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Is This The Most Important Chart For The Future Of The World's Reserve Currency?
When it comes to the future of the dollar status as the world's reserve currency, the most important chart may be the fact that the US is now so woefully buried in debt that another global military conflict appears inevitable...
... or that it now takes virtually unlimited monetization of the debt shown above to preserve the illusion that the US is not bankrupt, pushing the S&P to record highs in the process...
... or that the marginal impact of every additional dollar in new debt generates increasingly less economic growth?
Indeed, the "most important chart" may very well be any of the above, but in our view the one chart which, both literally and metaphorically, will determine how much longer the USD will reign as the world's reserve, is the following.
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well.. hedge funds are massively long GOLD COPPER and US Debt.
http://hedgeaccordingly.com/2015/02/hedge-funds-are-massively-long-gold-...
Those charts seem to take off right around 1971.
Wonder why?
Why have an army when autonomous kill decision drones can do it so much cheaper, plus you can close th VA
Drones are way overrated. You need a constant data stream going to an operator somewhere. Logic would suggest that any transmission can be intercepted or supplanted, with false instructions issued.
Now, I am aware they are working on drones that fly all by themselves, pick targets, fight, and return home entirely autonomously. Obviously they never watched terminator.
Still, the main problem I have with drones is that they put awesome killing power into very few hands. Eventually, it's not inconceivable that a few hundred people manage enough drones to function as a complete army. Concentration of power is never a good thing, and that goes double for military power.
qe four NOW,,,,,then where are we going to be?
The Jew Larry Kudlow loves the Crony Capitalism... He and all his buddies get filthy fucking rich while the rest of us get fucked! I say burn the motherfuckers alive!
The Jew Larry Kudlow loves the Crony Capitalism...
Larry Kudlow may claim he is a Jew, but he sure don't act like any faithful adhering to the poetry of their religion's canons one one might expect. The previous President of Iran responded to a lamestream reporter's "assertions masked almost as a question" during a UN press briefing said it best, "A Zionist is not a Jew. A Zionist is a Zionist, period!" Iran has a large population of Jews. Some are even PMs. Must be this "reformed" heresy that has little to no connection to the Torah.
Al Capone claimed he was a Catholic. Who knows a Carholic that behaved like Capone?
The chart of miltary participation to stock market spikes means when the false flaggers on CSPAN pout their double sectrets for "The Street Banditos", and provide Oceania with a proper Emanuel Goldtein, the ramp up means more genicide profits than there would be should a stable troop level be maintained. Why is US defense spending by orders magnitude, blowout every other country on the planet?
Answer is simply: It is the bling factor appealing to the selected CSAPAN gadflies and their pathological attraction to the alchemy that turns blood to gold.
But that aside, ...
The 4 largest US traders has fallen a bunch, percentage wise, compared to the 8 largest traders.
True, but the underly has to be paper contracts. A couple of mssed German Gold "final delivery" dates ago, some German PMs came to NYC to look at German gold held in a US vault. They had to look at it outside the cage. They were not allowed to go in the cage and inspect the "claimed as gold" bars in the cage. Venezuela asked for it "precious" back = and,understing the quanity was small compared to German stocks in Fance, UK and US. There's something fishy going on in the gold market.
Naked shorts, perhaps? ...
On February 7, 2015 "The Street" offered proof they are a master of the obvious,...
The Commercial net short position in gold now sits at 20.33 million troy ounces. Ted says that JPMorgan's long position has vanished---and they may actually be short the gold market again.
Globalresearch reported their matery of the obvious late last year ..
... manipulation by the Fed involves the short-selling of uncovered Comex gold futures. “Uncovered” means that these are contracts that are sold without any underlying physical gold to deliver if the buyer on the other side decides to ask for delivery. This is also known as “naked short selling.” The execution of the manipulative trading is conducted through one of the major gold futures trading banks, such as JPMorganChase, HSBC, and Bank of Nova Scotia. These banks do the actual selling on behalf of the Fed.
It's important, to the FED, make the [probably] hyperinflated dollar appear strong strong yet offer a piss poor return on its value when we go buy Roundup laced food. One way is to rehypothicate gold bars with fat naked shorts. The scam is appaprent in this chart.
What's really wierd is that demand is going up but gold prices decline, baby, at least according to this chart in this article. The inverse correlation for silver, prices decline as demand rises, from this chart (note the deficie line), in this article.
So here is the path so far, the FED and it's members write naked shorts for gold, silver and US treasuries that results in lowing the buying power of the dollar, and thus increasing the number of dollars tit takes to buy, or sell, US equities. Perhaps the matter was given more light than expected when Grayson asked FED counsel extrodinaire if the FED manipulate stock prices? Okay thats a couple of indictable counts against the the FED and it's counsel.
But the hard lie at the heart of the scam came when the "Doctor", Ron Paul asked Alverez if the "FED owned any gold?". To which Alverez said "No" in his best imitation of a dickless wimp.
So the question for the day is: How vcan the FED, who doesn't own gold, write massive naked Gold shorts. Even if the FED borrowed it from the Morgue, the COMEX, and Morgue, couldn't fulfill most of the short paper floating around in the large intestine of the global rehypothication klan.
Whose fault is this? The person behind the eyes reflected back at us when we look into a mirror.
