World Tranquility for another Week

[Paint Your Wagon]

The talkers will be talking the end of this week

  President Barack Obama is the biggest talker of all. He talked to the TV pundits all day Sunday, talked to David Letterman on Monday, and talked to the U.N. and the Chinese on Tuesday. On Wednesday, he'll talk to the Israelis and the Palestinians and the Japanese and the Russians. Then on Thursday and Friday, the president will travel to Pittsburgh for more talk with the Group of 20 leaders. At the end, the G20 leaders are expected to issue a statement full of lofty promises, and almost no action.

http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x2222752670&f=1774

[scottishmoney]

Actually I thought Mowemall Qadaffy Ducks rambling UN speech was more "interesting".  He must be off his meds again.

[longnine009]

And now he won't even be going to the Trump Tent to be blessed by "The Donald."  What a loser.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,554620,00.html

Maybe the Navy could do a Tomcat demo for him, just like old times.



                                

[longnine009]

The talkers will be talking the end of this week

  President Barack Obama is the biggest talker of all. He talked to the TV pundits all day Sunday, talked to David Letterman on Monday, and talked to the U.N. and the Chinese on Tuesday. On Wednesday, he'll talk to the Israelis and the Palestinians and the Japanese and the Russians. Then on Thursday and Friday, the president will travel to Pittsburgh for more talk with the Group of 20 leaders. At the end, the G20 leaders are expected to issue a statement full of lofty promises, and almost no action.

http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x2222752670&f=1774

"Sometimes the talk seems cheap, because it is simply empty words. But agreement on these thorny issues can only be achieved by trusting each other to do what's best for all, even if it means each of us must sacrifice something."

Ha, ha. G20 must be connected to a "community" hookah pipe if they think that will happen.

[scottishmoney]

Maybe the Navy could do a Tomcat demo for him, just like old times.



                                

Problem is, the Iranian Air Force is the only AF still flying Tomcats.  I am sure Mahmoud would oblige.

[longnine009]

BO said it's a new era of engagement. Maybe he should tell us what is is the definition of  engagement

                  
Here's a  new era of engagement in Pittsburgh.  



Guess the Luddites  don't find the prospect of  bailing Tar forever all that appealing.  

[Paint Your Wagon]

G20 want to kick Brittain and France out as permanent members
That is asking for a lot of trouble cause Brittain was the last Merican ally and France hates everybody elses guts except for Germany

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8008836c-a935-11de-9b7f-00144feabdc0.html

[Paint Your Wagon]

In plain english the FED is trying to get everybody's pension

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090924/bs_nm/us_usa_fed_exit

[Paint Your Wagon]

After Da Vinci and Jules Vernes now Orwell seems to have had visions
Are you an alpha ?

EU funding ‘Orwellian’ artificial intelligence plan to monitor public for "abnormal behaviour"
The European Union is spending millions of pounds developing "Orwellian" technologies designed to scour the internet and CCTV images for "abnormal behaviour".   

Somewhere in the near future we will have to stop posting on forums and buying silver and gold online

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6210255/EU-funding-Orwellian-artificial-intelligence-plan-to-monitor-public-for-abnormal-behaviour.html

[longnine009]

A fine example of why the  real war is the unspoken war of Individualists vs. krapitalists,  communists, collectivist, centralist  !*&@-bags. Everything else is just smoke and mirrors intended to divert attention from it. And most important of all, to divide unity against it.  Unity (in this case) would overwhelm their capacity to  analyze anything. What would they do if everyone on the planet put words like "kill" or "tyrants" in their email subject lines? What will they do when people start using grey language and spinny talk that they learned  by listening to the very #$@&-bag politicians who are trying to put this stuff in place?  Or culture language that can change a whole lot faster than their Manchurian candidates  can write code? The centralist is so screwed and yet it struts around like the cock of the walk.  

It's the Banquet of centralist. Just as  Rome and the Pope had their Banquet of Chestnuts when they thought they'd be on top forever when in fact they had already begun to decline.  Complacency and arrogance is always the hallmark of a decline. And in this case it's even the hallmark of a 4th Turning--To the death, scorched earth, take no prisoners. And it's more proof, to me at least, that Blood in the Streets (1987)and The Sovereign Individual (1997) are both dead on. Centralism and the Nation State is dying. Unfortunately,  it's a used up boomer hooked on  Viagra.  Believe it! It  won't go down gracefully, it'll keep shoveling Viagra only to  succeed in  hitting the urinal instead of pissing on it's feet. Eventually it won't even be able to do that much.

Ha, ha, a fitting end to a world of losers that  want to unload a  100 trillion dollars worth of their screw ups on today's 5 year olds.

                          LONG LIVE THE  SOVEREIGN INDIVIDUAL!!!!!!!
                                

[Paint Your Wagon]

The winner writes history anyway
I read a well researched article based on the dead sea scrolls that there is a 5 th evangelist surpressed by everybody
The first premise is that the Bible and all other religious books are written by HUMANS and not by god
In around 400 AC one of the Roman Emperors tried to stop the decline of Rome and adopted Christianity
However the scrolls show that Jesus ( a person ) left his church to Maria Magdalena who was the 5th evangelist and not to Peter
So the first step was a smear campagne making Maria Magdalena a whore
Second step was to make disappear all evidence
Third step was to make the church and state all powerfull based on a whole male cast

One of the most striking examples of failure is the Last Supper by DaVinci which after restauration shows
a female person sitting next to Jesus   ( Maria Magdalena )

[Paint Your Wagon]

A new impressive Anglo Saxon gold treasure found

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8272370.stm

[TwoShadows]

Paint Your Wagon I do believe we may be on the same page on a great number of things. The world has been living a ton of lies for centuries and it seems its about time to pay the piper! The ruling elite must feel tremendously threatened to create such havoc in the world today. ANYTHING to stop that which is coming and out of their control! All economies are controlled and those who rule can, at a moments notice, turn a nation into chaos and they know it. Freedom is just another word when the powers are bleeding you like a starving leech! Their goal is too suck the wealth right out of the world before leading the cattle to slaughter!

