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    Mathew Brady Three captured Confederate soldiers, Gettysburg, PA 1863   • ECB’s Knot Says Low Rate Policy Risks Becoming Counterproductive (R.) •
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle December 23 2019]

    #52299
    V. Arnold
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    Okay, okay; so distilling all of this down; we’re fucked!
    That’s the final, the distilate; we’re fucked!
    No matter how one spins it; interprets it, we’re fucked.
    LOL, finally we know the facts of what’s in store for us; so, now we can finally formulate a plan; for our survival, or at least a hope for such……..
    There’s always an alternative, until there isn’t………..

    #52300
    V. Arnold
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    Mathew Brady Three captured Confederate soldiers, Gettysburg, PA 1863
    Such an excellent photo…
    It’s real…on second thought, honest, is more to the point…

    #52301
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Looks like a prospective barn there on the ground, and the land has been cleared to the horizon.

    “If people start saving more in response to the low interest rates,”

    Hold on: if rates rose, wouldn’t high interest rates encourage people to save at interest? So your argument is that high interest rates cause savings but LOW interest rates cause saving too? You’re fired. And he’s “this might, maybe, someday cause bad effects.” You mean like ’99 where low rates caused a tech bubble to pop? Or like low rates you put in response to that which caused the housing bubble to pop? Or do you mean now, when thanks to your low rates all the pension funds are going bankrupt?

    “I cannot rule out that the current low interest rate environment could last another five years”

    Wow, it’s almost like you’re suggest YOU are not the person using $1 Trillion a QUARTER in interventions to FORCE those rates to be low while fighting every other market participant on earth with the taxpayer’s money. Must be the weather or lizard space aliens doing it or something. 1-2-3: Not It!

    Doomsday Debt Machine: Impeach Congress, Too! (Stockman)

    Ah, ‘tis but to dream. But if this debt machine pops, I’m sure they will WISH they were impeached rather than what’s more likely to happen involving rope and tall objects. Apparently the people get the government they deserve. They wanted more money, even free money. They wanted corruption, and boy did they get it good and hard.

    Nancy Pelosi: The Woman Who Stood Up to Trump (G.)

    …Or not. There was a “national security emergency” that meant they just couldn’t wait for the natural election but it was vital to impeach immediately. …Until there wasn’t, and now we can wait indefinitely, perhaps until November, who knows? I would think “standing up” would be prosecuting your case, not sitting on it.

    “It’s OK for the FBI to break the law 6 ways from Sunday because Schiff doesn’t like the guy they spied on.”

    That’s the least of his crimes when he wiretaps innocent reporters and the opposition government and leaks their phone records to the public for no particular reason, just ‘cause he can. I’m sorry, but under the 4th, — which despite Clapper, might still be Federal Law – you can’t wire-tap Solomon without probable cause, and even so, you can’t release the records for no reason but personal mischief. But when nobody goes to jail, why not? What’s the rule of law but a big annoyance and obstruction to power anyway?

    If you don’t feel sympathy for someone a CIA employee and informant who was wrongly smeared for years as being a traitor, and who was spied on by his own government due to FBI lying & subterfuge, then you’re not only unqualified to wield power but probably also a sociopath. In other words: Adam Schiff.” –Greenwald

    How similar to Cheney’s treasonous destruction of CIA cover-operations everywhere in Africa simply to take revenge on one agent, Plame, over another fake, warmongering report, yellowcake? And the CIA, Pentagon, and agencies all just nodded their little heads and said, “Yes, Mas”?

    It has ruined the debate with pseudo-science.”

    You mean like the New England Journal of Medicine science? Where the editor says half of all papers are fake? That kind of pseudo-science? Gosh, we’d better start believing them far more earnestly if it’s still only HALF total, fabricated, self-serving lies.

    Why Public College Should Be Free (Covert)

    Seems like a good idea, the problem would be the parameters. First, the Federal level is prohibited under the 10thA. Second, for a thousand reasons, should only apply to students who have the grades and interest to be there and not make every class dumbed-down remedial-ed for the real students. Their stats are dumb, since aid goes to poor students. There is no sense of legal adult in student loans, and there is no rule of law, just as there is no bankruptcy: regardless of if you’re disowned or even know who your parents are, your parent’s income is YOUR income for student loans until you’re like 25. If your parents don’t put up voluntarily, you simply can’t go. That way they can screw the parents white, not just with loans, but with government backed and subsidized loans that are undischargeable in bankruptcy – yours or theirs. So what would you call a loan where the originator collects 100% of profits but has 0% risk? Answer: it’s $1T in corporate welfare to the banks, a DIRECT payment FROM the federal government TO the banking industry, no action required, no questions asked. And it’s the largest debt on our books now. The students are nothing, a zero. As no one can read, clearly college, education, or people are nothing to them. The banks and their free insider profits are all. This is just a ridiculous cover story for the world’s largest fraud. –Largest after medical and military, and probably the brazen embezzlement of that missing $20Trillion.

