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[John]

Hey Vincent!

The following web site is right up your alley.

http://rt.com/news/apocalypse-china-survival-pods-004/

[OLD1953]

Well, I can't predict what will come out of the fiscal cliff talks, but as of today, the US military is the strongest in the world. And I'll stand by that. What Congress will budget for tomorrow is not that predictable. I have said before that the US has to weaken its military before WWIII can actually happen, and that may indeed happen. OTOH, we've just demonstrated some world changing technology that a good many said would never work, so it's all different again. And how much military do we need, if we aren't fighting two wars? There are congressmen who say we should not reduce at all, others say a reduction of at least 3 brigades is appropriate. These things are much easier to determine with hindsight.

As for nuclear weapons, this is the most current public data you are likely to find.

http://armscontrolcenter.org/issues/nuc ... s_in_2012/

[aedens]

Why did Obama save a criminal enterprise.

The Hegelian dialectic as forwarded in the forums is the framework for guiding our thoughts and actions into conflicts that lead us to a predetermined solution. If we do not understand how the Hegelian dialectic shapes our perceptions of the world, then we do not know how we are helping to implement the vision. When we remain locked into dialectical thinking, we cannot see out of the box. Hegel's dialectic is the tool which manipulates us into a frenzied circular pattern of thought and action. Every time we fight for or defend against an ideology we are playing a necessary role in Marx and Engels' grand design to advance humanity into a dictatorship. If you properly discern Sismondi’s Nouveaux principes d’ economie politique you will see influence by both Smith and Rousseau and Marx who included into the Political reality. It will fail since darkness can never exist in the light.

When the King James translators used the word “peculiar” in 1 Peter 2:9, identifying Christians as a “peculiar people”, this is not what they had in mind. According to A. T. Robertson, the word “peculiar” comes from the Latin word, “pecus” which means “flock”. The KJV translators were simply reflecting the idea that believers in Christ are the unique possession of God — they are His flock. Actually the word in 1 Peter 2:9 is the Greek word peripoiesis, which has the idea of possession, or personal property. It is the preposition peri, which means “around” — connected to the noun poiesis, which refers to something that is made, or done. Kenneth Wuest, the Greek scholar, says “the Greek word means literally ‘to make around,’ that is, to make something and then to surround it with a circle, thus indicating ownership.” Thus, the New American Standard version translates this phrase as “a people for God’s own possession.” The NIV says, “a people belonging to God” and the NKJV says “His own special people.” The verb form of this word (peripoiéomai) is found in the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old Testament) to translate the words of God through the prophet Isaiah, when He said, “This people have I formed for myself” I find insular interchangeable with peculiar. As I have found the Protestants thought of Evil is not autonomous. The Evil Empire is under the complete control of God. And evil does not triumph in the long run. This is political bad news since every year is an "election year."

These ambitious men were not naïve; they were overconfident about their ability to manipulate.

As enacted, the Coinage Act of 1965 is Public Law 89-81 (79 Stat. 254). The end of the Republic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQf9JGxX-Xc

[vincecate]

Hey Vincent!

The following web site is right up your alley.

http://rt.com/news/apocalypse-china-survival-pods-004/

I love it!

I have a page on designs like this and have tested models. I have added the chinese survival pods to it.

http://wiki.seasteading.org/index.php/U ... /BallHouse

Thanks!

[aedens]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-1 ... bal-stocks

[aedens]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUc8-GUC ... e=youtu.be

Anchoring bias – cost push – wasting not intent as by product
3 percent bank rule implosion – exclusive road –
cannot fight non linear paths revenue to interest payments of debt to revenue.
Fourth line disconnects to pattern in market psy
derivatives reconitions
Never going to tell you.
Forget stock since flow over run is blatant.
More dummy’s coming in than out, regional.
Institutional slip
Retail ownership drain
Fx surplus rates accumulations
Sideways maybe, jobs back no.
Peak to peak housing and absorption rate
GSE principal rewrites since still in penalty box
Convertible assets will be key soon
Hammers and nails.
FED cannot do it.
Rentier annilations as we warned since zirp was never playbook.
Never afford to move up rates since incompetence has seen to that.
Pushing on a housing string.

[at99sy]

The last hero generation survived not only World War II but also the Great Depression.

The matriarch of my immediate family grew up during the Great Depression as one of eight children. After they lost their homestead they lived on various abandoned homestead's near older relatives who still had their farms.

Visiting the dozen or so places they lived during the nineteen twenties and thirties really had a large impact on her children and grand-children.