Don't worry - valuless paper can be redeemed with an endless supply of USD.
In regards to the current Debt to GDP ratio, I think there is a huge underlying misconception here. And that is the actual calculation of GDP. The model of calculating GDP has changed significantly since 1929 and has incorporated models that are pure fantasy (hedonic calculation et al). The debt calculation itself is hard to manipulate (althought I wouldnt be surprised if there are areas of calculation where they can "neglect" debts under certain conditions). So as I see it there is a significant manipulation of the debt-to-GDP ratio as the GDP numbers are bloated. So even though the ratio currently looks pretty bad, the actual debt burden is much worse. How much? I can not say, but I would be surprised if there arent any "fringe" economists who are doing such analyzis.
Cadarve;
This is the clearest writing on naked gold shorts I have ever read...thanks.
The motive is simple and not mentioned in your essay ---GREED.
Good point Cadarve (goodness me, that's one scary Alias!)The same case can surely be made for Muslims then right? Let's say there are 50,000 ISIS (although sources suggest it is half that) - that's nothing compared to 1,800,000,000 (1.8 Billion) people who just go about their everyday lives, in spite of being under attack by puppet oppressors, ISIS, and out-right aggression from hostile nations! However, the case for Zionists / Talmudists (not the Old Testament folks), is that on a percentage basis, it appears they are in the majority. The evidence of that is clear:
- The top six media outlets are led / controlled / headed by confirmed Zionists.
- Four from the Nine (some 44%) of the Superme Court Judges are confirmed Zionists (44% of the Judiciary Branch of the USA!)
- The Current Vice Chair of the Fed is a Zionist - The Current Chair is a Zionist - The Former Chair is a Zionist - (sigh) The Former-Former Chair is a Zionist.
So, the judiciary, the media, and the central banks are in the hands of Confirmed Zionists.... We can keep going of course, By mentioning that the most powerful ECB President in history has been the confirmed Zionist Jean Paul Trichet, and we can confirm that the current US Tres. Sec is a confirmed Zionist Jacob Lew; but lest we forget Goldman's leader Blankfein. There are a lot more where that came from of course, but this isn't a who's-who post. I'm not going to bother delving into the Talmud - which I have studied, you could say "religiously" - and where I understood the distinction made between the precious few and the Goyim (and that includes the permissable sodomisation of a 3 year old if he or she isn't a member of the precious few). Now, that's being unravelled as the days go by, but what of the Talmud's more fashionable and hip brother, Kabalah? Well this sums everything perfectly regarding the destinction between the precious few and everyone else:So, then, there you have it.
I assume you're referring to Blankenfein ... and ... of course ... why the FED was established in the first place ... and the players ramping up to the PSA (Police State of America) ... and, of course Tracey Ullman's State of the Union Season 3, Episode 1 - so hilarious I blew a fresh draw of green tea out both nostrils!) portrayal of Maddoff waking up in bed for the shaming his so called "split strike reversals" (they were call options - reversals mean the market is heading south, into put territory) to the ignorant greedies walking the miday of US investment scams (Kevin Bacon was one) who really believed Madoff could, by orders of double digit magnitude, beat the S&P.
The point is that the only reason we allow ourselves to be divided up - like the Jew's did it, Muslims did it, etc etc, - is because the lamestream's job is to make us feel that way so we are divided. By placing anybody who is a Jew, or a Muslim, in the basket of unacceptable allies only serves to weaken our unity, and the force of power and control out unity represents. I have noticed that every time the US Genocide Bankers finance a burning of brownies, there's a slew, rightfully or wrongly of claims against Catholic Clergy. Why, because Catholic Clergy Policy speaks against blood baths.
Why should we lessen our numbers based on the subtle, but effective, false stereotype motivations fed to us by the Mockingbird lamestream?
There was a passel of Rabbis at the Iranian sponsored Holocaust Conference.
When a country suffers massive firebomb air raids, one would expect to see refugee center created near more reliable resource and service privosion centers. Ask: What is the the difference between a concentration camp and a refugee camp?
There is no difference. People always crowd around a place where food is available when it is unavailable at the market in their hood. Look at Gaza.
BTW, before there were Rabbis, the there were Egyptian clergy known as Magi - lots-o-phoenetic similarities twixt Rabbi and Magi. Anthropologic descriptions of Jesus were not like the idolatrous blonde surfer dude hanging on the walls of self ascribed christian fundamentalist temples. Jesus was Egyptian - part African - part semitic Mediterranean - kinky hair - kinky beard. Moses was Ethiopian and didn't look at all like Charlatan Heston.
At least the Methodist Church had the courage of conviction to say that one of their most prestigious members of their congregation, Dubby, was wrong to sign off on Genocide Exchange's War on Terror, and disavowed the poor half wit who was just doing what his daddy's friend's at Carlyle fixed the Diebold outcome for. Gore would have followed the same path. Just as Obama followed Dubby's and Dubby followed Slick Willey's.
Truth is, the Quran is an almost a perfect paraphrase of the Torah. Christian teachings claim Jesus was a Rabbi, a Jew, and yet he was the most profound speaker, if we view what is attributed to him as historical documentation, on individual freedom and rights. John 19:11, "“You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above." I am agnostic, but see the value of strength theology offers those of us going through a moment of powerlessness.
