Stacy Summary: Do you ever get the feeling you are living in a 1950′s/60′s cold war thriller? Only you are caught on the ‘wrong’ side?
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Rick Ackerman-
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Yes!
This article really really gets my blood boiling!!!
From an article in ZH today, some telling words from Hank Paulson:
Whats even more remarkable is that that article was written by someone who works in CNBC.
In public, Obamawhore don’t like his Bankerpimps, no way no how.
In private, he’s lovin’ them every which way.
Rub a Dub Dub….three men in a tub…(barry obama tiny tim and bernake)….
http://xkcd.com/1/
товарищи (Важным коммюнике):
Мы не можем позволить матери бандиты изнасилование Россия — не более одного дюйма.
Ура!!!
History will remember this as the moment CHINA mugged America for World number 1:-
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=awpljgdZYqJw&pos=9
Mike
Это уже слишком поздно.
что? Какой же это год? Черт бы тебя побрал теcла – Опять?
Русский язык могуч! жмутся под его весом, тщедушный капиталисты!
Price of poppys goes up:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6820900/Two-British-soldiers-killed-by-suicide-bomber-in-southern-Afghanistan.html
Mike
Bloomberg on WHY its now a good idea to sell your Gold:-
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=arhlK7_y34Mg&pos=3
Mike
Yes, we seem to be on the side that tortures people.
So far obama has lied about everything. He’s done nothing but support the war pigs. HE’s done nothing but support the banksters on stealing billions if not trillions from the usa people.
Who thinks he’s gonna change his ways.
Can’t stop from getting the feeling that the elites who control America and the world, are going to play their best cards last (the one up their proverbial sleaves). Greater North American Union here we come.
Some presidents getted pushed into doing what they do, and some just play along , with out much prodding. Im not sure which type of President Obama is.
Slaves unite
@StayC its ore of a feeling of being on the wrong side of a hitchcock flick….that or we are currently living out DR.Strangelove.
Fed May Curb Inflation Fears, Gold Prices
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB126083083520391175.html
It feels like a Godzilla movie.
Gold: how high will the price go in 2010?
World’s largest solid gold brick weighing 220kg (485lb) Photo: AFP/Getty
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/gold/6816590/Gold-What-next-for-the-price.html
I’m guessing cheney and bush are very proud or their protigege.
Amazing folks can’t see obama is nothing but “bush tanned”.
Obama’s ‘kindly smile’ not to be trusted, says Castro
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/1216/1224260761534.html
The gold market has developed into a bubble and prices face “significant risks of a downward correction”, according to Nouriel Roubini of RGE Monitor and New York University’s Stern School of Business, who came to fame for predicting the global crash in financial markets.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/968c83fc-e965-11de-be51-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1
@ warburg sydney
About Adorno writing and owning the so-called Beatles music, yes, that’s correct. I think the rights were sold to Jackson when his wife died but can’t remember exactly. He despised popular culture and its victims. He used to hang out at Buckingham Palace, good friend of Lizzie. He was part of the Frankfurt School, very into engineering culture.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3998279/The-Culture-Industry-Enlightenment-as-Mass-Deception-Adorno-Horkheimer
This topic is interesting; it provokes some very emotional responses from many people; if you bone up on the details and then broach the subject with friends and family, you’ll be in for some surprising reactions. Best to try it out on strangers first.
It’s just too difficult for people to make the leap, to see that their culture has been engineered.
Firstly Sixty Minuets jumped the shark many moons ago.
The bankster O meeting reminds me of the famous and never gotten to the bottom of meeting between the energy sector and one dick cheney.
and for a full flashback I’m hearing a giant sucking sound (not jobs going to mexico)
but its the caulking guns dusted off from the last downturn in the late 80′s. There going to fix it all with caulk.
They will fill the gaps with caulk.
Caulk the market, shore up the fraud and let the green shoots fly.
I hope they have a lot of caulk
@Dan Valley ~ Thanks for the links ~
Alternate link to Barron’s article (subscription not needed):
http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?postId=2745909
QB Asset Management refutes Roubini’s “gold more valuable than spam” article:
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/qb-asset-management-rips-apart-roubinis-spam-more-valuable-gold-thesis
When O speaks, their is a veneration in the articulation of his furtive forked tongue. A master of sophistry.
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/06/30/obamas-two-faces-and-forked-tongue/
roubini further states…Although “some diversification of gold in central bank and investor portfolios may make some sense”, Prof Roubini says there is “little reason” for bullion prices to rise rapidly towards $2,000 an ounce unless the world enters a period of high inflation or slips into a depression….
