Title: Mcgowanjm Wire 2012 Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Feb 26, 2012 Author:Various Post Date:2012-02-26 09:15:13 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:1374200 Comments:2390
That story was bad enough, but now comes word that while the Miami-Dade County commissioners were showering taxpayer money on scumbag billionaire Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria, a dire crisis was building up elsewhere in the county.
From the Miami Herald: Miami-Dade Countys three main water treatment plants and nearly 14,000 miles of pipelines are so outdated it would take more than $1.1 billion just to replace the most deteriorated, vulnerable sections of the system, a newly released internal study shows. The countys main water treatment in Hialeah, and two sewage plants, on Virginia Key and in South Miami-Dade, are 56, 45 and 87 years old, respectively.
It wasn't ever going to end any other way. You knew that. You knew. When Jeffrey Loria and David Samson are involved, it can't end any other way, because they know no different. Loria is the owner of the Marlins, Samson the president, and they're turning the Miami Marlins into a chop shop.
Anibal Sanchez and Omar Infante were traded first this week, to the Tigers. Then Hanley Ramirez, who until this year Loria regarded as the franchise, to the Dodgers. Next could be Josh Johnson, their homegrown ace. That would be $32.75 million shed within a week, bringing the Marlins from their $100 million dream back to the bottom quarter of payrolls in baseball.
And Miami is stuck with $2.4 billion in stadium debt service for that.
Now where was I?....o yeah...the Top 400 have lost all credibility and have only violence to offer.
True Fascists all.....;}
"Here's a quote from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (more on that below as well):
The Troika originally said that Greece' economy would contract by 2.6% in 2010 under the austerity regime, before recovering with growth of 1.1% in 2011, and 2.1% in 2012.
Time for new emergency meetings once more?! Round 826?! In light of the Spiegel quote, Samaras' suggestion this morning that Greece may return to growth by 2014 is the boldest lie of the day, and friend Antonios faces some stiff competition for that prize any day of the week."
The decision to go to war with Syria was made by President George W. Bush at a Camp David meeting on September 15, 2001, just after the spectacular attacks in New York and Washington. Simultaneously attacks were planned in Libya to demonstrate the ability to act in two theaters at once. This decision was corroborated by the testimony of General Wesley Clark, former NATO supreme commander, who was opposed to it.
I have answered your last question until you answser.
And THAT will be different how. And o so convenient for you. Like the USSA POTUS matters now....;}
LMFAO....don't answer....AAMOF...don't do anything.
It'll help the planet....;}
"Longtime readers may recall a comment of mine late last year to the effect that ordinary investors would surely find some way to pile into the shale gas bubble before the next year was out. Thanks to an anonymous reader and the August 2012 edition of SmartMoney Magazine, which arrived from said reader in yesterdays mail, that comment can now be moved over into the "confirmed" category.
Thus its as certain as anything can be that at some point in the fairly near future, probably though not certainly within a year or two, the shale gas bubble is going to pop, major names in the industry are going to go the way of Countrywide Mortgage and Washington Mutual, and gas drilling is going to slump until rising gas prices and declining budgets for exploration and drilling come back into a relationship that makes sense. Mind you, its equally certain that the closer we get to the bubbles end, the more extravagant will be the claims made for the permanence and game-changing nature of the so-called shale gas revolution, and the more abusive will be the responses of those whose jobs depend on the bubble to any suggestion that a bubble is in fact whats going on."
A problem for you, stone, is that I've been using you as a marker for the Top 400.
You and them think pretty much the same things....;}
And you both think, when you give it any thought,
that the Bottom 99% are being weak.
Instead of the reality....which is that we've been charitable.
Always a step back....after your violence....then holding again.
"What's Greek for "bite me"?
And who's going to force them out of the eurozone to begin with? There are no rules or regulations anywhere regarding the procedure for leaving. You can't leave, and you can't be forced out. If the IMF and/or the rest of the troika wants to stop payments, Greece will probably default on its debt, but it will still be in the eurozone. Sort of whether it likes it or not. Interesting matter for international and constitutional lawyers, for sure, but they don't tend to work very fast (for good reasons).
The bailouts and austerity schemes don't work (that is: not for the people; bankers are elated). The Greeks get miserable without having anything to show for it, the Germans and Dutch pay and pay and pay and never see anything improve. End of exercise. Once everyone sees the blinding light, that is. So please let it sink in: we're in the process of passing a watershed moment, slowed down as we are by the mental sloths among us.
From your latest threat, it seems your Masters are ready for war now.....
Very distasteful that....but this IS Planet Hell....after all....;}
The USSA/UK/Israel have 12 hours after they attack....I'd wish you luck.... but I'm looking for different results......;}
the August 2012 issue of SmartMoney is "The Return of Fossil Fuels," and that it rehashes the latest clichés about vast new gas and oil reserves without raising any of the the inconvenient questions that a competent practitioner of the lost art of journalism, should one be wakened from enchanted sleep by the touch of a 1940s radio microphone, would ask as a matter of course. The article trumpets the fact that America is importing less oil than last year,
for example, without mentioning that this is because Americans are using less oilunemployed people whove exhausted their 99 weeks of benefits dont take many Sunday drivesand it babbles about natural gas for two largely fact-free pages without mentioning that claims about vast supplies far into the future
rely on assumptions about the production decline rate from fracked shale gas wells that make professionals in the gas drilling industry snort beer out their noses. "
A problem for you is that you add zero value to a site.
