the Grande-Inga dam, a plan for a megadam in the Congo river, would produce 39 000 MW of electricity ( compare this with highly industrialised Belgium s total electricity use which I estimate at less than 25 000 MW ). ( I think they are still studying the feasibility of the project, I use it as an illustration of the enormous amounts of electricity that can be produced in alternative ways, from sources that are derived by the energy the sun brings to this earh )
So it is NOT about needing a sun that would fry you. I tried to look up the amount of energy the sun brings to this earth in one day, could not find it. I am sure it is immense.
There seems to be an abundance of energy, scaremongers.
As far as thermodynamics are concerned, what is your point ? I hope I can learn from you. Simply stating "go learn thermodynamics" is not an argument.
"It is not about energy density"
Yes it is, and it's pointless to even discuss the subject without reference to that.
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1998/ManicaPiputbundit.shtml
The power density of the sun's radiation on the surface of the earth is approximately 1.4 kW/m2.
The most efficient solar panels capture about 20% of that amount.
now....
http://www.siemens.com/innovation/en/news/2011/e_21_ino_1128_1.htm
"Production of one ton of steel requires around 20 gigajoules (5,600 kilowatt-hours) of energy. Expressed in terms of electricity consumption, that figure corresponds roughly to the amount of energy an average German household consumes over a period of 18 months. A large steelworks that manufactures up to five million tons of steel per year therefore consumes around the same amount of energy as seven million households during the same period."
THEREFORE (disregarding transmission losses)
to produce 1 ton of steel per hour, you'd need a solar array of approximately 20 square kilometers.
to put that in perspective, that's about 50ft of railway rail per hour.
Starting to get the picture?
In short, you cannot produce steel from solar power because the energy density is too low, and without steel you cannot have an industrial civilization. That's the only example I'm going to provide, because it's the only one that matters.
Solar, wind, tidal and geothermal all have their applications, but none of them will ever replace coal, gas, hydro or nuclear as base load power, and all of them are useless as transportation fuel. Anyone telling you otherwise is either ignorant or selling you a bill of goods.
"Simply stating "go learn thermodynamics" is not an argument. "
It wasn't meant as an argument, I was pointing out a deficiency in your understanding which was glaringly obvious from your statement that energy density doesn't matter. Sorry if that offends you, but energy density is fundamental to any discussion of renewable/alternate energy sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
Hey, thanks very much for your efforts to educate me.
Your numbers regarding energy use of steel works are indeed scary and certainly got me thinking and doubting.
And no I was not offended, but like arguments.
With energy from the sun, I do not only refer to solar panels, but also to sources indirectly derived from the sun ( wind, biofuel, hydro,... ).
I am still hopeful though :
I am not German, but use Germany as a hopeful example in this field as they really seem to be getting their act together :
A small steel works producing 2 million tonnes per year would require about 1300 MW supply on average ( using your 5300 KW.h per ton figure , which is a low estimate I suspect ) Germany has an annual steel production of 42 million tonnes ( so it would need a total supply of 27 300 MW on average, again starting from your 5300 KW.h per ton electricity use )
Consider Germany has installed 38 000 MW of solar and 29 000 MW of Wind, 1500 MW of biogas only, hydro about 4200 MW by one company RWE alone ( do not know when they wrote this ). Not even taking into account other renewable sources I could not immediately find or think of. So on the supply side I already amassed 72 700 MW.
Germany uses about 582 500 000 MW.h per year, ( assuming a constant use for simplicity this could be supplied with 66 500 MW of capacity )
These numbers are just a quick and dirty. Figures from different websites ( wikipedia among others ), most seem at most a few years old, not necessarily referring to the same year. But you get an idea of the order of magnitude
I know I did not account for many things ( transmission loss, variations in demand, probable lack of smart and adequate grid infrastructure to match supply with demand ), but if I see these figures, I am not that pessimistic and do not think that no steel production can ever take place with renewables, although I have to admit the challenge is enormous. Or is my thinking that flawed ?
Sorry if I came on a bit strong but this is a subject that's caused me much frustration over the years and no, I'm no expert but I do understand the basics of energy production from many years of study and working in the transportation and energy fields.
I sent a contact request to you because these threads are just too cumbersome to carry on a conversation. Not even sure how that works but I assume it means we can exchange thoughts via email, if that's to your liking.
There are two factors here that I see regarding future energy production. The first is what form it will take - the technical and material side of things, the second is the extent to which financial manipulation and political agendas run roughshod over that.