Roger Ebert reviews Collapse
@ warburg sydney
All mass culture is created for us by multi-generational spooks.
For insights into the U.S. branch of Tavistock’s culture creation ops:
http://robalini.blogspot.com/2009/01/inside-lc-part-i.html
To easily access the rest of this series of articles, just change “part-i” in the url to “part-ii”, “part-iii”, etc.
The original author’s site is down at the moment. There were some great photos in the articles, but they’re all removed now. Darn! I liked the one of pre-makeover dork Jim Morrison with his father, the admiral who helped start the Vietnam War with the fake Tonkin Gulf Incident.
Trivia: After Morrison’s fake death, he laid low for a long time but has surfaced in Oregon on the rodeo circuit, and still does music gigs here and there. For a while there was a video on the net showing him performing in a gig in France. It’s not much of a secret but some people find this whole topic sacriligeous so are out of the loop.
@Max and Stacy – Thriller metaphors from the 50′s and 60′s
Top 10 Suitable metaphors from cinema and TV
10. I feel like gutter water from “Singing in the Rain” and the Federal Reserve is Gene Kelly stomping on me.
9. Bernanke is the big fat head alien from Star Trek the Menagerie.
8. My bank account is the smoking gun from Gun smoke.
7. My Scot-trade account is on the helicopter evacuation pod from M*A*S*H.
6. My financial analyst is like Meathead from All In The Family and I’m Archie Bunker…tthhtththhpttt
5. My life is like Lamb Chop and the FOMC is like Shari Lewis…with their hand up my backside!
4. Ever feel like your house payment is in the Land of the Lost and you are up the creek without a paddle as the dinosaur bank stomps on all the surrounding land?
3. I was living the Donna Reed Show until 2008 when it was replaced by the Addams Family.
2. Anyone notice the similarity between Bernanke in front of the US Congress and Mr. Ed? Both have shiney coats and lips that keep moving even when actually saying nothing.
1. At least Jack Paar knew when to resign, will Bernanke?
@ Will
Ruppert is in the Adnan Khashoggi stable.
Think artificial scarcity for diamonds and oil. Well, it goes a lot further than that, but that’s a starter.
“So what we appear to have here are two resources, both of which are created in abundance by natural geothermal processes, and both of which are marketed as scarce and valuable commodities, creating two industries awash in obscene profits.”
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/davemcgowanstalinandabioticoil05mar05.shtml
@Will – “if we had a complete meltdown, it could lead to people questioning the basis of the system.”
It COULD lead?
Hell, I’ve way beyond that.
I’ve not only questioned the basis of the system.
I’ve reached the conclusion that the financial and political system of the United States is beyond repair.
The only question is whether or not the replacement system will function within or in place of the current.
@anything.but.green.again – Fear is the way we are controlled, whether it’s fear of no resources, fear of terrorism, or whatever, and regardless of whether or not the fear is based on fact or illusion. That’s the only reason I’m interested in what Ebert says. Corporate interests have killed alternative energy projects for a long time – too bad we can’t talk to Nikola Tesla about that subject.
@CA Doc – In this vein, I’m watching what the individual states do. I don’t see how the system can survive, and I think that what individual state legislatures do is the most important factor in keeping a complete totalitarian situation from happening. The divide between voters and national lawmakers is growing greater, and the $2 billion spending bill is the latest and worst example of this.
Oblama. I think he has successfully pulled the wool over America, for now. The media will do a full-court-press on his behalf, which may help push along the corporate agendas under the auspice of being ‘Democratic Party’ legislation. A few crumbs for the workers but only crumbs and be sure that it is only crumbs, is the US government’s job to enforce.
@ Will
Yes, definitely. Unfortunately there are some nasty weapons in place, for when the shtf.
Think nanotechnology + kemtrailz + peace gas (aka “The Shape of Things to Come” by H.G. Wells, spokesman for the ptb).
Taxbreaks for Citigroup!
The federal government quietly agreed to forgo billions of dollars in potential tax payments from Citigroup as part of the deal announced this week to wean the company from the massive taxpayer bailout that helped it survive the financial crisis.
The Internal Revenue Service on Friday issued an exception to longstanding tax rules for the benefit of Citigroup and the few other companies partially owned by the government. As a result, Citigroup will be allowed to retain $38 billion in tax breaks…
Washington Post: U.S. gave up billions in tax money in deal for Citigroup’s bailout repayment.
