tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25683397349654527582014-12-10T18:45:49.608+02:00Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568339734965452758.post-30374003112723019142009-05-30T00:59:00.007+03:002009-05-30T01:40:52.795+03:00

.The question is not whether the carrying capacity of land, air, and water ultimately limits how many people can subsist on Earth and in the United States. The limits are real; the only discussion can be about whether we have passed them or how close they are coming. The ultimate question is: What combination of population size and standard of living is wanted?Any number of elements or systems

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.Ever since the invention of coins monetary and military history have been inter-related to a degree that is both depressing and surprising. Glyn Davies goes so far as to paraphrase Clausewitz's famous dictum and refer to war as the continuation of monetary policy by other means, and quotes a remark by an eighteenth century writer (Davenant) that "nowadays that prince who can best find money to

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.You see, we live in an age when humanitarianism is the — Propaganda foundation stone. So the strategy of the controllers is to go with that. Just like in judo. You go with the motion of your opponent. You don’t try to lash out at it. Part of the Art of War. You become the great peacemaker and mediator. That’s the ultimate trump card.The whole idea of being nice to people who will do everything

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568339734965452758.post-20468903963879511982008-12-14T23:33:00.016+02:002009-04-27T21:13:29.062+03:00

.HE TELLS ME I'VE GOT TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT WHEN THE BIG DOG GETS OFF THE PORCH, and I'm getting confused here. He is talking to me from a fishing camp up near the Canadian border, and as he tries to tell me about the Big Dog, I can only imagine a wall of green and deep blue lakes with northern pike. But he is very patient with me. Mike Holm did his hard stints in the Middle East, the Miami station

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568339734965452758.post-2546673988677074072008-12-02T22:58:00.014+02:002009-05-18T23:24:45.531+03:00

.I admit that thinking clearly about money can be difficult. Money has been around far longer than the oil age, the industrial era, and may even pre-date civilization itself. But though we may take money for granted, it is neither simple nor solid nor reliable -- far from it. Money is a complex and fragile construction, and as history has shown over and over again, money can become worthless

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568339734965452758.post-11130519459783883652008-11-26T17:22:00.018+02:002009-04-27T21:26:49.154+03:00

.Albert Vincent Carone is one of those people who spent his life dancing between raindrops and turning invisible wherever a shadow lingered. He existed and also didn't exist. Al Carone--unlike his near namesake, Al Capone--truly was a paradox wrapped in a mystery concealed behind an enigma. Carone was a detective in the New York Police Department, but this didn't stop him from becoming a "made"

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.When I sat down to write my account of the experience in 1989—Liar’s Poker, it was called—it was in the spirit of a young man who thought he was getting out while the getting was good. I was merely scribbling down a message on my way out and stuffing it into a bottle for those who would pass through these parts in the far distant future. Unless some insider got all of this down on paper, I

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.When David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski founded the Trilateral Commission in 1973, the intent was to create a "New International Economic Order" (NIEO). To this end, they brought together 300 elite corporate, political and academic leaders from North America, Japan and Europe. Now... globalism is upon us like an 8.6 magnitude earthquake. The question is, "How did they do it?" The answer

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.Indeed, we can sum up the case for abolishing the central bank rather quickly. Abolishing the Fed would put a huge brake on the planning state. Without the ability to expand the money supply at will, the federal government would become about as threatening as state or local government. That is to say, the federal government would still be an intolerable imposition on life, liberty, and property.

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568339734965452758.post-77895772578292986042008-10-29T20:07:00.021+02:002009-04-27T02:27:03.539+03:00

.I don’t know when it happened, but somewhere along the way Americans were persuaded that getting a loan to purchase things they didn’t have money for was a good thing. The definition of “afford” somehow went from being able to pay for it in full at the time of purchase, to being able to make payments on it month to month. Apparently someone convinced us that waiting was not an option – that

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.BEIJING (Reuters) - Threatened by a "financial tsunami," the world must consider building a financial order no longer dependent on the United States, a leading Chinese state newspaper said on Wednesday.The commentary in the overseas edition of the People's Daily said the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc LEH.P "may augur an even larger impending global 'financial tsunami'."The People's

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.KUALA LUMPUR - ISLAMIC banking has largely escaped the fallout from the global financial crisis, thanks to rules that forbid the sort of risky business that is felling mainstream institutions. 'In the current financial turmoil, it is interesting to note that Islamic financing may have prevented a majority of the mess created by the conventional banking and financial institutions,' Kuwait Finance

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568339734965452758.post-75325774681728774672008-10-20T12:12:00.012+03:002009-04-26T23:49:57.708+03:00

.According to a Lettre Confidentielle de LEAP/E2020 the US economy, now in deep recession, will collapse, "before summer 2009" because the US can no longer make payments on its national debt.The resulting lack of tax revenues will make it impossible for the federal government to pay even the interest on its ten trillion dollar national debt.On October 16, 2008, the Global-Europe Anticipation

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568339734965452758.post-83712056281579979542008-10-16T18:18:00.014+03:002009-04-26T23:23:38.159+03:00

