oh, I see . we're supposed to be good.

Bankers are bankrupt criminals running loose and are still killing off countries.
Rich guys can off-shore their money so they avoid taxes of all sorts.
Governments break their own laws to give money to their rich bankster funders.

and we're supposed to be good?

RIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiight!

shouldn't we be protesting at the Bank of England? Well, you were beat to the punch. Unfortunately it was one flacid arts protest.
what's missing from the video? The police with horses and battons.
Why? Because it was a frolic in the park, not a protest.
They wanted funding for the arts to continue. That shouldn't be too hard, because if you're that out to lunch, the Banksters will just lUUUUv U.
Such folk can just go crawl back into their basement flats and grow some mold on their foreheads.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/video/2011/jan/14/protest-uk-uncut-bank-england?INTCMP=SRCH

-Costick67 ~(8^P

Costick67 may be a prophet, part 6

What we have here (video) is proof of the US government and bankers working together, through the IMF, to screw the Euro. The reason? To keep the dollar as the international reserve currency, which means the US, like a gang, gets a cut of all the international trading action done in dollars.

And the funniest thing is that all of the US gang (government, banks and Moody's/Fitch) are bankrupt, not just morally, but financially too. They're leeches living off any host they can find.

Last summer

I figured out this polite armchair currency war

that dare not speak its name. I'm not a conspiracy guy, but I know a rigged game when I see one.

Here were the clues:

Naomi Klein showed how the IMF is the closer for US foreign policy.

the US banksters have committed crimes, and yet do not go to jail.

The ratings agencies, like Moody's

are American and corrupt, and yet nobody's going to jail.

(the rated sub-prime mortgage CDOs as AAA, not AAplague)

The dollar is threatened as reserve currency by the Euro.

Rumours were going around that the Middle East (like Sadam)

was going to switch to the Euro.

Greece's gov't is full of willing dupes who barely need to be bribed

to screw their own country.

With this small batch of evidence, I figured it out. The Nobel is on the way.

Now, what happens when China and others drop the dollar like

a sack of burning sh*t

-Costick67 ~(8^P

checkitout:

MaxKeiser.com [source of the real scoops]

stopspeculators.gr [on greece]

on China:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-11/24/content_11599087.htm

China, Russia quit dollar
By Su Qiang and Li Xiaokun (China Daily)
Updated: 2010-11-24 08:02
Premier Wen Jiabao shakes hands with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on a visit to St. Petersburg on Tuesday.ALEXEY DRUZHININ / AFP

St. Petersburg, Russia - China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced late on Tuesday.
Chinese experts said the move reflected closer relations between Beijing and Moscow and is not aimed at challenging the dollar, but to protect their domestic economies.

"About trade settlement, we have decided to use our own currencies," Putin said at a joint news conference with Wen in St. Petersburg.

The two countries were accustomed to using other currencies, especially the dollar, for bilateral trade. Since the financial crisis, however, high-ranking officials on both sides began to explore other possibilities.

The yuan has now started trading against the Russian rouble in the Chinese interbank market, while the renminbi will soon be allowed to trade against the rouble in Russia, Putin said. .....[and so on]

university entry test

can you default on a loan?

Yes?

You're in.

Students are being too forthright. Just do what the bankers are doing.

Take the benefits and then find some way to avoid the costs.

It’s your first entry test for University.

If you pass this test, you can go study for free.

more later

Financial suicide is the only option

I know that no politician wants to say ‘I failed’, ‘we’re broke’ ‘we’re out of the Euro’ ‘we’re gonna suffer for a couple of years’.

But , if they don’t , we’ll be enslaved for eternity , to the financial sector which has taken all the other levers of power away from us.

This is called 'kicking the can down the street'.

Luckily for us, there's a proxy war going on in the silver markets which should

give the whole corrupt system its toe-tag.

Suicide is the only option. Those politicians, realising that they can't go forward, or backward,

have two choices,

become re-born humans and close the banks, or

kill themselves,

before the starving crowd gets a chance.

[I always thought ties presented themselves well for the job seeing as they cut off the circulation to the head anyway.]

-Costick67 ~(8^P

checkitout:

Now you're talking: New York Times finally shows the rest of the US how to default on loans, particularly states and cities:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/business/economy/21bankruptcy.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=states%20default&st=cse

Policymakers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers.
Unlike cities, the states are barred from seeking protection in federal bankruptcy court. Any effort to change that status would have to clear high constitutional hurdles because the states are considered sovereign.

But proponents say some states are so burdened that the only feasible way out may be bankruptcy, giving Illinois, for example, the opportunity to do what General Motors did with the federal government’s aid.

Beyond their short-term budget gaps, some states have deep structural problems, like insolvent pension funds, that are diverting money from essential public services like education and health care. Some members of Congress fear that it is just a matter of time before a state seeks a bailout, say bankruptcy lawyers who have been consulted by Congressional aides.

