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When The Class Divide Gets Too Wide: Another Look At The French Revolution

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Two months ago, legendary trader and investor Paul Tudor Jones, when observing the growing chasm between the 1% and the rest of America, and between the US and the rest of the world, said that this gap "cannot and will not persist" and ominously added that "historically, these kinds of gaps get closed in one of three ways: by revolution, higher taxes or wars."

And while the US government is doing its best to push both the war and higher tax "mandate", it is the revolution that nobody expects, and everyone is shocked when it happens, despite what is clearly an unprecedented level of class, wealth, religious, educational, age, gender and - after a quick stroll through St. Louis or Baltimore - racial division.

It is therefore appropriate that the following documentary reminder of what happens when the class divide gets too wide, in this case captured by the French Revolution, carries the following words of caution: "no one could have foreseen the turbulent times ahead on one spring day in 1770. The shadow of Versailles is packed to its gilded rafters with the glittering crowds of the royal court."

Replace Versailles with modern day Monte Carlo, New York or St. Barts, and the "crowds of the royal court" with the "0.001%", and one can easily see why 'nobody' can foresee that which in retrospect will have been all too obvious, only not 250 years ago, but this very moment.

So for those who would prefer to learn from the past which they may have forgotten as they follow every tick higher in the stock 'market', here is NatGeo's documents on the French Revolution.

 

 

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Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:26 | 6103513 DutchR
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Let them eat cake

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:32 | 6103532 farmerbraun
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Yellowcake?

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:33 | 6103537 TeamDepends
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Dibs on Kissinger!

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:41 | 6103561 Miffed Microbio...
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As long as the blade on the guillotine is dull.

Miffed

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:44 | 6103570 TeamDepends
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Oh baby, not this again! Come on, who wants Soros?!?!

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:48 | 6103584 e_goldstein
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The guillotine won't work on Soros.

You have to catch him in his coffin on a bright summer's day, stake him through the heart, and then--most importantly--leave the stake in the corpse or he'll just rise agin.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:07 | 6103637 Bad Attitude
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Wood chipper? Feet first.

Forward (over the cliff)!

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:49 | 6103730 macholatte
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The sheeple need to be guided. There is no leader-sheep. No Jessie Sharpton for white folks.

Blacks have been schooled into blaming everything on white people and are encouraged to riot.

No consequences for them.

Rigged elections - No Consequences.

Border overrun with diseased peons - No Consequences

Jade Helm will keep the white folks afraid.

There’s a little brush fire here or there.  Nothing major going to happen or it would have already.

 

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Niccolo Machiavelli


Sun, 05/17/2015 - 17:40 | 6103861 TeamDepends
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For the love of God, we haven't had capitalism in this country since congress didn't actually pass the Federal Reserve Act a century ago.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 18:03 | 6103908 Majestic12
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"no one could have foreseen the turbulent times ahead on one spring day in 1770."

What a crock of shit!

The 99% of France was starving in appalling conditions (today, minus indoor plumbing, sewage systems, refirigeration, and medicine) since 1749!

More apologist busllshit to "be easy" on the rich....

After all, it was a total "surprise" to them.

 

 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 18:26 | 6103978 Richard Chesler
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Hillary will make an awesome Marie Antoinette.

 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 17:27 | 6103832 Just Another Truther
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"wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy 

Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries 


Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air 
Look for me Mom I'll be there 


Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand 
Or decent job or a helpin' hand 


Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free 
Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 20:12 | 6104247 JohnG
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In the ghetto....

(in the ghetto...)

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 05:10 | 6104937 Shropshire Lad
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The French Revolution was a Rothschild mafia enterprise.  Without their careful planning and preparation, it's unlikely the uprising would have taken place.

This time round, they are on the side of the ruling classes -- a huge difference in the opportunities available.

 

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 13:38 | 6106137 Ass Burger
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+infinity

• 1789 was orchestrated by the Freemasons (aka a front for the Synagogue of Satan)

• "somehow" the Rothschild estate wasn't even touched by the revolution

• cui bono? Who had no rights before the revolution and were emancipated in 1789?

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:49 | 6103586 Miffed Microbio...
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Ok, I see you may call dibs if no takers. Only one asshole per person bub! Every one needs to take their turn and be civilized. To the back of the line for you and take the leavings.

Miffed;-)

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:24 | 6103676 El Vaquero
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That's not fair!  I don't have any oligarchs in my neck of the woods :(

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:34 | 6103705 DutchR
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Extend your range

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:57 | 6103764 El Vaquero
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You mean like taking the nearby munitions storage complex over and lobbing that shit at the financial district in NY?  Yeah, I could do that, but the mushroom clouds wouldn't leave very oligarrchs many for everybody else.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 23:18 | 6104619 Trogdor
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I'd forgive you.  As long as I'm not downwind .... ;)

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 12:51 | 6105962 New_Meat
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we'll chaulk it up as a good start.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 17:26 | 6103827 Miffed Microbio...
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Wanna bet? I think the remoteness of NM is quite the draw and there are plenty of underground shelters scattered around just waiting for their elite occupants when things go bad.

You get to play shoot the squirrel lucky dog.

Miffed;-)

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 17:32 | 6103841 El Vaquero
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LOL.  Most of the rich folk out here are either actors/celebrities who want to remain secluded or are ranchers.  I have no interest in doing anything bad to Gene Hackman.  Ted Turner owns a huge ass ranch though...

