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    Stonehenge 1897   • Spanish PM Dissolves Catalan Parliament And Calls Fresh Elections (G.) • Finland Prepares Parliamentary Vote To Recognize Cat
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle October 28 2017]

    #36727
    V. Arnold
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    Catalan independence killed dead by Rajoy; tragic; but no real surprise from a government rooted in fascism.
    Hear, hear, for Michael Hudson. A voice of reality in the wilderness of neo-liberal economic chicanery.
    Oh, and I can’t close until I commend Ilargi for the 1897 Stonehenge picture; superb…
    How in the hell did the builders get that horizontal stone up there?

    #36728
    rapier
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    A campaign law established rules for ‘independent’ political groups which were tax exempt, like charities. The rules stated that their activities, in order to maintain tax exempt status must be educational and not partisan. Billionaires poured hundreds of millions into these’ non partisan grass roots groups’ (if ever ironic quotes were ever needed it was here) in order to educate voters.

    Here, get educated by the Tea Party
    https://theredphoenix.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/4430070551_e14ed10882.jpg
    https://theredphoenix.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/racist_tea_party.jpg
    https://theredphoenix.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/tea-party-niggar.jpg
    https://theredphoenix.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/slide_1398_20093_large.jpg
    https://theredphoenix.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/tea-party-racist-signs-07-white-slavery.jpg

    The IRS “apologized” because it is now lead by hyper partisan Republicans.

    #36729
    rapier
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    I could deduce from Ilargi’s fondness for ZH that he has about the same regard for niggers that Schäuble has for Greeks. So be it and no doubt that will help with donations. It just won’t do much to advance what is AE’s ever submerging cause.

    #36730
    V. Arnold
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    rapier
    You’ve become a rather toxic poster here; I could deduce from Ilargi’s fondness for ZH that he has about the same regard for niggers that Schäuble has for Greeks.
    Your critical thinking skills must be proximit to your IQ; low 90’s maybe?
    Your posts have taken a decided turn for the worst; alcohol driven? Or worse; dementia…

    #36731
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    Catalonia and Blockchain

    Catalonia issuing its’ own currency is an intriguing idea. Here in the UK a few villages issued their own currency in the form of notes. The idea was to keep money in the local economy. Any currency is dependent on the willingness of others to accept it in exchange for goods and services and these currencies had strong local support, although I do not know if they still survive.

    I think the ICOs missed a trick – they should have been ISOs : Initial Share Offering. If they had been selling shares rather than ‘coins’ AND they all used the same blockchain then it would have created a virtual stock market. Dividends would be paid in shares which were bought on the market and allocated to the shareholders. Such a cheap way to issue shares would mean that a system like this could grow very rapidly, especially for smaller companies. It starts to undermine the need for Wall Street.

    Estonia’s voting blockchain is also a brilliant idea and is needed in most countries, especially America. Despite all the allegations of Russian interference it was noticed that there are more registered voters than there are actual potential voters!

    * For those who say Bitcoin is for criminals as it is anonymous : every Bitcoin has a record of EVERYONE who has ever owned it! [As some criminals found out!]

    #36732
    Diogenes Shrugged
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    I’ve attached a couple of videos that some might think reveal Israel’s double standards / hypocrisy. I’ll go a step further and say they reveal Israel’s state-sponsored, deeply racist political agenda.

    Israelis welcoming immigrants into Greece:

    Israelis jettisoning immigrants from Israel:

    A great advantage the medium of the Internet has over television, radio and print media is comments sections like this one. When uncensored, they function as a sort of peer-review. Except, of course, when the commenters fail to rise to the level of “peers.” It’s not unusual to see informed, thoughtful remarks alongside utterances better suited to an old AOL chat room.

    Incidentally, the second video (above) derived from the comments section after an article Nassim linked the other day. Indeed, I feel I’ve learned a lot from comments sections.

    That said, I’m reminded of The Grateful Dead:

    I see you’ve got your fist out,
    Say your piece and get out,
    Guess I get the gist of it, but it’s alright.
    Sorry that you feel that way,
    The only thing there is to say,
    Every silver lining’s got a touch of grey.

    R.I.P. Jerry

    #36733
    Dr. D
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    That seems odd and uncalled for. Does it show the recent worldview that anyone to right of Mao is now Hitler? Or is it that anyone to the right of ourselves is now Hitler?

