News, Rumors and Opinions Saturday PM 5-14-2022
TNT:
Sjliniwas: From Twitter : Parliament postpones the session of the Food Security Law. This is a surprise to no one. No new date yet.
Jambie67: Another postponement? Well, this has just become comical now. We could have added one year to the vote date they originally said, and still been on target. It’s beginning to feel like there’s zero point in following things and makes more sense to just check the IQD rate on the “cbi.iq” website or check with local banks for rates once a month. This circular motion from Iraq is nothing but dizzying.
Speedy: I can’t bring myself to laugh about this anymore !!
RVAlready: Maybe they will get there. But after they said on Friday that Parliament was ready and eager to pass the food law, and then postponed again on Saturday, I find it difficult to believe anything they say. I don’t really know if we will have to wait a week, a month, a year, or another several decades. It would be nice if Iraq could be trusted.
CharlieOK: rv: "in the coming days" according to one of tish's articles
RVAlready: Oh no. In the coming days? Really? That is the Iraq equivalent to the US “we are sending this for further study”.
AJTexas: Here is the problem with Iraq politicians. Almost 22% of the adult population in Iraq has never attended school, and a mere 9% have secondary school as highest level completed. To me this means that don't have a clue about decision making!
Chevy: Remember - Just because we aren't hearing anything doesn't mean that nothing is happening
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Courtesy of Dinar Guru
Pimpy They're [Iraq] is gonna have a lot of extra money this year. It's projected that they'll have 26 billion extra dollars. There's a lot they could do with this. Man I can only imagine what Iraq is going to be like in the future as long as they can see from fighting with one another.
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Bill Holter: They're Hiding The Facts From You!
Compact financial News Daily: May 14, 2022
The Truth about The Coming Global Currency Reset and The Decline of the US Dollar
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IF YOU ARE NOT OUTRAGED, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN PAYING ATTENTION.
The income inequality in the United States has not been this pronounced in over a century. The middle class doesn't exist anymore, and the new working poor cannot continue for much longer.
The top 10% has 50% of the country's Income. And the top 1% has 20% of the income. while a quarter of all American workers struggle on wages of less than $10 an hour putting them below the poverty line .
Meanwhile the salaries of the CEOs of top corporations are often in the billions of dollars . Today there are 2200 billionaires in America. This income inequality is global ; the wealthiest 1% of the world's population controls 40% of The world's wealth.
We are at a point in which the capitalist system; which has been the growing dominant system for the last 300 years; and wanted to present itself in contradiction to feudalism and slavery; as the system that creates a massive the middle class that lifts everybody up.
And what we have now ; is that it has become the global system that is the exact opposite. It has reproduced the kinds of grotesque inequalities that we associate with everything from the Versailles Palace of the late King Louis back to the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt. It is a stunning expose of an economic system that couldn't deliver what it promised. And now wants to distract everybody from this harsh Reality.
This is the a significant measure of a capitalist system by Its own claims, and it can't deliver. That's why we're besieged with economic and political theater; anti-immigration and tariffs; All that kind of stuff blaming foreigners for anything to get us away from confronting an economic a system that doesn't work for the majority of the people.
Not only this capitalism does not work, but the assault is being exacerbated. As we saw with the new tax code . The new tax code really is a kind of explosive excess. it's when you've crossed the line, and finally it is so grotesque that even those who didn't want to see are forced to see .
We have had 30 to 40 years in which corporations have paid fewer taxes than they ever did. They have made more money than they ever did before. They have been able to keep wages stagnant; while the the productivity of labor rose. This is the last moment historically that they needed another big gift; let alone at the expense of the very people whose wages have been stagnant.
To give them a tax bust of this sort; basically reducing from 35 percent to 20 percent is a 40 Percent cut. This kind of crazy excess does remind us of the late Louis in France before the French Revolution. When the level of excess reached the Explosive social dimensions. And I think That's where we are.
What about that a moment in American history, let's call it the Golden Age of Labor right After World War Two. When ,capitalism took credit for and, we did have for a period of a couple of decades a well Compensated working class. Working class could be part of the middle Class. The irony which people don't want to remember ,yes that's true. I'd like to explain to you how the figures that they use to justify , what they call a recovery are, in fact, fictional.
Yeah there's a number of ways in which this is done . You know; at any moment there are an immense array of economic statistics some of them make it look like the future might be a little bit better others make it look like the future look And grim. A reasonable approach tries to weigh these .
But if you don't do analysis you do advertising or ideological more then you only look at the one . And you pretend the other ones don't exist. So bear with me . if I point out some of the data that don't show that this is a recovery.