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• Danny

  Dec 16, 2009 at 1:12 pm

  

  Bernanke gets TIME’s man of the year…

  …………………………………………………………………………………………

  http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1946375_1947251,00.html
• Phil /Germany

  Dec 16, 2009 at 1:15 pm

  

  So the FED keeps rate the same .. for a quite length of time I hear !
• white hunter

  Dec 16, 2009 at 1:18 pm

  

  at least they’re consistent, going with a fascist 70 years later
• The Underfundedmentalist

  Dec 16, 2009 at 1:19 pm

  

  like most to big to fail operations, global terrorism is ultimately funded by tax payers; cia, kgb, mossad, mi5, etc.
  At least the somalis’ (a local co-op) are sharing the loot with their investors.

  If it’s too big to fail, it’s a non-profit organization.
• Danny

  Dec 16, 2009 at 1:21 pm

  

  Ron Paul’s reaction to Bernanke being made TIME’s man of the year
  “Bernanke is more powerful than the President (of the US)”
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5iNPTTKn3Y&feature=player_embedded#
• marietta

  Dec 16, 2009 at 1:24 pm

  

  Off topic but this is cool
  Harvesting water from the desert the ancient Indian way:
  http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector#p/u/8/eJCTAXb_BWs
• white hunter

  Dec 16, 2009 at 1:31 pm

  

  @Danny

  enjoyed the ron paul clip; pat is really showing his age
• Danny

  Dec 16, 2009 at 1:35 pm

  

  After arrest warrant is issued for suspected Israeli war criminal, British government wants to change law. Foreign Secretary David Miliband vows to protect Tzipi Livni. Arrest warrant withdrawn. Miliband is a Zionist supporter of Israeli policies. (Wayne Madson)
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8415161.stm

  Doing what the neocons master at: forging documents. Iranian “intelligence” document said to “prove” Iranian nuclear weapons development. The neocons’ stock in trade is forgery, counterfeiting, lying, theft, and red kippers. Believe William Broad and David “Judy Miller” Sanger at your own risk.
  (Wayne Madson)
  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/world/middleeast/16nuke.html?_r=1

  Will Greece, Ireland and Latvia Lead the Way? An EU / IMF Revolt
  By Ellen Brown
  http://www.counterpunch.org/brown12162009.html

  Yemen: Pentagon’s War On The Arabian Peninsula
  http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16571
• Phil /Germany

  Dec 16, 2009 at 1:41 pm

  

  @Danny .. Thx for those links
  Your links are always very good , I must say !
• Gordo

  Dec 16, 2009 at 1:44 pm

  

  @Mep thanks for the Dean interview

  Right below that I saw the best rant by the conservative media ever.

  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#34423513

  A Classic.
• Danny

  Dec 16, 2009 at 1:46 pm

  

  @Phil
  Sound Phil, your links are great too its just I can never get through them all!! yourself and Youri are like men possessed with the links!
• The Underfundedmentalist

  Dec 16, 2009 at 1:52 pm

  

  more powerful than the unitary executive, oooooh
  I bet goldman and friends love to hear that sort of perverse pontification.
  what fragile egos these ‘gods’ have
  St. Bernanke the Speculator, please show mercy upon us, we are but lost souls, guide us by the divine light of your dark markets.
• OP

  Dec 16, 2009 at 1:52 pm

  

  @Frances; ooonado gooopalumar doluposhitezem baddoozal
  this is Aboriginal for: don’t let the young Arries of the world mess with ya head Stella.
• Mep

  Dec 16, 2009 at 1:53 pm

  

  @ Gordo – You’re welcome. For his honesty, Dean is now being attacked by the White House as being “irrational”:

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/16/gibbs-lashes-back-at-dean_n_394596.html
• Mep

  Dec 16, 2009 at 2:13 pm

  

  @ Gordo – You have to see this to believe it:

  http://coloradoindependent.com/44289/in-colorado-pregnancy-makes-men-uninsurable-too

  CIGNA has a company policy of denying insurance to pregnant women and men married to pregnant women!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  And these sickmotherfuckers are the very people that everyone who does not qualify for some form of government insurance be at the mercy of if the bastardization of health care “reform” passes!
• Gordo

  Dec 16, 2009 at 2:14 pm

  

  @Mep

  I am thinking that maybe they should pay more attention to someone who is actually in the Democratic party than the guy from Vermont.
• Reg in mexico

  Dec 16, 2009 at 2:15 pm

  

  ron paul says it all !!! now if they can just audett the fed.
• Gordo

  Dec 16, 2009 at 2:26 pm

  

  @Mep

  Yes you would have to see that to believe it.