Bankruptcy could permit a state to alter its contractual promises to retirees, which are often protected by state constitutions, and it could provide an alternative to a no-strings bailout. Along with retirees, however, investors in a state’s bonds could suffer, possibly ending up at the back of the line as unsecured creditors.

“All of a sudden, there’s a whole new risk factor,” said Paul S. Maco, a partner at the firm Vinson & Elkins who was head of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Municipal Securities during the Clinton administration.

For now, the fear of destabilizing the municipal bond market with the words “state bankruptcy” has proponents in Congress going about their work on tiptoe. No draft bill is in circulation yet, and no member of Congress has come forward as a sponsor, although Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, asked the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, about the possiblity in a hearing this month.

House Republicans, and Senators from both parties, have taken an interest in the issue, with nudging from bankruptcy lawyers and a former House speaker, Newt Gingrich, who could be a Republican presidential candidate. It would be difficult to get a bill through Congress, not only because of the constitutional questions and the complexities of bankruptcy law, but also because of fears that even talk of such a law could make the states’ problems worse.... [and so on]

MaxKeiser.com

theautomaticearth.blogspot.com (my stablemates and compadres)

SWINE flu is catching

[where's that teet?]

These swine being Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the North of England. All these areas once fed London, now they can't live without London. It's as if the SWINE are in a Third-world country, attached to their colonial owners, the City of London, and the Queen, and Phillip;

Green that is. The offshore King of British retail.

The SWINE're often found saying:

"Throw us a freakin' bone, or a jail over here."

Where's the little money up north going?
ask UK Uncut , a protest group that is doing what the government refuses to do:
Make the rich pay their fair share of taxes.
Their tool, public protest and embarrassment of the HMRC (taxman)
and the rich bastards
TopShop (Phil Green 1.5 billion tax free),
Vodafone (6 billion taxfree )

-Costick67 ~(8^P
checkitout:
follow this group on twitter and here's their blog
http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/

Businessmen are holy

I am Sam, a business guru.
Let me tell you how it is.
Not how it should be, that would be
tantamount to pulling your dick.
You must learn the ways of business,
so let's climb this mountain together.

Lesson 1

Businesses must survive
Even if the management has no choice but to lie, cheat, steal, collude, blackmail, off-load.

They will abrogate human rights, if it’s possible (labour laws, tax laws, off-shoring laws). Not all companies get all breaks. They have to be able to strong-arm politicians, and have to be able to carry out a move to East Asia. International competition thus aids those who can enforce an abrogation of human rights. E.g. big corporations, banks.
The lever of power is debt and greed of the individual and the government. The individual thinks that he should join in so that he will not be screwed. Governments just want tax money, money for the Party, money for themselves.

More later, from Ha-Jun Chang, one of the truthing economists
who says 'free-market economics is a lie'. It's actually more socialised that you might realise.

-Costick67 ~(8^P

checkitout: Ha Joon Chang of LSE

The economics of hypocrisy
After implementing the largest government bail-out in history,
the US continues to tell other nations, "do as I say, not as I do"

o Ha-Joon Chang
o guardian.co.uk, Monday 20 October 2008 14.00
...President George Bush, however, did not see things quite that way. Announcing the bail-out package, he argued that, rather than being "socialist", the plan was simply a continuation of the American system of free enterprise, which "rests on the conviction that the federal government should interfere in the market place only when necessary". Obviously, in his view, nationalising a huge chunk of the financial sector was one of those "necessary" things.
Bush's statement is not only an ultimate example of political doublespeak – one of the biggest state interventions in history is dressed up as another workday market process – but it also reveals America's long-standing pragmatism towards the free market. Throughout history, Americans have supported the free market when it suits them but not when it doesn't.

wish you were here

[wish you were here- Life magazine]

The Army. support our boys! Keep them out of harm's way; the way of politicians, that is.
Should I worry about British soldiers coming home in a box?

NO, it's their career choice.

[with Lyddon, even a butter ad can be subversive]

[wish you were here- protest day, at London's cenotaph]
Charlie Gilmour, who is not unknown, put a marine's move on the cenotaph.

It's a memorial to the unknown soldier,

because nobody gives a sh*t.

Each soldier's body is just a means to an end.

Notice how the media have used Charlie as a whipping boy,

trying to embarrass him and his father, through carpet, day-long coverage of his goofy mug. They want to make sure that no rich bad-boy will ever by allowed again to cause outrage by showing disrespect to our militaristic government. It's been like a small town meeting where the bad-boys are brow-beaten to death.
The toff-boy media collusion is so bad, it was difficult for me to find a jpeg to download. Nobody wanted their hard work to be used to display sacrilege. Only they can profit, and then they surrender all rights to the government.

-Costick67 ~(8^P

Jaws of death

Apparently Germany and France are encouraging economic suicide for the Euro-zone. It's not just the banksters anymore.
They're all spreading rumours about countries, and next thing you know, the IMF moves in.

Case in point: Ireland

They're doing it intentionally .
For different reasons.

