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She said Tuesday that she's leaving her distributor, Talk Radio Network, after more than nine years because her contract is up. Ingraham said she is in discussions with other distributors about her show, which currently airs on 325 stations nationally.
Talkers magazine says the conservative Ingraham is the most-listened to woman on radio, with an estimated 5.75 million listeners a week. Talkers said that ranks her among the top eight radio hosts overall.
In the meantime, she said she'll keep her opinions flowing on her website, on Twitter and during Fox News Channel appearances.
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Hi all
I'm new to bikes. I've recently started riding a friends old bike to ride with him. It's great fun and a good workout. I'm trying to figure out which bike to buy. I went to my local bike shop and received great help in learning some things and looking at selection. I thought I'd ask a couple questions here to get opionions from several people.
I primarily at the moment ride the bike on concrete (my friend's old bike is a Road Bike). But there are some trails that I would like to be able to take the bike on in addition to concrete riding--nothing extreme, just dirt and tree roots etc. So A hybrid bike seemed like the best choice for me. The main purpose of the bike is cardiovascular fitness training and a fun workout. If you think I'd be better served with a Road or Mountain bike, please tell.
The bike shop said he mostly sells disc brakes on Mountain bikes and hybrids generally don't need them. But he showed me a couple hybrids with discs. Some of the big hills I go down on concrete scare me and I'm wondering if having disc brake control will be safer. Plus if it rains etc., would disc brakes be safer or are they not really necessary unless you're mountain biking? Disc brakes do require additional maintenance and expense and add weight to bike I was told.
The shop showed me a Specialized and a Kona bike. Any comments on these brands?
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Why the Gold Standard Can Return the World to Global Economic Prosperity
With youth unemployment at 56.4% in Greece and 55.9% in Spain, with nearly 1/3 of 25-34 year olds in America living with their parents, with more than 100,000,000 in China still earning $1 or less a day, and with food prices rising by more than 32% since 2007 in the UK, all due to immoral Central Bank monetary policies that deliberately devalue global fiat currencies in a race to the bottom, a gold standard is quite capable of returning the world to global economic prosperity and ushering in one of the most stable economic growth periods in the history of the world.
For example, the Central Banks' propensity to deliberately destroy wealth is easily illustrated by the current conditions that they have created in global bond markets, where despite the high risk of owning sovereign bonds, Central Banks refuse to offer higher yields for the public assumption of this enormous risk, and in fact, in some countries, have even goaded the public into paying them interest (negative yields) on government bonds issued in Germany, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Austria (with France among other countries likely next in line). Central Banks have successfully sold their propaganda that government bonds are "safe havens" for decades to the public, and the public has gobbled up this heaping mound of rubbish hook, line, and sinker.
For this reason, governments and bankers (because they are two heads of the same monster) can offer public negative yielding bonds and still trick the public into buying them. Furthermore, in the US, the Central Bankers have pledged to buy 90% of all new government bond issues in 2013, the only scenario that will present (and perhaps only delay) a total collapse of the US Treasury bond market. Thus only trickery, deceit and chicanery are necessary tools on behalf of Central Bankers to prop up the illusion that Treasury bonds are "risk-free". Nothing on the surface is ever what it seems to be. Because we have always dug below the surface and have never accepted the garbage that governments and bankers attempt to repackage as great value and sell to the public, we put everyone on notice in January, 2007 to get rid of USD denominated bonds and reiterated "10 Reasons Why No One Should Own Any Dollar Denominated Bonds, v 2.0", in February of 2008, when we also stated that physical gold and physical silver were much better places to park your money back then. Since then, both gold and silver have already both nearly doubled in price against the USD. Not bad for what bankers were trying to portray as "crazy talk" back then, right?
In any event, those that wish to keep the people hopelessly enslaved in our current, debt-based, Ponzi-ridden, fiat currency system always attack the idea of a gold standard because they say that the use of a gold standard today is impossible because:
(1) The price of gold would have to be "too high" to reimplement a gold standard,
(2) A gold standard would not prevent runaway inflation because there are historical periods of runaway inflation under previous gold standards; and
(3) If the same private interests that run our current global monetary system run a gold-based monetary system, then there is no sense in having a gold-based monetary system.
As I've illustrated in the brief excerpt from my book "The Golden Gift" below, all of these above points are fabricated lies that can easily be disproven and thoroughly debunked with a small dose of history and another dose of logic. The only arguments against the implementation of a gold standard come from the banking cartels controlled by the likes of the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, and their minions and puppets, because the implementation of a true 100% backed gold standard would mean an end to the reign of the private banking families that control today's money creation and supply over all of humanity. Sound money, versus our current immoral monetary system, would bring about an end to endless wars and perpetually and massively artificially-distorted stock market, commodities, and real estate prices, and currency valuations for the Machiavellian benefit of the private banking families that own the world's Central Banks and no one else.
Lastly, for the sake of an intelligent and valuable discussion, please do ensure that you read the below excerpt in its entirety before posting comments! I believe that following this singular rule will allow for the best debate. Thank you.
About the author: JS Kim is the founder and Managing Director of SmartKnowledgeU, a fiercely independent research & consulting investment firm with a focus on gold and silver. One of the primary missions of SmartKnowledgeU is to usher in a new age of global economic prosperity with the return to sound money principles. Follow us on twitter @smartknowledgeu, on Facebook here and on YouTube here.
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A classical dollar backed gold standard will not work unless it is matched with a central banking system that involves itself only with regulating the solvency of all banking and lending organizations (i.e. banks, shadow banks, insurance companies, et al), much like the old Suffolk Bank. However, since this is a power of Congress, it must be public, at least 2/5ths owned by the Congress, and staffed not by economists, but accountants. I cover this in depth in "New American Revolution", and in the "On Liberty" series at www.electanewcongress.com, under "The Orderly Removal and Replacement of the Federal Reserve Bank". In it, I also explain the need to view gold not as a value, but strictly as a standard of measurement. It is a bit abstract, but critical to understanding how a classical gold standard performs the regulation of credit, leaving the central bank to strictly and solely regulate solvency. Tyler won't print it but I still send it to him, still, you can side step him and read it for yourself at www.electanewcongress.com.
