Note:
I’m here in San Diego County in my new/old 39 foot Chevy Motorhome. I can’t get
a signal for my Verizon LG smartphone (I’ll be taking a spin in my Ford
Explorer in search of a signal; my VOIP phone, magicjack requiring a broadband
connection, is currently not up except for voicemail). The radio reception is
also limited which led me to ‘sample’ some limited AM offerings which included
shallow sean hannity the hallmark of insanity, and ‘rush revere’ [limbaugh…
he’s totally burned out (the consequence of his being ‘tired of carrying the
water for the republican party’? - his own words), relegated now to authoring
children’s illustrated books of a simplistic nature]. Shallow sean’s latest
‘crusade’ (beyond the same note/key obvious debacle of wobamacare) was defense
of the indefensible mobster but friend of sean’s, donald trump (trump should be
in jail). In defense of t_rump, he offers up the itsy-bitsy, teeny weeny
wohlman skating rink project as evidence of t_rump’s contribution to NYC (too
small for high new york priority given the magnitude of New York substantial
problems, some largely the result of trumpish tastes, ie., solid gold trump
tower fixtures, etc., that trump’s ‘pre-packaged bankrupcies’ seem to fail to
touch, and which extravagance must be paid for by someone, but not him).
Shallow sean’s excoriation of new york city never seems to link the obviousness
of t_rump’s grandstanding responsibility for same. After all, someone
ultimately has to pay for trump’s disproportionate non-value-added livin’
large. No talk of trump’s ingratiating bribe strategy for protection ( ie.,
retainer’s to law firms linked to state attorney generals, viz., {kimmelman}
wolf and sampson, chris droney’s brother, his sister’s protection/corruption
and quid pro quo from the federal bench, etc., and as well, protection of
drug-money laundering through his now nominal only casinos … See, ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm .
Trump’s a fraud! I won’t be listening to ‘rush revere’ or shallow sean
prospectively. They’re a waste of time and preposterous given their unbridled
support of war criminals bush, cheney, etc., and the failed debacles they
created, etc……
The
Cat recommends the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DBNYwxDZ_pA
{
The Cat dispatching this archaic reptilian remnant of an extinct species. Yet,
doesn’t the ill-fated croc seem to be smiling a typically wide grin as if to
say, ‘he’s glad to be done-in by such a noble creature as the Cat’ (as opposed
to lesser species including all forms of apes and their progeny, potentially
even winding up as a pocket-book, belt, or pair of shoes). Yes, there’s a place
in the universe for Cats! }
HeaLTHCaRe
BDSM
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 11/15/2013 10:28 -0500
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INTRoDuCiNG
WiLLiaMBaNZai7'S SPeCiaL EDiTioN oF HoLiDaY PuKeS...
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 11/13/2013 14:47
Here
they are. WilliamBanzai7's Special Holiday Puke Fine Art Print Editions just in
time for the Christmas Holidays…
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Dear
Friends,
Here
before you is a truly historic series of images that I have painstakingly
adapted to the current state of sordidly odiferous political/financial affairs.
Years
from now, there will be little doubt over what the artist was seeing and
thinking contemporaneously in the year 2013.
I
am not going to oversell these pictures. They speak for themselves.
They
also demonstrate how history truly rhymes on Wall Street.
I
have all of these in very large high resolution files. So every print will
match the highest standards of fine art print production.
As
you can see, I have departed from normal practice by offering these prints in
an assortment of sizes. I have done this solely to maximize your
participation
by spreading price points. Bear in mind that the amount of personal time and
effort involved is the same irrespective of print size.
Each
print will be signed, numbered and dated December 25, 2013.
I
know that many of you are suffering various levels of economic hardship in
these trying times. As is always the case, you are free to print these off for
your own personal use.
I
truly appreciate all the the moral and financial support that I receive from
all of you.
As
you know, the primary reason that I am doing these prints is to signify my
gratitude in return for your generous support for my endeavors.
It
is my sincerest wish that the situation will turn sooner than later so
that each and everyone of us can return to personal prosperity.
Best
wishes to you all,
And
Fuck You Ben Bernanke!
WB7
THiS
TWeeT Is DiFFeReNT!
Submitted by williambanzai7 on
11/12/2013
Atheist 'mega-churches' take root across US, world { They are intellectually dishonest,
disingenuous, and most importantly, absolutely wrong. Quite simply, atheists
are pathetic! }
Knox's knife DNA casts doubt on murder weapon
{ I’ve had occasion to read the well-written book
‘Murder in Italy’ by award-winning italian-american author, Candace Dempsey,
which documents the horrific travesty called ‘italian justice’ (actually
blatant injustice) torturously imposed upon Amanda Knox et als (rudy guede
excepted). So outrageous but typical of these typical italians ( like packs of
the rabid dogs they are pre-disposed to be). (Parenthetically, my grandparents,
both of whom I loved and respected – Elsie/Nanny, Bari, Italy and
Martin/Mario/PopPop (Peia), Lake Como, Italy – were not typical as such; but
rather, thoroughly modern in all respects relative to time and extremely
civilized in a manner to be emulated … although, truth be told, I found
italians with mob/mafia links/connections/sympathies to be like those rabid
perugians/italians who outrageously pilloried Amanda Knox, See,
ie., http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf
http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm http://albertpeia.com/fbimartinezcongallard.htm ) }
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HaVe HaZ ENuFFS!!!
