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by aeden
Mon Dec 31, 2018 8:44 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
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Civil War was not caused by slavery but inability to compromise.

Customs and Border Protection agents who Kelly calls “salt-of-the-earth, Joe-Six-Pack folks.”

“They said, ‘Well we need a physical barrier in certain places, we need technology across the board, and we need more people,’” he said.

Tactical deployments as the Guys said. Deploy, defend, defuse

As we have read screen for contagions called choke points we stress that are being found as skin diseases from illegals even up here and worse.

They still stumble at the Hadrian curse and wall analogy that focused core trade activities. Thu Feb 08, 2018 2:06 pm
http://gdxforum.com/forum/search.php?ke ... sf=msgonly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NutkCjDcMT4 mental vacuum

And they still cannot accept the fact it was a planned event.
Internecine Slaughter, not civil war

“I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me, and the financial institutions in the rear.
Of the two, the one in my rear is my greatest foe.”
One month after the inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War got underway .
The real reason for the war is that . . .
Northern industrialists had used trade tariffs to prevent the Southern States from buying cheaper European goods. Europe subsequently retaliated by stopping cotton imports from the South. Thus the South were being forced to pay more for goods whilst having their income slashed.
This is when the money changers saw the opportunity to divide and conquer America by plunging it into Civil War.
This is confirmed by Otto Von Bismarck when he was Chancellor of Germany
(1871 - 1890), who stated,
"The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe, these bankers were afraid that the United States if they remained as one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence which would upset their financial domination over the world.

One might ask the question, "Aren't American socialists in favor of their own country's survival?"

To answer this question, we must turn to abnormal psychology.

As the teacher conveyed irony at best.

Since Dunoyer incorporated Sismondi's theory into the Sayardian conception of political economy in which men have to adapt
their behaviour to the nature of things, or suffer the consequences.

The government of that nation allowed the people to talk about public affairs, but not to understand them.
Political Economy by J.C.L. Simonde de Sismondi (1815)

Natural Law and International Law merged into one.
Creator: Crowe, David M.,author.
Edition: First edition.

The first wave is the only wave they wanted since borders are to be exploited.
Are you still confused what fast and furious actually was meant to do?
In 2008 Webster Tarpley seen the theoretician Nye of "soft power," a new form of imperialist aggression based on economic warfare, subversion, deception, and people power coups moved forward. The period we are in since as we know the current administration will not be allowed to fully staff the positions since delay is the only tactical advantage they need to keep it drained anemic going forward to enfeeble an actual representative system. It is a sociological fact that a revolution has a nigh zero chance of success if a comfortable 'middle' class exists. The Cloward - Piven scheme of intentional abuse of 'social safety-net' programs is calculated to incrementally overburden government budgets from the local, county, state and finally federal levels. The ultimate goal is general minimum income decoupled from actual work.

The constant demands for 'minimum wage' increases, along with this program of crashing governmental budgets inevitably leads to job loss, increased dependency upon transfer payments [redistributionary 'welfare'], and compression of the middle class into the lower. The decoupling of productivity from remuneration increases means that the value even of the wages collected erodes; "Quantitative Easing" [increasing the volume and availability of currency above demand] gives the wage-devaluation wheel another kick every time it is done, further devaluing the value of hours worked, and further compressing the middle-class wage-earners into the lower class of transfer-payment recipients.

Ironically, it is this Progressive 'revolution' that is responsible for the decreasing 'standard of living' in all but the ultra-wealthy [so-called] one percent, who have the means and political influence to insulate and exempt themselves from the effects of Progressive policy.

