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Hyperinflation Comes To Iran
Hyperinflation has struck again, this time at ground zero of the most sensitive geopolitical conflict in ages: Iran. EA WorldView reports:
An EA source reports that a relative in Tehran ordered a washing machine for 400,000 Toman (about $240) this week. When he went to the shop the next day, he was told that --- amidst the currency crisis and rising import costs --- the price was now 800,000 Toman (about $480). Another EA source says that the price of an item of software for a laptop computer has tripled from 50,000 Toman to 150,000 Toman within days.
And so the opportunity cost for the Ahmedinejad regime to preserve its status quo gradually grinds to zero, as the entire economy implodes (courtesy of a few strategic financially isolating decisions) making further escalation virtually inevitable, in a 100% replica of the US-planned Japanese escalation that led to the Pearl Harbor attack, and gave America the green light to enter the war.
Summary of McCollum's 1940 memo.
h/t L0gg0l
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Exactly quintago, people have this notion of Iran being a bunch of sand dunes with a couple tents on it. In reality Iran is the most developed mid east country by far. Well except for Israel, but thats a different story with the Synogogue of Satan.
The Real Iran the US Doesnt Want You to See - YouTube
To Joe 6-pack, it don't make a shit that Persians and Ay-rabs are nothing alike.
Ron Paul is off to the status quo!
Step by Step on Getting Ron Paul Elected
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UtGRHg3a8Iw
That video is hilarious (and hopefully useful), but the fact that it is even needed is tragic.
I especially liked the big guy with the I Heart guns t-shirt. There was no need for words, or bubbles, but we knew what it was about. I have great hopes for this year, maybe we will all be lucky, and RP can squeeze by. Then the hardest part will be to keep this guy alive somehow.
That is actually a very useful link JCIA.
What about Ipad 2s? Are those going up in price too? Inquiring minds want to know.
Nice time to own some of those smuggler ships that leave from Dubai for Iran loaded with iPhones and white goods.
Maybe they just bartered poorly.
Rule nr.1 in capitalisme:
Pricing = amount the idiots want to pay for it
Rule nr. 1 in marketing:
Value product at 10 times the actual value
Rule nr.1 in sales:
Don't talk about the price, just mention it in a abstract way
Rule nr.1 in banking:
Loan them the money and ask 2 x the amount back in intrest
In the end you'll probably pay 50$ for a 1$ product.
If you really had faith in your math, you'd be out there undercutting the $50 guy making a killing and getting rich.
Me? I'm still in awe whenever I wander around WalMart looking at kitchen goods. How can they ship this "Cooka-wonder-gadget" from China for $1.99, much less make it and package it, too?
I make a nice living in marketing :)
And to answer your question: they ship it in vertical filled containers and don't buy it per item but per cubic feet. Something that costs 2 dollars in the store is bought by the store for about 10 to 15 cents.
I'm a retail marketeer myself :)
You should see the production plants spitting these goods out at a rate you can't believe!
And yet you think 2 $ for it is cheap... Because you value it...
By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing...kill yourself™.
No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself.
Seriously though, if you are, do.
Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers.
Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming.
You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us.
Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself.
Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke..." there's no joke here whatsoever.
Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it.
Rid the world of your evil fucking makinations. Machi... Whatever, you know what I mean.
I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart."
Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags!
"Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing."
Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!
"Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that."
God, I'm just caught in a fucking web.
"Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..."
How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you?
"What didya do today honey?"
"Oh, we made ah, we made ah arsenic a childhood food now, goodnight." [snores] "Yeah we just said you know is your baby really too loud? You know?" [snores] "Yeah, you know the mums will love it." [snores]
Sleep like fucking children, don't ya, this is your world isn't it?
Goat Boy RIP
Bill Hicks! I was just thinking today there was a regular poster on ZH with Bill Hicks avatar I haven't seen in a while
"Those who insist that objects, activities, people or creations have objective value are unhappy jealous souls who see all human commerce as a form of exploitation in which one party must always be cheated and degraded."
-Allen Thornton
classic anarcho/libertarian solipsism loaded with non sequitors.
