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And we see a lot of those.

Consider this:

  • We are here...

  • And then do you think the US would survive unscathed?
  • It is the big RESET.

It continues:

  • The whole bond market will be dead.
  • Short selling on bonds - banned
  • Short selling stocks – banned
  • CDS – banned
  • Short futures – banned
  • Put options – banned
  • All that is left is the Dollar and Gold

It only gets better. We use the term loosely:


And the punchline





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Thu, 05/31/2012 - 20:07 | 2481787 Tsar Pointless
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Oh, ho-ho-ho! It's Christmas, in May!


Thu, 05/31/2012 - 20:17 | 2481826 HedgeAccordingly
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i have my helmet on ...

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 20:20 | 2481834 I think I need ...
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i agree the real economy will crash post election, they have temporarily flooded us with oil, I have no idea what gas prices will be come 2013,,,,,,i think gold revaluation is sooner though,,,,,

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 20:34 | 2481881 BigJim
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This Ru Paul fella... is he in any way related to Harold Camping?

Jus' askin, is all...

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 20:41 | 2481905 Michael
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Does it look something like this?

Complete and Total Worldwide Economic Collapse 2012

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 20:45 | 2481917 flacon
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How do I print this? Or is it in .pdf any where?

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 21:05 | 2481981 The Big Ching-aso
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Is this guy Mayan by any chance?

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 21:08 | 2481989 Pladizow
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"Everything is fine today, that is our illusion." - Voltaire

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 21:55 | 2482138 sunaJ
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Dominos.  Dominos.  Yes, I think I have a coupon for a free order of pizza bites.  Hang on...

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 23:36 | 2482451 Oh regional Indian
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Been saying that for the better part of 2 years now. 

I have to say, I found thsi presentation singularly Un-scary. That has to be the Screamiest headline though.


It's true, extrapolate what Raoul says in every aspect of our lives... after excess comes lack. No doubt. After great excess comes great lack.

As surely as Down follows up...




Fri, 06/01/2012 - 00:14 | 2482509 Sam Clemons
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Nothing about the financial system collapsing scares me.  It's just the financial system.  Who cares.  People can move on without it, and likely will be better off with a new one.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 00:36 | 2482543 Oh regional Indian
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Count me in your club Sam. And since we most decidedly WILL be without this fiat ponzi sooner rather than later...

The sooner the better.


Fri, 06/01/2012 - 01:14 | 2482604 Harlequin001
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It's a bit like hearing the word 'duck', just as the bullet enteres your helmet...

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 02:02 | 2482632 Manthong
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Anybody know the event this was delivered at in Shanghai?

It would be good to know what group of folks got this in person.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 04:18 | 2482759 The Alarmist
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Now this is some fine doom to start the weekend. And still, the S&P has a high likelihood of closing in the green because the masses, who pay attention to these things only on the weekend, need to hear that things are still getting better. It is an election year, after all.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 06:46 | 2482892 bdc63
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Mommy ... where's my blankie?

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 17:57 | 2486135 francis_sawyer
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Yeah but... What I want to know is will I still be able to make $82 every hour on the computer (like my friends mother at when this is all over?

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 20:40 | 2486488 Michael
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See something say something.

Sheriff Stan Barry of Fairfax County Virgina would become the most famous Sheriff in America overnight if he would take his forces to the Westfields Marriott and investigate criminal activity there.

Call Fairfax County Virgina Sheriff's office and report criminal activity at the Builderberg meeting.

Multiple violations of federal law are taking place there, specifically of the Logan Act.

Sedition and treason are being perpetrated by elected government officials, one namely Senator John Kerry at attendance plotting criminal activity against the USA.

Call Sheriff Stan Barry, demand he do his duty and arrest those Federal government officials for violating US Law!

This is also criminal activity perpetrated by the Builderberg people.

Bilderberg Members Discuss Killing Ron Paul

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 02:31 | 2486868 Michael
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David Rockefeller is like a leftover industrialist from the 19th century.

It's so funny I can spellcheck Rockeffeler.

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 03:10 | 2486874 resurger
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End of Line

Fri, 08/17/2012 - 20:53 | 2715858 Enslavethechild...
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Whoa... slow it down a little...

Back up a bit... that's better.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Derivitives will cause the market to crash or it will cause Ben to print, because the money will have to come from somewhere.

If the evil paper economy collapses, then the good metal economy will expand to fill the void.

Physicz Bitchez

Sun, 06/03/2012 - 06:10 | 2488728 inca
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Exclusive: Japan Attack, German Terror-Intel Group Complicit Confirmations of Nuke Move Against Japan, South Korea and US

Japan’s top secret Plutonium production and storage facility facing attack, a radiation catastrophe for North America planned.  Based on multiple confirmations from official sources, plans are afoot to use a Russian nuclear device to destroy the secret Japanese weapons grade facility at Rokkasho Mura in the Aomori Prefecture.

We now have strong reason to believe that the Fukajima earthquake and tidal wave were not a natural event but one engineered to damage Japan and as a “first volley” in a radiation war against the United States.

A second, far more serious attack has been discovered, the agencies involved are the NSA, the British Covert Services, the Royal Navy and the Office of Naval Intelligence.

A “repeat performance” is scheduled, one we hope this detailed report will offset.  The United States, North America in general and Northern Europe will suffer extreme radiation contamination at a level capable of inducing widespread cancers and a drastic reduction in population.

This is the plan and, at the end of this article, we will specifically describe the confirmed organization that is responsible for Fukajima and the manipulation of hundreds of events that began even before the end of World War II.

The organization described includes one former two former presidents, minimally two former CIA directors, planned the assassination of JFK, has, at its disposal dozens of nuclear weapons and “energy devices” of unknown description.

more here:

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 21:07 | 2486489 The Big Ching-aso
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I'm seeing a big market here 4 ass chaps, boomerangs, and gyro-copters.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 06:53 | 2482909 Poor Grogman
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Hasn't this guy seen a printing press before?

I realize they are a bit behind the eight ball in Spain, but cmon..


I will take this guys " little room for more bailouts" and raise him QEx.


I'm hearing more "DEFLATION IS THE REAL DANGER" drivel when in fact it is Deflation that would probably keep the fiat game going for the next 20 years (japan anyone)

Hyperinflation on the other hand would kill the system in two years flat.


The PTB would love to be the saviors in a deflationary event, this is just laying out the game plan.

The sheeple will call on the bankers to save them from this deflationary scourge and lack of money.

Obviously if they are putting this stuff out there, then there wasn't enough pain the first time around.


It would seem we are about to be "taught a lesson or two"  





Sat, 06/02/2012 - 12:11 | 2487080 Shocker
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This is a pretty wow article. Reading it alot makes sense with what is currently going on.


Fri, 06/01/2012 - 00:43 | 2482554 FEDbuster
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Pretty sure we won't see Raoul Pal on CNBC anytime soon. 

No counterparty risk in long term food storage, physical metals like gold, silver, brass and lead, etc.....

