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I own the site. It is a place to state your opinions and debate them with others. There are leftists and Conservatives such as myself.
I'm a Pat Buchanan, Rand Paul type conservative. I guess there is some libertarian running through me. But I find most libertarians to simply be amoral.
I own the site. It is a place to state your opinions and debate them with others. There are leftists and Conservatives such as myself.
I'm a Pat Buchanan, Rand Paul type conservative. I guess there is some libertarian running through me. But I find most libertarians to simply be amoral.
Nice...but I don't see any Libertarians around here.
Unless you mean non right wing Republicans.... and I don't think there is such a thing....
National Security Act of 1947
"The World At War: A New Germany
"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. The supreme god of a fascist, to which his ends are directed, may be money or power; may be a race or a class; may be a military, clique or an economic group; or may be a culture, religion, or a political party...
We all know the part that the cartels played in bringing Hitler to power, and the rule the giant German trusts have played in Nazi conquests. Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise. In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself...
Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion. American fascists of this stamp were clandestinely aligned with their German counterparts before the war, and are even now preparing to resume where they left off, after "the present unpleasantness" ceases.
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution."
Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the US, The Danger of American Fascism
"Translation: we are shopping ourselves right now and unless someone pick us up by end of trading when the margin calls come in, tomorrow's open may be a little problematic. Of course, JPM will mysteriously step up in the last minute and provide a DIP-like loan in the process onboarding all the "segregated" accounts.
* KNIGHT BONDS FALL 13.125 CENTS TO 70 CENTS ON DOLLAR
Quite soon we may find out what it means to trade in a market which has just lost one of its key market makers, responsible for up to 15% of overall liquidity.
" "I am not an important man... I possess only my personal sense of dignity. My life has been reduced to nothing by an intolerable insult. Therefore, I have nothing to lose except my life, which is nothing, so I trade my life for yours, as your life is favoured. The exchange is in my favour, so I shall not only kill you, but I shall kill many of you, and at the same time rehabilitate myself in the eyes of the group of which I am a member, even though I might be killed in the process."
The amok syndrome is an extreme instance of the puzzle of human emotions. Exotic at first glance, upon scrutiny they turn out to be universal; quintessentially irrational, they are tightly interwoven with abstract thought and have a cold logic of their own."
The problem for the USSA is that we actually think that our colonies have been subdued....;}
"Thursday: 54 Killed, 74 Wounded
August 2, 2012
An extraordinary number of attacks on checkpoints and other security targets occurred across central and northern Iraq today. Most of them produced few casualties each, but together they eclipsed a bombing in Baghdad that left dozens killed or injured there. Overall, at least 54 people were killed and 74 more were wounded. Only yesterday, the Iraqi government, in releasing July casualties statistics admitted that violence in on the rise."
"White South Africa regarded its wealth as prima facie evidence of cultural superiority."
The 20 to 1 disparity between Israeli and Palestinian per capita income matches the wealth gap between American Blacks and whites (app. $5,000 vs. $100,000 for median Black and white households). The fact that such numbers do not provoke general shock and calls for reparations is proof enough that most whites view the disparity as more a natural phenomenon than evidence of cumulative injustice. Daniel Patrick Moynihan spoke for white folks of the past, present and future when he posited, in 1965, that a Black "culture of poverty" is what keeps Black people poor not pervasive white racism.
With KCG getting caught Front Running it's customers, getting caught on the Wrong side of the trade, and Then claiming it has a 'bank' extending a 'line of credit' til ......Wednesday/Monday/Who Knows the 'bank' does not exist.....
23 hours ago Latest News Stories ... MANILA, Philippines Let's get used to great floods. ... adapt to climate change and the only way we could be prepared for the impact of climate change is to accept that these recent developments in our ...
BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHHA...;}
We've altered 1/2 the planet, 95% expect 2 billion to be added in the next 25 years, and Now we're just going to have to get used to this.....
