Two huge rivers, the Rhone and the Soane which converge in Lyon, have been ferrying goods, people and ideas into this majestic city for centuries. The Greeks were here, so too were the Romans. The Romans made this place the capital of Gaul.
When Julius Caesar was assassinated, the recently subjugated Gauls revolted, prompting the Romans to move their city to the high ground over the rivers. From here the city flourished, close to Italy, Switzerland and Germany, absorbing ideas and people from each region.
Examples of these foreign incursions abound. The Gothic cathedral, a symbol of the power of the Catholic church, was extensively defaced by Calvinists from Geneva who took over the city briefly. The silk industry, created by Italian merchants, drove the bourgeois prosperity of the city for centuries.
Yet a revolt, by the same silk workers in the 1830s, emboldened a young radical German agitator, Karl Marx, to imagine a workers’ revolution. In the second World War, Lyon was the centre of the French Resistance, leading to Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, to focus the Gestapo’s counterinsurgency efforts here, culminating in the brutal murder of Jean Moulin, the Resistance leader in Lyon in 1943.
Yesterday, the signs of the latest French protests, the “gilets jaunes”, are everywhere. Police are ubiquitous on the streets, so too is the anti-Macron graffiti and the local reaction to Macron’s speech earlier this week, which verges on derision.
Macron, as befits a technocrat, tried to buy off the protesters with money promising higher minimum wages and no new taxes. However, the protests, at least to this traveller, appear to be coming from somewhere deeper and won’t be assuaged by financial tokenism.
On the surface it is hard to understand, from an exclusively economic perspective, where the French anger comes from. France is one of the most sophisticated countries in the world. Its welfare state is phenomenal, French companies are world beaters in engineering and aviation, education is free, public transport is excellent, and the heath service comes out in the top 10 in the world.
Culturally, the country is muscular in defence of the French way, gastronomically France has been looking down its Gallic nose at the rest of us for years, the weather’s not bad; even its football team won the World Cup without breaking sweat!
Yet its still-new president is deeply unpopular, and his efforts to placate the national protests through the narrow gauge lens of economics have thus far made things worse. Why?
The reason is that economics isn’t everything. For far too long politics has been dominated by the notion that money can solve everything. But this is not the case.
Brexit example
Look at Brexit. Every economist tells the British people that economically and financially, Brexit will cost them. The Bank of England governor explains that house prices and individual wealth will fall. British industry and commerce warns of capital flight and unemployment.
Yet the polls have hardly budged. Millions of English, a people dismissed by Napoleon as a “nation of [money obsessed] shopkeepers”, don’t care. For a supposed mercantile people, this cavalier attitude to money is perplexing, until we acknowledge that what is driving Brexit is the politics of nostalgia rather than the practicalities of economics.
Belief in economics is fuelled by a belief in the future. It’s about doing the right thing today to deliver a better outcome tomorrow. It is scientific or, at the very least, it pretends to be. It is the promise of technocracy and, more importantly, it purports to be administrable to every country in the same doses. It is the antithesis of nostalgia which is rotted in history, shared experiences and identity.
In a place like Lyon, as in Leeds, you can’t easily buy off the magnetism of nostalgia, history and identity with the promise of tax cuts, a slightly better minimum wage or lower interest rates.
It is dangerous to dismiss these identity movements as something from the past because they could become the movements of the future. In France, in the UK, in America, in Germany and, of course, in central Europe, the politics of identity are the coming force. The same goes for Turkey, Russia and India.
It is not simply nativism; it is more sophisticated. Most importantly, and rather counterintuitively, nostalgia is a powerful idea because it can be whatever you want it to be.
If you doubt this, think about what is driving people to buy tickets to Bob Dylan and Neil Young in Kilkenny. It is an exercise in recapturing lost youth; political nostalgia is the electoral equivalent but deployed on a national level.
Enemy of identity
Worryingly for the centre right, nostalgia dismisses globalisation as an enemy of identity and, therefore, something to be opposed; but for the centre left, nostalgia also dismisses environmental concerns out of hand. The French protests after all were stated as a reaction to a carbon tax, the most virtuous tax imaginable to technocrats, but a red rag to nostalgists.
