Heute habe ich ein beeindruckendes Foto vom Studienzentrum der Anna-Amalia-Bibliothek in Weimar bei der fotocommunity.de entdeckt. Der Fotograf ist Edgar2.

via Foto Bücherkubus – Bild von Edgar2 aus Architektur – Fotografie (18872702) – fotocommunity.de.

Federal Reserve Assuring Great Depression
Another Weimar, Argentina or Zimbabwe hyperinflation collapse is coming. . . unless we End the Fed!

Federal Reserve Copies Weimar Hyperinflation

Restava agora o apelo ao Presidente Wilson, cujos 14 pontos que propunha, como forma de criar após a guerra um estado de harmonia entre as nações, encorajava a esperança de que a Alemanha derrotada seria tratada com dignidade e compreensão.

A pretensão alemã não sensibilizou nem os aliados, nem ao próprio Wilson, que respondeu dizendo que competia aos aliados fixar os termos do armistício.

O corredor ficava mais estreito e mais escuro para os alemães. O flanco ficou ainda mais vulnerável quando o Império Austro-húngaro rendeu-se aos aliados, deixando a Alemanha sozinha para prosseguir a guerra.

O governo alemão agora não podia mais voltar atrás no seu pedido de armistício: 

Restava agora o apelo ao Presidente Wilson, cujos 14 pontos que propunha, como forma de criar após a guerra um estado de harmonia entre as nações, encorajava a esperança de que a Alemanha derrotada seria tratada com dignidade e compreensão.

A pretensão alemã não sensibilizou nem os aliados, nem ao próprio Wilson, que respondeu dizendo que competia aos aliados fixar os termos do armistício.

O corredor ficava mais estreito e mais escuro para os alemães. O flanco ficou ainda mais vulnerável quando o Império Austro-húngaro rendeu-se aos aliados, deixando a Alemanha sozinha para prosseguir a guerra.

O governo alemão agora não podia mais voltar atrás no seu pedido de armistício:

(Continua): República de Weimar 1918-1933 (II) nov 2009

Fonte: Site Política para Políticos

Klappentext:
Ein toter Nobelpreiskandidat und eine verstümmelte Leiche in einem Stockholmer Freizeitpark – haben sie etwas miteinander zu tun? Fieberhaft suchen die Sonderermittler um Paul Hjelm und Kerstin Holm nach dem Verbindungsglied in einer bizarren Mordserie. Der Fall führt sie durch halb Europa bis hin zu einem monströsen Verbrechen vor langer Zeit.

Inhalt:
Wo ist der Zusammenhang zwischen dem bestialischen Mord an einem international agierenden Zuhälter, der in Skansen – einem Zoo in Stockholm – den Vielfraßen zum Fraß vorgeworfen wurde und dem Mord an einem 90jährigen Gehirnforscher und Nobelpreiskandidat, der aufgehängt an einem Baum auf dem jüdischen Friedhof gefunden wird? Paul Hjelm und Kerstin Holm, Ermittler bei der A-Gruppe, einer Spezialeinheit der schwedischen Kriminalpolizei – die Verbrechen von internationalen Charakter auflösen, machen sich mit ihren Kollegen an die Arbeit das Rätsel zu lösen. Erst der Mord an einem Kleinkriminellen in der Stockholmer U-Bahn, der kaltblütig von einer Frau zusammengeschlagen und auf die Gleise geworfen wurde, bringt sie auf eine erste Spur. Diese Spur führt sie durch halb Europa und das was sie herausfinden schockiert sie zu tiefst…