Serfs Up America!
BUT, clearly the problem, New American Revolution, is the double-bind paradox, Catch 22, that the best organized criminals ALREADY overwhelmingly dominate the established systems. There are a handful of enormous conglomerate media corportions, worth over a trillion dollars, providing people with most of their "news," and only those who can raise billions of dollars can afford to use those means to communicate to a large enough number of people to perhaps make a slight difference?
We ALREADY have a system where less than 25% of the people deliver 100% of the political power to the best professional liars and immaculate hypocrites. The established systems are ALREADY almost inconceivably crazy and corrupt, and automatically getting worse, faster. In that context, every possible good idea is a non-starter. The only realistic future is for that system of collectively craziness to go through psychotic breakdowns. America was ALREADY taken over by the best organized gang of criminals. That is now a runaway. Anyone's good ideas, in that context, appears to be like those of ants in front of a steamroller!
My GLD is up 236%....house down 42%.....my stocks still down 32%.
'nuff said.
We don't need a gold "standard", which is implicitly defined by, and managed by, government and a centralized financial elite --- we merely need FREEDOM in the monetary sphere, to be able to use as money whatever is mutually agreed upon, with gold undoubtedly playing a large role, but with the exact determination left to the parties involved in any particular exchange.
Spot on. I was talking about this with my ten year old son the other night and he gets it. It's amazing how dumbed down the population is that most cannot grasp this very simple concept.
The gold standard doesn't put more cheap oil in the ground, less carbon in the air, or more food in the silos.
If today's economy was a gold based society, it would be simple to grab most of the world's gold.
Try to buy oil and ship it when "powers that be" do not want to sell it or have it shipped.
Try to fund a coalition to break that embargo using only promises or fiat.
The last gold standard was 'Rape by the private bankers version 1` so returning to a gold standard as the author explains it leaves the banksters in control. This means it does not address the basic problem which is that the private bankers have used their control of the right to issue money to accumulate (according to recent Swiss research) 80% of the world's wealth at the expense of general public. Furthermore a gold standard causes deflation and recessions in response to increases in productivity and this is the opposite of what should occur. The answer that has stood the test of time (operating successfully for 500 years at one stage) and repeatedly proven itself is public banking, where governments reclaim the right to issue national currencies, do so linked to productivity and the parasitic private banking industry that is slowly stranging the economies of the west is disbanded.
I WISH I could still believe in ideal solutions as superficial as those presented in this article! It presents what I almost always find being presented, namely good analysis of the problems, followed by bullshit solutions, that ignore what was just demonstrated as the basic facts during that analysis!
To quote from Chapter Three of the The Golden Gift, linked to this article:
"... our current banking system is not only immoral but that it is downright criminal."
Of course that is correct, and that book is also obviously correct that the fractional reserve banking system, which is now a globalized, privatized, fiat money made out of nothing, as debt, system, screws 99.9% of the people, while fantastically benefiting the 0.1% who have been able to corrupt governments to the degree that the privilege of legalized counterfeiting, as a runaway triumphant fraud, is enjoyed by a tiny minority, while the vast majority of the other people are forced to accept and adapt their lives around that fraud, by their own governments!
However, the idea that a "gold standard" would fix those problems is a totally goofball notion, which is based on a silly and shallow idea about what those problems actually ARE. What we "need" is a "truth standard" in our money system. However, that ideal immediately runs into a head-on collision with the truth about militarism.
Money that is based on the conservation of matter is a first approximation towards an old-fashioned kind of "truth standard" in the monetary system. Since commodities cannot be made out of nothing, nor sent to nothing, there is an inherent degree of "truth" in some money that is based on the reality of the existence of some commodities. However, there are level after level after level of bogus presumptions that surround that kind of superficial view regarding what is an adequate "truth standard" with respect to a monetary system! What is immediately relevant is the sequence of the advancements in postmodernizing sciences, from the conservation of matter, to the conservation of energy, to then enable atomic bombs to be made, and go BOOM!
Of course, a global electronic fiat money system, backed by atomic bombs, is the runaway fraud that dominates the whole world at the present time. The old-fashioned systems of debt slavery, backed by wars based on deceits, have rapidly devolved to become debt insanity, backed by the threat of genocidal wars, along with democidal martial law. However, the notions that we can resolve those problems by going BACKWARDS to any old-fashioned commodity based money, because that is going to be "sound money" or "honest money" are RIDICULOUS!!!
If one consistently applies our current best understanding of energy laws and systems theory to monetary policy, one discovers that money is backed by murder. Furthermore, there is no other ultimate standard that "money" can be based upon than a murder standard. That is the only "truth standard" in money which is sufficient to embrace the real social facts.
The basics are as follows:
The fundamental concept is SUBTRACTION. That is the most important concept, and it is the one which is the most taken for granted to be understood in the most backwards ways, by the most people. Indeed, the basic equations regarding entropy, in thermodynamics and information theory, had an arbitrary minus sign inserted in them, in order that power and information would appear to have positive values, rather than have the negative values that the mathematics actually says is the case.
That is relevant to the entire process of measuring, which is one of the aspects of any monetary system. The point is that there is an unknowable WHOLE, from which everything we "know" is relatively subtracted. There are profound paradoxes built into the limits of measurement, due to the ways that the everything we "know" is relatively subtracted from a WHOLE than we can never know, although we ARE IT.
As soon as we define and talk about anything, we have done subtractions, separating something from the WHOLE, which things we then can discuss as relatively finite. Clearly, that applies both to chunks of gold, as well as to individual human beings, and everything else! As soon as we define a living thing as somehow separated from its environment, then it must engage in relative robberies across its defined boundaries, in order to maintain itself as a living entropic pump. It is a living fire, which must have more fuel to keep burning! Furthermore, to compound that basic problem, living things are able to reproduce, and thus to start more fires, which then also need more fuel to keep burning.
