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[MONEY] Risk Parity Funds Just Suffered The Biggest Loss In History - when hedge arbitrage breaks down - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

There are a few bell weathers starting to make the rounds, here's one: "X suffers Biggest Loss in History!" In this case, the X in the headline is "ALL risk parity funds" where risk parity funds are a type of hedge funds which apparently arbitrage stocks and aginst bonds. Risk Parity Funds Just Suffered The Biggest Loss In History https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/risk-parity-funds-just-suffered-biggest-l… When your fud-durr-durr-mentals are brokensaw - 'member the Fed' - your houses of cards built on those fundamentals will at some point come crashing down. You see there's a funny little thing with usury - the mathematical fundamental of this very Jewish banking system is exponential - forever growth or infinite growth (unlimited "economic expansion"). Now fictitious "assets" can in fact grow in unlimited numerical terms, but when "the real economy" is tied to fictious exponentially growing "financial assets", then there is a basic imbalance which must, inevitably, appear - one could say this is the ultimate arbitrage, between exponential maths and reality. One consequence of this rollercoaster of financial death is that every mechanism designed on this exponential (thus broken) system, must itself be in essence, an exponentially growing system - so hedge funds must grow exponentially, every tool of financialization will, eventually, demonstrate exponential growth (such as stock buy backs etc), and the real economy needs to also grow exponentially to prop all the financialization up - and this is in fact achieved with things like real estate and business price growth. (Those who are somewhat familiar with real estate from a lowly "investor" perspective, will be aware that there are expanding ripples of price inflation over time, which hit different geographic regions at different times (different years, sometimes different decades) - and once the "investor" crowd hits a new geographic area which was once relatively dormant (Australia's a big country ok), then the key growth metric is the time period for (real estate) price doubling - which is usually around the 6 to 8 years mark.) So, real estate doubling in price every X years? Yes, that's exponential "asset valuation increases" and real estate is a fundamental of "the real economy" which supports the house of fictious cards above it. But this exponential is gonna bite, because to support exponentially rising real estate prices, you need exponentially rising incomes to pay the interest rates. So one signal of the imbalances of all this coming to the fore is usurious interest rates plummeting. Is this a good thing? No, because a) this demonstrates we are in a fundamentally messed up money system, b) real estate prices are way out of whack with real (average person) incomes, c) real estate price inflation has itself caused a bunch of system imbalances, wealth divide etc., and surely other reasons still. Now, the summary and line punch: 0) our present money system is, mathematically, exponential; for the time being we are bound by this, and we see some of the effects of this quite starkly today 1) every aspect of our system must therefore also be exponential (in growth or decline); e.g. every "emergency intervention system" (such as QE) must also be eponential, that is, each QE (on average) must grow exponentially with respect to the previous intervention (corporate share buybacks are a pooman's (poor CEO's) intervention mechanism) 2) eventually the Fed's QE intervention must be larger than the entire market; in other words, at some point, if the goal is to sustain the system's existence, the Fed shall be mathematically bound, literally, to buy every asset everywhere, or the system will literally collapse if they fail to do so - i.e. to buy every bond (gov and corp), every business, every stock/share, every real estate title This is of course the basic mechanism of an exponential debt based system, and one can fairly say this is in fact the intention of this system - Atlas Shrugged - no matter who you are, how ethical, how successful, how well intentioned, how contributory to society at large, except that you are the owner of the system (i.e. the BIS - 'member the Fed), then you are Atlas, and you are targetted, and eventually, in order to merely survive financially, you will have to sell to the Fed/BIS. This is the nature, and intention, of "the Federal Reserve Banking system: your gibs, are mine!" Exponential Growth and the Legend of Paal Paysam http://www.singularitysymposium.com/exponential-growth.html The rice and the chessboard story – The power of exponential growth https://purposefocuscommitment.com/the-rice-and-the-chess-board-story/ There was once a king in India who was a big chess enthusiast and had the habit of challenging wise visitors to a game of chess. One day a traveling sage was challenged by the king. The sage having played this game all his life all the time with people all over the world gladly accepted the Kings challenge. To motivate his opponent the king offered any reward that the sage could name. The sage modestly asked just for a few grains of rice in the following manner: the king was to put a single grain of rice on the first chess square and double it on every consequent one. The king accepted the sage’s request. Having lost the game and being a man of his word the king ordered a bag of rice to be brought to the chessboard. Then he started placing rice grains according to the arrangement: 1 grain on the first square, 2 on the second, 4 on the third, 8 on the fourth and so on. Following the exponential growth of the rice payment, the king quickly realized that he was unable to fulfill his promise because on the twentieth square the king would have had to put 1,000,000 grains of rice. On the fortieth square, the king would have had to put 1,000,000,000 grains of rice. And, finally, on the sixty-fourth square, the king would have had to put more than 18,000,000,000,000,000,000 grains of rice which is equal to about 210 billion tons and is allegedly sufficient to cover the whole territory of India with a meter thick layer of rice. It was at that point that the sage told the king that he doesn’t have to pay the debt immediately but can do so over time. And so the sage became the wealthiest person in the world.

