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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle December 27 2017 #37938
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    Lying!!!
    How is the truth hidden.
    You cannot see the fulcrum.
    It will not take you long to figure out how its done.

    https://www.torontohomes-for-sale.com/4a_custpage_2578.html

    Using average house prices on record since 1953, corrected for inflation (for comparison purposes we brought the historical data up to today’s equivalent values), I produced the following graph. The average prices are courtesy of TREB.

    https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1953.html

    Cost of Living 1953
    How Much things cost in 1953 –
    Yearly Inflation Rate USA 0.82%
    Yearly Inflation Rate UK 2.2%
    Average Cost of new house $9.550.00
    Average wages per year $4,000.00
    – Cost of a gallon of Gas 20 cents –
    Average Cost of a new car $1,650.00 –
    Kodak Brownie Flash Six-20 Camera History $13.00 –
    Chain Saw $225.00 –
    Below are some Prices for UK guides in Pounds Sterling –
    Average House Price 2,006 –

    in reply to: Debt Rattle Boxing Day 2017 #37922
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    Don’t forget that the power that be move the fulcrum so that the bust part of the cycle will not as damaging.
    Obviously, by using the printing press and by “inflation”.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle Christmas Day 2017 #37910
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    Merry Xmas!

    Peace on earth.

    Huggs and kisses ( if its still allowed.)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle Christmas Eve 2017 #37898
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    Because I have been told that this is the season to be joyous, I’m trying to find something that is positive; something that is having or has the potential of having a positive impact on our many different societies.

    This means that I’m looking for the domino effect to get to the real lalaland.

    https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cycp-cpcj/bull-inti/index-eng.htm

    Bullying happens when there is an imbalance of power; where someone purposely and repeatedly says or does hurtful things to someone else. Bullying can occur one on one or in a group(s) of people. There are many different forms of bullying:
    Physical bullying (using your body or objects to cause harm): includes hitting, punching, kicking, spitting or breaking someone else’s belongings.
    Verbal bullying (using words to hurt someone): includes name calling, put-downs, threats and teasing.
    Social bullying (using your friends and relationships to hurt someone): includes spreading rumours, gossiping, excluding others from a group or making others look foolish or unintelligent. This form of bullying is most common among girls.

    Bullying and the Law
    Bullying can be a traumatic experience, and some forms of bullying can even be considered illegal. These include:
    Criminal Harassment
    Repeated tormenting online, with texts, phone calls, and/or emails causing the other person to fear for their safety
    Child pornography
    Sharing intimate photos and videos of minors (under the age of 18)
    Uttering Threats and Extortion
    Threatening to share someone’s personal information to others if they don’t do what you want them to do
    Assault
    Threats or acts of non-consensual force, violence, bodily harm, or destruction of personal property
    Identity Theft/Fraud
    Creating a fake online profile to ruin someone’s reputation
    Defamatory Libel
    Spreading rumors about someone
    For all of these criminal offences, it is important to notify your local police detachment or report it to CYBERTIP.CA. Based on the available information, police will decide if an investigation is warranted and whether charges may be laid.
    =======
    Merry Xmas
    (Huggs and Kisses are still allowed)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 23 2017 #37881
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    don’t forget part #2
    https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/113569/2017-year-review-part-2

    There is a lot more that illustrate the may lalalands

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 23 2017 #37880
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    “… any system displaced from equilibrium tends to return to equilibrium….”

    Question???
    Does the fulcrum move to keep the system in equilibrium?
    Does inflation move the fulcrum?

    ful·crum
    [ˈfo͝olkrəm, ˈfəlkrəm]

    NOUN
    the point on which a lever rests or is supported and on which it pivots.
    a thing that plays a central or essential role in an activity, event, or situation:

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 23 2017 #37878
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    I’m still reading.

    https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/113568/2017-year-review
    2017 Year In Review
    Markets fiddle while Rome burns
    by David Collum
    Friday, December 22, 2017, 3:15 PM

    I’m discovering that there are many lalalands

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 22 2017 #37868
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    There is no way out of lalaland.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle

    it is a one-sided surface which, if traveled upon, could be followed back to the point of origin while flipping the traveler upside down. Other related non-orientable objects include the Möbius strip and the real projective plane. Whereas a Möbius strip is a surface with boundary, a Klein bottle has no boundary (for comparison, a sphere is an orientable surface with no boundary).