"Gold" is just one particular element, of a relatively stable dance of concentrated energy, put together in the intense fires of exploding suns, long ago, and later condensed into planet Earth. Meanwhile, almost everything else we human beings are doing is powered by the flow of energy from our Sun, being absorbed into the surface of the Earth, where it recycles around a few times, until bouncing back out into space. Those are the basic parameters of what we are all doing ... The more times that the energy goes around and around, the more life and consciousness there is.
Human societies are necessarily organized systems of lies, operating organized robberies, within that context. MONEY IS BACKED BY MURDER. Gold, or other commodity based forms of money, are merely symbolic expressions off the history of murder, backing up robbery, which has the fancy name of militarism. Militarism is the most sublimely and perpetually paradoxical of all human activities. The oldest book on the Art of War starts by saying that success in war is based on deceits, and ends by saying that spies are the most important soldiers. Thousands of years of the history of civilization have amplified that with more and more science and technology, to become the global system that exists today!
What made War King then developed to make Fraud King. The Fraud Kings are those who can make money out of nothing, as debts, which everyone else are forced to accept and adapt their lives around! Of course, those Fraud Kings are the symbolic manifestation of the top carnivores, or the supreme predators in the current human ecology. However, it is always a goofy mistake to blame them for the existence of the problems, which they have simply resolved in the most expedient ways that benefit themselves.
The idea that going back to gold, or whatever, as a better money system, has zero merit. The truth in a better truth based money has to accept that money is backed by murder. The debt controls depend on the death controls. The only ways forwards are to go through sufficient paradigm shifts in militarism, so that the monetary system can catch up to the degree of understanding that made things like atomic bombs go BOOM!
It is because atomic bombs go BOOM that old-fashioned ideas like going back a gold standard based money are ridiculous! The idea that we will be able to get "sound money" or "honest money" on the basis of conservation of matter is a hopeless old-fashioned idea when the conservation of matter is now but another special case of the conservation of energy. A better "truth standard" in money should be based on the conservation of energy. However, that immediately addresses the history of militarism, or the history of murder.
There are NO other solutions to our fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting system than to understand how and why the Fraud Kings were able to take control over that. However, fully understanding that means that the 99.9%+ of the people who are getting systematically defrauded by the tiny fraction of the population of Fraud Kings have to take more responsibility for operating the social murder systems. The breakdown of the debt controls, as debt slavery devolves into debt insanity, is driving the rest of that system towards collapsing into chaos, with the result of genocidal wars, and matching democidal martial law. However, the only genuine alternative long-term solutions would have to be better death controls, operating a better murder system, so that the debt controls, and the money system, that those are based upon, would become saner, and more sustainable..
... Of course, I understand that pointing out basic science concepts, which "should" be relevant to political economy, are practically non-starters! The majority of human beings do NOT understand basic science, and do not want to understand. The real world is based on runaway financial frauds, which work because there was a long history of lies, backed by violence, which ACTUALLY controls the world! Meanwhile, almost everyone who talks about those problems tends to do good analysis, which they then follow with bullshit solutions, based on going back to impossible ideals, which ignore their basic factual conclusions.
This article, and the book it links to, illustrated that general phenomenon. It correctly says: "... our current banking system is not only immoral but that it is downright criminal." However, it then advances totally bogus "solutions."
In fact, money is backed by murder, and there are NO real solutions which can fix the problems with the monetary systems that are not better murder systems. However, better murder systems raise the ever deeper issues of the the paradoxical ways that success in militarism depends on deceits. Thus, a "truth standard" in money, which is generally a good idea, would require a better "truth standard" in the death controls. That is also a generally good idea, but one which is practically impossible, especially since the established systems are based on the maximum possible social deceits, triumphantly operated by a tiny minority of the best organized gangs of criminals, which effectively control the puppet politicians and the muppet masses.
In theory, give the progress in all other sciences, we should have paradigm shifting progress in political science. However, instead, we have privatized global electronic frauds, backed by weapons of mass destruction, which are all effectively controlled by the people who were the best at lying about that, and promoting impossible ideals to rationalize and justify their runaway robberies and murderous systems. In that context, this kind of article was merely another classic work promoting reactionary revolutions, advocating going backwards, to impossible ideals out of the past, as being somehow sensible.
Hah! In fact, we are inside a runaway fascist plutocracy juggernaut, that is going to turn most of us into road kill, when that system finishes driving itself MAD. I already know that almost everything I have written above will simply bounce off the thick skulls of the vast majority of people. There deeper REAL problem is that money is backed by murder, and murder is backed by the maximum deceits. That is how and why we now live inside of a system controlled by the Fraud Kings, who developed their powers through the history of War Kings, creating sovereign states, that the best organized and biggest gangsters, the banksters, could covertly take control over, and thereby, force everyone else to live within a system based on triumphant fraudulence, driving itself MAD, and thus, towards SELF-DESTRUCTION.
Of course, I WISH that things were otherwise, however, over and over again, there has been a pattern of goofball articles published on Zero Hedge, recommending some kind of a return to a gold standard, and those articles, like this one, over and over again do good analysis of the criminals who control the financial system, without ever facing WHY that was the case, and WHY any genuine solutions have to face the fundamental fact that money is backed by murder, and therefore, any better money system MUST be backed by a better murder system, and that, in turn, has to face the facts regarding WHY the actual murder system was based on the maximum deceits, which was WHY the real world today is almost totally controlled by the Fraud Kings!
The dark ages had no problem with Gold?
All the ideas are flawed if not built on solid foundations. The best of humans have made very clear that you give to get.
Instead ideas have infiltrated my life like no other
2:15 gets to my point
Well, the law is ceremonialized combat. Lawyers are mostly hired guns, that use their language to beat others up, and rob them, unless they, or their clients, get beaten up and robbed instead. The law is relatively civilized, considering the possible alternatives, which are a bunch of smaller bullies, beating each other up, in even crazier ways. The old saying, "some rob you with a gun, others rob you with a fountain pen" is clearly true. However, which is worse depends on one's point of view, or frame of reference. Abstractly, the system of organized robbery, through the laws, such as the monetary system itself, robs other people, through frauds, of ASTRONOMICALLY SIZED AMOUNTS. However, subjectively, being immediately faced with the barrel of a gun, and then and there "choosing" whether to hand over one's wallet, or be shot, seems to me to subjectively be a more intense situation ...