It's about unity. The more of us there are the easier it will be to fix "our" problem. We can't allow the false logic of faulty stereotyping to reduce our head count.
Had to add to above:
There are two kinds of soldiers ..
a) The high risk soldier that has to engage and fight for a possible chance to be victorious.
b) The low risk soldier who wins the war without a fight. The little marmoset would never consider fighting a 600 lb gorilla.
Only a stupid human does that. BTW: We be de 600 lb. gorilla and dey be de teeny weeny marmoset.
Anybody who wants to be a political employee of the commons should not be allowed to run for office. Make it like jury duty. The job, if executed as required, should be one of the most boring hair twisting pencil pushing gigs in the world. Tedious to the Nth! Why would anybody want to do that is beyond, even,the enormity of Einsteins abilities to noodle up a rational explanation. But the gadflies and self anoints falsely claiming the divinity privilege as some mythological fantastical "leader" thingamabob and who be grab-assing an' mouth jabbering on the hypno-tube 20 fucking times a day because the no receipt Diebold machines says we hired the same fucking a-wipe again - that shit has got to end.
We, or ancestors, have invested unimaginable portions of our harvest as \tithing to pay and finance "our" infrastructure " our" temples, "our" instituition of governemnt, "our" community markets and exchanges (grocery stores, bars, public banks), "our" school systems, "our" rank and file, nonpolitical. that we employ in our federal and local civil services (firemen, police, emergency services, administration), and "our" uniformed defense employees and their upkeep and training. Those are our tanks, "our" bombs, "our" rockets, "our" bullets that are fraudulently adminsitered to feed a fraudulent fraction resevere Geneoce Exchange.
THE FED WAS CREATED TO FINANCE WAR BEGINNING WITH WWI!
The trick is to keep as much, if not all, of those assets we either own, employ, or hold the notes on. Thanks to DHS, whose primary benefactor is the private prison conglomerate, we got more than enough for those who have the courage and common sense to simply confess their crimes, without threat of Capitol Consequences, and do the time. Sure they'll have to return a bunch of assets paid for by the money in the bag delivered by the bagman. Shit we might even witness the miracle of miracles, and train ex-yet-currently-incarcerated politicians to work real jobs!
How to perfectly conserve all of "our" assets and evict, through the inducement of the universal logic "that" a survivable outcome is very possible, the entrenched whankers hiding behind "our" temples of governence walls. That's what we need to figure out - ASAP.
Been seeing the same greenroom debutante face jobs on de CSPAN TVsince before my very first (tee hee), dare it be admitted to, nocturnal emission. It's not supposed to be a life long get out jail free card for insider trading kiddie fondlers in Joan Crawford "Fuck Me Quick" pumps, pouting their cloacas' to the most imediately available Street Bankster and Asset Hypothocaing Crusty Cream of the Crop Fasioligarch Queen's flesh hammer. Both them circle jerk a-wipe klans need a well deserved and "ain't it good to be alive" time out. Maybe even ]learn how to work a real job. Have sex with the over 18 crowd. Better than shitting all over you self cause you got into a fight that you kew, from the git-go, you would loose under any scenario
Just too many of us. Too few of them.
"A Zionist is not a Jew. A Zionist is a Zionist, period!" Iran has a large population of Jews. Some are even PMs.
Interesting point, it shows the confusing nature of the terms "Jew" and "Zionist". Words such as these are used to confuse, like many terms in the English language. Just look at all the "isms". I find it interesting a Jew, Ben Freedman, weighs in heavily on this point.
http://www.biblestudysite.com/factsarefacts.htm
Freedman has a good number of articles on the topic.
"Large" That's factually incorrect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran#cite_note-226
Jew 0.0117%8,756
An EMT weapon can take down an army of drones.
A properly placed space-shot EMT weapon can take out an entire hemisphere of GPS and communication satellites, rendering a significant number of U.S. toys useless, especially precision munitions systems.
The U.S. backup plan is what it always is: B-52s and marines.
Iowa-class destroyers and their 16" guns use to be part of the backup plan, but the Smithsonian Institution demanded the relics be turned over for preservation before they self-fossilized. Unfortunate, to say the least. The 16" Mark 7 guns and their 2,200 lb. shells always put the fear of God in the enemy. Drones? Not so much.
Security giant G4S is the second-largest private employer on earth
With more than 625,000 employees, this listed security giant is the second-largest private employer in the world (behind Wal-Mart).
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bi-mercenary-armies-2012-2?op=1#ixzz3SoIkXf63
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bi-mercenary-armies-2012-2?op=1#ixzz3SoIfPq2I
An EMT weapon can take down an army of drones.
EMT = Emergency Medical Tech
EMP = Electro Magnetic Pulse
he clearly meant Extraordinary Monetary Titilation
A home made FPM (frequency pulse modulator) can jam the entire spectrum of communications' frequencies.
15" guns from HMS Warspite still (I'm reasonably sure) hold the world record for a shell hit on a moving target in a naval battle.
HMS Warspite hit the Italian battleship Guilio Cesare in July 1940 at a range of about 26,000 during the Battle of Calabria.
Each shell weighed 1920lbs - fired off 8 at a time in a broadside.
Might be a tad disconcerting to be at the wrong end of that!
