GREEK DEFAULT LOOMS AS CONTAGION SPREADS. WORLDWIDE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE POSSIBLE THIS WEEK!

Everything I said was going to happen with Greece has, with even the BIS (Bank of International Settlements) finally realizing how screwed up the banking system is, even though I first wrote about that way back in 2012. Welcome to the party, pal.

But let's start with Greece. They are going to default tomorrow. That is a given at this point. If the EU/IMF don't pony up funds by then, which they have refused to do, Greece is going to default and the chances of them ever paying back the loans they were given is nil. This has already led to some major problems today, almost all of which are connected to the Greece default. Some Italian banks have had to close today as they exposure to Greek debt has overwhelmed them. Expect this to happen more and more as the problems worsen.

All of this is being caused by the greedy rich and bankers wanting more and more and the rest of are being seen as cannon fodder. The TPP is a prime example of this at it is a corporate takeover of most of the planet, one that could encompass as much as 80% of world trade. The bankers have demanded higher taxes in the form of VAT and pension cuts in Greece, even though many pensioners are collecting nothing as the funds have run out as well as corporate tax cuts because as we all know, that always works never. Several within the EU have demanded sovereignty over nation states so they can prevent another Greece from happening, which means they want to decide who lives and who dies and to hell with what voters think. This is the global fascism sweeping the world and Greece is smart enough to say they are done with that.

But none of that matter if the entire banking system fails due to unbridled greed. Stock markets world wide have plummeted over this, with European stocks fading the most, falling anywhere from 2 to 6 percent depending on the country. Greek stock markets are closed for today and probably for the rest of the week, as are their banks which don't reopen until next week.

Puerto Rico just declared themselves in serious trouble as they too do not have enough money to pay back creditors and their banking system may fail at any minute. Unlike some countries, they do not have the luxury of declaring bankruptcy so their economy may just detonate instead. China's economy has been falling for months and with their exposure to Greek debt unknown, they may be a stone's throw away from going under themselves. They have a massive stock bubble, along with a real estate growth bubble that appears to be ready to pop any minute, that may sink them as a world economy any day now.

All of this will have serious repercussions as the economy is tied together and if one domino falls, the rest are going to go with them. If Greece defaults, the world banking system may implode with it, because as the BIS and myself have now both said, the banks do not have the ability to withstand another major shock due to the fact they have not done enough after the last one to fix any major problem. They used Band-Aids instead of tourniquets and now the world is bleeding to death and they cannot nor will not fix this. Here is what the report said:

• The world will be unable to fight the next global financial crash as central banks have used up their ammunition trying to tackle the last crises.

• Central banks have backed themselves into a corner after repeatedly cutting interest rates to shore up their economies. 

• Central banks may have contributed [to the coming crisis] by fuelling costly financial booms and busts and delaying adjustment.”

If that sounds familiar it is because it is exactly what I have been saying for years now and I have this blog to prove it.

This week will prove to be  problematic if not catastrophic. Keep a close eye on world market and the Dow because an epic downturn may be right around the corner.

DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: EU/IMF

Think how bad you have to be this week to beat our traitor in chief Obama, the idiot right who not only committed treason but then had a fit on social issues they lost and southern sympathizers who don't understand that the civil war ended 150 years ago and they also lost, for the top prize of douchebag of the week. But low and behold the EU and IMF did this week when they may have just single handedly ended civilization as we know it. Be prepared people, it's going to be a bumpy week. Let's see those runner ups, most of which should be at the top in a normal week which this one definitively wasn't.

10)Bobby Jindal- Another entry into the joke that has become the Republican party at this point, almost all of which committed treason this week. Jindal's video announcing his candidacy was a nanny cam view of him and his wife telling his less than enthusiastic kids he is running for president. It was just as boring as he was. I love the fact that he, and others like Scott Walker, are either running or about to, even though Jindal is dead last in state's economies and Walker is 35th. It's going to be hard to convince people to let you run a country when your own state is in shambles. We already tried that with W. and that ended disastrously. This guy has a 0% chance of winning.

9)Chris Christie- Yet another candidate doomed to fail, and unlikely to win even another term as governor at this point with his approval rating in the low 30's. He missed his chance in 2008 where he might have won had he run. Now, between Bridgegate, a pension scandal, and several ongoing FBI investigations, his chances have dwindled to just about Jindals's. The GOP selection is a cast of who they will pick to lose epically come 2016.

8)Jim Webb- A democrat nominee who right now is barely registering, came out in support of the Confederate flag flying over state capitals stunning everyone who thought he could be a real threat. Not anymore as his chances of winning are somehow less then Jindal's. It's hard to be mad at a guy you've barely heard of and with Bernie Sanders on a tear, now polling at about 25% to Hillary's 50%, the rest of the democrats have a long slog upward if they want even a slight chance.

7)Sarah Palin/Bristol- People have finally had enough of this shrew as even Fox News fired her this week, actually calling her "irrelevant" Now that's not only funny but highly accurate. She is irrelevant and it is good see that even Republicans are looking at her and shaking their head. It didn't help that Bristol Palin is pregnant again, and still not married, after her last marriage to be imploded when it came out that her fiancée was still hitched. Yeah, abstinence works wonders guys. These hicks need to go away and thank God Fox has helped that along a little. I am still hoping she decided to run for president though. Her idiocy is comic gold.

6)Civil War Apologists- Speaking of dawn breaking in Marblehead, many have finally gotten the message that the Confederate Flag is a racist symbol and has no business flying over state capitals. Alabama, which will appear later for a different reason, took down the flag this week, realizing they were on the wrong side of history. As a result, I have been treated to a litany of armchair historians who keep crying about how the flag isn't racist and the civil war wasn't fought over slavery. The flag was created by a guy who said it represented the white man superiority over black people. The war was fought mostly over slavery (and tariffs to a lesser degree). These people attempted to overthrow the government, you know traitors. I am sick of hearing about Southern douchebags acting as apologists for their racist ancestors. Germans don't wax poetic about the Nazi's. Neither should the south. Grow up and get with the program. The south lost. Deal with it.

5)Liberals- There is always some liberal douchebag who will also take something too far. Yes, the confederate flag is bad and we should get rid of it on state grounds. However, tearing down statues of people like Robert E. Lee is going too far. He may have been on the wrong side but he was a military genius in a lot of ways. And can we please stop with the liberal purge on things like Gone With The Wind, The Jefferson Memorial (because he owned slaves) and cultural icons like Aunt Jemimah and Uncle Ben. We get it. You've over sensitive. Much like the South, grow up. Not everything has to be connected with slavery and your inability to see beyond your blinders is pissing us off.

4)Antonin Scalia- Is death to busy to pay this old fart a visit because his time has come and gone to live on this Earth much longer. Talk about out of touch with his dissents from the bench this week. After getting his ass handed to him when he lost both the Obamacare and Gay Rights movement, he had a hissy fit calling it the end of America, which is ironic because this is the douchebag that wrote the disastrous Citizen's United law, something that actually DID end this country. Between him, Alito and Thomas (and even Roberts on the gay rights case), the far right has gone TOO far right and these morons should be removed from the bench for crimes against humanity. This is what voting for the right gets you. The good news is that since the next president is almost guaranteed to be a democrat, the next few justices will be replacing people like Scalia with more liberal oriented people. Time to take a dirt nap loser. You will not be missed.

