Now maybe we have a reason to worry......

The world more and more is practicing monoculture and anything can cause higher food costs.

Or no food at all!


Decline of honey bees now a global phenomenon, says United Nations - Nature, Environment - The Independent

The mysterious collapse of honey-bee colonies is becoming a global phenomenon, scientists working for the United Nations have revealed.

Declines in managed bee colonies, seen increasingly in Europe and the US in the past decade, are also now being observed in China and Japan and there are the first signs of African collapses from Egypt, according to the report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

The authors, who include some of the world's leading honey-bee experts, issue a stark warning about the disappearance of bees, which are increasingly important as crop pollinators around the globe. Without profound changes to the way human beings manage the planet, they say, declines in pollinators needed to feed a growing global population are likely to continue. The scientists warn that a number of factors may now be coming together to hit bee colonies around the world, ranging from declines in flowering plants and the use of damaging insecticides, to the worldwide spread of pests and air pollution. They call for farmers and landowners to be offered incentives to restore pollinator-friendly habitats, including key flowering plants near crop-producing fields and stress that more care needs to be taken in the choice, timing and application of insecticides and other chemicals. While managed hives can be moved out of harm's way, "wild populations (of pollinators) are completely vulnerable", says the report.

Think we ought to borrow some money from Japan...

And send it to them? Makes as much sense as letting government employees bribe their bosses and then "negotiating" their pay and benefits. Wait til gas hits 5$ a gallon and watch the heads roll in Washington.

But not to worry, there's plenty more idiots that will run for office!

NPR......

Of course, we wouldn't miss it since no one listen to them. However, my prediction is it public tv and radio will get plenty of handouts as soon as the top people who criticized the fascist on the right (ignoring or supporting the fascist on the left) are fired.

Then everybody kisses and makes nice and "public media" will live on until all of our money is split between them. That's Washington for you!


Pajamas Media » NPRgate and the King Hearings

Yesterday’s videotaped revelations by the intrepid James O’Keefe provides welcome grist for many mills. Most obviously, it offers irrefutable evidence that National Public Radio employs elitists who are hostile to Republicans, Tea Party activists, and others derided as gun-toting, white “racists.”

The principal focus of the expose filmed last month, Ron Schiller, the network’s now-departed vice president of development and president of the NPR Foundation, declared that his organization would be “better off in the long-run” without government underwriting.

Presumably, such sentiments will make it impossible for members of Congress to justify continued public funding of the organization when the Senate considers the decision taken by the House of Representatives to zero out NPR in the latest stopgap funding measure.

Tell me again why unions own the government?...

How can you negotiate with your employer if you give him money and votes to get and keep his job! One down 49 more to go.


Wisconsin Senate passes union limits despite Democratic walkout - CNN.com

Madison, Wisconsin (CNN) -- Wisconsin's Republican-led state Senate passed Gov. Scott Walker's proposed restrictions on collective bargaining for public employees Wednesday, getting around a Democratic walkout by stripping financial provisions from the bill.

"Tonight, the Senate will be passing the items in the Budget Repair Bill that we can with the 19 members who actually do show up and do their jobs," Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, the chamber's Republican majority leader, said in a statement announcing the move.

The Senate's 14 Democrats had fled to Illinois to prevent the chamber from attaining a quorum and passing the collective bargaining measures, which they have called an unnecessary attack on the rights of public employees. Republicans were able to move ahead by voting only on the nonfinancial aspects of Walker's proposed bill, which requires fewer members for a quorum.

"The Senate Democrats have had three weeks to debate this bill and were offered repeated opportunities to come home, which they refused," Walker said in a statement on the vote. "In order to move the state forward, I applaud the Legislature's action today to stand up to the status quo and take a step in the right direction to balance the budget and reform government."

Why I'm not a Republican......

I'm a political atheist. This article reminds me that there's not a nickels worth of difference, other than rhetoric, between these criminal gangs. When our paychecks are up for grabs it's every scum bag for himself!


oftwominds: The Paradoxes at the Heart of the "Conservative" Project

The agenda of the so-called "Conservative" ideology is based on hypocritical paradoxes that its proponents conveniently ignore. The key paradoxes can be summarized thusly:


So-called "Conservatives" claim to want small government, but they can't resist fattening themselves at the trough of the Central State/Savior State. Reaching for the very pinnacle of hypocrisy, not only do so-called "Conservatives" greedily lap up all the State largesse enjoyed by proponents of the Savior State--the overflowing troughs of Medicare, for example--but they do other welfare recipients one better by gorging on tax breaks, oil leases on government land and offshore tax-avoidance scams that others at the Central State trough can only dream of.