Iowa Class were battleships, BTW, not destroyers.
Warspite was also the first ship to open fire in D-day.
I have a small piece of the ship's decking.
Fucking cool, thanks for that.
Sorry Logicalman but you are mistaken...
KM Scharnhorst hit the HMS Glorious at a greater range than the HMS Warspite hit the Guilio Cesare.
http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-006.htm
I do not buy the "tie" in the author's conclusion.
Yeah, I was going to say, 16" guns on a destroyer? Guess they don't make 16" guns like they used to. Firing one would, I suspect, cause a destryer to break in half.
Here is the Math...What is the mass of a Destroyer?
A full broadside does not even move a Battleship sideways but by a smidgeon.
http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-022.htm
Now it may move the Destoyer by a hell of a lot more.
A Destroyer's hull may survive getting quite a few shots off. But the energy adsorbed by the destroyer's structure would cause structural failure and the subsequent breakup of the ship in a very short time frame.
Agreed Paveway. Heavy Metal Bitchez!
And for those without a printing press and MIC, you can do your own Heavy Metal action with Lead, Gold and Silver stacked in small quantities on a regular basis.
Too bad mine was all lost in that boating accident...
Just print it to nothing... and Yes size of human army is all time lows,.. however, the terminator army,... well soon to come 'bitches
When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson (in pdf for FREE!):
http://thirdparadigm.org/doc/45060880-When-Money-Dies.pdf
Excerpt:
WHEN a nation's money is no longer a source of security, and when inflation has become the
concern of an entire people, it is natural to turn for information and guidance to the history of
other societies who have already undergone this most tragic and upsetting of human expe
riences.
The agony of inflation, however prolonged, is perhaps somewhat similar to acute pain....Copies of this book were going for thousands after Davos 2010. The rich suddenly got interested in HI.
Like the one that took out the USS Donald Cook?
http://www.voltairenet.org/article185860.html
I thought an EMT weapon would shoot you and then come in and dress your wounds and take you to the hospital....
An EMT rides in an ambulance and provides Emergency Medical Treatment.
On the other hand, an Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) will fry electronics.
Wendigo, correct drones cannot hold ground and robots cannot outsmart men on the ground.. If they are developed enough to do so, we have bigger problems..
imagine an insect-sized drone that can deliver enough of an electric shock to give a human being a heart attack
now imagine millions of them
I've got a lot on my plate right now cause I'm still trying to imagine WHIRRLED PEAS [& furthermore figuring out if I should be eating them or not].
Imagine a pissed off Merican, with a semi auto rifle in calibre 5.56, in 30 round magazines.
Now imagine millions of them.
Imagine a net plcced around a compound charged with 100k volts frying the little fuckers..
Drones are most useful for waging war on third world countries and peasant rebellions. Word is the US is about to supply the Ukraine Armed Forces with killer drones, to make up for the unfortunate failure of their troops to fight effectively. Any bets how that will work out?
"well.. hedge funds are massively long GOLD COPPER and US Debt. "
And the BB's are massively short. Why don't the Hedge Funds learn their lesson and stop playing against the Fed on COMEX?
Because the nearly infinite abuse of what is actually quite finite real asset leverage boys are TOTALLY TRAPPED. Just liquidate all long duration financial assets (there are orders of magnitude more than real assets) to raise cash and buy gold (even 20% gold would end the fractional reserve banking financial asset ponzi where phantom claims on real flows of value concentrate "wealth" and control with TBTJ banks as they abuse their control of the effective money supply --credit-- to frontrun boom/bust cycles, just as they are doing with the commodity shakedown recently). Cash and gold are real options without expiration and SENIOR to the phantom FRB claims. It's time to use their fraud against them.
Cash...lol
It is all fun and games ... until SKYNET becomes SELF AWARE at 2:14 a.m. Eastern on August 29th of 2015.
I'm sure that once we incorporate Artificial Intelligence into our drones, the poor widdle buckets of bolts will start having issues and will need VA shrinks to keep them drugged up and feeling happy-happy.
Individually those charts are concerning. Together they are damning.
It's not all bad thought..look at the chart for Au for the past few years.
The first one is more than concerning. It says our debt is 100X our GDP.
Some basic maths literacy would be hugely appreciated when charts like these are presented.
The year traditional banks started giving away free electric calculators?
I always thought 1983. But hey, anyone can get carried away with spending other people's money, right?
Technically, the last 3 do. The first does take off there, but has not regained the previous spike.
One is an apple, the other three are oranges, or maybe visa-versa, I am not an expert, after all.
I pretty much enjoy all the tree-born fruits.
"Those charts seem to take off right around 1971.
Wonder why?"
Nixon, what about Greenspan?
http://silverunderground.com/2012/08/tinfoil-tuesday-the-road-to-roota/
Oh Tricky Dicky. what have you done. Gold is restrained so printing remains
but not timber?
So...buy more biotechs?
Sorry for this offtopic post, but I just heard about Apple wanting to build a car. I almost shit myself thinking about how badly we will be gouged if this actually happens (your imagination is the limit on this one!)
Yea..kinda annoying when your ifone glitches and cant facebook fast enough..
