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RE: Financial Armageddon

And interesting article from them on the decline of democracy:

RE: Financial Armageddon

I read Pritchard's articles, he is very smart. On the other hand EWI (http://www.elliottwave.com) believes the drive behind the economy (and politics, history, popular music) is social mood. It is social mood that causes people to go deep into debt and then to cut back on spending. They developed a science they call socionomics (http://socionomics.com) and by employing it they predict how social mood affects events. Of course, nothing is perfect, so they don't always get it right. For example, they expected the current downturn last year. But they were only wrong about the timing.

Regarding the Union, here is an interesting video:

RE: Financial Armageddon

I am not sure what Jehovah's Witnesses do as I am not one of them :-)

RE: Are smokers faces different from their non smoking friends?

I can often tell, but not about young people. Once they get into their 30's the colour of their skin changes, the skin looses flexibility and freshness and there are indistinguishable wrinkles around the lips and in the corners of the eyes. I don't mean I pick them every time, but very often. Their voice also changes.

RE: Financial Armageddon

After the 2009 lows Westpac carved up most of the mortgage market. They will be the most vulnerable bank in the coming downturn. They are facing huge losses with real estate prices falling.

RE: Financial Armageddon

We are being ripped off in every possible way. The same stuff cost 30-40% more, or even more here than in the US or Canada. For example I can get a bottle of flax seed oil from the US for $12 including postage (if I order a few to minimise the postage), but the same quantity costs $30 here. Delivery costs cannot be the excuse for the hilarious price hike, neither the labour cost.

Once the GFC was thought to be over there were articles in the paper stating how great it was that we pay such high bank fees, for they saved out bank system. What a load of rubbish! The banking system was about to collapse when the US Federal Reserve secretly bought all their toxic debt. Not only theirs, but those of all major banks around the world. These transactions were worth $14 trillion and neither the congress, nor the american public knew about it.

RE: Financial Armageddon

Now that the Federal Reserve swapped dollar for euro the markets are all happy and have rallied for the last few days. However, the problem is too much debt. You cannot solve this with introducing more debt. To get out of this mess debt must deflate first. This will happen through bankruptcies and great depression II.

RE: Financial Armageddon

I have been to many evangelical churches, the people there are pretty happy. Of course, there are the fundamentalists who damn the whole world to hell and think they are the only ones.

There is a joke, that a guy dies and goes to heaven, and St Peter shows him the various places. They get to a large room full of quiet, solemn people.
"Who are these?", he asks.
"The Catholics", says Peter.
So they go from room to room full of quiet and solemn people, and they all belong to a particular faith. Then when they get near the last room full of cheerful and celebrating people, Peter says,
"Shhhh!!! Quiet!"
"Why? Who are these?", asks the man.
"The Fundamentalists. They think they are the only ones here."

RE: Financial Armageddon

Do you actually know who you follow? Do "true Christians" follow the Paganised Greek virgin-born god-man deity, or the true patrilinear son of David?

RE: Financial Armageddon

There were others in many other countries. Burma, two provinces in China, and recently in the Middle-East. These are all related to the crisis.

Some time ago I came across an article regarding a statement from a military academy that said the greatest danger to national security was civil uprising.

RE: Financial Armageddon

Don't you remember that Kevin Rudd told Hillary Clinton in around 2008 that Australia would support the US against a war with China? China was threatened with war. If she didn't comply there would have been war.

Don't forget that WWII started just as nations emerged from the Great Depression.

RE: Financial Armageddon

I have seen something in the news that super funds averaged about 1%/year over the last 10 years. I have had my little super in cash equivalents for a few years, so there was a modest gain.

Financial armageddon? I have been saying for years that this will be Great Depression II, much deeper than in the 30's. The problem is much bigger today and the problem of debt cannot be solved with taking on more debt. There will be no true recovery until all bubbles, including credit bubble deflate and wealth disparity returns to the healthy level, which is when 1% of the population owns 10% wealth. Today it is at the 30's level when 1% owned 40%. This means the middle class diminished and the 99% has little money, so they have little purchasing power, and they are also loaded with debt.

Saving the banking system will not save the world economy, only push out the day of reckoning. What you need is measures to reduce wealth disparity, but instead we see exactly the opposite.

I expected civil unrest all over the world which at one point will possibly slide into WWIII. We almost had it in 2008 when the US threatened China with war if she didn't comply with US demands to prop up the economy.

About three decades later...

My lady asked me to correct one statement :-)

She didn't like me...

She was in desperate love with me :-)

About three decades later...

I know, that is why I need to find a steady income. But bartering was only meant while I got my skills up in web design.

Do you think a book store brings a good enough income?

Life is good...

About three decades later...

:-) I don't need to earn that kind of money. I applied for that job and if it came through it would have solved our financial woes, but it fell through, so I need to think about other ways to earn money. I will offer website design and hosting for a start. I already did a few, though mainly for a barter, like my daughter is taught piano for exchange.

(piano teacher)
(Gold Coast speech pathologist)
and two more to go for now:

(this is for my lady)
(for a paralytic who was in the TV)

Life is good...

Life is good...

Unfinished, but you get the idea where it's going...

About three decades later...

Thanks, yes, there are a few avenues we need to investigate...

About three decades later...

Thank you all :-)

About three decades later...

Hey, thanks, she is really the greatest love of my life. We are working towards the same goal...

Life is good...

A short track... electronic music... hope you enjoy it:

About three decades later...