The number of "small government Conservatives" who renounce their Savior State largesse-- Social Security and Medicare--is essentially zero.


And no, you did not "pay your fair share." The vast majority of these State benefits are welfare, paid by other taxpayers. But so-called "Conservatives" aren't interested in looking at spreadsheets detailing how their lifetime contributions, including interest, have been paid out in the first few years of these Savior State benefits, and from then on they're just another form of welfare.

So-called "Conservatives" are against Central State ownership, except when the State gives the immensely profitable mineral rights to their cronies for private exploitation. In other words, as long as public lands can be exploited for private gain, then public ownership of land is OK. But if the lands are reserved for the public, then "Conservative" righteous indignation explodes like a volcano.


So-called "Conservatives" love to pronounce their support of "national defense," but this is just another form of self-serving complicity--i.e. living large by leeching off the Central State. A staggeringly rich slice of spending on "national defense" and "national security" is just swag distributed to "conservative" cronies.


The Undersecretary for Warming Coffee in the E-Ring, for example, retires one day with a fat government pension and shows up at the Pentagon the next day as a well-paid defense-industry lobbyist.


Just how "small government" is that? Yet so-called "Conservatives" are silent when it comes to reining in Central State spending and power, because they're too busy exploiting the coercive powers of the Central State for their own personal gain.

Another dead horse.....

Billions gallons of oil are currently, as of now, untouchable.

Politics! And the gangsters who work in our government don't giv.e a shit.

P.S Oba mama will reestablish military tribunals. Shows you how gullible the average voter is. Promise them anything and they'll vote for "hope and change." LOL


Another Recession Keyed By High Oil Prices? | The Silent Majority

Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction. To our knowledge — none has been extracted. With this mother load of oil why are we still fighting over offshore drilling?

Now. Consider this:

The U. S. Geological Service issued a revised report in April of 2008 (It hadn’t been updated since 1995) on how much oil was in the area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota, western South Dakota, and extreme eastern Montana. Take a look for yourself.

http://bakkenshale.net/bakkenshalemap.html

“The Bakken,” as it is referred to, is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska ‘s Prudhoe Bay, and it has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates the Bakken deposit at 503 billion barrels. This is light, sweet, oil that would be far, far, less costly to Americans than the oil we are importing today.

We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth. We are talking more than 2 TRILLION barrels of untapped oil. Here are the official estimates:

- 8-times as much oil as Saudi Arabia

- 18-times as much oil as Iraq

- 21-times as much oil as Kuwait

- 22-times as much oil as Iran

- 500-times as much oil as Yemen

- And it’s all right here in America — in the Western United States.

Estimates tell us that that oil could satisfy America’s need for fuel for up to for 2,041 years!

You can read about this, yourself, at the US Geological Survey website HERE.

Wake me up when the party's over.......

Why do so many people believe this guy is some born again fiscal conservative? 

He's part of the gang that got us where we are! As I've been telling anyone who'll listen, there's not a nickels worth of difference when it comes to spending your money in government. These people do what they're told or they lose their jobs just like you or I would.

Get used to it and prepare for the next bust. This new "recovery" wont last long and remember I told you so!

Buy food!!!! You can't lose by having a couple of months supply stashed away. Better than 401k money financing oil producing countries murdering their citizens, don't you think?


Boehner feeling heat from tea party - Washington Times

Speaker John A. Boehner and the GOP’s uneasy partnership with the tea party seems to be fraying at the edges.

Three days after the founder of one of the largest tea party groups called the Ohio Republican a “fool,” the head of the congressional Tea Party Caucus declined to defend her House colleague.

Michele Bachmann, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said the “tea party coalition is hanging together more strongly than ever,” but she ducked questions about Mr. Boehner’s problems with the tea party.

The Minnesota Republican didn’t even use the speaker’s name, sticking instead to her talking points about $105 billion that she contends was misappropriated by Democrats in the Obama health care law.

Boeing paid the right guys off.....

We'll see some trickle down in my neck of the woods as my daughter in law works for a subcontractor for airplane parts.

I need to find out who in the Oba mama's admin is on their payroll!


Pentagon delays F-35, buys more Boeing fighters | Reuters

WASHINGTON | Thu Jan 6, 2011 7:14pm EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon overhauled the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter program for the second time in a year and said it would buy 41 Boeing Co F/A-18 warplanes over the next three years to offset slower production of the Lockheed plane.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced on Thursday a further restructuring of the radar-evading F-35 as part of a broad cost-reduction plan, saving it would result in net savings of about $4 billion over the next five years.