Endless, mindless babbling.
So why are you reading it?
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"The people of Europe, like their American peers, still live under the illusion that they can exert their political influence in the ballot box. They will all find out that this influence can be fought for, gained and exerted in one place only: the street. And that is where we will find the people."
Assad Grants Autonomy to Kurdish Region, Prompting Threats From Turkey The PKK will find safe-haven in northern Syria now, which could prompt an attack from Turkey, a NATO member
[quote] German intelligence: al-Qaeda all over Syria By John Rosenthal German intelligence estimates that "around 90" terror attacks that "can be attributed to organizations that are close to al-Qaeda or jihadist groups" were carried out in Syria between the end of December and the beginning of July, as reported by the German daily Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). This was revealed [/quote]
Look forward to seeing this in the USSA MSM never..... :twisted: :roll: :shock: :? 8-)
And if you don't realize that the AQ is CIAMOSSAD by now......you never will..... :twisted:
Picasso Moon wrote:Assad "grants" autonomy to the Kurds, eh? What a pompous statement in its essence. All of a sudden, after decades of repression, the regime turns to "benign despotism," one would have us believe. Fuck Assad, and fuck the Empire too, and fuck this binary manicheanistic world view.
Do you think the timing of the Emancipation Proclamation was an accident?
Global Research, February 7, 2012
In order to facilitate the action of liberative (sic) forces, ...a special effort should be made to eliminate certain key individuals. ...[to] be accomplished early in the course of the uprising and intervention, ...
Once a political decision has been reached to proceed with internal disturbances in Syria, CIA is prepared, and SIS (MI6) will attempt to mount minor sabotage and coup de main (sic) incidents within Syria, working through contacts with individuals. ...Incidents should not be concentrated in Damascus
Further : a necessary degree of fear .. frontier incidents and (staged) border clashes, would provide a pretext for intervention... the CIA and SIS [MI6 should use capabilitites in both psychological and action fields to augment tension. (Joint US-UK leaked Intelligence Document, London and Washington, 1957)
'The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history." (George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair, 1903-1950.)
Let's see.....Feb 7, 2012....feb 2, 2012....02022012....how much numerology can you stand..... :twisted:
"Operation New Tomorrow" February 2, 2012 Syria image - TEOD ... www.moddb.com/.../operati...uary-2-2012-syri...Cached You +1'd this publicly. Undo Jan 20, 2012 Preview: "Operation New Tomorrow" Starting the Syrian intervention on February 2, 2012. After the nuclear attack perpetrated in the city of ...
For anyone in two minds about what is really going on in Syria, and whether President Assad, hailed a decade ago as A Modern Day Attaturk, has become the latest megalomaniacal despot, to whose people a US-led posse of nations, must deliver freedom, with weapons of mass, home, people, nation and livelihood destruction, here is a salutary tale from modern history.
Have the more recent sabre rattlings against Syria* been based on US-UK government papers, only discovered in 2003 - and since air brushed (or erroneously omitted) from even BBC timelines, on that country?(i)
In late 2003, the year of the Iraq invasion, Matthew Jones, a Reader in International History, at Londons Royal Holloway College, discovered frighteningly frank documents:1957 plans between then UK Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, and then President, Dwight Eisenhower, endorsing: a CIA-MI6 plan to stage fake border incidents as an excuse for an invasion (of Syria) by Syrias pro-western neighbours. (ii)
Greater emphasis on interpreting the historical record in terms of cycles, whether or not they can be quantified in market terms, makes greater sense of the rise and fall of imperial structures as well as the smaller scale cycles within cycles that these examples represent. Ponzi dynamics are the underlying commonality at all degrees of trend for a fractal system based on swings of positive feedback in both directions:
From the Top of the Great Pyramid (2008)
At the largest scale, empires are also grounded in pyramid dynamics, which is why they too have a limited lifespan. They grow by assuming control, either politically or economically, of new territories, positioning themselves to cream off surpluses from an ever-expanding geographical area in a form of involuntary buy-in ...
"We have seen loans made to people, companies and governments that could not possibly repay them, because the sellers were able to collect their fees upfront, while selling the huge risk on to investors through securitization. Due diligence was virtually non-existent for many years, while systemic risk grew unchecked. In the USA, the mortgage securitization process broke the chain of title for property, and the banking system attempted to cover this up through fraudulent reconstruction of paperwork after the fact. Naked shorting has been used to create artificial selling pressure.
The benchmark LIBOR rate has been fiddled since its inception, creating enormous private profits at public expense. As crisis has developed as a result of these, and many other, abuses, the response has been austerity for the masses while the insiders, who should have know better, have been able to walk away from the consequences of their recklessness. The public sector is being asset-stripped as the great collateral grab gets underway.
The formal 'control' mechanisms have done nothing of substance to reign in the development of a global Ponzi structure, in fact they have more often acted to facilitate it. "
By way of analogy, not only has the Titanic already hit the iceberg, but most of the regulatory response constitutes rearranging the deckchairs. Most of society is still obliviously listening to the band, while the few are busy locking the third class passengers below decks. There are not enough lifeboats ....."