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Be happy with your poverty and iPhone while I collect my second billion - Dimon
Well, let's wish this cartoon is accurate: if the pyramid tumbles down, the top is supposed to follow...
No I will not say everything is ok. It has been fucked up since 2008 and never got better.
Um, the "poor" in America are fabulously rich compared to most people living today, and Richie Rich rich compared to their counterparts 100 years ago and before. That's capitalism.
..into its own footprint, just like a controlled demolition.
All Capitalism under Obozo is CRONY.
What we have is corporatism/fascism, not capitalism.
The funny thing is that the top 1%, who happen to own Big Oil and Big Coal, are the sponsors of all the climate denialism you see on the internet nowadays, including here at ZH. It's concerning to see the bottom 99% take up the corporate fascist message with enthusiasm, spurning scientists and spreading the corporate message.
climate denialism
No really, just shut up stupid. Maybe one day when you wake the fuck up, you'll realize that ALL the solutions proposed by the church of the climaphate are fascist or worse. You're a low info buffoon.
A corporate drone attacks. lol
Pinch Sulzberger, is that you? Stop baiting the Goy with our blatant lies and get back to memorizing the Torah. If you are good I'll let you genocide a few more white tribes before dinner.
The working middle class are the poor people....the ticks and leeches are treated like kings, they eat better than me.
Quit your job and go on the Obama plan: EBT, Section 8, free health care, free cell phone and soon, free community college!
However, the purple Escalade is on your tab.
But ur gonna buy the 22inch spinners for me, right?
I would but my skin color makes me less equal than the gimmiedats. Ony dey is can be opprested, yo.
You have to be millionaire to be middle class today.
So true. Two friends of mine just bought an apartment in NYC. One million dollars and what do they get? Two bedroom place with carbon moxiode issues that are ongoing.
TongueStun:
They DO eat better than you;
2008
Ironic how one commenter described the menu as decadent (the same could be said for our economy, society, etc.).
http://www.chowhound.com/food-news/7032/obamas-inaugural-lunch-menu-reve...
2012
http://schiller-wine.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-wines-and-food-at-presiden...
These sociopaths feast like kings and queens while the plebes contuinue to endure lower living standards and +10% unemployment (a very conservative honest number).
that is capitalism. but what the picture is missing is the effect of government in the creation and perpetuation of wealth for those that are connected. that is the crony in crony capitalism. the solution is to minimize the footprint of government at every opportunity to prevent the connections of cronyism being made and perpetuated. the fat whore that is america today is grosser and more malign than anyone could ever have imagined due to the effect of government and its engorgement on those it is supposed to serve and represent
No doubt TBT, no doubt. And still it's termed "crony-capitalism", its fucking ridiculous, its crony-socialism and/or fascism which is still a type of socialism.
At least now everyone has finally been disabused of the dumbass socialist meme that Wall Street is run by conservatives...lol...that was a lie when they first said it as well.
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lol...to my socialist down voters, you might want to brush up on your "Little Blue Book" before responding...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007WT31BM/
...get it?...Lakoff's Little _ _ _ Book, oh that Comrade Lakoff, he's sooo cerebral, no one would ever get that connotation...wink wink, nod nod ;-)
Um, the "poor" in America are fabulously rich compared to most people living today, and Richie Rich rich compared to their counterparts 100 years ago and before. That's capitalism.
Kinda, sorta?
We certainly do not have Capitalism anywhere.
However, there is truth in your words that even Ten Bears could not deny.
Imagine, if Capitalism did exist.
That's crony capitalism. Capitalism has requirements like not being forced to buy things because the government points a gun at you and equal treatment before the law. Your socialist handlers have brought us our current system and you are seeing the results of imposing socialism.
What a fucking clueless shit head...the only thing you got right was the crony capitalism brought by the Nazi pigs that run it
"They" stamped out true socialism between the 1st WW and MacCarthy. "They" tried to over throw the democratically elected government in a plotted coup in 1933 because FDR brought in the "New Deal" which even FDR admitted saved American (crony) capitalism from a workers revolt. "They" are bona fide Nazis.
the "New Deal" which even FDR admitted saved American (crony) capitalism from a workers revolt
That's funny because Henry Morgenthau, FDR's treasury sec, said the New Deal was a fucking failure. "they", of course, being progressives that WHOLELY swallowed the democrat party decades ago and are finishing off the last vesitiges of the Republicans, didnt stamp out a fucking thing. They repackaged, renamed and lied to buffoons that swallowed it like whores on payday.
