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October 28, 2006
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534 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 534 of 534Sorry. It wont happen again.
Your a sicko mort.
Dont feed the trolls mort or you'll be next.
You forgot about the fudge packed in between the wieners.
You really think adults will get grossed out by fudge packers? Good grief, get a grip ... we've seen Saw and Hostel and hung out among gays in San Francisco.
About the only thing that might gross out modern people would be smelling IW's you know what.
"mind2025@mypacks.net"
Guess he does pack wieners.
What is wrong with you people? Stop this insanity, dont talk about infidelwomans pussy, thats just sick. Stop this now!
not buying the bubble, stop feeding the trolls and grow up!
I live in an up scale Califonia beach community. I have been hit up by friends for loans and to buy toys. Just recently one of my old teachers in the investiment business wanted to sell me his gold and jewelry. Why do I need one of those Rolex watches with all those diamonds. I'm no pimp!
One of the biggest land developers just sold his jet. I have seen numerous Ferrari's and Lam.'s for sale at a local consignment car lots. Another is selling his wine collection. I noticed he had cases of a vintage Moton Cadet that I know costs $250 a bottle. I felt like swigging it down like a common street wino and commenting "I'll stick with Thunderbird", just to see the look on his face.
It looks like the big boys are hurting! Miami Vice is turning into California bust! Maybe the new motto for 2007 will be "buddy can you spare a thou$and".
you've been visiting porn sites again hav'nt you mort?
Mort, I think he is gone.
Damn it! Now somebody's impersonating me! Problem is, who the Hell am I?
Stop impersonating me!
STOP IT!!
STOP IT!!!
Infidelwoman, calm down, keith will fix it.
Mort, you demented asswipe, get off the computer and hug your wife or something.
Hey Keefer -
No C word ok bro...??
That word should never be used for any reason by no one no where no how EVER.
And dickheads that use that word should be banned from this site.
Serious bro... there is no place anywhere where that word should be used.
Savvy?
Yeah, since my anonymous id keeps getting hijacked I suppose I'd better pick another one.. anon1 will do -
RE: houses not dropping in 30% in LA in the late 80s' 90s. I moved to LA from the UK in 92, bought a house in '94 for 286K, a house that was originally on offer for 346.. We'd walked away from the house as too expensive when our realtor told us - their realtor is not supposed to tell me but she said that if you make a 290K offer it may well get accepted. After we bought prices still kept going down for a further 2 years; I reckon down ours went down to 260K so yeah prices can drop quite a lot.
-anon1
"So how come 373 Vine St. sold on 7/2/2006 for $425,000 and 338 S High St sold on 6/3/2006 for $625,000?
Are you saying that things have dropped so much in a few months your friend had to taken $450,000? He should have waited."
Some of those listings include the finished basement square footage and some do not. They all shouldn't, but many do. You can't make a comparison off of an MLS listing because the realtwhores don't have any standards.
Your comparisons are rediculous. Zillow is rediculous. The only reason any sales come close to the Zillow price is because of galactically stupid people who price real estate off of what you are told on a website.
To the poster commenting about Redmond Wa, I have lived in Bellevue WA for over 30 years ,yes this market has gone up alot and due to Boeing and Microsoft I dont see it going down too much,but i have A friend that bought A second home in snoqualmie ridge that just isnt getting any offers.
And 2 brothers that i am friends with have been trying to get rid of 2 of their houses for over 8 months.
what choice was there, fed funds rate 1 or 2 percent, if lucky, year 2000 stock market falling to 60 or 90% downward, cash to make a return, to feed one, let alone pay taxes and expenses, insurances, ect/ect after those loses, or to prevent loses, had to be enormous, just to not loose principle, bet real estate, and won, or is attempting to win now at one percent return, fed stimulated spending, as it wanted, smart money? or sheeple to the slaughter? spend some of the 1% return, to eat!, is what the numbers on personal savings, say, not counting jet planes on real estate business!, or mortgages!
obviously this is a no women allowed blog.
For all the ballyhoo surrounding the North Korean admission of a nuclear weapons program in meetings with U.S. officials, one salient fact has been overlooked.
It never happened.
Western news reports repeated endlessly the claims that North Korean officials admitted to a nuclear weapons program in an October 2002 meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly and again during an April 2003 meeting, yet no evidence was presented other than Kelly’s assertions. On this matter, the word of the Bush Administration was accepted as sufficient evidence – the same Bush Administration that has consistently lied about every issue. Citing the issue of a North Korea nuclear weapons program, the Bush Administration deliberately set about creating an international crisis on the Korean peninsula, eventually compelling North Korea to engage in a desperate bluff in hopes of ensuring its survival.
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/ELI307A.html
HP'ERS - I HOPE I CAN BE CLEAR ON THIS
DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS
THANK YOU
THE MANAGEMENT
And Garth - more on lies...
The Bush-View of the World, quoted:
"...the world is divided between the good guys and the bad guys, and the good guys should have their nuclear weapon, and the bad guys shouldn't."
It's the decline and coming fall, for sure.
The New York Times
October 19, 2006
Japan Assures Rice That It Has No Nuclear Intentions
By THOM SHANKER and NORIMITSU ONISHI
http://www.nytimes. com/2006/ 10/19/world/ asia/19rice. html
TOKYO, Oct. 18 — Japan assured Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday that it had no intention of pursuing a nuclear weapons program, despite North Korea's detonation of a nuclear device and suggestions by some political leaders here that the Japanese should discuss whether the nation should acquire nuclear arms.
Ahmadinejad: God told me we would win
Iranian president says has been in touch with God, who reassured him Tehran victory against West is guaranteed
Dudi Cohen
While the West is preparing to impose sanctions on Iran, due to the country's failure to suspend its nuclear activities, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is still optimistic. "We shall win," he was quoted in the Iranian media as saying Monday, and added: "One day I will be asked whether I have been in touch with someone who told me we would win, and I will respond: 'Yes, I have been in touch with God'."
"We must not be afraid of them," he stated, hinting to the western countries. Ahmadinejad also noted that although he was at times mocked for his preoccupation with spiritual matters and his use of "divine" words," he was nevertheless certain that Iran would prevail, after having secured the support of international public opinion for its cause.
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout
/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3315855,00.html
"'Yes, I have been in touch with God'."
Sounds like what Bush said on July 9th 2005 in an Amish community in Lancaster County PA:
"I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn´t do my job."
MONTEREY PARK - A couple was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of grand theft, burglary and forgery for allegedly bilking about 100 elderly owners out of their homes, officials said.