The technical and material effects are challenging, but I believe can be overcome. That is to say, I think manipulation and political interfenence are the larger issues and that's not something I have a good handle on at the moment. Necessity being the mother of invention, I believe we will get through this period of uncertainty - it's just a matter of at what cost in human suffering - an open question at this point.
regards
ebear
Thanks, I added you to my contact list, but I do not see any options for private messaging provided in that environment.
Not being an expert has advantages as well. Experts often fail to see the big picture that so many people here on ZH are really interested in.
You rightly point out these are not merely technical issues. I can explain were I am coming from : my interest in renewable energy stems from my hope to see Europe get out of its energy dependency conundrum, and to see an end to the nightmares in the Middle East.
Regards,
Reader2010 - Same deal as the colonies at one time and why they were so prosperous.
"The most powerful force in the universe is compounded interest"
- Albert Einstein
you cant create enough jobs for everyone in the United states PLUS all those who sneak into the country.
The SUPPLY of labor has exceeded its demand because of the open border.
Supply and demand
Bucky Fuller argued back in the late 70s that only 1% of Fortune 500 companies' annual profit was sufficient for feeding the entire population of the world. He went on to argue it's more than despicable to not feed, clothe and house the entire human race given the amount of technology that the world had back in the 70s.
Read what he says: http://40.media.tumblr.com/1f37213b3d99f2b68412718808f8a373/tumblr_mu34j...
so are you sugesting profit sharing by law? or are you sugesting I should give you my hard earned money? are you the sheriff? and i should trust your judgement?
oh, by the way - fuck you and your redistribution scheme, never fucking works...
bucky fuller was a socialistic idiot. to believe this shit tells me you got a great collective education.
Right. And what exactly have you added to the sum total of human knowledge?
JJ Petigrew - Its a factor but more so was imbalanced trade with China for too long. Also, by 2008 the debt overhang which masked this imbalance meant that a lot of jobs as structured were not sustainable.
Escrava - I am on the side of anyone arguing sane policy. I also know I am imperfect and sometimes my shit stinks but I TRY. If we all did that we would defeat physical death in a hurry and have a much better world in-between.
Cato is as full of shit as they come, kinda like Ron Paul, they act as a safety valve that lets the main vessel survive the pressure spikes.
You were right to begin with, first impressions are almost always best impressions. Carry on.
I'd like to say it doesn't matter that the fuckin' stupid people think Cato and Ron Paul can save them, but it does.
Only you can save you. Do you know your ass from a hole in the ground? Probably not.
This is evidenced by your belief in Ron Paul and Cato.
Low intelligence, not race or international conflict will be our undoing. At the end of the day, my downvoters will die... fighting each other.
What is delusional...?
Valerie Jarrett....and all her clan.
You know...the real President.
I'll take folks who believe in a saviour for 1000, Alex.
"Only you can save you."
The central tenet of libertarianism is personal responsibility-remember that everytime you look in the mirror! So, being critical of an institute and an individual, Ron Paul, who practices this tenet in everyday life and in their actions is rather silly.
And if I want silly I'll watch Monty Python and ignore your asinine comment.
Personal responsibility no matter the cost to anyone or anything else is actually what you mean? It's impossible to practice generic tenets in everyday life since anyone's definition of personal responsibility would be wildly different. For example, institute, think tank, union, government, cartel,
libertarian, liberal, etc..., all genericly mean the same thing. One group trying to impose their ideas on another group, or practicing their personal responsibility tenet.
To use your logic, there is nothing that means the same thing to everyone.
So what exactly do you have against dictionaries? Obviously you don't use them much.
occasionally, an event in life puts a light of total brightness on our society that it cannot be put back in the dark quickly. corzine and mf global a clear image of our finance system, Miriam Carey's shooting in DC, ferguson and NYC cig tax killing a clear image of tyranny.
now those images will be blurred and transfigured to reduce the impact, but for some of the eyes wide shut crowd, a few more eyes will be opened..
tyranny is what happened to others back in history or in some far off land or kingdom, not in the west! no never! we cannot think tyranny is the system western society now lives in..
I refuse to participate in the wall street game because 2008 was eye opening to me - a man I truly hate:
Cris Cox sec treasury under bush, did nothing to stop the rape of the peoples money, bush the younger the same...the illusion of a republic and patriotic represenatives was destroyed for many of us on ZH then..
today banksters and the .01% have been shown for what they are to many more of us.
open your eyes wide shut.
Ok' can you list the tenets of libertarians in clearly defined dictionary style.
Ron Paul and Joel Osteen sincerely appreciate your (monetary) support. Remember that, every time you look in the mirror, asswipe!
