Diogenes Shrugged
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These days, rule of men (democracy) trumps rule of law (Constitution).
That makes it your fault, not theirs. Clever, eh?
The President is just one elected man. His cabinet, et al, is unelected.
And the trillionaire families ruling the “elected” are unelected. Their other minions are unelected, too.Rule of law, my ass.
Democracy, my ass.But I guess when you remove fathers from households, the kids will learn in government schools who their proper daddy is. Daddy is a brutal thief in SWAT gear breaking down your door and shooting your dog. Daddy feels you up in airports. Daddy is the media reporting that you probably had it coming. Daddy is a court system in which daddy never loses. In spite of taking half of what you earn, daddy inspects your seat cushions for spare change anyway.
But golly-gee-willakers, you still love daddy. Hell, let’s fight a civil war over daddy!
They’re bent on beating your sons to death after raping your daughters, and you stand there pathetically virtue-signaling that you’d never own a gun? In a world of males that are no longer men, death becomes you. Really. Good riddance. Here’s your Darwin Award, chump.
Too bad enlightenment can’t be administered with a pharmaceutical (e.g. red pill).
In order for the world to make sense, I have to keep reminding myself that the average I.Q. is only 100. Such a smart species. Compared with elephants or orcas or chimps or lab rats, that is.
Oh, and before I go, the obligatory:
“We’ve got to wake up and do something!”Because that sure fucking helps.
I’ve considered many times doing the same, Nassim. Your exit could tip the balance. I would very much like to hear what you meant by “trashed” comments. I saw no comments from you yesterday. Were you censored? Your contributions here were important to me, Nassim. I rarely read these comments any more, but yours were always worthwhile.
Stoneleigh is why I’m here. My daily return is mostly habit, not wanting to miss Stoneleigh if she should happen to toss us a bone. Nonetheless, Ilargi’s Debt Rattles serve to aggregate articles I’d not otherwise have seen, and that at least assuages my FOMO.
V. Arnold: “Nassim is a false flag guy re: 9/11 and, I for one, refuse to engage in that conversation.” A singularly stupid admission if I ever heard one. Did you willfully pickle your brain before or after that day? Here’s an eleven minute video. It repeatedly asks a question. Enlighten us with the correct answer, V.A., and then explain to us how that could have happened without any form of conspiracy.
Lucille?
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As in Lucille Elk Tooth or Lucy Jones? Sioux or Kickapoo? That’s history for ya.
Yikes!
Chinese Imperialism Threatens to Pull the World Into World War III
Double yikes!
https://www.real.video/5830372373001Triple yikes!
http://www.deagel.com/country/forecast.aspx
(U.S. population forecasted to be under 100 million by year 2025 – see the purple footnotes)One thing is certain. In a hundred years, the history taught to school children will be utterly, totally fucked up. A total fabrication. Even exceeding the myths taught to us.
“Winter’s coming.” -Ned Stark
Independent from what? Independent from the truth. We’re FREE to adhere to the official misconceptions, though. The term for that is “patriotism.”
Just look at who writes the history books, who teaches the official history, and whose power is preserved through a history of censorship and lies. A population that thinks itself free by definition is a population deceived.
If you have the time, only the first 12 minutes:
Again, if you have the time, just the first 17:
“Power never leaves the posterity.”
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Tabarnick, terrific posts. I took screenshots.
The U.S. isn’t against immigration per se:
Nonetheless:
It’s a fundamental human right to harbor any misconceptions you wish.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=233657It’s also a basic human right to spread misconceptions country-wide in order to further a corrupt agenda.
Wolfgang Halbig has stunning evidence that Sandy Hook Elementary School was closed months before ‘massacre’But it doesn’t matter in the long run because they’ve been shaping the minds of your children and grandchildren all their lives. And you’ll be dead … and your own smidgen of truth forgotten … soon enough.
By the way, if any of those Kuwaiti infants tossed from their incubators (by Saddam) survived, they’d be young adults now. Stephanopoulos, Couric and Anderson Cooper really ought to set up some “convincing” interviews so that we can celebrate as a nation the subsequent carnage.
