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I snagged a copy of the NY Times front section at a Starbucks’ yesterday. Turning to the Op-Ed page, I read an editorial by Nicholas Kristoff on the glorified food fight being waged by the Democratic candidates. Most of the editorial has the usual mind-numbing banality that passes for informed opinion today, but I did find one nugget that shows us yet again there is not a dime’s worth of difference between the two political parties.

“Meanwhile, the big winner of the Democratic fist-fighting is Senator McCain. A Gallup poll released Wednesday found that 19 percent of Mr. Obama’s supporters said they would vote for Mr. McCain in the general election if Mrs. Clinton were the nominee. More startling, 28 percent of Mrs. Clinton’s supporters said they would defect to Mr. McCain if Mr. Obama were the nominee.”

Next I suppose comes the stamping of feet and holding of breath. Sheesh. What a bunch.

Then there is this.

I can assure you all, gentle readers, this is reality in America.

Ted Sampley at US Veterans Dispatch.

A 10 minute interview with Mike Wallace and a composed defense of her positions on personal liberty and freedom.

I was always lead to believe, through my government schooling, that Ayn Rand was nuts and dangerous. Like many I did not check my government approved opinion with reality, you know like, actually reading any of her work.

She got some of it right.

Some ‘bad’ language.

“And we’re f*cked!” says Justin Raimondo at Antiwar.com

John Taylor Gatto clip on our Public School System.

Fronm Barbara Ehrenreich at ‘The Nation’:

‘How much lower can consumer spending go? The malls are like mausoleums, retail clerks are getting laid off and AOL recently featured on its welcome page the story of a man so cheap that he recycles his dental floss–hanging it from a nail in his garage until it dries out.’

Gold is at $998.80 at 9:30 AM.

Look out once it does.

From CNBC:

From Susan Jacoby at Washington Post:

“The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson offered that observation in 1837, but his words echo with painful prescience in today’s very different United States. Americans are in serious intellectual trouble — in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

From Mihael Rozoff at LewRockwell.com:

“Yesterday the S&P 500 closed at a low for the year, lower even than on Jan. 21 when the Fed surprised the market with its 75bp cut. That was an act of attempted market manipulation by the plunge protection team (PPT). I said then on this blog that there would be a short-lived rally and that the market would sink back to its lows, which it has. That is because there is no force that can stop this bear market from unfolding. It will end only when the bad credits are worked out and business activity, financed by real capital, can advance naturally.

This morning we have a repeat performance, a promise of injected bank funds in higher doses, this time coordinated with other Central banks, and announced before the open. Thus, the pre-open futures trades show s big rally to begin the day.

I can’t think of a more stupid way to prolong and deepen the recession we are already in. The Central bankers, acting on their outmoded and false theories, know not what they do. They think they can stimulate the world economy and avoid the bad debt and malinvestment problems by printing fiat money. They think they can forestall a bear market. They think they can control stock prices.

But they can’t accomplish any of these things with a printing press. They can only make matters worse. Look at the Japanese stock market! After its boom of 1989 and after enormous injections of funds into the banks, their stock market remains far, far lower than its peak. The Nikkei 225 was over 40,000 and it is now 12,658. Is this the fate of American stocks?

The Fed tried to save American stocks in 2001-2002, creating a long-lived rally lasting until mid-2007 that took the S&P 500 back to its peak of 1550 in nominal terms. Now that long rally has failed. The S&P500 is back to 1300. What can we expect of this renewed attempt in 2008 to prevent a bear market? Failure. The system is in much worse shape this time. The excesses and imbalances are worse. The gold price is far higher. The deficits are much larger. The housing industry cannot possibly lead a revival, even if Fannie Mae limits are raised. That will make matters worse, if anything. In terms of psychology, the Fed’s acts will be more clearly seen as desperate moves.

Once again, I think what will occur (the highest likelihood scenario)is a short-lived rally. This one may be even shorter than the last one. It might not even last out today, or it may be only a few days. Even if I am wrong, as there are always other possible scenarios and unknown future events, I think that this act today has no chance of launching a real and solid bull market.

Again I advise: Patience. Wait. When and if conditions arise for a solid new bull market, they will be evident and there will be time to enter the stock market. “

Are these conditioning or a warning?

Unintended consequences of not voting for Ron Paul.

