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Post by Floyd Looney on Sept 2, 2011 22:06:53 GMT -5
They said there were some things he could do without Congress. Probably undo some of the stupid things he did without them.
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Post by Floyd Looney on Sept 3, 2011 19:52:40 GMT -5
checking in
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Post by Attero Dominatus on Sept 6, 2011 13:49:42 GMT -5
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Post by Floyd Looney on Sept 6, 2011 17:07:30 GMT -5
I have seen some of those stories. Meanwhile the UN was planning a vote on Palestinian statehood that is sure to pass. Then maybe comes the war with the Caliphate the US/west has helped to build.
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Post by Attero Dominatus on Sept 7, 2011 14:50:57 GMT -5
Iran has had two attempted uprisings and the Secretary Of Defense is saying a third will start. While all of these other uprisings are for a hybrid of communism and Sharia law, most Iranians 30 and under want an end to Sharia.
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Post by Floyd Looney on Sept 8, 2011 22:46:24 GMT -5
So Iran doesn't want a Caliphate? That's too bad, it looks like the EU and the western powers do.
Then again, who in Iran has the guns?
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Post by Floyd Looney on Oct 2, 2011 11:27:19 GMT -5
Liberals are all as stupid as Snooki!
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Post by Attero Dominatus on Jan 26, 2012 1:12:58 GMT -5
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Post by Attero Dominatus on Jan 26, 2012 1:20:44 GMT -5
Evidence surfaces that the major motivation for the war in Libya was for oil. If true (and there is 90% certainty), then it shows that not only are the regressives hypocrites ("No blood for oil!" they protests to Bush) but that as the economy keeps collapsing, governments will substtitute international trade for international war to keep the economy floating. oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Somethings-Fishy-in-Tripoli.html
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Post by Floyd Looney on Jan 26, 2012 23:42:41 GMT -5
How about the idea that we (Obama) will increase aid to Egypt now that radical islamists are in power and Christians will be subjugated?
I doubt I could write a fiction story with a government so wayward-seeming.
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Post by Attero Dominatus on Jan 27, 2012 13:08:22 GMT -5
How about the idea that we (Obama) will increase aid to Egypt now that radical islamists are in power and Christians will be subjugated? I doubt I could write a fiction story with a government so wayward-seeming. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. I would go with it, use the story based on American aid to the Muslim Brotherhood to to demonstrate how American tax dollars to them come back to the US in the form of suicide bombs. Suicide bombings on American streets would motivate checkpoints on every highway, strip searches at every mall, and gun confiscation.
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Post by Floyd Looney on Jan 27, 2012 21:48:58 GMT -5
That seems to be where we are headed with internet use being monitored. Now Obama has signed a treaty that allows China to order US ISP's to shut down websites without the courts.
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Post by Attero Dominatus on Jan 31, 2012 5:49:23 GMT -5
Baltic Dry Index lost 62% of its value in December. Ever since 2008 it has been on a general downward trend, despite short peaks. www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article32877.htmlThe index is the measure of bulk cargo traded worldwide. Severe drops in international trade preceded both WWI and WWII (http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1545)
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Post by Floyd Looney on Jan 31, 2012 8:54:56 GMT -5
Yep. If we keep inflating the currency its only a matter of time until other countries stop using it as the reserve currency, when that happens we are toast.
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Post by Attero Dominatus on Jan 31, 2012 15:20:32 GMT -5
Yep. If we keep inflating the currency its only a matter of time until other countries stop using it as the reserve currency, when that happens we are toast. The Euro, usually seen as the most popular alternative to the dollar, is faring no better (in Spain, unemployment is at 51% for the 18-24 age group, and only slightly lower for 25 and above, while most small businesses have simply vanished in Greece). What we are seeing is the beginning of the collapse of the "Fake Currency Bubble." Fiat money tends to inflate until its circulation slows and results in less demand in goods and services. Most governments simply print more to compensate for higher prices but the velocity of money is similar to relativistic velocity in that both are subject to the law of diminishing returns: the more you put in, the less you get out until a hard barrier is reached. In economics the hard barrier is the complete loss of any value in paper money and the resulting collapse of trade. In the hands of a sinister mind, inflation is simply a way to rob people dry, either as the end or a means to an end. The Fiat Currency Bubble's collapse is being hastened by China's real estate bubble. During China's boom, the country produced by far the most demand for raw materials. Now demand has suddenly dropped, worsening manufacturing worldwide and amplifying the EU's and the USA's recessions. Depressions and recessions are breeding grounds for progressive governments, who rise to power on the backs of desperate people. Countries that do not mutually benefit from trade have a far greater probability of going to war with each other. Most progressives see war as a way to artificially boost an ailing economy, and as an excuse to use national security as a pretext to isolate and/or destroy groups of people they see as enemies (the Holocaust and Katyn Massacres are the best examples but even in the US, FDR interned anyone who was Japanese, even if they were born in the US).
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