    Anyway, the stats just show that richer families GO to college, and their kids are more likely to go to EXPENSIVE college, therefore they are willing and able to take out more loans, where their higher costs are matched by higher aid. …Which just like “bailouts” of Greece or wherever, they act like is a gift, a scholarship. No, this may come as a shock but a student “loan” is not a help, it’s a hardship. It’s not an asset, it’s a liability. You’re not “helping” people when you put them far deeper in debt, you’re hurting them. It also shows that people, especially the upper middle class, are dumb as h—l and don’t have any financial sense while enslaving their children to a lifetime of servitude and despair. …Then wonder why their kids snort coke and misbehave.

    London Will Never Give Independence – We Must Take It (Craig Murray)

    Quite correct, and they have the right. However, like Poland, Scotland continually is destroying themselves by doing the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time. Maybe should have called independence when you could take the North Seas, not the moment those wells and their money collapse? England would be thrilled to let you go, there’s no more shipyards or coal mines and the transfer payments north are legendary.

    “And what’s that smell?”

    Reminds me of the backpack CNN was sniffing to prove it has sarin gas.

    P.S., Sarin is odorless? Oh, and also maybe deadly? That’s why it’s a “deadly weapon” but don’t tell the Skripals or the 40 Bobbies who rubbed their doorknob.

    Civil War update: most of VA decides to join “sanctuary cities”, while the central government has said legally there’s no such thing. Really? Well they said the State police will risk leaving the ten richest zip codes of Farifax county and go to occupied Virginia to arrest gun owners door to door, and they said they wouldn’t. Then they said the Virginia National Guard is going to go down there and arrest all gun owners in Western Virginia AND the policemen who don’t obey, and they said they wouldn’t.

    So apparently, Virginia is giving orders and nobody’s going to follow them: not the people, the police, the counties, or their own Army. So, Governor Northam, is there no such thing as nullification, or are the people sovereign over the government? If you’re the King, and nobody in the country follows your orders, sounds like you’re the garbageman, not sovereign or legal at all. So who’s really legal when nobody will follow your orders?

    “…That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”

    Pretty dangerous stuff. And Barr was just on TV talking about election tampering to install officials, especially D.A.s, who would make sure this war and dissent happen. But I’m sure Barr is just part of this vast conspiracy theory, along with all the people and half the government, and despite having warehouses filled with evidence, doesn’t know nothing about no crimes. But WaPo does. When have they ever lied to you?

    “Afghan Papers Inadvertently Document WaPo’s Role in Spreading Official Lies

    Afghan Papers Inadvertently Document WaPo’s Role in Spreading Official Lies


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Papers

    Since we have moles burrowing tirelessly throughout the system:

    Trump’s Space Force Is Now Officially the Sixth Military Branch

    The other three branches are taking out the Air Force by creating a ground-up Space Force, then rolling the non-CIA parts from them into the new organization. Then a decade or so later, they can shut the doors on the Air Force as “redundant.” No surprise for a force that in military games always sides AGAINST the American People (and therefore against the Army and Marines) and FOR the CIA/Government. A pity it took so long, with so many thousand acts of complicity with illegal drone strikes in Yemen, illegal civilian bombings in Syria, all at the call of a drug-oil-and-slave trafficking CIA.

    …Or maybe you can tell me how they can’t see oil convoys 2 miles long in the desert, and once they find them, can only strafe them with leaflets. That’s our Air Force! Whenever ISIS needs help, the U.S. Air Force is there! The Spice must flow.

    #52302

    Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has resigned. Or been fired, same difference. Merry Christmas.

