Thursday, February 24, 2011

#134 msg 4 banksters from a keiserist

#134 msg 4 banksters from a keiserist

In my opinion there are 4 kinds of people:

* ones who want to live long and then go to heaven or whatever
* ones who want to live long and then return to the earth
* ones who want to live long and then live some more, etc. and are aware of it
* ones who want to live long and then live some more, etc. and are not aware of it, otherwise known as sociopaths.

The point of all my videos has been to reach out "across the aisle" to these sociopaths who I believe want fountains of youth, not piles of weapons and money and others like them to get more power to get more piles, etc.

I don't reach out to compromise or compromise myself or become one of them or one of their "in crowd" slaves.

I reach out to them because I know they are untreatable but I believe they can become aware of what they really want, more time.

So while we all play "bad cop" in their eyes trying to buy silver and gold, I have done, am doing and will continue to do "good cop" as well and try to get these beyond-repairs to buy more years and decades with their power, and convince them it can only be done with a worldwide effort. How many potential Einsteins never had a chance to blossom due to these power mad mad-men (and a few women)?

Yes, more Einteins could mean inventing more things that could decrease their short-term power, like inventions that compete with their current corporate holdings, but more Einsteins could give them more life which is what I think they really want power for instead of for more things.

Monday, February 21, 2011

#132 u.s. was never meant to be democracy

#132 u.s. was never meant to be democracy

From the beginning third parties were never allowed to get off the ground.

Plurality was never an issue, there would just be a runoff election, never a coalition government as in the the parliamentary countries.

It was most clearly shown in 2000 when Ralph Nader showed up at a debate in Boston of all places, a few blocks from the JFK (President John F. Kennedy library) and was denied entry.

What's happening now with a few thousand mostly white men running the country isn't that different than in 1776 (declaration of independence) or 1789 (constitution ratified).

What's different today is that the world has shrunk with improved communications and transportation, and the planet is in trouble ecologically.

The party's going to be over soon despite how many "oh, maw"'s from the little children, which is what sociopaths are emotionally.

The moms will all say, "Time to go home children."

Sunday, February 20, 2011

wall street biodome to segregate banksters

How about putting all of the Wall Street area under a dome and cutting off communication with the outside world except for medical emergencies that must be handled by a medical staff supervised by an on the scene Keiserite

Saturday, February 19, 2011

#131 if there's no silver shortage then let the UN General Assembly have accounting firms, chosen at random from those all over the world, audit how much silver there is.

#131 if there's no silver shortage then let the UN General Assembly have accounting firms, chosen at random from those all over the world, audit how much silver there is.


I bet the UN Security Council, aka mostly the u.s., would table that in 1 second, less than that if I had a stop watch primed and ready.

The only no shortage is that of u.s. fiat and digital currency, honest u.s. bankers and their friends, elected and appointed government officials, and mainstream media owners, reporters and commentators.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

#130 תנו לפלסטינים ללכת (Let the Palestinians go)

#130 תנו לפלסטינים ללכת (Let the Palestinians go)

And Moses said, "שלח את עמי (Let my people go)" circa 1446 b.c.

And will a Moses 2.0 step up in Israel now say, "תנו לאנשים שלהם ללכת (Let their people go)" approximately 3,457 years later?

http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7224704964351445339&postID=3793473278775545356

#129 b of a raising fees as max predicted

#129 b of a raising fees as max predicted

EMAIL TO MAX@MAXKEISER.COM WEDNESDAY, 02/16/2011:

From: michaelsam2@comcast.net
Subject: b of a raising fees on customers w multiple accounts including credit lines...
Date: February 16, 2011 10:25:14 AM EST
To: max@maxkeiser.com

PART OF EMAIL:

Claiming that there was an error in possibly 150,000 accounts, that many letters were sent out.

When B of A bought out Fleet several years ago, it continued to waive fees for those with equity credit lines by showing them above a minimum for all accounts by adding a line to the list of qualifying accounts and their balances. The line was for "ANNUITY (CREDIT)" and was possibly the only bookkeeping entry they had to make sure fees were waived for these loyal customers that did all their banking at B of A, including equity credit lines.

Now they claim the "annuity" entry was an error implying all these accounts didn't have annuities, which they never did, but were tagged as accounts with annuities. They want more fees on all checking and savings accounts unless certain unless certain minimums are met or, in some cases, direct deposit is used monthly.

