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Thanksgiving Day Open Thread
With Europe set to close shortly, it just may be the case that the relentless headline barrage of rumors, lies and other European sourced imports will cease at least for a few hours. So while we are awaiting to see what Syria and Iran's (not to mention Russia and China's) response will be to the latest Arab League 24 hour ultimatum, here is today's open thread to kill the boredom until we get a chance to express our thanks for all the selling opportunities about to unfold, and until we get to find out if one can buy that completely unnecessary 9th plasma (for 50% off because in America spending money is saving) while dumping BTPs from a WalMart store at 3am in the morning.
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Nice, Ralphie. Happy Thanksgiving.
Back to Tahrir Square on counterPunch
by esam al-amin
egypt = 1+2+3, where
these factors are working on "the transfer of power from the military to a real civilian government" and it is a bloody mess as the 6 months for the constution to be forged, adopted, and followed was up three months ago
as we take pause to consider our place in the food chain and in the the wealth of persons, families, communities, business interests & combines, and nations, and to appreciate what we have, and how cool we really aren't in some respects~~in that moment of thanksgiving, when we might lean on heaven a tad more than "normal"~~as we say "Thanks", the folks in Tahir Square are hoping for a day without tanks
Thanks slewie.
i punched up tyler's link and started reading about the arab league's 24-hour ultimatum to assad in syria [News from The Associated Press]
wowser! how about this for some ironic black swan gravy on your wild rice and tangeringe stuffing (paste)?
The Arab League already has suspended Syria's membership over the bloodshed and Syria's failure to abide by an Arab peace plan it signed.
Thursday's meeting took place in a hotel rather than at the League's headquarters in the central Tahrir Square, where there have been clashes between Egyptian security forces and protesters calling for the ruling military to step down.
#OccupyArabLeagueHQ???
http://www.infowars.com/new-food-bill-in-new-zealand-takes-away-human-right-to-grow-food/
What??? This is INSANE!! That is controlling human life.....this is very vexing.
Hey - I was wondering... didn't the indians and pilgrims give GIFTS to each other on "Thanksgiving?" If we could reinvigorate that sacred tradition, we could have a gift buying season that would stretch from Labor Day to Imbolc! I'm going to get busy writing some new carols, maybe start with the "90 Days of Christmas" or something like that.
We can start calling it Thanks-Getting!
On the fourty-seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
47 grains of sand
46 strands of hair
...
Happy Thanksgiving to all ZH contributors.whose comments continuously bring a smile to my face.I would also like to thank the EU for letting me convert those red candles to US dollars , which are then converted to shiny gold and silver coins. I'd like to also thank the govt. for all the protected species in the country, that will be on your table next year for thanksgiving. I would also like to thank our govt. for not outlawing ammunition, even though its not part of the second amendment.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends, and to all those who frequent this amazing site (the laugh factor alone is well worth it.... every time Robo opens his mouth i buy a new keyboard.....)
Dishwasher safe and impervious to milk or bourbon - or whatever you have for breakfast:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823336002
SP thanks for the link, having a house with many teenagers, no Robo doesn't live with us, I will be purchasing one of these the next time a key board dies.
many thanks giving.
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http://www.archive.org/stream/elberthubbardssc005740mbp/elberthubbardssc...
Full text of "Elbert Hubbard S Scrap Book"
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No man is in true health who can not
stand in the free air of heaven, with his
feet on God's free turf, and thank his
Creator for the simple luxury of physi-
cal existence. T. W. Higginson.
> *
I love the man that can smile in trouble,
that can gather strength from distress,
and grow brave by reflection. 'T is the
business of little minds to shrink, but
he whose heart is firm, and whose con-
science approves his conduct, will pursue
his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine.
!
I do not value fortune. The love of labor
is my sheet-anchor. I work that I may
forget, and forgetting, I am happy.
Stephen Girard.
Page 223
What divisions, hatreds, miseries, and
dreadful physical and mental sufferings
have been produced by the names of
Confucius, Brahma, Juggernaut, Moses,
Jesus, Mohammed, Perm, Joe Smith,
Mother Lee, etc.!