Another presentation at the conference by Edwin Vieria. Edwin is definitely the most prolific speaker in the group with an ability to integrate monetary policy with the law. When it comes to using bitcoins or any other digital currency the question is who is controlling the computer. Bitcoins could very well be a See Eye Eh op. I prefer to have substance that I can place in my pocket.
These guys talking about a major monetary shift taking place years down the road are way off base. I never thought the New World Odor boyz and gals could hang on this long. Something new is on the horizon, the question is what is going on behind the wizard's curtain.
With permission from CATO, I have made a recording of Dr. Edwin Vieira’s speech made at Cato’s 32 Annual Monetary Conference on Nov. 6, 2014, which you are free to distribute as long as you attribute credit to them: http://www.cato.org/multimedia/events/32nd-annual-monetary-conference-panel-2http://www.npn.net/CATO/Edwin_Cato_Speach.mp3
In addition to ghostery and adblock plus, us the chrome browser - fastest and most secure (though Firefox is OK as well).
If you are still using MS Explorer, you are getting what you deserve.
And if you occasionally use an iPad, use the Mercury browser with Adblock. It blocks ads and doesn't let Apple know what websites you are visiting.
Get a Mac Book Pro!
comes with a free gerbil
And pay three times as much for a laptop that does nothing more than a comparably speced Windows laptop.
Yeah.. if only with android..
..at what point did society decide that opening a page with an annoying popup ad is likely to lead anyone buy whatever toy they are selling?
"Credo quia absurdum"..
ghostery and adblock plus don't work. vpns are pervy. use privoxy and peerblock (former peerguardian).
+1 for Ghostery
NoScript and RequestPolicy will take care of it for you
https://noscript.net/
https://www.requestpolicy.com/
Sorry Tylers, but the site is intolerable without them. Ads are fine, but not to ZH's current level. Without blocking at least some of it the site is unreadable.
Repeat after me, flashblock, adblock, noscript. Look in tools-add ons at the top of your brower. At least on a PC.
No need to install software that may also include "extras". Just go here and load this hosts file. It contains many thousands of add and malware address and sets all of them to resolve to your local machine. The effect of this is that all the adds go away as they can't "phone home".
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
They site takes donations, toss them a few bucks.
Here, at drudge ...everywhere...got to make $$$ but..... goddam it drowning out the value proposition of coming to the goddam webste to began with
So the websites "give away" content at the cost of having to view ads so the advertisers can maybe sell you something. Google's a bit more nefarious in the private data they amass about searchers, but it's still the same thing: collecting information so they can try to sell you something (more targeted perhaps, but still trying to sell something). Applied to the interweb, it's just a spin on the commercial TV business model....straight from the 1950s (or radio from the 1920s). Everything old is new again, I guess. Or Zuckerberg, and all the other web monetizing geniuses really aren't that imaginative.
Try using a system that is somewhat more powerful (than an 8086 processor).
Try using a system with more advanced features (paper punchtapes and magnetic reel-to-reel tapes can't keep up).
Try using a system somewhat more modern (the clue here is that any computer that uses 'floppy discs' for storage is probably too old).
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Try using a system that isn't infected with multiple viruses that are causing your issues (you whiny little douche). For the love of GOD, buy, borrow, or steal an antivirus program with rootkit scanning, and figure it out.
If Tyler could perfect a pop-up ad for the girls at Anastasia dot com, there would NEVER be comments... everyone would be too busy with other issues... and taking matters into their own hands...
THE TYLERS DIDN'T BUILD YOUR MACHINE, OR INFECT IT BY MAKING YOU DOWNLOAD ALL THAT FUCKING PORN, OR TURN OFF YOUR ANTIVIRUS PROGRAMS AND ANTIMALWARE PROGRAMS.
FUCK!
NOTE:
A 'system' is somewhat larger than a phone; even one of those phones which have really small screens and internet 'capability'. Anything which relies upon cell towers to provide you with internet capabilities and has 'bluetooth' technology can't possibly be expected to block all the multiple inputs that are trashing the entire infrastructure; and trying to stop 'annoying pop-ups' requires a much larger processor than is currently available in your 'palm-pilot' or 'I-pad'.
"and taking matters into their own hands..."
ROFLMAO.... too funny.
Try no script, works great. But don't forget to view the ads from time to time to keep zerohedge up and running, just my opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCtzQRkrj0U
aGREED. fucking ads are now over the top.
Get
NoScript Security Suite 2.6.9.6 and Adblocker- choose what scripts you want to run- no more worries.Outyeffinway - The massive amounts of ads = inevitable compromise with capital. I had a site like this that also started with donations.
While it pays for servers and bandwidth, one cannot make a living at it. I am not talking six figures either. What does that say? Think about it.
