Title: Mcgowanjm Wire 2012 Source:
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[quote]the UK is in the longest double-dip recession since quarterly records began in 1955.....The big picture is that when a recession has gone on this long, we are in a depression....the UK economy was suffering the deepest recession and weakest recovery for 100 years.....the worst economic performance since the 19th century, with only a weak follow-through in prospect afterwards, the news is bleaker still......... .[/quote]
1955...the year the Brit empire officially ended.
'depression'.....First time I've seen word used.
deepest recession and weakest recovery for 100 years....
and that would be....
1912.....includes WWI.
And the Panic of 1907 was not over.
the worst economic performance since the 19th century....
And 1873 was the Worst Depression ever....which lasted right up to the USS Maine.....
So to ReCap:
the founding of the Jekyll's Island FedRes, USSA and Rockefeller's Big Oil, the 100 years of the Greatest wealth Producvtion/transfer in World History along with 2 WW's and the Truman Doctrine which we still live under.....
and now the All too predictable Peak Oil and it's concomitant Climate Change...has brought us here:
[quote]July 27, 2012 Still At Odds
Today's data did little to change the fact that ordinary Americans' views of current economic conditions remain at the odds with what Washington and Wall Street keep telling us.[/quote]
Why does the USSA subsidize Israeli Single Payer Health Care?
I've asked that question too.
Now I wonder the real reason NBC, in this age of the internet, insisted on a delayed broadcast. Why not repeat it in the evening if they must?
I wonder if Big Insurance paid to insure this celebration of a nation with health care for all, was never seen by Americans who have no clue what they are missing.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist. Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, also known as the Bishop of Corum He wrote "Spiral of Violence"
Robin posted on 2012-07-29 9:05:32 ET Reply Trace Private Reply #6. To: Robin (#5) (Edited)
yep. Wonder no more.
This Is the USSA....;}
As CNN spent over 5 min Top of the Hour (I stopped tracking after that;) on Romney and the Plight of Israel.
"That means that the European debts are essentially unpayable. Without real growth they are bound to become even more so with every passing year, concentrating resources ever more in the hands of an ever smaller number of people. And of course, this will even worsen when oil production ceases to stagnate and begins to decline.
At some point somebody will have to emulate Valdemar IV (king of Denmark (.....Those familiar with the history of Denmark will remember, for instance, that Christopher II of Denmark pawned nearly his entire kingdom to German magnates between 1320 and 1332. Yet Denmark still exists and is still a kingdom. You see, states have an enormous advantage over corporations : they generally command the loyalty of their subjects and can therefore tax and draft them. That is what Christophers successor, Valdemar IV, did.")........ , default on his debt or leave the Euro to inflate his way out of it. Bankers and traders wont be amused but will quickly learn that money doesnt command loyalty. Those who wont be able to run will then have an interesting discussion with a court... or a lynch mob.
The problem is that the European administration cannot take this decision. It is not a political body, it cannot change its policies, and those are liberal in nature. The first rule of a free market is that debts must be paid, no mater the costs and the consequences, and it is a rule it cannot break.
Nations states will have to do it, therefore, either together in some grand conference, or more probably alone, after the crisis has put some radical into power. When this will happen, the European Union will simply vanish as the USSR did after the August Coup and the Belavezha Accords. Those who still nurture the dream of a political Europe, whether it be the Europe of Regions of my own political family or the Europe as civilization of the volkish far right will have to accept, as I did, that Europe has become an hollow shell and that time has run out. It is around nation states, not necessarily the ones we know by the way, that Europe will have to face the long descent, until they too dissolve."
"On an historical basis, those who cling to the exhausted verities of this fading epoch will be viewed in a comparable light to those obtuse denizens of the 16th Century who refused to let go (and ruthlessly strove to make miserable or worse those who challenged prevailing cultural illusions) of the fallacy of the Geocentric model of the universe. Like their Flat-Earther forbearers, our present day virtuosos of denial (e.g., climate change skeptics and capitalist rah-rahs) their names and their demented dogmas will, in years to come, become axiomatic of hubris, denial, and catastrophic conceit.
When an individual clings to pride-petrified notions about himself, he is being held in the thrall of the viewpoint of a person who no longer exists; in the same way, when one parrots nationalistic platitudes, one dwells on a mental basis in a country that does not exist, and, in fact, never did."