 

Hmmmm.....

 

Ted Turner...

 

I wonder if this would be his bugout location.  He doesn't live here, but his ranch is remote.  I could whack an Oryx and a Ted on the same day.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 18:16 | 6103958 Miffed Microbio...
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Ted Turner? That's primo Hollywood Big Game elitist. Few above that. Can't say the chicks would throw themselves at your feet but I'd buy the first round and high five you if that is any consolation.

Miffed;-)

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 18:28 | 6103986 TeamDepends
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That is a top-shelf scalp because you could look into those shocked eyes and say, "how's that for population reduction, Ted?"

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 19:16 | 6104106 Miffed Microbio...
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Funny how the Reptilian Elite can be so hypocritical. But I am surprised his 5 kids are still around. I thought they ate their hatchlings.

Miffed

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 20:29 | 6104277 Implied Violins
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They keep the ones with the psychopath genes. The others go to Moloch. Or the Bilderberger's dinner table.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:47 | 6103582 DutchR
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That is bad Miffed

 

Headshots will do nicely, bullitime is a plus

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 23:21 | 6104624 Trogdor
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F*&K headshots, DutchR, it's frangibles to the knees, elbows, and pelvis (can't have ricochets, you know ;)

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 01:48 | 6104748 OldPhart
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Every mag is loaded with a mix of frangs and hollow-points.

Doubt I'll ever see elite in my neck of the woods, but I'm loaded for their minions.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 17:48 | 6103885 tmosley
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Betrayers are hung and disemboweled.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 22:13 | 6104482 oncefired
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You can have Kissinger, I want Brzezinski!

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:34 | 6103533 Supernova Born
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Liberté, égalité, décapité.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 18:40 | 6104020 Freddie
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Did the French get the red shield?  Unless you get all the elite families and those in charge they you are pissing up a boiled rope.

You know what cunt-ry they will be hiding out in. 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:33 | 6103539 Zapporius
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or GMO cardboard and paste

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 20:33 | 6104283 thegazzman
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"unprecedented level of class, wealth, religious, educational, age, gender and - after a quick stroll through St. Louis or Baltimore - racial division."

 

clearly this idiot has never picked up a history book

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:33 | 6103519 atthelake
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Americans, today, do not have the stomach or the backbone to set things right. We are, all, waiting for someone, else, to do it.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:41 | 6103560 TeamDepends
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Speak for yourself. You will be surprised by the resistance. Any idea how many firearms have been sold here since Barry was installed in the WH? Were they purchased to look pretty on the wall?

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 04:56 | 6104932 StychoKiller
Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:45 | 6103575 Miffed Microbio...
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Well, yes, the 300lb diabetics in scooters will probably not be participating. However, this is not consequential because if their 25 meds they need to take to live are not delivered, they won't be around for very long anyway.

Miffed

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:26 | 6103679 shovelhead
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I'm mounting swords on my Hover-round wheels like in Ben-Hur.

I'll be a force to be reckoned with.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 17:27 | 6103830 TeamDepends
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Especially considering all those GMOs, pesticides, HFC syrups, "corn dogs", aspartame, and pink-slime have combined within you to create a super-structure which resembles the shell of an armadillo.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 18:02 | 6103928 Majestic12
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"I'm mounting swords on my Hover-round wheels like in Ben-Hur."

You should be a consultant to the production of "Jackass 5"....I love it!  +1

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:29 | 6103686 wendigo
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Hey, I'm 300 pounds, not a diabetic, and just walked six miles carrying a loaded pack. Don't assume all 300lb people are hopeless causes. 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:38 | 6103711 3Wishes
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150  pound guy with 150 pounds of liabilities.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:47 | 6103741 Boop
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No one was assuming all 300 lb people are diabetics. Go back and read it again, carefully.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 20:31 | 6104280 Freddie
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Prepper Nurse on youtube used to be good but she has endless videos now and most are BS.  She had one a few years ago talking about how fat people like that with lots of meds will be the first to die when the SHTF.

I cannot find that video. I also think she is an evangelical who is brainwashed about the chosenites country is our savior BS.  She is also friends with Maine prepper who is a retired SPEC Ops guy who still loves the govt because he probably gets a pension from them.  He sound slike a NWO stooge.  Don't resist because you will lose crap.  He should be fed to those Maine crabs.

Prepper's should ignore these two AH's.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:49 | 6103585 Dick Buttkiss
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As retired physicist Albert Bartlett famously said, "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

Or as futurist Ray Kurzweil put it:

"An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense “intuitive linear” view. So we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century — it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today’s rate)." — http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns

Which is to say that the forces now at large in the world are generally unappreciated, as Humanity 1.0 passes into history, and the nation-state passes with it.

Not without a fight, though, as we witness, for example, its drive to ban cash and take full control of our money — how we get it and how we spend it.

It will fail miserably, however, as the cryptocurrency genie is out of the bottle and will not be put be put back in.

To say nothing of the robotics revolution and the achievement of superhuman intelligence.

If you aren't thinking exponentially, in other words, you aren't thinking at all.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:53 | 6103595 DutchR
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Damn you for forgetting a link to Albert Bartlett: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_VpyoAXpA8

Dr Albert Bartlett: Arithmetic, Population and Energy

 

google this shit

 

 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:03 | 6103620 August
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>>>So we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century

Well, Ray got that much right.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:40 | 6103715 DutchR
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What is a century anyway, fuck these years, let's get digital, UNREAL

 

Honey can you get me another beer from the fridge............