If any of these could have imagined that
their names should cause the disunion,
hatred and suffering which poor de-
luded followers and disciples have expe-
rienced, how these good or well-inten-
tioned persons wouldhave lament-
ed that they had ever lived to im-
plant such deadly hatred between
man and man, and to cause so much
error and false feeling between those
whose happiness can arise only from universal union of
mind and co-operation in practise, neither
of which can any of the religions of the
earth, as now taught and practised, ever
produce. Robert Owen.
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links ...
James Brown & Luciano Pavarotti - It's a Man's World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Febr_t_qa9U
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Tom Waits - "Satisfied"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHn_Kb4Dz40
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http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/
24 November 2011
Warren Pollock: Open Letter to the CME
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Open Letter to the CME
To: Terrence A Duffy, Chairman CME Group
As illustrated by the failure of MF Global, I am of the opinion that, the CME has not met its basic obligations to the marketplace as a “public fiduciary.”
Our society depends on “basic finance” to provide “utility function” such as banking,
hedging, insurance, and/or capital formation. Presently, we have an “innovative system”
that degrades the integrity needed for “basic finance” to perform as required in a
well-structured economy.
Worse yet, our “innovative” financial system impedes the effectiveness of the greater
“physical economy.” The “physical economy,” consisting of all those individuals and
entities tasked with meeting actual need. The "physical economy" consists of
many of your customers including farmers, manufactures and electric companies.
Our society needs people working in the "physical world" to create jobs more
desperately than it needs the continuity of the CME. Must we endure another market
catastrophe to figure this out?
The 2008 bailouts defined “moral hazard,” as the socialization of losses due to
over-leverage. MF Global consumers are currently subsidizing losses attributable to
over-leverage and “innovation.” Perhaps, small percentage moves in speculation
rationalized an internal choice between corporate survival and the sanctity of customer
funds. Complexity has been specifically designed, by “modern finance” to intentionally
allow over-leverage leading to out sized profits and reactively-subsidized losses.
The word, “theft,” comes to mind.
I believe that, the products traded by your member firms, at the CME exchange and
elsewhere, well exceed the capacity of the monetary system to cover relatively small
percentage losses or speculative miscalculations. Clearing OTC derivatives on an exchange
does not, and will not, correct the problem.
With repeal of Glass Steagall, and the conversion of mutual companies to publicly traded
entities, meaningful regulation has proved to be politically impossible to recapture. The
solution therefore resides in simplification from “innovative” towards “basic” finance.
Presently, I would urge you to make MF Global customers whole as a perquisite to market
reform towards a “utility function.” More than just the continuity of the CME may be at
stake.
Warren E. Pollock
....
and ...
Should government pay off our debts?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/default.stm
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German budget committee says to discuss new EFSF guidelines on Monday
German government expects EFSF leveraging to be issue at EcoFin next week
SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK.
Submit, slaves!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15867847
France and Germany plan changes to EU treatiesGermany's Angela Merkel and France's Nicolas Sarkozy are to propose modifications to EU treaties to improve governance of the eurozone.
I'm grateful to Zerohedge for getting me into the compulsive habit of buying gold and silver coins. because it's compulsive, though, this year's budgeted money for iphone 4s, ipad2 and macbook air is gone for the sake of canadian maple leave and australian kangaroo. The same thing happened last year. No black friday shopping, no cool toy, stuck with the lousy $60 phone. Goldbugging is an expensive hobby.
Turkey's in the smoker with garlic and onions. May 2012 bring us a bounty of banksters in jail.......... Zero Hedge style.
Turkey with garlic and onions??? I had to junk you for that!
It is good to read George Washingtons thanksgiving day proclamation which launched november 24 as a national holiday, a uniquely American one.
Google it. My android wont cut and paste.
Boycott black friday and lets remember what is really important in our lives.
Have a good day tct.
here, pilgrim-BiCheZ!
Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamations 1789-
Your's is way better than mine, I bow again to you good sirrah.
Happy Thanksgiving to US troops stuck in some miserable hell hole. May God bless them and care for their families.
http://www.infowars.com/public-relations-campaign-for-military-intervention-in-syria-begins/
to all who have posted on ZH even Bruce and leo and Harry, happy thanksgiving..
ps does anyone have a recipe for nuke fried turkey?? we may all need it soon.
it's not the recipe so much as the 1 sec at 10,000,000o that is the bitch.
