The bastards.
“Man-eating” Great Whites can be blamed for mostly everything and now that can include pushing the United States economy, and thereby the world’s economy, into recession.
I do not joke.
For today, the Federal Reserve released its Beige Book or “Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions.” The report comes out eight times a year and hopes and dreams hang upon its spiral binding.
And today’s had bright moments, the U.S. economy continues to expand at moderate level, but signs of worry cannot be ignored, particularly in the tourism sector.
Worry so great that NPR’s Marketplace program feat. Kai Ryssdal suggested recession might be around the corner.
What is the cause of this retracting tourism?
Monstrous Great White sharks.
According to Bloomberg News:
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston cited sharks and a tornado, along with a robust U.S. dollar, as reasons behind a “challenging summer tourist season” in Cape Cod.
“One theory was that the strong U.S. dollar prompted more Americans to vacation abroad this summer,” the regional Fed bank said Wednesday in the latest Beige Book summary of economic conditions across the U.S. Moreover, “media attention was ‘overly’ focused on increased shark sightings and (rare) tornados.”
Oh sorry.
I guess misanthropic Great White sharks are not to blame for the impending recession but rather BeachGrit’s extended coverage of them.
My bad but when you get laid off from your job due to stagnation and budget cuts please remember all the laughs we had.
WTF did I just read? What about mosquitos? Or ticks? Or crokcs in Florida?What about the danger of getting shot by a kid when you are walking down the street minding your own business? What about the growing anger against outside countries as if they are enemies? How many people do you believe, statistically, that due to the US policy won’t consider visiting the US? Did they also considered that in their statistics?
WTF is wrong with these guys?
The reason I stopped buying “stuff” was my completely rational fear of random tornadoes and grey white sharks combined.
I mean what if I’m at Walmart and a random tornado drops down several big great whites sucked up from sea ?
Shit will get real ! Those fuckers have a bad enough attitude in the water let alone in home depot!
Beachgrit just shinned the light.
aside- whats with all the dead seagulls down Huntington beach recently?
I blame the Democrats.
Strange how A very large Apex Predator could affect Consumer Confidence in a sea side resort …. It used to be a car backfiring in Paris ?
I bet those bloody Kurds had been harbouring the Sharknado and released it just at the right time to hurt the US economy.
Worse than ISIS. Thanks to Chas and Beach Grit for keeping our third eye open.
Brown Eye Sees All
We are, all of us here, but vessels.
True that comrade.
Oi aren’t the Kurds our mates? Fuck the world is complicated.
No Trump came out today and said they’re now worse than ISIS. I thought I remembered them being key allies in both Gulf Wars and the fight against ISIS, but Trump said so
Speaking of silly shark bait, how long do you give the new booger shop on Glebe?
I’m saying 12 months max.
Johnny Cruikshank has been on the lid scene for a long while nowand has already had some successful ventures so it should do alright. Weird spot. Great pizza across the rd tho. And try as I might to hate on Frothers I just can’t.
Seems like they’re sponging off the pizza parlour’s success.
The Welcome Mat ?
Perhaps some speed bumps outside the store will attract some more attention.
Don’t blame it on the Sunshine .
Don’t blame it on the Moonlight .
Don’t blame it on the Goodtimes .
Blame it on the ( Morey ) Boogie ….
Awww, I ain’t hatin’. Just think it’s indeed a weird spot.
I haven’t seen a soul in or out of the place since the opening day.
Maybe he can hook up with the pizza joint and sell combined edible-ridables.
The pizza is pretty good, all considering, but I’ve had shitty service there.
The issue of establishing an independent Kurdish state has been an issue since World War I. Actually long before that. At present there is no such independent state. The Kurds have been waging “war” with Turkey forever. Long before WWI. There are numerous factions within the Kurds. There’s a long history of these various factions. KDP, PUK YPG, PKK among others. All with different ideologies. The fight against ISIS positioned US interests in alignment with that of Syrian Kurds who wanted to carve out an independent state from Syria. ISIS threatened that goal, which is why they fought alongside the US. Same enemy but for different reasons.