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 14:42 | 2485294 CompassionateFascist
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This man is an optimist. The dollar, and with it the US and Euro economies will collapse w/in hours of the onset of the IranWar. And that War is less than 90 days away. Never mind the tin hat; there'll be no place to hide, and no new "System" in the forseeable future. Invest in lead.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 18:41 | 2486234 gmrpeabody
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I'm long tinfoil.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 19:22 | 2486341 FEDbuster
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Tinfoil over Kevlar.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 19:48 | 2486400 UP Forester
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Tinfoil under the K-pot.  Cuts down on reflections.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 20:27 | 2486468 aerojet
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That doesn't make any sense.  Wars are always use to jazz up economies, it never destroys them unless you think the US will lose, which is pretty much impossible.

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 01:12 | 2486796 easypoints
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sarc? That caliber of sociopathic logic is probably the scariest thing about the current economic paradigm. War with Iran would spike oil enough to offset any "growth" from the military industrial complex.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 05:54 | 2482831 tabasco71
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Maybe like the 2001 millenium bug? Yes, probably if you don't work in finance, it could seem like a lot of noise. There will have to be a reset.

Thankfully, there are no aliens out there to whom the world is a creditor.

Well, at least not that we are aware of (since there is a bit of a mysterious flavour to this thread).


Sat, 06/02/2012 - 08:53 | 2487057 tooktheredpill
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I'm surprised there wasn't a Nigerian bank account mentioned at the end where we could keep our money safe ...and you accuse cnbc of spreading propaganda. Sure there is obviously a massive bubble to burst sometime soon, but please.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 10:43 | 2484040 boogerbently
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All you "Financial Armageddon" nuts crack me up.

In order for a meltdown of this magnitude to happen, MOST economies and CERTAINLY all the BIG players would need to be insolvent.

In that case.....who would who owe money to ?

The contagion/dominoe aspect would preclude us from ever figuring it out. What we WOULD figure out, is that the "reset" could happen without all the melodramatics !!!

Just "Wipe the Slate Clean." A "paper" cure for a "paper" problem.

Here's the next days headline:

"All country's national debt was reset to zero, other news, snooki was sited......"

Move along, nothing to see here.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 20:29 | 2486470 aerojet
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I pretty much agree, except that what will probably happen is that the $100 bill will be the new $1 bill, meaning it's you and I and the rest of the little people who will get fucked out of whatever meager savings we have accumulated.  Then, once there is nothing left to steal, it will be over. 

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 21:01 | 2486524 francis_sawyer
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Fine then...

NICKLES bitchez!

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 23:44 | 2486717 RafterManFMJ
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Snooky was sited? What, in a .308 scope?

or was she cited, as someone qouted her as saying, "My ass isn't big?"

Pretty sure whatever the outcome, the average Joe will take it quite squarely in the ass. Same as it ever was.

Fri, 06/08/2012 - 11:13 | 2507378 JimBowie1958
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The PTB want the melodramatics; it is part of the misdirection aimed at the public.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 18:36 | 2486211 Widowmaker
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You are absofuckinglutely right.

Monopoly money.

Oh no, fraud only works with growth, not decline?


Fri, 06/01/2012 - 20:07 | 2486435 Ponzified Plebe
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"Nothing about the financial system collapsing scares me"

This is more than likely because you have no-one that you are responsible for besides yourself. When you have kids who depend on you for everything, the collapse of the economy is scary shit - especially if you are not only worrying about feeding them, but keeping them alive in the face of widespread violence that could easily occur. I could give a shit about all of my stuff, but my family - they are irreplacable - and because of the machinations of assholes at the top of the system I spend many sleepless nights worrying about what is coming soon. The only reason you don't have even the most reasonable levels of fear or apprehension is because you have nothing to loose - when I was single I felt the same way, but that changes when you have people in your life than mean more to you than you.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 20:31 | 2486477 aerojet
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Why lose sleep over it?  I have two kids, but I can't let worry eat me up.  You can lose your kids all kinds of horrible ways.  You don't want it to happen, but you have to be prepared when you have children to accept the possiblity that they might die before you.  It's just part of the deal of being a parent.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 22:31 | 2486660 Ponzified Plebe
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I get what you are saying, and there is a fine line between a healthy sense of concern and over reacting to forces beyond one's control. However, any parent who loves their kids and doesn't occasionally get a knot in their stomach over what is happening in the world today is probably just supressing a very natural response. Ultimately how much one worrys changes nothing that is inevitable, but hopefully it leads to clearer thinking and preparation that can help to ensure a meaningful future for their loved ones when and if the dust settles. Where I sit it means making reasonable preparations and alligning with like minded people who know what is going down because the chances of making it through this alone is not great.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 20:57 | 2486519 Freddie
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Also blame the Hope and Change f**ks who voted for this.  When people see friends and neighbors dying - this gold and "I am gonna be rich fantasy" "ain't" gonna be pretty.  Bad people will be watching for people buying things with gold.  They will be following them to theri hidey hole too. 

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 21:30 | 2486566 Ned Zeppelin
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This bullshit was in place long before BO stepped onto the stage, although I'll agree he is a an employee of the TPTB that have gotten us to where we are, as did Bush, as did Clinton, . . . .

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 09:29 | 2487081 GetZeeGold
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Yeah but BO accelerated it like a son of a with it.


Besides doesn't matter who is's just where we are. Deal with that too.


Sat, 06/02/2012 - 08:59 | 2487062 ATM
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Gold isn't for the buying shit during the reset, it's for afterwards.

Your dollars, your paper and anything else that's dependent on promises will all be worthless because all the promises will be broken. The gold will retain value before, during but more importantly after the reset. It's the way to bridge wealth from one financial system to the next.

I don't want to come out the back side (if I do come out the vack side) broke.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 06:59 | 2482925 BluePill
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Indians are best snake oil trades men, please stop fooling the world with your bullshit theories and stupid ideas


You indians are duped into thinking that you are descendants from ancient indus civilization


Indus civilization has proper sanitation and well functioning baths , good infra according to bronze age standards


but even in computer age you cant build a proper functioning drainage , not even a single road line without pot holes and substandard concrete lane


Man you should be ashamed of yourselves calling and using the name of Indus valley to prolong your parasitic interests


Those people are long dead or they might have immigrated to other lands or persia--who knows


your over hyped shithole india has lowest GDP in 9 years, even that GDP is hyped Up with inflation around 10% your GDP figures are Fraud


You are greatest Fraudsters on Earth , i have strong belief that Current JEWISH parasitic tribe and Indians have something in common


Both of you are parasitic ethnic Group feeding on this world


Its because you are stupid and another snake oil trader your company fired you and you are back in Shithole India


Pls understand that you are currently undergoing Mental trauma as you have moved from Land of Humans to Land of Humanoid Parasites whose sole Purpose of existence is to feed on other races and prolong their Living


First thing that you need to do is to search for a job or apply for a B-school in Other country then you can migrate and find some peace


If you stay in that Giant lavotary called india you are bound to suffer

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 07:25 | 2482981 Oh regional Indian
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Wow, burning Indian flag and all.


General fuck-stick?

Got outsourced?

Tch. I feel for you douchebag. But you knwo what? 

An attitude like that will keep you wherever it is you are stuck.

Or whatever.

Smile :-)


Fri, 06/01/2012 - 07:31 | 2482997 Harlequin001
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I guess BluePill isn't an Indian then...

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 23:44 | 2486716 forward ho
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No, he just forgot to take his blue pill.

