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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (178206)	9/13/2021 10:13:16 AM
From: marcher	1 Recommendation Recommended By ggersh Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217737

--Mr. Nice Guy is not a really good person,” Xi was quoted... “nice guys” were afraid of offending others and just wanted to protect their own interests-- golly, xi has attacked the go-along-get-along western capitalist and corporate road to riches. apparently he doesn't like u.s. freedom fries... or nazi ethics of expediency. -?-

To: TobagoJack who wrote (178206)	9/13/2021 10:55:41 AM
From: ggersh	1 Recommendation Recommended By marcher Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217737

But you already know all of this :-) moonofshanghai.com Understanding China

To: TobagoJack who wrote (178206)	9/14/2021 3:26:52 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217737

<<temperature rises>> that somehow reminds me of some old song ... There is much skill in building an economy. "free enterprise" is a concept, but like any, can be abused. Japan used national interest to help rebuild during the 1950's, intermingled with outside help and free enterprise. The nations government putting together recipies for private business to thrive in. The art of Banking is frowned upon, but probably a keystone in getting things right for everything else to slot into place. Been watching a number of boatbuilding projects on utube, watching the jaw dropping abilities and skills displayed. Several of the people, project leaders I guess you could call them, made the same mistake in their younger days of buying a boat as I did. The boat looked good but later discovered that the boat really needed to be rebuilt from the keel up. The learning process producing amazing works of art. Light years beyond anything I could do. Really amazing. So the like any good chef, the compliments are wonderful, but it's the valid criticisms that need careful study and evaluation. Far as I am concerned the "vaccine" discussion is over. It's done. It's simply just a bunch of crooks trying to strong arm the world into a stupid rigid course of action that brooks no deviation from the course set. Beyond mindless stupidity ! If anyone brings any of that crap up in my face again, I will just refer them to this message. There are more important things in life, while we are still here, to deal with. So a couple of old folk songs to clear the mind first... And read this review of Steinbeck by Caitlin. In conclusion, the human condition is such that great skills and dedication are needed, as yet not on display. When the media improves, and the science improves, .. those improvements will be a sign. A sign that things are moving in a better direction. One of the advantages of being at the bottom of a deep hole, and that is where we are, is that there is plenty of room to move upwards. One just has to pause the dig downwards first -g- Our Gods Have No Heads – Caitlin Johnstone We’re on a planet-sized haunted hayride to Armageddon, and no one is driving. Sure at first glance it looks like someone’s driving. It appears that there are governments which are run by elected officials, and that those officials get together regularly with the officials from other governments to determine how the world should be run. Then you look a bit closer and you discover that’s not how it works at all. The official elected governments are controlled by corporate and financial plutocratic institutions which have no loyalty to the citizenry of any nation they dominate, with wealth poured into manipulating those governments proportionate to their importance in securing the interests of the plutocracy. Then you look closer still and it gets even weirder, because you see that even the plutocrats aren’t really calling the shots themselves. What’s ultimately driving things is not so much the people within those institutions as the institutions themselves, which operate based on motives of profit and growth that are built into them and are entirely divorced from normal human values. You see this evidenced in the way these entities actively and deliberately select executives with “dark personality traits”, i.e. narcissists and sociopaths, because ethical and empathic people will not do the things that are necessary to advance the agendas of those entities. The executive isn’t choosing cutthroat actions for the corporation to make, the corporation is choosing executives who will enact its cutthroat agendas. In the old days we invented gods to worship who we pretended lived in the heavens, and we talked about miracles and divine intervention. Now we invent gods who live right here on earth, and we talk about profit margins and market forces. The only difference between the old gods and the new is that the high priests of old had their own personal agendas served by their religion, whereas the new high priests actually serve the agendas of their gods. And the problem of course is that these are not wise and beneficent gods, they are manmade conceptual constructs with no more intelligence or insight than that growth-at-all-cost values system held by a cancerous tumor. The modern gods are mindless devourers who are controlled by no one. The modern gods have no heads. As Steinbeck wrote in The Grapes of Wrath: “We’re sorry. It’s not us. It’s the monster. The bank isn’t like a man.” “Yes, but the bank is only made of men.” “No, you’re wrong there—quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.” So now we are watching our world be devoured by these headless modern gods, because ecocide is profitable and leads to growth. Because exploitation is profitable and leads to growth. Because war is profitable and leads to growth. Because infiltrating government power is profitable and leads to growth. They will not stop until there is nothing left to devour. There is nothing built into these massive devourers which could ever tell them to stop. They cannot stop, they can only be stopped. At some point we’re going to realize that market forces and the profit motive do not have the wisdom to navigate through the existential crises humanity now faces. The only question is whether we’ll realize this in time to do something about it, or realize it in our final gasps as a species. The modern gods to not serve us. We can only create a healthy world when we find it within ourselves to stand up to their infernal religion, chop off their headless heads, and begin replacing the gods who ruled us with systems designed to benefit humans. -----------============[[[[[[[[[[[1]]]]]]]]]]]==============--------------- Yeah, "crypto is a bad thing... and it should be banned".... hmmmm. Maybe not. Not sure. Maybe I really am agnostic ?! -g- Keeping some shiny stuff that conducts electricity well. Just in case. What is so "barbaric" about keeping and exchanging a good? In cyber form or in physical form, to assist ones existence in life, and helping one prepare for the inevitable? People are said to be envious of others. In real terms, they should not be so concerned about who has the better fate, as we don't actually know.