[AlexdeLarge]

From Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge

Wall Street's Secretive and Dangerous Dark Pools
http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/03/mystery-of-wall-streets-dark-pools.html

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')ew things on Wall Street are as secretive and mysterious as "Dark Pools" - stock crossing networks that provide liquidity not displayed in market order books. The biggest implication of this is that an outsized bid can be matched up with an offer in a private transaction without disclosing the transaction at all. Traditional financial markets generate liquidity by openly advertising buy and sell interest in a given venue, with real time liquidity data provided by publishing market depth (think Level 2). Dark Pools, or Dark Liquidity, as they are sometimes known, have been used more and more by brokers and funds in transacting off market in increasingly greater volume.

[Jotapay]

"Tyler Durden" knows his stuff. I try and look at his blog every day.

[onlooker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', '@')Asg
Oh and Zerohedge is at the cutting edge if financial news.

[onlooker]

Globalism going in reverse now:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-2 ... -penalties
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-2 ... 0-march-29
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-2 ... ps-4th-day
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-1 ... ise-europe

[onlooker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'G')lobalism going in reverse now:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-2 ... -penalties
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-2 ... 0-march-29
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-2 ... ps-4th-day
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-1 ... ise-europe

[asg70]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'G')lobalism going in reverse now:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-2 ... -penalties
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-2 ... 0-march-29
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-2 ... ps-4th-day
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-1 ... ise-europe

[asg70]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', '
')Would either you or Asg, care to cite specific examples of ZH, making wrong predictions.

[onlooker]

Just to chronicle what sources have and are disseminating the most deceptive and inaccurate stories. Maybe we can shed light on whether the MSM or alternative news are being more truthful and factually rigorous than its counterpart.

[onlooker]

This is a good article that takes issue with the optimistic perspective of the Gates foundation. It assails some supposed facts and also points to glaring omissions. So a good link to include here to discern who is closer to the truth
http://www.humanosphere.org/opinion/201 ... -evidence/

[Tanada]

A lot of people who consider themselves 'progressive' have the same blindspot as the Gates foundation IMO. When looking at their own actions they only look at what they consider the successes and either sweep the failure under the rug or pay minor lip service to the lessons learned from them without actually changing anything after the acknowledgment.

Progress is a human concept and like all human endeavors it suffers from a fatal flaw when pushed too far, the law of diminishing returns. Take the Civil Rights movement which really started with Women's Suffrage as a movement in the 1880-1920 era. Women gained the right to vote and gradually over time this franchise was extended to non-whites and then even 18-20 year old Americans. Having achieved so much towards achieving equality before the law for every American they kept pushing on with LG rights, covering an additional 3 percent of the population. Unfortunately for some folks equality before the law isn't good enough, and no minority is too small for special protection. The latest cause celeb has been the whole transgender bathroom mess fomented over the 2015-16 period that covers a very very small minority of about 0.3 percent of the population most of whom used the appropriate bathroom without any interference from society special needs for protection. In this case the costs to the rest of society for the purported cure by the government caused a much higher social cost than the vanishingly small number of transgender folks who were physically harassed and needed protection. Those few cases would have been better handled by enforcing existing harassment laws than by creating the mess that was created.

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', ' ')In this case the costs to the rest of society for the purported cure by the government caused a much higher social cost than the vanishingly small number of transgender folks who were physically harassed and needed protection.

[onlooker]

Two points to what Ibon and Tanada are saying, First, the entire political apparatus is hopelessly corrupted to serve financial overlords and the "bones" being thrown by both parties are just posturing to get votes. Oh and consistent with this thread the main Media serves financial overlords as well. You can say the country as a whole serves financial overlords.
Now, for the larger point which Tanada hinted at being the law of diminishing returns. As Ibon is also well aware all matters pertaining now to human life on Earth is informed and subservient to the Environment and its status and how out of balance population wise we are with it. So, this claim by the Gates foundation is patently false and irresponsible especially as to future outlook which environmentally and thus economically bodes catastrophe " Indeed, the letter more or less boils down to a single claim: “The world has been getting better over the past 25 years, and as long as we keep doing more of the same, it will continue to get better. Trust us.”

[onlooker]

Here is a quote from the recently departed ― David Rockefeller, alluding to the Fourth Estate being captured by the financial and other elites:

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.”
― David Rockefeller

[dissident]

The value of zerohedge and other alt media is that they offer a counterpoint to the monochrome, officially sanctioned narratives spewed by the "real" media. The media consumer must get off their lazy, credulous a** and actually exert intellectual effort to sort through the weed field that is "news". The notion that the MSM is the only legit source is total rubbish.

It is easier to see the full spectrum crap that is the modern western media scene when one has solid external information links. The perspective of most people in Syria, Russia, China and elsewhere sees through the official narrative BS coming through CNN, et al. This is not an implicit claim that they do not have their own information bubbles. But different bubbles have different vantage points. I will take the opinion of a randomly interviewed Syrian over all the western MSM and pundits that tell me what to think.

Alex Jones is a total nutjob when it comes to climate science but that does not mean he is a total writeoff with no useful function in the information space.

[onlooker]

I will take the opinion of a randomly interviewed Syrian over all the western MSM and pundits that tell me what to think.---And I will take the opinion of a randomly interviewed person over all the MSM and pundits of ALL the Govts that tell me what to think.

[asg70]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'I') will take the opinion of a randomly interviewed Syrian over all the western MSM and pundits that tell me what to think.---And I will take the opinion of a randomly interviewed person over all the MSM and pundits of ALL the Govts that tell me what to think.

[onlooker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('asg70', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'I') will take the opinion of a randomly interviewed Syrian over all the western MSM and pundits that tell me what to think.---And I will take the opinion of a randomly interviewed person over all the MSM and pundits of ALL the Govts that tell me what to think.