Looks like what you said is true about banks making up for losses and/or for more profits by squeezing customers with new and more fees.

REFER TO: http://maxkeiser.com/2011/01/05/sgk-suicical-global-kleptocracy-banks-react-to-new-rules-by-replacing-old-fees-with-new-ones/

SGK (Suicidal Global Kleptocracy): Banks React To New Rules — By Replacing Old Fees With New Ones
January 5th, 2011 by maxkeiser
Banks Considering New Fees On Cards And Checking Accounts
Henry Blodget: GREAT NEWS: Banks Cooking Up New Ways To Screw You

#128 2-16-2011 maxkeiser.com: jp morgan firings

#128 2-16-2011 maxkeiser.com: jp morgan firings

On Wednesdy, February 17, 2011 maxkeiser.com talked bout some jp morgan layoffs.

I wonder how many potential whistleblowers did they just sack?

jp morgan has so much energy.

If they would only use some of it to get power to get more time instead of more money.

Maybe they are but I think a worldwide effort is needed to increase longevity.

On their death beds they may realize not only that they can't take it with them but that they could have stayed longer if everyone cooperated to work on figuring out how to live longer, as long as everyone got the benefits.

FROM MAXKEISER.COM 2011-02-16:

JP Morgan ramps up its assault on capitalism with new electronic finanical terrorism tactics; fires thousands of traders and gives the robots unlimited credit and an open bank line to the Fed
February 16th, 2011 by maxkeiser
Respond
JPMorgan Chase Consolidates Trading Platforms to Reduce Costs (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-16/jpmorgan-consolidates-trading-platforms-to-cut-costs-3-000-jobs-by-2014.html)

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

#127 if most of grp dead in 5 yrs / max...

#127 if most of grp dead in 5 yrs / max...

referring to Max Keiser's entry in maxkeiser.com 2011-02-15 with a link to a zerohedge article:

Max said:

Most of the Americans visiting this site today will be dead in five years thanks to Obama’s budget and the kamikaze 1% ruling kleptocrats (is Wall St. nature’s way of getting rid of the American over population problem?)
February 15th, 2011 by maxkeiser

The link (http://www.zerohedge.com/article/disillusioned-99er-shares-his-disappointment-american-dream) to the zerohedge article said:

A Disillusioned 99′er Shares His Disappointment With The American Dream, Welcomes Death

(99 is for number of weeks of unemployment benefits that have, are or will be running out)

I say:

WELL THEN, WE U.S.ERS MIGHT AS WELL BUY MORE SILVER AND GOLD!

Monday, February 14, 2011

#126 defaulting is the default

#126 defaulting is the default

I now think the banksters and their friends are beginning to realize they can't beat China and Russia and Germany with a printing press and will do nothing (the default) and settle for bankruptcy and dollar devaluation, which they hope to benefit from, even at fire sale prices.

But I don't think the rest of the world will give them a pass (e.g. Bush and Switzerland).

Nevertheless, it will be like reinstating high income taxes again but this time for all.

So when dollars are devalued or converted into whatever, people not invested in gold and silver will need help as they do now.

But then those of us with gold and silver can sell some or all of our gold and silver and save at higher interest rates and/or invest in u.s. companies, run in the u.s., producing in the u.s, hiring u.s. workers, companies concerned about worldwide ecologically sustainable market share growth instead of this quarter's profits.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

#125 they just love to attack a specific person without getting specific about what he/she has said or done

#125 they just love to attack a specific person without getting specific about what he/she has said or done

'“It’s a sad day in American history when a one-time conservative/libertarian stalwart has fallen more out of touch with America’s needs for national security then our current socialist presidential regime,” said the group’s national director Jordan Marks.'

Quote from YAF (Young Americans for Freedom), as reported on maxkeiser.com, Sunday/2/13/2011.

If Ron Paul isn't a conservative/libertarian...

Did anyone hear him and Ralph Nader together on tv and/or a maxkeiser.com link a few days ago, agreeing about the Fed, but Ron Paul insisting a free enterprise approach had to be taken to health care while Ralph Nader called for a single payer system like most of the other western democracies have?

The only socialism the u.s. has is socialism for the banksters and their corporate and government friends.

#123 ny named empire st 1609 by henry hudson but...

#123 ny named empire st 1609 by henry hudson but...