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 19 2017 #37801
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    Definition of la-la land

    a euphoric dreamlike mental state detached from the harsher realities of life

    Definition of euphoric/euphoria

    Euphoria ( /juːˈfɔːriə/ ( listen)) is an affective state in which a person experiences pleasure or excitement and intense feelings of well-being and happiness.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep

    Sleep is a naturally recurring state of mind and body, characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles, and reduced interactions with surroundings.[1] It is distinguished from wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli, but is more easily reversed than the state of being comatose. Sleep occurs in repeating periods, in which the body alternates between two distinct modes known as non-REM and REM sleep. Although REM stands for “rapid eye movement”, this mode of sleep has many other aspects, including virtual paralysis of the body. A well-known feature of sleep is the dream, an experience typically recounted in narrative form, which resembles waking life while in progress, but which usually can later be distinguished as fantasy.

    My preferred state of sleep is to escape to spacetime.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 17 2017 #37755
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    War with NK is hot air.
    The USA military establishment does not need a war to get money from the printing press.
    We don’t need a nuclear winter.
    Regular winters are cold enough.
    We can do without the resulting radiation to warm our appendages.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 17 2017 #37752
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    I found this analysis interesting.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-16/debunking-myths-about-attack-north-korea
    I looked deeper

    Debunking the flagwaving myths about an attack on North Korea


    I looked even deeper
    https://www.unz.com/tsaker/debunking-the-flagwaving-myths-about-an-attack-on-north-korea/
    The Unz Review: An Alternative Media Selection

    A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media

    Well!!!, zero hedge, copied it.
    I suppose that this means that zero hedge is not mainstream media

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 14 2017 #37687
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    It’s difficult to find the truth when it comes to the military.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/russias-military-presence-syria-191522363.html
    AFP•November 24, 2017
    Russia’s military presence in Syria
    The Russian military says it has begun scaling back its deployment to Syria more than two years after Moscow’s intervention in the conflict on the side of the Damascus regime.
    Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia’s general staff, said there would be a “extensive” reduction of troops by the end of this year. He spoke after President Vladimir Putin said that a military campaign in Syria was coming to an end.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-military-syria-5th-anniversary-war-assad-putin-claim-success/
    CBS/AP March 15, 2016, 4:17 AM
    Tuesday’s statement came a day after President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military to withdraw most of its forces from Syria, timing his move to coincide with the resumption of the Syrian peace talks in Geneva.

    https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/us-military-bases-around-the-world-119321

    Where in the World Is the U.S. Military?

    By DAVID VINE July/August 2015

    Despite recently closing hundreds of bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States still maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad—from giant “Little Americas” to small radar facilities.

    Britain, France and Russia, by contrast, have about 30 foreign bases combined.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_overseas_military_bases

    List of countries with overseas military bases

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 14 2017 #37686
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    @ v Arnold

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/highlights-statistics-canada-s-final-release-of-2016-census-data-1.3699006

    OTTAWA — Statistics Canada issued its sixth and final batch of 2016 census numbers Wednesday, this one focused on education, labour, journey to work, language of work and mobility and migration. Some highlights:
    — Canada ranked first among OECD countries with 54 per cent of residents having college or university degrees in 2016, up from 48.3 per cent in 2006.
    — Of women aged 25 to 34, 40.7 per cent had a bachelor’s degree or higher, up from 32.8 per cent in 2006. Among men of the same age, 7.8 per cent held an apprenticeship certificate, up from 4.9 per cent 10 years earlier.

    My Question:
    “– Canada ranked first among OECD countries with 54 per cent of residents having college or university degrees in 2016, up from 48.3 per cent in 2006.”