The Pentagon's biggest arms program, the new fighter is being developed with eight international partner countries at total cost of $382 billion, but the program has run into schedule delays and massive cost overruns in recent years.

Gates said work on the Air Force and Navy versions of the plane was moving along satisfactorily.

Drill baby drill.......

Want the country to survive the Depression? Quit giving our money away to people who want us dead.

Yeah, I know, rocket science!

Why are oil prices going up? Simple. Oba mama is borrowing 1500 billion dollars every year. That money will come mostly from  oil producers. The oil producers lost their ass a couple of years ago when the world economy collapsed and oil prices crashed and now their citizens are revolting because of the depression setting in. There is not enough money coming in to pay off the natives and buy our bonds.

So, they raise the price of oil just like they did in the 70's to buy weapons so they could invade Israel in '72.  Now these gangsters are on the run and need to buy an awful lot of protection from their armies and from our military.


RAHN: Deliberately making Americans poorer - Washington Times

The Obama administration’s policies are causing Americans to pay far more for gasoline and other fuels than necessary. America is awash in fossil-fuel energy sources with almost 30 percent of the world’s coal and 80 percent of the world’s oil shale - which contains an estimated three times the recoverable oil reserves of Saudi Arabia. Canada, with its oil sands, has the world’s third-highest oil reserves, after the United States and Saudi Arabia. New technologies that enable low-cost natural gas production from shale mean that many countries, including the United States, will have gas for centuries at current production rates.

Fossil fuels at some prices are interchangeable. Coal, gas and oil can all fuel electric power plants. Liquid motor fuels can be made easily from natural gas, and, in fact, many auto, truck and bus fleets already use natural gas. For more than 70 years, the technology has been available to turn coal into liquid motor fuel.

I don't believe in coincidences.....

When it comes to making money anything is possible. For instance, who finances Al Quida and where do they get the money.

They used to get it from the U.S taxpayers. Now, maybe they still do!


10 Events Surrounding September 11

The majority of the suspicious trading was linked to Deutsche Bank Alex Brown. On September 12, 2001, the head of the bank, Mayo A. Shattuck III, resigned from office. The previous director of the bank was A. B. Krongard, who is the former head of the CIA. Citigroup Inc and Morgan Stanley also received an abnormal number of put options, and both companies held offices in the World Trade Centers, and saw a decrease in stock price after the attacks. On September 10, 2001, Raytheon, a defense contractor, had an anomalously high number of call options traded. The Securities and Exchange Commission launched an insider trading investigation, in which Osama Bin Laden was a suspect, but no action was taken. The trading was traced to areas all over the world, with most activity occurring in the UK, Italy, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, France and the US.

In the days prior to 9/11, the Chicago Exchange saw the highest number of United and American Airlines options traded in history. The names of the investors remain a mystery, because they never claimed their money. After it was discovered that a single U.S.-based institutional investor, with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda, purchased a large amount of these options, the 9/11 Commission dismissed the importance of the events. Unfortunately, the abnormal trading did not tip off law enforcement, as intelligence agencies constantly monitor the stock exchange and the sudden rise in activity could have allowed analysts to “connect the dots” and see that a major event was about to take place involving American Airlines, United Airlines and The World Trade Centers. However, nobody could have imagined the scale of the tragedy.

Well, vets what do you think.....

I think beating the fuck out of these "Christians" ought to be an act of  self-defense.


Supreme Court upholds protests at military funerals as free speech - Washington Times

The Supreme Court ruled decisively Wednesday that a fringe anti-gay group has a constitutionally protected right to stage hateful protests at the funerals of dead servicemen, saying “such speech cannot be restricted simply because it is upsetting or arouses contempt.”

In one of the year’s most closely watched cases, the Supreme Court in an 8-1 decision upheld a lower-court ruling to throw out a multimillion-dollar judgment that the father of a dead U.S. Marine from Maryland had won against the Westboro Baptist Church.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., in writing the majority opinion, noted that “speech is powerful” and can “inflict great pain.”

“On the facts before us, we cannot react to that pain by punishing the speaker,” the chief justice wrote. “As a nation, we have chosen a different course — to protect even hurtful speech on public issues to ensure that we do not stifle public debate.”

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. rebuked the majority and wrote in a blistering dissent that “our profound national commitment to free and open debate is not a license for the vicious verbal assault that occurred in this case.”