1. Anyone who is objective is jealous and unhappy.
2. Critics are objective.
3. All critics are jealous and unhappy.
for example, in ayn rand's utopia, subjectivity is a property rights issue and must bend to the whims of a so called individualism which is, inter alia, nothing but naive and deluded ideology.
conveniently, such arguments are never taken to their illogical conclusion.
in this circular logic, ethics becomes at once apriori and relative to the so called free-market, such that, as long as there is a market for 'it', then 'it' must be okay, for the market gods or the gods of the "jungle" have so ordained and blessed the subjective value of 'it'.
in other words, as long as there is a "free-market™®©" subjectivity is not only an end, but also a virtue in itself.
You are seriously confused, and may need to hang yourself upside down from a tree in order to clear the fog from your brain.
Ayn Rand is to "anarcho-libertarianism" what Alan Greenspan was to "free-enterrpise".....
another neo-trotskyite klepto-kommunist wolf-in-sheep's clothing, sent to Amerika to delude the masses into believing that freedom is slavery and slavery is freedom.
Now go back to yur Philosphy 101 course and learn to punch in your weight class Poindexter.
not a tall, sport. Just like to see accuracy in media. Pardon my particularism for objecting to halfwit grandstanding by junior intellects.
*note to audience....I never junk my opponents here, just concentrate on destroying their arguments. Yur move welterweight.
it is fishy. how come the dollar value of the item doubles, too??
Hyperinflation in the USA?
Not all prices - imports first & most.
Gold, by the way, not that much...
"Another EA source says that the price of an item of software for a laptop computer has tripled from 50,000 Toman to 150,000 Toman within days."
Meanwhile Pirate Bay reported a hundred percent increase in bandwidth usage.
Read the post! This isn't YOY data. This all happened in the last few days as a result of the Obama Regime's massive escalation as of New Years Day. Lovely.
Better invest is some metals. Lead underwear!
I visited Iran in the late 90's. I married few years before that other wise i could have married an Iranian girl. I swear , Iranian people are the most loveable people. At the end of the day, looser will be the people who believe this kind of MSM crap.
Iranian government might have put 100% tax on imported goods. Most of the stuff they use is made locally.
And believe it or not, the Iranian people only hate their government slightly more than the rest of the world does. The Iranian people are not the problem. The Iranian government getting nuclear weapons is a serious problem that I fully guarantee you will not be tolerated by the world. Yes, by default the US will be left with the heavy lifting here, but there are no modern nations that want Iran to have nukes, and if that means war, so it will be. This is not my opinion, this is a fact.
So Iran and the USA have something in common. Perhaps negotiations are in order?
It is too close to elections for any US military action against Iran. If the US was going to do anything, it would have done it already. Iran now has a green light for building nukes, if it wants to.
This is not fact, it is my opinion.
its great if your not getting your head cut off or a death sentance by a religous nut.
I agree with Gordon Duff! - must read!
Iran Crisis: Something Fishy Contrived? Is That the Word I am Looking For?by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
From the sound of it, the US stands ready to attack Iran any day now. Now for the funny part.
Two days ago, I took my wife down to get a replacement ID card. We go to our local Air Force Base, headquarters of the 180th Fighter Wing, more or less
the “tip of the spear” as for American air power.
This is our local boys, family to our town, this is “our” military. They are quietly home, alive and well and not relocating to the Middle East.
You can’t even count how many times they have been deployed but they aren’t deployed now.
I tend to not believe in the current crisis and the threatened attack. I have intelligence sources in most governments in the region, safely, the equal of the CIA, perhaps better. I am more “likeable” even on my grumpy days.
Back years ago, 9/11, the first thing I asked was “who makes money off this.”
By 2006, we had enough witnesses come forward we could prove our suspicions that, essentially, America’s government had fallen in 2000 and a cabal, the same that orchestrated the Afghanistan invasion, the Iraq invasion, the phony intelligence for both, those pulling the Bush/Blair “strings” planned and executed 9/11.
In the end, we have stood for years now ready to arrest Americans and Israelis and not one single Muslim. This would be the easiest criminal case in history.
more here: http://www.degaray.com/?p=1925
Don't worry the poor womans washing machine will be destroyed by a bomb in the coming months.