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 22:03 | 6104461 TheReplacement
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Yes dear.  I posted it to your FB wall.  Digital bitchez!

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:35 | 6103706 Charming Anarchist
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Kurzweil is lower than a ShamWow salesman. When he is not trolling for patents, he is creating bullshit stock bubbles with the aid of animated cartoons. 

Referring to RayK as a technological authority is foolish.   

<<If you aren't thinking exponentially, in other words, you aren't thinking at all.>> 

Sounds like bad poetry. 

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 01:57 | 6104822 ersatz007
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Well it's certainly better than the douchetard statement: "history may not repeat itself but it often rhymes."

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 17:33 | 6103843 Mylegacy
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Dick Buttkiss (may I safely assume that's a nom de plume?) - It appears Albert has hit on a truism - humans are just not wired to understand the reality of the "exponential." As technology has breathtakingly "exponentialed" us - as jobs have disappeared, as our planet literally dies beneath our feet, we stick to an economic understanding of "growth," "profit," and "economics" that more or less - when followed to the end - leads - not too surprisingly - to the end.

Just as too many Americans think they won the revolution for the right to own guns, praise the lord and pass the ammunition - too few think they won the revolution to get, and then perfect, democracy - so that we could use our democracy as an instrument to funnel the "blessings" of progress to not only forever enable "capital" but so at least a small part (dare I hope for even more than a small part) "trickles" down to us as humans, not just all flowing to our disembodied "capital."

Personally, I at least can take solace in knowing that most likely, we'll have destroyed ourselves as a species, before we take our cancerous, massivily anti-human growths, and spread these malignancies throughout the universe. And - I'm an optimist!

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 01:06 | 6104788 Farqued Up
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Please tell us how the Earth is dying. I keep hearing this propaganda touted by people such as Al Gore while he jets everywhere. If anyone such as Spotted Al really believes that humans are the scourge of the planet, they can lead by example, they can commit suicide. It's the noble thing to do.

Do carbon credits ring any globalist bells?

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 02:01 | 6104828 ersatz007
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You should move to an industrial city in China and raise your kids there.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 16:32 | 6106991 Livermore Legend
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Ray is a Brilliant Man and a Visionary.  I respect his work and many of his Points.

But there are a number of Fundamental Flaws underlying his Work, the most critical of which Dr. Bartlett illuminated:

The EXTRAPOLATIONS Ray puts forth NECESSARILY REQUIRE that the INPUTS are also Susceptible of EXPONENTIALITY.

He demonstrates outright IGNORANCE and ARROGANCE on the Matter of ECONOMICS:

The MATHEMATICAL IMPERATIVE he apparently never heard of or fails to understand, as do many:

GROSS DEBT/NET GDP.

Thus all of his ECONOMIC CONCLUSIONS are flawed because even assuming the FUTURE is as he postulates and  a NEW PARADIGM is indeed at hand, the CURRENT DEBT STRUCTURE is based on the OLD PARADIGM; ergo, it cannot serve as the FOUNDATION for any such NEW PARADIGM.

To the contrary, if he is indeed right about this NEW PARADIGM, it will be HIGHLY DEFLATIONARY.

Given HUMAN NATURE, that will result in a BANG, Not a Whimper. And HUMAN NATURE is not about to change in the Timelines he speaks of.

He further demonstrates CIRCULAR LOGIC particularly in his CONCLUSIONS that we are the only Intelligent Life that exists.

We are literally less than 1 grain of Sand in SPACE and TIME and to STATE the CONCLUSION based on "Model" that we are the only grain of Sand is the HEIGHT OF ARROGANCE.

We as Humans cannot even begin to KNOW What we DON'T KNOW about Space and Time

Having said this, Ray adds Greatly and Richly to the Dialogue.

But he needs to remember a Vital Axiom to Live by:

The MOST IMPORTANT THING A MAN CAN KNOW IS WHAT HE DOESN'T KNOW.

 

 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:40 | 6103521 raywolf
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Problem is that people today are reasonably well fed and reasonably well sheltered.... thus the impetus of an empty belly and freezing cold bed chamber are not exactly on the menu in any meaningful way.....

For enough people to rise up and revolt, it would take a breakdown in the supply chain first and in that scenario my bet is on the Govt. and Military, not least since the technology gap between the man in the street, even with a 9mm or AR-15, is sufficiently wide, compared to fascist thugs with combat gear, armored vehicles and automatic weapons (not to mention concrete bunkers, internet kill switches, spy satelites and drones).... the people will already have their feet screwed to the floor, before they begin thinking of a revolution.

Even if we do get an Arab Spring for Christian whitey..... the lack of real religious morals will not prevent the thugs from opening fire wholesale as it did in Egypt and places (Islam has its advantages), and as we saw over there, change you can believe in, is probably only available if an alien race invades - even the best of revolutions - French, Russian, British, Egyptian etc. just swapped one bunch of thugs for another.

The King is dead - long live the King.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:55 | 6103600 DutchR
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Wait what, so history is static.....

