Organizing Revolt

4 Comments on "Organizing Revolt"

Davy, Hermann, MO on Tue, 11th Feb 2014 4:32 pm 



Guys, is it me or is the cycling getting swifter with the subject we are talking about in these discussion boards. Reminds me of the market going up and something the call:
Sornette’s “finite time singularity”
“OR”

A log periodic pattern is essentially one where troughs occur at increasingly frequent and increasingly shallow intervals. As Sornette has demonstrated across numerous bubbles over history in a broad variety of asset classes, adjacent troughs (say T1, T2, T3, etc) are often related to the crash date (the “finite-time singularity” Tc) by a constant ratio: (Tc-T1)/(Tc-T2) = (Tc-T2)/(Tc-T3) and so forth, with the result that successive troughs come closer and closer in time until the final blowoff occurs.

J-Gav on Tue, 11th Feb 2014 5:10 pm 



Davy – I have the same impression as you i.e. that some cycles are getting more cramped, like many zoom lenses on the short and/or long end of their focal lengths.

A comment on the Ukraine: Those who know nothing of its history can be excused as it’s hardly ever figured on the front burner of international affairs to the casual Western observer. However, it has been torn apart and repatched together more than once due to the ambitions of Poland, Russia, Germany, Austria … The result today is a place which maybe shouldn’t even be a country. If the Eastern half voted, they’d go with Russia, if the Western half voted, they’d move towards Western Europe. They’re stuck. And so is Europe. Allowing another country to join the union at this time, when the integration of several recent inclusions (I’m thinking Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary and even the Czech Republic), can hardly be considered a great success. Europe doesn’t need any more dead-weight additions to its floundering pretentions to achieve ‘unity.’

Arthur on Tue, 11th Feb 2014 6:57 pm 



Indeed, Europe didn’t do itself a service by adopting Greece. Brussels wanted to take in any country that was knocking on the door, but with it they undermined the support in northern Europe for the project. Worst of all, some foolish western European politicians, like our our ultra-red foreign secretary Frans Timmermans, joined John McCain by showing up in Kiev and help undermining the legitimately democratically elected government of the Ukraine, whatever you may think of that government. The comical episode with Victoria “F*** the EU” Nuland (another master coup b.t.w. by Putin by leaking this embarrassing piece of information), clearly showed that the US is busy with organizing regime change in Kiev, all intended to hurt Putin and his power base. 2014 was a continuation of where George Soros left off during his Orange Revolution. But hey, which revolution in the Slavic world was not organized by these people? Although I live less than 25 miles of the small Dutch town of Nuland, this ‘lady’ is not Dutch (real name Nudelman, married to a Kagan, go figure). Even the boxing ‘opposition leader’ Klitschko is not as Ukrainian as even I initially thought.

I hope the ‘uprising’ will calm down in Kiev, because things go too quick at the moment. If the Ukraine will turn to Europe eventually, as it will, it must be done hand in hand with Russia, shortly after the fall of the dollar.

Ulmo on Wed, 12th Feb 2014 3:54 pm 



I see in many comments an important confusion between Europe and the European Union. It’s not the same. Understanding the difference is critical in order to understand the conflicts and problems we are going through.