Showing posts with label financial markets. Show all posts
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Friday, January 30, 2026

Stop Trump, stop ICE: Nat'l Shutdown (1/30)

NATIONAL SHUTDOWN — THIS FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2026

(Investigative Insights TV) "You have no idea about what is really happening" | Whitney Webb

Stay home. Eat sugar and watch TV. I order you. Obey me!

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

I ain't Hitler, but if I was, whaddaboutit?
The people of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul) have shown the way for the whole country: To stop Trump, ICE, and the Border Patrol’s reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT ALL DOWN.

On Friday, January 30, 2026, join a nationwide day of no school, no work, and no shopping.


ICE shot me in the face for Trump
The entire country is shocked and outraged at the brutal killings executions of Alex Pretti, Renee Good, Silverio Villegas González, and Keith Porter Jr. by federal agents under color of law.
AG Pam Bondi gets bad news: Maxwell's co-conspiracy surprise

We found a gun, kill him! Shoot, shoot!
While King Dictator Trump [Israeli blackmailed] and other right-wing politicians are slandering their victims as “domestic terrorists,” video evidence from every angle makes it clear beyond all doubt: Innocents were gunned down in broad daylight simply for exercising their First Amendment right to protest mass deportation, Nazi Gestapo tactics, and other racist policies.

Every day, ICE, Border Patrol, and other paramilitary enforcers [not to call them jackbooted thugs because that would be rude] of Trump’s racist agenda are going into our American communities to kidnap our neighbors and sow fear in us.

It is time for us to all stand up together in a nationwide shutdown and say enough is enough! More
No distasteful art, please. This is a serious strike/shutdown with no time for humor or art. M'kay?

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Thursday, August 9, 2018

What would the Buddha do: Climate change?

(Bob Hodson-Smith, Jules Wagstaff BSc PGCE, 4nobletruths.org), ; Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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What in the heaven happened to our iceberg?
After reading an essay by Rob Burbea titled “[The] Buddha and the Sacred Earth” on the DANCE website, this was written for friends in Dharma (Dhamma) concerned about inaction on climate change.

We have worked from our practical experience, study, and research to put forward a plan of action. It may also be of interest to anyone trying to understand the Buddha's wisdom. It is written in an understandable way for someone with little knowledge of Buddhist terminology. Let's look at the issue in three parts:
  1. What the Buddha knew and how it motivated him to act
  2. What he would do about the present situation
  3. What may happen if things continue the way they are
Where have all the flowers gone? Wildfires
We conclude that Prince Siddhartha Gautama, who became Shakyamuni Buddha, would indeed be motivated to act on the climate change the news reports on, assuming those reports are accurate.

We suggest he would organize and establish a means for ordinary people to walk away from the [disaster capitalist] economic system that is driving growth for its own sake and carrying on unsustainable business-as-usual.

Unfortunately, we foresee much potential for conflict as a means of "solving" [or paying for a carbon credit capitalist market to profit in the name of] the climate change problem.
 
Part One
California is burning; other states are flooding. It's "climate chaos" and chemtrails!

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Let's suppose the last Buddha Gautama (Shakyamuni, formerly Prince Siddhartha Gautama) was to appear here and now.

As an extraordinary person with a modern education who knows our history and is fully aware of the destabilization of the climate, he would be well aware of the problem and already thinking of a solution(s).

Being a buddha -- a fully awakened teacher -- he would also know the truths of existence. The Buddha was the buddha because he knew enlightenment/awakened awareness (bodhi), the knowledge of the truths of existence.

The term buddha originates from the word "awake" (budh), awake because of what he directly knew by insight.
 
So what would the Buddha do in this circumstance here and now? What was it that he knew that caused him to act in the radical (from the roots up) way he did?
 