*  In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.  This doesn’t include the 30 million ‘Uncle Joe’ starved to death in the Ukraine. 
*  In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. 
*  Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, leaving a populace unable to defend itself against the Gestapo…More

Love him or hate him, Alex Jones has a passion for telling the truth.

From Jon Markman at MSN Money:

“As if a bear market, credit crunch, energy crisis and city financing emergency were not enough for one year, experts say the world is now facing down the barrel of the worst catastrophe of all: famine.”

“CNN host Lou Dobbs says that the New World Order can be defeated but only if “Americans awaken and soon,” as he attacked the Bush administration’s “shameless” destruction of U.S. sovereignty on a nationally syndicated radio show.”

From Larry Chin at Online Journal:

“The 2008 US presidential charade has already been decided. Come November, the next White House occupant (who will be installed via political malfeasance, computer vote theft and other election “irregularities”) will be the puppet who proves to be the most effective in echoing Bush-Cheney’s “war on terrorism” lies, and expanding the Bush-Cheney “national security” agenda.

The American populace will bow to the “next Bush” who will “keep them safe” from “Islamic jihadists.” Facing a new and increasingly brutal regime (probably under McCain), many brain-addled Americans will be stunned that “it is happening all over again,” oblivious to the fact that their own acquiescence helped make it possible.”

From Devvy Kidd:

“Nothing has changed and it never will unless you get qualified individuals into Congress and the state houses who will break the stranglehold of the agenda being carried out by both parties.”

These breathtaking images are of 3-dimensional structures built at the nano level, somewhere between the molecular and the microscopic.  A nano is one-billionth of a meter. One human hair is 80,000 nanos in width, just for a reference point.

Nanotechnology boggles my mind. Like star gazing, trying to grasp the concept of infinity, only in reverse.

This animated video portrays it’s potential. Although I’m unsure how close we are to it’s actuality, the future seems to be now.

Some good clean laughs from Aaron Wilburn.

…Simone de Beauvoir told Saturday Review this (June 14, 1974, p. 18): “No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.”

“According to Economist editor Pam Woodall, Greenspan’s comments heralded the beginning of the end for the US dollar as the currency of choice for foreign exchange reserves.”

Hilarious and painfully true. And of course in 21st century America, the Truth can only exist in the world of comedy. From ‘The Onion’.

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

This story broke on the Alex Jones broadcast.

 It has also aired on ABC News and AOL.

 Drudge apparently had it up briefly.

 From Devvy Kidd;

“Nature gave man two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.” George R. Kirkpatrick (1867-1937) Lecturer

Not another Ron Paul column. Yes, because certain things need to get said and done because the clock is ticking.

For those who are undecided about a candidate, I invite you to visit my election special; updates on the individual files soon. For those of you who do support Congressman Paul, we must stay focused and recognize certain realities.

Enemy number one: Ron Paul is a target of the compromised “mainstream media” and that includes cable network propaganda machines like FAUX (FOX) News, MSNBC and CNN. This is a fact. They are powerful, they are rotten to the core. They cannot cast your vote. However, they can and do influence the herd who rely on someone else (Oprah Winfrey, Chuck Norris, et al) to tell them how they should vote. The attacks on Ron Paul will become more fallacious as we move along in the process. These buzzards who call themselves news anchors, commentators and fair and balanced have shown themselves to be just the opposite when it comes to one man’s run for the White House. The standouts include: Read the rest of the entry…

  From James Kunstler at “Clusterfuck Nation“:

 Events are driving us now, not personalities or even policies. Ben Bernanke, Hank Paulson, and the other characters in the headlines might pretend that they are managing things, but the truth is that problems in the financial sector have spun wildly out of control. The wheels are coming off and we are in that long sickening moment of sideways sliding motion when no attempt at steering will avail to avoid the crash. That it is happening at the very height of the Christmas season, (more…)

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Submitted by BK:

The next time you hear a politician use the word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending YOUR tax money.
       

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.
       
      A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
      B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
      C. A billion hours ago our ancestors….

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 From Kenneth:

Remember not so long ago we were talking about Freedom and Free Nations and I asked the members who is the President of Switzerland. Nobody knew the answer to that question since then the Swiss were not in the news-Now they are read the following and think how this could effect the Citizens of the USA.

Switzerland Strips Citizens Of Gun Rights