The homeless children of today are members of the current hero generation.

I feel that it is the c\generation of the homeless children themselves who will be the hero generation. The parents of today's children seem out of touch and lost. Perhaps a focusing event will bring them into action, IMO it is the kids I work with every day whom I would put my confidence in so far as effecting revolutionary change in whatever form it comes. They are becoming increasingly disenfranchised and are ripe for a challenge. Their parents? not so much as far as I can tell.

[Reality Check]

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ASSET CLASSES THAT ARE MORE PROFITABLE THAN STOCKS

ICE to Buy NYSE for $8.2 Billion...
... The 220 year old NYSE, which bought the Euronext about six years ago, is the world's largest stock exchange. Its listed companies with a combined market capitalization of more than $14 trillion -- approximately the size of the U.S. economy itself.

Technology, however, has altered the terrain for traditional stock market operators. The largest companies have been forced to buy out smaller competitors, as part of efforts to keep pace with rapid electronic trading, and build a footprint in various asset classes that are more profitable than stocks.

Difference between 1930s and the ongoing crisis of 2007-2012: Never admit mistakes in 2007-2012, Never make changes to avoid a re-occurrence in 2007=2012.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100330589

[Reality Check]

What Congress will budget for tomorrow is not that predictable.

Congress has already passed, and Obama has already singed, over One Trillion Dollars in defense spending cuts, which have yet to be translated into actual defense cuts.

At this point the Obama administration get's to choose which weapon systems will be killed and which will live, unless Obama and the Congress agree to something different.

Congress is not part of that decision unless Obama let's them be part of it, or unless two thirds of the House of Representatives and two thirds of the U.S. Senate agree to override a presidential veto.

As for nuclear weapons reductions in the United States that just completed this year, that are in progress, and that have already been planned and contracted for, that is a matter of public record no need to rely on outdated past projections by third party partisans. Specifically we are talking about the two thirds reduction in the number of strategic Nuclear warheads the U.S. has deployed on land based ICBMS. Before Obama took officer there were 450 such ICMBs and 1,350 such warheads. Today there are fewer than 1,050 such warheads and by the time Obama leaves office there will be just 450.

This is not a matter of your opinion, or mine, it is a matter of public record.

[aedens]

NFL vs. NBA
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36 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71, I repeat 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested! for shoplifting
21currently are defendants in lawsuits,
and 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year!
Can you guess which organization this is?
Is it the NBA or NFL?
Neither, it's the 535 members of the United States Congress
The same group of Idiots that crank out hundreds of new laws each year
designed to keep the rest of us in line. h/t plad
http://www.factcheck.org/archives/searc ... &sa=Search
"I've explained before that we did not run a list of names because we could not determine the outcome of all of the cases. Some civil and domestic matters are settled out of court and the settlements are sealed. Some were dropped. We ran the numbers to show a pattern."
We find that explanation hard to accept. For one thing, Thompson claimed to know the outcome in some categories. For example, he wrote then: "Our research found 117 current and recent members of the House and Senate who have run at least two businesses each that went bankrupt, often leaving business partners and creditors holding the bag." Now he won't say who the 117 are. So there is no way to check on the accuracy of his claim.
Says Thompson: "I'm proud of that series and I stand by every fact and item used in it." The fact remains, he won't document the numbers.
Footnote: Mangling Mark Twain
Thompson took the title of his series from a famous witticism by author Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain. But Thompson got the quote wrong.
He led off the series with these words: "America, Mark Twain once said, is a nation without a distinct criminal class 'with the possible exception of Congress.' "
What Twain actually wrote was this: "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."
You don't have to take our word for it. Unlike Thompson and the anonymous authors of viral e-mails, we cite our sources and link you to them whenever possible so you can check them out for yourself. Twain's quip appears as a heading to Chapter VIII of his 1897 book, "Following the Equator," and he attributed it to his fictional character Pudd'nhead Wilson. The full text of Twain's book, no longer covered by copyright, is available online at the Gutenberg Project.

-Brooks Jackson
Sources
Jackson, Brooks. "Did President Bush call the Constitution a "goddamned piece of paper?" FactCheck.org. 12 Dec 2007.
Thompson, Doug. "Congress: America's Criminal Class" Parts 1-V. Capitol Hill Blue Web site, 16 – 20 Aug 1999 (accessed 21 April 2009).
Thompson, Doug. Interview with author via e-mail, 18 – 21 April 2009.
Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens). "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar." Qtd. in Twain, "Following the Equator," 1897. Project Gutenberg EBook edition released 18 Aug 2006.