Not when returns as dividends are based on 50% margins in "rents", and getting the "right" stock is analogous to picking a race horse.
Compound interest is a form of gambling - and always leads to one of two outcomes - at least since Babylonian times: 1) Jubilee / Massive debt-forgiveness 2) Catastrophic economic collapse
Australia remains a colony in all but name. Australian intelligence agencies are, in effect, branches of the main office in Washington. The Australian military has played a regular role as US mercenary. When prime minister Gough Whitlam tried to change this in 1975 and secure Australia's partial independence, he was dismissed by a governor-general using archaic "reserve powers" who was revealed to have intelligence connections.
WikiLeaks has given Australians a rare glimpse of how their country is run. In 2010, leaked US cables disclosed that key government figures in the Labor Party coup that brought Julia Gillard to power were "protected" sources of the US embassy: what the CIA calls "assets". Kevin Rudd, the prime minister she ousted, had displeased Washington by being disobedient, even suggesting that Australian troops withdraw from Afghanistan.
In the wake of her portentous rise ascent to power, Gillard attacked WikiLeaks as "illegal" and her attorney-general threatened to withdraw Assange's passport. Yet the Australian Federal Police reported that Assange and WikiLeaks had broken no law. Freedom of information files have since revealed that Australian diplomats have colluded with the US in its pursuit of Assange. This is not unusual. The government of John Howard ignored the rule of law and conspired with the US to keep David Hicks, an Australian citizen, in Guantanamo Bay, where he was tortured. Australia's principal intelligence organisation, ASIO, is allowed to imprison refugees indefinitely without explanation, prosecution or appeal. http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3806462.html
Yes. These are the "Mujahadeen" networks - used since the Russo-Afghan war, also known as "Al Qaeda" when convenient.
Syria: The armed opposition which conducted terrorist attacks in Syria is represented by a number of groups from a military wing of the Muslim Brotherhood to the Libyan radical Islamists and Al Qaeda. According to the information we receive from our Syrian colleagues there are training camps for insurgents in Lebanon and Turkey. The officers of security services of NATO, Turkey and some Arab states are in charge for the training and armament of the insurgents, while the monarchies of the Persian Gulf provide the financing. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30412.htm
Libya: "Some of these groups formed the National Transitional Council (TNC) in Benghazi on February 27, 2011 to act as the political face of the revolution. Politicians, former military officers, tribal leaders, academics and businessmen from Eastern Libya created the Council to serve as a transitional government and to wrap the opposition in an aura of respectability.
But the three well organized movements are the NFSL, its military arm LNA and the Islamist LIFG.
The National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL) established on October 7, 1981, was trained and supported by the CIA and was involved in an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Gadhafi on May 8, 1984.
The Libyan National Army (LNA), military wing of the NFSL, was founded on June 21, 1988 by Khalifa Hafter who, according to a Washington-based think tank, the Jamestown Foundation, had: "strong backing from the Central Intelligence agency". The think tank also reports that the CIA arranged the entry of LNA officers into the United States where they established a training camp. Hafter arrived in Benghazi in March 2011 to join the forces attempting to overthrow Gadhafi.
Another major organization engaged in overthrowing Gadhafi is the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) which has close ties to al Qaida and has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by the US State Department in 2004. The LIFG was established in 1995 to oppose Gadhafi's secular state by Libyans who had fought in Afghanistan. They have been committed to supporting jihadi groups everywhere and contributed a significant number of people to fight the U.S. in Iraq." http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2011/08/22/gaddafi-under-siege-two-cia-backed-groups-al-qaeda-linked-lifg-top-power-stakes
But I guess Soledad O'Brien and Wolf Blitzer didn't deliver the message, so it can't be true.
Slashdot Mirror
Tales of Misery and Confabulation.
He said "Oh, Wow!" not "Oh, NO!"
May we all be so fortunate...
"Fifteen Million Merits"
Yes. You think just like the MBA's who overrule the actuaries.
Any day now, we'll all be wearing ankle-bracelets, under a sky full of privately-owned drones. But it's OK!
It was what the market decided!
Great opportunity for the Chinese government to backdoor via Foxconn, etc.
Fred."
http://people.tribe.net/turtle/photos/2dbfad5a-28c5-499d-a624-e02c1f526c2a
Break your hip on the Moon? Who'd you think you were, trying to be all "Michael Jackson" with that footwork?
Not when returns as dividends are based on 50% margins in "rents", and getting the "right" stock is analogous to picking a race horse.
Compound interest is a form of gambling - and always leads to one of two outcomes - at least since Babylonian times:
1) Jubilee / Massive debt-forgiveness
2) Catastrophic economic collapse
That's a rent extraction - not economic value through gain in actual goods or services.
