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Ian posted a new activity comment 5 years, 10 months ago
At the very least it’s a bit of variety to help liven up the place with some anarchic balance of power; perhaps not exactly what Montesquieu had in mind but appealingly absurdist all the same.
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Ian posted a new activity comment 5 years, 10 months ago
Since I can’t reply to your latest response, I will do so here. The point of mentioning certain provocative words ( ‘right-wing’, ‘extremist’, ‘white nationalist’ ) was meant to underscore in ironic tones the ( from my perspective ) misguided efforts of certain agencies to contain non-existent problem stemming from those quarters. We emphatically…[Read more]
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I admit, THIS is what I would call “right-wing extremists”
https://twitter.com/_WhiteRabbitt_/status/1271623246706810883
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Ian posted a new activity comment 5 years, 10 months ago
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I guess I would agree with the author about the use of unnecessary force in the case of the “lockdown” where people were arrested simply for walking with their children in a park or riding a paddle board in the ocean, but I personally have seen a relationship between the local leadership, certainly the Sheriff, and the response. Here in Central…[Read more]
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Ian posted a new activity comment 5 years, 10 months ago
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Ian posted a new activity comment 5 years, 10 months ago
In the meantime the FBI is making sure that right-wing extremists/white nationalists are being carefully monitored. If anyone needs further evidence, surely the last month has shown that ‘the system’ has deployed its shock troops, and the prophetic analysis of the late Sam Francis has come to fruition: ‘anarcho-tyranny’ is the program which the…[Read more]
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link?
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I guess I would agree with the author about the use of unnecessary force in the case of the “lockdown” where people were arrested simply for walking with their children in a park or riding a paddle board in the ocean, but I personally have seen a relationship between the local leadership, certainly the Sheriff, and the response. Here in Central…[Read more]
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Since I can’t reply to your latest response, I will do so here. The point of mentioning certain provocative words ( ‘right-wing’, ‘extremist’, ‘white nationalist’ ) was meant to underscore in ironic tones the ( from my perspective ) misguided efforts of certain agencies to contain non-existent problem stemming from those quarters. We emphatically…[Read more]
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I admit, THIS is what I would call “right-wing extremists”
https://twitter.com/_WhiteRabbitt_/status/1271623246706810883
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At the very least it’s a bit of variety to help liven up the place with some anarchic balance of power; perhaps not exactly what Montesquieu had in mind but appealingly absurdist all the same.
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LOL. Agreed!
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Ian posted an update 5 years, 11 months ago
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Ian posted a new activity comment 5 years, 12 months ago
I wonder how those debts will be carried with oil trading *below zero* at the current time ( 12:05 PST )? Assuming the current price of negative $18 dollars for WTI-Crude doesn’t hold, and there is a “monster rally” to $5/bl, how’s that going to work out for firms with excess leverage?
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Ian posted a new activity comment 5 years, 12 months ago
Or, to clarify, the *markets forecasting* said severe lack of demand from end users.
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There is also the fact that there is a huge debt being carried by oil/gas.
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I wonder how those debts will be carried with oil trading *below zero* at the current time ( 12:05 PST )? Assuming the current price of negative $18 dollars for WTI-Crude doesn’t hold, and there is a “monster rally” to $5/bl, how’s that going to work out for firms with excess leverage?
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The negative numbers are because the major producers have to pay to store oil at this time. If we can actually ignore FEMA, kick the governors in their capitals and let people get back to work which would use energy and oil, a lot of this could change. People MUST keep up the pressure as the Fed has OTHER ideas and wants to keep up the fear.…[Read more]
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Ian posted a new activity comment 5 years, 12 months ago
The way I have always read a crash in oil prices ( and in this case, from *already* depressed level of $20/bl ) is that it indicates a severe lack of demand from *end users*, not merely the intermediary companies that explore for, and refine, the product.
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Or, to clarify, the *markets forecasting* said severe lack of demand from end users.
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There is also the fact that there is a huge debt being carried by oil/gas.
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I wonder how those debts will be carried with oil trading *below zero* at the current time ( 12:05 PST )? Assuming the current price of negative $18 dollars for WTI-Crude doesn’t hold, and there is a “monster rally” to $5/bl, how’s that going to work out for firms with excess leverage?
