Yankee Go Home

Sheepinwolfsclothing wrote: The republicrats mega world central bankster financiers are always the winners because there is only one party and whoever wins the election, the Rothschild world banking cartel has a win-win situation. It is like two sports teams with one owner, as Mayer Amschel Rothschild said in 1790, "Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws." They control all the countries central banks, except 3, including the I.M.F., World Bank, the Conservation Bank, etc., and thru these they control politicians, laws, governments, and so the world, thru extortion! –If They Can't Win Now, Then When?

Yes and, Workers of the World Unite! I’m surprised that you didn’t throw out a gratuitous slam at the Jews while you were at it.

Look, my family has been in banking since my grandfather helped to found a farmer’s bank after the Great Depression. I never seen the Rothschilds, never even been invited to one of the meetings of the Trilateral Commission.

There might be a worldwide confederacy of bankers, but they are a confederacy of idiots, not one of diabolical intentions. These are guys who read the same books, read the same professional magazines, go to the same schools, either here or in Europe and essentially share the same blind spot, which is this: They are wrong.

The Keynesian religion upon which they have based their whole life is not working.

That’s because modern economics is not a science—in fact I don’t think economics has ever been a “science”—it’s really more of a performance art piece like beatnik poetry about money.

They are not after any truth, as a science should be, but rather they are after creating an alternate reality that they themselves dream up. And if they have to forces the parts together to make it fit, oh well.

To a great degree the modern world is in a struggle between two conflicting systems of thought: Free market capitalism allied with small “R” republican government, and a closed Keynesian system of independent, but cooperative nation-states that were formed out the Great War and World War II, that like to style themselves as “Democracies” but a really a dictatorship of the masses controlled by a small ruling class that uses command and control economics to keep in power.

The old Keynesian system of a command and control economy is failing in part because the embrace of capitalist thought in places like India and China and Russia. Worldwide, there is more competition for jobs, for capital, for investment return, for technology and innovation than ever before.

If you combine that force with the ability to reshape our world through the use of modern calculating machines, computers, it’s ability to make information readily available to anyone who can click a key, and you have one of the most revolutionary periods of time in world history.

To think that some secret cabal of bankers control all these forces makes you either a fool or a tool, but probably a but of both.

ericynot1 wrote: I think I've figured it out. Ransom is the guy behind all the spammers that relentlessly crawl TH. He puts up these ancient columns just to give them a place to work -- this column has 10 comments so far today, and three of them are spam. – Where a Liberal Underestimates Putin Again

ericynot1 wrote: I know how to bring about the demise of John Ransom. All you have to do is show him a photo of Ezra Klein driving to a climate change rally in a Chevy Volt, and his head would explode :) - Ezra Klein Reveals How He Became an Idiot

But no: Your evil villain plot to have my head explode would be foiled at the last minute when I use my wristwatch laser to cut Ezra Klein free from the inevitable Chevy Volt fire caused by the mixture of electric and stupidity way above recommended tolerances.

Because everyone knows that not only is the Chevy Volt the least economical car, but it’s also the most dangerous.

NRMLUNIT wrote: Jr mentioned Warren Buffets own stupidity. He must be kidding or an idiot. He should be so stupid but will never be so. JR is just an ordinary idiot. - The IRS Hatchetmen

Buffet has been a very successful investor, but I wouldn’t call him a genius. And poor political judgment has led him to make the silly assertion that taxes are inconsequential in making investment decisions.

Buffet’s day passed him by a long time ago. It would have been better for his place in history if he died ten years ago.

Troglodite wrote: "Imagine, if you will, if certain men walked around in powered wigs...recommending the stocks and the public whipping post for crimes such as heresy, blasphemy, adultery..." Is an allegedly conservative columnist really praising us for the "elasticity" with which we have moved to being blasé and complaisant about public immorality? Can we really find little better reason to compare ourselves favorably to the Islamic world than that we have become fine with adultery and, let us add, homosexuality, fornication, pornography, and grotesque public insults to Christianity? - Beheading the Religion of Pieces

Beheadings, public stocks, burning people alive are not symbolic of a vital culture. Bringing them back to stem adultery, fornication and other sins of the flesh wouldn’t make Christianity more dignified.

People aren’t “fine” with immorality. We have just decided not to persecute people for these sins.

Scott4672 wrote: John Ransom wrote: “One of the most striking features of Islam—and Obama by the way—is its lack of capacity to evolve, its inelasticity.”
The very same thing is true of Christianity, is it not? The Scriptures were inspired by God (cf. 2 Tim 3:16), God is perfect, so what can there possibly be to “evolve”? The examples you give further on in this article have nothing to do with what is written in the Scripture — that was the evil of men acting without any Authority from God’s Word. What is written in the Scripture has not changed one jot or one tittle since it was written. - Beheading the Religion of Pieces

But to say Christianity hasn’t evolved would be to expose your ignorance of Christian history, specifically and world history generally.