Ultimately, this form of "socialism" has the effect of the top tier of wealth-holders' ability to "pull the ladder up behind them", essentially creating a permanent two-class Neo-Feudal State.

http://gdxforum.com/forum/search.php?ke ... sf=msgonly

http://jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/Behi ... munism.pdf
History's Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks - McMeekin, Sean
Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'am and the Origins of Zionism - Zipperstein, Steven J.
Political Ponerology (A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes) Lobaczewski, Andrew M.
by Higgenbotham
Thu May 10, 2018 12:30 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16412791

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Where Are They Now? Robber-Baron Edition
A financial check-in with the Gilded Age’s richest families, several generations later

According to Time magazine, 90 percent of all rich families, from the Astors to the Ziffs, lose their fortunes by the third generation. This is remarkable, considering how comparatively easy it is to retain wealth once you have it. A recent analysis suggested that Donald Trump, for example, could be similarly wealthy if he had done nothing but put his eight-figure inheritance into the stock market: “If he’d invested the $200 million that Forbes magazine determined he was worth in 1982 into that index fund, it would have grown to more than $8 billion today.”

Conversely, climbing several rungs on the income ladder takes ingenuity, grit, resilience, opportunity, and a heaping tablespoon of luck. Currently, poor children have only a 7.5 percent chance of making it even to the top 20th percentile as adults. Making money is hard; holding onto money when you’re born with it shouldn’t be.

And yet, in practice, it is.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/ar ... ge/405892/
Newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst died in 1951 at the age of 88. The will made clear his feelings about his relatives. None of his five children (all sons) was competent to run the business. Control was to be in the hands of professional managers answering to a self-perpetuating board of trustees on which Hearst family members would have only 5 of 13 votes. The trusts would last until all the then-living grandchildren had died—an event likely to occur sometime around 2035. Any heir who challenged the will would be disinherited.
This plan appears to have gotten the Hearst fortune into the third generation. Don't worry, it will all be gone by the fifth generation.

Also, there is no reason to worry about the influence of the Rothschilds. That money is long gone.
by aeden
Thu Apr 26, 2018 3:29 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
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Views: 16412791

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They do not care top to bottom.
The grassroots had been burned to servitude while the borders are crashed by design.
The mid term strategy is unfolding at the Border.
The top democratic operatives went to that region called the left Coast.
Holder will bring people together as he conveyed.
Republicans if they even exist know this and will fade into the mist.
Public opinion is a tool only since they only need one thing gloating as compliant minds only.
DOJ and FBI are compromised to the point they get paid no matter who signs the checks.

Mon 11 Sep 2017 00:28:12
No.141102703 Report

it's called the "high incident project".

Saboteurs in the US government from the previous Left-wing liberals that want collectivism... The entire narrative of the Left is designed to promote collectivism and induce regression through educational indoctrination and the media as Hillary Clinton famously remarked they need “an unaware compliant public.”
What these antifa village and useful idiots do not fathom the whole system they want is predicated on exploitation.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder says Americans would be able to count on him to “unify the country” if he became the 46th U.S. commander in chief.
Mr. Holder said during an hourlong interview that he was still open to the idea of a 2020 presidential campaign that could pit him against President Trump.

The wedge is being driven in as we speak.

Horkheimer 1972, 249–250. The normative orientation of Critical Theory, at least in its form of critical social inquiry, is therefore towards the transformation of capitalism into a “real democracy” in which such control could be exercised (Horkheimer 1972). In such formulations, there are striking similarities between Critical Theory and American pragmatism.

Critical Theory developed a nonskeptical version of this conception, linking philosophy closely to the human and social sciences.
Just another dialectic tool since while linked ultimately to a narrative of its decline through the market and the administrative state, the core of such interaction and the critical and egalitarian potential of being part of a public whose members address one another as equals had for Habermas a nonideological, even “utopian” core.

https://www.clausewitz.com/readings/OnWar1873/TOC.htm#a
The value of the moral powers, and their frequently incredible influence, are best exemplified by history, and this is the most generous and purest nourishment which the mind of the general can extract from it. — At the same time it is to be observed, that it is less demonstrations, critical examinations, and learned treatises, than sentiments, general impressions, and single flashing sparks of truth, which yield the seeds of knowledge that are to fertilise the mind.

Mid term is the trial balloon to whats already here.

