[Lokutus]

Catherine Austin Fitts nails it perfectly with her Tapeworm metaphor for the economy. She is rapidly becoming one of my heroes.

Tapeworm Economy

Globalization is a nice name for "race to the bottom".

[Raxozanne]

I agree, a good post, the sort that will help people wipe the cotton wool from their eyes.

[Lokutus]

The problem with the Solari solution is that it requires people to take responsibility for how money flows in their communities instead of just passing that responsibility off to others, like bank, so that they can invest 4 hours per evening into TV watching.

[Lokutus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', 'T')he problem with the Solari solution is that it requires people to take responsibility for how money flows in their communities instead of just passing that responsibility off to others, like bank, so that they can invest 4 hours per evening into TV watching.

[UIUCstudent01]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', 'T')he problem with the Solari solution is that it requires people to take responsibility for how money flows in their communities instead of just passing that responsibility off to others, like bank, so that they can invest 4 hours per evening into TV watching.

[MrBill]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', 'C')atherine Austin Fitts nails it perfectly with her Tapeworm metaphor for the economy. She is rapidly becoming one of my heroes.

Tapeworm Economy

Globalization is a nice name for "race to the bottom".

[Lokutus]

MrBill,

You need to know her history.

What I suggest is that you ignore the narcodollar stuff and just focus on the economic arguments which make total sense.

[Lokutus]

MrBill,

Don't forget most people think that anyone who believes in Peak Oil is certifiable.

[MrBill]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', 'M')rBill,

Don't forget most people think that anyone who believes in Peak Oil is certifiable.

[Chaparral]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MrBill', 'B')y the way, as for our Catherine Austin Fitts and her stint at HUD, do you really expect me to believe that in politically correct America that her Superior said that rewarding contractors was more important than getting the job done? Not likely. They may think those things, but they are rarely uttered out loud and certainly not to a Subordinate! ; - ) Quite an active imagination in any case.

[Lokutus]

More stuff by Catherine Austin Fitts

How To Get Rich Bringing Down the Man

[spudbuddy]

whew!
great stuff
mindblower
(better than Hitchcock...)

but it strikes me, nonetheless -

that this is a pretty rarified atmosphere for the average citizen to be breathing...
meaning results from activating the masses is a colossal pipedream, no doubt.
Much of America may be fascinated with money (bring on the Busby Berkely choreography) but precious few understand how this all works, ever did, or ever will, I'm afraid.
Which is of course how the whole yellow brick road got paved the way it did, in the first place.

I don't doubt that many are noticing the results - how can they help it?

The one thing that really grabs me is the idea of localized economies...(which I guess has been the traditional plum that corpo-pickers were after all along.)
Alas - for so many, a localized economy is something so long-removed it's produced a collective amnesia.

makes me wonder - how an energy shortage may shift that red button to green, anyhow.

[Lokutus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('spudbuddy', '
')I don't doubt that many are noticing the results - how can they help it?

[shakespear1]

Most people don't get it, won't get it, and even when they do get hit on the head they will blame the wrong people.

I am a petroleum engineer. I understand most of the issues of PO and have tried to explain this to my relatives. Still, when they see the prices of the nat. gas and gasoline going up they blame it on the "manipulators". In other words they forgot all I told them.

My only explanatin is that the explanations I gave just DON'T make sense to them.

It is sort of like having a neurobiologist explaining how your mind works. You don't care, you just know it works.

Get ready for the cliff.

[MrBill]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('spudbuddy', '
')I don't doubt that many are noticing the results - how can they help it?

[MacG]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', 'C')atherine Austin Fitts nails it perfectly with her Tapeworm metaphor for the economy. She is rapidly becoming one of my heroes.

Tapeworm Economy

Globalization is a nice name for "race to the bottom".

[MrBill]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MacG', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', 'C')atherine Austin Fitts nails it perfectly with her Tapeworm metaphor for the economy. She is rapidly becoming one of my heroes.

Tapeworm Economy

Globalization is a nice name for "race to the bottom".

[Lokutus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MrBill', ' ')
Of course, with so much corruption & malfeance about in plenty it is quite easy to believe that anything is possible, and, of course, so many claims are equally hard to disprove. Therefore, I usually stick to most logical conclusion until proven otherwise, and try to avoid confusing cause & effect with causality.

[MacG]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', 'M')rBill,

Living in Cyprus you automatically know more about what's happening in the USA than the people here. So thanks for telling us what's plausible and what's not.

[threadbear]

Fitts is an insider, or at least was an insider, as a former assistant director of HUD under George Bush Sr.

She is ideological kryptonite to the anti conspiracy/ pro-coincidence theory crowd. Someone who is both brilliant, AND an insider who has first hand knowledge of political conspiracy from the inside. She found herself an unwitting participant in one, when she went to HUD, and it nearly ruined her financially and emotionally.

The people who discredit criminal political conspiracy as a key and growing feature of the govt of the US, are still in desparate suck up mode.They have reached the outer limits of what is left of a middle class meritocratic system and understand (though it's unconscious) that they better learn to parrot the B.S of the elites if they're going to be asked to dance in their moral twilight zone.... Sad.