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a stupid old man, who thought he could avoid his duty by consorting with the devil, by wheedling and outwitting evil. who thought he could cajole evil, and gain its favor.
he failed. he is a disgrace. he has fallen from any grace he might have had. he will meet the devil before he meets god. whatever he possessed, it is now forfeit.
may god forgive him, but he merits no forgiveness in this life.
in the end he may perceive his arrogance, but, i doubt it.
john jay @ may 18, 2015
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the pope of the catholics confirmed his status as a fucking idiot the other day, calling mahmoud abbas "an angel of peace." (no confirmation yet of what particular hallucinogenic influenced the cretin.)
you don't believe it? http://news.yahoo.com/pope-calls-palestinian-leader-angel-peace-during-visit-102028787.html . "pope calls palestinian leader 'angel of peace' during visit," nicole winfield, 05.16.2015, 4.25 pm, associated press.
i don't suppose it is necessary to list the atrocity this vicious dog has committed. (i refer to abbas, in case there is any confusion w/ pope francis, although the confusion might be legitimate, at this point.)
abe miller posted this piece the other day, explaining why it does the vatican no good to suck up to the palestinians, and that it will do nothing to protect christians in the middle east. http://observer.com/2015/05/the-vatican-cannot-protect-christians-by-recognizing-palestine/#.VVTAXXeJimU.yahoomail . francis the idiot apparently did not absorb the wisdom of abe's remarks.
this was the letter i penned to abe in response. i was not going to publish it, because my views are a bit hostile to the pope, the archbishop of canterbury, and the patriarch of the orthodox. but, i think that the pope's action in calling a vicious killer an "angel of peace" merits my observations being made public.
the man is an idiot. more than that, he is a coward. he is an abject bootlicker of tyrants. he deserves nothing but the contempt that he has earned by his cowardice.
follows the letter.--
abe:
the pope is not an idiot. nope. he is a coward. as is the archbishop of canterbury, and the patriarch of the orthodox. and, the heads of the "great" protestant faiths.they are the shepherds to their christian flock, the disciples of christ. they should be in the middle east w/ their brethren, and when their brethren die, they should die first at the head of the flock dealing the first death blows in return to the aggression of the arab muslims.simple as that.it is in the job description. in return for their positions, they dine in ermine, feasting on the finest of meals, and they sleep on the finest of silk and woolens. not to mentioned, being waited on hand and foot for their slightest "need." in return, they are to protect those who worship christ, and in my view, should be quite prepared to die protecting those worshipers, and protecting christ.this is not unfair of me. it is what they demand of their flocks. to die in their faith, as martyrs to their faith, and nothing left else. they should do no more than what they demand of the faithful. in the end, are not these worthies also the faithful?it is not a rhetorical question.johnp.s. i know where martin luther would be these times. the current "leaders" would collectively not make a pimple on martin luther's butt.
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what typically happens when people and nations do not pay their debt? monetary systems collapse, say like greece's apparently has.
trade stops. because there is no medium or mechanism of exchange since there can be no agreement on how to exchange things which are valuable. one fellow sits on a little pile of stuff coveted by another fellow, say, for instance, oil.
now, the fellow sitting on the little pile of oil notices that the guy who cannot pay for it is sitting on a little pile of wheat, and another little pile of tomatoes, and a little pile of cotton.
but, they have no way of trading them by agreed values.
update, this day: if you have the nerve, the stomach for it, i would go here, and read those articles set forth for may 16, 2015 at the blog http://www.theautomaticearth.com/2015/05/debt-rattle-may-16-2015/ . all of the volatility in the money markets and in currency is turning trading rules in chaos, and panic. we are very close to the collapse of the trading systems. period. why, because "risk," an essential element of trade calculus, is nearly unmanageable. that means that money stops flowing. end update.
and, the guy with the wheat, and tomatoes needs the oil to run the machinery that plants and harvests and distributes his products. and, the guy with the oil, he's got people to feed, to include a demographic surplus of absolutely worthless juvenile/adolescent males.
they can barter, as done in local markets for produce, and crafts. one sack of wheat, of an agreed measure, gets you 10 cribbage boards, of an agreed level of craft.
but, sooner or later, some guy covets what his neighbor across the river, or on the other side of the mountain range has. well, he has than excess demographic, which costs him very little to "expand," and actually is something of a relief to get rid of, one way or another.
and, the guy across the river, on the other side of the mountain, has some worthless teenagers to get rid of, as well, and it is of equal relief not to have to worry about extracting some economic use and/or value out of them in the future.
so, they each make plans to get what they covet, by taking it.