France thinks it’s good for weakening the Euro to help exports.
Germany is doing it to wreck the Euro because they want out.
To see Ireland’s fate depends on an odd comment by a Euro PM, goes to show you that the dark art of hedging /derivative means that bankers are looking to pin the blame on a politician, when the bankers are clearly looking for blood, to enrich themselves, but don't want to take the blame.
We’re not fooled. They're just waiting for the Euro crew to start arguing, and then they move in for the kill.
[seen in the City, recently]

-Costick67 ~(8^P

Leaks have stopped leaking on 1 country

Watch out for the countries not listed on the salacious leaks.
They hold the key. Perhaps Julian Assange is not as holy as he seems

Name one country that's a star in the world of espionage,
modern spokespersons for Hitler-style genocide,
a small country that America supports and cannot control?
Any idea yet?

Shouldn't a country like that be all over WikiLeaks like a rash?

Well, they aren't because they're just
better at being ahead of the game.

They've left Barrack Obama and David Cameron in their dust.

I had noticed this myself, over a week ago, but being cynical, I thought that Assange
was just a bit risk-averse, with regards to this particular country.
I honestly thought the Mosad would have killed him had he spilled the beans,
but instead, the rumour is that they may have paid him off,
and taken off with the suitcase full of files.

Here's to Middle East peace
at a time when we celebrate the birth of Jerusalem's
most famous resident.
He came to town with a big reputation, and then he really died!
here's a seasonal song

-Costick67 ~(8^P

liberty toppled by the media

The US loves its symbols.
When it took over Baghdad, 100 000 deaths ago,
it just had to topple Sadam's statue
(one down, hundreds to go)



So, as if they need help from the financial sector,
the media in the US has been using disinformation to limit the liberty of American citizens.
The corruption in the private media, like Fox News, is not just business doing business. It is destroying liberty.


-Costick67 ~(8^P
checkitout:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/17/fox-news-viewers-are-the-_n_798146.html


Fox News Viewers Are The Most Misinformed: Study

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson
First Posted: 12-17-10 09:42 AM | Updated: 01- 3-11 04:24 PM
ORIGINAL POST: Fox News viewers are much more likely than others to believe false information about American politics, a new study concludes.

The study, conducted by the University of Maryland, judged how likely consumers of various news outlets and publications were to believe misinformation about a wide range of political issues. Overall, 90% of respondents said they felt they had heard false information being given to them during the 2010 election campaign. However, while consumers of just about every news outlet believed some information that was false, the study found that Fox News viewers, regardless of political information, were "significantly more likely" to believe that:
-Most economists estimate the stimulus caused job losses (12 points more likely)

--Most economists have estimated the health care law will worsen the deficit (31 points)

--The economy is getting worse (26 points)
--Most scientists do not agree that climate change is occurring (30 points)

--The stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts (14 points)

--Their own income taxes have gone up (14 points)

--The auto bailout only occurred under Obama (13 points)

--When TARP came up for a vote most Republicans opposed it (12 points)

--And that it is not clear that Obama was born in the United States (31 points)
....[and so on]

how nobel of you

I was trumped by BBC's 'This week' show a day ago.

You know how the righteous world has just taken a kick at China,
while still doing business with them
and using their ships, and their 'rare earth'?
Ya, the hypocritical world. You know that one, right?
Well, I thought of the best comeback for China,
but they published their riposte before I got the chance.
See below.

[the prize-winning chair]

I was thinking that for every

empty chair that wins a Nobel
( i.e. Liu Xiaobo)
there’s a Guantanamo cage
(i.e. Julian Assange).

Since the US UK and Sweden are trying to shut Assange in,
Russia and China had already made a go of equating them, officially.
They made an application in Oslo.
I can just picture the tearful speech next year
in a Nordic accent:
"Assange has opened a new chapter in openness.
With this kind of openness, the West loses.
Quoting Consort Camilla 'there's a first time for everything'
He's shown the little guy that all you need
in order to tell the Man to shove it...
(sobbing) is a computer and a soul, and
a love of Guantanamo jail food.
(Waaaaaahh)
He's gonna get a strict regime of waterboarding
for all his treasonous behaviour
because Mr Murdoch said so."
[the king of tearful speech- Glenn Adolfus Beck]

[they seem to have the upper hand, these days]

I'm no fan of China's government because it's teaching the world how to run a capitalist system with no freedoms, 24-hour surveillance and firing squads.
I just love a good super-power fight, and I especially enjoy piercing the West's holier-than-thou view of the world, within which only their sh*t doesn't stink.

-Costick67 ~(8^P
checkitout:
2 stories: China and Russia on Assange & Assange and Guantanamo
1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/09/julian-assange-nobel-peace-prize

Julian Assange should be awarded Nobel peace prize, suggests Russia

Russia urges Assange nomination in calculated dig at the US
over WikiLeaks founder's detention
* Luke Harding
* guardian.co.uk, Thursday 9 December 2010 14.15 GMT

Russia has suggested that Julian Assange should be awarded the Nobel peace prize, in an unexpected show of support from Moscow for the jailed WikiLeaks founder.

