DRINK CAREFULLY

 There is the well-known story about the frog and boiling water.

The frog gets put in tepid water and the heat slowly increased to the boiling point, but the frog never notices the change and doesn't jump out before it's too late. Some might say the tale is just a metaphor for subtlety.

Subtle changes like those flapping butterfly wings create big effects. There's another term that likewise begins with the letter "s" that's undergoing big changes today under what is becoming less and less subtle--sovereignty. In this case the rapidly growing loss of it.

Globalization is a term that 's been pushed by MSM. It's described as a modern day panacea for the globe's ills. But folks are starting to realize globalization is the antonym of sovereignty. Hardly what's it's been cracked up to be.

If you think otherwise, you have not been following the eurozone mess. Or for that matter other areas of the world where folks are becoming increasingly upset about the obliteration of local control and customs.

Walmart is the huge conglomerate people love to hate. If you look around today conglomerates, like robots, are taking over. In the U.S. corporate big boys like Walgreen's, CVS and RiteAid have all but captured the pharmacy business.Local mom and poppers followed the Edsel down the Oblivion Freeway. 

And much the same is happening all around us. What once was subtle is now--or it should be--blatantly overt, an outright assault on choice. And that's just another way of saying globalization is hardly your friend if you revere freedom of choice.

Some people we fear still believe milk is the only thing that's getting homogenized. Local not central is synonymous with sovereignty. Local not central is synonymous with choice. Like the best laid plans of mice and men, good intentions often beget not so good results.

What part of Washington or Brussels or Beijing or Moscow is local? The Greeks along with several of their peripheral EU members, notwithstanding their pathetic historical lack of fiscal probity, get it.

So here's a couple of questions for you, one about semantics, the other about money printing.

Are the words manipulate and titrate really fungible? The first, manipulate, denotes something unfavorable while the second, titrate, something acceptable.

And which is it that central bankers around the globe do--titrate or manipulate? If you sup regularly at the MSM trough you get the picture. You also get at which trough you're expected to slake your thirst.

But like that grade school warning about approaching railroad crossings most of us grew up with, stop, look and listen.

And drink carefully.