3)Anti gay morons- The Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage this week. States like Alabama, and the evil Judge Roy Moore who presides there, have vowed to fight against the Supreme Court, apparently unaware that lower courts have no say in the matter any more. Mike Huckabee has said that he and fellow Christians will use civil disobedience, like MLK did, to stop gay marriage, also unaware that MLK was fighting against oppression while he and others are doing the exact opposite. Presidential candidates have gone from hating the decision, like Rick Santorum who said that instead of fighting against global warming we should be fighting gay marriage, as if the two were intertwined somehow, to Jeb Bush and Marci Rubio having much more subdued, and let's face it, presidential views that are still going to be a problem for them in 2016. The rabid right is going to scream about this and drive the conversation further to nutball territory, making the pivot to the center impossible again, especially in a country moving left in a big way. This fight is unwinnable, yet some are trying to see how fast they can lose before 2016 is even here.

2)Obama, the Republican Party, and several traitorous Democrats- These assholes pissed on our country and have set the stage for the TPP to pass, now that fast track is available, and with it, the end of America as we know it. The Constitution will be demoted to corporate authority and we officially now live in a Neo-fascist state. Once again, most people were against this, told Congress we were against this, and still they went against our voices. The time for revolution is here and we can do it non-bloody in 2016 by voting out every single person who voted for this, only electing non-corporatist people which would mean zero Republicans and Bernie Sanders as our new President. Will that happen? Probably not. And if it doesn't, expect thing to get very bloody then because the people won't have any other choice as our country becomes a very oppressive, third world country. One with 300 million guns I might add.

1)The EU/IMF- None of the above may matter after this week if the world economy sinks into the abyss as some are suggesting. After the EU/IMF insisted on reforms that have been proven failures (cutting pensions further, lowering corporate tax rates), the Greek government told them to Fuck OFF in no uncertain terms, meaning that a Greek exit from the Euro may be inevitable and with it, the write off of billions in debt. The issue with this is banks worldwide have bet on the derivative market, some to the tune of trillions of dollars they don't have. This is from investmentwatch.com:

Deutsche Bank’s 2014 annual report revealed that the super bank (in size anyway) had an eyewatering €54.7 trillion net exposure to derivatives, a sum, to put it in perspective, which is 20 times in excess of the GDP of the EU economic powerhouse, Germany.

 

During the 2014-2015 period the bank undertook further deleveraging of investments it deemed of risk; it sold €8 billion worth of stock at a 30% discount and failed banking industry “stress tests”. And just this month witnessed the resignation, without explanation, of its two CEO’s followed by a Standard and Poors rating of BBB+, a dangerously low rating — lower than Lehmann’s just prior to its collapse.
Deutsche Bank’s ultimate fate remains to be seen but these indicators do not present a healthy financial institution. It goes without saying that a Greek default would have massive repercussions for Deutsche Bank and by implication the entire European banking system.

Banks here at home like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan/Chase and Bank of America have similar exposure. What this means is that by Friday of next week, the derivative market could implode taking down every major bank worldwide and with it, the entire planetary economy. Goods could skyrocket in price, and banks could fold with your money disappearing into a hole as the FDIC only has a fraction of the funds needed to pay everyone back what they promised. This means mass foreclosures, a complete halt to payment of any debt and the end of tens of millions of jobs, perhaps as soon as the end of the week. To say things look bleak is an understatement. If you have stocks watch the market like a hawk and sell at the first sign of a downturn. Once the market goes, it will evaporate in days, perhaps even hours. Get your money out of banks if you see them start to fail, not that it might mean much if milk costs $100 a gallon. Here's another look from investmentwatch.com of possible end of the world scenario's:

With this statement today the government of Greece has now set in-motion a financial calamity that _will_ envelope the world. Here’s why:

As a member of the European Union, Greece got to print money; EUROS. The validity of those EUROS is now gone, but they cannot be pulled from circulation because there are so many. Therefore, the VALUE OF THE EURO as a whole, is going to drop off a cliff as a result of Greece defaulting on June 30.

According to the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) at present there are currency derivatives valued at $26.45 TRILLION related to Greek Debt. This was confirmed by the financial mega-site “SeekingAlpha.com” way back in February, just after the snap elections brought the new Greek government to power.

There are also $4 TRILLION in other, non-currency derivatives linked to Greece.

For those who are not aware, a “Derivative” is an investment on the success (or failure) of another investment. Derivatives are actually “bets” that something will succeed/rise or fail/fall. Derivatives involve huge “leverage” meaning investors put down very little cash for the option of controlling ENORMOUS amounts of the underlying investment; in this case, the EURO.

When those betting FOR the underlying investment are WRONG; they must put up more and more cash to cover the loss experienced by the underlying investment because THEY CONTROL IT. They cannot simply walk away from their derivative contract; they’re on-the-hook for the loss.

Do the math: $26.45 TRILLION in EURO CURRENCY Derivatives! the entire 320 billion euros of Greek debt along with 3.4 to 4 trillion of derivatives on Greece and interest rates on Greek bonds etc.
THE ENTIRE FINANCIAL WORLD WILL FALL LIKE DOMINOES…. . . . . all after June 30! ! !
 
Lest you think this is some exaggeration, consider that the United States government spends about $4 TRILLION a year and the U.S. national debt is $18 TRILLION. People are already recognizing that the US cannot ever HOPE to pay the $18 TRILLION. Now ask yourself: How is the financial sector and its investors going to cope with a detonation of $26.45 TRILLION in currency derivatives plus another $4 TRILLION in derivatives based on Greek debt and interest????? Hint: They can’t.
We’re actually looking at very real financial collapse, striking worldwide, because so many in the financial services industry GAMBLED with derivatives and they have no way to get out of their gamble.

This isn’t some pie-in-the-sky doom bullshit. It is real. Contract law real. Contracts held by BANKS that they cannot get out of.

I am not a licensed financial adviser and so I cannot lawfully give any of you financial advice. I can tell you, however, what I am personally doing: Taking out any cash I have in banks, IRA’s, 401-K’s, Money Market Funds, Hedge Funds, stocks or bonds. It doesn’t matter if I take a loss on any of them — or all of them. The loss I take now will be minor to what’s coming after June 30 . . . For a lot of people, EVERYTHING THEY HAVE WILL BE WIPED OUT.

All of this could have been avoided had the greedy pigs running this world hadn't demanded their pound of flesh from an anorexic who had no more to give. The fact that their own reports say what they are doing is a dismal failure tells us loads about how dickish these people are. So congratulations EU/IMF, you are indeed douchebag of the week.

 

TRAITORS RULE AS OBAMA, REPUBLICANS AND A HANDFUL OF DEMOCRATS OFFICALLY END AMERICA AS YOU KNOW IT!

Well, Obama just became the worst President ever if he goes through with two disastrous decisions that will have serious consequences for all Americans. Bush may have crippled this country, but our current douchebag may have actually ended it with the passage of the TPP now seemingly inevitable and the unbelievable reversal of hostage payments.

