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Guest Post: You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Part Two
Submitted by Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Part Two
This is Part Two of a three part series trying to make sense of the Crisis period we entered in 2008. Click here to read: PART ONE
Catalyst of Change
“As late as December 1773, November 1859, and October 1929, the American people had no idea how close it was. Then sudden sparks (the Boston Tea Party, John Brown’s raid and execution, Black Tuesday) transformed the public mood, swiftly and permanently. Over the next two decades or so, society convulsed. Emergencies required massive sacrifices from a citizenry that responded by putting community ahead of self. Leaders led, and people trusted them. As a new social contract was created, people overcame challenges once thought to be insurmountable – and used the Crisis to elevate themselves and their nation to higher plane of civilization.” – Strauss & Howe - The Fourth Turning


Anyone who hasn’t sensed a mood change in this country since the 2008 financial meltdown is either ignorant or in denial. Millions of Americans fall into one of these categories, but many people realize something has changed – and not for the better. The sense of pure financial panic that existed during September and October of 2008 had not been seen since the dark days of 1929. Our leaders used the initial terror and fear to ram through TARP and stimulus packages that rewarded the perpetrators of the financial collapse rather than helping the middle class who lost 8 million jobs, destroyed by Wall Street criminality. The stock market plunged by 57% from its 2007 high by March 2009. What has happened since September 2008 has set the stage for the next downward leg in this Crisis. The rich and powerful have pulled out all the stops and saved themselves at the expense of the many. Despite overwhelming proof of unabashed mortgage fraud, rating agency bribery, document forgery on a grand scale and insider trading based on non-public information, the brazen audacity of Wall Street oligarchs is reminiscent of the late stages of the Roman Empire.
“Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.”
? Tacitus, Annals
The actions of the governing elite have provoked the darkening mood creeping across the land. The rise of the Tea Party in 2009 was fueled by anger over the bank bailouts, out of control federal spending and ever increasing taxes. The anger spilled over into town hall meetings, as Congressmen felt the wrath of public dissatisfaction. The fury propelled Tea Party Republicans to being elected in large numbers in 2010. But the movement was hijacked by the Republican establishment and defanged. As 2011 progressed, with Wall Street continuing to pillage the American middle class, the Occupy Movement spread to cities across America and around the world. The movement, led by Millenials, claims that mega-corporations and Wall Street manipulate the world in an unbalanced way that disproportionately benefits a super wealthy minority and is undermining democracy. They have shone a light upon the fact the 1% has used their wealth and power to plunder the national treasury, while impoverishing the 99%. The audacity of the 1% was on display for all to see when former Goldman Sachs CEO and former U.S. Senator Jon Corzine absconded with $1.2 billion of his customers’ money and continues to hide it in the vaults of his fellow robber baron Jamie Dimon at J.P. Morgan. To this day, no one has been jailed for this heist or any of the thousands of other crimes committed by the Wall Street titans. These psychopaths will not be satisfied until nothing remains of our country but a barren desert.
“They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.” – Tacitus, The Agricola and the Germania
A few weeks ago I watched The Grapes of Wrath movie for the first time in many years. The novel was written by John Steinbeck during the last Fourth Turning. It is as powerful today as it was in the 1941. It perfectly captures the mood of the country during the Great Depression. The message of the working class being exploited and manipulated by wealthy landowners resounds today. The Joads only sought an opportunity for a job, their own land, simple human dignity, and the chance for a better future. Wall Street has replaced the wealthy landowners as the exploiters of the working class. Steinbeck saw the Federal Government as a solution during the 1930s, but they are a major part of the problem today, as politicians have been captured by corporate and special interests. Their solutions do not benefit the average middle class American.

The feelings about our government and political system is reflected in Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games novel, which captures the vein of government brutality, oppression of the working class, excessive wealth inequality, and the vapid shallowness of our American Idol culture. The Hunger Games was written in 2008 and the movie version has become a worldwide sensation. The immense divide between the wealthy ruling class, living an obscenely decadent lifestyle, and the exploited working class on the verge of starvation, is portrayed in a cruelly sadistic manner. The fact that it is appealing to Millenials and all generations says much about the changing of attitudes in the last four years. Hunger Games will be viewed as the modern day Grapes of Wrath by future generations.