Meinung:
Arne Dahls “Tiefer Schmerz” ist der vierte Band um die A-Gruppe, einer Spezialeinheit der schwedischen Polizei. Wie auch seine Vorgängerromane brilliert er durch temporeiches erzählen und den verschiedenen Handlungssträngen. Auch die derbe und heftige Art der Beschreibung einzelner Szenen ist wiederum vorhanden. Arne Dahl wirft auch in diesem Krimi um Paul Hjelm und Kerstin Holm wieder einen kritischen Blick auf die schwedische Gesellschaft und scheut auch nicht davor zurück der Gesellschaft den Spiegel vorzuhalten.
Nicht nur das kritische fasziniert einen, sondern auch das er die einzelnen Charakter immer deutlicher darstellt. Sei es Hultin, den alten Chef der A-Gruppe, mit seinen Gedächtnisproblemen oder Waldemar Mörner, der Polizeidirektor, mit seinem Hang zur Überheblichkeit und Selbstdarstellung. Die einzelnen Charaktere gewinnen immer mehr an Konturen und kommen so dem Leser näher.
Ein spannendes Buch mit vielen Handlungssträngen, die sich zum Ende hin auflösen. Empfehlenswert!

Buchinfo:
Arne Dahl: Tiefer Schmerz (Europa Blues)
Taschenbuch: 416 Seiten
Piper 2006
ISBN-13: 978-3492246972

A derrota militar da Alemanha e o nascimento da república de Weimar

Costuma-se denominar República de Weimar o regime político republicano e democrático que sucedeu o Império Germânico de Guilherme II.
A república de Weimar, e sua modelar constituição democrática, estão demarcadas por duas tragédias: seu nascimento por ocasião de sua derrota na I Guerra Mundial (1918), e sua morte pela conquista nazista do poder (1933).
O estado maior do exército alemão (liderado pelo velho Marechal Hindenburg e pelo General Luddendorf) insistia com o governo civil para fazer a paz. Alertava com muita ênfase que não tinham mais condições de manter a guerra, e que não dispunham mais das forças indispensáveis para defender o território alemão de uma invasão.
Mas o faziam em privado.
Publicamente continuavam mantendo as aparências de um exército em combate, e em condições de vencer a guerra, ou de pelo menos proteger o território alemão.
O príncipe Max de Baden assumiu o governo alemão confiante na palavra pública dos militares. Foi surpreendido quando foi informado por Ludendorff que: (Continua): A derrota militar da Alemanha e o nascimento da república de Weimar

Fonte: Site Política para políticos

OBS: Continua amanhã.

November 7th was the most amazing day for a bridal session… gorgeous weather, no wind, and an absolutely gorgeous bride!  I traveled way out in the country to the farm of the groom’s grandparents… a place where he spent a LOT of time when he was growing up and both he and Hillary love that place.  They had planned to have their wedding reception there on the 21st but mother nature had other plans… so the reception was moved indoors in Columbus.  I’m so glad we were able to get some great bridals out there.  We thought about going out there after their church wedding ceremony to get some shots since the reception couldn’t be held there but there was MUD everywhere… We did get to do some shots around Weimar at some cool places, though…. I’ll post those later!

Hallo ihr alle!

Es tut mir wirklich Leid, dass es so lange her ist seit ich mich auf mein Blog gemeldet habe! Aber, meine Abwesenheit war nicht umsonst – seit die letzte Aktualisierung, habe ich endlich mein Masterarbeit fertig gemacht! Meiner Meinung nach, hat es doch sehr lang gedauert, denn ich arbeitete jetzt seit über einem Jahr darauf. Mit circa 120 Seiten und fünf Kapitel, ist es jetzt (so weit wie ich weiß) komplett, und trägt dem Titel “The Travelling Lens: Munkácsi’s Travel Reportages and Weimar Identity.” Meine Verteidigung findet nächsten Donnerstag statt, und ich bereite mich immer noch vor. Ich werde mich danach wieder melden, ob ich erfolgreich war!