"In 1784, five years before George Washington was inaugurated in New York City as the first president, he envisioned New York as the 'seat of empire,' thus giving rise to its nickname--the Empire State. New York has completely fulfilled the expectation that Washington expressed to the state's first governor, George Clinton." Quote from Compton's Encyclopedia.

300 years after Hudson's name, many people got enthused about the phrase.

A search Sunday, 2011-02-13 for 1900 "empire state" had about 825,000 results.

4 years later the fed was created.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

#122 Israel, now is the time

#122 Israel, now is the time

I think it's time for Israel to make peace before the middle east can continue to try to do to what the Romans did in 70 A.D.

The u.s. military is formidable but now without Egypt as a buffer state, along with the extreme u.s. financial woes, Israel may end up in the reverse condition that it was in when Egypt accidently helped to create it over 5,000 years ago (as was pointed out by a comment maker in maxkeiser.com 02-11-2011.

I say instead, as a young grandfather proud of his Jewish heritage once as I was before the 1970's, please give the Palestinians independence now.

What a chance to be proactive for a change at this historic moment in Egypt, the middle east and the rest of the world, starting with Iceland who said "No" to bailouts and now spreading to the middle east.

Allow me to put up the Israeli flag next to the Iceland one off to my right.

Make me proud to be Jewish again during February, 2011.

Friday, February 11, 2011

#122 israel 800lb gorilla in mideast room

#122 israel 800lb gorilla in mideast room

I think it's time for Israel to make peace before the middle east continues to try to do to it what the Romans did in 70 A.D. (the fall of Israel).

u.s. military is formidable but now without Egypt as a buffer state, along with the extreme u.s. financial woes, Israel may end up in the reverse condition that it was in when Egypt accidently helped to create it over 5,000 years ago (as was pointed out by a comment maker in maxkeiser.com 02-11-2011, commenting on "With democracy breaking out all over the region, will Israel start being less of a douche?
February 11th, 2011 by maxkeiser
Respond
Israel Is Feeling Even More Alone)."

I say instead, as a young grandfather proud of his Jewish heritage once as I was before the 1970's, please give the Palestinians independence now.

What a chance to be proactive for a change at this historic moment in Egypt, the middle east and the rest of the world, starting with Iceland who said "No" to bailouts and now spreading to the middle east.

Allow me to put up the Israeli flag next to the Iceland one off to my right.

Make me proud to be Jewish again before March, 2011!

#119 max v mish: conspire or not 2 conspire CRASH JP MORGAN BUY silVer

#119 max v mish: conspire or not 2 conspire CRASH JP MORGAN BUY silVer

Mish put in article linked to mxkeiser.com on 2/10/2011.

In it he said 3 things:

* there is no conspiracy by the fed and jp morgan and goldman sachs

* before that he said the gop wants fed role to be price stability, not more jobs

* all the fed can do is control short term interest rates, making it incapable of doing either of the 2 other things, much less doing 2 things at once: price stability and more jobs.

THE ARTICLE WAS: Dual Mandates, the Price of Gold, and Tinfoil Hats

THE LINK WAS:

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/02/dual-mandates-price-of-gold-and-tinfoil.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MishsGlobalEconomicTrendAnalysis+%28Mish%27s+Global+Economic+Trend+Analysis%29

Thursday, February 10, 2011

#118 about 2,280,000 search results for "we buy gold"

#118 about 2,280,000 search results for "we buy gold"

There are about 2,280,000 search results for "we buy gold" thursday, 02 10 2011.

There are About 1,040,000 search results for "we buy silver" thursday, 02 10 2011.

Is this a talking point for Max Keiser, Gerald Celente and others the next time they're televised or on the radio?

How about sending emails to:

max@maxkeiser.com, gcelente@trendsresearch.com

?

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

#116 bp doing well: more offshore rigs coming?

#116 bp doing well: more offshore rigs coming?

Their stock is up and the Saudi's seems down.

Are we being prepared for much more offshore drilling?

Is it nearing the time to back out of the Middle East and go after oil that's more dangerous to the ecology but less dangerous militarily?

The military can then be used to protect the rigs, another boom results and all is forgiven, literally and deficit wise.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

#115 why so many u.s. citizens in denial CRASH JP MORGAN BUY silVer

#115 why so many u.s. citizens in denial CRASH JP MORGAN BUY silVer

The u.s. works for the majority of healthy but unquestioning people raised by healthy but unquestioning parents.

But good luck if you are unhealthy and/or questioning and were raised by parents who were unhealthy and/or questioning.

