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The funny thing is watching the cheerleader press come up with reasons for the drop without every mentioning the whispered FED cutback on QE as a factor.

Bernake and friends have no suckers left at the table to fleece. He is now trapped in his strategy of funding the stock market to convince people all is well. I read somewhere that pension plans have been sitting on bonds and cash since 2007 and refuse to jump into the market in spite of Bernake trying to force them into doing that.

The biggest triumph of the ideologues on the left is how they create legislation to use taxpayer funds from everyone to reshape the country into what they want. That is why they love 1000 page bills that no one reads, because buried down in the bill is some sort of wealth transferal mechanism to permanently fund the social transformation of our country. This is the conveyor belt of communism that those in the 50s and 60s warned us about.

Bernake is trapped with QE infinity. The minute he quits flowing $90 billion of free money a month to Wall St., the market will implode over night. The media is trying ultra hard to equate a government funded, centrally controlled market with economic goodness. They TBTF/TBTJ banks desperately want the “suckers” to get back in so they can quit cannibalizing each other.

You have to understand that MSNBC is an agitprop arm of the Democratic party. They no longer even worry about the semblance of journalism as they bring in high level DNC operatives to represent the channel. Propagandists know that they must stay on message and continue repeating lie after lie until you lose track of what is really going on. The bigger the lie, the more shocking the lie, the better the effect on the gullible.

GE/Comcast/NBC/MSNBC is a well ran propaganda arm for the extreme left to redefine and change America as we know it. The good news is no one watches them and they will eventually put themselves out of business while draining the resources of the billionaire supporters who back them.

Sun’s magnetic field declining leading to low sun spot counts....if this keeps up expect another 400 year long mini ice age.

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Best book I have read is “The Chilling Stars”. These guys appear to have nailed what drives the temperature on Earth. As the solar system goes above and below the arms of the Milky Way galaxy spiral arms, the cosmic radiation fluctuates. As the Sun’s magnetic field ebbs and flows the solar wind fluctuates. The solar wind keeps the cosmic radiation away from the Earth. When we have peak cosmic radiation and minimum solar wind the Earth gets cold and vice versa.

Why? Because cosmic radiation seeds cloud formation which insulates the Earth from the Sun. More clouds = cold, less clouds = hot. Also, less magnetic field strength on the Sun means less sunspots which probably reduces the total heat getting to us. We are currently in an extended solar minimum over the last few years for the Sun. From 2007 to 2009 we also saw a huge cosmic radiation increase:

“In 2009, cosmic ray intensities have increased 19% beyond anything we’ve seen in the past 50 years,” says Richard Mewaldt of Caltech. “The increase is significant, and it could mean we need to re-think how much radiation shielding astronauts take with them on deep-space missions.”

Which puts us in the worse case scenario for cooling based on their theory.

The cool thing is you can run the solar cycle and the solar system path back in time to match the temperature measured in the past. You can also run them forward to predict the next ice age. By the way, they actually verified it with geological ice core samples and helped to pin down a problem for ion dating based on their research.

The global warming mafia did everything in their power to shut these guys down that wrote the book. The funny thing is a beer company funded them in their greatest time of need. The beer company actually gave them more than they asked for because they were annoyed that the scientific community was trying to black list them.

So here we have a plausible, verifiable, working theory that explains even the anomalies of global temperature change vs. the man-made political pseudo science of CO2 fears that doesn’t work and has failed. Of course, the Chilling Stars theory is rejected because it tells us that we have very little impact on anything compared to the sun and solar system traveling through the galaxy, which means we can’t create the next big unsolvable problem for politicians to build a career on by being power brokers and controlling the industrial economy.

I just assumed someone in the states green lighted the distribution. Interesting that it was made by Europeans.

I actually had the misfortune of watching Iron Sky on Netflix (thanks to my teenage boys). While it was a satire, it was full of the standard Hollywood leftist propaganda push. It had a Tina Fey type actress portraying Palin as the president. I couldn’t help but think that the only reason this dreck got funded and green lighted was because it was ridiculing Palin. If so, the filmmakers understand how Hollywood really works as far as what gets made into a film.