" Now, it appears that the West's Arab "foreign legion," Al Qaeda, is about to suffer an unprecedented defeat - not at the hands of Western anti-terrorism forces, but at the hands of Syrian troops in the city of Aleppo. In a desperate effort to prevent this, the West is employing a series of desperate strategies ranging from portraying the trapped foreign-fighters committing atrocities inside Aleppo as "pending a certain massacre," to using the very presence of these foreign-fighters as evidence "Al Qaeada" is operating in Syria and must be "stopped" by Western intervention.
It is essential to understand that, as empires have always done, the monolithic corporate-financier interests of the West seek regional hegemony as a step toward global domination, and will say and do anything in order to achieve it. As resistance increases, the West's lies become more difficult to sell, the consistency of their propaganda overtly crumbling. The West, in nearly a single breath, has now claimed FSA fighters are both "Al Qaeda" that need to be eliminated, while also impeding a "massacre" by Syrian forces if something isn't done to save them. "
call the authorities when you see these burkas, men out of uniform with AK 47's and you'll be fine.
Syria : Aleppo encircled by Al-Assad Army. Seif El Dawla - Adhamiya bandits strongholds cleared of Obama backed Terrorists. Hundreds of Rats killed and captured!
"Looks like the Syrian army by Numberone on 29.07.2012 [21:52 ]
is finally hitting its stride. Won't be long now until the entire country is cleansed. The gloom in Washington, London, Tel Aviv and Riyadh must be palpable.
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-07-30 9:16:45 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #2. To: All (#1)
The Turks need to be reminded of
Int'l Reciprocity.
Allow 'this', then 'this' becomes acceptable for the opposition as well....;}
"We had the Reuters news agency 24 to 36 hours ago publishing the report that you referred to about the Adana base supported actively by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and of course on Turkish territory.
This base was actually made to order during a visit by Saudi Prince Abdulaziz, the Deputy Foreign Minister who demanded that the Turks open up such a base. The trick with that base is Adana is right next to the Incirlik NATO air force base. It is Incirlik AFB and the account in Reuters is not certain whether the Adana logistical base for the death squads in Syria is actually on the NATO base. So at that point it is getting very hard to deny anything. "
Welcome to the Kurdish Spring ~ link ~ This could prove to be a massive 'wild card' event, on a par with the Kaiser sending Lenin to Russia in a sealed train. It ended up bringing not only the Emperor of Russia down but the Kaiser and many others as well. Stirling
Turkish foreign policy, codified by Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, used to be known in shorthand as "zero problems with our neighbors". When Turkey started calling for regime change in Syria, it turned into "a major problem with one of our neighbors" (even tough Davutoglu himself admitted on the record the policy change failed).
Now, in yet another twist, it's becoming "all sorts of problems with two of our neighbors". Enter - inevitably - Ankara's ultimate taboo; the Kurdish question.
News Embargo....waiting for the USSA to uncensor....;}
".... money will be found to "rescue" Spain and Italy, even if it comes from the Fed,..... and September will come and go just like all the other crunch times which were trumpeted up to this point."
Nope. The only thing holding the USSA's colonies is certain payment.
As in:
$4 Geo Washingtons will get you a gal of petrol anywhere in the world.
Once this no longer holds, neither will the Empire's colonies.
As I keep asking myself what Turkey gets for destabilizing Syria and going against Russia/China.
Though not yet announced by the Saudi authorities, the death of Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has been confirmed to Voltaire Network unofficially.
Prince Bandar had just been appointed head of Saudi intelligence on July 22: a promotion which was interpreted as a reward for having organized the attack in Damascus on July 18. The Saudi services, with logistical support from the CIA, had managed to blow up the headquarters of the Syrian National Security during a Crisis Cell meeting: Generals Assef Chaoukat, Daoud Rajha and Hassan Tourkmani were killed instantly. Generals Amin Charabeh and Hicham Ikhtiar died soon after from their wounds. This operation, called "Damascus Volcano" was the signal for the attack on the capital by a swarm of mercenaries, mainly coming from Jordan.
Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was hand in glove with the bush family.
IF the above is true, Turki al Faisal is all the USSA has left. Worse for the Saudi's than the drone attack on Syria's Defense Minister.
''Turkish foreign policy, codified by Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, used to be known in shorthand as "zero problems with our neighbors". When Turkey started calling for regime change in Syria, it turned into "a major problem with one of our neighbors" (even tough Davutoglu himself admitted on the record the policy change failed).
