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Elite's Pathological Dysfunction?
Euro will not fail, say Wolfgang Schaeuble (left) and John Major ... Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has warned those who bet against the euro that they "will not succeed". The single currency won't fail, and the region's nations are determined to defend it, Mr. Schaeuble told German newspaper the Bild am Sonntag in an interview published on Sunday. "All those responsible in Europe agree: the euro is to all our advantage. And that's why we will successfully defend it," Mr. Schaeuble was cited as saying. "Those who bet their money against the euro will have no success," he added. "The euro won't fail." – UK Telegraph
Dominant Social Theme: Fear-based promotions do not exist; the ones we have implemented will doubtless succeed. Hey, wait a minute, forget we said that! ...
Free-Market Analysis: The fabulously wealthy Anglo-American power elite families – those that have conspired inter-generationally to build a one-world government – have started to find their strategies are not working. The dominant social themes that they rely on to frighten the masses into giving up power and wealth to international authoritarian solutions (the UN, etc.) have become less efficacious as the truth-telling of the Internet itself has become more powerful.
You would think that those who pro-offer failed public promotions would know when to retire them, but those who promulgate dominant social themes do not, apparently, ever surrender. When belief in such promotions falters, the elite seems to push harder, to the point where it becomes almost ludicrous. In some cases, the signature of an elite promotion, apparently, is its lurching progress despite almost universal derision. We have compared such themes to the living dead (zombies). They apparently cannot be killed.
There is one other possibility that might explain why the elite is pursuing its promotions ever more zealously even as they are becoming less and less credible. We explain it at the end of this article. However, before we get to it, we want to summarize once again what is taking place as regards elite memes, their continued rejection and the role that the Internet is playing in this process.
Take the Afghan war on terror. The war is evidently and obviously being lost; and NATO itself is suffering from enormous stress and strain as a result. But the solution, so far as we can tell, has not been to disengage but to send more troops into the field of battle and to extend the timeline for the conflict. This is not a viable solution. Western states reel under virtual economic collapse, and their citizenry will continue to increase the pressure to end hostilities. The Anglo-America-NATO course of action is increasingly disassociated from reality in our view. A non-solution.
And then there is the EU. The EU itself is falling apart but those at the very top (see article excerpt above) make stronger and stronger statements about EU unity. German citizens are likely not in favor of the EU if they have to work longer and harder to support more profligate countries. Much of the rest of Europe is aflame with resentment over Brussels'-imposed austerity. That does not seem to matter to Wolfgang Schaeuble who apparently believes he does not have to consult with his countrymen before making sweeping statements about Germany's enthusiasm for the EU and the euro.
How about global warming? The global warming meme has fallen to pieces, but you wouldn't know it from the just-concluded meeting in Cancun, Mexico attended by over 150 countries. The result of the conference was general agreement to set up a US$100 billion fund – one paid for by Western countries to compensate "developing" countries for producing too much carbon dioxide. Never mind that this fund probably will never be created; the disassociation between what the political class is proposing and what the average-person on the street believes continues to widen. This is a recipe for increased civil unrest and even violence.
One begins to believe that the elite is increasingly removed from reality. It is suffering from a collective cognitive dissonance. Like an unimaginative poker player whose luck has turned sour at the end of a big hand, the Anglosphere's brain trust doesn't seem to know what to do. It continues to double down with a kind of mechanical certitude that is increasingly disassociated from the "facts on the ground." The best thing would be to reduce exposure, to wait for a more promising opportunity. But that's not how it's done. The elite seems blindly resistant. Increasingly it seems dysfunctional rather than realistic.
As with the Gutenberg press before it, the Internet has galvanized seemingly unstoppable sociopolitical evolution on numerous levels. Here at the Daily Bell we have tried to catalogue them on a regular basis. In fact, for years it has been our contention that the wealth-conversation of the 21st century would consist of the elite's continued efforts at promotion (dominant social themes) versus the inevitable deprogramming of the Internet. People's investment returns would be predicated on how well they understood the conversation between these two forces and how accurately they determined which side was winning.