[Templar]

    I read about the treasure found in England--in fact they claim its the largest amount of Anglo-Saxon treasure found to date----what i don't understand is how can they keep it/---i thought the government did not allow treasures to be kept by citizens---since this is the largest find of its kind--how can they keep it?

                 very curious---the Templar

[Paint Your Wagon]

   I read about the treasure found in England--in fact they claim its the largest amount of Anglo-Saxon treasure found to date----what i don't understand is how can they keep it/---i thought the government did not allow treasures to be kept by citizens---since this is the largest find of its kind--how can they keep it?

                 very curious---the Templar

As I see it the treasure was found by a guy with a metal detector on somebodies land . I think under normal past law the both would get half and pay taxes on that.
It was however now decided to keep the treasure in Great Brittain and to that effect it was given to a museum who will estimate the value and pay it in paper money to the finder and the owner of the land who will pay taxes . Sounds all quiet legal except it must be tricky to value the price of something that is not auctioned like by Christies

[Paint Your Wagon]

Paint Your Wagon I do believe we may be on the same page on a great number of things. The world has been living a ton of lies for centuries and it seems its about time to pay the piper! The ruling elite must feel tremendously threatened to create such havoc in the world today. ANYTHING to stop that which is coming and out of their control! All economies are controlled and those who rule can, at a moments notice, turn a nation into chaos and they know it. Freedom is just another word when the powers are bleeding you like a starving leech! Their goal is too suck the wealth right out of the world before leading the cattle to slaughter!

I remember a song text that runs something like " Freedom is just another word for having nothing else to lose"
We are only free to die . The church ; the opium of the masses is no longer working too .

The rich want to make serfs out of us again and what better way into servitude then massive amounts of debt owned to the rich; but in the end it is just like the middle ages
they can only kill us one way or the other either by exploiting us to death or if we refuse by sending in the killer soldiers on horseback to outright kill us to make an example

However like Rome fell we are now about to see a lot of power being transferred "slowly" . Like the Empire were the sun never sets went to a bunch of has been's in three generations .

[longnine009]

But then Constantinople did a Little Ben by spending 18 years taking Rome back from the Goths. Only when he was done he didn't have anything left to hold the city with.  I think it was then the  Longobards  emerged and  thanked him for doing such a good job of destroying the Goths for them--"here's a fiver dude,  go get yourself a Grand slam breakfast and we'll take it from here."

Maybe Libertarians will copy the Longobards?  Kick  back and watch the show. Let the  krapitalists and communists wipe each other out.

"Longo?
"uuug" (WTF do you want)
 "Ben is  broke. You need to unload those  Constantinople bonds"
"Uuuug"  (fetch me a Tim)
  

[Paint Your Wagon]

G20
the meeting's dominant theme: hypocrisy.

http://www.321gold.com/editorials/schiff/schiff092509.html

[Paint Your Wagon]

The fall of the American empire

There is however one escape route that might enable the US to avoid the indignity of ending up like Zimbabwe, and that is for it to "surrender" to its creditors and submit to being economically carved up by them. In effect sovereignty would be lost, but face-saving measures might be permitted such as allowing the inhabitants to continue to celebrate Independence Day, and to fantasize that the Constitution of the US still applies and to plaster flags everywhere, provided that the "Made in China" reference in the corner of the flag is clear to see.

http://www.safehaven.com/article-14562.htm

[Paint Your Wagon]

Today some 16 million homeowners have negative equity, 

http://news.goldseek.com/InternationalForecaster/1253727454.php

[longnine009]

The fall of the American empire

There is however one escape route that might enable the US to avoid the indignity of ending up like Zimbabwe, and that is for it to "surrender" to its creditors and submit to being economically carved up by them. In effect sovereignty would be lost, but face-saving measures might be permitted such as allowing the inhabitants to continue to celebrate Independence Day, and to fantasize that the Constitution of the US still applies and to plaster flags everywhere, provided that the "Made in China" reference in the corner of the flag is clear to see.

http://www.safehaven.com/article-14562.htm

Some one should've written Empire building for dummies in 1945. We  seem to have gotten just about everything ass backwards.

Countries are  suppose to pay tribute to us for  "protecting" them, not the other way around. Retards are suppose to be taken down to the river and drowned not given bonus'.

Rome's engineers and project managers were made to stand under stone bridges while they took out the shoring upon completion. If they screwed it all up they didn't get promoted to CEO, they got killed and made room for someone with a brain stem.  

We're only an empire in the sense that we're following Rome and England's decline--to the letter. The only challenge left for us now is trying to figure out a way to  debase money that is already debased. But hey, no challenge is too big for wallstreet  "talent."
 What about  Virtual  Baboon E-feces?  


We were only 1/2 of an empire, the declining half.  We  didn't quite get the  ascending part right. At least not like Rome and England did

BTW, you guys are going to miss us when Pootie-Poot  starts licking his chops.  