In what appears to be a calculated dig at the US, the Kremlin urged non-governmental organisations to think seriously about "nominating Assange as a Nobel Prize laureate".

"Public and non-governmental organisations should think of how to help him," the source from inside president Dmitry Medvedev's office told Russian news agencies. Speaking in Brussels, where Medvedev was attending a Russia-EU summit yesterday , the source went on: "Maybe, nominate him as a Nobel Prize laureate."

Russia's reflexively suspicious leadership appears to have come round to WikiLeaks, having decided that the ongoing torrent of disclosures are ultimately far more damaging and disastrous to America's long-term geopolitical interests than they are to Russia's.

The Kremlin's initial reaction to stories dubbing Russia a corrupt "mafia state" and kleptocracy was, predictably, negative. Last week Medvedev's spokesman dubbed the revelations "not worthy of comment" while Putin raged that a US diplomatic cable comparing him to Batman and Medvedev to Robin was "arrogant" and "unethical". State TV ignored the claims.

Subsequent disclosures, however, that Nato had secretly prepared a plan in case Russia invaded its Baltic neighbours have left the Kremlin smarting. Today Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Nato had to explain why it privately considered Russia an enemy while publicly describing it warmly as a "strategic partner" and ally.

Nato should make clear its position on WikiLeaks cables published by the Guardian alleging that the alliance had devised plans to defend Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia against Russia, Lavrov said.

"With one hand, Nato seeks agreement with us on joint partnership, and with the other, it makes a decision that it needs to defend. So when is Nato more sincere?" Lavrov asked today. "We have asked these questions and are expecting answers to them. We think we are entitled to that."
....
In London, meanwhile, Russia's chargé d'affaires and acting ambassador in the UK, Alexander Sternik, said relations with Britain had improved since the coalition came to power. He complained, however, about the hostile reaction in the British media after Fifa's executive committee voted that Russia – and not England – should host the 2018 World Cup.
....and the story continues
2
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/jan/11/wikileaks-latest-developments?INTCMP=SRCH
WikiLeaks: Julian Assange returns to court and the latest developments
...[after explaining how the Swedish case is a fraud, Assange's lawyers mention Guantanamo as a possible permanent vacation place for their client.]

"• The offences are not extradition offences

• Abuses of process by the Swedish prosecutor. The document says that she has sought Assange's extradition when she has not yet decided to prosecute him and is seeking extradition for questioning him in order to further her investigation. It repeats that arrest for the purpose of questioning is unnecessary since Assange has already offered to be questioned. The defence states that the "proper, proportionate and legal means of requesting a person's questioning in the UK in these circumstances is through Mutual Legal Assistance."

• Evidence from "distinguished Swedish legal authorities" that will show Assange is a "victim of a pattern of illegal or corrupt behaviour" by the Swedish prosecuting authorities. In summary, releasing Assange's name to the press as the suspect in a rape inquiry, the refusal of the prosecutor to interview him on the dates offered and a refusal of all requests to make the evidence against him available in English (a right under the European convention on human rights).

• Human rights - this is the part where the defence claims a risk that Assange will be extradited from Sweden to the US, which it says would be in violation of article three of the European convention on human rights.

It is submitted that there is a real risk that, if extradited to Sweden, the US will seek his extradition and/or illegal rendition to the USA, where there will be a real risk of him being detained at Guantanamo Bay or elsewhere, in conditions which would breach Article 3 of the ECHR. Indeed, if Mr. Assange were rendered to the USA, without assurances that the death penalty would not be carried out, there is a real risk that he could be made subject to the death penalty. It is well-known that prominent figures have implied, if not stated outright, that Mr. Assange should be executed"...[and so on]

the chocolate mafia

[update: more to come on the duplicitous Mr. Mandelson, who has been hired by the bank that manipulated the Kraft, Cadbury deal.]

Bill Bailey and Edwina Currie were on Sky News looking at the morning's newspapers

Edwina (mistress of PM John Major), saw the Cadbury story about how the company's new American owners want to move the company that's been

in the UK

running a fair, socially-integrated factory

for generations

to Switzerland, where the chocolate is much better, I must say.

After all the promises not to close factories and sh*t like that, to placate the populace, they did what the law allows. They closed factories and are now moving lock stock and barrel.

Edwina, always a cheap whore for the Big Man, said

'fix the tax system, we must not lose these companies'.

Bill Bailey (much respeck, my friend) shouted

'the chocolate mafia!'

Businesses can do whatever the fl%&*k they please.

Don't buy their stuff,

if you can't 'stomach' it.

That's globalisation. The really cunning politicians, like Mandelson said

"they've promised to keep the factory and all the workers."

When they decided to fire workers within the first week, they said

"I'm most shocked"

You're most full of sh*t, is what you are.

Every reasonable person knows that the only issue

for business is the

lowest common denominator.

Businesses are duty-bound to shareholders to

screw, pollute, connive, fire, move, manipulate, buy off

in order to maximise short-term gain.

That's bred the financial crisis, which will make it all collapse, flat.

Cadbury's chocolate pancake, anyone?