    Canadians are the most in debt.
    What did they learn about being in debt that I did not?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 13 2017 #37676
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    There are some web pages where you cannot just “Click, copy, paste”
    Here is one of them for me.
    I found a way around..
    ps.
    I remember when the “experts” told us that the “one child policy” would result in a shortage of women and that it would destroy the Chinese social structure and its economy.
    The results shows that the “experts” were wrong.

    https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151113-datapoints-china-one-child-policy/

    In 1979, the government introduced the one-child policy, under which most couples are allowed to have only one child or else face the possibility of fines, sterilizations, and abortions. Looking at just a half century of data on China, we can see peaks and valleys in the birthrate reflecting pro-reproduction attitudes, famine, and the one-child policy.

    From 1959 to 1961, the Great Chinese Famine killed an estimated 15 to 30 million people.

    In 2013, a relaxation of policy allowed over 12 million couples to apply to have a second child.

    Only about 12 percent of eligible couples applied. When the one-child policy ends in 2016, most couples will be restricted to two children. But that may not address all of the issues. After decades of the one-child policy, coupled with new economic and social pressures to succeed, many couples have decided to stop with one child, or to not have any at all. So with a national birth rate well below replacement level of 2.1 and some urban birth rates under 1,

    China faces a new challenge. How do they provide for an older population while also encouraging younger residents to have more children?

    It’s Happening (Almost) Everywhere
    China is not alone in this dilemma. Low birth rates are also a product of personal choice, and the UN predicts we’ll see a considerably older world population by 2100. Countries including the U.S., Canada, Chile, Brazil, Russia, and Australia will likely reach a point where a quarter or more of their populations are above the age of 65, not working, and depending on a pension. On the other hand, most African countries, many former Soviet states, and large portions of Asia will remain young. But the younger populations of these countries won’t stop populous aging countries from reshaping the global population to the point that almost a fourth of all people on Earth will be over 65 by 2100.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 13 2017 #37675
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    “… Belt and Road projects “aren’t transparent or consensus driven,” …”

    Traditionally, the center builds roads etc. so that products can be delivered, (imports), to the center.
    I informed that there are consumers in China that need to eat.
    🙂
    I don’t buy the explanation that “the Belt and Road projects” are for making exports cheaper and easier for exporters.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 12 2017 #37661
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    The problems with using islands as prisons, is that they get overcrowded unless the inmates are released.

    ” The mayors of five Greek islands facing the coast of Turkey are demanding that the government and EU end a policy of containment for migrants – introduced last year as a deterrent against illegal migration – because living facilities are severely overcrowded.”

    in reply to: Bitcoin Doesn’t Exist – 3 #37556
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    Duhhh!

    bubble price nows!!!

    Duhhh!

    More bubble prices!

    in reply to: Bitcoin Doesn’t Exist – 3 #37554
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    Using a credit card cost money.
    Using a bitcoin cost money.
    Banks make money from you using credit cards.
    Exchanges make money from you using bitcoin.
    Printing press make the most money

    in reply to: Bitcoin Doesn’t Exist – 2 #37518
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    Printed money can buy bitcoins.
    Then, what is the result?

    in reply to: Brexit Is Pandora’s Gift To Britain #37466
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    The people will not pay the Brexit divorce bill. They got no money.
    The rich will not pay. (That’s why they are rich.)
    Therefore, one printing press will pay the other printing press and all will be forgiven.
    Anything else is extortion.

    in reply to: Brexit Is Pandora’s Gift To Britain #37457
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    ” …. the British public will be forced to pay to settle the Brexit “divorce bill”. MPs and peers, including former cabinet ministers, say that with the bill agreed this week and likely to be between £40bn and £50bn, …”

    With 1/5 of the people in poverty!!!!!

    I have stupid question???

    Why would anyone pay back any kind of loans that originated from the printing press?

    Borrowing from the printing press is done by central banks and gov.

    Defaulting/forgiving makes the loan disappear and there is no one injured.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 1 2017 #37408
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    If you, as a purchaser, are broke and cannot pay for any purchases, want/need something and you have only a credit card, then you, as the purchaser, can get what you need/want for as long as the seller keeps thinking/believing/expecting that the credit card company will refund the seller for the transaction.

