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https://www.marketwatch.com/Story/marke ... yptr=yahoo

they smell the political body farm and the fresno effects with imported enclave vote blocks
basically bullshit meter are pegged from the hard left and hard right machines
the extraction processes from tech overruns and marxist thieves

https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default ... k=UQbmyWbU

Logan Hooscow would take care of that infection route.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2004/01/plame200401
shu muell kerry slippage to what is yellow

JANUARY 2004 After the Newsday report, Senator Charles Schumer (Democrat, New York) fired off a letter to Robert Mueller, the F.B.I. director.
Still, the story seemed to gain little traction until, on September 27, it emerged—via another leak—that the
Justice Department’s counter-espionage chief, John Dion, was conducting a criminal investigation into the episode.

Wilson says, “The longer it appears there’s no obvious progress, the less credible it becomes, and the more it plays into the hands of those who believe an independent counsel will be necessary to get to the bottom of this. It’s appalling to me that somebody who, for their own political reasons, would see fit to compromise national security could, close to six months after that date, still be in a position of trust in the U.S. government.… What strikes me is that so few Republicans are prepared to speak up on an issue of national-security concern.”

14 years later we convey usual suspects again.

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https://www.wired.com/story/did-russia- ... ndeniable/

Same damn debate in 1976 as we are them and they are us.

All we got for it was wasted capital and a van jones tv show for clueless idiots and
what ketchup man said you have the right to be idiots in america.

For those who missed it emerdata will pick up the slack.

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You covered the yellow cake issue.

Even by the extremely low to nonexistent standards of today's journalists and today's politicians, the statements made about the Iraq war on a daily basis are abysmally ignorant, saying that it was a catastrophe and the worst war in American history and other idiotic things. Actually, it's the people who opposed the Iraq war in 2003 who owe the world an apology, since they were unwilling to stop Saddam Hussein from using WMDs to kill thousands of people.

http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... 545#p39542

Iran already stated only idiots do not have them.

So by doing Iran a purported favor we are still satans little helper as Iraq killed almost a 1 million Iranians.
I guess it's time to print the pictures of iranian children running over the minefields to clear the way for the ground troops.

We spent blood and treasure for stalled pipelines projects.

"Russian money will always try to find the easiest way out and that means the Baltics will always be an attractive channel," said Aivar Paul, a former head of Estonia's financial police who's now an executive at LHV bank in Tallinn. "How many EU countries offer extensive banking services in Russian?"
Three years later, a Treasury delegation flew to Riga to discuss with Latvian officials Iranian efforts to circumvent penalties imposed over its nuclear programme through Krajbanka.
Krajbanka eventually collapsed amid fraud allegations.
It was one of several domestic banks involved in a case where $1.6bn went missing from lenders owned by a Russian investor.
From 2011 to 2014, Latvian banks helped shift illicit cash out of Russia in a $20bn scheme the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, which uncovered it, dubbed "The Russian Laundromat."
https://www.independent.ie/business/wor ... 38206.html

The current government e-mail issue in Latvia recently is in the process of imploding the government it appears.

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https://www.wired.com/story/did-russia- ... ndeniable/

Same damn debate in 1976 as we are them and they are us.

All we got for it was wasted capital and a van jones tv show for clueless idiots and
what ketchup man said you have the right to be idiots in america.

For those who missed it emerdata will pick up the slack.

[Editor’s note – the two preceding paragraphs have been corrected. They originally erroneously said that the Alfa server was sending the voter databases to the Trump server, when in fact it was laundering money to pay to hackers and others who would spread the propaganda created by SCL]

The technology behind Cambridge Analytica’s targeting was stolen from Facebook by Alexander Kogan, who has gone to Singapore and renamed himself Alex Spectre. In many ways, the Trump-Russia story begins and ends at Cambridge University. Dimtry Firtash, the corrupt Russian oligarch who is Paul Manafort’s patron, gave Cambridge £6 million pounds since 2010. With that money evidently came a large ring of Russian spies, probably including Kogan.

https://patribotics.blog/2017/04/16/mik ... ith-trump/

http://www.ktvu.com/news/oakland-opens- ... e-homeless
Somehow it is the taxpayers fault when it crashes and they bitch that government is a still a solution.