Quick shout out to our British brothers and sisters. I've been watching a lot of BBC stuff on Netflix and, be it drama or nature programming, the quality is outstanding.
I just downloaded the new version of Netflix on the Wii and it's buggy as fucking hell!!! Short the shit out of this motherfucker!!!
Load-up on PM, comrades.
Thomas Cook deemed 'too big to fail'
"For now, Thomas Cook is too big to fail. The banks have lent it too much money. If it were to go bust, the Civil Aviation Authority, which acts as travel operators’ insurer of last resort, would probably go under, too. Thomas Cook was planning to report its full-year results on November 24th, but it postponed the announcement until discussions with its creditors are complete. The bankers are likely to give Thomas Cook another, though maybe the last, lease of life."
http://www.economist.com/node/21540271
I leave you with this if you are like me and a market junkie!
So FTSE closed down 12 today, yet the FTSE spread betting for open tomorrow already has them down about 30 for open tomorrow.. not a pretty picture.. you can watch this live and then switch to 6 p.m. when our futures open!
http://www.igindex.co.uk/
If Russia attacked Turkey from behind, do you think Greece would help?
It wouldn't be open thread without a HAARP story!
Did US 'climate weapon' knock-out Russian probe?
http://rt.com/news/phobos-grunt-climate-weapon-129/
"Russian space experts are struggling to decode fresh telemetry signals received from the stricken Phobos-Grunt probe. Meanwhile, rumors are circulating that America’s ionosphere research site in Alaska caused the spacecraft’s failure."
Don't poke the Bear!
Sure been a lot of interest, by many countries, in checking out Mars..
Would open up a big can of worms, if someone explored Phobos (like Russia.),
now wouldn't it..?? Sort of reminds me of how another country 'discovered H2O'
on another astromonical body awhile back.. Someone keeps letting the 'genie
out of the MSM news bottle..
Happy TG all.. Be safe / well..
Here's a new radio documentary for y'all. It is set to air tomorrow, but is not under embargo so you're getting it today.
Mexico's Drug War in Context
http://soundcloud.com/fsrn/20111125hifi
I'm thankful that I have the privilege of reading Zerohedge and falling in love all over again!
Where can a guy without a futures account get reliable es quotes?
TOS (think or swim) open paper trading acct. free...futures are red..lol
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One more thought before I bail, fork in hand to family glutton fest.
Freedom can be definded as having no restraint;
Liberty can be defined as having no undue restraint.
In political terms then, the loss of complete freedom is the price we civilized people pay for liberty as defined by law.
Happy Thanksgiving to all..
I'm thankful I don't have a blog to pimp.
Also, thanks for everything, Ty.
me too!
both countZ!
happy thanksgiving, everybody!
me three!
This is like the sale ads for Black Friday.
Have a Wild Turkey on me.
I seriously doubt that the medieval totalitarian regime of Saudi Arabia could last for very long alongside democratic (at least of sorts) Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq. The Kuwaiti dictatorship would be problematic in this regard as well.
As for Iran, a crucial fact that is never mentioned, is that according to the constitution of that Islamic Republic, the Commander in Chief of the armed forces is not the president but the top Ajatollah. The president is pretty powerful for sure but in effect he is more like a chief of staff to the top dog religious leader. This makes going to war against Iran especially dangerous since the commander in chief of the armed forces has absolute power and can invoke both secular and nationalistic duties from the military and religious ones.
Hey Tyler:
How about a permanent Best of Zero Hedge Humor Thread?
Here, I will start it off:
................................................................................................................................
Zero Hedge Headline: Sarkozy Says Iran : "Serious and Urgent Threat"
Zero hedger named Zeropoint reply:
Sorry dickhead, the Iran distraction card is being held by the US. You will need to get your own get out of economic collapse card.
.................................................................................................................................
LMFAO.
Others? Feel free to join in.
Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on each flight? They’re single-serving friends.
After fighting, everything else in your life got the volume turned down.
Happy Thanksgiving.........
Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on each flight? They’re single-serving friends.
After fighting, everything else in your life got the volume turned down.
