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A Modern Day Worker Revolt
In a stunning and shocking turn of events at Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine in South Africa, Reuters shows this extremely graphic clip of police opening fire on striking miners. A Reuters cameraman says he saw at least seven bodies after the shooting, which occurred when police laying out barricades of barbed wire were outflanked by some of an estimated 3,000 miners massed on a rocky outcrop near the mine, northwest of Johannesburg. Marx is not dead. In fact, far from it.
and Via Bloomberg BusinessWeek:
Lonmin Plc (LMI) slumped in London trading after saying Chief Executive Officer Ian Farmer was hospitalized with an illness and it may miss output goals following a violent strike. South African press photographs showed at least 10 people dead today as police opened fire on armed miners.
A six-day work stoppage at Lonmin’s Marikana operations in South Africa’s North West province has resulted in rioting, and fatalities rose today as police moved in to disperse protesters, Johannesburg’s eNews channel reported. Lonmin also issued a statement saying Farmer had a “serious illness” and Chairman Roger Phillimore will take charge of the executive committee.
Farmer’s hospitalization gives Lonmin “a lot of problems,” Carole Ferguson, an analyst at Fairfax IS Ltd., said by telephone from London. Farmer has a “hands-on role” where the company has its operations, she said.
Lonmin, the third-biggest platinum miner, has lost metals output equivalent to 15,000 ounces of platinum at Marikana since rock-drill operators downed tools on Aug. 10, the Johannesburg- based company said in a separate statement. The workers, many of whom have camped out near the site, have been issued with an ultimatum to return by tomorrow or face dismissal, it said.
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USSA? I thought this was the Homeland
Dies ist 'Vaterland'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_97qEJ2Raw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZR9SA5pOg
How does that manifest itself? What group of workers do you picture striking and what part of the govt comes in firing. Not saying it couldn't happen... I'm curious how you see it unfolding.
Maybe something like this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
Sure is a good thing those striking miners had the Second Amendment to back them up. They couldn't have won without it. Oh wait ... They got crushed in spite of the Second Amendment. Imagine that.
Personally I think it will be the poor who are put down. When the welfare checks stop coming because the system blows up the poor are going to be hurt the worst. That is who the wealthiest will need protection from.
That I can see... But I don't think ludlow could happen today. That's why we off shore labor. But when welfare dries up... Look out.
Do you anticipate some kind of problem with Bernanke's printer?
Great, I'll be able to buy one loaf of bread with a months worth of EBT card
One possible scenario I see unfolding is riots over race. The deliberate race-baiting by many officials and the one sided reporting of white on black verses black on white violence will eventually come to critical mass. Think Rodney King on steroids.
The easiest way to disarm a population is to have them shoot each other, then when there are significant numbers of dead or dying, come in with martial law and sweep for firearms. The JHP rounds are for when it's required or even desired to be up close and personal. Again, just IMHO.
and body bags
Actually, it makes no sense. If you have crowd control, riots, etc, you want shotgun and rifle rounds. These buys are by people who watched the Matix too much, hollow points are close range rounds only. I think someone is upping ammo buys to push the price up for everyone else. Buy .223, 12 guage rounds, or 5.66 rounds in the quantity, and their serious. It's like the .357 rounds they bought, who the fuck do they think they are, Dirty Harry? This won't come to America, people in America can shoot back.... with rifles. Pistols are for fighting your way back to the rifle.
If you have to fight your way back to your rifle, you've already lost.
I think you've read too much and experienced too little.
By the way, Dirty Harry used a .44 Magnum, not a .357 Magnum, and the government purchases of "357" are actually 357 SIG, a totally different cartridge used in semiauto pistols, not revolvers.
If they were trying to up the price, they would be clearing out Walmarts of practice ammo and banning online sales, not placing direct orders for JHP ammo made by one single company.