Christian thought is responsible for the evolution of mankind from ancient times through the Middles Ages, the Renaissance, the Romantic period, industrialization and finally to modern times. In each case Christianity is very much relevant.

You want to pretend that Christianity is stuck in a static state? Fine. You’re just ignoring history. Most of the great discoveries of mankind have been done by people who are Judeo-Christian.

svirk wrote: Most of the problems of the Muslims are their own. However, the fact that Americans feel the need to cruelly and barbarically kill thousands of Muslims every year while surrounding almost all Muslim countries with American military bases and American threats doesn't help matters any. Yankee go home. - Beheading the Religion of Pieces

You mean like when we helped Western Europe? Or South Korea? Or Taiwan? Or helped Iraqis hold their first free elections ever?

While it’s true that the American military kills Muslims, maybe the lesson here was for Muslims to stop killing everyone else including their own people. If you declare holy war on the rest of us for the propagation of your religion, we’re gonna kill you. And then we'll go home.

Anyway, casualties by the American military are a pittance to what Muslims do to each other.

sclaus wrote: The conservative Forbes Magazine says
statistics show that Obama has out performedReagan on jobs, growth, investing. “This is the best private sector jobs creation
performance in American history”

“The current administration has reduced the
deficit, which skyrocketed under Reagan.
Additionally, Obama has reduced federal
employment, which grew under Reagan
(especially when including military personnel,)
and truly delivered a “smaller government.”
Additionally, the current administration has
kept inflation low.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/ - God, Guns, and Profit

Columnist Adam Hartung, who wrote the idiocy above that you quoted writes for Forbes but doesn’t speak for Forbes. You are getting the magazine Forbes confused with the person of Steve Forbes.

Forbes the person is a conservative. The magazine represents a diverse number of views.

Ronald Reagan created more jobs in each of his terms as Barrack Obama has done in six years.

Your capacity to deceive yourself is why progressives just lost the last election. Badly.

“The old Keynesian system of a command and control economy is failing in part because the embrace of capitalist thought in places like India and China and Russia”

This sentence need “of” in between “because” and “the”

Moayer Amschel Rothschild said in 1790, "Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws."

Verry unlikely!

Earliest citation is for 1935.

Also, in 1790 "money" meant precious metals most of the time. Something that can't really be issued or controlled. Though the Americans had just ended and the French Republicans were just heading into disastrous attempts to "issue and control money."

This idea is very much one of the 20th, not the 18th, century.

To think that some secret cabal of bankers control all these forces makes you either a fool or a tool, but probably a but of both.

Conspiracy theories are the resort of weak and frightened minds.

If you believe the Jews, or the Royal Family, or the CIA or FSB, or Freemasons control the world and make bad things happen, then you know that all that is necessary to make good things happen is to wrest control from them.

In reality, of course, nobody is in control of the world, so we can't stop bad things from happening no matter what we do.

That's much more scary than the Secret Jewish Conspiracy. Have there been, and are there ongoing, conspiracies? Sure, but the old saw about three people being able to keep a secret if two of them are dead holds true more now than ever.

Note the generally underwhelming nature of the "secret communications" released into the wild by Wikileaks. Very little evidence there for some overarching conspiracy. A lot more evidence of exactly what we'd expect: generally well-intentioned people stumbling around, usually somewhat ineffectively, trying to react to problems as they develop.

The poster was talking about him

Infamous Quote from Mayer Amschel Rothschild

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Re your Earliest citation is for 1935. Please note the following

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This quote has nothing to do with the Federal Reserve, in fact he died in 1812, long before the Federal Reserve existed. He was merely stating a fact, even if money is not backed by a central bank, it does not change the fact that if you have control over the money supply, laws mean little to you. However, that is not necessarily true in the US, where the Federal Reserve must answer to the congress, but because the Federal Reserve is private, congress cannot control it and use it for political means -- which seems ironic, but it is like a private company that is indirectly controlled by the US Congress.
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I’m fully aware of Mayer and his history.

The “quote” is, per your own source, at minimum questionable. IOW, I have yet to see any evidence he actually said it.

The primary reason to question its authenticity is that in 1790 even governments, much less private banking firms, did not, for the most part, control the money supply. As I said, America and France made utterly disastrous attempts around this time to do so. But those attempts did not show results likely to encourage others to imitate them.

Most critically, there is the old saw. Men with gold cannot always get guns, but men with guns can always get gold.

IOW, it is to my mind idiotic to think that the world’s ambitious politicians, in control of raw force, have been tamed and secretly controlled from behind the scenes for at least two centuries by men who control nothing but money. Their control of which in the final analysis is utterly dependent on the support of the men with guns.

Power grows out of the barrel of a gun, not the slot of an ATM.

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