SkydiveJonathan

And I explained how the sun works - just for you.

The sun rises. The sun sets.

The economy tanked because there was too much private debt.

The concept of the Jubilee is a special year of remission of sins and universal pardon. In the Biblical Book of Leviticus, a Jubilee year is mentioned to occur every fiftieth year, in which slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest. In the Holy Bible, Leviticus 25:8-13 states, "And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession."

The government spends money and the economy grows. The government cuts back spending and the economy shrinks. The multiplier is the amount the economy responds to government spending.

This is incredible stuff from the IMF. Basically a return to government money rather than private and the largest debt Jubilee in human history... it is plausible to assume that a real-world implementation of the Chicago Plan would involve at least some, and potentially a very large, buy-back of private debt. In the simulation of the Chicago Plan presented in this paper we will assume that the buy-back covers all private bank debt except loans that finance investment in physical capital. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2012/wp12202.pdf

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/9623863/IMFs-epic-plan-to-conjure-away-debt-and-dethrone-bankers.html One could slash private debt by 100pc of GDP, boost growth, stabilize prices, and dethrone bankers all at the same time. It could be done cleanly and painlessly, by legislative command, far more quickly than anybody imagined. The conjuring trick is to replace our system of private bank-created money -- roughly 97pc of the money supply -- with state-created money. We return to the historical norm, before Charles II placed control of the money supply in private hands with the English Free Coinage Act of 1666. Specifically, it means an assault on "fractional reserve banking". If lenders are forced to put up 100pc reserve backing for deposits, they lose the exorbitant privilege of creating money out of thin air. The nation regains sovereign control over the money supply. There are no more banks runs, and fewer boom-bust credit cycles. Accounting legerdemain will do the rest. That at least is the argument. Some readers may already have seen the IMF study, by Jaromir Benes and Michael Kumhof, which came out in August and has begun to acquire a cult following around the world. Entitled "The Chicago Plan Revisited", it revives the scheme first put forward by professors Henry Simons and Irving Fisher in 1936 during the ferment of creative thinking in the late Depression. Irving Fisher thought credit cycles led to an unhealthy concentration of wealth. He saw it with his own eyes in the early 1930s as creditors foreclosed on destitute farmers, seizing their land or buying it for a pittance at the bottom of the cycle. The farmers found a way of defending themselves in the end. They muscled together at "one dollar auctions", buying each other's property back for almost nothing. Any carpet-bagger who tried to bid higher was beaten to a pulp.

First strike in 50 years. Either it's a blip or a sign of bigger things to come. Lay your bets.

The Waltons have a lot to lose. They'll make the lives of anyone who crosses them a complete misery. You'll be proud of them.

dozens of workers? Out of the millions? No strike at that percentage has ever succeeded. Momentum will build.

So things must be pretty bad for workers to strike.

Two weeks after dozens of Walmart employees walked off the job in the company's first-ever daylong strike, workers say retaliation for efforts to unionize must end by Nov. 23—"Black Friday"— or another strike will occur.

Maybe, the officer has an eye for the obvious!? To bundle all law enforcement officers under one category because of the actions of a small number of officers is totally ignorant and absolutely lacking in common sense. Chuck I wouldn't call 10 on 1 a small number. You're twisting things again... nothing new there!! I was talking about ALL law enforcement officers compared to a very, very few bad cops. Your generalities don't hold water. Trying to make one incident look like the way all cops are is just silly. That's what you are trying to do and I'm not buying it. Chuck This is two 'incidents' out of many hundreds. Name 'em!! Along with frequency of incidences. You want to bunch-up all cops as 'bad' show us the proof. An incident here or there does not cover all cops. Chuck Hundreds does though...

Well said ..... I was "in the job' for over 11 years. In those years I obviously worked with 100s of Police officers. 98 per cent were good decent people. 2 per cent were arseholes but you get that every where.(except Dzs LOL)(most of those 2 per cent did not last long) Squeak will not agree but most join for the right reasons. Why did i leave ? Its such a high pressure job I found 11 years enough (its not like you see on TV) Now do security for the Police and govt buildings. There is now more accountability than ever before with camersa etc. Even tasers have a camera that records as soon as drawn from the holster. I always found most people supported the cops until it affected them ie ticket for speeding etc. Then you were an arswhole for doing your job (or ass whole in USA speak) Believe it or not plenty of skydivers are in the job It is the same world wide irrelevant of the culture of the nation because the Police are recruited from the wider community and therefore are a microcosm of the society they Police, and every society has its heroes, ordinary people and a sprinkling of arses. Hillsborough...

Maybe, the officer has an eye for the obvious!? To bundle all law enforcement officers under one category because of the actions of a small number of officers is totally ignorant and absolutely lacking in common sense. Chuck I wouldn't call 10 on 1 a small number. You're twisting things again... nothing new there!! I was talking about ALL law enforcement officers compared to a very, very few bad cops. Your generalities don't hold water. Trying to make one incident look like the way all cops are is just silly. That's what you are trying to do and I'm not buying it. Chuck This is two 'incidents' out of many hundreds.

Maybe, the officer has an eye for the obvious!? To bundle all law enforcement officers under one category because of the actions of a small number of officers is totally ignorant and absolutely lacking in common sense. Chuck I wouldn't call 10 on 1 a small number.

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2012/10/15-1 Surveillance video caught two NYPD officers in Brooklyn as they beat the crap out of a young shirtless guy at a Jewish youth center - who had permission to be there - for sleeping and declining to get arrested, after which eight more beefy officers joined in. Warning: graphic.

Note: Robin Hood stole from the rich. The rich made their money through taxes. The poor were poor because the government taxed them into it. Thus, I am actually in agreement with you. Let's get the money from the government and give it back to those from whom it was taken. Let's leave some for the government to provide necessary services, i.e., making sure roads and defense and interstate disputes are managed, and give the rest back Sorry but Robinhood did not steal from the rich, he stole from the government (the king) and gave to the people. The king being the richest of the 1%. he was only rich because he over taxed to people. He was only rich because he inherited it.

So the police can call you a 'pig' or any other name they can think of and you can't answer back?

I see, in your universe the cops can literally read your mind and then abuse you if they think you're thinking of them negatively. Or, just the same old 'he looked at me while being black' routine.

Note: Robin Hood stole from the rich. The rich made their money through taxes. The poor were poor because the government taxed them into it. Thus, I am actually in agreement with you. Let's get the money from the government and give it back to those from whom it was taken. Let's leave some for the government to provide necessary services, i.e., making sure roads and defense and interstate disputes are managed, and give the rest back Sorry but Robinhood did not steal from the rich, he stole from the government (the king) and gave to the people. The king being the richest of the 1%.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/9603745/EU-awarded-Nobel-Peace-Prize.html "The union and its forerunners have for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe," said the Nobel prize committee. In its citation the Nobel committee acknowledged that the EU was today facing turmoil as the economic defects of the euro have laid waste to many Southern European countries and have plunged all Europe into the worst recession for 80 years. "The EU is currently undergoing grave economic difficulties and considerable social unrest," said the citation. "The Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to focus on what it sees as the EU's most important result: the successful struggle for peace and reconciliation and for democracy and human rights. The stabilizing part played by the EU has helped to transform most of Europe from a continent of war to a continent of peace."

since when do you get to define what is or is not earned income. I say they eaned it all. Thus the battle is begun.

This is where I tell you that Walmart will use extreme state violence to prevent a single dollar of their unearned wealth being taken from them. Let's hope not too many die.

Walmart will work very well once it is unionised. Don't worry.