The monetary system is organized lies and robbery done abstractly, on a scale almost beyond imagination ... derivatives that are into the quadrillions of units, using money made out of nothing to gamble with, which collectively results in a kind of legal taxation of everything upon everyone, mediated through the lawyers, who rationalize and justify doing that, and take their slices of that pie for doing so ... VERSUS ... derranged gangs of bullies, beating you up, and taking your stuff, or destroying your things, or somebody you love, right in front on your eyes ??? Abstractly, the lawyers are worse criminals, because the law itself is the biggest organized criminal system. However, personal particular experience usually makes lesser levels of criminals more intense encounters! I have no way to resolve that contradiction. The intellectual view is that the big system is worse, however, the actual experience is that the smaller systems are worse.
As far as I can tell, there are NO "solid foundations," and "one does not get back what one gives," because the world seems to be mostly noisy chaos to me, in which what one gets appears to be more like the result of a pin ball game, rather than any sublime Karma. The abstract science usually looks nice enough, indeed beautiful ... However, the reality appears more and more to be random walks into absurdities.
As in this video that you linked, urwright, one of the real results of American style wars was to end up with people from the countries America went to war with becoming Americans. How crazy a result was that? Perhaps only time will tell? ... However, my view is that the "melting pot" has stopped melting, and so, hell appears to be freezing over?
The monetary system appears to have become basically frozen in history, as robbery was legalized, and done through lawyers being professional liars. Thereby, layer after layer, after layer, of organized lies, doing organized robberies, were applied over each other ... building up a social system that is looking lumpier and lumpier to me ... I am so used to taking my lumps, that I only expect more so ...
I have thought through the consequences of returning to the gold standard in my blog and came to then conclusion that the arguments against it probably outweigh the arguments in favour of it. Returning to the gold standard would force us to put gold worth billions of dollars into a vault just to serve as a monetary base. The monetary base would not be worth any more because we put the gold into vaults and allow money to be converted on demand, it would be worth more only because the future growth of money supply would be lower and thus holding money to preserve value would be more attractive. The same could be achieved by tieing down the money supply with aimple rule withouit having to dig up gold wasting considerable amounts of capital and labor. The impossibilty to react quickly to changes in the amount of money demanded by the public would require wage and price flexibility to ensure the economy does not plunge in to a recession in that case as history has shown that periods of enforced extraordinary deflation are associated with economic contractions. As the money stock rises in value people would have less incentives to invest in alternatives, government seignorage would plunge and with it public debt sustainability (ths particular point does not have to be bad). Full analysis here: http://makrointelligenzint.blogspot.de/2012/11/the-implications-of-going...
Prosperity? Now why would the elite want for us to be prosperous? That's simply too much competition to their scams, and therefore will not be allowed.
You almost understood it on #3.
(3) If the same private interests that run our current global monetary system run a gold-based monetary system, then there is no sense in having a gold-based monetary system.
It doesn't matter which banker or politician you put in charge of counting the gold bars, the very act of counting them proves that we have not moved to a new "system". The way to go would be for the Pope and Ron Paul to personally do the inventory for each country. I think they're too old to do this every week. The Pope wouldn't lie and Ron Paul would saw all the bars in half to make sure they're not fake. We'd have to have a new ammendment to the constitution stating the gold will be stored in bins with the name of the owner (U.S. Treasury) hung above the bin and nobody can lease, borrow or own that gold without the sign being changed without massive penalties. (M.F. Global)
If they can put 1/100 th of an ounce into the new $100 coin(just about everything will cost $100, gas, bread etc after the reserve currency is gone) then the government can have a gold backed currency. Gold is for the little guy like China and a rural Chinese farmer, not the U.S. Treasury or M.F. Global or ETFs.
the gold standard no more than any other TECHNICALITY will never return the world to sanity in its current mindset.
Behind the debt pump is a mindset : world dominance; and that is a prize that has no price.
Alexander, Caesar, Charles V, Soleiman the Magnificent, Napoleon, Queen Victoria, Heil Apple strudel, Bushy bush n push; they all went that way.
And we are now somewhere between Carrhae and Philippi for NWO USA.
As long as people build world empires who cares about the golden trappings of extended budgets, all paid on credit thru borrowed money. They only become ominously important when battle lost and empire in peril.
Are we really there with Pax Americana chimes?
How much longer can the US Dollar remain as the reserve currency? The US debt picture is pretty bleak.
If you were China or India how long would you tolerate doing business with a company that continues to lose money? China and others have be concerned that they will not see the return of their principal. They've invested in the USA because of the quantity of exports purchased by the USA. My guess is they will not tolerate the USA financial mess much longer. Ask yourself this....Why has China become a massive buyer of gold? Why does China prohibit the export of gold? The US can not keep prinintg indefinitely. Most Americans wonder when it will stop. Eventually the massive increase in debt will cause inflation (i.e. Germany after WWI). Frankly, I thought we would have reached that peak by now. Again, it's just a matter of time before GOLD increases in value and replace fiats worldwide.
NIce argument. US will never let this happen. USD is the reserve currency. 60% of global trade is in US Dollars.
Iraq tried oil trade in non-USD and the US invaded and took him out - MSM said US wanted the oil - sure, whatever.
Not a fan of the Buffet, but he has it right - we dig it up, refine it, bury it and guard it. A bit silly.
The USD is a military backed currency. No need for bitcoins, nor gold nor buttons nor bottle caps to back the USD.
And gold in USD will continue to fall - albeit slowly.
The USD has reached its expiration date:
Funny, all the same arguments you could have made for the pound prior to 1913. Yet, the pound is no longer the reserve currency.
If there is no need for it, why do countries and central banks maintain reserves?
You might want to ask Buffet why he liked precious metals so much in the nineties.
There are other sites that fawn over ignorance like yours, but this is not one of them.
by the time the banking cartel's immoral grip on humanity is broken, i'll be long dead. keep fighting the good fight, people, for the sake of our children & grandchildren.
