Στο θάλαμο 9, για το καλό μας

Εξορθολογισμός στη χώρα του παραλόγου, ναί, επιβάλλεται όσο τίποτα. Θα το λέγαμε εξορθολογισμός του «παραλόγου». Να διορθώσεις τα κακώς κείμενα, ναί, ποιά απ' όλα θα μου πείς. Ξέρεις ότι θα φτάσεις τελευταίος και ασθμαίνοντας. Αξίζει ο κόπος?

Δεν ξέρω πραγματικά πλέον τί αξίζει και τί όχι, μέσα σ'αυτές τις ιστορίες καθημερινής τρέλας, που γίναμε θεατές. Θέλοντας και μή. Το ιδιωτικό κατέστη με επαίσχυντο φιλτράρισμα δημόσιο, το δημόσιο φιλτραρισμένο επαίσχυντα στη πηγή του, ιδιωτικό.

Μια χώρα σε σήψη, ένας λαός σε απύθμενη παρακμή. Οι λίγοι που απέμειναν εντός των τοιχών,(της ηθικής και λογικής) πήραν φύλο πορείας. Στο θάλαμο 9, για το καλό τους.

Περάστε να πληρώσετε το λογαριασμό παρακαλώ. Οι εναπομείναντες...



Ας παραδεχτούμε οτι χρεοκοπήσαμε πρό πολλού να ξεμπερδεύουμε.


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Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar - Official Video HQ

Are we there?

Υο Υο Μα - Libertango

Ένα "τανγκό" που θα χορέψουμε χωρίς να ξέρουμε τα βήματα...

Το εκπληκτικό Libertango του Piazzola από τον επίσης εκπληκτικό τσελίστα Yo Yo Ma...

Απολαύστε το.

Adios Buenos Aires (12 Tangos)

www.12tangos.com







The Tango "Los 4 vampiros banqueros" deals with corralito and crisis in Argentina. The film sequence shows archives from the protests in 2001/2002 and the impressions of young elementary school students about their experiences during that crisis. The music was exclusively recorded by "las muñecas" for the documentary "12 Tangos". Performed in "La Catedral" in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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World Monetary System Collapse and Gold’s Parabolic Rise

Source: GoldSeek.com


By Hubert Moolman




We could be very close to the end of a financial era that started about 1971. The monetary system as we know it today, which is backed by a changing (non stable dollar), appears to be in its final stages and just waiting for a fierce run to gold, silver and certain other non monetary assets, to provide the death blow.

The death blow could be provided by the massive increase in the “paper prices” of gold, silver etc. over the next couple of years, which could lead to an end of confidence in fiat money and other debt based financial assets.

The current monetary order will be exposed for the fraud that it is, and it will collapse just like the monetary orders before i.e. the gold exchange standard and the Bretton Woods standard.

The biggest losers will be those that are significant holders of fiat currency. However, a collapse of the world monetary system is such a serious and profound issue, that we will all probably be losers (this generation at least).

Below is a 200 year Dow/Gold Ratio chart from www.sharelynx.com. (Thanks to sharelynx.com for this useful chart and many more.)


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In the last century the world’s monetary order (rules) were significantly changed during the following periods:

1. In 1929 to early 1930’s when the gold exchange standard collapsed.

2. In the late 1960’s finally collapsing in 1971.

These changes were brought about by the presiding powers over the system due to the pressure on the questionable system, which could be seen in the fact that financial assets (non real assets or intangible) assets had become way over-valued. In other words, the claims on tangible assets were not supported by the relevant tangible assets at an equivalent basis. There were thus way more claims than tangible assets.

What is very interesting about these dates above (when the rules were changed), when looking at the Dow/Gold ratio, is the fact that the Dow/Gold ratio had just peaked some years before that, in 1928 and in 1965 respectively.

Recently the Dow/God ratio has of course peaked in 1999 and here we are in 2010 at a time where the world’s monetary system is again fragile. Evidence of this is easily found when looking at the financial landscape especially since 2007. Here events such as the stock market crash of 2008, Iceland, Greece to name but a few come to mind.

A change is gonna come, as a famous song goes. However, this time it might be different due to fact that the final direct link between gold and dollar was already removed in 1971. How much more corrupt can you make the system? In other words, what else could be done to relieve the pressure on the system?