Happy Thanksgiving.........
I'm thankful you didn't post that 3 times.;)
Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on each flight? They’re single-serving friends.
After fighting, everything else in your life got the volume turned down.
Happy Thanksgiving.........
Happy Thanksgiving to Tyler and the gang, and especially to WB7 for sharing all his amazing talent. Cheers!
Thanks ZH, for the last holdout of free speech and P.C.-destruction.
You're doing more ggod than you know, Tyler and crew.
Keep up the good work!
And thanks to all the comment-posters here. Always funny, thought-provoking, and, despite accusations to the contrary, refreshingly troll-free.
ZH rocks.
With the blessings to reclaim our liberty, good health, to one and all a happy Thanksgiving!
Here's to the end of an exhaustive bear market rally.
Is the girl in this video michelle caruso cabrera? When bears attack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2meSJOjKq6s
How low will the CRB Index go?
When will John Williams finally give up and retire?
How much higher can U.S. Treasuries sky?
The chart is simply astounding. TLT trading like an Internet stock?
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/kaavio.Webhost/charts/big.chart?nosetti...
And the rush to bonds shows that there are very few wealth creators left.
Wow, what happened to imminent war? Things sure change fast.
I believe this is known as a Turkey Timeout. From Tomfoolery and Titillation.
War post went from Sticky to hard to locate. Whew, panic over.
And right in time for the big dinner, how thoughtful.
As Bob Hope would say....Thanks for the mammaries....
Every year we are treated to alternate versions of the Pilgrims’ story and the First Thanksgiving with the Indians.
Lost in these attempts to derail the real beginnings of an America founded on liberty is the true reason the Pilgrims were tenacious and fearless in establishing their home on these shores: it was the search for a place where they could worship God in their own way. Later, huge waves of Puritans would sweep into the New England colonies and one word would describe their new lives: Freedom.
Their search was for that “city on the hill” recalled by one of the most famous leaders in American history, John Winthrop.
And their First Thanksgiving was celebrated to give thanks to God for guiding them safely to the New World. The only way we can restore that America they created is by restoring God..
Taylor Caldwell, whose many best sellers include The Devil’s Advocate, Great Lion of God, Dear and Glorious Physician and Testimony of Two Men, expresses my sentiments: “I love my God and my country above all else. And that is love, not ‘luv.’”
Caldwell wrote in 1971 in Growing Up Touch: An Irreverent Memoir regarding this decaying country where the men have been unmanned by Big Mama: “We can restore the love of God to our children, and teach them His ways and His ordinances and laws. When I observed the hippies on the University of Buffalo campus recently, my first anger was suddenly dissolved into pity for them. They are the Godless, the abandoned, by parents and teachers and the clergy. Their youth made them even more piteous. For their parents and grandparents took away their holy heritage in this age of materialism and affluence, and too many of the clergy have led them astray into secularism.
“They made me think of Mary in the garden, after the crucifixion of Christ. She saw the empty tomb and wept, and when the unrecognized Risen spoke to her gently she said, in tears, ‘They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.’ …
“We have taken away their Lord, and they do not know where we have laid Him. Until they find Him, they and our world stand under threat.”
The OWS movement and the current generation’s groundswell support for a statesman such as Ron Paul give me hope that once again America has found God.
Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Right on about Ron Paul...
The real lesson from the Puritan settlers of New England is the separation of Church and State...
No sooner did they arrive than they created a theocracy and persecuted every Baptist, Anabaptist, Quaker, Roman Catholic, and Jew they could find, not to mention the odd Wiccan burned or drowned for good measure.
Thanksgiving to Roger Moore and the creation of Rhode Island/Providence Plantation , which gave us church state separation.
Believe what you want, but leave me the fuck alone.
What you have just said and what I have said, the Founders of the nation, following the lead of the Pilgrims, have made possible.
I might add that while I still have freedom of speech your characterization of these historical events is not only incorrect, it is the kind of logic that leads to the lack of freedom of speech.
BTW, I am not afraid of your words but you seem to be afraid of mine, which leads the tyrants to silence us both.
I'd like to add that most people of any religious faith (or none for that matter) are generally well-behaved. I admit though, that it took me a few years after 9-11 to finally come to this conclusion.