There are significant, real life ramifications to the ebb and flow of these conversations. One example would be the Chicago Climate Exchange, which just collapsed. Its founders announced in November 2010, that it would effectively dissolve at the end of the year after having been purchased by Europe's Climate Exchange PLC. This is a definitive business setback for the elite that is trying to create a kind of carbon-based money that will effectively tax carbon dioxide emissions as a threat to the environment.
There is suddenly a struggle for share of mind, one that certainly could not have been predicted in the mid-20th century. It is evident and obvious that the almost incomprehensibly powerful banking families of the West did not mean for the Internet to gain traction; its invention by the Pentagon's DARPA was merely meant to connect military and academic researches to libraries, universities, etc. But when the two "Steves" met in a garage and invented the home computer, the technology was suddenly galvanized; the Internet became a connection device for the Western middle class and revivified, especially, American exceptionalism. The Dark Promotional Age of the 20th century began to be rolled back by an exciting flood of knowledge.
The elites of the day influenced the changes that the Gutenberg press was making, but they could not fully control those changes. The Renaissance gave rise (perhaps with the elites help, as they wished to split the Catholic church) to the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, the Western discovery and population of the New World, etc. The seals of elite control were breached. Only in the 20th century did the Anglo-American elite fully come into its power once again, controlling every form of communication (or so it seems) and working hard to break down familial bonds while celebrating the increasing power of the state. The goal was always to frighten humanity's billions, especially the Western middle classes, into giving up more wealth and power to globally positioned sociopolitical facilities.
It is in America that the elite expended the greatest amount of energy in changing the culture from one of free-market human action to authoritarian corporatism and collectivism. Everywhere one looks at the 20th century, one can see the promotions – or potential promotions anyway. It was indeed a kind of "dreamtime." But even at the height of its influence the elite could not fully implement gun control in the US; nor could it eradicate the cultural individualism of the American psyche.
In the 21st century, the Internet has provided the spark that has reignited free-market republicanism. The patriot movements of the 1990s are merely a pale shadow of what is taking place now. From Oath-Keepers to various manifestations of the Tea Party to an active hard-money oriented Internet press that supports Congressman Ron Paul, changes are rippling out from the center of the disturbance: the Internet.
It is no different in Europe; long ago we predicted the tribes would begin to revolt once the EU and the euro offered no more upside. The EU elites basically bribed local elites to go along with the EU program. But this assumed that the ancient tribes of Europe had come into the present day denuded of the wits and martial tendencies with which they had overcome Rome some 2000 years ago. Europe's economic and political elites had promulgated a clever, ever-more-powerful European Union, but in a matter of months all of this has been called into question. In Iceland, a new Constitution is being drawn up; there is general unrest throughout the PIGS and now even Britain is rocked by protests and its royal family threatened.
And then there is WikiLeaks. The Internet dissemination of documents pertaining especially to the war in Afghanistan and also of the country's diplomatic corp. have led to international tensions and, after the jailing of WikiLeaks' leader Julian Assange, to a series of Internet attacks on corporations and other entities that have supported the government position. As we wrote previously, this sort of posture calls into question state-monopoly justice itself; we did not expect this particular meme to come under attack so soon.
As of this writing, unofficial cyberattacks in support of Julian Assange have just shut down various European Amazon.com sites; previous sites shut down include Mastercard and Visa. The protests in our view are probably not engineered directly by a formal Western intel, but certainly one could argue that they are the result of certain kinds of manipulation. Nonetheless, as we have pointed out before, the Internet is a process not an episode. Any manipulations of the Internet itself taken at this time may backfire, given the complexity of the Internet and the amount of non-state affiliated hackers and programmers who provide a resource comparable, if not superior, to state-affiliated resources.
At the beginning of this article we indicated we would offer up one more perspective that might shed light on what's going on. In fact, we have done so in our trilogy of short stories about a Julian Assange-like character. In "Coda: Sayeth the Chosen One," we postulated that the elite had made a decision to pursue increasingly clumsy authoritarian solutions in order to ignite a new kind of dialectic. On one side would be the authoritarian, statist solutions themselves (solutions that are not only alienating many but also bankrupting nation-states in the West with an economic perversity that seems deliberate). On the other would be an Assange-type leader promising to use the Internet to make nation-states more transparent and less self-destructive in order to build growing bonds of trusts between them. You can read the story here: CODA: Sayeth the Chosen One ...
