Greetings good citizen,
On and on it goes…
No consensus, no meeting of the minds (as if such a thing were possible!) which is to point out that as long as we don’t have a reliable ‘feedback mechanism’ the ‘self-interested’ will continue to what seems ‘good’ to them and damn the consequences!
Baseline situation: millions of people have lost their jobs and are defaulting on their debt.
YET, nobody is ‘focusing’ on why these people were made ‘redundant’ NOR are they doing anything to put a stop to the carnage.
The (heavily massaged) employment data continues to sink through society’s molten core while the party of ‘the owners’ (also known as The Party of No) cries for their tax cuts to be made permanent!
Worse, these selfish pigs who persist in refusing to invest in the US economy (which is what they claim the tax cuts are for) have also succeeded in defeating the repeal of the subsidy for off-shoring US jobs!
Ignorance is a terrible thing but this is well beyond ‘stupid’.
How do you know when your government has been hijacked by criminals?
Take a good look at what has become of our electoral process. These fuckers should be executed at the polls! (Just a ‘suggestion’, I’m not telling anyone to do anything AND you did ‘opt in’ to read this so it’s ‘shame on you’!)
So we return to the topic of how you, er, ‘restore’ the rule of law to a nation gone berserk?
The media has usurped the ballot box so we can’t ‘vote’ the fuckers out. (The corporate owned media isn’t obliged to provide any news that disagrees with the ‘opinions’ of those who ‘own’ it.)
Just an opinion of my own here but ‘eradicating’ the lying media would be an excellent place to start the bid to return this nation to the rule of law. (It is a proven fact that you can’t make informed decisions without accurate information. 99% of what comes out of the ‘advertiser supported’ corporate media is, er, ‘questionable’, to put it kindly. In fairness, they point to blogs such as this one and level the same charges…so it really is up to you when it comes to deciding whom to believe.)
I think the ‘facts’ speak for themselves…
To have ‘accidentally’ arrived at where we are today beggars belief, what we are currently suffering is neither an accident nor a coincidence!
But you already know this argument so I’ll spare you a rehash.
Strange logic BUT if you don’t want to live a lie you can’t tolerate a ‘lie machine’ to operate in your presence.
Sadly good citizen, those who ‘own’ the media also ‘own’ free speech.
For truth to prevail it cannot suffer the ‘yoke’ of ‘ownership’. Think about that one for a minute because it is in no owner’s best interest to admit this is the truth!
And if owning a media outlet is what it takes to ‘enjoy’ free speech, then only the owners of the media can speak freely! (Worse, free speech is not necessarily ‘true speech’.)
While Mr. Rich rightly slams those who point to the Internet and claims that the ‘ultimate freedom’ now exists are lies because the ‘anonymity’ of the Internet hides the identity (as well as the agenda) of some powerful (and deceitful) players.
Which is to argue once again that the truth suffers mightily when it conflicts with the agenda of the self-interested.
Which brings us to an interesting argument, one regarding your own status as a ‘self-interested’ individual.
You are most definitely ‘self-interested’ when it comes to enjoying ‘equal footing’ in both the marketplace as well as in the eyes of the law.
Yet the ‘owners’ don’t see it that way. They believe ‘ownership’ has its privileges.
Ironically, they’ve always believed/espoused such doctrine; so if you find it offensive they will turn the tables on you and it becomes everybody’s favorite game…’I was here first’ (like that has anything to do with it!)
For all of its ‘complexity’ life really never really gets too far from the damn playground. The principle difference being the schoolyard bully has somehow become the Judge.
This somewhat explains the popularity of the recent book “Everything I needed to know I learned in kindergarten.”
But this ain’t kindergarten anymore and such simplistic reasoning can no longer be used to guide civilization.
It’s time to ‘grow up’ good citizen and spank the kids who grab whatever they want and scream ‘I had it first!’
It wasn’t a good reason then and it definitely didn’t become one after you put your hand picked puppet into the judge’s seat!
A stacked deck is still a stacked deck and there is too much at stake to ‘appease’ the spoiled and privileged among us…
Okay, time for a nap!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Until the Fat Lady sings...
Greetings good citizen,
My hopes for our civilization grow dimmer with each passing day. It has become apparent that the quicksand of greed has consumed what little bedrock there was holding up the foundation of our society.
We are in ‘uncharted waters’ here, good citizen. By the ‘hard and fast’ rules of commerce, our civilization has already passed the ‘point of no return’.
Tonight’s offering is only true if ‘the rules’ are followed. (Our current financial system is ‘fried’, there’s no way to repair it without writing off huge amounts of debt.)
What should be obvious to us all is ‘the rules’ no longer apply. We’re currently skating along in a ‘nobody’s doing anything about anything’ mode where we all pretend there’s nothing wrong (mostly because we can’t fix the problem on our own!)
As the wiser heads among us opine, the banking sector is still strangling to death with the public sector close behind.
As he points out, the housing sector will not ‘recover’ in the former industrialized West, EVER! (Um, neither Mr. Whalen nor Mr. Panzer actually says this but it is ‘implied’.)
Since the banking system is supported by ‘perpetual’ mortgage payments on properties that are hundreds of years old…wages need to keep ‘pace’ or the whole artifice collapses, as we have so recently witnessed.
No buyers means no price support…lower prices equals less ‘income’ all the way down the line.
So, to paraphrase the title of the article: And You Thought Last Time Was Bad...
Like death itself, there is no way to avoid collapse---we have merely sidestepped the inevitable for the moment.
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this whole fiasco is the ‘too little too late’ part where absolutely NOTHING has been done to stop the ‘race to the bottom’.
Sadly, when the ‘cause’ of this fiasco is finally addressed, it will indeed be ‘too little, too late!
Naturally, I marvel over the fact that ‘Neutron Jack’ is still alive! (Perhaps we should be more amazed that he’s still ‘at large’…)
‘Turn the earth to glass and still commit no crime…’
Unfortunately, the print media isn’t the only source of global insanity. I apparently don’t have many readers in the UK or the BBC would have debunked (instead of reporting) how British schools are teaching pre-schoolers to be more ‘entrepreneurial’.
