tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post4589169206204076085..comments2023-10-18T16:25:13.593+01:00Comments on Famous for 15 megapixels: Money (redux)Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-36548315163331060712007-03-22T16:54:00.000+00:002007-03-22T16:54:00.000+00:00@anon/ richard/ anon/ paulThanks for all the links...@anon/ richard/ anon/ paul<BR/><BR/>Thanks for all the links and references<BR/><BR/>I've got half a dozen browser tabs open and a fresh mug of coffee...Stefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-67165799461415706902007-03-22T15:16:00.000+00:002007-03-22T15:16:00.000+00:00@wolfieGraduate-level conspiracy studies courses i...@wolfie<BR/><BR/>Graduate-level conspiracy studies courses include a module devoted to the theory that most revolutions are subverted by the corporate elite in such a way that the vengeance seeking mobs are invariably misdirected into stringing-up, guillotining and generally exterminating the wrong people.<BR/><BR/>There's a quote attributed to Russian revolutionary activist Christian Rakovsky that goes something like...<BR/><BR/><I>And so this fact, so colossal that it misled the<BR/>imagination of the people of that epoch, passes unnoticed with Marx. Something strange ... Is that not<BR/>so? It is possible that from this strange blindness of Marx there arises a phenomenon which is common to all future social revolutions. It is this: we can all confirm that when the masses take possession of a city or a country, then they always seem struck by a sort of superstitious fear of the banks and bankers. One had killed Kings, generals, bishops, policemen, priests and other representatives of the hated privileged classes; one robbed and burnt palaces, churches and even centres of science, but though the revolutions were economic-social, the lives of the bankers were respected, and as a result the magnificent buildings of the banks remained untouched ... According to my information, before I had been arrested, this continues even now ...</I>Stefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-76306526651533211312007-03-22T09:43:00.000+00:002007-03-22T09:43:00.000+00:00Check out this video ... Will the dollar survive?(...Check out this video ... <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmyvEhU-gmw" REL="nofollow">Will the dollar survive?</A><BR/><BR/>(Hope you chaps have a goldmoney account).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-38385715232317180012007-03-22T01:39:00.000+00:002007-03-22T01:39:00.000+00:00I did happen to notice that then Steady Eddy retir...I did happen to notice that then Steady Eddy retired to a modest 300,000 acres of Cornwall, he seemed to have done rather well out of presiding over the credit boom - maybe Mrs G had the foresight to place her pelf in shares in the major banks as their value soared - perish the thought yer 'onor.zizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15249645812407323273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-3282384532378179282007-03-21T17:33:00.000+00:002007-03-21T17:33:00.000+00:00See Eustace Mullins.See Eustace Mullins.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-56744925590082298612007-03-21T15:51:00.000+00:002007-03-21T15:51:00.000+00:00Global Ruling Class: Billionaires and How They “Ma...<A HREF="http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1160http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1160" REL="nofollow">Global Ruling Class: Billionaires and How They “Made It”</A> ... very interesting piece for yourself and your growing audience.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-90771733370979646462007-03-21T12:33:00.000+00:002007-03-21T12:33:00.000+00:00Very succinct Stef, and quite correct.Napoleon Bon...Very succinct Stef, and quite correct.<BR/><BR/><I>Napoleon Bonaparte, when shown an interest table, said, after some reflection: ‘The deadly facts herein lead me to wonder that this monster Interest has not devoured the whole human race.’ It would have done so long ago if bankruptcy and revolution had not been counter-poisons.</I><BR/><BR/>...<BR/><BR/><I>And because ordinary people don't understand, haven't been educated to understand, how money works, bankers can pull shit like this again and again without ever being strung up from the nearest lamp post.</I> <BR/><BR/>Not quite true, this cycle has been going on since the middle-ages in Europe. Most wars and revolutions have had their basis in either the beginning or the end of a debt-cycle. Its just once the killing starts it becomes indiscriminate and everyone forgets why they were doing it in the first place; such is history and the fog of war.Wolfiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05820269114208456064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-89582001768631430462007-03-21T10:50:00.000+00:002007-03-21T10:50:00.000+00:00But, like the proverbial watched pot, it stubbornl...<I>But, like the proverbial watched pot, it stubbornly refuses to boil over. Somebody or something will pop the bubble eventually but who, or what, and when?</I><BR/><BR/>If economics was a science then it would be able to predict these things. Until it does, we are left with little but to ponder Keynes' 'animal spirits'.<BR/><BR/>The best explanation, to my mind, of the debt expansion problem/con is by <A HREF="http://www.michael-hudson.com/" REL="nofollow">michael hudson</A> where, amongst other things, he points out the incompatibilities between the exponential curve of compound interest and the s-curve of reality. <BR/><BR/>He's also a refreshing exponent of the reality of the free lunch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com