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Diplomat suffered memory loss while stationed in China.
by jim bell 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

Anyone with an Android smartphone should be able to download an audio spectrum analyzer app to detect various sonic events. Further, I believe that USB-connected SDR's (Software-Defined Radios) which can implement cheap spectrum analyzers are cheaply available. https://www.walmart.com/ip/100KHz-1-7GHz-Full-Band-UV-HF-RTL-SDR-USB-Tuner-… $25.31, in kit form.Although, this specific one is limited to 100Khz-1 GHz. Anything reasonably usable to go to at least 3 GHz. Jim Bell BY BOB SALSBERG, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A U.S. diplomat who said he suffered headaches and memory loss under mysterious circumstances while stationed in China pledged Friday to donate his brain to head injury researchers. Mark Lenzi, 44, is an unusual addition to the several thousand others, including many former NFL players who suffered concussions during their careers, who previously signed agreements to have their brains studied after they die by the CTE Center at Boston University. A security engineer for the U.S. State Department, Lenzi was among a number of diplomats who were brought home last year from the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, China, after reporting as-yet-unexplained symptoms. The State Department has drawn no link between those diplomats and 26 workers at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba who were withdrawn in 2017 after reporting symptoms, including those consistent with minor traumatic brain injury, or concussion. "The engineer in me wants to get to the bottom of this type of concussion and exactly what happened to me," Lenzi said while signing the pledge in Boston with representatives of the Concussion Legacy Foundation, an organization that collaborates with the BU researchers by recruiting donors and publicizing the dangers associated with head trauma. Chris Nowinski, co-founder and chief executive of the foundation, said the brain injury community must continue research to find answers for head trauma. "There are patients out there that need answers from the scientific community," he said. Lenzi now works at a State Department passport office in his native New Hampshire. He said he and his wife began hearing strange noises in their apartment in 2017, and later developed symptoms consistent with concussion. In an interview with the AP, he said he initially did not associate the noises with the symptoms, believing the headaches may have been triggered by smog. Lenzi has not been identified by U.S. officials as someone suffering from injuries similar to those suffered by diplomats in Cuba. The State Department said Friday that out of 15 diplomats or family members from China who underwent additional medical evaluation in the U.S., 14 were found not to have symptoms like those from Cuba and the other case had not been determined. [end of partial quote]

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Organ Harvesting - "good business practice" - China's evil underbelly - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

Business - "take advantage" (in Chinese) - "good Chinese business practice" where if someone's on death row, why not make good use of their organs? And if someone with an organ you need, is not on death's row, perhaps they're involved in an illegal religion and can be 'disappeared' with state support... Aka, why we should disengage from China, why we should not buy Chinese, why we should hold ourselves to higher standards than the very Jewish slave and organ harvesting trades. Robert Kaplan lays out a simple parable to make this even easier to understand. The Moral Case For Decoupling From China https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/moral-case-decoupling-china https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/the_moral_case_for_decoupl… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-2cArChw5M ~290MiB with -F18 ... The whole 68-minute interview is interesting but where he is a thought leader is in his parable of the delicatessen, transcribed below: "Suppose you lived on 86th st and at the local delicatessen with fine produce, at the front of the shop were all these goodies. But if you went to the very back of the shop there were sort of vats which were kept just above freezing which had freshly harvested kidneys and livers and hearts and all the things which are used at this moment. … People are being killed so their organs can be used for transplants. Many of which go to the very elderly Chinese leadership or their children. The son of one of the recent leaders of China has had cancer and he has had many organs replaced. Well, what would you say about this shop. Would you say, well, I think I’ll just shop in the front of the shop and I won’t pay any attention to the fact that there are all these living human organs, God knows where they came from, that are in the back. What you would say is ‘What the heck is this shop doing in America?’ You can’t decouple these things. This is one integral system. And that is one of the reasons we have to quarantine China economically. A rationalisation for saying ‘Well yes it’s true that there is some question with what Hitler is doing with the gypsies and the Jews but Leica still makes a hell of a good camera.” ...

