Greetings good citizen,
It turns out if you keep playing with the web address tool you can eventually get something it will accept…which is why the ‘new’ (firewall-less) site is not Civics 101 but Civics 202.
A Simple Plan remains behind the firewall for the moment while I let the new site ‘come up to speed’.
How ironic is it that A Simple Plan has twice the number of Russian readers than it has US?
They have seen the worst of both (economic operating systems) and are more open minded than the typical ‘patriotic’ US citizen.
Well, I’m going to see how the new site ‘draws’ before I open up the ‘main attraction.’
Those who have been ‘told’ they already live ‘in paradise’ are oddly resistant to new ideas, even new ideas that ‘fix’ long standing injustices in the old ways…
But we really start walking the tightrope when we get into determining ‘what is ‘injustice’ and ‘who decides’.
It is a mystery to no one that the One Percent decide, they are the sole arbiters of ‘what is just’
It is their viewpoint that YOU are incapable of understanding what it’s like to be them, you aren’t ‘smart’ enough (probably how wealth and brains came to be equated when they have nothing to do with one another!)
So what are to make of our first headline?
What the Fed has been doing has nothing to do with ‘stimulating’ the global economy, what the Fed has done is to stabilize a badly broken global banking system.
How sad is it good citizen that despite trillions pumped in (and billions leaking out as ‘bonuses’) it is still broken beyond repair!
So what are we to make of this Fed President’s assertion?
He’s correct, but what are they supposed to do?
Cut off the stimulus and the global banking system collapses, pretty much immediately.
In a related story we are asked how ‘credible’ this situation is:
We are now being presented with ‘Quid Pro Quo’; we levied sanctions on Tehran so they ‘retaliated’ by hacking the (decidedly corrupt) US banking system…
With all of the chicanery going on in the TBTF banking network, how the heck can they tell? (It was ‘hacked’ and not outright theft or fraud?)
Short answer, they can’t!
For our next trick:
Of course ‘one incident’ isn’t proof that our whole financial network is corrupt…but it’s been more than one incident, in fact it’s been a long string of them ever since Saint Ronnie (Reagan) ‘privatized’ the healthcare system, unleashing a juggernaut!
Well, as they say, you just can’t make this stuff up. That said, how’s that future looking to you now?
And speaking of trouble from across the Pacific:
Capitalism at its finest! Buyer BEWARE!!!
Once again we see the folly of ‘sold to the lowest bidder’ when it comes to producing complex objects that must work in harmony with one another!
The Dreamliner was 3 YEARS behind schedule due to the inability of the engineers to deal with problems continents away. Sometimes ‘tele-conferencing’ just doesn’t cut it.
But hey that’s capitalism for ya, if the product doesn’t float/fly it’s not management’s fault, they aren’t engineers!
Um, does anyone else have a problem with this?
I have no need to fly…and for that I am grateful!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
It turns out if you keep playing with the web address tool you can eventually get something it will accept…which is why the ‘new’ (firewall-less) site is not Civics 101 but Civics 202.
A Simple Plan remains behind the firewall for the moment while I let the new site ‘come up to speed’.
How ironic is it that A Simple Plan has twice the number of Russian readers than it has US?
They have seen the worst of both (economic operating systems) and are more open minded than the typical ‘patriotic’ US citizen.
Well, I’m going to see how the new site ‘draws’ before I open up the ‘main attraction.’
Those who have been ‘told’ they already live ‘in paradise’ are oddly resistant to new ideas, even new ideas that ‘fix’ long standing injustices in the old ways…
But we really start walking the tightrope when we get into determining ‘what is ‘injustice’ and ‘who decides’.
It is a mystery to no one that the One Percent decide, they are the sole arbiters of ‘what is just’
It is their viewpoint that YOU are incapable of understanding what it’s like to be them, you aren’t ‘smart’ enough (probably how wealth and brains came to be equated when they have nothing to do with one another!)
So what are to make of our first headline?
A Bold Dissenter at the Fed, Hoping His Doubts Are WrongOne need not be the president of a Federal Reserve Bank to realize (5 years after the fact) that the Fed’s ‘stimulus’ has had zero impact on ‘growth’. But that would be missing the whole point of calling the exercise ‘stimulus’.
