Comments on: New Will.i.am Obama video

By: Jan Paul

Jan Paul — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:04:26 +0000

“humanism as a religion” was used as an example of the statement, not part of it.

By: Jan Paul

Jan Paul — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:03:37 +0000

That is a good point, Capt. menace
quote:
any system of beliefs, practices, ethical values, etc. resembling, suggestive of, or likened to such a system humanism as a religion

or
any object of conscientious regard and pursuit
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A political party can easily become a religion.

By: captain_menace

captain_menace — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:56:31 +0000

Political parties have become religions. Don’t look too closely at what the scripture says and you’ll do just fine.

By: Jan Paul

Jan Paul — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:27:19 +0000

Should have been “are NOW saying “we must vote for him.”

By: Jan Paul

Jan Paul — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:26:47 +0000

Speaking of McCain. I have noticed several people who we so hateful about his campaign are not saying “we must vote for him.” How can they say one day he is terrible for American and then the next say, “well, I will vote for him because he is “better” than the other candidate. Why not write in a candidate’s name if nothing else if he is so bad you were saying he would ruin the country.

It is like saying I’d rather be murdered slowly because I will live longer (and suffer longer too).

By: captain_menace

captain_menace — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:20:33 +0000

The only thing I’m sure of at this point is that I won’t be voting for McCain.

If Paul runs as an independent I may vote for him, I may vote for Nader, or I may vote for Obama. We’ll see how the rest of the year plays out.

By: Jan Paul

Jan Paul — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:11:51 +0000

I don’t follow them so I don’t really know.

I doubt I will vote for either party since both are bad. You aren’t going to vote for either party are you?

Yet, one of the two will be elected and neither can stop what is coming.

By: captain_menace

captain_menace — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:09:56 +0000

“It doesn’t matter. We crash either way.”

That’s a cop out. I’ll use that as an answer for all questions from now on.

“It doesn’t matter.”

Is that the new Republican slogan for the 2008 election?

By: Jan Paul

Jan Paul — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:12:53 +0000

quote:
Did Greenspan actually advise the Persian Gulf Arab nations to sever the USDollar peg to their currencies? Yes, he did! In doing so, he shows more Swiss stripes. This man has taken residence where his loyalty originated for perhaps 20 years, in Europe. His second paycheck by the Swiss Uber-bankers did not receive proper scrutiny. What was his objective? Now the Arab sheiks can cut their US$ peg and use Greenspan for political cover. The impact on the USDollar on the downside, and gold on the upside, will be profound. The Petro-Dollar has not received proper press coverage. Has any analyst except the Jackass mentioned the risk to the USDollar from the eventual lost US$ peg, followed by a removal of the Petro-Dollar standard?
Financial Sense:Recharged Gold & Silver Trend
by Jim Willie

I don’t post this because it i s necessarily accurate in its forecasting but to point out how Greenspan may not of every had any real concerns about the U.S. and what he was doing to it.

I point it out to bring attention to the fact that an International elite advise and lead our government officials in ways that serve only the elite.

They are willing to sacrifice the well-being of entire nations if it serves their purposes. They control the corporations, not vice versa. They control the governments indirectly through appointments and advisers and organizations like the CFR that members of both party’s leadership belong to.

Whether it is now or later, we face some very troubling times and even many of our politicians that think they know what is going on will be caught off guard when it happens.

By: Jan Paul

Jan Paul — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:05:57 +0000

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However, the U.S. economy has been dramatically weakened in recent years by outsourcing, globalization, gutting of the manufacturing base and particularly by The Fed’s profligate increases in money supply and credit availability beginning in 2001. Thus, as a consequence, the role of the U.S. as the driver of the World Economy and the U.S. Dollar as the World’s Reserve Currency is likely coming to an end as is the prosperity and, indeed, the very existence of the U.S. middle class.

Consider Paul Craig Roberts’ (former Under Secretary of the Treasury under President Reagan) view of the health of the U.S. Economy:

“It is difficult to know where Bush has accomplished the most destruction, the Iraqi economy or the U.S. economy.

In the current issue of Manufacturing & Technology News, Washington economist Charles McMillion observes that seven years of Bush has seen the federal debt increase by two-thirds while U.S. household debt doubled.

This massive Keynesian stimulus produced pitiful economic results. Median real income has declined. The labor force participation rate has declined. Job growth has been pathetic, with 28% of the new jobs being in the government sector. All the new private sector jobs are accounted for by private education and health care bureaucracies, bars and restaurants. Three and a quarter million manufacturing jobs and half a million supervisory jobs were lost. The number of manufacturing jobs has fallen to the level of 65 years ago.

This is the profile of a third world economy.”

“The Dollar’s Reserve Currency Role is Drawing to an End,” vdare.com, January 25, 2008
Derivatives, Dark Liquidity, and Increasing Systemic Risk
Protection & Profit Potential
by DeepCaster

The part I fear they are right about is the “middle class.”

While many blame the Republicans and they deserve blame, the system put in place that created this mess, was put in place decades ago.

If anything, Bush created the situation that exposed this decades long folly so rapidly that nobody could miss the fact we are in deep trouble.

We have been in decline for decades but, by shifting money away from infrastructure and other things, we have kept an illusion of doing well economically, alive.