So this time there might be no change of the rules by “the powers that be” in order to relieve the pressure on the system as was done in 1933 and 1971, but instead, we might have the system finally collapsing by itself - by way of a devastating hyperinflationary scenario. Time will tell what it will be in the not too distant future.


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http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1271257500.php

Tomorrow Never Lies - Pulp

Gerald Celente on the Greek Debt Crisis interview with Helen Skopis of Athens, Greece

Επίσης εδώ: oikonomika blog

Swine flu jab link to killer nerve disease

Source: Daily Mail co.uk

Swine flu jab link to killer nerve disease: Leaked letter reveals concern of neurologists over 25 deaths in America

A warning that the new swine flu jab is linked to a deadly nerve disease has been sent by the Government to senior neurologists in a confidential letter.

The letter from the Health Protection Agency, the official body that oversees public health, has been leaked to The Mail on Sunday, leading to demands to know why the information has not been given to the public before the vaccination of millions of people, including children, begins.

It tells the neurologists that they must be alert for an increase in a brain disorder called Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), which could be triggered by the vaccine.

GBS attacks the lining of the nerves, causing paralysis and inability to breathe, and can be fatal.

The letter, sent to about 600 neurologists on July 29, is the first sign that there is concern at the highest levels that the vaccine itself could cause serious complications.

It refers to the use of a similar swine flu vaccine in the United States in 1976 when:

* More people died from the vaccination than from swine flu.
* 500 cases of GBS were detected.
* The vaccine may have increased the risk of contracting GBS by eight times.
* The vaccine was withdrawn after just ten weeks when the link with GBS became clear.
* The US Government was forced to pay out millions of dollars to those affected.

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Argentina's Economic Collapse - Part 2 of 12

Ethics: An essay on the understanding of Evil

Alain Badiou

• An essay on the understanding of Evil

• Source: Verso

Alain Badiou

Translated by Peter Hallward

Ethical questions dominate current political and academic agendas. While government think-tanks ponder the dilemmas of bio-ethics, medical ethics and professional ethics, respect for human rights and reverence for the Other have become matters of broad consensus.

Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, explodes the facile assumptions behind this recent ethical turn. He shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo, and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the concept of evil.

In contrast, Badiou summons up an “ethic of truths” which is designed both to sustain and inspire a disciplined, subjective adherence to a militant cause (be it political or scientific, artistic or romantic), and to discern a finely demarcated zone of application for the concept of evil. He defends an effectively super-human integrity over the respect for merely human rights, asserts a partisan universality over the negotiation of merely particular interests, and appeals to an “immortal” value beyond the protection of mortal privileges.

“One of the most important philosophers writing today.” — Joan Copjec

Alain Badiou teaches philosophy at the Ecole normale supérieure and the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. In additional to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject (1982), Being and Event (1988), Manifesto for Philosophy (1989), Conditions (1992) and Gilles Deleuze: The Clamour of Being (1997), Metapolitics and Polemics. His The Meaning of Sarkozy is forthcoming from Verso.

“Against the predominant fashion for anti- and post- philosophies, Ethics enacts a return to full-blown philosophy which strikes as a thunder into the morass of postmodernist sophisms and platitudes. . . . A book that aims at the very heart of politically correct “radical” intellectuals, undermining the foundations of their mode of life!” — Slavoj Zizek

Painful death of the American economic dream

Source: Guardian.co.uk

02/11/09

This crisis has been a long time in coming, and history suggests that the period of upheaval will be long and painful, just as it was between 1914 and 1945

It wasn't really supposed to end up like this. When the Berlin Wall came crashing down 20 years ago, the cold war ended with triumph for the west. Instead of two superpowers, there was one. Instead of competing ideologies, there was capitalism, and a particularly brash form of capitalism at that.

The elder George Bush said the world should learn how to do things the American way. "We know what works," he said. "Free markets work."

The reach of the market grew longer for two decades, encompassing China and India as well as the former Soviet Union and its satellites. Rapid growth brought impressive poverty reduction in China and India; there are few Poles or Czechs who hanker after the days when Moscow pulled the strings.

