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Yes, you are probably right! The US may not really want to risk irking China or Russia to the extent that they might get involved. The US is already stretched and can't really afford another war..and especially most likely won't be able to get China, et al, to pay for them like they have in the past. China is going after the gold...they've had enough of the "funny money" (the US dollar). And since Cyprus is selling off all their depositor's gold..China is buying it all up.
When empires crumble and can no longer push around other countries, they turn to pushing around their own people... even more so than when they are bullying other countries. Their attitude is: "Goddam it! We gotta kill someone!" "We can no longer get China to pay for our wars...I know..let's starve our own population...just for kicks!"
DeAnne - This new pic represents how one could end up believing in faith versus checking the fuel lines yourself before any venture! Have faith in what you know and can see and time will take care of the rest...
DeAnneMarc - this is off subject, I have grown tired of reading the various comments and commenting myself, it is getting old hat. As far as faith goes, I will place my faith in my .357 for the protection of my family and myself. You can choose to place your faith in whatever makes you feel comfortable. I do believe the end results of someone or something trying to perpetrate an act of violence against me and mine will have a better outcome for us in my hands, then your faith in the force you perceive to have a guiding hand or fate in your life and the lives of those you care for. I have proof my magnum will have a most certain effect and an outcome I can foresee happening. I do not place my faith in something or an entity that I believe in to have its, his or her hand in protecting or guiding my life. I am not an atheist, I just do not believe the thing you place your faith in will be there to protect you or yours and is more of a comfort factor then an actually entity. I will not completely rule out the existence of a greater power, this all began somehow or somewhere (the Big Bang Theory). I just do not rely on it to guide or protect my family or myself. You do not need to explain the difference of faith, religion or belief. They all have the same outcome, which is to place the responsibility for your life and decisions you make in the hands of a higher power. Like I said before, just a cop-out to let you sleep better if you think something else is in control of guiding your thoughts, life and life style. Of course you never see an athiest in a fox hole under fire or in any combat! ha. I have yet to see any proof that those with faith have a higher quality of life or a better outlook in life towards oneself, family and others we encounter throughout life’s journey. And, it does bother me a great deal when someone takes it upon themselves to explain faith, religion and belief to me as if you were preaching down to the crowd from your soap box. I am trying to be less confrontational with people who come across the way you do, so you do not have to thank me for not coming down on you in an aggressive manner, it is for me that I take this attitude, not you my friend.
P.S. It appears that either homegrown or outside terrorists are starting to surface in our society. You can use your faith; I will use my magnum when it comes to dealing with a threat to me or mine. As I have stated before, the time is coming or has come when there will be uprisings across our country in various forms. To try to elaborate on this matter or discuss it further could make me sound like I embrace what is happening or will happen and that could put me in a compromising position. I am starting to sound like Palindromedary, and he may be right about having to be careful how and what we say since some form of terrorism has raised its head in our nation this day. I do not embrace the killing of innocent people, but I do understand why it can happen and the possibility it will happen again. You can only push our people and those of other nations so far before they start to push back in whatever manner is open to them. I do truly feel for those who have been killed and wounded and their families who will suffer the pain of loss. I do not however, believe the government of our country had anything to do with this. It may very well be the work of some demented soul or group that thinks killing innocent people is a way to make a statement. I really wish your god had seen fit to intervene in this tragedy today, but I suppose he, she or it was too busy listening to prayers to glorify its existence in our universe of mankind and our need to believe we will be around forever in one form or another. No thank you, I will concentrate on living for today and worry about infinity when I am star dust again. I bet the parents of the millions of children who suffer from diseases like cancer or starvation wish your god would take time to intervene in their lives. I will put my faith in the doctors and scientists who work hard and long to benefit mankind today, not in infinity. Have a good day.
As far as my genes go, I could care less who claims them as long as they strive to do away with disease and the pain and suffering that go along with sickness of the body and mind. It is just another subject for Hartmann to rag on about, to justify his talk show and program. The man has to make a living, I just wish for once he would identify the good in life that mankind has done to one another in this life and stop his continual bitching of what is wrong in everything he sees! He is starting to sound like the thin version on the left, of the fat man version on the right. Both get tedious after awhile. I can only imagine what Hartmann will rant on about the bombing today! See you around, time to have a beer and relax...K.W.
♞Knights in White Satan♘..oh, that's "Satin"...excuse me. Yeah, whatever you call what they are doing it ain't pretty...eeevvvvillll! I've heard a few stories about certain high level politicians doing some, well...."Satanic" things.