When it comes to complex systems with huge degrees of freedom that interact in unpredictable ways, the average political correct “scientist” smells the dollars that will come rolling his way if he just jumps on the “correct-way-of-thinking” bandwagon with his fellow peers. There is no paradox in this behavior, only a consistent example of human nature exploiting an unprovable idea to rake in benefits for themselves.

The really interesting thing is how these same scientists then start looking for the exit and go into damage control mode when the political aspect of the science is exposed to the point they can no longer look in the mirror and keep a straight face. We are seeing this now with the whole global warming/climate change cabal.

Anybody can look like an economic genius in the short term if they can monetize their debt to infinity and beyond. It is the equivalent of a poor family living the life of a millionaire because they keep cashing checks that they write to themselves. What is so hard about that?

All the crony capitalist types are lapping this up as it is guaranteed profits and socialized losses. History will not be kind to these morons when it finally collapses like all ponzi scheme bubbles driven by greed and stupidity.

The minute the FED turns off the 0% money spigot to Wall St., kiss DOW 14000 good-bye. Since the DOW is used as a propaganda tool to tout economic recovery to the masses, that is highly unlikely to happen. Once the government takes over a market and props it up, they have basically told everyone that the other choice is to painful. The end game will still be the same, which is the market collapses once the prop is removed. The longer they delay in taking their medicine the worse it will be when the inevitable happens.

The ZIRP currency wars are off and running! Who can devalue their currency the quickest in the musical chair game we call global trade. The Japanese must be desperate between China and the FED battling it out.

Used to have a buddy that worked at the corporate HQ for Wal-Mart. He worked his way up from stock boy. He was a Wal-Mart lifer that bled blue. He punched out about 5 years ago and said the MBAs that took over Wal-Mart after Sam passed away were going to destroy it, and that the Walton family members could care less as they were off enjoying Sam’s fortune.

A recent article said their shelves were empty because they won’t hire enough stockers. They have stuff piled to the ceiling in the back of the stores. The local managers have zero power and the entire company is at the mercy of the MBAs at the corporate HQ. Our entire country appears to be stuck on stupid when it comes to leadership, Wal-Mart is going to crash hard if they don’t clue in.

Cyprus is the break in the wall of infinite printing. Bernake has been funneling trillions of FED zero percent dollars to the Euros trying to save their banking system. This has failed, as predicted, and now we are moving into the haircut / bank run phase. All trust in the international financial system will soon begin to erode and everyone will circle the wagons.

The elites at the top of this blatant stealing of depositors money will soon discover the nature of unintended consequences. When depositors and savers start looking at their mattress as more secure than a bank, the fractional reserve banking system will rapidly collapse with nothing to leverage but other suckers promises to pay in the future if things go bad (i.e. the shadow quadrillion derivative market). Bernake has pumped for 5 years trying to save the derivative death star while refusing to reign his buddies in. Looks like that chapter is coming to a close one way or another as the Euro has now set down the path of depression banking.

The quadrillion-dollar-over-leveraged derivative death star is getting closer to blowing up the international ponzi financial system. Bernake has pumped trillions of dollars into Euro banks and now they are resorting to stealing deposits. All in an attempt to stall the inevitable while waiting on the next bubble to emerge. Unfortunately, the real economy continues to contract in a deflationary cycle no matter how much money the FED pumps into the international criminal banking system.

Regulatory capture allows preexisting companies to create pseudo monopolies because of the difficulty of a new company trying to enter into business overcoming the tidal wave of regulation spewing out of the government. The government likes it because it gets to pick the winners and the winners always make sure they get financial support for reelection, the big businesses like it because no new competition can survive the cost of entrance and the politicians are dirt cheap to lock up for guaranteed market share.

And that is why Obamacare will not be reversed.

You have to understand that the stock market is merely a propaganda tool to convince the public that all is well. The problem is that the real economy is deleveraging and being crushed in a deflationary cycle of no jobs, no wages, no customers. The fake ponzi economy represented by the stock market is no different than 2008 except the FED now bankrolls everyone to keep up the illusion of financial health. As soon as the FED stops, the bubble will collapse and make 2008 look like a walk in the park.