Let's start with the hostage situation which will reverse years of not paying out ransoms to people kidnapped overseas, with allowing families to pay to get their people back, which will of course result in more kidnappings and funding for terrorist groups that will use that money to carry out attacks that kill innocent people. Genus. Guess why this change happened? Rich people were pissed they couldn't use their money to get loved ones back, regardless of the consequences, something seen in the elite world to a horrifying level. This will cause more people to get kidnapped, many of which went to areas they shouldn't have, like that dumb woman who went to Syria because her boyfriend was Syrian. I have zero sympathy for people who do stupid stuff and then expect us to drop everything to help out when they should have known better.

We are seeing this level of "rich people are better" mentality throughout California where rich communities are using more water than they should, instead of conserving water, because as they have money, they feel more entitled to water than poor people. They have actually said as they can afford the water, they should be able to use the water as they see fit, oblivious to the fact that there is still a finite amount of water and it is running out regardless of stature. Plus, if people run out of water and the rich were seen as wasting it, cue the pitchforks and torches, which this country is dangerous charging toward.

And it's not just here. In Greece today, the rich asses who run the EU pissed on Greece's latest proposal, which was a solid one I might add, because instead of tax cuts for corporations and the rich along with higher VAT taxes and pension cuts for the poor which the IMF demanded, the Greeks actually handed them a common sense one that did the opposite, which they flatly said no to. Nevermind the fact that just last week, the IMF released their second report that trickle down economics don't work, they still are continuing to behave as if they do. Greece is headed for a fall because the rich are trying to establish a global dominance, something the TPP does in spades.

When the TPP passes, as it seems it will, Barack Obama will be the worst President of all times as his idiocy will give corporations sovereign power over us all. That is not hyperbole. It is fact as environmental and health laws will fade, drug prices will skyrocket, guns may be banned, and the Constitution will be lost. He is a traitor of the worst kind and should be impeached immediately to stop this, not that that has any chance of passage. Here is a list of the sixty other traitors that should be listed as such:

Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Capito (R-WV)
Carper (D-DE)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Coats (R-IN)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coons (D-DE)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cotton (R-AR)
Crapo (R-ID)
Daines (R-MT)
Enzi (R-WY)
Ernst (R-IA)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Flake (R-AZ)
Gardner (R-CO)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Heller (R-NV)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kirk (R-IL)
Lankford (R-OK)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Perdue (R-GA)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rounds (R-SD)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sasse (R-NE)
Scott (R-SC)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)
Warner (D-VA)
Wicker (R-MS)
Wyden (D-OR)

 

Everyone of these traitors should be removed from office today for crimes against the state. They are actively setting up a fascist state, where the rich have all the power and we the people have none.

 

Marco Rubio and Lindsay Graham should have protestors at every single event they hold from now on calling them traitors and anyone stupid enough to be supporting them should be treated accordingly.

Our president is putting people like Manning in prison for highlighting wrongdoing, making Ed Snowden flee to Russia for exposing high crimes and may have had one of the alphabet agencies kill investigative reporter Mike Hastings by hacking his car and driving him into a tree.

 

So what we can we do? Protest. Yeah that didn't work so well anywhere as Occupy Wall St was broken apart and current rallies against black violence has only had a limited effect. Voting sure seems to be worthless as no matter which side we put into office, the little guy gets screwed.

 

The only avenue left for us is violence which is probably not going to work either. But much like the Greeks are seeing, what choice do we have left. When peaceful protests in impossible, violent revolution is inevitable. When the TPP comes to light and people see how far we have been sold out by our so called leaders, riots and targeted assassinations may become the norm, neither of which I really want to see as the end results of any of that is iffy at best to work in our favor. But chaos may be all we have left to stop the march of fascism that is coming to our shores one vote at a time.

The best bet we have is to vote for Bernie Sanders in 2016, vote out of office the above sixty traitors and treat anyone you know who supports them to a good beating for being an asshole, traitor to this country. Stop being part of the problem America and for once do something better than the traitors to this country by voting in a group of people, like Iceland did and Greece is attempting to do, that will stop the corporate flow of money into our political system. The alterative is get used to being a slave, and an expendable one at that. The time for revolution is here. Let's just try to make it as little bloody as possible.

 

OSCARS 2015 REVIEWED: WHICH NOMINESS WERE CORRECT AND WHICH SHOULD NEVER HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT OF DAY!

Well it only took six months but I have now seen almost every picture up for an award last year and here is my report on who was deserving and what was nonsense. It was a good day to do this as stock markets are up world wide in the unrealistic hope that Greece will come to their senses, even though talks broke down again today. God, people are dumb. So instead of that level of stupidity, I thought it would be much more fun to write about how stupid some films were that were voted in last Oscars.

BEST PICTURE:

American Sniper- Clint Eastwood is one of the best directors working today and he's a million years old, bucking the trend that many directors find themselves as they get older and getting worse at their craft (Steven Spielberg I am talking about you). This film was well deserving of all the acolytes it got, and was a true bio-pic encompassing Chris Kyle's whole life from childhood on which helped you really understand who the character was. The ads were somewhat misleading making it seem much more dramatic than it was with many scenes more Call of Duty than Coming Home, which didn't affect BO so what do I know. However, had the action scenes been stressed more than the drama I thought it was, I would have seen it in the theater. But all in all, a best picture nominee for sure.

The Imitation Game- Benedict Cumberbatch was brilliant in this film about Alan Turing and how he helped break the enigma code only to be thrown away when his homosexuality was revealed. This was a toss up and, to be honest, as good as it was, I don't think it was Oscar deserving for best picture. Better films came out than this, but it was at the same time an impressive work and remain on the fence as to it's nomination.

Selma- This film, plain and simple, sucked. It was not well directed. It was not well plotted. It was a liberal, knee jerk reaction to have some black picture in the ranks when it clearly didn't belong. I hate, really hate, these kind of bio-pics. I would have liked to have seen MLK's childhood and upbringing, to see how he became this electric figure instead of this one part of his life, that while very significant, told me nothing about the man, just the situation he was in. A far better bio-pic this year, with a solid black cast, was Get On Up, about James Brown. That was a great movie and far more deserving than this rather dull film. I put this with other Oscar nominated pics like Lincoln and the Aviator which only focused on a narrow window rather than showing us the whole picture. These types of movie really need to stop and definitely have no place in the Oscar ranks.

The Theory of Everything- Here is a bio-pic that deserved all the awards it got. Eddie Redmayne was electric as Stephen Hawking that again, was a real bio-pic, showing him from the beginning of his career on, rather than just focusing on the moment he found out he was sick. We really got to know what Hawking was about and Redmayne nailed his performance. This was hands down, one of the best movies of the year.

Boyhood- I am not a huge Richard Linkletter fan and I really don't like Ethan Hawke, which is why I was really surprised how great this movie was. Filmed over 12 years, it followed the growing up of a child to adulthood in real time. Patricia Arquette nailed the mom role, Ethan Hawke was good for once and other than the way too long run time of 3 hours (a half hour of this could have been cut easily), this was a great movie that will resonate for some time.