.So what happens when you have vague language and an unlimited budget? Fraud and self-dealing. Mark my words, this is the largest looting operation ever in the history of the US, and it's all spelled out right in this delightfully brief document that is about to be rammed through a scared Congress and made into law. This language literally took my breath away when I read it. I am now beyond

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568339734965452758.post-24521011049205902882008-10-15T01:51:00.013+03:002009-04-26T23:14:22.649+03:00

.Like him or loathe him, last night CNN’s Glenn Beck became the only mainstream media source thus far to address on national TV the reality of the situation Americans are facing with the manufactured financial implosion - the direct threat of domestic martial law and a global financial dictatorship. Beck’s guest, Peter Schiff, respected author of "Crash Proof" and president of the brokerage firm

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568339734965452758.post-87203067828613327212008-10-14T23:48:00.004+03:002009-04-26T22:50:33.197+03:00

.Nor have the hedge funds been in the slightest bit interested in succumbing to normal rules: of the world's thousands of hedge funds only 24 have volunteered to sign up to a code of conduct. Emilio Botin, the chairman of Santander, the Spanish bank that has enjoyed phenomenal success during the credit crunch, once said: "I never invest in something I don't understand." A wise man, you may think.

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568339734965452758.post-76752713583553227272008-10-13T00:13:00.007+03:002009-04-26T22:41:41.462+03:00

.The heart of the current crisis is the quadrillion plus derivative market. Roughly half of these derivatives are listed on exchanges, but the other half are on the totally unregulated, totally opaque, poorly documented and mostly naked (no reserves or collateral given to secure performance) OTC derivatives market. It is this powder keg that has everyone trembling with fear and foreboding,

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568339734965452758.post-71075458703009694712008-10-11T03:33:00.006+03:002009-04-26T22:33:55.398+03:00

.Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said political leaders are discussing the idea of closing the world's financial markets while they ``rewrite the rules of international finance.'' ``The idea of suspending the markets for the time it takes to rewrite the rules is being discussed,'' Berlusconi said today after a Cabinet meeting in Naples, Italy. A solution to the

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568339734965452758.post-49679353035495384682008-10-10T13:56:00.017+03:002009-12-06T19:48:27.117+02:00

.It is the method by which the Federal Reserve creates money out of nothing; the concept of usury as the payment of interest on pretended loans; the true cause of the hidden tax called inflation; the way in which the Fed creates boom-bust cycles.In the 1940s, there was a comic strip character called Mandrake the Magician. His specialty was creating things out of nothing and, when appropriate, to

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568339734965452758.post-82728272119346621272008-10-10T04:24:00.007+03:002009-04-26T22:14:07.485+03:00

.The US and advanced economies’ financial system is now headed towards a near-term systemic financial meltdown as day after day stock markets are in free fall, money markets have shut down while their spreads are skyrocketing, and credit spreads are surging through the roof. There is now the beginning of a generalized run on the banking system of these economies; a collapse of the shadow banking

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568339734965452758.post-49776694945931783682008-10-09T21:13:00.010+03:002009-04-26T22:07:06.555+03:00

.The numbers involved here are mind numbing. See the tables here for who holds how many of these nuclear time bombs. JP Morgan Chase leads the pack with $8 trillion of CDS in notional value. The fuse is now lit and its is only so long. The only way to stop the danger of an exothermic CDS chain reaction in the financial markets is by executive or legislative means~ Financial Markets: The Fuse Is

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568339734965452758.post-56396226809273724262008-10-09T20:35:00.009+03:002009-04-26T21:59:52.668+03:00

.Imagine you could have ten fire insurances on your home that would each pay out the full value of your house if it burns down. That would probably give you some very hot ideas. That is exactly the reason why fire insurance regulation prevents such a case. But CDS are unregulated, their originators are unregulated and there is no settlement mechanism for them other than the private contracts

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568339734965452758.post-3590434117639029052008-10-08T18:18:00.014+03:002009-04-26T21:53:53.490+03:00

.I pledge allegiance to Goldman Sachs, and to the conspiracy for which it stands, one racket under Paulson, Communist and indivisible, with eviction and poverty for all. Put all that together with the Halliburton concentration camps, completed, equipped, fully staffed, but empty, waiting for millions to concentrate. Who? Probably not illegal aliens, because they are not there. So, if you subtract

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568339734965452758.post-24955446778940365932008-10-06T02:43:00.006+03:002009-04-26T21:45:34.613+03:00

.A dish of Bailout with a side of pork, shareholders vaporized by Derivatives Death-Star, We all await the financial markets implosion, No problems solved by the bailout, Stay prepared for a full shutdown of the financial system with some cash on hand, Credit default swaps unregulated point in the chain Well, what a surprise, we've been sold down the river for the usual "thirty pieces of silver"

Andrea Muhrrteynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2568339734965452758.post-6673587409690870792008-10-02T05:40:00.014+03:002009-04-26T21:39:33.060+03:00

.Reliable word that Bank of America branch managers just received a message via the U.S. Federal Reserve Wire system from the US Federal Reserve instructing them to "perhaps be ready for a one-week universal shut-down of the banking system", including access to checking accounts, savings accounts, credit cards and ATM's.~ URGENT: US Fed. Res. Wire warns possible "one-week universal shut-down of

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