Wednesday, May 2, 2012

"Horrible and Terrible are the same thing," Tyrion says.

I had horrible, terrible dreams last night. End of the world dreams. Me as an old man chipping at arrowheads while my savage grandchildren play nearby -- type dreams.

I know where they came from: the 4 hour Frontline documentary about the financial meltdown.

It made it clear that nothing has really changed, Wall Street is back to its old (new) tricks, and that another disaster is inevitable. Greece is essentially bankrupt, so to is probably Italy, Portugal, Spain, Ireland...et.al.

Obama blew it by making Geithner is Treasury Secretary. In a nutshell. Apparently, they bonded and thus lies the fate of empires.

Made me want to pull my money out of the stock-market; buy some shotgun shells, a year's worth of canned food, and seed stock.


But -- it also made it clear how extraordinary the lengths to which the government will go to keep the whole edifice intact. I'm thinking they've kicked the can down the road. I'm waiting for a clear sign before I do anything panicky.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

wow dunc, ... what happened to the old pro-oreo 2step??

The OREO has expanded the oil-wars, the OREO got MORE from GoldmanSachs than any politician in History.

Corzine walks after stealing $1.5B from farmers ( MF-GLOBAL ) and he was OREO's #1 patron for first term.

Yes the USA will implode, but the sacred dollar will become worthless. 'Survial' in all civil-wars involves not being there. Most telling right now is this debate that Romney bad cuz he have Swiss bank account, ... we're supposed to believe that OREO doesn't? Do you honestly believe that smart-money still holds US dollars?

Smart men went offshore 2 decades ago, .. you know all state-dept people keep a case full of passports and cash at all times, with credit-cards, ready to leave.

Still my model is that of the Jews smart Jews left prior to 1939, after that it was too late to leave. Already most places are putting up obstacles to enter. In about 2-3 years nobody will want anybody from the USA, and thus there will be no where to go.

Most telling is that now MORE mexicans are leaving the USA than entering,... you don't hear that much, but its the absolute truth. The USA is going down and hard. People like HBM will be wishing that Marge would feed them with those hoarded canned beans, but to be honest in a civil-war again the best and safest place to be is faraway from the action.

The USA will come out of the coming civil-war of course it and out of that will come a new regional government and the NW will become Ecotopia. Fuck the east coast and fuck californica.

End of the world, fuck no HBM, for those who survive the civil-war, and have gold or swiss-francs stashed away post hyper-inflation, it will be the best of times.

I figure that in 2025 Bend will be a pretty nice place, albeit lack of cheap portable liquid energy.

Anonymous said...

Most interesting news is that OREO is denying that forcing the blind guy out of the US embassy in China happened, even though the blind-guy called the wash-post and said his wife had been threatened with death if he didn't leave.

You really think that somebody would stand ground, after all it was the USA that convinced him to leave his safe-house for the US embassy, but once again as always the USA fucks those that it pretends to protect, Most likely this guy was brought and delivered as a fucking carrot.

Essentially if China doesn't BUY US T-Bills this week and nobody has for a long time, as the Federal Reserve has been the sole buyer of US debt, talking about the biggest ponzi scheme in world history.

So your FUCKING OREO gets a blind guy to leave his safe-house and then the US-Embassy delivers him to be tortured and the US get's someobody to buy a few billion in T-Bills.

Truth is always stranger than fiction, fiction has to make sense.

Even funnier yesterday, everybody was told that OREO wasn't in Afghanistan, when in fact everybody knew he was there, if HBM's press doesn't get better at lying this whole fucking show is going to be over. Bend-Over(tm).

Anonymous said...

Rather than focussing on Europe, you may very well consider that California is worse off financially than Greece.

Oregons unfunded PERS obligation to judges and cops exceeds the aggregrate net-worth of the citizenry. Somethings going to give, and its going to be the little-peoples wealth.

Anonymous said...

Chen Guangcheng: A Day of Shame for the U.S.

Chinese dissidents now understand that the U.S. is a paper tiger worried more about the Chinese exchange rate and United Nations vetoes than about fundamental issues of human rights

***

Yep, day of fucking shame, cuz now every 'dissident' in China knows that the USA is full of shit. That the the USA Pimp would whore its own mother if it knew the John was stupid enough to BUY US T-Bills.

The Magic-Negro, lost all credibility world-wide when he failed to close Guantanamo. Now the Magic-Oreo has lost all credibility amongst the 'litte-people', how low can you go? Not to worry, you can be assured that there lie a Golden-Parachute for the OREO, thus his future unlike yours is truly magic.

Duncan McGeary said...

My disappointment with Obama is that he proved to be too establishment.

My solution isn't to vote for Romney, the quintessential 1% er.

I can hope he'll correct the Geithner mistake. Even Bush finally got rid of Rumsfield.

Carl, couldn't leave your comment up wishing for physical harm...

Anonymous said...

Can you imagine how bad your dreams would have been if Frontline hadn't sugar-coated their report so much?

Leitmotiv said...

It is shown that a president's second term is always lackluster when compared to the first.

Duncan McGeary said...

Two words: Supreme Court.

H. Bruce Miller said...

I don't know about seeds as a strategy for surviving Armageddon in Central Oregon. If you try to live on what you can grow here you'll die of scurvy, beriberi and pellagra.