How I Predicted the Global
Economic Crisis*:
The Most Amazing Book
You’ll Never Read
John R. Talbott
Copyright 2011 by John R. Talbott
Smashwords Edition
Economic Crisis*:
The Most Amazing Book
You’ll Never Read
*and the dot.com collapse, the housing crash, the banking crisis, the stock market plunge, the length and depth of the current recession, the bankrupting of Fannie and Freddie, Europe’s debt problems, the muni-bond meltdown, a doubling of gold prices and the even bigger world economic crisis yet to come
John R. Talbott
Copyright © 2011 by John R. Talbott
Smashworks Edition
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From the Movie - Network (1976)
Program Director: Take 2, cue Howard.
Howard Beale (a news anchor speaking into the television camera): 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 worth; 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 TVs 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 all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.
It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house and slowly the world we're 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 going to 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.
You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! 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,
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"
Howard Beale
Played by Peter Finch
Awarded the Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor posthumously
Written by Paddy Chayefsky
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.
M.K. Gandhi
All Good People
Lyrics to the song by the musical group Yes
Written by Jon Anderson
1971
I´ve seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I´m on my way.
I´ve seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I´m on my way.
Take a straight and stronger course
To the corner of your life.
Make the white queen run so fast
She doesn´t have time to make you a wife.
´Cause it´s time, it´s time in time with your time and its news is captured
For the queen to use.
Move me onto any black square.
Use me any time you want.
Just remember that the goal
´Sfar as us is t’capture all we want.
Don´t surround yourself with yourself.
Move on back two squares.
Send
an instant karma to me:
Initial it, with loving care.
´Cause it´s time, it´s time in time with your time and its news is captured
For the queen to use.
I´ve seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I´m on my way.
I´ve seen all good people turn their heads each day so satisfied I´m on my way.