By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
Jeffrey M. Lacker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond in Virginia, has warned that the central bank’s efforts to stimulate growth are ineffective.
Economix Blog: The Great Dissenters
What the Fed has been doing has nothing to do with ‘stimulating’ the global economy, what the Fed has done is to stabilize a badly broken global banking system.
How sad is it good citizen that despite trillions pumped in (and billions leaking out as ‘bonuses’) it is still broken beyond repair!
So what are we to make of this Fed President’s assertion?
He’s correct, but what are they supposed to do?
Cut off the stimulus and the global banking system collapses, pretty much immediately.
In a related story we are asked how ‘credible’ this situation is:
James A. Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington believes that recent online attacks on American banks have been the work of Iran.After being, er, ‘hoodwinked’ into a ten year long war by one desk of ‘the office for strategic studies’ chasing imaginary ‘Weapons of Mass destruction’ (for which no one was ever prosecuted, by the way.)
Bank Hacking Was the Work of Iranians, Officials Say
By NICOLE PERLROTH and QUENTIN HARDY
The skill required to execute the attacks convinced American officials that Iran was behind them, likely in retaliation for economic sanctions and online attacks by the United States.
We are now being presented with ‘Quid Pro Quo’; we levied sanctions on Tehran so they ‘retaliated’ by hacking the (decidedly corrupt) US banking system…
With all of the chicanery going on in the TBTF banking network, how the heck can they tell? (It was ‘hacked’ and not outright theft or fraud?)
Short answer, they can’t!
For our next trick:
Former Analyst Cooperates in Insider Trading CaseOr ‘touche’ as they say in fencing!
By PETER LATTMAN 9:57 AM ET
Wesley Wang, a former analyst at SAC Capital Advisors, the hedge fund, has given federal agents the names of about 20 people that he said engaged in insider trading.
Of course ‘one incident’ isn’t proof that our whole financial network is corrupt…but it’s been more than one incident, in fact it’s been a long string of them ever since Saint Ronnie (Reagan) ‘privatized’ the healthcare system, unleashing a juggernaut!
Fund Titans Battle Over HerbalifeHow sad is it good citizen that the ‘titans of capitalism’ have been reduced to squaring off over control of a MLM network?
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED 29 minutes ago
Daniel S. Loeb’s Third Point disclosed that it had acquired more than 8.2 percent of the nutritional supplements company. That puts him at odds with his friend, William A. Ackman.
Well, as they say, you just can’t make this stuff up. That said, how’s that future looking to you now?
HSBC Sale of $9.4 Billion Ping An Stake in JeopardyUm, not for nothing but 9 billion balloons is still a lot of cake even in these days when everything is measured in billions (millions are for pikers.) Worse, I’ve never heard of the Ping An group (but I’m going to assume it’s not the guys who make the popular brand of golf clubs…although I might be wrong!)
By DAVID BARBOZA and KEITH BRADSHER 57 minutes ago
The British bank HSBC’s bid to sell its stake in China’s Ping An group is in jeopardy after China Development Bank decided not to finance a large part of the transaction.
And speaking of trouble from across the Pacific:
A 787 had to be towed back to the gate Tuesday in Boston because of a fuel leak. On Monday, a parked 787 caught on fire.
Dreamliner Is Troubled by Questions About Safety
By JAD MOUAWAD 5:34 AM ET
All Nippon Airways canceled a domestic flight on Wednesday after a computer on board a 787 Dreamliner erroneously showed problems with the aircraft’s brakes.
Capitalism at its finest! Buyer BEWARE!!!
Once again we see the folly of ‘sold to the lowest bidder’ when it comes to producing complex objects that must work in harmony with one another!
The Dreamliner was 3 YEARS behind schedule due to the inability of the engineers to deal with problems continents away. Sometimes ‘tele-conferencing’ just doesn’t cut it.
But hey that’s capitalism for ya, if the product doesn’t float/fly it’s not management’s fault, they aren’t engineers!
Um, does anyone else have a problem with this?
I have no need to fly…and for that I am grateful!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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