" >My comment would be that if AND I MEAN IF there was a valid deal offered to Iran by the US, it would be to have Syria removed, then it would follow the same path and destroy Iran.
You still don't understand why they want a regime change in Iran. They want to remove the ideology, eventually break the country into two parts: Balunchistan and Iran proper, and parts of in near the Caspian sea to go to form a new country for the Azeri population.
Now there's no need to say IF, the deal was at P5+1:
- Syria renounces resistance to israel - Syrian army is reduced in size to half then a quarter of its size, mainly used to police the country - Public betrayal of Hezbollah required to prove the deal is sealed
Syria REFUSED, furthermore, many were betting that Russia would give up at that point, but were wrong. The failure to kill Assad and the failure to take Damascus and Aleppo will be their undoing, they're going to make a big mistake soon and involve Turkey overtly.
The leaders don't want to engulf the world in a nuclear war for nothing, they're careful and have a long term plan.
3 Chinese vessels entered the Mediterranean, joining 8 Russian vessels off the coast of Syria. Can you finally put the pieces together and see your "5 Kings" split in the middle between the FUKUS axis and China/Russia?
China cannot lose Iran, it's not possible for them to survive long-term without this secure point of oil and leverage over the gulf. Do you not agree with this? Of course because of your 5 kings bullshit, you think China will just lower its head to be sliced clean off by America.
Do you understand what double vetoes, 3 times in a row, means? Do you understand what would happen to Russia's reputation if they allow a violation of their veto? Do you understand what is at stake here?
They've been trying to take down Syria in the most ferocious way, they've killed thousands of soldiers, wounded countless more, they've destroyed hundreds of armored vehicles, they've killed scientists, sanctioned literally EVERYTHING (I cannot even get a flight back home without going through Lebanon), destroyed infrastructure everywhere they've laid their hand on. They're calling this the dirtiest war in written history.
The country is still here and it's still fighting.
Russia, China, Iran, Syria and the resistance. If any one of them falls, all of them fall. There was great pressure on Iran to first accept the deal by America and betray Russia (who would then be engulfed by Islamists via destroyed Syria, Turkey). Then there was great pressure on Syria to make a deal, we all assumed that Russia would not veto the third time and would have to fight alone. Mistaken, even moving the "missile shield" out of Turkey wasn't a good enough deal for them. They knew that taking down Syria was multipurpose.
YOUR BIGGEST MISTAKE is assuming they just want to tie things up with Iran and then that's it. WRONG, their target is Russia (biggest landmass, most of the world's untapped resources) and China (industrial power house, huge untapped resources). They want to swallow the world.
Syria is the knot holding the rope together for the opposition to the US, if it's undone, it's over, there's no point resisting them anymore. I hope people understand the gravity of the situation."
Photo: The face of Libya's "revolution" was literally Al Qaeda. Abdul Hakim Belhaj, commander of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) listed by the US State Department as a "Foreign Terrorists Organization," was armed and backed by NATO (including the US) in his efforts to topple the government of Libya. Belhaj more recently pledged (NATO) weapons, cash, and Libyan militants to the "Free Syrian Army."
SO:
To ReCap:
Al Qaeda did 9/11....bush43 will hunt them down and take away USSAn citizen's rights. Al Qaeda NOT in Iraq until the USSAns invade. Al Qaeda is the Enemy in the Afghans. The USSAns invaded the Afghans because the Taliban would NOT hand over Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda became our Aliies in the Arab Spring/Libya. Al Qaeda is our Ally in Syria. Al Qaeda did 9/11.
"Turkey hosts invading Saudi and Qatari mercenary army."
This confirms earlier reports featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post, that not only are the Gulf States of Saudi Arabia and Qatar funding and arming militants via Turkey, but that the US is coordinating the logistical aspects of the operation as well. "
Saudis and Qataris Attempt "Arab League-UN" Rescue of Faltering Mercenaries
Perhaps as a sign the Gulf States of Saudi Arabia and Qatar are stretched to the limits of their ability to covertly undermine Syria, they have announced plans to seek "UN General Assembly action" for a "political transition and establishment of a democratic government in Syria." For the despotic, unelected, grandiose nepotism of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to call for a "democratic government in Syria" is truly a move made as much out of desperation as it is one of farcical hypocrisy.
Any attack on Syrian territory will meet with a harsh response, and the Iranian-Syrian mutual defence agreement will be activated, the statement reportedly said. Turkeys president and foreign minister have both issued statements recently suggesting an attack could be forthcoming.