 

[Paint Your Wagon]

My fourth and new involuntary internet provider is the old Belgacom state owned telephone robber barons
I started with wanadoo  (french )which was bought by tiscali (italian) which was bought by scarlet (dutch)
which was bought by Belgacom ( belgian )
They limited bandwith by eliminating all adds were name and address do not match ( so no more spam)
They also reduced speed like by 15% according to my Norton pingsystem
They have not increased price yet

But I just found out they also stop anything they or their belgian master politicians do not like .

I had to go by way of yahoo to get myself a confirmation email from Nexus .
They stopped four emails from Nexus to me when I wanted to subscribe .

Suffice to say that Nexus is a modder comunity of programmers that issue a lot of mods that otherwise
could be sold by Windows life or any other moneygrabbers.
These days the computer illiterate pay hundreds of dollars for free products
I also got myself an anonymizer which is supposed to stop my computer broadcasting its ID when in active contact with another system . I allready had everything running in invisible mode for years so that anybody pinging me would be met with dead silence

Point is ; they are taking over the internet step by step like the Chinse censure and the Belgian censure
which officially only applies to exploitation of minors  Our internet days are not going to run for a lifetime for the younger amongst us

[TwoShadows]

I do believe we are being prepared for the unthinkable. Create enough controversy and debt so the masses don't have time to consider the shock that is really coming. It won't be long they will be preaching one world government and one world currency. They (those really in power) know exactly what they are doing just as they have for centuries. Government and Religion have been a great diversion but they will no longer be needed!

[Paint Your Wagon]

Right out of National Geographics
A new tribe discovered

Pakistan discovers 'village' of white German al-Qaeda insurgents   

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/6226935/Pakistan-discovers-village-of-white-German-al-Qaeda-insurgents.html

[Paint Your Wagon]

You promise them lower taxes and you get a landslide victory in Germany yesterday

Germany set for centre-right coalition 

The new iron lady made of paper

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2b61abaa-ab82-11de-9be4-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

[Paint Your Wagon]

The future generation does not look set to pay our pensions

The unemployment rate for young Americans has exploded to 52.2 percent -- a post-World War II high, 

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/the_dead_end_kids_AnwaWNOGqsXMuIlGONNX1K

[longnine009]

Point is ; they are taking over the internet step by step like the Chinse censure and the Belgian censure
which officially only applies to exploitation of minors   Our internet days are not going to run for a lifetime for the younger amongst us

The best evidence yet of the stupidity of government. The bread and circuses that the Internet offer don't cost governments anything until they try to regulate it. And I don't believe there has ever been anything that can divert and misdirect attention better than the Internet.

The problem is,  blogs and posts have shown  the baboons the big picture.  It has finally clicked in their  paper pushing pea brains   that people don't really love them but hate their #@&^*%$  guts.

[longnine009]

The future generation does not look set to pay our pensions

The unemployment rate for young Americans has exploded to 52.2 percent -- a post-World War II high,  

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/the_dead_end_kids_AnwaWNOGqsXMuIlGONNX1K

They won't even be able pay off their college loans picking cotton for the  Bilderbergs.  Student college loans--TARPitXXV  

Eventually I think at least  some  students will give up on college and just go to the public library to learn and save $80,0000. They won't be able to get those  high paying job without their Certificate of Indoctrination. But then there may not be many openings for such jobs unless U.S "justice"  gives hedge fund managers what they deserve:  




Not likely when the beltway  is just the land of wallstreet lackeys.  But that's okay, no one needs the sheepskin to start up a   real Galt's Gulch.

Looks like BO's hair is turning gray. Is something wrong?

[Paint Your Wagon]

I just found out that the new owner of my provider Belgacom will only
be available if I obligatory use its email virus scanner ; which was like 6 dollars a month in the past
and which with all my Norton and others I never used

[longnine009]

Yeah who checks the checker? There was a rumor going around a few years back that MacAfee  had spyware for the Dept of Homeboys Job Security embedded in  their "updates."

[scottishmoney]

It has long been conjectured in the IT world that a lot of viruses originate with "carnivore" coupled with the alleged anti-virus writers.

[Paint Your Wagon]

Yeah who checks the checker? There was a rumor going around a few years back that MacAfee  had spyware for the Dept of Homeboys Job Security embedded in  their "updates."

Well it is a sure thing that all encryption program keys are given to the US government as matter of policy
So only one time pads are safe
Like during WWII

[Paint Your Wagon]

It has long been conjectured in the IT world that a lot of viruses originate with "carnivore" coupled with the alleged anti-virus writers.

Of course this is good marketing to panick people (like with the mexican flu)
Also reporting a large amount of false positives is good marketing for virus protection sellers
I got three repairing programs reporting up to 300 critical errors a week ( bullshit of course )
And deleting cracks and patches as Trojans makes every seller happy ( but not the user )
I had to work a full day to tell my defrag program to leave my Norton Ghost pics alone because Ghost is defragmented whilst writing . And I needed a half day to tell all my antivirus programs to stop deleting a certain crack and patch that was given to me .
Microsoft XP logs are complaining every week that its nearly useless defrag as been immobilised.

