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April 21, 2012 A new bill moving quickly through the House Armed Services Committee is set to add another $680 million to the billions in annual military aid the US government provides to Israel, with the funding earmarked for paying for more of the "Iron Dome" defensive missiles. From our gridlocked Congress....;} Meanwhile, in Flyover Country: The more wealth concentrates, their research shows, the feebler a society's investments in infrastructure become. Our nation's long-term decline in federal infrastructure investment — from 3.3 percent of GDP in 1968 to 1.3 percent in 2011 — turns out to mirror almost exactly the long-term shift in income from America's middle class to the richest Americans. And the U.S. states where the rich have gained the most at the expense of the middle class turn out to be the states that invest the least in infrastructure.-billhicksisdead " So why did Americans so docilely agree to give away the store? Because even though they may want their government services, they don't want to pay for them and hate paying taxes even more. That is the very essence of Spoiled Rotten Nation. Me first and fuck the rest of you...until one day the whole stinking system collapses under the strain, as our deteriorating infrastructure will no doubt eventually do. But it's those last two sentences of the article that really made me laugh. This November, tens of millions of delusional idiots are going to go to the polls and cast their vote for rich, Wall Street asshole Willard Mitt Romney, who will essentially be promising to do what every President since Reagan has done. And tens of millions of other delusional idiots will go to the polls and cast their ballots for President Hopey-Changey, who will blow smoke up their asses like he already has for four grueling years, until he gets reelected and then proceeds to continue doing what every President since Reagan has done. Either way, the infrastructure will remain right where it is today: fucked.
#4. To: Robin (#3) I don't think China is headed for economic collapse, but a slow-down, perhaps. People across the internet keep saying this. With absolute confidence in the numbers both the USSA and China are putting out. Where the rule of law has been thrown out the window in every attempt to keep this fetid carcass of 'globalization' going. China is collapsing as I type. Maybe ten days. Maybe ten weeks, but China has destroyed everything environmental in it's nation. Without the ecology, you have no civilization. Not to mention oil is something the Bottom 65% of Chinese never see except in their water supply. Finally, a loan in China is booked as profit. They invented 'accounting'...;} mcgowanjm posted on 2012-04-22 7:35:16 ET Reply Trace Private Reply #5. To: All (#4) China is ahead in one critical area: Global Pollution and Prevention News: China carbon emissions ... www.enn.com › PollutionApr 29, 2011 – /pollution/article/42639. China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, could peak in emissions by 2030 or earlier, says a study from ... bullshite, China's blown the world's last bubble. Peak Pollution. And with Peak Pollution, history really won't be able to record it completely, because the Pop will be busy collapsing. But before the Pop collapses, the economy will have collapsed. Look at any vid of China today. Like the one at Qingdao, showing China's ongoing war games. The sky is brown, China is collapsing now. mcgowanjm posted on 2012-04-22 9:10:03 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #6. To: All (#5) World Cement Production for instance: 1.bp.blogspot.com/- KU4qjniDgMk/T4114WXA87I/AAAAAAAAEO8/rWEMD0eE3oI/s400/cementMTons.jpg It is impressive that the curve shows no sign of abating whatsoever. Maybe there will be a peak in the coming years, but cement is a form of "persistent pollution." Reducing its production - or even stopping it - won't automatically return built environment to fertile soil. But we can't eat concrete. Will we ever get our land back? You can bet China's tops there. The above chart has gone parabolic. There's zero way now that it will do anything but collapse . Parabolic Curves do not linger at asymptote. mcgowanjm posted on 2012-04-22 9:17:05 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit
It is counter-intuitive but, when exploiting a non renewable resource, becoming more efficient is not a good idea. ....;}
I see how you are using a historical example---Tet--to explain what is going on now in Kabul. But Tet was crafted by a central government and had the backing of a standing army. Both of which the Taliban really don't have if you exclude Pakistan. As you mention, however, the intent is the same but not as large a scale as Tet.
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
Well a naturalized Texan, not native born. Military service putting me in Texas for the majority of my 20+ years. Once you get used to the very hot summers where it is 95 degrees in the shade, the place grows on "ya." I am even accepted with my NOREASTER accent:)
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
You'll love this map: www.forbes.com/sites/jonb.../16/migration-in-america/ I think Bexar County has the greatest influx from US 'migrants'.