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Watch this space: "Rhode Island National Guard to Conduct House-To-House Searches to Hunt Down New Yorkers"
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Interesting times - watch this space: INSANITY: Rhode Island National Guard to Conduct House-To-House Searches to Hunt Down New Yorkers https://www.anti-empire.com/insanity-rhode-island-national-guard-to-conduct… Rhode Island police began stopping cars with New York plates Friday. On Saturday, the National Guard will help them conduct house-to-house searches to find people who traveled from New York and demand 14 days of self-quarantine. .. Many New Yorkers have summer houses in Rhode Island, especially in tony Newport, and the governor said the authorities would be checking there. “Yesterday I announced and today I reiterated: Anyone coming to Rhode Island in any way from New York must be quarantined,” the governor said. “By order. Will be enforced. Enforceable by law.” Raimondo signed an executive order Thursday that applies to anyone who has been in New York during the past two weeks and through at least April 25. It doesn’t apply to public health, public safety, or health-care workers. National Guard members will be stationed at the T.F. Green airport, Amtrak train stations and at bus stops. The citizen-soldiers will be following up with people at local residences. The maximum penalty for not complying: a fine of $500 and 90 days in prison. The local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union blasted the new rules, objecting to the collection of motorists’ contact information in particular. ..

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Soul cookie -- Fw: Sleepy cat gets a bit crowded by his buddies
by Zig the N.g 07 Apr '20

07 Apr '20

The -most- important thing to remember here is that there is only ONE breed of animal - The Animal - there are no birds (that's birdist) and there are no cats (that's catism). There are just animals and making any distinction is absolute patriarchal dominance at its worst! It's 2020 already! Tube cat direct: https://t.co/LHbenCk1se ----- Forwarded message ----- Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 08:07:23 +1300 Subject: Re: Sleepy cat gets a bit crowded by his buddies Unreal! Beautiful. Cannot look at them without bursting into smiles :) :) :) On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 2:35 AM Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> wrote: > Sleepy cat is happy with his buddies crowding in on him :) > > > https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202002211078371191-my-precious-cat-sleeps… > > ----- End forwarded message -----

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HK: Coronavirus fallout - toilet paper runs - snatch n grab at knifepoint - what humans do
by Zig the N.g 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

And from the "one death, bat soup and panic buying, to 'grab your toilet paper at knifepoint'" dept. - understanding human psychology when tshtf: Gold is the most important thing, so the most important things, like toilet paper, must be wrapped in golden wrapping [pic of actual goden wrapped toilet papers being carried by the dozens outside a store, from article not attached]. And of course, as everybody knows, when tshtf the most important things end up in short supply - so what do you do? Grab the golden loot at any cost, even knifepoint, that's what you do: Coronavirus: Hong Kong police on a roll as third suspect in toilet paper heist flushed out https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3051231/coronavir… Christy Leung Published: 11:00pm, 18 Feb, 2020 - Man was picked up during raid at guest house on Sai Yee Street a day after supermarket staff were robbed at knifepoint early on Monday morning - Hong Kong has been gripped by panic buying since the coronavirus outbreak, as spooked residents snap up essentials such as rice and tissue paper Another man has been arrested in Hong Kong for his role in a bizarre toilet paper heist outside a Mong Kok supermarket, as a gang aimed to clean up during a run of panic buying in the city, sparked by the deadly coronavirus. The man, 26, was picked up during a raid at a guest house on Sai Yee Street, not far from the scene of the robbery – in which 600 toilet rolls worth HK$1,640 (US$211) were stolen. “We believe the trio thought the rolls would have [market] value and that they could profit by reselling them,” Chief Inspector Chow Ka-man said. “They knew each other and one of them has a triad background.” Chow added the gangs moved the toilet rolls in a trolley after the crime and that he believed there would be more arrests. At about 6am on Monday, three masked men stole 50 packets of toilet roll from a delivery man outside a Wellcome supermarket in Mong Kok. Police said one of the men was armed with two knives. Two people, aged 50 and 55, were arrested on Monday, and the force said at the time they were seeking three others, thought to be aged between 20 and 30. Two of the arrested were guest house employees while the third was unemployed. Wellcome earlier said its staff were threatened and robbed while they were unloading a delivery from a truck at the store. No one was injured. The incident followed weeks of panic buying at supermarkets across the city after online rumours sparked fears of a shortage of essential goods, such as rice and tissue paper, caused by the outbreak of the virus, which originated in mainland China. The government repeatedly reassured the public that supplies remain unaffected by the outbreak, yet residents continued to empty grocery stores. Hong Kong recorded its 62nd confirmed case of infection on Tuesday evening, and there has been one death.