Don't worry the poor womans washing machine will be destroyed by an A-bomb in the coming months.
Little editing. :D
The MIC is not about doing stuff efficiently or quickly. It is about running up the tab.
Cost plus, bitchez.
I thing you mean:
The womans washing machine will be melted back into raw metal by a A-bomb in the coming months and the carbon from her vaporized body will make it a high valued metal.... Damascus was once well known for it's carvonised metal, it seems they'll be once more.
A mans got to Nuke what mans got to Nuke.
Isn't that bullish for the economy?
I just looked it up: "Escalation" in fact is a synonym for "inflation." Go figure.
Good thing they don't wash very often
Only five times a day
Right, azzhater, because Iran is so PRIMITIVE and all! Or so they want you to believe.
The Real Iran the US Doesnt Want You to See - YouTube
Good video. It's too bad more people can't see it. When people think of Iran they think of camels and mud huts.
Thats because most people, even smart people, are really just sheeple too.
by design. There are people and there are non-people. Chomsky talks a lot about this... you've got to make it so people have relative value. A bunch of "collateral damage" in an air strike is a lot more acceptable if the people are mostly brown goat herders and camel jockeys.
600,000+ German civilians were killed by Allied aerial attacks during WW2. So the Anglo American financial system isn't that picky.
that is true. But by in large, the way our media reports, there is a difference in the value of a human life based on where one lives and the color of their skin.
Agreed. How is the economic state of their country a factor in whether economic sanctions are imposed or whether they are bombed? Seems an absurd consideration.
Cyrano,
Your comment is unacceptable. Please rephrase to "Zionists made Americans kill innocent civilians" and you will get 50 green arrows.
Rather than elegant, highly civilized Persians.
Yum, yum! Talk about target rich. Bitchez!!
Well they do have camels...have a picture of my Mother on one over there. Said it was way spookier than riding a horse.
http://www.iranian.com/main/singlepage/2007/camel-race
HEADSHOT
Coming to all countries who print FIAT! Thanks to the Banksters of the World! Make sure you get your water beans and bullets. Don't forget the rope so we can hang these banksters high. SLOWLY!
Rope? Why? Is there a shortage of piano wire?
This is not going to end well...
peg to the yuan
No, everyone will peg to the SDR, and the SDR will "peg" to gold. Then they will devalue, all at once, all over the world, and pronounce themselves heroes for "fixing" everything they broke. Rinse and repeat, slowly leaching the gold out of their "gold standard" SDR.
Belarus is the fiscal hipster of the hyperinflation game though. They got there first.
"fiscal hipster"
LOL
LOL.
Little hyperinflation here, some nuclear warheads there, some global suppression on the side and before you know it you've got yourseful a full blown functioning new world order issuing a new currency due to "dire" economic conditions globally then microchipping everyone for their own safety.
I really hate watching this thing play out.
"then microchipping everyone for their own safety."
How true that is....
Revelation 13:16-18
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a MARK in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the MARK, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six
The bible...? That's probably the best example of the telephone game transitioning wording and content over time into a book that's missing many of the original books that are still held by the catholic church which won't be released. Not to mention along with scrolls that have been found and withheld on purpose from it. You're reading a well groomed, well altered version of what you're allowed to have by the church. Nothing more, nothing less. That book has also, as I said, been transitioned over time into something that probably resembles close to nothing of it's original meaning.
Besides with all the billions of galaxies and clusters and superclusters in our universe people still buy into that book and believe that there's a single deity with a son born from a virgin who he sent to our planet to die for our sins.
It blows my mind.
What blows my mind is that with all the billions of galaxies and clusters and superclusters in our universe people still believe in materialism.
What blows my mind is that a bearded chump in the 19th century sails around the Galapagos and a non-disprovable fabrication of a theory becomes gospel in classrooms around the world, despite no evidence to support it.
No evidence to support evolution except we can see it every day with our own eyes if we look. Species that reproduce on short time frames can evolve very quickly. Think anti-biotic resistant bacteria. The species has changed over time to adapt to their environment.