"It has been fucked up since 2008 and never got better"
2008? Its been fucked up since the takeover of 1867 where the 14th amendment made us all equal corporate slaves. It was all downhill from there
Alternatively, it was over when we stopped persecuting communists in our government, media, and education bureaucracies. Long March through the institutions arrived at the White House in 2009 .
Long March through the institutions arrived at the White House in 2009 .
You might say it was the final destination where an outright marxist seized control, aided by the hopey changey FSA of buffoons.
I've never heard the rich say: "Be happy" to the middle class. Mostly we get comments like:
Americans are lazy. - George Bush
Americans are racist. - Obama
Americans should work longer hours. - Jeb Bush
Americans are stupid. - Gruber (O'Bama's Obamacare creator)
since 1971. if not '13
These people can pay for private armies and when the base crumbles they'll be gone.
And there's plenty of country all to willing to welcome them.
And the really rich... you have no idea who they are, how they look like and they could just walk in the streets.
I know a few of fhe wealthiest people in my country, people who have billions of euro's. And believe me, you won't find a picture of them on the internet, not even a hint about their'private lives and they pay people to keep them offline.
It's only the idiots who make themselves known and who go into the spotlight.
I know a billionaire who drives a renault megane of 5 years old. At home, he has the biggest car collection you can imagine but he'll never show it and he expects the same of the rest of his family.
Notice the top six courses of brick are still intact. So, I figure it will fall down and smash the majority of the middle class,
while remaining intact, and allowing enough plebes to survive as servants. But hey, that's just me being optimistic.
The top 0.001-1% to 10% will crush the bottom 90%.
If one has an income of less than $150,000 and a net wealth of less than $1-$1.5M, one is just a cost and redundant to the Elysium-like private corporate-state.
Peak Oil, overshoot, LTG, etc., and the debt and imputed compounded interest as a share of the economy implies that the sustainable value-added US output is no larger than half of what is reported.
Therefore, to sustain the current wealth and income distribution and income per capita for the top 1-10%, 66-75% of the bottom 90% have to disappear or sustained somehow in concentrate camp-like conditions until death, preferably the premature variety.
When shearing operations no longer generate enough earnings to pay the creditors, the herd is liquidated.
People-Farming 101.
After the land is cleared, creditors issue anew to rebuild the Farm. Early investors receive largest gains from future shearing operations.
People-Farming 302.
Recently watched this - it's about Europe & Greece mostly but shows pretty well how the powerful deal with those who are powerless.
Well put together - 90 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLB3uu1IXM0
For another example how Obama’s police state is spreading disinformation, just read the article in October’s Popular Science entitled “To Catch A Bomb-Maker.” At its heart, the article glorifies the FBI, which is now just a tool of Obama state security to instill fear of terrorism in the public as the Bill of Rights has been completely shredded by Obama’s gauleiters in the Federal courts, especially by Chief Justice Roberts, who thinks America is Nazi Germany reborn now (he is probably right about that). Women and men are finger raped by degenerate homosexual TSA screeners at airports, passengers were irradiated by defective metal detectors and whistleblowers are either jailed or murdered by Obama’s minions there is total silence from the FBI. For that matter, some of those murders seem to have been carried out by FBI “black” agents.
This article is ostensibly about an FBI explosives lab and how its work led to confirming the role an Iraqi refugee had in planting IEDs in Iraq that killed American soldiers. This Iraqi, living in America and working at a Kentucky chicken processing plant (one of the worst jobs in the world), was caught in an FBI sting operation. He was arrested days before American soldiers illegally in Abbotabad Pakistan raided Osama bin Laden’s compound in 2011 and killed some people. Since Obama labeled them terrorists, everything was okay, Obama has given himself “kill list” authority, no different than the Mafia’s Lord High Executioner Albert Anastasia “kill list” authority when he ran Murder Inc.
