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mike54 said:

Looking from outside, the US is obsessed with race, so much so that it makes racism even worse.

Ignore the media. Nothing they say is accurate.

rob53 said:
The New T-Mobile is planning on spending $40B on supposed upgrades.

Ha. Only 100 million at best. Even commie HuffPo knows that telecoms won’t ever pay a damn thing.

wizard69 said:

As unfair as that felt we really need to avoid a world where resturants cant manage their clientel.  I actually think Starbucks has made a long term error here and will see many of its shops turn into cess pools. 

People haven’t had their 1st amendment rights for decades now. Starbucks’ guidance is down and 150 stores closed, if that means anything.

foregoneconclusion said:

Negative inflation = weak economy.

Nonsense. Maintaining–and even growing–purchasing power is in no way weak.


Never mind the underlying concept “driving” the market–fiat currency. Every single fiat currency in surviving recorded human history has collapsed to its objective market value–absolutely nothing whatsoever–in historically short order. The number of fiat currencies to do so is 500. Sorry, 500 currencies whose name starts with A. Just the As. Not even the most common letter.

Fiat currency has no value.
Currency is a claim check to money.
Money, as a physical object, is a store of value, and as such must be nigh immutable.
Value is the application of wealth.
Wealth is a person’s time and effort.

Fiat currency is created out of thin air. This is the foundation of all Western banks (et. al.). Need more economy? Print more currency! Rather, type some extra zeroes into a computer and more currency is created. This devalues every single dollar already in existence. Banks are allowed to do this through the system of fractional reserve, whereby they are only required to keep a portion of all deposits on hand at any given time. Depending on the account type, this fraction is between 0% and 10%. The bank is allowed to loan out the rest, at interest. And count that currency TWICE in their books–once as “your”****** “deposit”, and once for the loan. The person with the loan uses the fake, newly-created currency to go buy something, and the third person deposits it in the bank. THE BANK MAY THEN LOAN THAT CURRENCY OUT AGAIN, WITH ONLY A FRACTION OF IT KEPT IN RESERVE. CREATING YET ANOTHER SUM OF CURRENCY OUT OF THIN AIR.

And that’s just the SMALL banks. Since the Federal Reserve is a private corporation, it LENDS the US government its currency, AT INTEREST, in exchange for treasury bonds. Every single dollar in existence has more than a dollar of debt behind it. There is no such thing as a “debt ceiling” or an ability to repay any government debts. These concepts definitionally do not exist. It is physically impossible to repay the debt, ever, by the definition of the word. 

This is the problem with our economy. This is what will cause the Second Great Depression. This is the system that will make post-WWII Hungary’s hyperinflation look like the daily fluctuation in the price of a gallon of milk. Tens of millions will die. YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT’S WRONG SO THAT YOU CAN KILL ANYONE WHO TRIES TO PROPOSE IT AGAIN. 

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
– Henry Ford

The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the Revolution.
– Benjamin Franklin

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.
– Woodrow Wilson

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce, and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
– President James A. Garfield

Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you; and when you lost you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves.
– Andrew Jackson

Here are the simple facts of the great betrayal. Wilson and House knew that they were doing something momentous. One cannot fathom men’s motives, and this pair probably what they were up to. What they did not believe in was representative government. They believed in government by an uncontrolled oligarchy whose acts would only become apparent after an interval so long that the electorate would be forever incapable of doing anything efficient to remedy depredations.
– Ezra Pound

******”Your” is in quotes because you don’t even own your physical currency. All currency is the property of the Federal Reserve. Not only does it have no intrinsic value and is not backed by anything, it’s not even yours.

DuhSesame said:

Not sure if there’s people that still purchasing... ...Mac mini

I’d buy one if they updated it. The PSU in my iTunes server Late 2006 white iMac started leaking, so I have to get a replacement computer for it. I’m not paying FULL FUCKING LAUNCH PRICE for a 5 year old computer, though. If Apple kept selling old products while keeping the same margin percentage, gradually decreasing the price as it ages, that’d be one thing.