It wasnt just that July was a single-record month: the 12 months ending with July was the warmest such period since modern recordkeeping began in 1895, and the January-July 2012 period was also the warmest on record. The top 13 warmest 12-month periods since 1895 have all occurred since 1999.
Brian Williams last nite:
"This is not a One Off. We'll have to get used to Climate Change.
Interestingly, the Aquino Administration after just a little over one year in power was said to have summarily cancelled projects that aimed to construct flood-control infrastructure initiated by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
The Pasig River winds generally north-westward for some 25 kilometres (15.5 mi) from the Laguna de Bay, the largest lake in the Philippines, to Manila Bay, in the southern part of the island of Luzon. From the lake, the river runs between Taguig City, and Taytay, Rizal, before entering Pasig City. This portion of the Pasig River, to the confluence with the Marikina River tributary, is known as the Napindan River or Napindan Channel. From there, the river forms the common border between Makati City to the south and Pasig City, followed by Mandaluyong City to the north. The river then sharply turns northeast, where it has become the border between Mandaluyong and Manila before turning again westward, joining its other major tributary, the San Juan River, and then following a sinuous path through the center of Manila before emptying into the bay.
The whole river and most portions of its tributaries lie entirely within Metro Manila, the metropolitan region of the capital. Isla de Convalescencia (14°35′26"N 120°59′20"E), the only island dividing the Pasig River, can be found in Manila and it is where the Hospicio de San Jose is located. Tributaries and canals
One major river that drains Laguna de Bay is the Taguig River, which enters into Taguig before becoming the Pateros River; it is the border between the municipalities of Pateros and Makati City. Pateros River then enters the confluence where the Napindan Channel and Marikina River meet. The Marikina River is the larger of the two major tributaries of the Pasig River, and it flows southward from the mountains of Rizal and cuts through the Marikina Valley. The San Juan River drains the plateau on which Quezon City stands; its major tributary is Diliman Creek.
Within the city of Manila, various esteros (canals) criss-cross through the city and connect with the Tullahan River in the north and the Parañaque River to the west.
The growth of Manila along the banks of the Pasig River has made it a focal point for development and historical events. The foremost landmark on the banks of the river is the walled district of Intramuros, located near the mouth of the river on its southern bank. It was built by the Spanish colonial government in the 16th century. Further upstream is the Hospicio de San Jose, an orphanage located on Pasig's sole island, the Isla de Convalescencia. On the northern bank stands Malacañan Palace, the official residence of the President of the Philippines. Also on Pasig River's northern bank and within the Manila district of Sta. Mesa is the main campus of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
In Makati City, along the southern bank of Pasig, is the Sta. Ana Racetrack and the Rockwell Commercial Center, a high-end office and commercial area containing the Power Plant Mall. At the confluence of the Pasig and Marikina rivers is the Napindan Hydraulic Control Structure, which regulates the flow of water from the Napindan Channel.
The Pasig River's main watershed is concentrated in the plains between Manila Bay and Laguna de Bay. The watershed of the Marikina River tributary mostly occupies the Marikina Valley, which was formed by the Marikina Fault Line. The Manggahan Floodway is an artificially constructed waterway that aims to reduce the flooding in the Marikina Valley during the rainy season, by bringing excess water to the Laguna de Bay. Tidal flows
The Pasig River is technically considered a tidal estuary. Toward the end of the summer or dry season (April and May), the water level in Laguna de Bay reaches to a minimum of 10.5 meters. During times of high tide, the water level in the lake may drop below that of Manila Bay's, resulting in a reverse flow of seawater from the bay into the lake. This results in increased pollution and salinity levels in Laguna de Bay at this time of the year.[1] Flooding
The Pasig River is vulnerable to flooding in times of very heavy rainfall, with the Marikina River tributary the main source of the floodwater. The Manggahan Floodway was constructed to divert excess floodwater from the Marikina River into the Laguna de Bay, which serves as a temporary reservoir. By design, the Manggahan Floodway is capable of handling 2,400 cubic meters per second of water flow, although the actual flow is about 2,000 cubic meters per second. To complement the floodway, the Napindan Hydraulic Control System (NHCS) was built in 1983 at the confluence of the Marikina River and the Napindan Channel to regulate the flow of water between the Pasig River and the lake.[2]
Before the mass urbanization of Manila, the Pasig River served as an important means of transport; it was the city's lifeline and center of economic activity. Some of the most prominent kingdoms in early Philippine history, including the kingdoms of Namayan, Maynila, and Tondo grew up along the banks of the river, drawing their life and source of wealth from it. When the Spanish established Manila as the capital of their colonial properties in the Far East, they built the walled city of Intramuros on the southern bank of Pasig River near its mouth.