They are teaching these youngsters the mechanics of commerce in hopes that they will grow up to be more ‘self-reliant’.
Naturally, what these FUCKTARDS are missing is the principle reason why we don’t already live in ‘capitalist utopia’…
FUCKING MARKET SHARE!
What part of ‘there isn’t enough market share to go around’ don’t these idiots get?
Oh well, stupid is what stupid does…
Worse, ignorance can be fixed…stupid is permanent!
Again, we have to believe that the real problem here is the perpetuation of ignorance by those too stupid to know they are doing anything wrong.
Most of you have no idea how frightening it is to realize your entire world is held together by little more than ‘myth and superstition’ (enforced at the point of a gun.)
You’re actually supposed to buy into these little ‘fantasies’ (without the benefit of the fucking ‘ruby slippers’!)
It is important to understand good citizen that most of what you’ve been taught to believe is a self-serving LIE!
The other part that is paramount for you to understand is that the liars are in charge!
Nothing changes until you recognize this truth!
The mis-management that is bag and baggage with capitalism is not nor will it ever be sustainable. No system based on infinite resources is!
Perhaps more disturbing is the fact that if resources were indeed ‘infinite’ there would be no need to ‘buy’ them from anybody, would there?
We have to put an end to this vicious exploitation of our fellow humans if we are ever to advance beyond being our own worst enemy…
The reasons we DON’T kill one another on sight are getting fewer all the time…
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
My hopes for our civilization grow dimmer with each passing day. It has become apparent that the quicksand of greed has consumed what little bedrock there was holding up the foundation of our society.
We are in ‘uncharted waters’ here, good citizen. By the ‘hard and fast’ rules of commerce, our civilization has already passed the ‘point of no return’.
Tonight’s offering is only true if ‘the rules’ are followed. (Our current financial system is ‘fried’, there’s no way to repair it without writing off huge amounts of debt.)
What should be obvious to us all is ‘the rules’ no longer apply. We’re currently skating along in a ‘nobody’s doing anything about anything’ mode where we all pretend there’s nothing wrong (mostly because we can’t fix the problem on our own!)
As the wiser heads among us opine, the banking sector is still strangling to death with the public sector close behind.
As he points out, the housing sector will not ‘recover’ in the former industrialized West, EVER! (Um, neither Mr. Whalen nor Mr. Panzer actually says this but it is ‘implied’.)
Since the banking system is supported by ‘perpetual’ mortgage payments on properties that are hundreds of years old…wages need to keep ‘pace’ or the whole artifice collapses, as we have so recently witnessed.
No buyers means no price support…lower prices equals less ‘income’ all the way down the line.
So, to paraphrase the title of the article: And You Thought Last Time Was Bad...
Like death itself, there is no way to avoid collapse---we have merely sidestepped the inevitable for the moment.
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this whole fiasco is the ‘too little too late’ part where absolutely NOTHING has been done to stop the ‘race to the bottom’.
Sadly, when the ‘cause’ of this fiasco is finally addressed, it will indeed be ‘too little, too late!
Naturally, I marvel over the fact that ‘Neutron Jack’ is still alive! (Perhaps we should be more amazed that he’s still ‘at large’…)
‘Turn the earth to glass and still commit no crime…’
Unfortunately, the print media isn’t the only source of global insanity. I apparently don’t have many readers in the UK or the BBC would have debunked (instead of reporting) how British schools are teaching pre-schoolers to be more ‘entrepreneurial’.
They are teaching these youngsters the mechanics of commerce in hopes that they will grow up to be more ‘self-reliant’.
Naturally, what these FUCKTARDS are missing is the principle reason why we don’t already live in ‘capitalist utopia’…
FUCKING MARKET SHARE!
What part of ‘there isn’t enough market share to go around’ don’t these idiots get?
Oh well, stupid is what stupid does…
Worse, ignorance can be fixed…stupid is permanent!
Again, we have to believe that the real problem here is the perpetuation of ignorance by those too stupid to know they are doing anything wrong.
Most of you have no idea how frightening it is to realize your entire world is held together by little more than ‘myth and superstition’ (enforced at the point of a gun.)
You’re actually supposed to buy into these little ‘fantasies’ (without the benefit of the fucking ‘ruby slippers’!)
It is important to understand good citizen that most of what you’ve been taught to believe is a self-serving LIE!
The other part that is paramount for you to understand is that the liars are in charge!
Nothing changes until you recognize this truth!
The mis-management that is bag and baggage with capitalism is not nor will it ever be sustainable. No system based on infinite resources is!
Perhaps more disturbing is the fact that if resources were indeed ‘infinite’ there would be no need to ‘buy’ them from anybody, would there?
We have to put an end to this vicious exploitation of our fellow humans if we are ever to advance beyond being our own worst enemy…
The reasons we DON’T kill one another on sight are getting fewer all the time…
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Thursday, October 7, 2010
'Stealing Home'
Greetings good citizen,
Although few would purposefully draw your attention to the relationships (government often being referred to as a ‘noble’ or ‘civic-minded’ calling rather than the ‘referee’ job it really is.)
If we are ever to see anything that even remotely resembles ‘prosperity’ again you have to get your head on straight.
So we start with ‘the rules’:
All economies are LOCAL, bar none!
Commerce exists to enrich society (not just the owners of commerce!)
Government exists to ensure things are properly managed.
3 basic principles; that’s all it takes to put civilization ‘back on track’.
Sadly, there are some ‘definition deficiencies’ that could be problematic.
Local means local…so being in the same ‘solar system’ doesn’t count.
Society means everybody; not the ‘Bill Gates walks into the room’ effect…so ‘on paper’ everybody is richer…
And ‘properly managed’ means ‘effective distribution’ and not ‘maximized profits’.
There are other ways to ‘twist’ the above definitions but neither of us has all day to bat this ball until it no longer bounces.
No, there is a much more disturbing ball to bounce around, it’s the ‘what kind of fuckhead do you take me for?’ ball.
Let’s shift our attention to the ‘storehouse of value’ for a moment, shall we?
The USA is the number 1 economy in the whole world (based on consumption.)