But it was always inevitable that, sooner or later, globalisation would run into a crisis, and what we have seen in the past two years is just the start of it. Don't be fooled by the sucker's rally of the past six months – Americans are once again running down savings to consume goods they can't afford; China's exports are booming.

The global imbalances are back. A combination of political change and technological revolution has always produced upheaval. That was true when the spinning jenny met the Enlightenment, and it was true when a second wave of inventions – cinema, electric light, the automobile, aircraft – coincided with a crumbling of the 19th century balance of power.

Digital technology and bioscience will drive the third industrial revolution, but these changes take place at a time when the spread of the market has vastly increased the reserve army of labour. America's hegemony is being threatened by the rise of China.

These, then, are combustible times. This crisis has been a long time in coming, and history suggests that the period of upheaval will be long and painful, just as it was between 1914 and 1945...

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This Will Blow Your Mind... / Glenn Beck and Fox News (?)

The US Dollar - Peter Schiff

Academic: Super Depression is coming / Collapse of US dollar

In love with a place

Yes, one can be in love with a place.

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Nouriel Roubini Doesn't Understand Inflation and Deflation (well well...)

Source: Reuters

FORT LEE, N.J., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Inflation Association

today released the following statement to its http://inflation.us members:

"After the financial collapse of 2008, Nouriel Roubini emerged as one of the

world's most well-known and respected economists. Roubini this week called Jim

Rogers' prediction that gold will reach $2,000 in the next decade 'utter

nonsense' and said that there is no inflation to drive gold prices that high.

He also said that oil's rise from $30 to $80 per barrel is 'very difficult to

justify' when demand for oil is down to year 2005 levels. Although Roubini was

accurate at predicting the housing collapse in 2005 and how it would sink the

economy, many other people including the co-founders of NIA were also right

about the housing bubble in 2005. While we consider Roubini to be more

intelligent than most other economists out there today, he is dead wrong when

it comes to inflation and deflation.

"We believe Roubini needs to wake up and realize that inflation is already

here today. Gold rising to a record high on Wednesday of $1,098 per ounce and

oil rising to $80 per barrel is a symptom of inflation. The Federal Reserve

printing dollars at an unprecedented rate by definition is inflation. Just

because we haven't seen a rise as of yet in the government's phony CPI index,

doesn't mean we don't have inflation today.

"Roubini expects to see heavy deflationary forces through 2012 from industrial

overcapacity, falling labor costs and a still damaged financial system; but it

is our belief that with the Federal Reserve leaving interest rates on

Wednesday at 0%, a massive overdose of excess liquidity will override these

deflationary forces and ultimately lead to hyperinflation. Inflation is the

easiest thing for any central bank to create and the Federal Reserve is

clearly pulling out all the stops to see that we have inflation.

Unfortunately, the Federal Reserve doesn't have an exit strategy. By the time

inflation becomes the top story on the news each night, it will be impossible

to control.

"In our opinion, the world will be shocked at how quickly gold rises to

$2,000. Jim Rogers' prediction of $2,000 per ounce of gold in the next decade

is extremely conservative, it could happen next year. Jim Rogers based his

prediction on the fact we have been discussing for a long time, gold's high of

$850 in 1980 adjusted for inflation is $2,300 per ounce in today's dollars.

Compared to 1980 when we were the world's largest creditor nation, today we

are the world's largest debtor nation with a national debt that is about to

hit $12 trillion. With the U.S. government itself estimating a $9 trillion

budget deficit over the next decade, we will eventually get to a point where

50% of taxes collected by the treasury will be needed to pay the interest on

our national debt. Combined with unfunded liabilities for Social Security,

Medicare and Medicaid, we believe hyperinflation is inevitable.

"We agree with Roubini that U.S. stocks have run too far too fast and another

dip in nominal terms is more likely to happen than not. What we know for sure

is, U.S. stock markets are going to fall substantially priced in gold. History

tells us that gold is the only real safe haven and after the collapse of a

financial bubble, the Dow Jones/Gold ratio always falls to a level between 1

and 2.