It is not that economics hasn’t delivered; it has delivered enormously. In Ireland, the economy has expanded rapidly in the past few decades, the society is so much richer and on almost every metric, housing apart, life in Ireland is immeasurably better than at any time in the past.
This was delivered by the centre ground, not by the extremes. It should not be taken for granted or assumed away. It has been quite an achievement.
However, what is happening elsewhere should be a warning to us. Ireland has tried the politics of nostalgia in the past; the results were not impressive. We paid for purity with poverty.
Now all over the world, nostalgia is becoming more attractive, simply because it can be anything to anyone. It is an ephemeral memory not an exacting target. It makes for simple slogans and evocative images, but what can it actually deliver?
Watching the French protesters, with their myriad of grievances and front of the barricade solutions, it is easy to explain what they want, harder to figure out how they get it.
But these days, as culture is trumping economics every time, the centre ground needs to come up with a big idea to galvanise people, that appeals to all and unifies the middle ground.
This is one of the challenges for the next decade.
Macron, the master of the campaign, doesn’t seem to have it. He appears to be a man from a different time, somewhere in the mid-1990s. The brilliant moderniser will need to become relevant and, to do that, he needs to face down his biggest enemy: nostalgia.
A view from New Zealand on the situation in Europe is probably totally out of place. I think, money or the lack of it, coupled with the so-called free market where everybody is supposed to be totally responsible for themselves is the main cause for the dislocation of societies. You can call it nostalgia but when there a few full time jobs, with people being deemed self employed and so not entitled to sick leave or holidays, never being able to have enough money for a deposit on a house, having to pay for their tertiary education what on earth… Read more »
Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. Therein lies the solution and the problem. The mammy state has lead its’ citizens to believe it will do everything for them. It has appealed to their basic instinct of laziness. Unrealistic promises are being made. France is a good example. The state has consistently promised more than it can afford. The roosters are coming home to roost because there are very few chickens left. Ireland and the EU are going the same way. Trump is taking a different route. Right or wrong… Read more »
And so we have the official position of The ISIS Times – the peasants are ungrateful for what their master have done for them, and having not listened to their ingratitude, the commentariat will therefore declare that there is no need to listen to any of them. In fact, it will declare that morality is defined as a determination to dismiss what they have to say entirely on the basis that their ingratitude is inferior to their rulers authority. Concerning nostalgia, we have RTE-Pravda, relentlessly drumming up sports spectator spectacles from decades ago, like as if any of it matters.… Read more »
That was an article that had nothing to do with economics and everything to do with politics.
If the people rally behind a rich millionaire like Sanders, then that is good.
If they turn out on the streets and demand that the government is accountable to the people, then that is bad.
Corporatism is the political ideology being served.
The marketing of rebellion was done brilliantly with yellow shirts. 1792 “coulettes” springs to mind as well as the rebelious words of the French anthom.
French are the pioneers of rebellion and demonstration.
Is there a point to this display? Je ne crois pas.
18 hrs for a teacher. 20.5 hrs for a cop. Do they want less hours?
Nostalgia is a total red herring. The idea that the protests are not economically based is a figment of a cloudy mind with little imagination. Economics works best starting with personal freedom and honest money; something we are losing with the Nanny State The carbon tax is regressive. It hits the poorest the hardest. It is the stimulus for the protests. The carbon tax is based on the total lie that CO2 is a cause of climate change. The governments of the world are seen to be lying on other issues too and have lost their moral authority. The European… Read more »
A New Devil’s Dictionary:
Nostalgia, n: Not wishing to have your laws made by an authoritarian federal bureaucracy seeking almost unlimited powers.
The “Fuel Tax” Increase is truly abominable ; But, the captive indigenous French are using it as a shield to protest, & hopefully overturn the Bankster Regime ruling France since the 1st French Revolution inaugurating a Republic. . Even more objectionable for these French are : . Private Central Banking ; Loads of ordinary people are getting wise to that Conspiracy against the People Thus,- “The Rothschild” ; Macron having being Employee of Rothschild’s Private Central Bank of France ; Ironically,- David was Employee of Rothschild’s Private Central Bank of Ireland . Fractional [ & now “Zero” ] Reserve Banking… Read more »
The problems in France are not about nostalgia or Macron. His name is mentioned because he is the ~President so would anyone else if they were in office too . All earlier Presidents wanted to do what Macron has succeeded doing but they had not the balls. The problem is the failure of French government policies to Adapt normal local economics for normal people living normal lives. Much of the failure is the entrenchment of their rich tradition and the lack of choice available to adapt and evolve with the modern world and expectations. Also the extraordinary powers of the… Read more »
Modern slavery is the main motovation for many of the protests.