The media never tires of marveling over how much crap we ‘consume’ (although ‘waste’ is probably closer to the mark.)
I forget the actual statistics but you’ve heard it all before…we make up just two percent of the world’s population and we consume some twenty percent of the world’s output…something like that.
With that as a given, this fuckin’ shithole is along way from being El Dorado, baby!
Being the world’s ‘dumping ground’ makes this the world’s biggest DUMP!
You see, it really is all in how you look at it!
So the relentless cheerleaders of expansion without end want you to believe that we are ‘number one’; just don’t pay any attention to which finger they use to signify this exalted position…
Anyway, we’re ‘top of the heap’ and because of this our ‘storehouse of value’ is also, er, ‘top of the heap’ too.
But is it really?
Our money is (supposedly) worth the difference between what we produce and what we consume.
Well, we know we are the world’s most prodigious consumers but are we really the world’s most prodigious producers?
Hard to believe considering what the unemployment rate looks like, isn’t it?
Worse good citizen, 40% of all people counted as ‘employed’ only work part time…so we are not just ‘good’, we must be fucking ‘great!’
Or we are really, really, really gullible…
Which one do you think it is?
So, how much is the buck in your pocket worth now (considering we consume much more than we produce?)
Understand good citizen, this is the same worthless buck you’re being forced to jump through hoops for…which should make you ask ‘what the fuck am I doing?’
I’m an ‘older’ guy and I’ve seen a lot of changes in my time.
The ‘trend’ that started when I was just a kid has almost reached its final outcome the nation continues to be ‘gutted’ so the wealthy can enslave the net bunch of trusting saps with their credit cards!
This article is from today’s Alternet titled:
19 Mind-Blowing Facts About the Deindustrialization of America
Well, good citizen, you don’t need me to tell you that there is far more than 19 damning facts about how rapacious capitalism has scorched the earth beneath our children’s feet.
Death is too good for these selfish fucks, exile is the only fitting punishment.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Although few would purposefully draw your attention to the relationships (government often being referred to as a ‘noble’ or ‘civic-minded’ calling rather than the ‘referee’ job it really is.)
If we are ever to see anything that even remotely resembles ‘prosperity’ again you have to get your head on straight.
So we start with ‘the rules’:
All economies are LOCAL, bar none!
Commerce exists to enrich society (not just the owners of commerce!)
Government exists to ensure things are properly managed.
3 basic principles; that’s all it takes to put civilization ‘back on track’.
Sadly, there are some ‘definition deficiencies’ that could be problematic.
Local means local…so being in the same ‘solar system’ doesn’t count.
Society means everybody; not the ‘Bill Gates walks into the room’ effect…so ‘on paper’ everybody is richer…
And ‘properly managed’ means ‘effective distribution’ and not ‘maximized profits’.
There are other ways to ‘twist’ the above definitions but neither of us has all day to bat this ball until it no longer bounces.
No, there is a much more disturbing ball to bounce around, it’s the ‘what kind of fuckhead do you take me for?’ ball.
Let’s shift our attention to the ‘storehouse of value’ for a moment, shall we?
The USA is the number 1 economy in the whole world (based on consumption.)
The media never tires of marveling over how much crap we ‘consume’ (although ‘waste’ is probably closer to the mark.)
I forget the actual statistics but you’ve heard it all before…we make up just two percent of the world’s population and we consume some twenty percent of the world’s output…something like that.
With that as a given, this fuckin’ shithole is along way from being El Dorado, baby!
Being the world’s ‘dumping ground’ makes this the world’s biggest DUMP!
You see, it really is all in how you look at it!
So the relentless cheerleaders of expansion without end want you to believe that we are ‘number one’; just don’t pay any attention to which finger they use to signify this exalted position…
Anyway, we’re ‘top of the heap’ and because of this our ‘storehouse of value’ is also, er, ‘top of the heap’ too.
But is it really?
Our money is (supposedly) worth the difference between what we produce and what we consume.
Well, we know we are the world’s most prodigious consumers but are we really the world’s most prodigious producers?
Hard to believe considering what the unemployment rate looks like, isn’t it?
Worse good citizen, 40% of all people counted as ‘employed’ only work part time…so we are not just ‘good’, we must be fucking ‘great!’
Or we are really, really, really gullible…
Which one do you think it is?
So, how much is the buck in your pocket worth now (considering we consume much more than we produce?)
Understand good citizen, this is the same worthless buck you’re being forced to jump through hoops for…which should make you ask ‘what the fuck am I doing?’
I’m an ‘older’ guy and I’ve seen a lot of changes in my time.
The ‘trend’ that started when I was just a kid has almost reached its final outcome the nation continues to be ‘gutted’ so the wealthy can enslave the net bunch of trusting saps with their credit cards!
This article is from today’s Alternet titled:
19 Mind-Blowing Facts About the Deindustrialization of America
Well, good citizen, you don’t need me to tell you that there is far more than 19 damning facts about how rapacious capitalism has scorched the earth beneath our children’s feet.
Death is too good for these selfish fucks, exile is the only fitting punishment.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Conservative Logic...
Greetings good citizen,
Let’s put ‘oblivion’ on hold for the time being (it will be here soon enough.)
Which is not to say we are going to put a stop to ‘crazy talk’ because there’s plenty of that masquerading as ‘sane commentary’ in the MSM.
Let’s start with our ‘usual’ dose of schizophrenia, shall we? As recently as Yesterday the markets tacked on almost 200 points. This was ‘attributed to’ the (barely perceptible) ‘uptick’ in service sector employment. A mere few hundredths of a single percent good citizen and our stock markets went absolutely NUTS!
So what’s the ‘buzz’ today? Retailers project that they won’t be hiring much seasonal help this year…somewhat reinforcing predictions of yet another ‘poor’ holiday season.
Needless to say the markets are ‘flat’ on this news…
So what the hell was yesterday all about?
Truth be told good citizen, if it weren’t for the activity of the big trading desks themselves, the stock market would be ‘flat-line’.
Moving on, I read some conservative pundit who was bemoaning the expiration of the Bush Tax Cuts, like making the rich even richer has done such wonders for the US economy! WTF is wrong with these people?