 

Fuck the King

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 17:51 | 6103889 greenskeeper carl
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Ray wolf- as I've pointed out here numerous times, the us military has had all those things in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc, and they have not been able to use them to pacify the citizens of any of those countries yet, despite trying for over a decade. In a situation where the supply chain breaks down, it breaks down for them too, and in any kind of long term type situation, people are going to start staying home to take care of their own families pretty quick.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:28 | 6103684 El Vaquero
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If supply chains break, they'll break for the military too;)

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:43 | 6103727 DutchR
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probably last one standing

if that fails

 

 

Tampons

 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:43 | 6103729 3Wishes
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A new leader has risen Bruce Jenitals he will show us the ways of personal hygene and fabulous fashion so we can defeat the Elite at their own game.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:30 | 6103524 A Lunatic
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Sometimes subjects decide not to cooperate.......

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:03 | 6103525 Arnold
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Then, Napoleons.

 

 

And still haven't got it straightened out.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:05 | 6103628 Arnold
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Then Stalin

 

 

 

And still haven't got it straightened out.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:07 | 6103636 Arnold
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Then  the Constitution.

 

 

We had it in hand for a while.

And still haven't got it straightened out.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:32 | 6103531 rvremi
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You dream. 1789 was Rockfeller of that time that uses the hungry people to take the cake from the mouth of Rotschild of that time. There never was a revolution anywhere in the world.

That's only the stories to make people believe it was worst before... But it's always the same because belove love stories.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:39 | 6103553 TeethVillage88s
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Yes. I don't know what you said.

But I heard the same thing. No one ever said let them eat cake. But screw it. It is a great saying to communicate the Spoiled Nature of our leaders.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:03 | 6103618 farmerbraun
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In the original French the alleged quote reads, "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche," which means, literally, "Let them eat rich, expensive, funny-shaped, yellow, eggy buns."

The operative word is "them" . . . as in "us and them".

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:41 | 6103717 Charming Anarchist
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<<I know what I am talking about when I am talking about the revolutions. The people who read the books go to the people who can't read the books, the poor people, and say, "We have to have a change." So, the poor people make the change, ah? And then, the people who read the books, they all sit around the big polished tables, and they talk and talk and talk and eat and eat and eat, eh? But what has happened to the poor people? They're dead! That's your revolution. Shhh... So, please, don't tell me about revolutions! And what happens afterwards? The same fucking thing starts all over again!>> -- Duck You Sucker

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:32 | 6103535 two hoots
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France had no Homeland Security to protect itself.   Kent State100.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:34 | 6103543 Miffed Microbio...
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There are two places in France I recommend. Versailles for the gaudy opulence of the extraordinary wealthy and the Catacombs where room after room you walk through. A never ending sea of bones where the opposite side of the spectrum were laid to rest.

The stark reality of this makes one understand the reasons behind the French Revolution no history book can ever impart. L'etat c'est moi. Really?

Miffed

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:38 | 6103550 Herodotus
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It would be hilarious if someone were to mount a guillotine on the back of a flatbed truck, with Wall & Broad Pest Control, Inc. painted on the door of the cab, and drive continuously around the block in the NYC Financial District at lunchtime.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:59 | 6103609 DutchR
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Kickstart and make $$$

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:40 | 6103556 Counterpunch
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Meh, all in all the time period before world war 1 is more apropos in terms of the economics and the power structure.

Re-read your Freedman:  http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/benjamin.htm

reposted for my auto-junkers.

xxoo

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:02 | 6103616 Counterpunch
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only 3 right away?


This is for you:

 

 

 

How 911 was done - Exposing israeli False Flag Terrorism

 

 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 17:17 | 6103804 Arnold
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Junked you, and most, for whining about it.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:42 | 6103565 gladitsover
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No Elysium in orbit to flee to...

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:02 | 6103613 DutchR
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not bad http://www.elysium.nl/

 

ps do not click, it's a joke, site is real but i do not benifit

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 20:50 | 6104325 Freddie
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They will go to Choseite-land, New Zealand with a dual shit-i-zen PM Bob Key or Uruguay owned by the Bushes and corporate & blue blood nazis.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:47 | 6103576 reader2010
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It ain't happen this time if you have really studied the history. First there was enlightenment thinkers, particularly Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who laid out the intellectual foundation work, prior to the revolution. Then the newly rich so- d Bourgeois organized the movement by promising a social utopia. Then the mid to low ranks of the arm forced joined in for the post revolution economic pie. 

This time the intelligentsia itself is corrupt and selfish about its own marketability. Who is the newly rich for the opposition? 

"Resistance should have began right there but it did not begin."

— Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:15 | 6103577 Counterpunch
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Pawns In The Game

By William Guy Carr (1895-1959)

 

Table of Contents
Introduction
World Revolutionary Movement

English Revolution 1640-1660

French Revolution 1789
Downfall of Napoleon
American Revolution
Monetary Manipulation
Events Preceding Russian Revolution
Russian Revolution 1917
Political Intrigue
The Versailles treaty
Stalin
Spanish Revolution
Civil War in Spain
Franco
Revolutionary Reign of Terror

Events Leading up to World War Two
World War Two Breaks Out
Present Dangers

 

 

In his last speech Robespierre made several cryptic remarks:

 

"I dare not name them at this moment and in this place. I cannot bring myself entirely to tear asunder the veil that covers this profound mystery of iniquity. But I can affirm most positively that among the authors of this plot are the agents of that system of corruption and extravagance, the most powerful of all the means invented by foreigners for the undoing of the Republic; I mean the impure apostles of atheism, and the immorality that is at its base'."

