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Guest Post: Humanity Is Rising
Submitted by Mike Krieger of KAM LP
Humanity Is Rising
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Stephen Hawkings
Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.
- John Gilmore
A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures.
- John Kennedy
They Have No Philosophy
The one area where I sometimes have a difference of opinion with friends of mine that are “awake” relates to my certainty that TPTB cannot win this battle. There are two main reasons I think they are completely doomed. The first one is the internet, which I have written in detail on before so I am not going to belabor on it here. Long story short, never in human history have we as a species been able to connect so efficiently and effectively with one another. This makes one of the key methods of control, “divide, conquer, war” much more difficult for them to implement. I have always felt that human disposition lies on a bell curve. So let’s say for the sake of argument that 1% is just extraordinarily wicked, selfish, mentally deranged so along the lines of a Stalin like character. Then let’s say the 1% on the other side is gentle, enlightened, and moral almost to a fault so a Gandhi like character. Then the masses in the middle are not of any extreme disposition in either way, but are easily malleable and generally just “go along to get along.” Well as far as recorded human history is concerned, the 1% of nasty, immoral parasites have dominated humanity through the various playbooks strategies that I and many others have outlined. The 1% on the other side have generally been silenced or ostracized systematically by the control freak “leaders” and if that fails to work, they are simply murdered. I mean even up until the 20th Century think about the kinds of guys that have been murdered. Gandhi. Martin Luther King Jr. John Lennon. Oh and if we want to go back a couple thousand years there was Jesus. The list is endless. Guys that talk about a higher level of consciousness and love and actually make inroads in society are murdered. Yet no one ever seems to take a shot at the genocidal, sociopaths that run our lives through politics and banking (nor would I ever want that as I do not condone violence as a solution to a violent system). Interesting isn’t it? I think it is pretty obvious why this is the case. The 1% on the decent side of the bell curve aren’t murderers. The guys on the other side of it are.
So now on to the point of this piece. These guys are done for. Finished. I have never been more sure of this in my life. When I first started really writing on these subjects four or five years ago there was a certain percent of humanity I felt had to awaken to actually be able to transition from this ponzi scheme global economic system of oppression and death into something demonstrably better. We have now exceeded the number I thought was necessary by 2 or 3 times. At least. We must understand that all political and economic systems that are to survive must have some degree of belief in the system on behalf of the population. In short there must be an attractive philosophy. While it was clearly an evil philosophy rooted in hatred and xenophobia, the Nazis did indeed have a philosophy that they successfully sold to an economically destitute and downtrodden populace. The USA has had its own philosophy since WW2 and it had also been successfully sold to the population. This was a philosophy of “doing good” and being a “city on a hill” as a shining representative for the rest of the world. While there is no doubt that the United Stated had been a wonderful place to live and do business for much of the last 60 years, as our power grew we became an increasingly destructive force in the world. A force of oppression rather than freedom and the truly sick 1% of the bell curve has gradually taken over all of the levers of power in the nation. Particularly in politics, banking and big business. Our very own axis of evil.
Well here is where the parasitic 1% have their problem. What they have “sold” the American public as the spirit of the nation is now in direct opposition to reality. In fact, it has become so obviously untrue that the population is waking in drove to the truth and the truth is that we have a utterly corrupt, sociopathic minority running the nation like a giant criminal syndicate for their own power and money. Therein lies their weakness however. They have no philosophy. These guys are actually so twisted that all they think about is how can they keep growing their money and power. Furthermore, they are operating under an exposed playbook of control. Just take a look at Obama’s approval ratings. They are plunging. They are plunging despite fabricated economic numbers and biblical stock market rigging to make things look good. They are plunging because people are waking up and seeing all of this for what it is. A gigantic scam. All the signs I see point to increasing desperation on their part and exponential awakening on the part of the meat of the bell curve. These guys are toast and what we should now be focusing most of our attention on is what kind of society we want when this one collapses. Hopefully the other side of the bell curve can influence the debate for the first times in five thousand years. That is my hope and my vision of the future.
Greg Smith’s Op Ed
I want to salute Mr. Greg Smith today. Here is a guy that was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs and head of the firm’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He has resigned from the firm and today is his last day. In leaving, he has penned a powerful Op Ed for the New York Times. You can read it here http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/opinion/why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs... Now of course to pretty much every on this list this is nothing shocking. We all know the guys that run these firms are complete raging psychopaths that can’t see anything beyond their own paycheck. That said, this demonstrates bravery. Many people may resign and then they don’t speak up about it. They are fearful they might be blackballed or worse. Fear is the most useless emotion on the planet. There is nothing to ever be afraid of. We are on this planet to learn and have an impact. Whether your impact is positive or negative is the beauty of being a human being and it is this exercise of free will that can distinguish us from a pig in a pen. I have no doubt whatsoever that the universe deals with bad karma in its own way. That is not our individual responsibility. We are responsible only for our choices and our impact. As Gandhi said “be the change you want to see in the world.”