Manifesto Bauhaus:

“O fim último de toda a actividade plástica é a construção. Adorná-la era, outrora, a tarefa mais nobre das artes plásticas, componentes inseparáveis da magna arquitetura. Hoje elas se encontram numa situação de auto-suficiência singular, da qual só se libertarão através da consciente atuação conjunta e coordenada de todos os profissionais. Arquitectos, pintores e escultores devem novamente chegar a conhecer e compreender a estrutura multiforme da construção em seu todo e em suas partes; só então suas obras estarão outra vez plenas de espírito arquitetônico que se perdeu na arte de salão.
As antigas escolas de arte foram incapazes de criar essa unidade, e como poderiam, visto ser a arte coisa que não se ensina? Elas devem voltar a ser oficinas. Esse mundo de desenhistas e artistas deve, por fim, tornar a orientar-se para a construção. Quando o jovem que sente amor pela atividade plástica começar como antigamente, pela aprendizagem de um ofício, o “artista” improdutivo não ficará condenado futuramente ao incompleto exercício da arte, uma vez que sua habilidade fica conservada para a atividade artesanal, onde pode prestar excelentes serviços.
Arquitetos, escultores, pintores, todos devemos retornar ao artesanato, pois não existe “arte por profissão”. Não há nenhuma diferença essencial entre artista e artesão, o artista é uma elevação do artesão, a graça divina, em raros momentos de luz que estão além de sua vontade, faz florescer inconscientemente obras de arte, entretanto, a base do “saber fazer” é indispensável para todo artista. Aí se encontra a fonte de criação artística.
Formemos, portanto, uma nova corporação de artesãos, sem a arrogância exclusivista que criava um muro de orgulho entre artesãos e artistas. Desejemos, inventemos, criemos juntos a nova construção do futuro, que enfeixará tudo numa única forma: arquitetura, escultura e pintura que, feita por milhões de mãos de artesãos, se alçará um dia aos céus, como símbolo cristalino de uma nova fé vindoura.”

Walter Gropius

Weimar, Abril de 1919.

Hitler speaking in the Reichstag

We’re all familiar with the phrase. Democracies allow so much freedom that anti-democratic forces can develop inside of them and ultimately destroy them from within, using the very tools that make democracy what it is (freedom of speech and association, elections etc.). The archetypal case is, of course, the Weimar Republic of pre-WWII Germany (although one can claim that Weimar wasn’t really a democracy and Hitler’s rise to power didn’t occur through purely democratic means). The democratic destruction of democracy is also, misleadingly, called the self-destruction of democracy, as if it is the democracy as a whole rather than an abusive part of it that causes the destruction.

However, I also have a problem with the phrase ”democratic destruction of democracy”. There is, after all, nothing democratic about the abuse of democracy by anti-democratic forces trying to get elected with the sole purpose of ending all future elections. Their actions may be democratic in the strictly legal sense, but not in the moral or philosophical sense.

I believe the “democratic destruction of democracy” means something else. Most people, and even those who care about democracy and are willing to die in its defense, view one of its basic characteristics – the plurality of opinion – as a suboptimal state of affairs, and something to be overcome. We all believe strongly in certain opinions, and we may even consider those opinions to be more than mere opinions. In other words, we make truth claims about our opinions. That means that we believe that other people, who have adopted other opinions, are wrong, mistaken. We want to convince them, but that means that we want to eliminate the plurality of opposing opinions. It also means that we want to abolish democracy, because it’s impossible to imagine a democracy in a world of unanimity.

Paradoxically, the most typical democratic activity – persuasion – has the objective of ending democracy. I wouldn’t call it a “destruction”, because the end of democracy is a byproduct, not a conscious goal. Of course, this democratic (let’s call it) termination of democracy is possible only through persuasion, and by the looks of it, that’s not a very sharp tool. Hence the termination is still a rather abstract and long-term possibility. The undemocratic termination of democracy does not suffer from tool-limitation, and is therefore a much less theoretical possibility.

This undemocratic termination can occur inside or outside of democracy, with the tools offered by democracy or with other tools. Anti-democrats can decide to try to get elected, or they can stage a coup. Or whatever. Common to many anti-democrats is impatience with persuasion. Some are motivated simply by power or money, but many believe that the “democratic masses” just can’t see the light and are immune to even the best arguments. Instead of persuasion, the impatient anti-democrats are led to believe that imposition of a worldview is the only remedy for error and mistake. Re-education camps are quick to follow, and extermination camps for those for whom even persuasion in the form of re-education is impossible.

… o que podemos invertarnos para hacer una fiestas y ponernos tibios de cerveza y carnaza.

