Title: Mcgowanjm Wire 2012 Source:
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I thought about these things this past week, as the Eurozone continued its downward slide, our own economy showed signs of faltering again and – in a hundred small ways – the Empire continued its slow decay. Yesterday, I read a couple of articles about the state of the Empire as it faces financial and economic failure, environmental degradation, climate change and diminishing energy supplies.
The first article recapped a speech given by Leon Panetta to the Environmental Defense Fund this week. “Climate and environmental change are emerging as national security threats that “weigh heavily” on the Pentagon’s strategies …” the article stated. “… The quest for energy is another area, he said, that continues to shape and reshape the strategic environment …” www.upi.com/Business_News...cerns/UPI-19981336156813/
A case can certainly be made that, with the exception of a tiny privileged elite, the hallmark of "progress" has been enslavement of the majority of humanity, forced into bondage whether it's hauling stones to build pyramids or Aztec temples, fighting off lions in the Coliseum, being sold for sex, chained in the hull of a ship, or sitting for years in a windowless office cubicle all the better to buy more gadgets in the glorious name of endless growth.
"A surprising fact about the Neolithic revolution is that, according to most evidence, agriculture brought about a steep decline in the standard of living. Studies of Kalahari Bushmen and other nomadic groups show that hunter-gatherers, even in the most inhospitable landscapes, typically spend less than twenty hours a week obtaining food. By contrast, farmers toil from sunup to sundown. Because agriculture relies on the mass cultivation of a handful of starchy crops, a community’s whole livelihood can be wiped out overnight by bad weather or pests. Paleontological evidence shows that, compared with hunter-gatherers, early farmers had more anemia and vitamin deficiencies, died younger, had worse teeth, were more prone to spinal deformity, and caught more infectious diseases, as a result of living close to other humans and to livestock."
"A surprising fact about the Neolithic revolution is that, according to most evidence, agriculture brought about a steep decline in the standard of living.
Studies of Kalahari Bushmen and other nomadic groups show that hunter-gatherers, even in the most inhospitable landscapes, typically spend less than twenty hours a week obtaining food. By contrast, farmers toil from sunup to sundown. Because agriculture relies on the mass cultivation of a handful of starchy crops, a community’s whole livelihood can be wiped out overnight by bad weather or pests.
Paleontological evidence shows that, compared with hunter-gatherers, early farmers had more anemia and vitamin deficiencies, died younger, had worse teeth, were more prone to spinal deformity, and caught more infectious diseases, as a result of living close to other humans and to livestock."
" Debt implosions and currency devaluation NEVER simply “fade away”; they are always followed by extreme social and political strife that tends to sully the doorsteps of almost every individual and family. The notion that we can coast through such a tempest unscathed is an insane idea, filled with a dangerous potential for sour regrets.
There are some people who also believe that the private Federal Reserve with the Treasury in tow has the ability to prolong the worst symptoms of the collapse indefinitely, or at least, until they have long since kicked the bucket and don’t have to worry about it anymore (the ‘pay-it forward to our grandkids’ crowd) . I can say with 100% certainty that most of us will live to see the climax of the breakdown, and that this breakdown is about to enter a more precarious state before the end of this year. You can only stretch a sun-boiled rubber band so far before it snaps completely, and America’s financial elasticity has long been melted away. "
Some very stupid people decided to believe an obvious feint from a very self- aggrandizing lunatic.
Powell is an ass.
Bibi never said that.
In spite of saying it isn't worth discussing I thought you deserve an answer in spite of your assertion that I would not.
It still isn't worth talking about. For pete's sake people are still arguing about Caligula but it won't rebuild Rome.
Personally, the WTC were the most ugly buildings in NYC (well, the Guggenheim looks like a toilet) and were badly designed and built by corrupt unions with inferior materials. So, good to go.
I've been quoting Bibi since the Day after 9/11....;}
Netanyahu Zionism
[In New York on day of 911 and London on day of 7/7. Beat that for a 'coincidence'.]
On the day of the 9-11 attacks, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked what the attacks would mean for US-Israeli relations. His quick reply was: "It's very good…….Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)"
Paleontological evidence shows that, compared with hunter-gatherers, early farmers had more anemia and vitamin deficiencies, died younger, had worse teeth, were more prone to spinal deformity, and caught more infectious diseases, as a result of living close to other humans and to livestock."
Very interesting. Goes to show us that urban ghettos are just as bad today as they were in the beginning. I guess this study suggests that Green Acres is [NOT] the place to be even so.
It still isn't worth talking about. For pete's sake people are still arguing about Caligula but it won't rebuild Rome.
Personally, the WTC were the most ugly buildings in NYC (well, the Guggenheim looks like a toilet) and were badly designed and built by corrupt unions with inferior materials. So, good to go.
There's a reason that there's no staute of limitations on murder and treason...;}
The effects remain until both are solved.
As you have Yet to tell me why we invaded Iraq.....;}
On the day of the 9-11 attacks, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked what the attacks would mean for US-Israeli relations. His quick reply was: "It's very good…….Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)"
Very interesting. Goes to show us that urban ghettos are just as bad today as they were in the beginning. I guess this study suggests that Green Acres is [NOT] the place to be even so.