The Grand Budapest Hotel- To say I hated every minute of this pretentious waste of time would be an understatement. There was nothing likeable about this film other than the look of it, which was gorgeous. The film itself was just awful with this being the last Wes Anderson film I will ever watch. I have yet to meet anyone who really liked this film, with many agreeing with me that it sucked hard. This not only had no business being up for Oscar's, it should have been up for some Razzie's. If this is passes for humor with the elite crowd, they need to get out more. Avoid at all costs.

Whiplash- Without a doubt, the most surprising film on the list for me. I expected it to be good, but not great, when I first watched it and boy was I wrong. This film was electric in a way that few other films on this list could have been with JK Simmons giving the performance of his career and Miles Teller, a rather obnoxious protagonist but still likeable in his own way, showing real skill. Anyone who watches this will remember the line "Are you rushing or are you dragging?" forever.

Birdman- Hands down the best picture of the year. No film soared (pun intended) like this with Michael Keaton fabulous as a washed up actor who may by insane or may really have super powers as he puts on a risky play to salvage his career. Shot in one long take (or the appearance of one ala  Rope style) made this movie that much better than any other last year. A must see for film fans.

FILMS THAT MISSED THE CUT- Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America, Snowpiercer, Get on Up, The Lego Movie, John Wick, Gone Girl, Draft Day, Interstellar, Still Alice and Top Five.

Best Actor

Steve Carell- Foxcatcher- The movie was mediocre at best, with yet another film too focused on a single part of the story and not the whole thing. Why would you not explore a billionaire's fate who would die behind bars? But Carell was fantastic in this role and deserved the spot.

Benedict Cumberbatch- Better role than movie, but again, well deserved.

Bradley Cooper- A tough role to play and Cooper nailed it. Great movie, great role.

Eddie Redmayne- Deserved to win, hands down.

Michael Keaton- The only real threat to Redmayne, Keaton was brilliant but lost by a hair.

David Oweloyo can shut the hell up about not being nominated because these five were just better.

Best Actress-

Marion Cotillard- She had no business being here in a film seen by all of two people. I like her a lot but this nomination was just sad as other far more deserving actresses got shunned instead.

Reese Witherspoon- Wild was another mediocre film and this was not one of her best roles or performances. Unlike the Best Actor nominees, there were some real head scratchers here.

Rosamund Pike-The only nomination for the overlooked Gone Girl, Pike was fantastic in this femme fatale role that some loved, other like my fiancée hated, because SPOILER ALERT, she is one evil bitch who gets away with it at the end. I loved this movie and the part however.

Felicity Jones- Playing the harried wife of Hawking, Jones did an amazing job in this part and deserved her nomination.

Julianne Moore- Hands down, the best performance for the females as a sufferer of early onset Alzheimer's. Great job.

So there are the major awards. JK Simmons and Patricia Arquette both were well deserving for their wins in the supporting categories and Big Hero 6 deserved its win for best animated feature.

I would like to see a limit on the amount of dramas that get nominated every year because this year was just sad with several films on the best picture list that shouldn't have been there, even though one was a "comedy" even though it was NOT funny. Oscar organizers are talking about going back to just five nominees as instead of pictures that should have been nominated, and there were a lot, the voters instead went even deeper into dramas that few saw or even cared about. Let us hope that next year see some diversity and I don't mean just the color of the people nominated.

DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: SOCIETY

We seem to be a species incapable of learning anymore. Many deny climate change even thought the overwhelming evidence, things that can be observed in real time, exist. We have a gun problem in this country and this comes from someone who has no problem still with legal gun ownership of most non-nuclear weapons by the average civilian. We keep voting in idiots, like Sam Brownback, Rick Scott and, Scott Walker, who leads some polls for president, which says loads about how thick some people really are. I have seen the enemy and it is us. Let's see those runner ups in a sad, soul ending week.

10)AT&T- I hate AT&T ever since they blackmailed me out of a hundred dollars because they said I had no credit history, as I stood in my house, looking at my car and three credit cards. But as they proclaimed I was credit free somehow, I had to pay $100 to get a phone hookup at my place. I have since stayed clear as they are a reprehensible company. Millions found that out when they joined their "unlimited" plan for their cell phones, only to discover the company was throttling back on download speed to such an extent the phone couldn't even make phone calls. The bench ruled they have to pay $100 million in penalties, recently upheld by an appeals court. Color me not surprised.

9)St. Louis Cardinals- Anyone who still thinks Deflategate was the be all end of all of cheating scandals, it was nothing compared to what the Cardinals did this week when they hacked into the Houston Astro's team computer to steal team secrets, statistics, and player info beginning as long ago as 2012. It would explain why they suddenly started beating a team that had trounced them for decades. These guys are in real trouble, like jail time trouble, while Tom Brady's biggest worry is how many games he'll sit out next season. Perspective, people, perspective.

8)Donald Trump- Where to start with this blowhard giving a 52 minute self serving speech that turned off Hispanics, otherwise known as the one group you will absolutely need to win over to be President. He had barely finished the statement that he was running before he already lost. Trump crowed about his greatness, his vast wealth, his properties, and somewhere in there was a bit about doing presidential stuff, I think. This guy is famous for coming up with huge plans and then saying he won't discuss them right then, otherwise known as the cry of the liar. Trump's days are numbered in this race, but I sincerely hope he makes it to the debates. As someone who has to watch them, it certainly will lighten things up, especially as he has zero chance of winning.

7)Rand Paul- Another guy finding new ways to lose, Paul put out his "tax plan," which is the same crap Paul Ryan keeps peddling out and 90% of America hating it. He wants to cut the top rate down to 14.5% (because tax cuts always work right?), end the estate tax, which only affects the top 1% and cut entitlement programs. This plan sucks. I had such high hopes for Paul but he's turning into yet another corporatist Republican. Vote for this ass at your own risk.

6)Rick Perry/Lindsey Graham- A tie for these two idiots who are saying the dumbest things. Rick Perry called the terrorist attack on a black church this past week, an "accident," like the shooter tripped and his gun went off 157 times. Graham defended the Confederate Flag, which needs to be placed in the same drawer as the swastika, and said it represented Southern pride. It also represent slavery dumbass. Take that crap down, it's just pissing everyone off. The last four people mentioned are all running for the GOP presidential slot. And you wonder why society is my douchebag of the week?

5)Angel Soft- In what can only be described as a huge marketing mistake, the TP company put out an ad that disparages dad's and superiorizes mom's, ON FATHER'S DAY! In it, various people talk about growing up without a Dad and how Mom was awesome. That's a great ad, for a completely different holiday. Not this one. This is some radical liberal feministic bull that has no place in society. It's no better than some of the frat boy stuff that keeps appearing in beer ads. Have we sunk this low?

4)Hillary Clinton/TPP/MSM- Hillary finally responded to what she thought of the TPP this week, to which she was both for and against it, depending on her mood, the time of day and other astrological signs. When she was Secretary of State she was all for it and her husband put NAFTA on us which has done horrific things to this country. The MSM, being utter fools, heard what they wanted from her speech with some saying she was for it, others against, which is exactly why she said it like she did. Our media cannot be trusted to even know which way is up anymore and our politicians, except for Bernie Sanders, are giving us the run around. I don't believe one word that is coming out of this woman's mouth.