Several hours after Robespierre made this cryptic speech to the National Convention certain persons invaded his private quarters at 2 a.m. and following a scuffle was shot in the jaw. Then, early the following day, he was dragged to the guillotine ... unable to speak or argue his case. Even hardened revolutionaries use to the arbitrary terror were shocked at the sudden demise of the supposed leader of the Jacobins and alleged architect of the "Reign of Terror." However, those who understand the way of the world know that behind visible history there is hidden forces making power moves: that is, the strong undercurrent of the Hidden Stream of History. Thus in the coup d'état that toppled Robespierre the visible, surface events concealed the hidden force and the reason why this veiled, powerful force acted so swiftly and brutally.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:21 | 6103669 falak pema
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Hahaha, shades of a tale of two cities and Mme Defarge...hidden forces, why not Joseph Balsamo (Caliogostro) ??

To murmur obscurantist gobbledygook about Robespierre's demise is like trying to make a hero out of Savonarole...

Robespierre was the epitomy of despotic ambition gone 'up the spout'...good riddance !

And it has NOTHING to do with atheism. Unless you be a latter day adventist in which case all is forgiven as your destiny is totally in never never land.  

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:30 | 6103690 Counterpunch
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I don't disagree with your assesment of Rob. and think the quote to be genuine, however not verbatim. It may not be.  Atheism/secular humanism, however, had a great deal to do with it.  I'm not sure how seriously I can take someone claiming otherwise.  There were really multiple revolutions, but clearly the power of Church and aristocracy were common targets, and not without good reason.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 22:15 | 6104488 TheReplacement
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Not arguing, just pointing out that attacking the church is not the same as abolishing religion. 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:46 | 6103579 will ling
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when the "blood" taboo wilts, and it will, lookout.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:49 | 6103587 Ethelred the Unready
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All those EBT cards, college loans (soon to be forgiven) Obama phones, cash for clunkers, SSI, EIC, etc. etc.,  are there to placate the increasingly genetically-disadvantaged masses.  The "great uninformed"  may conduct the odd riot now and then but they don't really have the  long-term time horizons to do anything lasting (except procreate that is).  

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:55 | 6103599 TheFourthStoog-ing
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ZH is the 21st century counterpart to the French Revolution. Except instead of guillotines, you get words - lots and lots of words.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:57 | 6103604 A Lunatic
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All of your heads are belong to us......

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 15:57 | 6103607 kchrisc
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It not the "gaps," it's the plunder and treason that create the "gaps."

The guillotines shall reduce the "gaps."

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..

 

Guillotine the Fed. Audit the heads.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:52 | 6103754 Charming Anarchist
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Kudos to you for making that distinction. 

 

We in the West are affluent because we benefit from those who murder, rape and pillage the poor. 

Poor people would not exist anywhere on this planet if everybody was left alone to live their own brand of anarcho-capitalist peace. 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 18:19 | 6103961 kchrisc
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"We in the West are affluent because we benefit from those who murder, rape and pillage the poor. "

That is not what I said. I said that the banksters and their violence-puppets, government, live off of our backs.

I only care about the rest of the world in the sense that by ending their tyranny here at home, in the American country, I may indirectly spare the world further murder and plunder.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:03 | 6103619 Implied Violins
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You know what? I think it is time for a prayer.

No, not to 'Jesus' or 'Allah' or any of those false Gods given us by those nefarious bastards who have been running this shit-show for the last God-knows-how-many-millenia.

I mean a prayer to higher forces, service-to-others oriented forces - THE God or whatever actual beings benevolent to humans are out there, to please continue to illuminate every fucking thing on this planet so that EVERYONE - even those who are currently asleep - will see it exactly for what it is, with NO EXCUSES.

Every plan, every deception, every disharmonius thought must be illuminated for all to see, so that we can make informed choices: accept the status quo, or CHANGE it? And anyone who wishes to remain ignorant even in the light of truth will have made their own choice, and will suffer the consequences of putting their faith in others to make choices for them - which is how we all got in this fucking mess to begin with.

So please,continue to illuminate this entire current shit-show, and keep these bastards in charge from trying to continue denying us our RIGHT of FREE WILL CHOICE by ram-rodding their programs up our ASSES.

If that means 'off with their heads', then so be it.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:09 | 6103643 Counterpunch
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umm...

 

what?

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 17:07 | 6103786 espirit
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I think he means 'Aliens'.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:13 | 6103626 Things that go bump
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The French government knew trouoble was coming, but everyone in the government was a member of the elite class, and they were simply disinclined to make the necessary changes and stop the party so change was forced on them. Humans will always take things too far and the price the French aristocracy paid was the destruction of many entire family lines. When the revolutionaries were finished with the aristocrates they turned on the Church and then began to cannibilize their own.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:14 | 6103651 Counterpunch
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meh, as with the Bolsheviks, the leaders of the Revolution *said* one thing, but were motivated by greed and the love of power just like most political leaders.

And those who started off caring about the peasants swiftly began persecuting them worse than the prior.

 

The peasants in Tsarist Russia were far better off in the couple of decades prior to the Bolshevik coup that in the next 3/4 decades. I imagine it was largely the same in France, which was really of course, a series of groups jostling for power over time.

 

Power corrupts, and the love of money is the root of {most} evil....  proven over and over and over.