Had this Iraqi been charged with the weapons violations arranged by the FBI, fine, U.S. courts have given carte blanche to the FBI to create terrorist plots. Instead, Eric Holder’s corrupt Justice Department charged him with being responsible for the deaths of American soldiers who were waging war illegally against the government of dictator Sadam Hussein. Hussein himself was a murderer who, working with the CIA, took over control of the Iraqi Baath Party in 1963.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/how_the_cia_found_and_groomed_saddam.html
The Popular Science article is just another propaganda story that tries to create the illusion that “crime does not pay.” The invasion of Iraq was illegal and the American soldiers were there for the second time in less than 15 years as cannon fodder for a President named Bush. The US Department of Justice criminalized the resistance activities of Iraqis, many of whom were former Baathist soldiers in the Iraqi army who L. Paul Bremer fired en masse on his second day as Iraqi administrator. Bremer claims he was following orders, which seem to have come from Rumsfeld. Whoever was responsible, the day after Bremer’s ordering the mass firings of Iraqi soldiers, the first IED blew up in Baghdad.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2007/09/who_...
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To Catch A Bomb-Maker
This is the story of a little-known FBI forensics lab and how it changed the war on terror
By Clay Dillow (October 2015 Popular Science)
http://www.popsci.com/to-catch-bomb-maker
---The story of the AQI bombmaker arrested in suburban Kentucky made headlines for a few days but then was eclipsed by an even bigger news event: the death of Osama bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Alwan’s story quickly faded from view.
Quiet though it was, Alwan’s arrest was a significant victory. The FBI was able to bring a 23-count indictment against him, including charges of conspiring to kill U.S. nationals abroad, conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction (explosives) against U.S. nationals abroad, and distributing information on the manufacture of IEDs.
Propaganda Science justified the governements Tall Tale on how the World Trade Center Towers fell down. So that should tell you what Science they think is Popular.
Scientists IF they were actually Scientists the world over should make sure this Rag never prints another fable but that will never happen. At the very least get it renamed to Popular Fiction.
Now we make a hero out of a kid who arranges, unmodified, the guts of an old alarm clock into an intentionally suspect form in order to provoke a propagandizable moment.
That whole episode just served to clarify how cowardly many Americans have become, scared of a briefcase full of capacitors and integrated circuit cards. Boo!
Even if it had been a real, functional bomb, no crime would have been committed until it exploded (if it had exploded). Guns that are not shooting people, matches that don't start housefires, and cars that are not running people over are just as dangerous.
I never thought I'd live to see the day that Americans became so scared of their own shadows. All by design, of course. Boogah! Boogah!
The sheeple are soon to become the weeple.
Currency collapse is quite the leveller.
We're counting down to Year Zero.
We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.
Don't forget your study guide:
http://www.armystudyguide.com
How many pre-fire checks are there for the M136 AT4 and what are they?
There are 11 pre-fire checks:
1. The rear seal, a brown acrylic plastic plate inside the venturi, is in place and undamaged.
2. The transport safety pin is in place and fully inserted.The lanyard is attached to the transport safety pin and the
launcher. The lanyard should already be wrapped around the launcher clockwise and the transport safety pin
inserted in the retainer hole counterclockwise.
3. The cocking lever is present and in the SAFE (uncocked)position.
4. The plastic fire-through muzzle cover is in place and undamaged. If it is torn or broken, cut it out and check the
launch tube to ensure it is clear of foreign objects. Remove any that you find by turning the tube muzzle
downward and gently shaking the launcher.
5. The launcher has the correct color-coded band.
6. The sights function properly. Open the sight covers to ensure the sights pop up and are undamaged.
7. The forward safety does not move when you depress it.
8. The red trigger button is not missing.
9. The launcher body has no cracks, dents, or bulges.
10. The carrying sling is not frayed and is attached firmly to the launch tube.
11. The shoulder stop is not broken or damaged, and it unsnaps and folds down.
Thank you for this. The public must be informed and always vigilant!
Training is important.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZxCtAaXivM
The Amish train in the Pennsylvania countyside.
Proper capitalism works what America is,is National Socialist which means government enthroned corporations(Nazis were just an example)
The Kleptoligarchy.