Strains, not species, bub. No evidence of a new species evolving from another. Anywhere. Ever. None in the fossil record. No evidence of failures, either (should be billions, no?). No answer for the irreducible complexity argument, how an eye formed, how male and female of a formerly asexual species evolved simultaneously. Shall I go on? Or shall you go back and actually study the issue?
Plenty of evidence if you actually look. But since you're quite obviously a hardcore denialist, there's fuck all reason trying to get this across to you.
Denier is the label you use when you run out of logic. Show me the evidence. I can show you tons of evidence that water freezes at 32 degrees. Show me something comparable. Answer any of the points I raised with irrefutable evidence. I'll wait.
I totally agree. There is not a single scrap of scientific evidence to support evolution. Until ZH readers can understand simple concepts such as:
1. The difference between evolution and natural selection
2. The second law of thermodynamics
3. Mathematical probability theory
4. The absolute impossibility of two symbiotic life forms simultaneously "evolving" together
5. The concept of intelligent design
I could go on and on. I love ZH, but unfortunately, many arm chair philosophers confuse a strong opinion with actual knowledge on the subject matter. I love PM's, but I know almost nothing about trading, and I don't confuse these two facts. I wish some ZH readers would stop confusing geopolitical knowledge with true scientific knowledge. Just because some religious leaders have done horrific things does not mean you can dismiss God as some fairytale.
Let me give a succint example. A ZH reader who was backpacking in the wilderness, and found an I-Pad lying under a rock, would NEVER believe that the I-Pad formed "spontaneously" out of the ground. Rather, it would be evidence that intelligent life had been there beforehand. Yet, the same ZH reader confidently asserts that complex life forms, much more complex than an I-Pad, somehow magically appeared and ALSO somehow "evolved." Show me an an evolving machine, and I will show you the DESIGNER who engineered it to "evolve."
God isn't a fairy tale. God is not different than life.
I would believe that the iPad evolved from the PC found under the other rock.
Perfect arm chair philosophy. A cast iron skillet could not evolve from a rock, let alone an I-Pod from a computer. Unless, of course, someone designed the computer to evolve. However, even this is not the case. Evolution is not natural selection. God did not design life to evolve. There is no evidence that life evolves. It is just a conjecture, initially dreamed up by Darwin to "explain" how life came into being absent a Creator, and eagerly adopted by our NWO-controlled "educational" system to control the masses. Do you mourn the death of the US Constitution? Look no further than the current socially engineered ecumenical milieu that has castrated our ability to believe in any absolute spiritual truth.
1. The difference between evolution and natural selection
Natural selection -- like sexual selection and genetic drift -- is a mechanism of evolution. The "difference" is entirely manufactured by those who have invented this imaginary line between "macro" and "micro" evolution in order to justify bronze age fairy tales. There is no line in terms of the actual mechanics; not in science anyway. It's just a matter of timescale.
2. The second law of thermodynamics
Sigh.
Not only is life not a closed system, examples of order arising from disorder are plentiful in the natural world. This persistent, ubiquitous meme is simply a function of ignorance. No physical laws are violated by the modern evolutionary synthesis.
3. Mathematical probability theory
See:
Why do people laugh at creationists? (part 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3nvH6gfrTc
4. The absolute impossibility of two symbiotic life forms simultaneously "evolving" together
Total nonsense. Link?
5. The concept of intelligent design
Is simply re-branded creationism. Pseudoscience. Not only is unintelligent design abundant in nature, but attempts by creationists to prove irreducible complexity have fallen flat. See:
The Flagellum Unspun: The Collapse of "Irreducible Complexity”
http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/design2/article.html
Answering the Biochemical Argument from Design
http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/design1/article.html
Let me give a succint example. A ZH reader who was backpacking in the wilderness, and found an I-Pad lying under a rock, would NEVER believe that the I-Pad formed "spontaneously" out of the ground.
I see one of the primary reasons for your confusion. Evolution is not a "spontaneous" process. It's an incremental, step-wise process that occurs over generations and geological timescales. Neither is natural selection a random process for that matter.
These sorts of arguments assume an all-at-once, completely random assemblage with no pre-existing structure; an assumption with no basis in reality.
