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Definition:The Onion
“Occasionally, the straight-faced manner in which The Onion reports non-existent events, happenings and ideas has resulted in third parties mistakenly citing The Onion stories as real news”.
Definition: Propaganda
Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.[1] Propaganda is often associated with material prepared by governments, but activist groups, companies and the media can also produce propaganda.
Definition: Fake news
Fake news is a type of yellow journalism or propaganda that consists of deliberate misinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional print and broadcast news media or online social media.[1] Fake news is written and published with the intent to mislead in order to damage an agency, entity, or person, and/or gain financially or politically,[2][3][4] often using sensationalist, dishonest, or outright fabricated headlines to increase readership, online sharing, and Internet click revenue.
I have looked at many sites to find out if fentanyl is addictive or could be a substitute for opioids pain killers.
Here is one.
https://www.drugs.com/sfx/fentanyl-side-….
At my age, I still don’t want to get addicted.WOW!
Russiagate!They are the most powerful, organized, knowledgeable, and financed organization in the world.
They were in Germany and the latest place was in Italy.@ D. S.
“… conversation at gatherings of elite politicians and financial fraudsters. …”So far … I’ve been invisible and irrelevant
I’m still here.
However, I will not make a good toilet cleaner for them.-
“… In the U.S., $65,000 was found to be the optimal income for “feeling” happy….”
So, now I know why I don’t know anyone that is happy. (ignorants, idiots, children, drunks and addicts are exempted)
Here is something interesting
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html
COUNTRY COMPARISON :: GDP – PER CAPITA (PPP)
Example:
USA $59,500
Canada $48,100This has to be adjusted by cost of living.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/comparison.jspexample:
You would need around 4,502.82$ (5,802.08C$) in Toronto to maintain the same standard of life that you can have with 7,400.00$ in New York, NY (assuming you rent in both cities). This calculation uses our Cost of Living Plus Rent Index to compare cost of living. This assumes net earnings (after income tax). You can change the amount in this calculation.Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax)
New York 4,168.93 $
(5,371.86 C$)
Toronto 2,535.56 $
(3,267.18 C$)If your take home pay is less than what is shown, then you are in trouble if you live in those two cities.
If your income is less than the GDP (USA $59,500 Canada $48,100) then you are in trouble.
Geeee!
The majority of people are in trouble.
It’s zerosum.
It’s not news for the readers that are here.
Some people are getting a lot more than most people.“… currency manipulation and tariffs alone won’t bring about economic prosperity and stability….”
The pie is only so big. The pie does not grow.
Your piece of pie can only get bigger if someone else gets a smaller piece of pie.Austerity will happen at the same rate of 3-4% rise in population.
That is called zerosum.
The reverse of austerity can result if population is reduced by 3-4%.
@ aximoron
“Permaculture is a dirty word to me right now and I’m thinking poison and guns and dogs and fences and netting and ground water pumping and all that stuff that kills wildlife so that I can eat”.A pack of wolf need to kill a deer per week to survive. That requires a herd of +52 deer.
If they don’t get deer then they’ll get your domesticated animals and you will do without.
There is not enough for both.“… it’s us or them…”
https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/25/europe/russia-sanctions-explainer/index.html
Measuring the impact of sanctions on Russia’s economy is not an exact science, and different experts have different opinions.
I need a Buyback clarification.
“… households and institutions (insurers and pension funds) have sold a net US$672 billion and US$1.2 trillion respectively over the same period, …”
Does this mean that they sold/liquidated some of the stocks/investments that they had so that they have cash to meet their outflow obligations/requirements.
If so, then I would think that this would be a good thing because their remaining stock/investments is going up and the future dividends would be going up.
Are you good at analysing data?
https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/f064a144-b4e0-4e9b-9970-e0fc2f84d1a8
Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Old Age Security (OAS) Annual Statistics Tables
CPP and OAS Annual Statistics Tables contain historical data on CPP and OAS, average monthly benefits and net payments in fiscal years.The number of old people are increasing.
The pension fund shortfalls problem will disappear If there is an increase in the number old people that are starving to death, freezing to death, dying from opioids overdose, and just dying of old age.
hummm!
Just wondering how to save the system.
The big lie … A person cannot be happy, in our society, without borrowing
The quoted number is 60% who are living pay-check to pay-check.
A sub category of that 60% are those that have no debt and are not homeless.Consumers have become accustomed using easy credit to maintain a lifestyle unaffordable for them otherwise. If this trend continues, and facts indicate that it will, we will be facing a monumental credit crisis in the near future. A huge portion of credit card debt is the interest. Credit cards are a convenience and consumers readily pay for the privilege.