Officials at the California Department of Justice said Jesus Duran Aguayo and his wife, Sofia Aguayo, both 52, stole homes from elderly and sick people in order to rent them out.
Officials said the loss to the victims total about $5 million and that the Monterey Park couple had collected about $10,000 a month from renters. The two are being held at Los Angeles County Jail in lieu of $1.4 million each.
Jesus Duran Aguayo, a real estate broker, and his wife, who is a real estate agent, allegedly looked for properties that were behind in property taxes and checked out the houses to see if anyone lived there.
If no one did, officials said, the Aguayos would then pay the delinquent taxes, file phony deeds and transfer the property to themselves with no permission from the owner.
Many times, the owners of the homes were infirm and living in nursing homes, according to court papers.
"It's kind of a version of the old, illegal squatting scam," said Tom Dresslar, spokesman for the Attorney General's office.
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hmmmmmm...
Russia Warns Poland Against Missile Defense Program
By VOA News
03 October 2006
A US-made Patriot missile is launched in this July 2006 file photo
Russia has warned Poland against hosting any U.S. or NATO missile defense system in its territory. A Foreign Ministry spokesman says such a move would undermine the strategic balance and trigger a "corresponding" response from Moscow.
duba duba trey?
I won't be able to hit any Bay Area open houses this weekend but should be back at it next. Stay tuned for that...
Also, I agree with Anonymous' 10 predictions for 56 years later!
I predict in one year you will get one bonus bedroom for today's price.
http://housingarmageddon.blogspot.com
MatDew
from city-data.com:
Done with it. We aren't going to play the game anymore. Every seller has to see this. A realtor tells us to go lower on our selling price. Homes are being dropped to crazy prices. People are you desparate? I am tired of all the negative stuff about real estate and tired of the realtors wanting to make a quick sale. Don't give your homes away people!!! Stand up and make a difference. Keep your prices at what you listed them at unless you are in a desparate situation. Fight back! We are. I don't even care if we have to wait a gazillion days or months to get what our home is worth. We just had a friend get an appraisal and boy what a surprise that was. Its way above what these sellers are selling their homes for.
Nuff said.
Ya well I hate to breake it to you, but I just got a 30% discount from a FB in a really bubblisious town.
Dear Richard,
Imitation is the best form of flattery, well sometimes. I guess it depends on the source. This guy is really desperately angrily broke. Hit the housing Wall. No Sales. No Commissions.
He is in a hurry to flame because his ISP Bill is past due.
No Worries, I think I accidentally hit the “Ignore Him Button” on my Key Board.
Yawn. Oh well.
Anyway, We can tell the real you by the origin date on your profile. (:
"Anyway, We can tell the real you by the origin date on your profile. (: "
And only you my friend would have figured that one out;)
Loser trolls PIC.
http://www.nikdo.cz/img/looser.jpg
The Secret US Recessions
By Andrea Crandall
Oct/19/2006
A centipede can die but not fall over. That is what happened to the US
Bureau of Economic Analysis: they release Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
data every month, but that data is largely meaningless. Political
tinkering with the GDP and inflation measuring has resulted in numbers
so divorced from reality that they missed three recessions since 1995.
....
A second inflation measure was introduced under Bush II that makes the
CPI respond even quicker to shoppers switching to less expensive
goods.[5] The chained-CPI (C-CPI-U) uses the average expenditure over
a short time to weight prices. While the chained-CPI is not yet the
official measure, it is likely that it will be soon. It decreases
yearly inflation figures by a further 0.6%, on average. The C-CPI-U is
not really a measure of inflation, it is a measure of the cost of
survival. Because expenditure data is not released very often, it will
be two years from the "preliminary" release date before the Bush II
CPI is "finalized." The "preliminary" releases will be mostly a guess
— but politically useful. The BEA has adopted these inflation-measure
techniques to adjust their real GDP figures.
.....
One of the more entertaining entries into the NIPA accounts is
"imputed rent." This is rent that the owner of a home pays himself to
live in his home — it is counted as part of personal income.[8]
"Unpriced bank services," is an entry that assigns a monetary value to
all the services banks provide that they don't charge customers for.[9]
.....
Endgame
No one can rely on the US GDP or inflation figures for an accurate
account of the health of the US economy. Left to their own devices, I
am confident that BEA/BLS statisticians would come up with more
meaningful data — many helped me with writing this article. However,
the Commerce Department is highly politicized and ultimately answers
to the President's Office.
Here is another one!
For your Viewing Pleasure.
http://tinyurl.com/yznchp
Richard,
RE: Endgame
Can you say Guernsey?
Economy
Unlike many countries Guernsey has not delegated money-creation to the central bank and has instead issued interest-free money since 1816. As a result the government has not had to use increasing amounts of tax revenue to repay debt to the central bank, which has led to low income tax rates, no goods and services tax and no capital gains tax.
Financial services - banking, fund management, insurance, etc. - account for about 55% of total income in this tiny Channel Island economy.
Guernsey is a country? How big is it, 1,000 people or something?
"65,031" people
Debt 50,000,000 lbs.
Yup ... maybe they should start charging taxes. Still, less debt than per person in the U.S.
The End of Cheap Oil
By Dr. Shokri M Ghanem
- Chairman National Oil Corporation of Libya Tripoli
http://tinyurl. com/u4fpm
Notices of Default
houses and condos
County/Region___1996Q1__2006Q3
Los Angeles_____14,106___5,565
Orange___________4,486___1,500
San Diego________3,615___2,355
Riverside________3,785___3,040
San Bernardino___3,757___2,548
Ventura____________779_____578
SoCal Total_____30,529__15,676
San Francisco______357_____149
Alameda__________1,724_____803
Contra Costa_____1,667___1,012
Santa Clara______1,274_____670
San Mateo__________536_____288
Marin______________173______89
Solano_____________602_____510
Sonoma_____________394_____231
Napa_______________102______43
Bay Area Total___6,828___3,795
Santa Cruz_________202_____103
Santa Barbara______349_____188
San Luis Obispo____298______94
Monterey___________214_____202
Coast Total______1,064_____587
Sacramento_______2,099___1,388
San Joaquin________959_____898
Placer_____________321_____443
Kern_______________638_____741
Fresno_____________720_____789
Madera_____________133_____104
Merced_____________148_____282
Tulare_____________355_____268
Yolo_______________163_____101
El Dorado__________177_____120
Stanislaus_________553_____
C Valley Total___6,265___6,017
Mountains__________________159
North Calif________________471
Statewide_______44,686__26,705
www.dqnews.com
HOW HEZBOLLAH DEFEATED ISRAEL
By Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry
PART 1: Winning the intelligence war
http://www.atimes. com/atimes/ Middle_East/ HJ12Ak01. html
PART 2: Winning the ground war
http://www.atimes. com/atimes/ Middle_East/ HJ13Ak01. html
PART 3: The political war
http://www.atimes. com/atimes/ Middle_East/ HJ14Ak01. html
I would also add that domestic oil use is creeping up within the now-affluent producer nations themselves, so that total oil on the market for export is likely now actually declining, years ahead of a peak in oil production.
http://www.nytimes. com/aponline/ business/ AP-Qatar- OPEC.html
OPEC Cuts Oil Production by 1.2M Barrels
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 19, 2006
Filed at 10:37 p.m. ET
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- Oil cartel OPEC decided to cut production by a
greater-than- expected 1.2 million barrels a day on Friday, and some
members indicated it was open to further cuts.