Mr. Smith ends his Op Ed with the following. “I hope this can be a wake-up call to the board of directors. Make the client the focal point of your business again. Without clients you will not make money. In fact, you will not exist. Weed out the morally bankrupt people, no matter how much money they make for the firm. And get the culture right again, so people want to work here for the right reasons. People who care only about making money will not sustain this firm — or the trust of its clients — for very much longer.” While this is a noble rallying cry I would say there is a 0% chance of this ever happening. The system is now unsalvageable. It is a total ponzi economy rooted in very few real productive activities and in which crony capitalists and their political minions control everything. This thing has no chance of survival and so the only thing we need to focus on is not allowing the mentally sick 1% determine the next system (oh and to clarify I don’t mean 1% in terms of monetary wealth. Even though the nastiest elements of society do tend to gather the most wealth in this system since they have zero hang ups about murder, theft and corruption, the nasty 1% are all over the socio economic spectrum. Notice how the most ruthless gang leader gets to the top in a ghetto. Same concept in the larger ghetto that is modern America).
Humanity is Rising
To the pessimists out there I want to remind you of a very simple and sad truth. The maniacal 1% already own this thing. They are fully in political and economic control as they have been for thousands of years. So let’s say they kill billions in WW3 and then they keep control. Well guess what? That is no different from what they have been doing forever. It’s not as if we as a species are going to “lose” much. We have been losing for centuries. The bigger point is to take a step back and recognize the moment. We have the tools at our fingertips and the awakening happening to change the paradigm. So get off the mat and do your part. Just like Greg Smith. The choice is yours.
Peace and wisdom,
Mike
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In the cacophony of lies, many cannot hear the truth:
Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him...[because] Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. (Matt 13:12-13)
Right on Mike!!! I respect your persistance over the years and never allowing yourself to be hoodwinked into thinking otherwise. If anything we can at least sleep at night knowing we tried to make a difference for the future of the children of America. It's the grassroots revolution that has been spreading to fight this corruption and deception which will continue to grow as more and more sheeple wake up. Just when you think you're pulling people in they always seem to come up with a distraction like the latest KONY CRAP to fleece the minds of millions of Serfs. What will they think of next? Who knows and who really cares at this point because as you pointed out, they are on Federally funded borrowed time and their time is running out...
The nature of man has not changed. The awareness of the minority means very little so long as the majority are easily steered. Indeed the whole edifice is about the will of the majority and then overriding it to protect special classes. So when the times come a scapegoat will be wheeled out for the two minute hate and the game will continue. Why should they fail now when they have so many resources and data to feed back on. All that we will see is a power consolidation as the big boys one up each as the power well and truly centralizes. Hell let us assume the masses stir, then all that they need do is pay half of the masses to kill the other half. Best we can do as individuals is protect ourselves and stay out of the way of the herd and the slaughterhouse.
"We have the tools at our fingertips and the awakening happening to change the paradigm."
As much as I want to be as optimistic as you, TPTB also have the internet + enhanced tools (reality TV, increased indentured servitude via undischargable debt, etc) to keep the awakening from taking hold. I do think something big is coming to a head soon, but it's not going to be pretty, and saying a die-off of billions that leaves TPTB still in control is a tie since they've been doing it so long just doesn't work for me. We need to go for the win.
Jesus, Garfield, Lincoln, Kennedy....list some people who died after disagreements with bankers.
I am not one of those who rail against bankers, I believe we need them. We must however see that they serve utilitarian functions and not dominate by the power to say what is money. I prefer the view that FOFOA sees: a world where fiat and gold rest side by side, peacefully, with gold acting as the anchor, preventing fiat from going all 'Weimar' and giving the bankers the ability to serve our soft money needs.
btw if you are one of those who insists that 'only gold is money' I ask you; how would you like it if your next mortgage to be payable in physical? Think about that long and hard. You would have no benfit of inflation making your loan easier to service in the future and you would be subject to horrible pain if the price of gold drifted higher.
We need a better system, I believe we will have one relativley soon. Gold must be central to that system but not as money.
if you are one of those who insists that 'only gold is money' I ask you; how would you like it if your next mortgage to be payable in physical? Think about that long and hard. You would have no benfit of inflation making your loan easier to service in the future and you would be subject to horrible pain if the price of gold drifted higher.
Of course, if you have enough gold to cover your mortgage, or if you didn't have a mortgage, then....
BTW...inflation does NOT make your debt-service payment easier UNLESS your income moves in tandem with the inflation. If it doesn't then inflation makes those payments HARDER.
Inflation Increase House Value
Debt smaller relative Real Estate Market Value
what about the increase in the asset value of the house relative the debt. If the equity goes up why not refinance or sell the asset and use that cash, just like starting in 1995.
MERS, etc. Banks need to be restructured [dismantled] however, otherwise it will be a repeat.
Which is exactly what it seems to appear is happening or the plan.
"It ain't so much the things we don't know that trouble us so. It's the things we know that just ain't so."
- Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne)
"All they [i.e., the "1%"] think about is how can they keep growing their money and power." Notably, Mr Krieger is calling on the "99%" to wake up and get more of the money and power. This seems to be a common motivation of the haves and the haves less.
"Just take a look at Obama’s approval ratings. They are plunging." -- last I saw they were drifting higher (45-47% range). He is likely re-elected if the voting was today.
Greg Smith's letter riled me up but every single thing he wrote I assumed was true anyway. Now the MSM has to pretend how shocked they are...on another note I got a pound of ground beef at Fareway today and asked about "pink slime." The kid at the counter said they've been getting all kinds of questions about it. I just leaned about it Tuesday by reading G.W. article. Anyways Fareway says they do not use it in their hamburger so not to worry...unless you go to a U.S. public school. Then you're eating it but if you put enough salt on it you can barely taste the amonia I hear.
Resourced Based Economy, anyone?
All of this abberant behavior is the result of what kind of society a human being is raised. The society itself has produced these people. Change the paradigm to eliminate money, spread all resources equally, and actually educate humans to be compassionate & intelligent. The new incentive then becomes how much you can help other human beings reach their potential, as well as your own.
Money is one of the most profound inventions that Humans have ever devised. Prior to money, we had to rely on barter and subsistence. Money allowed specialization, which allows complexity, which allows iPads. The fact that we have only a simulacrum of money (which of course is 100% a product of the State) is why the system is collapsing.
Getting rid of money is not the solution. Getting rid of violence is EVERY FORM IS the solution. How pathetic that we as a race still feel that violence is the best solutions to ANY HUMAN PROBLEM, whether it be how to raise a child or how to punish the "guilty".
Nazi Germany happened because the german population was BRUTALIZED (again, through the use of VIOLENCE) as children, and this was accepted by the German society. The unthinkable system of death they concocted would NOT have been possible without this systemic child abuse.
We need to stop mistreating our children. We need to stop supporting that which is morally repugnant, which includes the state and religious superstition.
We need to be free.
http://freedomainradio.com/
Money is pointless.
I think you are confusing money with the resource based economy you dream of.
Utopias are great on paper but fail miserably in reality.
We've never had a utopian experience in all of humanity. How would you be able to prove your hypothesis?
shh! somebody watched zeitgeist one too many times...
I personally think your nuts. Violence may not be the solution to all problems, but it is certainly the solution to many.
I think the greatest mistreatment of children is the way we are currently raising them, never before has there been such a shielded and cottled generation, completly unaware of how the world works.... because apparently it's absolutely unthinkable to expose them to it.
Ever watched how any mother from a predator species raises its young? violence is almost always involved. Violence imprints, violence makes sure the lesson sticks. A little pain goes a long way.
Getting rid of violence in every form is impossible and counter-productive for a species born in the fire. Our eyes are positioned at the front of our skulls. We are not sheep, we are wolves.
*Disclaimer: I am not sanctioning violence as a be all and end all solution, only that it is absolutely needed in some situations. Nor do I condone child abuse, or un-deserved/brutal/name your complaint physical punishments but this politically correct way of raising our children has gotten out of hand.
Because US citizen kids do not know how US citizenism works?
This is a US world order.
We can't, but fortunately don't need to, wake people up. The course of humanity is always chosen by small, vocal minorities of philosophers. Its how we ended slavery, it's how we made socially unacceptable things like rape and violence.
We know the way to do it, we just need to identify and articulate that which is morally unjust, and to do that we need to extend the principles that we already KNOW to be immoral and apply them to EVERYONE. That's all ending slavery and achiving women's rights was; extension of the moral principles that we apply to SOME, to ALL.
We need to do that now, but we need to apply the moral rules that we all must adhere to, EQUALLY and to EVERYONE. That means that if it is wrong for me to steal your money, it is wrong of the government to steal mine. If it means it is wrong for me to lock you up in a cage, it is wrong for the government to do the same to me or anyone else.
IF IT IS WRONG FOR ME TO KILL, IT IS WRONG FOR A SOLDIER TO KILL.
Violence is only morally justified in self defense. PERIOD. The state is the problem. Freedom is the solution.
Please join us. We need you, ZeroHedge.
http://freedomainradio.com/
God Bless Ya Stefan
Age-old simple plan:
Worked perfectly. Until ...
Hope and "can you spare some change"
If you are on the government dole, you shouldn't be allowed to vote.
And they should be drug tested and forced to do community work. No free rides fuckers.
Yeah, I can't wait to see the gangs of coke addicted Wall Streeters in orange jumpsuits picking up trash along the highways.
Everyone is on the government dole, especially the richest among us.
Like depressing anti-corporate art?
Here's some by a friend of mine.
This one is my favorite. One more.
Sorry I already posted this but it seemed especially relevent after reading this. I think you'll like it anyway.