Wayne Co Miichigan would be the opposite of Bexar Co Texas:
Press Action ::: Gas Industry Gives Obama High Marks for Plan to ... www.pressaction.com/news/...ll.../obamaorder05162012/ Monday, April 16, 2012. Gas Industry Gives Obama High Marks for Plan to Streamline Fracking Regulations. By Press Action. When the oil and gas industry ... the entire fracking industry appears to be in trouble # # Press Action ::: Gas Industry Gives Obama High Marks for Plan to ... www.pressaction.com/news/...ll.../obamaorder05162012/ You +1'd this publicly. Undo Monday, April 16, 2012. Gas Industry Gives Obama High Marks for Plan to Streamline Fracking Regulations. By Press Action. When the oil and gas industry ... Chesapeake will go under before gas rises.
Just the same way we forgot about Fukushima as quickly as we could to let President Obama start ushering in a “nuclear renaissance.” But even worse, that we’ve forgotten the Deepwater Horizon shows that Americans are dumber than spit when it comes to one of the most important issues to our current prosperity and our future survival as a civilization and perhaps, a species. Energy.
Specifically, oil depletion since peak oil hit in 2006. There’s no reason that BP would’ve been drilling more than a mile under the ocean’s surface if there was any easy-to-find oil left. Fact is, the days of handy on-shore gushers are gone. Now, it’s all about deep water oil, Arctic oil, tar sands, oil shale, oil from fracking and other “unconventional” sources of crude. How much you spend for how much you get The returns on that kind of oil are nothing like back in the day, when crude from West Texas could give a hundred barrels for every barrel of oil you’d have to spend on drilling or one barrel of oil would give you 30 barrels of Saudi crude. In our era of what Naomi Klein has dubbed “extreme energy,” oil can deliver energy returns as low as 10:1 or below.
#7. To: Skip Intro (#4) Recall the joke evoked by Freud in order to render the strange logic of dreams: (1) I never borrowed a kettle from you; (2) I returned it to you unbroken; (3) the kettle was already broken when I got it from you. Such an enumeration of inconsistent arguments confirms what it hopes to deny-that I returned to you a broken kettle. Doesn't the same inconsistency characterize the way radical Islamists respond to the Holocaust? (1) The Holocaust did not happen. (2) It did happen, but the Jews deserved it. (3) The Jews did not deserve it, but they themselves lost the right to complain by doing to Palestinians what the Nazis did to them. These conflicting positions are reflected in the views of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who recently questioned the historical reality of the Holocaust while implying that guilt for complicity in the Nazi genocide had led European countries to support Israel: Some European countries insist on saying that Hitler killed millions of innocent Jews in furnaces, and they insist on it to the extent that if anyone proves something contrary to that, they condemn that person and throw them in jail. ... Although we don't accept this claim, if we suppose it is true, our question for the Europeans is: Is the killing of innocent Jewish people by Hitler the reason for their support to the occupiers of Jerusalem? ... If the Europeans are honest they should give some of their provinces in Europe, like in Germany, Austria or other countries, to the Zionists, and the Zionists can establish their state in Europe. You offer part of Europe, and we will support it. This statement mixes the most disgusting insinuations with a correct insight. The disgusting part is, of course, Holocaust denial or, even more disgusting, the claim that Jews deserved it ("we don't accept this claim": Which one? That Hitler killed million of Jews or that the Jews were innocent and did not deserve to be killed?). What is correct, though, is the reminder of European hypocrisy: Europe effectively paid for its own guilt with another people's land. So when Ariel Sharon's spokesman Raanan Gissin said in response, "Just to remind Mr. Ahmadinejad, we've been here long before his ancestors were here. Therefore, we have a birthright to be here in the land of our forefathers and to live here," he evoked a historical right, which, if applied universally, would lead to wholesale slaughter. That is to say, can one imagine a world in which ethnic groups would constantly "remind" their neighbors that "we've been here before you" (even if this means more than a thousand years ago), and use this fact to justify seizing their neighbor's land? The big mystery apropos of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is: Why does it persist for so long when everybody knows the only viable solution?-the withdrawal of the Israelis from the West Bank and Gaza, the establishment of a Palestinian state, as well as some kind of a compromise concerning Jerusalem. There is effectively something of a neurotic symptom in the Middle East conflict-everyone sees the way to get rid of the obstacle, and yet, nonetheless, no one wants to remove it, as if there is some kind of pathological libidinal profit gained by persisting in the deadlock. This is why the Middle East crisis is such a sensitive point for the pragmatic politics that aims to gradually resolve problems in a realistic mode. In this case, the true utopia is precisely that such a "realistic" approach will never work: The only "realistic" solution is the "big" one, to solve the problem at its roots. Here, then, the old motto from 1968 applies: Soyons réalistes, demandons l'impossible! Only a radical gesture that has to appear "impossible" within the existing coordinates will realistically do the job. So, perhaps, the solution "everybody knows" as the only viable one-the withdrawal of the Israelis, the establishment of a Palestinian state, etc.-nonetheless will not do, and one has to change the entire frame and propose a one-state-solution where everyone has equal rights." Zlavoj Zizeck www.egs.edu/faculty/slavo...itics-are-doomed-to-fail/ mcgowanjm
