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Post by missouriboy on Apr 22, 2015 21:20:45 GMT
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/04/20/the-insiders-obamas-global-warming-distraction/Incredibly, in Sunday’s weekly video address, President Obama said, “Today, there is no greater threat to our planet than climate change.” I say “incredibly” because that just isn’t true – and if President Obama really believes it is, then it is time to panic. Given the state of the world and the urgent problems facing us that directly affect our prospects for peace and prosperity, global warming shouldn’t even be in the top five on the list of problems our president should be worrying about. In case this administration hasn’t noticed, a lot of the world is burning and global economic growth is so stagnant that it feeds the prospects of instability at home and abroad. Whatever else we may say about our president, I think the jury has spoken. He's not a leader OR a manager. Never has been. For the next two years we're on our own boys and girls.
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Post by magellan on Apr 23, 2015 3:13:00 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Apr 25, 2015 13:05:51 GMT
www.cnn.com/2015/04/24/politics/armenia-genocide-obama-broken-promise-jake-tapper/index.htmlAnd 100 years on, the world remembers a previous version of the continuing Christian genocide in the Muslim-dominated areas of the old world. If comes and goes in fits and spurts as local politics and cycles of religeo-viciousness (is that a word?) dictate. As in Germany two to three decades later, there were good people (but not enough) that tried to save those they could from a similar paroxysm of violence. The dimming memories of my own people, the Huguenots, recall a similar set of events in Catholic France as a response to the Protestant Reformation. Yes Mr. President ... it is perfectly fine to call out (as it should be) the ghosts of Western European atrocities. But, let us not get on our "high horse" and question the essential humanity of the so-called 'religion of peace' and the religious ethics of its original proponent. That, of course, would smack of ethnic/religious bias. The shame continues in the form of the 'new righteousness'! Long live the hypocrisy of the historical paradigm. Amen.
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Post by nautonnier on Apr 25, 2015 13:43:24 GMT
If the abstract is what is written then been there done that - move to 'interceptor' rather than fighter, then find that you need to vis-ident traffic as with all the electronic noise you cannot tell reliably who is who. So you may have an over the horizon missile but you have to get in visual range to identify the traffic, and all of a sudden an interceptor needs to become a dog-fight capable fighter with short range air to air missiles and guns. The answer is of course that any balanced force needs both capabilities. An A-10 is better at ground attack than an F-35 that costs 10 times as much but it cannot provide air superiority. The big change in future is information handling and availability not the old argument between fighters, ground attack and interceptors.
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Post by sigurdur on Apr 25, 2015 15:10:12 GMT
If the abstract is what is written then been there done that - move to 'interceptor' rather than fighter, then find that you need to vis-ident traffic as with all the electronic noise you cannot tell reliably who is who. So you may have an over the horizon missile but you have to get in visual range to identify the traffic, and all of a sudden an interceptor needs to become a dog-fight capable fighter with short range air to air missiles and guns. The answer is of course that any balanced force needs both capabilities. An A-10 is better at ground attack than an F-35 that costs 10 times as much but it cannot provide air superiority. The big change in future is information handling and availability not the old argument between fighters, ground attack and interceptors. The A-10 is a proven design and should be built again for close combat support. There is not another plane as durable for the job anywhere. Yes, old tech, but sometimes old tech is still great tech.
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Post by glennkoks on Apr 27, 2015 2:55:15 GMT
Interesting coincidence of Astromet forecast of ' everyone will know its going cold' and ' Financial market meltdown' Jo Nova not talking about Global Warming - worth a read as are the comments. 4th quarter 2017 will be a time to be somewhere warm and funded. Nautonnier, Thanks for the link. A few years back Warren Buffet referred to the Derivative market as an "Economic weapon of mass destruction". Since then the market has only grown exponentially. Unfortunately I just don't see a happy ending to that kind of speculation and there is not enough money in the world to bail us out the next time...
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Post by Ratty on Apr 27, 2015 7:29:42 GMT
Interesting coincidence of Astromet forecast of ' everyone will know its going cold' and ' Financial market meltdown' Jo Nova not talking about Global Warming - worth a read as are the comments. 4th quarter 2017 will be a time to be somewhere warm and funded. Nautonnier, Thanks for the link. A few years back Warren Buffet referred to the Derivative market as an "Economic weapon of mass destruction". Since then the market has only grown exponentially. Unfortunately I just don't see a happy ending to that kind of speculation and there is not enough money in the world to bail us out the next time... Glenn, derivatives worry me too and I'll admit to a "fingers burnt" experience some years back.
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Post by missouriboy on Apr 30, 2015 2:17:44 GMT
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Post by glennkoks on Apr 30, 2015 3:35:45 GMT
Ron Paul represented my district in Texas for many years and I have always been a supporter. With that being said he has been preaching the same doom and gloom since his first term in office. In addition Porter Stansberry has predicted about 200 of the last two recessions. He is a perma-bear who's market is the doomsday prepper types. If you listened to either Stansberry or Harry Dent over the last six years you have missed out on one of the biggest market rallies in our history.
