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John wrote:
Tue Mar 02, 2021 4:42 pm
** 02-Mar-2021 World View: Johnson & Johnson vaccine 'morally compromised'

So, Cool, is this why you don't like vaccines?

New Orleans Archdiocese warns Catholics to avoid ‘morally compromised’
Johnson & Johnson vaccine

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... n-vaccine/
It's the same as with the AstraZeneca vaccine; both were developed using cells from aborted fetuses. The Pfizer and Moderna ones were tested against that cell line but not developed off it. The guidance has been to avoid the AstraZeneca (and presumably now the J&J) one if possible, but that morally it's acceptable if it's the only option. Similar to how the Rubella vaccine is considered morally acceptable by the USCCB even though it was developed off that same HEK293 cell line.

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DaKardii wrote:
Tue Mar 02, 2021 7:30 pm
Would it have been as bad as Biden? Who knows, but in my opinion it very well would have.
Of course not, and that's a good thing. People will see just how destructive and incompetent the politicians are, and especially the soycialists who had to cheat to get in.

The best part, sadly, is that now we know that just having a figurehead in as president, even with all of his achievements, means little. There are only a few ways left in re-creating a Constitutional Republic that we once had: most of those remaining pathways involve the current system collapsing.

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The world is preparing for a post-America world. America will just be another Mexico in two or three years. Sure hope you speak Spanish.

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** 03-Mar-2021 World View: Español
Guest wrote:
Wed Mar 03, 2021 11:25 pm
> The world is preparing for a post-America world. America will just
> be another Mexico in two or three years. Sure hope you speak
> Spanish.
Si, yo hablo un poco de español. Solo un poco.

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John wrote:
Wed Mar 03, 2021 11:31 pm
** 03-Mar-2021 World View: Español
Guest wrote:
Wed Mar 03, 2021 11:25 pm
> The world is preparing for a post-America world. America will just
> be another Mexico in two or three years. Sure hope you speak
> Spanish.
Si, yo hablo un poco de español. Solo un poco.
I studied German in high school and college. I assumed that America's fate would be tied to Germany and Switzerland, not Mexico. Silly me.

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Use your common sense. The US dollar has been around for 250 years.
It's the world's reserve currency. There are probably hundreds of millions,
perhaps billions, of people who hold US dollars in some amount.

By contrast, bitcoin has been around for 15 years. There are probably
no more than a few thousand people who hold any bitcoin money. Your common
sense should tell you that the US dollar is much stronger than bitcoin.

You would point to blockchain as the difference. Well, if all it took
to make a crypto currency stronger than the US dollar was to use blockchain,
then all those hundreds of other crypto currencies would also be stronger
than the dollar. But they're not.

You really don't know what the "fiat currency" concept is all about.

The whole "fiat currency" concept has been obsolete for a century. It
meant something in the 1800s, when banks issued paper currency equal
to the value of the gold in their vaults. Someone who had, say, $35
in currency could walk into a bank and demand an ounce of gold in
exchange. If that was impossible, you would call it a "fiat"
currency.

But that's the wrong concept. The right concept is "exchangeability."
In the old days, I could take $35 and exchange it for an ounce of
gold, and I can't do that anymore. But so what? I can exchange it
for all kinds of other things (including gold).

If I have $1 million in dollars, and I want to convert them to pounds
sterling, I could go to any bank and make that conversion. Or, I
could use those $1 million in dollars to purchase a farm in Scotland,
a painting in Poland, a cargo ship in China, and so forth. In fact, I
could even use those dollars to buy gold.

You ask: "Does [dollar currency] have an underlying, "core" value?"

The answer is yes, it does. There are dollar-denominated assets
around the world -- real estate, bonds, stocks, works of art, ships,
trucks, etc., etc. -- totalling hundreds of trillions and probably
several quadrillions of dollars in value. The sum total of those
quadrillions of dollars in dollar-denominated assets represents the
"core value" of the dollar currency.

Bitcoin has nothing like that. If you have a $1 million in bitcoin,
then there's very little you can do with it. There is little
"exchangeability."

In practical terms, it means this: In the midst of a financial crisis,
almost anyone will accept US dollars to provide products or services.
By contrast, almost nobody will accept bitcoin.