2004 nugget - This year, as in the past, Republicans will portray us Democrats as embittered academics, desiccated Unitarians, whacked-out hippies and communards, people who talk to telephone poles, the party of the Deadheads. They will wave enormous flags and wow over and over the footage of firemen in the wreckage of the World Trade Center and bodies being carried out and they will lie about their economic policies with astonishing enthusiasm.

http://inthesetimes.com/article/979/

We could only wish the current NPR bureau of internal affairs had a clue, or pretended to want one.

Any organized resistance as we have seen is shelled for target practice as in the Serbian conflict
and now gassed and slaughtered to media perfection in disinformation.

Mencius, "The sense of compassion is the beginning of benevolence; the sense of shame the beginning of righteousness; the sense of modesty the beginning of decorum; the sense of right and wrong the beginning of wisdom. Man possesses these four beginnings just as he possesses four limbs. Anyone possessing these four and saying that he can not do what is required of him is abasing himself."

Mencius replied, "Why must your Majesty use that word 'profit'? What I am provided with, are counsels to benevolence and righteousness, and these are my only topics."

FDR “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”

https://www.google.be/search?hl=en&tbm= ... =769&dpr=1

Natural Law and International Law merged into one.
Creator: Crowe, David M.,author.
Edition: First edition.

The first wave is the only wave they wanted since borders are to be exploited.
Are you still confused what fast and furious actually was meant to do?
In 2008 Webster Tarpley seen the theoretician Nye of "soft power," a new form of imperialist aggression based on economic warfare, subversion, deception, and people power coups moved forward. The period we are in since as we know the current administration will not be allowed to fully staff the positions since delay is the only tactical advantage they need to keep it drained anemic going forward to enfeeble an actual representative system. It is a sociological fact that a revolution has a nigh zero chance of success if a comfortable 'middle' class exists. The Cloward - Piven scheme of intentional abuse of 'social safety-net' programs is calculated to incrementally overburden government budgets from the local, county, state and finally federal levels. The ultimate goal is general minimum income decoupled from actual work.

The constant demands for 'minimum wage' increases, along with this program of crashing governmental budgets inevitably leads to job loss, increased dependency upon transfer payments [redistributionary 'welfare'], and compression of the middle class into the lower. The decoupling of productivity from remuneration increases means that the value even of the wages collected erodes; "Quantitative Easing" [increasing the volume and availability of currency above demand] gives the wage-devaluation wheel another kick every time it is done, further devaluing the value of hours worked, and further compressing the middle-class wage-earners into the lower class of transfer-payment recipients.

Ironically, it is this Progressive 'revolution' that is responsible for the decreasing 'standard of living' in all but the ultra-wealthy [so-called] one percent, who have the means and political influence to insulate and exempt themselves from the effects of Progressive policy.

Ultimately, this form of "socialism" has the effect of the top tier of wealth-holders' ability to "pull the ladder up behind them", essentially creating a permanent two-class Neo-Feudal State.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04- ... on-hillary
by aeden
Sat Nov 18, 2017 8:31 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16412791

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Not that we may make light of wronging our neighbor, for that is also a sin against God; but we should not aggravate our neighbor's wronging us, nor study revenge. Let our complaints, both of the wickedness of the wicked, and of the afflictions of the afflicted, be brought to God, and left with him.
We must state definitions and provide for priorities and descriptions of data. We must state relationships, not procedures.
As quoted in Management and the Computer of the Future (1962) by Sloan School of Management, p. 273

Who pulls up the ladder when your placed in the crevice? You better read the facts and later maybe you will awake.
The moral nihilist straw man will suffer the exculpatory adjectives for now.
Variant: If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
As quoted in Built to Learn : The inside story of how Rockwell Collins became a true learning organization (2003)
by Cliff Purington, Chris Butler, and Sarah Fister Gale, p. 171

