tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post6569628618826231745..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: January 26 2009: Gamblers, liars, fortune tellers and politiciansIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-91134872810025872622009-01-27T16:11:00.000-05:002009-01-27T16:11:00.000-05:00Starcade is angry and doesn't want to wait. Patie...Starcade is angry and doesn't want to wait. Patience, Grasshopper.el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-13669153732618998292009-01-27T15:53:00.000-05:002009-01-27T15:53:00.000-05:00Starcade: Weeks seem to soon, this thing is going ...Starcade: Weeks seem to soon, this thing is going to get worse gradually IMO. The great depression didn't happen overnight, the worst effects were felt 4 years after 1929. So this could play out for a long, long time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-2691496077117829962009-01-27T15:23:00.000-05:002009-01-27T15:23:00.000-05:00Z,Yes, Michael Ruppert also says in above linked p...Z,<BR/><BR/>Yes, Michael Ruppert also says in above linked piece that "Historically, by definition, we have always spoken of a fast crash as a collapse of both the economic and political systems within a two-to-ten year range." Yesterday, though, he confirmed that it should be a fast crash that will be over by the summer of 2011, not in 10 years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-80860368666437799432009-01-27T15:06:00.000-05:002009-01-27T15:06:00.000-05:00Stoneleigh, thanks for your response and correctin...Stoneleigh, thanks for your response and correcting my timing of the coming fast crash. I hope my family and I will be "settled" in Vermont by then. My husband's job is keeping us in So. Florida for now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-86590235626460424032009-01-27T14:41:00.001-05:002009-01-27T14:41:00.001-05:00Ed_Gorey: Once the unrest starts, TAE goes, as we...Ed_Gorey: Once the unrest starts, TAE goes, as well as most of the other sites which provide what's really going on. TPTB will only be to crush the rest of us and provide those who they wish to keep around with the belief that "Everything Is Fine!"<BR/><BR/>Anonymous 1649: Some believe there will be solvent banks left when this is all over. I should be charged a two-drink minimum for that Starcadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09226367306835781483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-11910471817180864662009-01-27T14:41:00.000-05:002009-01-27T14:41:00.000-05:00@Ahimsato say MCR has just realized that we are on...@Ahimsa<BR/><BR/>to say MCR has just realized that we are on a fast crash path is perhaps incorrect. he certainly foresaw and foretold (Crossing the Rubicon pp. 20) what's coming.<BR/><BR/>@Stoneleigh<BR/><BR/><I>"A world of violent uncertainty wouldn't suit most of them at all, as they are mostly men who gamble with other people's money in great personal comfort, rather than Ghengis Khan types Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-54052935661586046442009-01-27T14:40:00.000-05:002009-01-27T14:40:00.000-05:00The markets seems eerily quiet today, NEC cut abou...The markets seems eerily quiet today, NEC cut about 9000 jobs, bonds sold in record amounts, not much happening today it seems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-2360230415889395752009-01-27T14:27:00.000-05:002009-01-27T14:27:00.000-05:00Okay Ilargi, so when is my bank wachovia er wellsf...Okay Ilargi, so when is my bank wachovia er wellsfargo going to confiscate my automatic deposits I get from my employer?<BR/>How can I switch to 90%cash? I've got automatic deposits and automatic debits. Even if I stopped all that, I don't see how to a) get paid and b) make payments without a banker middleman on which checks are written?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-29057862473279436462009-01-27T14:25:00.000-05:002009-01-27T14:25:00.000-05:00@ Armando GascónClicked into your web site (by acc...@ Armando Gascón<BR/><BR/>Clicked into your web site (by accident :-) Looks interesting and good practice for my Spanish. What does "el Carancho" mean in English? It is not even in my 3 Kg dictionary. Maybe I shouldn't know.<BR/><BR/>My tag "el Gallinazo" is only for blogs. In Peru, I don't even tell people I am a plumber. It is equivalent to being a rag picker. I mention my previous el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-68144853065277340962009-01-27T13:52:00.000-05:002009-01-27T13:52:00.000-05:00Ontario,I interpreted your previous comment that b...Ontario,<BR/><BR/><I>I interpreted your previous comment that bankers are going to take advantage of this deflationary spiral and buy up assets (property etc) at bargain prices with their cash. Is this correct?<BR/><BR/>If so, I believe that this process would only last until a critical mass of the fleeced and dispossessed will put an end to it in a most unpleasant manner.<BR/><BR/>Any thoughts Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-78162901032802315682009-01-27T13:41:00.000-05:002009-01-27T13:41:00.000-05:00Ahimsa,A fast crash in 2-5 years is my view. Mike ...Ahimsa,<BR/><BR/>A fast crash in 2-5 years is my view. Mike Ruppert is suggesting in his article a deliberate act of pulling down the system quickly by the powers-that-be. I don't see it that way myself (something Ilargi and I have debates about from time to time). <BR/><BR/>I see a market cascade as a spontaneous mass action phenomenon once a tipping point has been reached. While our elites wereStoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-89253574550836883242009-01-27T13:34:00.000-05:002009-01-27T13:34:00.000-05:00Stoneleigh:I interpreted your previous comment tha...Stoneleigh:<BR/><BR/>I interpreted your previous comment that bankers are going to take advantage of this deflationary spiral and buy up assets (property etc) at bargain prices with their cash. Is this correct?<BR/><BR/>If so, I believe that this process would only last until a critical mass of the fleeced and dispossessed will put an end to it in a most unpleasant manner. <BR/><BR/>Any Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-56773535373273147162009-01-27T13:26:00.000-05:002009-01-27T13:26:00.000-05:00Stoneleigh,Thank you for your thoughts.I gather fr...Stoneleigh,<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your thoughts.