Norton wants like 60 euro like 85 dollars for a one year extension of a paid virus program and the only one I pay is Norton Internet Security , if you know what I mean
Spybot Search and Destroy is free and so is AVG and AdAware . And notwithstanding all this protection I get weekly detection of a Troyan on D system recovery which is empty and has no system QED

[Paint Your Wagon]

FDIC Discloses Deposit Insurance Fund Is Now Negative
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/29/2009 09:54 -0500

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/fdic-discloses-deposit-insurance-fund-now-negative

[Paint Your Wagon]

IMF thinks that banks only disclosed half of their losses
If the IMF thinks such sacrelegeous thought I am sure they only declared 10% of their losses

Now it gets dangerous because the last three crashes 1929-1987-1997 all occured in octobre

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3d7b9bde-ad44-11de-9caf-00144feabdc0.html

[longnine009]

IMF thinks that banks only disclosed half of their losses
If the IMF thinks such sacrelegeous thought I am sure they only declared 10% of their losses

Now it gets dangerous because the last three crashes 1929-1987-1997 all occured in octobre

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3d7b9bde-ad44-11de-9caf-00144feabdc0.html

"Well actually," the manic depressive phase of the stock market is  behind us "actually." And as you can see by the date, not a minute too soon.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/28/markets/thebuzz/index.htm?section=money_latest


The "Recovery" song:

Sung to the coke song:

I'd like to build a baboon den,
And furnish it with Bens,
Grow carbon tax  trees,
Add some debt-slave  bees
And Baucus mandated  Prozac....

Chorus: It's the real thing... Bernanke told us so...
Ghost of George Harrison: "smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smoke pot..."

[longnine009]

And a salute to our warriors of Red Octobers past.

   Sung to the Battle Hymn of the Republic:

   "'...Is everybody happy' cried the Sergeant looking up,
    Our Hero feebly answered 'Yes,' and then they stood him up;
    He jumped into the icy blast, his static line unhooked,
    And he ain't gonna jump no more..."

      Blood on the Risers a.k.a the Airborne song

Ghost of John Lennon:  "He blew his mind out on the Dow. He didn't notice that that lights had change..."

    

[longnine009]

Sudden discovery

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Associated Press WASHINGTON – Lenders are ramping up efforts to avoid home foreclosures, but a report by bank regulators says more than half of borrowers who get help fall behind again.

More than 50 percent of homeowners with loans modified in the first half of last year had missed at least two months of payments a year later, the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision said Wednesday.
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                                  DUH

[longnine009]

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By PAN PYLAS, AP Business Writer Pan Pylas, Ap Business Writer   â€“ 39 mins ago

ISTANBUL, Turkey – The global economy is recovering faster than expected but governments should be careful to not withdraw their stimulus measures prematurely, the International Monetary Fund said Thursday.

The positive report card was likely to feed cautious but widespread relief that — despite a continuing rise in unemployment and worries about credit availability — the downturn is easing and may prove less devastating than initially feared.
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[Paint Your Wagon]

Retirement in the US is a failed experiment

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/learn-how-to-invest/retirement-good-luck-with-that.aspx

[Paint Your Wagon]

Fannie and Freddie in deeper trouble

http://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2009/09/30/fannie-and-freddie-delinquencies-move-into-uncharted-territory/

[Paint Your Wagon]

Apparently this closing was not covered on the FDIC website.

The inviting conclusion is that as other agencies close down financial institutions, that institution will migrate to the FDIC. It seems that FDIC statistics of closure might not apply in such a situation if the FDIC did not affect the closure, only the cost of the closure. We shall see.

http://www.snohomishtimes.com/snohomishNEWS.cfm?inc=story&newsID=802

[Paint Your Wagon]

CIT in trouble again
but the link allready disappeared from bloomers and nickers breakin news
Too many things are breaking these days
With the battle for 1000 $ gold on again I am (not) holding my breath

[longnine009]

PYW I just picked up the Da Vinci Code. Is that the book your were referring to about a week or so ago?

[longnine009]

Retirement in the US is a failed experiment

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/learn-how-to-invest/retirement-good-luck-with-that.aspx

People used to laugh at me because I refused to buy stocks, 401Krap or it's predecessor whatever it was, keogh or something like that. I went to a 4th of July party once in 1986  or 87 and they were actually sitting around the water melon (with the rum bottle sticking out of the top) and passing around a prospectus of some pink sheets telecom penny stock crap. They practically choked to death when I told them I preferred the AU50  Liberty Seated dollar I just bought for $700.

I think now I'm suffering  from some kind Mogambo Guru affliction. I have this fantasy where I travel the  country in my Bentley motor car visiting  BO's  future  bum camps.  "Suddendly" All  my past friends start limping out from the shadows like prozac zombies but they don't  recognize me (because of the pimp hat and Oakley sunglasses purchased from huge silver profits). When they ask me for a dollar I say:  "Oh, you mean  one of these?"
Of course they start to move in on me but little did they know  the strap they saw in the front is really the strap to limited edition Mogambo  Ranger  M3 Grease Gun hanging over my back.

                            "Hahaha bring it suckers, bring it!"    

[scottishmoney]

Crappy days are here again, la la la la

[scottishmoney]

Fed admits secret dealings in gold swapping:

Secret Gold Swapping by the Fed

[Paint Your Wagon]

PYW I just picked up the Da Vinci Code. Is that the book your were referring to about a week or so ago?

If it starts with a dead museum director it is
Very much a pageturner
( I buy my books second hand by the suitcase in the International School fundraiser every year )

[Paint Your Wagon]

Oh my Gosh
On top of those hundreds of banks in trouble the supposedly safe ones are starting to fall ( by Jim Sinclair)

FDIC confirmed that the most recent Georgia Bank failure that will cost them $800 million to $1 billion was not on their troubled bank list.  There was a 12 fold increase in the number of non functioning loans in 30 days at this institution.