3)Russia/IMF/EU/Greece- Greece is becoming a pawn between the EU/IMF and Russia with oil fields and possible loans by Russia making this upcoming default more and more likely. The IMF recently released another report which says trickle down economics do not work, yet they continue down the same path regardless demanding blood from the stone that is Greece. Greece has yet to do anything to solve their own problems like taxing the rich or ending early retirement, but the crushing austerity they have been forced to live under for six years has gotten so bad the people there have given up hope. According to many locals, chaos would be better than never-ending suffering and they are not wrong. Sometimes things have to get worse to get better and the status quo is no longer good enough. Russia has been asking the idiotic question about whether the US went to the moon, which is a conspiracy so stupid I won't go into why again. A crash may be coming. Be warned.

2)Dylann Storm Roof- Yet another idiot on legal drugs who kills a bunch of innocent people. What a tool. These kinds of people have to be stopped and the best way to do that is to re-open all the state mental wards and monitor anyone diagnosed with a serious mental problem on a regular basis. We also need better background checks for anyone buying a gun. And most importantly, we have to stop drugging everyone. This country has 3 times the number of anti-depressants issued than any other country on Earth. Has anyone noticed that every shooting over the last few decades, the one thing in common is they all were on anti-depressants, and many legally insane? To show why banning guns would have little effect, a deranged loon in Austria plowed into a group of people and then started stabbing them, killing three and injuring dozens. No gun needed for that rampage. Anyway you look at it, this racist bastard is going to be in prison for a long, long time, with LOTS of black people. Mazel Tov.

1)Society- Yet another mass shooting and we go about things the next day like it was nothing. We focus of guns and race when in reality, this kid may be clinically insane and fixated on black people just as he could have gone after fat people or red heads. Was this racially motivated? Yes, but he also has signs of being an undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. It doesn't really matter as he going to the chair regardless. But here at home, we ignore the TPP to our own fatality, we support people for President because of their skin color, party or sex and not what they actually stand for and we bitch to high heaven about pointless things while real problems get a shrug and a wink. A college student wrote a column to Jerry Seinfeld about how to do comedy which I read and was terrible, lacking logic and structure and cherry picking what he thought was funny and what wasn't. The balls on that guy to not realize that humor is subjective and just because he didn't find it funny, someone else would. I think Pauly Shore is terrible but some people out there find him a laugh riot. To each his own. But that is today's youth, so self important and incapable of the smallest criticism. My generation raised a bunch of whiny losers while we watched our job prospects sail away to Mexico. The Baby Boomers keep voting for Republicans as they stab them in the back. When does it stop? When does reason return? Can it? Bernie Sanders may be right in that people are tired of being lied to. He's raising a lot of money and his numbers keep going up. Can America grow up enough to elect a socialistic Jew? I am not sure about that. But if we don't change and soon, there won't be a country left ala Greece.  What us happening there is also happening here and an economic downturn may be right around the corner, a really bad one. So congratulation society, you are indeed douchebag of the week.

AS POSSIBLE DOOM LOOMS ON FLUMES IN JUNE, GLOOM BLOOMS! WHY THE WORLD MAY BE HEADED FOR AN END GAME!

I have officially seen it all this week. Several predictions on this blog have come to pass yet again and the ones I am making today I am hoping to God I am wrong about. We've had the Donald make the most bizarre campaign speech ever and I remember the days of people like Ross Perot (who was right about everything with NAFTA even if he came across as crazy). We've watched Pizza Hut singlehandedly try to make the country even fatter with their disgusting hot dog pizza. We saw the GOP pass the TPP in the House, after stripping it off all that pesky American worker protections, where it faces an uncertain fate now back in the Senate and a President who may have to veto it, less he and the rest of Congress get crucified by the public for the giant sell out it is once they find out what is in it. Trust me when I say people are going to be lethally pissed.

Before I get to my prediction of what might happen to the economy this month, let me go into two other topics that are intertwined: race and the media. The MSM is conditioning us and I can prove it. White cop shooting unarmed black guy=news. Black cop shooting unarmed white guy=not news. White people beat black man=news. Black people beat white man= not news. See a pattern here. They are telling people white people bad, black people good when it's not as cut and dried as that. As a matter of fact, there are idiots of all races and as someone who has seen this first hand, the black community is becoming dangerously racist against whites. In Missouri this past week, a gang of 30 black teens beat the snot out of two white men with fists and tasers because they were white. I seemed to have missed that story in any news outlet outside of the Missouri area. Here are the facts, black people are more likely to commit hate crimes than white, 8 times more likely according to FBI stats. A black male is 40 times more likely to attack a white guy than vice versa.

The MSM is compliant in this scenario, making white people the bad guy and black people the heroes. Now in light of the recent shooting in South Carolina yesterday, white on black crime does occur, and something I predicted would happen, especially after the sixth arrest in the last month in which some black, Muslim lunatic was either being shot down in the street or arrested, which is not a great sales pitch for either group. The shooter, Dylann Storm Roof, which is a messed up name to begin with, was obviously suffering from mental illness (he never left his room, didn't socialize, looked like a complete nutter), otherwise known as the tri-fecta. So why did his family think this was a great guy to give a gun too? This is less about race and more about keeping guns out of lunatic's hands. His hatred for black people is not based on say a neo-Nazi ideology. This kid is going to be diagnosed as a paranoid Schizophrenic. He has all the early signs again something I have seen first hand.

So the media gets a pass for this story, but not for ignoring all the black on white crime that is going on. It happens everywhere, including here in Boston just a few weeks ago when an Asian man and a white woman were attacked by several black teens. The media called it the "knockout game." What it was and still is, is a racist attack against white people, or in this case non-black. Now I am not saying white people aren't racist anymore. They are. Just not in the same numbers as black people which is becoming a huge problem for society if it continues. Here is video I suggest you all watch as it is dead on to everything I have said here:

http://propagandamatrix.com/articles/june2015/180615_charleston_video.htm

Black people are not the problem. White people are not the problem. Rich people are the problem. And until we get that, dweebs like Storm Roof are going to continue doing idiotic stuff as gangs of blacks get revenge against innocent white people. That has to stop because the final outcome will be very, very bad for black people as whites outnumber them 10 to one. Violence is what the elites want. Stop playing into their hands.

Then there is the TPP which passed the House today, and now goes off to iffy prospects in the Senate and the President who today said, in true politician style, "That he won't pass the bill without the TAA part, but no one said both parts had to cross his desk at the same time." Now should this monstrosity actually pass, we will have sold out this country to the corporations. You will officially live in a Neo-fascist state and all the voting in the world won't change anything then. Here are a list of every democrat that voted for this crap bill today. If you live in their district, call them up and tell them to take a flying leap and then do whatever you have to, to make sure that person loses in 2016.

