tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post8946613889164780219..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: September 10 2009: Sooner or later it becomes your lifeIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger187125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-9674000801771952872009-09-11T14:40:44.661-04:002009-09-11T14:40:44.661-04:00"... historically, peasants don't revolt...."... historically, peasants don't revolt. ..."<br />Revolts are from the top. <br /><br />The "top" only makes changes that give them benefits.<br /><br />Therefore, any changes to what is happening in N. Korea will be done because someone at the top has figured out a way to benefit.<br /><br /><br />Here is an example.<br /><br />How to get more of the disposable income jalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-40269669674759347522009-09-11T14:28:02.274-04:002009-09-11T14:28:02.274-04:00Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. budget deficit wa...Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. budget deficit was little changed last month from a year earlier and narrower than economists predicted as tax receipts and spending declined. <br /><br />The excess of spending over revenue totaled $111.4 billion in August, compared with $111.9 billion a year earlier, the Treasury reported in Washington. The shortfall totaled a record $1.38 trillion in the first Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-80707849097893489142009-09-11T14:15:54.771-04:002009-09-11T14:15:54.771-04:00anon@September 11, 2009 12:42 PM
Almost all wild a...anon@September 11, 2009 12:42 PM<br />Almost all wild animals above squirrel size will be harvested<br /><br /><br />DEATH recommends only genuine HAV-A-HART live traps for all your rodent Harvesting and Trapping needs.<br /><br />http://www.berryhilllimited.com/b-cart/default.asp?cat=119<br /><br /><br />DEATH also recommends : "The Contented Poachers Epicurean Odyssey<br />Tales and DEATHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-70070770647306890332009-09-11T14:11:23.093-04:002009-09-11T14:11:23.093-04:00"Now, most of our population will go along wi..."Now, most of our population will go along with anything, so long as the televisions work."<br /><br />How true, most will believe they are going to have a shower as they are lead into the gas chamber.<br /><br />I asked several concentration camp survivors why most just passively went along during the whole roundup period. They all said the had faith the 'authorities' would Top Hat Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18062738110354384414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-53337020797643803732009-09-11T14:10:25.046-04:002009-09-11T14:10:25.046-04:00Chaos - it is frightening if you consider historic...Chaos - it is frightening if you consider historical examples where the withholding of food kept large populations docile. The USSR in the '30s comes to mind. I find it hard to conceive how a civilian who is starving and whose family is starving is going to command the wherewithal to take up arms to attack well-armed and well-fed troops.Dr Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-74048069235045174082009-09-11T14:08:56.522-04:002009-09-11T14:08:56.522-04:00Every administration makes everything their top pr...Every administration makes everything their top priority.<br /><br />Whatever your favorite issue is, is their top priority.<br /><br />Remember when someone said, 'We will not rest until we get Osama Bin Laden'? Then later, 'I'm not worried about him anymore?'<br /><br />Almost every politician will tell you what you want to hear, once they've identified what that is.Weaseldoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657976442272800800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-9151241505936418842009-09-11T14:06:00.970-04:002009-09-11T14:06:00.970-04:00I think the predictions of mass unrest, make us fe...I think the predictions of mass unrest, make us feel better that something will happen, to give us hope.<br /><br />Since man first started forming cities, dissenters have been culled from the population. We've been domesticating ourselves. Now, most of our population will go along with anything, so long as the televisions work.Weaseldoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657976442272800800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-33198616580236647002009-09-11T14:04:22.940-04:002009-09-11T14:04:22.940-04:00WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration st...WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration still sees passing financial regulatory reform legislation as a top priority this year, White House adviser Christina Romer said on Friday.<br /><br />"It is absolutely a top priority," Romer, who chairs the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told Reuters Television.<br /><br />She said the administration did not want to lose this Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-53211394019941812572009-09-11T13:56:25.996-04:002009-09-11T13:56:25.996-04:00@ Dr. J re: North Korea
This is the trouble I hav...@ Dr. J re: North Korea<br /><br />This is the trouble I have with predictions of mass unrest. Even Tainter observes that, historically, peasants don't revolt. They may become passive, and non-supportive of the current regime, but they rarely riot. Frankly, I think a lot of the speculation here and other places about a major watershed moment among the populace are overblown and dramatic.Chaoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14511045883879753073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-23719283964764350082009-09-11T13:43:44.026-04:002009-09-11T13:43:44.026-04:00ogardener said...