Esta entrada viene con un poco de retraso.  Hace un mes se nos casó la Piku en Weimar!!!!.  La ceremonia minimalista, cuatro y el gato de las que a mi me gustan… eso de cabar fumandose un puro reseco con la corbata en la cabeza y un cubata en la mano no es lo mio.

Tras la comida fuimos a visitar la ciudad de Weimar.  La ciudad me encantó.  Los parques son tremendos, enormes, vamos, creo que el Amazonas puede caber 10 veces dentro de uno de los parques de Weimar.

Weimar es conocido por los Weimaraner, por Göthe, por los Gingkos…. y por la fiesta de la cebolla. Tuvimos la suerte de estar alli para asistir a tal evento.

Soy de los que piensa que la cocina alemana no tiene nada de especial, pero me encanta comer en Alemania, especialmente en invierno. Esas carnazas, esos codillazos, esos muslamenes de cerdo hervidos, a la brasa, regados con unas cervezas de la zona, es de lo mejorcito que hay, para resucitar muertos y tumbar a los más vivos.

Pues en la fiesta de la cebolla, la ciudad se llena de puestos, generalmente adornados con cebollas, venden de todo, cosas mediavales, comida, bebidas, cebollas… en cada plaza hay un grupo tocando, con lo que lo interesante es ir paseando bebiendo y comiendo.

Hizo un frio del carajisimo, 2 grados en Octubre, que para un valenciano como yo fue como caer de culo sobre un iceberg en el Ártico.

Lo pasamos muy bien sobre todo porque nos reunimos toda la familia, padres y hermanos lo cual viene a ser como la alineación de los planetas, “una vez cada mil millones de años”.

Pilacha y Konrad se portaron genial lo organizaron todo estupendamente y nos cuidaron todo el rato.

Besos chermaneta!, ahia, abrigáte oh! que allí hace un frio que maemiia!

The other day, I was fortunate enough to have a FABULOUS new Twitter friend retweet the link to my post on Carl Jung’s Red Book . This new Twitter friend, @roundmyskull, just so happens to have an amazingly overstimulating blog devoted to the treasures of “forgotten literature.” There, I discovered that, in German, “blickfang” means “eye-catcher,” and it is part of the title of a fabulous collection of thousands of book cover designs from Weimar Berlin, from 1919-1933. (Click HERE for a link to the book)

All images below have been graciously borrowed from the highly seductive blog, A Journey Round My Skull. I majorly encourage you to visit the blog… and the STELLAR Flickr stream. You’ll spend HOURS…

Bang bang club, Dead chickens, Rauch Haus, names of Berlin clubs featured in a Guardian article about the cultural life of that city. Suggestive of the world of artistic communities, squats, alternative radical life styles & night life near the line of the Berlin Wall, the very names fire the imagination.

Berlin is a city of discontinuities, haunted by a history of oppressive regimes, be they Wilhelmine, Nazi or Communist. For me, yet to go there, it is a series of disjointed images that come to mind; bombastic Prussian civic architecture, the sinister ceremonial of Hitler’s Third Reich, the blackened ruins of 1945, drab Cold War tensions epitomised by the Wall & the new capital city that has emerged since 1989. When I think of Berlin it is moving images that come to mind rather than the iconic city stills represented by the Eifel Tower, Big Ben or the Statue of Liberty.

What fascinates most of all is the Berlin of the Weimar years from 1919 to 1933, when the city saw a hysterical explosion of creative expression & artistic freedom. I think of the paintings of Otto Dix that capture the meeting of the broken flesh of Prussian militarism & capitalism with the new order of free experimentation. The fluid sexualities of Caberet come to mind as does the 1920’s film People on Sundays, so evocative of that brief playtime.

The twentieth anniversary of the fall of the wall & of reunification has provoked a tide of reminiscence & heated exchanges as to whether the city has now lost the special atmosphere it had around that time. The resultant creativity that accompanied the tension in the meeting of  a desire for freedom with state oppression & that followed its release, is unlikely to have been sustained over two decades.