  I don’t get it? If you take this to the extreme (which is pretty much where we are) why don’t we just pay insurance for NOTHING.

  I mean it what is the point ?
  Why not just pay them for ZERO ZIP NULL ZILCH EXACTO-NONE-DOO
  That is what they are moving to. Why not say it?
• Mep

  Dec 16, 2009 at 2:27 pm

  

  @ Gordo – Well, Howard Dean is a leading progressive voice on health care reform, so they have to go after him for telling the truth. Few elected officials within the party are taking as strong of a stance, so so far, there is no reason to attack them.
• Mep

  Dec 16, 2009 at 2:29 pm

  

  @ Gordo – Because saying it would result in fewer campaign contributions? I don’t know. What I do know is that I want to start a family within the next couple of years and I’m terrified at the prospect of getting pregnant in this country.
• Gordo

  Dec 16, 2009 at 2:37 pm

  

  @Mep

  I wish I could say something to make you feel better.
  But it is almost like a person has to save for their own plan because the insurance industry is trying to offload all the risk back on the individual.

  Which was not really the idea of insurance.
• Mini US

  Dec 16, 2009 at 3:56 pm

  

  Hehehhehee

  I wish I had a Stacy who could help me when my memory slipped
  I am always forgetting or half knowing things.

  Is it a man/woman thing?
  Frances Whattaya reckon?
• Mini US

  Dec 16, 2009 at 4:11 pm

  

  If the US goes down, then Australia has no defence system.
  Then China will come and take all the rsources that they so hunger and need.

  They also need space, of which we have plenty.

  Hi neighbour.
• frances snoot

  Dec 16, 2009 at 6:08 pm

  

  @OP:
  Thanks!
• frances snoot

  Dec 16, 2009 at 6:10 pm

  

  @MiniUS:
  I reckon words trump facts is you use em in the right order. Facts are always changing anyway. As far as women and men and remembering…women forget and that’s why there’s always more men!
• frances snoot

  Dec 16, 2009 at 6:11 pm

  

  @MiniUS:
  I’m hiding out on this thread from HarryW: he’s too sharp! Snoot felt like noot.
• Joshua York

  Dec 16, 2009 at 8:45 pm

  

  I scouted some New Zealand news for you, it may be worth musing about.

  http://www.siww.com.sg/media/worlds-first-long-haul-bulk-water-now-close-reality

  This company in Christchurch could team up with the whale defender in the stealth boat, and bag some of the nearby floating giant icebergs. It would be similar to the millionaire maker’s idea in Bruster’s Millions, the Richard Pryor movie. He suggests that Pryor’s character bag some icebergs and sell the water elsewhere for profits.

  cheeers.
• Chris

  Dec 16, 2009 at 10:43 pm

  

  Max & Stacy touted the value of NZ kiwi (the currency) and also the AU Dollar (though now to a somewhat lesser extent).

  One advantage of GoldMoney.com is that if you sell your gold you can exit in non USD currency, however not in NZK nor AU $

  @Max, you are friends with James Turk right? Could you ask him to add these currencies.
• Max Power

  Dec 17, 2009 at 4:43 am

  

  Time got it wrong yet again … it needs to be the guy that runs the US dollar bill printing presses

  1. Without physical paper, plastic or coin currency — you have none.

  2. Printing physical money is the only way to create money when bank lending is off.

  3. America will need to utilize is vast armies of printing presses for hyperinflation — where each bill becomes worthless in less than a month after it is introduced…
• James

  Dec 17, 2009 at 6:48 pm

  

  Here is one on the NZ front.

  Yes Kiwi’s enjoy their own wine – lots of good wine at low prices at the moment in the supermarkets.

  Bulk wine transported by rail just depends on the requirements of the wineries and where their bottling plants sit. Some that have surplus get on sold to others that might like to blend their wines etc. Over certain distances it is cheaper than sending it using tanker trucks (also get used for milk industry).

  For milk, it is still largely done by a large fleet of tanker trucks, but the trains move the bulk storage based upon either milk power demand or cheese demand etc. I guess that is just to maximize the value for what ever is in demand.

  This was also in the news here today.

  $150m SI farm deal backed by Dubai
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/3176426/150m-SI-farm-deal-backed-by-Dubai