Establishing a gold standard or its' use as money will not return the world to prosperity.
While it would affect the use of financial instruments, leverage, debt and state spending- all for the good. This is not the same as prosperity. Prosperity has always been a state of financial benefit for a select part of the population. While the size of people that share in some degree of prosperity has grown since the introduction of capitalism and industrialization, it has never grown to include the global community.
Defining your terms and their limitations is important, if you are to have a credible argument. Further, it is hard to make this point without considering resources, commodities, state policies regarding war and liberty as well as other milestones of prosperity.The next frontiers have yet to be opened for new exploration nor are they ripe for production. Trying to create prosperity from the leftovers of our industrial orgasm is impossible- that is why we are stuck in a financial nightmare of wealth transfer- the easy money has been made.
Returning to the gold standard will not return the world to prosperity because the last 200 years of prosperity (the benchmark by which we measure the thing itself) was fueled entirely by fossil energy, which is now going away no matter what you think.
That game is over. Better find a new game or your gaming gold isn't going to matter one iota. Except in how many slaves you can purchase to work your land. So in that regard, have at it.
Going to a gold standard will not create prosperity, but it will create a firm foundation, a base, upon which prosperity can be built.
In a world where saving is costly (via inflation and monetary manipulation) there exists no sure way to save the fruits of labor to generate the required capital to create new job and wealth creating businesses. A gold standard or a system that permits the use of gold and PMs as mediums of exchange allows the laborer to retain that portion of the wages he earns and does not spend as savings without loss by erosion of value.
How about if they just repeal legal tender laws and let people choose whatever money they prefer?
i didnt read the excerpt but would still like to wish the rothshits a merry christmas!
Suggestion: We need to communicate more in terms of gold as money, instead of a "gold standard." We all know that any gold "standard" will be a rigged standard. We want the freedom to use gold as money, without the government determining the price of gold or any other intervention.
"without the government determining the price of gold or any other intervention."
Why focus on only gold, this goes for any commodity or physical asset of real value. Don't be so short sighted.
Of course I agree with you. I was just responding in context to the article.
Bingo. I don't remember who the politician was (candidate, she lost, somewhere out west, I believe) but she said something about buying things with 2 chickens. My first thought, as the press began to mock her, was that she had spent some time with someone who is smart. She was trying to repeat a conversation that had made sense to her, but couldn't quite capture it intelligently. We don't need a govt monopoly on "money". In fact, as free people, we should absolute freedom over what we use and what we accept as "money". And never in history has this idea been more plausible than today. With instant access to information, our ability to move freely between forms of money would be quite simple.
It was Bachmann and it was in regards to healthcare iirc.. She said you could pay your doctor with chickens or something to that effect.
That sounds right, and fits her, I think. She and Palin are similar animals, I believe. Somewhere along the way they have been exposed to some rational ideas, but they can't quite articulate them and very likely don't really understand them. The conspiracy theorist in me believes they are both unknowing plants meant to discredit certain points of view. If the first time you hear an idea it is delivered by some batshit crazy woman it is easy to ignore it the next time, no?
The wealth of our entire global economy currently gets transfered directly to the Bankers daily in exchange for absolutely worthless little tiny pieces of green paper. The more paper they print, the more real wealth they steal in exchange for the worthless ink and cellulose. They are currently stealing by volume and velocity more wealth than any other period in history. The metals are the best way to stop them.
Sad that in the next few years most people will lose everything they own because they can not comprehend what I just wrote in the lines above.
The wealth transfer trail branches out from the printing press to the farthest reaches of the globe. All wealth flows back to the printing press. The countryside is littered with maggot infested devalued paper that has been used to wipe their...
As in Zimbabwe, the people will be left holding truckloads of green poultry bedding and the Bankers will own all assets of real value.


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What Did You Do For Fun While You Were In High School?
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I'll admit it. I love the TV show Glee (no…that doesn't make me a Gleek
). I think it's because it reminds me of the days when I was very involved with my high school drama department.
When I say involved...I'm talking really involved. I participated in a lot of speech competitions at various high schools across Oklahoma…as well taking part in the many school plays that were performed each year. And yes…half of them were musicals.
This particular time in my life was quite magical because I had so much fun with all the different plays and competitions that I participated in…and a lot of my high school memories seemed centered around this particular activity.
To say I was involved in theatre is an understatement…because I spent most of my weekends during my sophomore…junior…and senior years competing in speech competitions. I quickly found I could only work during the summer months… because my weekends were so jam packed during the school year…and this made it impossible to find a part-time job…since most of the local employers wanted high school students to work weekends. So…I would save all my summer income for the upcoming school year.
It was worth it though...because by my junior and senior years….I was placing at regional…state…and national levels in most of my speech events.
The events I competed in seemed to be varied. I guess I needed variety in my life even back then. Most of the kids competing in the original oration category were debaters…so I was considered quite the novelty when I arrived on the scene. Most of the girls wore suits…while I wore more girlie clothes. You had 10 minutes to give your speech…and some of the rounds could be quite nerve racking to say the least.
I remember writing about the teenager's perspective of "Who Am I?" during my junior year…and "how damaging extremely critical people could be to a person" in my senior year. Both times…I qualified for state…and one time…I qualified for nationals. This was quite a big deal in my corner of the world…because most kids didn't get this far in speech competitions.
A couple of the other events I took part in included prose and poetry. I once made it all the way to state with a story another teenager wrote and published in the teen magazine
. This was a hoot because I was considered the underdog…and ended up placing 1st in the end.
I also participated in dramatic interpretation (All About Eve) and humorous interpretation...and did quite well considering I felt like I was going to be sick before each of these rounds. I realize now that it was my lack of confidence that had me so stressed...because I didn't think I was as talented as some of the other kids. Heck…I didn't even think I was a very funny person until I became an adult. I thought everyone was just being polite up until that point.
I would sometimes participate in dramatic or humorous duets with other kids…or fill in on the debate team if they needed an extra body. These weren't my preferences because I liked competing by myself…and on my own merits.