That's why there's a recession/depession - an economy leveraged on wealth-transfer over actual work.
It seems the "free market" wants to be a casino, not a merchantile exchange.
Falls to "ALMOST nearly 50% margin."
Fuck me gently with a chainsaw, Heather. I fail to weep.
"Fuck me gently with a chainsaw, Heather."
I want to see dead, burnt baby bodies. I want to see veins in my teeth.
C'mon! That was "High Middle Ages"!
Whoosh!
Well, except for Satanic blood-sacrifice. And witchcraft. I almost forgot about that.
Australia remains a colony in all but name. Australian intelligence agencies are, in effect, branches of the main office in Washington. The Australian military has played a regular role as US mercenary. When prime minister Gough Whitlam tried to change this in 1975 and secure Australia's partial independence, he was dismissed by a governor-general using archaic "reserve powers" who was revealed to have intelligence connections.
WikiLeaks has given Australians a rare glimpse of how their country is run. In 2010, leaked US cables disclosed that key government figures in the Labor Party coup that brought Julia Gillard to power were "protected" sources of the US embassy: what the CIA calls "assets". Kevin Rudd, the prime minister she ousted, had displeased Washington by being disobedient, even suggesting that Australian troops withdraw from Afghanistan.
In the wake of her portentous rise ascent to power, Gillard attacked WikiLeaks as "illegal" and her attorney-general threatened to withdraw Assange's passport. Yet the Australian Federal Police reported that Assange and WikiLeaks had broken no law. Freedom of information files have since revealed that Australian diplomats have colluded with the US in its pursuit of Assange. This is not unusual. The government of John Howard ignored the rule of law and conspired with the US to keep David Hicks, an Australian citizen, in Guantanamo Bay, where he was tortured. Australia's principal intelligence organisation, ASIO, is allowed to imprison refugees indefinitely without explanation, prosecution or appeal.
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3806462.html
Agree. 100%
I'm Starting With The Man-In-The-Middle
I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer...
> "What problem does Australia have that this is solving?"
Liberty.
Sorry, Australia. You just became unvisitable.
Well, here's 22 hours in a flying tube, that I can take off my list, now...
You trusted us.
No honour amongst thieves.
Blowing the customer. That's got to be a Nevada casino? No?
Get this. "Our" agencies, institutuions and governmentas are also, "not free and democratic".
Thanks. This is valuable commentary, and a view not featured in any US or UK outlets.
Really, watch this, then go fuck yourself.
Enjoy your chains.
Yes. These are the "Mujahadeen" networks - used since the Russo-Afghan war, also known as "Al Qaeda" when convenient.
Syria:
The armed opposition which conducted terrorist attacks in Syria is represented by a number of groups from a military wing of the Muslim Brotherhood to the Libyan radical Islamists and Al Qaeda. According to the information we receive from our Syrian colleagues there are training camps for insurgents in Lebanon and Turkey. The officers of security services of NATO, Turkey and some Arab states are in charge for the training and armament of the insurgents, while the monarchies of the Persian Gulf provide the financing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30412.htm
Libya:
"Some of these groups formed the National Transitional Council (TNC) in Benghazi on February 27, 2011 to act as the political face of the revolution. Politicians, former military officers, tribal leaders, academics and businessmen from Eastern Libya created the Council to serve as a transitional government and to wrap the opposition in an aura of respectability.
But the three well organized movements are the NFSL, its military arm LNA and the Islamist LIFG.
The National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL) established on October 7, 1981, was trained and supported by the CIA and was involved in an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Gadhafi on May 8, 1984.
The Libyan National Army (LNA), military wing of the NFSL, was founded on June 21, 1988 by Khalifa Hafter who, according to a Washington-based think tank, the Jamestown Foundation, had: "strong backing from the Central Intelligence agency". The think tank also reports that the CIA arranged the entry of LNA officers into the United States where they established a training camp. Hafter arrived in Benghazi in March 2011 to join the forces attempting to overthrow Gadhafi.
Another major organization engaged in overthrowing Gadhafi is the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) which has close ties to al Qaida and has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by the US State Department in 2004. The LIFG was established in 1995 to oppose Gadhafi's secular state by Libyans who had fought in Afghanistan. They have been committed to supporting jihadi groups everywhere and contributed a significant number of people to fight the U.S. in Iraq."
http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2011/08/22/gaddafi-under-siege-two-cia-backed-groups-al-qaeda-linked-lifg-top-power-stakes
But I guess Soledad O'Brien and Wolf Blitzer didn't deliver the message, so it can't be true.