 

 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:46 | 6103732 Things that go bump
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We may not have learned from history, but I'm not sure that's the case with the elite class. They know that in the case of revolution they'll be hunted and put down like rabid dogs. For them this is a matter of life or death.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:07 | 6103634 Prober
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all the massively over-bred proletariat must be recycled = problem solved

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:19 | 6103666 elegance
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The 1% are not idiots like the french aristocracy was. They are prepared. Unlike the stupid people.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:33 | 6103699 El Vaquero
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The 1% aren't all bad.  It's the ones who own the government and use it to fuck us to their own benefit that concern me.  

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:23 | 6103674 WTFUD
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. . . . Revolution, higher Taxes or War. . .

In my book Revolution = War , admittedly not a Banker's War but War nonetheless.

So this leaves War or Higher Taxes; Coin Flip, SIMPLES ( as they say in Russia )

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:25 | 6103677 Surging Chaos
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The difference was back then the Third Estate was starving to death. The riots didn't start until there were bread shortages.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:30 | 6103689 GreatUncle
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In a 0 growth world with central banker forced inflation ... what did you think you would get?

Obviously a very rebellious and growing number of the population.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:34 | 6103700 Counterpunch
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one lesson to be learned is that an unarmed, disorganized populace is at a significant disadvantage when the currency system enters its death throes.

And people in power, no matter their race, or creed, or espoused ideals, will do anything to maintain that power.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:50 | 6103750 GRDguy
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It'd be more interesting to see Bernanke and Greenspan dress up as women to evade the crowds like John Law had to when he dis'd gold and silver and madly printed money to save the French Treasury until no one would accept its paper promises anymore.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:55 | 6103761 rycK
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That is a long way off. The currency has not crashed as yet and resembles not the John Law escapades. The US can monetize its debt for another decade, at least. 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 17:54 | 6103899 fremannx
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Counter to what the mainstream believes, the dollar will only get stronger as the global economy collapses. Deflation will not cause a currency collaspe in the U.S., just the opposite. The question of whether deflation or inflation will cause the global economy to collapse is being answered for those that study the data objectively. 

http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/inflation-vs-deflation-part-1which-on...

 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:52 | 6103753 Pitiful
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Christ... at this point even John Locke himself would be mortified by what's going on here.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:53 | 6103756 rycK
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"historically, these kinds of gaps get closed in one of three ways: by revolution, higher taxes or wars."

 

There have been hundreds of such gaps since 1900 and none of them resulted in a revolution of the French style.

 

Of the 10 ugliest cities in the US [Baltimore, Philly, Detroit, Atlanta, Denver, Chicago, Oakland, E. St. Louis, NYC..] there is chance for an uprising, an occupation of the government houses and control of police and weapons and money. 

 

As for taxes, if a mere 15 million citizens elect not to pay taxes then what is to be done? Put them in jail?

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 16:59 | 6103770 Dixie Flatline
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France's doom was sealed when they declared war on Christians. See also:Huguenots

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 17:08 | 6103782 q99x2
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We need to move the resistance inside the military.

Over hill, over dale

As we hit the dusty trail,
And those caissons go rolling along. 

(this ones for the trannies)
In and out, hear them shout,
Counter march and right about,
And those caissons go rolling along.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 17:32 | 6103839 Klemens
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"The French Revolution" wasn`t a Revolution, it just was a Take Over of the freemasons.

Many years before the Take Over the freemasons started with the planing.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 20:17 | 6104259 Cityzerosix
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Very good Artillery

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 17:34 | 6103844 robobbob
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Comparing the French Revolution to Today?

I hear British Intelligence, the Masons, and the Illuminati were involved in that mess too

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 17:47 | 6103883 MEFOBILLS
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Private banking “Credit” hidden money power fomented the French Revolution.  Behind that Credit was World Government, which at this time in history was becoming Zionism.  Private Banking Credit is the taproot that funds Zionism, and hence the usurpation of civil society:

From Captain Ramsey,

The Nameless War:

http://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDFs/The_Nameless_War.pdf

 

 

