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[aedens]

I did, I do, its bad. You can feel the intent. Never fear what they are, but what they have become h.
They feel like they are being ripped apart from forces they cannot even fathom IMO.
Milton was correct on the ethics and morals of a lost generation.

Anyways,
The central bank’s foreign reserves have dropped by $36bn, or 5 per cent, over the past two months, as newly crowned King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud dips into Riyadh’s rainy-day fund and increases domestic borrowing to fund public sector salaries and large development projects.
The latest data show Saudi’s foreign reserves dropped by $16bn to $698bn in March, driven by public sector bonuses paid by King Salman after he assumed power in January. This follows a fall of $20bn in February. Saudi Arabia has spent $47bn of foreign reserves since October.
As one analyst noted, “There is a need to rationalise spending,” as King Salman promised a bonus payment for military personnel engaged in the kingdom’s month-long bombardment of Houthi rebels in Yemen, a campaign that itself added pressure to state coffers.

As we projected if you get to 2018 the discounts will be steep. We are picking positions very carefully in sectors.

August 2013 it was noted: I would not go that far Higg but sometimes it rather painfull to watch, to quote the gentleman from mexico who has a valid point. They do not understand how civilization came into being and what is required to keep it going. They are comparable to monkeys flying an airplane.

[Higgenbotham]

My fear was not so much what I saw in front of me at the time but what I would see later. Which reminds me, speaking of some of those folks I talked to, one day I heard one of the guys I had known was living in a cardboard box in Chicago.

[aedens]

Yes, we knew for certain the enclaved demographics would entail the running red diaper dialectic. In 2013 they went insane as they got called out
in one simple topic alone. Dr. Ben Carson said that he believes that white liberals are “the most racist people there are,” and that they are critical of him solely because they want to keep him from leaving “the plantation.”
Carson blamed the recent flap over his comments equating same sex marriage with bestiality and child molestation on a full court press by the left to silence him by using his own words against him. “They want to shut us up completely,” Carson said. “I represent an existential threat to them. They need to shut me up, they need to delegitimize me.” “And you’re attacked in many respects because of your race. Because you’re not supposed to think like this, and supposed to talk like this. A lot of white liberals just don’t like it, do they?” Levin asked.
“Well, they’re the most racist people there are,” Carson replied. “You know, they put you in a little category, a little box. You have to think this way. How could you dare come off the plantation?”

The irony H is they care not if they live in boxes just as the pagan conversation that you would step over them in the gutter.
As pointed out locally in fact, He showed up wasted and that very night, a battered woman showed up with a kid.
I had no issue with the decision and will support it. Always will. You have the right to be silly some where else on your own.
Of course they need help, but that is a separate fact. One of my kids came back from the east coast and reported in.
He now has a Wife and Daughter, and is a Pastor. He continues the work that no one goes hungry and very simple rules apply. He still smiles
that he was never treated different than my other children. He knows is he one. Color is a ignorant dicussion when they see.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-0 ... l-optimism if/when regression perks down the filter we will select a few names
from a normalcy bias we call investing long term...

As noted: There is no price discovery. The price will go wherever the largest cartel of market makers wills it to go.
Algos picking off strays....

[gerald]

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.

[gerald]

5. An experiment to see what happens.

Yes, I had thought about this one a few years back. Here's how I reasoned it out. Let's say a superior being visited planet earth and found some naked Neaderthals or whatever wandering around grunting, using a bit of fire, picking berries, hunting mastadons, killing each other occasionally by busting skulls with rocks, etc. So the aliens decide to cross these savages with some of their own genes to see what happens. They create various types of humans for various environments on earth and put a few of each onto different parts of the earth.


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This sounds like a Sumerian story.
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Regarding humanity

Darwin wrote in either a paper before the publishing of "Origin of the Species" or only in it's first edition that plants and animals could be divided into two groups wild and domesticated, humanity would be classed as domesticated --- The idea didn't go over very well.

On a pound for pound basis human bones and muscles are inferior to other animals. example -- http://www.slate.com/articles/health_an ... anzee.html " A chimpanzee had, pound for pound, as much as twice the strength of a human" "In the past few years, geneticists have identified the loci for some of these anatomical differences. One gene, for example, called MYH16, contributes to the development of large jaw muscles in other apes. In humans, MYH16 has been deactivated. (Puny jaws have marked our lineage for as least 2 million years.)"