Don’t they understand that NO AMOUNT of money is going to make the US more attractive to invest in as long as the ‘cheaper elsewhere’ fiction persists?
Apparently, nothing goes up top…which is sort of a ‘hallmark’ of conservatism.
Well, here we have another fine example of bullet proof conservative logic…
Sadly good citizen, this brings us to the chicken or the egg conundrum.
What the fuck is the point of extending more credit when people can’t pay for what they’ve already borrowed?
You know what endless ‘rolling’ leads to don’t you? It leads to debt that will NEVER be repaid!
It turns the ‘fuck you, pay me’ scheme into just the ‘fuck you (stupid)’ part.
If you’re dumb enough to let me keep ‘rolling over’ my debt, I’m never going to pay you!
THAT’S what the ‘oughts’ were about!
Guess what the ‘only way out’ is?
That's right, Jubilee!
Cuz, bizarrely, if you ‘prosecuted’ all of the people who took advantage of the situation (a situation that shouldn’t have been created in the first place.) You would also be able to address your ‘surplus population problem at the same time…except who is going to build (never mind pay for) all of those prisons?
Are you beginning to see the ‘scope’ of the problem good citizen?
This is ‘mis-management’ writ large, nay ‘writ colossal’!
Who ever ‘approved’ this wanted, nay, WAS BEGGING FOR a crisis!
(One can only assume the ‘infamous they’ arrived at the same conclusion their ideological opponents reached long ago; there is no way to use capitalism to ‘save’ capitalism.)
So they faced their second choice, to serve in heaven or to rule over hell?
Sadly, they have chosen the latter.
I’ll stop here because I promised not to go there at the beginning of this piece…
It is curious how many of our thought experiments conclude in ‘oblivion’.
If you thought the ride had been ‘interesting’ up ‘til now, wait!
It’s going to get a lot more than ‘interesting’…trust me!
Some of these pieces are surprisingly short but there really isn’t anything else useful to say on the subject other than to point out the obvious, that ‘conservative logic’ is an oxymoron.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Let’s put ‘oblivion’ on hold for the time being (it will be here soon enough.)
Which is not to say we are going to put a stop to ‘crazy talk’ because there’s plenty of that masquerading as ‘sane commentary’ in the MSM.
Let’s start with our ‘usual’ dose of schizophrenia, shall we? As recently as Yesterday the markets tacked on almost 200 points. This was ‘attributed to’ the (barely perceptible) ‘uptick’ in service sector employment. A mere few hundredths of a single percent good citizen and our stock markets went absolutely NUTS!
So what’s the ‘buzz’ today? Retailers project that they won’t be hiring much seasonal help this year…somewhat reinforcing predictions of yet another ‘poor’ holiday season.
Needless to say the markets are ‘flat’ on this news…
So what the hell was yesterday all about?
Truth be told good citizen, if it weren’t for the activity of the big trading desks themselves, the stock market would be ‘flat-line’.
Moving on, I read some conservative pundit who was bemoaning the expiration of the Bush Tax Cuts, like making the rich even richer has done such wonders for the US economy! WTF is wrong with these people?
Don’t they understand that NO AMOUNT of money is going to make the US more attractive to invest in as long as the ‘cheaper elsewhere’ fiction persists?
Apparently, nothing goes up top…which is sort of a ‘hallmark’ of conservatism.
Well, here we have another fine example of bullet proof conservative logic…
Sadly good citizen, this brings us to the chicken or the egg conundrum.
What the fuck is the point of extending more credit when people can’t pay for what they’ve already borrowed?
You know what endless ‘rolling’ leads to don’t you? It leads to debt that will NEVER be repaid!
It turns the ‘fuck you, pay me’ scheme into just the ‘fuck you (stupid)’ part.
If you’re dumb enough to let me keep ‘rolling over’ my debt, I’m never going to pay you!
THAT’S what the ‘oughts’ were about!
Guess what the ‘only way out’ is?
That's right, Jubilee!
Cuz, bizarrely, if you ‘prosecuted’ all of the people who took advantage of the situation (a situation that shouldn’t have been created in the first place.) You would also be able to address your ‘surplus population problem at the same time…except who is going to build (never mind pay for) all of those prisons?
Are you beginning to see the ‘scope’ of the problem good citizen?
This is ‘mis-management’ writ large, nay ‘writ colossal’!
Who ever ‘approved’ this wanted, nay, WAS BEGGING FOR a crisis!
(One can only assume the ‘infamous they’ arrived at the same conclusion their ideological opponents reached long ago; there is no way to use capitalism to ‘save’ capitalism.)
So they faced their second choice, to serve in heaven or to rule over hell?
Sadly, they have chosen the latter.
I’ll stop here because I promised not to go there at the beginning of this piece…
It is curious how many of our thought experiments conclude in ‘oblivion’.
If you thought the ride had been ‘interesting’ up ‘til now, wait!
It’s going to get a lot more than ‘interesting’…trust me!
Some of these pieces are surprisingly short but there really isn’t anything else useful to say on the subject other than to point out the obvious, that ‘conservative logic’ is an oxymoron.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Contradictions...
Greetings good citizen,
In an ‘unusual’ combination, both gold AND the stock market are rallying strongly today, leaving us to wonder what the fuck the ‘tiny’ uptick in service sector employment really means?
You know the service sector pays shit; these are menial jobs that are mostly part-time. Our economy is not ‘saved’ because the service sector expanded by a few hundredths of a percentage point, yet Wall Street is acting like we have just witnessed the ‘second coming’!
Worse, these assholes are supposed to be ‘on top of things’…why the fuck are they buying (probably their own) stocks when the private investor is headed for the exits?
Understand, gold is a ‘safe haven’ bet. You only ‘buy’ (nearly $1,400 an ounce) gold when you need to ‘park’ your money somewhere. Remember, gold shot up to $800 an ounce back in the 80’s…but it didn’t stay there.
Which is to point out that ‘parking’ your money in gold is still plenty risky but apparently less so than watching it erode to nothing while the stock markets climb irrationally.
Which is to ask whether or not the stock markets are rising or if we are really witnessing the ‘value’ of the dollar sinking like a rock?