in german, for instance, the word "kriegan" means to get, to take, or to make war.
i see a bumper sticker quite often, "war is not the answer." every time i see it, i always say to myself, "well, it depends on what is the question, now, doesn't it."
war is what happens when people cannot agree on how to exchange valuable items, whether it be wheat, coal, gas, oil, arable land, or "lebens raum."
war is what happens when currency and political systems collapse. at least that is the answer provided by history. the "one world" types say war is not an answer. the ukraine, poland, spain, and germany and russia, based on past performance, suggest that it is.
john jay @ 05.17.2015
p.s. i think history suggests very strongly that violence is very close in any period of instability. what, the germans are gonna foreclose on all the world's gyros stands to get their billions of marks back?
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it's pretty simple.
the thing that has caused the monetary crisis is governmental and private debt. and, the concomitant policy of the national banks to print more money to "pay" the debt.
"they" can print and float all the new money they want.
the debt, and the obligations to pay it represents, is not going to go away. not unless all those who hold the right to be paid on those obligations forgive all of them.
ain't gonna happen, is it? what likely will happen is a "behind the scenes" negotiated discounting of obligations, e.g., the debt holders accepting pennies on the dollar to allow debtors to "satisfy" their obligation. this is what will happen, even if it is not acknowledged, and this is what all the currency trading and value setting of the relative currencies is gonna amount to.
nothing else to be done. nothing else can be done.
john jay @ may 17, 2015
p.s. kind of like putting lipstick on a pig. it's still a pig.
see below, "national bank of greece falls." first domino, as it were. it always happens friday afternoon, so the purchaser can put up a new sign by monday morning. same old bank. same old tired money.
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the leftist progressive regimes of the world have wanted to supplant the american dollar as the medium of international exchange for a long time now.
and, if they could have come up w/ another national currency to do so, they would have. they simply haven't been able to find any national currency that is in much better shape than the dollar, and that is the fact of the matter.
the u.s. dollar is "backed" by the printing press. it is institutionally unstable, and the continued borrowing and mounting public, private and governmental debt threatens total monetary collapse. and, so it goes in the u.s., with the current regime and its idiot doing their level best to bring the whole house of cards down.
this is not a good situation for a "currency standard" or "medium of exchange" to be in. that is the inescapable truth, it is just not a good situation for us or anyone else for that matter.
name another national currency that is not debt ridden, and that has not the same institutional debt "backing" it. the fact is, that compared to the rest of the national currencies, the united states dollar is in a favorable position. if that were not the hard truth of the matter, the u.s. dollar would have been "displaced" as the trading currency long ago.
so, what is this currency reform in the wind, that has everyone shaking in their boots?
who knows? i don't know. i don't sit on the federal reserve, and i don't sit on the board of the international monetary fund? and, i sure as hell don't hob nob with the idiot obama.
but, i'll make a guess. i don't think the international consortium of leftist, they call themselves progressives, is looking for another national currency to take the place of the dollar. nor do i think that the euro will be proposed as a substitute for the dollar .... the euro has its own problems.
there are several other reasons that the dollar will not be supplanted by a national currency, and those reasons are china, and the middle eastern oil nations. they already have enough worthless dollars in their coffers, and they have no interest in making them totally worthless dollars overnight. would you like to have vaults full of confederate dollars?
i think they will propose an "international currency," a brand new one, and all the national currencies will trade against it. in short, the international bankers will try and make themselves a defacto, if not de jure, international government.
it's been tried before.
it hasn't worked very well before, and i doubt very much it will work very well this time, if that is what they try. and, as joe stalin remarked about the vatican at one point, "how many divisions does it have?"*** joe may or may not have been the sharpest chisel in the cabinet, but, he did all right, and he had a way of getting down to the essential elements of the questions & issues before him.
you may regard the coming upset as the relative calm before the entire system falls flat on its fucking nose. the transition period won't take very long.
john jay @ 05.14.2015
p.s. a friend since departed, jack riehl, used to argue whether money was real or not. he said no, i said i don't know, but it sure acts like it is. the fact is, that debt must be paid, sooner or later, or the "system" does not work. the simple fact is, you don't pay your debts, you access to money dries up.
ask greece.
this business of debt without paying goes on for so long, and pretty soon (and inevitably) somebody calls their markers. this is the "foundation" upon which the international house of cards is built. it is a house built on sand, out of cards, and, sooner or later, it comes down.
but, not before the boys who are smarter than you and i have skimmed the value out of it.
you figure it out.
*** you don't pay your debt to the international monetary fund? who do they send to collect it?
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