tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post1555743610596146180..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: October 31 2010: Night of the Living DebtIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-83489785998335690592010-11-03T01:13:09.258-04:002010-11-03T01:13:09.258-04:00I wonder what you guys have on this:
"Fact i...I wonder what you guys have on this:<br /><br /><i>"Fact is, UPS uses a subcontractor, Sun Tours, to handle shipping in and out of Yemen. Sun Tours sends their shipments via Yemenia Air. The original claim was that the suspicious package originated in Yemen and flew to Britain on an aircraft owned by UPS. The so-called "media" has been showing the mouth-breathers a video of a UPS team10timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12100467801841348435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-21112010699519962812010-11-02T20:46:37.897-04:002010-11-02T20:46:37.897-04:00@Dan
"I want no part of a movement for justic...@Dan<br />"I want no part of a movement for justice if it comes with any violence or vengeful punishment or scapegoating or Nativism or dogma directed toward the men who admittedly may, it can be argued, have stolen the future from me and from my family and from millions of other former members of the American Middle Class."<br /><br />I understand where you're coming from, there isGravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-81207199011259686172010-11-02T19:43:50.952-04:002010-11-02T19:43:50.952-04:00New post up.
Obama's wearing Herbert Hoover...New post up.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2010/11/november-2-2010-obamas-wearing-herbert.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Obama's wearing Herbert Hoover's concrete booties</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-60559297608802526342010-11-02T19:38:46.579-04:002010-11-02T19:38:46.579-04:00Are you still confused by “foreclosure-gate”?
Then...Are you still confused by “foreclosure-gate”?<br />Then try this explanation.<br /><br />http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/3Q10%20Opty%20Fund%20Quarterly%20Letter.pdf <br /><br />Iridian Opportunity Fund – 3rd Quarter 2010 Letterjalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-2074426194196710202010-11-02T18:52:23.142-04:002010-11-02T18:52:23.142-04:00Came into town just now for my blog fix and found ...Came into town just now for my blog fix and found Max Keiser's site is down. First time I tried to check it in three days as I don't have internet in the house now. But I have watching Max every day prior to losing in-house internet, and the site was never down before. Ready to pull my tin foil hat out of the closet. The TBTF probably hate Max. Max doesn't really have a lot of el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-50421316931772432292010-11-02T18:31:28.383-04:002010-11-02T18:31:28.383-04:00Re some recent suggestions regarding keeping silve...Re some recent suggestions regarding keeping silver, I regard holding silver at distances of 10,000 km, even at honorable institutions, to be at best problematic.el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-73792570413925823932010-11-02T16:59:37.689-04:002010-11-02T16:59:37.689-04:00I had read some of the ReverseEngineer at Denninge...I had read some of the ReverseEngineer at Denninger's blog last year, but the R.E. was banned. The R.E. is most definitely in Alaska, where is Quinn? The writing styles are different too. Quinn's postings display many graphs and charts. The R.E. loves to write, but don't recall any charts.bluebirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09600634086150466162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-89803201228661468132010-11-02T15:07:01.777-04:002010-11-02T15:07:01.777-04:00@Ilargi
Thanks for the heads up on the Jim Quinn ...@Ilargi<br /><br />Thanks for the heads up on the Jim Quinn piece. That was one rollicking good tale and I wonder if James Cameron would be interested in producing and directing the movie version. He had better hurry though.<br /><br />@Bluebird<br /><br />Jim Quinn is the RogueEconomist, nee the ReverseEngineer. He is an acquired taste for sure and one had better be prepared if he/she wants Archiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17474700824903759325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-18862436314222203302010-11-02T13:47:55.367-04:002010-11-02T13:47:55.367-04:00@Ilargi - That very long posting at the Burning Pl...@Ilargi - That very long posting at the Burning Platform, was written by RogueEconomist or sometimes called Reverse Engineer. BTW, aren't you still living in the Netherlands?bluebirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09600634086150466162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-56107207211949793752010-11-02T12:18:31.981-04:002010-11-02T12:18:31.981-04:00jal,
I was just working on Jim Quinn's piece ...jal,<br /><br />I was just working on Jim Quinn's piece for the upcoming TAE post. He's not at Zero Hedge, though, he has his own site. Moreover, <a href="http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=7067" rel="nofollow"><b>he wrote about TAE extensively yesterday</b></a>.<br /><br />As for Orlov, that's his weakest effort I think I've ever seen. Criticizing a graph for having a smoother Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-84677839472855797722010-11-02T11:37:16.999-04:002010-11-02T11:37:16.999-04:00Must read, compare and evaluate.