Because that is the only ‘rational explanation’…stocks are rising because the dollar is falling. Worse, it also explains the sudden ‘surge’ in gold sales…
And there ain’t a fucking thing you can (legally) do about it!
It is during times like these that ‘hyper-inflation’ takes hold as people ‘race’ to trade their ‘trash’ (cash) for ‘treasure’ (useful items priced in dollars.)
The ‘squeeze’ I pointed to yesterday is ‘on’. Just in time for ‘the winter of our discontent’.
I predict right here and now that this will be a very different nation come Spring.
I will refrain from going into specifics at this time beyond saying it will start with a whimper and build to a roar.
There will be an ‘eye-opening’ event that will galvanize the public as to just how serious our situation has become…and it will be ‘game on’ from there.
You know I’m not ‘psychic’. I’ve made dire predictions in the past that didn’t happen so I’m just shooting my opinionated mouth off (again.)
My point is you can only juggle so many balls for so long before somebody somewhere ‘fucks up’ in a way that can’t be ‘spun’.
Worse, even the ‘spin’ looks bad.
Sure, you’ll convince those who don’t want to accept how rotten things are with barely credible ‘spin’ but their numbers are dwindling with each passing day. Give the public just one piece of concrete evidence that you can’t spin away and let the royal fuckaree begin!
You gotta give these guys credit though, so far they have managed to spin their way out of some pretty tight spots…but that was mostly because people weren’t as suspicious as they are today.
Pretty soon that ‘get out of jail free’ card is gonna expire and then the fun will begin.
Every act of ‘retaliation’ against the ‘insurgents’ will require increasing amounts of spin until public sympathy for the rebels overwhelms the ‘official government position’.
Which is to point out that there is a downside lying to the public. Do it often enough and you loose credibility.
So, how many of you believe the ‘Great Recession’ ended last summer?
Worse, how many of you believe the Great Recession started in 1980?
See what I mean? (If you were there you know this is true!)
Well, what goes around, come around good citizen and you don’t need me to tell you that.
The bad news is the damage is already done. It is not possible to ‘fix’ it without discarding the old, corrupt system and replacing it with a new one.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
In an ‘unusual’ combination, both gold AND the stock market are rallying strongly today, leaving us to wonder what the fuck the ‘tiny’ uptick in service sector employment really means?
You know the service sector pays shit; these are menial jobs that are mostly part-time. Our economy is not ‘saved’ because the service sector expanded by a few hundredths of a percentage point, yet Wall Street is acting like we have just witnessed the ‘second coming’!
Worse, these assholes are supposed to be ‘on top of things’…why the fuck are they buying (probably their own) stocks when the private investor is headed for the exits?
Understand, gold is a ‘safe haven’ bet. You only ‘buy’ (nearly $1,400 an ounce) gold when you need to ‘park’ your money somewhere. Remember, gold shot up to $800 an ounce back in the 80’s…but it didn’t stay there.
Which is to point out that ‘parking’ your money in gold is still plenty risky but apparently less so than watching it erode to nothing while the stock markets climb irrationally.
Which is to ask whether or not the stock markets are rising or if we are really witnessing the ‘value’ of the dollar sinking like a rock?
Because that is the only ‘rational explanation’…stocks are rising because the dollar is falling. Worse, it also explains the sudden ‘surge’ in gold sales…
And there ain’t a fucking thing you can (legally) do about it!
It is during times like these that ‘hyper-inflation’ takes hold as people ‘race’ to trade their ‘trash’ (cash) for ‘treasure’ (useful items priced in dollars.)
The ‘squeeze’ I pointed to yesterday is ‘on’. Just in time for ‘the winter of our discontent’.
I predict right here and now that this will be a very different nation come Spring.
I will refrain from going into specifics at this time beyond saying it will start with a whimper and build to a roar.
There will be an ‘eye-opening’ event that will galvanize the public as to just how serious our situation has become…and it will be ‘game on’ from there.
You know I’m not ‘psychic’. I’ve made dire predictions in the past that didn’t happen so I’m just shooting my opinionated mouth off (again.)
My point is you can only juggle so many balls for so long before somebody somewhere ‘fucks up’ in a way that can’t be ‘spun’.
Worse, even the ‘spin’ looks bad.
Sure, you’ll convince those who don’t want to accept how rotten things are with barely credible ‘spin’ but their numbers are dwindling with each passing day. Give the public just one piece of concrete evidence that you can’t spin away and let the royal fuckaree begin!
You gotta give these guys credit though, so far they have managed to spin their way out of some pretty tight spots…but that was mostly because people weren’t as suspicious as they are today.
Pretty soon that ‘get out of jail free’ card is gonna expire and then the fun will begin.
Every act of ‘retaliation’ against the ‘insurgents’ will require increasing amounts of spin until public sympathy for the rebels overwhelms the ‘official government position’.
Which is to point out that there is a downside lying to the public. Do it often enough and you loose credibility.
So, how many of you believe the ‘Great Recession’ ended last summer?
Worse, how many of you believe the Great Recession started in 1980?
See what I mean? (If you were there you know this is true!)
Well, what goes around, come around good citizen and you don’t need me to tell you that.
The bad news is the damage is already done. It is not possible to ‘fix’ it without discarding the old, corrupt system and replacing it with a new one.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Monday, October 4, 2010
What Time is it?
Greetings good citizen,
The economy continues to shrink while the media pretends this is a perfectly natural outcome of a, er, ‘recession’ (I’m firmly in the Depression camp, believing that we ain’t seen nothing yet!)
The ‘more with less’ economy has left tens of millions of us ‘stranded’ up ‘shit creek without a paddle’.
There is a disturbing tendency to attribute this phenomenon to ‘overpopulation’ but if you don’t live in a war zone/disaster area, you aren’t starving (yet.)
Since ‘newsworthiness’ is determined by rich capitalists, we do not know for a fact what the ‘food security’ situation is globally, although it should be alarming that the number of people on ‘food assistance’ continues to climb here in the ‘you can only white-wash it so much’ USA.