Gerry Connolly    D - 11 - VA    202 225 1492    @gerryconnolly 
Jim Himes    D - 4 - CT    202 225 5541    @jahimes  
Eddie Bernice Johnson    D - 30 - TX    202 225 8885    @repebj  
Mike Quigley    D - 5 - IL    202 225 4061    @repmikequigley

Brad Ashford    D - 2 - NE    202 225 4155    @repbradashford
Ami Bera    D - 7 - CA    202 225 5716    @repbera  
Don Beyer     D - 8 - VA    202 225 4376    @repdonbeyer  
Earl Blumenauer    D - 3 - OR    202 225 4811    @repblumenauer
Suzanne Bonamici    D - 1 - OR    202 225 0855    @repbonamici  
Jim Cooper    D - 5 - TN    202 225 4311    @repjimcooper  
Jim Costa    D - 16 - CA    202 225 3341    @repjimcosta  
Henry Cuellar    D - 28 - TX    202 225 1640    @repcuellar  
Susan Davis    D - 53 - CA    202 225 2040    @repsusandavis  
John Delaney    D - 6 - MD    202 225 2721    @repjohndelaney
Suzan DelBene    D - 1 - WA    202 225 6311    @repdelbene  
Sam Farr    D - 20 - CA    202 225 2861    @repsamfarr  
Ruben Hinojosa    D - 15 - TX    202 225 2531    @usrephinojosa  
Derek Kilmer    D - 6 - WA    202 225 5916    @repderekkilmer
Ron Kind    D - 3 - WI    202 225 5506    @repronkind  
Rick Larsen    D - 2 - WA    202 225 2605    @repricklarsen  
Greg Meeks    D - 5 - NY    202 225 3461    @gregorymeeks  
Beto O'Rourke    D - 16 - TX    202 225 4831    @repbetoorourke
Scott Peters    D - 52 - CA    202 225 0508    @repscottpeters
Jared Polis    D - 2 - CO    202 225 2161    @repjaredpolis  
Kathleen Rice    D - 4 - NY    202 225 5516    @repkathleenrice
Kurt Schrader    D - 5 - OR    202 225 5711    @repschrader  
Terri Sewell    D - 7 - AL    202 225 2665    @repterrisewell  
Debbie Wasserman Schultz D - 23 - FL    202 225 7931    @repdwstweets

Make sure all of these traitors get the heave ho come 2016 which unfortunately may already be too late.

But all that may be moot as the Greece economic debacle continues to rattle world markets, except here as the market is up 202 points which makes no earthly sense. According to some economic experts, if the Greeks don't come up with a deal, perhaps as soon as today, they are going to default on their loan. Considering their last offer was basically "EAT ME!" to the IMF, a deal seems unlikely. If they do default, several things could happen.

The biggest issue will be the derivative and bond markets. Credit Default Swaps, which are the same bad loans that crashed the US economy in 2008, are back again with banks standing to lose trillions in liquidity overnight. Germany and France will be hit hardest and first, but that contagion will sweep the continent in days and here to the US in a week. As EU banks now have bail ins, everyone's money will be lost in a nanosecond. Imagine the anger when people find out their accounts are empty due to some rich idiot getting paid first. Revolution will be inevitable as money becomes worthless and heads of state get taken over by angry mobs. The effects here are less certain, as we still have some protections at out banks, but rest assured the Euro may tank by early July and the results are completely unknown as this has never happened before.

The fact that the Greeks have said they may never pay back their loans and try the Icelandic economic recovery method instead, may turn out to be a good thing. Iceland did everything right with debt forgiveness, throwing out the government that screwed them and arresting all the bankers who cratered there system, they now have one of the most robust economies in Earth. Greece has to see this as better than the nonsense, not going to work, ideas, they have been saddled with. And if Greece says they are not paying back their loans, what's to stop Ireland, Italy, Spain or Portugal from doing the exact same thing, especially if after a period of turmoil, Greece recovers? What will banks do when we realize we don't need them after all?

This is from investmentwatch.com:

Despite years of intervention from the rest of Europe, Greece is a bigger economic mess today than ever.  Greek GDP has shrunk by 26 percent since 2008, the national debt to GDP ratio in Greece is up to a staggering 175 percent, and the unemployment rate is up above 25 percent.  Greek stocks are crashing and Greek bond yields are shooting into the stratosphere.  Meanwhile, the banking system is essentially on life support at this point.  400 million euros were pulled out of Greek banks on Monday alone.  No matter what happens in the coming days, many believe that it is now only a matter of time before capital controls like we saw in Cyprus are imposed.

 

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said he’s ready to assume responsibility for the consequences of rejecting an unfair deal with creditors.

In a sign that he’s being taken at his word, officials from the Netherlands, Portugal and Germany said they were bracing for a breakdown in talks that could roil the currency bloc.

With a viable solution “the Greek government recently elected by the Greek people will bear the cost of carrying through,” Tsipras told reporters in Athens on Wednesday. Without one, “we will assume the responsibility to say ‘the great no’ to a continuation of the catastrophic policies.”

That doesn't sound like a guy ready to back down. This is what the Bank of Greece recently said:

Failure to reach an agreement would, on the contrary, mark the beginning of a painful course that would lead initially to a Greek default and ultimately to the country’s exit from the euro area and – most likely – from the European Union. A manageable debt crisis, as the one that we are currently addressing with the help of our partners, would snowball into an uncontrollable crisis, with great risks for the banking system and financial stability. An exit from the euro would only compound the already adverse environment, as the ensuing acute exchange rate crisis would send inflation soaring.

All this would imply deep recession, a dramatic decline in income levels, an exponential rise in unemployment and a collapse of all that the Greek economy has achieved over the years of its EU, and especially its euro area, membership. From its position as a core member of Europe, Greece would see itself relegated to the rank of a poor country in the European South.

Should an exit happen, the Euro will drop off a cliff, and the bond and derivative market will go nuts. There are 76 trillion dollars in bonds and 1.5 quadrillion dollars in the derivative market, all of which could go poof in an instant and with it, all economies world wide. China and Russia may be preparing for such an event by stockpiling gold, and when their currency craters, they will announce a new one, backed by their gold hoard which they will allow everyone to see, while we see America devolve into a third world country as our gold may not actually be here anymore. We will end as a world power and China and Russia will emerge anew. Awesome.

The more things change the more they stay the same. Everything may indeed change soon. Let us all hope it is for the better. 

 

GREECE NEARS END GAME, WILL CHAOS FOLLOW? PLUS MORE TRUMP, TPP AND HILLARY LIES!

Before I get to the ruin that is now the Greek economy, I would like to share two things about candidates running for President. The first, says Trump is a proven liar. The second suggest strongly that Hillary isn't much better. And the third demonstrates a complete takeover by corporations should the TPP pass, which at that this point seems unlikely.

Donald Trump announced he is running for President and I could not be happier along with anyone else who writes or jokes or does both for a living. His 52 minute speech was filled with bon mots like Mexicans suck, he is super rich, and he will build a great wall and bill Mexico for it. Right. He has only a slightly better chance at becoming President than three others, Jindal, Graham and Fiorina, who have none. For those that saw this hilarity that has become our national shame, and proves that Citizen United has opened the door for this rule by oligarchy, Trump used Neil Young's Rocking in the Free World enter the room by escalator, a first. Young objected, saying he was a Bernie Sanders fan and Trump had no right to use the song. Trump responded by saying he had documentation that said otherwise, refused to show it, and then said he won't play the song again. Young owns all the rights to his own songs, thus the reason why they have never been used for commercial use, and has even written songs about that so the idea that he would sell Trump his song seems farfetched at best. Liar.