Is the continued authoritarianism of the elite as regards its failing memes actually a dominant social theme of itself – a promotion that constitutes one side of a new dialectic? Seen from this perspective, one side is the (deliberately imposed) failure of nation-states economically, militarily and politically; on the other side is hypothetically a vision-in-the-making of a more trusting global world order – one of transparency and resolute reasonableness (perhaps led by a Julian Assange-type movement). If over time this observation proves out, it will mark a decisive shift in elite tactics, as we do not believe that such a dialectic was contemplated even a decade ago.
Conclusion: The elite does adapt to circumstances, and the dialectic we have now suggested would at least explain why the Anglosphere has been so clumsy lately in terms of implementing increasingly authoritarian solutions and revealing its strategies and historical perspectives. It could be doing so to offer up a NEW solution (an internationalist leader promoting a new world order) that will seem to address the brutal rapidity with which they are now operating. Alternatively, as we have suggested above, there is no further strategy, only the continued unraveling of elite memes, an increased reliance on authoritarianism to invoke more centralized world governance and, as a result, an increasingly pathological dysfunction.
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Posted by Bill Ross on 12/15/10 07:44 AM
@Davidus Romanus
"When you think clearly about World Wars I and II..."
The major effect was to socially / economically disrupt civil society, traumatize and distract "we, the people" and make what came next appear to be "better than war", while making us forget the peace, freedom, prosperity and "rule of law" that existed before:
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Current events appear designed to have the same traumatic effect, a further consolidation of power, so whatever "new and improved" social contract appears "reasonable", when, in actual fact, the yardstick is moved much closer to total tyranny for "necessity" (Machiavailli, falsely framed arguments):
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War is just the sum total of unaddressed problems, a product of "we, the people" abdicating our personal responsibilities to survive (defend ourselves), deal with predatory criminals and INSIST, forcefully, if neccessary that the law do its job, or, be replaced by those who will.
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Posted by AmanfromMars on 12/14/10 11:30 PM
And now things are turning really desperately silly, DB, and definitely Pathologically Dysfunctional, no question about that .......
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Will someone please start handing out the little green pills, for the offer of just the red and blue ones are not nearly enough and are having damaging, neuro-illogical side-effects.
"The Anglo-American axis located in London's city is still the world's dominant power and has been for a millennium." ...... Reply from the Daily Bell.
Oh, you still think so, Daily Bell? Would you care to define the Anglo-American axis of what would be the world's dominant power today? And who would be its head honcho/prime figurehead, for there is always a leader who decides on what the others will follow and action.
The present media evidence would surely more clearly suggest that a spell in a clinic, to receive urgent treatment and therapy, is in order and badly needed for the current incumbent.
Reply from The Daily Bell
We read about the denial of service but thanks for the link.
The Red Shield evidently and obviously runs the City.
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Posted by Davidus Romanus on 12/14/10 08:01 PM
@ Alexsemen
When you think clearly about World Wars I and II, two things. First one was a continuation of the other. Second, both were fought to determine who would be the top economic power in Europe.
Germany lost both wars militarily, but who is the top econimic power in Europe today? Germany is. In 1910, Great Britain was the dominant military and economic power in the world. Today they are third rate at best. In Asia, WWII was fought because Japan wanted access to Asian markets that Western Powers were trying to deny them, and to be the major economic power in that region. Until the recent rise of China, they were successful in both of those aims.
Germany and Japan may have paid a high price, but both succeeded in their war aims. Britain and France lost.
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The Anglo-American axis located in London's city is still the world's dominant power and has been for a millennium.
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Posted by William3 on 12/14/10 05:10 PM
"Hey, that's our line. They may have to take a step back."
I'm a fast learner when I have a good mentor.
Reply from The Daily Bell
Ha, thanks but as we recall you're a pretty independent sort ...