Despite their colossal brains, the human race suffers from crippling memory problems.
Zerosum: good comments. I’ve been similarly impressed with all the expository lip service and impotent ‘calls to action’ everywhere. The last guy I remember actually ‘doing something’ was Joe Stack.
Ilargi: I’m in dire need of a Stoneleigh fix.
Is timing any more predictable now than in 2008? After all, ‘the future’ is a decade closer now.
Syria is just part of a deal Trump couldn’t refuse.
To his credit, Assad recognizes that Trump’s just a middle man:
https://www.rt.com/news/426342-trump-assad-deep-state-syria/
Speaking of endangered (21 minutes):
Now, that’s what I’d call a conspiracy.
I’d love to hear any comments here.
Hear, hear. Nailed it, Ilargi, as only you seem to be able to do.
I sometimes wonder if Ilargi might have finally run out of good things to say, and then he once again comes up with something like this. AE is unique, providing front row seats to viewing the grail. I’m surprised more people don’t come here. I’m surprised a ZeroHedge article gets several pages of comments while we enjoy a sense of small community here. Pinch me.
Anyway, right or wrong, just know that what I’ve written below was written in earnest.
Central banks are the world’s governments by default simply because they impose and enforce their debt-based money systems on nearly everybody. What we’re otherwise accustomed to calling “governments” are really just the muscle protecting central bankers from ropes on lamp posts. All else is theater.
Why do our political “governments” endorse and protect the central banking debt-based money scam? Because they can spend so much money they they don’t actually have. It enables them to cut taxes and increase spending even when they’re in hock up to the tops of their ears. Consumers are content to remain oblivious to central bank dangers for similar reasons.
In my flights of fancy, I envision a world where only one money supply exists, a worldwide money supply entirely beyond the reach of bankers and anybody else wanting to tamper with it. A money supply that derives its utility by serving as an instrument of freely-determined bid & ask, and that derives its value by serving as a perfectly predictable store of value. Remarkably, it just so happens that this turns out to be the promise of Bitcoin, possibly as soon as a half-decade from now. Fact is, if Bitcoin doesn’t fulfill that promise, nothing else ever will. If Bitcoin fails, Orwell’s vision of boots stamping on faces will almost certainly serve as the financial model for mankind “forever.”
Bitcoin utilizes blockchain technology alike all cryptos, but differs from all but a tiny few by being decentralized — that is, permanently and securely out of anybody’s unilateral control. Transaction middle men are eliminated, as well. It facilitates peer-to-peer transactions, and in the post-central-banking world will serve as a stable store of savings. Centralized cryptocurrencies are all just as manipulable as central bank fiats. Speculate with them if you like, but the word “blockchain” does NOT in any way imply decentralization.
Grains serve as stores of savings, too. A food merchant stockpiles wheat to last through the parts of the year it isn’t being harvested. But nobody expects a ton of stored wheat to slowly grow to a ton-and-a-half over time. The same is true for gold, as there is no “return” on physical “shiny” stored in your safe. The same is true for Bitcoin. You can’t put bitcoin in a cold wallet and expect it to accumulate interest somehow. So the expectation that dollars will grow over time in a bank savings account — that expectation indeed stems directly from a flaw in all debt-based money systems.
And a massive flaw it is. I remember many decades ago reading articles extolling the virtues of a free market economy. In a free market economy, they said, rich families often become poor families over the generations, and poor families often become rich. And although that used to be true, it is much less true today, as the manipulation, rigging and theft in “the markets” preserves the positions of the super-rich. This deeply flawed money system is why 2% of the population is projected to soon own two-thirds of the world’s wealth. Permanently.
Banks and their muscle men need perpetual economic growth to keep the flawed debt-money system operational. Bitcoin, however, does not need economic growth to function. Bitcoin will enable the scaling-down we Automatic-Earthers yearn for, stimulate popular rejection of leviathan governments (i.e. central banks) and their captive muscle, and enable bona fide price discovery in efficient, local economies. Local economies with full access to the entire world.