After World War II, massive population growth, infrastructure construction, and the dispersal of economic activities to Manila's suburbs left the river neglected. The banks of the river attracted informal settlers and the remaining factories dumped their wastes into the river, making it effectively a huge sewer system. Industrialization had already polluted the river.[3]
In the 1930s, observers noticed the increasing pollution of the river, as fish migration from Laguna de Bay diminished. People ceased using the river's water for laundering in the 1960s, and ferry transport declined. By the 1970s, the river started to emanate offensive smells, and in the 1980s, fishing in the river was prohibited. By the 1990s, the Pasig River was considered biologically dead[3]
Bankoff, Gregg (2003). "Constructing Vulnerability: The Historical, Natural and Social Generation of Flooding in Metropolitan Manila," Disasters, 27(3): 95109.
"Metro Manila is situated in a semi-alluvial floodplain formed by sediment flow from the Meycauayan and Malabon-Tullahan river basins in the north and the Marikina river basin in the east.
It encompasses a land area of 636 square kilometres, measuring about 20 kilometres in length along a north-south axis and stretching more than 22 kilometres at its widest.
The conurbation is open to Manila Bay on the west and to Laguna de Bay, a large lake, on the south-east.
As such, the metropolitan area now constitutes a vast urbanised drainage basin that experiences frequent inundations from overflowing rivers and storm waters that render the existing system of esteros (modified natural channels) and canals constructed during the Spanish and American colonial periods inadequate.
Despite the growing vulnerability of much of the metropolitan area, however, rapid urbanisation has continued unabated with residential homes, industries and commercial sites increasingly exposed to flood-related destruction."
While flooding variously affects all areas of Manila, some cities and municipalities are more vulnerable than others due to their location and height relative to sea level. Some 20 per cent of the capitals 63,600 square hectares is designated as flood prone, of which 5,385 square hectares (41 per cent) are served by pumping stations and the remaining 7,715 square hectares (59 per cent) suffer frequent and long lasting inundation.
Areas to the east, south-east and south of the capital around Marikina, Pasig, Mandaluyong, Muntinlupa and Parañaque and especially those adjacent to Laguna de Bay such as Taguig and Pateros are acutely susceptible to flooding.
n some particularly exposed cities such as Muntinlupa and Taguig, all barangays (the basic unit of local government) are regularly inundated and the coverage of flooding extends to 88 per cent and 83 per cent of their respective land areas.
Flooding is not a recent hazard in the Philippines but one that has occurred throughout the recorded history of the archipelago: it is the result of the low-lying nature of much of the terrain and the frequency of typhoons. These typhoons do not necessarily constitute hazards as such and are, in fact, responsible for a significant percentage of the annual rainfall that makes the islands so fertile and thus ideal for agriculture. This fertility, in turn, encourages or at least permits demographic growth and the location of people in large cities such as Metro Manila.
The demands of this steadily expanding urban population for basic amenities such as water, together with the nature of modern development, generate environmental problems like accelerated subsidence and garbage disposal that, in conjunction with the torrential rainfall associated with tropical storms, aggravates the incidence and severity of flooding in the metropolitan area.