Prepare ... The...Must read, compare and evaluate. <br /><br />Prepare ... The timeline does not stop for anyone.<br /><br />http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-suicide-painless <br /><br /><br /><br />Inflation is the “painless” method through which the Federal Reserve has decided this country will commit suicide. - Jim Quinn<br /><br />http://www.jfcom.mil/newslink/storyarchive/2010/JOE_2010_o.pdf <br />jalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-46659435921051289572010-11-02T11:31:14.624-04:002010-11-02T11:31:14.624-04:00"Ahimsa said...
Another great piece by Chris ...<i>"Ahimsa said...<br />Another great piece by Chris Hedges:<br />The Phantom Left"</i><br /><br />Yeah, yeah, Hedges tries his best and all, as do many others, but in my humble opinion (provided I have any of that particular variety left) those who write and talk most about American politics are the ones who understand it least, clinging on to what perhaps once was and in their minds Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-9605862521201710032010-11-02T11:02:39.411-04:002010-11-02T11:02:39.411-04:00Another great piece by Chris Hedges:
The Phantom ...Another great piece by Chris Hedges:<br /><br /><i>The Phantom Left</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_phantom_left_20101031/" rel="nofollow">http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_phantom_left_20101031/</a><br /><br />Excerpt:<br /><br /><i>The liberal class wants to inhabit a political center to remain morally and politically disengaged. As long as there is a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-37644123138386181422010-11-02T10:50:42.263-04:002010-11-02T10:50:42.263-04:00Nimrod said...
“Would that things were that simple...Nimrod said...<br />“Would that things were that simple.”<br /><br />As you investigate the micro of All processes in a closed system it become apparent that there is a multiplicity of factors that interact to get to the observed macro effect.<br /><br />(See ... the result is a sentence that is a only comprehensible to “gravity”.) <br /> <br /> ;-) <br />jaljalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-11118612245264137552010-11-02T09:59:34.792-04:002010-11-02T09:59:34.792-04:00@jal
If there is a middle class american worker th...@jal<br /><i>If there is a middle class american worker that drops into the poor class then remember that there is a poor worker rising into the middle class in asia.</i><br /><br />Would that things were that simple. Unfortunately, in the real world, the "excess wealth" is paid out in a bonus to someone on Wall Street, and both the American and the Asian are now poor. It is true thatUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00006332059670687002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-45584792543329847812010-11-02T09:33:04.380-04:002010-11-02T09:33:04.380-04:00I read the Denninger post. Back in May 2009, in my...I read the Denninger post. Back in May 2009, in my "All Hail the Power of the Printing Press" blog post, I wrote "Karl Denninger describes the process of uninhibited printing as 'Bernanke inserting a gun into his mouth'. No that is not what he is doing. He is sticking a gun in some random poor person's mouth, and pulling the trigger."<br /><br />He seems to have Iconoclast421https://www.blogger.com/profile/01448094227173926913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-64865248864411504162010-11-02T07:48:40.736-04:002010-11-02T07:48:40.736-04:00Draft - Concerning Karl on the Great Depression:
I...Draft - Concerning Karl on the Great Depression:<br />I would say it's like an effort to describe the fall of the Roman empire in a page and a half! Can't be done properly. Karl speaks about policies at a distance from the vital human realities, and he has his own biases. I am old enough to have heard lots of stories and experiences from the 1930's.<br />My parents and older siblings Hombrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12930734368916487826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-86916983919281714882010-11-02T07:35:40.180-04:002010-11-02T07:35:40.180-04:00The $4000 issue
In retrospect, what I was really ...The $4000 issue<br /><br />In retrospect, what I was really trying to say was, in the times we are heading into, we had better damn well get used to treating sums such as this with respect, I have mentally prepped for this, not a difficult task being a tight wad Scot, but make no mistake, I have blown crazy sums of money on frivolous irrelevance with the best of them.<br />I have no beef with zanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15352619368764868819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-42961300427681931182010-11-02T05:23:32.621-04:002010-11-02T05:23:32.621-04:00enjoyed that, dan.
