tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post4237313515007737564..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: December 2 2011: The Debt Walkers Strike BackIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-53175791845041314052011-12-05T08:59:58.523-05:002011-12-05T08:59:58.523-05:00New post up.
Look Back, Look Forward and Look ...New post up.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2011/12/december-5-2011-look-back-look-forward.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Look Back, Look Forward and Look Down. Way Down.</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-68804917097373317552011-12-05T08:08:37.295-05:002011-12-05T08:08:37.295-05:00Blogger Skip Breakfast said...
@Chas
"Doe...Blogger Skip Breakfast said...<br />@Chas<br /> "Doesn't Barnhardt roil at length about Satan and the evils of Planned Parenthood?"<br /><br />-----------------------<br /><br />Yes she does ad nauseam. She seems to be reading from the same (Good) book as Michele Bachmann. The difference is that Bernhardt has some thing up above rather than just loose peas.<br /><br />Her Biologique Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410194284794713409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-63980420555103820502011-12-05T06:21:05.186-05:002011-12-05T06:21:05.186-05:00@Chas
Doesn't Barnhardt roil at length about ...@Chas<br /><br />Doesn't Barnhardt roil at length about Satan and the evils of Planned Parenthood? And then seems to equate Obama with Satan, as though the Republican party were any different or better?<br /><br />I wouldn't take a word such a woman utters seriously...even if she happens to agree with a lot of us with regard to the debauched state of the world financial system.Skip Breakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01503427289412937022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-37199303002200693712011-12-04T22:55:05.108-05:002011-12-04T22:55:05.108-05:00frank stumped us alright on that one, ash. thanks ...frank stumped us alright on that one, ash. thanks for the analysis, frank. i love geostrategy. :)benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07338619620804720116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-52059118641088697542011-12-04T22:51:44.094-05:002011-12-04T22:51:44.094-05:00"@ Ben - Yes, I suppose the spokes council mi..."@ Ben - Yes, I suppose the spokes council might be termed,"co-opted" by critics at least in New York. I've seen nothing like that here in Oakland, unless it's the many committees that have sprung up. I'm in the Resources-for-Housing one.<br /><br />What I do see is that some people show up more often than others [is that a vanguard?]. And a large part of "success benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07338619620804720116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-38741828019601978922011-12-04T22:51:26.101-05:002011-12-04T22:51:26.101-05:00@Chas,yeh, I just listened to the Barnhart intervi...@Chas,yeh, I just listened to the Barnhart interview on Financial Sense and thought the same thing. Her sense of urgency is palpable. She gives the system until Christmas.scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-57031640398708116322011-12-04T22:51:03.697-05:002011-12-04T22:51:03.697-05:00Gravity,
The USA seems to be a few weeks away fro...Gravity,<br /><br />The USA seems to be a few weeks away from throwing due process out the window and incarcerating citizens "legally" indefinitely without charge. This could be viewed as a "big deal," as big as reinstituting slavery. We will see what kind of reaction we get. <br /><br />I obviously can't write for Ash, but I am negative about the idea that fighting el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-49653378171182814632011-12-04T22:30:48.819-05:002011-12-04T22:30:48.819-05:00Frank,
Thanks. Sounds like you know the risks in...Frank,<br /><br />Thanks. Sounds like you know the risks involved with a strike on Iran. I missed how Kaliningrad is unable to effect a strike?<br /><br />.Joe in NChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02182396413057310516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-64275999003980511592011-12-04T22:25:42.110-05:002011-12-04T22:25:42.110-05:00Frank,
"If it is true, I am sure they agreed...Frank,<br /><br />"If it is true, I am sure they agreed in hoping/praying to see a day when their economic disagreement was a more important question than would the poster Ilargi put up here be deployed"<br /><br />Read this a few times, but... still stumped.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10873953851816670692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-25959352928131355562011-12-04T22:25:24.994-05:002011-12-04T22:25:24.994-05:00Another Ann Barnhardt interview.