The concentration of employment, educational and health among other opportunities in the big city only spurs more rural-to-urban migration, creates shortages of suitable residential land and encourages the occupation of areas more prone to flooding or that have important drainage functions.
The actions of governments and the technological solutions they mainly favour have only limited outcomes and may actually aggravate conditions usually to the disadvantage of the most vulnerable poor, whether urban or rural. The construction of vulnerability to flood in Metro Manila, therefore, clearly shows how societies and destructive agents are very much mutually constituted and embedded in natural and social systems as unfolding processes over time.
Heavy rain is no surprise in the Philippines - the country typically gets at least 20 typhoons a year - and some claim that global climate change is making the problem worse. Even if that view is wrong, clearly more can be done to diminish the effect of extreme rains, in Manila and across the country. To be sure, the country is a poor one, but that does not excuse the official failure to learn from history, notably from the 2009 Manila flooding which killed at least 460.
Despite solemn promises made then, low-lying shantytowns continue to grow, and rubbish dumped by their residents clogs drainage canals and sewers. Around the city, meanwhile, forested areas capable of retaining water in the soil, are being cleared to build suburbs for the affluent.
" There are some scoundrels, however, who purposely clog the drainage pipes of some streets precisely to induce floods. Why? So that vehicles will stall in the floods and they will earn by pushing the stalled vehicles to higher ground. Or they can earn fees from pedestrians who do not want to get their feet wet to use the wooden planks that they have laid above the water. Or they can ferry them from dry ground to dry ground on their pushcartsfor a fee. Trabaho lang, they will tell you.
That is par for the course in low-lying areas like España. But what about V. Luna street in Quezon City that was never flooded before? Why was it suddenly flooded one day so that many vehicles stalled and had to be pushed to higher ground by men waiting there? Workers of the MMDA found the drainage pipes blocked with rocks and garbage. Were the rocks lodged there by the floodwaters or purposely placed there to block the drainage pipe and cause the flooding?"
" In a comment on my colleague Floyd Whaleys story in The New York Times, Tomas Gomez III of Calbayog called metropolitan Manila an abused space.
It is engaged in self-strangulation by not consciously decongesting and redistributing its population, Mr. Gomez said. Slums and squatter colonies predominate much of the terrain, occupying what used to be open canals/streams, river tributaries and even riverbanks themselves. Clogging of natural drainage arteries is the tolerated norm. It is beyond its carrying capacity and for a long time now has been bursting at the seams.
"Once a threshold-induced planetary state shift occurs, there's no going back. So, if a system switches to a new state because you've added lots of energy, even if you take out the new energy, it won't revert back to the old system. The planet doesn't have any memory of the old state."
These projections contradict the popularly held belief that the extent to which human-induced pressures, such as climate change, are destroying our planet is still debatable, and any collapse would be both gradual and centuries away.
This study concludes we better not exceed the 50 per cent mark of wholesale transformation of Earth's surface or we won't be able to delay, never mind avert, a planetary collapse.
We've already reached the 43 per cent mark through our conversion of landscapes into agricultural and urban areas, making Earth increasingly susceptible to an environmental epidemic."
23 hours ago Latest News Stories ... MANILA, Philippines Let's get used to great floods. ... adapt to climate change and the only way we could be prepared for the impact of climate change is to accept that these recent developments in our ...
BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHHA...;}
We've altered 1/2 the planet, 95% expect 2 billion to be added in the next 25 years, and Now we're just going to have to get used to this.....
BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....yeast....we are no different.
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-08-09 10:28:42 ET Reply Trace Private Reply #5. To: mcgowanjm, *Global Climate Change* (#3)
"These people aren't just on the other side of this debate. They're on the other side of reality.
Yes, yes it is lost on them.
I think many just don't want to think. They like Limbaugh and Beck and Fox news doing their thinking for them.