Just when Rummy had made a boat load on Tamiflu.
From Revere at Effect Measure - Tamiflu down the drain
http://scienceblogs .com/effectmeasu re/2006/10/ tamiflu_down_ the_drain. php
Wonder what wonderfull vaccine our gov has in store for H5N1 or H2 (no not the hummer)?? Maybe none are we go back to 1918.
Was on the Washington Coast last weekend - just to have a quick getaway. Never saw so many bird feathers washed up on the beach before.
What’s going on?
Guernsey is a Tax Free Corp. Haven with CPA's and Banks as the main industry and Clients from all over the world.
Guernsey is a Tax Free Corp. Haven where CPA's and Banks are the main industry and where Corporation/Clients come from all over the world.
Get gold now says Harry Schultz in his newsletter. Harry Schultz predicts it will go to $1000 in 18 mo., due to world social economic conditions. Just read between the lines! Read the news! He's probably right!
Caterpillar (CAT) down nearly 15% today on lower earnings due to weakness in the housing market.
The U.S. economy is not health! This is the calm before the storm! Cat. is one of the first stocks to go down, since it's a very early cycle leaders. Just tink about it! What is the first thing you do to build a house? Grade the lot with a Cat. product! The rest will follow! Mortgage houses, real estate brokers, banks the the other stocks. Stocks to go down by 40% by this time next year, once we are in the bear market started by the housing crash!
http://www.worldpub licopinion. org/pipa/ articles/ home_page/ 262.php?nid=&id=&pnt=262&lb=hmpg1
Seven in Ten Americans Favor Congressional Candidates Who Will Pursue a Major Change in Foreign Policy
U.S. Public Wants Less Emphasis on Military Force, More on Working Through U.N.
A Majority Supports Direct Talks with North Korea and Iran
Full Report
Questionnaire/ Methodology
Going into the November midterm elections, seven in ten Americans say they prefer Congressional candidates who will pursue a new approach to U.S. foreign policy. A new nationwide survey finds a large and growing majority of Americans is dissatisfied with the position of the United States in the world. Most Americans believe that U.S. policies are increasing the threat of terrorist attack and decreasing goodwill toward the United States.
The likelihood of a major disruptive event -- something that would make
2005's $3.20-a-gallon gasoline seem like a minor bump in the energy road --
within five years is extremely likely, former Energy Department Secretary
Spencer Abraham said Friday.
Whether a natural event, such as 2005's Hurricane Katrina, the use of energy
as a political tool, ala Venezuela or Russia, or a terrorist attack, an
event will occur, with the impact on the nation's economy he called
"tremendous. "
"Energy is the most daunting, long-term problem for this country," Abraham
said, speaking to attendees at "Energy Summit 2006: Generating ideas for
Southwestern Pennsylvania, " a event sponsored by U. S. Steel Corp. and law
firm Pepper Hamilton LLP at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
Looking at energy projections for the next two decades, Abraham, now head of
the consulting firm that bears his name, said America must take action soon
to insure a calamity's impact is minimized as much as possible.
http://www.pittsbur ghlive.com/ x/pittsburghtrib /news/today/ s_475980. html
If 7 out of 10 people want the US to:
Work through the UN on foreign policy questions,
Have direct talks with North Korea and Iran and
Worry that the US is not liked enough by the other countries on the planet,
then, I hope that the economy crashes and these 7 of 10 people wind up in soup kitchens!
But, that's probably not going to be the case since most of the people in the survey have tenure, ie. lifetime jobs at taxpayer expense. They SUCK!
Richard, keep your god-damned Hezbollah cheerleading off this message board.
"Richard, keep your god-damned Hezbollah cheerleading off this message board."
Better them than our so-called "friends" in Israel.
I like Richard's Researched Comments.
Hi Richard (:
i think HHL is an Islam though.
Geologist: Earth has lots and lots of oil
"The most common question I get is, 'When are we going to run out of oil?' The correct response is, 'Never,'" said Cheney. "It might be a heck of a lot more expensive than it is now, but there will always be some oil available at a price, perhaps $10 to $100 a gallon."
http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?Story
ID=20061020-044158-9693r
Yes IW - too bad stuff like this gets published. Like people saying the housing crash uis not crashing...the blind leading the blind.
An interesting pointt is tha author quotes oil in $/brl, rather than energy per brl (energy returned on energy investment),
but then he is an economist, so what do we expect!
Gasoline Price Manipulation Before the Elections
http://www.lewrockw ell.com/orig7/ stojan1.html
Is Goldman Sachs manipulating the gasoline futures market to push
prices down before the November elections?
It sure looks that way.
An article appeared this Saturday in the New York Times pointing to some unusual trading by Goldman Sachs in the gasoline futures market. As Raymond Keller, who spotted the article, points out http://www.kellerko mments.com/ 2006/10/gasoline -price-manipulat ion.html , "They always hide the good stuff in the low circulation Saturday edition."
What’s Goldman doing?
Here’s how the Times reports it:
Europe Moves To Kill The Internet
New EU rules would prevent uploading video without a license
Steve Watson / Infowars.net | October 17 2006
The latest move to kill off online freedom and the spread of information comes in the form of proposed EU legislation that would prevent users from uploading any form of video, whether that be a hard hitting political documentary film or your friends goofing around with diet coke and Mentos.
A proposed EU directive could extend broadcasting regulations to the internet, hitting popular video-sharing websites such as YouTube., reports the London Times. This would mean that websites and mobile phone services that feature video images would have to conform to standards laid down in Brussels.
LauraVella said...
Anon said: "Actually it's possible for manufacturing activity to reduce pollution. Think of a factory that makes solar panels or wind turbines so fewer coal fired power plants are needed. Wind and solar are a lot cheaper than fossil fuels once you factor in the cost of global warming".