Berlin is a city that invites exploration of the human psyche with its mixture of good & evil, not just as it is found in individuals but in communities & societies. It is place where such things have been given physical expression, be it in the out working of  destructive political philosophies, in high art & musical expression or in an imaginative & lively night life.

by Roger Wiegand, Editor Trader Tracks
Originally posted Sep 22, 2009

HALLUCINATORY, FANCIFUL, MAKE-BELIEVE government policies and supporting media hype will fool the Sheeple for only so long. New York Banksters and their Washington, D.C. partners in crime are losing a grip. In our weirdest imagination we could not fathom the socialist-commie-bent Obama Gang gaining control let alone being elected. Now the incomprehensible is a fact. The non-existent vision has become real. This outrageous, preposterous, unjustifiable nonsense has become our daily rule. We cannot imagine what comes next.

The American presidency has been reduced to one of being cartoonishly rough, crude, unpolished, and coarse. Our reliable foreign partners are skittish. There is no plan and no direction. As economic danger mounts and fiscal discipline is tossed out a closing window, this ad-libbed presidency, flying by the seat of its torn bankrupt pants is on a Weimar monetary collision of revolution and destruction.

Their alleged reasoning is poisoning trade relations, making new enemies of old friends and encouraging global criminals and dictators of all stripes. Our meandering leadership with fanciful blurred visions of Utopia will soon learn harsh lessons in an attempt to repudiate massive debts through inflation. We had a terrifying near miss in 1987 with a market’s biblical moment. That one horrified briefly. The next one will be a year’s long nightmare of legendary, unimaginable proportions.

This isn’t just FDR revisited. This is FDR to the 10th power with a toxic mix of our worst economic disasters in a re-run. Pick the top ten economic mistakes of the last 50 years and we are repeating them all-right now. Coupled with an empty leadership vacuum, anything can happen; and probably will.

I wondered aloud numerous times over past months that all this noxious action was part of some diabolical plan to destroy the  United States from within by Judas political  enemies of the state. In some ways it’s even worse than that – it’s a naked grab for power.

A new theory, of which I have recently learned, is this: These people are not concerned with any outcome either positive or negative. They are not concerned with the rich or the poor. Destruction of America and its international neighbors and friends is just collateral damage on a magnificently stupid path to grab power.

Big corporations and banks have been the closet directors behind Obama’s Throne just as with other presidents. America’s Sheeple, tax money, retirement funds, freedom, liberty, way of life, and the very future of this beautiful nation are mere impediments to gaining complete and final control of America. Hence the hip-attached, world-wide political and economic system so dependent on the U.S goes down, too. Globalists have one dream: to make us all live under the same umbrella of one ruler. To achieve this goal, they must first get past 10 to 20 million angry US men with guns. We say they might give it a go but would vanish into the mist of revolution if they try it.

With Obama puppets at their beck and call, advancement of the One-Worlder’s agenda has moved forward ten years in only six months. Our nation and our world will suffer the consequences. The instigators after a very brief spate of glory shall suffer something far worse. This is history. This is the way of the world. The rude aftermath takes down these enemies of the state by those vastly underestimated. This will be their ultimate demise. Meanwhile, a majority of the innocents are economically and perhaps personally run-over for just existing and being in the way. Sadly, this group contains single mothers, children, the poor and the elderly.

What’s Ahead
The US Government owns controlling interest in the banks, auto companies, credit, and American real estate. They are the only employer offering jobs in any volume as the rest of our nation sinks into retraction, cutbacks, saves pennies, spends nothing and fends for scraps. Unemployment is skyrocketing and will not be stopped for years. Roughly 50% or less of the real damage in phony statistics is acknowledged. If the truth were known, we suspect insurrection would be immediate. Read this:

Cash-for-clunkers was a clunker that ripped-off the auto dealers, and smothered the poor by taking away paid-for but still running old cars and trucks. Now buyer’s remorse has settled in and these folks are stuck with years of new vehicle payments they cannot afford. Further, instead of $1 Billion, Cash-For-Clunkers cost $3 billion and still counting.

