tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post33121811957161738..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: March 4 2011: Damned if you do, doomed if you don'tIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-64496902891856964062011-03-07T10:14:29.935-05:002011-03-07T10:14:29.935-05:00@Ilargi
It's not working I'm afraid@Ilargi<br /><br />It's not working I'm afraidtrichterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03564719312574931123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-33094276523223274192011-03-07T09:25:55.503-05:002011-03-07T09:25:55.503-05:00New post up.
Financial Threats to Power
.New post up.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2011/03/march-7-2011-financial-threats-to-power.html%22" rel="nofollow"><b>Financial Threats to Power</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-44526436643437348162011-03-07T08:35:33.124-05:002011-03-07T08:35:33.124-05:00Its looking like the newly elected coalition in Ir...Its looking like the newly elected coalition in Ireland is going to screw the voters. Why don't they default and tell the IMF to bugger off?! I must be missing some key information?scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-1438810443565761762011-03-07T08:20:36.052-05:002011-03-07T08:20:36.052-05:00Brent Over $118, Crude Passes $107, EURUSD Above $...<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/article/brent-over-118-crude-passes-107-eurusd-above-140-futures-silver-and-gold-highs-dollar-plunge" rel="nofollow">Brent Over $118, Crude Passes $107, EURUSD Above $1.40, Futures Up, Silver And Gold At Highs, Dollar In Flight To Safety Freefall.</a><br /><br />Wiseguys at ZH not having a clue what this means: Priceless.<br /><br />Regards,<br />Paulp01https://www.blogger.com/profile/04396562841580952642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-82995360371620290702011-03-07T03:33:41.102-05:002011-03-07T03:33:41.102-05:00Kelly,
I can't believe anyone outside the MSM...Kelly,<br /><br /><i>I can't believe anyone outside the MSM is dissing PM's with the price action last year.</i><br /><br />That was then, this is now. Extrapolating trends forward is dangerous. It's better to look where we are going than where we have been. We at TAE think we are heading for massive deleveraging, which would undercut price support for almost everything, at least in Stoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-5403855576770952622011-03-07T02:12:53.892-05:002011-03-07T02:12:53.892-05:00The Anonymous,
For example, were there a popular ...The Anonymous,<br /><br /><i>For example, were there a popular uprising here in the US, and a violent or peaceful overthrow of the govt, its very conceivable the new govt will implement a new currency, making the dollar effectively worthless. </i><br /><br />Currency reissue is always a risk, but it wouldn't happen overnight. It would take several years at least IMO to get to that point. As IStoneleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15099878430757036461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-84807551991189055992011-03-06T22:43:22.121-05:002011-03-06T22:43:22.121-05:00The rest is normal human folly, and there may be n...<i>The rest is normal human folly, and there may be no cure.</i><br /><br />Supergravity,<br /><br />Yes, it is clear that there is no cure to human folly. I am using Nasser as an example of how history gets rewritten and people gladly go along with it. <br /><br />The fact is that this guy started wars which he lost and lost wars (1967) which he did not start on a grand scale. All of this while Nassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-31123416062732215752011-03-06T21:27:00.466-05:002011-03-06T21:27:00.466-05:00Not to hell with those who argue that society is a...Not to hell with those who argue that society is a constant struggle between prosocial and antisocial forces, I'd agree wholeheartedly, but, as dysfunctional government has been shown to be more conductive towards antisocial behaviour than even anarchy could be, its certain that inductive governmental psychopathology can indeed force otherwise moral people to act immorally, inhuman, whereas Supergravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16330259051452619245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-45275894378793291802011-03-06T20:49:32.801-05:002011-03-06T20:49:32.801-05:00Anybody here tired of the term, resilient communit...Anybody here tired of the term, resilient communities?<br /><br />I do hope so!<br /><br />The phrase,'Resilient communities', along with the word 'networking' are two items that really git up my wick.<br /><br />As soon as I run across these two self serving means of saving one's ass, I tune out. Possibly they are used with the best of intentions but, IMO,like with the bestscrofuloushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01085471693372823086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-71518555364516821162011-03-06T20:45:11.338-05:002011-03-06T20:45:11.338-05:00ogardener said...
I'd like to see the entire p...ogardener said...<br />I'd like to see the entire planet without borders.<br /><br />Good luck with that!<br /><br />Regards,<br />Paulp01https://www.blogger.com/profile/04396562841580952642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-74784205222269484942011-03-06T20:38:36.228-05:002011-03-06T20:38:36.228-05:00Blogger Nassim said...
A Middle East without bor...Blogger Nassim said...<br /><br /><i>A Middle East without borders?</i><br /><br />I'd like to see the entire planet without borders.ogardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16062788838505530416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-64723664268454320342011-03-06T20:25:47.857-05:002011-03-06T20:25:47.857-05:00Blogger logout said...