What he's really saying is that on an open Thanksgiving thread there should be a law that would shut this guy up. This exchange demonstrates one way tyranny originates.
First: someone is resentful of the words spoken, even though they imply no action. Second: this individual might then suggest that these words are hateful or judgmental and could inspire someone to resort to action. Third: the individual then supports legislation or restrictions to stop “hate” speech (Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center uses a vast organization of “intelligence gatherers “ to root out speech through governmental restrictions and then uses the FBI and other federal organizations to have primarily Christian and conservative speech restricted). Fourth: this process now progresses to where rulers can use restrictions to stop all speech that threatens their rule, such as criticisms of illegal immigration or the ethnicity of the international bankers who control the Federal Reserve or prayer in school that recognizes a higher authority.
It was the Christian influence on the worth of individuals that supported the protections of free speech in America.
The atheists, Marxists, fascists and monarchists supported and support the opposite tradition: state control of everything, particularly speech.
I thought many of the Founding Fathers were Deists and looked at things like the Christian Bible as superstition. For example:
Maybe that doesn't have anything to do with what you're talking about.
the hitch is brilliant debating this stuff
Perhaps Thomas Jefferson was America’s greatest proponent and strategist for a representative government. But his extensive correspondence regarding Christianity and the Bible have created literally volumes of conflicting evidence of his exact beliefs; he’s a man who believed in Jesus, who believed he lived, and in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush he explains his views as being “very different from that anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed, but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.” From the Gospels he arranged his own version of the Bible -- The Jefferson Bible.
But the key point to make here is that the overriding belief of the early Founders was that Jesus Christ was the Son of God and that a government should be formed which respected the principles outlined in the Bible.
It’s especially clear that the Pilgrims, where the seed of our religious freedom was planted, were extremely devout followers of Christ, as were the Founders. If the principles of Christianity were not included men such as Patrick Henry would never have been involved in the founding for one single solitary minute.
Thomas Jefferson:
“ The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.”
“Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus.”
"I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus."
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.” (excerpts are inscribed on the walls of the Jefferson Memorial in the Nation’s capital) [Source: Merrill . D. Peterson, ed., Jefferson Writings, (New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1984), Vol. IV, p. 289. From Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, 1781.]
James Madison
“ We’ve staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all of our heart.”
http://www.eadshome.com/QuotesoftheFounders.htm
Thanks for posting this JR.
Freedom of religion is a very different thing than freedom from religion.
There it is, in two small prepositions! Thanks, nmewn. Happy Thanksgiving!!
I assume you mean Judeo-Christian religion and not other flavors?
Gaaaaaarg. I just wanted to say gaarg. I'm drunk
Black swan is prophecy in reverse.
If a black swan is a statistical outlier event, impossible to predict, a surprise to everyone, and if it is retrospectively seen as the logical outcome of events (hindsight is 20-20),
then how does it relate to the law of prophecy which states
"Prophecy is always fulfilled exactly as it is predicted, but never as the prophecy is interpreted before the fact."
Next black swan is ww3 starting in the Middle East.. as if we can't see it coming...
For prophetic confirmation, check out Daniel 11:43-45
Just for entertainment purposes, of course. Not meant to diagnose, treat, or cure any disease...
These pretzels are making me thirsty.
Compared to Iran, the Saudi Arabian basket case the Uncle Sam loves so much, is a bastion of democracy.
The king is at 87 and the crown prince is 78 and he was promoted when the former crown prince gave up the ghost a month ago at 81 years of age. These guys are all sons of Ibn Saud, the first king of Saudi Arabia who produced 45 legitimate sons with 22 wives. The daughters weren´t counted. This medieval system has been a major blight on mankind for decades now and continues to be a darling of freedom and democracy loving U.S. presidents.
I'm confused.. did you mean, "compared to Saudi Arabia, iran is a bastion of Democracy?
"Cause if that's what you meant, I'm with you.
Press TV. Way more fair, balanced and objective than any US mainstream media outlet.