Christians, Supreme Court

Big difference between public and private unions...

You don't vote for or bribe a private employer like you can a government politician. He has to obey or go find a new cushy piece of welfare. A private employer has to fear a loss of money and stock value. Big shots in business get most of their income from stock options and really pay attention to strike threats.

Few, if any small businesses will tolerate a union because their profit margin is too small to take a strike and everybody who works for a living thinks they're worth a small fortune just to show up for a job anyways.

Which simply means do you think government employees are immune?


O’Reilly Tonight: Unions « John Stossel

Tonight Bill O’Reilly wants me to talk about today's NY Times front page story claiming "Majority in Poll Back Employees in Public Sector Unions."

Most people back the unions? I'm not surprised Americans support collective bargaining “rights.” Unless you have really been paying attention, you don't understand what works in the private sector doesn't work in government, where unions bargain with politicians whom they helped elect. People don't know that federal workers can't bargain collectively, that President Carter outlawed that, and that even FDR said: “Collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.”

Sheldon Richman of the Freeman suggests I say this to Bill: "In the government sphere 'negotiations' are a conspiracy against the taxpayers. Union dues and union political contributions are laundered taxpayer money. And state workers do not pay taxes. They are tax-eaters not tax producers."

“Tax eaters.” I like that.

And of course, the Times distorts the issue. Even the wording --"Employees in the Public Sector"-- is biased. Why not ask about "government" workers?

And the Times poll asks about “taking away collective bargaining rights.” Rights? Why do they call it a right? I’d call it collective-bargaining “power” or “privilege.” It's not a right. But if you call it that, and then use charged words like “taking away,” people vote for the “right.”

What if they'd asked: "Should government workers be forced to join a union and pay dues to that union as a condition of working for the government?" I bet Americans would oppose that.

Something else that's suspicious: 20% of the poll’s respondents claim to come from union households. But only 11.9% of American workers belong to a union. What’s up with that?

Poor rich bastards.....

Don't have to pay taxes especially since they gave out those multimillion bonuses' I guess they didn't get enough of my paycheck or yours to pay their fair share.

Not!

They own us and our government, the best your money could buy, lock, stock, and barrel. And don't you forget it!


ThinkProgress » REPORT: You Have More Money In Your Wallet Than Bank Of America Pays In Federal Taxes

ThinkProgress has assembled a short but far from comprehensive list of these tax dodgers — corporations which have rigged the tax system to their advantage so they can reap huge profits and avoid paying taxes:

- BANK OF AMERICA: In 2009, Bank of America didn’t pay a single penny in federal income taxes, exploiting the tax code so as to avoid paying its fair share. “Oh, yeah, this happens all the time,” said Robert Willens, a tax accounting expert interviewed by McClatchy. “If you go out and try to make money and you don’t do it, why should the government pay you for your losses?” asked Bob McIntyre of Citizens for Tax Justice. The same year, the mega-bank’s top executives received pay “ranging from $6 million to nearly $30 million.”

- BOEING: Despite receiving billions of dollars from the federal government every single year in taxpayer subsidies from the U.S. government, Boeing didn’t “pay a dime of U.S. federal corporate income taxes” between 2008 and 2010.

- CITIGROUP: Citigroup’s deferred income taxes for the third quarter of 2010 amounted to a grand total of $0.00. At the same time, Citigroup has continued to pay its staff lavishly. “John Havens, the head of Citigroup’s investment bank, is expected to be the bank’s highest paid executive for the second year in a row, with a compensation package worth $9.5 million.”

- EXXON-MOBIL: The oil giant uses offshore subsidiaries in the Caribbean to avoid paying taxes in the United States. Although Exxon-Mobil paid $15 billion in taxes in 2009, not a penny of those taxes went to the American Treasury. This was the same year that the company overtook Wal-Mart in the Fortune 500. Meanwhile the total compensation of Exxon-Mobil’s CEO the same year was over $29,000,000.

- GENERAL ELECTRIC: In 2009, General Electric — the world’s largest corporation — filed more than 7,000 tax returns and still paid nothing to U.S. government. They managed to do this by a tax code that essentially subsidizes companies for losing profits and allows them to set up tax havens overseas. That same year GE CEO Jeffery Immelt — who recently scored a spot on a White House economic advisory board — “earned total compensation of $9.89 million.” In 2002, Immelt displayed his lack of economic patriotism, saying, “When I am talking to GE managers, I talk China, China, China, China, China….I am a nut on China. Outsourcing from China is going to grow to 5 billion.”