If this country can start to manufacture solar generators, panels, and turbines we could once again create jobs in this country. The only problem is that large companies dont want to pay American workers full benefits and higher play than china pays it's factory slave labor. Ultimately, that will be a tough hurdle for American companies to overcome.
Saturday, October 21, 2006 9:10:50 PM
FlyingMonkeyWarrior said...
If this country can start to manufacture solar generators, panels, and turbines we could once again create jobs in this country.
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All of these product are petrolium based and already in existance.
Consumers will not buy solar generators.
I know I have had exclusive access to a solar Generator Product and tried to market it for five years.
We have finally gotten a nibble IN A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY. What more can I say. Even the infomercial world did a study and found that consumers do not want to think about disaster prepardness, until it is too late, so nothing sells.
Sorry to tell you this.
http://www.rense. com/general73/ falcphotos. htm
Falcon Ammo Dump destruction photos
300 Americans reported dead.
MSM did not even report the attack.
Shhhhhhhh...keep quiet until 11.7
Anyone?
What's the latest scuddlebutt on gold...buy, sell, hold, Deal or no deal?
"Anyone?
What's the latest scuddlebutt on gold...buy, sell, hold, Deal or no deal?"
If you have to ask, you shouldn't be trading, because you're violating the #1 rule of trading, which is never rely on anybody's advice.
Maybe you all already know about this guy bashing Bush and the
Republicans on the Situation Room on CNN. But I just heard him for the first time tonight in a one hour show on CNN called "Broken
Government". He spoke about the breakdown of our constitutional rights and even vote fraud!
Here's a youtube site for more viewing:
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=O-lETcPe71U
More disinformation:
http://www.energy- daily.com/ reports/Despite_ Popular_Belief_ The_World_ Is_Not_Running_ Out_Of_Oil_ 999.html
Despite Popular Belief, The World Is Not Running Out Of Oil
Illustration Omitted:
The spoils of oil.
by Staff Writers
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Oct 20, 2006
If you think the world is on the verge of running out of oil or other
mineral resources, you've been taken in by the foremost of seven
myths
about resource geology, according to a University of Washington
economic
geologist. "The most common question I get is, 'When are we going to
run out of oil.' The correct response is, 'Never,'" said Eric Cheney.
Interview with Controller General United States - David M. Walker;
go here:
http://www.marketmattersradio.com/
click Bud Conrad interview.
VERY BAD NEWS.
US Troubles continue in SA.
http://www.theglobe andmail.com/ servlet/story/ LAC.20061020. ORTEGA20/ EmailTPStory/ TPInternational
'El Comandante' poised to lead Nicaraguans once again
Ortega, dressed in new political outlook, aims for first-ballot win in vote next month
JEREMY SCHWARTZ
Cox News Service
MANAGUA -- In a shantytown on the edge of this city, where ice cream cones sell for 7 cents and kids play stickball around abandoned cars, Daniel Ortega arrives like a conquering hero.
As his entourage makes its way up the narrow, dirt streets, residents swarm his SUV. The former guerrilla leader, slightly balding at 60, but with his trademark mustache intact, waves to the adoring crowd.
"All of us here, we love him," said Carla Cortero Torres, 33, wearing the full black and red regalia of Mr. Ortega's Sandinista party. "He's the only one who cares about us, the poor."
Mr. Ortega arrived in Managua in similar fashion when Ms. Torres was just a child -- then as the head of the Sandinista Army after his band of Marxist rebels defeated dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979.
This is dedicated to people like me ;)
http://www.commondr eams.org/ views06/1021- 24.htm
Published on Saturday, October 21, 2006 by The Ottawa Citizen (Canada)
The Way the World Ends
With all the hype about North Korea, we're forgetting that the world is still staring down the barrels of thousands of U.S. and Russian ICBMs
by Helen Caldicott
It is difficult to underestimate the problems associated with North Korea's recent nuclear weapons test. Following a small atomic explosion in a mountainous area of North Korea of less than one kiloton -- the Hiroshima bomb was 13 kilotons -- the U.S. administration is encouraging draconian economic sanctions to be enacted against a desperately poor country where millions of people are malnourished and that will further ostracize a paranoid regime, while the rest of the world looks on with horror as the nuclear arms race threatens to spiral out of control.
This one is dedicated to all cornicopians and those who believe a techno fairy or energy fairy is gonna come jumping out of a phone booth and save us.
http://www.moneywee k.com/file/ 20205/why- markets-need- to-take-peak- oil-serious
ly. html
Why markets need to take Peak Oil seriously
19.10.2006
Against the background of everything else happening in the financial
markets is the apparent circumstance of peak oil. Even The New York Times
joined the chorus in a Sunday editorial, saying:
"Our demand for petroleum products strains the limits of the global
capacity to supply them. In past decades, if a pipeline broke in Nigeria,
Saudi Arabia might compensate by setting workers to pumping more oil. Now,
with little additional capacity, rising prices are necessary to balance out
supply and demand."
No more increasing capacity = peak oil.
Peak oil may be a good thing...
hmmmmmmmmmm....
http://news. independent. co.uk/environmen t/article1919117 .ece
Cracking up: Ice turning to water, glaciers on the move - and a planet in peril
A new study proves it was global warming that sent an Antarctic ice shelf larger than Luxembourg crashing into the ocean. Geoffrey Lean reports
Published: 22 October 2006
Nothing else quite like it has happened at any time in the past 10,000 years. In just over a month an entire Antarctic ice shelf, bigger than a small country, disintegrated and disappeared, altering world atlases for ever.
A new study shows that the catastrophic collapse of the Larsen B shelf, four and a half years ago, was man-made, not an "act of God". It is thought to have been the first time that a major disaster has been proved to have been caused by global warming.
Global warming is a natural thing.
If you consider the Maunder minimum and the little ice age of the 1600s, when Finland was warm enough to grow grapes and Greenland was green and settled by the Vikings, you would realize how stupid scientists are being by not looking at the obvious HISTORY.
It can get a lot warmer without any big problems. And it will likely get cooler in 300 or so years anyway.
In other words, before the Maunder minimum, before the little ice age of the 1600s, things were much warmer than now.
Scientists are extremely stupid. They should require history courses for all scientists.
The Polar Bears are starving.
sad, so sad.
First of all, I do love the blog, and agree that we're in the beggining of a MAJOR readjustment in the market...