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Posted by William3 on 12/14/10 02:00 PM
It's fascinating that mainstream news articles reporting PE statements issued by "co-opted mouthpieces," now tend to confirm the truth by asserting what is not the truth. Saying, "The euro won't fail," Schauble is probably confirming it will.
Your postulate that the WikiLeaks phenomenon is being used by the PE as the good side of a bad-guy, good-guy dialectic is a thoughtful idea. If it's true, however, it seems an even more desperate measure than just continuing to push on the old memes.
How would it be possible to create a set of "global good guys" whom the world would want to follow into a NWO? Only DB elves' imaginations could come up with a scenario of how that might play out.
PE involvement in WikiLeaks seems more like a ploy to cause confusion, perhaps to buy time until a new strategy can be developed.
The PE, in my view, will eventually conclude that to live to see another day, they must back off their fear-based meme strategy, let trends emerge (with selected PE input where they can), and regroup. Perhaps they are already doing so.
Reply from The Daily Bell
Hey, that's our line. They may have to take a step back ...
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Posted by AmanfromMars on 12/14/10 06:21 AM
:-) ...... Spot on, Weeble, [Re Posted by Weeble on 12/14/2010 5:34:06 AM] although not all are as gifted in the fields of GBIrish, or would have such equipment as renders its voice so clearly, and aiming to please all rather than tending to a select or chosen few is the secret of fabulous success and outrageous fortune, although quite paradoxically that invariably favours a very select few, who would not necessarily be chosen but are rather more Maslowian self actualized.
Life is a very strange game, with each of us having our very own and unique perspective/universal view, by virtue of that which we know and have stored inside our heads in memory and imagination, and never stranger until one discovers its driving keys.
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Posted by Weeble on 12/14/10 05:37 AM
@ Zenbillionaire
Glad you liked it. I often wondered what Zen and Buddhism was all about, and you spurred me to search further. All it takes is one word. You had said "Koan" in response to some sort of "Conehead" reference I had made. I am getting pretty adept at searching the web based on little information, navigating past net cones, in and out of sites, from bizarre to funny.
Koan took me to that site after only one search on "Zen Koan". For example, if I were to type "tea earl grey hot" I would be on a 5 minute mission, exploring new words in search of Tribbles, and before you could say Jack Robinson, I would be on Beldar, consuming mass quantities of fun. What I do is synaptic leap; others may call it madness.
I am expecting an earful from my buddy, Bill Ross who, I expect, will do Pokemon battle with me on my making "something out of nothing" all over again. Me, the zero, and him, the one, will make a qubit yet.
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With respect to DB saying the internet was a mistake? From what I have read, English was the commoner's language in England when the Normans were speaking French in the English courts, circa 1066. We were gabbing much warpedly, and managed to also spake what we wanted to spake, whenever we wanted to spake it. Nonsense, they said, but they allowed it, as long as it didn't hurt them. And it didn't, did it?
We are beautiful instruments playing humans. Once we join together and play in the same key, pretty soon we will be letting the mad waving hands think they are steering our folly, but really . . . we're just being random, aren't we?
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This world may seem upside down at times, but if you take a step back, it has always been this way. It is time to jazz it up a little. Solid, Man, real solid!
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Posted by Weeble on 12/14/10 05:34 AM
@ AmanfromMars
No need for a format change. All I do is tune to channel 77.7 MHz on my AM/FM. I turn up the volume to 7, sit forward and listen in full surround sound on my Yamaha 7 channel RX-V2700 with Mirage speakers, hooked into the LAN.
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Posted by AmanfromMars on 12/14/10 04:39 AM
"We were actually understanding your narrative until the last 2-3 paragraphs when you decided – as you often do – that you needn't use punctuation, just capital letters. It's a very bad habit and turns something that might be cogent into gibberish." ... Reply from the Daily Bell.
Thanks for the mentoring, DB. Old habits die hard, they say, and I just assumed that the capitalisation would be ignored if it wasn't thought necessary, but if it can change cogent into gibberish, then the practice will have to be reviewed and curtailed.