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 11/16/2013 22:04 -0500
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Obamacare:
The Final Nail In The Coffin For The Middle Class
If there were any shreds of hope
left that the stunning decline of the middle class could be turned around,
Obamacare has absolutely destroyed them. Over the past decade or so, the
middle class in the United States has been absolutely eviscerated. The number of
working age Americans without a job has increased by 27 million since the year 2000, median household
income in the U.S. has fallen for five years in a row, and the poverty
numbers in this country are spiraling out of control. And now
here comes Obamacare. As you will see below, Obamacare is causing
millions of Americans to lose their current health insurance policies, it is
causing health insurance premiums to explode to absolutely ridiculous levels,
and it is systematically killing jobs even though the employer mandate has been
delayed for a while. All of this is creating a tremendous amount of
stress for millions of middle class families that are already stretched
extremely thin financially. According to CNN, a survey that was conducted earlier this year found that 76
percent of all Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Most of those
families simply cannot afford to pay much higher health insurance premiums for
new policies that also come with much larger deductibles and significantly
increased out-of-pocket costs. Millions of those families will ultimately
end up choosing to do without health insurance altogether, and that will create
a whole host of new problems. This is a disaster that is so enormous that
it is really hard to put into words. If the U.S. health care system was a
separate country, it would be the 6th largest economy on the entire globe all
by itself. And now Obamacare is going to bring the entire U.S. health
care system to its knees. (Read More....)
Dispassionate
discussion of the investment climate.
How
America Works (In One Cartoon)
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2013 - Presented with no comment...
Spot
The Striking Similarity
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/16/2013 - Just a lucky coincidence?
Guest
Post: Take It To The Bank
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2013 - If one was a foreigner visiting for the
first time, one would think Space Available was the hot new retailer in
the country. Thousands of Space Available signs dot the bleak
landscape, as office buildings, strip malls, and industrial complexes wither
and die. At least the Chinese "Space Available" sign
manufacturers are doing well. The only buildings doing brisk business are the
food banks and homeless shelters. However, reports like the recent one
from SNL
Financial – Branch Networks Continue to Shrink - are emblematic of the
mal-investment spurred by the Federal Reserve easy money policies, zero
interest rates, and QEternity... In a truly free, non-manipulated
market the weak would be culled, new dynamic competitors would fill the void,
and consumers would benefit. However, extending debt payment schedules
of the largest zombie entities and pretending you will get paid has been the
mantra of the insolvent zombie Wall Street banks since 2009.
Three
Post-Mortems On China's Third Plenum
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2013 - 22:02
China's Third Plenum has come
and now truly gone, following the second, 20000 word "decision" which
followed the spares initial communique, which contains much more promises and
pledges about the future with a 2020 event horizon, so it is a fair
bet that nothing of what was resolved will be implemented in a world that will
be a vastly different from the one today, but one has to digest current news
regardless. So for the sake of those who analyze such things as promises out of
a centrally-planned communist nation, here are three takes on the third plenum,
courtesy of SocGen, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs.
The
Surprising Death Of "Surprise"
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2013 - "The period of peak liquidity
will remain in place for the foreseeable future," suggest Brown
Brothers Harriman in a recent note, and as
Reuters reports, for all the fevered speculation about when the Federal
Reserve will begin scaling back its monetary stimulus, market volatility has
been taking a leisurely nap, suggesting investors see no major shocks on the
horizon to derail their bets. "We're not trying to follow the twists and
turns of the very short-term investment cycle," confirms one wealth
manager who will only change his strategy if the Fed "dramatically
changed," its policies. The market's apparent ignorance of the ebb
and flow of data surprises - both positive and negative - is clear as it has
virtually no bearing on short-term yields, which have remained at
historic lows thanks to the trillions of dollars of liquidity and zero interest
rates from the Fed. "Fear not the Fed," advises BofAML, as
the Fed's $85 billion-a-month asset purchase program trumps everything.
Guest
Post: The Coming Bust Of The Great Bakken Oil Field
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2013 -There has been a lot of Fanfare on the huge
increase of oil production coming from the Bakken Field located in North
Dakota. There
are many stories of people moving to the state to take advantage of the new
"oil boom". It seems like everyone is going there to start a
new life and make it rich in one of the coldest areas in the United States. However,
with all 'booms', comes the inevitable 'bust'.
BofAML
Warns "Don't Get Complacent"
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2013 -
In the near term, BofAML's
Macneil Curry warns "we are growing a bit cautious/nervous, as US
equity volatility is flashing a warning sign of market complacency that has
often preceded a correction or a pause in trend." This 'red flag'
is asterisk'd appropriately in the new normal with "to be clear, the
balance of evidence is still very much US equity positive, but the near
term downside risks have increased."
