#3
With all that sunshine and lack of water, you would think the Arabs would have greenhouses everywhere. Instead they pillage and destroy them even when handed to them on a silver platter.
#4
the Juice left some perfectly good greenhouses behind when they left Gazoo. The Paleos promptly destroyed them. IMHO they deserve what they're gonna get
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#8
Permitting BIRTH CONTROL PILLS and other contraception along with SEX ED courses would help the water and hunger danger much more then the current Inshallah methods.
Posted by: Water Modem ||
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#9
I'm sure we'll give them a solution so they can grow more jihadis.
#12
Permitting BIRTH CONTROL PILLS and other contraception along with SEX ED courses would help the water and hunger danger much more then the current Inshallah methods.
Birth rates have already fallen significantly in the Arab world, and no doubt will continue to do so. It's going to be very interesting in that part of the world in a generation or so, as the results start to hit home.
#1
I suspect that much of this is wishful thinking on the part of the IMF, and the internationalists that back it. They crave the end of the "single superpower" age and a return to multilateralism, with them in charge of it.
But as with their dreams of a single international currency, which has been tried a few times already, it won't work and will blow up in their face, unless their compatriots can drag the US down so far that internationalism has a chance.
Yet, this fails with the US because their efforts were to drag the US down "on paper", which is a far cry from reality. That is, they think that if they can destroy the dollar, it will be the same as destroying the US.
The whole scheme has FAIL written all over it. First of all, because they are duplicitous rats, they will never trust each other, and always act in their own interest.
Second, paper is just paper, and only works when people think it has power. When they lose faith in it, it just becomes paper again, and people use something else as a token of exchange. If Obama "prints" a million billion trillion dollars, then people will use some other means and Obama will be left out in the cold.
#2
BTW the paper is Fed paper and not US Treasury paper. Fed is a consortium of banks nothing more nor less.
The Treasury could print Treasury Notes again and not care what the Fed Notes were worth.
Posted by: Water Modem ||
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#3
single international currency
We pretty much had that at one time. It was known as gold. Unfortunately, there is insufficient precious metal to cover the world economy these days. It becomes a ceiling that would move most of us back into the 19th Century economically which would also entail comparable health, technology stagnation, social stratification, etc that goes along with that.
#4
Gold is just as fiat as paper. It might be harder to expand the gold supply, but not as hard as you think nowadays with new technology and it's major problem is you cannot burn gold like you can fiat paper.
#5
Some economic historians have opined that the level of counterfeiting / unbacked bank notes in the US during the 19th century provided a beneficial boost to its money supply which otherwise would have been constrained by US gold stocks.
#6
Gold is just as fiat as paper. I disagree. Expanding the gold supply is (1) extremely difficult and likely to remain so and (2) economic activity expands and contracts due to factors other than the supply of gold -- this mismatch has always been a problem for gold-backed currencies. As far as I know, there IS NO GOLD BACKED CURRENCY in existence now, there is just gold. There are also other commodities.
Economic activity is based on trust between the two (or more) parties involved. That can't be printed, minted or mined.
#7
Plenty of gold on the asteroid EROS. 5 times a much as exists on Earth (including unmined in the Earth's core).
Posted by: Water Modem ||
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#8
Economic activity is based on trust between the two (or more) parties involved.
And a lot of the trust built up over the last 80 years was destroyed as the social model that had reigned over those years disintegrated due to its internal inconsistencies. Over the next 15 years or so, we will cobble together a new contract that will establish a basis for trust that will support the next step forward. Until then, trust will be at a premium.
#9
Sterling was the worlds staple monetery source for 250 years before the dollar. As far as I know the IMF want to trade in packets, just as they give out aid packets to countries in emergency. This would only really be used to trade in big bulks of oil and minerals etc. The world is run by companies otherwise where two trading companies would only have tocoer money once rather then the needless trading into dollar. Its a bright idea. Mcdonalads recently relocated a vast majority of stocks into foreign currencies. China is buying up the world in a bid to save all the dollars it accumulated. Obama isn't helping.
#11
Interesting idea, that of 'packets', devilstoenail. Also used by multinats to avoid payment of taxes, whilst at the same time claiming all the rebates.
#1
Have Rantburgers seen this video? I just saw it today, it's long: 1 hour 30. But very distressing.
These tactics are used today for those who would protect the rights of the individual against Government. Infiltrating protests. Abusing the legal system to make political opponents look like criminals.
It happens in the third world, Kenyan police called human-rights activist Oscar Kamau's protest a "mungiki" protest right before shooting him and his partner. He had helped expose Kenyan police extrajudicial killings and the UN special rapporteur had delivered a scathing report days before.
Now here in Australia and in the US it isn't that crude. They don't shoot people in the centre of the city in broad daylight like Kenyan cops do.
Here they put "form" on you and cause hassles...
With the imminent collapse of the US dollar thanks to excess moneyprinting they may be expecting civil unrest.
Please, stay safe over there, those of you who love liberty and freedom.
#2
Generally this is the sort of meme pushed by the same people who push the "9/11 was an inside job by the nazi-analogue US government" meme, and other similar things.
#3
In short, it's been pushed by those who hope to push the US to Civil War for their own fun and profit. They've already won in the middle east, more or less, by pushing the US to the brink of civil war.