i work overnight shifts at a ...enjoyed that, dan. <br /><br />i work overnight shifts at a group home for mentally retarded adults. we took a 9pc cut this summer. there's a revolving door here for the employees but somehow i've been here eight years. on the bright side, these days my twenty-five cent annual raise is keeping up with inflation, so to speak. two of the residents have no family. my girlfriend and i talk benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07338619620804720116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-42807821153640477202010-11-02T00:04:36.677-04:002010-11-02T00:04:36.677-04:00What do you all think of Denninger's recent po...What do you all think of Denninger's recent post on the history of the great depression and what that tells us?<br /><br />http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=170949<br /><br />Seems interesting, and lines up with the TAE view for the most part. What I'm wondering is the timing of what he describes as the effects of Bernanke's actions - will Bernanke's projected failure be Drafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06476204907199270127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-84025798066577622102010-11-01T23:07:55.672-04:002010-11-01T23:07:55.672-04:00@ Iconoclast
Your point is excellent. You say:
&...@ Iconoclast<br /><br />Your point is excellent. You say:<br /><br />"At what point do you become driven to seek justice against those who committed crimes in the process of scamming you? And if you cannot find justice then at what point do you bring justice?"<br /><br />In our world, justice somehow always seems to be sought by those who end up having vengeance and punishment on their Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02629934080871994373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-57677789742647548052010-11-01T22:26:52.116-04:002010-11-01T22:26:52.116-04:00I might have said west, when of course I meant eas...I might have said west, when of course I meant east.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15691388297498844536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-77340519781600670642010-11-01T22:19:05.835-04:002010-11-01T22:19:05.835-04:00@ Stoneleigh
I believe you'll be coming west o...@ Stoneleigh<br />I believe you'll be coming west on I-80. We are about 5 miles south of I-80 in Ottawa, IL.<br /><br />Be happy to put you up if it's at the right time of day--or night--for you.<br /><br />lkalis at mchsi dot com.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15691388297498844536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-54929432176362596302010-11-01T21:47:52.972-04:002010-11-01T21:47:52.972-04:00Is it generally known in the US that the count is ...<i>Is it generally known in the US that the count is fixed?</i><br /><br />I don't think so. I haven't seen these stories on the "MSM" anywhere, only on the web. <br /><br /><i>I want the results to empower Obama to round up, charge and sentence the criminal class.</i><br /><br />I'm not sure how much of it is ignorance and how much is complicity, but I haven't seen any Jim Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17419179432204743768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-76262695919114256732010-11-01T20:56:59.645-04:002010-11-01T20:56:59.645-04:00Blogger Ruben said...
" I am absolutely fl...<i><br />Blogger Ruben said...<br /><br /> " I am absolutely flabbergasted that a jury thought it would be just to give Omar Khadr 40 years in jail for fighting an invading army at the age of 15."</i><br /><br /> Ruben I missed your post and was feeling like Mr. Lonely, but then it looks like just about everyone here has missed it as well,- otherwise I would think somewhat unkindly scrofuloushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01085471693372823086noreply@blogger.com