Since the whole world is ‘nominally’ capitalist it wouldn’t do to point out the economic misery the ‘fuck you, pay me’ model usually fosters.
The ‘owners’ of the media want you to believe that everything capitalism touches turns to gold (if you can’t afford gold it’s not the capitalist’s problem, it’s yours!)
If we look back over the past two hundred years (a period the current oligarchy was cementing its authority over the rest of us.) The ‘owners’ prospered while everyone else sought ‘happiness’ under an increasingly heavier boot heel.
Which is to point out that what we are currently experiencing isn’t ‘new’; it merely took a couple of centuries to arrive at its inevitable conclusion.
What changed? We finally overran the ‘price/user’ balance. (Actually this is untrue, what we’re witnessing now is actually an ‘artificial’ crisis created to head off a pending disaster.)
As you know, that ‘pending disaster’ is ‘Peak Energy’ and it is closer than any of you imagine…although we are far from ‘out’…out isn’t the problem; enough to ‘go around’ is.
This is the unstated/unspecified part of the ‘Peak Oil/Energy’ debate. It is not the ‘availability’ that is going to screw our entire social model, there will still be plenty of oil long after only a few can afford it.
Sort of puts the situation in a new perspective, doesn’t it?
Here you’ve been, fearful of the ‘brawl’ that will break out over the last few million barrels of oil. Never realizing there will be plenty of oil around, the problem will be you won’t be able to afford it!
Understand the situation: once energy becomes ‘scarce’ our (their) social model stops working!
Instead of adopting a new social model, the cock-suckers have chosen to exercise ‘social Darwinism’. The self-centered fucks are going to ‘shrink’ civilization to fit the new reality.
IDEALLY, a whole bunch of you now redundant and over fifty would off yourselves, saving the self-appointed ‘worthwhile people’ the trouble of killing you.
Understand this means accusing YOU of being a ‘TERRORIST’.
Who knew the size of your bank account would be the determining factor in whether or not you and yours were allowed to live?
The real puzzle here is ‘what the fuck are the cops thinking?’
It is they who will be ordered to execute the terrorists.
Best friend or not, if he murders my kid he’s a dead man!
Respect and friendship only extend so far…and our self-professed ‘betters’ seldom ‘fraternize’ with ‘the hired help’.
This is why the inexplicable return of ‘mercenary forces’ is so worrisome. Most of them are foreigners who have few qualms about murdering Gringos.
Worse, most of them would take particular pleasure in murdering Gringos in police uniforms…
Not that our ‘betters’ are particularly fussed about that…so long as their precious asses are covered (by, ironically, Blackwater.)
Naturally good citizen, this whole explanation sounds nuttier than a squirrel poo BUT, and this should scare the pants right off of you, it also makes sense!
The ‘new normal’ doesn’t have a place for you.
The question is whether or not you are going to do something about it before it is too late?
Sadly, the catch here is ‘what’? If I tell you what needs doing, it becomes ‘sedition’ so we aren’t going there.
There are indeed some things you need to figure out on your own.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
The economy continues to shrink while the media pretends this is a perfectly natural outcome of a, er, ‘recession’ (I’m firmly in the Depression camp, believing that we ain’t seen nothing yet!)
The ‘more with less’ economy has left tens of millions of us ‘stranded’ up ‘shit creek without a paddle’.
There is a disturbing tendency to attribute this phenomenon to ‘overpopulation’ but if you don’t live in a war zone/disaster area, you aren’t starving (yet.)
Since ‘newsworthiness’ is determined by rich capitalists, we do not know for a fact what the ‘food security’ situation is globally, although it should be alarming that the number of people on ‘food assistance’ continues to climb here in the ‘you can only white-wash it so much’ USA.
Since the whole world is ‘nominally’ capitalist it wouldn’t do to point out the economic misery the ‘fuck you, pay me’ model usually fosters.
The ‘owners’ of the media want you to believe that everything capitalism touches turns to gold (if you can’t afford gold it’s not the capitalist’s problem, it’s yours!)
If we look back over the past two hundred years (a period the current oligarchy was cementing its authority over the rest of us.) The ‘owners’ prospered while everyone else sought ‘happiness’ under an increasingly heavier boot heel.
Which is to point out that what we are currently experiencing isn’t ‘new’; it merely took a couple of centuries to arrive at its inevitable conclusion.
What changed? We finally overran the ‘price/user’ balance. (Actually this is untrue, what we’re witnessing now is actually an ‘artificial’ crisis created to head off a pending disaster.)
As you know, that ‘pending disaster’ is ‘Peak Energy’ and it is closer than any of you imagine…although we are far from ‘out’…out isn’t the problem; enough to ‘go around’ is.
This is the unstated/unspecified part of the ‘Peak Oil/Energy’ debate. It is not the ‘availability’ that is going to screw our entire social model, there will still be plenty of oil long after only a few can afford it.
Sort of puts the situation in a new perspective, doesn’t it?
Here you’ve been, fearful of the ‘brawl’ that will break out over the last few million barrels of oil. Never realizing there will be plenty of oil around, the problem will be you won’t be able to afford it!
Understand the situation: once energy becomes ‘scarce’ our (their) social model stops working!
Instead of adopting a new social model, the cock-suckers have chosen to exercise ‘social Darwinism’. The self-centered fucks are going to ‘shrink’ civilization to fit the new reality.
IDEALLY, a whole bunch of you now redundant and over fifty would off yourselves, saving the self-appointed ‘worthwhile people’ the trouble of killing you.
Understand this means accusing YOU of being a ‘TERRORIST’.
Who knew the size of your bank account would be the determining factor in whether or not you and yours were allowed to live?
The real puzzle here is ‘what the fuck are the cops thinking?’
It is they who will be ordered to execute the terrorists.
Best friend or not, if he murders my kid he’s a dead man!
Respect and friendship only extend so far…and our self-professed ‘betters’ seldom ‘fraternize’ with ‘the hired help’.
This is why the inexplicable return of ‘mercenary forces’ is so worrisome. Most of them are foreigners who have few qualms about murdering Gringos.
Worse, most of them would take particular pleasure in murdering Gringos in police uniforms…
Not that our ‘betters’ are particularly fussed about that…so long as their precious asses are covered (by, ironically, Blackwater.)
