Debt Rattle February 15 2018

 

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    Grete Stern Sueño No. 1: Artículos eléctricos para el hogar 1949   • Global Debt Crisis II Cometh (Goldcore) • The % Puzzle Coming Together (Nort
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 15 2018]

    #38897
    anticlimactic
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    LONDON BUSES

    The NYT completely fails to understand how London transport works. It is a superb example of how to privatise services but keep control for minimum cost.

    Transport for London [TfL] control all bus routes and timetables, and take all the fares. Bus companies can bid to run a particular route for a number of years. This competitive bidding minimises their profits. If you look at the red buses in my area you can see that they may be operated by half a dozen bus companies or more, but the bus system is a single integrated London wide operation.

    TfL also operate the tubes and in recent years the urban rail services, plus the Docklands Light Railway and some riverbus services. It runs like a nationalised integrated service but utilises a great many private companies.

    It would be an ideal model for Jeremy Corbyn to use to re-nationalise British Rail : create a national timetable then have companies bid to run services, possibly down to individual train sets.

    #38898
    Nassim
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    #38899
    Nassim
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    Merkel should have stepped down. This can only end in chaos.

    I think it will end in the destruction of the two main parties – CDU and SPD – not a bad outcome IMHO

    #38900
    zerosum
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    Too many expert authors are lying by omission.

    We have created an unstainable social/economic system which has been evolving too long.
    I repeat this system is unstainable.
    90% will not be returning to the same social/economic system with which they know and grew up.

    Do you remember?

    Credit cards did not exist for consumption.
    Line of credit were for businesses to meet theirs expenses until their sale income were deposited.
    Mortgages were available for 3X your income.
    Higher education was affordable.
    Health care did not require unafordable health insurance.
    Middle class moms could afford to stay home to raise the kids.
    Bullies existed and always had victims

    Yesterday is gone!
    In the future, Bullies will still be victimizing 90% of the population.

    #38901
    zerosum
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    Its too later to stop borrowing money that will not be paid back.

    Its too late to impose gun control to preserve a social/economic system that does not exist

    If gov. try to take away the gun it will cause the revolution, by the victims, against the gov.
    Gov., (bullies) fear taking away the guns from the “victims”, (the 90%)

    #38902
    Nassim
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    Record 2018 snowfall continues increasing snowfall trends showing UN IPCC AR5 report is flawed

    I cannot find any of this stuff in the MSM. Just imagine if the trend had been the other way. What a song and dance they would have made of it 🙂

    #38903
    Nassim
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    The U.S. has no evidence to confirm reports from aid groups and others that the Syrian government has used the deadly chemical sarin on its citizens, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday.

    Someone should tell the BBC – the British Bullshit Corporation – the British-financed “White Helmets”

    Assad forces behind deadly Syria sarin attack – UN

    Note how they always use photogenic kids – with light coloured hair and blue or green eyes – to sell the message a Western audience that is quite happy with “raghead kids” getting killed.

    #38904
    V. Arnold
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    Thailand ranked least miserable country for the fourth year in a row.
    I would concur with that…

    https://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/easy/1413179/thailand-least-miserable-country-on-earth

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