I don't think it will be like that. more like a group of 7-10 with shotguns and pistols, stack left/right as called for, in full armor, at 3AM. Think - Night of the Long Knives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NLV24qTnlg
This could have been some payback by those white cops:
Murder Of White SA Farmers
Continues - 1334 Slaughtered To Date
ttp://rense.com/general28/murd.htmA few police in the US are itching to beat up people and/or shoot them. Bottled-up rage.
Like the police beat up some occupy Wall Streeters,
At one time the government feared it's people, now the people fear the government.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/opinion/ci_21311174
-1 for the link. Don't show up for work that day, and let the people have their day. The fact that police will support the system that is cutting their pensions, benefits, staff, and rights like the rest of us is amazing.
I'd like to meet dsale Toussaint in a dark alley. The guy who wrote is a stooge! A puppet with a master!
At least in my city, the police absolutely see the public as something to suppress and put down. They regularly shoot people under shady circumstances and no one is ever disciplined for it. I'm not sure who they think they serve other than the department itself.
Unfortunately, I see it as becoming the new norm. If you are in a situation where there are riot "police" without name tags or identification, bail out quickly as they are the shoot with impunity variety. IMHO.
~FUBAR~
Yep, FUBAR.
coming soon to a country near you
They would make a great NYPD copper...
profit for people
Porn for US police.
The miners didn't look armed to me.
you make them armed. shot them and drop a rifle in his hands when hes dead. look, see, he's armed
Sorry, I was watching the VIDEO and didn't see that !
These harmless Communist have been necklacing and machete whacking fellow miners ! These goons are the new union blessed by the new president of SA ! If you want to know more about him .... study Mugabe !
trashed you because your a gay, a gay commy....sorry....
The new Commie union doesn't want to be bothered with voting the old union leaders out ! This is the SA president taking over with mobs .... next step is expropriation a la Mugabe !
There were probably three times the number of armed police officers to the dozen guys getting shot to death.
This was murder.
Son of a f**king bitch.
Actually it was suicide.
A completely stupid move that could only end the way it did.
Charging superior numbers with auto weapons is wonton stupidity.
I wonder, could you ever get to a place so horrible that a quick death by rifle seemed like a better option than watching your children starve? Unimaginable, right?
And what would you have done if you were a cop there? Wake up you muppet stick! This isn't race or goveernment vs the people. This is Africa. This is the reality of life there. This is page 4 of newspapers there because people aren't flaming liberal morons. IF you charge at armed cops possibly with guns (who guess what: have families and are probably just trying to stay alive) then don't cry when you get shot.
That would never happen in the good old U.S.S.A... the politicians are doing everything in their power to protect our gun rights. Hell I heard homeland security even bought a little over a billion rounds of hollow point ammo to "disburse"amongst the people.
I'm guessing (with no technical knowledge at all) that those hollow-point rounds would be useful for 3AM house-to-house double-tapping of "dissidents" (ie. gold owners, gun owners, TPs, OWCs, ZHs, etc) in an overnight nationwide sweep by the combined forces of military, police, TSA, DHS, etc, etc.
Thoughts from the ammo experts?
Police-small penis/big gun
"Happiness is a warm gun"
"police opened fire on armed miners"
Armed with what? Pitch forks?! I didn't see a single firearm on their side.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DzcOCyHDqc
"armed with machetes and sticks"
Was that Corzine I saw picking their pockets?
Looked more like Ben Lawsky to me.
There are truly some ignorant statements on here. "Don't go to work at the mines", "Peaceful protests"??? These are modern day slaves. They need to work to survive and they need to squeeze the man in order to do so. You will see more and more of this as food prices continue to rise all due to lack of infrastructure. This video really makes the monarch and financial oligarchs in London seem desperate.
Why should anyone have to "squeeze" anyone else? There are no classes, just people who look for effective nonviolent means by which to succeed and those who don't.