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 01:49 | 2486840 Uncle Remus
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Sat, 06/02/2012 - 09:01 | 2487063 ATM
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My thoought exactly. 

Wed, 06/06/2012 - 07:39 | 2498733 BluePill
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Hey you fucking Troll Vivek Chaturvedi, you and your insanity is very much visible in this Web site


_Moron your WHITE AMerican Wife LEft you and fucked with another guy and you are so disappointed and became a Braindead buffalo


moreover you clown stop making filthy Youtube videos on your superstition , For your filthy Face Even if Lizard makes voice you regard it as truth


Moron you have taken the Name of Red indians and you assume youselves as indians


Fucker you are Hindu, and your Country's real name is BHARAT not india, river indus doesn't flow into your nation


Full of Fraud babas and Psuedo parasite scientists 


And more over fucker ,Who is getting kicked by outsourcing


Check out the frauds that Infosys and Satyam did in past few years


You fucking moron no one is afraid of Outsourcing I dont come from English speaking nation, my mother toungue is spanish


Get some life and stop cribbing that your WHITE wife left you because you are an Impotent micro penis Idiot


She might be having bigger ones than yours in her mouth


You are born from Filth, and you will always be filth


And more over Kolkatta had been  filthy City since Sirajuddoulah's period


Sirajuddoulah described Bengalis as most decadent animals and worse than human filth 


He is right and strangely a bengali moron is running your finance ministry and he will ruin the nation, and bengali spinster whore

Wrecked her own state


And another bengali bastard and hippie drug peddler Vivekananda Raped and sodomized women and he got HIV+ and died


Not many are aware of Fraud babas existing in your filthy hindu cult


Better Troll hard with Swami nityananda you can atleast fornicate with few actress


I heard that Hindu babas like you preach Spiritual bullshit and Drug young foreign women and Fornicate with them


Neem kareli baba,nityananda,Satya sai baba,Ravi shankar--i can go on  with this list


Do some hard work moron, rather than cribbing out british and economic collapse, search for some Brown buffalo as your second wife


You must be fortunate that atleast you have has a WHITE women for some period of your life


Ofcourse once 2008 economic recession hit your pocket your WHITE wife left your for another man and as you are an impotent idiot you have no skill other than updating excel sheet and sprouting your bullshit in a blog and making youtube videos+



I have seen your moronic blog and i understood that you are entering into baba business


Carry on clown , many are already in that business in India, now as some one who got foreign degree you will be in demand as moronic indians will lick even feces of White SKIN people, and you got a degree from white skin country


You worked as CEO for japanese company?, no wonder they went bust, you cant do anything you clown


You came to USA by learning some C++ programming in early 90's duped a WHITE girl and enjoyed but sadly you can't continue

Living here in USA


Now moron, find some brown stinky buffalo and worship her vagina you impotent micro penis indian 


Fucker its the same Attitude that got you no where and your wife ditched for same bullshitting that you do


Moron you have high very high intolerance , learn how to take criticism in life you brown cockroach 



Fri, 06/08/2012 - 08:24 | 2506702 Oh regional Indian
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Wow! What hate. 

I wonder what a baba did to you, you poor person.


So you made those comments on youtube too. Hmmmm....

Lost case...


Fri, 06/08/2012 - 11:26 | 2507443 JimBowie1958
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ORI, that blue pill dude is not worth the time.

Probably some 13 yo who has been sneaking onto his Dad's computer and the porn is getting boring so he now trolls random sites to get excited by seeing what a reaction he can get.

I would rather work for an Indian manager than a fool like BP anyday.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 10:47 | 2484061 boogerbently
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Prejudice is ignorance....but we knew that from your spelling.

You are unique, in the aspect that I have never seen "India bashing" before.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 19:29 | 2486355 Whalley World
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when you defile another, you define yourself

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 08:25 | 2486523 New_Meat
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Blue-pill: are you talking about Warren-comma-Elizabeth?  'cuz she's only 1/32 Indian and even the Indians don't want her.

After all, she checked the box.

- Ned

[ED. and she's a home-flipper, but I'll let Howie 'splain: ]

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 10:18 | 2487106 nmewn
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So lets review.

A blue eyed white woman claims 1/32 minority status in order to selfishly enhance her own career opportunities. Now we find she's one of the hated .01 percenter's, just out there scouring courthouse tax records and bank foreclosure lists for more bone picking .01% opportunities...but only for her "blue eyed tribe".

It appears she's right about one thing, she wouldn't be able to engage in any of these lucrative, vulture-like, Bain practices, without our "trails" having been paved over into roads & interstates and government public policies gone horribly wrong in order to produce these latest "elitist wealth transfer opportunities" via real estate ;-)


Fri, 06/01/2012 - 23:04 | 2486686 Mugatu
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Here's a tip BluePill - Please do not hit the return/enter button twice after each sentence.   We do not need 4 lines of space between each of your thoughts.  This is not USA Today where they use stupid 3rd grader friendly typesetting and formatting to accomodate those who aspire to get their GED one day.  One paragraph of contact should not take up 30 inches on my fucking screen.

Even though your writing is mildly amusing, please barf out your Borat-style ramblings in a display size that I can easily page through.

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 10:39 | 2487131 Oldrepublic
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India, the whole country is a toilet. Once i was taking a taxi in Calcutta from the National library to downtown, when my taxi suddenly stopped I asked why? He replied, "I need to take a piss". On a nice green lawn!

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 11:17 | 2487183 Oh regional Indian
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Whole country is an exaggeration Old, and Calcutta is a particularly filthy city (know why? It's the first one the British took over and screwed a result, it is also the center nationally for prostitution, go figure)... but Indian's in cities, especially have to let go of their shame completely. There are no public facilities.

Pretty pathetic.


Fri, 06/08/2012 - 11:31 | 2507456 JimBowie1958
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When I was stationed in Germany in the late 70's most towns did not let the public use their restrooms, so people would just piss in the alleyways or on a shrub somewhere.

Guess its hard to break some traditions.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 21:28 | 2486563 Milestones
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Interesting article ori. In a bizarre way it all fits. Never figured it back that far or to that depth.            Milestones

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 23:57 | 2486731 Oh regional Indian
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Thanks Milestones. And it goes even deeper. Dat Rabbit hole...


Thu, 05/31/2012 - 22:04 | 2482180 mjcOH1
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A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell.  From no where we came, into nowhere we go.  What is life?  It is a flash of a firefly in the night.  It is a breath of a buffalo in the winter time.  It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

-- last words - Chief of the Blackfoot:  Ispwo Mukika Crowfoot (1783-1850)

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 23:31 | 2482326 The Big Ching-aso
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We all die young.



Fri, 06/01/2012 - 02:54 | 2482692 Andy Lewis
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From now on, even more so.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 06:35 | 2482877 gold-is-not-dead
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Not to worry, SkyNet will save us.... not...

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 19:51 | 2486406 francis_sawyer
Thu, 05/31/2012 - 23:00 | 2482359 chump666
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Awesome quote. 


Fri, 06/01/2012 - 05:21 | 2482803 Deo vindice
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Or as the apostle James said 2,000 years ago...

 (James 4:13-15)

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 06:43 | 2482886 fourchan
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i prefer the man over the mindless mystic.