Increasingly workers have to work all their waking hours in an economy which undermines their physical and mental health just to try to pay the bills and increasingly regressive taxes, while the wealth created by their sweat and stress is increasingly being robbed from them by the elite pigs.
A slave instinctively knows that he or she is a slave, they don’t have to have a memory of being previously free to know that they are enslaved.
Cannot understand David how you manage to attract such a bunch of naysayers as (that part of) your readers who react….. What you says is so correct it should be required reading for any budding politician’s 101. The Gilets Jaunes, are a classical reaction of the French to a massive feeling of political frustration. In the last 20 years that I have lived here and the previous 20 that I have lived nearby, they have shuffled from Mitterand through Giscard, deviated via Chirac, messed with Hollande and ended up with Macron. Meantime they have had Delors in Brussels and a… Read more »
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DOES ANYONE EVER LEAVE “HOTEL CALIFORNIA”?
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SCRIPT SOUNDS FAMILIAR?
-> SEE THE LISBON TREATY
-> VOTE YES FOR JOBS?
http://www.anphoblacht.com/files/old-images/2009/10/08/yes-to-jobs-poster.jpg
=> OR WAS YES FOR “CHIMATE CHANGE”?
https://youtu.be/-YEG0anqHXo?t=57
I see Anglo bondholders will be paid €267 million,lucky them. France has three million permanently unemployed, anaemic growth and state spending sixty per cent of gdp . A few world beaters in aviation don’t mask how far the Eurozone is behind the Yanks. California has an economy as large as Italy,Texas has overtaken Spain. You won’t hear that from Fintan O Fool.The Tara st rag hates Brexit and worships limitless immigration while complaining about the housing mess which is caused by the property porn mag it pushes on Thursday.
The people of France and elsewhere do not like the governmental policies. What they are not yet aware of are the activities of the Deep State that operates and controls all from behind the scenes. It is the same in the US. The EU is just another way of centralizing the power and control of the deep state. The deep state control the international money systems. They control the major industries. They manipulate, promote and control government policy through the use of influence, blackmail and physical force and occasionally assassination, and covert operations and war. Here is Blackstone intelligence for… Read more »
This about sums it all up. “A friend asked me today what I thought Powell should do. I said, “the system is screwed. It ultimately doesn’t matter what anyone does. The money printing, credit creation and artificially low interest rates over the last 10 years has fueled the most egregious misallocation of capital in history of the universe.”——Dave from Denver “You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as… Read more »
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JUST LIKE THE REAL MEN AROUND THE REST OF THE WORLD ARE WAKING UP TO THE FACT THAT ABORTION IS MURDER OF THE “PRE-BORN” BABY OR “INFANT-BABY”,- SO ALSO THEY ARE WAKING UP TO THE EVIL CONTROL, & THEFT, COMBINATION OF CONSPIRACIES WHICH ARE :
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Private Central Banking SYNDICATE ; Rothschild Operation upon the Goyim
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Fractional [ And, now even “Zero” ] Reserve Banking SYNDICATE upon the Goyim
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Non-Precious Metal Currency MANDATED BY OUR RULERS to masquerade as Money upon the Goyim
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https://www.france24.com/en/20181217-france-sick-man-europe-polish-foreign-minister
https://rmx.news/poland/polish-hero-strasbourg-attack-has-died
VERY APT FOR THE MATTERS AT HAND WITH YELLOW-VESTS
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Retweeted by Henry Makow from ;
THE PERSON WHO WOULD BE THE PRESIDENT OF USA TODAY — BY OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THE VOTING CITIZENS — BUT FOR “THE HIDDEN-STATE + “THE OFFICIAL STATE” CONSPIRING TO PREVENT THAT HAPPENING 6 YEARS AGO
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We have allowed our nation to be over-taxed and over-regulated and over-run by bureaucrats.