-Costick67 ~(8^P

you too can pass the acid test

"Who are you, man?" "Tim Geytenner, the serial stockbroker?"
"who are you, man?"

"you look like the God of the financial crisis, man"
"like totally"

Just take enough lisurgic acid (LSD), and the financial crisis looks like

a mile-long Mercedes limousine
Instead of armageddon.

-Costick67 ~(8^P

checkitout:

Hey just in time for the Rightwing's pater familias' 100 birthday (he's missing due to death):

Reagan's son said President Bonzo had Alzheimers in office. I just thought he was a puppet, of his own choice. It was the bankers behind him, and Bush41 who were pulling the strings.

http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/14/5840855-report-reagans-son-suggests-father-had-alzheimers-while-in-white-house

Report: Reagan's son suggests father had Alzheimer's while in White House

Ronald Reagan’s youngest son says in a new book that he believes his father suffered from Alzheimer’s disease while in the White House, according to a column in U.S. News & World Report.

Ron Reagan makes the suggestion in his new book “My Father at 100," due out next week, Paul Bedard writes in the news magazine’s “Washington Whispers” column. Ronald Reagan, who was president from 1981-1989, and his wife Nancy publicly revealed he had Alzheimer’s in 1994.

His son Ron, who became a liberal and atheist, suggests he saw hints of confusion and "an out-of-touch president" during the 1984 campaign and again in 1986, when his father couldn't recall the names of California canyons he was flying over, according to the U.S. News & World Report column.

In his memoir, Ron Reagan notes that doctors today know that the disease can be present before it is recognized, according to the report. "The question, then, of whether my father suffered from the beginning stages of Alzheimer's while in office more or less answers itself," Ron Reagan writes, according to the column.

The son also says his father, after leaving the White House, had brain surgery after being thrown from a horse on July 4, 1989, while in Mexico. He says his father, after initially refusing medical help, was taken to a San Diego hospital, Bedard writes.

"Surgeons opening his skull to relieve pressure on the brain emerged from the operating room with the news that they had detected what they took to be probable signs of Alzheimer's disease," the younger Reagan writes, according to Bedard. Several Reagan associates, however, say there was no surgery in San Diego, Bedard noted.

Feb. 6 is the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth.

sadomasochism parading as democracy

the three line whip.

Oh, the imagery

I imagine a line of three dominatrixies, each of them holding a whip.
They are offering to do me some harm,
because I am a lowly, elected politician
from the back benches.


The real definition:

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
three-line whip-noun
/ˌθriː.laɪnˈwɪp/ n [C usually singular]

In Britain, a three-line whip is an instruction given to Members of Parliament by the leaders of their party telling them they must vote in the way that the party wants them to on a particular subject.
A three-line whip comes from the daily agenda distributed by the party whips [there's a job] which lists all the votes. The important votes are “underlined three times to denote urgency and requiring party members to attend the vote.”

Oh sh*t, the real problem:

whatever happened to voting with your conscience?
or voting the way you know that your constituents want you to vote?
you are their representative.
It just boils down to us-vs-them politics,
don't it?
I guess they're not afraid of the public, yet.

-Costick67 ~(8^P

Faith-based economics

Bankrun 2010 [when the panties are raised...]

Sounds like one of those knucklehead street races.
Even though our economic masters, on Wall Street, seem invincible (they can break every law known to man), actually they can be beaten, with a little faith,

and an insider with the dope (info).
That insider is Max Keiser, a former broker.

We can bring the whole edifice down.
Get the bull. stop the bullshit.
Have faith. We can do it!

part 1

Cantona shoots, he scores
He's got a new idea. We need to take our money out of the banks on 7 December, this year. Go search for the protest site (but don’t google it- you might get arrested).

part 2

The new Keiser, Max is his name
It also seems that we can affect the markets, on the advice of Max Keiser (dot com): to buy silver bullion (coins, bars), to raise the price so that the hedge-market short positions (expecting prices to fail, because of hedgers own market manipulations) will fail, meaning that the big US/UK brokerage houses will fall.

part 3

Look after yourself
Go outside. Stick your finger in the air, and realise that financial armageddon is coming.
Grow your own food, even in a flat, but watch out if your windows fog up because the police will think you’re growing weed, and bust down your door. Mend your clothing, trade with neighbours, fix what you can, buy a renewable source of energy (wind, solar) if you can.
These things will flatten the economy and get rid of the present group of politicians, and the next set, too. All of them will go, like in Argentina, until somebody decides to tell the bond-holders ‘sorry, I can’t pay you’, defaults, pays the short term pain, and continues on a new path of sustainable growth without debt, national or personal. It’s risky, but Argentina is now back as an economic power. We have to realise that the economy is fine.

It’s the bankers and the government that are trying to kill our economies.

They got us into debt, nationally and personally (and we’re mostly to blame for the personal). So, there’s no need for revolution, in the traditional sense. Just look after your own kind, and then let nature take its course. Tobias Jones (BBC) said that utopia is the ability to live in a primitive community. I think we’ll be forced to do so, very soon. That primitive community is what our countries will become, if we’re lucky.

