MooPig Merger Watch Department :: "Jim Hightower"

There is no Safe Harbor for the Common Person
Scooped by Pat Darnell  |  Mar 7, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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Introduction
Financial types, and they definitely are a subset of humanity, do things through sleight of hand. The reason they sneak around is because they foretell futures of money as it flows through society. They have formulas that tell them when tomorrow will be a winner or a loser. And this propriety, they think, gives them the right to lurk about. Just like a diamond dealer won't tell you where the diamonds are stashed, right?

The rest of us, in context of work-a-day, go about our business mostly ignoring the financial types. They seem to be doing nothing, and that seems foreign to one who works.

I did an experiment ten years ago. I got jobs working as an insurance agent, first with Farmers Insurance, then second with Western Southern Enterprises. I did okay in the application processes until they gave me a psychological evaluation type test. I was border line, as I was told later. But I worked in the financial industry for six years.

You see, there is no right or wrong answer to psychological test of that kind. My answers were "compared" to answers from other applicants, and/or, successful financial types. The comparisons told the company if I fell in the zone of successful financial types, or not.

Having been in Construction Management, and having grown up through the trades, my answers were "not" in the zone, but rather on the edge of that bell curve.

You, see, financial groups, like insurance companies are pyramids, only they are built out of playing cards. It may surprise you to learn that a regional manager at Farmers Insurance makes about $3 million a year; yes, that's right, and it is hardly ever publicized. The guy at the top of the heap gets the biggest check. His money is made off the backs of others.

When a bunch of financial guys get together they try to act like normal people, but their inherent hatred of anything "not financial" makes them play their hand.

I find these financial types intriguing; like being at a Cabaret, I sometimes imagine. A group of men usually who wear facades, and talk percentages, but just below the facade is a regular smelly, old wool, metallic scented pile of protoplasm that will shrivel up if it has to find common ground with a common person. Or, if you stare at their hairpiece too long they will try everything to turn your gaze from it.

"Oh, I jog three miles every morning," he'll say. This is supposed to fit into his gimmick world. Misdirection is the whole story, the only story, and the way of financial types out there.

So, when Jim Hightower reports on the sweeps of the financial district, that means we are right now in a national state of intentional "mis-direction," and maybe it is time to WAKE THE HELL UP!

Jim Hightower | Wall Street gets giddy over the urge to merge: "One Wall Street economist says, giddily, that today's urge to merge is "a sign that corporate America believes that the [economic] expansion is going to accelerate." Yeah, and run right over us.

"Confidence on Upswing, Mergers Make Comeback," The New York Times, February 15, 2013. 

"A Job-Hacking Fed Policy," Austin American Statesman, February 24, 2013.

"Buyouts a boon to investors," Austin American Statesman, February 18, 2013.

"From ketchup to computers, companies are buying each other again. Is a flurry of LBOs next?" www.washingtonpost.com, February 15, 2013."

'via Blog this'

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http://jimhightower.com/node/7975#.UTjFahyzeSo
http://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2013/01/16/dell-the-return-of-the-prodigal-lbo-2/

Global Warming is False: Inflated Resumes Gore Themselves: Get your Climate Cheat Sheets

Life is a Carnivore, and other Cliche Deconstructions
by Pat Darnell, Tnilc Wakorb, George Thistleeeter, and T H Inne

It is a global question -- what is the real change? Starbucks made a small omission in their fifty year effort to turn carnivores inside out. But with Copenhagen Cultural Guide and a few key phrases, even Starbucks can move mountains. And the C-Class at Starbucks HQ might consider Bacon and Pork Burgers along with their beverage items. We at MooPig the Unfriendly are doing our best to alert the WORLD of the climate change gathering in Copenhagen... even though we are not invited.

Copenhagen is going to nod toward Brazil, and South American wishes, just wait and see. If you are attending, then you will find Life as a Carnivale will CHANGE to be Life as a Carnivore. That is, we will learn to live off our own wastes... or perish as over-stuffed moopig's.

From The Times | December 3, 2009

Cheat sheets: your Copenhagen cultural guide _________________***
If you are quick there's still time to sound intelligent about the climate change pow-wow. Read and see these... HERE [excerpts below]

BOOK:
Review this: Our Choice, A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
by Al Gore

TIMESonline Says: ... After scaring us all into apathy in An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore is back with a book designed to redress the balance. An upbeat introduction insists that we have the time and the tools to tackle climate change. Gore says that we are now aware of the problem and theoretically committed to finding a solution. A poem by the man himself underscores the point. Gore is not, however, a natural poet.

In prose, the core of the Gore philosophy is simple; with political will we can curb our reliance on fossil fuels, thus solving the climate crisis, the economic gloom and the political folly of over-reliance on oil.

This is not a game plan for the individual — Gore is concerned with the political, economic and social framework for change. Renewable energy must receive the backing of governments and markets. Gore is a big fan of geothermal energy, nuclear energy is over-rated and expensive.

Alongside a renewed political and fiscal investment in renewable must come a punitive price on carbon emissions. Gore suggests that a combination of a carbon tax and a cap-and-trade system would work, but it needs agreement across international borders.

"We need," says Gore, "a new vision of capital markets; a sustainable capitalism and an end to untrammelled materialism. Support for forests must come into any international agreement on a price for carbon; up to 23 per cent of carbon emissions come from burning the world’s forests."

Do say: "Everyone with a voice at Copenhagen needs to read this book."

Don’t say: "Please keep writing poetry, Mr Gore."

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BOOK:

Challenged by Carbon: the Oil Industry and Climate Change
by Bryan Lovell
Do say: Governments should recognise that oil companies can be heroes as well as villains.
Don’t say: What’s the difference between sedimentary and igneous?
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BOOK:
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
by Mark Lynas
Do say: We are messing with the climatic thermostat of this planet at our extreme — and growing — peril.
Don’t say: Roll on barbecue summers.
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I think you all are catching marvelously. So to it go, and blow the wind to a better 'morrow, whither 'tis brighter in May, soon we will have less to say. There is always HOPE.