Posted on 11/24/2008 11:16:12 PM PST by solfour
"By 1998, when I first made my prediction, it had exceeded $2 trillion. Now it is more than 11 trillion. This is a pyramid that can only collapse."
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"It is already collapsing. Due to the financial crisis, three of the largest and oldest five banks on Wall Street have already ceased to exist, and two are barely surviving."
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"Two countries could assume this role: China, with its vast reserves, and Russia, which could play the role of a regulator in Eurasia."
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"Millions of citizens there have lost their savings. ... whole cities will be left without work ... by spring, it will be clear that there are no miracles ... vulnerable political setup ... lack of unified national laws ... divisions among the elite"
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He predicted that the U.S. will break up into six parts - the Pacific coast, with its growing Chinese population; the South, with its Hispanics; Texas, where independence movements are on the rise; the Atlantic coast, with its distinct and separate mentality; five of the poorer central states with their large Native American populations; and the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong.
He even suggested that "we could claim Alaska - it was only granted on lease, after all."
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"In 2006 a secret agreement was reached between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. on a common Amero currency as a new monetary unit."
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"We [Russia] must break the strings tying us to the financial Titanic, which in my view will soon sink."
(Excerpt) Read more at en.rian.ru ...
Begging your pardon but have you ever heard of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, or Andrei Tarkovsky? Or for that matter uber-hotty tennis player Anna Kournikova?
The sovereign Republic Of Texas has the right to secede from the United States at any time. We were an independent nation for 10 years. We can be again. Especially since THIS time, we have most of the manufacturing, enough agriculture, many nuclear power plants, etc., etc.
And NO, the Civil War didn’t end this issue.
There are plenty of believers in freedom, liberty, and yes, even capitalism in Russia. For example, Boris Yeltsin (say what you want about him, he destroyed the Communist Party, and tried unsuccessfully to turn Russia into a free market economy), Anatoly Chubais (economist and reformer), etc.
It’s just a shame so many old communist big wigs were left in positions of authority to totally corrupt the country and its government after the fall of the USSR.
I’m rather looking forward to calling myself a citizen of the Republic Of Texas.
I suppose if they ask *really* nice, we’ll take Oklahoma and annex them.... Sorry, Louisiana, but I think you need to be sold back to the French. :D
"Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States" [Texas Constitution, Adopted 1876, Article 1, Section 1]
Feel free to discuss it amongst your selves.
Okay, to keep it civil then - what do you do when the United States government fails to fulfil its end of the bargain and ignores the Constitution? (As I fully expect the Obamination to.)
What then? If, as you say, the state is bound by the Constitution, it cannot rise up in violent rebellion. The only option is to end participation in the contract that the Feds will by then have abrogated through their own actions.
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” - Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 1776.
“The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” - United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, Terminiello v. Chicago, 1949.
“The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” - United States Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez, 1963.
Tell that to the good ole boys from Helotes , Texas.You be $hitten out of two holes instead of one.
LOL. And I am not a yankee. I am a red neck of Scots heritage who plays the pipes and have played them at the Alamo, solo at the permisson of the director,and originally from the central wilderness of New Brunswick,Canada. I have a permanant invite to Bexar County, and could raise a barn there with the help of friends in 4 days.
So get ready for some whiskey. I be down by 'n by.
LOL.
In his wet dreams. This guy loves to fantasize :D
Works for me. I want to live in a capitalist breakaway country. Too bad we can't just separate out all the concentrated Democrat parasite nests ("cities") and make them one big happy socialist welfare state, and leave the rest of the country alone.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." - Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 1776.
I have no problem overthrowing a government that has chosen to ignore the Constitution. It would fall under the category of "Enemies...Domestic". But that doesn't involve secession or tossing the Constitution. It would be, in fact, defense of the Constitution. If it can be done at the ballot box, well and good, but the 2nd Amendment exists for a reason. We have the best form of government God has thus far given Man. We should be growing this nation rather than shrinking it or dismantling it. If we hadn't allowed the world marxists in their various incarnations, both past and present, to sully our reputation, it might be a lot easier (or rather, possible) to enlarge this nation as some of the Founders actually envisioned. I cherish my country, I do not scorn her.
For the first time in our nation’s history, a man who may have additional allegiances to countries other than the United States of America, may gain executive power. If he has held or currently holds citizenships in any other countries, he is ineligible to be President. If true, he will be scorned for his lack of integrity. A man of integrity would NEVER run and/or accept a position which he is unqualified for based on the constitution. The fact that he is supposedly a constitutional law professor is all the more hypocritical and devious on his part. The University of Chicago will be for ever remembered as sub-par, given their hands off approach in exposing the biggest hoax in our nation’s history. Same with Columbia and Harvard.
November was off to a good start. I thought all foreigners said Obama would bring us together.
The only requirements to become President are natural born citizen (citizen at birth), 35 years of age, and 14 years a resident. Dual citizenship does not disqualify you. In fact, he doesn't even have to be a citizen of the US, only have been one at birth. Not that that would go over well. That may be what he, Obama, is hiding. I certainly agree that his integrity is questionable at best. And many, myself included, already scorn him. If you want to know about the citizenship issue in detail, you can check out my profile.
Take the putrid Bush family with you.
No, we’re going to deport them back to Maine where they came from.
” think the republicans will win in 2010 and 2012,”
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NO..the combination of OBUMA & Dem control of congress
will be much too powerful..(I remember 40yrs of dem control)
I do not think civil war will happen, but it looks more and more like a break up of the Union will be the only solution for those of US who Remember America prior to the unchecked immigration wave,and the MSM -Hollywood - and re education centers called Universities did their damage.
My hope is we can save sereral states where morals, and
freedom can survive. A higher hand must help us now.
“obama’s presidency will be a single failure...”
it is the imanuel et al presidency, not the obama presidency.
IMHO
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