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[aedens]

http://www.infowars.com/photos-obama-ba ... n-village/

Isaiah 59:10 Like the blind we grope along the wall, feeling our way like people without eyes. At midday we stumble as if it were twilight; among the strong, we are like the dead.

There is no side and you expect us to help who?

When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained; and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” And there was given to each of them a white robe; and they were told that they should rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed also.

Isaiah 30:18 Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!

Maranatha

Golitsyn's book has been dismissed as nonsense by CIA experts, pundits and journalists. "Yet of Golitsyn's falsifiable predictions, 139 out of 148 were fulfilled by the end of 1993 an accuracy rate of nearly 94 percent," according to Mark Riebling's history of the FBI and CIA titled Wedge.

Taxpayers are fodder now. Enjoy your summer.... http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2733/

[vincecate]

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[aedens]

https://encrypted.google.com/imghp

watch the news carefully since buy the rumor sell the story will end in tears.

https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:A ... CE8Q9Q8oAA

Isaiah 59:10 Like the blind we grope along the wall, feeling our way like people without eyes. At midday we stumble as if it were twilight; among the strong, we are like the dead.

"Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves." (Matthew 10:16)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZVrXlo1X7k

[vincecate]

This article echos thing Higgie (and prob others) have talked about. Anguilla's two big local banks were both taken over by IMF and World Bank this month.

The Periphery Is Failing

http://www.financialsense.com/contribut ... ry-failing

[vincecate]

The TLT bond fund is down about 10% for the year and down 1% today. Interest rates are still going up.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q;_ylt=AvLhE8x ... bHQ-?s=TLT

[Higgenbotham]

The Undoing of Magna Carta by Modern Governments

Historical Perspective

The Magna Carta was the first step in a centuries long process of the "people" gaining a balance of power with the "king." The Magna Carta concerned many issues, but one important item which developed over many centuries was removing the ability of the king to arbitrarily spend. This was done by requiring the king to request funds (and thus taxes) from the Parliament.

http://earl.rodd.us/blog/kingspend.htm

United States Constitution Article I, Section 7:
All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.

I'm seeing that some are becoming wise to the fact that the health care tax did not originate in the House of Representatives and is therefore a violation of centuries of legal precedent to secure protection from despots.

“Impeachable Offenses” cites Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution, which states: “All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.”

http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/1st-draft-of ... ves/print/

"They have no idea of how our society came to be and what is necessary to keep it going. And they're fiddling with the controls. You might think of a monkey flying a 747."
--Hugo Salinas Price

[gerald]

A 50 year old cartoon -- against ism 's --- created by Harding College to help explain what made America great ---- how far we have fallen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_se8c-wN35M

[DouglasMorgan]

I'm not surprised to see variations in tax refunds the year before a large change in tax policy is expected, that's common for those with the money and accounting power to shift things to take advantage of breaks/credits set to expire. The company I work for cashed in a large number that were set to expire a few years back, they not only paid zero tax, they got a big check from the treasury. That's the system, and yes, it needs to be reformed. Even just a statement that refunds paid in the case of zero tax paid in would never be allowed to exceed a million dollars would help check the abuses. John, I'm going to have to look up comparisions between data before and after the Bush tax cuts went into effect. I think the cuts had more effect that you are seeing.

Lily, you need to set your sarcasm detector a bit higher on my posts, when I said nobody needed unemployment, I was being sarcastic, though the extensions have gotten out of hand. However, Social Security isn't part of the general fund, I know a lot of pundits like to claim it is, but you'll have to show me something from either the treasury or SSA that says it is for me to think I'm that far in error.

As for oil and agriculture - yes, it's a risk, big money and big politics are both against doing anything about it, and I just don't see any purpose to beating a dead horse over and over. I have things I've done in case of trouble in that area, I don't see much point in discussing these items, everyone has different skills and abilities, we all live in different areas with different circumstances, and there is no "one size fits all" for emergency preparations. The preparation for someone in rural Kansas has little relation to the preparations for someone in Louisville, KY, and neither relates well to LA or NYC. Example of this, I'm a skilled bee keeper, have kept bees for decades, and know their habits and entomology intimately. I was the first to identify the invasion of small hive beetle into Tennessese, with samples sent to both the lab at UT East and the State Apiarist and confirmation from both. Few people have that skill, it's uncommon and I've found it fairly difficult to teach. Of course that factors into what and how I'd do things, and it's utterly irrelevant to discussions here, except when colony collapse and the subsequent effect on agriculture and financial matters is under discussion. Length of emergency is something you seldom hear discussed, and that's critical to planning - there's this assumption that "it's forever" and that is unlikely.