The Founders would be ashamed of us for what we are putting up with
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https://twitter.com/RonPaul/status/1074769030999928833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Eprofile%3AHenryMakow%7Ctwcon%5Etimelinechrome&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.henrymakow.com%2F
Meanwhile in USA ;
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Yes,- Sireee !
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Wouldn’t hurt to let lose a few yellow jackets in the corporate boardroom.
https://moneyandmarkets.com/sears-cuts-severance-gives-executives-bonus/?post_ids=7360,5799,7206,7261,7186&utm_source=MAM-Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Daily-Article-Traffic
Ho-Ho-Ho ; . Happy Christmas ? . Nay, from the Party Poopers it’s Happy Holidays with this ominous bummer ; . NASTY-NASTY . HEADING ; BIS Warns on Clearing System “Financial Seizure” Risk From $540T in Derivatives . December 17, 2018 . by IWB . via telegraph.co.uk: . The pillars of the global financial system are fundamentally unstable and could lead to a frightening chain-reaction in the next crisis, the world’s top watchdog has warned. Giant “central counterparties” (CCPs) that clear much of the $540 trillion (£428 trillion) nexus of derivatives are themselves vulnerable to failure in times of extreme… Read more »
Why did the Folks who control USA devise the name Direct Energy Weapons ?
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Here is more AROUND that weapon-technology — ELECTO-MAGNETISM — which is arguably afflicting the Hollywood enemies of Trump, & the rest of the Financialists-Stalinists.
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Kill-ary & Bernie Sanders being the Financialists-Trotskyites.
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WISE NOT TO GET LED INTO THE FINANCIALISTS’ “CIVIL WAR” OR “DECEPTIVE CIVIL WAR”.
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Lets Celebrate This Friday 21st this week ——Its Macron’s Birthday …a Sagittarius just like Frank Sinatra Listen/ Read the words to the songs by Frank Sinatra ‘ My Way’…….or ‘ New York New York….. see the resemblance to the political stage in Paris . My Way Frank Sinatra And now, the end is near And so I face the final curtain My friend, I’ll say it clear I’ll state my case, of which I’m certain I’ve lived a life that’s full I’ve traveled each and every highway And more, much more than this I did it my way Regrets, I’ve… Read more »
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-18/japan-yields-on-cusp-of-zero-as-world-can-t-quit-negative-rates Central bankers have so manipulated the money markets that nobody can think straight any longer. Markets are no longer functioning. All the analysts do is scramble to report with breathlessness the latest gyration to be expected from this CB or that. Whatever it is, is manipulated. Autocrats, bureaucrats , technocrats and any other rats out there have ruined the orderly functions of the market. The results have profited the chosen few on the inside track. All advances in economic growth over the last 50 years have been built on credit not capital. For every unit of debt there is… Read more »
“Look at Brexit. Every economist tells the British people that economically and financially, Brexit will cost them. The Bank of England governor explains that house prices and individual wealth will fall. British industry and commerce warns of capital flight and unemployment.” Who now cares what every economist? Why should anyone listen to them? “On the surface it is hard to understand, from an exclusively economic perspective, where the French anger comes from. France is one of the most sophisticated countries in the world. Its welfare state is phenomenal, French companies are world beaters in engineering and aviation, education is free,… Read more »
“Worryingly for the centre right, nostalgia dismisses globalisation as an enemy of identity and, therefore, something to be opposed; but for the centre left, nostalgia also dismisses environmental concerns out of hand. The French protests after all were stated as a reaction to a carbon tax, the most virtuous tax imaginable to technocrats, but a red rag to nostalgists.” That David considers a carbon tax the most virtuous tax imaginable says a multitude in half a dozen words. Firstly, virtue is for the Irish Times, the NYT, the Guardian, the “Resistance” (no, not that one) and the usual suspects. I… Read more »
Finally, “Centre Right” and “Centre Left”.
These are just words. There is nothing remotely real or sensible about these positions which, a mere ten years ago, would have been laughed off the stage with shouts of “Student w*nkers! Go and get a f*****” job!”
What are now mainstream “centrist” policies are the equivalent of laying hands on the village idiot, pouring a bottle of vodka down his throat, dressing him up as “Santa Claus” and sending him across a minefield with a sledge hammer and a big sign that says “Centre Ground”.