There is no denying the darkening disposition of the country, except by those whose job it is to deny the reality of our deteriorating situation. Those whose power and wealth are dependent upon a citizenry being kept in the dark and convinced the way out of this mess is to resume spending borrowed money, have pulled out all the stops since the initial catalyst for this Fourth Turning struck with its full fury in 2008. The frantic efforts by those in power to prop up the status quo were predictable. If our leaders had dealt with the initial crisis in a realistic manner, many wealthy powerful men would have gone broke. They have been able to temporarily fend off a full-fledged catastrophe as predicted by Strauss & Howe:
“At home and abroad, these events will reflect the tearing of the civic fabric at points of extreme vulnerability – problem areas where, during the Unraveling, America will have neglected, denied, or delayed needed action. Anger at “mistakes we made” will translate into calls for action, regardless of the heightened public risk. It is unlikely that the catalyst will worsen into a full-fledged catastrophe, since the nation will probably find a way to avert the initial danger and stabilize the situation for a while. Yet even if dire consequences are temporarily averted, America will have entered the Fourth Turning.”
But they have solved nothing. In fact, they have exacerbated the problem areas of debt, civic decay and global disorder with their “solutions”. Our leaders have added $5.6 trillion to the National Debt; the Federal Reserve tripled their balance sheet by taking on $2 trillion of Wall Street toxic debt; the Federal Government assumed trillions in new debt by taking over Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Sallie Mae; and real GDP went up by a mere $103 billion (.8%) between the 4th quarter of 2007 and the 4th quarter of 2011. Rescuing the 99% was never the focus of their solutions. It was to save the bankers and wealthy investors (1%) who took the world destroying risks and should have borne the losses of their risk taking. The oligarchs have been wildly successful in this effort. The stock market has doubled from its lows. Borrowing at 0% from the Federal Reserve has done wonders for banker bonuses. Global disorder increases by the day, as politicians and bankers force austerity on their citizens, while continuing to harvest billions in profits and bonuses still waging wars of choice, further enriching the peddlers of debt and the peddlers of death (military industrial complex).

The Great Depression lasted from 1929 until 1940. The GDP of the country actually grew by 80% between 1933 and 1940. The stock market soared by 100% from the 1932 low to its 1933 high. It then soared another 100% from 1934 through 1937. Despite these fabulous economic statistics and investment riches scooped up by the 2.5% of the population that owned stocks, they still call this time period the Great Depression. With unemployment ranging from 15% to 25% during this entire time frame, the common man suffered greatly. There was no recovery for the 99%.

The net worth of the 99% is highly dependent on the value of their homes and their ability to increase their annual wages. Home prices have fallen 34% from their peak and continue to fall, recently reaching 2002 levels. Real median weekly earnings are lower than they were in 2003 and have fallen 3% since the economy supposedly entered its recovery in December 2009. Gas prices have doubled since early 2009. The 1% rejoices as they treat oil as an investment in their diversified portfolio. The 99% suffer as the average household is spending $2,500 per year more to fill up their vehicles. Food prices are up 15% to 25% in the last three years, even using the manifestly manipulated BLS figures.
It is essential for those in power to utilize their mainstream media propaganda machines, massaging of economic information and Ben Bernanke’s printing press to give the appearance of recovery to the masses. In the last three months the hyperbole and extreme spin from the corporate mainstream media has become exceedingly robust. It smells of desperation. Even as the media touts a recovery and Obama peddles drivel about millions of new jobs, Bernanke keeps the throttle of quantitative easing and zero interest rates wide open. Their actions are not consistent with their rhetoric. People who had jobs as accountants making $55,000 per year in 2007 are now stocking fertilizer in the garden center at Lowes making $20,000, with no benefits. This is the face of the jobs recovery. Only a corporate media doing the bidding of their masters could possibly rejoice at the February data showing consumers spending at a rate 450% higher than their income gains as a sign of recovery. There is a concerted effort to revive the auto market by the Federal Government (Ally Financial) and the Wall Street banks by employing exceptionally loose credit standards for auto loans and leases that are reminiscent of the subprime mortgage debacle. I’m sure it will turn out better this time. The downward spiral of trust is accelerating as predicted by Strauss & Howe:
“As the Crisis catalyzes, these fears will rush to the surface, jagged and exposed. Distrustful of some things, individuals will feel that their survival requires them to distrust more things. This behavior could cascade into a sudden downward spiral, an implosion of societal trust.”