The next wave of real estate foreclosures hits in the second quarter of 2010. Coupled with that one we see massive commercial loan foreclosures and failures on paper held by large insurance companies. If you think AIG was fun, watch what comes next spring for those unfortunate insurers thinking they had real estate income for years. Fannie and Freddie, the mortgage buyers of last resort are BK but still purchasing (on paper) billions of new mortgages handing out $8,000 buyer credits to build the next bubble. We’re not over the last one yet and they’re busy creating even more new havoc. These jokers finance 2/3rd’s of USA mortgages and they are broke.

Retail in 2010-2012 is a holocaust. Only a handful of the national chains can survive. The moms and pops are destroyed as Big Box and intermediate-sized retailers drop like flies. General Growth owned over 100 big malls and went BK to the tune of $27 Billion. Competitor Simon Properties is bottom-feeding through their BK mall wreckage for viable gems. We say they are too early and Simon had better have lots of cash or they are toast, too. With the internet, brick and mortar retail for the most part is passe’. Retail got whacked first with competing internet sales then the depression. Now, we go back to small towns and small neighborhood stores who shuffle for nickels and dimes. While this can be a life-style game-changer, for many in small towns life goes on as usual-not all too bad.

The Big Banks are not healed. They just buried 90% of their toxic debt and pretend it’s gone away. It has not gone away and will rear its ugly head again when these Banksters need-demand TARP II, and they can’t get it. More and more people are dropping out of the system providing for themselves; rejecting old paradigms. Small banks cannot compete and big banks are only out of the woods temporarily. Banking is not the place to be for a future. Now the government wants to set wage scales for bankers.

Foreign investors are running from US investments to shed dollars, bonds and notes. For the shorter term they appear to be back “in the game.” This too, is only temporary as investors frantically scavenge for other places to hide or, invest cash where it’s safe from loss. Long term bonds and paper are converting to short term. What if Uncle Sam in all his infinite wisdom over a quiet weekend announced with no recourse that all short term paper is now 30 years long? Talk about mayhem! Anything they do would not surprise me.

With instigation of the old Smoot-Hawley Tariff plan against Chinese tires, this signals the world you had better run, hide and protect your own stuff with your newly imposed tariffs, too. This paralyzes whatever remaining trade and international credit there is, smothering it to a standstill. Old tragic mistakes are made over and over. Beggar they neighbor rides again. These dumbos just never learn.

Japan, for 50 years, one of America’s best allies, is now re-thinking their position. They understand they cannot count on Obama to protect the motherland against external threats any more than Israel can. Their new leaders are proponents of looser credit (inflationary), moving US troops out of Okinawa and eliminating open free entry to in-country Japanese refueling ship stations. This is the early glimmering of a major game changer. Our administration could care less. Soon they will care a lot. Japan will partner more with Australia and China.

Stock markets came back after the Lehman related collapse one year ago. With all the US government aid dumped into our immediate world it had to happen. This is a temporary fix placing band aids on mortal economic wounds. This fall we get either a mild -10% haircut or something worse, which we did forecast. However, even if the fall selling is harsh, in November through May, 2010, we forecast a resurgence of the markets buoyed again by the $8.5 trillion in side-lined cash waiting to re-enter long positions. Gold and silver shares should really rock in this atmosphere. Goodbye deflation. Hello inflation.

Enter they will and we think Mr. Dow and his S&P brother can enjoy a nice  rally run in these forthcoming months before it ends in the spring of 2010.

A belated “Sell In May And Go Away” could turn into a volcano of destruction in June-July, 2010 as several nasty economic elements converge onto that time cycle. That one could be the worst of the worst in this Greater Depression II or perhaps, fall of 2010 might be the ultimate wreckage. One of our very smart and level-headed analyst friends is not only predicting a giant 2010 smash but potential for a 100% complete markets wipeout. As in Dow at ZERO ! We read this one and went immediately pale.

