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On Friday, December 4th Kasikorn's rate was 49.2.

Today it is 47.2.

What is going on?

The Euro is filling the gap in it's chart to 1.43 $USD.

Network

Howard Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad.

Howard Beale: [shouting] You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell,

[shouting]

Howard Beale: 'I'M AS MAD AS hel_l, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hel_l and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hel_l, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it:

Howard Beale: [screaming at the top of his lungs] "I'M AS MAD AS hel_l, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

Arthur Jensen: [bellowing] You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU...WILL...ATONE!

Arthur Jensen: [calmly] Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those *are* the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that . . . perfect world . . . in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.

Howard Beale: Why me?

Arthur Jensen: Because you're on television, dummy. Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.

Howard Beale: I have seen the face of God.

Arthur Jensen: You just might be right, Mr. Beale.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/quotes

Fake profits in the financial industry.

Fake profits on the stock market.

Fake profits on real estate.

Why should the performance of the stock markets, the currencies, the interest rates on a SECOND by SECOND basis consume the television, pages and pages of newspapers, massive bandwidth and god knows how many fuc_king parasites sitting in front of their double, triple, quadruple LCD monitors?

This is all total crap. The only sustainable increase in wealth is through human endeavours in the production of goods or the extraction of raw materials. All the rest is a parasitic disease on society.

It is the rise of the age of Financialism. I think it will lead to some kind of economic warfare with unknown consequences.

Financialism is an economic system where the primary activity consists of creating and manipulating financial instruments. Financial instruments – loans, mortgages, stocks, bonds, etc. - are in their original form firmly linked to economic reality: the mortgage finances home ownership; the stock certificate represents ownership of a company that owns physical assets, the bond secures debt incurred to build a factory.

However, when financialism sets in, financial instruments become progressively further removed from their role in supporting commerce in the real world and develop a life of their own, a weird shadow dimension, a hall of mirrors, a distorted alternate reality that intersects and reacts with the real economy in unpredictable and destructive ways. George Soros described this phenomenon as “reflexivity.&rd... Derivatives have a lot to do with it. Leverage and the abuse of easy credit are contributing causes. The shadow banking system is a symptom.

http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/162115-t...rket-capitalism

dylan is also of course reputed to be the person who first introduced the beatles to the joys of the holy herb.

Indubitably.

A Day In The Life

I read the news today oh boy

About a lucky man who made the grade

And though the news was rather sad

Well I just had to laugh

I saw the photograph

He blew his mind out in a car

He didn't notice that the lights had changed

A crowd of people stood and stared

They'd seen his face before

Nobody was really sure

If he was from the House of Lords.

I saw a film today oh boy

The English Army had just won the war

A crowd of people turned away

But I just had to look

Having read the book.

I'd love to turn you on

Woke up, fell out of bed

Dragged a comb across my head

Found my way downstairs and drank a cup

And looking up I noticed I was late

Found my coat and grabbed my hat

Made the bus in seconds flat

Found my way upstairs and had a smoke

And somebody spoke and I went into a dream

I read the news today oh boy

Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire

And though the holes were rather small

They had to count them all

Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the

Albert Hall

One of my personal favorites - written by both Lennon and McCartney

It's a great song, yeah.

Dylan's influence on The Beatles

Vocally and poetically Dylan was a huge influence.

-- Paul McCartney¹⁹

Dylan's poignant lyricism at the heart of his protest music was the crux of his work, and its resonance captured listeners. Even after the British protest song trend fizzled, its effects were long-standing. As Robert Shelton writes, "efore Dylan's new work [folk-rock], most rock musicians, including The Beatles, had been using insipid, frivolous lyrics. While many folk slowpokes took time to assimilate Dylan's new approach, his large new pop pastorate tuned in quickly²⁰." This new trend towards more thoughtful lyricism was felt tremendously by The Beatles, whose 1965 release Rubber Soul was lyrically more complex than their previous releases, and bore a heavy Dylan influence²¹. Lennon was the most affected by Dylan lyrically, and his songs became more introspective and poetic, resulting in Dylan-tinged offerings such as "I'm A Loser," "In My Life," "Norweigian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)," "A Day in the Life," and "All You Need is Love²²."As their albums progressed, many of their other songs – such as "Come Together" – began to feature the same sort of bizarre imagery as some of Dylan's contemporary work.