In the light of that advice, please feel free to replace the latter half of Posted by AmanfromMars on 12/14/2010 1:07:54 AM with the following, which has had a thorough vetting to reflect on the valued opinion, with changes being made where appropriate. Failing that, and I can fully appreciate the "dangers" in others being able to change submitted text, perhaps you could just add this revision to the conversation. Thanks. .... amfM
Although whose leading narrative/what virtual machine script Global Operating Devices will be following/pimping, will daily depend upon who/what is supplying the SMARTest and most profitable and most innovative and secretive and secure Intelligence.
To be using anything else, and less, will be disruptive and increasingly quickly catastrophic, with those who/that which thought they were leading, running around like headless chickens chasing the stealthy ghosts and invisible phantoms which have infiltrated and are now deeply embedded in SCADA Processing [Information Analysis] and would now be in Powerful Possession of, and in Powerful Positions of Virtuous Virtual Control and thus enabled to collapse compromised Executive Office and Subverted and Perverted Administrative Operating Systems.
Which to fledgling Cyber Commands, tasked with ensuring and assuring Continuity of Present Programming, is their worst nightmare Realised, and Expertly Virtualised for Daily ZerodDay Delivery.?!" ...... which is the simplest of tasks for C42 Quantum Control Systems .... AI at ITs Work, and a present work in current and future progress which is transparently shared for peer review/SMART* Input for/to Output.
And C42? .....The Creation in CyberSpace of the Command and Control Of Computers and Communications. A NEUKlearer HyperRadioProActive IT Promotion/Program/Project and dDutch Initiative for mutually beneficial, positively reinforcing, Power Generation Systems for running novel and noble betatests with Global Operating Devices ur2die4.
Of course, all here would do well to realise, as should any who would presently think of themselves as being part of the Power Elites as spoken of here, [and there are so many of them nationally, vying to be top dog, internationally, aren't there], that all it takes is one soul who is fortunate with more time and money and great common sense than they know what to do with, or would ever be able to spend in a thousand lifetimes, and who would be looking for a fabulous venture and crazy adventures, to render Power Elite groupings redundant as future leading players, with them being relegated to the role of puppets for servering the drivers of crazy adventuring in fabulous ventures ...... which is bound to be attractive to any and all who have everything, but would be trapped in the System and thus realise that they are themselves just slaves.
*Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology
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Posted by Zenbillionaire on 12/14/10 01:59 AM
@ Weeble
"And to wind up: a little Koan tidbit originally put forth by Zenbillionaire..."
Weeble, I have no idea how you pull off this stuff but I enjoy it. I hadn't read that web site, Case 30 "The Calling Card" is pretty funny and had me chuckling out loud when I clicked the link (my wife thought I was laughing at the movie, I didn't interrupt her). I have to say I didn't have to meditate on it much :)
Did I post that or did you dig it up somewhere? I wish I could take credit but I honestly don't remember ever having read it. The one I had mentioned began with "Joshu's Mu", the first case of the Mumonkan. The only other collection I've read is the Hekiganroku. Neither one has a Case 30 that is as funny and topical as the one you cite.
Thanks for the laugh, and of course many thanks to our hosts.
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Posted by AmanfromMars on 12/14/10 01:07 AM
DB,
You certainly appear to have covered all bases with the Conclusion paragraph, although it is somewhat bi-polar dysfunctional ....... "The elite does adapt to circumstances ... Alternatively, as we have suggested above, there is no further strategy, only the continued unraveling of elite memes,..."
I would certainly nail Alien Colours to Elitist masts which adapt to circumstances and would have further future strategies for any number of good reasons, not the least of them being that they are not stupid, although it may very well be the case that they are not of the right frame of mind, rather than not being clever enough, to lead with memes which both micro and macro-manage Perception and Human Knowledge in this New Age of Virtually Real Control with CyberIntelAIgent Space Command.
And that, whenever it is the case, is the easiest of problems for them to solve should they would wish to remain and be future relevant and instrumental in the vanguard, with their engagement/purchase of that which, and those who, can and do deliver Virtually Real Command and Control with Remote Space Operating Systems.