Moarbettercommie: Official corruption is happening on an industrial level in china, in the states it is on a retail level, or maybe wholesale in certain parts. Western politicians typically engage in corruption to benefit their financial supporters, so to stay in power, the Chinese do it all for themselves, its ugly.
Doc: Actually, I'm well aware of it. I see it every day. Why do you think I wrote that? The problem is, until roughly 2007-8, commie corruption was relatively contained to China proper. Since then it's metastasized to an international behemoth that will threaten the entire world as we know it. It's obvious no one anywhere is asking where all the untold hundreds of billions are coming from that are being doled out for property and stocks around the world. I'm convinced the commies bought the Canadian national election are pumping money directly into the Hillary campaign. You don't need to explain to me the insidious effect on global affairs a well-connected privately funded existing political organization with the discipline of a criminal mafia will have. Trust me. I get it.
Moarbetter: The Chinese Communist Party currently comprises approximately 87+ million members. Roughly 6% of the population. The commies occupy all the choke points in Chinese society. All government institutions and offices, district offices, mayoral offices, province heads, courts, government agencies and departments, universities, key industries and state sponsored enterprises, and most critically, the entire military apparatus. You can't go anywhere in China or become anyone in China without joining the commies. This article is talking about the anti-corruption drive in broad terms, describing the effort as "sweeping," and referring to 1500 known cases against allegedly corrupt commie members. So... 87,700,00+ members... if even 1% of the members were to be prosecuted, that would amount to roughly 870,000 prosecutions. The US alone has roughly 2 million people in prison, the residue of a 40+ year long "war on crime" and all sorts of other criminal prosecutions. Imagine the US bringing 870K criminal cases at once--nearly half the number of US inmates produced from 40 years of "crime fighting," that would be the equivalent of the Chinese going after just 1% of corrupt commie officials. As it is... these figures mention 1500 cases... that's barely 0.002%.
Doc: Pardon my ire, but considering the depth and scope of corruption in China and the extent of the party apparatus' reach, referring to 1500 prosecutions out of 87.7 million potential targets is nigh laughable. You read some of those charges? You really think in China these morons ensnared in this "corruption drive" are the only ones getting away with this shit? The Chinese middle class is approximately 300 million persons. It's actually conceivable that the overwhelming majority of people in China who can call themselves middle class are overwhelmingly commies, their family members, and their cronies. In sum... China's revolutionarily disruptive entrance onto the global capitalist stage has overwhelmingly benefitted almost no one but the commies. Because they run the apparatus that runs the other 1,220,000,000 billion slaves. Sure, the average subsistence farmer who used to earn 700 yuan a year has seen his earnings rise to 10,000 yuan a year, but then... compared to the TRILLIONS the top commie party cadre have been able to accumulate as a result of leveraging this vast sea of slave labor against a printing press defies belief. Xi is shaking the tree. It looks more like the pruning of some bad apples than any really serious and concerted effort to rid China of corruption. Maybe he's settling scores. Maybe he's consolidating his position. Maybe some showmanship, some good old bread and circuses for the masses. Maybe a bit of all the above. Call it what you will, but don't call it an anti-corruption drive. Please.
What's Chinese for Nail Gun?
hammer?
Yea we got a snap shot on that hostile takeover license permit issue in the notes already resolved.
Too bad the Mainlanders cannot even read ZH over there since it's blocked by the Chairman.
Fuck those Communist assholes. I hope China implodes under the politburo's Marxist delusions.
Let it burn.
I thought you were talking about the U.S.S.A for a moment there.
According to his wife, he was last heard from on Tuesday, when he was en route to Hong Kong from Beijing. The next day, he did not show up for a scheduled lunch. “I do not know if he was taken from the airport lounge or from the plane or in Hong Kong,” a friend told Apple Daily.
Wonder if the walleye are biting yet? Social bed wetter’s meeting upcoming soon we hear in the swamp.
In order to exercise first amendment rights, you have to have a second amendment to back it up.
Just sayin...
Moarbetter is in Australia as all his family is in the party at home. That was 404rd in 10 seconds.
Tape the laptop camera kids was the best advice.
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Boy, there's no bigger put-down for the Chinese than to be called "anti-traditional"... you could almost see the ghost of Confucius looking over the party apparatchik's shoulder as he typed the words...
Russia and China will never understand the US political process, and that's fine... as for Russia being all put out about the ad, maybe if you didn't have a bunch of ex- KGB and NKVD cronies running the show over there we wouldn't invoke the Cold War politics so much... just sayin'
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Nothing called a democrat is allowed past the door step since they ceased to exist. The bent of mind is certain.