That has to be quite scary that there are banks capable of failing that are not known or even suspected.

Banks have a tendency to refuse to categorize loans as non performing until there is no light at the end of a false tunnel.

[Paint Your Wagon]

In unrelated news
For those that want to buy goldminers
Monday thru the next two weeks the window of opportunity opens again according to
cycle analysis with a january top expected on the first market week of 2010

[longnine009]

Oh my Gosh
On top of those hundreds of banks in trouble the supposedly safe ones are starting to fall ( by Jim Sinclair)

FDIC confirmed that the most recent Georgia Bank failure that will cost them $800 million to $1 billion was not on their troubled bank list.  There was a 12 fold increase in the number of non functioning loans in 30 days at this institution.

That has to be quite scary that there are banks capable of failing that are not known or even suspected.

Banks have a tendency to refuse to categorize loans as non performing until there is no light at the end of a false tunnel.

I believe we'll see a lot more of it. King Knob Head of the Sachigoths  and  Bernanke played games with  Nature (real Capitalism) when they  dumped their  TARpits on taxpayers last year. Propping  up the weak didn't just cost U.S taxpayers, it cost the strong  by not allowing them to get stronger, which they would have, had they been able to take business away  from &@&$-heads like Citi and JP Morgan. Nature (real Capitalism) will have it's way, one way or the other, even it means scorched earth.  Garbage will be valued for what it is even if it involves a "to the death" struggle, as it should anyway in a 4th Turning.  

The United States is not going back to what it was. People had better accept that and start worrying about what it is we're going to become. The prospects of feudal wars might be a good place to start-- if Overlord Baucus will grant us permission to think about that.  
 


Feudal wars, ha!  The recession is over. I'm Daisy Chain, the new Bull on the Block.

[longnine009]

PYW I just picked up the Da Vinci Code. Is that the book your were referring to about a week or so ago?

If it starts with a dead museum director it is
Very much a pageturner
( I buy my books second hand by the suitcase in the International School fundraiser every year )

Thanks,  I started reading it yesterday. It is a page turner for sure.

[TwoShadows]

If you like that book just wait until the 3rd one is released in my series! Of course we got to get the second one done before thinking about the real shocker!!! I just hope we last long enough for me to complete the unthinkable. Wait a minute.....Me getting the first book done was unthinkable! Just ask my wife!!!

[Paint Your Wagon]

If you like that book just wait until the 3rd one is released in my series! Of course we got to get the second one done before thinking about the real shocker!!! I just hope we last long enough for me to complete the unthinkable. Wait a minute.....Me getting the first book done was unthinkable! Just ask my wife!!!

You know you are the first writer I know
I know a few doctors and lawyers and bankers but those are 13 to a dozen
I know also a few barons and countessas but all of them are working for a living or living off a foundation

My real cup is Foundation and Empire which started as a Trilogy and I think there are 7 now . Also
The Gunslinger series by Stephen King

I am sure that when you finish your Trilogy I will add you to my top three list 

[longnine009]

If you like that book just wait until the 3rd one is released in my series! Of course we got to get the second one done before thinking about the real shocker!!! I just hope we last long enough for me to complete the unthinkable. Wait a minute.....Me getting the first book done was unthinkable! Just ask my wife!!!

Have they given you a release date for the first one?

[longnine009]

Also
The Gunslinger series by Stephen King
[/quote]

I remember the   Lobstrotity  from one of those books. King can do a real life sequel now--Lobconomy  with Ben as the  second fastest gun in a real market. And Tim as his squire boy  

[Paint Your Wagon]

Also
The Gunslinger series by Stephen King

I remember the   Lobstrotity  from one of those books. King can do a real life sequel now--Lobconomy  with Ben as the  second fastest gun in a real market. And Tim as his squire boy  
[/quote]

What I like best is the very end of the last book . The circle is closed .
Again the US settlers are the underdog thanks to BO
Now face it , those girls are amongst the most sexy on earth

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aTGSKQBLpHR0

[Paint Your Wagon]

Sofar ; the only country daring to look for the culprits within the Bankfailures is Iceland
But then again they want to get into the Euro Union desperately

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/6252501/KPMG-and-PwC-Reykjavik-offices-are-raided-by-Icelandic-police.html

[scottishmoney]

We cannot go after all the bankers, afterall, they are major political fund contributors you know.  Cannot kill the goose that laid the golden egg(rotten for the country though)

[Templar]

KTO IS RIGHT--IF WE ROUND UP ALL THE BANKERS AND BIG MONEY PEOPLE--WHO WILL HELP US KNOW THE "CORRECT" PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR???
  WE WOULD BE LIKE "SHEEP"---BAA BAA BAA

                  YOUR "FREE THINKING" SERVANT---THE TEMPLAR!

[scottishmoney]

Politicians couldn't give a rats crusty arse what their constituents think.  Intelligent people realise that the politicians pander themselves like prostitutes - in fact there is little distinction betwixt the oldest profession and the second oldest.

[longnine009]

Also
The Gunslinger series by Stephen King

I remember the   Lobstrotity  from one of those books. King can do a real life sequel now--Lobconomy  with Ben as the  second fastest gun in a real market. And Tim as his squire boy  

What I like best is the very end of the last book . The circle is closed .
Again the US settlers are the underdog thanks to BO
Now face it , those girls are amongst the most sexy on earth

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aTGSKQBLpHR0

[/quote]

Dark Tower= Dark Omen? I still say and will always say that there is more to the Twins Towers coming down than the obvious. It was also an omen of U.S dominance in finance coming to a slow motion  end. Just as heavy industry in the Great Lakes began to wind down  after the Edmund Fitzgerald went down the drain  in 1975 with 26,000 tons of iron ore.  

