tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post3344714845376216684..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: August 1 2011: Of Ceilings and DungeonsIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger124125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-85532553685936505112011-08-03T17:33:06.906-04:002011-08-03T17:33:06.906-04:00@el G It seems I was (mostly) wrong. The German br...@el G It seems I was (mostly) wrong. The German branch ended with no male heir earlier in the 20th century. The Austrian people escaped, but their business was not so portable. I seem to recall that they managed to sell some of their foreign operations to their British cousins in time, but it still cost the family as a whole a pretty penny.<br /><br />Wikipedia is your friend.Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752307987743035281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-26498889765512201362011-08-03T17:14:08.988-04:002011-08-03T17:14:08.988-04:00New post up.
The Next Bank Bailout Bloodbath i...New post up.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2011/08/august-3-2011-next-bank-bailout.html" rel="nofollow"><b>The Next Bank Bailout Bloodbath is Here</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-40505969134065215892011-08-03T16:36:01.386-04:002011-08-03T16:36:01.386-04:00El G,
Is the statement released by the Treasury&#...El G,<br /><br />Is the statement released by the Treasury's "Borrowing Advisory Committee" code for "stop spending/printing so much money for the people and start getting serious about servicing the debt you owe us"? It seems the TBTFs enjoy making thinly-veiled threats these days; ones that they can't really afford to have carried out.Ashvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00692970226443206815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-38755486141910580152011-08-03T16:31:59.753-04:002011-08-03T16:31:59.753-04:00Possibly one of Fred's most perceptive Scurril...Possibly one of Fred's most perceptive Scurrilous Commentaries.<br /><i><b><br />Democracy, Birds, And Snails<br /><br />Oh...Hell</b><br /><br />April 7, 2005<br /><br />I wonder whether liberal democracies do not follow an ordained trajectory into the muck, ripening like fruits, having their arteries harden, and falling, plop, to be eaten by birds and snails. (That was a two-animal Phlogiston Água de Beberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269917130349144430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-27265398158648551192011-08-03T15:52:10.630-04:002011-08-03T15:52:10.630-04:00Frank,
You have links to that? I'd like to l...Frank,<br /><br />You have links to that? I'd like to look at the details.<br /><br />But DBS and I where taking about the British Rothschilds anyway. And this is not to paint all European Jewish bankers with the same brush. I was just thinking of the banker and friend of the family, Isak, in Bergman's film, Fanny and Alexander. Isak was a mysterious hero of the film, and in all el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-17616944606472051252011-08-03T15:29:53.676-04:002011-08-03T15:29:53.676-04:00@el G given that Hitler wiped out three of the fiv...@el G given that Hitler wiped out three of the five branches of the Rothschild family. (only British and French left), I think it highly unlikely that that business developed in any Rothschild-planned way.Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752307987743035281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-58457153298449886142011-08-03T15:27:28.177-04:002011-08-03T15:27:28.177-04:00Don't criticize Stoneleigh's market predic...Don't criticize Stoneleigh's market predictions. The genius, George Orwell, was early also.<br /><br />From the Guardian<br /><br />Anarchists should be reported, advises Westminster anti-terror police<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/4xkwyueel gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-89800319096185359962011-08-03T14:51:45.513-04:002011-08-03T14:51:45.513-04:00Prompt reply from CHS:
"Yes, I’m switching o...Prompt reply from CHS:<br /><br />"Yes, I’m switching over to a dedicated server and it’s been bungled. sigh.<br />Thanks for the note!<br />charles"Ashvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00692970226443206815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-39103275038204441782011-08-03T14:42:36.656-04:002011-08-03T14:42:36.656-04:00Ash,
He forgot to put a quarter in the phone for ...Ash,<br /><br />He forgot to put a quarter in the phone for the next five minutes. Server's ain't free and he must buy by the GB.el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-65869967546161669462011-08-03T14:38:54.138-04:002011-08-03T14:38:54.138-04:00http://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXSP%3A.INX&...http://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXSP%3A.INX&hl=en<br /><br />Either Brian Sack's boyz of the NY Fed PPT flew back from the Hamptons on Benny's helicopter, or more probably, the algobots are responding to the FOMC's Hilsenrath's flatus suggesting QE 3. Hilsenrath is the designated anal pore to the MSM. This may just be a release to prevent a free fall demolition of the el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-43888303152716989832011-08-03T14:31:40.735-04:002011-08-03T14:31:40.735-04:00Speaking of CHS, when I try to access his blog, it...Speaking of CHS, when I try to access his blog, it says "This Account Has Been Suspended". That doesn't sound like your typical technical difficulty... anyone have any further info? I'm gonna try e-mailing him, but I'm sure he's being bombarded with emails right now.Ashvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00692970226443206815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-75608942283361019602011-08-03T14:19:16.406-04:002011-08-03T14:19:16.406-04:00Mike,
Kindle can be a good revenue source. My ste...Mike,<br /><br />Kindle can be a good revenue source. My stepson published a short story there a few months ago based on a true incident which happened to him about a shipwreck and rescue he participated in sailing from St John, USVI to FL. It sold for $1.99 of which he was supposed to get something like 75%. So far it has sold over 12,000 copies. Just hope that Amazon doesn't stiff him.<br /el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-86231938807159638892011-08-03T13:58:26.873-04:002011-08-03T13:58:26.873-04:00Hamburger University More Selective Than Harvard