Obviously not everyone supporting Trump is part of the alt right said one Democrat after the election.

"Wolf by the ears" is a phrase attributed to the emperor Tiberius by the biographer Suetonius: "The cause of his hesitation was fear of the dangers which threatened him on every hand, and often led him to say that he was 'holding a wolf by the ears. Jefferson owned a 1718 edition of Suetonius's works.
More than that, he was self-contained and patient in the face of abuse and slander.
If so and so criticizes me I shall take care to render an account of my acts and words; if he persists, our enmity will be mutual.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-1 ... censorship
Demoralization, Destabilization, Insurgency, Normalization ... Yuri Bezmenov

So, the myth of the intelligence community’s consensus lives on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQoB5GeKhV4
by aeden
Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:07 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
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Seventy times seven

Wordly things, are the only things that carnal, wicked people set their hearts upon, and are most clever and industrious about. gen4:24

Not that we may make light of wronging our neighbor, for that is also a sin against God; but we should not aggravate our neighbor's wronging us, nor study revenge. Let our complaints, both of the wickedness of the wicked, and of the afflictions of the afflicted, be brought to God, and left with him.

We must state definitions and provide for priorities and descriptions of data. We must state relationships, not procedures.
As quoted in Management and the Computer of the Future (1962) by Sloan School of Management, p. 273

Who pulls up the ladder when your placed in the crevice? You better read the facts and later maybe you will awake.
The moral nihilist straw man will suffer the exculpatory adjectives for now.

Variant: If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
As quoted in Built to Learn : The inside story of how Rockwell Collins became a true learning organization (2003)
by Cliff Purington, Chris Butler, and Sarah Fister Gale, p. 171

The flyovers have already noted the inanity of both party's actual ability to even pretend to care.
by aeden
Wed Nov 15, 2017 2:54 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Papers

According to the papers, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Disney, Uber, Nike, Walmart, Allianz, Siemens, McDonald's, and Yahoo! are among the corporations that own offshore companies, as well as Allergan, the manufacturer of Botox. According to The Express Tribune, "Apple, Nike, and Facebook avoided billions of dollars in tax using offshore companies." Apple issued a statement in response criticising the reports as inaccurate and misleading, stating that the company is the largest taxpayer in the world and that it "pays every dollar it owes in every country around the world".

https://web.archive.org/web/20171106105 ... ews-broke/

infected blood within the ranks

Covet

We must state definitions and provide for priorities and descriptions of data. We must state relationships, not procedures.
As quoted in Management and the Computer of the Future (1962) by Sloan School of Management, p. 273

Who pulls up the ladder when your placed in the crevice? You better read the facts and later maybe you will awake.
The moral nihilist straw man will suffer the exculpatory adjectives for now.

http://shoebat.com/2017/11/12/there-is- ... hristians/

https://www.bing.com/search?q=+Carles+P ... ORM=IESR02

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/201 ... k_mee.html
Warping capacity is the act of intent.
by aeden
Sun Nov 05, 2017 10:33 am
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Topic: Financial topics
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http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/israel/freedman.htm

For you local village idiots who pulls up the ladder when your placed in the crevice? You better read the facts and later maybe you will awake.

Professor Tansill, of Georgetown University had plain insight of the period
as did Doctor Carrol Quigley.

