FLASHBACK

OPTIMISTS, EAT THIS REALIST DUST

Sores on America black and blue,
30-plus percent unemployment
in Indiana,
where American industry began and grew
into the biggest steelworks in the world -
where, for awhile,
canyons of molten metal ran wild,
like a planet forming new.
Did you know?
Gary, Indiana, Michael Jackson's
hometown,
served as the basis for the design
of Magnitogorsk -
Stalin's biggest steel town?
30-plus percent unemployment
in Indiana,
and don't forget California:
the state is broke and the specter grows
of hunger and a dust-bowl
in the valleys, where there's
30-plus percent unemployment.
Hope is low.

SANS MOUSTACHE

ECONOMIC RECOVERY?

I'd believe in the economic recovery if not for the fact that Japan's exports are 40% lower than last year. Fix that.

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WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

FUTURISMO

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SCARY STORIES IN SIX WORDS

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My favorite: "Radio static . . . nothing . . . then a voice."

WHAARGARBLGRPHGROSHOW

DYSTOPIAN AMERICA

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CANDID SHOT

Untitled

Such outright fictions
are the world's religions
that they have called lies truth
and truth, lies,
arrogated good for evil designs,
and created irreversible linear time:
so that we shall do a blind, futile climb
from "Year Zero",
then fall by God's dead weight
over Earth's wayside.

NOTICE THE PINK DOTS

AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE WILL SOON HAVE EVEN LARGER POWERS

One of the blogs I admire most, The Automatic Earth, posted this about the Federal Reserve today:

The Federal Reserve is at least in part owned (the people are not allowed to know this), by private enterprises whose interests may potentially be 180 degrees different from those of the people.

It's absolutely true.

Outside Washington D.C., all the Federal Reserve branches in New York, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Chicago, etc. are private corporations - a fact that is never announced and only admitted to sparingly. Each one is run by CEOs and Presidents. The Presidents are tasked with meeting in Washington D.C. occasionally and voting on critical issues. When they're doing that, they're called Governors in Washington parlance and they're supposed to act like public servants. Everywhere else, they're known as Presidents and they're the heads of private corporations. Private corporations in charge of the Dollar.

All of this was explained to me by the press woman at the Federal Reserve of Philadelphia. She summed it up neatly: "We're a private corporation - only in Washington are they public servants."

BET

Goldman Sachs is total, but still liable to crumble.

MY FAVORITE NORTH KOREA PROPAGANDA

In the
Nietzschean depths
You'll find what you'd
never expect
debt, and pain, and death are
ready for life
doubt your gods and doubt,
in a sense,
all in sight

SEE ALSO: FLO

SEGWAY SWAT

THE DERRICKS

Oil derricks at Signal Hill, outside Los Angeles, in 1938.

The city pumped about 1/4th of the world's oil - and was home to more cars than anywhere else - in the 1920s.



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WEED ATMS

This machine is as important to progress as the dawning of the Monolith...



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PERFECT

Federal Reserve Hires Enron's Old Lobbyist

YUP, IT'S A PANDEMIC

WHO DECLARES PANDEMIC
THE MAP

EVIL EYE

QUESTION

Do you ever miss the power of ideologies? I feel the ideology is dead now.

PAEAN TO GOLDMAN SACHS

Oil, bonds, stocks, commodities,
and the clandestine, quadrillion exchanges:
No market is too big
for your manipulation.
No government is beyond your
horror scope.
Goldman Sachs is total.



Headquarters of Goldman Sachs.

IN THE 1870s THEY KNEW THIS

CAPITALISM ARRIVES

SET UP

They didn't notice in 1930 either,
just a vague feeling, more for-rent signs,
and the hint of a fever.

CHAPTER IN HISTORY

Hyperinflation in Germany, 1920-23. In the end, American bankers led by J.P. Morgan negotiated the Dawes Plan, which put the German economy under an American (WASP, not Jewish) economic "czar," with wide policy-making authority. The Dawes Plan also cued the entrance of General Electric, Du Pont, and the other major American corporations into Germany. They set up advanced industry, electrification projects and even primitive computerization in office buildings.

During the hyperinflation, speculators bought up stores with 1 U.S. dollar. Germany became the brothel of the world, with every imaginable form of prostitution available (children, mother-daughter teams, amputees). All classes were wiped out. Currency became continuously more worthless by the minute, until finally it took 100 trillion marks to buy a single U.S. dollar.

At that zenith, the "inflation consensus" in Germany called it quits and turned to J.P. Morgan for a solution. The Dawes Plan scrapped the old German currency and set a new one on a foundation of real estate assets, which were stable despite the hyperinflation.