A very important thing to keep in mind when reading any paper based on forecasts is dating. Forecasting is always inexact and refinements make anything based on obsolete forecasts irrelevant. The paper you cited for extreme cycles was dated 2003, the forecasts for wetter weather were shown to be inadequate in 2006, and the models have been adjusted to show damper climate. Plus, it admits in the beginning of that paper that it's taking the extreme and unlikely case from the older, drier forecasts. So it's dated to the point of being irrelevant. General Semantics makes an especial point of dating in relation to refinements of science and other data, and studying GS is a major aid in filtering information, a necessity in this age of information overload. While I did enjoy "Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics by Alfred Korzybski", it's a bit much for many as it's the basis for a science that was new in the early half of the last century, "Drive yourself Sane" by Kodish and Kodish or "Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition by S. I. Hayakawa, Alan R. Hayakawa and Robert MacNeil" might be an easier introduction. And yes, that last was by Senator Hayakawa, his degree was in GS.

Yes, it sounds odd to say that only 18% of the land in the US is "arable", but it's pretty accurate. A lot of land area is in rivers or lakes or impoundments, a lot is mountains, and a good bit is desert. Some of that 18% they count I'd call marginal, as that includes some dry land farms in Colorado that aren't always productive without irrigation. Now I have been tinkering with a design for a indoor grower, that would essentially put 24 or 36 of those square foot gardening plots into a carefully lighted and possibly warmed box much like a large bureau with slide out drawers for harvest and gathering - three or so of those would allow an apartment dweller to grow much of their own food, depending on design details. Somebody (maybe here) mentioned that such a thing had been designed but never put into production, and that started me thinking about it. If you aren't familiar with the square foot system : http://www.mygardenguide.net/square-foot-gardening.html Just imagine a two plot wide by 3 long a foot or foot and a half high drawer, with really good steel rollers on the sides for slide out, correct spectrum high efficiency diode lighting with the corrected spectrum for rapid plant growth and misting sprayers connected to small pumps and all on timers, you'll have the idea. 15 watts per sq ft seems to be in the right range for LOW light plants, 30 is right for HIGH light plants, generally. And flowering plants need red spectrum as well, you'll note that most LED lights have that included because most grow plants in apartments for pretty, not food. With increasing food costs, a box that uses the same amount of power as a refrigerator but produces your salads and perhaps other veggies (turnips, beets, collards, kohlrabi - the shorter plants) would be a popular gimmick, IMHO. Yes, it's possible to face the back to a window for natural light by using a windowed back, but how many ppl will put something like that in front of a window? It would beat the dickens out of pots or window boxes.

I really don't think the US will invade Iran sans harsh provocation, but that's just opinion, always subject to check by reality.

market is becoming vulnerable and changing quiet often.. Global economy is not in good situation so plenty of loss is going around

[aedens]

"Use barbarians to fight barbarians" Sun Tzu. A regard to a comment about the Arab world missing out on massive bloodshed lately, recall that a million men died in the Iraq/Iran war of 1979.

Wealth is attended with power, by which bargains and oppression, carried on with worldly policy and order, clothes itself with the name of justice and becomes like a seed of discord in the soul. ... So the seeds of war swell and sprout and grow and become strong until much fruit is ripened. ... May we look upon our treasures ... and try whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions
John Woolman, American Quaker, c.1764

Many note also the low hanging fruit today.

So the Ambraciots were cut to pieces, and but few out of many returned home to their city. The Acarnanians, having despoiled the dead and raised trophies, returned to Argos.

From Thucydides, translated into English, to which is prefixed an essay on inscriptions and a note on the geography of Thucydides, by Benjamin Jowett. Second edition. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1900.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=all+war+is+deception Assad is played a fool

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=syria+nazi+influx

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nazi+to+syria poison runs deep

third generation does not know what it believes and why it believes what it does

[John]

"Use barbarians to fight barbarians" Sun Tzu. A regard to a comment about the Arab world missing out on massive bloodshed lately, recall that a million men died in the Iraq/Iran war of 1979.

I forget -- how many men died in ww i and ii?