Cant wait till I go to hit the brakes and get an 'error 404- cannot connect to brakes now, please try again later'
Yikes
HedgeAccordingly well.. hedge funds are massively long GOLD COPPER and US Debt.
http://hedgeaccordingly.com/2015/02/hedge-funds-are-massively-long-gold-...
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Um,
Your link shows a net SHORT copper, not long. Additionally, compared to historical extremes, gold has not surpassed the high of Nov 2009.
Then let me add that the commercial gold position is as follows as of 2/17/15:
Commercials were long 125,433
Commercials were short 269,068
Source: http://www.cftc.gov/dea/futures/deacmxsf.htm
Hey Durden.. how the fuck can i keep up with my past posts with you bringing this sheeit so "fast and furious"?...Jesus man
The hockey stick appears again== "federal reserve monetary base"? wtf does it all mean?
"Hey Durden.. how the fuck can i keep up"
Durden - you can always go back over to "Before It's News" and stay there, Clunk.
That site makes my head hurt.
just get one of the coders around here to write you a 'junk-o-meter' app 4 ur fone & you'll be able to keep up like you were Kim Kardashian herself.
lulz...
There are conspiracy theorists, damned conspiracy theorists...and those guys on 'Before it's News"
Chiiling that the last time debt to GDP was this high, the US was fighting total war on two fronts. Seems absurd the debt curve would be so steep in peacetime.
But then, in those days welfare spending was practically nil.
Peacetime? Sorry, maybe my irony meter needs recalibrating.
So, the pradigm holds... we're fighting 3600 war including ourselves so we've got ourselves surrounded by ourselves; we've always been at war with ourselves.
Shit gets expensive when everybody includidng ourselves is the enemy.
I guess the next step is a war with our pets
War on Terrier
I always suspected those little, fucking rats.
Especially the "Rat Terrier". Nukes away!
I sure will feel safer when they start kicking down peoples doors with knockless warrants to make sure no one is breeding them!
Osama bin Lapdog...we gotta smoke 'im out.
Then a war on weeds that grow amongst grain: the war on tare.
And a war on open paved areas adjacent to a house which serve as outdoor living spaces: a war on terrace.
How the hell are we going to keep our plans and communications secret!
bummer.
Yeah, "I have met the enemy and he is us".
+10 - Beat me to it!!
Imagine if Walt Kelly were alive today........................
They (TPTB) would have prolly blowed up his Lexus.
How about a war on wookies? All of the MREs would not comply with current health standards.
We've been fighting multiple wars on multiple fronts for almost 15 years now. One winds down and we start bombing somebody else.
Perpetual war for perpetual peace.
Gore Vidal
I don't get the part about the army.
If you're serious, the implication is that the U.S. Dollar is effectively backed by the U.S. Military, and that a shrinking force of soldiers points to a weakening of that backing. Of course the dawn of drones and other DARPA-ish stuff sort of weakens the effectiveness of the chart, but in broad strokes that's the idea.
Even with all that DARPA stuff and drones, if you really want to kick some country's ass without nukes, you've still gotta send some boots in to start kicking in doors.
Active military is shrinking but the merc army is growing. The VA won't be on the hook when the mercs have their arms and legs blown off
yup, the "contractors"have outnumbered the "soldiers" for a long time.
Thus, "the war is over" when they need to say it and
"the war is back on" when they also need to say it
oh, and it's still fucking expensive
and more people hate us no matter what we call them
Off balance sheet exposure - hallmarks of both govs and corps since at least East India Co.
That's what they call gravitas, eh. 'Off balance sheet exposure' has JPMorgan Chase written all over it IMHO.
Perhaps you're correct in saying that a smaller army will weaken the dollar overseas. However, recall that Obama promised a domestic force equal to the army. The DHS will be used to make sure domestic use of the dollar is enforced whether we want it or not. No weakening here at home!
"If you're serious, the implication is that the U.S. Dollar is effectively backed by the U.S. Military, and that a shrinking force of soldiers points to a weakening of that backing."
No worries, the Draft will take care of that problem.
I hope I am not being naive in thinking that there is no way in Hell this country has the popular backing for a draft. That would blow the lid off this thing for once and for all. As long as it's "someone else", they've gotten away with it. Make that real for people, and the game changes overnight.
Pop a few smaller nukes off on US soil and blame the Muslims. That will get every fruitcake in the US to back a draft within minutes. The nukes don't even have to be anywhere important, or kill any Americans, because you could just tell the public that the idiot Muslims couldn't even get the device to work properly and accidentally nuked themselves. Then all the idiots in DC have to do is point at which country they want to crush...
The Mob is very easy to control once you understand what it fears. Tell them that their own exhalations are killing their future, and they will submit to carbon taxation after all. Tell them that there is over population, and the morons will stop reproducing....
Be very careful with that "fruitcake" word,bud....
Alaska and Oregon the only holdouts when LBJ effectively steamrollered the Congress flat with the Tonkin Gulf resolution (false flag op).
LBJ was a Democrat from Texas who was trying to show he had as much balls as the Kennedys.
LBJ's silver star was for a "milk run" B-29 photo recon mission.
Remind me again where a lot of Defense plants are located? Ah,that's right,Texas.
Thank God there's no corruption in the good old US of A.
(LBJ makes the current crop of Ukrainian politicians seem honest....)