China will take over Africa, and they will destroy any blacks in their way of land and resources. China destroyed 50-100 million of their own under Mao. Do you think they will hesitate for a second to murder hundreds of millions of Africans?!?
Zambian miners kill Chinese manager during pay protesthttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19135435
Zambia Drops Case of Shooting by Chinese Mine Bosses
http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10830
By Barry Bearak
New York Times
4 April 2011
JOHANNESBURG - In what could be a politically explosive decision, prosecutors in Zambia have decided not to pursue a case against two Chinese supervisors who shot 13 coal miners last year during a wage protest, the managers' lawyer said Monday.
The episode, which occurred at the Chinese-owned Collum Coal Mine on Oct. 15, was viewed as an outrage by many Zambians who resent the enormous economic influence China has over their country.
At the time, the government said the shootings, none of which were fatal, would be vigorously investigated. Prosecutors arrested the two Chinese supervisors - Xiao Lishan and Wu Jiuhua - and charged them with attempted murder, but many civic leaders predicted a whitewash.
Chinese investment in Zambia amounts to more than $1 billion a year, according to the government of the impoverished but mineral-rich country in southern Africa. Most new construction involves Chinese-run companies...................
China is currrently paying for resources in Africa. The U. S. is stealing them just as in Afghanistan! Wake up and smell the poppies please!
Poppies will put them to sleep. It's snow that you'll want by the graces of Glinda the good witch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG2keYgBiZc
Everyone takes their shot at Africa, and everyone loses. It's like the Stalingrad for fledgling empires.
South Africa has turned into an absolute mess...Not that I have room to talk, I'm an American.
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"South Africa has turned into an absolute mess"
Now it matches the rest of the continent.
Self defense .... if that necklacing horde was coming at you .... you would have opened fire too ! SA is toast unless they do a lot more of this .... that or Zimbabwefication ? Monedas 1929 Comedy Jihad Decision Time Is Upon Us
Marxism, led by Nelson Mandela and his worshippers in Washington, DC, London, and Hollywood, eliminated Rhodesia and South Africa. Now it is simply doing what it does best, murder and pillage.
I just watched men die or be crippled in an instant. Because of a commodity supply bottleneck.
Just let the fucking price go up already you gotdamn cowards.
any word is Goldman is short of PAL
wait until they tell us they are long again.
Yep, even the lowest of workers know the fix is (has been) in
those bastard miners were probably looking for enough money to eat 2 times a day
biological androids inhabiting a NWO prison planet
http://www.chron.com/business/article/AP-IMPACT-CO2-emissions-in-US-drop-to-20-year-low-3793420.php
So much for global warming lol
its a fucking free for all
and the NWO labs are pumping all that fraud cash in
in 20 years the world will be chinese, hell were all already chinese who the fuck am i even kidding
RACE YOU TO THE BOTTOM FOLKS
SA Molly Maguires. Those cops better hope they don't live in the same hood.
Send in some unemployed British blokes to dig up the stuff which benefits only the Royals and her subjects anyway. For sure they'd be all over that "opportunity" to dig in the South African dirt and earning pennies when Her Royal Behindness is shoving just another piece of cake in her face.
That IS the reality of modern day colonialism, imperialism and oppression.
you are already Indonesian and dont even know it round eye
take a look in the mirror ZeroHedglians, its up to you to survive this shit because you can see the forest and arent just caught up in the meticulous analysis of this or that tree.
And now, No. 1, The Larch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug8nHaelWtc
Like the Rockefellers did to striking workers 150 years ago.
absolutely, a new gilded age, only this time global
pervasive and with a technocratic overlay
kleptocratic plutocracy: RULE BY ELITE THIEVES
Don't forget Henry Ford who had them beat to shit and did the union movement the biggest favor ever.