CHAPTER 2 - THE FRENCH REVOLUTION The French Revolution of 1789 was the most startling event in the history of Europe since the fall of Rome. A new phenomenon then appeared before the world. Never before had a mob apparently organized successful revolution against all other classes in the state, under high sounding, but quite nonsensical slogans, and with methods bearing not a trace of the principles enshrined in those slogans. Never before had any one section of any nation conquered all other sections; and still less swept away every feature of the national life and tradition, from King, religion, nobles, clergy, constitution, flag, calendar, and place names, to coinage. Such a phenomenon merits the closest attention; especially in view of the fact that it has been followed by identical outbreaks in many countries. The main discovery that such an examination will reveal is this fact: The revolution was not the work of Frenchmen to improve France. It was the work of aliens, whose object was to destroy everything which had been France. This conclusion is borne out by the references to “foreigners” in high places in the Revolutionary Councils, not only by Sir Walter Scott, The Nameless War 5 but by Robes Pierre himself. We have the names of several of them, and it is clear that they were not British, or Germans, or Italians, or any other nationals; they were, of course, Jews. Let us see what the Jews themselves have to say about it: “Remember the French Revolution to which it was we who gave the name of ‘Great.’ The secrets of its preparation are well known to us for it was wholly the work of our hands.” Protocols of Zion No. 7. “We were the first to cry among the masses of the people the words ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.’ The stupid Gentile poll parrots flew down from all sides on to these baits, and with them carried away the well-being of the world. The would-be-wise men of the Gentiles were so stupid that they could not see that in nature there is no equality, and there cannot be freedom.” (Meaning, of course, freedom as understood by Socialists and Communists, freedom to wreck your own country). Protocols of Zion-No. 1. With this knowledge in our possession we shall find we possess a master key to the intricate happenings of the French Revolution. The somewhat confused picture of characters and events moving across the screen, which our history books have shown us, will suddenly become a concerted and connected human drama. When we begin to draw parallels between France of 1789, Britain of 1640, Russia of 1917, Germany and Hungary of 1918-19, and Spain of 1936, we shall feel that drama grip us with a new and personal sense of reality. “Revolution is a blow struck at a paralytic.” Even so, however, it must be obvious that immense organization, and vast resources, as well as cunning and secrecy far above the ordinary are necessary for its successful preparation. It is amazing indeed that people should suppose that “mobs” or “the people” ever have, or ever could, undertake such a complicated and costly operation. No mistake more-over could be more dangerous; for it will result in total inability to recognize the true significance of events, or the source and focus of a revolutionary movement. The process or organizing revolution is seen to be firstly the infliction of paralysis; and secondly, the striking of the blow or blows. It is for the first process, the production of paralysis, that the secrecy is essential. Its outward signs are debt, loss of publicity control, and the existence of alien-influenced secret organizations in the doomed state. Debt, particularly international debt, is the first and over-mastering grip. Through it men in high places are suborned, and alien powers and influences are introduced into the body politic. When the debt grip has been firmly established, control of every form of publicity and political activity soon follows, together with a full grip on industrialists. The stage for the revolutionary blow is then set. The grip of the right hand of finance established the paralysis; while it is the revolutionary left that holds the dagger and deals the fatal blow. Moral corruption facilitates the whole process. By 1780 financial paralysis was making its appearance in France. The world’s big financiers were firmly established. “They possessed so large a share of the world’s gold and silver stocks, that they had most of Europe in their debt, certainly France.” So writes Mr McNair Wilson in his Life of Napoleon, and continues on page 38: “A change of a fundamental kind had taken place in the economic structure of Europe whereby the old basis had ceased to be wealth and had become debt. In the old Europe wealth had been measured in lands, crops, herds and minerals; but a new standard had now been introduced, namely, a form of money to which the title ‘credit’ had been given.” 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 18:08 | 6103940 radiobomb
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utter bullshit, protocols of zion is a fake.  Sorry Mefo, but do some research yourself. Not defending anyone, but BS should not be quoted as fact - we have the presstitutes for that.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 18:12 | 6103951 MEFOBILLS
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Protocols are a forgery, not a fake.  Besides there is plenty of other history to back up what the Captain says.  So, the point is still not lost, and the truth of the events remains.  

Forgery just means it was copied.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 18:19 | 6103964 Dixie Flatline
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Protocols are good enough for HAMAS, they put them in their charter...

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 20:36 | 6104177 Cityzerosix
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The so-called Christian states of Europe were quick to blame the the Jews for economic disaster.After all they could charge interest, my Son.The essential reality is that there is never is any growth of Capital, only an increase in Debt; for the interest is only meaningful in a solid-state reality.Such a reality only exists in the singularities of Black Hole anti-gravitational non-reality compounded by massive galactic forces of anti-matter.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 19:06 | 6104079 Cityzerosix
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Napoleon did acquire a lot of Gold from the various countries invaded. But it was too late to create an economic empire based on metal. The embargos created between Napoleonic Europe and the British Empire created astounding opportunities for the creation of Capital by trading under the radar,

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 17:54 | 6103886 Chuck Knoblauch
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Most of the US Army, Marines (up to 90%), and National Guard will side with the Patriots.

The Zionists control the US Air Force (up to 75% of it).

The Navy will mostly stay out of it to protect what's left of our borders.

The Patriots will fight to the death, city by city.

The Patriots will win, and surrender will be unconditional.

You will answer for your crimes.

You will hang.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 18:29 | 6103990 lakecity55
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Come and get it, UN.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 19:13 | 6104101 Chuck Knoblauch
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Politicians are dancing on the razor's edge.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 20:55 | 6104337 Freddie
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The US Navy will protect what is left of our borders?  What are they waiting for.

I have no faith in any of them.  I agree the air force is shit.  Hopefully their F-35 junk will fall apart.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 22:31 | 6104526 TheReplacement
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What is this surrender of which you speak?

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 18:27 | 6103975 lakecity55
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Americans will resist a UN takeover.

Beware for bloody times.

We have alreaddy stashed our weapons/ammo.