    #52303
    zerosum
    Participant

    Sexy
    Dr. D’s programming of sexy has failed.
    Dr. D does not see the same illusion of sexy.
    Dr. D is no longer stimulated with the illusion of sexy.
    Santa is coming!
    Joy to the world!
    Merry Xmas!
    In other words
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking
    Critical thinking is the analysis of facts to form a judgment.[1] The subject is complex, and several different definitions exist, which generally include the rational, skeptical, unbiased analysis, or evaluation of factual evidence. Critical thinking is self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking. It presupposes assent to rigorous standards of excellence and mindful command of their use. It entails effective communication and problem-solving abilities as well as a commitment to overcome native egocentrism[2][3] and sociocentrism.

    #52304
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    The apt comparison is between CIA assets Ciaramella and Carter Page AND what appears to be distinctly different treatment/regard of these two CIA employees by the elected government officials at this saga’s forefront. As for fellow USNAer Page, the traits his IC handlers found useful, toxic levels of earnestness, copious venality and servility to authority are found in abundance at The Boat School (TBS). Distinct from academic and overall performance at TBS, I give you Admiral Stansfield Turner and his link to the CIA as a point of reference. Page “rates” as much sympathy as Ciaramella which is to say none. They both knew/know the game. The common thread is they both have yet to be arrested and subjected to pretrial confinement. I digress.
    I offer my firsthand observation of these characters from communications with Sy Hersh when the Iraq War was in its infancy and Dick Cheney as recently as a little over a year ago. Sy Hersh, the person observable near the end of Netflix’s Wormwood is the real deal, whatever his deal might be with the IC. He will engage you in debate about your valid experience and correct his thinking/writing when appraised of the illogic he has been subjected to by the IC. However, when pressed to do a damn thing about it, Hersh will retreat to the same predetermined warning he have gave Frank Olsen’s son, Eric, beware the level of vicious vindictiveness the IC can and will subject your life. In the end, Hersh exists to maintain access. Glenn Greenwald it seems is auditioning to be Hersh’s heir apparent.
    As for Dick Cheney, a fellow who congratulates an officer and combat veteran for helping to “defeat Russia in Iraq” during Desert Storm when he was asked do you support prosecuting the Iraq War decision-makers IS engaged in grandiose delusional thinking that is megalomaniacal in scale.
    Why this enormous distraction from what is usually not a publicly viewable contest? I agree with Dr. D. It IS a massive theft, trillions of dollars again for the third time that we know since 2008, 1) 2008 Bernanke’s Big Bank Bailout, 2) Quantitative Easing under Barack/Geithner and 3) Not-QE Overnight REPO. AND to announce the disclosure of the Afghanistan Papers, again a massive transfer of wealth to DoD and military contractors, in manner which guarantees inattention by the viewing public and their elected government representatives.
    Btw, I roomed across the hallway from Mike Silva, yes that right hand man of NY FEDs Tim Geithner, who fired Goldman-Sachs monitor Carmen Segara.

    #52306
    zerosum
    Participant

    More links with supporting documentation
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-biden-accused-156m-ukraine-money-laundering-scheme-court-filing-linking-debunked

    Hunter Biden Denies Ukraine Money Laundering Allegations
    https://contexte.aoc.arkansas.gov/imaging/IMAGES/DMS/CK_Image.Present2?DMS_ID=8A2F2177801FD69D24715B11C43387377319B07CFC6B56472CF08D3C21A5EA3F77FD3E16AA1A75FBAF35E6365DC7ABCB1F6E9D8D16857A8176E1E0C5259A7E4F&i_url=https://contexte.aoc.arkansas.gov/imaging/IMAGES/DMS

    Filed by private investigator Dominic Casey of D&A Investigations on behalf of Lunden Alexis Roberts – with whom Hunter fathered a child, Monday’s “Notice of Fraud and Counterfeiting and Production of Evidence” alleges that Hunter Biden and associates Devon Archer and John Kerry stepson Christopher Heinz engaged in a money laundering scheme which accumulated over $156 million between March 2014 and December 2015.

    According to the document, Biden, Archer and Heinz became directors of consulting firm Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC in order to “conceal their family members ownership,” establishing financial accounts at Morgan Stanley and China Bank, the latter of which was used in a money laundering scheme.

    https://advisor.morganstanley.com/the-finnegan-markey-moye-schatz-group

    #52307
    WES
    Participant

    Zerosum:. Money laundering is perfectly legal when done by members of Congress and their family and friends.

    The same for lobbying fees and insider trading. Congress passed laws making all this stuff perfectly legal.

    So, not sure what the big deal is.

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