I am an optimist. Humanity worldwide will be rising up against the elite. In the last year since I woke up the changes are great. At first it seemed most didn't get it, but everyday more and more get it. The comments on yahoo news have drastically changed over the last year.
Our sociopathic leaders have lost the moral authority to lead. This is a dangerous scenario.
People follow by example and it leads to a breakdown in civil society. If Owebama, Corzine, and the squids are flash-mobbing Wall Street money in a shark frenzy, it shouldn't surprise anyone to see people do the same over retro Nikes.
The aberrant behavior is a direct result of Gov't spending/regulation out of control.
Once "business" learned that they could bend the political process to fund socio-economic behavior (CRA Act, Fannie / Freddie, War on Poverty and all programs associated with this farce, ACORN, etc..) .
It only takes a few "business" leaders to begin to poison the pot before all must climb aboard the train or be left behind.
Effcient Capital allocation has always been the lynchpin of the successful western, socio-economic model. By bringing in Gov't spending (initially...now it is Gov't Printing) to the degree that has been forced down the throats of the law abiding masses...it was just a question of time (and how much $$ one could make) before the economic and societal breakdown occurs.
Cut Gov't spending now...? A deep recession hits, just when the banks / economy are showing signs of "stabilization".
Continue on current course of Gov't spending and a complete collapse socio-economically occurs, at a later date....but with exponentially worse socio-economic impact.
Cut Gov't spending....pure and simple. take the medicine, before it is too late.
Cut Gov't spending....pure and simple. take the medicine, before it is too late.
100% agree but it will never happen, no matter who is in the White House or Congress. They will only stop spending when they are forced to do so.
Only people with coercive power can manipulate you against your will. That is by definition the government, and now the government-business complex.
One) break the ties between government and business
Two) Shrink the government
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Stephen Hawkings
said another way: The problem ain't what folks don't know, but they know so much that isn't so.
Josh Billings and others
One of the most popular humorists in 19th Century America, second in fame only to Mark Twain, was a writer whose pen name was "Josh Billings." His real name was Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818-1885).
Whhhaaaaaaa
Im fed up with the survivalist/populist/redneck OWS posts that have taken over what used to be a great investment website (and still is if you can stomach that truckloads of crap that pops up in between). Maybe Reggie should host the analytical posts on a free portion of his website so those of us that value making $ have somewhere to go where we dont have to be called parasitic sociopaths.
I 'm with those of you saying "shit is f'ed up and shit", but I stand up for those who admire Bass, Paulson et all that had the analytical capacity and courage of convction to place their bets and join the 1% instead of whine. If you dont expect Goldman to try and beat you and you dont have the intellegence or fortitude to outlast them, step away from the poker table. Go play at the kids table.
Even the PM bugs are at least using their heads to try and come out on top. But advocating rebellion against the machine to equalize outcomes that didnt go your way is no better then advocating a violent Marxist revolution.
I worked hard to make what I have and Im working hard to make more. If some fool is on the other end being parted from his money, good! I consider that my good deed for the day.
Im fed up with the survivalist/populist/redneck OWS posts that have taken over what used to be a great investment website
I agree. I love this site but can't stand some of the OWS fucks on here. Read my posts above. The reality is some of the OWS parasites really don't care if you are part of the good 1% or bad 1% - they simply hate you because they envy success. That kind of crap dilutes an otherwise very informative website.
great post.
I really don't see that very much. Most people I see here admire success and have absolutely no issue with making money the old fashion way. To say things like banking, finance, or debt are categorically bad is just stupid. It's those succeeding by playing with a stacked deck that are the problem and completely abusing means to and end by making them an end on to themselves.
Well, I would say two things-
1) This is an economic news site. It has a broad range of topics and some of them are related to trading. Reggie has a site, Im sure if you subscribe you can get all of his analysis that you want- why not pony up instead of expecting him to hand it out to you for free? How is your asking for free analysis not inherently parasitic? Cry more?
2) Making money in trading doesnt actually DO anything useful. You produce nothing and do nothing, and while the OWS types are morons its a bit much to expect respect from anyone else. You dont work, you speculate- there is nothing new or different in the world when your work day ends. You create nothing and add nothing. Though you may have money to show for it, dont kid yourself- you have absolutely zero productive value of any kind.
Your whine boils down to "Stop distracting me, Im here for the free handouts" and apparently lack the mental horsepower to realize you arent much different from the OWS types you complain about.
Wrong on so many levels LNB. Let me start by saying that you have no idea who I am or what sites I subscribe to. But I can assure you I’m not a 2-bit day trader buying 50 share blocks on ETrade. Not that “who I am” makes my opinion more important – just different.
I’m not really sure why I am about to pen this opus – given that it will just be lost in the comments section of a day old article no one will read, but I want to share my perspective, because I think it’s one most of the redneck OWSers, conspiratorialists and survivalists on here haven’t heard before.
