Comments on: Bernanke Rolls Snake-eyes http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/10/bernanke-rolls-snake-eyes/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Deadbeat http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/10/bernanke-rolls-snake-eyes/#comment-56568 Deadbeat Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:13:17 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=10935#comment-56568 <i>There’s a glaring need for some opportunistic entrepreneur (Warren Buffet?) to step into the breach and create a bank where depositors feel comfortable leaving their life savings knowing their bank is at least a notch-or-two above a Monte Carlo roulette table.</i> I would recommend credit unions over banks. There’s a glaring need for some opportunistic entrepreneur (Warren Buffet?) to step into the breach and create a bank where depositors feel comfortable leaving their life savings knowing their bank is at least a notch-or-two above a Monte Carlo roulette table.

I would recommend credit unions over banks.

]]> By: David http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/10/bernanke-rolls-snake-eyes/#comment-56538 David Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:46:54 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=10935#comment-56538 I second Josie's kudos to Mr. Hawkins' post. Black humor it is but entirely appropriate now. I second Josie’s kudos to Mr. Hawkins’ post. Black humor it is but entirely appropriate now.

]]> By: Josie Michel-Brüning http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/10/bernanke-rolls-snake-eyes/#comment-56529 Josie Michel-Brüning Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:52:25 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=10935#comment-56529 Well done, dear Don Hawkins!!! Well done, dear Don Hawkins!!!

]]> By: Don Hawkins http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/10/bernanke-rolls-snake-eyes/#comment-56527 Don Hawkins Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:44:05 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=10935#comment-56527 But capitalism is not only inhuman and anti-democratic; it’s also unsustainable, and if we don’t come to terms with that one, not much else matters. Capitalism is an economic system based on the concept of unlimited growth, yet we live on a finite planet. Capitalism is, quite literally, crazy. Robert Jensen STRANGER: Well, there won’t be any more concerts for a million years or so, and no nice little dinners at restaurants. If it’s amusement you’re after, I guess the game’s up. People’s radio station broadcast,{near future} "Be well this is the people’s radio station. First reports this morning are saying more troops are massing on the Southern boarder of Russia. China has called for calm and trying to get food and water to the estimated 200 million people now on the Northern boarded. Reports out of India are hard to get and the best we know today July 2029 India is still under Marshall law. The fires in California have stopped for now and the central valley is almost uninhabitable and LA still under Marshall law gas in short supply. Temperatures in Southern California are expected to reach records again today. The government is asking for calm in Texas and promising more water and food and gas as people move North. Flooding again in the Northeast and more new settlements on the border with Canada. The government and NASA again in talk's to see if aerosol injection into Earth's atmosphere can be used. All for now and temperature updates in one hour save energy be well". Let's watch the Senate in a few months on the climate bill and what was it that a Senator just said. "The climate bill is as dead as a door nail". "All for now and temperature updates in one hour save energy be well". "Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, both the observations of science and the evidence of our eyes lead to the inescapable assumption that we are all in deep do do". It sure looks like so far it's the last fling from the few who know Capitalism is, quite literally, crazy and now in control of an out of control system and we all know you can't eat or drink money but the few are going to try anyway. It's to bad we can't see a leader like the one from say the United States give the speech and level with people and gave it a try. What system might work well that's a hard question so everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler. We use the knowledge we have now not illusion the big one and the hardest to do work together reason. "The climate bill is as dead as a door nail" is it, well cap and trade is complex just an illusion and there is a much much better way, everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler. The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. –Stephen Hawking So far snake-eye's. But capitalism is not only inhuman and anti-democratic; it’s also unsustainable, and if we don’t come to terms with that one, not much else matters. Capitalism is an economic system based on the concept of unlimited growth, yet we live on a finite planet. Capitalism is, quite literally, crazy. Robert Jensen

STRANGER: Well, there won’t be any more concerts for a million years or so, and no nice little dinners at restaurants. If it’s amusement you’re after, I guess the game’s up.

People’s radio station broadcast,{near future}

“Be well this is the people’s radio station. First reports this morning are saying more troops are massing on the Southern boarder of Russia. China has called for calm and trying to get food and water to the estimated 200 million people now on the Northern boarded. Reports out of India are hard to get and the best we know today July 2029 India is still under Marshall law. The fires in California have stopped for now and the central valley is almost uninhabitable and LA still under Marshall law gas in short supply. Temperatures in Southern California are expected to reach records again today. The government is asking for calm in Texas and promising more water and food and gas as people move North. Flooding again in the Northeast and more new settlements on the border with Canada. The government and NASA again in talk’s to see if aerosol injection into Earth’s atmosphere can be used. All for now and temperature updates in one hour save energy be well”.

Let’s watch the Senate in a few months on the climate bill and what was it that a Senator just said. “The climate bill is as dead as a door nail”. “All for now and temperature updates in one hour save energy be well”.

“Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, both the observations of science and the evidence of our eyes lead to the inescapable assumption that we are all in deep do do”.

It sure looks like so far it’s the last fling from the few who know Capitalism is, quite literally, crazy and now in control of an out of control system and we all know you can’t eat or drink money but the few are going to try anyway. It’s to bad we can’t see a leader like the one from say the United States give the speech and level with people and gave it a try. What system might work well that’s a hard question so everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler. We use the knowledge we have now not illusion the big one and the hardest to do work together reason. “The climate bill is as dead as a door nail” is it, well cap and trade is complex just an illusion and there is a much much better way, everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler.

The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. –Stephen Hawking

So far snake-eye’s.

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