The elite super-class was fully exposed by the 2008 financial crisis. We saw that no one was held accountable, all the insiders privatized their profits and socialized their losses, and the biggest criminals reaped the biggest rewards by being further incentivized to continue business as usual through the FED (which the banking class controls). By the way, TARP was a drop in the bucket. The FED gives out the same amount every eight to nine months now that they are doing QE Infinity. TARP merely established that the political sock puppets would rubber stamp what the elite super-class desired at the expense of American taxpayers.

Guys like Soros and Buffet were just high profile elites that the corporate ran press felt the need to follow during the crisis. They all made a fortune at our expense. Financial crisis allows huge windfalls when you are in the know of the future and can position yourself. Buffet and Soros are whispering into the politicians ears what to do, while setting up their bets on the other side knowing that the politicians will follow orders.

Insiders are selling like crazy. Retail muppets drawn in by FED pumped-up market (14,000) are being led to the slaughter. Business (propaganda) media is working double overtime to convince retail that all is well and they need to get back in ... just in time to be fleeced (again) by the HFT insiders.

At one time, Buffet was the number one financial analyst that made value investments that he held for the long term.

Then he got really successful, joined the billionaires club, went all in on social leftist ideology (abortion, ZPG, environmentalism, etc.), started rubbing elbows with the east and west coast big shots, realized his family left him some where along the way, and decided to shelter his wealth with Bill Gates in a non-profit organization that chases after ZPG and global warming (which just happens to protect both of them from paying any taxes on the wealth they socked away).

Slowly his PR started crumbling amongst investors as he basically made his money by loaning large sums of money to decent companies for insider deals and preferred stock. Nothing wrong with that, but the media kept selling him as the mom and pop investor that built his legend. Goldman Sachs was one of the investments he made during the 2008 crash which probably made him a big chunk of change since he was recommending to the political class to use the FED to bail all the banks out (which they did, which made him a bundle by front running the decision). The political class then spun Buffet as the “Sage of Omaha” to the public to make them appreciate the greatness of privatizing profits and socializing losses for the TBTF and TBTJ banks and Wall St. firms.

Now after complaining we don’t pay enough taxes he is whining that $23 billion of increased net profit from insider deals and political cronyism was not enough! That is, he thought he should have been able to gouge the public for a lot more with his vast crony network. The “Sage of Omaha” is now the poster child for corrupt insiders. Priceless.

Wall St. insiders build super fast communication links to tie there supercomputing HFT network together that plugs directly into the backbone of the regional exchanges (i.e the server room).

Why? So they can front run the non-insiders to pick their pockets 1000’s of times a second. This is the definition of a rigged casino, and now you know why places like Goldman Sachs go months without losing a penny in the markets.

Just remember the exchanges sell them access to the server room wanting to skim the HFT trades and the SEC blesses all of this while the FED provides the house money for the rigged casino to fleece the non-insiders.

Wall St. is sending a message to Uncle Ben, “yeah, that $90 billion a month you been giving us to pump up the market, you need to double that.”

Uncle Ben must have told all his banking Wall St. buddies that he was going to pull the plug on the 90 billion dollars a month stock market float since they have drawn enough retail suckers back into the market by pumping it up to the 14000 level while having the business media promote rainbows and unicorns 24/7.

The insiders dump at the peak and the retail suckers get cleaned out again. The market is nothing more than an insiders fleecing operation totally ran by the FED while the captured SEC regulators surf porn and yawn.

The crony capitalist cabal (FED-Treasury-Wall St.-Too Big To Fail Banks-Gutted and Neutered Regulators - Blind Justice Department-Bought and Owned Congress and President) is a rotating circle of insiders making sure that the other insiders will never be held accountable for fraud at the trillions of dollar level. If one of them was ever actually held accountable the whole corrupt and rotten mass would collapse.

That means they get rewarded for their bad behavior. They get even more bold in how much they can steal, pump, dump, con, scam, lie, cheat, and manipulate the global financial system in a desperate last act to make sure they preserve their ill gotten gains at all costs. Nothing will come of the blatant Goldman Sachs insider trading on Heinz. It will be delayed, subverted, and in the end they will slap a 5% fine with no admittance of guilt on Goldman Sachs, while allowing them to keep the other 95%. Maybe some token low level flunkie will be blamed for screwing up and receive a slap on the wrist, only to end up in the FED or Treasury department in a few years as a reward for being the fall guy.