In late 1949, Bradbury was stopped and questioned by a police officer while walking late one night. When asked "What are you doing?", Bradbury wisecracked, "Putting one foot in front of another." This incident inspired Bradbury to write the 1951 short story "The Pedestrian".

In The Pedestrian, Leonard Mead is harassed and detained by the city's remotely operated police cruiser (there's only one) for taking nighttime walks, something that has become extremely rare in this future-based setting: everybody else stays inside and watches television ("viewing screens"). Alone and without an alibi, Mead is taken to the "Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies" for his peculiar habit. Fahrenheit 451 would later echo this theme of an authoritarian society distracted by broadcast media.

Nuclear winter and the Human condition.

In terms of technology, Sam Weller notes that Bradbury "predicted everything from flat-panel televisions to earbud headphones and twenty-four-hour banking machines.

Our time we reminded a few that it took twice as long as we thought for them to be totally deceived, and half as long for them to be totally sealed.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05- ... all-street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBbs6NPmesM

[Higgenbotham]

Just when you were born in the last two centuries correlates with the probability of achieving super wealth. Gladwell lists the 75 richest people of all time and finds, for example, that a staggering 14 were Americans born in a nine-year span between 1831 and 1840. He explains: “In the 1860s and 1870s, the American economy went through perhaps the greatest transformation in its history. This was when the railroads were being built and when Wall Street emerged. It was when industrial manufacturing started in earnest. It was when all the rules by which the traditional economy had functioned were broken and remade. What this list says is that it really matters how old you were when that transformation happened. If you were born in the late 1840s you missed it. You were too young to take advantage of that moment. If you were born in the 1820s you were too old: your mind-set was shaped by the pre-Civil War paradigm. But there was a particular, nine-year window that was just perfect for seeing the potential that the future held.”

https://iveybusinessjournal.com/publica ... -it-again/

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Gilded Generation

The Gilded Generation (Nomad, born 1822–1842) lived a hardscrabble childhood around parents distracted by spiritual upheavals. They came of age amid rising national tempers, torrential immigration, commercialism, Know Nothing politics, and declining college enrollments. As young adults, many pursued fortunes in frontier boom towns or as fledgling “robber barons.” Their Lincoln Shouters and Johnny Rebs rode eagerly into a Civil War that left them decimated, Confederates especially. Having learned to detest moral zealotry, their midlife Presidents and industrialists put their stock in Darwinian economics, Boss Tweed politics, Victorian prudery, and Carnegie’s “Law of Competition.” As elders, they landed on the “industrial scrap heap” of an urbanizing economy that was harsh to most old people. (AMERICAN: Ulysses Grant, Mark Twain, John D. Rockefeller, Louisa May Alcott, William James, Sitting Bull; FOREIGN: Lewis Carroll, Maximilian)

http://www.lifecourse.com/about/method/ ... d-gen.html

History seems to show that it is the late Nomads who are the few who strike it rich in the "lottery economy", while most end up on the "scrap heap".

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I see more of it every day H.
Sadducismus Triumphatus influenced Cotton Mather for the New England trials also.
The point is they believe they are different.

Joseph Glanvill 1636-1680 was the first North American to take the middle group to tolerance.

As we count the decades the carnage only expanded as they consume themselves in the process.
Like the final exam question we seen from the Doctorate of Philosophy the answer was yes.
Any thing more that that He bluntly failed them on the final exam.
They cannot fathom walking forward at the expense of no one else.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

As Epicurus told Alexander why are you standing in my sunlight.
Aristotle was a pupil of Plato, and Plato emphasized the moral education of youth.
You know the rest of that story.

[Higgenbotham]

Excerpt from Outlier’s List of 75 Richest People in Global Economic History (Below are the individuals that made their wealth in the U.S., and the approximate value of their fortune):