Hi Max, Stacy, and family. This is my first post but I’ve been lurking for about 3 months or so. I discovered Max from the Oracle youtube vids, and knew I had found the voice of reason when pterodactyls were used to explain the theory of short term profits and imaginary casinos.
Anyway this article that Stacy posted has me confused – maybe someone with far better knowledge about small businesses can explain. During the campaign I rarely heard anyone scream about extending credit to small businesses but it seems like now all we hear is the mantra “credit is the liveblood of the economy.” What the hell does that even mean? I know the lifeblood of our economy is exploitation (same as credit!), but does Obama really think that people in America are suffering because of a LACK of credit?
Another thing – the article shows Obama’s concern with lack of lending, but the banksters shrug him off, saying businesses aren’t looking for loans. Who is more disingenuous – the banksters who clearly aren’t interested in helping small businesses, or Obama who is pretending to be interested in helping small businesses? For whom are they staging this performance? Is this performance by Obama and the bankersters pandering to small businesses or pandering to banks?
Finally is the admin’s “job creation plan” to simply get small businesses to hire on credit? To me this seems dangerously narrow-minded, but then again I know very little about running a small business or the country. And is it now the bankster’s policy that they won’t give credit because no one is asking for it? Why the obsession with credit to small businesses for christ sake!
California Doctor, I know where you are……I want to leave this country. I’m looking into New Zealand and Costa Rica.
You, as a doctor, could easily immigrate to New Zealand.
@Will -
Kalley-for-knee-uh’s gov-uh-nuh is a Hollywood actor. The only thing this guy terminated was the longest bull run in our lifetimes and perhaps in world history for the foreseeable future.
We citizens certainly can not expect the steroid laden script reader to be able to orchestrate a way out of a 100 billion per year debt hole.
California’s gap is the worst in the nation. Lowest credit rating, the worst disparity between tax revenue expectations by politicians and the actual collections from the over-taxed and financially crippled citizens.
How the hell is this state supposed to dig it’s way out of a $100 billion debt hole for this year alone?
The god damn legislators are too busy running around trying to find new jobs for 2011 because they’re all knowing that they’ve screwed up the state.
The teachers union is upset because they’ve been hammered with paycuts, class size increases, then no H1N1 flu vaccines, and then the Republicans make a run on the pension plans.
If there’s a problem, I think we’ll see if first in California because the California residential real estate market is still collapsing and still has a ways (several years) until bottom at current rates.
Until the California legislature and the Governator quit treating small and medium sized business owners like dirt, there is no hope for this state.
And, from this small business owner’s perspective, so be it.
Adios Sacramento… Adios San Fran… Adios Los Angeles…. pack your bags … the brains are leaving the state…
@Naomi – New Zealand.
New Zealand needs to defend itself from the refugee “ice bergs”. If New Zealand does not erect sufficient barriers to the economic refugees, then it will be sucked into the economic abyss CAUSED BY those very individuals.
These individuals reign in the California coastal communities, Rhode Island and Connecticut view lots, and inside the Beltway.
Between their meetings to conspire to defraud their own neighbors, they bribe up the latest hot politician and then get up set when they realize he’s nothing more than an airport bathroom attendant and porking the foreign spy in Argentina.
I mean, seriously, WTF?
I’m the one paying the taxes. My colleagues and I are the ones saving the lives of these people’s families. Yet, we’re treated to a $10 co-pay, a smart-mouth comment about how “they” know more about medicine than we do, and then get lectured about the availability of our services?
The INSURANCE CARRIERS OWN the co-pay, so we didn’t get paid squat for saving their own life!
The State of California pays our office in a “registered warrant” IOU, then nears default on the foreign bonds, and then I hear advertisement on local drive-time AM radio for “California Municipal bonds guaranteed by the full-faith and confidence of the State of California” and “It’s Tax Free”????
PONZI SCHEME comes to mind Mr. Legislator and Governor.
Have I run at the mouth enough?
No I haven’t because you haven’t heard the last of from this Hyde Park bully-pulpit. I can mix metaphors more and do a better job of it than the moronic imbeciles who took the GOLDen state and flushed it down NAFTA’s plumbing into a third-world nation with healthcare that matches.