Speaking of liars, Hillary came out against the TPP sort of. She also said she was for it. She actually danced around the subject, seemingly to approve of the TPP, which many outlets said, but if you listened to what she actually said, as PBS news did, she didn't really answer the question. She was both for it and against it depending on the double speak she is known for, which is one of the reason people prefer Sanders over her. We remember that Obama was against NAFTA when he ran in 2008. Now he is the champion of the worst trade law in American history. Why would I think Hillary is any different?

NAFTA is an unmitigated disaster, hated in both Mexico and the US as it has made income inequality worse. Mexico has skyrocketed to the front of the line with the worst income inequality on Earth, and the US is third. Yeah, NAFTA worked wonders, for corporations that is. The new TPP law, if it somehow miraculously passes, would send pill prices soaring, as it was written by Big Pharma that way, cost millions of good jobs and increase work visas for foreign workers, something that saves companies an average of $40,000 per worker, and make this country subservient to corporations in a new fascist state. Obama was liar, so is Hillary and all of the GOP. Don't be fooled otherwise.

But all of that may be moot as the whole Greece about to implode thing is coming to pass. This is from Investmentwatch.com:

The Greek financial system is in the process of totally imploding, and the rest of Europe will soon follow.  Neither the Greeks nor the Germans are willing to give in, and that means that there is very little chance that a debt deal is going to happen by the end of June.  So that means that we will likely see a major Greek debt default and potentially even a Greek exit from the eurozone.  At this point, credit default swaps on Greek debt have risen 456 percent in price since the beginning of this year, and the market has priced in a 75 percent chance that a Greek debt default will happen.  Over the past month, the yield on two year Greek bonds has skyrocketed from 20 percent to more than 30 percent, and the Greek stock market has fallen by a total of 13 percent during the last three trading days alone.  This is what a financial collapse looks like, and if Greece does leave the euro, we are going to see this kind of carnage happen all over Europe.

 

Officials over in Europe are now openly speaking of the need to prepare for a “state of emergency” now that negotiations have totally collapsed.  At one time, it would have been unthinkable for Greece to leave the euro, but now it appears  that this is precisely what will happen unless a miracle happens…

 

The one thing Donald Trump said yesterday that was correct was that our stock market is rigged and the last few days prove that. World stocks have plummeted in the past few days over Greek exit fears. Here the market went up a 113 points yesterday and up 43 so far today. Mind you volume is very low, indicating stock buybacks are the only reason for such a rise.

The thing that must be terrifying to the banks of the world though is this:

The radical wing of Greece’s Syriza party is to table plans over coming days for an Icelandic-style default and a nationalisation of the Greek banking system, deeming it pointless to continue talks with Europe’s creditor powers.

 

Syriza sources say measures being drafted include capital controls and the establishment of a sovereign central bank able to stand behind a new financial system. While some form of dual currency might be possible in theory, such a structure would be incompatible with euro membership and would imply a rapid return to the drachma.

 

The confidential plans were circulating over the weekend and have the backing of 30 MPs from the Aristeri Platforma or ‘Left Platform’, as well as other hard-line groupings in Syriza’s spectrum. It is understood that the nationalist ANEL party in the ruling coalition is also willing to force a rupture with creditors, if need be.

If they do go the Icelandic route and have it succeed again, people from around the globe are going to demand the same and if banks put their foot down and say no, especially if the TPP passes, pitchforks and torches will come next. So what is the problem? This:

Of course if there is a Greek debt default and Greece does leave the euro, it won’t just be Greece that pays the price.

 

As I have written about previously, there are tens of trillions of dollars in derivatives that are directly tied to currency exchange rates and 505 trillion dollarsin derivatives that are directly tied to interest rates.  A “Grexit” would cause the euro to drop like a rock and interest rates all over the continent would start to go crazy.  The financial chaos that a “Grexit” would cause should not be underestimated.

 

And there are signs that some of Europe’s biggest banks are already on the verge of collapse.  For example, just consider what has been going on at the biggest bank in Germany.  Both of the co-CEOs at Deutsche Bank recently resigned, and it is increasingly looking as if it could soon become Europe’s version of Lehman Brothers. 

 

A major financial crisis could be headed our way because we have taken this path for so long there may be no way out. The IMF recently put a report that said trickle down economics don't work and increase wealth inequality. Yet, they continue to follow these same failed policies. That is a recipe for disaster when you do things that are destined to fail and continue to do them anyway. The Greek exit could be Lehman Brothers on steroids. Prepare for an economic tsunami should this go south quick.

 


 

 

THE ECONOMY, GREECE, THE TPP AND OTHER THINGS ON SHAKY GROUND!

Right now the Dow is down about a hundred points, which is simply incredible because it started the day down 200 and, by all rules of logic and reason, should have been headed further south. But it isn't, even though many of the world's stock markets took a similar tumble and future's planet wide don't think it will be better any time this week. But as the market is rigged beyond belief, anything is possible. What isn't however is that a reckoning may be coming because the world powers have conspired to change nothing even though the world almost ended in 2008 due to their greed.

Dow theory suggests a downturn may be coming, just due to market forces beyond the control of the elites. A separation of Dow Industrial and Dow Transportation at the magnitude is at now historic levels by any means which has some economists say that this portends to bad news for the economy. Other economists differ saying the two have meant something in the past but modern ways of shipping and manufacturing have changed costs. Both seem accurate so I have no idea if this means anything or not.

What is more direct is the fact that our economy is stalling, which may be the one reason why the Fed hasn't raised interest rates yet. We have never gone this long in American history with interest rates this low. If the recovery they say is happening is indeed happening, then why isn't raising interest rates on the table? Probably because they know the stats they are giving us are not true and if they raise interest rates, the economy will stall. If they don't raise interest rates soon, we will be in negative growth territory soon, with bail ins and for fee bank accounts, like the EU is experimenting with and the economy will stall. Good job guys.

Everyone was applauding the latest economic news that showed stronger consumer demand. What they didn't tell you is that the gains were minuscule, in the .1% range, and that the biggest raises were in clothing, which is really cheap due to slave labor, and auto sales, which are currently selling 47% of at 80 month loans, or repos waiting to happen which have skyrocketed this past year.

The whole Greece matter is finally making some take notice, thus the downward trend of today's world stock's. Talks have collapses, the EU is talking about a take it or leave it ultimatum, and there seems to be little hope Greece will accept such a demand. By the end of the month, Greece could default, which has never happened before to such a prominent country that is part of the EU. Ukraine is also facing a similar scenario, but that would be akin to Argentina defaulting, which they have done at least twice in the past few decades, as they are not as interconnected as Greece is to the EU and thus a possible shakeup of the bond and derivative market. No one knows exactly what will happen if Greece falls. Maybe it will be like Argentina but then again it could be like the Lehman Brothers, which started the whole 2008 fiasco. We just don't really know.