One thing's for sure…during these 3 years...I made a lot of friends…and got to see a lot of Oklahoma…because there was always down time between the different rounds…as long as you didn't try to compete in more than 2 or 3 events per competition.
Yep…those were definitely good times.
So peeps…What did you do for fun while you were in high school?
I'm suddenly feeling very nostalgic
…but I'll still kick your arse if you call me a Gleek.
Your turn…
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Sep 23 @ 9:38PM
Hmm.. Ok the stuff that's fit to print..
I was a dancer. Yup, spent all my time dancing. Ballet, Jazz, that kinda thing.
I was also in all the musicals.. in fact got to play Annie in a production of the same name.
I like Glee too.. and don't mind being a Gleek.
Sep 23 @ 10:05PM
Gleek, Gleek, Gleek!!! Get your ass kickers out!!!
Awesome write...and a good read!!!
Greenie for the "Gleek"
Well, I Took a 9pt. buck in my freshman year!!
Back then...I had kicked a Lot of Old men asses,...Including my Dad's!!! Hell... he even offered me a Beer...WTF?
(but i told him I didn't drink!!!
My Senior year..I Knocked up my GF!!! Best thing I ever did!!!
Hey...I'm Southern Red....WTH?
Sep 23 @ 10:07PM
I taught myself the last two years of high school and spent a lot of time travelling. That was a lot of fun and I learned more from that than I could have ever learned in a classroom. Other than that I spent a lot of time writing and painting.
Sep 23 @ 10:36PM
umm....errrrr..HIGH school??? your asking ME?/ moi
i learned to roll the perfect..............................................
Sep 23 @ 10:44PM
I was busy smoking what ynot was rolling.....
Sep 23 @ 10:45PM
Guess I'm a gleek too...lol
Hmmm what did I do in school...
Greeny for a great read here really enjoyed it...
Sep 23 @ 10:45PM
This is a very good read. Thanks for sharing.
So peeps…What did you do for fun while you were in high school?
I had a few friends who I went to school with that also went to the same church I did while in high school. There were times where we were involved with hanging out with each other during some events with a bit of a mixure of our friends whether it was church related to where it involved such things as going camping, playing flashlight tag at church or our youth leader's business building downtown at midnight, to car washes. Aside from church events, some of us hung out with each other to where we went double and triple dating sometimes by going to movie theaters. I remember taking my ex (Ann) to go see Ghostbusters and Meatballs 2 ( it was Meatballs 2 or 3 back in 1984) with another couple that Ann and I were friends with.
Another time where we all got together and hungout with each other on New Years Eve back in 1984 going into 1985 to where we all went bowling, and then went back to one of our friends home to where we partied and celebrated the new year as it happened.
Aside from Ann and I hanging out with our friends, we both hung out with each other mostly with each other during my high school years.
Very good blog. Kudo!
Sep 23 @ 10:47PM
So Ynot was the roller?!!
Great Job man!!!
Sep 24 @ 12:13AM
Good read kat but we better not talk about my teenage years. Some of the people may still remember and hold a grudge. Less just say I would probably get kicked out of pervia I wasn't the nice person I am now.
One of them green things for ya.
Sep 24 @ 2:39AM
I mostly studied a broad.
Sep 24 @ 5:38AM
miss Kitty ... a Drama Queen ?
who'd have thought
Sep 24 @ 8:16AM
Everything you could do in a car. High school itself was a bore.
Sep 24 @ 9:22AM
My high school years....I would have been hanging out with Ynot and Pink.
My friends and I were the typical "troublemakers" in high school. For us, it was fun to see how much we could get away with before being caught. And our assistant principle was so easy to pull one over on. With all the hell I raised in high school, I got suspended only once, and that was near the end of my senior year.
We would take off at lunch, roll a few, come back to class higher than a kite, or, just not come back at all. And for any who are wondering, yes, I did graduate on time. In fact, out of my sisters and I, I'm the only one with a high school diploma. I wasn't a straight A student, although, I could have been if I had spent more time studying and less time partying.
No, I wasn't into any of the clubs, like glee, theater, band, etc, in high school. Just raising hell, having fun, and hanging out.
Sep 24 @ 12:36PM
I was one of those weird art students
Sep 24 @ 2:15PM
I sewed, I danced, I played sports, ran track, ice skated, climb mountains, cliff dived, water skiied, had a paper route, road my racing bike all over the place, bowled, camped, road a unicycle, road horses, went on vacations with the family, hitch hiked to Calif., went to keggers in the desert, smoked abunch of pot, worked alot for my Dad...paid my way through college....
Sep 24 @ 6:37PM
I worked full time while I was in high school to help pay the bills as my father was dying of cancer...........didn't leave much free time and Im afraid I drank most of my free time...........ok while I was in classes I was eating oranges that I had shot vodka into with a syringe..............that might explain why i dont remember much of high school .............lmao
Sep 24 @ 6:50PM
Everything you could do in a car
Oh yeah, I had the same kind of fun as well in my car with my ex during those years.
Sep 24 @ 9:39PM
Wearing a kilt and playing the scotish high land bagpipes and having young ladies ask what we wear under neath it and showing them
Sep 25 @ 3:38AM
ok...I know you and Ewe are dying to hear about my first drunk experience.....
...maybe later....gotta go downstairs and get a beer....
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Are you reading this on a smoke break? Consider making this cigarette your last. Today is the Great American Smokeout of 2010, a national day to band together and stub out your last cigarette.
If you're a smoker, you're probably well versed in the reasons to quit. For me, giving up cigarettes forever required one special reason: kids.
I smoked my last cigarette two weeks before I met my stepson. I'd quit half a dozen times before, and always picked it up again with a few months. This time, when the charm of not smoking had worn off and the stress of winter made me want to buy a fresh pack of cigarettes, I had a kid in my life. A kid I was really, really sure I never wanted to see smoking. Which meant, to me, that I needed to never smoke in front of him.
It wasn't the easiest thing I've ever done, but every time I wanted to pick up a cigarette, even if he was far away, I'd think about him and pull back from that urge.
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- Put a picture of your kids where you used to keep your cigarettes. That's a nice reminder of your motivation for quitting, every time you reflexively reach for the pack.