On that, I wanted to leave a real case scenario to see what kind of opinions I can gather (did we do the right thing? should have waited? kind of a response)
NEW HOME PURCHASE - UPSCALE LI HAMLET
Listed since early 2006, this beautiful home decreased in listing price at regular intervals until mid-July as follows:
$1.495M (probably way too high)
$1.299
$1.269
$1.199
$1.100 Shown "one last time," or it would be taken off the market kind of Real-Estate-ho talk
Offered a "non-contingent," absolutely-close by August (30 days), $950k... which was taken (!?)
Financing as follows 20% cash (again non-dependent on sale of current home), 40% Fixed 30Y, 30% drawn from HELOC on excess Equity based on appraisal ($1.2M !!, the world is nuts!)
SALE OF OLD HOME - MIDDLE CLASS LI HAMLET
I had Equity in it of about 75%
Listed through RE proffesional (what a joke!) in mid-July.
$519k (probably too high, although things HAD sold at $505k 3 months before)
$499k (2 weeks later)
$479k (1 month later)
$449k (1 month later, fed up)
Sold at $449k (100 days in market)
Note: all comps still sitting there at $479-$499 range
Used my share of sale proceeds to pay-off (completely) HELOC balance on new home.
End result:
Living on new home with 60% Equity, and available HELOC piggy bank (untapped) of 50% purchase price more
Per Zillow --- value of new home July-October down 25% (now it shows only slightly higher than what I paid for it, have sseen it show 10-15% higher)
Gave away $45k cash to RE "vampires" (assessments, commissions, fees, lawyers, title insurance)
Reduced "free cash" position by $200k (new home down payment)
But again truly happy with the step-up in home characteristics/ living.
Obviously, in terms of sound financing standing I think we are more than fine, but my question is whether in a downspiral we'll be kicking ourselves in the nuts down the road....
Your opinion?
PS First post, be gentle.
Not to Beat it to death but this is Important, evn as it is too late.
Military Commissions Act Does Affect US Citizens
Recent application of terror legislation proves American citizens not exempt from intent of bill
Since 9/11 the PATRIOT Act has been used in numerous cases involving American citizens, including strip club owners, toy store proprietors, the homeless, owners of websites, writers, artists, photographers, and common criminals.
Section 802 of the PATRIOT Act is specifically aimed at US citizens and announces any crime as "domestic terrorism". Citizens can be held without a trial as "Enemy Combatants". The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in January 2003 that U.S. citizens can be stripped of their citizenship and held as enemy combatants.
Therefore any legislation passed by Bush automatically applies to American citizens because, as the Washington Post reported, after 9/11 Bush announced his "parallel legal system" in which he could declare any individual on the planet an enemy combatant and order their summary execution.
"The Bush administration is developing a parallel legal system in which terrorism suspects -- U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike -- may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary system, lawyers inside and outside the government say."
The trick being played on the American people in falsely assuring them that they are not the target is simple to decode. The Act states that it only applies to enemy combatants yet the President and his legal advisors like Alberto Gonzales have routinely announced that the President has the power to strip Americans of citizenship and declare them to be enemy combatants. The "enemy combatant designation" was ascribed to U.S. citizen Jose Padilla who was interned in a Navy brig for over three years with no charges against him.
Top legal experts and scholars are nearly unanimous that the Military Commissions Act does affect American citizens.
http://tinyurl.com/yyq28q
ANON - thanks for that post re: the MCA.
I agree - it is too late. Let us hope that enough cases can be considered by the courts to have this reversed.
Sadly - not only are the polar bears dying, but amerika is too
Ex CIA and Marine Intel Officer: 9/11 Was An Inside Job
Steve Watson / Infowars.net | October 23 2006
An important story that broke over the weekend and may not have been widely picked up was that another former US Intelligence insider has turned whistleblower and concedes that the 9/11 attacks represented a "Neoconservative Neo-Nazi Coup D'etat".
In a review of Webster Tarpley's 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, for Amazon, Steele contends that the book is the "strongest of the 770+ books I have reviewed"
Steele goes on:
"I am forced to conclude that 9/11 was at a minimum allowed to happen as a pretext for war (see my review of Jim Bamford’s “Pretext for War”), and I am forced to conclude that there is sufficient evidence to indict (not necessarily convict) Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and others of a neo-conservative neo-Nazi coup d’etat and kick-off of the clash of civilizations (see my review of “Crossing the Rubicon” as well as “State of Denial”). Most fascinatingly, the author links Samuel Huntington, author of “Clash of Civilizations” with Leo Strauss, the connecting rod between Nazi fascists and the neo-cons."
Steele's biography is impressive. He was the second-ranking civilian (GS-14) in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence from 1988-1992. Steele is a former clandestine services case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency.
He is the founder and president of Open Source Solutions, Inc., and is an acknowledged expert on computer and information vulnerabilities. Steele holds graduate degrees in International Relations and Public Administration from Leigh University and the University of Oklahoma. He has also earned certificates in Intelligence Policy from Harvard University and in Defense Studies from the Naval War College.
This is another example of how far the 9/11 truth movement has come over the past year. Before the 2004 election Steele advocated the re-election of George W Bush. Given what he knows now I don't think that would still be the case.
Last month we highlighted how Bill Christison, a A 28-year CIA career man, former National Intelligence Officer and the Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis had gone public to say 9/11 was an inside job.
Along with 16 year CIA veteran Ray McGovern, this trio have a combined total of over 65 years in intelligence. it's safe to say they know a covert op when they see one.
Over the past couple of years we have seen a deluge of former government and intelligence agency insiders to boldly go public with their doubts about the official story behind 9/11. This is very encouraging and sets the precedent for future whistleblowers who might be considering the same course of action.
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Here's a bone for you libs, especially kieth. From his hometown paper...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1928928,00.html
Unsold housing inventory was at a record high in August, waiting for September data.
New housing starts up in Sept. but the 8th consecutive month of lower building permits.
The rate of late payments and defaulted loans written off has been unusually low nationwide, seeing much better ratios than in the 1990 housing crash. It is almost as if the ARM mortgage crisis has not yet occurred, except in some areas. Nationwide prices were only down about a percent or more and selling out of a house to get out of a mortgage was not a big problem, yet?.
Housing and the domestic auto industry seemed depressed. The energy sector is off its summer highs. The stock markets were appreciating rapidly, much better returns than for empty Phoenix houses stranded in the desert with growing construction unemployment. crowd was getting. Booyah.
http://releases. usnewswire. com/GetRelease. asp?id=74796
Active-Duty Troops Launch Campaign to Press Congress to End U.S. Occupation of Iraq
65 Members to Send "Appeals for Redress" Under the Military Whistle-blower Protection Act
10/23/2006 9:58:00 AM
To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: Trevor Fitzgibbon, 202-246-5303, or Alex Howe, or Laura Gross, 202-822-5200, for Fenton Communications
News Advisory:
For the first time since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, active- duty members of the military are asking Members of Congress to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq and bring American soldiers home.