-Costick67 ~(8^P

checkitout:
bankrun2010
RT.com (Keiser report)
maxkeiser.com

Green with stupidity

I’ve been following the Green party for a number of years in various countries. They are the reason why I believe that no single political party will do anything for us, as a country.
They've got connections for getting good photovoltaics, windmills, and granola, but that's it.

The party poop
The only thing I’ve come to see is that, once a party starts looking serious, it realises that about itself also, and begins to play the long waiting game. That means it starts to look at the levers of power and stops seeking consensus with its grass-roots.

The grassroots “don’t understand the workings of politics”

they’ll say to themselves.

They don’t dare say it anywhere else
because they’ll get turfed out on their keisters if they do.

That one idea goes against the very notion of creating a new party; it’s against the present order of things.
That happened to the Greens, most certainly, once in power. They saw it in their interest to support the bombing of Serbia when one of their founding tenets is ‘don’t kill anybody for any reason other than self-defence’, or something like that. As would naturally happen, the German Greens have ‘lost their way’. I could have told you that. The ‘grassroots’ left, never to be political again (or to join an extremist/nationalist party). The ones who stuck with the party should have been seeking the head of Josca Fischer, the Green minister who gave the ‘all clear’ to bomb, but in the end, the remaining members were compromised by their desire to see the party in power, even though it’s now a Green shell of itself.
Let’s not even talk about the fact that the other German parties set this trap for the Greens who fell right in, those political neophytes. They should have discussed the rights and wrongs (as a democratic movement- or party) of bombing and then decided not to do it. Instead, they played the game, and were beaten, literally. Didn’t they have a single Poli Sci or History grad amongst them?
So, now that Western economies are melting in front of our eyes, some ‘political’ opportunists, Socialists, Communists and anarchists (too disorganised and childish to deserve a capital ‘A’) are telling people to join them. In my opinion, that would be just the continuation of more politics.
Where we often thought in the good old days that the bureaucracy of our countries was against the people, now we realise that, in hard economic times, the government is most definitely also against the people. Any government structure, I think, goes against the nature of human beings. That doesn’t make me an anarchist, but we just have to realise that we’ve seen democracy fail to protect the many, and rally to support the rich and the criminals.

In 2010, damnit! Everywhere!
The reason for this also damns any party.
If you have a system that places all the importance
on a bunch of people with nice titles,
they'll abuse their position.
It's corruption or collusion.
take your pick.

-Costick67 ~(8^P

Let them eat polyunsaturated fat

When we’re staring long-term penury in the face, our governments are laughing, with their million-dollar bank accounts (that’s most of the cabinet) and their good-paying jobs, with connections (just ask T Blair how much money the oil companies are giving him annually- for good deeds, past and future).
So, all governments are about control, by their very nature.
If we are to protest, and we should, we should also say , not ‘listen to us’ or ‘we want fairness’, but

‘we don’t need you telling us what to do’, and
‘we’ll “take care” of business, and you too’, and
‘pack your bags’

Our actions should reflect our own independent nature. We should look after our immediate loved ones and ourselves, and withdraw from the economic system.
The political system will soon crumble if the government’s rich (tax-evading) buddies are losing money. They won’t know which horse to bet on, and the whole place will go ape-shit.
Let's take care of business and the other suits in parliament. Sing it!


-Costick67 ~(8^P

I’m not inviting myself to any Party that would have me as a member

Party politics is passe’.
Socialists, communists and anarchists are screaming now in their attempt
to replace the Centre Right Labour/Con-Dems here in the UK

Why is nobody listening to them? I don't think they realise it,
but we all know that
no party is ever going to solve anything, these days.
All it does is replace one bunch of suits with another.

No Conservative, Labour, socialist, communist, anarchist government is gonna

sort this sh*t-pile out.

Politics itself, as a concept where it is

‘by the people, from the people, for the people’

is completely shot. Every government is a tyranny in waiting, as you can/will see.
Now that they've laid things out for their rich buddies, despite some pretty good laws,

all bets are off. Folks are hunkering down for some poverty!

Governments will have to beat down the 99% to keep

themselves and the rest of the 1% in the lap of luxury.
Hey You. Look after yourself and your own.

What's going on? some highlights

we’ve seen democracy fail to protect the many, and rally to support the rich and the criminals. In 2010, damnit! Everywhere!
The political system will soon crumble if the government’s rich (tax-evading) buddies start losing money. They won’t know which horse to bet on, and the whole place will go ape-shit.
A succession of groups of politicians will come for a week and leave, just like in Argentina, until one of them decides to tell the bond-holders ‘sorry, I can’t pay you’, defaults, pays the short term pain, and continues on a new path of sustainable growth without debt, national or personal. It’s risky, but Argentina is now back as an economic power.
We have to realise that

the economy was fine.

It’s the bankers and the government who are killing us off.