I forgot the /sarc on and off tags.
http://www.coffinman.co.uk/jewish_roots_of_the_saudi_royal_family.htm
"Guoguang is among the electrical and mechanical producers nationwide that have developed a major category of China's exports. Over the first 10 months this year, exports in the category totaled $882.45 billion, 63 percent of the nation's total."
"A big proportion of the exporters are OEMs without brand names they can trade on, so they earn tiny profits in their deals, Vaigauskas said. "The majority of the profits go to the international companies. If they (Chinese exporters) would like to grow up, they must do what their international peers do."
Time to give OEM's the boot?
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2011-11/23/content_14146800_2.htm
I will choose not to get trampled by 300 pound black women screaming and throwing anything they can get their hands on at Walmart and Target tomorrow! Stuff your faces today and spend money you don't have tomorrow Amerikah and then go sit at Starbucks and find out who gang banged the Khardashian kunts over the holidays on Facebook! Happy Thansgiving all!
You must be bitter for the destruction of Kim's marriage...
I know who gangbanged the kardashians, it was the NBA
happy thanksgiving all! now bring on the meat coma
I'm thankful for the Mark Knopfler tapes.
I'm thankful for the moment. How bad is it right now, really? We're on the internet! For the time being, all of our problems are sucess problems. Enough to be grateful for right there.
Happy Thanksgiving you Colonial bitchez!!!
Thanks ZeroHedge for being the #1 source of information and endless Wit.
For those who are able it might be a good time to click the Donate button and show your appreciation.
If ZeroHedge ever went down (God Forbid).........I think I would Snap!
France to stop buying Iranian oil
Lufthansa to halt investment for six months
S&P cuts Egypt rating; sees pressure on reserves
I can´t imagine that it would be very much of a problem to get rid of a measly 50K bpd of crude that France is buying.
France doesn't neet Iranian oil. It's taking Libyan oil, now.
https://twitter.com/#!/angela_d_merkel
Happy Thanksgiving boys and girls!
Bloomberg seems to be picking up on TDZH sensationalistic, highly successful style of financial news reporting.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-24/germany-buys-itself-first-class...
The real problem is not the eurozone, it is the huge debt auctions from USA. Since it is the biggest markets for bonds, it gobbles up most of the investors' money. Markets are saturating in smaller markets first now but it will hit USA too sooner or later. Then it is game over for USA.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving Day feast in the warmth and laughter of good friends and loved ones. Perhaps spare a thought for those native Americans who have watched you in disbelief over the years as they remembered their losses on this their National Day of Mourning.
http://www.pilgrimhall.org/daymourn.htm
The EU can be summarized in one sentence...
So many traitors, so little rope.
Only the EU..??
In other news, Wednesday the S&P 500 closed at exactly 61.8% retracement of the latest magic bear market rally and BAC closed at exactly 100% retracement - which obviously calls for a mammoth rally of fresh kamikaze capital.
Live long and prosper fellow ZHers!
Zerohedge is one of the things I'm thankful for - Happy Thankgiving!
same here
Happy TnX-Indian-Giv’n lazy fat belly eat’n bitchez (To keep it in Zero Hedge comment style)
Time for the …
The Loan Boat
Where White Man Went Wrong
That's awesome.
Up a buck ninety. Is that the best you can do Europe???
happy Tkey Day for all @ ZH
If the Pilgrims had shot a Wildcat instead of a Turkey-I wonder what we would be eating on this day-
stir-fry?
Excuse me,
But,
Why are you so stupid?
If we live in a democracy (and/or a republic with a constitution) ,
Why is it that I and my friends, we can print money out of thin air and buy your goods and services with it,
even force you to exchange your property against our worthless fiat (eminent domain),
And YOU, you can't?
Idiot.
Happy Thanksgiving bitchez!
libertarian86.blogspot.com
Not an expert on markets but I do realize that the closer to zero the market price of stock gets the more likely it is that it´s indeed about worthless. It´s pretty elementary. On the other hand you can have a question of scams of overissuance of stock in otherwise perfectly viable businesses. This would then eventually be corrected by reverse splits, that is simply writing off much of the worthless stock. A few stock watering scams of this nature to mention would be GE, MSFT, INTC, CSCO. These major stock watering scams are all like 60-80% down from the top of their stock watering fraud of a decade ago and understandably under constant selling pressure as you´d expect stuff in extreme overabundance to be.