"Now face it , those girls are amongst the most sexy on earth"

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aTGSKQBLpHR0

Well, why would people want to spend all that money to get murdered at the Olympics in  Chicago? Get  murdered in Rio and see some booty before you punch out.  

Besides, now the so called "socialist" in Brazil has an excuse to bull doze the slums in Rio for the krapitalists. Ha-ha, what a joke. We have a world full of politicians working for krapitalist fascism while claiming they're there for "social justice." Not that it matters. My wallet doesn't really  knew the difference between a krapitalist and a socialist anyway. It just knows when someone is rifling it.

People who believe their politicians (in any freaking country) will be the first ones in  line for  Nazi extermination while  thinking they're in line for a free beer voucher or something.

They'll get what they deserve.

[Paint Your Wagon]

Politicians couldn't give a rats crusty arse what their constituents think.  Intelligent people realise that the politicians pander themselves like prostitutes - in fact there is little distinction betwixt the oldest profession and the second oldest.

There is a fundamental distinctions
Prostitutes can take it lyeing down mostly
Politicians cannot take it at all and lie standing mostly
If you add farmers you got all necessary races to make a good game 

[scottishmoney]

The fundamental difference is prostitutes make an honest living, maybe illegal, but they work for the money.  Cannot say that for politicians.

[longnine009]

As a taxpayer, I'd be willing to build a nation wide network of VD clinics. Prostitutes can visit them for free if they promise to stop by a politicians office on the way in and and give him a "free ride from the taxpayers." Or a good for one ride voucher in the all too likely case that he spent himself already on a male page.



Then what will I do?  

[Paint Your Wagon]

The FED allows Goldman Sacks to do whatever it wants
Too big to regulate ?
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/

[Paint Your Wagon]

We have an ex Volvo cars plant in Antwerp ( bought by Ford like 6 years ago )
I just read the Chinese want to buy Volvo cars and in an unrelated article that the sold Opel will bild the big things in Russia
So it seems with all the software and accounting in India that the remaining production ; that of cars
will now move to China and Russia and America will become a country of soldiers for hire and hamburg flippers whilst we will become serfs again when state money runs out

[longnine009]

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press Writers Christopher Rugaber And Mike Schneider, Associated Press Writers – Mon Oct 5, 7:02 am ET

WASHINGTON – Signs of a slow and fitful recovery emerged in August in some communities across the country where unemployment dropped and foreclosures stabilized, according to The Associated Press' monthly analysis of economic stress in more than 3,100 U.S. counties.




There's the proof.   I'm a mighty bull I am. You bears mess with me and you'll get the horn. Either that or some government lump who outlaws short selling.

[scottishmoney]

Now now, we all know that the USA military kicks arse and that is all that really matters accd. to "mission unaccomplished".

[TwoShadows]

You can't even fight a war any longer! Too many do-gooders and rules of engagement and disengagement. All these years I thought the whole idea was to win it and get it over with. For the most part it is nothing more than tying up thousands of young fighters in the military as that young group of whippersnappers would be a dangerous bunch if they were on the streets at home thinking about what their government was doing to their nation. Got to have armies, even in peace time, to keep the youngsters occuppied! We had way too many youngsters on the street in the 60's and they caused pure havoc for our politicians!

[Triggersmob]

Well it looks like the GFC is over in Australia.
Our Reserve bank just put the interest rates up.
The first bank in the world to do so, since the GFC started.

[Paint Your Wagon]

Well it looks like the GFC is over in Australia.
Our Reserve bank just put the interest rates up.
The first bank in the world to do so, since the GFC started.

Since you are selling goldmines to the Chinese etc it you may be the only country that can hop on the
Chinese - Indian train
So your currency may be as good as gold in the future

The USdollar will not survive the next 3 months unscathed

[scottishmoney]

[Paint Your Wagon]

Yes the dollar is finished and subject of the carry trade now
On top of that everybody and his uncle (france) is conspiring to price oil in another valuta
The Aussies upping their rate , dooms the dollar to monopoly paper
The germans are very prudently calling gold 1200 to 1300 next year
Others are talking in the 5000 to 9000 range by 2012
I got my popcorn and am watching the show

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gold-hits-record-high-as-dollar-slumps-2009-10-06

[Triggersmob]

Predictions here are that the Aussie dollar will buy US$1.05 by the first quarter next year.
Currently the exchange rate is about AUD$0.87 to the US$1.

So buy Aussie dollars now.

[TwoShadows]

Sure makes all those Aussie coins I own look pretty darn good! Got my paws on a 2010 silver Koala this evening on Ebay. Seems odd I can bid on them from U.S. dealers and I could not locate one on Australian Ebay? Anyway I got the ounce Koala out of the way but STILL NEED the half ounce 2010 silver Koala. Got to have my half ounce to keep the collection goins!

I know, just a few years back, I questioned my collecting silver Euro's and my trusted coins dealer told me NOT TO STOP. Guess he was right! I do regret having employment difficulties since the fall of 2005 which brought me a tremendous drop in income. I just keep plugging away but not many silver Euro's finding their way to me in the last couple of years.

Who knows? I might have actually done a few things right in the last 10 years. Time will tell!