Junk DNA -- http://rt.com/news/175844-human-genome-junk-dna/ " Less than 9.5 percent of human DNA is functional, according to Oxford University researchers." " The rest of our genome – over 90 percent – turns out to be leftover evolutionary material, which is often called “junk” DNA. But is it garbage?"

Child birth --- Most women have difficulty in childbirth, childbirth used to be a fairly common cause of death in women. Wild animals like a giraffe can be seen eating while giving birth, seemingly with little care. What is wrong with woman's anatomy?

A large portion of humanity has a problem with exposure to the sun, yet we are not night creatures, our sight abilities are minimal at night.

Numerous "primitive "religions have stories that humanity was given birth to by the "gods".

Is humanity the result of "Natural Evolution"?

[aedens]

g, isbn 978-0-387-84924-9 the machinery of life.
as for the rt article it is incorrect

“What would it look like?” instead of “Can I?” The process of extraction simply put.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3872787/
http://hyper.ahajournals.org/content/31/4/896.full
http://www.asha.org/Publications/leader ... 70306c.htm

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015 ... able-text/
Interesting old affairs since tipping cans and turning pages has indeed effects.

[gerald]

Hay, I got a great idea! Instead of just charging negative interest on deposits why not also charge a fee to with draw money from your account!
What could go wrong? ---- Greece Floats Surcharge On Withdrawals As ECB Considers Cuts To Liquidity Lifeline
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-0 ... y-lifeline

[gerald]

A crazy? maybe nothing but a poor joke and not work your time - and then maybe not.
A guys experiment and the global bond market -- a crash on May 15, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3jxnur0468
Maybe I am crazy to even post this, guess will see. But he does make some interesting observations.

From the maze of mirrors.

[gerald]

A crazy? maybe nothing but a poor joke and not work your time - and then maybe not.
A guys experiment and the global bond market -- a crash on May 15, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3jxnur0468
Maybe I am crazy to even post this, guess will see. But he does make some interesting observations.

From the maze of mirrors.

And from a questionable source http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-0 ... ial-system -- Central Planning and Crony Capitalism Have Bankrupted the Financial System

"Since it was rarely if ever a problem to issue sovereign debt, Governments kept promising future payments that they didn’t have until we reach today: the point at which most Western nations are sporting Debt to GDP ratios well north of 300% when you consider unfunded liabilities (the social spending programs mentioned earlier).



Now, cutting social spending is usually considered political suicide (after all, the voters put you in office in the first place based on you promising to pay them welfare payments down the road). So rather than default on the social contract made with voters, the political class will simply push to issue MORE debt to finance old debt that is coming due.



The US did precisely this in the fourth quarter of 2014, issuing over $1 trillion in new debt simply to pay back old debt that was coming due.



This is how the bond market becomes a bubble. Between 2000 and today, the global bond market has nearly TRIPLED in size. Today, it’s north of $100 trillion in size. And it’s backstopping over $555 trillion in derivatives trades."

[aedens]

A crazy? maybe nothing but a poor joke and not work your time - and then maybe not.
A guys experiment and the global bond market -- a crash on May 15, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3jxnur0468
Maybe I am crazy to even post this, guess will see. But he does make some interesting observations.

From the maze of mirrors.

Bond markets in this age are, lets say interesting. http://www.gata.org/files/BeardsleyRuml ... an1946.pdf

The Sun will come up so be of good cheer. http://monoskop.org/images/a/ab/Tainter ... ieties.pdf


Left face, right face analysis went poor with him.

As for his observation the 1946 experiment already covers the context.

Do we still not understand the pretense of knowledge from Hayek?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVthYkGYD58
Left-brain scholastic subjects focus on logical thinking, analysis, and accuracy. Right-brained subjects, on the other hand, focus on aesthetics, feeling, and creativity. Five distinct patterns exist to learning so you can see the current model is a bias route.
The mid sentence ones are the enhanced creatures of design. http://www.arkancide.com/psychopathy.
The versatility never ceases to amaze me how ought and is links to covet.

Adjectives are just messengers being shot.
My experience is even in wheelchairs, they are still arrogant.
It is inherent in the species.