Have you noticed how the news stories on TV kept playing the shaky camera clips (reminded me of The Blair Witch movie) of the emergency workers, and others, trying to remove that fence. I thought that it was pretty odd that they'd play the clips over and over and over again...but then I thought...how else would they hypnotize people and maximize freaking people out. Pay no attention to those men behind the curtain, Dorothy, while they loot our Social programs.
It was understandable that there would be shaky camera scenes but to play them over and over again like that seems to suggest that someone was purposely trying to psyche people out. Remember 911? They did the same thing...until the images of planes hitting and buildings collapsing and, at the same time, associating it with some evil boogey men terrorists that did this to us was deeply seared into our brains. The one of many glitches that some people picked up on was the fact that a British TV station anchor woman reported the collapse of Building #7 20 minutes before it actually collapsed. Strange, huh?!
When you consider that the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the Pentagon, had once seriously considered carrying out Operation Northwoods in order to psyche Americans into supporting an American invasion of Cuba and that FDR had purposely hoodwinked Americans into going to war against the Japanese & Germans, then you have to consider that these people may be the evil that is behind these false flags. And if you know the stories of the USS Lusitania, the USS Maine exploding in Havana waters, and all of the other dirty tricks our so-called leaders have done to get us to go to war, you just have to extrapolate what you know to what will happen, or what has just happened.
We know that the FBI entraps people...uses them as patsies...gets them to do things that they would not ordinarily be able to do without help...so they provide that help...the dummy explosives...or maybe even real ones...and then they arrest them and then take the credit for fighting terrorism. Are they really protecting us by fooling us with these self-serving underhanded tricks..feeding us lies..so we stop objecting loudly to throwing our tax dollars at them? Are they not being used to distract us from other extremely important issues...like this Chained CPI scam they are about to force on us?
I liken this to slavery. All humans must be treated equally. Patenting / owning / controlling any small part of an human being is not acceptable on any level. Particularly not for profitting, withholding information or using / testing freedoms. This would become another form of control of one group over another. In this case not unlike a god or creator over their subjects.
Thanks for your involvment in this issue Thom.
People Power "We" Party.
By the way, at the risk of being off topic, has anyone noticed the latest False Flag operation in Boston Mass. today. Seems strangely ironic that this attack comes one week after President Obama submits a proposed budget with $200 Billion in cuts from the military. It also seems poetically ironic that this event takes place on tax day. What a way to save cuts in the military as well as pass more unconstitutional legislation banning public gatherings. Any thoughts, friends?
By the way. Does anyone know if there is any other way the companies can get a premortem sample of our DNA; such as, prior blood tests, surgeries, dental extractions, or clips from hair cuts? Seems to me it would be much easier and cheaper to collect their samples that way under the table then to rob the mortuaries.
leighmf ~ I'm with you--CREMATION. There's no way I'm coming back to this place on the whim of any human being. Only if God commands the natural way. Even then I'm not going easily.
Besides, it won't be the first time I've made an Ash out of myself.
Thanks, Thom and Louise, for showcasing this issue today. I dream of a very strong majority--say, 7 to 2--that denies Myriad their ridiculous patent. Nice to see the ACLU weighing in as well. Next up, but I think it's a real stretch, is Congressional action to reform this section of U.S. patent law.
Well I'm following leighmf and simply just go one better - I'm not going to die!
Only in barking mad USA?
Given that corporate ownership of human DNA is the prerequisite to the corporate cloning of slaves, given too that the re-imposition of slavery is among the foremost secret objectives of capitalism, my guess is the Robbers' Court will uphold Myriad Genetics. Thus once again will its judges show the world what the United States has become: capitalism's Land of Fulfillment, the global home of Evil, where the sole purpose of government is to guarantee all Ayn Rand's wishes come true.
No, No, No! How did it ever get to this - where a corporation can patent a part of the human genome. I don't care if their company did the research that makes the connection between a specific gene and a disease state. The company can patent a treatment process related to that gene but in what bizarro world do they get to patent a gene in a living organism? It seems that our society is no longer able to recognize when something is fundamentally wrong. Corporations have shifted our social mores into a make believe world.
This is frightening now that the 1907 Eugenics Society has the technology and ability to lobby in favor of their original perverted plan.
This settles it for me- CREMATION. And I think I may withdraw my Organ Donor status.
Palindromedary ~ No I don't think they want to invade N Korea, just ensure their budget isn't cut; and if possible, have justifiable cause to restrict public gatherings in the future. For our own protection of course. Restricting public gatherings is essential for totalitarianism!