- Learn your triggers. Know when you usually smoke, and have a plan for handling the cravings that come up. For me, that meant keeping a pack of gum in my car, because I always used to smoke on my morning commute.
- Know what you plan to do instead. Some people chew gum. You could take a drink of water. Go for a ten minute walk. Meditate or stretch. Plan a few things you can do when you find yourself craving a cigarette, and set yourself up with any supplies you need in advance. Like gum. Did I mention gum? Totally helped me.
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Our family enjoys anything related to the Veggie Tales. The story rhymes and is fun to read, but young readers may find the reading itself to be a bit difficult since it includes contractions and a few more difficult words like "bouquet" and "thoughtful." The rhyming is a fun way to learn new words and certainly helps the flow from page to page. The convenience of the plastic carrying case offers ownership to toddlers as they carry this item on vacations or even just around the house.
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Ten years ago almost any contribution to the literature of accountancy would have been welcomed. Today, however, with the increasing number of excellent publications, it is incumbent upon one who puts forth a new accounting work to justify his action. Much more is it necessary to explain the publication of a set of accounting books. Hence it is desirable to state at the outset the purpose of "Business Accounting" and to outline its scope and general methods of presentation.
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The evidence for human sacrifice among the ancient Celts is two-sided. Whereas ritual killings in Gaul are uncertain, Britain was the home of some gruesome scenes.
Many Roman writers, from Caesar to Saint Augustine, have written in horror about the Celts and their custom of human sacrifice. The problem today is with proving or disproving them. Some would like to dismiss these writings as propaganda, which it to some extent it was, others readily take their word. The archaeological evidence, unfortunately, divides rather than unifies opinion.
Human Remains in a Celtic Ritual Context from Gaul
In France, numerous sanctuaries from the Celtic period have been excavated and several have been found to contain human remains. The existence of and particularly the mutilation of such human remains some have been found headless, others have been found bodiless has often been taken as evidence of human sacrifice.
There are some problems with this approach. It is true that the human remains at these Gallic sanctuaries are probably cultic in nature. They do not resemble the remains found in either graves or dwellings, but that does not necessarily mean that a ritual killing took place. Animals sacrificed at these cult sites generally show signs of violent death and many met their death through decapitation. This is simply not the case with the human remains.
As of yet, no human remains have been found within a Gallic sanctuary that clearly indicate a violent death. In the case of singular skulls or headless bodies, decapitation appears to have taken place after death and one cannot be certain that these humans were alive, or even intact, when they arrived at the sanctuary.
This raises a difficult question concerning the written sources, which suggest a wide variety of violent deaths: hanging, burning, drowning, garrotting, stabbing, and being torn to pieces by brute force.Where are all of these victims of violent sacrifice?
Possible Violently Sacrificed Victims in a Burial Context
A practice mentioned by Julius Caesar, which can also be seen in the archaeological evidence, might shed some light on the issue. From very earliest days of Celtic culture, it sometimes occurred that when a man died his wife or entire family was killed in order to accompany him death. Although it can sometimes be uncertain whether a violent death is a murder or a grief-induced suicide, in many cases the signs point towards murder.
The setting of the act, however, introduces a problem of definition: was a burial-site a sufficiently cultic site that the Celts themselves would have seen this as an act of sacrifice? If so, for whom was the sacrifice made? If, as is commonly theorised, a woman is murdered in order to be by her husbands side in the underworld, is it truly a sacrifice? The corpses are not yet giving any answers.
Violent Ritual Killings in British Waters and Beyond
The situation in Britain is different. The British Isles share a pattern with Northern Europe of apparent violent ritual killings. Though not found in the context of a cult centre, bodies have been found in places of spiritual importance such as wetlands, which can be viewed as symbolic or even physical entrances into the underworld. One particularly famous victim was found in 1984 in the Lindow Bog.
The Lindow Man, or Lindow II, was in his twenties when he died. Based on his level of health and grooming, it is assumed that he was of noble birth. After ingesting a mistletoe concoction, which might have sedated him, he received a serious blow to the head, was strangled, and had his jugular severed with a blade. Afterwards, he was deposited in water.
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Part I: Psychedelic Horseshit
I'm sure all of us at one time or another have known some dickhead who regularly made it a point to justify his boorish behavior by braying, "Whatever, I don't give a fuck," or some variant thereof.
This, we all know, is bullshit, akin to perennial mom-favorite niceboy songsmith Billy Joel branding himself a "luuuunatic." People who really don't care about what others think of them don't have to explain themselves to everyone within earshot. They let their actions do the talking.
Enter Psychedelic Horseshit, only the second band I've ever seen that I'd actually believe if they told me that they didn't give a whit of a shit about public perception. If fuck-giving was measured in Kelvin degrees, I'd bet my weight in geldings that they'd temp absolute zero.
The drummer used an empty Jose Cuervo box in lieu of a real kick drum. The bassist… Well, he was rather non-descript, content to hang back in his corner of the stage and lay down a solid low-end base for whatever the fuck the frontman thought he was accomplishing.
The frontman was a triple threat of ineptitude: he lackadaisically talk-sung like a quarter-assed Bob Dylan impersonator, skronked on the exact same $99 Squier Stratocaster shitbox that I used to plunk out "Iron Man" and "Ace of Spades" on in my best friend's basement when I was 14 and tickled the synth ivories with all the graceful virtuosity of a sausage-fingered quadriplegic Parkinson's patient in oven mitts.