As for Jim Grant he has been a vocal proponent of sound monetary policy. What I will tell my 3 year old Granddaughter 20 years from now:
"Well sweety, what you can always count on is people in power willing to cause you pain so they can continue to party even when your own in life and general society has stopped. People tend to only do the right thing ot of necessity, when they have to. When you hear repeated statements of how an economy or government will go on forever, begin hedging against the worst but hope for the best and realize mankind will carry on."
'We' the debt slaves.
What ill-gotten gains? The lefty fiction that every dollar someone else has is ill-gotten? Jim has written THIS SAME STUFF for at least 30 years that I've been reading him. He used to work for Barron's as a weekly columnist, then founded his own advisory outfit all the while writing several painstakingly researched books and raising a family.
Why the animus toward him?
"The lefty fiction that every dollar someone else has is ill-gotten?"
Part of the "Zero Sum Game" Jedi mind trick used to justify class warfare and gov. picking of winners and losers.
"These aren't the 'ill-gotten gains' you're looking for."
"These aren't the 'ill-gotten gains' we're looking for."
"Let them pass."
"Let them pass."
Part one: Wealth is unearned -> if wealth is unearned, then it's just being moral to take it away
Part two: Everyone is special -> If everyone is special, then no one is special, except the elite of course
Part three: Let us help you -> Vote for us, we'll give you free healthcare, take care of your retirement savings, protect you from all means of disaster, and all it will cost you is all your income, all your savings, and all your freedoms.
All it will cost you is your soul.
"Wealth is unearned"
Most of it is, unfortunately.
We've been seeing quite a bit of this deathbed 'truthiness' lately, haven't we?
"So what do you think of your life's work now, Jim?
And who exactly, is this royal WE?
Are you about to give all of your ill gotten gains to charity?
Riiiiiight!"
Been listening to Jim for a few years now. Nobody can say he isn´t pro physical, and I wouldn´t doubt for a second that he´s stacking his ass off. He´s earning his dry powder doing the job he´s been doing for decades....WAY BEFORE this market developed into the monstrosity it is today. If you would notice, very few people dare to take Jim on, because they know the chances of being shot down in flames is high. Cut the guy some slack.
Gentleman Jim doing his same tired rant for 30 plus years now.
He's just crying because he's not in "the big club" and it irks him that he has to earn a living. He invests other people's money and he has no edge. But don't blame him that the insiders are eating his lunch.
Hey Jim, go produce something for the first time in your life.
Thanks CD for taking the definition to the next higher level. Even Einstein had not perfected the theries of quantum mechanics into his theory of relativity.
[Insanity] is ALLOWING someone else to do the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Then blaming the (other) insane guy or gal for our problems.
CD, you fell into the best intentions assumption trap.
What if they want the same thing to be done over and over, so their scams can continue to work.
They had slaves in the 18th century bro... no one wants to do that shit work! Not even back then!
The slaves back then were smarter. They KNEW they were slaves. These days not so much.
They KNEW they were slaves.
Actually, they didn't.
The lesson to be learned by Harriet Tubman is that some people are aware of their status and are rebellious, while others actually REVEL in their servitude.
Try reading 'Gulag Archepeligo'.
Have you ever heard the term 'Indentured Servitude'? Formerly FREE people (Whities) actually sold themselves for a period of up to 7-21 years for the PRIVELEDGE of being able to come to the 'new world'.
Micks and Sheenies and Wops and ALL KINDS of oppressed people took up this offer. My ANCESTORS did this.
HELL, the United States in the late 19th century even went so far as to buy a tract of land in Western Africa, and re-name it 'LIBERIA', so that the freed 'negro slaves' could attempt to 'REPATRIATE', after the 'civil war'. They carry on this tradition, in the registry of their ships (like 'Monrovia, Liberia').
You're not ignorant (after all, you are on ZeroHedge).
Traditionally, the negro tribal leaders sold their indigent and unwanted offspring to Spanish slave traders; who transported them across the Atlantic to importation trans-loading hubs where they (those who survived the journey) would be trans-shipped up the coast to the Southern 'colonies'. The DEMOCRATIC slaveowners would make bids, and the REPUBLICAN people of renown woud work to outbid their offers.
MULLATOS like Barry SOETORO were UNHEARD OF back in this day.
Alex Hailey's 'ROOTS' was a totally scripted, fictional book (and MSM 'ABC' movie leleplay). He admitted this some years afterwords.
Whose bitch are YOU, 'CH1'?