...Hamburger University More Selective Than Harvard<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/3zfrvpu<br /><br />OK p01 - hold the bun<br /><br />Forget Harvard. Hamburger University -- the Shanghai branch of McDonalds' managerial training program -- is one of the hardest colleges to get into in the world, with an acceptance rate of less than one percent, according to Bloomberg News. (Harvard's el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-19614483493513867112011-08-03T13:53:41.273-04:002011-08-03T13:53:41.273-04:00United "Enlightened" Europe going down t...United "Enlightened" Europe going down the drain:<br /><a href="http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20110802/greece-economic-and-political-crisis-110802/" rel="nofollow">Fears of far-right rise in crisis-hit Greece</a>.<br /><br />Anyone still not convinced where Europe is headed? Any illusions this will be contained or that it "will not happen here"? :(p01https://www.blogger.com/profile/04396562841580952642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-25195638479021092102011-08-03T13:36:35.197-04:002011-08-03T13:36:35.197-04:00@P01, I got caught by the Onion story on a drunk B...@P01, I got caught by the Onion story on a drunk Bernacke!!!What an upside down world when fiction tells the fact.Probably the only way left to tell the truth. I had thought while reading it that too bad Powell hadn't had a few too many drinks before fudging the WMD in Iraq. What a different world we would have.scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-25919772160876154982011-08-03T13:31:58.302-04:002011-08-03T13:31:58.302-04:00El G,
Thanks for the CHS Link to his Kindle book...El G, <br /><br />Thanks for the CHS Link to his Kindle book. Kindle is another great way to get the word out and I think it would be another way for I&S to deliver their very important info and to gain an additional revenue stream.<br /><br />I would also like to have an easily reference and readible document from Stoneleigh on the kindle format.<br /><br />Just a thought.<br /><br />I haveMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05716828239924827486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-44063433948340631532011-08-03T13:17:08.197-04:002011-08-03T13:17:08.197-04:00Where do Stoneleigh and Prechter differ? It appear...Where do Stoneleigh and Prechter differ? It appears that they share most of the same ideas.Chashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00266745551401583981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-83662390822259847242011-08-03T12:41:40.973-04:002011-08-03T12:41:40.973-04:00For canadians mainly:
"Massa" Turner ha...For canadians mainly:<br /><br />"Massa" Turner has managed to piss off <a href="http://www.theeconomicanalyst.com/content/more-bit-disappointed-garth-turner" rel="nofollow">Ben Rabidoux</a>(an excellent blogger IMHO, although much too optimistic) and is starting to show his <a href="http://www.greaterfool.ca/2011/08/02/whatever-3/" rel="nofollow">true colors</a>. What could a p01https://www.blogger.com/profile/04396562841580952642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-22595187954428343822011-08-03T12:04:09.017-04:002011-08-03T12:04:09.017-04:00A really good article on Iceland's recent fina...A really good article on Iceland's recent financial and political history. Pops some illusions.<br /><br /><br />http://mondediplo.com/2011/08/02iceland<br /><br />Ash,<br /><br />If you need some special hat designer tin foil, I have extra in my stash :-)el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-52396515328934735652011-08-03T11:30:36.031-04:002011-08-03T11:30:36.031-04:00FB & ogardener, Thanks for the comments. Peak...FB & ogardener, Thanks for the comments. Peak Oil is indeed a big factor that will affect the future and I don't know if the authors address this issue elsewhere in their book(s). Mostly my take away is to avoid all real estate as it is certain to further decline in value (as both I&S have said) and that was what I had been hoping would turn around, but am now making other plans forghpacifichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09829514410903378217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-17082590110829006312011-08-03T10:34:32.207-04:002011-08-03T10:34:32.207-04:00US Prepares for Worst Case Scenario With Pakistan ...<a href="http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/07/28/7189919-us-prepares-for-worst-case-scenario-with-pakistan-nukes" rel="nofollow">US Prepares for Worst Case Scenario With Pakistan Nukes</a><br /><br /><i>[Former CIA Director Tenet]: “After a few pleasantries … I launched into a description of the campfire meeting between (O)sama bin Laden, al-Zawahiri and the UTN leaders,” Tenet wrote. “Ashvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00692970226443206815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-30126353304687923662011-08-03T09:57:17.815-04:002011-08-03T09:57:17.815-04:00Drunken Ben Bernanke Tells Everyone At Neighborhoo...<a href="http://www.theonion.com/articles/drunken-ben-bernanke-tells-everyone-at-neighborhoo,21059/" rel="nofollow">Drunken Ben Bernanke Tells Everyone At Neighborhood Bar How Screwed U.S. Economy Really Is</a><br /><i>Numerous bar patrons slowly nodded in agreement as Bernanke went on to suggest the United States could pass three or four more stimulus packages and "it wouldn't even p01https://www.blogger.com/profile/04396562841580952642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-43521554741709837262011-08-03T08:34:14.424-04:002011-08-03T08:34:14.424-04:00Anyway, as everything collapses we will have to ea...Anyway, as everything collapses we will have to eat grains. Stephan Guyenet explains why soaking and fermenting was <a href="http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-eat-grains.html" rel="nofollow">done.</a> It was not some naive grandma tradition...but a tried and true method used to transform something partially toxic into something partially nutritious.p01https://www.blogger.com/profile/04396562841580952642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-67182113028591658732011-08-03T07:27:23.815-04:002011-08-03T07:27:23.815-04:00@skilo
I just avoid grains, sugars and vegetable o...@skilo<br />I just avoid grains, sugars and vegetable oils like a plague. I have no quarrel with carbs per se, as long as they come from tubers, although in paleo times the tubers were probably more like celery and less like the GMO bags of glucose called potatoes nowadays.p01https://www.blogger.com/profile/04396562841580952642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-60445931257862113692011-08-03T05:16:20.739-04:002011-08-03T05:16:20.739-04:00An analysis on events in Israel from PressTV...
&...An analysis on events in Israel from PressTV...<br /><br />" Zionism incompatible with Israelis"<br /><br />http://www.presstv.com/detail/191953.htmlscandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.com