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Done and done. Thanks for the link.
You know, I was thinking the new administration might wait until a second term to shift policy on Israel (or they might never, don't count on politicians to be anything but cowards). They need the Lobby to get elected a second time. Obama and Brzezinski have been supportive of Walt and Mearsheimer in the past so it may happen.
Everything is amazing, Nobody is happy:
Wow. It sucks to see someone forced to capitulate to the political forces of religious extremists. Have you read "The Israel Lobby"?
I can't believe the extent the US bends over backwards for that little country in the Middle East who does nothing for us.
Who cares about who would be offended? We have freaking Nazis in this country, they can yell for the 4th freakin Reich all they want, but they don't get locked up until they commit a crime.
I agree. It is a symbol on a piece of cloth. If someone needs to burn it to blow off steam, why should we care. Go demonstrate against the demonstration if you want. Burning a flag can not in any way be compared to yelling FIRE in a crowded theater, because no one is put in any danger by burning the flag. Can you say thought police?
The whole business of Constitution amendments to ban the burning of the flag, well all that was, was a distraction by right wingers in this country as a political decoy to avoid discussion of real issues of the Bush presidency. Kind of like the gay marriage amendment.
It is funny how the conspiracy guys on IHUB are so attuned to ulterior motives by those on the left that they overlook erosions of freedom from those on the right.
We'll go through a rough time and then be back better than ever, if one prepares. The singularity is near enough. Some technological advances are going to be made soon that will flabbergast you.
Right on.
Of course, and who wants to live in a country where the only rule of law is free market capitalism. Back in the Industrial era, it was closer to that and you had terrible work conditions, robber barons, child labor, etc.
I'm glad to have a balance in this country between government and free market capitalism. You just cant let the pendulum swing too far either way for too long or it breeds corruption. Checks and balances.
Tesla was 10x greater than Edison, in both creativity and as a person, and he was squashed by those who were only in it for the money (Edison and JP Morgan).
Don't be silly...this is only because America has moved to the left, and so Democrats that got elected back then seemed more conservative. Convervatives arent the same as conservatives back then, either. And the standards of living have consistently increased overall, so no need for shrill hyperbole.
Assets wouldn't be sold off, (to shareholders) dude. You would get nothing. That is not how China RM's work. Completely different than US companies listed in the US.
haha...even their paid pumpers get a FAIL.
China reverse mergers are notorious for poor governance. That is why there are tons of them trading at low "valuations". Most are nevada shell companies that hold partnerships in the Bahamas which in turn own or go into partnership with PRC partnerships. Many known penny scam operators have put them together. IHUB member Penny Lane has written much about them, you should check his posts on the subject to educate yourself, or just send him a PM. I've divested myself from them personally, after doing my share of homework, and invest in ADR's instead. Maybe you can make money trading them but a long term holder is most likely going to be disappointed. These companies never have insider buying on the open market, never pay a dividend, and always dilute with PIPE deals (when they can - obviously a super low PPS prevents them from doing so).
IMO any significant rally in these co's should be sold immediately, as they usually announce dilutive equity financing after the pump.
The Clintons also used Rush as a foil in public. In return, Rush tried to get his supporters to the polls for hillary. Trust me, Rush is loving every minute of Gibb's promotion of his show. They are probably high-fiving behind curtains.
The political attacks you gave are no more than that...political attacks between public figures. There is conspiracy that exists on every level of human society -it is our nature- but you are not talking about the quashing of dissidents, you are merely using examples of "casualties" between two warring but equally culpable crime families. Palin, Joe and Rush have done a lot of political smearing themselves. What you are doing is akin to turning Bugsy Seigal into a martyr for justice because he killed criminals.
Yes, frightening proposals like...Free condoms for everyone!
EGAD!! That evil family planning! How dare some snooty western countries suggest to Indian rurals that maybe, just maybe, they shouldn't be having litters of children like Octomom?
You're freakin nuts, dude.
This constant Alex Jones-ish hyperbolic parading around gives everyone who questions the mainstream dogma a bad name.
Seriously, seek mental help.
"7. Target key individuals. (Santelli, Limbaugh, Joe the Plumber, Sara Palin are recent examples)"
This part is a joke, right? You'd have to be brainwashed by the Republicans to not see all these characters as mere tools.
LOL @ these suggestions. A better one would be Mark Cuban, for after his website Bailout sleuth or whatever it is called launched, and his involvment with distributing Loose Change, he got hit by the SEC on a bogus, trumped up insider-trading charge.
Joe the Plumber is an uneducated idiot, and Sarah Palin is a Jesus freak hillbilly. They pose no threat. Limbaugh has been nothing but a (albeit entertaining) hack his whole life, and Santelli was put up to the supposed "spontaneous outrage" by his republican friends who registered the Chicago Tea Party website beforehand.
Cuban on the other hand is a rougue billionaire who owes no one.
That's the thing with synthetic, mutant organisms. You can make those a lot more virulent than naturally occuring ones.
Honestly a highly virulent bacterial infection would be more probable and effective than a viral one, for many reasons. Not that I want to give the impression I've spent too much time thinking about the subject.lol.
It would be pretty easy to spike the food or water supply with a nasty bacterium that is immune to all common anti-bo's. I'm honestly suprised it hasn't been attempted yet.