What is important to note is that Turkey is a NATO Ally. Syria is a sovereign country. Turkey is invading Syria. While it seems all good to fight with the Kurds, we are in essence defending Syrian soil. That is illegal under international law.
This issue is subject to United Nations Security Council involvement. That is now happening. Which is better than the US acting as a police force in the region.
It might seem a tad right-wing but the solution I’ve always held onto since childhood is if the entire Middle East can’t play nicely with each other over scraps of dust, just nuke the lot and then noone can fight over it.
Damn right! (see what I did there?)
But your right-wingery is lily-livered. I want nukes parked in every town square, world-wide. Whenever anyone doesn’t toe the line: BOOM. Fuck off and let me polish my gun collection in peace you c-words!
Don’t be Shy ! If it’s not love then it’s the bomb that will bring us together …..
https://youtu.be/zoo9Vu1a9bU
Hide on the promenade
Etch a postcard :
“How I Dearly Wish I Was Not Here”
In the seaside town
That they forgot to bomb
Come, come, come, nuclear bomb…..?
We need to let the sand people choose their own borders. We do not understand their language let alone their motives.
The Kurds had refused US demands for release of specific named ISIS prisoners under Kurdish detention. We got some key enemy combatants with Intel value but Kurds refused to turn over others. We no longer stood to gain anything of value by our presence. Turkey doesn’t want to keep all the Syrian refugees. It’s either release them into EU, which Hungary would not let happen across their border, or stabilize that region of Syria in order to safely repopulate refugees back home.
ISIS is not a threat of any significance, no matter what politicians say. Everyone has weapons over there. Men of fighting age, old men, old women, little kids, fuck…even the goddamn goats wear suicide vests. I’m sure Kurds will handle the remaining ISIS fighters escaping confinement. Otherwise the Russians will fuck them up. Most were EU citizens who’s country’s leaders refused to take back to prosecute. Not our problem. Trump made the right decision, which is often the least popular choice, depending on who you ask of course.
Long story short, I agree with you.
Years ago I went to the Middle East for business. I bought Rosetta Stone “Arabic” so I could at least speak basic conversation, but more importantly learn insulting words/phrases cause they’re a shifty bunch. And let me tell ya, they’re ruthless. “Welcome Otto. Ya Gazma.” Being called a shoe is the worst of the worse insult. Like being called the sole of a Signature Fanning Bottle Opener Sandal. My other favorite was “Gawad”. Apparently being called a ” pimp” is not always a term of street hustle respect. Left them confused when I responded “Thats right bitch. Where my money?! Now get your nappy ass back on that street corner! Sheeeet!”*
*I didn’t actually say that aloud but did my best inner voice Player impression.
The Kurds should be sweet with Turkey but, just like the Armenians were.
Whatever, both sides of politics have form in alliances of convenience that they later trash. But I feel like even Trump had trouble forcing out that line about the PKK being worse than ISIS.
PKK are Marxists. While ISIS wanted a caliphate in the Greater Levant, the PKK wants a global revolution where socialism defeats capitalist interests on a global scale. The presence of NGO’s in that region is beyond what gets reported. It’s quite complex, and I’m sure Trump is doing his best to wrap his head around a very complex situation that meanders about like a river flowing uphill.
Sounds good to me. No wonder Australian mercenaries were going to fight alongside them against ISIS.
And really, painting ISIS as a contained regional issue threat versus the Kurds as a global force hellbent on a communist revolution is a bit rich.
Ah well, not like a rag tag group of scorned nationalists using communism as a vehicle to realise their goals ever did any harm to America.
Total confidence in Trump. He’s a deft diplomat that fully understands the subtleties of geopolitik; the Brzezinski of our generation.
