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[leon]

Language blunders.

In 1988 I was hired by Chicago based consulting firm – that was my first job in US.
I remember our account manager taking me and other guys for what happened to be my first business lunch in US.
So that young waiter guy makes it around the table collecting our orders. I placed mine.
“Would you like soup or salad with your order, sir?”
“Yes, please”
The guy looks at me in a bewildered way and repeats:
“So, would you like soup or salad sir?”
“Yes, great, that would be nice”
“Sir, would you like soup or salad with your order?”
I am starting to get pissed off and telling the guy:
“How many times should I tell you to bring your friggin supersalad?”

[leon]

US military dumps soldiers' remains in landfill



If you’re looking to visit the sacred grounds where the remains of a love one lost at war is entombed, be sure to bring a hazmat suit. The military has been dumping the ashes of cremated soldiers in a suburban Virginia landfill.
An investigation last month left with fingers pointed promptly at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary in Delaware, where America’s war dead are sent for processing after losing their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq. A probe conducted by the Washington Post revealed that the mortuary had been cremating soldiers and dumping their remains in a landfill.

Full story: http://rt.com/usa/news/military-dover-remains-landfill-395/

Empire paying last respect to it's soldiers

[leon]

Obama to approve indefinite detention and torture of Americans
http://rt.com/usa/news/obama-detention-veto-defense-853/


Less than a month after he threatened to veto terrifying legislation that would cease constitutional rights as we know it, Obama has revoked his warning and plans to authorize a bill allowing indefinite detention and torture of Americans.
After passing in the House of Representatives earlier this year, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 went before the US Senate last week, where it was met with overwhelming approval. In the days before, the Obama administration issued a policy statement on November 17 saying explicitly that the president would veto the bill, as it would challenge “the president’s critical authorities to collect intelligence incapacitate dangerous terrorists and protect the nation.”
Opposition from the White House seemed all but rampant until RT revealed earlier this week that Senator Carl Levin told lawmakers that the legislation was altered because “the administration asked us to remove the language which says that US citizens and lawful residents would not be subject to this section.”

So, where is that outcry of angry citizens pushed to the brink?

[leon]

U.S. CEO Pay Jumps Minimum Of 27 Percent Last Year
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/14/ceo-pay-sees-huge-boost-survey_n_1149535.html



While the incomes of so many Americans remain the same size or get smaller, corporate chiefs can't say they're suffering in quite the same way.

How much was your increase?

[Fintan]

[Fintan]

With four-fifths of the vote counted, Ron Paul
looks destined to come in third place. His folks
will say that this result was a photo-finish with
three winners.

But, truly Ron Paul had the most at stake here.

And Gingrich had the most to lose. He lost hard.

[Fintan]

In an early speech --ahead of the final result--
Ron Paul just said this vote had three winners.

The surge in Ron Paul's Iowa vote was impressive.
But the mainstream will use failure to come in first
place to dismiss him. His success here is to reflect
the continuing nationwide increase in independent
and/or libertarian voters.

But Romney's still the likely candidate in Nov 2012.

[Plato]

Personally, I couldn't care less who is voted for as president as it is totally irrelevant; it's just another stooge for the banksters. Fortunately, I'm not the only one to think so;

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson." - Franklin D. Roosevelt (in a letter written Nov. 21, 1933 to Colonel E. Mandell House)

"For you see, the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."
Benjamin Disraeli

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." - David Rockefeller

"Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery."
R. Buckminster Fuller


So who it is then that is really in charge?;

Sir Josiah Stamp, president of the Rothschild Bank of England and the second richest man in Britain in the 1920s, said the following in 1927 at the University of Texas:

“The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in inequity and born in sin. Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and with a flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again. Take this great power away from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue to be the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.”

That's why you have to focus on changing the financial system, instead of waisting your time on presidential candidates; no more private banks printing money for private interests!

"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there." - William E. Dodd U.S. Ambassador to Germany 1937

Ring a bell?
PS as you can read Leon, they have been telling us this all along, this is not something of the last 10-20 years...

[Rom]

Probably very true: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jBwaJ5QexY

There is a danger GOP is fooling themselves by using their legit influence to push some voters in their direction. I am looking forward to some analysis of the caucasus. A simple check on mainstream reporting indicates Ron Paul is still tabu.

[leon]

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Yep, FDR knew exactly who the enemy was and were the stink was coming from – British dupes like Jackson (somehow he reminds me of the founder of new American Political Dynasty – Dr. Ron Paul) who singlehandedly destroyed the Second US National Bank. Dr. Paul wants to preserve the private character of US banking system by pretending that he wants to “Audit the FED”. Uhh, they should be shaking in their boots; Dr. Paul is on the march!!