The only nostalgia that is coming will be by those who wished they had protected themselves while they had time. This is a repeat but worth reading again.
https://www.milesfranklin.com/crash-alert-3/
Crash alert!
by Bill Holter | Dec 13, 2018
The markets have done a schizoid about turn in the last hour. Totally irrational. That is what happens when the trading desks are commandeered by high speed computers and trend following algorithms
Mr Bubble himself warns of the one he did not create.
https://moneyandmarkets.com/fed-greenspan-warns-investors/?post_ids=6753,5924&utm_source=MAM-Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Daily-Article-Traffic
Easy cheap money enabled share buybacks, bonuses for the executives , debt for the corporation and rising share prices. Bubble blown into a frothy top. disaster for shareholder investors in the FANGS
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/stock-buybacks-record-1-1-trillion/2018/12/19/id/895063/?ns_mail_uid=90743b91-480e-4c31-b610-3fae17c834a4&ns_mail_job=DM10780_12192018&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010124nx3vsq
https://www.foxnews.com/world/from-italy-to-hungary-to-france-how-populist-movements-in-2018-enveloped-europe
Nostalgia for the rule of law, and the retention of sovereignty
Posted today at Midas du metrople http://www.lemetropolecafe.com Such nostalgia *J. Johnson’s Latest 12/19/18 England is heading our overseas news topics this morning asTeresa May is once again addressing parliament “Live” about the BREXIT. As parliament gets all blathered up, the PM has placed 3,500Troops On Standby, and is preparing Reserves Space For ‘Emergency Supplies’ As May Ramps Up the ‘No Deal’ Planning. All of a sudden Jim Sinclair and Bill Holter’s suggestions over the years, of stocking up on food and supplies, is making its point, in hard fashion. SupposedlyItaly has presented an agreement that the EU grasped at right… Read more »
Truthers’ Unrest breaks the Limits of Lies from Trump ; Finally,- an Admission ; . HEADING ; Trump Admits His Mideast Policy Guided by Israeli, not American, Interests SUB-HEADING ; Trump has now publicly admitted that – when it comes to U.S. military involvement and covert intervention in the Middle East – he is putting Israel, not America, first. . by Whitney Webb . December 19th, 2018 . EXCERPT ; . In this statement, Trump makes the case that the U.S. national interest in Middle Eastern affairs is weakening, as oil – traditionally cited for the U.S.’ long history of… Read more »
On 19 December 1777 General George Washington led his 11,000 man army into winter camp at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. It’s well known that the American army suffered terrible privation there, but the culprit is not well known: INFLATION. The Continental Congress kept inflating the money supply so quickly that farmers and suppliers refused to take Continental money. A few miles away in Philadelphia the British spent a cozy winter, well supplied by means of their gold guineas and silver crowns. The story never changes: fiat money always brings disaster. Argentum et aurum comparanda sunt. Silver and gold must be bought.… Read more »
Re ; Country that Bernard-Henri Lévy [ 1 of the Principal Puppet Masters of Sarkozy, Hollande, & now Macron ] personally conspired to destroy.
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VERY POWERFUL & DANGEROUS IS Mr. LEVY
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Under Gaddafi, Libya’s debt was 3% of GDP.
After Gaddafi, it’s over 40% ; Mostly owed to EU & US.
Libya had free health care, free education, free housing and subsidies.
All Libyans had Jobs and even imported workers from other parts of Africa.
Now over 50% are jobless.