    (The seller must, also, believe that he will be going to heaven.)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 30 2017 #37394
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    The U.S. is bankrupt; both financially and morally.

    There is no nobles oblige.

    There is no rule of law.

    There is no ethics.

    Therefore, the end of our social/economic system is near.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 29 2017 #37360
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    https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/highlights-statistics-canada-s-final-release-of-2016-census-data-1.3699006

    OTTAWA — Statistics Canada issued its sixth and final batch of 2016 census numbers Wednesday, this one focused on education, labour, journey to work, language of work and mobility and migration. Some highlights:
    — Canada ranked first among OECD countries with 54 per cent of residents having college or university degrees in 2016, up from 48.3 per cent in 2006.
    — Of women aged 25 to 34, 40.7 per cent had a bachelor’s degree or higher, up from 32.8 per cent in 2006. Among men of the same age, 7.8 per cent held an apprenticeship certificate, up from 4.9 per cent 10 years earlier.

    My Question:
    “– Canada ranked first among OECD countries with 54 per cent of residents having college or university degrees in 2016, up from 48.3 per cent in 2006.”

    Canadians are the most in debt.
    What did they learn about being in debt that I did not?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 28 2017 #37335
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    I don’t own bitcoin.
    The rich own bitcoin.
    When the bitcoin bubble breaks, how will that hurt me?

    Who got hurt when the tulip bubble broke?

    in reply to: The ‘End of Dreams’, and the Saving of Appearances #37266
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    “Of course there are alternatives.  But will they arrive in time?  Perhaps the existing paradigms are destined to endure a while yet …”

    There is no austerity for you if you benefit from QE or if your credit card still works.

    “Where do we go from here?  A continuation of the existing financial paradigm is what everyone believes; what everyone expects (wants) – and is what we likely will get.”

    “To put that in numbers, there’s a current shortfall of $18,176 between the standard of living and real disposable incomes. In other words, no matter how much people are borrowing, their standard of living is in decline.
     
    Your standard of living in not declining if your credit card still works.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 24 2017 #37252
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    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-24/us-saudi-starvation-blockade

    The US-Saudi Starvation Blockade

    Is this now the American way of war? Are we Americans, this Thanksgiving and Christmas, prepared to collude in a human rights catastrophe that will engender a hatred of us among generations of Yemeni and stain the name of our country?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 24 2017 #37249
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    Is that a picture of the future?
    The kids are not brown or black.
    The kids are not wearing shoes.
    Would brown or black kids be wearing clothes?

    in reply to: Austerity, Bloodletting and Incompetence #37220
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    Austerity has failed the British people and the British economy.
    Therefore, print and print some more,

    War production has saved many countries.
    Therefore, have more wars.

    Building ghost cities has worked.
    Therefore, dig more holes and build more piles of resources.

    Capitalism has worked.
    Therefore, arrest the rich and keep them in a luxury prison until they sign over their wealth to the gov.

    😉

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 22 2017 #37200
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    @ olo530
    merci
    That thought might help to take away mental pain

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 22 2017 #37193
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    Review

    Hoping to avoid another round of unpopular bailouts, financial watchdogs have forced too-big-to-fail banks to make themselves less dangerous by adding lots of capital that safeguards against losses.

    What is bank capital?

    Bank capital is the difference between a bank’s assets and liabilities, and it represents the net worth of the bank or its value to investors. The asset portion of a bank’s capital includes cash, government securities and interest-earning loans, such as mortgages, letters of credit and inter-bank loans, while the liabilities section of a bank’s capital includes loan-loss reserves and any debt it owes. A bank’s capital can be thought of as the margin to which creditors are covered if the bank liquidates its assets.

    What are bank assets?

    Bank assets are the physical and financial “property” of a bank, what a bank owns. While a bank commonly owns physical property (buildings, land, furniture, equipment),
    the bulk of a bank’s assets are financial–legal claims on the property or the wealth of others. The two most notable asset categories are loans (which generate interest revenue) This asset includes loans to consumers (home loans, personal loans, automobile loans, credit card loans) and businesses (real estate development loans, capital investment loans).
    and reserves (which keep deposits safe).Two varieties of reserves worth noting are vault cash (the actual paper currency and coins that is kept in the bank, that is, in the vault) and Federal Reserve deposits (deposits that banks keep with the Federal Reserve System to clear checks and assist in other banking activities).