Fri, 06/08/2012 - 11:33 | 2507464 JimBowie1958
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Your statement is pretty mindless.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 08:59 | 2483409 Blankman
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For Indian teachings I believe this one to be one of the most poignant:

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 19:29 | 2486354 goldenmiddlefinger
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That was beautiful!

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 23:49 | 2482476 Oh regional Indian
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Thanks for sharing that mjc... 


Fri, 06/01/2012 - 00:13 | 2482507 prodigious_idea
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Beautiful.  Thank you.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 00:31 | 2482531 monopoly
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Beautiful, ty.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 21:03 | 2486526 Freddie
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I think squaw Elizabeth Warren from Harvard was realted to that Indian cheif.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 21:32 | 2486569 Ned Zeppelin
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LOL but screw you anyway she's at least on the right track

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 23:43 | 2486715 perchprism
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Aw fuck you she is not on any right track.  She's a miserable lying cunt.  That's all she is. 

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 02:45 | 2482686 Al Gorerhythm
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God-damned Savages!

-- Last ironic words - Chief of the Long Knives- General Custer.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 10:22 | 2483004 Harlequin001
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'Look at all those fuckin Indians!

Famous last words of General Custer,

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 00:58 | 2486799 Phil Free
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I'm sorry, but that is just funny ... :D

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 09:06 | 2483454 XitSam
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I'm not seeing the irony. Could you explain how it is ironic?

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 01:05 | 2486735 Al Gorerhythm
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Savage killed by "savages".

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 07:38 | 2483007 Harlequin001
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are you sure it wasn't -'Uuurgh...'

I mean, C'mon,


What a load of bollocks...

No fuckin wonder he was the last chief spouting shit like that.

It's believing and spouting that kind of crap that makes you extinct...

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 08:15 | 2483105 BigJim
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I see the soul of romance moves quick within this one!

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 10:23 | 2483957 Harlequin001
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Fri, 06/01/2012 - 19:18 | 2486332 Dugald
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Before you pop off old chap... "no where" is one word..


Sun, 06/03/2012 - 12:48 | 2489271 e-recep
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he would be a good atheist. i wonder if he was one.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 02:17 | 2482664 Cadavre
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We can deny reality, but we can't deny the consequences of denying reality.

 ... Richard Paul Evans

Our department is considering using rubber bullets and tear gas on its drone.

... Chief Deputy Randy McDaniel of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, Texas

That's real change you can believe in

... Owannabe

Space aliens could save US economy

.. Paul Krugman

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 23:50 | 2486722 forward ho
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If Richard paul Evans said that, he stole it from Ayn Rand. Atlas shrugged. rather aprapos.

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 03:40 | 2486923 Cadavre
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she did ... and she did it better .. thought so when looking for the cite  with "deny". Rand used "evade"

so how about these


... Thomas Jefferson

I'll stick my knife right down your throat, baby, and it hurts

... The Rolling Stones

I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge

... Louis XVI's last words


... Henry Edgeworth, Priest to Louis XVI describing aftermath of "Louie's" execution


... Kevin Phillips, Reagan Administration Official

Wednesday I watched the riot . . .
Seen the cops out on the street
Watched 'em throwin' rocks and stuff
And chokin' in the heat
Listened to reports
About the whisky passin' 'round
Seen the smoke and fire
And the market burnin' down
Watched while everybody
On his street would take a turn
To stomp and smash and bash and crash
And slash and bust and burn

No way to delay
That trouble comin' every day

... Frank Zappa

This war is so fucking illegal

... Pat Tillman


I'm a senator - you can't do this (.... riiiii-ght  ...)

... Senator Charles F. Meachum, "Shooter"

I was a sweet little kid once
Now I'm a full grown crank
And when I die I'll probably come back as a Sherman tank
I know that I could make this world so peaceful and calm
If I could only get my hands on a hydrogen bomb

... Todd Rundgren, Heavy Metal Kids


... Last voice recording, Vnokvo Airlines, flight #2601

Lost number one and two

... Last voice recording, Japan Airlines, flight #46E

Only a dream can kill a dream

... Egg Chen, Big Trouble In Little China

Are my eyes open? I cannot see

... Manolete's last words

With Facebook at these levels, should individual investors buy?

... CNBC Host, Before the Close, May 31, 2012

And I'm not planning to commit suicide, either.

... Deborah Palfrey

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 00:52 | 2482570 He_Who Carried ...
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>>Is this guy Mayan by any chance?<<

Not a chance.

This guy IS Conan The Caveman "going back 3000 years".

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 05:42 | 2482821 Nukular Freedum
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This is all old hat. Far more interesting for dating purposes:

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 06:13 | 2482846 boatman
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that is also martin armstrong's blow up date and the kress and kondratief longwave cycle lows.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 07:47 | 2483036 bdc63
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dozens and dozens of people that I read/follow/have-stumbled-upon -- from the worlds of finance, science, religion, seers/remote viewers -- have put the target date in the Sept to Dec 2012 timeframe.  I've honestly never seen anything quite like it before.

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 21:09 | 2481993 AlaricBalth
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Not sure if this will help. Bit give it a shot.

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 22:47 | 2482319 Alea Iactaest
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@ Flacon. Here's what I did since I couldn't find a way to save the imbed file. There's probably a faster way but it worked.

- Get original Scribd link and pull up full page view of the deck. Find it at

- Use screen capture to highlight and save an image of each slide (32 in all). Each image was saved to my desktop (5 mins).

- For simplicity I dragged each screen shot into a temp file

- Open Keynote (yes, I'm working on a Mac... please don't hate). I don't know if this would work in PowerPoint.

- Select all screen shot files and drag them into a new presentation in Keynote.

- Print as a .pdf and now I've got one continuous electronic file.

This whole thing took about 6 minutes.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 00:54 | 2482574 flacon
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Fri, 06/01/2012 - 20:40 | 2486492 NOTfromSanFrancisco
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Copy and paste it into "Word" or copy and paste it in an email to yourself...

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 21:09 | 2488092 Jena
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That worked for me, thanks!

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 23:33 | 2486709 RafterManFMJ
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Same. Can you print this, and how?

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 21:12 | 2482000 chump666
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100%.  Governments do not manage asset values, they support them (like commies tried to do...and look what happened to them =  FUBAR), but once the HUGE tidal wave of liquidation takes place.  Nothing on earth will stop it.

Great clip.

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 21:16 | 2482013 onelight
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Were there 2009, 2010 and 2011 versions of that Total Worldwide Economic Collapse video?

Seems like I have been hearing this every year, for a long time.

(maybe it is this year, but..)

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 21:47 | 2482121 Ness.
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Rome didn't collapse in a day.

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 22:06 | 2482188 Axenolith
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Sure enough it didn't, but there were a couple generations of misery before it did, and that was minus the instantaneous communication, electronically dependant transportation/process control systems, and multiple independantly targeted reentry vehicles...

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 23:09 | 2482388 Aquiloaster
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The reasons you mention for why the end is farther are the exact reasons I would have cited for it being nearer. The inter-dependence of everything (which means less self-sufficiency) and the quickness with which news travels assures that this time things will move faster. . . or did I miss some sarasm in your comment?

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 06:40 | 2487001 Jendrzejczyk
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Read Axe's comment again....several times.