The longer version: Kleptocronycapisociofasictoligarchy.
Is that Alemannic?
Banking gangsters say, "Let's go dancing on the backs of the poor!"
Seriously, what's the point in being super rich or of the 1% when everything beneath you has suddenly turned into shit, disappeared or those remaining want to kill you?
That's the whole point. These psychos get a buzz from such knowledge.
The people of Walmart are to you as you are to the super elite. The super elite and uber wealthy disdain the bottom 99.9% as scum, good enough to be squeezed hard as useful idiots (think enforcers) and thrown away but that is about all.
It's not the 1% - the one percenters are your next door neighbors who did good with a construction company he started in his youth or the owner of small car wash chain. It is the .01% we should be gunning for.
Ask the head of Arcelor Mittel. He has a perfect view of the Mumbai slums from his 400,000 sq. foot skyscraper.
http://www.cluesarena.com/these-top-most-expensive-houses-in-the-world-w...
Economics or economic science originally
was called "political economy" for the very good reason that
the relationships are man made, not scientific "laws" (like physics).
Accordingly, the established "economic" (property, financial etc.) relationships
were seen as always also "political".
To mask that intrinsic relationship, in an Orwellian twist, it became
'politically correct' to misleadingly rename it as "economic science".
Many nowadays adhere to a belief in the false separation of economics and politics
and endeavor to establish a utopian society based on an imagined "economic science",
The political-economic status quo, if never seen as arranged by man, becomes impervious to change within a self-imposed aversion to political "interference" in the established and sacrosanct economic conventions.
Serfs wanting change while keeping the economic arrangements of serfdom,
or the colonized while keeping the arrangements of mercantilism,
or modern debt-serfs while maintaining the tenets of neoliberal corporatism.
All three arrangements faithfully defended in their time as god's plan,
or the Darwinian natural order,
or the fanciful economic pseudo-science of "self-regulating free market capitalism”.
And all three purported by respective devotees as being neither creations of,
nor to be altered by,
mere mortals.
The ruling false-elite had their minions in the Ivory Tower break "Political Economy" into Economics and Political Science, because as a unified study it made it too easy to know with absolute moral authority just exactly which faction in society is Satan's, attempting to "overthrow" God, our named Sovereign.
Thomas Jefferson's and John Adam's "Post Road Correspondence," the "Adams Jefferson Letters," mends the "break" resulting in an effect no doubt quite similar to putting one's "hand" into the "wall socket" of God.
Is that the meat you wanted to eat?
How would you ever know?
Once upon a time there were 12 pyramids on Q99X2 and the rich were on the top. The pyramids are now known as the 12 sacrificial pyramids and all the rich have been sacrificied.
Say after me:
We are EXCEPTIONAL!!!!
They envy our freedoms!!!!
And we Amish males envy your Mercedes Benz lifestyles while our females envy your diva's arm bags.
One need merely bother to read Capitalism's inventor's book, "Theory of Moral Sentiments," to know true Capitalism requires all parties to transactions maintain an informed consciousness of the presence and interests of God Almighty, in truth, justice, and mutual profitability: "Annuit Coeptis" - divine Providence blesses our righteous endeavors.
We are now under the "de facto" rule of Rome's false-Jew Talmud/papist false war-making, FedScamming, Hitler-financing, Kennedy- and King-assassinating, 9/11-committing, Sandy Hook-staging, satanic "Beast" false-elite...Praise God, soon to be cast down.
Yikes! Reciting the Rosary does not sound that bad anymore!
Those who can't grasp our credal civil religion's three tenets enshrined on The Great Seal of the Covenant of the sovereign People with our Sovereign, the Creator of the universe, but would rather keep the psychopathy going for them and their innocnet children with the "cult of male prostitutes" Jehoshaphat ejected from Jerusalem to become Satan's homosexual pedophile priesthood of Babylon at Vatican Hill, should consider upping stakes and moving to a country already fully run by Rome - full of brothels and slums right now.
Rome in America, and their "Synagogue of Satan," is over...the Beast is going down, praise God.