The wealthy can absorb the losses but the poor and middle class will face financial ruin.
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 victimsYesterday is gone!
In the future, Bullies will still be victimizing 90% of the population.olo530
“If those 50,000 didn’t develop a circle of friends to support them it’s on them, not on the system.”
WHAT!
You are advocating a support system that is run by War lords …. tribal chiefs …. survival of the fittestYour proposal should be effective in reducing the human population to less than a billion.
Maybe, just maybe there are multiple paths to achieve your objective.
There is an expression, that is used in a different context
“Read them and weep”
Soon. Sooner than you think, news articles like the following will be banned from being printed.
The news media has stopped talking about a lot of bad things that are happening around the med.• 50,000 Die In UK ‘Cold Homes Public Health Crisis’ (Ind.)
The number dying each year is similar to the amount who die from prostate cancer or breast cancer. A total of 168,000 excess winter deaths from all causes have been recorded in the UK over the latest five-year period. Of 30 countries studied, only Ireland has a higher proportion of people dying due to cold weather.
There is an other expression about “a frog and boiling water”
If the bad stories are too much and too fast, then the stories of the casulties will be divided into sub-parts. ie. deaths by opiods. Death by multiple causes.
Did you ever read about, “death by poverty caused by a failing capitalist social/economic system”
Is the following real news!!!
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/thirteen-russians-ands-ham-sandwich/
https://kunstler.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Yeltz.jpg
Remember that one from 1996? Funny, that was the American mainstream media bragging, after the fact, about our own meddling in another nation’s election.WASHINGTON — A team of American political strategists who helped [California] Gov. Pete Wilson with his abortive presidential bid earlier this year said this week that they served as Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin’s secret campaign weapon in his comeback win over a Communist challenge.
—The Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1996Buybacks and dividends payments are good for those wanting cash.
Since it is a zerosum transaction, then it must be bad for someone else.
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At last, some people are brave enough to speakout
• Ex-CIA Director Thinks US Hypocrisy About Election Meddling Is Hilarious (CJ)https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-19/russian-meddling-gagging-irony
The foul stench of hypocrisy arises from the long and sordid history of America’s meddling in the internal politics of virtually every nation on the planet-– a deeply entrenched policy of meddling on such a vast scale that the Deep State minions tasked with projecting a wounded astonishment that some foreign power has the unmitigated gall to attempt to influence our domestic politics must have difficulty restraining their amusement.
A buyback is great.
It gets you out of the ponzi market.
Its rigged. Its the only way to get out at the top and to get out early.
Get your money out early and stay rich.
Put your Buyback money into a real cash flow asset.
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• Should We Give Up Half Of The Earth To Wildlife? (O.)Change the headline to
• Will We Give Up Half Of The Earth To Wildlife? (O.)
If you cannot put gas into your gas tank then even the cows will go wild and learn how to survive the 4 legged predators.
Dr. D
You beat me to it!
Here is my longer explanationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah
The story of the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah is told in Genesis 18–19also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot%27s_wifeAnother view in the Jewish exegesis of Genesis 19:26, is that when Lot’s wife looked back, she turned to a pillar of salt upon the sight of God who was descending down to rain destruction upon Sodom and Gomorrah.
There are other stories that are told.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleansing_of_the_TempleThe narrative occurs near the end of the Synoptic Gospels (at Matthew 21:12–17, Mark 11:15–19, and Luke 19:45–48) and near the start in the Gospel of John (at John 2:13–16). Some scholars believe that these refer to two separate incidents, given that the Gospel of John also includes more than one Passover.[4]
No matter how many societies have benn recorded as being destroyed, we do not listen and keep repeating the same mistakes.
Will future generations change their way when they hear the stories of the destructions of our existing social/economic systems?
Naw!
We are slow learners.Bullies and victimes cannot change.
or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung, but the scorpion argues that if it did so, they would both drown. Considering this, the frog agrees, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both. When the frog asks the scorpion why, the scorpion replies that it was in its nature to do so.
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%)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 victimsYesterday is gone!
In the future, Bullies will still be victimizing 90% of the population.When I was young, I experienced a simpler world.
When I was young, a person lied.
When I was young, Gov. used propaganda.
