Mind's Eye Re: Madness and Sanity

Bush (either) was a weasel. Money (or more broadly liquid assets)
were shifted from the many (the bottom 50% held 14%) to the few after
1980 - after Reagan/Thatcher/Bush the amount held by the bottom 50%
was down to 1%.- this was done through global arbitrage on wages,
explosions in CEO pay and a shift to mark to model valuations in the
financial system and continues through TARPS, QE and so on. We might
call the whole shebang 'Planet Ponzi'. The stories we hear are about
heroic individuals prospecting for oil - when the real story is one of
restricting supply to keep the price up, at least until after WW2.
When Barings Bank went bust we hear it was down to a lone rouge trader
in a bank with impeccable credentials - real story is they were bent
bastards in the 18th century (monopolies) and provided the loan which
allowed Argentina to be looted in 1824. Rigs is right that frauds do
unravel - but I suspect the underlying fraud is never eradicated and
throws up time and again. In the 18th century Barings were hoarding
cochineal, now JP Morgan and others are hoarding food, copper and
other commodities in exchange traded funds - the idea being to charge
us high prices. Russian 'grandmothers' given oil and gas shares end
up with shares in a worthless company because the oligarchs legally
steal the real assets through transfer pricing.
It has been argued that Britain gave up its Empire in order to retain
democracy in the UK. The US clearly replaced the empire on which the
sun never set and is perhaps in more danger of losing democracy than
we care to think. I'd have a bet it will all become clear as Africa
is re-colonised. I would say we can't look the truth in the face
because we were dragged up to believe in fair play, personal
integrity, democratic principles and the truth is these are just a
sham.

On Feb 12, 3:46 pm, rigs <rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I should include dysfunctional families and cultures as being a
> hindrance to developing a conscience. Then, I guess, we are on our
> own.
>
> On Feb 12, 9:06 am, rigs <rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > You are separated by your conscience and a knowledge of right and
> > wrong but one can over-ride a conscience or it can deteriorate or be
> > shocked into non-availability.//I hope I don't wind up in one of those
> > awful rest homes- it would be more merciful to commit suicide- and
> > cheaper!
>
> > On Feb 10, 8:36 am, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >http://youranonnews.tumblr.com/post/42506354980/heres-an-uncensored-c...
>
> > > Christopher Dorner the former LAPD officer gone rogue is clearly mad
> > > if the link above is his work.  There's a persecution complex and he
> > > wanders off into statements about public figures as though they'd give
> > > a toss on his opinion.  The probably squalid murders he's committed
> > > are somehow justified in a messy story of himself as public avenger.
>
> > > My own view of the world is probably more extreme than Dorner's.  I
> > > don't believe we get much right in our organisations and I'm sure we
> > > suffer from collective madness and denial in most of our dealings with
> > > each other.  I don't believe that the vast majority of our cops,
> > > nurses and so on are hard working and generally do the right thing -
> > > rather most people don't care much and spend an awful lot of time
> > > 'looking the other way'.  The truth is that most of our complaints'
> > > systems don't work and were designed not to.  The kind of evidence of
> > > what I'm saying here is the Hillsborough Report - this demonstrates
> > > that rather than standing up for truth, pretty much every cop lied and
> > > the public was mislead for more than 20 years.  Nurses are leaving
> > > patients who can't fend for themselves lying in their own mess and
> > > even worse.  Abused children are left with abusers.  What really
> > > convinces me we are getting almost everything wrong is an absence of
> > > real statistical reasoning - what we get is performance management
> > > (juking) and promises lessons are being learned that last until the
> > > next serious incident comes to light - when the promise is used again.
>
> > > I wonder what separates me from sad/bad jerks like Dorner?  I don't
> > > kill people and wouldn't, much as I liked the film, dream of doing
> > > Dirty Harry - the evidence is rarely clear enough.  The truth is
> > > usually banal and even dull.  I can't work out how I know Dorner is a
> > > clown and yet believe police complaints systems are hapless and cover
> > > a multitude of sins.  I know most whistleblowers face dreadful
> > > smearing, but this guy is out of it.  John Kiriakou seems sane and the
> > > US finally mad in sending him to jail and making Brennan head of CIA.
>
> > > How do we gauge madness and sanity?- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -

--

---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to minds-eye+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.