CRASH on PBS!

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Just seen the CRASH on PBS. They realize the crash is coming but can't stop. It's like riding a bull, you don't jump off just because you think you might get hurt! You ride it till the end :o) I need to see stuff like this to keep me going in my preps. This is too hard to comprehend no matter how much you know about Y2K it's just to much. Keep your eys&ears open.

-- Rooster Cogburn (Gotitlate@wow.com), June 30, 1999

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Here's a link to the show and no@thanks.com), June 30, 1999.

sorry - forgot the link code :) Here's the URL:

http://pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/crash/

-- gail (none@thanks.com), June 30, 1999.


I watched the show. It was a very interesting indictment of the IMF and American capitalism, which is entirely cavalier about devastating entire nations for profit, but the emphasis was not on a stock market crash--except that there will be one. This will have no influence whatsoever on public perceptions. It was low-key, intellectual, and leftist. (I'm leftist, too, so I'm not using that as a perjorative exactly.)There was no reference to Y2K and the skewed perception that can admit that there will be worldwide failures (although not here) while denying that it will touch us or our stock markets.

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWayne@aol.com), June 30, 1999.

frontline: the crash: will it happen again?

This is most amazing. More so by the extencive nature of the information and opinions and who is making these statements. The above link has interveiws with some leaders in the world markets. If you click on the names of the people  the full interview will appear in another page.

Andy and Ray will be looked at by another light after reading these guys.

-- Brian (imager@home.com), June 30, 1999.


After watching CRASH last evening on PBS I can't help but be reminded of Michael Douglas' portrayal of the heartless broker in Wall Street saying to a large audience of investors, "Greed is Good".

-- NSmith (nitnat3@aol.com), June 30, 1999.


Agree with you all. That heartless "second in command" at the INF showed at least that the"money makers" don't care who or how many suffer as long as they get their money --- and the US supports this so far.

The only question is when --- but the crash may well be incredibly fast when it happens.

Made me think of Andy and others posts also. Even far "right-wing conspiracy nuts" may not be far off.

But we will have a $TRILLION surplus!

Agree the show won't change many minds, but the truth IS out there.

-- Jon Johnson (narnia4@usa.net), June 30, 1999.


Of course I meant IMF.

And here is a last "snip":

In the end, this FRONTLINE report asks, is the worst over, or will it happen again? And what if the U.S. stock market, believed by many observers to be a bubble, bursts?

"If that were to happen before the rest of the world has recovered," George Soros warns, "then you would have a worldwide depression similar to what happened in the 1930s."

-- Jon Johnson (narnia4@usa.net), June 30, 1999.


What I found particularly scary was the pictures of the masked, jack booted tax agents storming private residences. Sum this with last years order of millions of dollars worth of shotguns and hand guns by the US IRS and it's not a pretty picture.

-- a (a@a.a), June 30, 1999.

>>What I found particularly scary was the pictures of the masked, jack booted tax agents storming private residences [in Russia]. Sum this with last years order of millions of dollars worth of shotguns and hand guns by the US IRS and it's not a pretty picture.<<

Where did you get your info on the purchase of guns by the IRS?

If I recall correctly, the Secret Service is the "enforcement arm" of the Treasury, and would be the ones involved in any gun-play. Hard as I try, I just can't imagine a bunch of jack-booted IRS accountants storming my residence with guns drawn.

The way you present your evidence makes it look like you are summing 1 + 1 and getting at least 3. That kind of arithmetic *will* have the IRS checking up on you, if you apply it to your tax forms!

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), June 30, 1999.


Brian,

There is a Web site that lists government purchases. (They may have closed it to the public after the IRS gun purchase came out.) But 3-4 months ago, it published the wish lists of the alphabet soup agencies, and yes, the IRS wants guns, the badder the better.

-- Gypsy (GypsiGold@aol.com), June 30, 1999.



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