I don’t buy Bitcoin because its dollar-price movements, properly timed, will make me richer (though admittedly, it certainly helps that it’s currently on sale). I buy Bitcoin because it represents the only hope for the future of all mankind, not just the 2%. If you think I’m “talking my book,” you don’t understand Bitcoin.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-09/6-myths-about-bitcoin-and-how-bust-them
Mention was made in the Rense interview of a movement to get South African whites to migrate and congregate in a particular place, I believe in the western margins somewhere. To do this, nearly all will have to leave farms and some possessions behind. Cries of “something needs to be done to save these people” appear to be aimed at governments, but by all appearances governments are deaf to the pleas.
There is a way to make things right in South Africa, but that way stands zero chance of ever Hogging the media spotlight, so the white slaughter will continue apace to completion. What would have been the solution? One ship loaded with AR’s or AK’s and a boatload of ammunition. The whites could have returned to their farms and lived in peace. Yes, a few machete-wielding folks might have been shot in the process. Oh, the humanity.
But even racial genocide is preferable to legitimate gun ownership. Even genocide is preferable to a successful struggle for cultural survival. Take away their spears, their bows and arrows, their table knives … oh, hell … cut off their nuts, too. Then kill ’em. History will quickly forget what it barely knew in the first place.
anagnorisis
n. The moment in the plot of a drama in which the hero makes a discovery that explains previously unexplained events or situations.I’ll see your anagnorisis and raise you a flaneur.
The South African black leadership is intent on ridding that country of whites. Whites who’ve been working their farms there for generations. Perhaps it could be thought of as South Africa’s version of Windrush? Wasn’t South Africa a British crown colony once upon a time? It’s tempting to chalk it all up to cosmic karma, but maybe there’s a better explanation.
Racism goes both ways, and societies habituated to collectivist thinking will forever be damaged by it.
“• Scientists Accidentally Create Mutant Enzyme That Eats Plastic Bottles”
The unsung heroes of living systems …
bacteria.Clarification: In absolute numbers, BTC might well be cheaper later on, but after factoring in the coming escalation in dollar purchasing power, I’m sticking to my prediction.
The problem will be lack of money, even total absence of money in many households. If a deflationary period is severe enough, those without money will find a substitute. Barter presents obvious difficulties as goods’ worths are mismatched, so local, temporary forms of currency will be invented. Unless, of course, a better alternative to the dwindling supply of fiat already exists. Like, for instance, Bitcoin.
Which causes me to question whether a deflation can simultaneously be a hyperinflation, as one event, not two separate events. An increasing loss of confidence in the national currency because of its sheer unobtain-ablity.
Apologies if all of this has already been written about and discussed; if so, I’ve somehow managed to miss it.
Not bothering to cite sources here, but I’ve gotten the impression that the initial replacement currency governments (i.e. banks) come up with often turns out to be a dud. That first attempt at a new currency ends up ruining everybody who accepts it. Currently in vogue with governments (i.e. banks) are the planned blockchain-based replacement currencies, all centralized so as to provide a smooth transition for the currency controllers. New digital currency, same as the old digital currency, but winning acceptance from the ignorant and gullible public by using the magic word “blockchain.” Oh, they’ll work for a while, but all will fail, probably within a few years.
In 2003, I told a colleague we’d never in our lives ever see gold that cheap again. I’ve been right so far in that prediction. Well, it’s 2018 now, and FWIW I’m telling my colleagues we’ll never in our lives see Bitcoin this cheap again. If this blog is still up in fifteen years, consider this a warning. I plan to gloat.
Not to worry. They’re making tiny robot insects now to fill in for the missing pollinators. So don’t tell me birds won’t get enough to eat.
Many insect larvae start their lives in aqueous environments, so fish populations are no doubt suffering the same fate as birds. But hey, at least fish get their fill of plastic, so who’s complaining?