“That's why you have to focus on changing the financial system, instead of waisting your time on presidential candidates; no more private banks printing money for private interests!”
I am afraid it would be impossible while having the British assets in charge of the White House. They wield the awesome power of US Presidency against the American Republic. But you are on the right track, let’s Nationalize the FED (fuck the audit)

[Plato]

Leon,
It's the chicken and the egg; by changing the financial system we will automatically have to oust the agents for the bankers, the politicians; or, by voting in honest politicians (yeah, that sounds contradictory!), we could change the financial system, but the two always go hand-in-hand.
Anyway, its not enough to nationalize the FED, as I have argued extensively before, ALL banks have to become public (meaning, owned by the people).

No, I didn't think of this myself, a great mind already stated the following more than two centuries ago;

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
Thomas Jefferson

[leon]

"Anyway, its not enough to nationalize the FED, as I have argued extensively before, ALL banks have to become public (meaning, owned by the people). "

What is really needed, is directing the powerful force of credit creation towards activity useful for entire Nation, not for the benefit of a few. In practice, that means creating new money (yes, printing) only for the purpose of increasing and modernizing the capital stock of the Nation: transport, power, water, etc. Essentially that new money should be reinvested into productive potential of the Nation.
However, the execution of the concrete projects could and should be contracted out on a fair basis (open bid) to private for profit companies, not necessarily government institutions. So should be administering of the funds go through private banks who could charge a reasonable fee for performing the services.
So, private banks would go to their traditional commercial functions, like taking deposits and lending them out for a fee. No money creation activity. 100% reserves.
By trying to nationalize everything we will repeat the mistakes Russian made during the Soviet era when every barber shop was nationalized so the majority of Soviet industries were grossly inefficient
We should find a balance between private enterprises and public utilities. I believe that the American School of Political Economy is such balance.

[IronClad]

There is always important questions left out of important interviews [present company excepted, of course] but after listening to the Economic Hitman [when a question could so easily have been raised regarding business opportunities back home and how his "escapades" abroad had impacted on the home front when there is a widing of the gap between the "have everythings" and the "have nothings" [i.e. the 1% + 99%] btw he gave his own percentage figure, I recall.

Anyway, this is leading me into extending sympathy with the American people [or at least to those who know there is no political difference between the two main parties and no outsiders who are likely to challenge the two party race.

The state of the economy, the class war and the expanding no man's land isn't going to be addressed by the other party. And really are Americans going to be impressed with claims made in foreign policy or believe any politician who claims, for instance they will bring the troops home or promises peace talks.

Confessions of an Economic Hitman can turn one off of politics and political promises because clearly it is not part of the real world. The real world never changes whereas the peoples perception of governments do.

I wonder if the stage has been set whereby it will not be a case that the people vote for one because they have lost confidence in the other and a replacement has to be found. At least here there is a perception of hope.

There appears to be a campaign launced on the basis that America cannot continue on the path of [bailout] socialism. Is there a hope here for regulated Capitalism to return to America with Corporations paying their tax dues and investment at home as opposed to investment abroad and avoidance of taxes? Gingrich has been around for years - can he remember the good ol' days when regulated Capitalists stood on their own two feet, like Marc Rich did in the old days? A legend in his own time and still is.

Gingrich seems to be out in front. May be he has earned a winning place - if only he can show he has something that none of the others have. A toughness to stand up for the country and the 100% of its people.

[leon]

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=200070

On December 15, 2011, Defendant, President Barack Obama, moved for dismissal of Plaintiffs' challenge to his qualifications for office. The Court has jurisdiction to hear this contested case pursuant to Chapter 13 of Title 50, the "Georgia Administrative Procedure Act."

For the reasons indicated below, Defendant's Motion to Dismiss is DENIED.

Accordingly, this Court finds that Defendant is a candidate for federal office who has been certified by the state executive committee of a political party, and therefore must, under Code Section 21-2-5, meet the constitutional and statutory qualifications for holding the office being sought.


The charges and specifications are two-fold:

1. Is Obama's "birth certificate" valid? Quite simply now we get discovery, where the original microfilm and bound book pages can be inspected (and they better be there, and in order. I will note that it is extremely difficult to tamper with microfilm without being detected!)

2. What's the story on the Social Security Number? Oh that could be a problem eh?

Are we getting setup for some sort of Constitutional crisis in 2012? I doubt that any of republican clowns could post a serious challenge. So, is it finally general Petraeus?

[Rom]

Leon
"What is really needed, ..."

What you are saying is you cannot support End the FED (Ron Paul is the only option), but Obama or "Roosevelt" is a better option... ?