01. John D. Rockefeller 318.3 billion (Standard Oil)
02. Andrew Carnegie 298.3 billion (U.S. Steel)
04. William Henry Vanderbilt 231.6 billion (Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad)
06. Andrew Mellon 188.8 billion (Gulf Oil)
07. Henry Ford 188.1 billion (Ford Motor Company)
10. Cornelius Vanderbilt 167.4 billion (New York and Harlem Railroad)
16. John D. Rockefeller Jr. 141.4 billion (Standard Oil)
17. Sam Walton 128 billion (Wal-mart)
18. John Jacob Astor 115 billion (American Fur Comany)
20. Stephen Girard 99.5 billion (First Bank of the United States)
22. Stephen Van Rensselaer III 88.8 billion (Rensselaerswcy Estate)
23. Richard B. Mellon 86.3 billion (Gulf Oil)
24. Alexander Turney Stewart 84.7 billion (Long Island Railroad)
25. William Backhouse Astor Jr. 84.7 billion (Inheritance)
29. Moses Taylor 79.3 billion (Citibank)
30. Vincent Astor 73.9 billion (Inheritance)
33. Jay Gould 67.1 billion (Union Pacific)
34. Marshall Field 66.3 billion (Marshall Field and Company)
35. George F. Baker 63.6 billion (Central Railroad of New Jersey)
36. Hetty Green 58.8 billion (Seaboard National Bank)
37. Bill Gates 58 billion (Microsoft)
38. Lawrence Joseph Ellison 58 billion (Oracle Corporation)
41. Warren Buffett 52.4 billion (Berkshire Hathaway)
43. J. Paul Getty 50.1 billion (Getty Oil Company)
44. James G. Flair 47.2 billion (Consolidated Virginia Mining Company)
45. William Weightman 46.1 billion (Merck & Company)
46. Russell Sage 45.1 billion (Western Union)
47. John Blair 45.1 billion (Union Pacific)
49. Leland Stanford 44.9 billion (Central Pacific Railroad)
50. Howard Hughes Jr. 43.4 billion (Hughes Tool Company, Hughes Aircraft et al)
51. Cyrus Curtis 43.2 billion (Curtis Publishing Company)
52. John Insley Blair 42.4 billion (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad)
53. Edward Henry Harriman 40.9 billion (Union Pacific Railroad)
54. Henry H Rogers 40.9 billion (Standard Oil Company)
55. Paul Allen 40 billion (Microsoft, Vulcan Inc.)
57. J.P. Morgan 39.8 billion (General Electric, U.S. Steel)
58. Oliver H. Payne 38.8 billion (Standard Oil Company)
60. Henry Clay Frick 37.7 billion (Carnegie Steel Company)
61. John Jacob Astor IV 37 billion (Inheritance)
62. George Pullman 35.6 billion (Pullman Company)
63. Collis Potter Huntington 34.6 billion (Central Pacific Railroad)
64. Peter Arrell Brown Widener 33.4 billion (American Tobacco Company)
65. Philip Danforth Armour 33.4 billion (Armour Refidgerator Line)
66. William S. O’brien 33.3 billion (Consolidated Virginia Mining Company)
69. James C. Flood 32.5 billion (Consolidated Virginia Mining Company)
71. Anthony Brady 31.7 billion (Brooklyn Rapid Transit)
72. Elias Hasket Derby 31.4 billion (Shipping)
73. Mark Hopkins 30.9 billion (Central Pacfic Railroad)
74. Edward Clark 30.2 billion (Singer Sewing Machine)
Note: Only Andrew Carnegie, John Jacob Astor, Stephen Girard and Alexander Turney Stewart were not born in the United States.
Outliers: The Story of Success, Pg 56-61

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/antonio- ... 13273.html

Bezos (another late Nomad) would be pretty high on the list now. Hetty Green, mentioned here a few weeks ago, lands on the list above Buffett and Gates.

14 of the 49 (listed above) who made their wealth in America were born between 1831 and 1840 (29 percent in roughly 5 percent of the years). It can also be noted from the lack of inheritance as a source of wealth that great wealth never ever survives more than a generation or two and wealth itself never more than about four or five generations.

[Higgenbotham]

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.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default ... k=Kt44-qb-

That is why they needed rag paper. The intrinsic value of it is has always been known. Electronic cryptoledgers
are the same. We ran our thought map and watched gatekeeper to the logical conclusion of security.
I read a story on wired on the OCR worshippers and they missed the boat since voice recon is still the holy grail.
People still think yolobits of data patterns are glasshole refinements.

https://discordapp.com/

The ones who escaped the middle east before this current already knew what was coming.
No voice prints exist on them and they vanished. Few understand the simm issues are fewer
before that understood keys.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05- ... tphone-app
Today is a good day. https://t.co/Xjo900RKGp
Thu, 05/10/2018 - 12:35
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 10, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufiE8ARCXO0