Pollywogs!

Posh shit, baby shit, ginger shit…

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This is a fascinating article detailing exactly why we use fake money, and yet no one seems to notice or care…it is a real history of the concept of money, and how money has diverged from a backing standard to disastrous results time and time again. It also gives a good explanation of exactly what inflation is to me, Mr. Average Joe, and how the rich and powerful pull the puppet strings with wild, reckless abandon while everyone else’s lives swing in the balance. Excellent, highly recommended read!

“The brief monetary history of Rome is intended to establish the fact that the State has sought to engage in theft from the citizenry via monetary debasement from the very dawn of Western civilization. The focus on the 17th century application of the tally stick system in the UK as well as the focus of the transformation of London’s goldsmiths to bankers is meant to establish from whence the idea of putting together a workable fiat money system stems. This is an extremely important part of monetary history but is generally a less well known one.

The above historical recap was written to fill in some additional as well as essential information if one wants to understand how we arrived where we are today. With that history lesson out of the way, let’s now address the question we asked at the top. How did worthless objects come into widespread acceptance as money?”

Related: what happens when a credit spree pops. Of course, if you read the previous article you’d already know.

Further related: Warren Buffet isn’t a complete mega-rich cocksucker. He’s trying to warn everyone without creating waves so high that they sink the ship:

“Buffett said he makes $46 million a year in income and is only taxed at a 17.7 percent rate on his federal income taxes. By contrast, those who work for him, and make considerably less, pay on average about 32.9 percent in taxes - with the highest rate being 39.7 percent.

To emphasize his point, Buffett offered $1 million to the audience member who could show that one of the nation’s wealthiest individuals pays a higher tax rate than one of their subordinates.

“I’m willing to bet anyone in this room $1 million that those rates are less than the secretary has to pay,” said Buffett.”

Potentially related: the end of peak suburbia:

“It is not an accident that the housing bubble coincided with the phenomenon of Peak Oil. First of all, the housing bubble should more properly be called the suburban bubble, because most of the activity came in the form of “greenfield” housing subdivisions, and included all the additional crap-o-la accessories required by them — strip malls, power centers, Outback steak houses, car washes, et cetera. The suburban expansion has been based entirely on cheap-and-abundant supplies of oil.”

I was just thinking that rural living for anyone other than farmers or forest products folks is simply retarded and ought to carry some penalty, preferably higher energy prices for transportation. I completely forgot that oil was not a renewable resource and that gasoline is only going up!

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Intentional or unintentional negligence led to 9/11? The more I read and learn, the more it looks like INTENTIONAL.

Tenet warning of Al Qaeda days before the strike (and everyone afterwards parroting ‘no one could have predicted’…except for the head of the fucking CIA WHO TOLD YOU POINT BLANK YOU FUCKING CUNTS).

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Dick Cheney knowing that the hour of their Pearl Harbor had arrived and ordering a stand-down response to maximize the IMPACT for political purpose. Suck on those apples…

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We basically killed those Americans and brought down the Twin Towers ourselves. Me, Mr. George Bush and me, Mr. Dick Cheney. And, of course, we’re responsible for all of the death, destruction and public theft/defrauding that has occured since then as well.

http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/260607_mineta.html:

“Mineta confirmed his statements with reporters, saying “When I overheard something about ‘the orders still stand’ and so, what I thought of was that they had already made the decision to shoot something down.”

Norman Mineta made it clear to reporters– who verified his quotes in written text alongside him– that Mineta was indeed talking about a stand down order not to shoot down hijacked aircraft headed for the Pentagon.”

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I’m retarded. Or not retarded. One of those two. You may be (not) retarded too…

“Why should this be? The authors argued that prefrontal cortex allows for “sculpting of the response space” - in other words, prefrontal cortex is used to guide and control the mental search for a solution. Normally such “cognitive guidance” is a good thing … but it can be bad for solutions which require thinking outside the box - outside the normal, real-world constraints we place on workable solutions.”

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Finally. Remember that Italian study I posted about a while back where aspartame caused cancer? Well, guess what, the FDA says we don’t have to worry! Wow, I feel so much safer now!!!

‘The CSPI said the Acceptable Daily Intake of aspartame in the United States was 50 mg per kilogram of body weight, equivalent to a 20 kg child drinking 2.5 cans of diet soft drink a day, or a 68 kilogram adult drinking about 7.5 cans a day.

The Italian researchers found a cancer risk at the very highest doses - double the US Acceptable Daily Intake.

Merisant, which makes Equal, said in a statement on its website: “The safety of aspartame has been confirmed by regulatory authorities in more than 100 countries, including the US Food and Drug Administration, Health Canada, and the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Food, as well as by experts with the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization and World Health Organization.”‘

Ahh, so the people who make it say it is safe and the FDA says it is safe…as long as a kid doesn’t have more than 5 cans per day. And then it may cause cancer. I guess it depends upon what the definition of ’safe’ is…

EDIT: Minor grammatical changes, ugh…