Samson,

The point is that no one is safe from the whims of the power elite. Tiger Woods, Martha Stewart, Bill Gates, Michael Milken... their money and fame did not save them. Messages were given, points made.

Quite an inscrutable article. Many facets (even memes, perhaps).

Perhaps DB could offer a course in Perceiving the Underlying Meme; this would be of immeasurable value to all 'us' very sincere DB truth-seekers, while at the same time helping reinstate the lost Art of Click to view linkprehension.

We could really use some help, though, so as the VERY BEST in the business, we turn to you..so

Whatdoyousay DB? :)

[Heck, I'd sign up in a NY minute!]

TIMUR the GREAT.

Right on Bucko. Generally i'm in DB'S column, but they know
better. Am sure they will resist this subject in the future.

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We are not responsible for the individual views of our columnists.

You pays your money and you takes your chances!! Fitts must be among the moneyed priveledged. To use Tiger,$billionaire, as the focal for walking through the valley of death, is so out of touch with the reality of those with several children, whose home has been foreclosed, and now have just received their pink
slip. Yes, times are harsh, and will increase in severity after Jan 1, 2013.
Certainly Fitts & Tiger have no worry, are not walking in the valley of death.
They will just board their $300 million yachts & sail away to Cannes or Monaco ntil the clouds brighten 10-15 years from now.

Timur:

Four days with the Treasury free to spend and buy under national emergency powers with unencumbered clearing systems and lower Manhattan depositories.

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And it then sets the stage for radical action by the Administration on climate change.

You think it was just a natural event? I don't.

@Click to view link

(1) fight versus (2) flight

The globalists have eliminated flight, they can get you anywhere you may run. That leaves ?, as your ONLY choice.

unless, of course, you do not perceive a problem (and, therefore choices), and are content to wait your turn for YOUR life and property to be harvested. First they came for the...

Let it roll over like a wave.

As a surfer it depends on where you are situated in relation to the wave. If you have paddled past the surf break you just sit calmly on your board and rise and fall with the wave. If you are paddling well before the surf break you use the energy of the sucking force of the wave to gain as much momentum as possible and then grab the nose of the board just before it hits you and dive as deep as you are able and try to ride with the sucking current under the wave to push yourself up on the other side. If you are in the surf break and the wave is coming and it is big you have 3 options:
1. Paddle like mad towards the wave and hope you make it over the top before it crashes.

2. Paddle like mad towards the shore and hope that you are well before the surf break and ride the foam into shore.

3. Fail in either of these first two options because you failed to see the signs, waited too long to make a decision or did nothing because you were paralyzed with fear, then you are at the mercy of turbulent kinetic energy. It will crash on you with tremendous force, flip you around multiple times and twist you in different directions at once so you have no idea what is up or down until it slams you into the bottom and drags you along until it chaotic energy is spent. Hopefully you are still alive when it is finished with you.

@ DB
" Timur is usually a pretty good guy... "

Thank you. And on the topic of the 'internet reformation' and recent posts by yours truly it occurs to me that putting out information and opinions is certainly valuable but it is the challenges of such and ensuing dialogue that makes it jell.

Not just for the participants but also for the lurkers. It is no time to be thin skinned. Sycophancy is a human malaise. We are arguably in a life or death (by a thousand cuts) situation. Godspeed...

Oh, and Russia too for MaRussia too, would be Sterling Stirling Service delivered.

Yeah, Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, ur2die4 ... . is a Post Modern Epic Colossus of AIMagical Mystery Turing Journey into NEUKlearer HyperRadioProActive ITERated Realms of SMARTR ProgramMING.

And IT has acres of space and unbelievable wealth for everyone. It is but a simple matter which tunes one to turn on to virtually tune programs to turn on alternate realities/staged pretexted actualities ... .. for Bigger Stage Pictures Presentations of Cosmic Future Global Scenarios.

Which is what we do here, Tonto, is it not?

It would be nice to see all of the above accurately transcribed to convey its embracing semantic content to SMARTR ProgramMING Sourcerers and Sorcerists in China and Japan.

@ libertyjones

Misogynist? No more than anyone who might disagree with me might be accused of misandry. I don't know what I might have written to give that impression. I am gender neutral with things I disagree with, an equal opportunity grouch if you will...

Cheers-

Timur you come across to me as a misogynist. Thought you might want that feedback just in case it really isn't true.

@ CatherinAustin

Thank you for your post. I apologize if some offense was taken for it was not my intention. I write as the mood hits me and perhaps I was over-inundated with what I felt were ongoing sob stories with respect to Sandy.

I read a lot of history and it has left me with the impression that mankind's saga has been one of experiencing catastrophic events with some regularity both natural and man-made. It always impresses me on how people are able to overcome adversity many magnitudes greater than fallen trees, gas rationing and power outages. It seems to me that a re-generation takes place and people actually become stronger and more appreciative of things that they once took for granted.

I once had the experience of listening to a lady who survived the torpedoing of the Wilhelm Gustloff which I believe still represents the highest loss of life in naval history. She was on board with her two infant children and after the sinking they ended up clinging to some flotsam when her children could no longer hold on and slipped beneath the waves right in front of her.

When asked how she could go on after this experience she assumed a stoic manner and replied that one of duties in this human experience is to summon reserves of strength and go forward, ever forward. She re-married ( having also lost her husband in the war) had a family and never suffered debilitating symptoms from these tragedies.

I feel that it might be a 'meme' , (this site's specialty) to over hype tragedy and despair and thereby undermine the reserves of strength that people and societies possess. The rugged individualism that Americans normally pride themselves with seems to be subordinated in the current reportage.

