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Mr. 1953, I agree with you that we will not see classic Leninism here in the U.S., but that was not the point that Mr. Churchill was trying to make, nor the one I was trying to convey by quoting him. I have placed you at a disadvantage because you don't have the entire essay on George Bernard Shaw o...

A bit of advice on Tuesdays Choice from the Democracy of the Dead http://tylerdoughurst.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/democracy-of-the-dead/ On a visit by the Fabian George Bernard Shaw and Lady Astor to the Kremlin, as relayed by Sir Winston Churchill in “Great Contemporaries” copyright 1937: It must ha...

depression.jpg feast.jpg Picture # 1 was taken approximately 18 years before picture # 2. It must have seemed like a lifetime of strife and struggle. Just birth to high school graduation though when you think about it. 18 years. Our job, I think, is going to be to get our Millennials and their chil...

"The transmission as in terminal velosity is only checked by the size of the conduit irregardless of the inital pool." Aadens The mother of all conduits in regards to making good on derivative bets would be the FDIC. The FDIC has three tasks: insure our deposits, examine the health of our banks, and...

“… In the earlier work of Marx, however, the idea of creative destruction or annihilation (German: Vernichtung) implies not only that capitalism destroys and reconfigures previous economic orders, but also that it must ceaselessly devalue existing wealth (whether through war, dereliction, or regular...

“…there is a lot of bad debt out there waiting to be written off still. That's deflationary pressure, by definition.” Old1953 John has espoused and explained the Deflation scenario many times (thank you for your patient repetition John), yet I still can’t get it to tally with what I’m observing. Wha...

“…We are not a fiduciary” Lloyd Blankfein CEO, Chairman Goldman Sachs January 2010 Consider that quaint word: Fiduciary That word worked well and proudly in the old paradigm of financial entities politely dipping their commission cup in the quiet asset pools of yesteryear, but the word isn’t at all ...

"...Men and Women of character ... are pressing questions in integrity. Until this wave washes away the problems I cannot see change of integrity plagueing this nation since inside is change and all politics are local." Aedens I remember someone else writing something similar a couple hundred years ...

A long video presentation of their talk at the end of the article but perhaps worth your time.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20100209/N ... 79/0/MONEY

Ladies and Gentlemen: For months now the financial situation in general has reminded me of the scene in the first Alien movie where the captain is crouched inside the intersection of the ships air vents, the alien is fast approaching, and he’s receiving conflicting, rapid-fire, and panicked guidance...