Interesting, when Trump ordered the 50 or so US soldiers out of there, as Erdogan let loose his ‘buffer zone’ force, how little time it took the Kurds to realize they would be much better off back with Assad’s Syrian government, with diplomatic Russia helping broker a deal, which may well result in Syria getting back its sovereignty entirely, and the Kurds having a fairer say in a new constitution. So much for regime change. Yet it seems that US hawks on both sides, like John Bolton, Lindsey Graham and Hillary Clinton are still pursuing regime change as part of their foreign policy. Wish they’d get the fuck over it, read the play better and, as Wiggolly says, let the sand people decide their own borders themselves. Peace.
Good to read some informed posters here. However, there is no natural “Kurdistan” in Syria.
He is a little Song from my favorite Armenian , Charles Aznavour .
(Armenian-French singer-lyricist)
https://youtu.be/ieYQKS9-Is0
Yep. The Zio controlled media (which includes Beach Grit) just reports Zio propaganda. The failed Balkanisation of Iraq in 2007/8 (Biden-Brownback Resolution) and this attempted Syrian Balkanisation is an Isreali plan dating back to the 1982 Yinon Plan and the 1996 Clean Break Plan by Richard Perle. This NE Syrian region the US controls has the Syrian oil fields and Israel currently buys the oil, which, importantly, deprives Syria of oil needed for its defense & rebuilding, which forces Syria to try to import oil from Iran. Kurds historically lived in the mountains of Iran, Iraq & Turkey and the fringes of the Syrian border. The current planned so-called “Kurdistan” in the Syrian oil fields east of the Euphrates is unrelated to traditional Kurdish lands. Plus many Syrian Kurds were refugees from Turkey from the 1920s. All invaders in Syria, including Turkey, should simply fark off. It was Turkey who funnelled in fighters & weapons for ISIS (just as they were busted supplying Boko Haram) and looted Syria, including the high tech industrial capital in Aleppo. The US, Turks and the covert mercenaries called ISIS, Al Qaeda, Free Syrian Army, etc, should all fark off. Israel, who also supplies, harbours (on its borders), protects & gives medical care to ISIS should take a chill pill. No country is threatening Israel. Most the Arab nations (Saudia Arabia, Jordan & Egypt) are now allies with Israel.
ISIS was born from AQI, who saw Kurdish PKK rebel forces fighting Asssd in Syria, and wanted a piece of the action. AQI disobeyed Zarqawi’s order to stay out of Syria. Zarqawi disavowed AL Queda’s affiliation with AQI. ISIS wanted to establish a caliphate, then go after the head of the snake. Zarqawi wanted to go after the head of the snake, or the West first, then establish a caliphate. ISIS isn’t an issue in the middle east so much anymore, but now more so in fundamental Islamic regions of Indonesia, where they have brought battlefield experience to a new place incapable of dealing with their stupid shit.
You love hating on Israel. Same rants over and over again without regard to recognizing changing circumstances and areas of focused efforts in furtherance of ideological goals.
He needs to watch some Ross Kemp on the frontline or whatever it is. The Kurds seem like sick cunts. Their chicks fight side by side with their blokes. Far more advanced civilisation than the US who can’t even give a black fella a fucken job. Dumb seppo dogs.
Or the idea that cops can walk into other people’s apartments and shoot them while they eat ice cream, because the cop walked in the wrong door and doesn’t even recognize their own furniture.
If one goes back to Orwell’s 1984 , one can see the importance of certain types of government’s need to be constantly at war with someone ? Anyone . “……… Meanwhile, during the nation’s Hate Week, Oceania’s enemy suddenly changes from Eurasia to Eastasia and Winston is called back to make changes to the records to conform to the nation’s new allegiance and enemy.”…..?
Holy Sharknado!
Trump will now bomb Turkey for
A Thanksgiving boost
It’s so good to have you back.
Oh I never left
I just lurked in the bushes
Watching you make love
Such restraint
like a last tango in paris
texas
One of my greatest
but not, for mine, as good as
“This Must Be The Place”