Termyn8or
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Good post subf.....
But,
"Actually, that is incorrect. With the exception of oil purchased from Iran, you need US Dollars to pay for oil. (This is why the US is just itching to find a cause for war with Iran that can be sold to a gullible public.) "
Does not mean that the exchange rate is irrelevant. Whether they accept payment in dollars or bananas, before it enters their national economy it has to be converted to their currency. So this still affects the dollar value of a barrell of oil.Even if these countries have a huge trade surplus, they still also buy things from other countries. Things we no longer make. This has to be in the formula when setting the selling price.
So that is my point, my only rebuttal to your post. Actually I was a bit surprised to find someone in as close to agreement with me as you expressed.
But these are all just happenings, consequences, comes down to cause and effect. We see the effect constantly. But who sees the cause.
I can tell you the cause, and it ain't pretty. The US is ruled by people so nasty that they would destroy this country and kill us all if they were in danger of losing control. Even an insurgence by their own constituents. That is the kind of people they are.
Do not ask me about my backgrond in relation to how I know this. I will not provide this information. Suffice it to say I have seen things that nobody even wants to see. And it might not be all that different than what others see, but it is my perception of it. But I think my perception is alot more accurate than most.
Alot of it is perceptional accuity, something that is running a bit scarce in people nowadays. Consideration of cause and effect. A buddy of mine was over here earlier talking Bin Laden. He was unaware that we bombed Afghanistan back to before the stone age that Russia bombed it into. He thought that they were just psychos. That's the media for you, that is how it is done. And through the churches.
My ex-boss, and I mean a $23+ an hour job where they practically worshiped me when I walked in the door, I hung up him rudely four times. He was voting for Bush because Kerry is a baby killer. Very adamant about it. Perhaps he needs a vacation in Baghdad. I didn't quit or get fired, and it was not mentioned on the job the next day. Enough had been said.
But how does this happen ? Lies. Plain and simple, and they are legally allowed to lie. And it gets people to support shit that is very wrong. We need truth.
Bush has been quoted in the foreign media, with the addition of the comment "babbles this absurd little man". This was after a quote "The world is a safer place because of me". Can he really be stupid enough to believe that ? Invade here, bomb there and nobody is going to get pissed ? That is the epitome of either hubris or stupidity, or a combination thereof. There can be no other reason. If the stupidity is because of the brainwashing, it is nonetheless stupidity. Even with the hubris, any Man with commone sense should know that they are going too far. It doesn't matter WHY the Commander In Chief does not realize this, it only matters that he does not.
Yes, we are dying, a slow death. Right now most Americans see the cure as worse than the disease.
And this is the real problem. People want to be entertained. They might give 100% at work and make good money. But then they have to have fun. A bit too much. Honey "Nuke some hotdogs and put a movie in for the kids", instead of some discussion time. Just watch the local news, a couple of sitcoms, and then delve into the stack of six movies you rented. That's what they do.
There is no time for real world issues, and as much I like to criticize the basic media, the news shows etc., Hollywood is just making too damn many movies. People used to go to the cinema perhaps once a week, if they had a few dimes to rub together. Now, people rent perhaps ten or twelve movies a week. There is no time for quiet discussion with the kids. There is no time for them to interact much with adults, which is the greatest teaching tool around, with the right adults that is.
I spent about two years without entertainment. Literally, I fix TVs, actually the BIG ones, and for that time I insisted that all the test playing TVs would be on preview guide on the cable. I INSISTED.
I didn't listen to music, nor even play any, for quite some time. My reasoning improved. The only few things I watched were politically incorrect. No music, no fiction, and even not much fiction on the net.
I became uninterested in fiction, I turned my attention to world events. Also to honing my saleable skills. The realest entertainment was when people came over, naturally occurring jokes were really good.
During that ime I read things that others refuse to read, like the Protocols, and another one called "Secret Weapons For Silent Wars", purpotedly by Amsel Rothchild (real name Mayer) . It is very hard to understand, and I care not who wrote it, the subject matter has it's own merit.
It puts forth a methodology for high level investing and manipulating the markets, and the reason is clear. Now if the source is as purported, this is from a perspective of someone with really old and really big money. If it is by some smuck, I doubt it would read quite how it does.
The person who wrote it was obviously an economist and an electrical engineer. They equated the world economy to an electrical circuit, with for example a slush fund (the term hadn't been coined yet) as capacitance, holding a charge. Certain movements of money, like overhead are resistance, and inductance is the force to be reckoned with when big money wants to rape the economy. It is complex, and has representative drawings, hand drawn. They are electronic schematics. I know about these things and this guy makes too much sense.
It's been a while but, inductance is the production of goods and services, it must be loaded with another reactance or a resistance to control the rate of it's discharge. The same is true of capacitance, the slush fund. You use it at a controlled rate, only when it will supply the inductance with more voltage, which represents directly invested capital.
Something like that. This thing was very intriguing, but it would give alot of people a headache probably.
Don't ask, I do not have it in electronic form, I would have to find it and scan it, then you get a bunch of JPGs. This is not the greatest copy, and OCR is just not going to work well. What's more it is like an inch or so thick, printed on 8½X11. That is alot, and I am not sure I could even fit it in my FTP.
Anyway, I got the media out of my life for a while, and looked to reality. Now I can enjoy just a bit, but for example, my TV might have spent six hours running this month. If that.
I hear that England has like an oversight commitee for the media, to try to assure it is fair and balanced, or at least closer thereto. Perhaps that is why I would rather go to BBC dot com and use the PC to TV converter rather than my antenna.
When you control the media, you control it all. Go get a list of who is into what as far as who owns the media outlets. C'mon back now. You'll see. You will se that they have an agenda.
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