The Chinese are encouraging their citizens to buy gold and silver. Further, they are mining the stuff with both hands and NOT SELLING ANY OF IT. China has an estimated M2 money growth of 28% and the 2009 first half stimulus plan (ALL SPENT) exceeded the entire amount of the US’s TARP approvals. All this wild and crazy spending was dumped into an economy 25% the size of the US’s. Yikes! This is Bubblemania to the extreme.

Most all the primary nations, those leading the world with former top economies and in trading are into “Quantitative Easing.” This is a disguised euphemism for printing the hell out of the money supply with nothing behind it but thin air, hopes and lies. The USA is a terrible abuser but others are even worse. The most incredible case of course is Zimbabwe. This lowers currency values and incites inflation. American inflation is now running at 6% in our view and in the view of our analyst friends and advisors. This winter it goes ever faster. Food and fuel will be outrageously apparent first; then it spreads out with a vengeance.

US GDP annual growth is supposedly running at a negative -4% but our friend and smart statistics guy, John Williams at Shadow Stats says its -6%. This kind of action discourages any new business investment as small business entrepreneurs see no future in an economy with higher taxes, destroyed markets and disincentives from Obama-Land as far as the eye can see. Who will buy? Who has credit? Those with cash refuse to spend.

On the energy front, the US has plenty of domestic property to be drilled. However, the EPA and tree-huggers hold the upper hand wrecking any hopes of drilling new fields in top seeded locations. Next, the Greenies are trying to shut down existing coal-fired power plants to kill off the source of half of America’s electric power. All energy rates and costs will rise on basic shortages, fundamentals and rabid inflation. Cap ‘N’ Trade would hit each family with costs of $1700+ per year if approved. We think it fails this time. What about later?

Municipalities, cities, towns, counties and states are beginning to fiscally fail in numbers. Those with foresight and rainy day funds can last a little longer but eventually tax income deteriorates and down they go. California is always first; the leader in all things new. Now they are showing us the darker side of these problems being first in line on a massive scale of self-destruction.

Meanwhile, the Obama Health Care Saga goes on like a months’ long migraine headache. Tea parties composing a cross section of the American heartland have had enough. Anger began with the health care plan but lingering disregard for TARP thefts, Cap ‘N’ Trade proposals and a White House full of Commies and socialists throws gas on these fires of discontent. Folks are out for political blood lining-up to disenfranchise their alleged congress people in the 2010 elections. We think that election promises to be super ugly in preliminaries and then succumbs to voter fraud, name-calling; the usual and newly unusual Wild West election happenings. This event should be better than the movies. Florida Chad-Hangers were great fun. What new voting horrors await us next year?

Those in the Sheeple public with little or no education and those solidly among welfare supporters will be crying ever louder for more handouts, give-outs and pay-outs. Millions of them are jobless and many more millions join unemployment and food stamp lines. Rhetoric escalates with cries of “do something” as village idiot politicians scream, finger point and eventually do something. Problem is; it’s always the wrong thing they do.

Inflation breeds ever more inflation. It feeds on itself unless government raises interest rates (no chance Lucy) careening down a path of self-destruction. Own hard assets; not dollars. Buy silver and gold coins.

We say a lot of this stuff is inevitable and some of it may never happen. However, just as in the FDR’s 1930’s, governments make the same mistakes over-and-over again. We think Greater Depression II lasts from 2009 until the next world war. That is sadly the ultimate economic weapon to find depression exit relief. This, we would not wish on any one. Read American and world history from 1776 to the present. This is what we get; all over again.

Financials crashed in fall 2008 with Lehman. Recovery began with TARP May, 2009: During this month of September, 2009 we’re having more of a dead cat bounce with a big smash later this month. While precious metals and their shares are higher this September 22, 2009, for the intermediate term (beginning October 31) most all trends reverse and moves to rallies.

Keep in mind, if you own paid for stuff it will most likely remain in your hands; not in somebody else’s. That includes gold and silver. Do not get tangled-up in daily noise. Keep studying the larger view and buy precious metals after each profit-taking correction. Headwinds are building into an economic hurricane. Take care of business right now. My dire fall prediction might surprise us and arrive a little later. Time is short.