Taleb
Blasts Bernanke & Greenspan, Warns "Debt Raises The Risk Of
Catastrophe"
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2013 -
"Debt increases
tail-risk," warns anti-fragility expert Nassim Taleb, "whether it's
personal, corporate, or governmental." A rise in debt, he warns, implies
nothing less than a rise in "the risk of catastrophe," and Taleb
chides, governments "should be focused in risk-management...
instead of creating these risks." This brief Bloomberg TV clip
cuts to the chase as the normally circumlocutory Taleb unloads on the perils of
central banks, "Mr. Greenspan created tail risk by eliminating the
business cycle," and since then tail-risks have accumulated with
debt the "number one creator of these risks." In a fascinating
phrase, Taleb notes, "corporate debt is benign," since in
failure it turns into equity, "but government debt is another matter...
for it turns into inflation or worse invasion..."
The
Onion Revealed As Mystery Source Of Larry Summers' And Paul Krugman's Economic
Insight
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2013 - "Every American family deserves a false
sense of security," said Chris Reppto, a risk analyst for Citigroup in New
York. "Once we have a bubble to provide a fragile foundation, we
can begin building pyramid scheme on top of pyramid scheme, and before we know
it, the financial situation will return to normal." Despite the
overwhelming support for a new bubble among investors, some in Washington are
critical of the idea, calling continued reliance on bubble-based economics a
mistake. Regardless of the outcome of this week's congressional hearings,
however, one thing will remain certain: The calls for a new bubble are only
going to get louder. "America needs another bubble," said
Chicago investor Bob Taiken. "At this point, bubbles are the only thing
keeping us afloat."
Guest
Post: The Real Heroes Of The Global Economy
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2013 - Economic policymakers seeking successful
models to emulate apparently have an abundance of choices nowadays. Led by China, scores of emerging and
developing countries have registered record-high growth rates over recent
decades, setting precedents for others to follow. While advanced economies have
performed far worse on average, there are notable exceptions, such as Germany
and Sweden. “Do as we do,” these countries’ leaders often say, “and you
will prosper, too.” Look more closely, however, and you will discover
that these countries’ vaunted growth models cannot possibly be
replicated everywhere. The real heroes of the world economy – the
role models that others should emulate – are countries that have done
relatively well while running only small external imbalances.
The
Bernanke Legacy: When Printer Ink Costs More Than Blood
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2013 - What is more valuable than the life-giving
properties of human blood? Why, in the new normal, it's the life-blood of the
financial markets - printer ink!!
Marc
Faber Fears "The End Of The Capitalist Economic System As We Know It"
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2013 - "We already live in a financial economy
in which the debt and capital markets exceed the value of the real economy by
far," Marc Faber explains to Germany's Finanzen100, "and that's
before the current formation of bubbles." His most ominous warning, and
one that fits perfectly with the seeming insanity of Federal Reserve (and all
developed market central banks) is that "the next time a bubble
bursts, then the capitalist economic system as we know will falter."
Guest
Post: The Most Puzzling (And Haunting) Statement About The Obamacare Fiasco
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2013 - Obama: "When we buy I.T. services
generally, it is so bureaucratic and so cumbersome that a whole bunch of it
doesn’t work or it ends up being way over cost."
...and yet, we've been told we must
buy a product, and things have been set up so we can only go through the
government's market (the "exchange"), and the government has already
demonstrated that its market doesn't work. But you can't walk away, you're
forced to buy, and there's nowhere else to go. And yet, he wants us
to feel bad about the cumbersome bureaucracy the government
encountered trying to procure the wherewithal to set up the market it had
already decided we would all need to use.
Bitcoin
Rises Over $500
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2013 - One day before the Senate's digital currency
hearing titled "Beyond
Silk Road: Potential Risks, Threats, and Promises of Virtual Currencies",
Bitcoin is largely oblivious to any potential regulatory threats, either at the
legislative or the city level, where as reported
previously the New York superintendent is in a rush to enforce BitLicenses
on businesses that accept BitCoin, and moments ago crossed $500 for the first
time ever. Instead, it appears that as we also reported previously, the Chinese
Bitcoin craze has reached the parabolic threshold, going so far as making
Bitcoin an acceptable
payment for real estate, which means that while for the time being Bitcoin
becomes the alternative inflation protection medium for hundreds of millions of
Chinese, all bets on how high it can get are off.
US
Drone Strikes Navy Ship By Mistake
Submitted
by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2013 - While hardly as dramatic as last
week's revelation that Syrian Al-Qaeda cannibals apologized after chopping
off the head of one of their CIA-funded "rebels" by mistake, the news
that a US drone struck a US missile cruiser during training off Southern
California, causing two minor injuries is maybe even more embarrassing. After
all, with Al-Qaeda one can at least make a legitimate case of a friendly fire,
er, beheading incident. When it comes to the coast off SoCal, it will be
difficult to suggest the Chinese (or Russian) navies were running sorties next
to the surfers off Point Mugu.