“Japan Stocks Rise on Delay in Stricter Bank Rules”
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aGQV7WbUGkSA&pos=1
[i]” The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has agreed to delay enforcement of stricter capital requirements for large banks, giving them a transition period of at least 10 years, the Nikkei reported, without citing anyone.”[/i]
10 years?!
yep, its basically how to steal the rest of everyones money without them getting too upset.
If the banksters pulled the rug on all the pensioners and money grubbing fools in the usa it could lead to an uprising. They’ll do it piece by piece. So that the buttlickers never realize they’ve totally been enslaved.
Bow to the powers that be. They are you and your childrens overlords for life.
California Doctor, I know where you are coming from. I want to leave this country. I’m looking into New Zealand and Costa Rica.
You, as a doctor, could easily immigrate to New Zealand.
@ Danny – Castro is correct. The Obama White House–while freezing some aid money in order to look as if they were applying tough sanctions–was supportive of the Honduran coup that ousted Zelaya. Zelaya’s crime was to hold a democratic vote on whether the Honduran constitution should be amended–the constitution that was put in place by a military coup regime and favored corporations and the wealthy over the rest of the country.
And now, the State Department under Obama has been caught trying to destabilize Cuba. Oh, and we’re on the path of promoting “democracy” in Iran via collective punishment: the House today passed legislation to keep any oil company that does business with the US from importing any gas to Iran. If the senate passes the bill after the holiday break, it will also hurt Venezuela, Russia, and China.
Obama’s brand of governing and dealing with foreign affairs is nothing but smoke & mirrors. Good for the leftist Latin American countries for waking up to the reality so soon.
@ Mep
Taxbreaks for Citigroup!
I really did not want to see that.
GGGGGGGrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
naomi – expatriating
That’s not an easy road! I suggest you take a look at Panama too – they have 100 years of experience with gringos so IMO it is easier for US expats to live there. It also hasn’t been discovered yet to the extent that CR has – Panama has basically the same climate and attractions as CR, but they haven’t had a government office pushing for tourism as effectively as CR has.
Noami & Doc
Don’t forget Aus.
I know two families who mored there and are quite happy.
@ Gordo – Sorry, man.
@Cal Doc….The hospitals in Bangkok are doing quite well as Im sure you can imagine…they have all the same shit here as is over there its just hellava lot cheaper….anyway Im getting ready to mothball the factory and go farming,your welcome to join.
Heads of State Pause Their Limos at Their Personal Jets to Denounce Fossil Fuel Use: As the Copenhagen climate summit grinds on with — big surprise! — nothing specific agreed upon, here’s my summary of what you need to know about the global warming issue, bearing in mind yours truly is the author of an 800-page book about environmental policy (that book was so fast-paced, it only seemed like 700 pages):
• There is indeed a strong scientific consensus regarding climate change. The deniers simply aren’t honest about this.
• The consensus is that in the last century, air has warmed by about one degree Fahrenheit while the oceans have warmed a little and become slightly acidic; rainfall patterns have changed in some places, and most though not all ice melting has accelerated.
• That consensus is significant, but hardly means there is a crisis. Glaciers and sea ice, for example, have been in a melting cycle for thousands of years, while air warming has so far been good for farm yields. The doomsayers simply aren’t honest about how mild the science consensus is.
• Predictions of global devastation — climate change is a “profound emergency” that will “ravage our planet” — are absurd exaggerations, usually motivated by political or fund-raising agendas.
• Climate change has serious possible negative consequences, especially if rainfall shifts away from agricultural regions.
• Global poverty, disease, dirty air and lack of clean water in developing world cities and lack of education are far higher priorities than greenhouse gas emissions.
• Smog and acid rain turned out to be far cheaper to control than predicted; the same may happen with greenhouse gases.
• The United States must regulate greenhouse gases in order to bring American brainpower, in engineering and in business, to bear on the problem.
• A carbon tax, not some super-complex cap-and-trade scheme that mainly creates jobs for bureaucrats and lawyers, would be the best approach.
• If the United States invents technology to control greenhouse gases, no super-complex international treaty will be needed. Nations will adopt greenhouse controls on their own, because it will be in their self-interest to do so. Smog and acid rain are declining almost everywhere, though are not governed by any international treaty; nations have decided to regulate smog and acid rain emissions on their own, because it is in their self-interest to do so.
As for the e-mails hacked from a greenhouse research center in the United Kingdom, e-mails are private correspondence. Copying them without permission is at the least unethical, and perhaps a crime. If you saw private letters on someone’s desk, photocopied them and posted them on the Web, you would be considered a person of low character. Whoever hacked the climate e-mails is at the very least an unethical person of low character, and one should be wary of the agendas of unethical people.