Palindromedary ~ JUST WHAT THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT NEEDS! Another False Flag! Just in time for the budget cuts. How low with this Defense Department go for the almighty dollar? Again, sacrificing it's own for profit. Disgusting!
We're supposed to believe Terrorists are going to act in time to prevent budget cuts to they're enemy's? They really think we're stupid!
Palindromedary wrote ~ "So what good will it be to ban guns? Oh, and yet another school shooting? That CIA MKULTRA Manchurian Candidate program has got to stop. Call the White House now and tell Obama to abolish the CIA for using drugs and hypnosis to get some poor patsy to go wacko on people."
I must say your conspiracies are quite compelling. The thought of this scenario has crossed my mind more than once as well. It is a most disturbing thought, indeed. Sacrificing children to disarm the nation. The theory is further credited as a result of the instant pursuit of gun control rather than addressing mental health. Not to bring up the supernatural again, but I'm sure Palindromedary you are aware that child sacrifice is common among pagan and satanic rituals. Since you're going to rail accusations against everyone from the CIA to the Administration, why leave Satan out of the loop as well. Without clear evidence your chances of getting the Administration to confess with a simple phone call are about as good as getting Satan to surrender as well.
Despite the opposition such a theory would entertain, Palindromedary, I feel your suspicions more than warrant a full investigation--starting with the shooters themselves. A good team of psychologists should be able to determine if these men have been brain washed or not. We the People demand the truth. So far, it is the Government who is behaving the most suspiciously.
It might be an electrical explosion like we had in LA.
For science, engineering, math etc. simplicity is desired.
For business one may want to be as complex as possible to thwart competition and government regulation including taxes
As Thom says, Britain was not our government, they were an occupying force at the time of the American revolution.
To those not already glued to the tube...several explosions ripped through the area of the Boston Marathon finish line sending people to the hospital...don't know if anyone was killed yet. There was a report that they found yet another "bomb?" at the Mayflower Hotel.
Uh, oh! Look out N.Korea! Will N. Korea take the blame for what has now happened in Boston? Is this another false flag meant to either be an excuse to invade N. Korea? ...or is it a false flag to take our minds off off having our Social programs stolen from us? A wag the dog situation? Don't get all uber-patriotic and hastily shoo your sons and daughters out the door to join up with the world's largest terrorist organization..the US Military. N. Korea is well armed and they have highly trained and disciplined fighting forces ready to go to war against any imperialist, hegemonic false-flaggers who hastily train their last-minute-soldiers who get suckered in on false pretenses.
Thom and louise hartmann
Stephen Hawking made a comment:
“It seems better to employ the principle known as Occam's razor and cut out all the features of the theory that cannot be observed.”
Hmm, seems if America cuts out the vote, or debate or movie specials. Gun background checks that Republicans refuse to be done would seem like a sedition brokered society equipped to bloom in chaos at any moment.
All which fly’s in face of the Republican uncertainty philosophy! Being ignorant is a special case of the current Republican Wahhabi Tea Party, Allah NRA. (A la NRA) or a la carte, table d'hôte, or there is no choice. With a laugh and a giggle, there is no choice for anything, its like you can only order sliced gerrymander soused with well-done long lines of frustration.
This position in politics reveals a neurotic stand; make em sweat politics, like being the job creators of a sedition long lines brokered economy on the razors edge of the NRA. Instead of old fashion cigarette girls now we have Ultra ammo Rambo babes slinging cartage ten packs in a flying bungee performance special movies with complimentary pizza. For me as a maniac is to know, though I don’t own a gun or rifle, or automatic machine gun which would be fun, I do have total respect and support for the ban on these weapons in the citizen’s village. Automatic machine guns only imply misery. Incidentally for me being on the edge of economic disaster because of both political parties has enabled me to clearly develop a sense of direction out of this nonsense.
We keep hearing “Keep things simple” the law of parsimony, or the rule of simplicity. Heuristic rule of thumb or the master of the quotable Einstein:
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
My personal hero, 1939 Paul Dirac the derivative man, in part said “simplicity and beauty are the same, but where they clash the latter must take precedence." My point is, it’s economic and out of balance has been for at least a century. America is pulling out of the old world European Gaussian home buying platform. If ever there was a time when I must agree with Seven Forbes, which I usually disagree with, to be somewhat right it now for his flat tax agenda being careful working in the citizen’s favor.
