JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

11:42 hummus: locals are scissors, customers are rocks and guess who is Paper?

Bottom fishing, short covering and violent trade.

A fumi-e (踏み絵
fumi “stepping-on” + e “picture”^?) was a likeness of Jesus or Mary upon which the religious authorities of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan required suspected Christians to step on in order to prove that they were not members of that outlawed religion.^[1] The use of fumi-e began with the persecution of Christians in Nagasaki in 1629. Their use was officially abandoned when ports opened to foreigners on April 13, 1856, but some remained in use until Christian teaching was placed under formal protection during the Meiji period. The objects were also known as e-ita or ita-e,^[2] while the forced test was called e-fumi.^[2] The “ceremony of e-fumi, of trampling on images, was well enough reported in Europe already by the early eighteenth century to have left a mark on works of imaginative literature like Jonathan Swift‘s Gulliver’s Travels, Oliver Goldsmith‘s The Citizen of the World, and Voltaire‘s Candide,” according to Prof. Michael North in Artistic and Cultural Exchanges Between Europe and Asia, 1400-1900.^[3] In modern Japanese literature, treading on the fumi-e is a pivotal plot element of the novel Silence^[4][5] by Shusaku Endo.

From Wikipedia Link “stepping on the crucifix” from Gulliver’s Travels wikiarticle today.

13:08 hummus: Ever See A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick? Force convicted embezzlers and crooks in finance, forex and commodities to watch “Trading Places” with Ackroid & Murphy with Eyes Jammed Wide Open over and over again. [not serious]
13:08 bob: good work ben – thanks!

Cage the Giant with Low Prints, Circuit Breakers. Buy their fire sale handguns with their paper.1

1. Gulliver’s Travels
   

12:47 YSS: On February 20, 2013 at 11:01:36, the April 2013 crude oil futures contract was hit with over 2500 contracts within 2 seconds sending prices sharply lower. Oddly enough, 12 seconds later, all CME oil futures contracts halted for 10 seconds. Because the circuit breaker tripped after the market had somewhat stabilized, we think another large sale appeared that would have decimated prices – which CME’s circuit breaker logic picked up on, causing the halt. This large ghost sale must have been canceled before the 10 second halt ended. Another explanation is a software bug in CME’s circuit breaker code, which we doubt because they have had great success with their circuit breaker logic.
12:47 Martha: bold italic – unreadable
12:47 Diamond Dave: remember the cigar trade?

• John Matthew Rubens ‏@raftofwater
  
  

  “Gulliver’s Travels”: E PLURIBUS UNUM may mean more than merely immigration, it may mean ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT and more… . Mason’s Mastered Civil Rule, until now?
  

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Scum is as scum was: Villaraigosa, Guiliani and others please GO! Alioto on the other hand, at least had Bullit.

If I am not Everyman, Giuliani is an Alien “How do you spell Guiliani? G-I-U-L-I-A-N-I?

Giuliani on Gun Control CNN circa 02-09-2013

Everyman English Literature from the Late Middle Ages (not sure, but I read it more than once at U.C. Davis).

If I am not Everyman, Giuliani is an Alien “How do you spell Guiliani? G-I-U-L-I-A-N-I?

Giuliani on Gun Control CNN circa 02-09-2013

Everyman English Literature from the Late Middle Ages (not sure, but I read it more than once at U.C. Davis.