https://wikis.nyu.edu/ek6/modernamerica/ind...OnAmericanMusic

Anyway, every band had their influences and Dylan not only sang the songs of others that came before him he appropriated quite a bit as his own, as well. What he made it into though was something else altogether. Dylan was clearly influenced by the Beatles success when he decided to go electric.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one.

John Lennon

Having just won the bet with myself, I have removed 10 baht from my right pocket and placed it in my left pocket.

Everyone has their own opinion, but I don't get the Beatles "had little to say" remark. I can't think of any other artists of the time who were more positive about changing the world for the better, than the Beatles.

Of course it's just each of ours opinion UG. I like the Beatles.

Here's something similar but different:

Imagine

Imagine there's no Heaven

It's easy if you try

No hel_l below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people

Living for today

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will live as one

My Back Pages

Crimson flames tied through my ears

Rollin' high and mighty traps

Pounced with fire on flaming roads

Using ideas as my maps

"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I

Proud 'neath heated brow.

Ah, but I was so much older then,

I'm younger than that now.

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth

"Rip down all hate," I screamed

Lies that life is black and white

Spoke from my skull. I dreamed

Romantic facts of musketeers

Foundationed deep, somehow.

Ah, but I was so much older then,

I'm younger than that now.

Girls' faces formed the forward path

From phony jealousy

To memorizing politics

Of ancient history

Flung down by corpse evangelists

Unthought of, though, somehow.

Ah, but I was so much older then,

I'm younger than that now.

A self-ordained professor's tongue

Too serious to fool

Spouted out that liberty

Is just equality in school

"Equality," I spoke the word

As if a wedding vow.

Ah, but I was so much older then,

I'm younger than that now.

In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand

At the mongrel dogs who teach

Fearing not that I'd become my enemy

In the instant that I preach

My pathway led by confusion boats

Mutiny from stern to bow.

Ah, but I was so much older then,

I'm younger than that now.

Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats

Too noble to neglect

Deceived me into thinking

I had something to protect

Good and bad, I define these terms

Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

Ah, but I was so much older then,

I'm younger than that now.

Ones about a daydream and another is about waking up. Anyhow, as Bob says, "It's All Good".

the greatest bad ever to influence most others, the beatles, untouchable then, untouchable now, and those who disagree get ye boxing gloves on

A very good pop band with little to say.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one.

John Lennon

Having just won the bet with myself, I have removed 10 baht from my right pocket and placed it in my left pocket.

I'll jump in to defend my avatar, on of the great guitarists, performers, musical visionaries, and cool dudes of the 20th century. I'm not promoting the Dead's music; some like it, some don't--let's leave it at that. But Jerry Garcia was one of the most creative and hardworking performers in the history of rock, routinely performing 100+ shows per year with the Dead, Jerry Garcia Band, Merl Saunders, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, Dave Grisham, plus doing studio sessions (especially on slide guitar) for other artists just to help out and have fun. In 1979, Jerry played live before audiences at least 145 times.

Amen.

A sweet, generous and humble man and a very much underappreciated musician, who like Dylan had the "blood of the land" in his voice and guitar picking. Though neither would probably admit to it, IMO he saved Dylan at a time when Bob was losing faith in his own gifts.

the greatest bad ever to influence most others, the beatles, untouchable then, untouchable now, and those who disagree get ye boxing gloves on

A very good pop band with little to say.

As Springsteen said, Dylan changed the world. The Grateful Dead didn't change their underwear.

I coud give several examples of the Grateful Dead wringing more musically out of a Dylan composition than Dylan ever did. I always considered then to be consummate musicians who could create music from a much more varied pallete than could most any other band.

