Financial topics

[gerald]

Not sure this belongs under this topic --- but I think it impacts Japan and therefore others, inderectly -------------

"Sex Sells And The Japanese Are Buying": A Look At Japan's Love Industry http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-2 ... e-industry

You have got to see the video ----- Japan has problems? You have got to be kidding.

[aedens]

totalitarian political system masquerading as a religion
moderates understand confusion shelters corruption
just that simple all over

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-2 ... -2100-2015

Not even beginning to slow down, we are moving ahead with customer needs. The Consumer decides who and what.
Confusion is no different than intent and a pattern noted a very long time ago.

[aedens]

Not sure this belongs under this topic - No it fits a few constructs G

I was going to add http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Thucydides the Dorian
since the observations was from him on todays confusion to garner control.

http://www.avaresearch.com/avanew/artic ... ecord.html

I cannot explain it but the tone has indeed changed on the so called optics on the fourth turning and increased FUD
which is fear uncertainty and doubt. The thought moves it back to enclaves as we discussed and already
the stall topic is to get past the next election cycle already. Indeed the brands are tones and echoes we read over the passages
of time. The idea of marketing was a thought thread of the older studies on nuero marketing unleashed
and I am not picking on Dent but the optics of the narratives. He may be the cup half full, or empty as we
answer yes on that question to be polite in its own construct.
In groups of people earlier as was conveyed it is the norm and individuals indeed rare. The United Nations
report on substances and failed states is no accident on causation linkages either reading between the
lines of the fractures.

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/20 ... es-chicago
http://understandingsociety.blogspot.be ... eople.html

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-2 ... lses-fault the old story of babel it appears to date.
The grey ones see 0 leaving office since it nots his fault. Locally the circle is doing just as St. Augustine conveyed.

Life organized legalistically has thus shown its inability to defend itself against the corrosion of evil.
Alexander Solzhenistyn's final book on what we know and it is our fault to suggest another narrative I was noted today.
http://catholiclight.stblogs.org/index. ... gnosis-of/

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/ waiting on blink since it appears mr. market is also.
Consumers decide all.
http://news.yahoo.com/banksy-hustler-cl ... 18974.html long live the freeman

[aedens]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-2 ... rvive.html

circles

http://mises.org/daily/6565/Economies-a ... d-in-a-Day

[gerald]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-2 ... revelation

Guest Post: Alan Greenspan's Shock Revelation


“We really can't forecast all that well. We pretend that we can but we can't. And markets do really weird things sometimes because they react to the way people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy.”

– Alan Greenspan, speaking this week on “The Daily Show”

Compounding Errors

But that doesn’t stop the PhDs from trying. The jobs report showed about 60,000 jobs missing – fewer jobs than economists had projected. Now, the erring economists will most likely compound their error by continuing to try to force the economy to do their bidding – force up the rate of consumer price increases and force down the number of Americans out of work.

If they really wanted to increase employment, that would be easy enough. They would encourage the feds to withdraw some of the laws that bully employers (health insurance… EEOC threats… overtime, etc.)… or some of the schemes that make it easy for potential employees to remain unemployed (disability… unemployment benefits… food stamps). As far as we know, those things are not on the table.
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It looks like nature/reality is getting ready to give some heavy, brutal and indifferent instructing.

[Higgenbotham]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-2 ... revelation

We have been trying to introduce a new way of looking at civilization. In short, we’ve tried to make it more civilized. What is the difference between a civilized community and a barbaric one? We have introduced a simple test. The civilized community relies mostly on cooperation and consent. The uncivilized community depends heavily on force and violence.

Nobody consents to QE or a million other things. Chomsky wrote a book called "Manufacturing Consent". The fact that it's not physical violence doesn't mean it's not violence. Just because they're not putting a boot on somebody's balls or rolling people around in barrels with nails driven through the sides doesn't mean it isn't violence. Probably more than half of the population is on some form of prescription for mental illness or medicating themselves with drugs or alcohol. The barbarism (politely referred to as bullying) starts in the schools, which is widespread and compulsory that most people be subjected to it. There is some kind of suicide reported from bullying in the public schools almost every week.

This will only get better is when people refuse to follow false media created images of leaders that don't exist in reality. When people decide that they will only follow local leaders that they personally know and trust and are vouched for by others in the local community then things will get better.

http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/1992----02.htm

Regarding Thought Control in a Democratic Society, Chomsky makes these points:
1) Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

2) Ordinary people have remarkable creativity.

3) People have a fundamental need for creative work, which is not being met in systems where people are like cogs in a machine.

4) What would make more sense as a way to govern is a form of rationalist-libertarian socialism -- not one that increasingly functions without public input. Chomsky advocates a system where a community and its members run things in a democratic fashion and whose people do not function as some sort of wage slaves.

5) People need to be able to detect forms of authority and coercion and challenge those that are not legitimate.

6) The major form of authority that needs challenging is the system of private control over public resources.

7) The First Amendment means that democracy requires free access to ideas and opinions.

8) Democracy in America is not functioning in an ideal sense but more in the sense that Lippmann noted in Public Opinion (where a specialized class of about 20 percent of the people -- but who are also a target of progaganda -- manages democratic functioning) and, in effect, are under control of a power elite, who more or less own the institutions. The masses of people (80 percent) are marginalized, diverted and controlled by what he calls Necessary Illusions.

9) Manufacturing consent is related to the understanding that indoctrination is the essence of propaganda.

http://hope.journ.wwu.edu/tpilgrim/j190 ... mmary.html

[aedens]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10 ... e-council/

[Higgenbotham]

The statistics on bullying and suicide are alarming:

•Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people, resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have attempted it.
•Bully victims are between 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims, according to studies by Yale University.
•A study in Britain found that at least half of suicides among young people are related to bullying.
•10 to 14 year old girls may be at even higher risk for suicide, according to the study above.
•According to statistics reported by ABC News, nearly 30 percent of students are either bullies or victims of bullying, and 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because of fear of bullying.

http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/conte ... icide.html

[jcsok]

Higgenbotham, I believe that the underlying modus operandi of law enforcement, and regulatory entities is the same as your post above. It is absolutely incredible the number of times that I have been pulled over for "no tag light", "you didn't signal when changing lanesd" on a deserted interstate at 1 a.m. in Texas, and even closely tailgated for 15 miles on a deserted road in New Mexico by deputy sheriff; or stopped for "speeding" when I knew I wasn't. These tactics come from the top down, to control.

[gerald]

Higgenbotham --
"This will only get better is when people refuse to follow false media created images of leaders that don't exist in reality. When people decide that they will only follow local leaders that they personally know and trust and are vouched for by others in the local community then things will get better."
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Is there a difference between "barbarism " and what people think "civilization"is? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization I would guess most people would equate "primitives" with "barbarism". However "civilization" is really nothing more than a complex culture (generally considered "advanced") however it is run. In fact if one reviews various civilizations throughout history one could almost say civilization = barbarism. Leaders of civilizations maintained their positions through some form of force, and in some ways this can also be applied to organized religion.

Your above quote pretty much describes how most "primitive" cultures were structured. "Advanced" "civilization" then came and destroyed those cultures, it appears we need to "advance" to the "primitive state", so as to gain what humanity has lost.

cheers