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Post by magellan on May 3, 2015 2:07:16 GMT
Ron Paul represented my district in Texas for many years and I have always been a supporter. With that being said he has been preaching the same doom and gloom since his first term in office. In addition Porter Stansberry has predicted about 200 of the last two recessions. He is a perma-bear who's market is the doomsday prepper types. If you listened to either Stansberry or Harry Dent over the last six years you have missed out on one of the biggest market rallies in our history. It's the phoniest, most manipulated Federal Reserve farce in U.S. history; a casino for the top 10% and where government subsidized markets thrive, while others struggle to stay afloat. Please explain how the S&P can hit record highs amidst a .2% (most assuredly less) GDP and worst economic recovery in U.S. history. Thousands of stores are closing around the country, car sales are the worst y-y since 2009. None of it makes sense.
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Post by walnut on May 3, 2015 4:40:02 GMT
What is funny is, it probably really is largely the harsh winter that is to blame for some weak economic numbers. It surely pained them to state that, but it is preferable to admitting that they cannot manage the economy from their Kremlin offices.
Actually, our stone quarry business has been ok, selling in the central US.
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Post by flearider on May 3, 2015 7:47:05 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on May 3, 2015 9:58:38 GMT
It's the phoniest, most manipulated Federal Reserve farce in U.S. history; a casino for the top 10% and where government subsidized markets thrive, while others struggle to stay afloat. Please explain how the S&P can hit record highs amidst a .2% (most assuredly less) GDP and worst economic recovery in U.S. history. Thousands of stores are closing around the country, car sales are the worst y-y since 2009. None of it makes sense. It makes perfect sense. The entire market is being gamed and 'adjusted' more than the global average temperature. Remove ethics and replace it with greed in the financial and political systems and this is what you get. There are no 'real' figures in the charts and S&P or DOW none at all. So you are forced to go to 'observational' metrics - stores closing, local car sales etc. In the same way as there are still ski resorts operating in New Hampshire - while we are 'reliably informed' by NASA no less that this is the hottest year in history. Unfortunately, we are now in the position that government, banks, 'the establishment', and even the President of the US - see lying as an art form and ethics as something rather old hat. Yet all of the world's democratic systems rely on truth, ethics and honor. One wing has come off the aircraft - there is only one way things will go from now on.
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Post by duwayne on May 3, 2015 18:10:04 GMT
Since the Federal Reserve policies have come up here, I have a personal favor to ask the posters concerning the Federal Reserve's zero interest rate policy. If you are retired or nearing retirement age and you are in a country where the central bank is forcing interest rates to near zero or below, I'd like you to vote in a poll by using the link below. The idea is to see whether there is widespread unhappiness amongst retirees concerning the low returns on their savings. If so, a group of retirees and near retirees are considering what actions can be taken to protect retirees and near retirees from Federal policy decisions without regards to the negative effects on savers. protectingretirees.blogspot.com/Feel free to pass this poll address along to others. No one is keeping email addresses or names of voters unless it is a spy from a government agency or google. Thanks, duwayne
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Post by glennkoks on May 7, 2015 3:27:11 GMT
Ron Paul represented my district in Texas for many years and I have always been a supporter. With that being said he has been preaching the same doom and gloom since his first term in office. In addition Porter Stansberry has predicted about 200 of the last two recessions. He is a perma-bear who's market is the doomsday prepper types. If you listened to either Stansberry or Harry Dent over the last six years you have missed out on one of the biggest market rallies in our history. It's the phoniest, most manipulated Federal Reserve farce in U.S. history; a casino for the top 10% and where government subsidized markets thrive, while others struggle to stay afloat. Please explain how the S&P can hit record highs amidst a .2% (most assuredly less) GDP and worst economic recovery in U.S. history. Thousands of stores are closing around the country, car sales are the worst y-y since 2009. None of it makes sense. Magellan, It makes perfect sense. The S&P has hit record highs because the FED is punishing savers. Where else can you make a decent ROI? Gold, Money Market, CD's, Savings accounts? I don't think so. I am sorry you bailed out years ago and missed one of the biggest Bull Markets in history but I can assure you the gains are not phony if you hit the "sell" button. It reminds me of the shoe shine boy story. "Who are Your Shoe Shine Boys? The story goes like this.. In 1928 in New York City, John D. Rockefeller was having his shoes shined. The shoe shine boy, presumably not knowing who Rockefeller was, started giving him stock tips and financial news of the day. Rockefeller took his shoe shine boy’s advice but not in the way you would expect. He decided that if a shoe shine boy was giving stock tips.. It was time to get out of the market. He did! And it’s the reason his family was able to stave off the Depression, and continued to be one of the richest in our history." It is the biggest challenge for any gambler. Having the fortitude to know when to turn down the lure of future gains, take your money off the table and walk away. Few can do it and unfortunately the taxes and penalties act as a deterrent. Personally, I am actually considering pulling out and buying agricultural land. Not much of a ROI but safe and it should beat inflation. Any thoughts?
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