Yeah, I met a girl in my youth and she liked me, but at that time I had little interest in her. I was very immature. Now many years later I met her in cyberspace and... wow, she is such an amazing person... but she is on the other side of the world, in Hungary.

Remote love, you may say, as neither of us have the money to bridge the distance... Well, I almost got an $80kpa job, but almost... is not reality. Have to keep trying... and praying...

You wonder why I didn't do any music or participated in the forums... but spending 4-6 hours a day with her on skype leaves little time for these things.

Yet, life is good and full of hope again... so I invite you to listen to a short track I put together...

RE: our Asylum seekers... when is it enough

The biggest problem is not the harsh conditions these people have to endure, but the uncertainty. You wait and wait for months and years and don't know what will happen. Your life is in a standstill. This is very depressing.

RE: our Asylum seekers... when is it enough

I went through a similar experience. When we left communist Hungary illegally we went into the refugee camp in Austria. They took our passports away and locked us up on the top level in a large ex-military building. You couldn't go anywhere, you couldn't make phone calls, you were completely locked away from the outside world. We only stayed there for 3 weeks while the Interpol did their check on us, but I have to tell you it was the hardest 3 weeks of my life. There were no seats on the toilets, many of them were blocked. You had to line up in front of a single shower that only had a plastic curtain around it to stop others seeing you. We were given cocoa drink made from cocoa powder, sugar and water for breakfast. Only pregnant women and children were given milk. Every single day we ate Chinese cabbage for lunch beside some other stuff. And the worst thing was you didn't know when, if ever, you get out. The sense of hopelessness. The Albanian refugees were housed on the same level and, hey, those people were rough and there were fights with knives, there were shootings, etc. Someone was thrown out the windows. Another guy was shot in the leg when he went to the toilet at night.

Then after arriving in Sydney we were housed in Villawood that wasn't a detention centre at that time. There was a "restaurant" there where we were given meals (the expenses were deducted from the welfare payments we received). The kitchen staff saved the leftover food in the fridge and cooked it into the fresh one next time the cooked the same. This way they saved a lot of the raw materials and at some nights van pulled up to the storage with its lights off and the kitchen staff loaded up the fresh stuff from the storage. I guess they sold them to shops. Many of us saw these things happen. People got sick and had diarrhea. Cockroaches were running all over the kitchen.

So I understand what these people go through. But I cannot imagine what it would be like to be in those detention centres for months and years. I am sure many of them come out mentally harmed.

RE: Have you been on tv?

I haven't been on TV, but in movies.

I was a foot soldier in the battle at the beginning of the movie:
(1987_film)

In Escape to Victory I cheered in the crowd and was one of the guys who pushed the soldiers to the ground when the crowd broke out (sorry, this is the only one I found where the crowd breaks out):



Stallone is pocket size, fits under my arm and was ridiculed by the crowd for missing the 11m penalty about a dozen times before catching it. We had to cheer every time the ball was kicked - to our great disappointment.

Men and women - the root of all conflicts

It was meant as a joke :-)

Men and women - the root of all conflicts

OK, this is how things work.

The guy is watching tv, so the wife says, "don't be lazy". The guy tries to do what the wife asks. However, while little puppies get rewards when they perform the task, this poor guy is told he just did what was expected and what he should have done it in the first place without asking. So he is kind of disillusioned. No rewards for the good deed

The next time around it gets harder and harder to motivate him. The wife besides asking him also makes more and more derogatory remarks. The poor bloke starts to grow chitin shells all over his body. Protection developed, his hearing stops working and the wife has to shout louder and louder to get his attention. His limbs grow heavier every day. It gets harder to move.

And all he needed was little rewards when he did something right .

You know ladies, when guys don't hear you it is not a fault with them . It is a feature. Their minds are occupied with something they focus on and being single tasking by design the only way they do well is if they ignore incoming new requests until the previous one is complete. The current task maybe watching football. Their brain locks out the environment.

Women are more advanced . They are designed to complement men. While men are single tasking units and very good at that, women are designed to excel in multitasking. They are hopeless in single tasking. They think why waste so much time doing one thing at a time when you can do so many! They must always multitask. They are utterly incapable of single tasking.

Here you go, the seed of conflict is sawn. Women expect men to be good at multitasking not knowing that they are utterly incapable of it. The poor bloke tries it but fails desperately.

The same way blokes also have expectations from women, and they are related to single tasking. He wants her to stop talking while she does the cooking or leave him alone while she is on the phone with her friends. He also thinks if she was good at what she was doing she wouldn't need his help

And don't forget, while women are genetically related to the roses, men are to mushroom. Don't expect them to smell like roses

Russian bride sammer - enlightening times (multipart)

At lease until she finishes my letter she has no time to scam anyone else

But they use automated emails, they never read the first few anyway...

Russian bride sammer - enlightening times (multipart)

A picture of a pretty, young, slim smiling lady standing on the stairs.

Letter:

Salut!
Honestly I do not know
what is usually written in such a situation. I just
sat in the park, watching the passing sweet couple .... I
think why not? This year I turn 26 years old, I think a
good age for long-term relationship. My name is Svetlana. I
hope to open response, as if it does not sound strange.
They gave me your email in the agency, "The lonely Hearts"
may sound silly,but I hope that it will return results.
Please reply to me on my personal e-mail: svetisvet@ymail.com
Have a nice day, hope see you soon...
Svetlana!