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Much the same correct answers for who runs the Irish State’s official Government
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But,- add EU, The Internationalle, GAA, Rubgy-Class, & of course … Mshd
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I am not sure if I made my point clearly, so here goes. ‘Nostalgia’ is a woefully inadequate word for it. There may indeed be a little bit of nostalgia involved but a better word is ‘memory’. It is a psychological issue, what Jung called the ‘type problem’, referring to the introverted and extraverted types. The former seek meaning. The latter are captured by their external reality and the tendency is towards an attitude that all that matters is the here and now and that ‘what is is right’ simply because it is there. “We have to deal with the… Read more »
The Cougar in Winter
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The Loins in Winter
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The thought occurred to me today that just maybe, maybe perhaps, that it is very possible that Macron’s beau, Brigitee, conspired against him as a President because she cannot wait for her garcon to reach full term ;
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“But these days, as culture is trumping economics every time, the centre ground needs to come up with a big idea to galvanize people, that appeals to all and unifies the middle ground.” The people have spoken several times. If listened to there would be the unified “middle Ground” . It is by way of referenda. However the ruling class continue to avoid acceding to the requests of the people and twist and turn and delay or worse yet tell the people to vote again until they get it right. You had it in Ireland, it is in the UK… Read more »
David Tepper, a billionaire hedge fund manager was quoted as saying; 1. Powell basically told you theFed put is dead. 2.Everyone is tight.Chinese money growth plummeting. ECB cutting the last of QE. And Fed still in tightening mode. 3. The net biggest issuance of Treasuries and worldwide fixed income is coming next year. Something is going to get crowded out. Bonds stocks etc. 4. Oh and there is thistrade warquestion. I think we should be having a fight with China on different issues. But it isnot conducive to confidence.Freezing some worldwide activity. 5.Cash is not so bad. Still, nothing about… Read more »
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WILL “THE HIDDEN STATE OF IRISH STATE” SOMETIME IN NEAR FUTURE HAVE A COUP AGAINST THEMSELVES ?
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French Generals Face Disciplinary Action After Accusing Macron of “Treason” For Signing UN Migration Pact
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UPON U BECOMING AN AGNOSTIC ABOUT UR TELE-VISUAL EXPERIENCES OF OTHER HUMANS,- I RECKON U WILL BE EXTRA CAREFUL WHEN MAIN-STREAM MEDIA URGE U TO “PARTICIPATE IN” OR “APPROVE OF” VIOLENCE . TITLE ; Peak Deep Fake – Nvidia’s Scary AI Generates Humans That Look 100% Real . by Tyler Durden . Wed, 12/19/2018 Authored by Jesus Diaz via ‘ TomsGuide.com, THE ARTICLE ; Believe it or not, all these faces are fake. They have been synthesized by Nvidia’s new AI algorithm, a generative adversarial network capable of automagically creating humans, cats, and even cars. Credit: Nvidia The technology works… Read more »
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HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD [ Owner’s of “The Economist” Magazine ] IS CRYPTICALLY TELLING U WHAT THEY WISH TO DO IN 2019
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The Economist’s “The World in 2019” is Full of Cryptic Messages
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A look at the cryptic symbolism found on the cover of the Economist’s “The World in 2019” which includes the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. What are they trying to tell us?
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https://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/the-economists-the-world-in-2019-is-full-of-cryptic-messages/
North East of Ireland [ NEOI ] Unionists’ / Loyalists’ Unrest Shows the Limits of Squeezit
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“We have what is known as the Federal Reserve Bank System. That system is not owned by the Government. Many people think that it is because it says “Federal Reserve.” It belongs to private banks, private corporations. So we have farmed out to the Federal Reserve Banking System that which is owned exclusively, wholly, one hundred percent to the private banks-we have farmed out to them the privilege of issuing the Government’s money!” … Wright Patman [John William Wright Patman] (1893-1976) US Congressman (TX-D) – Source: Congressional Record (29 Sep. 1941)
“We have what is known as the Federal Reserve Bank System. That system is not owned by the Government. Many people think that it is because it says “Federal Reserve.” It belongs to private banks, private corporations. So we have farmed out to the Federal Reserve Banking System that which is owned exclusively, wholly, one hundred percent to the private banks-we have farmed out to them the privilege of issuing the Government’s money!” … Wright Patman [John William Wright Patman] (1893-1976) US Congressman (TX-D) – Source: Congressional Record (29 Sep. 1941) Read Ron Paul, Pillars of Prosperity. ESP p. 147… Read more »
Trump-Defying Fed Enters Danger Zone for Economy and Markets by: Stefan Gleason Money Metals News Service December 20th, 2018 The Fed blinked – but didn’t flinch away from another rate hike. On Wednesday, Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policymakers rejected President Donald Trump’s call for a pause. They raised their benchmark rate by a quarter point to a range up to 2.5%. The only concession Fed chairman Jerome Powell offered to Trump and nervous stock market investors was a revised, less hawkish outlook for 2019. Powell and company now indicate they intend to hike just twice next year. They claim… Read more »