This situation could change. If bitcoin survives, then there will be
more and more bitcoin-denominated assets each year, each decade, each
century. Maybe bitcoin will become the world's reserve currency.
Maybe, if you're still around 250 years from now, then you'll be able
to say, "Look! The bitcoin currency is now finally stronger than the
US dollar! I was right!!" And hopefully your computer overlords will.
The Reichmark collapsed. Why not the US dollar, especially with the gargantuan debt load it is now carrying?

America is in its death throes. Why not be honest about it?

TeW

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Guest wrote:
Wed Mar 03, 2021 11:25 pm
The world is preparing for a post-America world. America will just be another Mexico in two or three years. Sure hope you speak Spanish.
I studied French. My family bought a modest house in France in 1986, and it was Idyllic. Things started to change in 1994. After staying there in 2005 I realized that I should have studied Arabic or a dialect of the Bantu. In 2009, the French family who lived behind us were attacked in broad daylight, a violent daylight home invasion that left the family physically and mentally broken and maimed for life. They moved to ________ and we shuttered the house that no one worth more then ten cents would buy and haven't been back since. I saw a video on Twitter last year of Africans and Arabs fighting in the town just three blocks away from our front door. So much for France.

With my parents now passed and my sister married and living in______, I have decided to buy a small house in _________ (a former part of Austria-Hungry). Most of the young there speak English well and the rest speak English well enough. Most don't speak Spanish, so if you speak English there, you will be way ahead.

I am not really upset about America imploding because I knew it was coming back in the late 80s. I am upset about France. The French know how to enjoy life even if they don't have much money.

I hope civilized and unwoke Americans can escape and find a safe haven. I have. I am only in my early 50s, and the America I knew is completely gone. Some posters can see it clearly, those that don't must live at the end of a long country road protected by a trust fund that has blinded them to reality. If you choose to stay in America or most lilkely can't afford to leave, good luck, you're going to need it.

Après moi, le déluge.

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Guest wrote:
Thu Mar 04, 2021 1:30 am
The Reichmark collapsed. Why not the US dollar, especially with the gargantuan debt load it is now carrying?
Here are some stats which illustrate just how bad our debt situation is right now:

National debt: $28.0 trillion
National debt per citizen: $84,800
National debt per taxpayer: $223,900

Federal tax revenue: $3.5 trillion
Federal tax revenue per citizen: $10,500

Total state debt: $1.2 trillion
State debt per citizen: $3,700

Total local debt: $2.1 trillion
Local debt per citizen: $6,400

Total interest paid: $3.8 trillion
Interest paid per adult: $15,100

Savings per family: $26,100

Total personal debt: $82.6 trillion
Personal debt per citizen: $64,100

Total student loan debt: $1.7 trillion
Student loan debt per student: $38,500

Total credit card debt: $969.6 billion
Credit card debt per holder: $6,100

Total assets: $158.2 trillion
Assets per citizen: $479,100

Total liabilities: $159.5 trillion
Liabilities per citizen: $483,200

Net worth of the USA: -$1.3 trillion
Net worth per citizen: -$4,100

Source: https://www.usdebtclock.org/

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John wrote:
Tue Mar 02, 2021 4:42 pm
** 02-Mar-2021 World View: Johnson & Johnson vaccine 'morally compromised'

So, Cool, is this why you don't like vaccines?

New Orleans Archdiocese warns Catholics to avoid ‘morally compromised’
Johnson & Johnson vaccine

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... n-vaccine/
Ok, a few corrections.

1. I'm not Roman Catholic.
2. I'm not "against vaccines". I certainly am against unnecessary vaccines, and it is a stone cold fact that these are unnecessary, apart from being rushed. The evidence for that? 99% survival rate and only oldies dying, which means it doesn't affect anyone young or healthy. So if you are both of those, you have a greater chance dying from thousands of other things in life. And no, I don't get the flu vaccine, but at least antigen protein vaccines are safe and we don't know if this is safe. Period.

Please ask me questions about what I say, not what you create as a narrative of what I say that is untrue. Discussions or debates are much more fruitful that way.

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Guest wrote:
Wed Mar 03, 2021 11:25 pm
The world is preparing for a post-America world. America will just be another Mexico in two or three years. Sure hope you speak Spanish.
Two or three? Ha, talk about operation warp speed. This is a whole new level of doomsday on the board.

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