Home ownership needs to dump the Amortization of loans. A flat fee or tax is replaced on purchases of home buying. Please don’t say that it would be impossible to do: It can be, just by voting for it. My argument for this will be in other messages no time now.
Many more of our people have died by the use of assault weapons in our military conducting illegal wars than has died in all the classrooms and movie theaters or college campuses put together. If they are going to ban assault rifles then they need to set a better example...stop using them to invade other countries...stop murdering innocent men, women, and children in the countries we invade. The problem is not the occasional violence that happens from time to time, that is sensationalized by a news media owned by people with vested interests in scaring people out of their guns. The problem is that we have a massive murder machine that creates more people wanting to strap on explosives or hijack airliners to crash into tall buildings.
Anyone wonder why those defensive anti-aircraft guns mounted on top of the Pentagon weren't even used during 911? Or why those fighter jets, normally based out of Andrews AFB, weren't there and even when they were scrambled from a further away base...they were sent out over the ocean rather than toward the "hijacked" planes? Kind of like when FDR sent all the "choice" navy ships out of Pearl Harbor just days before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Outback: Britain was our government before we rebelled against their tyranny. We needed guns then to fight tyranny just as we still need them now to...at least make it not so easy for the tyrants to steal the last of our hard earned retirement nest eggs...or our Social Security and Medicare...if not our dignity...or our lives. And yes we are as outgunned by our tyrants as much as, or even more, than our founding fathers were by theirs. But when you give up your only symbols of resistance you give up all hope in liberty..turning your lives, and those of your children, and their children, over to the capricious and rapacious wolves.
I used to smoke, many, many years ago but decided to stop when I was about 21. I only smoked a couple of years. And ever since I was always very ticked off at others who smoked (because they would smoke anywhere and everywhere) exposing me to their bad habit...their stench. And I often wondered who had ill feeling toward me when I violated someone elses air space.
They didn't care, or perhaps, it didn't even occur to them that their stench was actually bothering other people. That it was hazardous to other people! Smoker: "Mind if I smoke?" My reply: "Mind if I fart?"
But it really is worse than that...second hand smoke can cause lung diseases in non-smokers who are exposed to that carcinogenic smoke. I suppose many smokers, once hooked on that drug, are too mentally dulled to even recognize what they are doing to other people. Smokers often subject their children to a lifelong exposure to cancer-causing fumes and they often grow up with lung diseases because of it.
I am glad they tax the tobacco products, like cigarettes, because cigarettes are absolutely NOT a necessity like food and they cause so many people to have really bad health problems that tends to strain our health care system so much that it drives the price of health care up for everyone....even non-smokers.
I just lost a relative, a Viet Nam vet, who smoked all his life and finally, at the age of 67, developed lung-cancer which spread throughout his body. The VA doctors said that he should quit smoking or anything they tried, like Kemo, wouldn't make much difference. Knowing he was likely going to die soon, he would not even give up the thing that was killing him. He was hooked. And his addiction drove him right into his grave. He wasn't responding favorably to Kemo. The image that I keep seeing in my mind is the one of the anti-smoking commercial of this woman who had a hole in her neck to breathe (and smoke through). She died too, of course. Some commercials are worth watching even though you might not like the message.
Those who can't afford to pay for expensive surgery or health care out of their own pockets should not put a drain on the rest of us because they didn't have the will-power to stop their nasty cancer-causing habit.
I'd go even further...those obese people who got that way by eating too much of the wrong things all their lives...should also be put into that category. I have a couple of other obese relatives that say "Oh, I just can't lose weight...I've tried...but I have got to eat!" Yeah, right...NO WILL POWER..NO PERSONAL DISCIPLINE!....You'll always be fat, and when you die of diseases caused by obesity you can just blame yourself for that. It is your bad health, right along with people who smoke, who drives the costs up for everyone.
Yes, there are the marketing forces that draw you in to eat those bad foods. They use psychology to sucker you in...and in that respect they are partially to blame. But you have to constantly be on guard and wary of what they are doing to you. Every commercial you see, no matter what it is they are selling, be cynical and critical of them...tune them out. That cute face, antic, or jingle just draws you in and influences you to buy their product. I take the cynical attitude toward every single commercial that they are using psychology...trying to trick me into giving them my money for products that, mostly, I don't need, I can really do without, products that won't work or will fail...in short...junk.
You really don't need to Super Size that Big Mac and Fries...eat an apple. Smoking or drinking booze is not at all glamorous but is what sometimes makes you into a coughing, wheezing, drunk loser rolling in the gutters or homeless beggars with terribly wrinkled and weathered facial features.