Their set was the musical equivalent of that time your friend got so utterly shitfaced that he:
a) was physically unable to do anything other than bonk his head semi-rhythmically into the table you were all sitting at and mumble to no one in particular about how Kevin Smith is the voice of a generation and Bruce Campbell is the most underrated actor in film today.
b) sat crouched in the corner of the basement while everyone else played beer pong, stripping off one article of clothing every five minutes or so until he was in nothing but his flimsy, ball-exposing boxers. Someone then whispered, "Oh god, I hope he doesn't get naked." Your friend, overhearing this and interpreting it as a dare, then peeled off said boxers, threw them across the room and giggled to himself while rocking back and forth in the seated fetal position.
c) decided to leave the party and walk three miles to his house in the middle of a brutal Buffalo winter after drinking something like 22 beers and 4 tequila shots. Of course, he only made it about 100 feet before falling into a snow bank. Unable to get up because he couldn't quite figure out how to get his hands out of his pockets, he was helped to his feet by a friendly police officer. The officer asked your friend where he was coming from. "Uh… Oh… I don't know," was his brilliant reply. The officer then decided to give your friend a ride home, as it was painfully obvious that he wasn't going to make it there by himself. Your friend thanked the officer for his courtesy by sleep-vomiting all over the back seat of the squad car. The officer, who was no longer feeling very friendly, abruptly stopped the car, pulled your friend out and sped back to the station, leaving your friend to his own devices.
In other words, they were an absolute shambling wreck, far more entertaining in their awfulness than most bands are when they play the most solid set of their careers.
The fact that there were people there who actually seemed to enjoy their music on a non-ironic level -- two girls at the front of the stage were giggling and whispering in each others' ears and almost-but-not-quite kissing while doing that white chick dance where it looks like they're half-skipping, half-running in place, while bearded contemplatives stood expressionless with their arms folded or their hands in the pockets of their hoodies while slightly nodding in dour approval -- just made it even more surreally hilarious. I could barely muster enough self-control to stop belly-laughing long enough to drink my beer.
Would I buy their records and listen to them at home? Hell no. Would I go see them live again for slightly more than the price of a movie ticket? Hell yes.
The final verdict: one of the best worst bands ever. If they were a movie, they'd be Plan 9 From Outer Space. See it to believe it.
Part II: Fucked Up
Over the years, I've found that a band's "punkness" is directly proportional to the strength of its fan base's body odor.
If you walk into the club or bar or basement or what have you and it smells like, say, a locker room filled with the rotting corpses of a gaggle of hippies who had just completed the Tour de France and then suffocated on their own noxious crotch and armpit fumes, you can be sure that the band you're about to watch is punk to the mothafuckin' bone.
The less gag-inducing the smell, the further the band is from pure punk. It's a formula that never fails.
(I attempted to devise a similar barometer based on beards since the Grizzly Adams look seems to have replaced the 2-foot-tall mohawk as punk rock's follicular disaster of choice, but I scrapped that because I remembered that the indie hipster crowd has embraced facial hirsuteness as well and that would screw with the metaphor.)
((And while we're on the subject of beards, a word of advice to a couple of kids I saw at the show: if your facial hair is too patchy to form a proper beard, stripping it down to a moustache does not make you look any better. Sporting a full-on pubic archipelago on your mug makes you look like a sloppy 12 year old with a mild case of Progeria. Creepy, but still passable. But shaving everything but your crustache makes you look like Napoleon Dynamite's child molester uncle. I consulted my girlfriend and a number of other female acquaintences and they all agree: kid touchers are not attractive. So if you ever hope to touch a boob without the aid of booze, cocaine or rohypnol, shave that shit. The More You Know…))
But even though the air is a little fresher when Fucked Up plays nowadays, their shows are still as wild as ever.
Musically, they're at the top of their game. They recently added a third guitarist/backup vocalist to help inject a little more nuance into the band's explosive, power-packed live sound. The result? The newer songs sounded incredible, making an exceedingly excellent transition from their densely layered, almost orchestral studio forms to their more stripped-down, aggressive live incarnations, and the old favorites sounded better than ever.
The crowd was in rare form that night as well. From first song to last, the fans were in a frenzy. Limbs were flailed, heads were banged, crowds were surfed and traffic cones were flung. Yes, I said "traffic cones were flung." Some geniuses went outside, grabbed an oversized traffic cone and whipped it across the room, narrowly missing several people's heads, including that of Buffalo hardcore mainstay Aaron Adkins of Everything Falls Apart and Able Danger, who shook his head in disbelief at the display of jackassery that he had just witnessed and muttered to himself, "You damn kids and your music. This is why punks can't have nice things." Then he shook his fist at them like he had never shaken his fist at anything before. (OK, I really don't know what he said because he was across the room and the fist shaking part didn't happen. But that's how I like to imagine it, so nyah.)
But the biggest ups have to go to vocalist Damien Abraham for providing the antics that gave the show the extra nudge it needed to cross the threshold from mere goodness to total greatness.
Most of the time when musicians play (or fool themselves into thinking that they play) music that's progressive and forward-looking, they put on their po-faces and get all stoic and Christ-like on our asses because they're working sooooo hard and their art is so very, very Serious and Important that any trace of undue joy would diminish its power, which is such that if their latest, greatest album was played simultaneously on all of the radios in the world, AIDS in Africa would be nothing more than an unpleasant memory.
But Damien, frontman of the most progessive, forward-looking punk band in recent memory, is a goddamn comedian.
During soundcheck, he tested the microphones by shouting into them through a long cardboard tube so as not to diminish the effect of his grand entrance during the first song. Within minutes of taking the stage, he stripped off nearly all of his clothing until he was wearing nothing more than boxers and a tuque (that's Canadian for "a fuzzy winter hat with a little ball thingy on the top" for all of you non-border towners out there) and as we all know, fat guys + nudity = comedy gold. He pulled down his boxers to show us how tightly his ass was clenched from holding in a shit because he was, in his words, "so close to home (Toronto) that I'm just gonna hold it in and poop in my own toilet." He grabbed a belt from an audience member and strapped it around his flabby chest to "keep my boobs under control." He even joked about his band's recent rise to semi-fame: "I was standing next to some guy outside and he's like, 'Oh, man, they're so over-hyped.' And I just went, dude, I'm right here! Obviously we're not hyped enough if you don't even know who the fuck I am!"
Hopefully someday everyone will eventually know who the fuck Fucked Up is. With their killer music and balls-out performance style, they damn sure deserve the fame.
Fucked Up and Psychedelic Horseshit at the Mohawk Place gets a rating of two massive, dimpled, jiggling, pasty Canadian butt cheeks, the sight of which will haunt my dreams for the rest of my days.
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