Naturally good citizen, this whole explanation sounds nuttier than a squirrel poo BUT, and this should scare the pants right off of you, it also makes sense!
The ‘new normal’ doesn’t have a place for you.
The question is whether or not you are going to do something about it before it is too late?
Sadly, the catch here is ‘what’? If I tell you what needs doing, it becomes ‘sedition’ so we aren’t going there.
There are indeed some things you need to figure out on your own.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Friday, October 1, 2010
Incompetents?
Greetings good citizen,
I think it’s working…
What do I think is working?
The ‘drive ‘em to distraction’ strategy. I think it’s working.
A few days ago I wrote about our readiness to believe the worst of our fellow citizens WHEN, truth be told, they actually share our anger/disbelief that nobody is doing the job they were elected to do
Worse, it has become obvious that more elections will do nothing to correct this situation.
Because whomever we elect will be subject to taking orders from the same people their predecessors took them from! (Just a hint here, that don’t mean you or anybody you know unless you wipe your ass with thousand dollar bills…)
The ‘mid-term’ elections are a month away and the ‘batshit crazy’ Republicans are holding themselves out as the ‘alternative’ to the ‘do nothing’ Democrats.
If we are to prove, once and for all that our system of government is corrupt beyond repair, we actually NEED to give the Democrats an ‘indisputable majority’ in BOTH houses of Congress.
The ‘Party of No’ must be eliminated from the equation…although some idiotic pundits claim ‘democrats from conservative districts’ have to ‘pretend’ they are Republicans if they want to keep their seat…
Like the people voted Democrat because they truly desired ‘more of the same’!
Are these people ‘brain damaged’ or do they just pretend that we are?
First we give one party (and I really don’t care which one, they both SUCK) a bulletproof majority, then, once they fail to enforce the laws they were elected to uphold, we try THEM for treason!
Naturally, this will require that ‘somebody’ seizes power…the problem with this ‘wildcard’ is that it is much more likely the ‘Pirates’ who caused this mess will seize control before the representatives of the people get their chance.
And if the, er, ‘upper middle class’ (the ‘usual source’ of replacements during revolutions) takes control…well. They were only a step removed from the ‘predators’ they replaced. They still have next to nothing in common with the average citizen.
They have NEVER lived as we live or suffered as we suffer.
This is why the ‘counter-revolutions’, those quiet coups that steal back the country from those it was originally stolen from usually succeeds ‘unopposed’.
This is why the set up (that replaces the existing system) has to be foolproof.
That upper middle class must suffer the same fate as their as their upper class masters.
You aren’t going to get ‘change’ from people who have no clue what change is…as evidenced by our current President.
If you want to know who is running this country you need look no further than ‘the party of no’. The same people who just defeated a proposal to end the subsidy for employers who ‘off-shore’ US jobs.
Voting as one ‘bulletproof’ block, the 40 Republicans in the Senate stopped legislation that would at least ‘slow’ the flow of US jobs overseas…real fucking ‘patriots’ aren’t they?
Like a veil being lifted from your eyes good citizen, you have to ‘grow up’ and admit that the ‘ballot box’ is no more credible than Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny.
They’re all ‘make believe’.
The ballot box was invented as a tool to ‘make decisions’, using it to ‘choose’ who will make decisions for you without ever consulting you does you zero good.
For the ballot box to be effective again it must be used as it was intended, as an avenue for YOU to make decisions!
Your ‘right to vote’ is a lot more important than the bullshit that was perpetrated upon our forebearers by their self-appointed ‘betters.’
That’s right good citizen, those (wealthy) founders who met in secret and by invitation only NEVER INTENDED for you to have any say. They stole YOUR RIGHT to choose because you weren’t ‘smart enough’ to choose ‘wisely’ (like they’ve done any better!)
Time to turn that on its head, you certainly couldn’t do any worse.
Although many of you don’t want the ‘responsibility’ of making these decisions, you’re ‘afraid’ something will go wrong.
Here, once again, we succumb to that willingness to believe that a majority of us are ‘stupid’ (instead of just being deprived of alternatives, which is actually the case!)
You many not enjoy a ‘perfect’ voting record BUT in the end it is not up to you. You have only one vote in two hundred and thirty million (sorry but we still aren’t going to let ‘kids’ vote…) and you won’t always be on the prevailing side. (Although you should be most of the time!)
Horses and carts, sometimes it feels premature to discuss what life under A Simple Plan would be like but if we don’t have these discussions (thought experiments) you will not be familiar with the ‘alternatives’ to what we suffer now.
Intestinal fortitude good citizen, do you have the ‘guts’ to take charge of how you will live your life…or will you let ‘others’ decide for you?
Sadly, those ‘others’ can’t be trusted to act wisely/selflessly, that’s why pushing this duty off on ‘others’ is both irresponsible AND dangerous.
Why do you think our civilization is on the brink of collapse?
Because there was no mechanism to stop the self-interested from corrupting the system.
That was one hell of a massive ‘oversight’ made by the founders…and we both know it was ‘intentional’…it just wasn’t supposed to ‘get out of hand’ like it has.
Now it’s too late!
Anyway, it’s time once again to take a look at where ‘we’ are headed.
Indisputably we are firmly on the path that leads to a Banana Republic. The ‘wildcard’ here is how bad things will get before ‘social order’ collapses?
Lower ‘tax revenues’ means fewer police resources. The ticking you hear in the background is the millions of unemployed/homeless searching for someplace warm to call home while they hunt for something to eat…
Desperate people will dare desperate acts. So just how much can an under-manned police force handle?
Um, it is said that civilization is only nine meals deep…do the math; that’s three days.
You go three days without a morsel of food and you’re gonna be ready to do some pretty crazy shit because while you can go roughly 30 days without eating, starving to death still hurts like hell!
Think about cannibalism and just try to imagine how hungry you’d have to be for such a repellant concept to become a possibility, never mind a reality!
Once again I apologize for conjuring, er, ‘unpleasant images’ into your mind but reality is what it is.
We can only hope it never comes to that…although, historically speaking, it has occurred far too often.
