tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post617923687332290827..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: January 22 2012: The End is the Beginning is the EndIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger180125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-36818854177431969262012-01-25T21:32:28.591-05:002012-01-25T21:32:28.591-05:00hey ash,
"how so?" (does greenpa's...hey ash, <br /><br />"how so?" (does greenpa's point stand about flocking)<br /><br />I guess I felt like you were countering with what appears to be an attempt to mitigate a sensationalist article that seems to rely on a basic type of pattern recognition for its premise. the preposterous title of the article and the feeble opening and closing paragraphs, for starters, stand in benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07338619620804720116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-87481277984619022892012-01-25T18:13:10.388-05:002012-01-25T18:13:10.388-05:00In the spend-your-obsidian-anywhere department, it...In the spend-your-obsidian-anywhere department, it occurs to me that nothing ever changed. Money is but an illusion for those lower down the economic food chain. The managers still trade in things like metals (and no I don't intend to throw fresh bait to the gold thang)<br /><br />"<i>"Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world," ---https://www.blogger.com/profile/15351955410331132836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-3813986413680432672012-01-25T16:43:53.901-05:002012-01-25T16:43:53.901-05:00@Ash
"We really don't need that particul...@Ash <br />"We really don't need that particular document to tell us when something is fundamentally abhorrent to the interests of justice and equality."<br /><br />No we don't, but we absolutely need it to define principles of lawful governance, to determine for instance whether any particular act may possibly qualify as Treason or not.<br /><br />Point taken, the constitution Gravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-11547263521647249532012-01-25T16:38:50.594-05:002012-01-25T16:38:50.594-05:00A Fall Guy,
Thanks for the feedback. Much appreci...A Fall Guy,<br /><br />Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated.<br /><br /><i>Getting rid of money does not get rid of power structures. Money related problems are a symptom not a cause.</i><br /><br />I agree that power structures wouldn't be eliminated. However, that's different than saying that they would remain the same. I think it's logical to assume that many would be weakenedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-83389903052428801022012-01-25T16:29:51.450-05:002012-01-25T16:29:51.450-05:00New post up.
Occupy Your Own Space
.New post up.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-25-2012-occupy-your-own-space.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Occupy Your Own Space</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-6805652926870013632012-01-25T16:00:58.900-05:002012-01-25T16:00:58.900-05:00I just hear Bennie say that household are $800B un...I just hear Bennie say that household are $800B underwater and that they don't have enough money to reduce capital of the loans for everyone.<br /><br />DUHHH!<br /><br />I take that to mean that the banks are not going to write down their books by $800B and declare themselves bankrupt.<br /><br />jaljalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-25958494548009063062012-01-25T16:00:54.097-05:002012-01-25T16:00:54.097-05:00ben,
How so?
G,
"Not respecting or adherin...ben,<br /><br />How so?<br /><br />G,<br /><br /><i>"Not respecting or adhering to constitutional principles according to the vested powers and duties of office, holding those in contempt, is how you can tell exactly that they're evil treasoners.</i><br /><br />You do realize that many of these "evil treasoners" are also the people who have been enacting policies over decades Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10873953851816670692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-43928147694876974082012-01-25T15:38:51.733-05:002012-01-25T15:38:51.733-05:00@el G
Bush apparently convinced you with that impe...@el G<br />Bush apparently convinced you with that impeachable remark of his, but there's a difference between the substance of law and the paper its written on.<br />Not respecting or adhering to constitutional principles according to the vested powers and duties of office, holding those in contempt, is how you can tell exactly that they're evil treasoners.<br /><br />Its not protected Gravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-15597246483436773902012-01-25T15:14:13.690-05:002012-01-25T15:14:13.690-05:00this video (5min) of a moneyless (but not by popul...this video (5min) of a moneyless (but not by popular choice) future posits that the helicopter drops will be for distributing zoloft and lexapro. i wonder whether there will be any paperwork accompanying such a government contract at that point or just some logistical back and forth on the interdepartmental phone lines. <br /><br /><a href="http://dont-tread-on.me/?p=12669" rel="nofollow">the benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07338619620804720116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-44045510227632221532012-01-25T14:38:06.802-05:002012-01-25T14:38:06.802-05:00@ SteveB