<BR/><BR/>I gather from reading TAE that we are on the path for a fast crash in the next 2 to 5 or 10 years. Please correct me if I'm wrong.<BR/><BR/>I think Michael Ruppert has just realized that we are on the fast path and is saying that TPTB or elites are delusionally (or is it intentionally making it worse with bailouts, etc.?) attempting to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-40038106636988276282009-01-27T13:22:00.000-05:002009-01-27T13:22:00.000-05:00RCWe should probably take this off the blog. You ...RC<BR/><BR/>We should probably take this off the blog. You can reach me at hpaulfuchs attt gmail dot commm.el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-17321621971531398802009-01-27T12:10:00.000-05:002009-01-27T12:10:00.000-05:00Anon,The Corporate PTB wants to keep labor wages d...Anon,<BR/><BR/><I>The Corporate PTB wants to keep labor wages down. So they mess with foreign markets ["free" trade]causing an influx of impoverished immigrants looking for better economic way of life.<BR/><BR/>Both legal [tech workers] and illegal [manual labor] immigration serves the dastardly wage-supression purpose. Illegal immigration statistics are artificially "created" by arbitrarily Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-86743104510311341442009-01-27T11:48:00.000-05:002009-01-27T11:48:00.000-05:00re immigration argument above.Seems to me you are ...re immigration argument above.<BR/>Seems to me you are both right.<BR/>The Corporate PTB wants to keep labor wages down. So they mess with foreign markets ["free" trade]causing an influx of impoverished immigrants looking for better economic way of life. <BR/><BR/>Both legal [tech workers] and illegal [manual labor] immigration serves the dastardly wage-supression purpose. Illegal immigration Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-9564272074707850102009-01-27T11:29:00.000-05:002009-01-27T11:29:00.000-05:00Ahimsa,I would say there's no such thing as a cont...Ahimsa,<BR/><BR/>I would say there's no such thing as a controlled fast crash. A fast crash is an inherently uncontrollable event that results from a mass rush for the exits, as if someone had just yelled 'fire' in a theatre. It's an event defined by mass action rather than being prompted by the few. <BR/><BR/>IMO the few still think they can control events, as they generally have a high opinion Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-17965260265696974002009-01-27T11:28:00.000-05:002009-01-27T11:28:00.000-05:00Re taking down the TAE: I think the big threat to ...Re taking down the TAE: I think the big threat to free speech on the net is the perennial corporate communications lobbying for unequal access.<BR/><BR/>TAE is a fabulous dissident resource and it's not the only one on the internet doing this work. {yet so many are still unaware of their messages]. I hope somebody is archiving [or better yet printing out] for future historic record.<BR/>As long Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-53587937531578950532009-01-27T11:01:00.000-05:002009-01-27T11:01:00.000-05:00Ooops! Here it is:http://www.mikeruppert.blogspot...Ooops! Here it is:<BR/><BR/>http://www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-84391591221235441912009-01-27T11:00:00.000-05:002009-01-27T11:00:00.000-05:00Thought some TAE readers might find this of intere...Thought some TAE readers might find this of interest:<BR/><BR/>Michael Ruppert - "A Controlled Fast Crash and Barack Obama's First Official Lie"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-1993009261011504182009-01-27T10:06:00.000-05:002009-01-27T10:06:00.000-05:00Ilargi,Sorry if someone already posted this, but i...Ilargi,<BR/><BR/>Sorry if someone already posted this, but it's well worth reading, on Grayson's grilling of the Fed Vice Chair:<BR/><BR/>http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/radio/2009/01/26/grayson/index1.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-49424610139280081912009-01-27T08:18:00.000-05:002009-01-27T08:18:00.000-05:00Housing as Shelter, not Speculationhttp://www.oftw...Housing as Shelter, not Speculation<BR/><BR/>http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan09/endgame-RE01-09.html?ref=patrick.net<BR/><BR/>Everything from the "Plateau of Denial" to "The 39 Steps" DescentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-10601708646473927732009-01-27T08:10:00.000-05:002009-01-27T08:10:00.000-05:00Budget Day in Canada dawns...Just listening to a c...Budget Day in Canada dawns...Just listening to a clear prediction on CBC radio made by Kathryn(?) Swift, spokeperson for the Ontario Assoc. of Independent Business. Ms Swift doesn't think a bailout is necessary, that the rebound will happen in mid 2009. She also had a few put down words for " doomers".<BR/>The intent of the new budget's tax cuts is to get us shopping. Let's prop up the toxic scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-79073732080429330922009-01-27T02:16:00.000-05:002009-01-27T02:16:00.000-05:00Ok, one last reply. Honest.@Stoneleigh"I still had...Ok, one last reply. Honest.<BR/><BR/>@Stoneleigh<BR/>"I still had to use punch-cards to compile programs in the one and only computer science class I ever took."<BR/><BR/>Yeesh. I thought those would've been gone by then. That was the worst form of hades imaginable.<BR/><BR/>Re: Webmastering. Setting up a good, resistant site requires some arcane skills and technology. But at least he's got a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-41337947413459935832009-01-27T02:08:00.000-05:002009-01-27T02:08:00.000-05:00Whoops. The CNN reference above was from me. Sigh....Whoops. The CNN reference above was from me. Sigh. It's late; I'll leave you with some news from California.<BR/><BR/>If you recall the California budget mess, the latest proposal was to call a special election, and let the voters decide.<BR/><BR/>But, it seems that this can't happen quickly enough. Plus, it will cost $100 Million for a special election. Money that the State doesn't have. So now Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com