Wish I had more time to debate. The short version reply is as follows:
1. Basic body structure is not controlled by DNA. Only cell structure is. Body structure is controlled by cellular information contained outside the DNA. So much for DNA "mutations" causing trans-species "evolution." Oops.
2. The whole anti-God argument is that the universe is an anamistic closed system unto itself. You are seriously contradicting your own argument. As far as life arising from "disorder," let me "disorder" just one tiny cellular function in your body, and let's see how long you survive, let alone "evolve.
3. I'll watch the video when I am not at work and get back to you.
4. Show me your link, and I'll show you mine.
5. Rebranded creationism? I agree. We used to be a lot smarter as a race. I am confused, however. If evolution is NOT something out of nothing, how did we arrive at life forms even minimally capable of "evolving?" As far as your last sentence, you obviously saved the best for last: "These sorts of arguments assume completely random assemblage with no pre-existing structure, an assumption with no basis in reality." I HAVE to ask---- IF THE "BIG BANG" IS TRUE, HOW MUCH PRE-EXISTING STRUCTURE DOES A VIOLENT EXPLOSION, WITH MORE MEGATONNAGE THAN BERNANKE CAN CREATE DOLLARS---JUST HOW MUCH "PRE-EXISTING STRUCTURE" WAS PRESENT IN THIS LANDMARK EVENT???
4.
Except that basic body structure can be altered in a lab via modification of genes responsible for that very thing. Oops. This is completely false. Who told you this?
Who said anything about "life arising"? You are confusing evolution with abiogenisis. The fact remains that the argument from the second law of thermodynamics is bogus.
Again, you confuse abiogenesis (along with origins of the universe) with evolution.
psychobilly, thanks for at least trying to explain to him
Oh goody, A Fundie! Can I keep him? I will hug him, and squeeze him, and pet him, and call him George!
You can't imagine how an entirely separate species could eventually come from a "strain" of organisms changed enough over time?
I wonder why it's possible to breed a lion with a tiger? Hmmmm....
I can imagine it, you just can't prove it.
This one's relatively new: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/first-ever-hybrid-...
I wonder if lions and tigers and all felines are evolved from a common ancestor. That would explain it. Of course we could just say God made them that way too. 6000 years ago.
they're both kitties?
but ligers are usually sterile, like mules. Neither creation or evolution can be proven to anyone else. Both should be presented as viable hypotheses in science (even though they require faith). No one was there. (except God) oops.
Show me even a simple bacterial organism "evolve" from one species to another. Evolution within species is without question. Evolution where one species "evolves" into another is entirely different. You can breed a horse and a mule too, but that doesn't change the facts about the two types of evolution.
A mule is the result of breeding a horse and a donkey. Mules are sterile. Just for info.
Entirely new proteins can be created via evolutionary processes. What exactly do you imagine the limiting factor to be here?
Nobody can "show you" the "macro" evolution of a mountain, continent, star or solar system in real time, either. This doesn't stop us from drawing scientific conclusions about their origins and evolution over geological timescales, based on the evidentiary record.
you are wise weedhopper
what blows my mind is that The Bible has contiusouly proven that it is correct in the sense that all its bold predictions keep coming true. people on this forum always ask why Israel is a state, well The Bible fortold of this action hundreds of years earlier.
I dare you to read it. if you do you will find that everything that is happening RIGHT now is fortld in The Bible.
*coles notes (The Bible states)
-there will be a dreadful economic collapse where;
-a one world order will arise with the antichrist as the savior to the world after the sever hardships
-one wolrd currency will arise (as stated originaly by you go figure)
forgot to mention that the ME drama with Russia and China is also clearly portrayed in the Bible.
Sure we can all agree though that war is coming.
Mark Carney
Save me the tedious prophesies. The good book says there is man and there will be troubles. Over and over and over.
It is comforting that there is the big guy in the sky. But is he Allah of Jehovah ? I would take either one without the anger and the burnt offerings and the murders.
For now I will take Darwin amended to Survival of the Luckiest.
It's Abraxsax, now stop your bickering.
The biggest threat to humanity has always been religion. The bible is a fairy tale that TPTB use to control you.
