"You have all seen through the financial manipulation...interesting to see that few have carried it over to their whole lives, including food. So yes, your education about food has been manipulated as well"

I get the same feeling often, not just on the topic of food. I suppose I must have blind spots as well that I'm not aware of, but it does seem that there is more than one 'red pill', so to speak. People who've accepted that the whole financial system and all we're taught about it is fraud and against our best interests, but then compartmentalize that so it doesn't disturb any of the other sacred cows in their barn. As a general rule, I've come to operate on the assumption that whatever (food, ideas, anything) is pushed at me the hardest...is probably being pushed so hard because it's unnatural and bad for me.

Gasoline seemed to resist dropping in price in tandem w/ oil, for the past few weeks.

   Say what u want about there not being a direct connection, though it's funny how as SOON as oil price starts upward, gasoline jumps INSTANTLY.

    Not advocating any further regulations, but there are 2 gas stations here, less than 5 miles apart, one on a more traveled route, the price  difference per gallon is 15 cents! Quite a spread! The one place offers 3 cents off for cash purchase.

   A completely different station has a card on the pump that says " Yes, you may use your Debit Card, please pay 10 cents additional per gallon." 

 As well as in the past 5 years this area has gone to ALL pre pay for fuel.

  In just my short time I have seen gas go from .86 cents/gal. , to what $4.40/gal.?

  (and my Barber chuckled, commenting he remembers paying, i think he said .07 cents/gal. !!  )

   As well as the addition of 10% ethanol, after the troubles w/ the additive MTBE which caused severe mixing and contamination with ground water.

   Wow! I didn't realize I had seen so many changes with gas, and I have used it for less than 20 years! Interesting when you write something out, how it gives you a chance to reflect.

    Wonder what changes the next 20+ years will bring for gasoline? Will the move away from the Petrodollar be the catalyst for the West to finally get passed fossil fuels?

So it may be a good idea to fill the freezer(and the cupboards)...? Just as a precaution of course.

This sounds like a typical - create a problem to then justify some draconian (SP?) policy to remove more freedoms. Or it is this integration thingy. All of north America as one state. They are doing this "perimeter" protection crap in Canada too.

Maybe this FOMC could be a vicky verky sneaky beaky - everyone expects the drop. Folks short and get walloped.

Yes - food - the more we allow them to feed us shit the more they will put it in the shelves. The more sick we become, the richer these murdering scumbags get.

Please please only buy proper old fashioned food. If we ALL did it - they would be no crap on the shelves.

No GM anything.

Only naturally fed meat.

Free range organic eggs.

This is one thing we have the power to change - at a personal level, today; at a national level when enough folk make a conscious decision. I notice Costco in Canada has more and more organic food. They will supply what people with money demand. We just need to stop feeding the scumbags.

Imagine how they must laugh at us sheeple. The grow crap and offer it to us - we toil all week and give them hours of our slog (in the form of cash) to eat filth. Stop it - Stop it now! Talk about quality of life. A roof - warmth and proper food. Imagine five years from now - Tomatoes tasting like tomatoes again. Imagine young folk who have never tasted a proper tomato?

Self esteem:

Very interesting concept. There was a post a few days ago re Maslow's triangle.

It was commented that as one moves up the triangle towards self actualization one develops self esteem on the way.

There was a comment about how it is hard to have self esteem when one is foraging in a dumpster for food.

I think there is something wrong with this notion:

Does a homeless man always have no self esteem. If he wins the lottery does he immediately get self esteem?

Did Nelson Mandela have no or low self esteem when in prison for 20 years?

Does the poor kid with the huge smile, in the Gambia, who has barely enough to eat have self esteem?

Does a man who chooses to fast for a week elevate or lower his self esteem?

What about if I took my money out of the bank (lets call it a bullion bank ;-)) and bought a sports car. Would that improve my self esteem? What if I lived on a deserted island and no one could see my new sports car, would that make a difference?

What about comparison with peers? If we have more than our neighbors do we have more self esteem? What about if we compare ourselves to Richard Branson or Bill Gates, does our self esteem fall? What if we compare ourselves to those starving in Africa, then what?

Thing is - this is ALL external stuff! Not self stuff. Self esteem is a given. We already posses it. We can chose to give it away. Nobody can take it from us. It belongs to us.

Self esteem is something one carries around and forms an unshakeable core that is self. It has nothing to do with where we find ourselves from minute to minute or day to day.

This is not to be confused with that devil ego.

I think Maslow was wrong.

We are conditioned to view ourselves by external factors - Job - retail therapy etc. "they" want us to be slaves to this programming. It is simply very good brainwashing. 

Truth is, everyone has this internal freedom. It is unshakable if you want it to be.

B

Self-esteem, negative or positive is the end product of how an individuals behavior is in tune with their values.  Values are set by what we believe, so no matter what an individual believes they can have positive self-esteem.