Yeah, zero sympathy for the dead. They charged dozens and dozens of police with their guns raised and aimed at them - what other possible scenario could have played out? The union chose violence, it will be met with violence. Sometimes throughout history that works to get what the unions want, but not without sacrificing a few union members here and there - as long as they feel it is worth it, then I feel it is their choice and have no sympathy either way. If you're going to attack an armed force and expect to survive AND win, leave the flags at home and bring guns next time.
Those miners didn't look like they had enough pretty polly between the lot of them to purchase a slingshot, let alone a loaded firearm. So in that case I guess they should just suck it up and die as wage slaves lining someone else's pockets?
Some might argue that at a certain point there are things that seem worse than death...
Besides that, what makes you so certain the miners weren't in the process of being 'kettled'? Isn't that a police flatbed loaded with barbed wire I see?
Dont worry Im sure Jesus will come save us from Planet Tyranny....uh huh.
He already came to save us. Consider yourself lucky that He died for all sins. If you accept that, it is.
But I wouldn't mind if He sped up the process a bit and start the Armageddon already. How many more times do we have to witness the fallacies of men? His timing, I guess.
"Somewhere in Africa, somewhere in Rome,People are sleeping awake in their homes.Waiting for shepherds to attend to their sheep,Their disappointments they're piled in a corner....Turn on the sets and then wait for the show. Will He have blonde hair, and what will He know? Will He tell jokes, or will He make us cry? If we write to Him will He send back a reply?"-The Stranglers
Even if He did turn up the vast majority of you supposed 'believers' wouldn't accept Him anyways for whatever reason, and would again turn your backs on Him as He was crucified a second time.
The new Communist union sacrificed some of their workers to get a story ! Suicide strikers ! Terrorists ! Dupes ! You know their union leaders told them they wouldn't be fired on ! A lot of naive, bleeding heart socialism breaking out around here !
Yeah!
we all know how it is,
"...if you're not a lib in your twenties you got no heart, but if you're not conservative by thirty, you got no brains!... So let's forget the 'Dudely Damn Do Right' crap because out here it's kill yer parents, fuck your friends, and HAVE A NICE DAY!"-Kevin Spacey
Three dozen fully automatic assault rifles against probably one handgun.
Horrible situation!!
We have friends in SOuth Africa who are absolutely afraid to get out of their house...
In any case-you can buy "PAL" who is based in Canada and may benefit from rising Palladium prices....
...that just made me cry.
P.S. How are you doing MikeMcGSpot? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/41-years-after-death-gold-standard-look-how-we-ended-economic-purgatory?page=2 ...did you have some new comment that you would like to share? I know I can't wait to hear it.
P.S.S. ...ironic to have been posting such comments around the time people were being slaughtered huh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbmwsQUFlFk
...and to all you Mr. Down Arrows, I'm calling your dusty asses out on this one. I dare you to post a response, your silence holds you in contempt.
Let me preface my comment by stating that this obviously was a massacre.
However, what is the back story? Were the miners who charged the police armed? Had there been violence already in this strike?
Some of you write as if it's all peace and love. Even in the USA, in Detroit and its surroundings, unions often used severe violence to get their way. It was kept quiet, but for example, auto dealers that opened on Saturdays were, at one time, firebombed in addition to being blacklisted. Mining towns throughout the US had repeated violence for more than a century, and even today someone who protests coal mining in West Virginia is risking their health if not their life (ironically, at risk from BOTH the miners and the mine owners).
While I'm not aware of S. Africa caring about dealership hours, it is an incredibly violent and scary place, far beyond what most people in the US are used to (including most people in Detroit). A response that's excessive in a more peaceful society might be essential in a more violent society.
Nothing on http://edition.cnn.com/. What a controlled world we are.
Effect on price of platinum? Effect on mine production? Are there other people lined up to work in the mine?
If I were one of the cops I would have been scared shitless to see 3,000 angry miners coming at me, probably would have pulled the trigger too.
I'm not saying it is right.
The bigger question to ask is who put the miners and the police in that situation where tragedy occurred?