Rachel Carson, if you’re old enough to remember that name, did warn us.
I’m probably not the only one who’s noticed that comments sections have become increasingly negative over the years. Everybody lamenting the rampant criminality, incompetence, immorality, depravity, madness, injustice. If expressions of anger and sarcasm ever become a contest, I think I have a pretty good chance of winning.
“Tell him what he’s won, Dom Pardo.” -Alex Trebek on Jeopardy
Every so often, both to remain cheerful (!) and just to do my civic part here in the U.S., I stop and say the Pledge of Allegiance aloud, hand over heart. Four or five times a day, and always facing east toward D.C., and though I get weird looks in shops and other public places, I’m sure our rulers would enjoy seeing the same behavior from everyone. Overt patriotism and love of being governed — those are the tickets to success and happiness. To beat North Korea, comrades, we must first become North Korea. Homeland! Censorship! War! Financial ruin! Progressiveness! MAGA!
Okay, I feel much better now. Like heartburn, the angst comes and goes.
“One-hundred-fifty-thousand Yemenis starved to death is, of course, wonderful. But it’s a mere drop in the bucket compared with the larger objectives of our ongoing pogrom against mankind. Nevertheless, Americans and Saudis should feel proud. One-hundred-fifty-thousand is a small number, but a still significant contribution.
“And though famine and war are effective tools, we must redouble our efforts with pesticides, electromagnetic radiation, gene tampering, involuntary sterilization, toxic vaccines, directed energy weapons, toxic pharmaceuticals, property confiscation, onerous fees and fines, incarceration, human experimentation, SWAT raids, fluoride, chemtrails, market rigging, blackmail, extortion, human trafficking, organ harvesting, pedophilia, rewriting of history, media capture, propaganda, social and cultural destruction, addiction, undermining of the family, race wars, gender wars, indefinite detentions, body cavity searches, escaped radionuclides, torture, taxes, police brutality, weather war technologies, refugee creation, border violations, production of genetically modified disease organisms, and aggressive destruction of the biosphere.
“But it will become much easier for us, comrades, and our plans will proceed just that much faster, if we can just find a way to confiscate their frightening little guns.”
– Not a direct quote, of course, but still my best guess at what constitutes conversation at gatherings of elite politicians and financial fraudsters.
I’m so glad I was born in modern times. A time when we can all feel smugly superior to past hunter-gatherer types who never enjoyed such miracles.
“The single biggest problem is economic ignorance on the part of the populace in general.”
And who took charge — ages ago — of educating America’s children?
The ignorance doesn’t end with economics and finance, either. Americans also fail to realize that contract law pretty much supersedes all other law, and bank loans are contracts. But ignorance of the law is no excuse — despite law not being taught in government high schools.
One could be forgiven for suspecting that the institution of government per se is everywhere and always nothing but a set-up for various scams. For instance, we pay cops to catch robbers, but the cops rob us with civil asset forfeiture instead. We pay for a *delinquent* investigation to determine who pulled off 9/11 and end-up paying $trillions to murder countless innocents who had nothing at all to do with 9/11. Seventeen years later, the 9/11 perpetrators still run free and unscathed. We pay for regulated borders (ha!), Obamacare (ha!), and a space agency that lies to the world about going to the moon (ha ha!). We pay into a trust fund (Soc. Sec.) that is predicted to run out of money! We pay for bread and circuses and all we get is diabetes, fake school shootings and ceaseless, absurd hostilities toward Eastasia. Oops, Russia.
Your almost daily invective against stupid Americans does not go unapproved, V.A.
• More Than 80% Of American Adults Owe Somebody Else Money (Snyder)
I’m not exactly sure why, but I never see it written about, nor commented on — how consumer loans become a form of theft when they can’t be serviced and repaid. All those people driving around in cars they haven’t paid for, students acquiring worthless educations they haven’t paid for, and the teeming masses with credit card debt for hot tubs, vacations, lavish lifestyles and even groceries they haven’t paid for. Debtors’ prisons might seem excessively punitive, but how else to deter this particular form of theft?
