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The Dark Heart Of This Shape-Shifting World: Quantitative Easing

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Everything we're told by journalists and politicians is confusing and contradictory. As The BBC's Adam Curtis explains in this brief documentary, it is an odd, non-linear world that plays into the hands of those in power. But the real epicenter of this non-linear world is the economy, and it's dark heart: Quantitative Easing. "We as individuals become ever more powerless, unable to challenge anything, because we live a state of confusion and uncertainty... this has become a central part of a new system of political control."

 

 

Source: RealClearPolitics

 

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Thu, 01/01/2015 - 18:36 | 5613238 stant
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Every time I watch the msm I start laughing . Dark humor for sure.it like watching a Mel brooks movie he wrote while on crack

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 18:38 | 5613244 ZH Snob
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I'd say the true dark heart is the derivative structure, but why quibble?

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:11 | 5613312 knukles
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Global Economy Stinks + Free Money to the Rich Make Richer = Infinite QE = No Significant Real Tightening.

But Wait, There's More 

http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/usfd/page3.pdf

Without Tightening, Reserves Are Being Drained form the Banking System at a Breakneck Pace = Cognitive Dissonance (No, not you Cog, the mental condition) = Schizophrenia + Disassociative Disorders, Deluxe

It's gonna be one ball buster of a confusing year, folks.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:53 | 5613408 Payne
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British Brilliance the Best plan is to have no real Plan.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 20:06 | 5613431 stant
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Thanks Knucks. I've shown that chart to the few I know who half understand when you posted that a few days ago.mason jar federal for us po folk best we can do

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 20:24 | 5613481 Bangalore Torpedo
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Not to worry, it's nothing that QE4 can't "fix". Cept the Fed will have to put some lipstick on it and call it something else like Operation BOHICA.

Remember those chinese finger traps that your smart-assed drunken uncle gave you? The Fed version is the liquidity trap.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 21:46 | 5613654 KnuckleDragger-X
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The money will go where all the other money went and with the same effect but it'll give the talking heads something to cheer about....

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 21:28 | 5613606 bitterwolf
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fed+ecb+china central+(baffling bullshit)= global elite banking cabal birthing pangs

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 18:39 | 5613243 q99x2
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Bankers print out of the well of infinite fiat contractors as politicians, as military mercenaries, as federalized police departments, as DHS, as NSA and so on, in order to steal as much wealth as possible and prevent the populations from stopping them from taking over the planet and enslaving everyone. What's there to know? You have to arrest them and throw them into prisons. Duh?

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 21:08 | 5613569 LostPolarBear
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Arrest them?  No, you have to hang them in the streets. 

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 18:43 | 5613254 Sudden Debt
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Love the twilight music :)

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 18:49 | 5613272 Man Who Was Thursday
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Yeah, Adam Curtis sure is a fan of Burial.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 18:44 | 5613257 HowdyDoody
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The BBC is Zionist controlled media. They are part of the problem.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 20:54 | 5613542 explosivo
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I love the way the placed the blame for the confusion on Putin. Is there anything they won't try and pin on the guy?

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 18:48 | 5613259 alexcojones
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The TRUE dark heart is the Secret (Satanist) State.

   "Radioactive fallout found by the U.S. Geological Survey in samples from 35 sites surrounding the WTC for nearly a mile. Other signs were the speed of the Towers disintegrations (8 to 10 seconds), the shock and blast waves, the pyroclastic main cloud, base-surges of street-level dust clouds, electromagnetic pulses (EMPs), upwellings of clouds from street gratings blocks away, the 2,800ºF heat under the WTC debris, and, possibly, the giveaway light-blue Cerenkov Radiation when the debris “pile” was cleared in mid-March.

   "Add to all these signs, the molten metal in the footprints of WTC 1, 2, and 7 that for three months could not be extinguished by water or daily soil changes as it consumed concrete, steel, glass, office combustibles. The increasing incidence of radiation-only cancers from residents is another tell-tale sign of a nuclear “event.”

 

Jeff Smith on Upcoming Able Danger Leak

 

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 20:02 | 5613386 SameAsItEverWas
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Radioactive fallout found by the U.S. Geological Survey in samples from 35 sites surrounding the WTC for nearly a mile

WTC dust and beam coating samples broken down by element in the below table published 2006 by USGS is what sold me.  Is this what you mean?  If so it's not what you say because they don't break it down by isotope but why the hell is there so much barium, cerium, strontium, yttrium, rubidium, lanthanum, thorium, and uranium?  Sure looks like fallout to me! 

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/ofr-01-0429/chem1/WTCchemistrytable.html

Chemistry Table 1. This Table summarizes data for major elements and all trace elements analyzed in the WTC dust and beam coating samples. Some elements (such as mercury and tin) were not analyzed in these samples. Major elements are listed in percent concentration and trace elements are listed in parts per million concentration. 

Again.  The USGS data above is NOT FALLOUT because there's nothing indicating isotope.

And the cesium is way lower than the strontium which goes against the theory of fission.  And they didn't report tellurium.

I wrote up something about fission products and this table a few years ago but can't find it.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 20:07 | 5613434 mvsjcl
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Stop the dis-info. Nano-thermite, proven and peer-reviewed. Clearly what was seen and what best explains the evidence.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 16:31 | 5616000 detached.amusement
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I was wondering what made that hurricane in the atlantic take a 90 degree turn within the span of a few hours

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 18:48 | 5613270 alexmark2013
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The Four Things You Can Count On Following the Collapse of the Dollar http://investmentwatchblog.com/the-four-things-you-can-count-on-following-the-collapse-of-the-dollar/
Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:01 | 5613296 explodinghead
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I have not watched this yet but I will.  He may be of the BBC but his documentary "the century of the self" is an important one every american should see.  