Citigroup reacted to this reality back in May by writing off 90% of its stock which is to its credit but other major stock watering scams should follow. The BAC zombie is a case in point.
Once it gets to 0, it can only stay the same or go up.
On the other hand you have non-stock watering scams like AAPL and AMZN and others who could easily do a forward split, that is giving their stockholders more shares while taking down the price per share. It´s a serious disconnect in the market when you have such polarization between those who need who write off worthless stock and those who need to bring down the price of their stock due to under-issuance. These problems have developed over time and are due to an almost total lack of any law enforcement. In other words, the so called police (whose main purpose is to feed a false sense of security to investors) is totally Mob owned. Crime does pay in this marketplace. It´s a fact that certainly will continue to undermine trust in the market and increase the frequency of its collapses.
The detroit lions are a bunch of punks.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy T-day all.
What happens when all economic agents are de-leveraging at the same time?
http://hedgeyourmind.blogspot.com/2011/11/thanksgiving-dessert-what-happ...
My table is a no fly zone...nom nom nom gnom nom...plus a few sierra nevada torpedos.....
Happy thanksgiving, fellow citizens of ZH!
Eat, drink and be merry, my friends, for tomorrow we die.
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/12_02/turkeysMS1512_468x307.jpg
a little ditty from uk
money's gonna die and go to hell some day
the devils gonna come and inflate it all away
so all my friends at zh of which i am very fond
enjoy your bloody holiday across the fucking pond
:)
that's the fucking spirit!
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If it werent for u brits, we wouldnt have the day off , so thanks for all the fish!
i have a tune for you......rule brittania, brittania rule the waves. at least, the usa has america the beautiful as a fall back position.
I mean, you have a four cent stock trading at the AMEX. When you look at major losers of the day in this hallowed marke t you see lots of junk fast heading to zero from a dollar or so. Where is the police I must say. This junk started its trajectory to zero at pretty elevated prices.
Happy Thanksgiving ZH. I'm psyched because we're gonna deep fry a fucking 15 pound turkey in the backyard. Hopefully the fucker won't explode like napalm over Da Nang!
The fraud is absolutely mind-bending.
$250 to zero in five years, well it was at practically zero a year ago.
EEE. Its stock is still convulating wildly just above zero. Where is the freaking police?
An oldman does not celebrate this day
he sits in the forest remembering the history
of genocide against a people that fed pilgrims
welcomed to share the horn of plenty
AND WHAT GRATITUDE ALL OTHER SPECIES MUST FEEL
FOR THOSE SAME PILGRIMS WHO BEGOT ALL THIS
NARROWLY FOCUSED EUROPEAN RACE
This oldman would like to name this day
death and destruction day
in honor of our deeds
but he will stop at HAPPY GENOCIDE DAY!!!
and the sun will shine again tomorrow om
It´s a celebration of theft, fraud and genocide - values that are held in very high regard today.
Shut the fuck up and enjoy a piece of apple pie.
http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/ironeyes.asp
Iron eyes Cody, Sicilian.
Interesting how the eating of an animal can save it from extinction. Perhaps we should consume more buffalo. After all, the meat is better for you than any of ther other corn fed, anitibiotic laden, hormone injected meats. There are only ~4000 genetically pure bison left on the planet. This organization is buying the bison yellowstone 'culls' every year on behalf of the adjacent ranchers, and relocating them onto Northern Plains reservations.
http://buffaloproject.org/Buffalo_Restoration_Project/Welcome.html
Eat bison, not turkey.
Hook Line and Sphincter ( ! )J
Jon Corzine wishes everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. Corzine especially wants to thank those that had faith in him and were willing to invest their funds with him.
those of you who bought silver at 40/oz: how does it feel to be a semi-failure: not too bad, but definitely not good?
Having bought it for under 10 for so long kind of dulls the pain.