"In 2008, the world rushed out of stocks and into U.S. dollars as a safe

haven. We said U.S. dollars were the riskiest asset of all and that gold was

the only real safe haven. Since then, the world has been rushing to get rid of

their dollars by buying stocks, commodities and precious metals. With

unemployment numbers being released on Friday, it is possible that investors

will soon realize the U.S. economy is not truly recovering and stocks are

rallying only due to inflation. This time around, as investors cash out of

stocks, more people will stay clear of the U.S. dollar and rush to buy gold

instead. We predict a major short-term decline in the Dow Jones/Gold ratio

from its current level of 9, back down to the low of 7 we saw earlier this

year. Over the next 12 months, the Dow Jones/Gold ratio is likely to make new

lows for the current bear market."

Please spread the word about NIA and have your friends subscribe for free at

http://inflation.us.

About us:

The National Inflation Association is an organization that is dedicated to

preparing Americans for hyperinflation. The NIA offers free membership at

http://www.inflation.us and provides its members with articles about the

economy and inflation, news stories, important charts not shown by the

mainstream media; YouTube videos featuring Jim Rogers, Marc Faber, Ron Paul,

Peter Schiff, and others; and profiles of gold, silver, and agriculture

companies that we believe could prosper in an inflationary environment.

Old Good Memories?

The Simple Life

image above: Promo for USA Cable TV "reality show" with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie who are asked to give up their money, credit cards, and cell phones to live what they call "The Simple Life."

Link: http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html

The Run On The Bank

Αλώβητος ο χρυσός από την οικονομική κρίση

www.kathimerini.gr με πληροφορίες από ΑΠΕ- ΜΠΕ

Hμερομηνία : 02-11-09

Αλώβητος ο χρυσός από την οικονομική κρίση

Αμείωτη η διάθεση των καταναλωτών να αποταμιεύουν σ' αυτήν τη μορφή.

Η διεθνής αγορά του χρυσού που παρά τη διεθνή οικονομική κρίση ενισχύθηκε, επιπλέον διαθέτει και ένα λαμπρό μέλλον, καθώς τα δικά της θεμελιώδη μεγέθη παραμένουν πολύ καλά, όπως παραμένει αμείωτη κι η διάθεση των καταναλωτών να αποταμιεύουν σ' αυτήν τη μορφή, όπως συνομολογήθηκε στη μεγαλύτερη διεθνή σύναξη αυτής της αγοράς στο Εδιμβούργο.

Ο ιστορικός επενδυτικός οίκος «Λίμαν Μπράδερς» μπορεί να κατέρρευσε μετά από μία 156ετή διαδρομή, εδώ και κάτι περισσότερο του ενός έτους. Όμως, έκτοτε -και προς γενική έκπληξη- δεν σταμάτησε ούτε μία στιγμή η ζήτηση του χρυσού, κάτι που ώθησε τον Οκτώβριο φέτος την τιμή της ουγκιάς του «βασιλιά» των πολυτίμων μετάλλων--βοηθούσης και της εξασθένησης του δολαρίου ΗΠΑ - στα 1.071 δολάρια (ιστορικό υψηλό)- με κέρδη 20% μετά την πρωτοχρονιά του 2009.

Σημειωτέον, μετά από αυτό το ιστορικό υψηλό, η τιμή του πολύτιμου μετάλλου δεν κατήλθε ποτέ κάτω από τα χίλια δολάρια η ουγκιά.

«Δηλαδή, καθόλου άσχημα τα νέα για το μέταλλο, που οι βάρβαροι εκτιμούν», ευθυμολογεί ο ιδιοκτήτης του ομίλου «Anglogold Ashanti», Μαρκ Λίμαν, που προσθέτει ότι «έστω κι αν είναι δύσκολο να ιχνηλατηθεί η άμεση τάση της αγοράς του χρυσού, ωστόσο η προοπτική της είναι απολύτως υγιής».

Στη θετική για τους επαγγελματίες της αγοράς εξέλιξη συνέδραμαν πολλοί παράγοντες :

-πρωτίστως η ίδια η εξόρυξη χρυσού, που φθίνει σταθερά από το 2000 και μετά για πολλούς λόγους αλλά και γιατί τα ορυχεία χρυσού αυτόν τον αιώνα κατέστησαν λιγότερο «αποδοτικά».