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 23:12 | 2482394 CPL
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That's been my theory as well after sorting through too many history books for fun.


The faster information travels the faster/shorter timeframes between collapse.  Or more specifically the organisation of the information and the complexity of how it's organized and distributed.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 21:16 | 2486542 New_Meat
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collapse or withdrawl into protective situations (which would include stopping of commerce)?  Information flows (v.), bad news is assimilated, better reactions???  Or things go to shit because of the impulse of bad news everywhere?

Is there an impulse of bad news?  I think not--the vast majority of news outlets are O-laid drinkers who can not find the truth/adequate and accurate descriptions of current events.

Good comment, but it isn't the speed of the information spread, it is the latencies in the spread and the uptake into carbon-based thinking  machines that slow down the spike (integrate the delta function).

"... after sorting through too many history books for fun."

Well, a greenie on ya for macabre sense of "fun."

- Ned

{there's something about "madness of crowds" that goes back to the so-called 'French Revolution', you know, the one where anyone who was <... of certain anti-statist categories that you can fill in this blank and be incomplete...> sentenced to Mme. Guillotine.}

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 02:47 | 2486871 Kamehameha
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Rome did not have a global internet and electronic banking.

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 22:19 | 2482229 smb12321
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If you're a regular ZH reader you hear it not every year but every day.   It reminds me of the dot com crash when expert after expert (quote unquote) swore that [filll in number] was the lowest it could go. Naturally, when that was passed a new number was offered without shame. 

No one knows when economic collapse will occur but it only seems logical that things will get much worse beforehand with enormous swings and a MUCH worse economy than we now have.

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 22:50 | 2482333 ChrisFromMorningside
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In a way, the grand collapse already happened. The "developed world" took a collective nosedive over a decade ago when they replaced productive (i.e. primary and secondary sector) economic activity with service sector and government economic activity and concurrently elevated FIRE to its place at the top of the pyramid. The damage has been done. It was just masked for years by fraudulent numbers.

Fraud #1 being the false idea that money circulation = GDP. In reality, ringing up some groceries for a customer is not a "productive activity" in the same way that, say, manufacturing a computer is, even though its possible for the grocery bagger to technically "create more GDP" if he faciliates more money circulation. In reality, economic productivity can only be measured when qualitative, and not just quantitative, judgment is utilized. But the current crop of economists hates that as it requires critical thought and they want everything to fit purely numerical models.

Fraud #2 ... Well ... As Mr. Pal points out, we have a system where $70 trillion in unpayable debt is the collateral for $700 trillion in paper "wealth" that holds immense purchasing power but does not represent any kind of tangible or physical asset. Yeah, need I say more? You can sum up fraud #2 as "paper".

All that is going on now is people are pointing out that the Emperor is naked. The 'reset' is the moment when the Emporer finally has to admit the truth and deniability is no longer plausible.

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 23:18 | 2482412 illyia
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Again and again I ask and never receive an answer - But I Will Try Again:

 What if all those derivative contracts were retroactively declared illegal??? And, do not say that they cannot be. USAGov has rewritten tax law, criminal law - all sorts of laws - retroactively applicable.

What happens if it becomes apparent that all those 700 trillion (I hear even more from other sources) are declared nul and void?

First off: Game over for the banks and corps who are depending on them to "balance" their books. Oh. Really. Not.

Second off: Governments who backed the deriv gamers are dead in the water. Maybe some are really dead. Like. Thats. Not. Going. To. Happen. Anyway.

Third off: The living humans are left with algebra. Cross off the self-cancelling debts. Make arrangements with those who are owed. Under the circumstances who is going to fight getting something. The alternative is nothing.

Those Over The Counter, Off Balance Sheet Derivatives are going to die. That is the result either way. Might as well spare the people the pain of being dragged through what Greece is going through on a blow by blow. Just end the monster. It. Is. Dead. Anyway.


Fri, 06/01/2012 - 00:04 | 2482497 theTribster
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Same thing as a default would occur I suspect - regardless, we will still end up in the same place.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 00:09 | 2482502 oldman
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I don't know the answer to your question, but I have thought the same for three or four years now. Why not "just call the whole thing off'?

Why not simply nationalize the deposits in the banks, and the shithouse collapse? Perhaps we would only get a small fraction in cash, but we would as a society , at least, own the assets free and clear of the criminals' negligence: and have some fucking dignity as a people. This is a really bad idea, of course, but better than anything on the table, if we want to hold together as a nation. If no one cares about the 'other', the neighbor, the old woman/oldman. the children ------------------------------fill in the blanks that I have left open, please.

IF NO ONE CARES---well, then fuck it---get your weapons and go to the mountains with your gold and silver------but someone will eventually come for you-----maybe a lot of someones----

I like your idea because this extreme event can be survived and we can come out of it a tighter and brighter society--------I won't be here, but friends and family will be and a lot of others, who if I knew them ,I would also want to survive------think Argentina, think Iceland, think Greece----they will make it as will the Spanish and the Italians and the French----they will survive because they collaborate and work shit out that we do not have the patience and tolerance for------I haven't seen much capacity for survival in the last two years in the US. I was in and out several times, hitch-hiking rides, walking long distances, sleeping in the redwoods, on the beaches, staying with friends and family, and asking questions and LISTENING to the responses

And I have little faith that the US will hold together like many other nations will

I am really sorry I wrote all of this

I truly hope that I am absolutely wrong

But if we see what this dude foresees

None of us are prepared for it/ and it is not funny

I wish I hadn't of read this piece--------------om 

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 21:26 | 2486560 New_Meat
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"Why not simply nationalize the deposits in the banks, and the shithouse collapse?"

They (and I am not sure it is the TPTBz) will.

I'm kinda' shop worn, p'raps like your handle.  How are your knees?  Your family?  Kids?  So you pull up stakes and move---where?  The general question is the same.  JWR and many others discuss this.  There is a reason why today's population density is as it is.

A shift as you discuss might be OK in numerical terms, but would not at all be correct in percentage terms.

As an example, consider un-assing New Orleans in the face of Katrina. {OT-her face was beautiful}.

Catchin' on?

- Ned

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 23:01 | 2486682 oldman
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Knees are great walk 12klicks a day, body surf for an hour or so, do zazen for an hour---all after orthoscopic surgery in 1988----so the knees are great.

My family is family and you know how that goes----try being human with six thousand million other people on the planet-----not so easy, right? Anyway, i am an old man and for family----though they would never say so---an old man gets in the way a lot. And from birth, I never felt like I was a part of the family---I didn't come complete---that part always missing, so I have etter contact with those family members who I am close to, that I am FRIENDS with also. Kids are part of that, though, grandkids are very special for an old man---very close because I am there age getting younger and they are my age getting older---make any sense to you?

Where to move to is the easiest question of all: a place you want to live in! Not a place to hide out, to be safe, blah, blah, blah-----I decided when I was a really young guy that I would be naiive as opposed to suspicious and guarded----been expensive, but worth every bit of 'loss' it has cost. I'm not agressive enough to be a 'gold and guns' dude, though, I am armed and did lose some coins somewhere------

If you find aplace where you WANT to live----you will always find a way to adapt to the environment, whatever environment it turns out to be. That's how I see it----but then I try not to complicate things.