I was in a weekly "manager's" meeting recently and was complaining that I felt like some of our groups were subservient to another group when we should all be more or less equal in this "professional services" company. I said that I felt like we were slaves to this other group who is consistently below 90% billable. My group has to be 99% billable and I have to be 95% billable. One of the managers spoke up said said that he liked being a slave. This guy has a master's degree in a STEM subject. I was dumbfounded.
And those are the people who will be completely and totally fucked when the system breaks down. They won't have a clue where to look to start getting a clue on a clue.
"One of the managers spoke up said said that he liked being a slave."
Brown-noser, or maybe he really meant it. After all: Thinking is difficult work, which is why so few people engage in it." Slavery at least frees one from the drudgery of having to think.
FRESNO - I've written a little about some of the great military figures Liberia has given the world, like General Butt Naked and his platinum-blonde drag queen psycho killers. But I've never told the hilarious, totally sick story of how Liberia got the way it is. And it's too interesting to hold back any longer.
Liberian history is supposedly "tragic," which is newspaper code for "funny as Hell." I can't help it, it is. It's not like I don't sympathize. I do. I mean, which slum did your grandparents come from? Probably some starved village where the coal mine's been closed since it ate a whole shift of locals. How'd you like it if everybody in your neighborhood took up a collection to send you back there, even if you didn't speak a word of the language? "We feel you don't fit in in Santa Barbara and you'll never be truly happy until you're back in Lower Slobovia:"
That's how Liberia started. It was white people's idea from the start. They were worried about free blacks, who made up about a tenth of the 2 million black people in the US. The two extremes of the slavery issue, abolitionists and crazy slaveowners, agreed something had to be done about all those free blacks.
The abolitionists loved black people so much they wanted them to go far, far away. So did the slaveowners, who announced with no evidence at all that free blacks were "promoters of mischief." (I don't know what "mischief" means--maybe they TP'd those Gone With the Wind plantation houses.)
A group of rich white do-gooders including Francis Scott Key, who wrote "the Star Spangled Banner," got together to raise the money to send free blacks back to Africa. For them Key had a special version of the anthem: "Oh say can you see/the home of the brave? If so, you're standing too close/Go about 4000 miles southeast, to West Africaaaa."
Congress came through with a big grant and in 1819, a ship with 88 freed blacks and three white chaperons landed in that other success-story for re-planting blacks, Sierra Leone. After gassing up at Freetown, they headed down the coast to the promised land, Liberia.
Within three weeks of arriving at their new home, all three whites and 22 blacks died of fever. That's barely time to start naming things "free-" this and "free-that.
Instead they named the place "Perseverance." A little truth in advertising. The rich whites sitting home safe in the US were determined to persevere in Liberia, even if it meant shipping every black they could catch straight into the most disease-ridden, lethal climate in the world. They worked a deal with the US Navy that any slave ships intercepted on the high seas would be detoured to Liberia an dump their cargo there, which meant that no matter how many colonists died, more were always on the way.
It was like a do-gooder version of Darwin, only sped up. Most of the newcomers died so fast they barely had time to thank their benefactors, but a few survived. And they were the ones who married and had kids, so eventually you got a population that had some degree of resistance to all the tropical diseases.
Once they realized they weren't all going to die in the next week, the settlers went to work on the most fundamental thing in any society: setting up cliques. There were three big ones in Liberia: the freed slaves who were "black"; the ones who were "mulatto"; and way back there in the bush, the natives. Naturally, none of these cliques liked each other.
The next step, naturally, was sucking up to the people who abused you. Is this starting to remind you of high school? That's because high school is a totally typical example of how people act when they have to start a society from scratch.
So instead of making peace with the natives, the Liberians spent the 1840s trying to get officially recognized by the whites. The funny bit is that the European states didn't have too much problem granting it, but the US--the country that started Liberia with a huge grant from Congress--refused to recognize Liberia until 1862. Guess why. Yup: because the South might object to having a black ambassador in Washington D.C.
It makes you wonder how they finally agreed to recognize Liberia. I mean, it's 1862, the Confederacy's at war with the US, and some bureaucrat's still sweating over the decision: "Well, Mr. Lincoln, our focus groups show there might be a negative reaction in some of the border districts:"
By this time Liberia was a full-grown country, doing what West African coastal enclaves are supposed to do: getting ripped off in "development" loans from the West, having ridiculous border disputes over some fever-ridden chunk of bush, and making the inland natives feel like dirt. British banks ripped the Liberians off so badly that one Liberian president--"the Liberian Lincoln," no less--had to swim for his life, and ended up as shark food before he made it to a British ship in the harbor of Monrovia, the new Liberian capital city.
