My husband has been gravely concerned about the stock market lately and even more so after the stock market events of today. Apparently his 401(k) has pretty much been torn to shreds, just another wave of the working class chaos going on in America. Getting really old if you ask me, but of course – nobody does.
I don’t know who else was affected by the markets today – but I do know just by my own knowledge of the trickle-down theory – that all Americans are suffering at some level. I have been telling him about this website going on 2 years now. He wasn’t so impressed up until today’s market crash. I, on the other hand, have thought it absolutely mind-boggling since the day I stumbled upon it. They use a special program they developed to harvest keywords used in google, message boards, blogs, groups etc., and then they track them, chart them, study them – day after day, and somehow through this process they have their fingers on the very pulse of mankind, seriously.
This is all perfectly legal – I guess anyone that has actually read one of those privacy agreements understands what I mean. However, to keep it simple for him (since he is not a big user of the internet) I told him that all of the words on the entire internet are free for anybody who wishes to collect them. Bloggers use them all the time to pull interested people to their blogs, spammers use them, web developers use them, advertisers use them, politicians use them…. pretty much everyone that wants to get into your mind and see what you think, uses them. This site just makes that info open to the general public.
Anyway, to keep it short – below is a snippet of this morning’s post. They forecasted the bank/housing crash many many moons ago and have long been talking about the kind of crash that occurred today, as usual – I find their opinion timely and right on target.
(if you enjoy the article – please leave a comment – even if you don’t, I’m open-minded)
I Call it B.S. – The Fix Is In
www.urbansurvival.com
Let’s have a little chat about “Bailout/Stabilization” with the first cup of coffee this morning. The long and short of the discussion ought to begin with “Do we believe in ‘free markets’ or not?” The answer is important because in genuine free markets, banks would be failing by the dozens and the folks who set up a floating craps game based on your regular house payments as a revenue stream beneath it all, would be thrown out of business (and in jail for fraud) and while there would be momentary pain and suffering, the ‘free market’ would do its job and clear out the mis-investment and mal-investment that has characterized serial bubbles since 2000.
If you think that’s a snide reference on my part to the Internet Bubble, Housing Bubble, and now the Housing Bubble Collapse, and now the Banker Bubble, congratulations, you have a pulse, it’s Monday, now get your ass back to work.
With just over a week to go until our “hot date” of October 7th shows up, hot based on the predictive linguistics work of www.halfpasthuman. com, we read this morning how the PowersThatBe are trying to ‘fix’ the outcome of the present ‘bailout debate’ in Washington so as to save the hides of the Bankster Class and do as little as possible for the back-home folks who write the checks.
Not that this is a ‘first time’ kind of event, but the grandeur of this latest scheme to steal from the American public is almost unbelievably large. So large, in fact, that most people won’t look it square in the eye and call it “crime” – although that’s more of less what it is. Until it’s passed by CONgress, then it becomes law. Magic.
While I realize that’s a serious charge to be made, a conversation with my friend The Bond Dude, made it perfectly clear to me that this latest “bailout” is nothing more than the bought-off right wing/conservatives getting one more big pay day from the corporate trough.
For openers, the proposed bailout does about zip – other than make promises which we’ve heard bandied about previously, to the folks who actually go to work trying to hang onto their homes.
“Until these geniuses can actually do something about the underlying causes of the problem, explained The Bond Due, the economy is going to crater and we’ll get to your Bastille Day.”
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