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New Year that has just dawned fills the DPRK with independent confidence, while it colors south Korea with global anxiety. The stark contrast is thundering on current key phrases like "new revolutionary surge" from the north and "unprecedented economic crisis" from the south.
New Revolutionary Surge of the North
According to the report of Korean Central News Agency dated January 6, supreme leader of north Korea Kim Jong Il said:
"The prevailing situation where a high-pitched drive for bringing about a new great revolutionary surge sweeps the whole country to open the gate to a great prosperous powerful nation urgently requires the display of the same ideological and moral power as displayed by the people of Kangwon Province and the same revolutionary work style and enterprising working method as shown by the officials of the province."
Unprecedented Economic Crisis of the South
According to the report of Yonhap News agency dated January 9, the top executive officer of south Korea Lee Myung Bak said:
"All of you must have experienced (difficulties), but there has never been anything like what we are experiencing right now. There had been global depressions and crises in the past, but every country facing a crisis at the same time is just unheard of."
Confidence in Independent Road
In north Korea all preparations - strong and stable - are done. It is a precious fruit of painstaking efforts of the Korean people for a decade since Kim Jong Il announced his grand idea of the building of a "powerful nation" through Joint New Year Editorial of 1999. What awaits this year is the leap as described by Joint New Year Editorial of 2009.
The Korean people are now in a general offensive to leap on all fronts to add a new economic power status to their established ideological, political, military and cultural power status.
Their principle is firmly socialist, based on the power of collectivism. Their strategy to accomplish the objectives is clearly independent, based on the power of self-reliance. Their answers are in accordance with the requirements of the times, a new development stage of the cause of Juche revolution, giving great importance to "ideology, arms and sci-tech" as indicated by Joint New Year Editorial of 2000.
The Korean people are so confident about their own road of Songun that any condition can never stop their advance. The relations with the US, for example, is not in their blue print. By a new great revolutionary surge, the Korean people will also add a historic proof to an old saying "patience is bitter, but fruit is sweeter" in Korean style by 2012. Optimism shines.
Uncertainty in Conditioned Road
In south Korea growth-oriented economy based on expansion of export falters. Economic indicators show downturn on almost all sectors. So-called global financial crisis means domestic economic difficulties and political disturbance. Government side's counter measures for the crisis are rather political than economic in that those merely flame public discontent fanned by political oppression to protect the rich and the foreign capital while sacrifice the middle, the poor, the weak and the national wealth. Economic crisis invites political fascism there. Democracy diminishes. Pessimism prevails.
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As per TOPIX > NOKOR is accusing SOKOR of trying to assassinate Kimmie.
At last check, the UNO is still claiming that just under 50% of NOKOR's gener population is officially starving, and will likely need many years of massive international aid just to minimally/barely survive. Also, NOKOR's STARVATION = FOOD WOES IS ANTICIPATED OVER TIME TO INTENSIFY, NOT LESSEN.
Taken collectively, IMO it appears that Kimmie is prepping NOKOR for ALL-OUT WAR IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE [2010 NLT 2012 = BAM-MAN/"JIMMY CARTER II" POTUS ADMIN]???
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G(r)om, I like you, not that you care much, I guess, I find you funny and all, but sometimes, you're just predictable and tiring, with your buttons to push and everything.
If you want to go to the death of Europe, WWI makes a much better case, WWII would just be its logical conclusion.
But I don't think Europe died in auschwitz, otherwise, it would have died earlier in Ukraine, or even way earlier, during the 30 years wars.
IIUC, europeans were very unconcerned by the concentrations camps and such up until the late 60's, when the people who actually had gone through the war and knew what collective horror it had been up and through its aftermath, started to make way for the generation that war born after it.
From what I know, the french people of the algerian war era (mid-late 50's early 60's) were very healthy, in that they suffered none of the PC-induced madness that strickens us today, far from that, if you except the commies who were collaborating out of ideology with the "liberation struggle" of the natives, just like they did before that in indochina.
Could France refight the same algeria war now? Not a chance.
The education and entertainement and the information complexes, as well as the "intellectual class", the "creative class", have been much more efficient at killing Europe than WWII ever was... though the GUILT of WWII shoved down our collective throat along with all the other SINS of the white european male certainly has been a major factor... just compare "old" (western, not soviet-occupied, but occupied rather by the neo-leftists, the cultural marxists, the soviet agents of influence), and "new" (soviet-occupied, but not subjected to the other forces metnioned before) Europe, and I mean in the mentalties of the people... "New" Europe actually is "Old" Europe; we've been changed, they've stayed the same, mostly, despite communism, because for them, it was an occupying totalitarian regime, not something that was molded into their minds to change them. I always thought there was more actual commies in France or Italy than in Poland or West Germany.
As for WWII, it is a mental trap; if europeans are to somehow survive, they must escape it, not the historical event which is NEUTRAL (I may/will get some flak for it, but do you really think the jewish people killed by the nazis are intrinsically more victimized than the ukrainians of the Holodomor, the russians in the gulags, the armenians by the turks & the kurds, the cambodians, the tutstis, the south-sudanese,...or even the gypsies who were as a group IIRC as exterminated proportionally as them??? Hell no! I'm really sorry for the jews, but as an european, I have NOTHING to apologize for, and NOTHING to hold them as a special 'victim' group over the other genocided people, past and present), but the overbearing shadow that looms over all things. The engineered guilt of WWII is killing Europe (western Europe), not anything done during WWII.