The move to the suburbs has isolated many of those in denial from the realities of the large minority who don't fit the mold, especially those that are unhealthy and/or had unhealthy parents.

As for the few who question what's going on, I for one run into so many people in denial who just don't get it and won't until a second stock market crash, higher unemployment, lower wages, less benefits and hyperinflation all kick in at about the same time, assuming I'm following maxkeiser.com and other sites correctly.

#114 cbs news: obama & churchill's bust

#114 cbs news: obama & churchill's bust

Here's what passes for "news" in the mainstream media in these turbulent times:

It seems that the oval office had a bust of WWII's successful British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and newly elected obama had it removed, something about obama's father and colonialism.

CBS news decided this was newsworthy enough to include in their Monday, 02/07/2011 6:30 pm est half-hour minus commercials broadcast to tens of millions of u.s. viewers.

Monday, February 7, 2011

#112 "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one"

#112 "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one"

- Mr. Spock from the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

What we have now is "the desires of the few or the one outweigh the needs of the many."

Can we even agree that "the needs of the many outweigh the desires of the few or the one?"

If so, can even fair (sociopath-less) competition ever result in the "the needs of the many outweighing the desires of the one or the few?"

I hope so, but don't know, because we've always had to deal with sociopaths.

So we don't really know if we need to compete and/or cooperate synergistically.

To paraphrase Shakespeare, to compete and/or not compete, "that is the question?"

Sunday, February 6, 2011

#113 msg especially to women on the banksters

#113 msg especially to women on the banksters

There's been alot of talk about politicians not having the "male" courage, usually described more colorfully, to stand up to the banksters.

But I think both groups, politicians and banksters, are very sick people, beyond treatment according to my social worker wife. But I don't want them punished, just kept away from the rest of the world in a comfortable place surrounded by healthy security people. Here is where courage comes in, not letting these sociopaths bribe to get what they want, even from behind concrete walls. Besides, they may bribe someone one day and stab her/him in the back the next.

I think most women have more courage then most men, being willing to go through child birth while some men won't even have vasectomies, so I would want lots of women in the security forces. And if these sociopath types are too manipulative to control even behind locked doors, again according to my wife, and must be executed to make society safe, I want a majority of those making these decisions to be women.

Women have been a small minority of the banksters and so have non-white men. Women have put up with a world run mostly by men for tens of thousands of years, often treated as literally a lower class of people. Many women still put up with expectations that they must be beautiful on the outside while men must be on the inside brilliant and/or "successful" in other ways.

I think what Max Keiser is doing is helpful, for the u.s. and for the world. But I would like to see him partner up with more women economists, other experts and "generalists". I'm a male "generalist" looking for women counterparts to help me put what Max is doing into psychological, sociological, philosophical, political, legal and humanist perspective.

I would like Max to choose more well-rounded people for his team. Naturally, I would like to be on the team but I think it has to be more than one person, especially women chosen not for expertise in just a few parts of the entire world, but chosen for their brains and general understanding of the entire world as well as their inner beauty and courage.

#111 sound like similar situation for anyone we all know?

#111 sound like similar situation for anyone we all know?

"There's no escape. You had the world and it closed in on you until there was only Harper (CT, USA). That closed in on you until there was only this room. And this room is closing in on you."

- From the movie "The Stranger", 1946, starring Orson Welles and Edward G. Robinson, directed by Orson Welles

Saturday, February 5, 2011

#109 1 more time: pm not just rocks

#109 1 more time: pm not just rocks

As a commenter on maxkeiser.com just told me, capitalism is not free enterprise which is making money from goods and/or services. Instead, capitalism is making money from money. Gold and silver reveal, sooner or later, whether making money from money is being abused by printing more money then the economy needs.

That is why gold has been going up for over 10 years. The abuse has increased in the last 10 years and it has continued to catch up with the market despite attempts to keep gold and silver prices down.

The market will allow the abuse and manipulation to continue for only so long until greed and/or fear from sources, other than the abusers and/or manipulators, step in and buy and force the market to "clear" temporarily until the next round of abuse and/or manipulation.

Max and/or commenters, feel free to add your more-than-two-cents.

Friday, February 4, 2011

#107 per Max: higher pm prices takes time

I was looking at the chart for the article linked to maxkeiser.com for 02/04/2011, "Biggest pump and dump boiler room scamster of tham all" in Max's words.