Liebe Leserinnen und Leser,
in Weimar gehen zur Zeit seltsame Dinge vor. Die Konflikt zwischen zwei Personen aus der Weimarer LINKEN. wird auf dem Rücken anderer ausgetragen. Dies führte nun soweit, dass durch die eigenmächtige Entscheidung des Co-Fraktionsvorsitzenden der LINKEN. im Weimarer Stadtrat, Dr. Thomas Hartung, der Fraktionsmitarbeiterin erst eine Kündigung, gefolgt von einer fristlosen Kündigung überreicht wurde. Dabei wurde durch geschicktes Taktieren die Meinung der Häflte der Fraktionsmitglieder übergangen und ausgeblendet.
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verdutzt rieb ich meine augen, als ich aus dem ice-fenster auf dieses schild gaffte. ich bin lange nicht mehr bahn gefahren, sonst hätte ich wohl eher mal aufgemuckt. da liegen meine heimat und provinzielle kulturtouristische attraktionen, die man in ein bis zwei tagen ablaufen kann. goethe, die geheiligte schriftstellerleiche, und sein artgenosse schiller (wo ist nur sein schädel?) sowie eine sechsjährige bauhausepisode unter gropius reichten aus (jajaja – eine liste von weimarer persönlichkeiten findet man hier, nicht zu vergessen die derzeit dort lebenden wichtigen), um den titel kulturhauptstadt europas für das jahr 1999 einzuheimsen. das sollte zehn jahre lang keiner anderen deutschen stadt außer essen gelingen. auf den ruhmeszug sprang die deutsche bahn offenbar liebend gern auf. aber: dieser zug endet hier für kulturtrittbrettfahrer.

sicher, für ein kaff dieser größe (fast 65.000 einwohner) ist eine ganze menge los. das kann in den lokalblättchen schon mal eine spalte füllen (am wochenende auch mal zwei). wie vermisse ich die angebotsfülle von zitty und tip aus berlin, wenn ich auf das trostlose schild blicke. wer sich die ureinwohner und zugezogenen stolzen aus der dichter- und denkerstadt zum feinde wünscht, tituliert sie gern als weimaraner. die sehen bei william wegman dann schon mal so kreakultürlich inszeniert aus.

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die ortsansässige verwandtschaft berichtet hinter vorgehaltener hand vom schildbürgerstreich, der da ab 20 uhr von reisenden die benutzung des bahnhofshinterausgangs erzwingt. aus sicherheitsgründen und außer sichtweite von banausen tappt der mit koffern bewappnete über  unzählige treppen einen schier nicht enden wollenden umweg. ach hätt’ ich doch die hälfte des kofferinhalts zu hause gelassen, grummelt der ermüdete geist des  geschwind schwächelnden menschlichen kofferkulis. nachdem nun der per lautsprecher herzlich willkommene buckelnde am verschlossenen haupteingang vorbeischlurft, da dies nun mal sein weg ist, müßte man ihn pflichtbewußt an dieser stelle mit einer augenbinde versehen, wollte man das durch und durch kultiviert kalkulierte spiel auf die spitze treiben. denn ja, räusper, tuschel, wisper, heimlichtu, da wuchert alkoholisiertes volk wie unkraut zwischen den in feinste quadratformen beschnittenen hecken. das soll die welt nicht sehen, denn was soll die welt sonst von weimar denken? etwa sprittis gibt es überall? mindestens so fataaaaal wie bei kalkofes mattscheibe. liebe weimarer! wo es kultur gibt, rinnt meistens auch alkohol. und nicht zu knapp.  eure nüchternheit verliert ihr am hellerlichten tag nur beim vernissage- und finissage-hopping in gepflegtem ambiente. aber auch der ein oder andere unter euch landet auf dem heimweg blau wie eine haubitze im gebüsch. ob bossanzug oder kleiderkammerjeans, die teile sind hinterher hinüber. immer schön haltung, werte und fassade wahren. hicks! ach mist, jetzt hat mich ein geräusch verraten.