I've never heard a song by them that I enjoyed. I just don't like their style in the same way that I do not like Tom Robbins the writer. I know that some other people love both of them, but I don't.

Fair enough I guess. Just as I can't think of a single great band that came out of the 80's, which I guess you can.

Maybe I'll comment further on this later but I just wanted to say I think you guys are being a little hard on the Dead. Maybe you didn't like the scene that sprung up around the bands touring, but the music was fantastic. They are a band you can't compare to other bands as they were in a genre all their own, same with Dylan.

Metro Hotel in New Orleans. Typical skid row fleabag but at 19 years of age and having ridden freight trains from Seattle, and it being Mardi Gras, I still had a blast. Rich or poor, I've always had a great time in New Orleans and have a soft spot in my memories of the Metro Hotel.

Chiang Mai >>Singapore

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My thanks to all.

Why not tomorrow?

Because the tax authorities to whom the packages are being posted will consider them timely if posted by today, and not otherwise.

God, I hate those bastards. No offense PB. Anyhow, good luck.

Capitalism is so passe'. Welcome to the era of public / private Financialism.

I'll answer that one with a lesson many will still have to learn, one day or the other,

many years ago, one of my favorite songs sung by the late Janis:

"Freedom is another word for nothing left to lose!"......

(Freedom? Dont you mean Dead'?)

Love Janis, but I think Dylan got a bit closer to the truth on that one:

"when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose"

What's the betting, despite the serious nature of this incident, that it all just fades away and we never get to know the truth, or even the half truth.

The plane will probably be released on receipt of a payment of some kind, the crew given a symbolic sentence and made to disappear, and the arms? Well some of them may be of use to the Thai military but I doubt it, most likely a very public destruction.

Yes, all that and now they'll know who within the Thai government to pay off for future runs.

I paid 3,000 baht each for 2 6 month old weaned calves a couple of months ago. Getting 7 buffalo for free this month, but the guy who is giving them to me paid 40,000 for the lot. Cows are pretty cheap right now as there is not much new grass coming up after a very dry rainy season.

Without a work permit?

LORD of WAR??

My favorite movie.

These N Koreans should get the firing squad treatment, send a message that N Korea is not welcome. Anyone taking the side of N Korea on this thread should go live there.

Your favorite movie? That may just possibly be the worst movie I've ever seen.

I've seen the "L" shaped trimmers (like Item No. 62101) at various shops. You have to get a nice piece of bamboo or something to insert into the handle mount. The steel used for these is pretty soft and and sharpening them usually causes a little steel loss, but at 70 baht or so, not too bad.

It's the biggest tax grab in the history of the world and dear old Gordon Brown is leading the EU subscription with 1.5 bn GBP, the biggest donation. The Germans and the French must be laughing their socks off, Britain is virtually broke and that daft Scots git can't give it away fast enough.

Will the last person to leave the UK tell the muslims that the rent's due.

What are they afraid of when all the artificial "growth" stops? That people might turn on their leaders for having so little to show for their labors? Yeah, I think that might be it.

http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009...mands-huge.html

Penny Stock World, choose one.

This stock will skyrocket when:

1. The new investors come onboard.

2. After the next reverse split.

3. When the judgement is overturned on appeal.

4. When the bourse accepts our auditors credentials.

5. When the new samples are assayed.

6. When we get a new CEO/CFO to replace the guy who ran off with all the money.

7. When the upcoming news is released.

I don't know of a single soul in my circle that didn't see this recent financial crisis coming. What's important is that it doesn't break you and that you don't break yourself guessing exactly when it will commence.

By this comment are you saying as I often do that this slide has yet to begin in earnest?

No I'm not. It has clearly commenced and may in fact be over. The stock market that is. They can bubble it if they choose. It depends whether or not they think they can kill the dollar and still sell bonds. I don't think they can. Not at these interest rates at least.

edit: The thing to keep your eye on IMO is whether or not the market and the dollar can rise togeher. That's happened a few times this past 2 weeks.