The chart showed that:

During qe1 the S & P angle up was about 45 degrees and the world was disturbed.

During qe2 the $ & P angle up is just over 45 degrees and more and more countries don't want to deal in u.s. dollars.

The angle can't go any higher than 90 so the fed is running out of qe's to do before we're in a 1920's Germany situation in reverse, where one mark will be worth trillions of dollars.

Long before that lack of practicality will set in - paying in even hundred dollar bills then will be as difficult as paying for everything in pennies now.

Ever been in a store where the person ahead of you paid with a jar full of pennies?

A memorable event for sure.

By the way, I'm seeing alot of maxkeiser.com comments about silver and gold not rebounding.

Then I remember what Max and others said, that the bankerment is trying to scare you out, that they're propping up the stock market as per above, that volatility increases as the jumps up in prices get bigger.

So chill, and after a while when you sell your gold and silver at $2,000 or $5,000 or even more for ounce of gold, and maybe $500 for ounce silver, get a residence outside the u.s. so you can open a bank account there to convert your u.s. dollars to sounder non-u.s. currencies.

#108 don't want total freedom

#108 don't want total freedom

"Too much of a good thing..."

I don't have the freedom to yell "fire" in a movie theatre.
I don't have the freedom to break other laws.
I don't want the freedom to starve because I can't afford food.
I don't want the freedom to doctor myself because I can't afford a pro.
I don't want the freedom to live on the street because I can't afford a roof.

Please don't buy into the rigged market capitalism folks waving the "freedom" flag.

Please do buy silver and/or gold so we can get the freedoms we need and want.

#105 wrong time 4 capitalism or not debate

#105 wrong time 4 capitalism or not debate

My last video was about this too, referring to an article slamming capitalism, while not considering the overgrown children running the world.

They want us to use our energy to debate the pluses and minuses of both approaches while they stick it to us with a third approach, "rigged markets."

So please concentrate on crashing and crushing them by buying silver and/or gold.

Then we'll try nut-less capitalism since it's already in place, and tweak if it's tweak-able.

Whatever.

But for now, CRASH JP MORGAN, BUY silVer!

Thursday, February 3, 2011

#104 maxkeiser.com 2/3/11, Henry, this is asinine

#104 maxkeiser.com 2/3/11 Henry, this is asinine

Max ix writing about an article in businessinsider.com: "Only A True Capitalist Could Tolerate Mass Starvation In Order To Sustain His Capitalist Convictions", by
Courtney Comstock Feb. 3, 2011, 11:35 AM

I as commenter said:
"This is no time to be arguing capitalism versus non-capitalism. That’s just what the bankerment wants us to do, get all academic why they print more toilet paper.
I myself have doubts about both capitalism and non-capitalism.
BUT NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR SUCH LOFTY BANTER.
NOW IS THE TIME TO CRASH JP MORGAN BUY silVer"

2nd commenter said:
"To blame capitalism for the death of millions is as stupid as to blame socialism for the death of millions, its the insane power mad people that lead that are the cause.
Normal people either under a capitalist/ free enterprise model or a social equity model can live well without damaging each other. We unfortunately allow sociopaths/physcopaths to schmooze their way into power and fck everything up. Take the power out of government and out of the financial world (PM as a the basis) and people will get along."

3rd commenter said:
"Let the political academics on this site pontificate, but it will be the activistas that make the diffference, and who are…..every day, by exchanging confetti for something real.
"Max, bless his little cotton socks, had worked out the achilles heel."

#103 2nd stock mkt crash acid test of keiserism

#103 2nd stock mkt crash acid test of keiserism

Missouri has always been known as the "show me" state.

Sometimes I think most u.s. citizens are from there.

If there is one thing Max Keiser and others in his camp have said loudly and clearly,
it's that this economic position the u.s. banksters are causing is going to lead to a double dip depression (or recession depending on your preference for what to call it).

I don't want it to happen at all, but if it's going to happen, which I also personally think it is, I wish it would happen soon, hopefully expedited by us u.s. and non-u.s. non-banksters buying silver. I'm tired of being lectured to by most of the people I know who are still brain-deadened by the mainstream media.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

#102 revolving super powers or the end of humanity?

#102 revolving super powers or the end of humanity?

China was once a super power many dynasties ago.

Egypt was once a super power thousands of years ago.

Rome was a super power 2000 years ago.

Is history repeating itself?

