Debt Rattle June 15 2018

 

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    OR LIGHT Compassion 2018   • Argentina’s Peso Collapses Even Further Despite $50 Billion IMF Bailout (WS) • ECB Calls Halt To Quantitative Easing
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    #41190
    V. Arnold
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    OR LIGHT Compassion 2018

    Generation selfie. Nutso. Two days ago, a couple in Portugal died after falling off a sea wall taking a selfie; fell 30 meters to the beach below.
    Many deaths in the U.S. as well from selfies in dangerous places.
    I guess life has become cheap in the west.
    Asia has been swept by the selfie craze; mayhaps it started here…

    #41191
    Dr. D
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    Unlike the police and media, someone is still trying to solve crimes…so many crimes that fall down the memory hole! Taking those extra steps of motive and proof on the Skripals:
    https://www.theblogmire.com/joining-some-dots-on-the-skripal-case-part-5-an-educated-guess/

    While I’m linking outside things (forgive me) here’s one of far-left Progressive Jimmy Dore losing it over Rachel Maddow ruthlessly – and deceitfully! — attacking modest beginnings of peace in North Korea.

    Don’t know what to say. HE didn’t know what to say. What are they selling now? The right is now both for social freedom AND anti-war. AND still interested (in sales pitch at least) of a stronger economy. I dunno. Not that their pitch is true but I can’t understand what the DNC thinks they’re selling voters on. I mean, do what everyone else ever did and lie! Just tell them you’re against war, for chickens and pots, for leaving people alone, whatever sells, then double-cross the voters like 100 years running.

    But they’re actually pitching pro-war, pro-corporate, pro-spy, pro-tax, anti-free speech, anti-normal people, the majority of voters who happen to be straight, working, taxpaying Joes and not some fringe group or other. It’s really baffling when all they have to do is lie, which politicians take to like water. They’ve gone beyond losing gay voters like Milo who could be considered an outlier, to losing lifelong black women from the Left like Candace Owens, and gay Jews like Dave Rubin. From the rhetoric, these identity-politics groups are their true interest, yet they still keep going. Even sitting here in America, I have no explanation. The Iowa caucus said 40% of Democrats considered themselves Socialists (they would mean Social-Democratic, not Socialist-Chavez). Sounds like voters! Core, Democratic, never-Republican voters! But the DNC/HRC response was to reject that 40% of the party matching the dynamic, motivated Bernie wing, even going so far as to marginalize and alienate them, in order to talk about Russia. Consistent polls have shown Americans don’t care about this and are in fact antagonizing them and looking uncool, unresponsive, and out of touch, keeping away whole states like Michigan and Wisconsin. And that’s among Democrats!; obviously most of the GOP base has supported the Trump wing against the incumbent RINOs that are probably still 80% of the office-holding party, so the 40% in the GOP base already thinks Russia scandal is a sign of mental derangement.

    It’s amazing, and startling to live through, but I can’t say I care for it much. The lack of statesmen, the near-universal lack of coherent thinking and near-universal lack of morality makes it hard to operate at a time we have grave challenges facing us. And I just read our condition is so bad that net-net citizens are now leaving Europe to come to America! Must be our tacos, because it sure isn’t our health care, but a grave indication of the challenges wealthy, mobile people believe Europe is facing.

    Well, in a time of universal madness, being sane is a revolutionary act. So we’ll just NOT bankrupt ourselves with stock purchases, 60-month car loans, $200 cable bills, and CNN, and instead keep the roof on and grow another season’s seeds in what has been wonderful, moderate weather. Perhaps one day people will want to eat again, and learn how to do as a thousand years of their forefathers did. Not today, but perhaps before that last skill and last species is lost. One can hope, but we’ve been saying this since Carter.

    #41200
    tony smyth
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    My favourite journalist these days is Nafeez Ahmed, but I’m finding Caitlin Johnstone’s writing increasingly excellent. Another great article here.
    Trump is without any doubt a malignant narcissist, and ignorant as fuck, BUT he may actually have pulled something off in the meeting with Kim. To dismiss it without giving it a chance is crazy. Man, is the US not nation divided?, both sides deep in their self created worlds, and unwilling to give the other side one inch. Its horrifying. Maybe what we are seeing is the self destruction of the West. And the UK is just as bad. What poison did the Anglo-Saxons imbibe??

    #41209
    carolsiriusb
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    Dr D – Jimmy is not ‘far left’ whatever the hell that even means. Jimmy Is sane, And much like a NORMAL democrat (i.e., 0n the left) was 30 or 40 years ago. You don’t recognize it? Far left is another cia-generated word/thought-form. They have been making up self-denigrating crap since 1948.
    Tony Smyth – the poison so much of the west has imbibed is psychopathy.

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