Worse, while you’re reading this, somebody somewhere is ‘eating the dead’…because that’s all there is.
I lay a lot of ‘evil’ at the feet of capitalism, unnecessary cannibalism isn’t the least of its crimes...but it isn’t the worst either.
Thank you for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
I think it’s working…
What do I think is working?
The ‘drive ‘em to distraction’ strategy. I think it’s working.
A few days ago I wrote about our readiness to believe the worst of our fellow citizens WHEN, truth be told, they actually share our anger/disbelief that nobody is doing the job they were elected to do
Worse, it has become obvious that more elections will do nothing to correct this situation.
Because whomever we elect will be subject to taking orders from the same people their predecessors took them from! (Just a hint here, that don’t mean you or anybody you know unless you wipe your ass with thousand dollar bills…)
The ‘mid-term’ elections are a month away and the ‘batshit crazy’ Republicans are holding themselves out as the ‘alternative’ to the ‘do nothing’ Democrats.
If we are to prove, once and for all that our system of government is corrupt beyond repair, we actually NEED to give the Democrats an ‘indisputable majority’ in BOTH houses of Congress.
The ‘Party of No’ must be eliminated from the equation…although some idiotic pundits claim ‘democrats from conservative districts’ have to ‘pretend’ they are Republicans if they want to keep their seat…
Like the people voted Democrat because they truly desired ‘more of the same’!
Are these people ‘brain damaged’ or do they just pretend that we are?
First we give one party (and I really don’t care which one, they both SUCK) a bulletproof majority, then, once they fail to enforce the laws they were elected to uphold, we try THEM for treason!
Naturally, this will require that ‘somebody’ seizes power…the problem with this ‘wildcard’ is that it is much more likely the ‘Pirates’ who caused this mess will seize control before the representatives of the people get their chance.
And if the, er, ‘upper middle class’ (the ‘usual source’ of replacements during revolutions) takes control…well. They were only a step removed from the ‘predators’ they replaced. They still have next to nothing in common with the average citizen.
They have NEVER lived as we live or suffered as we suffer.
This is why the ‘counter-revolutions’, those quiet coups that steal back the country from those it was originally stolen from usually succeeds ‘unopposed’.
This is why the set up (that replaces the existing system) has to be foolproof.
That upper middle class must suffer the same fate as their as their upper class masters.
You aren’t going to get ‘change’ from people who have no clue what change is…as evidenced by our current President.
If you want to know who is running this country you need look no further than ‘the party of no’. The same people who just defeated a proposal to end the subsidy for employers who ‘off-shore’ US jobs.
Voting as one ‘bulletproof’ block, the 40 Republicans in the Senate stopped legislation that would at least ‘slow’ the flow of US jobs overseas…real fucking ‘patriots’ aren’t they?
Like a veil being lifted from your eyes good citizen, you have to ‘grow up’ and admit that the ‘ballot box’ is no more credible than Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny.
They’re all ‘make believe’.
The ballot box was invented as a tool to ‘make decisions’, using it to ‘choose’ who will make decisions for you without ever consulting you does you zero good.
For the ballot box to be effective again it must be used as it was intended, as an avenue for YOU to make decisions!
Your ‘right to vote’ is a lot more important than the bullshit that was perpetrated upon our forebearers by their self-appointed ‘betters.’
That’s right good citizen, those (wealthy) founders who met in secret and by invitation only NEVER INTENDED for you to have any say. They stole YOUR RIGHT to choose because you weren’t ‘smart enough’ to choose ‘wisely’ (like they’ve done any better!)
Time to turn that on its head, you certainly couldn’t do any worse.
Although many of you don’t want the ‘responsibility’ of making these decisions, you’re ‘afraid’ something will go wrong.
Here, once again, we succumb to that willingness to believe that a majority of us are ‘stupid’ (instead of just being deprived of alternatives, which is actually the case!)
You many not enjoy a ‘perfect’ voting record BUT in the end it is not up to you. You have only one vote in two hundred and thirty million (sorry but we still aren’t going to let ‘kids’ vote…) and you won’t always be on the prevailing side. (Although you should be most of the time!)
Horses and carts, sometimes it feels premature to discuss what life under A Simple Plan would be like but if we don’t have these discussions (thought experiments) you will not be familiar with the ‘alternatives’ to what we suffer now.
Intestinal fortitude good citizen, do you have the ‘guts’ to take charge of how you will live your life…or will you let ‘others’ decide for you?
Sadly, those ‘others’ can’t be trusted to act wisely/selflessly, that’s why pushing this duty off on ‘others’ is both irresponsible AND dangerous.
Why do you think our civilization is on the brink of collapse?
Because there was no mechanism to stop the self-interested from corrupting the system.
That was one hell of a massive ‘oversight’ made by the founders…and we both know it was ‘intentional’…it just wasn’t supposed to ‘get out of hand’ like it has.
Now it’s too late!
Anyway, it’s time once again to take a look at where ‘we’ are headed.
Indisputably we are firmly on the path that leads to a Banana Republic. The ‘wildcard’ here is how bad things will get before ‘social order’ collapses?
Lower ‘tax revenues’ means fewer police resources. The ticking you hear in the background is the millions of unemployed/homeless searching for someplace warm to call home while they hunt for something to eat…
Desperate people will dare desperate acts. So just how much can an under-manned police force handle?
Um, it is said that civilization is only nine meals deep…do the math; that’s three days.
You go three days without a morsel of food and you’re gonna be ready to do some pretty crazy shit because while you can go roughly 30 days without eating, starving to death still hurts like hell!
Think about cannibalism and just try to imagine how hungry you’d have to be for such a repellant concept to become a possibility, never mind a reality!
Once again I apologize for conjuring, er, ‘unpleasant images’ into your mind but reality is what it is.
We can only hope it never comes to that…although, historically speaking, it has occurred far too often.
Worse, while you’re reading this, somebody somewhere is ‘eating the dead’…because that’s all there is.
I lay a lot of ‘evil’ at the feet of capitalism, unnecessary cannibalism isn’t the least of its crimes...but it isn’t the worst either.
Thank you for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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