When I was young,, “Fake news” did not existhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.[1] Propaganda is often associated with material prepared by governments, but activist groups, companies and the media can also produce propaganda.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news
Fake news is a type of yellow journalism or propaganda that consists of deliberate misinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional print and broadcast news media or online social media.[1] Fake news is written and published with the intent to mislead in order to damage an agency, entity, or person, and/or gain financially or politically,[2][3][4] often using sensationalist, dishonest, or outright fabricated headlines to increase readership, online sharing, and Internet click revenue.Its all about:
1. sex
2. power
3. money
4. fear (Victims fear the bullies.)Its a good thing that there exist “religion/morals” to moderate the actions of the “bad” people
What is the crime of Julian Assange
What is the crime of all the men that never learned the appropriate way of expressing their sexual interest and are initiating unwanted and inappropriate sexual advances
There will never be enough jail space for all the men initiating sexual approaches
There are many different societies with different acceptable conducts for expressing sexual interest.
Sexy dancing!!!
Burkas!!!
Arranged marriages“The problem here is that the defending missile costs 10-100 times more than the attacking missile.”
Historically, if you ran out of money you lost the war.
Can the Israelis run out of money or benefactor?heheheh
“… must be shitting bricks at this very moment.”https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2018/02/10/budget-likes-which-pentagon-has-never-seen.html
WASHINGTON – It’s the biggest budget the Pentagon has ever seen: $700 billion. That’s far more in defense spending than America’s two nearest competitors, China and Russia, and will mean the military can foot the bill for thousands more troops, more training, more ships and a lot else.
And next year it would rise to $716 billion. Together, the two-year deal provides what Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says is needed to pull the military out of a slump in combat readiness at a time of renewed focus on the stalemated conflict in Afghanistan and the threat of war on the Korean peninsula.
The budget bill that President Donald Trump signed Friday includes huge spending increases for the military: The Pentagon will get $94 billion more this budget year than last — a 15.5 percent jump. It’s the biggest year-over-year windfall since the budget soared by 26.6 percent, from $345 billion in 2002 to $437 billion the year after, when the nation was fighting in Afghanistan, invading Iraq and expanding national defense after the 9/11 attacks.
The extra money is not targeted at countering a new enemy or a singular threat like al-Qaida extremists or the former Soviet Union. Instead the infusion is being sold as a fix for a broader set of problems, including a deficit of training, a need for more hi-tech missile defenses, and the start of a complete recapitalization of the nuclear weapons arsenal.hehehehehe
Are the Russian worried about N. Korean’s missiles?“The S-400 is not an offensive system; it is a defensive system. We can sell it to Americans if they want to,” Chemizov told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) when asked about the strategic reasoning behind the S-400 sale to Turkey.
The growing demand can be attributed to the high reliability and long history of the S missile defense system family. The S-200, designed by Almaz in the 1960s, still serves many nations today. On Saturday, a Syrian S-200 Vega medium-to-high altitude surface-to-air missile was allegedly used to intercept an Israeli F-16.
Two weeks ago I sold you my thingamagig for 100 units.
Yesterday my brother bought the tingamagig from you for a 4% less.
You lost and I gained.
This kind of transactions resulted in (at 4%) 2.5 trillion dollars loss for the new sellers and a 2.5 trillion dollar gain for the old seller.The gains have gone to smart money and the losses have been taken by the dumb money.
Yesterday, I said, what I thought was going to happen today.
“Watch for the printing press to spew out dollars to bring thing back up to normal”http://www.businessinsider.com/congress-passes-massive-budget-deal-end-government-shutdown-2018-2
Congress passes massive budget deal before sunrise to end government shutdown
Yesterday, I said, what I thought was going to happen today.
“Watch for the printing press to spew out dollars to bring thing back up to normal
Here is what I read
China’s central bank said on Friday that it has released temporary liquidity worth almost 2 trillion yuan ($316.28 billion) to satisfy cash demand before the long Lunar New Year holidays.
Of course, I don’t know anything. Of course, all those people who do know everything, never advised you to sell.
How do you explain to an ordinary person,
where did all the money that was lost, go?If there is a seller there must be a buyer.
Stock market value wiped out equals $2.5 trillion and counting…
John MelloyNot everyone can fly high
SpaceX launches new megarocket with Tesla car on board
So in a bit of cross-marketing, he put his own cherry-red Tesla Roadster on the Heavy’s inaugural flight with a space-suited dummy at the wheel. No car has ever rocketed …
It’s starting to look like the trampoline is still working.
Are the highs going to get higher.?
I read that some pretty big players have had their socks knocked off?
if Donald John Trump cannot do anything for the victims (the majority) then I’ll wait for the next savior.
WOW!
Good presentation“So how do you fix it when even fair market value would destroy an economy built on lies?”
The solution depends on the meaning of “fix” and on who is “you”.
I’m not part of the wealthy and powerful bully of our existing social/economic structures.
I’m part of the poor and powerless victimized majority being held down by those who will not accept any changes that would negatively impact their elite positions in our social/economic structures.