Correction. Although the Bible has been used to "control" us, it is definitely not a fairytale. It is by far the largest and most accurate source of archeological information possessed by man. The absolutely best means of control is always the use of partial truth. Such is the sad state of affairs involving the Bible.
I dare you to read it.
I love that comment. I always say (and am bludgeoned red here in "atheistan") that the Bible is the most often criticed book whose critics have never read it. I've called out a number of apostates here that attempt subtle sleights-of-hand and misdirections using Scripture. I get the blog version of being hung up on - no reply and a down arrow.
Keep the faith. BTW, there are hundreds of theories of the mark of the beast from your Revelation 13 reference - some compelling, some totally whack-o. I have no idea which if any will prove true, but I just suggest not investing too much in any one.
I was born and raised in a Christian family and held the faith for quite some time. I've read the bible cover to cover numerous times as this is encouraged and you pretty much have to if you're going to be part of a "real" congregation. I loved the people and continue to I just found that as I matured in life I had more questions than the bible had answers for and I began to see the corruption and just thought that maybe there was something more.
I do agree that it is remarkable some of the resemblances in passages in the bible to our current day with tsunamis, earthquakes, disasters, economic problems, wars, etc but I'm not sure I believe the entire premise that it presents in its entirety.
A whole truth is different from a partial truth and while I would never discourage anyone from believing in what they want to believe, I am also free to share my opinion so Mark I made that comment with respect to you and your position on what's happening right now. I just think there's more to life than a capital G and a monopoly on the after life at the expense of the bigger world picture.
I was born and raised in an atheist family. Go figure.
yours is a well considered reply to the "read it first" request, tekhneek.
with regards the
I find it interesting that the amrkn MIC declared war on the "weather" in 1999, has patents that relate to "taking control" of the environment, and is a sinkhole for fiat funding of the agenda(s), be it legit from taxes, or off the books, bank laundered, "war on drugs' monies. . .
it's pretty much accepted at ZH that we understand the source of "economic problems, wars, etc." - perhaps equal attention could be paid to the "weather related" issues. . .
by the way, "Even The Rothschild's Are Weather Obsessed"
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/01/31/rothschilds-buy-majority-stake-in-...
bullshit.
The Roman Catholic Church, "the church that Jesus founded". Why isn't the Pope a Rabbi then ?
Jesus didn't found it. After centuries of the Roman empire trying to stamp out Christianity, Constantine flipped course and made Christianity the state religion. For example, the statue of "Peter" in the Vatican was originally the sun god Apollo before it was co-opted. Present day "Christianity" bears little resemblance to authentic Christianity. For example, all original Christians were Jews. It took an act of God to convince the disciple Peter to "allow" gentiles to become Christians. I know I am going to get a lot of Jew-loving ZH readers agitated with this one.
Battle of the Milvian Bridge - Classic!
Tekhneek. Your original post...first part...spot on.
Second part...not so well researched. You are (still?) buying into the "well altered" versions description of events.
Read up on the Gnostic version. Is it just wild science fiction ahead of its time? Or is it the truth?
Phillip K. Dick dove right into that realm.
Things operate a specific way here on Planet Earth. Your job as a human is to find out why.
Fake mainstream christian religon *and* science are both going to be surprised in the end I bet.
Hints and clues are everywhere (geometry/music). Excellent, excellent video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOqg5bPZ0HE
"God"? Pure "consciousness". One that we can't even begin to understand.
Our "universe" was created from/by pure thought.
Jesus had to come on the scene to fix something. To bridge the gap between the incomprehensible and the "real".
To point out our situation.....
Thanks for the information. I'll check it out.
No prob. I know the Gnostic stuff gets way out there. And there are modern "new agey" fake "Gnostic" churches etc..
It's just the concepts they described that are the interesting part.
The video I linked is cool because it describes the operation of the "top level" of existence basically.
Religions always purport to describe "god" as omnipotent, but always fail at it.
An ultimate "consciousness" that everything "physical" was created from makes sense.
What that "consciousness" actually *is*...is the tough part to answer.
I don't know if we as humans are even capable of knowing the answer in our physical form.
This may have been taken into account....hence the gnostic information and Jesus.
I'm sure there was a lot of incredible information he told his followers:
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html
"77. Jesus said, "I am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attained.