A few years ago, I would have dismissed your comment. Not anymore. Sad that I see that as a plausible scenario for the psychos in charge of this theater. Very sad.
But I pray there is still enough humanity in us that this doesn't happen.
Dont give them any ideas..
"I hope I am not being naive in thinking that there is no way in Hell this country has the popular backing for a draft."
"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." - H L Menken
their goona get greater productivity man....more with less
I am certain that one could make an arguement that with the advent of drones, and other labor saving technology, large armies have become obsolete.
US and Israeli policy lately appears to have accounted for this nicely. Large armies are absolutely necessary if we are to control an area. But if the purpose of the destruction is merely to ensure that no one controls the area, chaos is easy and requires only automated weaponry. TPTB have decided all they need is to deny anyone control of the areas of contention, and that is exactly what they are doing. Then, stupidly enough, they are bringing this same strategy back to "the homeland" (one of my all-time-most-hated imperial phrases) and creating chaos here as well. They are going to be the rulers of an ash-heap, but Goddamnit, no one else will control anything!
Nothing a nice thunder storm, or an EMP can not fix.
The more complex a battle system is (based on electronic components), the easier is to take out by a HV pulse.
You don't really need massive armies anymore. Something about generals always fighting the last war comes to mind.
Just make sure the nukes are ready to fly when the time comes.
You just know those growth numbers are bullshit too. It could all end friday or some friday 30yrs from now.....who knows.
Great Recession (2007-2009) should read:
Great War on 'Drugs/Terror' aka War on the Middle Class/Domestic Production ( 1971-2021 )
negative interest rates are a definite war on the 99 percent
I wonder if that graph includes all the soldiers fighting in the War on Women I am constantly hearing about? And where they heck are they stationed??
Wherever they're stationed they're doing one helluva lousy job.
The only "growth" I see is debt, stock buybacks, layoffs, cooked books, revisions of statistics, lies, whoppers(not B.K.) and gullibility of the sheepie...
The last chart is incorrect.
Target end strength following the QDR in 1993 was 400,000.
Maybe they're adding our ISIS mercenaries?
The USSA was blessed with the priviledge of owning the world's reserve currency. Due to the criminal leadership and immoral 'respect' for this honor our degenerate 'leaders' (corporate, political, financial) have put this priviledge not only in jeapardy but in total likelihood that all will soon be lost. Pat yourself on the back, STUPID AMERICANS, for allowing this hubris and disrespect to go on. You deserve exactly what you get. You soon will reap what you have sown and have NO ONE to blame but yourselves. I hope you feel good about this as you deny any direct responsibilty as you put your brain to sleep on the Idiot-Phone and teach your children that it is the fault of the RED or BLUE team. It is the fault of SLOTHENNESS and APATHY thinking it best for someone else to deal with these things while you put yourself to sleep with your empty soul watching American Idol and the Super Bowl......
Sadly this is so true.
It's a two tiered political system:
1. plutocratic purchasing of the government
2. handouts to appease the masses who are struggling in the broken/collapsing system
So...apathy? Yes tons of apathy, but the entire system is rigged to the point where I'm saying why bother? Everyday, the lobbyists are writing more and more laws. Everyday the wealthy are appearing to get wealthier. Wonder how wealthy they will be if/when the "revolution comes". They won't want to give up power easily, not when there is any profit to be squeezed out of the populace, MOAR CREME to be skimmed from the top.
Apathy? The US government does not care what the citizens think. We have been removed from the political system, thanks in part to the big RED v BLUE circus.
Now, what have you done lately about this?
Sincerely,
Sloth N. Apathy
Oh? Pray, tell us more Oh Mighty Army of One!
It's not our fault the place got jacked before our very eyes. Hell...what am I saying. This place was totally jacked when I got here.
By the way Mr. Lolipop Guilder, how are things in the merry old land of Oz? Oh..that's right. You don't live in the land of Oz. You prolly live in a shithole that's worse than this one.
Yea, yea, yea....Go fuck yourself (or your cat...whichever makes you happier)
LooseLee - The United States or more specifically central banking (IMF/BIS) handed the reserve currency baton to China. If trade had not gotten so imbalanced by on politicians selling the people down the river massive debt issuance would not have been needed to temporarily mask the hollowing out of the USA.
But somehow the American people deserve to become peasants and abused? Part of the job of GRC is global policeman. I have said that China becoming GRC was a feature not a bug since 2011. Then ZH published an IMF report in 2014 that China was the defacto GRC, that 38 largest central banks and the IMF were renominating in Yuan.
I also stated like the former GRC Great Britain handing off the baton to the USA that there would be a decrease in military here (no GRC no need for global policing of trade) and China's would increase. ZH just published the first piece which is that 'last chart' related to GRC.
GRC means empire. Great at first for the population but a serious corrupting influence over time. Of course the population is growing war weary, confused by why the USA acts like a global policeman while domestic policy is in shambles.
Miltom Friedman was correct that all currencies should float but the people that drive the bus decided to go with the devil they know. In honesty I probably would have done the same thing about GRC and ping-pong but the mismanagement of the flow which happened too fast did not let the people here adjust and that was greed, hubris and near-treason.
But I am getting sick of half you fucks blaming the American people for being fooled by the CB scam which has fooled every population thus far in history thus far. Yes our society got corrupted but as far as empires go we were probably the most benevolent in history.