Monrovia was named after James Monroe, who was one of the supporters of the Liberian colonization plan. His famous comment on Liberia was, "Love you guys, wish you could stay longer, here's your hat."
My favorite border dispute was between Liberia and that other outpost of freedom, Sierra Leone. In 1883, Sierra Leone claimed territory that Liberia held. The British backed up the Sierra Leoneans; Uncle Sam decided to stay out of it, and the Liberians had to back down. Next it was the French, in the Ivory Coast next door, grabbing another chunk of territory. Through it all Uncle Sam kept his distance from his black nephews in Liberia. It was like he was a little embarrassed by them.
One reason the US might've been embarrassed by the Liberians is that they kept trying to look white. And they succeeded. Take a look at the pictures of Liberian leaders from the 1800s and they look like Confederate generals with a tan--a lot of white blood in there. The Liberians were proud of that; the US wasn't.
These "Americo-Liberians" were never more than five percent of the population, but they ran the coast, had the money, understood more about the outside world--so they considered themselves the elite. They felt even whiter when they compared themselves with the natives, who were pure West African--some of the darkest people in the world. To remind everybody of the difference, the settlers called themselves "Americo-Liberians" and put on a lot of airs, with stiff collars and muttonchop sideburns--not to mention that other mark of higher civilization, land grabs.
Nobody was really sure how far inland Liberia's borders went. Basically, it was as much as they wanted or could grab. Nobody worried much about the natives; they were black and uncivilized. The Americo-Liberians were as racist as the slaveowners their ancestors had crossed the ocean to get away from. They sent their kids to school in the US to make sure they didn't get too African, and didn't even try to find out who lived in the jungle they'd claimed until the 1860s.
By the 1890s, you had the ultimate in, uh, black comedy: Liberian gunboats sailing upriver to bombard savage native tribes who were resisting civilization. In fact, they were resisting it too well: when the Americo-Liberian army marched inland to teach the Gola tribe a lesson, they got their cafe-au-lait asses kicked.
Liberian military history recovered its former glory in 1917, when Liberia formally joined the Allies against the Germans. There was panic among the General Staff in Berlin when the news arrived. But there was rejoicing in Monrovia, because it meant all German assets in Liberia could be seized and handed out to deserving Americo-Liberian pals.
But then unrest flared up inland, in darkest Liberia. The Americo-Liberian government sent a party to investigate. It turned out the tribes back there had heard a rumor that slavery was going to be abolished, and were outraged. The government explained it was just PR, a decree to impress the foreigners. But the natives were still restless, so the government had to send a big force to convince the Kru, the biggest tribe, to be peaceful by sacking their towns and killing off their warriors.
World War II was Liberia's golden age--by Liberian standards, that is. Once again the country took its stand for liberty, enlisting on the Allied side. But this time that actually meant something, because while WW I was basically a European war, WW II really was a worldwide deal. So the US set up some bases on the Liberian coast, with plenty of trickle-down for the locals. All kinds of fancy Western ideas started percolating through Monrovia. Women got the vote and in the early Sixties the Peace Corps did some of its earliest do-gooding in Liberia.
What did those kids actually do in the Corps, anyway? As far as I know, they just hugged a lot of dark-skinned people and meant well. It's kind of fun to think of these white American hippies' welcoming party in Monrovia, with all the snooty mulattoes in town sipping cocktails and warning them about those terribly, terribly primitive blacks one meets inland.
Liberia's biggest break ever came when some genius realized that since Liberia was officially a country--recognized since 1862, remember!--it had the right to sell ship registrations. Which it started doing, cut-rate, to every tramp steamer that didn't want to bother with lifeboats or safety inspections.
Which is why, every time an oil tanker goes aground while the captain was dead drunk, or comes apart mid-ocean, the papers call it "a Liberian-registered vessel." Your assurance of quality on the high seas.
That one's still a big money-spinner for Liberia. Actually Liberia was doing OK, by African standards, right up to the 70s. They'd had the same president from 1944 to 1971, an upstanding old guy with the great name of William Vacanarach Shadrach Tubman. With his suit and horn-rimmed glasses, he looks a little like Papa Doc Duvalier, the scary little dude who ruled Hatii at about the same time. But Tubman was a much more peaceful guy, who actually tried to include the inland tribes in the party. Investment picked up, schools got built, peace almost looked ready to break out. Almost.
When Tubman died another fairly decent guy, William Tolbert, was elected President. Tolbert tried to move with the times, dressing up in those African clothes--little white cap, white leisure suit--that make you look like a hospital orderly on break and carrying one of those sticks of office like Mobutu had in Congo.
But he didn't move fast enough. In 1980 he and a dozen of his officials were killed in a coup. This is the moment when Liberia starts its big, long fall.