The downward spiral of societal trust is well founded. The monied interests have captured the political process. The regulated have captured the regulators. Wall Street has always controlled the Federal Reserve. Corporations and the wealthiest among us select the politicians that will best serve their interests. The governing elite of psychopathic bankers, corrupt politicians, and powerful mega-corporations create crises, then save us from the crises they created, while accumulating more control, wealth and power. This perpetual swindle has been going on for decades and has reached its zenith as it did during the last Fourth Turning. Income inequality has reached the extreme levels last seen in the 1930s. The capitalism storyline has grown old and tired. Complete systematic capture is the reason for those at the top reaping all the benefits of our dysfunctional economic system.

The rampant mortgage fraud, the robo-signing crimes, trillions of shadowy derivatives, unfunded government pensions, unfunded Medicare and Social Security promises, and the bald-faced looting of customer accounts at MF Global have brought about a realization among those capable of critical thought that this Crisis is growing worse by the day. Strauss & Howe clearly understood the factors that would lead to this deficit of trust:
“But as the Crisis mood congeals, people will come to the jarring realization that they have grown helplessly dependent on a teetering edifice of anonymous transactions and paper guarantees. Many Americans won’t know where their savings are, who their employer is, what their pension is, or how their government works. The era will have left the financial world arbitraged and tentacled: Debtors won’t know who holds their notes, homeowners who owns their mortgages, and shareholders who runs their equities – and vice versa.”
Here we stand, three and a half years since the catalyst of this Crisis. What event or events will produce the regeneracy stage of this Fourth Turning and when can we expect its arrival? I’ll try to make some educated guesses in Part Three of this series.
Click here to read: PART ONE
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Apparently not enough fools for their liking, theyre desperate to get retail to come and buy their stocks, that theme is in practically every market story now.
Anyone notice how the MSM suddenly declared last week that now was the time to buy property? Simultaneously, all the major media players released stories of investors buying up properties. A finely coordinated set of news if you ask me.
Retail no longer has any money to invest. It's already been taken by mortgage scams, cliff diving home values, increasing local taxes, inflating food, health care,and gasoline costs, MFG....
crisis is always there when you least expect it.
http://www.cnhedge.com/
http://www.jinrongbaike.com/
got "RISKY CONNECTION BLOCKED", YOU ASSHOLE! GFY!
"Despite overwhelming proof of unabashed mortgage fraud, rating agency bribery, document forgery on a grand scale and insider trading based on non-public information,"
You forgot blatant and outright theft (MFGlobal)
I love how those idiots at Automatic Earth blew MFG off as "the rich stealing from the almost rich", nevermind the real commercial hedgers such as farmers. Those guys are useful idiots for the socialists-that-be.
This Fourth Turning stuff, does not give me actionable intelligence that I don't get from multiple other sources.
Hunger Games will be viewed as the modern day Grapes of Wrath by future generations.
I hardly think so.
The more apt comparison is to Spartacus. HUNGER GAMES is a milquetoast version of SPARTACUS (1960 or 2010).
Hunger Games is Agenda 21:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TzEEgtOFFlM
Agenda 22, is where we hang all those responsable for Agenda 21!
Don't like the way The Hunger Games series ends. Too much like the real puppetmasters are still in charge and Katniss was just being played as a tool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingjay
Same thing happen to spartacus too. Tricked and betrayed at the end.
This whole series reeks of Illuminati (Brainwashing, lies, trickery, Thesis + Antithesis= Synthesis).
SMG.... what no spoiler alert?
Agenda 21 is an overwrought response to overconsuming. If anyone believes that retaining and returning to the old methodologies of consumer capitalism will carry us through this crisis, our demise will only be hastened. Something has to be done, but it won't be from the 'benefits' of corporate capitalism. This is fear mongering at its most vile with the intention being to keep us from uniting to save what's left. The biggest enemy is our own psychology of consumption which, after the all the smoke clears, is what brought us to the precipice of self-destruction in the first place. Nah, I don't want to hear that I'm a commie - more devisiveness.
Unfortunately it will take countries to hit rock bottom before change will come. We arent there yet. Its coming though. I laugh when they say corporate profits are strong. Thats a big part of the problem. And Im as capitalist as you can get. What we have right now isnt capitalism. It is groups of oligopolies for the most part.
Oligopolies with a shit load of................capital
This is capitalism. Mature capitalism. There seems to be a lot of pro capitalism people on this site who don't know what the fuck capitalism is. Capital chasing more and more capital.