You say that “trading” creates nothing. I disagree. Investing has HUGE societal benefits – but they are very Darwinian, so the OWSers that want the weak, stupid and lazy to have the same outcomes as the strong, smart and entrepreneurial are about to be disgusted. IMO investing is the only thing that differentiates Capitalism from a benign dictatorship of technocrats. Investing is supposed to make capital readily available and cheap to good managers and good ideas and scarce and expensive for bad managers with bad ideas. That way society spends its resources making things people need and want as efficiently as possible rather then throwing hundreds of billions of dollars into solar and battery tech only to see those firms go bankrupt a year later.
However, in order to perform the above function – the market NEEDS assholes. People that say – this is a shitty management team, a shitty idea and a total scam – even though 9 of 10 analysts have a buy rating. We need people that not only say it, but that put their money on the line AND MOST IMPORTANTLY if/when they are right, take money away from stupid people that invest via stupid money managers in stupid companies with stupid ideas and bad management teams. That is a valid and critical function of the markets even though we are vilified by the administration, Jim Cramer and the redneck OWS on this site.
This brings me to TMT. You have the right idea, but you are still attacking the wrong group and for the wrong reasons. If you change 1% to 1% of 1% - you might offend LESS people. But trust me when I say there are at least a dozen people with 7, 8 and 9 digit wealth that read this site. I know because I forward them the articles frequently.
The level of wealth or income someone has says nothing about whether they are a good or bad person. For the purposes of the OWS and conspiratorialist attacks we are trying to address, acts of kindness or sadism really don’t matter. What matters is if a person is knowingly and purposefully trying to subvert the system in order to control and screw over the masses.
My biggest problem with OWS and the conspiratorialists is that my personal experience simply does not support the idea of a cadre of evil geniuses playing puppet master. Instead it supports the idea that we are beset by thousands of pathetic parasites that are each focused solely on their (and their shareholders) benefit, but together they are killing the host (us). Think Grima Wormtounge - not Sauron.
6 years as an I-banker, 6 years as a hedge fund manager. I personally know a handful of billionaires, dozens of people worth 8 or 9 figures and hundreds of CEOs of public companies ranging from $1bbn to $100bbn of market cap. And I’m not talking about having met them once at a thousand person mixer. For 6 years I probably attended 20 conferences a year where I would have 10-20 one-on-one or small group meetings or dinners with these people. I’m not saying this to brag. Thousands of people on Wall Street could say this – including Mr Keiger whom I knew when he was still at Bernstein (I was a client). Hell - $5mm didn’t put me in the top HALF at my 30 person HF, or likely even in the top 100 of our larger parent company, and since I know several people from there that visit this site, it means I’m certainly not special here. What does make me different is that like Mr Keiger, about a year ago I “went of the deep end” and left that lucrative world because of what I saw happening around me. Of course I didn’t leave for the betterment of society – I left because I thought I could benefit more from it on my own then at my firm because of the way they invested. Regardless it means I can write stuff like this without fear of loosing my job – and they can’t. So in a way – I feel it’s my job to defend the 1% or 1% of 1% on this site. Just like I feel its my job to separate fools from their money.
Anyway, my point is that the people we should be attacking are the CEOs of solar, wind and ethanol companies for bribing politicians to get special grants and low cost loans. The CEOs of MLM and VMC that push for more HTF funding. The CEOs of aerospace and defense firms that push for more military spending and wars. The barber lobby in Minnesota that wants to pass a law that prevents Super Cuts from putting barber poles outside their shops because they don’t employ unionized, licensed barbers. Pretty much every public sector union leader AND ANYONE THAT TRIES TO USE THE POLITICAL S”YSTEM TO GET ADVANTAGES OR ATTACK THEIR COMPETITORS rather then playing fair and square in the market. Yes this includes bank bailouts – but that’s not even half of the problem.
My final point is that attacking Nate Rothschild as satan’s spawn because of his last name, or Ivan Glasenberg, Eike Batista, John Fredriksen or Mitt Romney because of their wealth – is not only wrong, its harmful to your cause. Claiming that they are part of some secret society that is trying to take over the world – when you have never met them – because of what you read on some website is BS. Yes I am name dropping. Just a few of the 1% of 1% of 1% that I personally know and that I can only assume the redneck OWSers and conspiratorialists hate for no reason. These are people I know, have met with multiple times, and can vouch for as not being part of anything as cool as a global puppet master ring. If they were I would have tried to get them to let me in on it. Im more then happy to be a lackey.
Mike Krieger, Stephen Hawking, John Gilmore, John Kennedy, and Greg Smith were/are corrupt.
Nothing cursory about that argument.
Right. Obama is plummeting, and freedom is on the march. That is why Ron Paul is winning all the primaries. </sarc>
Ron Paul is winning far more delegates than the media is reporting and he actually did win the popular vote in one primary (which the media is also not reporting).
The flow of history begins as an undercurrent. We're likely somewhere between the Stamp Act (1765) and the Boston Massacre (1770).
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/majority-americans-oppose-intervening-...
The Muppets must be waking up....