- WELLS FARGO: Despite being the fourth largest bank in the country, Wells Fargo was able to escape paying federal taxes by writing all of its losses off after its acquisition of Wachovia. Yet in 2009 the chief executive of Wells Fargo also saw his compensation “more than double” as he earned “a salary of $5.6 million paid in cash and stock and stock awards of more than $13 million.”

In the coming months, politicians across the country are going to tell Americans that the only way to stave off huge deficit and balance the budgets is by gutting programs for the poor, eviscerating support for the middle class, eliminating labor rights, and decimating the government’s ability to serve the public interest. This is a lie. The United States is the richest country in the history of the world, and income inequality is higher now than it has been at any time since the 1920′s, with the top “top 1 percentile of households [taking] home 23.5 percent of income in 2007.”

It is simply unfair for Main Street Americans who’ve already been battered by one of the worst economic crises in our history to have to continue to sacrifice while the rich and well-connected continue to rip off taxpayers and avoid paying their fair share. That’s why a Main Street Movement consisting of Americans who are fed up with the status quo is rocking the nation, and one of its first targets should be tax dodgers like Bank of America and Boeing.
Update

Now all we need is a country to use them against....

I'm sure something will show up. We need jobs in this country to keep people from pulling an Egypt and murdering the gang in power. Not that I don't think that idea doesn't have merit just that I want to stay out of jail and stay online.

Threaten these guys is not a healthy thing!


Pentagon contract for tanker tops $30 billion - Washington Times

The deal, the Air Force‘s third effort to award the contract, caps nine years of wrangling over a replacement for the service’s aging fleet of KC-135 tankers. The Eisenhower-era flying gas stations have served as the backbone of the U.S. capability for “force projection” — the ability to strike anywhere in the world.

Government auditors overturned a February 2008 award to the rival bidder — the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. (EADS), the parent company of Airbus — after ruling that Boeing had been treated unfairly in the selection process.

Representatives of EADS “told me they were going to protest if they lost, but we’ll have to wait and see what happens,” said Barry Watts, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment, a nonpartisan defense think tank in Washington, D.C.......

Surprise!!!!.....

Who said having the Chicago gang on  your side doesn't pay off especially when the big leaders, Oba mama and Daley are in charge in Washington?


Emanuel wins six-way race for Chicago mayor - Washington Times

CHICAGO | Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was elected mayor of Chicago on Tuesday, easily overwhelming five rivals to take the helm of the nation’s third-largest city as it prepares to chart a new course without the retiring Richard M. Daley.

With 89 percent of the precincts reporting, Mr. Emanuel was trouncing five opponents with 55 percent of the vote — a margin comfortably above the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid an April runoff.

It was the city’s first mayoral race in more than 60 years without an incumbent on the ballot and the first in more than two decades without Mr. Daley among the candidates.

Mr. Daley and his father have led Chicago for more than 43 of the last 56 years.

Reginald Bachus, the 51-year-old pastor of a West Side church, said this was “a very critical time for Chicago.”

“We really need a mayor who has vision. It’s my personal opinion everyone else would have been a manager, and I think Rahm has vision,” Mr. Bachus said.

The other major candidates — former Chicago schools president Gery Chico, former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun and City Clerk Miguel del Valle — had hoped to force a runoff, but were no match for Mr. Emanuel‘s momentum and money.....

Nothing like a little touchy-feely in the foxhole.....

How "sensitive" do you have to be. Hope they pass out condoms don't you?.


Combat troops to get gay sensitivity training - Washington Times

American combat troops will get sensitivity training directly on the battlefield about the military’s new policy on gays instead of waiting until they return to home base in the United States, the senior enlisted man in Afghanistan said Thursday.

The Pentagon is launching an extensive force-wide program to ease the process of integrating open homosexuals into the ranks, including into close-knit fighting units.

Army Command Sgt. Maj. Marvin Hill, the top enlisted man in Afghanistan where 100,000 U.S. troops are deployed, said that the sessions on respecting gays’ rights will go right down to the forward operating bases, where troops fight Taliban militants.

What ever you do Walmart....

Don't sell guns to the inner city blacks!

Wouldn't want them to get any ideas that close to the Capitol buildings, heh heh.


Wal-Mart critics plot to stop 4-store 'invasion' in D.C. - Washington Times

The local news website DCist.com also reported this week that Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest gun retailer, has promised not to sell guns and firearms at its D.C. sites.