    Trouble is, such cutting away has found the Left perched on a tiny branch made solely of the Trotskyist, identity-politics wing, and not only are they too purging themselves ever-smaller with a Neo-Cultural Revolution of ideological purity, but far worse, they don’t win elections. Being ever-smaller never does.

    Point being, TOLERANCE is the winning hand. Tolerance not just for races, nations, classes, but for diversity of all peoples. That is, people who are different from ourselves and think differently. Why? Because EVERYONE thinks differently than everybody else: that’s what makes the world work and what makes it worthwhile. Since that simple gradient has no clear markers, we have to let each other speak and address the concrete points of their argument, and not jump to logical fallacies like overgeneralization or false equivalence. It’s not true that all Conservatives are Fascists. It’s not even true that ZeroHedge sympathizes with Fascists. (It is, however, true that Fascists are Socialists and are therefore Leftists)

    In any case, the point, the legacy of Western Civilization itself, the culmination of all we’ve learned and proven in practice, is to let the other guy speak and assume in him as much goodwill as any facts will allow. After that, after the debate, discussion, the fact-proving by due process, then we make our determination.

    But not just by slinging words and adjectives, saying he once read something or met someone, that since he saw the enemy’s flag once, he must therefore be the enemy. That’s McCarthyism. That way madness lies. As we see in the news every day now.

    “Did you ever notice that anyone who drives slower than you is an idiot, and anyone who drives faster than you is a maniac?”
    —George Carlin.

    #36734
    Nassim
    Participant

    “She also bemoaned little progress on addressing the impacts of climate change which was having a “tangible effect” on the frozen continent”

    This would be funny, if she really believed her own statement which I doubt. “climate change” normally means “warming” to anyone who follows the media.

    This study compares the distribution of surface climate trends over the Southern Ocean in austral summer between 1979–2011 and 1950–1978, using a wide variety of data sets including uninterpolated gridded marine archives, land station data, reanalysis, and satellite products. Apart from the Antarctic Peninsula and adjacent regions, sea surface temperatures and surface air temperatures decreased during 1979–2011, consistent with the expansion of Antarctic sea ice. In contrast, the Southern Ocean and coastal Antarctica warmed during 1950–1978. Sea level pressure (SLP) and zonal wind trends provide additional evidence for a
    sign reversal between the two periods, with cooling (warming) accompanied by stronger (weaker) westerlies and lower (higher) SLP at polar latitudes in the early (late) period. Such physically consistent trends across a range of independently measured parameters provide robust evidence for multidecadal climate variability over
    the Southern Ocean and place the recent Antarctic sea ice trends into a broader context

    The “variability” bit at the end is there merely to get the paper published. The fact that matters is that the Antarctic and the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere have been cooling for many years. Most of the water in the planet is in the Southern Hemisphere and it largely determines the earth’s temperature. Even the North Atlantic has been cooling – although it is tiny in comparison.

    North Atlantic Cooling Has Plunged Below 1950s (And 1800s) Levels

    I really don’t understand why politicians are so determined to blatantly lie and for the media to support them 100%

    #36735
    Nassim
    Participant

    “How in the hell did the builders get that horizontal stone up there”

    More interestingly is how they moved the even bigger rocks to the site intact. There are few rivers moving from Wales to England.

    “On 18 December 2011, geologists from University of Leicester and the National Museum of Wales announced the discovery of the exact source of some of the rhyolite fragments found in the Stonehenge debitage. These fragments do not seem to match any of the standing stones or bluestone stumps. The researchers have identified the source as a 70-metre (230 ft) long rock outcrop called Craig Rhos-y-Felin (51°59′30.07″N 4°44′40.85″W), near Pont Saeson in north Pembrokeshire, located 220 kilometres (140 miles) from Stonehenge”

    Stonehenge Stones Were Moved 160 Miles
    Ancient bluestones match outcrop near Wales sheep farm, experts say

    Maybe some Egyptians came to offer some advice. 🙂

    #36744

    Accusing me of racism is a new low.

    #36746
    V. Arnold
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    Accusing me of racism is a new low.

    Ilargi; I would’nt let that post disturb you too much; rapier is obviously off his/her meds.
    Frankly, I was somewhat taken aback by that comment, but considered it an aberant comment.
    Which is why I commented as I did.
    Those of us who follow you know better; cheers for a better tomorrow…

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