Big E ideology
Economics itself is an ideology. Before there was Economics, capital E, a stand alone social science there was a more wide ranging study of what was called the political economy which by its very name embraced the idea that economic outcomes were heavily determined by politics and government. Pre big E economics the only pure market based study of economics was relegated to agricultural economics the study of which entailed supply, demand, credit and importantly the earth itself and the vagaries of weather and soil.
The first job of capital E economics was to absolutely reject, by ignoring, the above fact that government is a primary determinate of economic outcomes, winners and losers. The second job was to reject, by ignoring, that natural resources, the earth itself, made any contribution to economic outcomes. For capital E economics there were only two major forces that determined economic outcomes, those being capital and labor. Thus the profound alteration of the entire biosphere is to this day not considered a cost at all. Nor by extension is growth itself in question. Any questioning of the purpose of growth cannot possibly be considered by big E economics since nothing outside economics is deemed worthy of question which comes back to economics being an ideology. We live in the age of economics. Big E’s victory is total so then too is its destruction. Nothing humans can do is perfectible for all can and will be corrupted and so it is with economics.
- rapier
http://www.theautomaticearth.com/2014/12/the-most-elementary-question-must-not-be-asked/
The Non-Science of Economics
http://www.globalresearch.ca/economic-man-and-the-virginia-white-tailed-deer-the-analogy-between-natural-species-and-the-human-race/5369006
At its core, what we call the capitalist system rests on the belief (not shared by all cultures) that the world, and all that exists, can be owned by “individuals“, or privatized.
That system operates by:
1) privatizing the natural wealth of the world, all its species, even the activities of its human and other denizens.
The privatization necessarily includes “rights” of individual ownership.
2) The rights of ownership are used to channel power and wealth to the owners. Capitalism is not about “competition”, but about restrictive privatization to monopolize and preclude competition. Monopolies and owner institutions are established to control resources and markets..
3) A money system is developed to facilitate the exchange of property and as a means for property owners to extract wealth and services from the non-owners of property. (Imposing a tax on natives has been a traditional colonial method of forcing natives to work or trade in order to get the money to pay the tax).
4) Everything privatized is a commodity and becomes priced. The competition between owners, and the collective actions by owners force every “property” to be valued monetarily, and ultimately by its functionality in obtaining more property and services ( profit in money-measured terms).
Privatizing, gaining control of the world and others is built into the “capitalist” world-view.
Conquest for ownership of the world is its ultimate logic.
The capitalist corporation is the apex institution. It has a singular narrow bottom-line goal of profit-making for the “property” it represents. Other properties and also non-properties should they exist become inconsequential. The degradation of environment, humans, and other species may actually increase the profitability of a corporation.
Is that a sink hole at the bottom?
Who knows, perhaps something will change, given that no less than FOUR major global leaders have been traveling to Moscow and DC:
1. The Pope, with full MSM fanfare and unprecedented visit to US Capitol
2. Chinese Premier in US
3. Israeli PM in Moscow
4. Russian President in US
For this to happen in a ONE week span is unprecedented, and perhaps of global significance. Especially with the Pope in the mix.
And, sorry, British, French and German leaders; it looks like you're not the real decision makers (Very Important Principals), but merely Very Important Muppets.
Yea and it will change for the better. Ahahahahahaha if anything there will be a huge war. We should kill all of them before they kill all of us.
Royal Ops has been very good at keeping a low profile over the last 100 years. Why else would Amerika fight every (optional) war of aggression for the crown(s)? Why else would the Fed print to infinity to prop-up the head office in London over the last 100 years. Amerika is the unwitting muppet. Any mention of the real truth is mocked endlessly.
Even your presidents are selected based on their genetic proximity to the crown... And, yet, the sheeple sleep on.
The "Crown?" You mean the false-Jew Khazars spawned of "Count Dracula," Vlad the Impaler, with Rome's "pincer movement" Rothschlds' owning the BoE? lol
Rome, Satan, and the Khazars crucified the Christs and Immanuel, ran "the Wall Street of slavery" at Rome for over 2,000 years, and they're yet trying to "own the world" and "overthrow" God, America's, Isaiah's actual true and prophesied Israel's named Sovereign.
Guess what? The Beast they ride is, thank God by grace, soon to be cast down.
Fuck the Pope. Why so much fuss about an old fat man?