After all, whenever the perception and/or realities are that one controls Global Wealth and owns the Money System, a Failure to Invest in and Purchase what one Needs to Continue to Prosper in a New Elite and Power Control Paradigm, in order to Protect what Generations had spent their Lives and Fortunes on Building and Maintaining, would be a Colossal Blunder and Surefire Evidence of Madness, for the Cost to Succeed and Retain Control via SMART Proxy Purchases, is Virtually Zero and Priceless.
It is the Power and Control of the release of information which reveals an Alternate Intelligence/A.N.Other View ..... which even when denied by involved and named parties would remain more plausible because of its easier believability along with other supporting factors than the fiction which would be being pimped and pumped/presented and dumped by said compromised, involved and named parties ..... which Leads ManKind. And it has always been that Simple Way, and is just so, even today, although it is well concealed and protected by the increased complexities which IT and Global Communications offer.
The Control of the Flow of Words controls Worlds and is the Simply Complex Great Game which one needs to Master to Enable and be Enabled with AIRule for Universal Reign. I trust that is not at all ambiguous and is clearly enough stated to be perfectly understood by all who can read. The only difficulty then remaining would be, the battle one would then have with oneself, in believing what one has read. And that would be as one exercising one's own Intelligence/Intellectual Curiosity. Fortunately though are such difficulties with belief which cause doubt easily swept away with both pertinent and impertinent questions.
And I am particularly enamoured, DB, with this from yourselves ..."On one side would be the authoritarian, statist solutions themselves (solutions that are not only alienating many but also bankrupting nation-states in the West with an economic perversity that seems deliberate). On the other would be an Assange-type leader promising to use the Internet to make nation-states more transparent and less self-destructive in order to build growing bonds of trusts between them." ..... and in support the other and latter solution, would offer the following [posted elsewhere yesterday in reply to another message] as proof of availability of concept, for it does appear to mirror quite nicely, and quite accurately too, the Daily Bell Semantic ..... "Methinks the only guarantee always is, as has always been and will always be .... the media theater shall continue.
Although whose leading narrative/what virtual machine script Global Operating Devices will be following/pimping, will daily depend upon who/what is supplying the SMARTest and most profitable and most innovative and secretive and secure Intelligence.
To be using anything else, and less, will be disruptive and increasingly quickly catastrophic, with those who/that which thought they were leading, running around like headless chickens chasing the stealthy ghosts and invisible phantoms which have infiltrated and are now deeply embedded in SCADA Processing [Information Analysis] and would now be in Powerful Possession of, and in Powerful Positions of Virtuous Virtual Control and thus enabled to collapse compromised Executive Office and Subverted and Perverted Administrative Operating Systems.
Which to fledgling Cyber Commands, tasked with ensuring and assuring Continuity of Present Programming, is their worst nightmare Realised, and Expertly Virtualised for Daily ZerodDay Delivery.?!" ...... which is the simplest of tasks for C42 Quantum Control Systems .... AI@ITsWork, and a Present Work in Current and Future Progress which is transparently shared for Peer Review/SMART Input for/to Output.
And C42? .....The Creation in CyberSpace of the Command and Control Of Computers and Communications. A NEUKlearer HyperRadioProActive IT Promotion/Program/Project and dDutch Initiative for Mutually Beneficial, Positively Reinforcing, Power Generation Systems for Running Novel and Noble Betatests with Global Operating Devices ur2die4.
Of course, all here would do well to realise, as should any who would presently think of themselves as being part of the Power Elites as spoken of here, [and there are so many of them nationally, vying to be top dog, internationally, aren't there], that all it takes is one soul who is fortunate with more time and money and great common sense than they know what to do with, or would ever be able to spend in a thousand lifetimes, and who would be looking for a Fabulous Venture and Crazy Adventures, to render Power Elite groupings redundant as Future Leading Players, with them being relegated to the Role of Puppets for Servering the Drivers of Crazy Adventuring in Fabulous Ventures ...... which is bound to be Attractive to Any and All who have Everything but would be trapped in the System and thus realise that they are themselves just Slaves.
Reply from The Daily Bell
We were actually understanding your narrative until the last 2-3 paragraphs when you decided - as you often do - that you needn't use punctuation, just capital letters. It's a very bad habit and turns something that might be cogent into gibberish.