[+] EnlargeAP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus
A Copenhagen protester passed out under the strain of verbiage.That said, many climate scientists are rigidly ideological and believe dissent must be shouted down. This is partly because of money and privilege. The United States and European Union spend about $6 billion annually on climate change research, and every penny goes to alarmism, because it can be used to justify government expansion. Being a climate doomsayer is a path to cash and tenure — even to celebrity, as making wildly exaggerated claims got Al Gore a Noble Prize plus stock in companies now winning government subsidies triggered by alarmism. The doomsayers are lauded by foundations, go to parties with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and attend taxpayer-subsidized conferences in Nice. They’ve formed a guild with intense focus on maintaining guild structure. The 1962 Thomas Kuhn book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” is best-known for introducing the “paradigm shift” concept. Kuhn’s larger argument was that science is not an abstract truth-seeking realm, rather, subject to fads and what is now called political correctness, and one in which many scientists are concerned foremost with safeguarding their sinecure by toeing the line.
Plus the alarmists need to divert attention from the inconvenient truth that 20 years ago, Gore and James Hansen of NASA began to say that without immediate drastic action against greenhouse gases, there would soon be global calamities. Nothing was done — and no problem so far. That is no reason to be complacent — warming-caused problems may be in store. But for the self-interested alarmists, this is a reason to shout down their critics.
Anyone get a chance to read the story about how Obama is related to Warren Buffett?
http://www.cnbc.com/id/34430071/
Talk about PR spin! hahaha warren buffett is like a god to the proletariat.
@Dan Valley – Bangkok clinics and becoming a farmer
Dan, I’ve got training in biological sciences, chemistry and medicine. I’m plenty good at cultivating crops and it would be a pleasure to meet you out at that farm.
The only problem is that as soon as we grow the crops, have a bountiful harvest, and start selling, the morons from Monsanto and ADM will show up. They’ll inform us that they’re moving into the area and that they want a cut of the action. Then, their paid goons at the state farming agency will show up to audit and review our farm’s lack of standards. In order to comply with those standards, a one million dollar farm loan will be required. A half million will be from Wells Fargo to build the farm house and the other half million dollars will be from the US federal government to pay us to stop farming.
Then, we’ll have to move on to new “greener” pastures where we can convert the land from wild to ag use. As we attempt to do so, the goons from ADM and Monsanto send in their state paid palookas to inform us that the local trout is endangered and that the local frog is underpopulated.
So, we’re not allowed any water (vis a vis Central Valley).
ARE YOU IDIOTS IN SACRAMENTO READING THIS BLOG?
I hope Google is catching these words because Darryl Steinberg’s buffons at the California Senate sure aren’t doing the citizens any favors.
Maybe those staffers would be better off hugging martinis and Bud Lights at the local pub where they meet up with the “lobbyists” and decide which apartment to run off to.
Some Private Investigators should tag along in that pub some night to figure on who is driving whom home.
Of course the Sac Bee reporters are too lazy to actually show up (Dan Walters) unless invited.
The golden state is less gold and more tungsten at this point. Not only is the old California gold missing, but the bank that stored it (Wells) is looking more short-stop than Far-Go.
Maybe Nancy Pelosi can find it ?
Or is that Harry Reid from Nevada?
I sure hope somebody does because the reality is that NONE of the Southern California politicians can figure out which way is up.
The US needs to, once the USD has been hyperinflated to oblivion — to set up a prop law firm “Dewey, Cheetum and Howe” to make a deal with Gunthey-Rinker of Infomercial fame … and run the 2nd US currency out of the White House proper.
It probably should be a fiat currency, with the law firm being the reserve bank or something like that.
So far that is the best idea I have….
@Cal Doc….Im in BKK and ADM and the likes have no jurisdiction here….the great thing is if they do show up at my door I can disappear them without much of an investigation……that goes both ways but you gotta love the third world.
Note That Strange Swirling Blue Lights in the Sky Coincided with Start-up of the Large Hadron Collider: When I first saw images of the swirling blue light in the sky above Norway, I thought, “So what are they going to say — swamp gas? Weather balloon?” You can believe it was a failed Russian missile test if you want. I say it was the wake of a starcruiser jumping to quadraspace, if not a doorway opening to another universe. (There are plenty of other universes in “Fringe,” the “Golden Compass” books and so on.) The British government still claims the Rendelsham Forest incident in 1980 was actually the reflection of a lighthouse miles away. Trained military personnel mistook the reflection of a lighthouse for a flying machine?