To Wal-Mart critics, none of that matters. They use sharp words — “war,” “invasion” and “destruction of this city” — to describe the magnitude of the threat they say the company poses.

The critics are especially vocal in Ward 4, where Wal-Mart wants to replace a long-vacant car dealership site with a store at Georgia and Missouri avenues Northwest, a major crossroad surrounded by single-family homes and brimming with mom-and-pop retailers.

While some D.C. lawmakers who live in Ward 4 appear willing to work with Wal-Mart, some longtime residents and community organizers are dead-set against the retailer’s stores anywhere inside city limits. One effort is called “Wal-Mart Free DC”; another bills itself as “Ward Four Thrives.” Both groups count local businesses, residents and union members among their ranks.

Another day in Paradise.......

12" of snow. Next week it will be in the 40's and muddy. But 2 more years and I plan on retiring and head south. Arizona, California and Florida for winters.

Maybe even Alaska, though with my luck i would get stuck up there and have to listen to Patti bich about for the rest of my life. LOL

Didn't I tell you corporations own the government?....

The government can order vaccines for you or your children in school whether they work or not and the big pharma's are invulnerable to lawsuit. Even if they know they're going to do damage you can't get justice in the court rooms.

And kids have to have shots in order to get in government schools!

But what happens when we have to have shots to use public transportation because of terrorist threats or some other excuse?  Don't you think it's only a matter of time?

After all, if you spend millions to get someone elected then the least they can do is pay you back, right?


Supreme Court says vaccine makers shielded from suits - Washington Times

Vaccine manufacturers won a monumental victory Tuesday with the Supreme Court ruling that federal law shields them from lawsuits, an especially pertinent decision because of the thousands of claims, so far unproven scientifically, linking vaccines to autism.

In a 6-2 ruling, the high court said the manufacturers are protected by a 1986 federal law that says they can’t be sued “if the injury or death resulted from side effects that were unavoidable, even though the vaccine was properly prepared and was accompanied by proper directions and warnings.”

As was the case during oral arguments in October, much of the ruling hinged on the term “unavoidable” in the context of the law.

Should really get interesting now......

Oba mama's out of his league now. Don't be surprised if Israel is a mess again. I expect a few well placed assassinations in the area. And I expect the president to make a fool out of himself in the next few months bitching about Repubs trying to cut nickels and dimes from the budget and being mean to his unions.

However, let's not forget that war's good for the economy.  After all wait until we pay $10 for a bowl of cereal your going to need another job just to get the gas money to work. So there had better be some jobs out there.

Does anyone  really believe we can borrow 2 or 3 trillion dollars  and print even more for the international banks and not fuck up the economy?  

And as far as elections go Oba mama's going to need all the help he can get because it's really getting interesting now.

Good thing he'll be running against a Republican  or he wouldn't stand a chance.


U.S. Intervention in Mideast? « LewRockwell.com Blog

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February 21, 2011
U.S. Intervention in Mideast?
Posted by Michael S. Rozeff on February 21, 2011 11:42 AM

Lew, yes, the U.S. will intervene, and it is likely that Great Britain, France, and, with lower likelihood, NATO will intervene. Their goal will be to install new governments that do not threaten their perceived interests, as they are attempting in Iraq and Afghanistan. From their perspective, this is mainly about control of oil and oil revenues and about preventing Iran from gaining regional hegemony and oil control. Somewhere along the way, I expect American naval and other forces to put in an appearance, and the story will be that they are there to ensure stability, protect interests, and ensure oil supplies.

The risk of war with Iran is rising, although presently not visible. Bahrain is shaping up something like Serbia before WWI. Iran has claimed Bahrain for a very long time. Most of its population is poorer and Shiite, and ruled by wealthier Sunnis. Iran’s sending of ships through Suez is a bid to get the new Egyptian regime, temporary or not, to make a concession to Iran. Britain’s Prime Minister Cameron already has visited Egypt, a form of intervention, and didn’t talk or acknowledge the Muslim Brotherhood. For now, the intervention will be carrots, aid, food aid, loans, and the leverage of recognition and support. It will be all about getting pro-western governments installed and getting business back to usual, with a couple of bones thrown to the protesting masses. Israel is a wild card and can upset the applecart unless handled very firmly. The uprisings are so pervasive and so spirited and so strong and have already succeeded so far that they can be expected to continue eliminating the old governments and opening up new political situations in many lands. This all becomes an enormously complicated challenge for Obama and the U.S. government to manage and handle, much like the Hungarian uprising was for the Soviets.