Why are the miners striking and why are the police there confronting them?
What government/corporate collusion brought about this human tragedy?
And those "police" call themselves human beings. What is this planet turning into? I am afraid to ask.
Planet of the Subhumans.
On both sides of the aisle.
Reuters said they were armed with machetes and sticks. The police were outflanked by 3,000 strikers. It appears the strikers pushed forward, charged if you will. What should the police do? Wait to do hand to hand combat and strip the machetes? 400 strikers vs 40 for 50 cops? Sad to say it occurs, but global protocol says use lethal force, European Human Rights commision approved and certified. You don't sign up to be a martyr in most police forces.
That's exactly what I thought. Everyone here cries murder and whines about the horribe massacre but they don't know how vastly outnumbered the officers were. And, in SA, you don't try to talk to rioters - they have a totally different attitude.
TIA.
OMG, you are tots right: those workers aren't human beings.
"The best way to avoid a fight is don't be there". (in reference to the cops)
Sensei in Karate Kid
Poor tactics on the Police.Could of returned or left till numbers were in parity or more in number.Theres no shame in re organizing or retreat.
Let's see them manipulate the market when the stuff isn't being pulled out of the ground.
Shit. That's way more efficient to restore "ORDER" than using fucking drones, which costs more than $60 million a piece.
The formation of those officers looks scary, it looks like they could pop each others head off . Man, how disorganized. Don't fucking point a gun when you have officers almost direcly in front of you. That white guy screaming "cease fire", I could almost bet someone would shoot his hand off. He seems to know it and almost ducks for cover with the officers shooting behind him.
It really looks like the officers were in panic mode. I don't think this small group seen in the vid was what they were so scared of.
Well, TIA. It will never really end.
Most conservatives in the US don't feel sorry for dead union workers.
fuck off asshole.
I just call it like I see it. The conservatives just believe more gun ownership is the answer, as if they would have done the strikers any good. I could care less if you disagree with me. I'll change my mind when I see conservatives here up for union rights.
Until then you can go to hell.
"Police moved in to disperse protestors".....
Why?
People should be free to protest.
Waiting for AnAnonymousAsshole to blame this police-state oppression and the tragically unnecessary deaths of these strikers on "South African US Citizenism".
It is raining this morning when I was hoping for clear weather, dammit!
I blame the unwelcome precipitation on climatic US Citizenism.
Is el Ninio a US citizenism or a Reconquistadorial citizenism?
it had to be done by noon the 5 day test was on
Greedy capitalists created unions with their treatment of workers....now they mad there are unions. How ironic
....coming soon to an American town near you!
I was wondering why I only got (-7) for my last post. I guess everyone is here. Didn't I say the angry and the frstrated were the first victoms?
There's no need to hate the cops, they are as much pawns as the dead miners.
Sticks, stones and guns are not the tools to fix the injustice, ballot booths are.
November is just around the corner, do the right thing.
"do the right thing."
Indeed. Buy ammo!
Put your money where your mouth is and stop posting bs:)
What you call "bs" some call "tyranny"!
Tuco
You don't need money to vote and I do contribute to causes.
Just curious, "Broken Arrow", have you been through one of those exercise? I’m referring to the Air Force exercises.
Well this would explain the move in Pt today....
SWC is still looking very cheap...
Violent and corrupt police in South Africa? How could that be?
Textbook example of a blood-sucking kleptocracy easily surviving even right through the establishment of "true democracy" and "freedom" for the masses. It matters not the creed or gender or melanin content of the people in power, they'll do anything for anyone as long as they get to keep that power.
Take a look at the global well to do:
CONTEMPORIST - http://bit.ly/PgEhj0
And their numerous SA crash pads:
Montrose House by SAOTA – Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen » CONTEMPORIST - http://bit.ly/PgEnH9
Ber House by Nico van der Meulen Architects » CONTEMPORIST - http://bit.ly/PgExyv
Nettleton 198 by Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects » CONTEMPORIST - http://bit.ly/PgEF0R
Looks like they are all doing well on the oceanfront properties.