Post Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:41 am by mcgowanjm The most censored story of the Century. How many nukes have Melted Down & Thru: Dai-Ni has: 2F [Daini] is that contaminated. There are 4 reactors in 2F [Daini] and all of them stopped. Coolant system is properly working and the temperature is stable, but it’s only reactor 4 to have been recovered. Collecting comments of subcontract companies, I asked about the contamination situation to Tepco workers. They turned to be helpless. “Yes, true.. I wonder why it’s so contaminated. The operation floor on the top and concrete shielding plug are unbelievably contaminated. Water is even in pedestal (= The room under pressure vissel [sic]).” A retired employee of an electric company said, “If water is in pedestal, it means pressure vessel had excessive pressure. Control rod or pipes are severely damaged. The bottom of the reactor is broken through. Like Fukushima Dai ichi, it is rational to think there was a hydrogen explosion.” Toshiba planned to enter reactor 3 it the end of December, but they didn’t. enenews.com/book-by-fukushima-wo ... -explosion
I saw Arkansas took another former Louisville football coach, John L. Smith. He's pretty good and a bit zany but not as good as Petrino IMO.
The happiest day in the Michigan State football program was when John L. left. Nice and decent fellow but lousy coach while at MSU.
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'! I really didn't pay attention to John L. after he departed but your comments stir up some vague memories of his time at MSU. With such a common name it's easy to remember his with the unique middle initial added.
February 2012 Case-Shiller Home Price Decline Less Badly Posted on 24 April 2012 by Steven Hansen That's the English language being tortured above. If I wrote that title, my prof would send the essay back....;} I clicked on the article to see if the author was genuine...he was....8D Real Title: Case/Shiller Housing Index Worst Ever Reading. Back to 1985 pricing.
Here is the Atlantic Wire with the story: A new study says that for the first time since the Great Depression, there may be fewer Mexican immigrants coming into the United States than there are moving from the United States back to Mexico. According to the Pew Research Center, the net migration between the U.S. and Mexico over the last five years was essentially zero, and the downward trend suggests that flow of both legal and illegal immigrants may have actually reversed back toward Mexico There have also been big increases in enforcement, deportations, and border security, although the report also says that arrests of illegal immigrants trying to cross the border has actually plummeted by nearly 75%. Whether that's because fewer people want to come here or they just don't think it's worth the risk is hard to pin down, but the number of folks willing to take the chance is definitely declining..billhicksisdead
There are 240 million voting age Americans. About 130 million will likely vote in the 2012 election based upon recent voter participation results. This means that 110 million Americans don’t give a crap about who runs this country or they’ve come to their senses and realize our votes don’t matter. Between 1840 and 1900 voter participation ranged between 70% and 82% as Americans took their civic duty seriously and believed their vote counted. Since 1913, when the politicians relinquished control of our currency to a private bank controlled by a small group of powerful men, voter participation for President has ranged between 49% and 62%. It hasn’t surpassed 57% since 1968.
" So the USA seems to be pottering on in its own way with the lobbyists and Wall Street fixing it with the President to ignore a Congress which they have bought anyway whilst a Presidential election is going on. But all is not well there and the stresses are beginning to show. Whilst the Empires of Europe have long crumbled into corrupt foreign adventurism the USA could well be soon at the point when the policy engine of Manifest Destiny, central to its thinking since 1823 goes into reverse. My Edit: Great 1820 Map of North America....;}
"Neither party wants the American people to understand the truth about what happened to our economy and jobs over the last 100 years. It has been a bipartisan screw job and ignoring the facts doesn’t change them. The first fact that can’t be ignored is how many Americans are actually unemployed today. Here is some truth you won’t get from a politician or media talking head: * There are 243 million working age Americans. * There are 142 million employed Americans. * Only 101 million of the employed Americans are working more than 35 hours per week. This means that only 41.6% of all working age Americans have a full-time job. * According to the government drones at the BLS, 88 million Americans have “chosen” to not be in the labor force – the highest level in U.S. history. * The percentage of Americans in the workforce at 63.8% is the lowest since 1980 and down from a peak of 67.1% in 2000. The difference between these two percentages is 8 million Americans. * The BLS reports there are only 12.7 million unemployed Americans in the country, down from 15.3 million in 2009. * The BLS reports the unemployment rate has dropped from 10% in late 2009 to 8.3% today. Over this time frame the working age population grew by 5.7 million, while the number of employed Americans grew by 3.6 million. Only a government drone could interpret this data and report a dramatic decline in the unemployment rate.
