Down goes the Dow

Machado wrote:

From: Macho Machado

To: Ignorant Igy

https://youtu.be/6Hlw_9ldThs

Day after day, alone on a hill

The man with the foolish grin is sitting perfectly still

Nobody wants to know him

They can see that he's just a fool

But he never gives an answer

But the fool on the hill

Sees the sun going down

And the eyes in his head

See the world spinning round

His head in a cloud

The man with a foolish grin is talking perfectly loud

But nobody wants to hear him

They can see that he's just a fool

But he never gives an answer

But the fool on the hill

Sees the sun going down

And the eyes in his head

See the world spinning round

But nobody wants to know him

They can see that he's just a fool

But he never gives an answer

But the fool on the hill

Sees the sun going down

And the eyes in his head

See the world spinning round

But the fool on the hill

Sees the sun going down

And the eyes in his head

See the world spinning round

Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul McCartney

mellon wrote:

Usuck wrote:

It’s sad that you would find joy in ankother's misery.

That's not sad!

What's sad is not laughing for 3 1/2 years and counting. Could be a long wait.

We'll. One thing is sure -- the next one will make 2008-09 look like a minor blip,

U Wait wrote:

mellon wrote:

That's not sad!

What's sad is not laughing for 3 1/2 years and counting. Could be a long wait.

We'll. One thing is sure -- the next one will make 2008-09 look like a minor blip,

That’s far from sure.

Nope wrote:

U Wait wrote:

We'll. One thing is sure -- the next one will make 2008-09 look like a minor blip,

That’s far from sure.

Of course it is certain. The Big Banks blew up the world economy and not only received no punishment but got fully bailed out and did not miss one bonus. They know they can engage in the reckless and illegal behavior they engaged in before -- indeed they are doing so -- and will face no indictments and will be bailed out by the taxpayers.

Nah It's sure wrote:

Nope wrote:

That’s far from sure.

Of course it is certain. The Big Banks blew up the world economy and not only received no punishment but got fully bailed out and did not miss one bonus. They know they can engage in the reckless and illegal behavior they engaged in before -- indeed they are doing so -- and will face no indictments and will be bailed out by the taxpayers.

What illegal behavior are they currently engaging in?

U Wait wrote:

We'll. One thing is sure -- the next one will make 2008-09 look like a minor blip,

Igy! I think you've been upstaged.

I don't remember even you using the phrase "for sure"

Purple martin wrote:

U Wait wrote:

We'll. One thing is sure -- the next one will make 2008-09 look like a minor blip,

Igy! I think you've been upstaged.

I don't remember even you using the phrase "for sure"

Might be K5. It’s hard to tell since they both have trouble with the English language.

Six of eight indexes on our world watch list have posted gains through Monday, May 21, 2018. The top performer this year is France's CAC 40 with a gain of 6.12%. In second is Hong Kong's Hang Seng with a gain of 4.40%. In third is India's BSE SENSEX with a gain of 2.38%. Coming in last is Shanghai's SSE with a loss of 2.82%.

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2018/05/21/world-markets-update?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180521&utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180521

Tell us wrote:

Nah It's sure wrote:

Of course it is certain. The Big Banks blew up the world economy and not only received no punishment but got fully bailed out and did not miss one bonus. They know they can engage in the reckless and illegal behavior they engaged in before -- indeed they are doing so -- and will face no indictments and will be bailed out by the taxpayers.

What illegal behavior are they currently engaging in?

Trading against the interests of the clients that are paying them (selling them products that they bet against). "High frequency trading" in which they interfere with previous orders, jamming in and buying up orders and then selling them at higher price. Have you paid no attention to what happened in 2008-2009?

Trews wrote:

Purple martin wrote:

Igy! I think you've been upstaged.

I don't remember even you using the phrase "for sure"

Might be K5. It’s hard to tell since they both have trouble with the English language.

One thing is sure = "for sure" = I have trouble with the English langauage.

I feel like Gulliver in the land of Lilliputians.

Wuts really odd wrote:

Trews wrote:

Might be K5. It’s hard to tell since they both have trouble with the English language.

One thing is sure = "for sure" = I have trouble with the English langauage.

I feel like Gulliver in the land of Lilliputians.

Although it is hard to tell if there are two or more of these lightweights or just one such buffoon.

Rreally? wrote:

Tell us wrote:

What illegal behavior are they currently engaging in?

Trading against the interests of the clients that are paying them (selling them products that they bet against). "High frequency trading" in which they interfere with previous orders, jamming in and buying up orders and then selling them at higher price. Have you paid no attention to what happened in 2008-2009?