ogardener and El Gal
...Blogger logout said...<br /><br /> ogardener and El Gal<br /><br /><i>"Looks like I touched a golden nerve, with you two at least.</i><br /><br />The buzzard and I have some things in common like "The Dock Of The Bay" for example.ogardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16062788838505530416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-1436989147064923062011-03-06T19:50:41.030-05:002011-03-06T19:50:41.030-05:00ogardener and El Gal
Looks like I touched a golde...ogardener and El Gal<br /><br />Looks like I touched a golden nerve, with you two at least.<br /><br />Gardener guy ,all there was, at the time, other than highway was woods ... the city was what I was trying to reach:) ( By the way for what it is worth, I grow all my own vegatables except rice).<br /><br />El Gal, talk to Stoneleigh and ask her about the size of the gold market in comparison to scrofuloushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01085471693372823086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-30963302338296221262011-03-06T19:50:12.395-05:002011-03-06T19:50:12.395-05:00From: Of Two Minds - Food for thought. A critical ...From: Of Two Minds - Food for thought. A critical examination of so-called progressive thinking.<br /><br />"There is absolutely nothing Progressive about this rapacious "growth" of consumption based on stripmining the planet and borrowing from our future."<br /><br />http://www.oftwominds.com/blog.htmlHombrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12930734368916487826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-52006040494929562172011-03-06T19:39:52.640-05:002011-03-06T19:39:52.640-05:00Let me tell you a revealing true story about Nasse...Let me tell you a revealing true story about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasser" rel="nofollow">Nasser</a>. He was from a modest background and was bad at school. When he attempted to enter the military college, he was rejected. He went to see an influential Pasha (i.e. Lord), Ibrahim Kheiry Pasha, to ask him to help him enter this college. This Pasha took him by car to the military Nassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-89181163592928230352011-03-06T19:16:10.119-05:002011-03-06T19:16:10.119-05:00Never has an imported concept been so jealously gu...<i>Never has an imported concept been so jealously guarded by ruling families and political elites in the Middle East as that of the nation state, together with the holy grail of international relations theory, state sovereignty.</i><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/201134154351741689.html" rel="nofollow">A Middle East without borders?</a><br /><br />Nassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-60535244243670273812011-03-06T18:53:12.796-05:002011-03-06T18:53:12.796-05:00@IM Nobody
One more thing on ponerology, I wasn&#...@IM Nobody <br />One more thing on ponerology, I wasn't advocating any unachievable situation yet. I didn't mean the "ruling class" is already so oversaturated with sociopathy that it must be prevented from ruling at all, the vast majority of rulers are not grade-A sociopaths, but a larger than average minority is expected to be. It should be an achievable ideal to implement Supergravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16330259051452619245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-20015963670621366562011-03-06T18:33:44.673-05:002011-03-06T18:33:44.673-05:00@p01 (Paul)
you wrote....(the quip of the day).
I...@p01 (Paul)<br /><br />you wrote....(the quip of the day).<br />I really need a quick smoke of what stuff he's having. And then we can all watch a game on TeeVee while the money machine hums in the background.<br /><br />Butch Cassidy..."Who are these guys"?<br />Historically (and an incomplete list) is as follows: Chili, Honduras, Argentina, Iran, El Salvador, now Egypt, Libya, mikel paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12533712504907668109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-4588388177685227762011-03-06T16:47:57.655-05:002011-03-06T16:47:57.655-05:00@Ilargi
"Once it becomes clear, as in when th...@Ilargi<br />"Once it becomes clear, as in when the markets start falling for real, that there will be no pensions for the boomers and no jobs for their children, we’ll see people in the streets all over the western world too. And the US dollar will be the first flight to safety haven."<br /><br />If the US itself was to somehow destabilise sooner than other dying currency powers, and Supergravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16330259051452619245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-19307241904984132672011-03-06T16:41:00.669-05:002011-03-06T16:41:00.669-05:00Behold the power of the markets:
Arab revolution c...Behold the power of the markets:<br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/06/uk-mideast-investment-idUSLNE72500220110306" rel="nofollow">Arab revolution could trigger foreign investment boom</a>.<br /><br />I really need a quick smoke of what stuff he's having. And then we can all watch a game on TeeVee while the money machine hums in the background.<br /><br />Regards,<br />Paulp01https://www.blogger.com/profile/04396562841580952642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-12806446900802855242011-03-06T16:08:50.179-05:002011-03-06T16:08:50.179-05:00Blogger Jason said...
"Anyone here reading ...Blogger Jason said...<br /><br /><i>"Anyone here reading the good Archdruid?"</i><br /><br />I read it. It was good.ogardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16062788838505530416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-4752821791875409652011-03-06T15:31:08.966-05:002011-03-06T15:31:08.966-05:00Green Man Potter said...
"I was wonderin...Green Man Potter said...<br /><br /> <i>"I was wondering if at the TAE the discussion could include more of the destruction that automation technology is having on the job market world wide."</i><br /><br /><b>Some thoughts:</b><br />What if payroll taxes followed the job instead of following the worker?<br /><br />In other words:<br />What if taxes were based on the amount of work acomforthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15053732119953856909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-70695365473304015602011-03-06T12:34:34.538-05:002011-03-06T12:34:34.538-05:00From the "Power to the People!!11" depar...From the "Power to the People!!11" department:<br />Power to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXHEX0O6zo8" rel="nofollow">which one</a> of the people?<br /><br />And a (dim) glimmer of hope:<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/us/06farmers.html" rel="nofollow">In New Food Culture, a Young Generation of Farmers Emerges</a><br /><br />Regards,<br />Paulp01https://www.blogger.com/profile/04396562841580952642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-15338172672732661902011-03-06T12:18:25.770-05:002011-03-06T12:18:25.770-05:00I guess it is time to change the old political say...I guess it is time to change the old political saying "a chicken in every pot" to arsenic in every pot.<br /><br />In addition to its extreme toxicity arsenic is believed to increase the incidence of bladder cancer.<br /><br />Please see: http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-03-time-to-end-insane-practice-of-lacing-chicken-feed-with-arsenic<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />RobertBiologique Earlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410194284794713409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-28424986166409076512011-03-06T11:58:11.357-05:002011-03-06T11:58:11.357-05:00@p01
Thanx for the adblock-plus plugin suggestion...@p01<br /><br />Thanx for the adblock-plus plugin suggestion. Life can get better. :)justaguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15702668631727466947noreply@blogger.com