http://www.thebeerbarrel.net/showthread.php?8190-Chinese-copy-of-Austrian-village-stirs-emotions
"We're happy they find it beautiful enough to copy," says souvenir store owner Ingrid Janu. Hallstatt Mayor Alexander Scheutz describes the plan as "a compliment to our village," while hotel owner Monika Wenger thinks at least some Chinese who have seen the copy cat version of Hallstatt will want to visit the original.
But in a deeply traditional part of Austria shielded for centuries from much of the rest of the world by towering mountains and steep valleys, the apparent secrecy surrounding the project has also revived suspicions of outsiders, even though Hallstatt survives only because of the millionds of tourist dollars spent here every year.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
U.S. housing collapse is now worse than during the Great Depression
http://www.thebeerbarrel.net/showthread.php?8152-Housing-Collapse-Steeper-Than-During-Great-Depression
Dales said the collapse has eclipsed that of the Great Depression because the boom that preceded it was much bigger. Unlike during the 1920s, access to the housing market was far more open leading up to 2006.
"This boom was characterized by homeownership becoming the norm for pretty much anyone," Dales said, noting that the boom has effectively been thrown in reverse.
While the Stock markets have partially bounced back since the 2008 Wall Street collapse and the economy as a whole has been growing, the employment picture is bleak and housing continues to suffer.
The national jobless rate ticked up to 9.1 percent in May -- that was after the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index issued a report showing home prices in a dozen metropolitan regions hit their lowest level in March since the collapse began. Nationally, prices hit a new post-collapse low in the first quarter, and have returned to roughly 2002 levels.
Dales said the collapse has eclipsed that of the Great Depression because the boom that preceded it was much bigger. Unlike during the 1920s, access to the housing market was far more open leading up to 2006.
"This boom was characterized by homeownership becoming the norm for pretty much anyone," Dales said, noting that the boom has effectively been thrown in reverse.
While the Stock markets have partially bounced back since the 2008 Wall Street collapse and the economy as a whole has been growing, the employment picture is bleak and housing continues to suffer.
The national jobless rate ticked up to 9.1 percent in May -- that was after the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index issued a report showing home prices in a dozen metropolitan regions hit their lowest level in March since the collapse began. Nationally, prices hit a new post-collapse low in the first quarter, and have returned to roughly 2002 levels.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Some are predicting the end of the cheap “China price”;
http://www.thebeerbarrel.net/showthread.php?8139-The-end-of-cheap-goods
He argues that Asian manufacturing has gone through a number of phases, each lasting about 30 years. When China was isolated under Mao Zedong, companies in Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea grew expert at making things. When China reopened in the late 1970s, after Mao’s death, these experienced Asian operators converged on southern China. With almost free access to land and labour, plus an efficient port and logistics hub in nearby Hong Kong, they started to make things ever more cheaply and sell them to the whole world.
He argues that Asian manufacturing has gone through a number of phases, each lasting about 30 years. When China was isolated under Mao Zedong, companies in Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea grew expert at making things. When China reopened in the late 1970s, after Mao’s death, these experienced Asian operators converged on southern China. With almost free access to land and labour, plus an efficient port and logistics hub in nearby Hong Kong, they started to make things ever more cheaply and sell them to the whole world.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Not Just for Big Words
http://www.thebeerbarrel.net/showthread.php?8133-Justices-Turning-More-Frequently-to-Dictionary
J. Gordon Christy, a professor at the Mississippi College School of Law, surveyed the scene in 2006, and he did not like what he saw. “We are treated,” Mr. Christy wrote in The Mississippi Law Journal, “to the truly absurd spectacle of august justices and judges arguing over which unreliable dictionary and which unreliable dictionary definition should be deemed authoritative.”
In the last two decades, the use of dictionaries at the Supreme Court has been booming.
A new study in The Marquette Law Review found that the justices had used dictionaries to define 295 words or phrases in 225 opinions in the 10 years starting in October 2000. That is roughly in line with the previous decade but an explosion by historical standards. In the 1960s, for instance, the court relied on dictionaries to define 23 terms in 16 opinions.
Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Benjamin N. Cardozo and Louis D. Brandeis managed to make it through distinguished careers on the Supreme Court without citing dictionaries.
Learned Hand, widely considered the greatest judge never to have served on the Supreme Court, cautioned against the mechanical examination of words in isolation.
J. Gordon Christy, a professor at the Mississippi College School of Law, surveyed the scene in 2006, and he did not like what he saw. “We are treated,” Mr. Christy wrote in The Mississippi Law Journal, “to the truly absurd spectacle of august justices and judges arguing over which unreliable dictionary and which unreliable dictionary definition should be deemed authoritative.”
In the last two decades, the use of dictionaries at the Supreme Court has been booming.
A new study in The Marquette Law Review found that the justices had used dictionaries to define 295 words or phrases in 225 opinions in the 10 years starting in October 2000. That is roughly in line with the previous decade but an explosion by historical standards. In the 1960s, for instance, the court relied on dictionaries to define 23 terms in 16 opinions.
Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Benjamin N. Cardozo and Louis D. Brandeis managed to make it through distinguished careers on the Supreme Court without citing dictionaries.