China's clearly back, Gerald Celente says Italy may have something with non-hot fusion and Egypt controls the Suez Canal.

Britain and the u.s. have had their chance hundreds of years ago, just like the scientist in "Jurassic Park" said the dinosaurs had their chance hundreds of millions of years ago.

So the question for humanity is whether thousands of years or millions of years of the Earth's story is repeating itself?

I hope for the former (yay people!) but I fear the latter (yay some other life form or forms!).

#101 crash 2.0 enough to wake up u.s. citizens? CRASH JP MORGAN BUY silVer

#101 crash 2.0 enough to wake up u.s. citizens? CRASH JP MORGAN BUY silVer

Most u.s. citizens are still asleep, maybe the next crash due any day now and 40%+ real (18%+ fake) unemployment is needed.

Or maybe crash QE3 and crash 3.0 is needed to reach the tipping point of 60%+ (27%+ fake) unemployed.

Or maybe just some old fashioned hyper-inflation will do the trick with just a little bit more abuse by the banksters of the people and Mother Nature.

It's not nice to abuse the people and Mother Nature, especially at the same time.

Central banks in the past didn't have to worry about ecological issues and eventually failed anyway.

Now that they are also faced with a failing environment, they should actually fail more easily.

And maybe they are since for the first time in 3 years Egypt has them afraid.

Fear knows no boundaries, even touches sociopaths.

#100 gold only valuable when too much of a currency

#100 gold only valuable when too much of a currency

Let's be realistic - it's the 21st century.

Anything but digital transactions is too time consuming.

We may use gold and silver for a while but I'm reminded of a tv commercial where a young man picks up an item in a store and pockets it. A voice sounding like it's coming from a sound system says "Thank you Mr. Whatever for your purchase."

Now that's an efficient use of time and I think we're headed that way.

But that doesn't take us off the gold standard, nothing can.

One way or another, the value of a currency will come through when the market reports its price per ounce of gold.

If there's too much currency doing nothing then it will find its way to gold.

If there's too little currency doing nothing then less will find its way to gold.

Manipulate it by flooding the market with it, it doesn't matter, currency doing nothing will go after it.

And there's only currency with lots of it doing nothing, especially not being used to boost productivity like the also overly plentiful Chinese yuan, and that's the U.S. dollar.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

#99 gold std only true law of economics

#99 gold std only true law of economics

You can run and hide but you can’t escape the gold standard.

You can manipulate and censor but it always emerges, exposing the weaknesses in and proclaiming the strengths of all currencies.

It is the only true law of economics.

The more each country has the better it looks for each country but being honest about how much currency it has is most important for each country - I'd rather deal with a country with one ounce of gold that says it must devalue its currency to optimize economic performance and then devalues its currency to a trillion pieces of paper per ounce of gold, then a country with all the rest of the gold that says it doesn't have to devalue at all and then does so anyway from 1 piece of paper per ounce of gold to 1 plus 1 trillioneth pieces of paper per ounce of gold.

#98 wall st afraid after egypt CRASH JP MORGAN BUY silVer

#98 wall st afraid after egypt CRASH JP MORGAN BUY silVer

Well, a normal person would know that if you never service a car that sooner or later it's going to break down, one way or another.

Yet it comes as a surprise to Wall Street that things aren't going exactly as planned.

A car has thousands of parts.

Earth has billions of people, hundreds of countries and cultures.

The only surprise for normal people is when we're not surprised, which isn't very often.

Einsteins said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

I'm beginning to think the definition of sociopathy is doing different things each time and expecting the same result.

Each country is different. Expecting each to act the same way is, for lack of a better word, crazy.

First there was Iceland to say "no", then Tunisia, now Egypt. Who's going to be next?

Yes, definitely let's have a QE3, speed up the process, get it over with, and think of the bankerment only as a bad memory.

"the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one"

"the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one"

- Mr. Spock from the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

We need to agree on some definitions before we can discuss what's going on in the world, much less what to do about it.

What we have now is "the desires of the few or the one outweigh the needs of the many."

Can we even agree that "the needs of the many outweigh the desires of the few or the one?"

If so, can even fair (sociopath-less) competition ever result in the "the needs of the many outweighing the desires of the one or the few?"

I hope so, but don't know, because we've always had to deal with the sociopaths.

So we don't really know if we need to compete and/or cooperate synergistically.

To paraphrase Shakespeare, to compete and/or not compete, "that is the question?"