Problem is that no one beats an exponential ponzi curve. Not even these idiots. When it blows it will be orders of magnitude worse because of their insatiable greed and stupidity. We are living the 21st century chapter of the “Rise and Fall of Great Powers”. Humans love to repeat the past, as they constantly chant to themselves that “this time” they will escape what happened to every other group of previous fools.

Automation + energy savings means that most manufacturing will probably return back to a local model. Then there are companies like Amazon building local distribution centers for timely shipping who also may see an upside in local suppliers.

Bottom line, agriculture is now done by 1 to 3 percent of the work force thanks to automation. Manufacturing is now going through the same shrinkage. At some point everything the world needs produced will be done by lights out automated manufacturing centers and probably employ about 1 to 3 percent of the work force. China and India will not be able to compete against this and will follow suit in their own countries.

The geographic argument is really an urban vs rural argument. Obama won by a few hundred thousand votes in 3 battleground states due to dominating the urban vote in major cities for their states. Somehow that has been exaggerated into a “mandate” and the end of the cultural war. People need to understand that the densely populated urban cities embrace socialism and are the driving force to our country heading this direction.

Most of the public has not taken the time to become informed at the sorry state of this current scam being ran by all the insiders. The MSM and business press would make PRAVDA from Stalin’s days proud by the level of disinformation and rainbows, unicorns, and sunshine they pump out 24/7 to the masses.

None of this matters of course. Kyle Bass refers to this stage as the Keynesian endpoint for the world super debt cycle begun by recovering from WW II. It is a giant vacuum cleaner sucking trillion after trillion down it at zero percent as the world debt is 3.5 times larger than the world GDP. Over leveraged and trapped, the masters of the universe keep playing musical chairs because they have no other choice. Over time one chair after another will be removed until the game is over. Greece bond holders lost 90 cents on the dollar and they will lose more because Greece is still broke. No one can stomach the solution so they cling to the hope that another bubble can be created to postpone the mathematical end game of exponential debt growth.

One thing we know from history, is that in the end, what goes up will come down. The final economic reset will reshape the world. Who owes who what will no longer matter. Some think this is a precursor to global government, some think this will lead to every man, corporation, and country looking out for itself.

Short term business press promotes that the FED and Wall St. insiders were right in saving the system they imploded by creating trillions of dollars out of thin air and loaning it to themselves at 0% in exchange for assets marked to market that are worth nothing, at which they stuck future taxpayers with by privatizing their profits and socializing their losses.

Meanwhile every financial curve tied to debt has exploded exponentially and they have no more suckers to milk with this ponzi scheme which will eventually implode. In order to keep it stable they have to pump 90 billion dollars a month into Wall St., but hey these guys have saved us all. What a load of crap.

If you want to see someone who actually saved themselves from this never ending ponzi financing, look at how Iceland handled the situation. It didn’t involve rewarding the guys who blew up the system, it did involve cutting their losses and taking their medicine.

We are at an inflection point in our nation where the number wanting something is now equal to the number producing something. The last four elections are identical with the exception of a few battleground states shifting around. When the Repubs go Democrat-Lite, they loose. Why go for the lite version when you can have the real thing if you are a voter looking for a handout?

Since elections between the Dems and Democrat-Lite Repubs are now tug-of-wars that boil down to a few hundred thousand votes in a few battleground states, the side that keeps their base engaged and out hustles the other side wins in the close elections. When either party fields a truly weak candidate (McCain / Kerry), the base doesn’t come out and the margin of victory is larger. There is no real significant change in the voting public and no land slide messages or views that have changed over the last 4 elections. Yet,the winners of these periodic tug-of-wars both claim that they have mandates no matter how close the elections. The MSM then goes all in to claim the Repubs were lucky and the public was to stupid to vote for the Dems if the Repubs win, or that the Repubs need to become more like the Dems if they lose. The Repubs lap this crap up and refuse to lead by simply ignoring the Dem propaganda coming out of the MSM regardless of whether they win or lose.