[Paint Your Wagon]

As you know I was fired in 1996 and again in 2000
Second time I had to go to court to get my full separation due and my extralegal contributions
I worked as a temporary from 2001 till 2007 retirement which put my wife on a half budget of the
rich years during those 6 years
They all said I was an idiot asking all my extralegal contributions from my first employer (at pension time) who being american had them in 30 years $ bonds yielding 6.5% and I had to pay 22.5% tax to get the money on which I only could get 4% intrest at the time . ( 2% now )
But first it was now MINE and second it was now in Euro and third I put half in goldminers which are doing allright . The bank which would have handled the outsorced pension went broke last year . I do not know what happened to their pension fund branch.
All the coins I had to sell were of non numismatical value . And I replaced them with MS grade .
So all in all I was lucky to be 60 and pensionable in 2007

[longnine009]

Yes the dollar is finished and subject of the carry trade now
On top of that everybody and his uncle (france) is conspiring to price oil in another valuta
The Aussies upping their rate , dooms the dollar to monopoly paper
The germans are very prudently calling gold 1200 to 1300 next year
Others are talking in the 5000 to 9000 range by 2012
I got my popcorn and am watching the show

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gold-hits-record-high-as-dollar-slumps-2009-10-06

"Well actually"  a weak dollar and rising  commodity prices are good for the stock market. And as we all know what's good for wallstreet is good for America and good for Americans, "actually, actually."

******************************************************
Associated Press
updated 4:51 p.m. ET Oct. 6, 2009

NEW YORK - Investors extended stocks' big gains into a second day on signs that the global economy is recovering and as a weak dollar pushed up commodity prices.
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Far out man.





Can I have my bonus now before we get too far into this movie?    
 

[scottishmoney]

Meanwhile the dollar sinks further into the toilet bowl, down with the Tidy Bowl man and his little boat 

[Goose]

PYW, well done on your retirement actions. I see 'inhand' gold and silver to be the only way to go. For stocks? I have a few, but it would be hard to accumulate barrels of oil in ones backyard or killowatts in storage batteries in the basement.....thus stocks instead of 'inhand'. I retired early, and then waited 7 yrs for the vast U S Ponzi scheme (Soc.Sec) to kick in at 62, taking a 20% reduction by 'retiring' earlier than 65 yrs old. As of today, I've received 2 1/2 times the amount that my employers and I paid in over the years. I really feel sorry for the present Ponzi enrollees, they'll have little coming to them in the future. And oh yes, my Ponzi payments will undoubtedly shrink with the coming years as it will in 2010 & 2011 as planned.

[Paint Your Wagon]

PYW, well done on your retirement actions. I see 'inhand' gold and silver to be the only way to go. For stocks? I have a few, but it would be hard to accumulate barrels of oil in ones backyard or killowatts in storage batteries in the basement.....thus stocks instead of 'inhand'. I retired early, and then waited 7 yrs for the vast U S Ponzi scheme (Soc.Sec) to kick in at 62, taking a 20% reduction by 'retiring' earlier than 65 yrs old. As of today, I've received 2 1/2 times the amount that my employers and I paid in over the years. I really feel sorry for the present Ponzi enrollees, they'll have little coming to them in the future. And oh yes, my Ponzi payments will undoubtedly shrink with the coming years as it will in 2010 & 2011 as planned.

Actually whatever I was paid I was over the maximum payout pension limit most of my life
That means I was paying for more pension then I would ever get because in paying there is no maximum but in getting there is a 2000 euro per month limit except of course for state and city employees who get 2200 euro max per month
( that is for a full career that is 35 years of working and age 65 and a pay rate for the last 5 years at or over the social ceiling )

The last 5 years before 1996 I paid like 25 000 euro a year that where taken automatically from my salary this was social security and taxes prepayment ( my marginal taxrate was 65% for state and 12% for city )

When I was out of a job I got all of 37 euro per day indefinitely as unemployment money
So I got back some of all I paid .( But I was creazy enough to work when work was offered )
By retiring at 60 I lost 15% from the "max" and that pension is taxed monthly at like 15% by the state and 9% by the city plus of course province taxes and waste and water taxes and housing taxes and 18% VAT on a lot of purchases and 6% tax on food etc

Remember a social paradise is only a paradise if you are a misfit with 12 children and never plan to work . Otherwise you are paying for that misfit . Even my pension has a solidarity tax and social security add on tax. All pensions are reduced by 2% this month I think since we have an automatic cost of living adaption which hit minus 2%
That is deflation 

[Triggersmob]

I received a payrise on Monday. 
On Tuesday the interest rates went up. 
Goodbye payrise. 

[longnine009]

Am I missing something here?  The liars in congress keep saying health care reform will cost 800 billion over 10 years. Which is 80 billion a year.

Wikipedia: Consuming just under 10 percent of gross domestic product of most developed nations, health care can form an enormous part of a country's economy. In 2001, health care consumed 8.4 per cent of GDP across the OECD countries[14] with the United States (13.9%), Switzerland (10.9%), and Germany (10.7%) being the top three.

The pre-bubble GDP of the U.S in 2003 was 11 trillion. Now maybe there is something wrong with my calculator but 13.9% of 11 trillion is not 80 billion. It's more like  1.529 trillion. Are they sure they want this? They can get 1 1/2 TARPits and 3 sach bag bonuses a year for 1.5 trillion.

Maybe this is the new economy? Instead of everyone throwing dirt back and forth in a field, everyone becomes a flu shot enforcement officer?

The "Recovery" song:

Sung to the coke song:

I'd like to build a baboon den,
And furnish it with Bens,
Grow carbon tax  trees,
Add some debt-slave  bees
And Baucus mandated  Prozac....