Learned Hand, widely considered the greatest judge never to have served on the Supreme Court, cautioned against the mechanical examination of words in isolation.
Monday, June 13, 2011
beat them with paddle
http://www.thebeerbarrel.net/showthread.php?8113-Investigators-Polk-deputy-tied-naked-children-to-desk-beat-them-with-paddle
Investigators say Pagoria cut the legs off one end of the desk she used for the spanking. To keep the girls from moving, she handcuffed their arms and tied their ankles to the desk, deputies said.
The girls told investigators that Pagoria beat them with a leather sex paddle. The victims believed they were being punished — one said she was hit 50 times for being "disrespectful"
Detectives say Pagoria recorded the beatings on her cell phone, uploading them to the Internet so her online boyfriend could watch.
Investigators say Pagoria cut the legs off one end of the desk she used for the spanking. To keep the girls from moving, she handcuffed their arms and tied their ankles to the desk, deputies said.
The girls told investigators that Pagoria beat them with a leather sex paddle. The victims believed they were being punished — one said she was hit 50 times for being "disrespectful"
Detectives say Pagoria recorded the beatings on her cell phone, uploading them to the Internet so her online boyfriend could watch.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
A cryptology instruction book… 202 years old.
http://www.thebeerbarrel.net/showthread.php?8091-NSA-Declassifies-200-Year-Old-Book
Included in this new motherlode (.pdf) of supposedly secret-packed documents: a 1944 report on Japanese merchant ships, a 1946 dossier on Chinese railroads, and a 1954 German article on Lenin’s use of secret writing (with milk) while in prison. Presumably, this refers to Lenin’s stint in Siberia, in the mid-1890s. Exactly why Vladimir Ilyich’s reliance on lactose letters needed to be kept under wraps for 11 decades, the NSA doesn’t say.
Included in this new motherlode (.pdf) of supposedly secret-packed documents: a 1944 report on Japanese merchant ships, a 1946 dossier on Chinese railroads, and a 1954 German article on Lenin’s use of secret writing (with milk) while in prison. Presumably, this refers to Lenin’s stint in Siberia, in the mid-1890s. Exactly why Vladimir Ilyich’s reliance on lactose letters needed to be kept under wraps for 11 decades, the NSA doesn’t say.
now buying up USA
http://www.thebeerbarrel.net/showthread.php?8084-China-cashing-in-now-buying-up-USA-after-banks-foreclose-on-American-suckers
so instead of letting us have the domestic inflation to cure the depression that the populists wanted -- we get instead super deflation here forcing us to put everything we own up on the chopping block -- and the Fed then pays with new dollars the Chinese as it buys from the Chinese all of the debt the Chinese took on as it undersold all of our businesses in the 80's and 90's and 2000s and drove them to ruin (or else to China) -- so now the Chinese have the money -- they have the inflation that we needed but which Rothschild would not let us have -- so now the chinese can come in with all the inflation money and they can be the first spenders in buying all of our distressed and foreclosed assets.
The creditors (Chinese elites, international financial elites/organized crime) thus have given themselves all the money -- that was never ours, that was never really American money, but always -- since world war one for which the Fed was designed -- always an international money -- as I was saying the creditors gave themselves all the money and created the deflationary depression inside the USA so that all the choice propereties would be put on sale, so that bankrupt states and cities and counties and the federal government would put all of their land and paying assets (parking meters sold to J B Morgan for example) and the government also sells its deregulations -- allowing generic drugs to become retro-patent violations, giving monopolies on drugs that were competitive -- with fantastic increases in price to the consumer -- as I say - there is not inflation -- only monopoly price increases -- the creditors are killing you with deflation while building up the invading foreign hoards with an inflation of dollars from the "QE" buying of Chinese held US securities for dollar cash.
so instead of letting us have the domestic inflation to cure the depression that the populists wanted -- we get instead super deflation here forcing us to put everything we own up on the chopping block -- and the Fed then pays with new dollars the Chinese as it buys from the Chinese all of the debt the Chinese took on as it undersold all of our businesses in the 80's and 90's and 2000s and drove them to ruin (or else to China) -- so now the Chinese have the money -- they have the inflation that we needed but which Rothschild would not let us have -- so now the chinese can come in with all the inflation money and they can be the first spenders in buying all of our distressed and foreclosed assets.
The creditors (Chinese elites, international financial elites/organized crime) thus have given themselves all the money -- that was never ours, that was never really American money, but always -- since world war one for which the Fed was designed -- always an international money -- as I was saying the creditors gave themselves all the money and created the deflationary depression inside the USA so that all the choice propereties would be put on sale, so that bankrupt states and cities and counties and the federal government would put all of their land and paying assets (parking meters sold to J B Morgan for example) and the government also sells its deregulations -- allowing generic drugs to become retro-patent violations, giving monopolies on drugs that were competitive -- with fantastic increases in price to the consumer -- as I say - there is not inflation -- only monopoly price increases -- the creditors are killing you with deflation while building up the invading foreign hoards with an inflation of dollars from the "QE" buying of Chinese held US securities for dollar cash.
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