Split a piece of wood; I am there.
Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."
"13. Jesus said to his disciples, "Compare me to something and tell me what I am like."
Simon Peter said to him, "You are like a just messenger."
Matthew said to him, "You are like a wise philosopher."
Thomas said to him, "Teacher, my mouth is utterly unable to say what you are like."
Jesus said, "I am not your teacher. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring that I have tended."
And he took him, and withdrew, and spoke three sayings to him. When Thomas came back to his friends they asked him, "What did Jesus say to you?"
Thomas said to them, "If I tell you one of the sayings he spoke to me, you will pick up rocks and stone me, and fire will come from the rocks and devour you."
Weird huh? So...what documents/books do you think the catholic church has relating to all this eh?
We only see a tip of the iceberg.
the Gnostic books are indeed a fascinating read, good to use when picking the thorn of the Bible from the paw of the individual. . .
there is a way of perceiving individual reality as non-dual, and the words "consciousness IS" falls in there - the concept of not-two, but one is Taoist, also has elements of Indian philosophy (advaita), and others. . .
"Consciousness is all there is"
http://www.rameshbalsekar.com/about.asp
"there is a way of perceiving individual reality as non-dual....."
Yes. I've not gone that far yet. ;)
In terms of reading *and* reality.
I've had some interesting events in my own personal space. Playing music with others can show you pieces of the puzzle.
Other creative pursuits can as well.
Hints and clues....
Speaking of that....check this out. Some interesting thoughts there:
http://www.egodeath.com/index.html
http://www.egodeath.com/DeterminismGnosticism.htm
no need to "go" as it seems to come to one, some times - a teacher once said "If you are a seeker, you will seek, and that will be your identity, seeker. Drop the identity of seeker, see what might happen."
it's all personal, in my opinion, and playing music with others, which drops the mind in favour of the intuitive space, just being, is an excellent way to see oneself as a part of a whole beingness - I both played, and worked with musicians, for years. . . music is my soul, and even now I have my "soundtrack" to my reality going. *grins*
thanks for the links. . . I'll check 'em out - here's one for you:
Bill Callaghan - Free's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dro17meH8Z4&feature=related
Jesus was one of many enlightened people to appear through the ages. Like Buddha or Mohammed.
Only one empty tomb, though.
tekhneek, this post is acually why I logged on to ZH. I can see that you have been saving that one for a while. Well, everyone can thumb me down but that was a great post. Obviously, the concept could, and likely should, be greatly expanded to cover numerous volumes of religio-political material but likely off the main ZH board. I would be interested.
If everyone pegs to the SDR and trade is settled in SDRs, then you don't need to issue a one world currency, the SDR would be the one world currency. The sheeple must not awaken.
One of Lukashenko's asslickers proposed to nominate him for economics nobel prize. No kidding read here http://telegraf.by/en/2011/07/kozik-predlagaet-dat-lukashenko-nobelevsku...
P.S. Actually, why not? Obama got nobel peace prize and started more wars, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to reward a complete economic failure?
Excellent job Tyler.
Japan was the first of what i like to call "The Ponzi Wars" You heard it here first. THE PONZI WARS. You will see this term again..
I promise..
I hate to plug them but they could get a nice washer at PC Richard for $331.17 with special financing available.
http://www.pcrichard.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=82366&parentCateg...
Yeah, but the shipping will 'kill' ya.
Just how special?
You obviously dont know what the washer is! This is energy, detergent and water garburator.
Hmmm..... Is it really HyperInflation ? Or the supply and demand ? Iranian worries about further embargo, and they gobble up stuffs. It is not the lose of faith in the currency. It is the demand higher than supply.
Iranian consumer stampede over themselves over supply.
Might even be hyper-propaganda, no?
If the want of other assets but money is higher, and increasingly so that it causes the value of currency to diminish, then that is indeed hyperinflation.
Shit, if these figures are right then it looks like we really are right on the edge of a conflict :(
Something's going to snap.
Conflict starts well before the first puch is thrown or the first bunker-buster dropped. We've been well past that "edge" for quite a spell.
$480 sounds right for a washing machine
Germany - Hyperinflation - Invaded most of Europe.