It’s amazing how the good economic years that we’ve all seen were just an illusion propped up by borrowing (from our future, i.e. debt). Borrowing like that, unfortunately,

requires the guarantee that the economy will never fail.
However, the bank regulators let that one slip through their fingers.

-Costick67 ~(8^P

If Andy wants to be an imperialist, tell him to sort out the banks

Prince Andy, that is. A Wiki-Leak
I just realised how the goal posts have moved, lately. A few years ago we would have been happy if our governments were not killing Iraqis and Afghans and not working on behalf of the oil companies. Now, that’s small potatoes.
Now we want economic fairness, maybe a job or at least some food. As usual, many of us won’t get those needs (not wishes) fulfilled because the rich want to kill us off.

The Wiki-Leak
So, Andy goes to dinner parties and just lays bare the ‘Great Game’ metaphor, about what gets Western imperialists excited. It involves scoring the business deal, but using the army if necessary. It’s all about control.

Us-vs-them.

And then he has the temerity to call other countries corrupt. There’s more than one definition of corruption, Andy. Apparently, Andy is also corrupt, and in collusion with the very people he’s accusing of corruption. Timur Kulibayev, the son-in-law of the ‘corrupt’ Kazakh leader gave Andy £15 million pounds for his British mansion, through off-shore companies. That means that that income is non-taxable, because it’s gone! Corruption, indeed.

[song: Take a Leak on Andy]
-Costick ~(8^P

King Abdullah takes over Buckingham Palace in a bloodless coup

It’s a coup, and not a war, because King Abdullah already owns most of the UK government’s debt (and thus the government), and he is thus an honorary citizen, and Lord in the Upper Chamber, where full bedpans are thrown around willy-nilly (known as ‘taking the piss’).
Sit down, Mr Prescott!
[pic]
Never has it been so clear. If you’re listening to the talkative brokers in the US, they say that if

Ireland falls, Portugal is next.

On the Keiser Report last night, one analyst said that bailed-out brokers from the US are attacking anything (like countries), for their own gain. It is such a corrupt market, he was shaking his head the whole time. His advice: say ‘no’, Ireland.
I’m a bit more sanguine. I want Ireland to say ‘no’ and I’m going to pray for this. But, if Ireland falls, then Portugal will get a deal.

Notice how Ireland’s deal is at an ‘unsustainable’ rate of 5.75%

(according to analysts- they were saying it before, but they’re not warning anybody now. It’s bad for business). So, Ireland will be permanently enslaved.
Portugal will get an even worse deal because, as Nils Prately (Guardian) says Germany wants it that way to prevent others from taking ‘the easy way out’. I would also say that Germany is sick of propping up weak countries. [it’s not the countries’ fault, it’s the ill markets, but anyway...]
Prately is fairly positive, because he talked to a US broker (Jim O’Neill, Goldman Sachs) who says that if Germany and France swallow it all, the Euro will survive. That’s wishful thinking on Goldman’s part, because they want to eat another chunk of Euro money.
However, if Portugal goes, then it will be Spain’s turn, and then Italy. When this happens, the Germans, who run the show (because they’re paying for it), will pull the plug. They will rightly see that bailing out all these countries will also bankrupt Germany itself. Then it truly is game over for the Euro and the banking system, just as I said a few months ago (I’ll get you the title and date). If the Euro is killed off, then bankers will go after their ‘pals’ in the UK and US (actually the US is being eaten up from the ‘inside’ as we speak- an inside job by Paulson, Geithner) who are being funded by China and the Oily Kings. And that’s it.

Bob’s your uncle.
Abdullah’s your king.

Saud’s law is worse that sod’s law, I assure you.

Sharia!

Bless you.

-Costick67 ~(8^P

they want my lucky charms, and my wad too

I'll fix their wagon, the motherfu&^**kers.

That’s the day when their parliament (the Dial) votes whether to swallow the suicide pill, or not. The government has a weak majority, or even worse; things are a bit fluid. If they say no, they’ll have a couple of bad years of potato soup, and get back on their feet. If they say yes, they’re enslaved. Their bankers and government will have put the shackles on their limbs, and the good days will fade off into the distance.
[picture of cowboy and sunset]
The Irish are good gamblers and scramblers. They’re not jaded, corrupt consumers like most Westerners. They’ll be brave and do the right thing. They’re our last hope.
The people are simpler, more straight-forward and just want justice. What the government doing? I heard Cowen say it on the news

“we’ll take 17 billion from our pension fund”.

When other countries were destroyed by their banks, it was just conjecture that private pension were gone, they’d at least have a government pension fund (if their governments don’t eat that money immediately), maybe they’ll get their value back in the long term. But here, it’s clear theft, and Cowen admitted it. If it were going somewhere good, then maybe I’d agree with. But, it’s being chucked into a black hole, never to be seen again. The only people who will benefit are those who created the crisis, local bankers, US/UK hedgers (who were themselves bailed out!!) and the bond insurance markets their hedging against (and fraudulently undercutting with rumour and slander).
So, everybody pray. It’s in our interest. Ask that Ireland has the wisdom to thrown out this plan, the IMF, its government and their banks.