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 22 2017 #37192
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    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-21/millions-of-patients-face-pain-and-withdrawal-as-opioid-prescriptions-plummet

    Go and read the rest of the article.
    Removing the causes of the emotional and physical pain would make the opioid crisis disappear.

    Easier said than done.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 20 2017 #37171
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    “Millennials are the worst culprits here: 24% still haven’t paid off credit card debt incurred during the 2016 shopping season, while 16% of Gen-Xers haven’t and only 8% of boomers haven’t.”

    I feel left out – no money – no debt.

    in reply to: America is in Terminal Decline #37129
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    problems:
    What will the 0.01% do when they are the only survivors?
    They cannot do any of the survival tasks that they really on to survive.

    Then …..
    The earth will heal itself and only those willing to live and let live will prosper.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 15 2017 #37070
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    Why I can’t figure out what is happening,
    what is the truth,
    what really matters,
    or what is important.

    It’s all because the news media is focused on Trump.
    Trump is a distraction and a confusion.

    definition:
    distraction; having one’s attention drawn away

    Synonyms for distraction

    aberration, complication, confusion, disturbance, diversion, interference, interruption, abstraction, agitation, amusement, beguilement, bewilderment, commotion, disorder, dissipation, engrossment, entertainment, frenzy, game, pastime, perplexity, preoccupation, recreation, divertissement

    confusion
    noun. disorientation

    abashing
    abashment
    addling
    agitation
    befuddlement
    befuddling
    bemusement
    bewilderment
    blurring
    chagrin
    cluttering
    commotion
    confounding
    demoralization
    disarranging
    discomfiting
    discomfiture
    disorientation
    distraction
    disturbing
    dither
    dumbfounding
    embarrassing
    embarrassment
    embroiling
    flap
    fluster
    lather
    mixed up
    mystification
    obscuring
    perplexing
    perplexity
    perturbation
    pother
    puzzlement
    stew
    stirring up
    tangling
    tumult
    turbulence
    turmoil
    unsettling
    upsetting

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 13 2017 #37017
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    ” …Yemen will face “the largest famine the world has seen for many decades, with millions of victims …”

    Ask the Saudi if the war is going as planned?

    in reply to: Tax Them Till They Bleed #36981
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    What does a sustainable social/economic system need.

    Taxes are not needed or necessary.
    Borrowing and lending are not needed or necessary.
    What is needed and necessary is adequate control of printing of the money supply.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 10 2017 #36962
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    Taxes are not needed or necessary.
    Borrowing and lending are not needed or necessary.
    What is needed and necessary is adequate control of printing of the money supply.

    in reply to: How Broke is the House of Saud? #36920
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 7 2017 #36904
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    • Growing Homeless Camps Contrast With West Coast Tech Wealth (AP)

    Tenting is not a necessary housing solution.
    There are alternatives.
    There are probably more used/cheap RV and cargo trailers, than people, than could be a alternate/comfortable housing solution.

    • Four False Viral Claims Spread by Journalists on Twitter in One Week (GG)

    • Profiting from Puerto Rico’s Pain (New Yorker)

    • What Could Go Wrong? (Jim Kunstler)

    • Saudi Arabia Accuses Lebanon Of ‘Declaring War,’ Egypt Calls For Calm (CNBC)

    • Oil Prices Surge On Saudi Purge (CNBC)

    • Bernie Sanders Warns Of ‘International Oligarchy’ – Paradise Papers (G.)

    Lies, Lies, everywhere Lies.
    People lie.
    Journalist lie.
    Politicians lie.
    Law enforcement lie.
    Religious people lie.
    Sinners lie.
    Holy leaders lie.
    Teachers lie.
    Men lie.
    Women lie.

    Our social and economic structures are built upon lies.

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