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The negative numbers are because the major producers have to pay to store oil at this time. If we can actually ignore FEMA, kick the governors in their capitals and let people get back to work which would use energy and oil, a lot of this could change. People MUST keep up the pressure as the Fed has OTHER ideas and wants to keep up the fear.…[Read more]
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Ian posted an update 5 years, 12 months ago
Oil crashing; yet another unfortunate sign of a global depression on the horizon. https://oilprice.com/
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They informed small oil producers that because there is no more storage, distilleries and “Big Oil” would not be purchasing any oil after the end of April. This is expected regarding oil. If business can start up without all the draconian measures, the economy would be able to start moving; however, it won’t solve their quadrillion dollar debt…[Read more]
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The way I have always read a crash in oil prices ( and in this case, from *already* depressed level of $20/bl ) is that it indicates a severe lack of demand from *end users*, not merely the intermediary companies that explore for, and refine, the product.
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Or, to clarify, the *markets forecasting* said severe lack of demand from end users.
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There is also the fact that there is a huge debt being carried by oil/gas.
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I wonder how those debts will be carried with oil trading *below zero* at the current time ( 12:05 PST )? Assuming the current price of negative $18 dollars for WTI-Crude doesn’t hold, and there is a “monster rally” to $5/bl, how’s that going to work out for firms with excess leverage?
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The negative numbers are because the major producers have to pay to store oil at this time. If we can actually ignore FEMA, kick the governors in their capitals and let people get back to work which would use energy and oil, a lot of this could change. People MUST keep up the pressure as the Fed has OTHER ideas and wants to keep up the fear.…[Read more]
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I’ve proposed gas/petrol “quantitative easing”, i.e. free or virtually free distribution of fuel to everyone. until we all have the real “free energy”. But this idea has not got much response….
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lots of cheap oil for tar for the roads. I hope they go Gung ho
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Ian posted an update 6 years ago
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Well worth restarting the video at the beginning…
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Ian posted a new activity comment 6 years ago
Thanks for the response. No scatological words in the article I linked ( none that I remember anyway ). Anyway, good to have a heads-up ( one of my favorite books is ‘The Pickwick Papers’ by the naughty named CD ).
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LOL
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Ian posted an update 6 years ago
Questions for members: is there a person moderating what gets approved on this Forum? Is it an AI? I ask because I have tried to post a link ( which I saw was up shortly after posting ) but now it is removed. I would assume that if I am able to post an article linking to a left wing leaning site ( The Nation ) I could also post an article linking…[Read more]
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For new members: the filter covers a range of words, largely monosyllabic nouns and verbs which, though having a venerable and interesting etymology, form part of a vocabulary which, due to the meanderings of social trends over the years and indeed the centures, should not currently be used in order to keep up the good tone of discourse. These may…[Read more]
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Thanks for the response. No scatological words in the article I linked ( none that I remember anyway ). Anyway, good to have a heads-up ( one of my favorite books is ‘The Pickwick Papers’ by the naughty named CD ).
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LOL
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Words and names like “David Wilcöck” are problematic for this Algorithm.
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lol
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Ian posted an update 6 years ago
Bill Gate’s Charity Paradox ( The Nation; 20 March 2020 ). Apologies if this has already been posted in forum. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-philanthropy/
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Ian posted a new activity comment 6 years ago
Mine too
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Ian posted an update 6 years ago
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Lew is one of my favs.
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Mine too
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Ian posted an update 6 years ago
I got the following information from Joe Atwill ( ‘Powers & Principalities’ podcast, episode 143 dated 3/21/20 ). For those claiming that Covid-19 is a uniquely destructive virus consider this sentence from one of the main establishment medical authorities ( Dr. Anthony Fauci ), taken from an editorial in the ‘New England Journal of Medicine’ on…[Read more]
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There certainly are more questions than answers with this one.
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Ian posted a new activity comment 6 years, 2 months ago
I wonder if the ODOE’s curious flexibility with regard to fines can be traced to the major shareholders of the parent company ( Waste Management Inc )? Top 4 institutional holders are Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,: these four account for an ownership stake of approximately 1/3 of all outstanding shares.
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Ian posted a new activity comment 6 years, 3 months ago
[ PART 2 ] I would like to post this but the site says ‘inappropriate word’ without specifying what word that could be ( there was no profanity ). Strange edict.
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Ian posted an update 6 years, 4 months ago
When are Americans going to learn? This country is akin to an abused wife making excuses for her violent husband ( a “marriage” I might add, that was forced on us to begin with ).
https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1202055139609067520
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LOL. Agreed!