tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post6779430034633389595..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: Debt Rattle, July 15 2008: The Dark KnightIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-2287263911871508152008-07-17T20:22:00.000-04:002008-07-17T20:22:00.000-04:00It is amazing to think of is it not...That people ...It is amazing to think of is it not...<BR/>That people like you are writing history...<BR/><BR/>Of all the truthsaying webpages on earth you are my fav.<BR/><BR/>Thanks<BR/><BR/>from Norway!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-84914774073843301292008-07-16T17:18:00.000-04:002008-07-16T17:18:00.000-04:00Hi ilargi,Checked tags before posting and it seeme...Hi ilargi,<BR/><BR/>Checked tags before posting and it seemed to preview okay, so why the blue? <BR/><BR/>As you were speaking of beer in tomorrow's Rattle, I hope you have a good local brewery, the one here will sell its wort for ones own finishing, so far, too lazy for that, but as the world slows in turning that day may come. Cheers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-43713895346210955792008-07-16T16:42:00.000-04:002008-07-16T16:42:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-26373439847152627162008-07-16T14:04:00.000-04:002008-07-16T14:04:00.000-04:00Read something like SunTzu, intended to make you t...Read something like SunTzu, intended to make you think. Anyone that pushes a cookbook is either full of shit or trying to make a buck.<BR/><BR/>Scandia,<BR/>There isn't a one fit all answer, when it really comes down to it all you can do is take inventory of your resources and use them to the max, very location dependent.<BR/><BR/>The option I see as with the most promise is a larger community VLADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07303463697333210934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-54185279985507134462008-07-16T12:32:00.000-04:002008-07-16T12:32:00.000-04:00sorry musashi, couldnt get past his picture:) she...sorry musashi, couldnt get past <A HREF="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/about.html" REL="nofollow"> his picture</A>:) sheesh!! he is uglier looking than me or even my cousin Bob.<BR/><BR/>BTW in the 60's we had networks that ran better than anything I have seen using the internet IMNSHO, and that's a fact! Primarily the noodle computer linked to feet will be the future in anything that is Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-56801761289481931522008-07-16T06:32:00.000-04:002008-07-16T06:32:00.000-04:00Musashi, I far from dismiss John Robb. I have thou...Musashi, I far from dismiss John Robb. I have thought of the conditions concerning civil order or should say civil disorder. I haven't been able to decide where it is best to be- in a city or a more remote position. Each will require security measures. I'm too old/unfit and single so a " bunker" far from the maddening crowd isn't personally doable. I've chosen a small town near the transporation scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-45868108388964284342008-07-15T23:51:00.000-04:002008-07-15T23:51:00.000-04:00Scandia,You got the link. Read Robb's bio before y...Scandia,<BR/><BR/>You got the link. Read Robb's bio before you dismiss him. The blog really doesn't do him justice.<BR/><BR/>.VLADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07303463697333210934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-51297886957670278102008-07-15T23:50:00.000-04:002008-07-15T23:50:00.000-04:00Rumor, thanks for the John Robb/urbanguerrillas si...Rumor, thanks for the John Robb/urbanguerrillas site. Most interesting. Really like his use of systems theory. Makes sense.<BR/>Musashi,now I understand your comment about open source.scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-26444091724076944592008-07-15T22:59:00.000-04:002008-07-15T22:59:00.000-04:00OK, so I have a scary personal story. Last week I...OK, so I have a scary personal story. Last week I was getting a little freaked out and I took out my mortgage money that was sitting in my Wachovia savings account. I pretty much live check by check, but have some cash at home for the big collapse. Anyway, I was getting freaked by WB collapse, and I went and took out the mortgage money....this was last Wednesday. Here's the thing....they Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-74086838716218003942008-07-15T22:33:00.000-04:002008-07-15T22:33:00.000-04:00Ilargi,I've been thinking over this GSE plan and i...Ilargi,<BR/><BR/>I've been thinking over this GSE plan and it didn't make sense. Until now.<BR/><BR/>The thing that bothered me was why in the hell would one have to borrow from the discount window if they can borrow from the Treasury?<BR/><BR/>The answer: They don't!<BR/><BR/>Ben's Bear Stearns bailout always had one problem: once the Fed balance sheet is empty then game over. The Fed needs toAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-51539149721605237402008-07-15T21:55:00.000-04:002008-07-15T21:55:00.000-04:00Scandia: http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/Scandia: http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15614205920972531674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-18951808163758245062008-07-15T20:54:00.000-04:002008-07-15T20:54:00.000-04:00Musashi, who is John Robb?Musashi, who is John Robb?scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-82444067384862481022008-07-15T19:34:00.000-04:002008-07-15T19:34:00.000-04:00Naomi Klein has a full hour interview with Amy Goo...Naomi Klein has a full hour interview with Amy Goodman on today's ¡Democracy Now!<BR/><BR/>http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/15/streamAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-56373035461606107182008-07-15T19:32:00.000-04:002008-07-15T19:32:00.000-04:00Musashi said:"The liberal whiners will beg for it ...Musashi said:<BR/>"The liberal whiners will beg for it to be done when they are starving and freezing."<BR/><BR/>See "Three Days of the Condor"<BR/><BR/>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073802/The Lizardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12044779666881689690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-38246438688536686502008-07-15T15:24:00.000-04:002008-07-15T15:24:00.000-04:00From yesterdayIn a smaller world, far more risks w...From yesterday<BR/><BR/><I>In a smaller world, far more risks will be of the up-close-and-personal variety. I doubt many hedge fund managers will have the stomach for it.</I><BR/><BR/>ROFLOL<BR/>Stone, now you know why I like reading you.<BR/><BR/><I>Asymmetric warfare can expose surprising vulnerabilities in supposedly superior forces - see The Transformation of War by Martin van Creveld for a VLADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07303463697333210934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-27534437539178779772008-07-15T15:06:00.000-04:002008-07-15T15:06:00.000-04:00"when a private corporation breaks the law, you ca..."when a private corporation breaks the law, you can 'fix' it by passing retroactive legislation making it not breaking the law, with the stroke of a pen."<BR/><BR/>Hmmm. This sounds familar...<BR/><BR/>Darth Sidious: This turn of events is unfortunate. We must accelerate our plans. <BR/>Nute Gunray: My lord, is that... legal?<BR/>Darth Sidious: I will make it legal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-55556412024839442792008-07-15T14:40:00.000-04:002008-07-15T14:40:00.000-04:00Things are getting surreal. This morning I saw tha...Things are getting surreal. This morning I saw that Spanish house prices had risen 2.5% in June.<BR/><BR/>Are they just making-up these statistics or what?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-18914278601061215992008-07-15T14:36:00.000-04:002008-07-15T14:36:00.000-04:00What is old is eventually new all over again!“Perm...What is old is eventually new all over again!<BR/><BR/>“Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.” <BR/>--Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1744 - 1812Bigelowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16883913065391637120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-44046494787899393762008-07-15T13:38:00.000-04:002008-07-15T13:38:00.000-04:00Everyone should read Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctr...Everyone should read Naomi Klein's <I>The Shock Doctrine</I>.Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-73762667126567568082008-07-15T13:04:00.000-04:002008-07-15T13:04:00.000-04:00Peter Wallison, a fellow at the American Enterpris...Peter Wallison, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former general counsel to the U.S. Treasury Department. "Why waste a good crisis?"<BR/><BR/>The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein is looking like the glass slipper that fits the current financial foot.<BR/><BR/>The Rethuglicans nominally headed by 'Cheney the Dick' and his sock puppet from the Bush Crime Family, Bushbaby the Decider,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com