THE HIGH PRIESTS OF GOVT & RELIGION

(ABOVE: The German Constitutional Court)

(ABOVE: The Pope & Bishops at the Vatican)

Here we can see that in the two highest levels of Govt and Religion, costumes are not meant just for Halloween.  Being raised a Catholic does not change my opinion, that the more ORNAMENT the clothes, the less you will find true wisdom and truth.  It is simply amazing how many people in the world are taken by the notion that the BIGGER THE BUILDING & MORE ELABORATE THE FACADE the more important the institution... whereas the opposite is true.

As for a priest who speaks the truth, I have to say this fella is TOPS:

The reason why I wrote this post is to put some PERSPECTIVE on the current economic system.  The world is being run by OVERDRESSED CLOWNS.  I would not worry about the paper price of gold and silver when you understand that LUNATICS IN COSTUMES running the present show are obnoxiously incompetent.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/gold-report-2012-erstes-comprehensive-summ...

You forgot these guys!

Holding back progress

This may require a rewrite

Infringers assemble

All this talk of corn and poo got me to thinking. I have here a can of green giant whole kernal corn and I am going to count a 400 kernal control sample and consume the sample today. Sometime tomorrow after my digestion cycle is complete I will report back with a solid count I hope. After all I am a turdite and I always do my part. 

for Scranton, of course, can only be a 78% increase in property taxes....  they couldn't look around and realize that they are SPENDING Millions more than they can afford and the ANSWER isn't foisting ill conceived expenditures on to poor property owners...  It's a crazy world where the only answer is to tax more not cut spending and choose less or fewer services...

AP Coverage of 'Lie-bor' Scandal Fails to Note That Geithner Ran the New York Fed When It Learned of Problems

By Tom Blumer | July 11, 2012 | 12:42

Not only is the Associated Press aptly currently described as the Administration's Press -- as least as long as the White House's current occupant remains there -- it also seems to be serving as the Administration's Protection.

In a story about the "Lie-bor" scandal, wherein British banks have admitted to colluding to set the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) -- arguably the world’s most important benchmark for interest rates -- artificially low, AP reporter Martin Crutsinger "somehow" forgot that current Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was President of the New York Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank during much of the time period in which Congressional investigators are interested. Clearly, they want to know what Geithner knew, and when he knew it. The first three paragraphs of Crutsinger's writeup, followed by his sole context-free mention of Geithner, follow the jump (bolds are mine throughout this post):

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2012/07/11/ap-coverage-lie-bor-scandal-fails-note-geithner-ran-new-york-fed#ixzz20KqdvtBO

“That’s a Clown Question, Bro”

Statement of Commissioner Bart Chilton at the CFTC Public Meeting on Dodd/Frank Rulemaking

July 10, 2012

Thank you Mr. Chairman. There are a couple of important events coming up that I want to share with you today. First, tonight the All-Star game will be played. Also, in just 11 days, we’ll have the two-year anniversary of the signing of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Now, some of you are asking, “How’s he going to put these two totally divergent things together?” It’ll all make sense in a minute. Really.

First, how many of you have heard of Bryce Harper? He’s the youngest position player ever chosen for an All Star game and plays for what is for many of you, your hometown team, the Washington Nats. He not only has a way with the bat but he seems to have a way with words, too. A couple weeks ago, a reporter asked him what he seemed to think was a silly question, and he responded by saying, “That’s a clown question, bro.” That answer went on T-shirts. It went on late-night TV. It went viral.

Now, back to Dodd-Frank. There are those who say we don’t need it. Let’s repeal it—or at least parts of it. Let’s de-fund the agencies overseeing it so they can’t enforce it. Heck, let’s just take ‘em to court if we don’t like the line-up. Let’s take our bat and ball and go home. So, here’s the question they seem to be asking: “Do we even need Dodd-Frank?”

Let’s not even talk about 2008 and the financial collapse and the real reason Dodd-Frank came along in the first place. Let’s talk about how MF Global (as some would suggest) got caught trying to steal. Let’s talk about JPMorgan’s losing streak. Let’s talk about Barclays’ balk. Do we need Dodd-Frank? That’s a clown question, bro.

So yes, we need rules. We need the funding to enforce them. Plenty of folks still seem to think they can get around the rules. Plenty of folks in this town seem to think we don’t need umpires. Do we? That’s a clown question, bro.

Last Updated: July 11, 2012   Truly it is a clown question

has there been a very loud echo of "if I go down, you go down with me" resonating from the US and Europe for at least the last 10 years? How else do we explain all these players who are neck deep in sh*t who seem to have RISEN into positions of greater power over that time.

I'm really so glad that there is no honor amongst thieves. They will destroy themselves. Long popcorn.