"One of Professor Quigley's most shocking revelations," wrote Dr. Monteith, "was the fact that the American Communist Party was partly financed by J. P. Morgan and Company.... J. P. Morgan and his associates financed the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, conservative groups, liberal organizations, communist groups and anti-communist organizations. [See the dialectic process] Thus we should not be surprised to learn that someone purchased Professor Quigley's publisher and destroyed the plates to the first half of his book so it couldn't be reprinted."[1, page 99-100]

The Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) would become the U.S. equivalent to the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) in Great Britain. Professor Quigley explains:

"At the end of the war of 1914, it became clear that the organization of this system had to be greatly extended... the tasks was entrusted to Lionel Curtis who established, in England and each dominion, a front organization to the existing local Round Table Group. This front organization called the Royal Institute of International Affairs, had as its nucleus in each area the existing submerged Round Table Group. In New York it was known as the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a front for J. P. Morgan and Company.... In fact, the original plans for the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Council on Foreign Relations were drawn up at Paris."Quigley, 951-952

Banks and tax-exempt foundations were essential to this global vision : "The powers of financial capitalism has another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole....

"The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank... sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards....[Quigley, 324]

Millions lead to slaughter and you still cannot see who or why.

After His trip we shall see indeed the inertia of effect.
by gerald
Tue May 05, 2015 10:22 am
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Topic: Financial topics
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Higgenbotham wrote:I've talked about this before but I owned property in an area that was borderline. Meaning for example if you crossed the street half a block to the north, from there the insurance companies didn't insure in those areas. You had to go into a State Insurance Plan which cost about 5 times as much or go without insurance. You were OK in that area if the locals knew who you were. I didn't cross that street and venture into that area too often. Nobody did. One day the bank branch manager sold me on the idea of looking at a house up there that was bank owned. He said knock on the door and ask for Gail. When Gail answered and I asked if she was Gail she screamed at me "Who wants to know?" There was a short awkward silence, then she smiled and said, "Oh, I know you, come on in." Half a block south where I was I could leave an aluminum extension ladder behind the house for months and the locals didn't touch it. They could have easily hauled the ladder away and taken it a few blocks to a recycling center. For some reason they didn't. I was very careful to mind my own business. I turned a blind eye to the crack delivery guy; just smiled and said hello. That would have been in this case the guy who delivered the manila envelope for distribution from the drug house. I never talked to the good looking women or even looked. There was a super hot chick who hung out across the street and the first I ever talked to her was when she said hello to me in the library like 5 years after I had first seen her. I did talk to the older folks and the men. There was a drug related killing around the corner half a block to the north where a guy was shot in his vehicle and found slumped over dead. The police did come in and tape it off. On the other hand, one day there was a large riot that involved about 300 people in the same area. I drove through just as it was breaking up. The police did not respond to that. Perhaps they were never called. I know they didn't patrol that area and was told so by the locals and told why. I would not have felt comfortable taking anybody's doors off but I suppose it would have been possible in the block to the north. The guy who took the doors off was in a different area across town.
If we were to tell some of our stories to some people they wouldn't believe them. -----
I spent a few years in an Italian area on the west side of Chicago. I am not Italian, but was allowed to buy in by the local "Important Man " to help the area. The multi-unit building I bought was on their terms, one third of the units were fire damaged and not livable, I had to fix them up. It was a good deal and helped me on my way. I did not know at the time that it was fire bombed due to a local disagreement. The area was sorta divided between the Italians and the Sicilians and they did not like each other, I understand that if a guy from one group dated a gal from the other he would get beat up. I just mined my own business. One of the local guys got into disagreement with another, and one day while starting his car in his brick garage the car blew up blowing out the walls, somehow he survived. Every so often you would hear about a guy found with a plastic bag over his head stuffed in a trunk. Interesting neighborhood.
by Higgenbotham
Mon May 04, 2015 11:32 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
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I've talked about this before but I owned property in an area that was borderline. Meaning for example if you crossed the street half a block to the north, from there the insurance companies didn't insure in those areas. You had to go into a State Insurance Plan which cost about 5 times as much or go without insurance. You were OK in that area if the locals knew who you were. I didn't cross that street and venture into that area too often. Nobody did. One day the bank branch manager sold me on the idea of looking at a house up there that was bank owned. He said knock on the door and ask for Gail. When Gail answered and I asked if she was Gail she screamed at me "Who wants to know?" There was a short awkward silence, then she smiled and said, "Oh, I know you, come on in." Half a block south where I was I could leave an aluminum extension ladder behind the house for months and the locals didn't touch it. They could have easily hauled the ladder away and taken it a few blocks to a recycling center. For some reason they didn't. I was very careful to mind my own business. I turned a blind eye to the crack delivery guy; just smiled and said hello. That would have been in this case the guy who delivered the manila envelope for distribution from the drug house. I never talked to the good looking women or even looked. There was a super hot chick who hung out across the street and the first I ever talked to her was when she said hello to me in the library like 5 years after I had first seen her. I did talk to the older folks and the men. There was a drug related killing around the corner half a block to the north where a guy was shot in his vehicle and found slumped over dead. The police did come in and tape it off. On the other hand, one day there was a large riot that involved about 300 people in the same area. I drove through just as it was breaking up. The police did not respond to that. Perhaps they were never called. I know they didn't patrol that area and was told so by the locals and told why. I would not have felt comfortable taking anybody's doors off but I suppose it would have been possible in the block to the north. The guy who took the doors off was in a different area across town.
by aedens
Sun Dec 07, 2014 7:49 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
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Re: Financial topics