In this mythology the economic management process, fiscal and monetary policy, serve ‘the economy’ rather than particular interests. … And the myth that banks are mere intermediaries obscures both their political role in economic (mis)allocation and who the real beneficiaries of monetary policy are.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/31/qe-debt-and-the-myth-of-a-liberal...
REAL "Capitalism" doesn't have crooks who create money out of nothing. This is ALL FASCISM. With capitalism there is no money creation, it's backed with something they cannot create out of thin air. World hunger? War? Poverty? Etc can all be solved with the abolishment of the Fed and the Central Banks. And HANG EVERY FUCKING BANKSTER.
Our ruling false-elite had their minions in the Ivory Tower break "Political Economy" into Economics and Political Science, because as a unified study it made it too easy to know with absolute moral authority just exactly which faction in society is Satan's, attempting to "overthrow" God, our named Sovereign.
Thomas Jefferson's and John Adam's "Post Road Correspondence," the "Adams Jefferson Letters," mends the "break" resulting in an effect no doubt quite similar to putting one's "hand" into the "wall socket" of God.
A tribute to Capitalism
The ONLY way to stop these banksters is to kill them. You cannot reason with madmen you can only exterminate them. HANG THESE FUCKERS AND BURN DIWN EVERY FUCKING BANK.
At their root is the largest cash-flow in history, that of "the real Anti-Christ" Khazar Christ-killing homosexual pedophile priesthood of Babylon, whose "engine for enslaving mankind" we escaped in express covenant with God Almighty, our named Soveriegn.
The root must be cut out, as the bankers are just an aspect of its "Beast" Fifth Column.
Change the title of the drawing to say "The Crony CORPORATIST Pyramid," please. Capitalism itself is okay--it's when mega-corporations and mega-labor-unions get in bed with the government via lobbying power and rewrite the laws/regulations to maintain their dominance that sets us all up for mass serfdom followed by utter collapse.
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.
AMERICAN CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public buys your bull.
The proper function of government in capitalism is uniform enforcement of law. TBTF is not uniform law enforcement, nor are laws created by bribery. There are no laws equally applicable. The US Courts are all venal. There are no honest judges. http://faqusajudicialcorruption.blogspot.com/
Green shoots!
Admittedly, Skunkworks found a few of them. USG shot them down to be precise. The Amish detest this type of aggression and much prefer a nuanced method of communication. Questions and answers, peacefully.
We're in the hills of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Dakotas. The back country, visibly dark from space. It attracts them. The Amish believe in building relationships until we are deceived. They have never deceived us.
What Skunkworks has done in partnership of USG was to turn their violently downed spaceships into an new economic paradigm.
Have a look-see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrGGcyngLU
We're asking you to NOT buy into there new technologies that will be hard to identify in the near future unless you ask yourself this: "Is this tech from alien culture".
Refuse it!
Do the Amish attend the motorcycle rallies at Sturgis?
You're a funny little guy with your distracting comment.
Lockheed's 2nd tier scientists are title "Futurists". They are the ones who spend a career in the dark, not able the see the spacecrafts but are able to speak to the 1st tier liaisons. The 1st tier drones are told to take specific photographs, those photographs are taken so they can point the 2nd tier in a certain "development direction".
The Amish don't have to reverse engineer alien technology. They work with us directly.
It's called finesse, which I'm sure you learned all about in Sturgis.
Apparently mental illness exists in the Amish community. Or maybe you're just a troll trying to be funny.
You know nothing about first, second or third tier scientists, but I give your coment the value it deserves.
Thanks for replying.
I thought the Amish were good people, and then you came along. I hope all Amish people don't have as much disrespect for human intelligence as you. Do you have any vague idea of the work, study, and intelligence that's gone into the development of the Internet and the computer you use to access it? Spacecraft are developed by humans (I'm one of them), that's why they fail so often.
The rot you see in this pyramid is the result of over 100 years of termite damage to your paper currency, courtesy of the Federal Reserve and other central banks. It was planned.
Corn can't grow to the top of the sky.
--Amish saying
When our church pastor says that everyone is lined up at Elie's the next morning buying more bullion.
Then Eli starts charging premium plus point and I say Eli, I've known you since my aunt midwifed your mother. So he backs off on the points.