Turned out the coup was run by Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe. Doe was the first of the monsters. Since him, it's been one long string of monsters calling the shots in Liberia.
Doe started the tradition of killing anybody who objected to his decisions and stealing everything he could grab. But he was a weak-kneed moderate, compared to the next generation of Liberian wackos. You get this pattern a lot in the Third World: the first army officer to stage a coup is just an ordinary murderer, but somehow when he overthrows the old-style civilian politicians, all bets are off, and the contenders just get crazier and more violent all the time.
In 1989, an Americo-Liberian named Charles Taylor showed up in charge of a guerrilla army calling itself the National Patriotic Front of Liberia. The NPFL announced it was going to overthrow Sgt. Doe.
Taylor and Doe went way back. In fact, Taylor had been in charge of the money during Doe's regime--until Doe accused Taylor of stealing government funds. Of course that was like accusing him of breathing; it went without saying. But the charge meant that Doe and Taylor had had a fight. Taylor had to run off to the US. He was comfortable there, because like most Americo-Liberian kids he'd been sent to school there.
Then, to his own surprise, Taylor ended up in a Massachusetts prison on a Liberian extradition warrant. He was never extradited, though. Instead, he showed up in Liberia as leader of the NPFL. The question is, how did Taylor get out of jail in Massachusetts? Nobody's sure. His story is that he sawed through the bars, Count of Monte Christo style. Other people, cynical types, say he cut a deal with the CIA.
Everybody was sick of Doe, who was destroying Liberia in record time. He was shot, to everybody's satisfaction, in 1990. Taylor got the blame for that killing, along with a lot of others his guys had done back in the bush on their way to the capital. Charles had one of the all-time great answers for these nay-sayers: "Jesus Christ was accused of being a murderer in his time."
I'm still scratching my head on that one. From what I remember of Sunday School, they called Jesus a lot of stuff, but "murderer"? I must've missed that Sunday.
Still, Taylor should know; he's an ordained Baptist minister, and if there's on thing those rock-head Baptists can do, it's quote Scripture at you till you.
After Doe was shot, Liberia just sort of rotted. Taylor's NPFL ran most of the country, but the young guys back in the bush had gotten a taste for carrying guns, killing people and stealing their stuff. For the first time they were starting to feel included in the Liberian political process, and they weren't in a hurry to have things go back to the dull old ways, with some pompous old man in a suit running things from the coast.
And the rest, as they say, is recent history.
- Gary Brecher
Damn, if only all history lessons read like this. Funny ass shit.
That's more history than most people that visit a 7-11......will ever know.
That's more history than most will get in any public school as well.
Pick up "The Traditional Bowyer's Bible" vol 1 and 2 to get started (3 and 4 latter). I've been making bow's and hunting with them for 5 + years. There is no better way to learn short of knowing someone who has mastered it.
I'm just curious, have you killed with one of your bows yet? Because to me, that would be very, very satisfying. Not killing with a bow, per se, but killing with a bow that I made with my own hands.
Thanks! Great instructionals.
Don't forget the lye when you soak the oxhide for your shield.
Makes it harder and more resistant against a broadaxe.
Vaquero, If you're interested in growing your own food, may I suggest the book Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholemew.
My garden was 3500 ft2 this year, and something tells me that it'll be bigger next year. I can't help myself. I also save my own seed, though that doesn't stop me from picking up an interesting new heirloom here and there. If two cultivars cross, I care not. I grew some funky looking summer squash this year on top of the normal stuff. It did taste good though. Then I have the various pear trees, peach trees, plum trees, and two apple trees that I put in this year. I just started with Navajo blackberries this year. When I was told "Those will spread!" my response was "I'm counting on it." The strawberry patch is doing well, and I have a 20 year old grape vine that is out of control, but it produces good grapes and a lot of them. I made gallons of grape jelly this year.
"Learn some 18th century skills. "
Does having daughters and selling them count as an 18th century skill?
I'm going with a different approach.... bring in the guys that will put in a solar farm... put in a well and, have a lot of ammo loaded.
I have the ammo loaded.... the solar farm will be in this month and, I've contacted the guys that are going to put the well in. ( in a semi-remote location )
Grid tied 10,000W farm with over 850 amp hours of battery backup underneath it.... That will be enough to keep my freezers going, lights on and all my batteries charged with a well pump going,... anything after that is a luxury.... I need to preserve meat and things like that, I need my high powered lights and radios running, I need water without having to bring it from somewhere else and security.
I'm just about done.... I feel like I've done just about everything I intend on doing after the well is in.