Too many people have been brainwashed into thinking REAL capitalism doesn't result in the accumilation of capital and control which is the very essence of capitalism.
Capitalism doesn't result in full employment, better quality products, living wages, and prosperity for anybody willing to work, it results in more capital. A lot of people on this site are delusional and brainwashed.
A lot of people on this site are delusional and brainwashed.
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Or US citizens.
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Not much difference there between the terms.
Made me laugh.
"and used the Crisis to elevate themselves and their nation to higher plane of civilization.” nauseating afflatus of Comte's positivism combined with Hegel's ministerial service to the state all drenched with a sickening surfeit of good old American triumphalism, not to speak of the usual Tavistockian blathering pre-designed to operantly condition and convict the massa confusa of their own innate insignificance and ultimate hopelessness. in short another epic exercise in misdirection and waste of bandwidth courtesy of Wharton's mouthpiece of fustian and falderal.
Yeah, what he said! (What did you say, man?)
Translation: you've been US citizened.
I took my 13-year-old granddaughter to see The Hunger Games this weekend as she had read the book and wanted to see it. I was quite unexpectedly rivited at its intensity and themes. It is certainly no childrens' movie, even though the main characters were young people. I was as surprised as I was at V is for Vendetta that it had ever even been made. Considering the timing it is a much more inflammatory movie then Grapes of Wrath, which was filmed in retrospect. The Hunger Games is incendiary. I imagine that my granddaugher took from it what a 13-year-old is capable of assimulating, but not all viewers are going to be 13. Older adolescents and adults will have an entirely different experience.
Bah, children killing children for the entertainment of society?
See it for what it is, a sick world.
I told you it wasn't a childrens' movie. That, of course, is an abomination, but there is more to it than that. That particular plot device itself is ancient and architypal, going at least all the way back to the 7 youths and 7 maidens of Athens who were demanded as tribute and fed yearly to the Minotaur until Theseus slew the beast. Then there is the matter of fighting to the death in an arena. This book is recommended reading in middle school and my granddaughter had already seen the movie on a school trip. Doesn't that give you pause? I was expecting something Harry Potterish. As I said, it is quite incendiary. The rich and effete of the city are depicted as foppish and bored and casually cruel.
therefore, i have a 'modest proposal' - a sweeney todd of sortied debauchery, that she as a society should offer up,... a faustian-bargain at the coliseum bizarro feast with chairsatan your host-of-host --- what say you? are you game...
You're going to be very rich.
Check out this video about making donations to the Obama campaign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzRzsWc0Kds&feature=player_embedded
nice find
Oh Jeffrey!!?!!
If I could only pick the nit that I would be willing to wager most of the 1% are just as dorked-over as are the rest of us.
It's really more like the 0.1% that's the problem, methinks.
A few things startlingly obvious: The elites have declared war on us. To put it simply: They want it all and will do anything to get it. We, as citizens are their absolutely last consideration. Except for the lower tiers of commerce (small businesses, mom & pops) capitalism does not exist anymore, at least not in the way in which it was practiced fifty years ago. What is present is a totally anarchistic approach to living - take what you can get and get what you can take. This rampant sociopathic disease hasn't infected the 99% - yet; however, given enough time and the continuing contempt of the elites not only for the rule of law and the citizens of this nation, but for the rules of commerce as well, we will begin, from desperation, among other things, to participate in their madness. The systemic disease has begun inhabiting almost all aspects of our society and civilization. As I write this, men, women and children in foreign lands are dying, their homes and social infrastructures are being destroyed and they are almost continuinally living beneath our threats of more destruction and death. We are currently under the dominion of homicidal sociopaths who have spread their disease and destruction of other cultures back to our own. At this point, all one can say is that the elites' most obvious weakness is their hubris, arrogance and faith in their own power. One single advantage for us. A suggestion: To rid our world of these moral deviants one must refuse to cooperate in any way. What they rely upon to increase and retain their power must be rejected by the rest of us and that power is in their processes. Refuse to join the game. Stop giving them money to kill, maim and destroy. It's not only people they are affecting. They are rapidly changing the methods and processes which we, the sane, have used for centuries to survive and prosper. Peel off, step back, do not engage except with others who are also being victimized. Look around you - almost everything you see, touch, hear, smell and feel was created by you. The hidden truth is that without us the elites shrivel and die.
Amazing Post!!!! Well done!!>>>and Thanks!!!