The Dome of Milaan, souvenir that hit Berlusconi on the nose becomes cult item http://tinyurl.com/ydy3l74
All I know is the politicans and banksters are having lavish partys and vacations and the rest of us are out of work and hoping jesus comes back very soon.
@dan valley
I do not know if you describe yourself as a skeptic, anyway.
I am sure you realize that there is every bit as much big money against this as there is for it.
James Hansen himself believes that Cap and trade is not the way to go. Many other AGWers (self included) do not believe that Cap and trade is the way to go.
This problem I think is a much bigger problem than the acid rain problem but I do not think that it should be separated from other pollution problems or the other problems that you mention.
It is clear that indigenous peoples are very concerned about this problem and it is also clear that they do not separate the problem from the other issues mentioned as is case with most western trains of thought.
I am not as optimistic that there is a technological or free-market solution to this issue (although I hope I am wrong). The deregulation of the late 90′s did not bring any solutions to energy issues of the time but it did bring us Enron and a number of other problems with utilities in California short cutting on maintenance and upgrading at power plants tech. Carbon sequestration technology is a joke (you are likely not referring to it).
I would be for a Carbon Tax, but the right in America has manipulated the populace into the belief that is satanic or even worse socialistic. So I do not think it will fly.
It is unfortunate but we may actually be up against a problem that does require a more (work together – socialist ) way forward (I hate to use the term solution here). Tech has its limits.
No problem so far, well good and again I hope the alarmists are wrong, but I have heard that in areas where they are wrong they have underestimated the problem. ?
The groups that caused these big environmental problems are the same ones that tell us we should pay them for it.
The ex Rubber Barons like the Rockefeller and the Rothschilds, oil companies like Shell and Exxon and last but not least the IMF who tells countries to cut down their forest and don’t give a damn!
ITS ALL ABOUT WHO CONTROLS WORLDS MONEY STREAMS!
@ Youri- I’ve been thinking that maybe instead of demanding “climate debt” to be paid to them, poor countries should just demand that their illegitimate IMF and World Bank debts be wiped clean. Then, they’d have money to invest in their people and wouldn’t be forced to do things like cut down trees to plant GM export crops.
Ahhhhh!
The surge of 30,000 U.S. troops into Afghanistan could be accompanied by a surge of up to 56,000 contractors, vastly expanding the presence of personnel from the U.S. private sector in a war zone, according to a study by the Congressional Research Service.
CRS, which provides background information to members of Congress on a bipartisan basis, said it expects an additional 26,000 to 56,000 contractors to be sent to Afghanistan. That would bring the number of contractors in the country to anywhere from 130,000 to 160,000.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/15/AR2009121504850.html
When all of our troops get home, there will be no money left to take care of them. Just like the MIC sucks up all of the development money from the natives by denying them the opportunity to take part in reconstruction, the private contractors and war-profiteers will make sure that they continue to defraud taxpayers and drain the treasury. Our kids will come home to a broke-ass country ready to label them as terrorists if they dare complain about PTSD, lack of services, lack of jobs, or lack of shelter.
@dan valley…
“As for the e-mails hacked from a greenhouse research center in the United Kingdom, e-mails are private correspondence. Copying them without permission is at the least unethical, and perhaps a crime.” (etc)
Oh dear. Sorry to hear your antiquated notions of IP. Doesn’t work that way any more. Maybe CRU’s stonewalling of FOIA requests is the “perhaps crime” here. Spin it whichever way you like, I don’t care — just read this:
http://catastrophist.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/climategate-foi2009-zip-a-leak-not-a-hack-not-russian-spies-not-aliens-etc/
Shows that it wasn’t a hack. IT analysis of how hard that would’ve been + info that a BBC reporter was sent a slightly slightly lighter packet of files in October, suggesting continuous insider access, and thus a “leak”.
@ Mep
Nasty.
Lets see now 30,000 X $ 1,333,333
Plus 56,000 X $ 1,433,333
Total 120 billion per year
According to this
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2009/12/03/afghanistan-surge-to-cost-at-least-40-billion-that-is-1333333-for-one-us-soldier-per-year/
And adding $ 100,000 to the wages of the contractors.
(over the normal soldier)
And it will not pay the cost for when they get home as you mention. And they nit pic every dime on health care.