You said:
Yes, that's a common pers...@ SteveB<br /><br />You said:<br /><br /><i>Yes, that's a common perspective for many older, white, North American men interested in money (a reasonable generalization, I think, for this site.)</i><br /><br />I have been reading your ideas with interest, but this statement is ridiculous. I have been resisting engaging mostly because I lack the time (hence my "late to the party" A Fall Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08646030011686964723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-53025540373477777322012-01-25T14:23:38.684-05:002012-01-25T14:23:38.684-05:00el gallinazo wrote: While the future is not determ...el gallinazo wrote: <i>While the future is not determined by the past, the past is an enormous inertial influence. Each individual has the free will to change old habits, but we are all aware how difficult this often is. How many New Years resolutions have already fallen into the waste bin? When we get into situations which involve thousands or millions of individuals, all or most required to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-79293772272788089332012-01-25T14:17:51.006-05:002012-01-25T14:17:51.006-05:00Hello,
After reading on TAE recently about the inc...Hello,<br />After reading on TAE recently about the increased vulnerability of safety deposit boxes to government seizure, I'm wondering about the vulnerability of TreasuryDirect accounts to the same kind of thing. Unlike safety deposit boxes, funds (in the various forms) one may have in TD accounts are already literally in the government's vault/possesion... Do you have any concerns AllGood4Allhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00795028307491349008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-14432236811335233862012-01-25T12:43:51.580-05:002012-01-25T12:43:51.580-05:00http://www.zerohedge.com/news/no-qe3-zirp-extended...http://www.zerohedge.com/news/no-qe3-zirp-extended-thru-2014-jeffrey-lacker-objects-full-redline<br /><br />TD on Fed statement: <i>"Little of note in the statement: no QE3 explicitly in the form of LSAP, which an S&P over 1300 and crude at $100 made prohibitive. Instead the Fed is extending ZIRP through 2014, from 2013, which as commentarors, primarily Goldman had expected, and which Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10873953851816670692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-57781051556990038542012-01-25T12:32:34.673-05:002012-01-25T12:32:34.673-05:00@El G
Why you gotta go and harsh the vibe of a pe...@El G<br /><br />Why you gotta go and harsh the vibe of a perfectly nice global conversation about a moneyfree society by introducing the notion of free will?<br /><br /><i>This is all fine and good, but if free will is limited, and (to add insult to injury) a simple biological product of descent with modification, why the adamant human belief in freedom of choice? Why that unshakable part of us Rubenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08391623908501295326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-53615457882110318692012-01-25T12:28:36.158-05:002012-01-25T12:28:36.158-05:0010th Annual Reporters Without Borders Press Freedo...10th Annual Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index ranks USA 47th, in a tie with Argentina and Romania.<br /><br />http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2012/01/25/reporters_without_borders_press_freedom_index_slams_us_for_occupy_wall_street_arrests.html?from=rss/&wpisrc=newsletter_slatestseychelleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17758362037570506475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-40776727190990032962012-01-25T12:26:13.824-05:002012-01-25T12:26:13.824-05:00There are some 2,600 thinkers and leaders meeting ...<b>There are some 2,600 thinkers and leaders meeting at Davos 2012<br />http://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2012 <br /><br />Those discussions will have more impact upon the decision makers than any blog.<br />Could this blog be part of those discussions?<br />Could our voices be helpful?</b><br />jaljalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-1067445182248776842012-01-25T12:22:16.290-05:002012-01-25T12:22:16.290-05:00Ash