Population has flattened in my estimation and there is no reason to assume that the birth rate will increase; I suspect that it might be in microscopic decline already. The problem is the mortality rate: we are living longer, but not naturally or in good health, at least in the US and Great Britain. This is sucking up a lot of resources with a really shitty health care system that no society can afford just to maintain living corpses; it cannot continue and everyone in the health care profession has known this for decades. If I can live out my life naturally, then I am interested----but as a sick oldman----well, I don't know yet---not interested now.

And the shift is here---we are really discussing not that fact, but rather

Are we going to lay down like whipped dogs and hope someone feeds us, or are we going to show some dignity and say, "No-----Not OK---We will not pay! And we want all those fucking bonuses paid back or we foreclose on your property to pay off the losses we incurred!'

or something like that-----I'm not discussing capitalism, communism, socialism, darwinism, tribalism, etc.-----what I am about is FAIRNESS and JUSTICE----whether they exist or not is not important. What is important is that the one qwuestion that capitalism always ignored be answered by the newsystem whatever it is.

the question: how do we share equitably the goods and services the society produces.

I heard this question first in the homeof the chairman of the board of------bank of-----texas in 1973. A John Bircher and super capitalist and funny man----an oldman at the time 75 or so, who knew the inside of all of this

enough----i'm slipping into a nostalgic trance

sorry to be so long on such a simple request                  om




Sat, 06/02/2012 - 04:14 | 2486942 Cosmosoft
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We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn.

And indeed there will be time    
To wonder
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?    
In a minute there is time    
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

there's a special Providence in the fall of a sparrow.

If it be now, 'tis not to come, if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come.

The readiness is all.

I want to live,
I want to give
I've been a miner
for a heart of gold.

I've been to Hollywood
I've been to Redwood
I crossed the ocean
for a heart of gold

And I'm getting old.

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 08:51 | 2487056 oldman
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Now that is very nice.

thanks              om

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 01:52 | 2482640 Savvy
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It's rhetorical, never happen, because the ones with the most to lose are the ones who make the laws.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 06:24 | 2482862 twotraps
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good morning, all this chit chat and you summed it up right there.  No need for economic theory.  I have been asking myself for years how they have managed to slow down this adjustment process and drag it out........precisely for what you say, they need to figure out how to maintain order adn profit from it.  There will be massive rule changes but they will never stop the game for themselves.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 08:06 | 2483078 bdc63
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I agree. 

To me the only wildcard is will the general public - who just lost everyting they have ever known - accept their new fate while the rich and power maintain their status? 

Revolutions have started for MUCH less.  So, when the reset comes will we 'take it' and just move on with our lives (after a period of 'civil unrest' I'm sure), or do we break into fullblown civil/world wars?

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 09:35 | 2483648 illyia
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I think you all are far too optimistic. While the elites and power-brokers many make nominal gains on transactions the only way they can "stretch this out" is by printing (as most would acknowledge around here). That act will cause an inglorious end to our system (as is generally acknowledged everywhere). Some of the collateral damage will be martial law oriented policing, capital controls, travel bans, massive dislocation on a scale we cannot imagine.

The alternative (perhaps by popular demand - under extreme pain) would be the financial system exploding. The revenue stream machine exploding. By disallowing the stupid construct of derivatives to the moon and back, much of the future-cast problem is eliminated. The problems would pertain to the current situation - not decades of debt enslavement.

The two results are not comparable... except in initial pain. Rejection of the derivative mountain means elites lose out permanently, but over the long run the people prosper. In essence, this is what Obama should have done on 1-20-08. That is the fail he will be tarred with in history.


Fri, 06/01/2012 - 14:11 | 2485114 oldman
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For these words:


Exactamente!!!!!!!!!     And very well said.

Thak you for being so articulate: I feel like I am reading the epithet of the Obama administration---history ass it happened---

I am most encouraged by the show of hands in favor of this thread among such profound apathy to the true problem we have as a human society; to read this and see the suppport for a new way of being is a huge shift because if it is happening among us-----it is happening everywhere.

Thanks illiya, and everyone out there------it is not only gold and silver that is finding it's true value     om

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 18:32 | 2486216 illyia
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I too am gratified to find some slim reception for this form of honesty. Sorely lacking in every other form of discourse, but ZH and isolated corners of the intertubes. Perhaps Tyler's elevating this article to front and center this late Friday will encourage even more thought.

All ideas on this subject are important and not to be dismissed. These derivative money sinks will drill a hole right through what we cherish - even to destroying our country. The degree to which politicos are willing to twist the truth even as they protect the racket is mean evidence of their danger. Unfortunately, only by sacrificing real people can this monster be temporarily sated.

This needs to be discussed all over the world.


Fri, 06/01/2012 - 19:07 | 2486303 oldman
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This is being discussed all over the world and has been since 'the close the banks' campaign in Europe in the late 90's which culminated in the notable death of a young hero in '99 or 2000---I don't remember exactly. But I do remember Seattle was when the 'rest of the world' became excited to finally see something of solidatity from the US.

Then the fucking towers fell down and ------------everyone knows the rest. But this is one of the----------no, the only time we have ever joined the the rest. OWS is important, but there are cities throughout Europe where protests have been daily occurences for years if not decades---and they can be fucking bloody, man.

We are finally joining the discussion where the pain and injuries and deaths are accepted as part of the fight.That is what I find so amazing about OWS---like the rest of the world's warriors they are accepting the violence against them as normal reality. I don't have that, not at all!

I respect these dudes and dudettes for their fucking courage----we can be proud of the US only so long as we have people of courage---and we do.

This is a different war----expect a lot of casualties

As you know the money can be burned and reprinted---it is immaterial. Who cares? Remember the chief who gave away his wealth each year---that is how you have a great society without taxes---If Bill Gates gave it all away each December 21 and worked to restore it by the end of the year---then I would believe in capitalism more than I do now---and he would be a great man. As it is------???/ Who can say?

It is a great pleasure to sacrifice as little as we do to gain as much as we can be

Yeah a bunch of dumb meaningless words---so what?    Thanks illyia--I'm glad to know you       om

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 20:22 | 2486453 francis_sawyer
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Sorry to burst your kumbaya pow-wow... But despite your good intentions, you should have spent a more productive hour swinging a mattock instead of pretending to be a knight at the round table trying to administer justice for all...

Just the way it is... junk away...


"Can't we all just get along"?

~Rodney King, 1992

Answer: No... Anymore stupid questions?

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 21:59 | 2486619 illyia
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Fri, 06/01/2012 - 23:10 | 2486690 oldman
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First of all, there was no question

secondly, we were getting along fine

thirdly, no intentions

I don't know where you are coming from

fight with the wife?

short gold?

Hell, man, I am sorry you are having a bad day-------better luck tomorrow       om


Sat, 06/02/2012 - 10:26 | 2487109 Hulk
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Now here is a practical fellow who has split some wood...

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 02:59 | 2482681 barliman
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Trying to declare them illegal, null and void, what have you ...

is EXACTLY the same as saying, "Why not set pi equal to 3.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000?"

Declaring it to be so and dealing with the consequences are two things that are not equal to one another.

(BTW - do not take this as a personal attack. You asked a valid question - the answer, however, is hard, ugly and not for the sensitive or simplistic.)

