Friday 24 August 2012

see no banks, hear no banks, there ain't no banks

The resident truth-sayer in Brussels, Nigel Farage has  a well-
known gap in his populist, anti-EU logic. That gap is
visible from outer space with regards to the blame he
places for the economic problems of the EU. Sure,
Barosso is responsible for most of it, esp. the
cancellation of constitutions and democracy across
the EU (Monti, Papademos, Draghi), but the banks have
to take their share of the credit.
Not if Nigel has anything to say about it.


Read 'em: KWN

Nigel Farage - They Will Collapse The System & Enslave People
Today MEP (Member European Parliament) Nigel Farage spoke with King World News about what he described as the possibility of, “a really dramatic banking collapse.”  Farage also warned that central planners want to enslave and imprison people inside of a ‘New Order,’ and he described the situation as “horrifying.”
Farage also discussed gold, but first, here is what he had to say about the ongoing financial crisis:  “Governments don’t have the courage to tell the people that we cannot afford to go on living the way that we are.  We’ve really failed very badly in having honest politics, so we have this gross and very grave debt problem.”
[NO BANKS ARE TO BLAME, THANK GOD-Costick67]
…[HOW CONVENIENT- Costick67] But the sinister aspect of it is that the intention of men like (Italian Prime Minister) Mario Monti, and my old friend Mr. van Rompuy, is they actually want to enslave and imprison the peoples of these countries inside their ‘New European Order.’ 

And it’s horrifying because ultimately what it means is that people are going to reject and rebel against this.  They will rebel against it with violence, and they will rebel against it with political extremism.” 
---end
  

It's odd, the fear that some rich Americans have that the 
poor will kill and eat them. It could be their law of the jungle
mentality and the fact that they see themselves
as effete, and weak, corrupt people who have stolen more 
than they have earned, and they would be right.
However, it's my belief that the poor will not rise up. They're
addled with tv, Internet, mobile phones and modern 
urban myths like work, money, picket fence and free sex.
To revolt would mean no perfume or regular baths,
so that's off the table, at least until they start taking PCP,
then it's off with your face.
They might play bumper cars with your limo, and their
1965 El Camino.
 
People are not starving because governments are 
also spending money they don't have, on them, 
to keep most of them fed. It's fake money, but the food
is real.


chuckle away: Ny mag
The Other Barbarians at the Gates [ON WHICH SIDE?-Costick67]
The Hamptons are Romney territory. But billionaire Jeff Greene thinks his neighbors would be wise to buy a little democracy insurance.
    By Jessica Pressler
    Published Jul 29, 2012
“It’s incredible, right?” shouts Jeff Greene over the roar of the two-seater dune buggy’s motor. “It’s 55 acres!” Still in his whites from this morning’s tennis match, he’s giving a personal tour of his Sag Harbor estate, barreling at 30 miles per hour through the vast forest of scrubby pines and soft moss of its gated grounds. “Beautiful nature here!” A blur of deer goes by, and the trees break to reveal the summer sun glinting off a grassy lagoon. Greene slows by its shore. “This is our swan pond, and this is our private beach,” he says, gesturing toward a slip of white sand encircling the edge of the North Haven Peninsula. “It goes all the way to the ferry. Three thousand feet of beach,” he adds, a smile spreading across his tanned face.
.... This past April, at the Milken Conference, the annual confab hosted by the felon turned philanthropist, Greene sat on a lunchtime panel with Charles Murray, the author of Coming Apart: The State of White America, and historian Niall Ferguson, whose recent book could have been called the same thing. “Do you see this?” Greene asked the audience, pointing to a slide that showed the widening income gap. The crowd, whose members had paid the $6,000 entry fee to get investing tips, not guilt trips, made restless noises. Then there was a smattering of impressed applause, followed by uneasy laughter. Greene blinked, surprised. “People look at Occupy Wall Street as, This is just a little kind of a disorganized joke,” he said, raising his voice. “If we take another 10 percent of middle-class America’s income, who knows what kind of other social unrest could happen in this country and the changes that could happen to our way of life?”
The level of Greene’s concern is such that, last year, he was inspired to run for Senate in Florida. But stories about the Summerwind’s goings-on dogged his campaign (“I particularly ­remember serving Tyson a vodka–and–Red Bull while he was receiving oral sex from a hired entertainer,” one former employee told the ­Broward–Palm Beach New Times), and arriving in recession-strapped towns on his private jet did little to convince most voters he understood them. Greene calls his loss “a huge mistake on behalf of the people of Florida.”
.... Greene gets this kind of reaction a lot. “Nobody gets it,” he grumbles, gunning over the boardwalk that leads from his boathouse to the beach. “I see David Koch a lot of the time. His policies are ridiculous. I don’t think he’s ever been to one of these schools where they have a rolling cart, where one computer has to go to different classrooms, and it can make so much difference, a $700 computer! I don’t think these guys realize, this is what they’re cutting off? To say to those kids, ‘Too bad, every man for himself’?”
Lately—like at a recent lunch with Steve Schwarzman, who has likened Obama to Hitler—Greene’s been trying another tactic. “Now I appeal to them selfishly,” he says. “‘Don’t you realize that if you don’t take care of this kid when they are 10 years old, you’ll take care of them when they are 20 and 100 instead? We just have to pay a little more taxes. It’s not going to kill us. You buy car insurance. Why not buy some democracy insurance?’ People think that Obama is this leftist, socialist guy,” he says. “But I don’t think they understand what people can go for when they are at the end of their line.”
He takes a sharp right and points out a mossy dock surrounded by toys. “Speedboat, Jet-Skis, little inflatable boat,” he recites. “Ducks!” We chug up the driveway to the main house. It’s surprisingly modest, given the property, but then people used to live differently. He and Mei-Sze plan on rebuilding as soon as they are done with their renovation in Palm Beach. He’s not sure what he wants it to look like, but one thing is likely: The new property will have gates. “You’re in Palm Beach, you’re in the Hamptons, you think you’re so secure,” Greene says. “Do you really think if you had 50,000 angry people coming across the river, you think you’re safe?”