What's with the defeatist attitudes here? Is everyone awake? No. But you have to realize that just because some people don't talk about it 24-7 and post on ZeroHedge, doesn't mean they don't have an idea. Making you feel hopeless and content for your fellow man is part of the Panopticon strategy. I mean, there are shows on TV about preppers, jokes about Jay Leno about ending the Federal Reserve via Ron Paul. You're telling me that isn't major, major, major progress?
The author fails to address the giant elephant in the room - incorporation.
Incorporation is subject to evil and it is anything but a human model on a bell curve. It is lifeless and parasitic and literally decimating morality, principal, government, religion and anything else relating to the common good -- all for fraud money, just as lifeless and parasitic as the corporation itself.
Evil has seized upon the corporation to mask all wrongs, morally or otherwise.
The author is looking in the wrong places. We are nowhere near an end, rather quite the opposite closer to the beginning now that wealth itself is incorporated and the citizen is not.
i wanted to post something positve on this thread, but the line-
' and the citizen is not incorporated' brought out my darkest conspiranoid
reaction. - "yes we did get incorporated'. didn't have much of a say in
it ... couldn't really deny being issued a birth certificate and no one really
warned me about my complicit agreement when i was 13 and had to
get a social securitty card. as a matter of fact- i hereby disolve the
putaipan corporation and will hence just be a 'person' again.
sheesh- that feels good. you guys should try it!
"So get off the mat and do your part. Just like Greg Smith."
Greg Smith is a coward.
He sees the Indians circling the Goldman wagon train, and hopes to get out with his scalp intact.
I read about half way through his "come to Jesus" moment before I stopped in disgust. If the money changers at GS hadn't been so thoroughly exposed in the past few years. He'd still be there burning and looting with the rest of them.
A Response from Goldman Sachs
From Chairman Lloyd Blankfein
http://www.borowitzreport.com/2012/03/14/a-response-from-goldman-sachs/
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – The following letter to Goldman Sachs’ worldwide clients was issued today by Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein:
Dear Goldman Client:
By now, many of you have probably read the regrettable resignation letter published in today’s New York Times by former Goldman executive Greg Smith, explaining why he is leaving the firm after twelve years.
In the letter, in which he excoriates Goldman and its practices, Mr. Smith comes across as a man of conscience, ideals, and high moral standards. And as you read his words, you no doubt asked yourself this troubling question: how could Goldman have hired such a person?
At Goldman, we pride ourselves on our ability to scour the world’s universities and business schools for the finest sociopaths money will buy. Once in our internship program, these youths are subjected to rigorous evaluations to root out even the slightest evidence of a soul. But, as the case of Mr. Smith shows, even the most time-tested system for detecting shreds of humanity can blow a gasket now and then. For that, we can only offer you our deepest apology and the reassurance that one good apple won’t spoil the whole bunch.
As to those of you who were serviced by Mr. Smith, it’s understandable that you would be concerned about who will be taking his place going forward. On that front, I have some exciting news: today, Goldman is pleased to announce that our new executive director and head of the United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa will be Mr. Joseph Kony. For those unfamiliar with Mr. Kony’s resume, let me assure you that he has the character and moral standards you have come to expect from Goldman, and like the rest of us here at the bank, he has dedicated his life to doing the Lord’s work.
Sincerely,
Lloyd Blankfein
CEO, Goldman Sachs
Great piece Mike.
Regarding the turning talk into action.
A plan needs to be put together covering the basic vision, mission, goal objective? the rest is details. Intentionality must also be present. I am a big fan of Peter Drucker and his 5 most important questions to ask. Not for profits seem to be an actionable group. I think this sector is the largest employer, plus very volunteer oriented.
This Kony 2012 thing seems to demonstrate a model that get's people to get involved.
Attraction and Curiosity coupled with Beliefs, and Associations [Mark Douglas] seem to be elements to consider some focus on?
16:40 in the video starts showing an example of people getting involved, surely other areas in video will show more examples.
Perhaps some in the MIC are awakening as well...
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/14/marines-told-to-disarm-before-p...
RE: So let’s say they kill billions in WW3 and then they keep control. Well guess what? That is no different from what they have been doing forever. It’s not as if we as a species are going to “lose” much. We have been losing for centuries.
RE: Yet no one ever seems to take a shot at the genocidal, sociopaths that run our lives through politics and banking (nor would I EVER want that as I do not condone violence as a solution to a violent system).
So. Mr Krieger,you say that you would never condone violence against those who would kill bllions without a second thought
Either,taking your words at face-value,you are: INSANE, a PUSSY or an INSANE PUSSY... or maybe something a bit more sinister....
Which is it?
you make a logical point which is the reason
i rejected rationality as a guiding principle
for directing my actions many years ago. thanks
for explaining it so succinctly. however there
comes a time when rationality will not be denied
as you obviously well know.