I think I am getting it? But Iam not getting it.
PR like in Prostitution RIng.
tufo, the point is how do you research such organizations that are so secret like tavistock? And of course things like sources and facts become very muddy, and that is where it happens?
I mean tofu (still early here)
@Mep
Yep, very good idea but the problem is that the oligarchy like the Rockerfellers and Rothschilds are not after good ideas they’re after power not even money cause they already have so much of it that they don’t know what to do with it other than enforcing their power grab of the world. They’re inbred maniacal control freaks and they will destroy us and the world with it.
@ Gordo – You get it. The contractors and all of the new and extended cost-plus contracts will continue to bleed the treasury. Back home, something fucked up will happen with some bank or another and they’ll be given more money. Something huge will collapse and tank the markets again. Unemployment will keep growing. State revenues will keep falling. The suicide rate for our troops is higher than it has ever been. PTSD is a huge problem. There just isn’t going to be enough money and resources to take care of them when they get home. All of the money is going to the war-profiteers, the banks, the “governments” we’re propping up in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and the military we’re propping up in Israel.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8413377.stm
Such a sad day to be living in Australia. Let’s hope pirate my film isn’t blacklisted.
Don’t feel sorry for Goldman management
“Something has probably escaped my grasp here because, to me, it doesn’t appear as though issuing stock that can’t be sold for five years to their management committee instead of paying cash bonuses will have a material effect on the executives’ finances (that was the point, right?) since they already own millions of shares that can, presumably, be sold in a pinch if they need to buy something really nice this holiday season.”
http://themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com/2009/12/dont-feel-sorry-for-goldman-management.html
@Neville Bartos (lol! nice name) — don’t worry, there’ll always be ways around it… we will adapt faster… but yeah, it’ll affect a lot of curious sheeple & elderly folk, depending on what they decide to censor.
Now that we’re in the realm of “thought crime” with these ___s, I think info-anarchists and will dissidents to step things up a notch. This is very bad, very foolish mojo. Australia is not China.
@ Neville Bartos – Wow . . . another country tilting towards authoritarian governance. The UK has the freaky CCTV cameras all over the place, we have completely lost our right to privacy under the Orwellian Patriot Act, and now the Aussies are losing their right to surf the Web as they choose. What a shame.
oops. bad copywriting… last paragraph sorta makes snese, i asumes?
I, for one, can’t wait to be jailed for “thought crime”…
Global warming scam, Rothschild to take the lead in carbon credit trading http://tinyurl.com/yhfw6cp
Rothschild, E3 launch carbon credit investment fund (Reuters) http://tinyurl.com/ylrncny
Carbon Advice Group Plc is pleased to announce the appointment of Oliver Rothschild as its non-execu http://tinyurl.com/yfmxz3h
Hitler Used Rothschild Banker’s Typewriter http://tinyurl.com/4l329t
Raw Video: Protestors clash with Argentine police
These guys are seriously pissed.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/17135599;_ylt=AjU918OAYlroRz0NN6BfpkX8SpZ4#video=17135599
@ Tofu – Right . . . soon the whole world will need to run Tor just to avoid government surveillance.
They’re pissing off the wrong people…
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5578986n
@ Gordo – Wonder what the Dean did to be at the receiving end of such dissent? Any idea of what the heck that blue stuff is that the tank is shooting at the students?
@ Tofu – You don’t fear Room 101 in the Ministry of Love?
@Mep — haha.. of course… I don’t want to end up like Joseph Moshe in a Psych ward of LA County waiting 3 months for a misdemeanour hearing… I guess on second thoughts I rather like my token freedoms…
The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/30/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers
There should be no surprise for us to see Ben Bernanke ranked as number 1 on that list should it? how about having Barack Hussein Obama as number 2 on the list… well deserved, couldn’t think of anyone better……………..
Polar Bear Goes Hunting for Climate-Gate Scientist http://tinyurl.com/yapjdkq
@ Mep
I was wondering the same thing. One guy was saying water but that don’t look like just water.
Knowing the prevailing police tooling responses not something good.
CO2 test. Plants grew larger with more CO2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPNiBVU2QIA
@Youri — yes, C02 will give us larger marijuana yields, which is my sole reason for being a holocaust denier.
How about methane release from the permafrost & ocean floors?
http://catastrophist.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/google-search-methane-hydrates-climate-debate/
(What Google Search Volume Reveals About Methane Hydrates vs. C02 in Climate Debate…)
@Mep….One Nation Under CCTV.