Chorus: It's the real thing... Bernanke told us so...
Ghost of George Harrison: "smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smoke pot..."






"Your flu papers...they are not in order."

[Paint Your Wagon]

After Iceland it is probably Latvia to be going down the drain

Latvia on the brink
By MarketWatch
Oct. 7, 2009, 10:04 a.m.

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- It's never good news when a government bond auction fails. It's particularly bad news when an auction fails for a note maturing in just six months. And it's really bad news when there isn't any bid at all.

[Paint Your Wagon]

London's future

"In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a gigantic leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the Desert knows:
I am great Ozymandias, saith the stone,
The King of Kings; this mighty city shows
The wonders of my hand. The City's gone,
Nought but the leg remaining to disclose
The site of this forgotten Babylon.

We wonder, and some hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the wolf in chase,
He meets some fragments huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place."

Horace Smith, 1 February 1818

[TwoShadows]

When we finally reach a point that it seems all is lost we can count on our governments to decide nothing other than a one world, one currency government can save us. Every bit of this is orchastrated right down to the last penny. There is a movement now, just as there has been since this became a country, to suck every last cent of wealth out of the world, including our gold and silver, and then see what we can make out of whats left. (If there is anything left) These people are so rich and powerful they can kill us off and, right before they do, make it look like its our fault! Hang on for the rest of the ride as it is NOT OVER!

[scottishmoney]

Laissez les bontemps rouler

[Paint Your Wagon]

Laissez les bontemps rouler

Yes let's do the Lambada . In my opinion the Lambada was years too early .
And let's revive the French Cancan 

[Paint Your Wagon]

From Jim Sinclair site

If you cross the North Korean border illegally,
you get 12 years hard labor.

If you cross the Iranian border illegally,
you are detained indefinitely.

If you cross the US border illegally,
you get a driver’s license, a social security card, welfare, food stamps and free health care.

[longnine009]

 

[scottishmoney]

And then the Nobel committee gives the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama, for what?  Lying about the f-up economy?  He sure hasn't made any peaces in the world.

[Paint Your Wagon]

And then the Nobel committee gives the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama, for what?  Lying about the f-up economy?  He sure hasn't made any peaces in the world.

It is an equal opportunities positive action 

[Templar]

WELL LOOK WHO GOT THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE---POOR ALFRED JUST ROLLED OVER IN HIS GRAVE---I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN BUT I JUST DON'T THINK PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS BEEN IN LONG ENOUGH OR DONE ANYTHING THAT WOULD BRING SUCH AN HONOR--I AM SURE THE MILLIONS OF UNEMPLOYED ARE HAPPY WITH THE PEACE HE HAS HELP BRING THEM AND THE SOLDIERS IN ALLAH'S BACK YARD MUST FEEL RELEIVED--OH WELL WHAT EVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT

           YOUR PROUD??? SERVANT---THE TEMPLAR

[longnine009]

And then the Nobel committee gives the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama, for what?  Lying about the f-up economy?  He sure hasn't made any peaces in the world.

It's because he doesn't look like he just got out of detox when he goes  front of the cameras.  But that's about the only deviation I can see from the bush script.

How long will it be before the cannibals realize their "socialists" are just krapitalists in drag? Hehehehe, wait until they go for their "free" vaccination shots.


The bluejay in the back yard keeps calling  me Stoner. He's on my list of evil doerers.

[scottishmoney]

I do ponder what part the change from Bushie to Obama had on the itty bitty t!tty committee?

[Goose]

I guess that bowing to inferior countries' kings and apologizing to many insipid prime ministers, it portrayed the subservient actions of the president. The Nobel prize committee really ate that up! Don't fret, after all, the 1939 edition of Time magazine 'honored' Hitler as 'The Man of The Year'.

[Goose]

Sorry everyone....Hitler was 'Man of The Year' in 1938. Joseph Stalin received the 'honor' in 1939. I guess B O is following their footsteps.....dictatorially and socially.

[Paint Your Wagon]

Sorry everyone....Hitler was 'Man of The Year' in 1938. Joseph Stalin received the 'honor' in 1939. I guess B O is following their footsteps.....dictatorially and socially.

Ah but Hitler managed the olympic games and BO did'nt and if I remember correctly those games were broadcast on television as a first
I read in a sci fi novel the first thing the aliens are going to "see" is Hitlers broadcast of his Arian olympic games .
As to the Nobel comittee like any comittee they are useless.

In an unrelated note it was broadcast today that total tax from cigerettes is down here since people don't have the money anymore to pay 300% tax
So any further taxincreases will only diminish income futher ( econ 101)

[longnine009]

This seems mighty odd for a bull recovery. Unless the bull is just a butt gerbil.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/10/34-banks-miss-tarp-dividends-and-almost-no-one-notices.html

"In a sign that more banks are under great pressure from the recession, 34 financial institutions did not pay their quarterly dividends in August to the Treasury on funds obtained under the Troubled Asset Relief Fund (TARP). The number almost doubled from 19 in May when payments were last made, and also raised questions about Treasury’s judgment in approving these banks as “healthy,” a necessary step for them to get TARP funding."

Check this out:  "their quarterly dividends."--(Smells like King Knobhead of the Sachigoths was here.)   When did loan repayments become "dividends?"

[longnine009]

I do ponder what part the change from Bushie to Obama had on the itty bitty t!tty committee?

Not much at all if Secretaries of State are any gauge.