Is that a veiled threat to animalistically lash out at those of higher station? You know you won't. But if beating your chest, and convincing yourself that you might satisfies an emotional need then it is for the best I suppose. Not good to keep that stuff suppressed.
diesheepledie would know. no threat intended but a warning that
fraud will not go un-found and un-prosecuted. it has nothing to do
with the blindman but with those who can see, and they/we are legion.
i think it is a universal principle fulfilled in the fullness of time
kind of thing, relating to the soul and the self. no threat, all warning.
the cruelest judge, the self. yes?
ps. and for the true coward the judgement and punishment,
in all its convoluted masking and denial, is reserved for
the next generation, there is always justice in the
universe, even for those who think they are too smart
to have it burden their particular lifetime. somewhere
someone said it, the long arc of the universe bends
that way. the trend is your friend ! we do what we can
with what we have, not much in the particular but together,
in the aggregate, it is overwhelming.
The French did.
Nothing has changed since Feros. Elites ruled and built unnecessary huge useless monuments. Messes were beaten, shackled, and begged for food and mercy and got sacrificed.
Shekels are replaced by SS# and begging is replaced with SNAP and mercy with credit score. Nothing has changed in 5000 years. So revolutions will keep coming and the elites will be dragged in the streets as humanity will take a fresh start once again and the story will keep going.
Nothing is going to happen. The masses are drugged with stupid tv and games on their "IShit," as ZHer baby_ BLYTHE put it. Most people are uninformed and don't want to be informed. The so-called informed simply want their opinions confirmed and reconfirmed and the Internet is full of sites which do that.
Dude! That's some righteous shit you're smoking. Thanks for sharing.
The Sheeple won't rise until unemployment at least doubles and our collective standard of living sinks. Right now, there are too many people with money and enjoying their cushy lifesyle. They are content and oblivious to the world around them thanks to their TV and igadgets. When the Sheeple awaken, the flock will see the wisdom of people like Ron Paul who threaten the status quo. The sooner we experience a depression the better.
What a shame that a few bad apples have to spoil a good time for everyone by breaking the rules
I would agree. However just because there isnt a conspiracy to enslave man and there isnt a small group of people manipulating the world, it does not mean that the small evils all men do haven't created a very large evil machine inside which we are each a contributing cog.
I am so sorry Mike.
quote:
So let’s say they kill billions in WW3 and then they keep control. Well guess what? That is no different from what they have been doing forever. It’s not as if we as a species are going to “lose” much. We have been losing for centuries
:unquote
Well guess what: "They" have been doing this forever and scale only distracts the timid. It's not that "they" as a group are going to "lose" much anyway. And the force that drives "them" has not ever lost on its terms, nor will it ever do so.
But unlike only a few generations before "we all" now have a (nuclear) reset-button. That is the most terrible thing, because although in principle resorting to that “way out” is free to the 1% on both ends of the spectrum, only the “evil pole” could ever believably threaten to go that way.
Because “they” can build bunkers and pile up supplies, in the hope of surviving the holocaust that they themselves could unleash, they have every reason to seek violent confrontation.
The 1% on the other side of the spectrum cannot reasonably play to win this game, because from a compassionate point of view, killing 99% of all human beings cannot be seen as a victory.
The best thing that could happen to humanity in general was WW3, in which all nuclear weapons would be fired at once to wipe out the 99% that is not “bunkered in”, not completely insane, but only brainwashed or at least partially sane.
Once that has happened, we would only need God to make it so, that not a single warhead explodes.
The "evil 1%" would have a lot explaining to do then...
If this is not the only possible outcome of “pressing the Reset-Button”, we are already screwed pretty much.
Because it is going to be pressed soon, if only for technical reasons.
From "their point of view" that will soon be the most prudent thing to do.
Fuck!
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The tinges of evolutionary thinking in this piece and thus the title, Humanity Is Rising, make it optimistically dead. Whether you accept it or not, any theory (or not even hypothesis) that seeks to scientifically postulate where we are as a culture, is hogwash. It can't be proven. Evolution is as a theory, dead. But it keeps playing out in the popular mind. Your pretext about the past ages of repression is communistic and so your future glory (?) is also make believe.
"If any man thinks he knows anything, he knows nothing as he ought to know it." If you knew just how much has been kept from your knowing, you would be shocked. There are deceivers in this world and there are human deceivers who manipulate as well as are manipulated themselves. Thus, we should have compassion on them and all in unenviable positions of power.
Wanting to kill the 1% is not freedom. Sure there have always been evil ones, but look to yourself.
LMAO! This is the funniest article I have read in forever. "Humanity is Rising"! Bwahhhaahahaa!!! What a clown. And "parasitic 1%"? Really?? How about the parasitic 99.9%. And then he claims to be "awake". If he was awake, he would know that the elite bankers are benign, and that the economy must be micromanaged, pumped, with abundant electronic gizmos designed jointly by teams of engineers and psychologists to keep stroking the tiny reptile IDs of the sheeple. ANY sort of responsibility or accountability and they would turn into flesh eating zombies overnight.