I don't know why you mentioned lawlessness in the context that I may have endorsed it. My post was provocative but sometimes that is the best way to create dialogue, the old thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis of Hegelian fame.

How you conclude from my post that you have experienced far more danger, violence and hard times than I have I suppose will have to remain one of those unsolved mysteries for you know nothing about me or my travels.

And, yes, my handle is well deserved, especially through the epic poem by Edgar Allen Poe.

With kind regards,

TTL

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Timur is usually a pretty good guy ...

Regarding Tiger Woods:

He was a PR meme, projecting an illusion of approved "values", part of the circus aspect of rule by "bread and circuses". He made the "mistake" of falling for human fallibility, detracting from the illusion of godlike perfection that elites demand from their figureheads "blessed" with success. So, elites withdrew their support, refused to trade with a flawed "asset", providing the illusion of TW's destruction, when in reality, he was rejected as a trading partner, as elites look for better "model citizens", for the sheeple to admire, emulate and live vacariously through by second-hand success. I am sure that TW believes it was all about golf excellence and, how can you lose when you are still excellent?, a very puzzling state of affairs. But, excellence in golf was not what TW was trading. When his "utility" as a PR meme ended, he took on another role, a demonstration that elites can make or break you IF YOU ARE SO FOOLISH AS TO PLAY THEIR GAME, TRADE WITH THEM.

CAF: "a fellow who used to work for the CIA in covert operations turned up and professed to give advice."

Same here, these folks are everywhere, center of manipulative spider webs. Listen to their "advice", at the expense of your own counsel and, you have basically CHOSEN not to THINK:

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I won't go into the advice I received, because, like Catherine, until the environmental truth of your situation sinks in and, is seriously pondered, any "advice" appears meaningless, out of context.

Part of what I was told what was presented as "FACT": "The shots I have fired are resonating throughout the planet and will continue, for all of history". Positive feedback is occuring. Since this is "what I wanted to hear", I remain skeptical.

As to civilization, it is merely "the rules by which we peacefully cooperate for MUTUAL self-interest". Remove MUTUAL and, you remove civilization. Then human affairs degenerates to "war of all, against all". Defined by complete absence of the "rule of law":

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The storm degraded common infrastructure which people (by habit) depend on for survival, a survival hit. Since survival is a choice and choices were reduced by storm damage, people were forced to re-evaluate choices of survival which always are, have been and will remain: force, fraud and honest, mutually agreed (civilized, peaceful) trade. The crime and violent response is a measure of how well civilizaed values (and ability to correctly choose) have been indoctrinated away (by elite subversions) in the general populace.

Correct CHOICE is EVERYTHING:

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.. you tell 'em, Catherine! .. :).. you and Paul Craig Roberts are personal favorites of mine - keep well.

@ camidga;
If you left click on the URL, it fails to open.
If you right click on it, you will see a small window that gives you options.
Click on "open in new tab/window"

Catherine,

Please continue to be the tremendously insightful and important voice you have been during the last decade (and more), during which time I have been a great fan of your vision of true community (not some fake communitarianism) as the basis for fundamental change toward a more robust and civil society.

I believe that true community, both physical and virtual, is part of the answer for withstanding and overcoming the storms, be they "natural", political, financial, or otherwise. A contrast in overcoming natural disasters was Katrina and New Orleans (there appeared to be little true community-level response from that town, although the region stepped in to absorb the diplaced population into other communities), compared to the devastating Midwestern floods that followed Katrina several years ago (where rural towns and small cities worked together to heal from that trauma).

By the way, as an avid bodysurfer and former Naval officer, I understand your wave analogy to riding out the storm as particularly fitting, at the personal, local, and regional levels.

Illegitimi non carborundum.

Dimitri:

Decade Long Storm:

See:

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Timur the Lame:

I live in HIckory Valley Tennessee, a farming community with a population of app. 150. No beauty shops or manicurists.

I am confident from reading your post that I have personally dealt with far more danger, violence and hard times than you could fathom and worked much harder as well.

However, in my book no amount of personal overcoming and hard work is a justification for bad manners and ignorance. We either create civilization or we destroy it. With each small word and act.

Lawlessness is not ok. Lots of lawlessness going on does not make it ok either.

Sir, your handle is well deserved.

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Ouch.

My god, what a bunch of useless weaklings!. Tiger Woods analogy, how American. Less than a hundred dead out of an affected population of what, 50 million?

Try surviving the holocaust of WW2, entire cities flattened by bombs and artillery. For the people of Eastern Europe it was month after month keeping ahead of the red army as much as horse transport would allow. Many of the lucky ones who survived emigrated to North America, took on employment, started businesses raised families, never had 'issues' with the trauma they had lived through. They became law abiding , tax paying citizens and though a work ethic built communities, and became staunch patriots of their newly adopted countries.

This article literally wants to make me retch on how feeble people have become and the need for them to be mollycoddled by that last glorious sentence. Ms, Fitts, come down to my farm and split wood with me for half a day.

Your manicurist ( who I am sure is still traumatized by Sandy) will appreciate the extra income. And you might hopefully learn what it takes to do real work and not bemoan a fallen billionaire who smacks a little ball around a
cultured lawn as his vocation.

I am curious, is this helplessness and undue sympathy a meme? If so, did the DB get caught in a reversal?

If it Fitts, you must acquit- Ha!

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No need to be so personal when making your points. It detracts from your argument.

amanfromMars,
can't view your link. please tell me that's not the point & I failed the test! Love trying to figure your verbiage!