Molon Labe

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 18:30 | 6103993 Jack Burton
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Modern times off the elite much more potential protection that the old days on Kings and Aristocracy and landed gentry. Now a day the elites have vast mind control mechanisms, the main stream media and hollywood. They can win over the minds of the poorest among us, like the homeless people with yello ribbons during the Iraq war. The Southern white trash without a pot to piss in voting straight Republican party tickets from cradel to grave. Americans want no part of revolutions, they want their chance at making it. I see the riches of the 1% not having any effect on the people. It is not that, but it is the LOSS of the CHANCE that could drive some people to revolt. The disorders of blacks recently are localized to Blacks. Hispanics are too busy working to revolt. Whites are insanely loyal to the rich white elites who rule. We whites will fight and die for a 1%er's right to rule and gather up the wealth, just as long as it us whites sticking together. The real threats are the racial fights that poverty could kick off. Blacks revolt, whites unite in backlash, while hispancis just keep working away trying to make a buck.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 18:58 | 6104058 DonFromWyoming
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Jack, you miss the point.  As others here have written, it's not about the aristocracy of America -- you are correct that white Americans won't rebel against Jamie Dimon for being rich.  However, white Americans will resist the New World order.  If the globalists move too fast - by banning cash, by stripping trade barriers to create a completely level wage structure world-wide, by attempting to seize weapons in the hands of citizens, by using terror tactics reminiscent of Robespierre and Stalin, then yes, white Americans will rise up in revolt.  Hopefully, there won't be too much blood let, but if the globalists continue with the slow boil away of our liberty and wealth, revolution will happen, and there will be a significant break away from the pretense that the USA is a constitutional republic.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 19:09 | 6104075 Chuck Knoblauch
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TPP changes the geographical borders of the US.

They shrink, not expand.

Creating Constitution Free Zones inside the US is unacceptable.

 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 21:00 | 6104353 Freddie
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White Americans cheer on thug ball teams and TV like idiots.  Duimb young college white and college alumni cheering on thugs as they slip deeper into their goyim serfdom. 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 23:55 | 6104683 andrewp111
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No, but Blacks will revolt against Whites. All the proof you need is in Ferguson and Baltimore. Right now the revolt is on slow simmer and unfocused. It is usually some police incident that sets off thuggery. But get the right leaders/community organizers in there, and a real organized Black revolution becomes possible. This is especially true if Islam becomes the organizing principle of the revolution.

Mon, 05/18/2015 - 02:09 | 6104835 Farqued Up
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I'm interested in seeing the results of the underclass becoming aware of the governmentts being the primary drug cartels. They play out the facade by jailing the underclass while they party on the yachts. One day people will realize that it's the never ending wars on everything that constitute Eternal War for Eternal Peace. TPTB need fodder so recessions are good so that poverty forces the populace to head for basic training.

TPTB may have overplayed their hands because the warfare welfare state is busted. My granddaddy always warned, "son, there's a bottom to every barrel". I believe we may be seeing the approach to the bottom of the fiat barrel.

I don't think we fully appreciate the full manifestations of a real collapse on 2-3 continents. Parts of the empires will become replays of the Donner Party, I fear. We will know we are reaching the bottom when the scolding against hoarding begins. Southerners that live with hurricanes understand how fragile the distribution system really is. Inventories are wiped out in a few hours but goods are available a hundred miles away. Not so in a collapse. Be prepared.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 18:31 | 6103995 lakecity55
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There must be a one-world power with a guy like me at the helm.

 

_Bath House

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 18:34 | 6104001 lakecity55
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"Reggie, I must flood the US with Muslims before we can take over."

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 19:11 | 6104096 Chuck Knoblauch
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If TPP creates Constitution Free Zones inside the US?

Houston, we have a problem.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 19:53 | 6104213 Cloud9.5
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Left right, black, white, rich, poor, urban, rural, this is one suggestion on how it might break down.

 

 

http://westernrifleshooters.blogspot.com/2010/07/bracken-cw2-cube-mappin...

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 21:06 | 6104362 Freddie
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Will the illegals flee if this CW 2 happens?  This would be a war dividend.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 20:26 | 6104271 luna_man
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Yes, take note, CRIMINALS!

 

day is at hand

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 20:28 | 6104273 hannah
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the 'sheeple' are never 'guided'...everyone needs to get over that shit. when the SHTF and people are starving, they will react in total chaos. there isnt the need for a leader at that point. that is why it is totally unpredictable. everyone dies. the good the bad and the ugly..............

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 20:34 | 6104289 Cloud9.5
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A.W. Venable, a Southern politician of the time, suggested that all the blood that would be shed in a war between the states could be wiped up with a handkerchief.   Miscalculation on all sides resulted in the death of one out of thirteen white males alive at the time.  Should this go down to the street level and neighbor goes against neighbor the death toll will not be tallied.  Rwandans murdered themselves at a rate that put Hitler’s death factories to shame. Their weapon of choice was a three dollar Chinese machete. 

 

A few hundred determined men can turn the lights out in this country and make it all but impossible to turn them back on again.  A report submitted to Congress suggests that we would lose 90 percent of our population within one year of such an event. 

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 21:12 | 6104369 Freddie
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The Civil War was a bankster war where southerns were murdered and their property was stolen.  Carpet bagger chosenites flooded into the south in textiles and other businesses.  Dual shit-i-zen types.  It is what the Red Shield wanted.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 21:18 | 6104374 nmewn
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A few hundred is just about right, more than enough ;-)

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 20:47 | 6104312 One Eyed Jack
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"And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?"
Benjamin Franklin

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 22:12 | 6104478 Cityzerosix
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It is a great lamentable shame; the failure of the rescue of Napoleon Bonaparte by submarine from his exile on St. Helena, the most isolated possession of the British Empire. Admittedly, submarines were still on the drawing board but that did not disturb his admirers. The great potency of the revolutionary fervour of Bonaparte led to the greatest islolation and imprisonment of any single person in History. An entire squadron blockaded the island for years...such is the cowardice and insecurity of any dogmatic political power, system or hierarchy.

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 22:19 | 6104498 dsty
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Warning from above

be prepared before September

the NWO will be much like the French Revolution as the article implies

Don't wait to get things right with your maker

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