Posted on 12/31/2012 9:07:36 PM PST by blam
Building factories in China had nothing to do with producing consumer goods. It was and is about having factories that can be converted to war production at the drop of a hat.
The unemployment rate in Mexico is 5.2% (2011 est.) 5.4% (2010 est.) . BETTER than the US unemployment rate....
The BOs, the Idi Amins, the Mugabes, the Moas, the Stalins, always get the serfs to kill each other. The slimy underbelly of these leaders should be the primary target.
I’m interested in seeing how bright this comet gets. Still many civilizations believed comets were a bad omen. Well, they were right in some cases, in 1066, when Halley’s Comet came around, the battle of Hastings occurred and Harold Goodwinson lost to William the Conqueror. In 1910 on another trip, a few years later, World War I.
Have you quit paying? My taxes are deducted from my check. I have no say in the matter. The federal monster has the power and guns to remove any amount of money from any securities or cash accounts using a few keystrokes.
Unbe-flipping-lievable.
61 posts before someone hit the truth.
Wake up everyone. China is planning our destruction.
Even our side, is utterly fooled.
Maybe that is their ultimate goal but for now, they want our money. Still, they could spring a trap at some point so you are likely right in the long run if we keep going this way.
China is diligently developing Africa as a new market and raw materials source.
They are achingly aware of the dangers of having to depend on the current incarnation of America for anything. They are working on a new Plan A(frica).
Thanks for the link!
Perhaps not so well for the French. They haven't been worth a pinch of fecal mater since they guillotined anyone with any education or gumption.
Give me a day’s notice before you come for me here in SF.
Conservatives and the liberal media seem to agree on reporting ethanol as a problem leading to higher food prices.
Of course for those who make money from the ethanol business
they could care less about the higher food prices.
GET RID OF SPENDING OUR TAX MONEY ON ETHANOL, PLANNED PARENTHOOD, PUBLIC BROADCASTING AND THE LIST GOES ON.
THAT’S A GOOD START TO A ‘LIBERTY PARTY’ PLATFORM THAT SAYS
NO DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE LIST GOES ON.
ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WORK IN THOSE DEPARTMENTS CAN LOSE THEIR JOBS THAT COST US TAXPAYERS BILLIONS OF BUCKS.
I found this: http://1035-exchange.com/
Yeah, in the "media" this is a fairly constant meme. Unfortunately, much of both the "conservative" (Fox) and "liberal" media are heavily owned by OPEC (in various national guises), which are very much interested in keeping the US "on the oil tit".
But when I go to the USDA website, where there exist every POSSIBLE statistic on crops, crop prices, yields per acre, acreage planted and actually look for EVIDENCE, I don't find it. I was raised on a family farm, where both corn and soybeans were the cash crops, so I am pretty well acquainted with the trends (past and present) of prices to farmers for those, and have kept a nodding awareness of those ever since I graduated from college (1973).
"Of course for those who make money from the ethanol business they could care less about the higher food prices.
Which is precisely what the left and OPEC want you to think. But, to the best I can find out from direct evidence, it ain't ethanol production that is driving it. I would suspect energy prices are a MAJOR factor, just like they are for everything. But the OPEC-owned folks don't want you to notice THAT, so THAT won't be reported significantly.
I pretty much agree with you on shrinking government everywhere as you suggest, but IMO, you (and many others) are being misled by a bunch of propaganda related to ethanol-from-corn.
Note that the same forces are behind the gigantic "anti-fracking" meme that the media is trying to foist on the public to prevent major exploitation of "home-grown" shale gas and oil supplies.
I didn’t make that comment about Mexico. I was repeating it from another post.
You have hit the nail on the head. History repeats itself. The fools of this country have repeated a more evil form of the 1930’s. This one is real hell.
Just as there are long and short tons of differing weights, so there are various talents. That with which the Jews weighed silver was about 120 pounds Troy, or 96 pounds avoirdupois. That for weighing other materials was about 135 pounds. The Babylonian talent was even heavier while the Greek talent was about 86 pounds. The lightest of all was the Attic talent which weighted 57.7 pounds. In biblical usage, it would be the silver talent of 96 pounds that would almost certainly be designated. However, even if we take the smaller Attic talent, we have a weight that is considerable.4 These are no ordinary hailstones, but the supernatural work of God. “A point of similarity between Joshua Jos. 10:11 and Revelation Rev. 16:21+ is found in the fact that both passages describe the hailstones as large in size. . . . Clearly Joshua Jos. 10:11 describes a supernatural event.”5
True to form, the preterist interpreters attempt to find fulfillment of this obviously supernatural drama in the relatively puny machinations of Rome’s siege of Jerusalem (remember that for many preterists, “Babylon” = “Jerusalem”). They make much ado about a passage in Josephus which mentions the weight and color of the stones thrown by the Roman “engines” [catapults] in the siege of Jerusalem:
The engines, that all the legions had ready prepared for them, were admirably contrived; but still more extraordinary ones belonged to the tenth legion: those that threw darts and those that threw stones, were more forcible and larger than the rest, by which they not only repelled the excursions of the Jews, but drove those away that were upon the walls also. (270) Now, the stones that were cast were of the weight of a talent, and were carried two furlongs and farther. The blow they gave was no way to be sustained, not only by those that stood first in the way, but by those that were beyond them for a great space. (271) As for the Jews, they at first watched the coming of the stone, for it was of a white color, and could therefore not only be perceived by the great noise it made, but could be seen also before it came by its brightness. [emphasis added]6 Notice the priority inversion typical of preterist interpretation.7 They attach great importance to small details which happen to match the text (e.g., the stones were white, they weighed a talent), but then ignore the many details from the wider context which completely preclude their conclusion. In the A.D. 70 destruction of Jerusalem:
How puzzling that major inconsistencies like these don’t seem to impede the dedicated preterist who is committed to finding fulfillment in the “newspapers” of the past.
I no longer pay income tax. Not inclined to share personal info on websites, but in this case I’m motivated :) My entire income is $8k/year. No welfare, no debt, no foodstamps, no mortgage, no cable tv, no frills, and no misery. Living proof it can be done. I’m pretty happy most days, when my back doesn’t hurt.
And I get riled up when people bluster about apocalypse and the tightening of tyranny, and how tough they’ll get when the going gets tough. People don’t really want to risk their safety NET, never mind their safety. They don’t want to live within their means, cut back, for the sake of the country.
But if the productive people reared up and refused to enable the govt — even by the legal means of sacrificing their incomes — the govt would collapse almost overnight.
And America would be better off.
m motivated :) My entire income is $8k/year. No welfare, no debt, no foodstamps, no mortgage, no cable tv, no frills, and no misery. Living proof it can be done. I
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