Funny how trolls only look at the percentage drops from highs in PMs. I guess they didn't notice the 10-fold increase..........did all of us just suddenly decide to jump on the PM bandwagon at its height? Or perhaps we got in several years ago, and maybe we are not losing sleep over whether or not Corzine (or Congress) is gonna steal our money? Fuck off, trolls. It's 8 o'clock: DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CASH IS?
last dinner before war starts. enjoy
The market works fine if it has a level playing field. You got to have a referee to have a fair game. A referee that is present also gives you the impression that you´re watching a fair game. But what if that referee was picked by those who have interests in the outcome of the game? Goldman Sachs regularily mans the Treasury Department with people that nobody elected so where do you think the so called stock market police has been coming from? Right. It isn´t a level playing field. It´s biased toward fraud and theft and the so called police is totally mob owned. Its only purpose is to create false security in the market to maximize the profits of its mob owners.
"It's not happy people that are thankful, it's thankful people that are happy." BE HAPPY!
I am also Thankful the Federal Government is CLOSED today!
Hate to break it to you, but those 'tribal gaming' tents on the roadside in New Mexico.... well, they've become gigantic casino resorts that would put Vegas to shame.
Happy Thanksgiving America... Make it a fun one, a turkey may cost $300 next year lol...
I was lost in cyberland...groping and feeling my way in the dark...and then found ZH! For that...I am thankful! My only hope is that Tyler and ZH just say "no" when approached by CNBC with the proverbial "offer you can't refuse."
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you on ZH. I have learned so much from many of you and am truly grateful for the education I receive here.
At this point, I don't know what scares me more...the drums of war beating in far away lands, the prospect of broader civil unreast here in the States, or Mohammed El-Arian finally shaving his moustache.
Cheers to all.
http://www.tickbytick.co.uk/home/bloomberg-heavy-hitters--.html
Bill Gross and Larry Fink - Full hour video on their views on the Global Economy
http://www.tickbytick.co.uk/home/bloomberg-heavy-hitters--.html
Bill Gross and Larry Fink - Full hour video on their views on the Global Economy
This criminal enterprise that has been in control of governments and financial markets is at the end of its line. By now almost nobody would take their provocations and false flag operations seriously. That´s a very big problem in the face of gigantic ongoing debt liquidation and collapsing prices of overbundant commodities.
This criminal enterprise has never been pro-active, this would have been contrary to its business interests. Instead it has been reactive, constantly reacting to crises that it itself has created. It´s a scam that is way oversold and most people realize this which explains now the desperate and psychotic war clamor.
Happy Thanksgiving
Bonne Action de grâce
¡Feliz Día de Acción de Gracias!
Herzliche Danksagung
Glædelig Helligdag
Vrolijke gedenkdagen
God Helgdag
Wszystkiego najlepszego z ozkazji Swieta Dziekczynienia
(I don't know how to put the Mandarin and Japanese here - it shows as '?'. Paging WB7)
A couple of moral and ethical points with respect to a nation's government and debt.
Should a government then be allowed at all, to run a permanent deficit?
It´s never a good idea to be a slave to your creditor but like 2000 years ago when the Romans overran their creditors and thus abolished their own debt - you will continue to see the same familiar policy. It´s of course hopeless in the long run since you´ll run into increasingly strong opponents in the face of preserving and delaying your bankruptcy,
OK, dudes
I usually do not have anything to sell, so please allow me this simple indulgence om
Occupy AbundanceDear Turtle Island Friends and Colleagues,
This infamous celebration of genocide must be transformed next year into a Homeplanet
Gratitude Day whereon we humans express through action everywhere our gratitude for being
on a planet so swiftly capable of abundance for all and also our thanks for such a wide variety
of magnificent lifeforms.
Yours for all our relations,
Ro-Non-So-Te Mohawk Elder
Hangman, hangman, hold it a little while,
I Think I see my friends coming, Riding a many mile.
Friends, you get some silver?
Did you get a little gold?
What did you bring me, my dear friends? Keep me from the Gallows Pole.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFCeKJhojG0&feature=fvst
Just one thing to say about thanksgiving.
Poor turkeys.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/pdfs/11%20civ%208500%20Keenan%20Complaint.pdf
wow check out this suit
According to USDA, about 250 million turkeys just died for your pleasure today. Giving thanks to those suffering animals.
http://www.meatvideo.com/
Reiteration, the supreme commander of Iranian armed forces is the religous leader of the country, not the so called president.