PressTV - Syrian rebels accidentally blow themselves up in Aleppo www.presstv.ir/detail/.../syria-rebels-bombs-go-off-in-their-faces/
14 hours ago Members of a foreign-backed armed gang in Syria (file photo) Foreign-backed ... Tens of armed men have been killed or injured in blasts that occurred when explosive charges they were planting in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo ... The incident occurred on Tuesday when the rebels were planting the ...
8.98 Down 1.35(13.07%) 11:20AM EDT - Nasdaq Real Time Price
148 stocks down then up 10%.
Except for the 'clearinghouse' KCG.
The Market's experiencing a little Cardiac Arrest.
Nothing to worry about.
Now:
Knight Capital Group, Inc. (KCG) -NYSE
8.38 Down 1.95(18.88%) 11:54AM EDT - Nasdaq Real Time Pric
Bloomberg:
Its yet another example of how the market structure plumbing is responsible for massive price distortions, Joseph Saluzzi, co-head of equity trading at Themis Trading LLC in Chatham, New Jersey, said in an e-mail. August 1st will be another day that will destroy investor confidence just like the May 6th flash crash.
Eric Ryan, spokesmen at NYSE, said in an e-mail Im not aware of anything. Robert Madden, a spokesman for Nasdaq OMX, did not respond to a phone call and e-mail requesting comment."
" On August 1, Panetta meets with Netanyahu and other Israeli officials. Imperial warlords will discuss their next moves. War tops their agenda. Both countries prioritize it. Together they threaten humanity."
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The intelligence organ of Kabul regime claimed that they have thwarted a Mujahideen assault in Kabul today and in the process have killed several assailants. We reject such reports and state that such a subject has no bases. Rather, we believe this is yet another maneuver of the intelligence apparatus which is trying to
portray itself as active, aware and vigilant. Since the intelligence agency is under question from the parliament and other departments in Kabul hence its wants to have something to draw upon in the hearings.
The Islamic Emirate had no plans for an operation in Kabul today and neither are those people which they reportedly eliminated Mujahideen. We believe this whole process was staged to keep the media busy for today. This whole charade is an enemy propaganda ploy which we strongly reject and deem it as nothing more than a stunt and allegory. We must state that if we ever wanted to carry out an operation, it would be done with the help of Allah and with all precautionary measures and will be executed successfully in its allocated time, Allah willing, without it being detected or foiled by the enemy.
Fidelity Investments, the nation's largest 401(k) administrator, said on Thursday that the average balance among its nearly 12 million accountholders was $72,800 at the end of June. That's 2.4 percent less than at the end of March, and largely unchanged from last year's second-quarter average. It didn't help that the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index fell 2.8 percent during this year's second quarter. Investors worried about the European debt crisis and slow economic growth at home. "
"That's consistent with the trend since the financial crisis. Balances have grown a cumulative 58 percent since early 2009, when the stock market meltdown reduced the average balance to $46,200.
Yet workers who have stayed in the market long term have found it difficult to rely solely on investment gains to build up 401(k) savings. Stocks remain about 12 percent below their historic peak in October 2007. "
A senior commander in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, General Hamid Reza Moqadam Far, was quoted in another newspaper, Kayhan, saying that Syrian civilians were now fighting rebels alongside the regime's troops.
He added that, if the rebellion was routed, it would "deliver an enormous blow to Saudi Arabia and Western countries," which Tehran sees as directly helping the insurgents.
And speaking of Saudi's....
Syria eliminates Bandar bin Sultan in retaliation for Damascus bombing....
Still looking for Bandar to show up..... :twisted: :? 8-)
Post Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:23 am by mcgowanjm Re: Iran Discussion
Post Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:23 am by mcgowanjm
The bottom line; no one knows, because no one is talking.
What is certain is that Bandar as head of Saudi intelligence was part of King Abdullah's hardcore response to the Arab Spring.
In Syria, the House of Saud strategy boils down to regime change - and a fragile, fragmented, Sunni government in Damascus not aligned with Tehran.
Internally, the strategy is to viciously smash any peaceful Shi'ite-majority protest in the eastern provinces. Essentially, there's no Arab Spring in Saudi Arabia because the House of Saud either bribes or intimidates its subjects.
The overall strategy of choice is "blame it on Iran"; as this logic goes, Saudi Shi'ites are Iranian puppets as much as Bahraini Shi'ites. The Obama administration blindly subscribes to this fallacy - totally missing the point; the House of Saud hates any semblance of Western parliamentary democracy as much as it hates Shi'ites - Iranian and otherwise.