In this election, Obama out hustled Romney in key urban areas in the battleground states and won. Kerry and McCain were weak candidates and they lost easily, Gore and Romney were stronger candidates and they pushed it into “who ran the better election on the ground in getting the vote out” and ultimately lost by narrow margins. From a demographic stand point the urban centers are the homes of those who want something and the rest of the country is the homes of those who produce. Unfortunately, it is easier to run a political machine that gets the vote out in urban centers than vast areas that surround the urban centers. This means the Repubs will most likely lose close elections when they field Democratic-Lite candidates as the urban centers will always vote for the real thing.

I’m a high school drop out who ended up spending a decade programming, operating and maintaining industrial robots.

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My twenty-something son is trying to figure out how to get into a hands on job and I thought the job you do might be a good opportunity. Any advice on how to get the younger generation pointed into this field?

Must be one of those female voters that overwhelmingly picked Obama. He represents the surrogate father/husband that is there to take care of life’s problems. The federal government is the benevolent “nanny” state in their eyes, with Obama being the adored figurehead that they can complain to when it hits the fan. Surprised she didn’t ask for a cell phone while she was at it.

So, after massive behind-closed-doors cash infusions of trillions of dollars from Uncle Ben into the Euro system to prop up the international banking cartel, after cooking the books and manipulating every government statistic they have for years, and after endless ponzi scheme re-inflations we still see the Euro go into recession.

The real economy is in a deflationary trash compactor with the bottom no where in site, the fake “ponzi” economy that the media types focus on is unable to over come reality. At what point will the inevitable reboot happen when no one is willing to buy the snake oil any longer?

Mitt Romney would be President today if he had secured 333,908 more votes in four key battleground swing states.

Romney lost New Hampshire by a margin of 40,659
Romney lost Florida by a margin of 73,858
Romney lost Ohio by a margin of 103,481
Romney lost Virginia by a margin of 115,910

The Dems out hustled the Republicans in big urban areas and shipped in voters by the bus load. The fact that this is an effective strategy shows how close Presidential elections have become. The US is 50/50 evenly split and the same election has played out since Bush/Gore. It is like watching two evenly matched teams playing a tug of war. When the flag jerks slightly over to the Dem side, the media types start screaming that the match is over, put a fork in the Republicans. Then half the Republicans run around in a circular firing line because they lost this round by an eyelash, when the score is 2-2 since Bush/Gore.

The country will survive Obama, the world will not end. Giant empires like the US move very slowly from a long term historical perspective unless there is a civil or world war.

Can the Republicans win the next one by becoming Democratic-Lite? Why would a Obama voter pick a substitute when they can have the real thing? If the economy continues to tank and the Federal government can no longer afford to subsidize 47% of the population because of lower tax revenues and a continued contraction in Main St, how will that factor in to the next election? If this happens will Obama and the Dems actually be held responsible? What if the MSM keeps closing shop and loses more of their king making power, how does that change the next election? It is easy to play “what if” games, but that does not usually mean you are any better at predicting the future outcome, especially during chaotic times.

Both parties suffer from projecting their beliefs onto the results of an election. The bottom line is 13 million voters from 2008 did not even deem it worth voting in 2012. Obama lost 10 million and Romney lost 3 million. The presidential election gets out the casual voters who overwhelm the voters that pay attention, while the off year elections just gets out the voters that pay attention.

Even then, the presidential election has come down to Ohio and Florida out of all the states since the Gore/Bush election. That is almost two decades of elections with a perfectly split United States. Dems win NE, great lakes, and west coast, and need to pick off Ohio “or” Florida to seal the deal. Repubs win the heartland and south and need to pick off Ohio “and” Florida to seal the deal.

What does it mean each election cycle when one side wins? Not a whole lot as the key battle ground states often are delivered by a total of a few hundred thousand votes. This country could not be more evenly divided. Even with the flood of illegal immigrants it is still neck and neck. The biggest problem is the 20 somethings being indoctrinated as they are a huge group. But they also are getting a healthy cup of watching their idealism get dashed by reality. The other thing to remember is the left is not popping out kids (abortions, kids are a nuisance, etc.) and this demographic could also come back to get them.

If things continue with the Fed emulating France, the Red states will opt out and we will see a move back to state rights as the Fed goes bankrupt and crashes the system trying to put a chicken in every pot. In a way, the sooner this happens the better as the casual voters will never wake up as long as Uncle Sam is taking care of them. The bigger thing to fear is that we have become super polarized as a nation and the U.S. could well split if this is maintained. From a historical stand point, Republics are fragile and if you don’t work at keep them unified they can disappear. The founding fathers often warned us about this when they framed the government.