So we cancelled cable TV; my wife was a holdout for a long time. I honestly thought she'd miss it more, but she's told me she isn't. I'm glad to have the propaganda out of my home.
I shit cannned my TV in 1987. I'm sure that one act extended my life span by at least 5 years. Congratulations on killing your boob tube!
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-18-2011/world-of-class-warfare---the-poor-s-free-ride-is-over
2.5% of the Wealth of America.. Represents the Total WEALTH of America's Poor.. Poor is being defined as; a Family of 4 that lives on $20,000 (and some change) a year. The Idea is to TAX! this Family of 4 by 50%.. 50% of the total income. which equates to $700 billion Dollars.. (the Poor of America have a total of $1.4 Trillion)..
The reason behind Taxing the Poor for 50% of their Total income.. is because the Richest of the Rich do NOT! want to pay and extra 2% in Taxes..
So the Poor of America.. defined as a Family of 4 Living on $20,000 and change a year.. should now live on $10k and change a year.. so that the Richest of the Rich don’t have a 2% Increase in their Tax Rate... baring in Mind that the Richest of the Rich pay 5% - 10% - 14% (in Romneys case and he has a $40m - $60m yearly income)..
While the working class pay closer to 30%..
So the Working Class! gets stuck, AGAIN! and the Poor! who are already suffering should Bleed from their eyes! all so the Richest of the Rich don’t have to pay and extra 2%..
Please.. hen everyone wakes up and is ready to EAT! THE!! RICH!!! because there is Nothing left for the Working Class and the Poor to Eat! let me know.. I want to record it.. document.. what happens when 100,000 people .. screw over 300,000,000 so bad that they have to exact Justice outside of the Lobby Whores Judicial.. that says! Money is Free Speech and Corporations are People!
Everyone is about to start getting more hungry! while the Rich move their money off shore (more than they already have) and move to New Zealand!
When the We the People take back America and re-instate the Constitution.. I will be lobbying NIGHT! AND!! DAY!! To use our New Super Carriers and Cruise Missiles to exact Justice on the Rich who have Robbed America Blind!
Corruption is NOT Tolerated in America! At the highest levels of Government.. it is Celebrated!
Wake Up! Before the POOR mistake you for the Rich!
Spot on!
We are witness to the end game of the past 120 years of the PROGRESSIVE movement!
The break down of society, the take over of the federal government, which is supposed to be small and rather unintrusive.
The progressives had to get rid of God first, then start with the revisionist history to indoctrinate our children in the Quasi-socialist school system.
We need to take back the country, the rule of man is an abomination!
The rule of god is the founding law of this country. No social justice crap!
EQUAL JUSTICE!
No COLLECTIVE SALVATION!
Individual Salvation!
It's all about the one, the individual!
You are the leader of your destiny, there is nothing guaranteed in life, just death and taxes!
Wake up America, get your children and throw away the chains that schackle them today into the slavery of progressive mind control, the lamest excuse of all, social media, that is brain rot through an APPLE no less!
This generation cannot even think for itself, let alone put together a coherent thought and relay it to someone above the age of 20!
God help us!
Jerry
You can thank George Soros for that.......
Regressives of the world Unite!
only one word for such a prophetic post,... Fabulous !
:-()-
C.R.E.A.M. - Cash rules everything around us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e69laCvKxEw
Asset price histories -- serial bubbles -- kept out of sight to severely FOOL you.
See "US$ US$ US$" here:
http://www.atheistrev.com/
Repudiation, Independence, & Severability
Tocqueville abbreviated: Government is a ponzi scheme, legitimized by a majority of one generation taxing future generations with debt, which lasts until a subsequent generation declares independence, which is triggered by mandatory participation, martial law by fiat, ending one cycle and beginning another in the misdirection of war. The only thing that changes is the mechanism of agency that defines the majority, which always devolves into tyranny.
The empire has racked up $600T, $100T since the crash, in liabilities it cannot meet, and debt jubilees don’t work because they don’t alter the structure, beliefs, and associated habits of the majority that created all that gravity. There are many ways to bid out the solution, but the most effective is to let government do it for you. When the majority gets tired of throwing money down that rat hole, count what it spent in the attempt to prime the pump since the system crashed out.
