December 29, 2012 · 5:25 pm

Hitachi Japan Loses Industrial Base Like Detroit

Fewer and fewer Japanese own cars

Japan continues to plunge downwards.  With the LDP winning less than 45% of the vote but getting 80% of the seats in the government, we have a right wing, imperialist government that wants to sweep Fukushima under the rug while expanding nuclear power construction in Japan.  The strong yen is preventing exports to the US so jobs are being off shored faster and faster.  And no one seems able to fix Fukushima which continues massive pollution of the Pacific Ocean and much of Japan’s main island. Continue reading →

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· 2:23 pm

Carbon Trade Scam Similar To Bank Lending Tricks

People living in hot places have easy lives

Click here to see the video:  Peru tribes decry rise of the ‘carbon pirate’ Al Jazeera English.  The fraud that is the CO2 trade business was obvious to me from nearly the start.  As time passes, it is increasingly obvious this is all a big rip off mainly of northern people living in sometimes severe cold.  And it will be cold here on my mountain starting this week with sub-zero nights! Continue reading →

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December 28, 2012 · 2:00 pm

Broken Snow Plow And Broken Congress: Winter Disasters!

snowy Xmas on Taconic mountainside

 

We finally had a real snow storm yesterday for the first time in two years.  I haven’t used my snowplow since 20010 and when I fired it up the other day to see if it worked, it worked fine.  But when I went to snowplow yesterday, the hydraulic hoses broke and it seized up on the driveway.  I managed to drag it back inside for repairs.  Here in the icy cold north, we have to battle winter and equipment failures can make life rather hellish.  This is partly why the latest population figures show people leaving the Northeast and moving generally to hot, dry places.  Global warming is the desired option for most humans who prefer to be warm, not cold.   Continue reading →

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December 27, 2012 · 3:43 pm

Dick Armey Steals Several Million From Tea Party Chumps

From day one, the Tea Party movement was sucked into the GOP machine only it didn’t simply turn into the obedient slave of the elitists running the GOP for their own profit, it caused the right wing gears to grind badly.  One problem the Tea Party caused was to make it nearly impossible for GOP national candidates to turn on a dime and lie to the voters on the right.  Now, their promises and statements have to be honored which pisses off the top 1% who consider the average GOP voter to be an easy fool to use for their own ends.  The recent coup of the misnamed ‘Freedom Works’  by Dick the Prick Armey shows how hard the GOP elites want to control the Tea Party. Continue reading →

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December 25, 2012 · 2:33 pm

Pope Celebrates Xmas By Attacking Gays

pope attacks gay marriage while wearing stunning floor length gown

 

Merry Xmas to all and sundry today!  The earth didn’t end.  And God didn’t smite the Pope for being hanging out with his anti-women bed buddies in the Vatican, either.  The Pope, a charming Hitler Youth guy, gets his jollies off attacking gay men and women for daring to want civil rights.  He also ‘forgives’ his butler who exposed the corruption and evil inside the Vatican.  Yup, another day in the dark world of believers in a God that decided to murder people due to their sex lives.  I am still puzzled as to why we should love and pet this guy who hates us.  Hard to figure out, no? Continue reading →

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December 24, 2012 · 4:08 pm

Could AIG Happen Again? YOU BETCHA!

 

We just had yet another election and now Congress is pushing our government off the fiscal cliff.  Everyone is focused on this cliff while ignoring the real fiscal cliff: the annihilation of our sovereign wealth.  This was caused by military overseas spending, the US imperial work since WWII, free trade causing our trade deficit to soar to incredible levels and the floating fiat currency regime imposed by Nixon one fine Sunday several decades ago.  This real fiscal cliff has destroyed our capital base pretty completely so to keep lending money, the bankers rigged up the odious derivative bank and insurance schemes which circumvent the need for real capital.  Only, this collapsed. Continue reading →

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December 22, 2012 · 4:18 pm

High Risk Pro Skiers Killed In Avalanche: How Our Banking System Destroys Itself

Miss Risky and Miss Safety and the Bank Wizard argue

The NYT has a very interesting article about a group of exotic, hard-living ski experts and sales people who stupidly decided to ski in the wild country rather than at a ski resort area and ended up causing an avalanche that killed several of these pros.  What struck me the most was the various comments they made to the writer.  They sounded exactly like the bankers and dealers who destroyed our banking system by taking grotesque risks which are well known to be very destructive during previous asset and lending bubbles. Continue reading →

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