Exactly not. Only the Elite have balanced diets in Empire/Civilizations.
Every one.
And Green acres Is the place to be IF you own Green Acres....;}
Debt implosions and currency devaluation NEVER simply “fade away”; they are always followed by extreme social and political strife that tends to sully the doorsteps of almost every individual and family. The notion that we can coast through such a tempest unscathed is an insane idea, filled with a dangerous potential for sour regrets.
There are some people who also believe that the private Federal Reserve with the Treasury in tow has the ability to prolong the worst symptoms of the collapse indefinitely, or at least, until they have long since kicked the bucket and don’t have to worry about it anymore (the ‘pay-it forward to our grandkids’ crowd) . I can say with 100% certainty that most of us will live to see the climax of the breakdown, and that this breakdown is about to enter a more precarious state before the end of this year. You can only stretch a sun-boiled rubber band so far before it snaps completely, and America’s financial elasticity has long been melted away.
'If there was a third explosion the building might collapse.'
'We had that big explosion from much lower...at the base of the towers.'
Chopper 2: 'We just witnessed some secondary explosion.'
'One of the explosions at the WTC may have been caused by a van'
'We just heard another explosion.'
'There was a bomb in the lobby.'
'I literally thought that the subway had exploded.'
'The subway cars filled with smoke.'
'He went back in the revolving doors, when a fireball threw him back into the street.'
The explosions went 'boom. boom boom boom all the way down'.
An explosion. The third explosion. The whole lobby collapsed on us.'
'The third one...waiting to go upstairs....everything just went up... staging area on fire....waiting to go upstairs....in the building trying to help people and explosions going off....couldn't get worse than that.'
'Two planes and explosions that were ion the building...what the FBI is going with at this point.'
'They arrested the truck full of explosives'.
'Two men in FBI custody...van ful of explosives ...Geo Washington bridge.... arrrested and questioning....'
'another terrorist attack stopped an attack on the Geo Washington Bridge'.
'Urban Moving Sytems Van...APB '
'Liberty State Park...filming celebrating 9/11 attack...each had tickets to immediately leave the US.'
'You could only see one side of one tower from Urban Moving Systems so they moved to film the enitre event.....already on the roof....looking.
'Dancing Israelis.'
Took 76 photos....visibly seen smiling.'
Silven Kirschberg....lied to two men...said he was construction worker in WTC.'
'Silven admitted...WTC highlighted.
'Silven also babble on about Palestinians....lied... claiming they were onm the West Side.'
They used to roll out Missing White Girls...and War on drugs... now it's Al Qaeda Bomb...BOO.
Even as the USSAtv wasted at least the 1st 4-5 minutes of air time yesterday the plot has already been exposed....Lulz...;}
'Underwear bomber' was working for the CIA Paul Harris and Ed Pilkington in New York
Bomber involved in plot to attack US-bound jet was working as an informer with Saudi intelligence and the CIA, it has emerged
May 8, 2012
F-22 production stopped long ago by LittleHelper on 09.05.2012 [02:48 ] There exist only about 150 of those F-22 fighter jets. Production stopped some time ago, because the US Department of defense has been running out of funds to finance development of them. The US now are concentrating on the F-35 fighter jet, which is the successor of the F-22 in the JSF program. Its development costs are also spiralling out of control, and it's very questionable, whether the F-35 really will be built in large numbers some day.
Without the pillars of austerity and "structural adjustment", there is very little justification for the ECB or Germany to continue backstopping the peripheral finances of the Eurozone. It's not as if the consumers or businesses in these countries can even afford to buy Germany's exports anymore, as made all too clear by Rajoy's comments, and the failure of peripheral banks is all but guaranteed. When a financial institution such as Bankia is bailed out, make no mistake - there will be no one able or willing to bail out the Spanish Treasury.
"The consequences of the end of these two empires can’t be dealt with on the battlefield, as the long debate over the shape of America’s human ecology was, and it can’t be dealt with by jerry-rigging a set of temporary expedients to overcome the mismatch between real wealth and a dysfunctional financial system, as the crisis of the Great Depression was. It will require massive changes in every aspect of American life, starting with a steep decline in standards of living and the forced abandonment of privileges most Americans think of as theirs by right."
"And today we have the news that the American ambassador here in Pakistan has actually cut short his assignment here and flown back to Washington because basically the American diplomats here too are complaining that the US military and the CIA are out of control. They do the hard work; they try to work with the Afghan government and the Pakistani government. But when it comes to the US military and the CIA, they destroy everything."
So basically what you see happening right now in Kabul is that President Karzai is in the same position as the US State Department and the US diplomats are in Kabul, which is basically: they cannot trust the US military, they cannot trust the CIA.
RT: Just about a week ago we had the American President there congratulating his troops on a job well done saying that they are in a process of having peace talks with Taliban, although they are also targeting the Taliban. Is that just a political rhetoric? I thought America was winning a war on terror?
AQ: Absolutely not. I think the Americans are facing an embarrassing defeat in Afghanistan. The civilian deaths we are seeing right now in Afghanistan are one sign of their desperation. They are using all out disproportionate force really to get at what they see as Afghan resistance or Afghan fighters. "