Bush's irresponsible deficit spending did NOT cause the recession we are in today. It boosted the economy, if anything. What caused the recession was deregulation of the financial sector, for instance the department overseeing the credit default sweeps was reduced from 100 or so ppl to just 1 person.
Deficit spending will come home to roost, but that is not at the heart of todays recession. Corruption in the free markets is. Good government and free markets need each other, extremism in one or the other is bad.
Well, you can download the genome of hemmorragic fevers on your own, and genetic insertion can be done with equipment ordered online.
In other words, if you have the motivation and misanthropy to learn, nowadays you can make virulent viruses in your garage.
I think it will happen and they will blame all of it on the "bio-hacking" movement. Interesting subculture, if you read up on it. It will be an excuse to further consolidate ownership of human and plant/animal genome (yes you can patent human genes) into the hands of a few multinationals and gubmint institutions.
Age discrimination complaints could be #1 in a few years.
Who cares about this stock? Not when there's....
TAPCODE!
lol
"I have to say I find cheap populism oddly arousing" - LOL
Santelli has no clue that he is not helping his cause at all. John Stewart nails it here. The average american experiences a great deal of schadenfreude these days when they see a Wall Street millionare outraged. Santelli leading some kind of fatcat millionare revolt will only alienate the people further from the interests of big business. Nobody will miss Wall Street financial engineers if they go on strike. And technology can take care of the essential funtions of the business.
Jim rogers says the world is shifting so that the people who actually produce things of value become wealthy (as opposed to the vampires of the financial industry who just suck value from other industries), I hope he is right.
Hmm, sounds like me, a civil libertarian but not an economic one. Economic libertarianism is a bit nuts to me, esp in it's extremes.
Earmarks technically just appropriate funds already available in the budget, but how do you think they come up with the total budget in the first place? People lobby for spending before they officially come out with the budget, which influences the budget. In an ideal world, coming up with the budget and the earmark process would be two separate processes, but in the real world they are one and the same.
"True free market supporters should stop bickering over the way less than two percent of the budget is allocated and start focusing on scraping whole departments, gutting the military industrial complex, and privatizing entitlements."
This attitude by right libertarians amuses me, because privatizing government is exactly how we got such things as the military-industrial complex and the Federal Reserve, which is a privatized government function. The free market extremism advocated by the right wing of the libertarian spectrum is naive and completely contradictory to their disdain for the Fed and the military-industrial complex. The government should not be doing much to fund arts, but their is much in society that the free market should absolutely NOT be doing.
But I don't expect much in the way of pragmatism or consistent reasoning from the likes of racist paleoconservative curmudgeon Lew Rockwell.
This guy is the next Timothy McVeigh.
"He spends all his waking hours toiling to make this happen."
Blech. Come on dude. You're smarter than that. Your cynicism must have a blind spot when it comes to Ron Paul.
No. What you're not getting is that Ron Paul admits he puts pork on bills. It is his excuse that is specious.
Let's face it, he loves every minute of being the cult figure that he is. I like some of what the guy says but let's not act like he's america's saving grace. Especially when some of his rhetoric is crafted by the very fatcats he rails against. Parasitic banker fatcats love the laissez faire "don't look at what I'm doing in the dark" capitalism he espouses. Their faith in "the free markets" to fix everything is akin to socialists faith in Big Mother government. Both do not take into account corrupt human nature.
Here's the first thing that came up under the google search "Ron Paul Pork"
http://www.jasonpye.com/blog/2009/03/ron_pauls_pork_problem.html
Interesting the suddenly high standards against childish rantings, when you have 100's of Alex Jones parrots a day.
Let's get a sense of humor and realize nothing is sacred and we are all mere humans, mmkay? Even Ron Paul.
I did. He puts pork on bills and rallies against pork. That is hypocritical.
Thanks for the invite...looks like a decent board, I'll mark it and stick around. For now, back to asus' to use up my remaining free posts. lol. I dared to insult the prophet and am now getting the heat.
don't we all?
ok, well you do that, lol.
Then it's not free speech, is it?
Well he loads the spending bills with the very earmarks he rails against. Then he votes "no" on them....lol. Well there are other congressmen who don't happen to be in the business of preying on people's fear by selling hyperbolic-titled books who actually DON'T put earmarks on the bills. But to hear Ron Paul tell it, he is the noblest one.
I like some of what he says but I can't roll with his naive economic libertarianism and supply-side economics. Extreme individualism is as naive to human nature as is socialism.
No...Lucifer is my homeboy. It's that Jesus guy tho is going around threatening everyone to do what he commands or else they will be tortured forever in a lake of fire. I'll bet his torture includes some anal plumbing by the 12 disciples who were quite the butt-buddies.
You go ahead and bury your gold otc, I'll be around in the middle of the night to dig it up, lol.
Remember when they swore that taxpayers would make money from their little AIG bailout? Only a naive dummy would believe that.
Now Richard Shelby and the southern republicans want to pigeon strut as the free market purists....where were these guys again a couple years ago? I believe most were saying that subprime was "mostly contained" and "nothing to worry about". Now they want to get rid of mark-to-market accounting and let the banks be able to continue to hide toxic assets under mark-to-model accounting. Where is their confidence in the free markets there? Oh, right, when they don't agree with it, then its broken. Bunch of self serving 'tards, all of them.
Ron Paul is cool but let's not engage in hero worship, the guy is somewhat hypocritical and self serving.
"The Revolution - A Manifesto" - LOL. Come on.