And all this neurosis is funnily getting real counter-productive for the jews AND the non-jews that pushed it (since the 70's or so), one rather interesting example recently was that racist black (ok, he's actually a metis, but well, he's got a better deal selling his victimhood about slavery and the debt whitey owns to the black people as a "black", even though his mothers hails from an historical slaveships french port, and his father from an african country that actually was a slave-selling country) comedian who got the publicity he wanted by having a guy dressed up as a concentration camp inmate giving an 'impertinence award' to an holocaust denier... perception is the "jews" have gotten themselve the whole of the 'victimhood' pie, but now, blacks, gays, arabs,... wants it too, and are ready to scrape with the joooooos to get their piece of the racket. Just look at how the paleos are pushing the GENOCIDE button. Funny, really, all this is so twisted up I can't help finding funny as hell.
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As for the article, well, don't they know the roots of Europe are muslim? That's what is pushed by the education system, with the help of the EU, and it is the official dogma of the french republic (whose current ideology is "le métissage"), just think how shirak said "the roots of Europe are as muslim as they are Christian" to a stunned fellow pol in a private conversation, or how sarko praised the arab culture, and how it had helped bring the european civilization out of the dark ages...
This is from the Brussels Journal, not welcome here anymore, but I though that link about a big controversy last year among french intellectuals and all their proxies in teevee and public education and all was interesting : imagine, that historian has dared to assert that Europe has no civilizational debt whatsoever toward the muslim world, and that monks and the Byzantine empire were how the heritage from antiquity was preserved and transmitted! Fascist!
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anonymous5089, I don't care if you feel guilty or not over the past. All I worry about is that Europeans as a group are too stupid to be afraid of what will happen to them if they persist in supporting Arabs attempts to destroy us.
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Ultimately, all payments (pension, welfare, medicare, whatever) must come from current surplus productivity (or redistributed non-surplus poductivity). All our attempts to save or invest are intended to time-shift that surplus - but when those investments are actually phony balogny (see Madoff, or Social Security Trust Fund) there can be no time shifting. And that's where we are now.
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Just finished a study of municipal bankruptcy, and there is a nexus of unsustainable commitments between the state pensions, local taxes, and public employee employment contracts. The essential problem is that the "full funding" requirement for state pension funds is determined by unrealistically optimistic actuarial assumptions (say, 8%) that are in many cases more than twice what is allowable in more highly regulated private pension funds. When you hear a state's pension fund is "underfunded", it means that the return on assets is not hitting this magically generated number. By state statute "employers" must then make up the difference...usually those "employers" are the state and municipalities of the state. In other words, there is a direct positive correlation between underfunded pensions and higher state and local taxes...the outcome of the Vallejo Chapter 9 case may very well determine the course of the whole pension fiasco.
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CNN AM > CLARK HOWARD Segment > Howie proclaimed that sometimes people have to accept the prevailing econ circumstances, however harsh or unfair, and "TAKE THEIR MEDICINE" [aka "bite the bullet/grin-and-bear-it"]. IN THE WAKE OF THE CURRENT NATIONAL ECON CHAOS WID ITS UNCERTAIN DURATION, AMERS MUST NOW BEGIN TO START SAVING [domestic savings rates], AND DE FACTO CHANGE = REVERSE FROM THE HISTORICAL AMER CONSUMER PATTERN OF SPENDING MUCH MUCH MORE THAN THEY SAVE???
* As the Lefty saying goes, "ITS FOR THE CHILDREN" > GLITCH IS AMERS ARE SSSSSHHHHHHHHH NOW RESPONSIBLE FOR OTHER NATIONS' CHILDREN, NOT THE LATTER'S PARENTS OR LOCAL GOVTS, NOR EVEN TO AMER CHILDREN!
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Most of the individuals mentioned seem to be irrelevant to the topic, which is conflict of interest. And whatever personal conflict of interest is there, it pales in comparison to having the Democratic Party in control of the government.
Little hard to organize with nearly half the population not paying income tax and getting some sort of kickback subsidy.
" A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
* From bondage to spiritual faith;
* From spiritual faith to great courage;
* From courage to liberty;
* From liberty to abundance;
* From abundance to complacency;
* From complacency to apathy;
* From apathy to dependence;
* From dependence back into bondage."
ascribed to Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee
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So, several million searches a day generate several million grams of CO2/day, right? Sounds like a lot, but it is still a VERY tiny fraction of the total CO2 in the atmosphere already.
And CO2 is not the major greenhouse gas anyway. Water vapor is.
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Even the "Keynesian s" aren't real Keynesians, Keynes wanted government to build up a reserve during "good times" to spend in recessions and there's no reserves built up.
Keynes ideas of government being a good saver are out of date. Better for banks to be told to increase reserves during "good times" (increases in M4) and to lower them into recessions.
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