Sorry. I thought we were talking about 2018. My bad.

Hard to tell wrote:

Wuts really odd wrote:

One thing is sure = "for sure" = I have trouble with the English langauage.

I feel like Gulliver in the land of Lilliputians.

Although it is hard to tell if there are two or more of these lightweights or just one such buffoon.

There are those here who believe that K5 and Igy are the same poster. I'm not convinced. K5 is much more bigoted in my opinion.

Trews wrote:

There are those here who believe that K5 and Igy are the same poster. I'm not convinced. K5 is much more bigoted in my opinion.

By bigoted you actually mean NOT bigoted in favor of the racist apartheid regime in Israel that has been recently murdering babies, kids, crippled men, and journalists.

Kind of like people who do not want to send American working class people to Muslim majority nations to murder innocent people in their homes are called anti-Semites........we are all familiar with this.

And, as promised, when this thread veers into false accusations of racism, I counter with a fact.

Here is an example of your type of "thinking" (i.e., believing what the media tells you)

Israel massacred 60 Palestinians on Monday, including seven children, bringing to 101 the total number of Palestinians Israel has killed since Palestinians began the Great March on March 30. In that period, Israel has killed 11 Palestinian children, two journalists, one person on crutches and three persons with disabilities.

Monday’s casualties included 1,861 wounded, bringing total injuries inflicted by Israel to 6,938 people, including 3,615 with live fire. Israel is using bullets designed to expand inside the body, causing maximum, often permanent damage: “The injuries sustained by patients will leave most with serious, long-term physical disabilities,” says Médecins Sans Frontières (Ha’aretz, 4/22/18).

On the 70th anniversary of Israel’s so-called “declaration of independence,” the United States opened its new embassy in Jerusalem—a city Israel claims as its own, despite what international law says on the matter—and Palestinians undertook unarmed protests in reaction to the move and as part of the Great Return March. Although to this point, the only Israeli casualty during the entire cycle of demonstrations has been one “lightly wounded” soldier, considerable space in coverage of the massacres is devoted to blaming Palestinians for their own slaughter.

NBC: Scores Dead in Gaza Fence Protest as US Moves Embassy to Jerusalem

NBC (5/14/18) mentions “what Palestinians refer to as their ‘right of return'”; actually, it’s what international law calls it, based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights‘ proclamation that “everyone has the right…to return to his country.”

Two of the first three paragraphs in an NBC report (5/14/18) provided Israel’s rationalizations for its killing spree. The second sentence in the article says that the Israeli military

accused Hamas of “leading a terrorist operation under the cover of masses of people,” adding that “firebombs and explosive devices” as well as rocks were being thrown towards the barrier.

A Washington Post article (5/14/18) devoted two of its first four sentences to telling readers that Palestinians are responsible for being murdered by Israel. Palestinian “organizers urged demonstrators to burst through the fence, telling them Israeli soldiers were fleeing their positions, even as they were reinforcing them,” read one sentence. “At the barrier, young men threw stones and tried to launch kites carrying flames in hopes of burning crops on the other side,” stated the next one, as though stones and burning kites released by a besieged people is violence remotely equivalent to subjecting people to a military siege and mowing them down.

The New York Times (5/14/18) said that “a mass attempt by Palestinians to cross the border fence separating Israel from Gaza turned violent, as Israeli soldiers responded with rifle fire,” painting Israel’s rampage as a reaction to a Palestinian provocation. Like FAIR (2/21/18) has previously said of the word “retaliation,” “response” functions as a justification of Israeli butchery: To characterize Israeli violence as a “response” is to wrongly imply that Palestinian actions warranted Israel unleashing its firing squads.

A Yahoo headline (5/14/18) described “Violent Protests in Gaza Ahead of US Embassy Inauguration in Jerusalem,” a flatly incorrect description in that it attributes the violence to Palestinian demonstrators rather than to Israel. The BBC (5/15/18) did the same with a segment called “Gaza Braced for Further Violent Protests.”

Bloomberg: Hamas Vows to Keep Targeting Fence After Gaza Bloodshed

In Bloomberg‘s account (5/14/18), the fence seemed to be the real victim.

One Bloomberg article (5/14/18) by Saud Abu Ramadan and Amy Teibel had the same problem, referring to “a protest marred by violence,” while another one (5/14/18) attributed only to Ramadan is headlined “Hamas Targets Fence as Gaza Bloodshed Clouds Embassy Move,” as though the fence were Monday’s most tragic casualty. Ascribing this phantom violence to Palestinians provides Israel an alibi: Many readers will likely conclude that Israel’s lethal violence is reasonable if it is cast as a way of coping with “violent protests.”