Now we see if the Chinese can do better. I wish them well and sure hope they can. For the last 40 years of my life I am sure I'll get to read about China being the global bully as they police trade.
Fuck you LooseLee.... how's that sound...
Dude, you made his point for him.
US ARMY employment stats are interesting IMHO.
Projection into the future of employment in the MIC indicates that the MIC alone will bankrupt the USA just on operating costs. How will Americans pay for militarism going forward? The disenfranchised 99% is not going to tolerate a system wide reset throughout the World that is simply going to be more of the same in terms of disparity.
American aggression is not the answer either. Operating costs per year for the USA is $1.4 trillion plus of borrowed monies that will never be paid back,_ever_!
Good. Shrink the Army and every other wing of .gov as well. They're all parasites feeding off the dwindling productive classes. Let the EUSSR fend for itself. German military technology is every bit as advanced as ours and they can afford the same mercs the US uses.
The PUS (Plutocratic United States) will use drones, shock and awe bombing by Navy/Air Force, and Naval death rays.
If they are not rendered useless completely by somebody else . Empires go bankrupt too . Next bankruptcy the USA system ! Fantastic ! I will have a party !
During WWII we had 1.6 million soldiers, but now we have half the US as part of TFSA.
War is a racket - Smedley Butler
All wars are bankers wars.
War - sending poor young men to kill each other so rich old men can get richer.
Wake up people, FFS!
the best song about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNxD6fkEgwI
For that first chart, I wonder what it would look like if the gov measured GDP today the same way it did in the late 40s?
Deflation is the culprit. Media is not informing us how detrimental this is to our economy. Why? Well earnings are more important than our economy! That tells me when earnings go south we go into a recession. Then what?
Deflation as in price deflation, is not the culprit - it is an outcome of a bust cycle that follows the credit fueled boom cycle. Deflation is as necessary as water is to survival and is therefore inevitable - and quite frankly should be welcomed. Inflation destroys wealth through an erosion of purchasing power as a result of a depreciating currency - and if you don't beleive me, just ask anybody in the Ukraine - right now.
man. deflation is being called bad thing only cos it means the "debt racket" isnt working out.
you need constant growth to be able to pretend debt is gonna be paid off somewhere in the future.
we do not need growth. we can live without growth in production, spending, using and throwing shit out.
since growth is redundant in normal stable environment, deflation is good.
q4 2014 money velocity is at a low of 1.531 no one talks about this any more. labor participation rate at lows, money velocity at lows. sounds like a depression to me.
the velocity number is why the economy can absorb so much money supply. the ampount of monetization needs to equal or surpass the amount of money created by normal velocity(2 or 3, i forget) or the entire model collapses. that is why there is no inflation. you need money at street level for inflation. there is none.
The GDP is also calculated dirfferently now.
Can't reveal the real GDP.
Back in WWII the US was a major industrial nation. It manufactured much of what it needed. Now the US doesn't even do mainstream technology.
All the US produces now is debt and government jobs. The US has become a financialized welfare nation.
That may be true, but the U.S. is not a sad, defeated nation just yet.
Europe, Japan, and most of the rest of the world HAVE BEEN sad, pathetic, defeated nation for many decades.
Robots to fight wars and make markets...
Who makes the components now? China and other countries.
The US has gone from being independent to being totally dependent.
Shut down the US supply lines and you shut down the US.
I thought we were contracting our army needs to Russian troops?
ETA: What could possibly go wrong?
Might as well.
It's why HP is so F'd up. Internally their always in panic mode.
MBAs with no engineering backgrounds running the show. People having mental breakdowns.
US companies are so messed up now it has to outsource because they don't have the know-how.
I'm doing a remodel of a restaurant.
$45,000 for mandatory engineering and prints.
They designed this building with every trick do- dad I ever saw, and some I never heard of .
A little Carryout. With auto dimming lights. Air curtains at the back doors. Cast iron drain pipes ( when pvc if fine and legal) A $20,000 grease trap, part only( I installed a concrete one for $7200 total). And on and on.
Punch line,
They omitted insulation, intentionally, to save the owner money. I swear, I'm not making this up.
And speced 15 tons of ac for 2000 sq ft. Some here will understand.
Engineers, absolutely brilliant little fuckers they are.
Customers will be candidates for Arctic expeditions.
I'll be sure to pack my ushanka. Brrrrr
The nginx are getting out of hand again and are once more forbidden. 403 this time, they must be multiplying like crazy!
thanks
I think I'll mosey over to youtube for a while.
The nginx have infested YouTube as well. Good luck!
I'll slip in the back door.
That 403 forbidden thingy better go away before the start of WWIII. A lot of people here depend on my commentary.
it means Skynet is waking up ...
Some guys from Dover AFB I play cards with that I've known for a long time were pretty vocal about how dysfunctional the command structure is right now and it has been getting worse since GW Bush. There are several power struggles over funding going on right now (F-35 vs everything else) while personnel are being moved around to other installations for no apparent reason. Central Intelligence has been split into warring factions over Israel/Russia and things are falling into the cracks. Something is going on in the Falklands again but detailed info is unavailable while the rumors are bizarre. The US military is off-balance and pissed-off at each other right now and it seems deliberate.