Britain's economy has fallen into its second recession since the financial crisis after an shock contraction at the start of 2012, heaping pressure on Prime Minister David Cameron's government as it reels from a series of political missteps." Translation: Since Britain never left Recession 2007, it's now in a Depression.
And you wouldn't know over here in the USSA that Murdoch's career is over. "Britain's Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition has seen its support crumble after weeks of criticism over unpopular tax measures in last month's budget, and is under further pressure from revelations about its close links with media tycoon Rupert Murdoch.
This data is so twisted that there is absolutely no doubt the Federal Government is purposely manipulating the numbers to make the economic situation appear better than the reality. During the Great Depression propaganda and spin had not been perfected. There weren’t multiple definitions of unemployment designed to confuse and mislead the public. The peak level of unemployment in the 1930s was 25%. The current reported level is 8.3%. On a comparable basis to the 1930s, including short-term discouraged workers, those forced to work part-time, and the long-term discouraged workers which were defined out of existence in 1994 by the BLS, the real unemployment rate is 22% today. It feels like a depression for millions of Americans because it is a depression.
Less than 1/2 of 2012 college grads will get jobs.
You're not the first to notice that...;} 'A bit zany' has definitley made the rounds...;} AD Long had a choice: 1) Spend Big on a coach who would bring in his own people. 2) Keep the Top 5 program on track thru 2012. As long as he has good 'time out' skills. And the Flagship has a butt load of money (Petrino left $20 million on the table) and the entire Razorback (WalMart/Tyson/Donrey) foundation is on board. We'll be there at Bowl time....;}
Heard that as well. It's why JLS has 'interim' in his title. He loses to LSU/Bama/ and 2 others and we'll be satisfied. If he beats either and only loses 2, well, that's the cut off.
The take away for me is that MSU thought he was qualified to begin with....;}
I hope so and good luck next season. Better luck on picking a Kentucky Derby winner this year. The exotic bet payouts will be sky high. I hope lady luck smiles upon me this year. I shouldn't say this but Petrino's girlfriend's choppers could rival some Derby starters this year;^)
When Newscorp’s lobbyist Frederic Michel referred to Hunt’s tip-off about progress as ‘illegal actually!’ James Murdoch told Leveson Counsel Robert Jay, “Look, I don’t understand the niceties of Westminster…it was obviously just a joke”. But there is no greater sick joke in 2012 than the way these profoundly disgusting people – Murdoch, Michel, Hunt, Cameron – expect us to believe such obvious rubbish. We should not see these soon-to-be cadavers cavorting about on the scaffold as in any way unrelated to the social, fiscal, financial, and economic problems of the West in general and Europe in particular. They are all part of the same decadent, obscenely degenerate Undead running the affairs of our unfortunate planet Earth: Blankfein, Lagarde, Sarkozy, Draghi, Merkel, Geithner, Putin, Swan, Gillard, Mandelson, van Rompuy, Diamond and a few thousand others determined to do for us – we know not why. But until they are all a distant, nigthmarish memory, we will never have charge of our own destinies again.
The mass media exist to control the masses by shaping our perceptions of reality. The pap they feed us switches off our brains, so we can’t analyze society as a system. Instead of thought, we are offered a dazzling array of personal emotions and sensory stimulation to distract us from the bleak reality of our lives. Through entertainment and news the media fixates us on physical violence, so we don’t perceive the structural violence that causes it. We get lurid, fear-arousing accounts of violence committed by ghetto youths and Muslim guerrillas accompanied with commentaries calling for tough measures to combat these vicious berserkers. We get no accounts of the structural violence of poverty and oppression that capitalism and imperialism have created there. It’s this built-in structural violence that generates the physical violence."
Greece goes from 10% of it's GDP on war, to 2.2% per France/German war spending and Greece has no default/insolvency problem.