Sixty-five active-duty members have sent Appeals for Redress to Members of Congress. Three of these people (including two who served in Iraq) and their attorney will speak about this on Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 11 a.m. EDT.
f Your Fingerprints Aren't Down You're Not Coming In
UK Government wants to control where citizens go to get drunk. Will people start caring more about the liberty crushing surveillance society now?
Steve Watson / Infowars.net | October 23 2006
The drinks are on Big Brother.
The British government has announced that it wishes to send nationwide a previously localized program of mandatory fingerprint scanners at the entrance of every pub and club in major UK cities. Under such rules If you want to have a drink in the trendiest places in the UK you will have to be fingerprinted.
As usual this is being sold as a way to reduce alcohol related crime and weed out troublemakers. We're all suspects now, we're all possible criminals and we all need to be scanned and catalogued in order to save civilized society. The young hoodlums are taking over and we must all be considered dangerous in order to stop them.
The move to introduce the scanners is being sold to club and bar owners with the promise that they can stay open longer if they implement it. If they refuse that nice little earner they will simply be shut down as new licenses stipulate that a landlord who doesn't install fingerprint security and fails to show a "considerable" reduction in alcohol-related violence, will be put on report by the police and have their licenses revoked.
What's more, reports detail the fact that all clubs and bars that have this forced upon them, or choose to willingly use it, will be hooked up to a centralized database in order to easily share the biometric information. Access to this database will also be granted to the police and the government.
We have previously been told that it is just a matter of time before the fingerprint replaces cash and credit cards.
Rig build up is a a dire sign.
Check out late 1960/1970s in west texas - more rigs = less oil production.
The end is nigh.
http://www.rigzone. com/news/ article.asp? a_id=37344
Estimated U.S. Drilling Activity Hits 21-Year High
API
Monday, October 23, 2006
U.S. drilling estimates in the third quarter of 2006 show that the U.S. drilling pace remains strong, with nearly twice the level of activity recorded during the lows of the early to mid-1990s, API reported.
According to API's 2006 Quarterly Well Completion Report: Third Quarter, a 21-year high estimated 37,261 oil wells, natural gas wells and dry holes were completed in the first three quarters of 2006. In the third quarter alone, there were an estimated 12,687 completions. This figure is the highest single quarter estimate since the first quarter of 1986 and the twelfth consecutive quarter of increases in estimated U.S. drilling activity.
Where did my Mr. Burns and his flying monkeys pic go?
Well, here is my new one.
http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/science/ nature/6077798. stm
Tuesday, 24 October 2006, 06:58 GMT 07:58 UK
Global ecosystems 'face collapse'
Current global consumption levels could result in a large-scale ecosystem collapse by the middle of the century, environmental group WWF has warned.
The group's biannual Living Planet Report said the natural world was being degraded "at a rate unprecedented in human history".
Terrestrial species had declined by 31% between 1970-2003, the findings showed.
It warned that if demand continued at the current rate, two planets would be needed to meet global demand by 2050.
The biodiversity loss was a result of resources being consumed faster than the planet could replace them, the authors said.
They added that if the world's population shared the UK's lifestyle, three planets would be needed to support their needs.
They added that if the world's population shared the UK's lifestyle, three planets would be needed to support their needs.
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Whad up wi dat Keith?
Another housing crash shoe drops:
http://www.garth. ca/columns/ 060319.shtml
"His company, Genworth Financial, has now become the first mortgage
insurer to cover 35-year home loans. That goes one better than CHMC,
which three weeks ago said it would insure 30-year-long mortgages."
"So, why does this show the real estate market has peaked and is about
to hit the down escalator? Simply because this is the third major
indicator that housing prices have passed the ability of the average
family to afford them. And anytime that transpires, the writing is on
the garage wall."
http://www.commondr eams.org/ headlines06/ 1024-04.htm
Published on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 by Reuters
Humans Living Far Beyond Planet's Means: WWF
by Ben Blanchard
BEIJING - Humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and
will need two planets' worth of natural resources every year by 2050
on current trends, the WWF conservation group said on Tuesday.
Populations of many species, from fish to mammals, had fallen by about
a third from 1970 to 2003 largely because of human threats such as
pollution, clearing of forests and overfishing, the group also said in
a two-yearly report.
"For more than 20 years we have exceeded the earth's ability to
support a consumptive lifestyle that is unsustainable and we cannot
afford to continue down this path," WWF Director-General James Leape
said, launching the WWF's 2006 Living Planet Report.
"If everyone around the world lived as those in America, we would need
five planets to support us," Leape, an American, said in Beijing.
Mr. President, you, and that advertisement of terror, are full of sound and fury—signifying (and competent at) nothing.
http://www.msnbc. msn.com/id/ 15392701/
How long do you think before he vanishes?
Oh that's right - bloggers here still think HC lives...silly me...
Never mind we can all feel safe knowing posters here like "Mike" believe HC lives.
Gotta check out the discussion at the Sun Sentinel. This is a link to a story on buyers snatching up "affordable" homes starting at $313,000 in south Florida.
Some highlight from the comments section - lots of denial:
what's wrong with a builder selling out? This is good news for south Florida real estate and proves there is still overwhelming demand for housing in south Florida....
I am glad I bought when I did 8 months ago...figuring in all of the benefits ie tax write-offs on mortagage interest and property taxes, etc,
The Florida land boom is FAR from over
The boom lives on - all the articles about it cooling are pure nonsense just to scare the daylights out of Floridians
Don't buy the stupid hype about the Florida land boom "cooling". It isn't and it won't over the long run and longer term. The boom will be in full force once again within the next few years.
Home ownership ROCKS! south Florida ROCKS! Just take a look outside today!! this is why we are here!!
The bloggers here should read the Palm Beach Post real estate blog. You have sensible bloggers here. You have insane bloggers talking about 50% reduction in home prices for next year. Those people need to wake up and see the rising costs of housing in Fla.
Just ain't happening..... remember this current market slow-down began in Aug 05 and excelerated at time of Wilma, Oct '05. And to date, please point out where you see such 'huge' price declines in the south Florida real estate market?? Just not feeling it...