Then, like my neighbor, all they need do is put a Romney sign on the front of their house.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist. Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, also known as the Bishop of Corum He wrote "Spiral of Violence"
May 19, 2012 Loss of bee colonies threatens more than half the food we eat. This hour, Monsanto, Bayer, genetically modified seeds, bees and super weeds; ...
Aleppo: Conflicting stories and the truth 10.08.2012
Again the western media is manipulating the facts, sifting through footage taken in recent weeks, showing out-of-date clips of tanks being commandeered by terrorists, then after their murderous filth was chased out of Damascus, they paint a rosy story of Aleppo. The truth so obviously hurts, hence the lies. Here is the full truth and nothing but.
The Free Syrian Terrorist Force is, sorry to spoil the fun, certainly not composed by Syrians. Around 75 per cent of them are foreign mercenaries, murderers, "ex-SAS", "ex-French special forces", Libyan rapists, murderers and torturers, and so on, complete with the hierarchy composed of Iraqis and Turks and the token Syrian for the cameras.
Secondly, and sorry to spoil the fun again, things are not going very well for this western-backed scourge and their western masters, furiously scratching their heads as to what to do next. After Libya, with nobody believing a word London, Washington or Paris says any more, and after the foreign policy disaster in Iraq, invading outside the UNSC, what can they do, except keep on sending foreign mercenaries and murderers to their deaths inside Syria?
Western leaders slip back into their childhood by Thierry Meyssan
The slogan "Bashar must go!" was supposed to be chanted by crowds of protesters in Damascus and Aleppo. In the absence of such demonstrations, it has been taken over by Western leaders themselves even though it goes against all the conventional rules of diplomacy. Why? Voltaire Network | Damascus (Syria) | 8 August 2012
May 28, 2012 Most of the crop is used as the main energy ingredient in livestock feed. Corn is also processed into a multitude of food and industrial products ... 40% the amount of Brazilian soy China bought this Spring.
Short of soy Brazil meat producers want to import from Bolivia ...
5 hours ago In the first half of the year China bought a lot of Brazilian soy, so now our stock is zero, in fact it is probably negative, said Alexandre ...
China to Buy $4.3 Billion of Soybeans in Deals With U.S. Exporters ...
Feb 15, 2012 China, the world's biggest soybean importer and consumer, signed agreements in ... Soybeans have jumped 5.1 percent this year on the Chicago Board of Trade, ... China Signs $4.3 Billion of Soybean-Buying Deals With U.S. ...
Grains essentially the same price as this time last year.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Right now I'm trying to figure how a Command Sergeant Major is killed and the assailant walks away....;}
"Afghan soldier shoots 6 American invaders dead, 3 wounded in Laghman LAGHMAN, Aug. 09 A recent news report from Laghman province points out that on Thursdays, Abd-us-Samad, resident of Kunar province, apparently working for the puppet Afghan National Army (ANA) turned his heavy machine gun on the American invaders in a joint base and opened fire on those inside the base and threw about 5 hand grenades at the invading forces. In addition to killing at least 6 American invaders, the brave Afghan left a further three cowardly American troops wounded. Thursdays shooting comes as the enemy was amid a meeting in joint military base in Mehtarlam Baba, the capital of Laghman province and was one of the most moral-shattering attacks by a lone Afghan on the Americans since the Operation Al-Farooq initiated. The brave Afghan, after accomplishing his mission, was about to leave the base as he was shot from the helicopter and joint the highest rank of martyrs.
Police officer shoots dead 4 American invaders in Helmand, wounds 3 HELMAND, Aug. 10 Recent reports arriving from Helmand province state that an Afghan local police officer has opened fire on a gathering of American invaders, according to officials from Sangin district.Latest reports indicate that the shooting, carried out by the head of the said local police squad (Asadullah), took place in Sarwan Kala regions Kozki area at dusk time Thursday on 7 high ranking American troops ,who also trained Afghan forces as a result, that were invited for dinner as a result, 4 invaders have been confirmed dead while the 3 others were severely wounded. The hero officer later left the area with his weapon and joined up with Mujahideen.