“Conspiracy theorists.” They are all over the place. They are nuts. They are just a bunch of “disgruntled’s” because they either didn’t get their way or they are a bunch of idealists who think the world should fit their crazy theories. But hold on there just a second, many of the past “theories” has already been proven as absolute fact. In the words of Tyler Durden when describing the at market volume dumps in the gold market had this to say:
The good news is that as everyone knows, aside from equity, electricity, FX, Libor, aluminum, and credit derivative markets (in just the case of JPM) gold is never manipulated: Blythe Masters promised. So there’s that.
–Zero Hedge, October 15, 2013
Many of these “theories” were not even “out there” or even close to off the wall, many were just of the plain Occam’s razor common sense sort that was pretty obvious in retrospect. My point is that “conspiracies” do exist, many have been proven factual and few even take any stretch of the imagination to understand or believe.
The above leads me to another area currently in the news, the debt ceiling. What in the world or how could anything to do with the debt ceiling have even a remote possibility of being “conspiratorial?” Someone mailed me a second hand word of a “friend” who supposedly has worked in Washington DC for some 40 years and says that the current circus saga over the debt ceiling was “planned.” He said it was planned 6-8 months ago. Should we believe this? Should we believe the second hand word of someone we don’t even know? Who is this guy and how could he know this? Does he have an agenda or is he just messin’ with us? I must confess that subconsciously I thought the same thing but I didn’t really know why. Just as with other “events” that I’ve watched with my own eyes that didn’t make sense initially, and then I figured out what was wrong eventually. I think I’ve figured this one out.
Please stay with me; this is so simple that it’s stupid. We are now living through a “government shutdown” where parks and memorials are shut down across the country. This is kind of stupid because there really is no expense to keep a bike path, cemetery or open air memorial open. In fact it takes even more expense to kick people out (and to give them tickets as penalty for law breaking). But this is what is happening and has been happening since day 1. So where is the “funny business?” Signs! Where did all of the signs come from? The signs that say that the park is closed or the memorial or the walking trail (or “closing the ocean”)… where did they come from? Who ordered them? How long ago were they ordered? Why were they ordered? Were signs ever erected in past government shutdowns? I’ll bet that never in the past when we had one of these Congressional pushing matches that parks etc. were not closed. I don’t know this for a fact but I don’t ever remember it.
In any case, these signs (since they were ordered by Washington) were not ordered a day or 2 before the shutdown, Washington doesn’t work like that. The graphics, wording, size and materials (not to mention the awarding of “non bid” contracts to printers) all had to be chosen ahead of time. The signs had to be fabricated and shipped all over the country to arrive “in time.” Is this a big deal? Well, not really except for the fact that to me this whole government shutdown/debt ceiling debate seems “staged” or made for public consumption. I smell a rat, what sort of rat I don’t know…but, at least we know that gold and silver are still free and fair markets?
I wrote the above late yesterday and since then have seen where the USDA has told states not to forward their Nov. issuance files and to delay transmission of “electronic benefit transfers” EBT (food stamps) …until further notice. I read this at Zero Hedge and have not found it yet anywhere else. If this turns out to be true and no debt deal is arrived then I guess we will have the answer (the rat that I smell?) to another one of those crazy conspiracy theories. You know, those “crazies” who have said that the only reason that over 2 billion rounds of hollow point ammunition have been delivered to domestic government agencies…is to… use them. 50 million hungry, angry and eventually rioting people might be a reason? As I have said all along, silver will spend when nothing else will.
Bill, I have a question. Why did the government not even address the issue of a budget? They seemed to make a big deal out of other discussions as a way to avoid the really big issue of coming up with a budget that contains a plan for prudent spending. Seems like a cover for what is really important. I believe that the government will do whatever it must to delay or avoid discussing the big issues. They scared the hell out of the spooge so that the real issues didn’t see the light of day. Neither polical party has the will to even discuss a budget. Period. The Republican party is a complete failure or is complicit in the crimes being committed by the Democrats.
a failure by all sides involved!
Did you even do a google image search for these signs before you wrote this? Looks like the Park Service splurged on a color printer and some 8×11 paper. About 10 minutes of work for some secretary somewhere and access to an email account…
They don’t look like Zerox’d signs to me but then again my eyes aren’t what they used to be.
I was just in Or near Crater Lake and stopped at one of the self guided walking trail parks. There were signs taped to the door of the restrooms “the only building in the park” saying the restrooms were closed due to the shutdown. There was a phone number on the signs “one men’s, one women’s” to call if there were any questions. I called the number hoping to find out where the next closes place I could crap was but didn’t get an answer. I would have grabbed the signs as wipe and headed for the woods but they were laminated and way too fancy.
The design is transparent. Shut down the parks and any and all things Government that the people love and are in favor of – this to illicit an emotional response. Get the sheeple ticked off at any one who advocates downsizing the Federal Government / anyone who advocates living within our means. The ploy is to vilify those who advocate cutting Government spending, so they shut down the parks. Only a blind fool could fail to see through this transparent tact… but then there are a lot of blind fools out there and they know they can depend on that.
The amazing thing is that the citizens who are now VERY unhappy with Congress seem to be unhappy with them because they won’t agree to borrow more money. What does that say? The design has worked once again, they have got the majority of the populace on the side of the state builders. They never cut their own salaries, or Federal Pensions or benefits. Again, they shut down the things that will illicit an emotional response in the people in order to drum up public support for more spending… THEIR DESIGN IS TO GROW THE STATE, and grow it they have. I ask you, if a state grows uninterrupted what will the end state be? The answer is Communism / two classes: those who run the state (the bureaucrats) and the rest of us, i.e. the serfs. But not to worry, financial collapse will precede that outcome. When you have to borrow money to pay your bills you are already bankrupt, and the U.S. Government is there. They can get public support to increase the borrowing limit, but try as they may they cannot create prosperity with ink on paper. It is literally impossible for this to go on without a day of reckoning.
I have a notion China is egging us on to borrow more because they know doing so will only mean a deeper hole for us to have to dig our way out of… They have to know that increasing our borrowig limit is not the answer to our debt problem.
Bill,
I don’t think anything is wrong with your eyes. I only saw the signs on TV but have to think they were in storage for ready use.
Brady gave me a good laugh for today. I think Brady should have eliminated on the side of the building. It seems to me that the only necessary think that was closed down in all of the two weeks was the crapper he was trying to use. Otherwise, really how many people were inconvenienced by the park shut downs. Out of a population of 300,000,000 plus another 50,000,000 or more that don’t have a right to be in this country at all, I don’t think there was even a handful of people visiting the parks. All the news was for the jack ass news media that only makes its money when there is something to broadcast.
He who laughs last laughs the loudest, so we have a real good laugh in store for us.
Why discuss a budget when you never had one since 2009? If you set a budget, people will see that you are constantly going over it. If you do not set a budget and you spend, then no one will be able to see you have overspent. This is a way to program the sheep to believe that a budget is not needed. They will come to think it was always so!
exactly Marco!