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Posted by Zenbillionaire on 12/14/10 12:29 AM
@ DB
We obviously have different opinionsabout what a mistake is. The internet was invented on purpose. Its effects may not have been well understood, but it was not a mistake anymore than the discovery of semiconductors was a mistake.
You present the idea that there is some omniscient being with partial knowledge as to how this story is supposed to end, therefore one capable of making mistakes. No such being exists. There is no adversary.
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Posted by Philip Mccormack on 12/14/10 12:25 AM
What is emerging from all the sound and Wikileaks fury in Washington is that the entire scandal is serving to advance a long-standing Obama and Bush agenda of policing the until-now free Internet. Already the US Government has shut the Wikileaks server in the United States though no identifiable US law has been broken. F William Engdahl Author "Gods of Money" Or the death of the American Century
As discussed in a previous comment Assange looks as if he is fitting into PRS Problem Reaction Solution.DB I don't know if you have read the book, an excellent read, very knowledgeable. You would do well to interview this guy, such a clear speaker, calls a spade a spade Happy days Philip
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Posted by Zenbillionaire on 12/14/10 12:10 AM
@ DB
"The Internet was a mistake."
It was not a mistake. It had unintended consequences.
It was a solution to a problem and it started out very innocently at the request of a Stanford lab. You've read about Len and Sandy, it's all true. They were a couple of sysadmins and I don't really think they were planning to change the world. Vince Cerf (a relation of mine I think) and others who designed the ISO stack were engineers just trying to do a good job and they were mostly ignored for at least 10 years before those two decided they'd try it out. It worked, and the multi-protocol router was born. The rest is history.
There was no great plan, and so there could be no resistance to it. The Internet was pure luck; however it is well known that chance favors the prepared mind :)
Reply from The Daily Bell
It was a mistake. No one had any idea that two Steves in a garage would invent the personal computer - which when linked to the Internet and caused a communication explosion. Had the elite anticipated that occurrence, the Internet would never have been contemplated by DARPA (though it would have likely arisen anyway).
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Posted by Weeble on 12/13/10 10:31 PM
@ Bill Ross
I think Stephen Harper did a great job of singing "With A Little Help From My Friends". He was a little shy at the beginning, but got right into it as the song progressed. Good show, I say . . .
Encore! [ Click to view link ]
And to wind up: a little Koan tidbit originally put forth by Zenbillionaire, that has made quite the impression on me I might add, can be directly related to Stephen Harper's performance:
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You should read them all. I did.
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Posted by Ryan on 12/13/10 08:48 PM
Here's another piece in support of the "water shortage" meme:
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Posted by Onebornfree on 12/13/10 07:31 PM
Daily Bell said: "Thanks for the links. Interesting. Hard to know what to think."
On top of that,todays NYT has an unusually "fair and balanced" article about your favorite politician, Ron Paul:
"Rep. Ron Paul, G.O.P. Loner, Comes In From Cold" Click to view link
... a "balance" which appears to be at least partly inspired by his defense of Wikileaks.
Curioser and curiouser.
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Thanks. As we have proposed, perhaps "they" have decided to undermine the nation-state - to use every free-market accusation to sully it. (Jiu-Jitsu) Then they would need a "leader" to usher in a fairer, global paradigm ...
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Posted by Onebornfree on 12/13/10 06:48 PM
ScipioNasica said:
"In Sunday's NY Times, thare's an article called "A Secretive Banker Elite Rules Trading in Derivatives", by Louise Story."
That "elite" reference caught my eye too.
Here's another, earlier NYT article , this time about gold, which also, curiously, talks about "the elite", called: "Gold Fever: Pondering the Causes"
".....I think it reflects first and foremost a dismay at the current state of the world economy, and a conclusion that the elites who are running it do not know what they are doing.......":
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Seems like the NYT is picking up on the Bell's lingo perhaps?
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Reply from The Daily Bell
Thanks for the links. Interesting. Hard to know what to think.
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Posted by TCF on 12/13/10 06:46 PM
Amazing how old this video is. I feel like it describes today:
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