-Costick67~(8^P

Taking the -Leak with a grain of salt

[what? me? lie? I'm a diplomat.]
The latest Wiki-Leak documents might actually be an intentional leak, like the ones they do at nuclear plants, when nobody’s looking.

Other than some embarrassing personal comments about some rulers’ corruption and vanity (actually, they didn’t get the half of it, with Berlusconi). The only hot policy issues that were released were about the two big international political problems for the US, namely North Korea and Iran.
It’s not surprising that
the so-called ‘embarrassing’ leaks
actually help make the case for US intervention against North Korea
(abandoned by China)
and Iran
(abandoned by the Arab leaders).

In my world, if the end result of the leaks (other than the petty comments) is in the US’s favour, then they actually planted the leaks.
[Chomsky's has some doubts too]

You see it was meant to be found and spread as propaganda.
the best kind, because it appears genuine!

As you saw, the very next day, they attacked Iranian nuclear scientists. The world just said, ‘well, Iran deserves it.’

You did too, you idiot!

The Guardian, those half-wits, recognised both Clinton’s ‘shock’ about the leaks and her ‘righteousness’ regarding Iran as a problem.
They didn’t recognise that maybe these Iran/Korea leaks were the reason for the bunch of Leaks, and that the rest of the docs were just enticement, and a distraction for the hoi polloi.
If I were H Clinton, I would have used the anger of Iran’s Arab neighbours as a talking-point long ago. What’s so earth-shattering about saying ‘Iran’s neighbours hate Iran’. Just leave the details out, and you’re set. So, this is another reason why I don’t believe the Leaks. Let’s wait and see how many of these ‘Leaks’ are rejected as false by the ‘victims’. Or, how much pressure will be placed on the bought-and-paid-for Arab governments to not say ‘But, I didn’t say that’. Another article in the Guardian noted that Arab citizens don’t hate Iran, and instead hate the US much more. Maybe Arab governments are speaking about their own interests. Iran is just ruining their party by pushing for a political solution in their neighbourhood, which would lessen the need for the US to bribe Arab leaders, so they’d be slaughtered by their people.
I think we’ll never find out the truth about Iran, but it’s no surprise that the US has the country completely surrounded: they’re in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Other than the geopolitics and the natural resources, the third reason for this is to infiltrate, break the defences of Iran and take it over. Perhaps their spies will make the need for a long war unnecessary by weakening the country from the inside. Maybe the US will go bankrupt and leave, like the Romans did with Britain.

Let’s watch.

A writer, a former diplomat Jonathan Powell (Guardian), asked ‘whose interests are served’ by this massive leak. He says it squelches conversations between diplomats. I don’t think anything important was revealed in most of them, so he’s feigning upset to try to keep a lid on this ‘popular uprising’ which has, for a few seconds, levelled the playing field. Tomorrow, it’s back to normal. When he writes “on the whole it is surprising how few real surprises seem to be contained in quite such a huge amount of material” he actually argues against himself. When he says “it comes as no great surprise that Arab states fear Iran”, he is either a liar, disingenuous, or he wasn’t a bureaucrat. He should have known about this, and said to us ‘I knew about this issue before the leak’. If he didn’t, then it’s not true, and it was planted to make a case against Iran. Note: the guy was Tony Blair’s chief of staff for 13 years. If the Arab claims were true, he would have known about them. Mandarins live on salacious gossip. The Guardian doesn’t usually knowingly blind its readers, but it is often used by liars.

-Costick67 ~(8^P

Agro about agri-culture

Although many farmers are red-neck rubes, food is culture.
It's part of the landscapes that poncey painters draw up; so there!

Some theatre producer from the US once said that it's becoming impossible to make a living by farming. We're getting food flown in from freaking Chile and Oz.
The UK is exporting 40 000 tons of wheat a year, and
importing 40 000 tons of wheat a year.
We subsidise our farmers for 1/3rd of their income or else they'd be broke.
Yet, we flood the markets of poor countries with our cheap food, bankrupting their farmers.

Do you know where we're going?
Rome got its potatoes from Egypt.
Athens got its corn from the Black Sea.

Ancient Rome and Athens
Just before those supply lines were cut off and they were defeated.

Here are some ideas from a cool group, translated from a Greens publication:

-stop use of agricultural products as fuel. Lessen transportation in general
-food as a right, not a product [I’m with them, to the nth degree. You can see small-scale farming is no longer viable anywhere. But the rich in Brazil can cut the rainforest, then grow and ship animal-feed to Europe. Why is this necessary? If our farmers can’t work, then we’ll get products from elsewhere, but anybody who knows Greek or Roman history knows that long supply lines create vulnerability, especially when oil becomes too expensive].
-lessen the consumption of meat
-stop affecting other agricultural markets negatively i.e. Africa. Feed our own people
-good food prices, for small farmers to survive
-a right to land use
-right to info on food products
-cut out middle-men
-teach kids about growing food

-Costick67 ~(8^P

checkitout:
www.europeanfooddeclaration.org