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:05 | 5613304 NoDebt
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Follow the money.  Alwyays.  It doesn't lie about the seat of power and control.  Everything else is trivia.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:10 | 5613313 no more banksters
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Adam Curtis' best trilogy:

The Century of the Self

The Trap – What Happened to our Dream of Freedom

All watched over by machines of loving grace

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:16 | 5613333 coast
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I usually like to keep my posts short and sweet, no links or videos, but I really thought you might be interested in this article that was written Nov 23 about putin selling oil for gold...I anxisouly await comments!!

 http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/grandmaster-putins-golden-trap

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:21 | 5613338 fibonacci's claus
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i would never vote for jeb bush.  its an insult he thinks he even has a chance.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:36 | 5613380 huntergvl
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It doesn't matter who runs or even who wins, it is worse than insult. The elected will be a wrecking ball for the plutocracy.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:20 | 5613344 gwar5
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The BBC did this? Adam Curtis should watch out for nail guns.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:23 | 5613353 kchrisc
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"We as individuals become ever more powerless, unable to challenge anything, because we live a state of confusion and uncertainty... this has become a central part of a new system of political control."

Thing is, we only "become ever more powerless" if we choose to be. We do not "become ever more powerless," but through accepting their suggestions, propaganda, that we are.

I do not accept, or acknowledged, their claims of my powerlessness. No, so long as they, like all parasites, need me, not I them, it is I that holds the power--I am powerful.

Are you powerful?

The banksters need to repay us.

 

Flushed from the host, a parasite is powerless to produce or survive, and withers away. Proving that living off the production of the host is a parasite's only power.


Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:39 | 5613382 Itch
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Simplify the narrative, hang the bankers, and make the politicians watch, then make them understand that they are to blame for the carnage. 

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:40 | 5613385 Peter Pan
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The idea of funding the creation of groups that are contrarian is that they act like magnets for any particular discontented individuals. In this way you know who they are and what they are up to and in the process they let off a bit of controlled steam without damaging the controlling entity.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 19:43 | 5613387 HardlyZero
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Simple, timely, and to the point.

Keep things fuzzy, fluid, and fomenting.   These allow the TPTB printing and fleecing and continuation for the top 5%.

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 20:25 | 5613479 jm
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A the dark heart of the shape-shifting world sits a Turing machine with large but finite memory trying to solve unrecognizable problems. 

As it has always been.  Playting this game is what investors have always done. 

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 21:40 | 5613642 Temerity Trader
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So, we start 2015 with the same crap flinging and bull vs. bear arguments:

 Bulls:

* You cannot fight the Fed.

* The Fed is now omnipotent and can print to infinity.

* Any weakness will be met with more QE.

* If markets fall, Fed will jawbone and have their proxies buy the index futures.

* Weak housing means looser credit for all.

*  Fed knows the top 10% control 90% of the economy, they are all that matter.

* The Fed and all central bankers see they must coordinate and can never stop intervening or it will all collapse.

* The Fed sees there are no longer any limits to debt creation and it works. Massive stock buybacks, wild consumer spending. No inflation.

* The Fed wants the Dow above 20K and will get it. Too big to fail.

Bears:

* It is all not sustainable in 2008, 2009, 2010…2015. Well, they are persistent, if not poorer.

* The Fed will lose its effectiveness someday.

* Faith in Fed will end.

* Infinite money creation is not possible, just can’t be

Place your bets, the casino opens shortly...

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 22:26 | 5613704 Billy Shears
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Leave it up to the "darkies:"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9poCAuYT-s

Did I forget to mention, I love these guys!

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 00:24 | 5613904 Oldwood
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The power of chaos. It never goes out of style.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 01:20 | 5613980 theyjustcantstop
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the rothchild plan never fails, and will continue to work unless exposed.

finance chaos, then finance both sides of the war.

after financing, both sides in ww1-ww11, with 70-100 million human deaths, and a few million other human deaths in the slew of other military actions in-between, before, and after, people need to realize, to the people who are gaining control over you, $ are more important than humans.

it's easy to document, follow the money, and the families.

 

 

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 04:11 | 5614100 pcrs
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It is not hard to understand austerity and economic stimulus, if you start with the assumption that government does not exist for the average guy,but never stopped being an instrument of the rich to tax the middle class.  I is just that the BBC being a state institute has a hard time grasping they are an institute to program the populous for the elites.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 04:35 | 5614109 pcrs
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Or change the narrative to: I am being screwed

and it is all perfectly consistent.

and it was not invented by Putin,  that is propaganda in itself.

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 10:03 | 5614377 breadonwaters
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I've made a new years resolution to join / start up a Canadian version of ZH ....I understand CDN issues are too local for the interest of MOST ZH'ers ...but up here in the GWN , we have a problem that will definately be biiting us on the ass:  WE HAVE NO GOLD RESERVES!   WTF are we going to do when the big reset arrives?

Fri, 01/02/2015 - 10:03 | 5614381 breadonwaters
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I exaggerated, Canada is 91st in the world's gold reserves....

 

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