Just imagine, no QE, no central bank to print at will. We can't even let the stock market naturally drop 400-500 points or the herd animals will panic and trample each other. Imagine people actually having to be productive in a real non-mental institution society. They simply don't know how. The 99.9% are not capable of critical thinking, not capable of competing, even the so-called educated ones. The cities would burn down as soon as the apes stopped getting their welfare. Be it government checks or useless un-productive jobs the 99.9% are ALL on welfare. Do you really believe the zombie sheep could handle freedom? A real free market where they have to compete to live?
Ok let's do it. Open up the pens, the corrals and the cattle cribs; turn them loose from their little cardboard cubicles at their useless welfare jobs; out into the wild, with what they OWN, not the bullshit that's on over-extended credit or houses on their 4th refi - the benign bankers own that. Turn them loose with what is theirs and nothing more. And don't let them return to the farm. See how long they last.
D.S.D.
That's all we ever asked for.
If you think that it's not an ungoing struggle, and that smart ánd not-totally-psychopathic don't go together, then I disagree with you.
IMO we have a problem, and that is that the wrong ppl. are in control of humanity for some reason. It's that simple. Ignore it and the result is complete failure of of our species. And that's something new. We've outgrown the sandbox (again?).
@ diesheepledie thank you for your wit, wisdom and insight. As he has described himself, Krieger is "just another Jew".
Of course to follow this post we read the following are left slightly depressed.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter
But, can you imagine what else could be done with a computer this fast and a database this large besides spying? With a little tweaking and a good coder a guy could really fuck up the HFTs...
Yet no one ever seems to take a shot at the genocidal, sociopaths that run our lives through politics and banking (nor would I ever want that as I do not condone violence as a solution to a violent system).
That's because they aren't worth the sweat off my nuts. Even if they were dying of thirst. I wonder if they realize that body armour won't stop a common deer rifle slug?
I feel a strong urge to occupy something.
"Peace"? Really in the face of such crap? How about giving up your godlilocks primadona peacenick sentiment and take a lesson from the Knights in "Chivalry". It is not wrong to take violent forces against amoralistic maniacs that are corrupt.
So Mikie, take a clue, these same "psychopaths" that are "maniacs" mill NEVER let loose the reigns of power, it is in their nature....they must be terminated, they must die as they serve no useful purpose in society. That is the problem with Kum bay-ya" hippy hash smoker POVs. The Peace thing is what keeps this corruption going. Just like the founding of this "once great" country, freedom was purchased by blood, because the tyrant does not give up willingly.
Catch a clue, this is goonna take a very VIOLENT REVOLUTION for thes sick fucks to be expelled from power. You have to saart with BOTH party leaderships, and the Board Rooms and Executive suites all across the country.
I do not believe that good can come from evil acts or that we can serve others through service to ourselves. If we try then we end up becomining the thing that we despise.
... "oh wait, let me lop off these last couple of heads and then I will get back to the peace and love thing ... dang there are a few other, just a sec" ... and that, if succssful, is how we become Mao or Lenin and idols on this earth (sick). But when we are grown up, how proud are we of the blue ribbon that we cheated to win in kindergarten?
Of course, not only do the twisted ones expect "good men" to do nothing, but they want to tempt and goad us to be like them and then chide us if we do not by saying that we are "just jealous". Maybe that is the final exam for this portion of life. First we have to choose and then we have to live it.
"There is nothing to ever be afraid of. We are on this planet to learn"
This is enough----You made it too complicated with the rest.
And this:
"A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures.
- John Kennedy"
Is all that an oldman knows-----he began with it, learned that it was propaganda, and returned to it as all he can say that is true.
Life is too simple and easy to complicate it with thought om
Well, the article evades the core cause: US citizenism.
US citizenism has empowered the top as never before.
Quite a lot to say about that.
Chinks are the Devil!
Bile is rising. All fixed.
Not the buddha.
@Mike Krieger: Dude, the stuff you are smoking is far too strong for you. You have lost it. Completely.
I talk to people a lot and I try to wake them up almost every day, where ever I can. Believe me when I tell you: The world is F U C K E D. People want to be lied to, they want to believe in stuff that doesn't exist (such as Gods and money). Just because one or two guys turn on their companies (they HAVE been part of the system and enjoying its advantages for decades) you think something is changing??
Man if you believe that anything is changing, then you have entered your own reality.
Welcome to your very own delusion.
Enjoy it while it lasts!
This bit by a former Dillon, Read partner and former HUD Secretary under Bush 1 has been going around:
"After reading Dark Alliance, I started to study the extraordinary moneymaking business that DOJ and agencies like HUD had built in enforcement that really only made sense if in fact the government was entirely complicit in narcotics trafficking and related mortgage and mortgage securities fraud."
If you want to read more about how drug money took down the country you can read Financial Coup d’Etat. If you want the whole story you can start with the table of contents.
Links here: http://classicalvalues.com/2012/03/wall-street-is-in-the-news/
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