tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post6721119694362392754..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: August 18 2010: Fannie and Freddie: The Exit Doors are ShutIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-16462931022651469482010-08-21T20:27:57.128-04:002010-08-21T20:27:57.128-04:00Greenpa,
It's one of those ideas you have to d...Greenpa,<br />It's one of those ideas you have to do without talking about. JFrankA at this forum: <a href="http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=96888" rel="nofollow">Running a legal brothel where it's illegal...sorta</a> suggests that in the US it's easier to run an outcall escort service or swing club, as long as you keep the cops happy. He writes:<br /><br /><i>There are threeRichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01092313041560676587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-8275488743370534962010-08-21T20:10:04.881-04:002010-08-21T20:10:04.881-04:00New post up.
America's Corporate Headquart...New post up.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2010/08/august-21-2010-americas-corporate.html" rel="nofollow"><b>America's Corporate Headquarters</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-36717702044899544312010-08-21T19:37:44.935-04:002010-08-21T19:37:44.935-04:00Keith Olbermann Special Comment: There Is No '...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZpT2Muxoo0" rel="nofollow">Keith Olbermann Special Comment: There Is No 'Ground Zero Mosque'</a>Bigelowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16883913065391637120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-2478606857914837502010-08-21T19:35:40.785-04:002010-08-21T19:35:40.785-04:00DIYer said...
“But I can still recall the theme fo...DIYer said...<br />“But I can still recall the theme for the September 1970 issue: "The Energy Crisis". As I recall it had articles on Hubbert's peak, solar, NaS batteries, the "hydrogen economy" and other such things. It was my introduction to these topics. Forty years later and other than one little peep from Jimmy Carter, there's been no serious discussion of it in jalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-61499968968455259402010-08-21T18:49:08.454-04:002010-08-21T18:49:08.454-04:00Bukko, I was just going to mention that the media ...Bukko, I was just going to mention that the media always seem to miss the juicy stories about corporocratically-connected kinkmeisters. <br /><br />rcg1950, regarding your assessment of SciAm, it sounds about right. I think it's gone downhill in the last few decades to where it's on a par with PopSci or Analog (the Sci Fi journal). Analog may be better now I think of it. <br /><br />But IJim Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17419179432204743768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-14291346207021097992010-08-21T17:56:05.523-04:002010-08-21T17:56:05.523-04:00There is an article on McClatchy about a night tim...There is an article on McClatchy about a night time US raid on an Afgan village. I can easily empathize with the villagers, asleep in their beds,the peaceful glow of family returned home for Ramadan...suddenly a yankee doodle dandy hollers that everybody get outside or else! Imagine it please.<br />If you were asleep in your bed and a yankee doodle dandy hollers for you to get into the street scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-88244862301448337202010-08-21T17:40:54.371-04:002010-08-21T17:40:54.371-04:00Right you are on Scott's surname, g-minor. Hor...Right you are on Scott's surname, <a rel="nofollow">g-minor</a>. Horton is another anti-war writer, and I mixed them up. One difference between Ritter, Assange and Ibrahim vs. Spitzer is that at least Spitz was actually guilty as smeared.<br /><br />Ironic how Spitzer, who was at least working for righteousness when he wasn't kinking it up with call girls, did the honourable thing and Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-10195610656777050802010-08-21T17:13:37.115-04:002010-08-21T17:13:37.115-04:00Swedish rape warrant for Wikileaks' Assange ca...<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11049316" rel="nofollow">Swedish rape warrant for Wikileaks' Assange cancelled</a> -BBCBigelowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16883913065391637120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-65754148892883377992010-08-21T17:13:05.640-04:002010-08-21T17:13:05.640-04:00“Our program is a professional service to the fina...<a href="http://www.rattraders.com/Home" rel="nofollow">“Our program is a professional service to the financial industry; rats are being trained to become superior traders in the financial markets”</a> <br /><br />Now I've seen everything.Bigelowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16883913065391637120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-37631809228726376482010-08-21T13:40:55.840-04:002010-08-21T13:40:55.840-04:00Steve said...
Assange is no longer a rape suspect...<i>Steve said...<br /><br />Assange is no longer a rape suspect.</i><br /><br />I'll forgot the "stories" of exploding cigars, ricin umbrellas, bacteria treated wetsuits and whatnot that the CIA may or may not be capable of... as well as any discussion of whether or not the "leak" was right or wrong.<br /><br />At this point what are to we conclude? The Swedish prosecutorssoundOfSilencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13710900939537685362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-51594109525087653042010-08-21T13:24:38.061-04:002010-08-21T13:24:38.061-04:00@Bukko
That would be Scott Ritter (not Horton) bu...@Bukko<br /><br />That would be Scott Ritter (not Horton) but the point, of course, stands. You can add Eliot Spitzer to the list of those whose sexual behaviors were used to punish them for confronting TPTB.g-minorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07538584920169603580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-86533368538823180002010-08-21T13:20:43.453-04:002010-08-21T13:20:43.453-04:00Bukko Canukko said, " But Sex? goes right to ...Bukko Canukko said, " But Sex? goes right to the limbic system for getting us hot and bothered over misbehavior."<br />Bukko, I think you just answered Greenpa's question as to why it is difficult to discuss a brothel as a viable enterprise post collapse.scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-62552430192576360632010-08-21T13:18:05.217-04:002010-08-21T13:18:05.217-04:00Hi, Ilargi & Stoneleigh
I know you haven'...Hi, Ilargi & Stoneleigh<br /><br />I know you haven't seen me around these parts for a quite a while, but it's not from lack of interest. I still read TAE at every opportunity... just haven't had sufficient brain time to post comments that might contribute anything useful to the mix... and the current crew seems to be doing just fine.<br /><br />Today Stoneleigh wrote: "...D. Benton Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09505763959328162067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-37152633628469161302010-08-21T12:25:49.621-04:002010-08-21T12:25:49.621-04:00Re: Assange-rape -- it's an old trick. Remembe...Re: Assange-rape -- it's an old trick. Remember the child molestation charges against Scott Horton, the Iraq weapons inspector? They came after he tried to thwart realPresident Cheeney's war effort by claiming, correctly, that Saddam Hussein no longer had a nuclear or poison gas program. So local police and prosecutors in Connecticut, I think it was, ginned up charges that Horton used theBukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-79121038202107719962010-08-21T11:52:00.456-04:002010-08-21T11:52:00.456-04:00"Steve said...