http://barnhardt...Another Ann Barnhardt interview.<br /><br />http://barnhardt.biz/<br /><br />She makes the prevailing opinion here appear sanguine.Chashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00266745551401583981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-11387365239773693692011-12-04T22:23:19.880-05:002011-12-04T22:23:19.880-05:00Gravity,
"sometimes I think its this very at...Gravity,<br /><br />"sometimes I think its this very attitude of anticipatory corruption that caused the descent towards legal barbarism in the first place." <br /><br />Well that's your problem right there. Attitudes are not the root cause of anything, and words in a document are not going to salvage a fundamentally broken economic system. I have no problem enforcing federal law, Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10873953851816670692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-47839527152069345022011-12-04T21:24:51.653-05:002011-12-04T21:24:51.653-05:00I'm also highly skeptical of an Israeli strike...I'm also highly skeptical of an Israeli strike on Iran. Their choices are overflying Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Turkey to get there.<br /><br />This reduces to getting Saudi permission. Both Saudi and Irag have bought the same air defense from us, as good as what the Israelis have. Turkey's might not be quite as good. If they made it over Turkey, no sure thing, they would have violated NATO Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752307987743035281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-83829613589537981882011-12-04T20:53:37.573-05:002011-12-04T20:53:37.573-05:00The more I think, the more the Kaliningrad thing i...The more I think, the more the Kaliningrad thing is bogus.<br /><br />Israel/US attack Iran. Kaliningrad doesn't see a thing. Putin blows away Western Europe because he likes the same rock music as Ahmahdinajhad. Kaliningrad is purely defensive, useless to help an offensive strike. <br /><br />US actually follows NATO treaty and turns several Russian cities into glass. Missiles come from Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752307987743035281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-20159374829144601722011-12-04T20:41:51.519-05:002011-12-04T20:41:51.519-05:00I'm thinking about a house in Vegas to house m...I'm thinking about a house in Vegas to house my coin collection.<br /><br />Good idea? I need to be close to the slots for new coin inputs.<br /><br />You'd be amazed how many silver quarters dimes and nickels still circulate. This is big business for those with an eye for coin dates.Asmitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00286652097276900591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-71440121417673845452011-12-04T20:27:20.694-05:002011-12-04T20:27:20.694-05:00@ Jack, thanks for the link to George Galloway. I&...@ Jack, thanks for the link to George Galloway. I'm a fan:)scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-54695727476895879662011-12-04T20:18:00.035-05:002011-12-04T20:18:00.035-05:00Here's a constructive use of constitutional la...Here's a constructive use of constitutional law:<br />Corporations are incapable of political speech or of attaining any rights of political expression afforded to the citizenry, because corporations are not moral actors defined within a sovereign political boundary. Incorporated speech is already legally defined as profit-based marketing, which is not protected political speech.<br />The Gravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-44932729938410509162011-12-04T20:10:43.401-05:002011-12-04T20:10:43.401-05:00@el gallinazo
"you are simply perpetuating th...@el gallinazo<br />"you are simply perpetuating the myth that the USA is really a country of law"<br />And you're propagating the consent that it isn't and cannot be, which is also damaging. The US has a decent constitution people swear an oath to, creating moral limits on the abuse of power, which should be sufficient if anyone actually enforced it and protected its integrity Gravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-63084877262769382882011-12-04T20:05:09.943-05:002011-12-04T20:05:09.943-05:00The Russian election was as rigged as anything tha...The Russian election was as rigged as anything that ever went down in Chicago. And they still lost.Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752307987743035281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-71572478560511229412011-12-04T19:57:06.569-05:002011-12-04T19:57:06.569-05:00Occams Razor shaves NWO. Penny in Kaliningrad fuse...<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/putin-loses-majority-russian-elections-communist-party-soars" rel="nofollow">Occams Razor shaves NWO.</a> Penny in Kaliningrad fuse box does not save Medvedev's butt. <br /><br />Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752307987743035281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-16619040630674888472011-12-04T19:53:34.988-05:002011-12-04T19:53:34.988-05:00re: Soros
However, he noted, Hungary’s 1956 revol...re: Soros<br /><br /><i>However, he noted, Hungary’s 1956 revolution changed the political atmosphere but didn’t bear fruit until 1989. "You can’t expect immediate success but what is happening will have a lasting impact," he said.</i><br /><br />Hungary's debt system seems to be unwinding faster than many other countries in Europe with the country's inhabitants borrowing Nassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-53148443837257142052011-12-04T19:33:17.328-05:002011-12-04T19:33:17.328-05:00Ash, I agree the Keynes/Hayek story is almost cert...Ash, I agree the Keynes/Hayek story is almost certainly apocryphal. However, both were smart and honest men. If it is true, I am sure they agreed in hoping/praying to see a day when their economic disagreement was a more important question than would the poster Ilargi put up here be deployed.Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752307987743035281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-19814232524775902952011-12-04T18:49:25.735-05:002011-12-04T18:49:25.735-05:00Great blog today.
Our system of economic growth,...Great blog today. <br /><br /><i>Our system of economic growth, of ineffectual democracy, of over loading the earth resource capacity, of unfettered corporate greed plus a trillion dollar advertising industry urging us to consume ever more - this system, OUR system - is in the process of eating itself alive.<br /><br />If we, the youth of the world, do not come alive and start fighting for a SecularAnimisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00391479249569818914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-80796121215298398912011-12-04T18:33:06.315-05:002011-12-04T18:33:06.315-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.SecularAnimisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00391479249569818914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-56619213979654420542011-12-04T18:08:57.566-05:002011-12-04T18:08:57.566-05:00Ash - well, it depends on how you define "it&...Ash - well, it depends on how you define "it"... to make a mildly amusing historical allusion-<br /><br />I'm sure they understand quite a lot about a variety of the tiny inner wheels- but if I may resort to a biological metaphor;<br /><br />These guys, and economists in general, are very much like the "cancer geneticists", and physiologists; who spend their entire Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-16018111036071905552011-12-04T18:02:17.234-05:002011-12-04T18:02:17.234-05:00re: drones
So far, the USA/Israel have had a lot ...re: drones<br /><br />So far, the USA/Israel have had a lot of fun with drones. The former against mountain-dwellers in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen. The latter against villagers in occupied lands and in adjacent countries. IMHO, the fun will only really start once they start using drones against people who are a little higher up the food chain - people who can work with bits of Nassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.com