Argentina - Hyperinflation - Invaded the Falklands.
Yugoslavia - Hyperinflation - Genocide.
Iran - Hyperinflation - ??????????
1. Hyperinflation
2. ?????
3. Profit
http://j17productions.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/southpark1.jpg
Iran -- Hyperinflation ==> nuke Israel and a US aircraft carrier.
I think nuking an aircraft carrier would be what some term "excessive force." OTOH, it would eliminate any ambiguity as to intent. :D
Nuke an aircraft carrier? Why waste perfectly good nuke when you can utterly destroy an aircraft carrier with less than a million dollars worth of missiles?
Aircraft carriers became obsolete after the 2002 war games described below (Ignore the anti-Bush rhetoric and insert Obama. This is a bi-partisan issue.)
The New Pearl Harbor
By Michael E. Salla, M.A., Ph.D.
11/08/07 "ICH" -- -- -The Bush administration has covered up and ignored dissenting Pentagon war games analysis that suggests an attack on Iran’s nuclear or military facilities will lead directly to the annihilation of the Navy’s Fifth Fleet now stationed in the Persian Gulf. Lt. General Paul Van Riper led a hypothetical Persian Gulf state in the 2002 Millennium Challenge wargames that resulted in the destruction of the Fifth Fleet. His experience and conclusions regarding the vulnerability of the Fifth Fleet to an assymetrical military conflict with Iran have been ignored. Neoconservatives within the Bush administration are currently aggressively promoting a range of military actions against Iran that will culminate in it attacking the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet with sophisticated cruise anti-ship missiles. They are ignoring Van Riper’s experiences in the Millennium Challenge and how it applies to the current nuclear conflict with Iran.
You have rows of howitzers in yer front yard, don't you?
Not howitzers, just gold thieves, and they go in the back yard.
Its very funny when people quote 10 year old war games. Isn't that the point of a war game, to learn what your weaknesses are and fix them? LOL
Its very funny when people quote 10 year old war games. Isn't that the point of a war game, to learn what your weaknesses are and fix them? LOL
There's not much you can do against a low flying cruise missile. Just ask all of the people struck by ours in recent history. Ships are sitting ducks unfortunately. Many Americans apparently have this Hollywood impression that our military weapon systems are invulnerable and superior to all other nation's. It just isn't true.
If this is a well known report, then somebody wants the 5th Fleet at the bottom of the Persian Gulf and it isn't the US or the Iranians. Let's see, who else is participating in the war games?
Except, of course, they don't have any nukes.
Sorry, but that's just bad history sleuthing.
Argentina invaded the Falklands in 1982, but hyperinflation kicked in around 1989, to be followed by the ultimate currency destruction in 2001.
learning history + economics through tabloids = hyper soundbites
this is what happened do dceetah above.
Correction:
Yugoslavia - Hyperinflation - Propaganda.
Iran - Hyperinflation - Babies taken from their incubators and left on the cold floor to die.
My 3X Wheelbarrow Bull ETF is going to the moon!
may be about time to prepare your 17 - 26 year old for the draft
Did anyone believe Obama when he said they were cutting the Military budget? Did anyone believe that we would cut force? No. That was all for show.
When this shit starts (WWIII) they will say, "We were going to cut the budget, but no we can't."
Oops
"no we can't"
Deliberate or not, it's brilliant.
My 17 year old is a hearty Schnauzer. Blind in both eyes, but can navigate anything by smell. :D
The draft age in WWII was 21-45 and then subquently changed to 18-38, according to Wikipedia. You would need older people in their 30s who are college educated without kids as officers, I guess. Not sure though.
LOL, if I get drafted, that will be the ultimate hoot.
If you are the right age... give this a shot. http://www.coppermoonshinestills.com/id62.html
+1,000,000
I wouldn't pull that until right before I was deployed. I think Mitt used something similar to that to avoid vietnam. Would that be dumb not to do it right away?
Hmm.. Alma huh... rings up visions of gordon call and militias...
LOL, I'd never make it through bootcamp, lecturing the drill instructor on central banking and complaining about my back. They'd beat me to death.
HES is up 3.22%
Just sayin'