The Buddha is linked to the Dharma, which generally refers to both the Teaching of the Way to Enlightenment and the "Laws of Nature." Human society currently acts in ways that cause real harm to the rest of nature, and this cannot be wise in Dharma. More
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Thursday, December 7, 2017

Gotta get some Bitcoin! Here's how

Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly
Bitcoin is not physical, like the trick "bit" shown here. It's only digital and a bubble.
If Bitcoin is man in black, woman in white is the new investor trying to get rich quick.
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Cash me outside, bitch, and pay me in Bit!
Get rich schemes are getting harder to come by since Internet search engines allow us to research more sides of the story than just the one that makes scammers money.

But have you seen what Bitcoin (BTC), the hot digital cryptocurrency, has been doing lately? It's volatile and has no future in its present form. But along the way from here to there, one can ride the wave of volatility and cash out ahead of the game. Set a reasonable automatic sell point.
 
I can pay you in bit. Are you on tour soon?
It's a risky game. Be prepared to lose it all. Unlike most things, Bitcoin is not a good thing to hold for the long term. Why? Banks and governments are not going to allow themselves to be undermined by an independent alternative currency. They will subvert it, much as they are currently doing by inflating this bubble.

If Bitcoin is so valuable, why are current owners trying to seduce so many new investors into the market? That's how you make money from a bubble. It's like having a poker game among friends. How are you going to get rich? Invite a bunch of nonfriends to join the "friendly" game and milk them for all their money. In this example, you are the nonfriend about to be milked yet you think you're joining a friendly game to get rich off them.

I so wanna get rich quick, I lose it all.
Ever wonder why it is suddenly so volatile? It's because it's about to be listed in normal stock markets so investors can buy futures. Bitcoin is constantly being remade, reformatted, robbed from electronic vaults (which should be impossible but apparently isn't that hard), and precariously depends on the objective Internet, subjective net access, the bitcoin network, and the WWW. One solar flare or pulse bomb, and it all goes bye bye. An investor will still have it in cyberspace but will have no way to cash it in. Ask Danielle Bregoli.

More suckers needed to join our game
It was once possible to buy one Bitcoin for 8 cents. That was a few years ago. One guy bought $600.00's worth. He forgot about them in his hard drive then threw the hard drive away -- and with it, $122,000,000.00 at current prices, depending at what time of day one sells, of course, because the price is changing hourly by thousands of dollars per coin.

How does one get rich in an investment market? "Buy low, sell high." (The trick is there's no way to know ahead of time what "low" means and when the "high" is hit; that's all guesswork). When are people going to be buying? Right now, which is high. When will they be selling? When it's low, after the bubble bursts.
 
How likely is anyone entering the market right now to get rich with Bitcoin? Not likely at all, zero percent. It violates the fundamental rule.

But then why do ads and agents keep promoting Bitcoin? That's so you can salivate, get in higher praying it'll go higher, then you'll be cleaned out when you try to divest after the plunge. They come in and clean up, you go lick your wounds and wish you hadn't mortgaged the house.

Let dana be your path to gold.
Buy gold or silver, as their value never goes to zero. Bitcoin will be supplanted by another cryptocurrency banks and governments control and regulate and treat just like the fiat currency we live under now. What's that other truism about markets? "A fool and his money are soon parted."

See, this is how they get you: by changing the subject right away. Q: "Should I buy bitcoin?" A: "Digital currencies are the future." No one's arguing whether or not digital and cryptocurrencies are sound. The question is whether the bitcoin brand is sound. There will be, there already are, alternative currencies. Like Napster, bitcoin will not be allowed to succeed or come out on top. Bitcoin is not a sacrificial lamb so much as it is a Judas goat that leads others to slaughter.

