one fine day, the circle will be broken

History repeats itself.
The following was #12 on Billboard in 1959:

They're rioting in Africa, they're starving in Spain.
There's hurricanes in Florida, and Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch.
And I don't like anybody very much!

But we can be tranquil, and thankful, and proud,
For mans' been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud.
And we know for certain that some lovely day
Someone will set the spark off, and we will all be blown away.

They're rioting in Africa, there's strife in Iran.
What nature doesn't do to us, will be done by our fellow man. 
Kingston Trio 


Of course, the names and faces change, the agenda only sounds new, but its not.  We have serious problems that go ignored while the world continues to react to created chaos.  Even the lyrics shown above are part of the agenda, i.e.; look here, don't look over there.  It is remarkable we've come so far in spite of the real and lingering threats to humanity, isn't it.  If one single person does something wrong, creating rippling problems for others, they are hunted down and thrown into the corporate slave labor market.  If leaders in collusion with others, all of them doing things wrong, the world falls apart, you'll notice, over and over and over again.  We are expected to pick up the pieces of our lives and go on.


But this time, it really is different. There is only so much picking up the pieces we can do.  The one thing we've learned if we've learned nothing else, is it is worsening.  And now, we are disgusted with this long drawn out worsening stage.  Everything is more painful and less understood as the panicked pile onto each other's panic like Charles Graner's Abu Ghraib pile of prisoners photographed in compromising position. (Linked for anyone who was over-consuming at the time instead of waking up to the incessant filth of harsh interrogations.)

The S&P ratings downgrade  is ludicrous in its weak attempt to label for the panicked that which was already unfolding.  Its another false flag that takes us into higher inflation paying higher interest rates on the foreign loans we can't pay anymore without staged cage fights from the crazies.  What else is up their sleeve we ask since the whole scheme is stupidly transparent.  


Here's Marshall Auerbach on Counterpunch:

... for the record, the S&P (along with Moody’s and Fitch) covered themselves with glory during the housing bubble, rating toxic subprime junk as AAA rated paper. Not only were the agencies politically corrupted by virtue of their incestuous ties to Wall Street, but criminally incompetent as well. ...

Definitely there will be more ugly kickbacks as dollar signs gleam in the eyes of our creditors.  Do understand though, what is happening here is not the end of the world, that comes later, as we age and evolve under roiling skies, tsunamis, mass famine and endless war because those in position to do the right thing don't do it and certainly didn't do it when the opportunity was before them, even the wealthiest and most altruistic, by default, throughout history allow evil to take its course and now it is too late.  It is too late because seven billion people is an unmanageable number and the real agenda is to bring that number down, just like an impossible debt, humanity is out of control. There are no bailouts available for overpopulation.

It is tragically amusing in a diabolical way that we are being reminded through every technological vehicle of communication that today's market crash is straight out of the 2008 playbook.  This sets us up to expect a repeat of the past three years.  Recall a few posts back the reminder concerning Stockholm Syndrome in which every simulacrum of relief is interpreted by the slaves as a kindness, an improvement in conditions and creates false hope which is false desire. And false desire, you know, is the cause of all suffering.


As long as we willingly hand over our attention to the noise, we will suffer needlessly since each journey by itself contains enough pain, sorrow, joy and glory to keep us occupied.

God help those who pay to play and may eternal fire and brimstone embrace those who lie, cheat and interfere at the expense of the innocent.