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
@ Tofu – I had no idea that all of our top agencies were hacked in 2007. The power grid scenario made me think of the Iranians. Those poor kids that were duped into believing that we cared about women’s rights and democracy are going to feel really betrayed and confused when they are freezing to death because we cut off their access to gas.
Normally I would not bother posting anything about Tiger Woods, but these are so funny that I guess the devil made me do to once again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgiCX_y1BW8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxJYAOYngCw
Treating human beings as little more than carbon
As the Copenhagen summit starts, the rise of eco-Malthusianism shows the anti-human, future-fearing essence of climate-change alarmism.
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7803/
Starting to get the picture? AGW–>Genocide
Funny how the alarmists have quietly stopped using the expression “global warming” but instead constantly chant “climate change”. “Global warming” is starting to be as embarrassing as “global cooling” was… except, wait a minute, it’s bloody freezing here. Maybe they’ll switch back again. “Four legs good, two legs bad… two legs good, four legs bad…”
Eco– economical — economical exploitation of resources, human and otherwise (but excluding the bluebloods, who are “man” but not “human”)
Rational, unemotional, psychopathic exploitation of resources
Go Green!
Green (gross?) cremation method produces liquid fertilizer
New climate-friendly cremation method uses water and lye to transform human remains into 200 gallons of liquid fertilizer.
There are an awful lot of people on the planet, and modern methods for disposing of human remains aren’t exactly earth-friendly. A new alternative to cremation and burial could change that — and even increase food production for those still living — if we can get past the ‘ick factor’ of liquefying our dead relatives.
http://www.mnn.com/technology/research-innovations/stories/green-gross-cremation-method-produces-liquid-fertilizer
@Jim ODonnell
Some other Songs in the Same Genre of “The Nuts of the Tiger” – Tiger Woods Parody on “The Eye of the Tiger” Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxJYAOYngCw
“The Government Can” – Tim Hawkins comedy parody song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0
“9/11′s a lie” – Parody on Bee Gees “Staying Alive” Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAkWNxhBWjs
“Climategate” – Simon & Garfunlel style “Hide The Decline” Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEiLgbBGKVk
“Bring The Gold” – Brad Neelys Humor, Cartoon & Music skills in a Cartoon Clip Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qO66Rmi1Mw
I dunno whats the point of entering the Crime scene after the the Looting is over watch for all these buggers Quiting in 5 years time
“Comrade Dad ” – The U.K. in the near Future LOL
Comrade Dad – Ep1 Part1-3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HkSjpW5Qjo
Comrade Dad – Ep1 Part2-3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoiElM2ILEg
Comrade Dad – Ep1 Part3-3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8sSJ6Z6r-k
Whack a banker game, revolutions always start small… http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121402773
Youri Carma
Dec 16, 2009 at 2:06 am
Thanks Youri. The Government Can to Candy Man is purfuct.
Cal Doc,
I know about Monsanto and ADM. It’s evil is what it is.
These corporations take a patent on the DNA of a tomatoe or a potatoe……so that anybody else who sells seeds from other sources of stock or other hybrids is doing so illegally!
Not only that, they develope genetically engineered plants that will not produce seeds! So that you owe the company store for the next year’s crop or starve! How’s that for market innovation and free markets!!!!
naomi – it’s worse that the seed stock.
There are patents on organic chemicals called “glutamates” … MonoSodium Glutamate (MSG) is an example.
When you take a glutamate and lace food with the chemical, you can trigger a neurologic feedback loop that can habituate the person to eating that food.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091009092344.htm
Food which is bad in nutrition, like chips, crackers, junk food etc can be laced with salt, sugar, and glutamates to trigger sub-conscious feelings of satiety.
Experimentally, if you give the glutamate laden food to the animal or human, they will sub-consciously think that the glutamate laden food is better.
http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/30/suppl_1/i21
For Max/Stacey – some red wines can be higher in glutamates also.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090708114754.htm
So, now you all know that there is SWEET, SOUR, SALTY, BITTER, and now UMAMI (glutamate)
Now, imagine if those patents at Monsanto include over-expression of glutamate in the vegetable.
You would get the entire population hooked on the veggies and fruit that are higher in glutamate.
People would not know why they think it is good, and would just believe that it is better.
Man Its Good ta have a Doc in the Dock’s
That Cal Doc For all the Info.
* Thanks (correction)