Stop making sense! I want to buy BTC anyway
Gold, being real, is the opposite of bitcoin. There is no such tangible thing as a Bitcoin.
  • Standard Exchanges (bitcoin.com) Buy bitcoin, create bitcoin wallets, read bitcoin news, and more.
  • How to buy bitcoin: A step-by-step Guide (businessinsider.com) Using the app Coinbase, we ventured to buy and sell bitcoin, the popular cryptocurrency whose cost has seen massive spikes in recent weeks.
  • How to buy Bitcoin (coinbase.com/buy-bitcoin) Coinbase [according to Coinbase] is a secure online platform [app] for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency.
  • How to buy bitcoin: A beginner's guide... (independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...) The value of bitcoin has hit a new record high of $11,850.00 [now much higher, 16-17K per BTC), and mainstream interest in the cryptocurrency has skyrocketed. 
  • How To Buy Bitcoins (howtobuybitcoins.info) Quickly discover how to buy and sell bitcoins in your local currency. Find the best rates and get streaming price quotes across bitcoin exchanges everywhere! 
  • How to buy Bitcoin and Ethereum (mashable.com)
  • Basics for Buying and Investing in Bitcoin (investopedia.com) Bitcoin (BTC) is a decentralized cryptocurrency payment system designed by Satoshi Nakamoto. The software-based currency was released to the public in 2009. Since then, updates and improvements have been made by a network of developers, partially funded by the Bitcoin Foundation... 
  • Buy - Bitcoin (bitcoin.org/en/buy) Discover people selling Bitcoin in your community. "Local Bitcoins" lets you search and browse through various sellers of Bitcoin in your area. Sellers have reviews and feedback scores to help you choose [sucker].
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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Son of Buddhist priest invented Bitcoin (video)

Bitcoin is formless money, dependent on online networks and trading (technolovia.com)
  
Zen ensō (etsy.com)
According to today's issue of Newsweek, Satoshi Nakamoto is...Satoshi Nakamoto. The anonymous inventor of bitcoin -- an online-only virtual currency independent of any country or government now worth about $600 dollars (US) each -- is a 64-year-old Japanese-American.

Exposed by Leah McGrath Goodman
He is a former defense contractor living with his mother in a modest Temple City, California suburban home. He is worth at least 600 million dollars, but he is our neighbor: Temple City, which is largely Asian, is next to Pasadena in the foothills of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley; it is anything but fancy squeezed as it is between Alhambra and Arcadia (of "Joan of Arcadia" fame), next to one of the toniest places in the country to live: San Marino.
 
(mag.newsweek.com)
According to the article, "He is someone with a penchant for collecting model trains and a career shrouded in secrecy, having done classified work for major corporations and the U.S. military." 

"Nakamoto's family describe him as extremely intelligent, moody, and obsessively private -- a man of few words who screens his phone calls, anonymizes his emails and, for most of his life, has been preoccupied with the two things for which bitcoin has now become known: money and secrecy."

Mega corporations serve the US government
The article quotes him as responding when asked about Bitcoin, "I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it... It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection." He may now have to move and hire round-the-clock security for his own protection [assuming he wasn't working for the CIA, a military ("defense") contractor, or other quasi-government agency when he created the currency, in which case they will probably provide him protection free, we imagine].

Bitcoin
Bitcoin is virtual not actual "coins"
If he father was Japanese and a "Buddhist priest," that means he was Zen. Like father like eldest son? As a "defense contractor" doing "classified work," we can only assume he is a clandestine operative for the military-industrial complex.

NSA files decoded (Guardian.co.uk)
So good luck with trading those ones and zeros; they should go much higher before settling and crashing, like other secret agent projects -- Google, Facebook, Apple -- which have seen major boosts to and stabilizations of their stock prices (read "elimination of any serious competition") due to their profitable affiliation with the CIA, FBI, NSA/DHS and/or other arms of the secret US government.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

World markets slide as gov'ts struggle to stem panic


PHOTOS. A Chinese investor at a stock price board at a private security firm in Shanghai on October 6. World stock markets have plummeted, striking four-year lows, as panic-stricken investors doubted whether a Wall Street bailout package would stem the global financial crisis (AFP/Mark Ralston).

