HILLARY/SANDER'S HERO - SAUL ALINSKY...(ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 6/13/12)

Saul Alinsky pontificated in his Rules for Radicals that to destroy the American system that a realistic radical is completely unconcerned about the verification of facts and that they are only interested in their agenda. He states that the purpose of radicals is to sew discontent and to seek to create an environment so they can influence the generally ignorant population to support political goals that would otherwise be unsupportable in the face of the facts.

TRUMP AND THE "FAKE"MEDIA - THE REAL STORY (ORIGINALLY PUBLISHE 2/5/17)

If you really want to get confused, remember that CNBC really should not be in the business of giving investment advice to the public.  What an abomination.

There is no such thing as the free press and media.  There are however less than a dozen large companies that control practically all of the TV stations, radio stations, Internet access, newspapers, etc.

They are Disney, Viacom, Comcast, CBS, Fox and half a dozen others.

These are companies whose sole objective is to increase the value of their shares by attention getting words and pictures.

ALL OF THE PEOPLE WE SEE ON TV ARE ACTORS AND EMPLOYEES OF THESE LARGE CORPORATIONS.  THEY ALL WORK FOR A HIERARCHY OF MANAGERS AND MUST ADHERE TO THE CORPORATE POLICIES AS SET FORTH BY THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THE CONTROLLING SHAREHOLDERS.

In addition, almost all the so-called media are reading from teleprompters words that are produced and written by people in the back room probably with an average age of less than 40.

A small group of executives control the media so when President Trump says fake media he is not too far off base.

I will close with one example. In the New York Times Sunday Magazine section dated February 26, 2017 there was an article about the increase in private school enrollment..  If you look at the statistics in the enrollment in private schools you will  find the left wing writer made up the story based on completely inaccurate facts. Private school enrollment is down.  A perfect example of completely fake news.

So when you are watching TV or reading the news,  it is not free speech it is entertainment.

If you really want to get confused, remember that CNBC really should not be in the business of giving investment advice to the public.  What an abomination.  

HIGH FREQUENCY TRADING...(ORIGINAL POSTING 8/6/11)

When the housing boom was taking place it developed huge vested interest in the continuation of the housing bubble. A voice in the dark could point out the absurdities of what was happening but the enjoyment of inflated prices and profits overwhelmed sanity, logic, discipline and history.

In my opinion, we are now being faced with a "time bomb" that will far exceed long term capital management, the insurance protection decline of the 1980s and the financial collapse of 2008. This huge "Black Swan", huge beyond comprehension, will hit when least expected and we will wonder why it wasn't dealt with before. The answer will be found underneath the rubble of certain greedy Wall Street types and vested political interests.

We cannot permit automated machine type trading, with no relationship to companies outlook, etc. to dominate the volume of trades in the stock market. There is no excuse, none whatsoever, for creating a machine driven gambling casino mentality in order to justify the existence of capitalism.

Here is what's going to happen. A computer driven decline will occur and the brakes will fail due to human error or whatever causing the equity wealth of the country to be sharply cut again. Because there will be something happening in the world at that time, recovery will not be as fast as it was in the late 2000's. All computerized trading, of the type we are referring to, should be made illegal and stopped before its too late.

The vested interest will tell you otherwise and make their case. Just like in the long term capital case they are mostly using other people's money and are more concerned with their chance of winning than losing. The monies not theirs anyhow and there is no concern for the system, only their own profits.

Look at the erratic swings in the stock market that have occurred in the last few weeks. We draw this as a small example, a very small example, of what is coming if we don't stop this type of computerized trading.

CAPITALISM WILL FAIL IF THIS IS HOW IT'S CONDUCTED.
P.S. Please remember that I am a very strong supporter of capitalism and many of the activities that our financial firms participate in. The probably isn't a better system than ours.

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And the money kept rolling in.Until it didn"t. Evita.The contract dispute between Amazon and Microsoft may seem like an ordinary battle between 2 giants with powers far beyond the money kept rolling in.It   is almost impossible to believe that we could even joke about the concentration of power that bezos is aiming for; As our stock rises the money keeps rolling in but underneath beware, Why would this small piece of business be so important to risk it all. He sees that our cohesion is so befuddled that just maybe the real story is way over our pay grade/