As the late, great George Carlin said in The ...Ash<br /><br />As the late, great George Carlin said in The American Dream, they spent 50 years dumbing us down with crappy education and propaganda, that now they can use the most obvious Orwellian bullshit and expect it to stick against the wall. And O'bumma is among the worst. At least anyone with three functional synapses knew what Darth Cheney and W were about from the get go.<br /><br /el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-60277350631357303662012-01-25T11:57:56.729-05:002012-01-25T11:57:56.729-05:00Apparently, the federal government guaranteeing mi...Apparently, the federal government guaranteeing millions of new underwater mortgages does not = a bailout or handout anymore. I knew I made the right decision not to watch the SOTU propaganda.<br /><br /><a href="http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/01/obama-proposes-mortgage-bailouts.html" rel="nofollow">Obama Proposes Mortgage Bailouts, Handouts, Copouts Exactly One Paragraph After Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10873953851816670692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-15191236520309117702012-01-25T11:19:08.145-05:002012-01-25T11:19:08.145-05:00Greenpa
Ironically it is the quantum physicists w...Greenpa<br /><br />Ironically it is the quantum physicists who are having the hardest time maintaining their faith in the 19th century paradigm of a strictly physical, deterministic universe. The nature of consciousness keeps intruding its nasty head and creating paradoxes. And the recent "discovery" of dark matter and dark energy are not helping matters any. Einstein discovered el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-43517868994317358592012-01-25T11:06:08.550-05:002012-01-25T11:06:08.550-05:00Nice analogy from today's CHS comparing the ba...Nice analogy from today's CHS comparing the banksta elite controlled Central State to a spoiled teenager::<br /><br />We can find an analogy to these "lessons learned" in a spoiled teenager who refuses to study and is failing but discovers that cheating can "save the day" with much less effort than actually learning. We as a nation have learned how to cheat, and now we el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-86989919322998712212012-01-25T10:54:08.343-05:002012-01-25T10:54:08.343-05:00Guardian blog
"Poor Portugal. Literally.
It...<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/25/eurozone-debt-crisis-live-gdp-davos#block-40" rel="nofollow">Guardian blog</a><br /><br />"Poor Portugal. Literally.<br /><br />It's been a rough day for one of the eurozone's weakest members. Its government bonds have fallen in value, pushing the yield (or interest rate) on its five-year bonds up 19.2% (Reuters data).<br /><br Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10873953851816670692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-57826352317440062332012-01-25T10:30:02.276-05:002012-01-25T10:30:02.276-05:00Greenpa,
I imagine they meant "transcends in...Greenpa,<br /><br />I imagine they meant "transcends individual biology", as in you can't understand the effect from studying the biology of an individual flock member. Not that it's outside the scientific realm of physics/biology altogether.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10873953851816670692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-29812962600638961612012-01-25T10:07:01.635-05:002012-01-25T10:07:01.635-05:00I have to apologize, I really can't hold up my...I have to apologize, I really can't hold up my end of the conversations here at the moment; I'm running at 400% over-commitment in my business just now- <br /><br />briefly- Ruben; I'm sorry, but I'm so out of date it wouldn't make sense to recommend; my original work was 35 years ago; part of my MS thesis. Not widely disseminated, it would still surprise lots of folks, but Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-73551331118358140292012-01-25T09:09:56.617-05:002012-01-25T09:09:56.617-05:00UPDATE 3-Japan's first trade deficit since 198...<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/25/japan-economy-trade-idUSL4E8CO5N420120125" rel="nofollow">UPDATE 3-Japan's first trade deficit since 1980 raises debt doubts</a><br /><br />* Japan runs trade deficit of $32 bln in 2011<br /><br />* Ability to fund public debt seen eroding<br /><br />* Dec exports -8.0 pct yr/yr, imports +8.1 pct<br /><br />TOKYO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - <i>"Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10873953851816670692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-59363002001857883602012-01-25T08:55:46.897-05:002012-01-25T08:55:46.897-05:00Supergravity
You want a comment?
The Constitutio...Supergravity<br /><br />You want a comment?<br /><br />The Constitution is just a piece of (toilet) paper.<br /><br />- George Butthead Bush<br /><br />SG - It should be pretty obvious to you by now that there has been a silent coup d'etat by the banking cartel and that the USA no longer operates under the Constitution or the rule of law. What I find most interesting about this is that the el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.com