Volleyball women are sleek thoroughbreds. They're legs are to die for....;}
European Confidence Tumbles To November 2009 Levels, Euro-Wide Double Dip Inevitable Tyler Durden's picture Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/26/2012 05:52 -0400
Note how the Markets began celebrating the Greater Depression. These and other 'Depression' articles come out just as the Markets go Zombie, where they are to this day. # # Simon Johnson:Is Europe on the Verge of a Depression, or a Great ... economix.blogs.nytimes.co...ge-of-a-depressi...Cached Nov 10, 2011 – If European leaders cannot agree on how to stabilize their financial system, chaos and inflation seem sure to follow, an economist writes. Europe crisis hit with 'deep depression' warning; every EU nation's ... economictimes.indiatimes.com › Budget 2012 › NewsCached Nov 29, 2011 – According to OECD, crisis was now just one step away from plunging advanced economies into an abyss of recession & trigger waves of ...
87 comments to State officials shut down shrimping in Gulf amid scientists finding deformities and ‘horrifying creatures’ — Media attributes closure to lesions, then retracts * charlie3 April 26, 2012 at 10:14 am Log in to Reply There was a time when the Gulf was like some picture of paradise, and immensely full of healthy sea and bird life. There was nothing better than a swim on the beach there. I can't believe how ugly we have made this planet over the course of my lifetime.
Someone just lost a fortune in the Mad Cow industry....;}
"Lower-than-expected health care use has helped insurers in the past several quarters, and it factored into the 73 percent earnings gain Aetna reported in February for last year's fourth quarter. But Aetna and other insurers have said they expect use to return to more normal levels this year, which means they pay more claims, as consumers who were pinched during the recession start to feel more comfortable about their finances.....8D "as consumers who were pinched during the recession start to feel more comfortable about their finances.....and realize they'll never get better... FIFY....8D
Procter & Gamble Co. (PG) -NYSE 66.87 Apr 26, 4:01PM EDT|Pre-Market: 65.00 Down 1.87 (2.80%) 7:59AM EDT - Nasdaq Real Time Price "The maker of Tide detergent and Olay skin cream says net income fell 16 percent to $2.41 billion, or 82 cents per share. That compares with $2.87 billion, or 96 cents per share last year. Consumer product companies have been raising prices to deal with higher costs for materials like fuel and packaging. Consumers unfazed by 'raising prices' because they feel better about the economy. And can print money and borrow all they need just like the banksters....;}
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- Ford Motor Co. said Friday its net income fell by 45 percent in the first quarter as European sales plummeted and the company paid higher taxes. The company announced it will try to cut its pension costs by offering lump-sum payments to about 90,000 U.S. white-collar retirees and former employees. Ford said it is the largest such offer in U.S. history. Payouts will start later this year and come from pension plan assets. Ford doesn't yet know how much the plan will cost.... but that doesn't matter because F can print money and borrow just like the banksters.....;}
You're cracking me up this morning. Thanks!
U.S. stock futures rose, indicating the Standard and Poor’s 500 Index will cap the biggest weekly rally in a month, amid better-than-estimated results at companies including Amazon (AMZN).com Inc. and Ford Motor Co. (F) ..... LMFAO # Amazon Surges After Hours On After-Tax Accounting ... - Zero Hedge www.zerohedge.com/.../ama...hours-after-tax-account... You +1'd this publicly. Undo 15 hours ago – Either the algos are getting really stupid, or nobody cares at all about the quality of earnings any more. Case in point - Amazon, which was ... Amazon Slides After Missing Revenues Expectations ... - Zero Hedge www.zerohedge.com/.../ama...-revenues-expect...Cached Jan 31, 2012 – Amazon slides 10% after hours as it reports much weaker revenues of $17.43 billion on expectations of $18.26 billion. EPS are not really ... Cost Cutting is CorpsSpeak for taking employees out back and shooting them.
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Again, the Afghans are showing zero weakness while the CoreStateMedia is reduced to not even mentioning the Tet Offensive in Kabul.
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And glad you're from Texas. I love messin' with Texicans....;}
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Well a naturalized Texan, not native born. Military service putting me in Texas for the majority of my 20+ years.
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I saw Arkansas took another former Louisville football coach
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Nice and decent fellow but lousy coach while at MSU.
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I really didn't pay attention to John L. after he departed but your comments stir up some vague memories of his time at MSU.
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We'll be there at Bowl time....;}
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I shouldn't say this but Petrino's girlfriend's choppers could rival some Derby starters this year;^)
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but that doesn't matter because F can print money and borrow just like the banksters.....;}
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DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- Ford Motor Co. said Friday its net income fell by 45 percent in the first quarter as European sales plummeted and the company paid higher taxes
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