How many tanks and guns between them and these rioters?
Why were the miners armed?
Were they striking, or did they mean to commit violent crimes (e.g. against scabs) or acts of sabotage?
If you and your friends were surrounded by a threatening mob wouldn't you shoot too?
Why -1 me? Am I missing something?
I'm all for workers' rights, but being on property where they aren't allowed and attacking people with sticks and machette's isn't one of them.
This sounds like a win for the free market - comprising voluntary, peaceful exchanges - against violent attempts to undermine it.
Bingo. The strikers shut down production, resulting in a loss of 15000 oz of platinum production to date. And of course lost production is also lost tax revenue, so government has a stake in this. The strikers are armed to prevent the mine owners from having them removed. Now the mine is about to replace them, and my guess is that the barracades being erected by the police are to allow production to commence and for access to production by new hires, something the strikers see as the last straw. I assume that the strikers were pereturbed enough at that development to charge the police in a last-ditch effort to stop the barracade.
The point of a strike should be to underscore to management the value of each individual worker in solidarity with the group; that the one is irreplaceable because all are irreplaceable (within a reasonable time frame). Armed strikers are mere extortionists and highway robbers. Anyone can get anything from anybody with enough force, and get shot at by the cops for their trouble.
Was the mine justly acquired private property or the result of crony favoritism?
Might this modern method of repressing worker's revolts have anyhthing to do with why Occuppy hasn't been occupying anything since the summer started?
Maybe the legacy media can stop talking about the "atrocities" in Syria for 5 minutes in order to show this video?
I hope no one from Caterpillar sees this.
The cops were promised some mine shares. Promised.
once they decided to move forward, if thats what they actually did.......then all 3000 needed to stick together and rush the killers, the guns dont work as good from 1 inch away
Why are the armed "strikers" advancing on police?
What were they thinking???
Why not just strike and hold a picket sign?
I'm pretty sure a gun works really, really well from 1" away. The problem is that when your enemy can reach it, he can also take it...
We need the platinum for the catalytic converters in our cars and pick-ups.
Arbeit Macht Frei!
The article mentioned something about the police being outflanked. Is it my imagination or did anyone else NOT see any outflanking going on? To me it looked more like a direct assault without any defenders looking to their right or left, but I can't be sure.
40-50 defenders with full auto weapons and vehicles against 3000 miners. That kind of math works out for me to be a potential massacre.
"Marx is not dead. In fact, far from it."
Who wrote that and why?
Editing to say: What is meant by that?
I think it means that it's exploitative to not allow people to roam around with sticks and machettes and charge at police.
Not sure what you mean but reading your post 5X's not sure why someone would give a red arrow.
Some kiddies here I see. Go AWOL from day care? Go back and get your diaper changed. BTW red arrow all you want SERF.
Capitalism is not a forgone conclusion, armed revolt of the workers is always a possiblity
iv'e been wondering that same thing, odd.
as far as i know that is a privately owned
mine? and ...
the owner appears to be hiring?
https://lonmin.ats.hrsmart.com/cgi-bin/a/alljobs.cgi?qty=25&order=jobsta... DESC
.
i'm not being cynical, it is true, so let's
blame marx.
one thing, these are not the first casualties
associated with this mine, or other similar,
nor the first casualties associated with this
strike. why strike? the miners are just lazy
marxists? i remain confused
That's what bothers me. Are TPTB just labeling anyone who protest working conditions as socialist, marxist, communists, or anyone who the general population will find negative? Haven't we had enough of this propagander? If it be proven, ok, but just to sway public opinion, that's pure evil. Especially when lives are at stake.
labor and working people are the
feedstock of capital as the cronies
perceive the potential playing field.
that is why they (cronies) are morons, regardless
how smart they think they are, and doomed
to fail in any leadership role.
i think marx actually said something like
that.
odd
now i think i get it ...