The second paragraph of the Bloomberg article solely written by Ramadan says that

Gaza protesters, egged on by loudspeakers and transported in buses, streamed to the border, where some threw rocks, burned tires, and flew kites and balloons outfitted with firebombs into Israeli territory.

This author—like the rest in the “Palestinians were asking for it” chorus—failed to note that Israel’s fence runs deep into Palestinian territory and creates a 300-meter “buffer zone” between Palestinians and Israeli forces, which makes it highly unlikely that the kites and balloons of the colonized will have an effect on their drone-operating, rifle-wielding colonizers, let alone on people further afield in Israeli-held territory.

The New York Times editorial board (5/14/18) wrote as though Palestinians are barbarians against whom Israel has no choice but to unleash terror:

Led too long by men who were corrupt or violent or both, the Palestinians have failed and failed again to make their own best efforts toward peace. Even now, Gazans are undermining their own cause by resorting to violence, rather than keeping their protests strictly peaceful.

The board claimed that “Israel has every right to defend its borders, including the boundary with Gaza,” incorrectly suggesting that Palestinians were aggressors rather than on the receiving end of 100 years of settler-colonialism.

Moreover, like the Times and Bloomberg articles discussed above, the editorial attempts to legitimize Israel’s deadly violence by saying that it is defending a border that Palestinians are attempting to breach, but there is no border between Gaza and Israel. There is, as Maureen Murphy of Electronic Intifada (4/6/18) pointed out, “an armistice line between an occupying power and the population living under its military rule” that Palestinians are trying to cross in order to exercise their right to return to their land.

WaPo: Hamas Has Launched Another War. Israel Needs a Better Response

The Washington Post (5/15/18) condemned the “cruel, cynical tactic” of trying to exercise the internationally guaranteed right of return.

A Washington Post editorial (5/15/18) called the Palestinians hunted by Israel “nominal civilians.” Apart from being a logical impossibility (one either is or isn’t a civilian), the phrase illuminates how too much of media think about Palestinians: They are inherently threatening, intrinsically killable, always suspect, never innocent, permanently guilty of existing.

A Business Insider piece (5/14/18) by columnist Daniella Greenbaum described “Palestinian protesters who ramped up their activities along the Gaza strip and, as a result, were targeted by the Israeli army with increasing intensity.” Greenbaum’s use of the phrase “as a result” implies that it was inevitable and perhaps just that Palestinians’ “ramped up activities” led to Israel mowing down a population it occupies, 70 percent of whom are refugees Israel refuses to allow to return to their homes.

Greenbaum then climbs into the intellectual and moral gutter, claiming that

absent from the commentary that children have unfortunately been among the injured and dead are questions about how they ended up at the border. On that question, it is important to recognize and acknowledge the extent to which Palestinians have glorified violence and martyrdom — and the extent to which the terrorist organization Hamas has organized the “protests.”

In her view, dozens of Palestinians died because they are primitive savages who take pleasure in sacrificing their own children, not because Israel maintains the right to gun down refugees in the name of maintaining an ethnostate.

Dude, you just totally proved his point.

Israeli soldiers have killed 112 Palestinians, and injured 13,190 since the Great Return March protests started on the Palestinian Land Day, March 30th, 2018. The soldiers killed 13 Palestinian children, and injured 2096 others, in addition to wounding 1029 women. 332 of the wounded Palestinians suffered life-threatening injuries, 3,422 suffered moderate wounds, 9,436 suffered mild injuries, and 5,572 suffered the effects of teargas inhalation.

502 Palestinians were shot in the head and neck.

283 were shot in the chest and back.

225 were shot in the abdomen and pelvis.

938 were shot in the arm.

325 were shot in the leg.

1,117 suffered various cuts and bruises to several parts of their bodies.

27 of the wounded Palestinians suffered amputations in their legs, one in his arm, and four others had some fingers severed by Israeli fire. The soldiers also shot and killed one medic, and injured 323 others with live fire and gas bombs, in addition to causing damage to 37 ambulances.

There are two sides to every story.

Soloman wrote:

There are two sides to every story.

You are right.

Israeli casualties were 0 killed, 0 injured.

I had left that out.

Yes Bob wrote:

Soloman wrote:

There are two sides to every story.

You are right.

Israeli casualties were 0 killed, 0 injured.

I had left that out.

I was referring to the factual numbers.