Some of the larger consequences:

  • WHO takes the first loss? WHO agrees to voluntarily go belly up? This is not checkers or chess. This is global economic trade covering things like FOOD and OIL shipments. So who wants to be sitting in the dark and starving FIRST?
  • Saying it is GAME OVER for the banks and corporations is an OWS simpleton's view of the world. The issue is NOT the wealth of the 1%. The issue is JOBS, growth and opportunity for the 99%. Shutter all the banks, close all the multi-national corporations and seize the wealth of the 1% - BUT WHAT are you going to do LITERALLY tomorrow when people in the bulk of the world can no longer buy food because the fiat currency systems collapse because the interest rates for ALL countries are 15%/annum and rising? The majority of derivatives are hedges of government debt in one form or another.
  • The derivatives are the economic false sense of security created to generate a global "wealth boom" over the past 10+ years. They SHOULD have been taken apart over the last 4 years. That did not happen because the Bernanke's of the world believed they were smarter than the markets and KNEW the first country to try to unravel them would pay the highest price economically (see the first two bullet points). They decided to try to set pi equal to 3.0000000000000000000000000000000000000 themselves when they started down the path of attempting to devalue their respective fiat currencies. If one country does it, it helps ... some ... for a little while. When every country tries to race every other country to the bottom on currrency devaluation - IT DOES NOT WORK AT ALL.
  • What would have been a global depression in 2008 initiated by unwinding the derivatives would have beggared countries that think they are wealthy but are not. Foremost among them - China, Russia and Japan.  Please note the first two countries have nuclear weapons. China has a lot of people and not much else in terms of global scale resources (rare earths are NOT exclusive to China - it has just been the cheapest source). Russia has some notable oil and gas reserves - but it does NOT have a functioning government - it is a mafia state which NO ONE trusts.  Japan's wealth has been spent on 20+ years of trying to avoid an economic depression that would have lasted up to decade - by instead having a constant recession made worse by inherent economic and political corruption. When two nations with nuclear weapons wake up one day and are told, "Yea, this whole capitalism thing is subject to bubbles and when we have to do a reset every 40 years or so ... well, there's no easy way to say this ... you're broke and are going to have to start OVER." Those two countries are likely to take a FTW attitude and start taking things or blowing them up.

Again, not a slap at you ... those are just some of the reasons NO ONE is willing to say the party is over with regard to derivatives.

I have said it on here many times since I became a member ... THIS DOES NOT END WELL.

And any idiots thinking they understand the scope of those words by replying about GOLD, BRASS and LEAD are punks who have NEVER been shot at or lived in the world of violence.

If you think what is coming with the inevitable global economic collapse is anything other than the worst things you can not even begin to imagine, hold tight - you are going to find out.


Fri, 06/01/2012 - 03:44 | 2482731 oldman
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Glad it is you, barliman and thanks

  • FIRST?

It is a simple game, dude.

When there is a need, real jobs are created. Someone has to grow the food, market it, transport it, buy and sell it, cook it, eat it, and someone has to wash the dishes. Jobs are created---trash pick up, shoe shining, delivering----real jobs. Not a hundred grand or a million or even a bonus---but real jobs for real people.

Not everyone wants everything in the world under their thumbs---most people just want to eat two or three times a day, have shelter and a bed to sleep in, a cup of coffee in the morning, something to do for a few hours each day, a warm body to sleep next to at night, and to have regular bowel movements-----most people are happy with these few luxuries in their lives.

So maybe we ride a bus instead of driving one person to a vehicle, live in a neighborhood where there is no security guard or country club---the rich can still have it---I don't care how much they have---some people are willing to pay the price for money, fame, sex---I'm not nor are most people on the planet. So we don't care---we'll do the things that are too dirty, too insignificant, too frustrating, too poorly paid---we just want to live out our lives-----not own the world or be 'somebody'---those are special things for special people-----We don't care, but we are here with you and you need us---and we need you

But people, among people, are more important than whether or not everyone is equal, or rich, or with university degrees, or goes into outer space.

The deal is that we did not rise up and say 'No, you will not put us in debt for the next two centuries---you will not give the banks---taxpayer money to bail themselves out of their misdeeds of greed----you will not allow them to charge us 20% for credit card debt or college loans or water or air to breathe-

No, we did not say any of these things---we don't care and WE CANNOT PAY, but we're here, so figure it out and get back to us because this end game shit is just not fucking acceptable!

I wrote above that I was glad it was you because we agree on all you wrote above and most of what I have read from you

I am sorry read this article because I do understand what is coming whether or not we get our priorities straight and do this with honor and in collaboration rather than cannibalizing our society like mad dogs

This piece frightens me because it has happened in the past-----but not in Argentina, Iceland, Greece, Ireland---not yet and I think not ever. But we in the US are not survivors-----our obesity, poor health in general, our complacency and dedication to our own enslavement---these are signs of a society that will not survive---and you know this as well as I do.

Jack London was a great writer and great drunk because he was a visionary---one of my favorite guys

I wish Jack was among us today because his voice would be clearly heard and he would be merciless with TPTB----he didn't tolerate them the last time income disparity was this great----the 'golden age' of robber barons---the same old shit, brother----it just never ends unless you are extremely vigilant

AND WE WERE NOT----and we like our slavery and it is not going to help us with what is coming

Thanks barliman---I read the rest, but I never worry about people that have more money than I do---they can take care of themselves, right? They do not need you or I---except to say 'no-that is not an acceptable response---you made the mess--YOU clean it up---with YOUR money, please'

I shoulda been a fucking preacher---maybe next lifetime---

For now, I say 'on january 1st, 2013-----all deposits in banks in the us will be backed by us dollars, gold, and silver'----and all derivative contracts null and void---and may some among you be left standing

There is enough for everyone---after that you can stack all you want

thanks      om


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Fri, 06/01/2012 - 04:19 | 2482762 zhandax
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Barliman, would you object to another view of your reasons?  After declaring these instruments null and void, the net result is the owners of hard assets still own them, and those with virtual claims on them will take it up the ass.  Who really cares in what order?  They are all going down anyway, and will realize it quickly.  Removing all this fictional virtual wealth from all the banks and multinationals and bankrupting them is nothing but positive in my book.  In a bankruptcy, the assets are sold to the highest bidder.  Those divisions of multinationals who make a product in demand will find ready bidders, if it is you offering 100 gold buffaloes for Deere's replacement parts division (all of it, manufacturing to sales).  Or if 100 gold buffaloes won't cut it, perhaps you pool resources with a dozen others of like mind.  It is no longer like there is an M&A department left open or or you can just walk into JPM with a killer biz plan.  Hard assets talk at whatever the highest bid available.  In bankruptcy, there is no such thing as withholding assets from sale to avoid MTM.  And those newly-created companies formed from those bargain assets will now be too small for arrogance, rather than TBTF.  There will be rampant unemployment and people will re-discover that grasshoppers are edible because WalMart's shelves will be empty.  Don't worry about oil, because with the government unable to borrow money, everyone will be walking.  Don't believe I don't realize how painful this will be; but just like the depression of 1921, it will be over faster than anyone can realize.