"The US military is off-balance and pissed-off at each other right now and it seems deliberate."
The ultra liberals think the military money would be better spent on expanded social programs and supporting more illegal immigration.
during the real estate boom the economy roughly broke down thus. some may remember more accurately but this is close i think.
30% of the economy was financial. 30% of the economy was construction related. the other 40% were mostly the benefactors of the of those two elements, the hospitality and restaurant industries and the sales of chinese made technojunk under the names of multinational corporate states and .gov.
an easy analysis of any economy in the world acutely or historically just needs to follow construction trends. the reason china is currently growing so fast is because of the massive urban build out. just like the usa post ww2, china will grow at a tremendous rate until infrastructure buildout is matured sometime in the next 20-30 years. like the usa it will have to expend its wealth to maintain its wealth. eventually, china will to end up with a moribound economy as growth comes at the expense of debt which will eventually strangle growth.
new home construction in the usa is still at about half of what used to be considered the recession line for the economy. the vacuum left by the one thing left that made the middle class money was filled with digital dough. the only people with access to digital dough are the digital dough makers....and a few freelance human traders.
that explains the monetary expansion.the chart on the size of the military is meaningless for 2 reasons. humans are needed less and less in modern warfare. in the past it was usual for a nation to draw down its force in peacetime. despite all the shit going on there aren't many troops in hotzones. when the usa pulls out of yokosuka it will be serious.
Army size is no longer relevant... Especially re. foreign policy. It would be much better to count the number of carriers or planes...
anyway you cut it, you need boots on the ground.
navy and air force do not, can not occupy. try it.
I agree... but the imperial power is less an occupation power (unless you are russian, as they are the only ones still believing in occupation first) than the capacity to destroy another state structure to force it to obey (or be destroyed). The war in Irak was won in 3 or 4 weeks with few boots on the ground. The greed of some politicians, not the necessity of fighting against Saddam Hussein, made it necessary to also win the peace, which was rationnally impossible (remember these "occupation of Irak will pay its own cost", followed by the "surge" once the US State decided that peace at some level was needed before leaving Irak: taxpayer dollars for corporate profits is not rational, it is plunder of taxpayers)
gdp is largely a useless statistic becuase it is not consistently calculated and cherry picked , like all popular benchmark statistics--------and manipulated more and more --the more 'important' it gets to the popular mind.
thus, the graphs become less and less meaningful as they get closer to the present.
all you have to know is, peak usage of statistics, means that staistics themselves become subject to more and more manipulation by those tasked with creating them.
I have been made pricey to a honest to good ESS conspiracy. It is simple but insideous as are all the masterfully planned conspiracies. This one involves Kale.you know Kale used to be some obscure salad item for various uses but no one went to the grocery store and bought fucking kale. If you even knew what it was. Well this plant has been found to absorb chemicals that are used as herbicides at a fate way above other foods. Well this means that chemicals can be applied to fields of kale by farmers whether they are aware of what all is in the herbicide or not. It turns out that the idea is to keep adding various disease causing chemicalsngo kale so the population who use kale is slowly made I'll without any traceability. The reason for this is unknown... Maybe there are certain ethnicities that use kale and are being targeted. Maybe just a way to make medical devices some money IDK.
The number of people in the US army means nothing seeing as how the government is increasing the size of other (hidden) groups such as NSA, ATF, IRS, etc. and groups that spy on their own citizens. Last I read the NSA is building up to 500,000 personnel.
The US armed forces are filled with decent people who have sworn to defend the constitution of the US. These people will probably not attack their fellow citizens if they received an illegal order to do so.
Now, those other nefarious groups, you know, the ones flying the drones etc, would kill anyone anywhere if ordered. As a matter of fact anyone who had a conscience would be elliminated by the use of psychological tests, making sure that only psychopaths are hired.
Perhaps this is the one benefit of nuclear weapons.
Politicians can't start that big a war without it going MAD (mutually assured destruction).
They do like to hide their mistakes, but they don't want to die themselves.
Why the cold war, stayed cold.
The rats in Washing town will do their damdest to involve the rest of humanity in a global culling to distract the local proles. However, the big players Russia and China will not be attacked directly. Pentacon Kill Inc does not fight real armies with nukes. After their "success" against the pyjama clad, flip-flopping, unwashed Al CIAduh rabble of the Arab world, there is no bite left in the redneck slash ethnic GI (Government Issue) braindead that is the muscle of mad dogs like Kissinger and Zippo Brzezinski (the neo coheners and klingons who own US).
The real war will be the tearing apart of Merca itself when the sub-workingclass foodstamp "economy" meets the Wall St shylock Ponzi "finance" sector. Factor in the good ol' boy militias, the independent preppers, the disgruntled, disabled, disenfranchised, cast-off demobbed, ex Pentacon fodder, the organized criminal urban gangs and the mercenary armies of the zero 1% psychopaths and a very uncivil war of truly Mercan proportions is guaranteed to keep the rest of humanity applauding the ensuing fun as Merca burns in a reenactment of its war of terror against the rest of humanity for the last century.
Get out now before your neighborhood starts looking like the last "place of employment" that your local platoons of militarized pigs destroyed with the gift of Washing town style demokkkracy as they "served" their country and the interest of the zero 1% thugs.
Chuckle, nice! I concur :)