How did they preserve meat before refridgeration? There are options, jerky being the most obvious. They also cured meats:
http://www.sausagemaker.com/11200instacureand153no15lbs.aspx
http://www.sausagemaker.com/11400instacureand153no25lbs.aspx
Not bad for $20. I've never made hard sausage, but I do know that you can cut into it, set it on the counter for a few days and it's still safe to eat. Smoke itself is a curing ingrediant:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokehouse
And I have made a bunch of jerky by drying it in my smoker. It's damned good that way, and you'll scoff at the thought of using liquid smoke after having jerky dried that way.
Of course, if you live near something like this, you've got it covered:
http://www.icecaves.com/
But having water covered is something that puts you way ahead of most other people. The water table at my place is ~6', so I can (and have) drive my own well.
My grandparents preserved beef by canning chunks in glass fruit jars in a pressure cooker...delicious! They preserved pork by hanging a quarter in a small closet in the smokehouse, salting every day and keeping a small smoky fire going. It was too salty for me to eat more than a small piece but the red eye gravy made with fresh cream was wonderful. They butchered 6 or 8 kinds of poultry as needed. They hunted rabbits, squirrels, and possum, also ate turtles and fished. (central IL)
A few weeks ago I went out and shot arrows I made from a bow I made - string and finger tab made by yours truly, as well.
A very satisfying feeling!
I've got another 3 bows in various stages of construction.
I do have a decent bought recurve too - it will be out in the woods doing its stuff as soon as I've had breakfast.
And just when Clouseau thinks it's safe, Cato is revealed to be hiding under the covers pretending to be a pillow...
HUH?
"..., Cato is revealed to be hiding under the covers pretending to be a pillow..."
The GREEN LANTERN REALLY isn't 'that' way, you know (even if his secret name IS 'Clouseau'). I mean, he might like Asian 'gurls' and all, but...
Wrong movie, dude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Clouseau
It almost blew his little yellow skin off.
Beauty.
Beauty
Dam good shooting!
Ill say.
Only ONE reason Greenspan said what he said, it's over.
Agreed, the warning shot across the bow has been fired, the only question that remains is how soon they allow the collapse to begin.
I say woar will be involved in some way to provide cover and allow for more MIC financing and profit skimming.
Again, the prudent man looks ahead and sees danger and plans accordingly, the fool continues on his merry way and gets eaten.
No time like the present to put back some beans, bullets and bandaids...if you have some other assets to protect, PMs offer a good inflation hedge.
DaddyO
or he is all in on gold and wants ot to stop going down now
(Give me a when, I will uptick you.)
Wait......What? my email is placed into a reply slot on an email I did not reply to.......Whats up with that?
It has disappeared altogether. ix there some kind of sezorshyp hear?
Tyrant-training, sponsored by fraudulent Federal Reserve Banking.
Mmmm...hyperinflation in 2017. Lot of money to be made.
Some folks printed about 10 trillion in about 5 years. Some folks can always print another 10 trillion in a couple years.
I have always been a fan of Jim Grant. The guy is a gem.
He's really sharp as far as things go. Much more educated and eloquent than most 'economists'.
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That fucking BOWTIE thing, though, makes him look like he's wearing a 'Nerdpack'. Under his suit jacket is probably a plastic holder in his left breast pocket, with leaking pens oozing ink through the ripped seam of the cheap and free 'pocket pen holder' (the 'nerdpack')... all he needs to complete the picture is some masking tape holding the bridge of his glasses together...
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(I think he's a member of the Von Mises Institute, as well. Charter member, perhaps.) I got involved when Ron Paul was making his first run, and that's where I first ran across his way of describing the 'economy'. His heart's in the right place, and it doesn't matter about anything else (in the larger scheme of things).
I see the /sarc tag, but there's no "nerdpack" on Jim. The guy is 6'7" and was a pretty solid athlete when he was younger. He used to play catch out on the street near his office after market hours. He is exactly what he seems to be, too: he's bright, easy going, a bit self-deprecating, and has a wonderfully quick wit. When you sit down to chat with Jim, you bring your "A" game or you feel woefully inept. The guy has done his homework, and he has a file cabinet in his head.
By the way, he's a writer first, not a money manager. He just so happens to have a fascination for economics and the concept of "money", so that's what he writes about.
The battle hasn't even begun. It isn't called "the dismal science" for nothing.
"Dow 18,000" dominates headlines while questioning the credentials of quack economists-turned-central-bankers results in a lifetime CNBS guest appearance ban.
Cornell professor: time for white "race suicides" in wake of Ferguson, NYC
http://tinyurl.com/p99wxz9