So what happened in Riyadh? A graphic Tehran message to the House of Saud? A rogue suicide bomber? An internal Saudi war? The House of Saud is not talking. And Bandar is not moving.
Pepe Escobar
When Pepe Escobar has questions, people around the world take note.
Every day from now on that bandar does not show, is weakness for the Saudi Regime amd strength for syria/IRan.
Mr. Stone, is this your forum or does it belong to this mcgowan person? I occasionally click on a link to Liberty's Flame then Latest Comments and I see a huge list of posts by mcgowanjm to you and vice versa.
I have tried to read mcgowan's comments but that person seems to be for the most part a "libertarian" with the remainder being a bundle of contradictions.
So...is Liberty's Flame really a kooky libertarian website as it appears to be?
I own the site. It is a place to state your opinions and debate them with others. There are leftists and Conservatives such as myself.
I'm a Pat Buchanan, Rand Paul type conservative. I guess there is some libertarian running through me. But I find most libertarians to simply be amoral.
I own the site. It is a place to state your opinions and debate them with others. There are leftists and Conservatives such as myself.
I'm a Pat Buchanan, Rand Paul type conservative. I guess there is some libertarian running through me. But I find most libertarians to simply be amoral.
Nice...but I don't see any Libertarians around here.
Unless you mean non right wing Republicans.... and I don't think there is such a thing....
National Security Act of 1947
"The World At War: A New Germany
"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. The supreme god of a fascist, to which his ends are directed, may be money or power; may be a race or a class; may be a military, clique or an economic group; or may be a culture, religion, or a political party...
We all know the part that the cartels played in bringing Hitler to power, and the rule the giant German trusts have played in Nazi conquests. Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise. In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself...
Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion. American fascists of this stamp were clandestinely aligned with their German counterparts before the war, and are even now preparing to resume where they left off, after "the present unpleasantness" ceases.
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution."
Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the US, The Danger of American Fascism
"Translation: we are shopping ourselves right now and unless someone pick us up by end of trading when the margin calls come in, tomorrow's open may be a little problematic. Of course, JPM will mysteriously step up in the last minute and provide a DIP-like loan in the process onboarding all the "segregated" accounts.
* KNIGHT BONDS FALL 13.125 CENTS TO 70 CENTS ON DOLLAR
Quite soon we may find out what it means to trade in a market which has just lost one of its key market makers, responsible for up to 15% of overall liquidity.
" "I am not an important man... I possess only my personal sense of dignity. My life has been reduced to nothing by an intolerable insult. Therefore, I have nothing to lose except my life, which is nothing, so I trade my life for yours, as your life is favoured. The exchange is in my favour, so I shall not only kill you, but I shall kill many of you, and at the same time rehabilitate myself in the eyes of the group of which I am a member, even though I might be killed in the process."
The amok syndrome is an extreme instance of the puzzle of human emotions. Exotic at first glance, upon scrutiny they turn out to be universal; quintessentially irrational, they are tightly interwoven with abstract thought and have a cold logic of their own."
The problem for the USSA is that we actually think that our colonies have been subdued....;}
"Thursday: 54 Killed, 74 Wounded
August 2, 2012
An extraordinary number of attacks on checkpoints and other security targets occurred across central and northern Iraq today. Most of them produced few casualties each, but together they eclipsed a bombing in Baghdad that left dozens killed or injured there. Overall, at least 54 people were killed and 74 more were wounded. Only yesterday, the Iraqi government, in releasing July casualties statistics admitted that violence in on the rise."
"White South Africa regarded its wealth as prima facie evidence of cultural superiority."
The 20 to 1 disparity between Israeli and Palestinian per capita income matches the wealth gap between American Blacks and whites (app. $5,000 vs. $100,000 for median Black and white households). The fact that such numbers do not provoke general shock and calls for reparations is proof enough that most whites view the disparity as more a natural phenomenon than evidence of cumulative injustice. Daniel Patrick Moynihan spoke for white folks of the past, present and future when he posited, in 1965, that a Black "culture of poverty" is what keeps Black people poor not pervasive white racism.
With KCG getting caught Front Running it's customers, getting caught on the Wrong side of the trade, and Then claiming it has a 'bank' extending a 'line of credit' til ......Wednesday/Monday/Who Knows the 'bank' does not exist.....