This is the view by doing this deliberately and broadcasting what to expect via MSM.  The kick-the-can alternative, where this occurs spontaneously and suddenly it looks like nobody is driving the bus is where you get the normally stable people going apeshit with Kalashnikovs.  Those predisposed to that kind of action will do so simply because their SNAP cards no longer work under either scenario.  The 'Minsky moment', or whatever you use to refer to the events already set in motion will lead to many of the same outcomes.  My support of illyia's argument is simply that it will produce less collateral damage, and lead to a speedier and healthier eventual recovery.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 04:28 | 2482765 zhandax
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Damn, oldman, it took me that long to write this?

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 04:36 | 2482769 oldman
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Thanks Zhandax

This is the best articulation of the MSM propaganda that I have heard----I never think about these things because survivors work these things out---a 're-set'

Painful is slowly starving to death---not losing paper property

really well said                    om

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 08:06 | 2483080 boiltherich
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I think what Illiya is trying to get at is this, if those derivatives had actually CREATED anything, money, traded 700 trillion dollars worth of some kind of stuff, then inability to satisfy counterparty obligations would indeed be a serious problem triggering a total collapse of our way of life.

But, those 700 trillion in derivatives are ghosts in the financial system, promises made between private parties that never did and never could have paid off in the event they were ever triggered. If they were ever triggered by real life events they would all be mutually extinguishing. The writers, buyers, sellers, traders invented them and INVENTED economic claims on our productivity they never had a right to. In order for these products to do the economy any real harm they would have to have first generated some real good. They are no more real than if I up and decided to write an IOU for 700 trillion and take it to my bank as collateral on a loan.

Clearly that would be fraudulent, but would they call the cops or the SEC on me? No, because it would be more pathetic than criminal. In order for those derivatives to have any value they would first have to have created that value, you can't lose something that was never created.

I do not worry about what happens AFTER the derivatives are triggered because they will have no impact, they will be confetti, the holders can't make claims on stuff that does not exist and they can't make claims on you and I that they have no legal right to, it is how they affect decisions in business and finance BEFORE they are triggered that has me P.O.'ed about them, because big corporations, banking and finance, government even, are making decisions about production and employment based upon an aversion to the risk of triggering these instruments, and that is only going to get worse till they blow up. Then we will see that they were nothing to worry about all along.

We do need a ballsy reformer that understands how the fiat banking system and credit system works, I do wish Paul had ever had a chance, now that he is out of the running I wonder who on the horizon can do the job because Dr. Paul is just too elderly for another run in 2016.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 09:22 | 2483566 XitSam
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If I understand your proposition correctly, since they (generally bankers) owe all this deriviative stuff to themselves, when it gets wiped clean we won't be affected.  But what happened is that pension funds and ordinary bank accounts are involved, there was a transfer of wealth, leveraged, in the creation of these instruments that will get destroyed and ordinary people literally1 starve. 

1 Yes I do mean literally. And starvation is an ugly thing. Worse because 99% won't understand why.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 09:57 | 2483796 illyia
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Yes XitSam, starvation is an ugly thing - but it is going to happen anyway - occasionally at the end of a gun - or worse. Things will become horrifying no matter what. And, "We The People" - of the last 30 years - are the ones who let it happen. There is a certain amount of justice in that. Right now (and I am not under any circumstances promotine OWS-type actions) we are allowing this idiocy to continue.

The plain fact is that the Over The Counter, Off Balance Sheet, 700+ Trillion in derivatives are Accounting FRAUD. They cannot be used in safety - except: Like any "good" Ponzi Scheme, the first out get paid.

That has already happened. We are now heading for the next stage and the beginning of complete debasement of our vaunted currency... over however many months or years the doobees can stretch it. All for our own good. Because we need our finance system and government to function. Until. It. Stops.

I will not let up on this subject. I hope thoughtful ZHers will continue to think and write on this issue. It appears to me that retroactively denying the derivatives legality is the ONLY rational path to a reasonable future for the coming generations.

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 14:21 | 2485169 oldman
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Hey boil,

WE are the 'ballsy reformers' of:


Ron Paul is just the tip-----of WE-----and his work is done because WE are here together

I'm pretty damned optimistic this morning after reading your comments and the others. I've been waiting for this shift for more than 40 years. The derivatives are just the paper promises of criminals and 'gimmee guys'.

Nothing to worry about because it is already done-----our response is what is important-----and it does not have to be only 'guns and gold'.

It is all coming together----om

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 22:10 | 2486636 illyia
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you (and some others) might find this interview with Dylan Ratigan interesting. On Financial Sense two days ago. Dylan has a pretty good grasp on the entire situation. I believe he was/left CNBC because he could not stomach the restrictions. He's been somewhat sidelined on MSNBC 4 pm slot (when most are on the road or just done for the day). But he's got a different take on things, and it is one that I share. This is an mp3/voice interview. Select which medium you like.

Dylan Ratigan: The Troubling Revolving Door Between Federal Reserve Officials and Wall Street

There are several other interesting things on the slate for this weekend, as well.

Peaceful Evening,


Fri, 06/01/2012 - 21:03 | 2486525 grid-b-gone
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95% of the derivatives market is owned/controlled by the top handful of banks - the same banks that own the Federal Reserve - the same banks that drafted major sections of Finreg - the same banks that insisted derivatives not be regulated - the same banks that agreed to allow an open market system for derivatives and then ignored it - the same banks that still dominate sub-prime through the sub-prime auto financing loophole (specifically making it legal to knowingly bundle and bet against risky loans) ...

After going through all that trouble, do you think they will allow their $700 trillion masterpiece to simply be declared null and void?

On the contrary, somewhere there has got to be the legal justification giving derivatives senior debt status, otherwise, all their effort will have been for naught. Otherwise, they would have created the public trading mechanism to offload derivatives to a greater fool by now. Why, knowing the end game, are they insisting on holding such leveraged Ponzi insurance claims?

Own outright everything you need. You are only a caretaker for any asset you don't 100% own.

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 01:51 | 2486837 oldman
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I don't know what the numbers are, but if this is true:



then retoactively outlawing it and demanding the Fed take the loss instead of the nation seems like the only way out for a society with 'odious debt'. The Fed and the banks COULD just unwind it if it is as you wrote above. All we do is go into the street and stay out until we find out if the military backs the banks or the Constitution. 

Oh yeah, and-----we clawback the ill-gotten gains + interest, and they make the pension funds whole. If they leave the country, I am certain that wecan still recoup something substantial from the sale of their remaining assets, and------that we can come up with a better way of managing our affairs.

I'll even come back to the states to go in the streets.

Yes, I'd like that----it would be a demonstration of human dignity and courage

Much better than being a whipped dog                                  om

Sat, 06/02/2012 - 12:28 | 2487266 BlandJoe24
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Where are you choosing to live (to "come back to the states" from)?  Just curious where you think it's better to live.  thanks.

Thu, 05/31/2012 - 23:14 | 2482402 Ookspay
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I respectfully disagree. The collapse will come suddenly. Some will see signs and precursors a few days in advance, most people will not see it coming.

You will see or hear an emergency warning, pick up your cell phone, Dead! Traffic jams, mass chaos, 60 minutes to the stoneage. 12 months of hell before the reset and a Global Currency. Or perhaps WWIII...

Have a nice day! : )