TOKYO (AFP) -- World stock markets plunged again Tuesday as the global financial crisis deepened, with governments taking emergency measures to shore up confidence but failing to stem the panic.

Markets in Asia opened sharply down, with shares in Tokyo falling more than five percent at one point, a day after a global rout saw New York's Dow Jones Industrial Average fall below 10,000 points for the first time since 2004.

In Washington, Treasury officials said they would act quickly to implement a massive bailout plan for the financial sector, seeking bids by Wednesday to manage the troubled mortgage-related assets at the root of the crisis.

The Federal Reserve and Treasury said they were studying the possibility of making unsecured loans in an effort to keep much-needed credit flowing.

In Europe, finance ministers were to begin preparing their first joint measure Tuesday to reassure nervous savers by ramping up minimum bank deposit guarantees.

In a joint declaration Monday they pledged to protect the stability of financial institutions by providing "liquidity support through central banks, action to deal with individual banks or enhanced depositor protection schemes."

The Luxembourg meeting could produce the first joint European response to the financial crisis in the form of a plan to lift minimum bank deposit guarantees to as much as 100,000 euros (135,000 dollars).

"We will all take the necessary measures to ensure the stability of the financial system," said Jean-Claude Juncker, who heads the group of finance ministers from the 15 countries that share the euro.

Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, said the ECB would keep injecting money into the banking system "as long as necessary" to help institutions hit by the current crisis.

The Federal Reserve meanwhile said it would start to pay interest on bank deposits and expand bank loans to up to 900 billion dollars by year-end in a bid to increase liquidity.

President George W. Bush visited a group of small business owners in Texas, saying he understood the difficulties being faced by the car dealer, auto shop repair owner and restaurateurs he had met.

"It's clear they're dealing with the effects of a credit crunch," Bush said. "They're having trouble getting money to be able to continue to expand their business or money to help their consumers be able to buy their products."

The turmoil emerged after the collapse of loans to would-be US homebuyers with shaky credit histories and caused a chaotic chain reaction, revealing how cheap credit throughout the financial system had created a massive bubble.

The US government approved a law Friday to buy up 700 billion dollars of bad mortgages and other assets from banks, which would wipe the debts from their books in hopes they will be able to start lending more freely again.

But approval of the massive bailout plan has failed to calm world markets, which have continued to tumble sharply. Economist Peter Morici at the University of Maryland said the bailout had not worked.

"The bank bailout will provide banks with much-needed liquidity but it does not address the compensation and management practices on Wall Street that drove irresponsible decisions and gave rise to the crisis," he said.

Shares in Tokyo were down 3.10% at the end of the morning session Tuesday, recovering some of the Nikkei's losses earlier in the session.

On Monday, Wall Street came back from the edge, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing down 3.58%, off 369 points after losing as much as 800 points.

The partial comeback offered a glimmer of hope on an otherwise horrific day for global markets that saw London's FTSE 100 index fall 7.86% and Paris's CAC 40 shed 9.04%.

Shares in Moscow fell 19.10%, the market's worst-ever tumble.

"When will the slide end? It's anybody's guess," said David Kastner at Charles Schwab & Co.

"But the aggressive actions being taken by the Fed, and increasingly by the central bankers in Europe and Asia, point to an eventual stabilization in confidence -- where the real crisis lies. In the meantime, we expect sharp bouts of bargain hunting and more panic sell-offs."

In Iceland, Prime Minister Geir Haarde said the government was ready to take control of the country's banks, citing "a gargantuan crisis which is part of a broader worldwide crisis."

After a weekend summit of the European Union's big four leaders in Paris, member states' leaders issued a joint statement on Monday vowing to defend banks while remaining divided on a US-style bailout fund.

The turbulence pushed the euro down against the dollar and yen, while oil prices fell below 90 dollars a barrel on fears about slowing demand for energy.
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