The bottom line is nation states evolve very slowly and we will survive Obama, so take a deep breath and don’t let yourself get demoralized by the media talking heads trying to push their mandates and cult of personality on the basis of him winning this election.

Ginsburg is just another elitist ZPG’er that would like to thin the herd of useless breathers. Her buddies in the NYT obviously didn’t edit her previous comments enough as some of her real beliefs slipped through the media filter.

Immediately after the 2008 presidential election, the polling agencies were graded (with Pew and Rasmussen coming out tied for 1st) by RealClearPolitics. This info was fed into a formula to look at overall accuracy and consistency:

The weighting is 75% accuracy and 25% consistency.

Poll Score Grade Accuracy Consistency
Rasmussen Reports 91% A- 92% 86%
Ipsos/McClatchy 89% B+ 92% 79%
CNN/Opinion Research 88% B+ 92% 77%
Fox News 84% B 92% 61%
Pew 83% B- 92% 56%
GWU/Battleground 79% C+ 92% 41%
Diageo/Hotline 77% C+ 77% 79%
NBC News / Wall St. Journal 76% C 77% 75%
Gallup Traditional 73% C- 77% 63%
Marist 67% D+ 62% 82%
ABC News / Wash Post 67% D+ 62% 82%
IBD/TIPP 66% D 77% 34%
Gallup Expanded 66% D 62% 78%
CBS News / NYT 60% D- 62% 56%
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby 35% F 31% 48%

MSM polls fall in the C to F categories with Reuters at the bottom. That of course is the poll that is pushed out by the MSM to convince everyone Obama is winning. Polls are a joke, Rasmussen and Pew tend to be consistent election to election. The MSM losers always change their numbers right at the end so they can claim they weren’t pushing Obama.

Pew and Rasmussen have tied for #1 in accuracy of predictions over the last few elections. The polls that the media types fawn over are always down around 20th in accuracy. The libs are upset someone is actually not cooking the books on a poll to promote Obama.

This election is already over, most people at this point fall into two camps:

1) Kool-aid drinking Obama loyalist voter that would vote for him even if he personally threw them and their family into the street and burned their house down.

2) Anti-Obama voter who would vote for a tree stump as long as it gets rid of him.

Luckily for Romney and the Republicans, group 2 is larger than 1, regardless of how the Pravda MSM/Polling companies spin it. I will even go so far as to predict that very few people, except the political hard cores, will even watch the debates.

We are in the last stages of an over leveraged ponzi economy driven by a severely abused fiat currency system. When the dollar ceases to become the world reserve currency (thanks to Ben and the political sock puppets refusing to take their medicine) it is game over. Total monetization of debt by a country is them going all in in Texas hold em with a pair of 2s. Total desperation.

China undercut Japan to takeover the trade crown from Japan in the 90s, as they merely duplicated what Japan was doing on a much larger scale with the USD/Euro. China made sure they were the cheap supplier of choice in global trade by also keeping the Yen strong.
The yen is only 4% of world FOREX reserves, so it doesn't take much to maintain a strong yen vs. the dollar as part of China's FOREX strategy. This is one of the reasons Japan is not happy with China. On top of that, the FED is also helping by devaluing our currency. Japan is basically a bantamweight between two heavyweights fighting it out.

Ancient documents written by gnostics, heretics, and opponents of the first century church get dug up by today’s media in an attempt to demoralize Christians. Gnostics, heretics, and opponents of the first century church wanted to redefine Christianity in their time. They were booted out and their documents and alternative beliefs were not considered relevant by the early Christians.

Two thousand years later, these alternative documents are presented as more accurate, revealing, and credible than any other historical Christian document. Even though historical Christian documents have been scrubbed inside out by archaelogists and historians in an attempt to prove or disprove the Bible. This is being done because the alternative documents promotes the agenda of the anti-Christian faction, that permeates media and entertainment, to redefine Christianity in modern times. So in some sense, the modern day gnostics, heretics, and opponents of Christianity are picking up the baton from their ancient counterparts.