Do not believe the media hype interest rates are still very low. 30 year fixed mortgages are around 6.25%
Please show me evidence of these tumbling prices. Other than these idiot real estate alarmists with their "Chicken Little " routine, I am not seeing it. Prices ARE NOT on the decline in South Florida, they are just stabilizing. Sellers are still getting very close to top dollar, they are just on the market longer. I examine about 20 to 30 real estate purchase contracts a day. Each day, I come across properties that investors purchased in 2005, pre-Wilma. And yes my friends, they are now being sold in October of 2006 for a profit. On the decline, my A$$.
...and on...and on...and on...
http://florida-paradiselost.blogspot.com/
Freedom to Fascism
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4312730277175242198&q=freedom+to+fascism&hl=en
Fuck the jews! A new day is dawning and sights like this will usher in a new age of racial purity!
Anoymous said, "Fuck the jews! A new day is dawning and sights like this will usher in a new age of racial purity!"
Again Keith, you should at least make them give themselves a name even if it isn't who they are at least it seperates one anymous bigot from the next.
What is with this "Jew" thing? Racial purity? We all come from the same ancestors. The majority of Jews are far removed from their semetic bloodline. Almost everyone is "interbreed". When I lived in Germany our neighbors were Italian/germans with the Italian part coming with the Romans and later with Napolean. Most Americans are mixed, Indian/German, English/French, etc. Most Afro-Americans are Euro/Africans (Europeans with African heritage) as easily as you can call them Afro/American. Few blacks here are pure, continental African.
Even Collin Powell is white, African, jewish. There are East Indian Jews, chinese Jews, Even Korean Jews. Mr Annoymous is as pure as 14kt gold, not pure.
Ease up on the bigotry.
http://washtimes. com/upi/20061023 -091743-9067r. htm
Coup against Maliki reported in the making
Oct. 23, 2006 at 10:03AM
Iraqi army officers are reportedly planning to stage a military coup with U.S. help to oust the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Cairo-based Iraqi and Arab sources said Monday several officers visited Washington recently for talks with U.S. officials on plans for replacing Maliki's administration by a "national salvation" government with the mission to re-establish security and stability in Iraq.
Lets see, here in Austin we have had record venture capital this quarter and over all this year it is the best Austin has had since the dot.com bust of 2000/2001. Unemployment is now the lowest since 2001. There is less than four month supply of homes for sale. Prices and sales are up and 2006 has been a record year. Several major headquarters have announced they are shifting their offices to Austin. Commercial and office construction is up. Houston and Austin continue to rank as some of the top performers in the nation as well as having some of the most affordable homes.
Collapse? Not here.
Jeffrey Lacker is teh only one with balls. Those other fed guys are pussies. There ain't nothing that is going to save housing and there is absolutely no reason to save those slobs - do your job and raise the f'ing rates already.
US naval war games off the Iranian coastline: A provocation which could lead to War?
By Michel Chossudovsky
October 24, 2006
There is a massive concentration of US naval power in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea. Three US naval strike groups off the Iranian coastline are deployed: USS Enterprise, USS Eisenhower and USS Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group.
The naval strike groups have been assigned to fighting the "global war on terrorism."
Tehran considers the US war games to be conducted in the Persian Gulf, off the Iranian coastline as a provocation, which is intended to trigger a potential crisis and a situation of direct confrontation between US and Iranian naval forces in the Persian Gulf:
"Reports say the US-led naval exercises based near Bahrain will practise intercepting and searching ships carrying weapons of mass destruction and missiles.
Iran's official news agency IRNA quoted an unnamed foreign ministry official as describing the military manoeuvres as dangerous and suspicious.
Reports say the US-led naval exercises based near Bahrain will practise intercepting and searching ships carrying weapons of mass destruction and missiles.
The Iranian foreign ministry official said the US-led exercises were not in line with the security and stability of the region. Instead, they are aimed at fomenting crises, he said." (quoted in BBC, 23 October 2006)
Foxwoodlief,
RE Houston and Austin
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That is where all of the flippers moved their efforts to. You are next, IMO.
"A phantom attack on two U.S. destroyers cruising the Gulf of Tonkin was staged by the Pentagon and the C.I.A. The bogus attack occurred early in August, 1964. That evening President Lyndon Johnson went on television giving the grim details of the non-attack. Later, however, it was revealed that navy commander James Stockdale flew cover over the Gulf of Tonkin that night. Stockdale disclosed that U.S. ships were firing at phantom targets—targets that didn't exist. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident that drew the U.S. into the quagmire of Viet Nam simply didn't happen. Johnson, as presidents so often do, lied to the American people. The result was the rapid passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which was the sole legal basis for the Viet Nam War. As a result of Johnson's lie, three million Vietnamese people and fifty eight thousand U.S. soldiers died." (Charles Sullivan, Global Research, January 2006)
I WANT TO BE THE FIRST TO OFFICALLY ANNOUNCE IT.
TODAY, OCTOBER 25TH, 2006, WE HAVE OFFICALLY MOVED FROM DENIAL TO FEAR ON KEITHS CHART.
THE TRUE HOUSING PANIC IS LESS THAN 6 MONTHS AWAY!
THAT IS ALL.
HAVE A NICE DAY.
OR JUST TRY NOT TO KILL YOURSELF IF YOU'VE BOUGHT A HOUSE IN THE LAST 18 MONTHS. REMEMBER, ITS ONLY YOUR LIFE'S SAVINGS.
Keith fyi,
your blog does not work on mac firefox 2.0. Just hangs. Its like its loading the entire history of this blog.
Works with Safari though...
http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/26/news/economy/newhomes/index.htm?cnn=yes
Hmmm, sweet taste of vindication...
(albeit partial as it still has a ways to go)
Keith
Please expose the bad habit of how originally reported new sales are set against the previous month's revised down figures and - alakazaam - they look 'great'... only to be revised down at the release of the next month's new sales releae - which then form the base to compare the next month's originally reported estimate - and so on!
My post (please expose...)is above - May was originally reported at 1272K; now 1101K; June 1131K, now 1078K; July 1072K, now 984K; August 1050K, now 1020K; September 1075k...what will it be in 3 months time?
FOCUS | Jason Leopold: Severe Election Problems
Seen in 10 States
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102606Z.shtml
A nonpartisan organization tracking election
reform across the United States released a report
Wednesday warning that 10 states are likely to
experience severe problems on November 7 because of
electronic voting machines and new voter
identification laws that could call into question the
results of some races.
Aaron Russo's “America Freedom to Fascism”
Watch it Here!!