When I was a child, the working class white male dominated society. There were fewer really rich people than now, even those up the professional or corporate ladder were simply upper middle class, living in nicer but normal suburbs. The garbage man lived four houses down form us, his house was decent, his car was decent and he was raising 5 kids. The Milk Man was on our block, he had a stake in the creamery where he worked, so he was more than just a delivery guy, the Dime Store Owner was a block up, his house was new, nice, but small. The Mail Men, we had two on our block, same small conservative but decents homes and cars, steel workers and rail roaders made up half the town. All made good livings. ALL these people were white, middle class, workers. Conservative, we knew the forst names of the cops, the Sheriff was my Sunday School teacher and scout master. Nobody was above anyone, they shared a common culture.
Was that good? Bad? What? I don't know, I just know that that is how it was. My best friends on the block had parents who like this. The County Highway Engineer, The Milk Man, the Mail Man, and 3 had steel worker parents. We took a middle class life for granted. The Military Recruiters loved our town, ususally 1/2 of all graduating boys enlisted within 12 months. No for careers, not for training, not for pay and benefits. We all did it because we were taught that that is what men did, it was a duty, those who shirked it were looked down on.
America was a totally different world, but as I hit teenage years it was already blowing up in their faces. Mass layoffs in steel, the rail roads and closing small manufactering. The New World Order would not tolerate payscales that supported middle class life. The NWO was a race to the wage bottom, still going on. j
International Trade Agreements (ITAs) like NAFTA, GATT, and WTO (and the proposed TPP and TTIP) are sponsored by big business. They are sold to the public as opening foreign markets to American manufacuturers, but they allow American manufacturers to move their factories to foreign countries and allow manufactured goods from those foreign countries to enter America freely.

At the end of WW2, America was the manufacturing powerhouse of the World, and as time went on the American workers gained the good middle class life. But as wages and red tape grew, and the rest of the World recovered and opened up, big business sought to escape high wage costs and high regulatory costs - hence the push for ITAs and the loss of jobs from America. The expansion of consumer debt and government social programs (funded by debt) allowed the American middle class to maintain its middle class life stye and even seem to prosper, until debt saturation and the 2008 financial crisis exposed how weak the American economy had become.
The "Rust Belt" phenomenon of the Reagen years showed the beginning demise of American manufacturing, taking many union jobs with it. Now, both husband and wife usually have to work to support a small family. Stay-at-home moms are becoming rare and often are on a government welfare program.
Meanwhile, the Multinational corporations manufacture offshore, sell in 1st world countries, keep their headquarters in tax havens for accounting purposes, and hide their incomes. Service centers and call centers are more often than not in India or the Phillipines. The American worker is becoming an endangered species. atf