The doctors have known the metabolic pathway to the current outcome since the inception of Coke and its replacement of cocaine with sugar, both addictive toxins to humans, which did not consume them in quantities during DNA development. As anyone born before WWII learned in grade school and every pre-med student learns in biochemistry today, carbohydrates burn in the fire of sugar, triggered by muscle activity, and excess sugar is converted to fat for storage in hibernation. You can correct the disease rates of intelligent children in real time, but not those of the majority.
Take a look at the data. Children not raised in wedlock cannot or will not provide for the retirement needs of previous generations, the entitlement system is already cash negative, the surplus funds have been spent, and the boomer wave is rolling over, which is why the self-serving hippies are more tyrannical than the predecessors they rested leadership from, hence Jerry Brown & his republican mirrors.
Everything in the universe is a bomb, with exponential diffusion. What keeps nature in check is the relatively permeable, symbiotic system associations. Empires are closed systems. If you want to see where the problem began, travel back down the slope of viral human replication.
The empire repudiates debt immediately at the legacy level. Take a look at purchasing power and its components in each empire income event horizon. The recognition of repudiation is relative to its misdirection as the Fed translates relative 0 along the number line with relative interest rates in the derivative recognition event horizons, fed with credit in a positive feedback loop to slow time and maintain the status quo.
The monetarists reward backwardization right up until nature revolts against viral human replication. That’s History. Now, every corporation is issuing debt, in a shell game to hide the 800lb pea. California is just better at it than most.
You push a boulder up a hill to a cliff, and drop it on a seesaw (or wind the spring incrementally in a catapult) where another boulder or rock awaits lift-off. The boulder is a battery, stored energy, just before it goes over the cliff. You need a battery, divine providence, to issue currency.
Apple is not going to pick $600T. Apple destroys wealth. Take a look at the subsidies in its supply, distribution, and finance channels. Where is energy coming from and where is it going relative to the demographic currency problem?
What you know is that the universe has more than ample current to solve the problem, but it has a price. You need a motor that will pick that $600T gravitational depression, the universe and the earth for that matter are infinitely bigger than the empire, and it is the limits of false assumptions in the rule of human law, in the form of government preemption over individual sovereignty to drive its gravity, that prevents recognition of a natural solution.
The solution is always to provide a neutral path for nature to take its course, but which course depends upon where you want to go. Democracy is both the problem and the solution, because it is a fusion/fission reactor. Because the majority is stupid enough to consume 2 cups of sugar daily means that everyone else must subsidize their stupidity?
The Internet makes the building revolve around the elevator. Employ it to build the next system. If the next bridge is not complete and the one to follow designed by the time tyranny gets its grip, you have no one to blame but yourself. Legacy and its majority cannot exist without relatively free money. Feed it to the extent you require gravity to place your development into orbit.
The looking glass is the vortex. If money is your bag, place a gate in each event horizon just beyond the perception of the empire and wire them up.
Never, never be afraid to do what’s right…Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. MLK
and the boomer wave is rolling over, which is why the self-serving hippies are more tyrannical than the predecessors they rested leadership from, hence Jerry Brown & his republican mirrors.
Your analogy sucks.
I am SICK and TIRED of you people(you know who you are), LUMPING all Boomers into the same category, as the FEW who were/still totally out of control,and were the dope smoking, free sex part of a HUGE segment of the poulation.
98% of which did NOT participate in any of this shit you broad brush all of them with.
Keep it real you cannot blame several generations for this debacle, we are victims just like the rest of the 99%er's.Even more so as we have invested tons more dollars/years into a defunct system than you.
I am a boomer. Yes, the momentum of History sucks. You'll have that.
If you look, you will see that the hippie hypocrites took power.
And yes, the data clearly demonstrates that the boomers let this thing get out of hand. All they have to do to correct it is reduce rents to intelligent children.
The 99er's avoiding responsibility are not 99%, and they are victims of their own stupidity.
By several orders of magnitude, I have more invested than you.
Beware what you wish for.
Most agree the Financial Crisis and the "fixes" hence are intentional designed to collapse everything and find a new age savior.
All these currencies are being imploded to herald a new currency controlled by an unelected few not subject to law.
The emerging BRIC development bank might be the Pepsi to the Fed's Coke, but think of a cashless society denominated in New Dollars. Think of it because the so-called elites are.
Even the college educated in the West will be living in a prison of Facebook, TV's watching you, Total Information Awareness, and the banks controlling ALL wealth and land-lording a feudal Amerika.