I'm glad I gave up read...ogardener said...<br /><br /> I'm glad I gave up reading anonymous posts.<br /><br /> September 11, 2009 1:30 PM<br /><br /><br />ROFL !!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-71367430767694111682009-09-11T13:39:01.262-04:002009-09-11T13:39:01.262-04:00Don't forget also Top, that the gov will be is...Don't forget also Top, that the gov will be issuing corrections for this quarter, sometime at the end of the year.<br /><br />Their mistakes always make things look more favorable than they are.<br /><br />The screw ups in the Spring, we've recently learned were really far off the mark, making it look there were green shoots, when really we had wilted lilies.<br /><br />the gov is lucky Weaseldoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657976442272800800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-10448206207725823852009-09-11T13:32:09.959-04:002009-09-11T13:32:09.959-04:00To all the moron anons yadayadaing about unemploym...To all the moron anons yadayadaing about unemployment stats showing a slow down in the <i>increase</i> of total joblessness and underemployment, the summer is over Kids and much of the faux stat cooking (quoted by some as Gospel) was based on summer temp hiring.<br /><br />The layoffs in the summer resort area I frequent is beginning early cause business is down so much.<br /><br />Many people Top Hat Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18062738110354384414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-70674127678080839912009-09-11T13:30:20.521-04:002009-09-11T13:30:20.521-04:00I'm glad I gave up reading anonymous posts.I'm glad I gave up reading anonymous posts.ogardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16062788838505530416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-82043461555036302732009-09-11T13:26:20.923-04:002009-09-11T13:26:20.923-04:00Poaching was a hanging offence in feudal times.Poaching was a hanging offence in feudal times.Dr Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-22845597409907840692009-09-11T13:19:44.611-04:002009-09-11T13:19:44.611-04:00"Almost all wild animals above squirrel size ..."Almost all wild animals above squirrel size will be harvested within a few years of collapse, except in extremely remote areas and even there, they will eventually be hunted to extinction for trade purposes."<br /><br />And it won't be JNP( Joe NoPacks) doing the harvesting and trading. You can bet whatever ".gov" exists will be jealously exploiting any formerly "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-47732512010849148362009-09-11T12:42:13.805-04:002009-09-11T12:42:13.805-04:00"...said Paul French, author of North Korea: ..."...said Paul French, author of North Korea: The Paranoid Peninsula. "You know there's a problem when people have eaten all the livestock."<br /><br />There is also NO wild game left on the Paranoid Peninsula, a vision of what North America will look like. Almost all wild animals above squirrel size will be harvested within a few years of collapse, except in extremely remote Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-4140638579369928042009-09-11T12:30:40.711-04:002009-09-11T12:30:40.711-04:00Bluebird
So where would the wealthy put their weal...Bluebird<br /><i>So where would the wealthy put their wealth, if not in U.S. banks? In gold? Investments in foreign currency? Tankers of Oil?</i><br /><br />Tinfoil think time: If I were wealthy and not Goldman Sachs busy renting boats and chugaluging oil, I would be holding in foreign currency waiting for the break in the oil market which I think will be very short, possibly deep and very very Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-88520382862699291372009-09-11T12:25:23.954-04:002009-09-11T12:25:23.954-04:00Re: North Korea link
http://www.theglobeandmail.c...Re: North Korea link<br /><br />http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/starving-in-silence/article1278941/<br /><br />The so-called "doomsters" here are actually "cock-eyed optimists". The idealized 19th century "agrarian"/amish-type world of our great-X-grandparents was more dependendant on growth oriented industrialization than we like to acknowledge. The deep Farmageddonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-77189611377672067742009-09-11T11:53:13.451-04:002009-09-11T11:53:13.451-04:00For anyone interested, the Council of Economic Adv...For anyone interested, the Council of Economic Advisors has issued its first quarterly report of the impact of ARRA (i.e.- Obama's stimulus package).<br /><br />It is 48 pages PDF and, not surprisingly, self-congratulatory. <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/CEA%20ARRA%20Report%20Embargo.pdf" rel="nofollow">Here is the link.</a><br /><br />By their own Frank A.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-14299654407441159132009-09-11T11:33:11.623-04:002009-09-11T11:33:11.623-04:00In addition to the unsustainable economic picture,...In addition to the unsustainable economic picture, we have mounting evidence of systemic political corruption that is not being discussed and addressed in the MSM. <br /><br />Has corruption become so commonplace that it is no longer news? No, they're just covering to protect their financial interests.<br /><br />"The remarkable 8/8/09 deposition of former FBI Emmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-73659892280151064152009-09-11T11:14:26.785-04:002009-09-11T11:14:26.785-04:00Well, when this Healthcare bill passes, there will...Well, when this Healthcare bill passes, there will be a lot of hiring for government jobs.<br /><br />The IRS will have to hire a lot of new people, unless they plan to outsource the work to India.<br /><br />So perhaps we could see white collar job growth over the next few years, as the US government expands to replace the private sector?Weaseldoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657976442272800800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-49888215046621746502009-09-11T10:58:15.387-04:002009-09-11T10:58:15.387-04:00U.S. econ recovery to be vigorous despite consensu...U.S. econ recovery to be vigorous despite consensus<br /><br />Achuthan recently told Reuters that a double-dip recession is highly unlikely, and that the United States is poised for a far stronger recovery than many are projecting.<br /><br />"We expect non-manufacturing employment -- which is where 91 percent of us work -- to be positive by year end," Achuthan said.<br /><br />"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-74489976423325306442009-09-11T10:49:55.183-04:002009-09-11T10:49:55.183-04:00Made mistakes, rectified.
The problem with Schröd...Made mistakes, rectified.<br /><br />The problem with Schrödinger's box is not keeping the quantum decoherence out, but keeping the gravity in.<br /><br />Four possible things that are rarely mentioned could happen when you close that box.<br /><br />1. Time stops inside the box,<br />when opening the box the cat will always be alive as no time has passed for a randomized quantum Gravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-17725363203959706152009-09-11T10:48:05.092-04:002009-09-11T10:48:05.092-04:00To break this current market, we need an event.
A...To break this current market, we need an event.<br /><br />A continued rise in oil prices would pop the bubble.<br /><br />A new war, assassination, natural disaster could work.<br /><br />We have a cold winter forecasted. So we might see energy prices rise until it triggers demand destruction and an excuse to pay out $trillions to banks in free welfare checks.<br /><br />As to the mark to marketWeaseldoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657976442272800800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-64381909548098809062009-09-11T10:34:10.432-04:002009-09-11T10:34:10.432-04:00snuffy said:
"At some point the American pu...snuffy said: <br /><br />"At some point the American public will know how screwed we are..that realization will shake the very foundations ...that rage will make the distaste over the bailouts look inconsequential..."<br /><br />I think it all depends on how slowly you boil the frog. Have a look at this piece on N. Korea:<br /><br />http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/Dr Jnoreply@blogger.com