#4
FEMA camps came into being to a great extent because of Katrina, and projected other disasters like the Big One in California, or another New Madrid quake near the Mississippi. Or even particularly devastating hurricanes or even a really bad volcanic eruption.
That is, the US had a need for regional, high density, emergency evacuation facilities. Federal EMERGENCY Management Agency.
This is because after Katrina, there was a huge and disorderly flight from Louisiana, mostly into Texas. And while the Texans tried to be helpful, they were just not equipped to handle so many people for so long.
FEMA camps have to be institutional, and designed to keep a huge number of people housed, fed, clothed and given health care and schooling for children, while trying to figure out where they can go.
But why keep it low key? Because they store a heck of a lot of emergency supplies there, but with only a small maintenance staff to keep it orderly. If they became well known, vandals and looters would quickly destroy the place.
#5
Hello anon1. In the event of a national emergency of the scale like WW11 you would have to have some plan to deal with the unexpected. I would hope and do expect planning of this sort must be considered. I have a poor opinion of the general population should a crisis occur. We don't have the strong family units anymore. We don't have the religious faith anymore to extent we once had.
Some errors in Judgment will occur. When people are fearful or distressed logic and common sense goes out the window. When emotion rules then people can behave in mass quite unpredictably(remember the riots in this country). That is why camps, foodstuffs, barbed wire, security, housing, energy, medical are needed to protect those inside as well as from the outside. I always use the old scout motto "be prepared". Yes, a triage would be necessary depending on the event. This would have to be preplanned and uniformly dispersed for uniformity.
Yes, police, national guard, medical centers would be coupled with this effort. This is thinking optimistically. Cool heads must prevail.
#7
Anonymoose, I live in the DFW area and had to travel around the counties during the time of the Katrina refugees. Lousiana may have muffed it but I'm proud to say I never saw or heard of problems with the way our state and local govts handled the problem. It was after the emergency that we had huge problem with crime done by the Louisiana refugees.
#8
Thing, Anonymoose and Dale all make sense. I understand perfectly the points they are making. But when push came to shove I'd have to agree with Bigim-CA. Just think how you would feel when they were marching you through that gate.
#9
What we should have done is saved several large military bases for this purpose. Ft. Ord, California, for example. Schools, shopping, housing, hospitals and clinics, airfield, rail sidings, everything that would be needed to quickly house thousands of people displaced by a natural emergency along with a large amount of land on which to build hasty shelter for thousands more.
In other words, we already had these FEMA camps pretty much already built but we threw them away.
#11
Hey Big Jim hows that new job. I did some paddling myself. Thirty years later I'm top heavy and pulling muscles. I did get my son and grandsons started however. We have allot of whitewater most of the time here. I always preferred going up stream. I understand your wanting to be on the outside of a camp. The main cities now have warlords in my opinion so anarchy will just wear you down.
#12
The Choice of title for this post is patently ridiculous. Mind you, Americans are gunners, first and foremost. FEMA would stand for Federals Executed by Mean Americans.
Posted by: Fi ||
04/25/2011 23:16 Comments ||
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Amid heightened concerns that Iraqs democracy is becoming increasingly vulnerable to an array of internal political and economic threats, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki strongly repeated his stance that the remaining 50,000 US troops will be gone from his country by the December, 2011 deadline. Not surprisingly, the main beneficiary of this action appears to be, once again, the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Despite the conflagration of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and Iranian efforts to incite horrific sectarian violence in Iraq after the 2003 US invasion, Irans ties to Iraq have actually grown increasingly closer as the US presence diminishes. To wit, through a series of economic agreements, Iran is now Iraqs largest trading partner. Iran has also created politically influential ties with Baghdads government through Shiite proxies such as al-Sadr and the Iraqi Shiite coalition.
Some are very concerned with Irans role in this drama. As Iraqi political advisor Wrya Saeed Rwandzi warned, Iran is openly fighting the secular democratic forces in the entire region. They are more dangerous than al-Qaida. In fact, he went on to say, Obama is doing nothing. The U.S. has no clear policy, and is sending contradictory messages.
Moved to Opinion because 2020 hasn't happened yet for those of us travelling forward through time.
tw at 5:29 a.m. ET
Federal Reserve Chairman Nancy Pelosi announces Quantitative Easing #56; "Ben would have wanted it this way," she declared with teary eyes
Chinese consumers complain about atrocious manners and lack of basic Mandarin grammar at U.S. call centers
EU Chairman Muhammed ibn-Sultan calls in NATO troops to quell rebellion of Christians in northern England
UN Security Council condemns Israel for not undertaking any military operations for over three months, "which is evidence of secret preparations to conquer the Arab countries"
Gold hits $1 million per ounce, still holding at price of a good men's suit
Reading comprehension removed from elementary school curricula following outbreak of "passive-aggressive pre-hormonal self-esteem disruption syndrome"
#3
"Gold hits $1 million per ounce, still holding at price of a good men's suit"
Actually there is truth to this. At the beginning of the 20th century one ounce of gold would get you the best suit that money could buy; that the beginning the the 21st century one ounce of gold will get you the best suit that money could buy.
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04/25/2011 18:36 Comments ||
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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