It might not be deliberate, of course. People lose their jobs and suffer other hardships that prevent loan repayment. That hardly sounds criminal. People with third-grade math skills are provided with amortization schedules they can’t possibly comply with. Even that hardly sounds criminal. But living high on the hog appears to have become a human right in a lot of people’s minds, and when the economy crashes, I’m betting most of those people won’t hesitate for one minute to screw their lenders.
Sometime shortly after the 2008 crash, I remember Gonzalo Lira suggesting that the best strategy would be to take out the biggest loans possible. Then, when the whole economic system crashed to the ground, you’d be holding all that free money with nobody to repay. I hope nobody took his advice, because for one thing he jumped the “crash” gun by at least a decade. But more importantly, what he advocated was criminal theft. Which probably doesn’t bother most people, but it should.
I see so many new luxury cars wherever I drive. Sure, they might be repossessed, but everybody’s standard of living suffers when 80% of the general population is “on the take.” There is reason-a-plenty to condemn the elites that run the world, their banks and their captive governments. But let’s be fair — and inclusive — because it’s becoming increasingly clear that the majority of self-serving human beings in all walks of life have moral codes that are far too flexible.
Something-for-nothing populism will make post-crash reconstruction nearly impossible.
Finally, here is the first stem cell episode. It represents a “loss leader item,” as the subsequent episodes required an earlier sign-up.
If I understand correctly, embryonic stem cells cause cancer, but amniotic stem cells and umbilical stem cells do not. Most patients use autologous stem cells derived from their own adipose (fat) or bone marrow, without an intermediate step involving preservation (freezing).
I just have to say, the search engines at YouTube and Amazon are feeble at best, and possibly nefarious. Either way, both are frustrating.
Well, I’ve cluttered up this comment section already, so why not a little more. The manifold testimonials in the first six video segments are astounding, but that link casts doubt on the whole shebang. Didn’t mean to shoot my credibility in the foot. I’m learning — slowly — maybe.
The best I can do for now:
Jeff Hayes and “The Healing Miracle: The Truth About Stem Cells”
Sorry, that link went nowhere. They required sign-up before 24-hour, restricted viewing of each of their videos, and I’ve lost track of the sign-up link. Here is where they sell the entire set:
The tone throughout is a bit apprehensive, but stem cell therapy stands to obviate $hundreds-of-billions in less effective medical and pharmaceutical treatments.
“,,, the first things a new tyrannical dictator does when coming into power is to control the communications …”
Indeed.
Separately, If any readers here suffer from chronic pain, stem cell therapy appears to produce nothing short of miracles for many people:
There are several more installments coming at the parent website in the next several days.
“Nomi Prins’ New Book: Central Banks Have Become the Markets (Martens)”
Chiming in with Dr. D here.
That headline literally means that there is more than one person named Nomi Prin. More than one Nomi Prin, and you have multiple Nomi Prins. The apostrophe indicates that these women possess something.
So few people punctuate properly around the letter ‘s’ that proper punctuation looks wrong. But that headline should have read, “Nomi Prins’s New Book: Central Banks Have Become the Markets (Martens).”
Should we chalk up all the grammatical and spelling mistakes to a living language that’s evolving? No, chalk it up to a dying language devolving. Don’t even get me started on the increasing misuse of ‘is’ and ‘are.’
Peak American English — a milestone passed years ago. Hopefully it won’t be long now before we communicate all our vaunted “thoughts” with hand signals and grunts.
But who knows, maybe that’s just part of the plan.
Speaking of utter ignorance and naivety, I asserted here recently that all forms of money, including Bitcoin, are forms of barter. I see now where I was mistaken.
YouTube still has videos of the Liverpool car park fire, but the video they took down (above) was unique, blaming it on directed energy weapons.
Here is what a car park fire would look like without directed energy weapon help:
“In fact I walk barefoot 90% of my day … I’ll leave it at that …”
That got my curiosity up, V.