-επιπλέον, η αγορά του χρυσού με την διεθνή οικονομική κρίση γνώρισε πραγματικά μία νέα «δυναμική», απέκτησε στη Δύση «ένα αληθινά νέο κλίμα συναλλαγών», κατά την κρατούσα άποψη και ειδικά αυτήν του Ελβετού πραγματογνώμονα Μέχντι Μπαρχορντάρ -η Βέρνη είναι ο θεματοφύλακας των καλύτερων ράβδων χρυσού σε όλον τον πλανήτη.

Τρίτον και τελευταίον, καθόλου όμως αμελητέο, ο χρυσός κατέστη αποταμιευτική αξία-καταφύγιο μέσα στη διεθνή οικονομική κρίση, ένα αδιαμφισβήτητα καλό στοιχείο του «Ενεργητικού», τούτο επειδή κρατώντας χρυσό δεν πτωχεύεις, ενώ πτωχεύεις στο μέσον της κρίσης κατέχοντας μόνον ένα χαρτοφυλάκιο μετοχών-ομολογιών...

Προϊστορία και διαδρομή

Κάποτε, η «αγορά του κοσμήματος» ήταν ο πρωταγωνιστής των εξελίξεων για την αγορά του χρυσού.

Τώρα, σε αντίθεση, πρωταγωνιστές είναι οι «μικροί αποταμιευτές του πολύτιμου μετάλλου», που συντηρούν σε θαυμάσιο επίπεδο την τιμή της ουγκιάς του, μέσω άλλωστε της αποτίμησής της στα διεθνή χρηματιστήρια του χρυσού - το βρετανικό πρωτίστως.

Όπως δεν έχουμε διεθνή αμοιβαία μετοχικά κεφάλαια, έχουμε πλέον και διεθνή αμοιβαία κεφάλαια επένδυσης στο χρυσό.

Παράλληλα, όμως, για το πολύτιμο μέταλλο «βασικοί» ενδιαφερόμενοι κατέστησαν οι «θεσμικοί επενδυτές», όπως παραδείγματος χάριν τα ίδια τα κράτη, τα οποία κινούνται πάντοτε στην κατεύθυνση δημιουργίας «ισχυρών αποθεματικών» και βέβαια γι' αυτόν ακριβώς τον λόγο διακρίνονται για τη φροντίδα τους να κάνουν επενδύσεις που να μπορούν να εξασφαλίσουν ταυτόχρονα ότι «δεν θα απολεστεί ένα μεγάλο τμήμα της αξίας των αποθεματικών (πολύτιμα μέταλλα και συνάλλαγμα) τους» στο δημόσιο θησαυροφυλάκιο.

Ειδικά η Κίνα, φοβούμενη τη συνεχή διολίσθηση του δολαρίου ΗΠΑ έναντι του ευρώ, αποθησαυρίζει εσχάτως σε πολύ μεγάλες ποσότητες χρυσού.

Ολοένα και μακραίνουν οι αρνητικές επιπτώσεις για τη διεθνή αγορά του χρυσού από την αθρόα πώληση καθ' όλο το 1999 μεγάλων ποσοτήτων του από πολλές και σπουδαίες Κεντρικές Τράπεζες (χιλιάδες τόνοι πωλήθηκαν τότε) με διαμορφούμενη τάση, μάλιστα, να ανακτηθούν πλέον εκ μέρους τους και σε πολύ σημαντικό ποσοστό τα πωληθέντα τότε...

Θα πρέπει να σημειωθεί εν τέλει ότι το μεν Διεθνές Νομισματικό Ταμείο επωφελούμενο από την πολύ υψηλή τιμή της ουγκιάς χρυσού ενδιαφέρεται να διοχετεύσει στις αγορές σταδιακά 400 τόνους χρυσού, ενώ η Ευρωπαϊκή Κεντρική Τράπεζα δύο χιλιάδες τόνους χρυσού μέσα στα επόμενα πέντε χρόνια...Και, τέλος, ότι ο χρυσός αντιπροσωπεύει σήμερα πια μόνον το 2% των παγκόσμιων «αποθεματικών» συναλλαγών αντίστροφα με την εποχή των συμφωνιών του Μπρέτον Γουντς, με τις οποίες όλα τα συναλλαγματικά αποθεματικά όλων των δυτικών Κεντρικών Τραπεζών είχαν υποχρεωτική «κάλυψη» σε χρυσό.