Assange is no longer a rape su...<i>"Steve said...<br />Assange is no longer a rape suspect."</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.ajc.com/business/sweden-withdraws-warrant-for-596422.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Saw that</b></a>.<br /><br />Who'll be accused of false statements now?<br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-76133929787173925932010-08-21T11:41:54.060-04:002010-08-21T11:41:54.060-04:00Assange is no longer a
rape suspect.<a href="http://www.thelocal.se/28504/20100821/" rel="nofollow">Assange is no longer a<br />rape suspect. </a>Steve Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06135840564156902622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-2699149360921098752010-08-21T10:00:00.618-04:002010-08-21T10:00:00.618-04:00Bukko Canukko asked...
Is there any school of th...Bukko Canukko asked...<br /><br /><br />Is there any school of thought, in economics or psychology, that envisions how to manage shrinkage instead of growth? ... Have any deep thinkers come up with a countervailing ideology that's akin to a weight loss program for bloated companies/countries/species (such as our own)? <br /><br />4th Century Christianity?rcg1950https://www.blogger.com/profile/14528664922464338338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-1109157211747726792010-08-21T08:35:19.293-04:002010-08-21T08:35:19.293-04:00"About Julian Assange, perhaps it is a setup....<i>"About Julian Assange, perhaps it is a setup...."</i><br /><br />Perhaps? No, for sure.<br /><br />He's not nearly stupid enough to engage in such activities (two women, one count of rape and one of molestation, I understand) mere days -and if ever, of course- before releasing sensitive documents. <br /><br />There are people putting their lives on the line, literally, for Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-69079704739066791422010-08-21T08:22:57.149-04:002010-08-21T08:22:57.149-04:00About Julian Assange, perhaps it is a setup. Peopl...About Julian Assange, perhaps it is a setup. People will focus on his personal behavior trying to dig up dirt rather than the documents released.bluebirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09600634086150466162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-83348996274148636402010-08-21T08:07:26.519-04:002010-08-21T08:07:26.519-04:00In case you haven't heard yet, Wikileaks found...In case you haven't heard yet, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been "arrested in absentia" in Sweden on rape charges.<br /><br />Seems obvious that someone under the scrutiny he is, and planning to release a ton more documents, would compromise himself and his entire effort like that.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/2010/08/20/Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-34454465328362905132010-08-21T07:10:38.953-04:002010-08-21T07:10:38.953-04:00Check these statistics on the US housing market. J...Check these statistics on the US housing market. Jeez.<br /><br />http://www.businessinsider.com/15-signs-that-the-us-housing-market-is-headed-for-complete-and-total-collapse-2010-8#home-sales-at-depressing-lows-1%23ixzz0xCspP3uQ<br /><br />Z.zanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15352619368764868819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-24899171504274537502010-08-21T02:08:29.508-04:002010-08-21T02:08:29.508-04:00Stoneleigh said...
There is a fundamental shift i...<a rel="nofollow">Stoneleigh</a> said...<br /><br /><i>There is a fundamental shift in collective psychology that leads to fighting over a shrinking wealth pie. This dynamic appears to be characteristic of humanity. To make matters, much of the shrinking wealth pie can be destroyed in the process of fighting over it, which only strengthens the propensity toward conflict.</i><br /><br />Is there Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-83344085279131911692010-08-21T01:50:55.714-04:002010-08-21T01:50:55.714-04:00Hindenburg Omen confirmed linkHindenburg Omen confirmed <a href="http://www.benzinga.com/market-update/10/08/438181/so-the-hindenburg-omen-happened-now-what-faz-tza-typ" rel="nofollow">link</a>team10timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12100467801841348435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-13584340798291990282010-08-21T01:47:16.980-04:002010-08-21T01:47:16.980-04:00Greenpa, I posted my last comment accidentally bef...Greenpa, I posted my last comment accidentally before it was finished.<br /><br />No one really addresses your proposition because it is an uncomfortable and taboo subject. The same reason no one talks about population control. But, now that the energy expansion is drawing to a close there are some unpleasant truths to deal with.<br /><br />The problem with talking about prostitution is that team10timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12100467801841348435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-69715097445668564612010-08-21T00:21:44.911-04:002010-08-21T00:21:44.911-04:00Watch The Secret of Oz
This movie makes it easy t...Watch <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D22TlYA8F2E" rel="nofollow">The Secret of Oz</a><br /><br />This movie makes it easy to understand the only solution to the "financial crisis" is to end the debt-as-money paradigm. In the U.S. this means the end of the Federal Reserve and the issuance of "greenbacks."<br /><br />The solution is really that simple.btravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15396136829377883183noreply@blogger.com