Drop out. Ignore the police and the myriad of "laws" they capriciously enforce - mostly to collect taxes.
The Republic is broken. Our representatives and their staffs are crooks on a timer. Everything is for sale. A Citizen is no more valued than an alien (less in fact because a Citizen demands their rights - a slave knows their place.)
Burn your money. Its a symbol of our tyranny.
Want to be a true revolutionary in this age?
Fight the power.
Stop using their fake money.
Grow your own food.
Terrific articles T. D. I look forward to part III. Thank you!
Some days like today, when I am truly disgusted with the way our country has turned out, I wonder why we don't just call our system what it is-Closet Communism. Think about how many people are supported directly by the government-the bottom 40-50%, the 10-15% who work directly for the government, and the top 1%. Most of the rest have "free market" jobs that none the less are directly or indirectly dependant upon a government subsidy in some shape or form.
There's no saving the current system.
Government thugz in their SUVz!!
While I agree with the factual content of the first two segments, what I do not accept is that this is all to be pinned on Wall Street and bankers. It seems to me these institutions are mere 'front men' (set to take the fall) for those truly operating from behind the curtain. Those behind the curtain who are yet again 'orchestrating' yet another 'crisis' in order to further centralize their control and power, utilizing 'fear' to capture the true 'holy grail.' The human mind. Time will tell, however, whether I am right or not will be revealed in what 'solutions' are offered and ultimately accepted as the perviable 'fix.' All roads lead to Rome.
Funny how your Great Depression ended in 1940.....wonder if that had anything to do with weapons orders from Britain and France and oil exports to Britain......just think how Britain bankrupted itself to end the US Depression selling off its US assets, its gold, and having to borrow 50% GDP in 1948 as Marshall Aid plus a 50 year loan.
The British Empire dissolved itself to borrow from the US to find another useless war which ended up with rationing until 1954 and currency controls until 1979. Wow, Greece should take a leaf out of that book - Churchill bankrupted Britain and bailed out his mother's homeland. The only thing to exceed that Big Spend was gordon Brown aving Britain's Offshore Banks in 2007
1. Not much coverage of Fukishima in the Media.Looks very much like a planned blackout of this event. Question: Why?
2.Come Summertime,Spain,heat,sangria,high youth unemployment=> fun in the streets!
3.Something tells me we are not going to make it to Xmas with this model,war or no war....
4.Whatever happened to mark to market? It worked for thousands of years...
5.It will only take one large European bank to tumble and this counter-party chain of nonsense will explode.
6.Tourism has always been a nice little cash cow,but tourists avoid the tear gassed areas and do their shopping elsewheres.
Wait for it , it will come ...
Explain real quick for me why the Israeli government wanted to attack their biggest supporter?
"Explain real quick for me why the Israeli government wanted to attack their biggest supporter?"
Which time?
to decieve them into fighting wars for them they could not wage themseves.
collapses of economies/currencies are very boring/slow in the preparation stage ( yes, we are in the shit right now...) but when they start unfolding for real then everything happen REALLY, REALLY faster than you could imagine... so get ready now for the SHTF moment aka final "coupe de théatre" of this corrupt ruling class
Well that really puts a stick in my notion this was going to be fun.
In 105 BC, the temples of Tolosa were plundered by Quintus Servilius Caepio, at the time a General leading one of two Roman forces against the Germanic tribes. The treasure was reported to consist of 50,000 fifteen-pound bars of gold and 10,000 fifteen-pound bars of silver. Ceapio sent this massive amount of treasure to Rome under heavy guard, but en route the convoy was attacked, reputedly by Caepio's hirelings and only the silver made it to Rome. The gold disappeared, never to be seen again, though it was common knowledge that Ceapio had stolen it, and street doggerel and songs alluded to it.
Excellent piece, really had me thinking the last few days after reading part one, looking forward to the third installment.
Do we really consider this evolution?
Native Americans have a twenty thousand year old culture and they never built one jail.
In the spirit of the real Tyler, where is humanities sterility switch? I'll throw it.
I'm a small family business man. I do just enough work to pay the bills and that's it. I don't want to hire anyone, I want to keep my taxes low, and I take more time off for myself because they can't tax me NOT WORKING.
I could take on lots of work, but I'd rather have time for myself and my family.
There is no point and trying to take it to the next level.
Do just enough to get by until the government changes their attitude about small business. I got food, shelter, and clothing, and SKILLS. I'm content with that.