Please drop the other shoe (-:“It’s criminal we’re not far past that picture today; 53 years later; shame; shame on us all…”
Sorry, count me out. I’ll accept not a speck of that mantle of shame. The vast majority of Earth’s 7.6 billion people get along with each other as well as could ever be expected under all the myriad circumstances. It’s actually only a relative few who rabble rouse, led by the likes of Soros, McCain, Netanyahu, Obama, Rosie O’Donnell, etc. Show me an ethnic group anywhere in the world that doesn’t have its share of racists.
If you want to lay a racial guilt trip, lay it on South African blacks. Or Jewish Israelis. American whites have already been taken behind the woodshed for decades of beatings. Mark my words: the next Selma to Montgomery march will be composed of white people.
Our common enemy is the heads of mega-banks and other corporate interests that call the tune for our corrupt governments to dance to. It’s important we not lose sight of that. Note that the U.S. government’s latest dance doesn’t discriminate at all according to race or nationality:
That’s the most terrifying terrorism I’ve ever seen. Martin Luther King never dreamed of such threats.
Threats to Bitcoin — governments, banks, hackers — have increasingly appeared to be paper tigers, but a better mousetrap than Satoshi Nakamoto invented could surprisingly be the undoing of the entire crypto market.
Without fail, something or another completely blows my mind every week it seems.
Long video, but eminently worth every minute. Wonderfully done. Learning about Hashgraph for the first time, I find myself alternating between alarm and elation. There’s a new horse in the race, and I wonder if John McAfee placed his bet too soon.
Oxymoron,
Do the forest fires in Australia burn homes completely to white ash but spare the trees?
This isn’t about me. I get my information from the Internet. There is no shortage of video on YouTube showing the evidence for directed energy weapons being used to incinerate CA subdivisions.
V. Arnold,
Hopefully this will not offend you. It reflects an important part of my belief system well:
I would value hearing your thoughts.
Nassim has often commented on climate and history. Both are germane to the themes of this website. I’m the one who’s deviated, and I will take your criticism under advisement. Many thanks.
Long ago when I was quite young, I asked my dad why comedians tell so many jokes about Jews. He informed me that most of the comedians were Jewish, and Jewish people had a wonderful ability to laugh at themselves. Nowadays in parts of Europe, Goyim go to jail for laughing at Jews.
Were you able to detect what changed in the interim? No?
Let me guess. You haven’t noticed the chemtrails striping the skies, either, have you? Nor have you noticed the cause of the California fires unmistakably being directed energy weapons. You think WTC-1 and WTC-2 collapsed due to hijacked commercial jet impacts, and never heard of WTC-7. You think lots of little kids died at Sandy Hook elementary, that runners lost limbs in the Boston marathon years ago, that a lone shooter in the Mandalay Bay hotel sniped over 550 in Las Vegas, and that Oswald shot Kennedy. You think Adolph Hitler murdered six million European Jews. You think he cremated them, used their skin for lamp shades, and used their adipose to make soap.
Well, I don’t know how to help you. You’re at least sixteen years behind, and I can’t catch you up with reality in a paragraph or two. You have sixteen years to unlearn first, and only then will I waste my time on you, showing you what you’ve missed.
Nassim, I love you, man. You’re a big reason I keep coming here. But please stop perpetuating the fucking concentration camp oven myth.
ALERT: Readers in Germany should avoid watching that video. Israel was the victor after WWII, and if you want to know who rules over you, just observe who you’re not allowed to criticize.
Boogaloo,
Answer: the price rises more quickly. If you wish, sell enough at some point to recover your initial investment. And concede that nothing will ever eliminate risk from your investments.V.A.,
“Crypto currency is in its infancy; it needs to mature to realize its full potential.”
Well said!
“I don’t see the criminal enterprise, otherwise known as the U.S., allowing that to happen.”
I’m betting quite heavily that even if they appear to win battles, given time, they’ll lose that war.