" workers unite " .....
there is the thing.
No one has the right to force me to work.
No one has the right to force me to provide them with a job.
No one has the right to prevent me from hiring someone else.
No one has the right to threaten or take my life unless i'm doing the same to them.
I just want to know when bankers and traders start to do this when boards don't give out their bonuses.
You will see many more occurrences of this (because it will grab broad media attention) before the scales tip.
At some point, 3000 miners will realize that they are 3000 MINERS against what, a couple dozen cops? Maybe a hundred? LOL..
THAT, my friend, will be the revolution which will not be televised.
I think there were far too few cops and they weren't properly equipped with riot gear (e.g. clubs, shields, and gas grenades).
They sadly had no choice but to use lethal force to effect the eviction of the armed mob.
You are spot on. The people who don't see the other side of the coin on this I can say with 100% certainty, have never been to South Africa and have probably never left the comfort of the small town.
So................. long platinum?
stunned, shocked, where? new empire same as the old...
Home Economics, Space Travel, Currency, & Addiction
So, (can I do that?) the anxious black hole center of gravity, which is externally adjusted, to keep time, determines the orbital structure…
If you have been paying attention, you now see the empire price fulcrum. You have the speculative price of an auto and the supply side price, what is the demand side price?
Looking at all levels of government finance, what does the demand side price of travel tell you about how far government must contract as a % of GDP to re-boot the economy? What is the effect of delay?
Can economic ignition be directed from the global, federal, or state level? What must communities do? Can it be done under present constitutional order? What must be done with non-performing capital?
What do the birds and bees do? What is nature telling you? How does the electron appear in many places at the same time? Why does the cat have multiple lives? What is space travel? How do you orbit a vehicle? What is currency?
Empire labels are designed to misdirect, ac into dc, and are employed by dc robots. If a robot calls you a slut, are you a slut? Choose your own course, to adjust your distance, as you glide by.
If you look back through the threads, you will see that the majority response to my input has been some kind of irrational empire label, with traces of cogent response, and those that followed my investment advice made substantial returns, in a time when the objective was to lose less than others, as the circles of idle gossip collapsed from below.
Look at the boxes from the outside in and the inside out. The choice to be a robot is valid, Historically. The central bankers have trapped themselves in gold, again.
Where are the fundamentals of human choice on the pendulum swing? Is it moving in the direction of quality or quantity? What is happening at the margin?
The addicted robots are throwing up on their keyboards for a reason. Winning a rigged game, or laughing at others, in a group, waiting for them to lose as well, is not rocket science. It’s empire TV, for the maladroit. And the sh-show continues…
Look at the structure of domestic student loan policy versus immigration policy across the artificial borders and compare to system debt leverage, to get a midpoint to derivative exposure. What was the pension payment rate of growth when cash flow went negative and what is it now?
When you hunt the Great White Shark, expect its little cousin lizards to be nipping at your heels, as you pass through the gauntlet of dinosaurs. Keep nature in mind; the shark exists for a reason. Best to make several passes to pick up the necessary skills and plan accordingly, like an electron.
Have you been watching the various gov depts. order ammunition? NOAA? Are there any gov officers left that do not belong to the Homeland Security Complex? What happened to the Library’s stated goal of a self-governed people? Do you really think the food war benefits the middle class? Can the master robots get the slave robots to turn their guns on each other? If social cult addiction is the basis of economic activity, how do you change its course? What is the chemistry?
Given the characters running the system, their promissory note, what is their paper worth? Is JPM equity positive or underwater, relative to your position? Getting in is one thing; getting out is another. Where do you place your treasure?
RIP
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Shoot your own workers, that makes sense.
i recommend having a few .40 s&w handguns around just in case the fireworks ever start for real. there should be a few million rounds "laying" around, if you were to have trouble finding ammo.