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Are you a man, or a pouty little bitch? - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 04 Apr '20

04 Apr '20

A 6 minute true story for y'all (and just a couple mentions o' God). tl;dr - "Am I a man . . . or a pouty little bitch?" Fell Back Into the Fallen State ... All For a Girl! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpWnAdhv3J8 ~5:54 "I'm going to get myself out of this hole, because I put myself in this hole." JLP - "Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man." -- 5 day challenge muffas :) Do not wake the snake for 5 days.

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Gold and Silver coin - South Carolina 4th state in the union, Ag/Au = legal tender - [MONEY]
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Apr '20

02 Apr '20

>From the "getting back to the constitution" and the "about time" departments (but Texas is not yet one of those 4 states): South Carolina Legal Tender Act Would Treat Gold & Silver As Money https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/south-carolina-legal-tender-act-would-t… https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/south-carolina-legal-tender-act-w… A bill prefiled in the South Carolina House would make gold and silver coins legal tender in the state. Passage of this bill would take a step toward creating currency competition in South Carolina and undermine the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money. Rep. Stewart Jones filed House Bill 4678 (H.4678) on Nov. 20. Under the proposed law, “gold and silver coins minted foreign or domestic shall be legal tender in the State of South Carolina under the laws of this State. No person or other entity may compel another person or other entity to tender or accept gold or silver coin unless agreed upon by the parties.” Practically speaking, this would allow South Carolina residents to use gold or silver coins to pay taxes and other debts owed to the state. In effect, it would put gold and silver on the same footing as Federal Reserve notes. The phrase, “unless agreed upon by the parties” has important legal ramifications. This wording reaffirms the court’s ability, and constitutional responsibility according to Article I, Section 10, to require specific performance when enforcing such contracts. If voluntary parties agree to be paid, or to pay, in gold and silver coin, South Carolina courts could not substitute any other thing, e.g. Federal Reserve Notes, as payment. South Carolina could become the fourth state to recognize gold and silver as legal tender. Utah led the way, reestablishing constitutional money in 2011. Wyoming and Oklahoma have since joined. The effect has been most dramatic in Utah where United Precious Metals Association (UMPA) was established after the passage of the Utah Specie Legal Tender Act and the elimination of all taxes on gold and silver. UPMA offers accounts denominated in U.S. minted gold and silver dollars. The company also recently released the “Utah Goldback.” UPMA describes it as “the first local, voluntary currency to be made of a spendable, beautiful, physical gold.” South Carolina has already repealed the sales tax on gold and silver. That removed one barrier to using gold and silver in everyday transactions. Capital gains taxes are still imposed on gold and silver for state income tax purposes. After establishing gold and silver as legal tender, South Carolina should repeal the capital gains tax to completely open the door to using it as money. As the Sound Money Defence League explains, “Practically speaking, state laws that recognize gold and silver as money restore a government view of precious metals as the favored form of money – a currency rather than a piece of property or other asset. Using this logic, it would be inappropriate for a state to levy taxes when the precious metals are used or exchanged.” Background ...

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Top Secret: 20+TB SSD is nothing
by grarpamp 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/fjt30v/this_is_the_pcb_of_a_… https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/fjt6b8/thought_you_guys_would… https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/7b9l4c/who_here_likes_ssds_t… https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/7b0coq/who_here_likes_ssds_th… https://twitch.tv/tt2468_h3 User works for a company that also sells classified SSD systems to government. 20TB is what they can post without getting fired, in production for over 2 years. Utah has much bigger, and you're in it. Anyone do a raw component and assembly cost workup on 25 / 50 / 100 TB class units? Jim?

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[MINISTRY] stop being racist - The Bee: Non-racist terminology replacements
by Zig the N.g 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

The Bee provides a helpful list of non-racist terminologies to replace racist terms that unthoughtful (at least nominally racist) racist people keep using. Please stop. PSA: Stop Using Racist Terminology https://babylonbee.com/news/psa-stop-using-racist-terminology With the rise of the novel coronavirus, there has been an uptick in people saying racist things like suggesting the virus came from the region it did in fact come from. So we're encouraging our readers to avoid problematic terms like "Wuhan virus," "Chinese coronavirus," "Kung Flu," "Black Pepper Death," "Chopsick," "Srirachoo," "Terracougha Army," or the "Great Whoop of China." Definitely don't use any of those. And certainly never name a disease, product, or cultural trend after the area it's from. Instead, use our handy guide to avoid problematic, racist language: Instead of Say: --------------------- -------------------------------------- Wuhan virus Lung pao sicken Black death Death of colour Indian giver Elizabeth Warren Canadian bacon Geopolitically irrelevant, inferior bacon Mexican jumping beans Latinx acrobatic moth larvae Chinese dictator Austere totalitarian scholar Japanese cartoons It's called Anime and it's totally normal for adults to watch, mum!

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