If anyone wants to sign this petition:
http://tinyurl.com/y6u4pu
To: U.S Congress; Press/Media
We, the undersigned, demand the immediate declassification and release of all transcripts and documents relating to the July 10, 2001 meeting that took place between former CIA Director George Tenet and then National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice. It has been alleged that this urgent and out-of-the-ordinary meeting was called to discuss the increasingly dire warnings of an imminent al Qaeda attack within the U.S.
Given that much of the July 10, 2001 meeting has already been made public in Bob Woodward’s newly released book, “State of Denial”, it is unacceptable to continue to keep these documents and transcripts hidden from the American public’s view.
In addition, we again call for the declassification and release of both the redacted 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry Into The Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 (JICI) and the CIA Inspector General’s report, “CIA Accountability With Respect To The 9/11 Attacks”.
The disastrous nature of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks warrant the release of all of this information so that the American public may learn what its government did or did not do to protect them. Had this nation been properly warned of the looming and imminent terrorist threat, life saving choices could have been made that day.
Today, with little fanfare, the US is building up its influence and military presence in the Middle East despite a general draw-down in its military commitments and expenditures. It is putting huge resources into the periphery countries of the Russian heartland of Eurasia. Why? Oil is a large part of the answer - but oil seen in geopolitical terms. The ultimate game, where the stakes are the highest, is to render permanently impotent the Eurasian land power, Russia, to control its access to the seas and to China - just as Halford Mackinder, "the father of geopolitics" , argued.
The push for a US nuclear primacy over Russia is the factor in world politics today that has the most potential for bringing the world into a World War III, a nuclear conflagration by miscalculation.
Richard,
Hey, scary stuff. Imagin what we do not know about.
Good posts, but what to do but hang on and watch?
If they reinstate the draft, I am outta here with me two sons.
House Bubble won't matter any more.
my two sons rather. I type faster than I think.
http://environment. guardian. co.uk/climatecha nge/story/ 0,,1931542, 00.html
Tackle climate change or face deep recession, world's leaders warned
· Economic review turns cost argument on head
· Technologies investment 'could stimulate growth'
James Randerson, science correspondent
Thursday October 26, 2006
The Guardian
Climate change could tilt the world's economy into the worst global recession in recent history, a report will warn next week.
I hear ya!
I am not sure where one would go - here in NA Canada and Mexico are being merged into the North American Union.
2008 Real Id cards with check points (like Nazi Germany). RFID technology.
Mexican and Canadian police would have no problem shooting you and your sons on the streets of Florida for draft evasion.
For me - my son is 10 and daughter 12. Thier mom is more clueless than some on this blog (I know hard to imagine) and her husband is worse only with an attitude.
I am looking at raw land this weekend - drop a corrugated bunker in the ground - fill it up. Keep gas in the tank and wait.
By the looks of things - this perfect economic (crash of US $), geologic (peak oil); and racial (immigration) storm appears to be converging over the 2006-2012 timeframe. Of course the gubbermint will "save" us from ourselves and declare M. Law -
Russo's film - a must see.
Russo's film - a must see.
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What is this? The Name of the film please. I will watch it. (:
Here it is…
Aaron Russo's
AMERICA: FREEDOM TO FASCISM
"FOUR STARS (Highest Rating). The scariest damn film you'll see this year. It will leave you staggering out of the theatre, slack-jawed and trembling.”
Watch the entire film for free Here!!
Thank you.
Check this links. There is home sail kit
http://www.stjosephtradition.com/?g
http://www.ourfather.com/ROM45048.shtml?gclid=CM3QgPWcmogCFUeDOAodESv7Pw
The home sale kits are on amazon also
http://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Sales-Figurine-Prayer-45048/dp/B000FA7CS8/sr=8-1/qid=1161985762/ref=sr_1_1/104-7681444-3665555?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden
Richard and Tom,
I watched the movie. It is similar to the History of the Fed Bank, which I have posted on HP. I have never seen the IRS stuff, but now you guys know why I am sometimes an angry poster. I was at their mercy last year. It was their mistake, and I lost my home. This was a year to the month before the house fire three months ago that put me and my son out. IRS, like hugging a rattle snake.
I have friends that have had their lives ruined also.
What a stunning movie, I hope Russo does not dissapear.
Lincoln and Kennedy are the only Presidents to try to stand up to the Fed. The Fed also caused the 1929 stock market crash, with intent to show the UA Gov who was the boss.
Sickening.
I wonder if the Grass Movement truth in Gov. People can be charged under the new Anti Gov. Criminal Acts.
Yea.
Good to see a few people waking up... we need more!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=786048453686176230
Terror Storm
Pulte lays off 800 amid slow housing market
Second-largest homebuilder axes 10 percent of total workforce in 2006.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Pulte Homes Inc., the second-largest U.S. homebuilder, Thursday said it shed 800 workers in the third quarter, bringing the total number of employees laid off to 1,400, or more than 10 percent of its workforce since January.
Pulte (Charts) blamed the slowdown in the U.S. housing market for the layoffs and said it was continuing to shrink its operations.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/26/
news/companies/
bc.construction.pulte.layoffs.reut/
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From "SEEKING ALPHA"- read this:
Amazingly, those nine sessions [7-19 (+212); 7-24 (+182); 7-28 (+119); 8-15 (+132); 8-16 (+97); 9-12 (+101); 9-26 (+93); 10-4 (+123); 10-12 (96)] accounted for 1155 of the Dow’s 1200-point gain from the July lows. Even more amazing is that on ALL of those nine trading days, according to our notes, showed that the aforementioned “mysterious” futures buyers were at work with the attendant arbs’ action. When we combine this “mysterious” equity action with the “mysterious” re-balancing of Goldman Sach’s (GS/$180.40) much institutionally indexed commodity index (GSCI), from a 7.3% gasoline weighting to 2.5% into the November elections, we find ourselves “mysteriously cautious.”
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That whole Uhaul thing probably has a lot to do with what people can and will pay...a person in LA makes a lot more money than in a small town in Texas. If they charged that much in Texas, they would have no business. Of course they would not say that because it's "unfair".
This guy must be on meth
http://www.myebid.com/cgi-bin/auction/view?cmd=view&listingID=2435
WTF!
keith you need to start a new blog here, getting too long and to disjointed in theme.
Maybe we can have a thread about "rational islam" and how Islam is a great world religion that has been hijacked and how Bush should apologize to all Muslims and tell them that America is a country whose majority believes "There is no God but the GOD" that we recognize that Muhammed is one of his messengers, that we support the widow, the orphan, the poor and only want the people of Iraq to live in peace and to follow the teachings of the prophet forbidding them to kill each other or other people's of the book. How is that for a topic?
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