Japan figured out currency manipulation as the key to winning global trade in the 80s with ZIRP and keeping their currency artificially weaker than the dollar by building up FOREX reserves, then China overwhelmed them in the 90s with larger currency muscle to pull global trade into their country with giant FOREX reserves, and now the FED has decided to use ZIRP and monetization to use the “largest” currency muscle in the world to overcome exponential debt growth and fantasy ponzi finances. This will force everyone else to fire up the printing presses to maintain the current status qou of the USA borrowing 500 billion a year from our “trade” partners to buy stuff from them as they must keep the dollar strong with respect to their currencies to continue business as usual.

It sounds good that we might actually turn the tide in currency manipulation to reverse our trade imbalance, but we are the worlds largest debtor and doing this out of a position of weakness not economic strength. It does however show that the current manipulation of global trade through FOREX reserves of the dollar is about to end thanks to trillions of new dollars being created out of thin air by the FED in its desperation to save the over-leveraged broken corrupt financial system.

From Instapundit ...

Pew Research = Rasmussen = Tied for first in accuracy in previous presidential elections.

MSM/Gallup/Zogby polls are in the 15th to 25th placeholders for accuracy for a reason. Of course they cook the books, it is in their nature to do whatever it takes to win. When will people simply ignore them? How many years of doing this does it take before people just automatically tune them out?

QE∞ ---- We have reached the end game of every ponzi scheme. Crony capitalism is in complete control as the political sock puppets bow down before their banking masters. The absolute need for exponential debt growth to continue "business as usual" will crush the delusions of those who mortgage the future to live with no consequences in the present.

Zogby is also clumped in with the bottom pollsters. I remember when he was one of the better ones and then flipped to the dark side. He must have figured out that the only way he would get publicity was to give the media what they wanted.

The only two polls that matter are Pew Research and Rasmussen. They were tied for first in accuracy as far as predicting the past Presidential races. The polls that the MSM like to push, Gallup/CBS/NBC/ABC and various combos, are all down at the bottom of polling accuracy (20th to 25th). Hopefully, people will start to clue in how the press tries to play kingmaker by pushing bad polling and ignoring good polls.

In summary, the wholly owned subsidary of Wall St. (US Gov.) has found nothing wrong with segregated customer funds being used to cover the bad bets of their Wall St. masters. Four years after collapsing the economy the oligarchs continue to fleece the public thanks to their relatively cheap investment (a few million dollars here and there) in the political class. Zero accountability is now permanently established for the criminal banking class as well as the precedent that “your” money is really “their” money if it resides in a financial institution.

The downward spiral continues ...

What gays need to understand is that they are only 2% of the population and the 98% has said enough.

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Your statement is statistically consistent decade after decade of census taking. But thanks to the vocal 2% and their best friends in the media and entertainment complex, you would think gays represent 25% of the population.

Events like Chick-Fil-A backed up by internet pictures that break through the media firewall and the follow on flops by the pro gay factions have broken through this carefully crafted illusion in a very visual and undeniable way. This is the equivalent of “can you hear me now” to the multi-national corps that will now have to reconsider catering to the vocal 2% while taking the 98% for granted.

Interstate Batteries are the only car batteries I have owned that could survive the Florida and Texas heat and actually last as long as they said they would. They cost more, but you get what you pay for. How often can one say that in our throw-away society? Glad to know they are another company that won’t kow-tow to the militant left.

Hmmm, banks get 800 Billion Dollars in exchange for worthless assets at super low percentage rates in TARP, they then go gamble on commodities and the stock market index because they also get more 0% FED money in QE I and II for more worthless assets which pushes them into the trillions category, they then “pay” us back on the original 800 Billion while making profit on bets funded by 0% to low percent FED money and dump their toxic assets on our backs. Then when the economy collapses, they scream for more funny money because their bets on commodities and stocks are going down without the constant infusion of FED 0% pumping.

That is like handing a criminal 1000 bucks, then handing the criminal 10000 bucks, and he peels off 1000 bucks and gives it back to you while gambling with the leftovers. His PR guy says “look, I paid you back the 1000 bucks” what is the big deal. TARP was the tip of the iceberg to this scam where fraudulent bankers were rewarded and allowed to dump their losses on our backs for guaranteed free money. This can only end badly.