See, as hard as we try, it's not only an English disease.
"it's not only an English disease."
Are you saying the Amish are diseased? BTW, the sky doesn't have a "top".
Yes, it does.
Right, our divine right of Individual Sovereignty is the "wooden stake" into the spurious "heart" of the "divine right" of king and pope; hence the banker-intermediaries of king and pope, with their assassins, pedophile priests, and Synagogue of Satan: Gog and Babylon, attacking America, Isaiah's actual true and prophesied "Israel."
Actual Capitalism has to collapse every generation or so. Capitalism can create great wealth, but in our version, only by creating debt first. And the interest on the debt is always higher than the interest paid to savings. If it isn't that way, money just sits, and if the economy stops moving, like a shark it dies.
So the debt builds up slightly faster than the wealth. The unpayable debt has to be written off, or there's an eventual, predictable, inevitable collapse.
That's fine with me. I started out with nothing, and I've still got most of it left. I'm willing to live by my wits, and I've done OK at it. The turbulence of periodic upheavals usually provides opportunities for a guy like me, if I can see them, get into the right position, and take advantage.
However, if I already had a huge fortune and wanted to keep it, I hate that kind of periodic turmoil. Sure, the biggest fortunes have been made in such times, but those already gained aren't kept.
So, you take your enormous wealth and use it to influence the system. You might, for instance, get your politicians to allow a consortium of banks (in which you might hold ownership interest) to control the money supply and manipulate the bond market. And, when after several generations without a cyclical collapse, the debt has built up so high the looming collapse looks able to overwhelm your precautions, you might have your "Central Bank," to coin a phrase, bail out all the indicators of that collapse. You might not be able to prevent the collapse, but you can pre-empt and conceal it for a while. Meanwhile, you stay busy moving your wealth around, buying land in various jurisdictions, buying all manner of things so that at least some of them will retain value no matter what happens; you use every second you're able to buy to prepare to survive the inevitable collapse.
The last damn thing you want is true Capitalism, or Free Markets, or any such conditions that have become tropes of cultural mythology rather than actual circumstances.
More and more people become aware that things aren't working anymore the way they used to, and that it's becoming impossible to get ahead by playing by the rules and doing what you're supposed to do. That's a sign that the collapse is getting closer. The whole thing depends on people trusting the system in the first place; once the trust evaporates, none of the abstract versions of wealth and value will apply anymore.
That's the point we're nearing. More and more people are realizing this. It won't take a majority, or even a plurality. Just a critical mass; enough to have a catalytic effect.
Those at the very tippy-top see this very clearly and are acting accordingly.
Capitalism is AWESOME when you don't bail it out. The failures help clear out the deadwood if you let the failures happen, and then capitalism flourishes.
In point of fact, if you bail it out, it's not capitalism at all. I guess you'd call it crony-capitalism in today's parlance, but they should really rename it because the two are very different.
We haven't had capitalism in close to 100 years in the U.S.
In ancient times, wiser rules realized that hierarchial systems tended to concentrate wealth, over time, at the top of the economic pyramid. Even in those early days, when there really wasn't much wealth (comparitively, i.e. we're talking about primitive solar-powered agricultural societies).
Eventually, it would become destabilizing. Such societies, which lived in close understanding of the natural cycles (death -> rebirth), understood the need to periodically burn off the accumulated dead wood in order to stimulate new growth.
The Bible speaks of periodic "jubilees", when all such debts were wiped clean, and excess wealth was encourage to be spent on the community as a whole (i.e. charity).
Anyway, as a result, when rich and powerful individuals died, they took much of their accumulated wealth with them, be in via burial (Egyptians), destruction (Vikings), or some kind of social expenditure (festivities, feasts, gift giving, a year without taxation, a public works project, etc).
Even new pharoahs/kings/rules were expected to "make their own way", absent massive inheritences.
This took the unproductive, excess wealth and either took it out of the economy permanently, temporarily, or redistributed it to the less fortunate, or provided a general boost to the overal society.
People willingly funded the construction of Cathedrals in medieval Europe, with the foreknowledge that they would not live to see them completed, because they believed they benefited their decendents and their society as a whole.
im not lyrical, im ignorant