Tomorrow the TPP is back up for a vote, I think because the MSM has ignored this story to the detriment of mankind. If you want hard proof the media is working against you, that should be it. Even our so called free press is playing down how bad the TPP will be if passed, the worst of which would be the loss of millions of jobs, higher prices for food and medicine, possible gun bans, more illegal immigration and a complete break down of food and environmental safety laws. Why is this passing again? Oh that's right, rich people want it to pass. Our democracy is dying and if we don't stand up to onerous bills like this, we deserve what we get. Be heard people because the Nazi's are coming and this time they are draped in the flag and holding the cross (thank you Upton Sinclair). It's passage is iffy as they have to convince over a hundred people to change their vote which is just as hard to sounds. But, knowing how government operates, it would not surprise me if they did. With no news about it anywhere, it's hard to tell. The MSM is too bust talking about the new princess is England, Kim K's butt or some other inane crap. Pray this doesn't pass because if it does, America dies with it.

DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: ERIC CASEBOLT

This week we had Hillary Clinton refuse to take a stand on the TPP, Republicans shoot themselves in the foot repeatedly, the IMF and Greece went toe to toe over who will blink first and yet, the Texas cop, Eric Casebolt, who acted like a giant dick at a pool party the cops were breaking up, had to get the grand prize for douchebaggery this week for reminding us all why cops need a giant kick in the ass to get with the program and stop behaving like stormtroopers. Let's see those runner ups in a weird week.

10)Pizza Hut- Pizza Hut is at best edible pizza. It's not horrible, but you would have to be stoned, starving or both to think "Yum, Pizza Hut." This week they invented what could be described as the most disgusting pizza known to man and one that only could be invented in Fat City, USA. Apparently, some brain power thought that stuffing the crust with dozens of hot dogs would be a great idea. Not only does it look frightening with 28 pigs in a blanket surrounding the pizza, hot dogs and pizza don't sound like a winning combo. I guess Americans are running out of ways to become more and more obese.

9)Rachel Dolezal- The head of the NAACP this week in Washington state was outed by her parents for not being black. Now points to the NAACP who saw this as a non-issue (the NAACP was co-founded by a white Republican in 1909) and didn't ask for her resignation, as they shouldn't have, but this does raise questions about race and identity. We look at Bruce Jenner and say "Wow is he brave." A white woman darkening her skin, ala blackface, however seems more troubling. This woman has deep seated mental issues, convincing not only others, but herself, that she is black. Who wants to be black unless hassles from cops, bad credit and racism is your thing?

8)Joyce Mitchell- This woman was a close second to Eric Casebolt for douchebag of the week due to her incredible stupidity and naivety. Allegedly, she supplied break out tools for the two murders who escaped this past week from a maximum security prison in upstate NY. She was supposed to be their getaway driver but got cold feet which was far too late to back out at that point. Her husband also worked at the jail. So, after she was arrested, she is now facing 8 years in prison, the loss of her family, and a life time of crappy jobs as she will be a convicted felon. The weird part is that this woman was heavy set, in her mid forties and had a good life which she threw away for "love." Some people are so stupid and do not forget that people like this vote.

7)American Airlines- I hate American Airlines. I haven't flown this airline since 2004 when they lost my luggage for four days and stole everything they could from it. But thanks to Obama and his dickhead ways, a merger happened that combined US Air and AA together to make one giant monstrosity that is the only way to get to Philly from where I live now. On the day I was supposed to leave, the kept delaying my flight, yet demanding I show up at the original time, which is never a good sign. A half hour after I got there, they cancelled it, making me miss my father's 70th birthday party and letting me sit there for hours as I tried to get a ride back. After getting out the next day, the way back they cancelled my flight again and had to travel to an entirely different airport just to get home. The only good news was they double booked my seat and I got there first. Travel on US Air or AA at your own peril.

6)St. Paul School District- Liberals piss me off just as much as conservatives sometimes. This is one of them. Just like the whole Trayvon Martin issue in which he wasn't arrested for having stolen property because he was black, the St. Paul School district has been dealing with "time-outs" and other worthless punishments rather than expelling unruly black students which has led to a dystopian society in action. Good kids are being beaten, no one is learning anything, and the students rule the school. Legal action is being considered by parents who see this whole thing as a disaster and want it to end. Even worse, other schools are trying this with similar results. The Bible was right about one thing, "Stay the rod, spoil the child." This is continuing with the idiotic "micro-aggression theory" that happen when any black person feels threatened such as walking into a room filled with white people, which must happen all the time as blacks are only 12% of the population. Can we all just get along?

5)IMF and Greece- These two sides are so far apart it's not even funny. Should Greece leave the Euro, our entire financial system could collapse due to bond and derivative liability. The IMF is continuing to demand austerity that hasn't worked, while the Greeks haven't done anything to stop their too generous pension program with retirement at 50 (Really?) as well as not collecting any taxes on the rich (that sounds familiar). They have until the end of the month before everything goes kablam, which is as likely as the words President Donald Trump.

4)Jeb Bush- Another awful week for the presidential nominee who will make it official tomorrow. This week, his fundraising hit a snag and he fired his two campaign managers for it. He is still the most likely candidate, setting the stage for a Bush/Hillary matchup that literally no one wants. But it is their turn apparently and that is how the whole process works. Excuse me while I puke.

3)Hillary Clinton- This shriveled crone has refused to take a stand on the TPP which is hardly surprising as her husband foisted NAFTA on us with awful results. Bernie Sanders, Robert Reich and others have called her out on this and rightfully so. She is so like Obama and that she will tell us what we want to hear but once in office is almost certain to do a 180 on everything, which should be an impeachable offense. I loathe this woman but she will probably be our next President. Whee.

2)Rick Santorium/Mike Huckabee- These two should just pack it up and go home after the week they had. Religious wingnuts have ZERO chance of the white house after Bush soured that well and the fact that the country is becoming less and less religious spells the end for these two. A meet and greet with Santorium drew exactly one person to an event in Iowa. The next day he doubled that to two. Writing is on the wall there big guy that you are not going to repeat your wins from 2008. Huckabee, already under fire for defending the Duggars, was hit again after it came out that the ghost writer on his latest book has been arrested for two counts of child molestation. You two are burnt.

1)Eric Casebolt- This ass, playing cop rather than being one it seemed, was let go this week with little chance of ever being a cop again, especially considering the media play of him barrel rolling, which is the funniest thing I have seen in years. It never gets old. After drawing his gun on unarmed teens, slamming a 15 year girl in a bikini into the ground and basically behaving like a giant dick, he was fired. Not that the police had any choice in the matter as his career was done. Don't cops realize that everyone has a camera nowadays? This guy is everything that is wrong with police today and asses like this need to be drummed out immediately as the good cops out there (who do exist) are being lumped in with this moron. His resume has to be bull as he claims to be a master of several types of martial arts known of which is on display in the video taken. Fox news and other conservative outlets have conspired to change the facts of this case, inventing some facts out of whole cloth in some cases to validate Casebolt's actions, but true investigators like me saw through the lies right away, proving that white racists started this whole thing. The black kids at the party were surprisingly well spoken and not the troublemakers the right is making them out to be. The white woman who started the fights that got the cops called was fired from her job as a subcontractor to Disney and the white asshole who called the cops has a record himself including cruelty to animals. So congratulations to Casebolt, conservatives and white racists you are all douchebag of the week.