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the flight to safety...
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hosed....
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“It shows a hopelessness. It used to be, ‘You have something I don’t have; I’ll go to my employer to get it, too. Now I don’t see any chance of getting it. I don’t want to be the lowest one on the totem pole, so I don’t want you to have it either.’ ”
Economist Richard FreemanComment
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“There is no question that the momentum of this economy, leaving out the oil price issue, leaving out Euro problems that have emerged, and very specifically leaving out the budget problems, this economy is really beginning to pick up momentum. The fascinating issue for forecasters is, how do you factor in all the negatives.”
Sir Alan "me an apologist?" Greenspan
(discounting the iceberg, its been a lovely voyage)
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“Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves,” - Norm Franz [Money and Wealth in the New Millennium].Comment
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Classic RE gibberish, not from the mouths of the NAR (NAL?) but from Bloomberg:
"The third decline in U.S. home prices in three years is driving a pickup in sales as bargain hunters rush to buy before mortgage rates rise, even as values may slump further."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-0...stainable.html
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"If we look at American history, it becomes painfully obvious that, when militarism and imperialism are in the material interests of the dominant segment of corporate capital, it is quite effective at creating the required ideological infrastructure to legitimate itself. In the United States, one of the world's most isolationist and anti-militarist societies, the legitimation needs of monopoly capitalism were met from the 1890s on by the cult of Old Glory and the American Legion ideology of "100% Americanism." There is today a whole generation of self-described "conservatives," as any listener of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham can testify, who have no idea that conservatism ever meant anything besides cheerleading for the state and its wars."
Kevin Carson
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The Internal Revenue Service has paid out more than a half-billion dollars in homebuyer tax credits to people who probably didn't qualify, a government investigator said Friday.
Most of the money -- about $326 million -- went to more than 47,000 taxpayers who didn't qualify as first-time homebuyers because there was evidence they had already owned homes, said the report by J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. Other credits went to prison inmates (I'm thinking Bernie), taxpayers who bought homes before the credit was enacted and people who did not actually buy homes.
(Of course, in addition to the above, the pricing of housing was bumped double the tax credit as a matter of course. This "federal stimulus" had nothing (but pain) to do with the sheeple.)Comment
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“I’ll be philosophical. Until about two billion years ago, it was impossible to have any life on Earth; that is, there was so much radiation on earth you couldn’t have any life—fish or anything. Gradually, about two billion years ago, the amount of radiation on this planet … reduced and made it possible for some form of life to begin.”
“Now, when we go back to using nuclear power, we are creating something which nature tried to destroy to make life possible. Every time you produce radiation” a “horrible force” is unleashed. By splitting the atom, people are recreating the poisons that precluded life from existing. And I think there the human race is going to wreck itself.”
Admiral Hyman Rickover, the “father” of the U.S. nuclear navy and in charge of construction of the first nuclear power plant in the nation, Shippingport in Pennsylvania, before a committee of Congress, as he retired from the navy in 1982.Comment
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I'm sorry, but this is a completely ridiculous statement.Originally posted by Rickover
If indeed 'some entity' is trying to destroy radiation for the betterment of life on Earth - acceleration of the natural decay process of uranium should therefore be in the interest of 'some entity'.
Sure, there's a short term spike as what would have happened over millenia occurs instead in hours, but the net radiation release is identical. So life in the future is better off with us taking care of the nasty radiation now.
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My brother just yesterday was telling me about a jury he sat for. This guy who was already in prison for securities fraud received a $100,000 IRS refund check by mistake. He cashed it and his wife spent it all before the IRS discovered their mistake. So they kindly extended his stay in prison.Originally posted by don View PostComment
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Most don't.Originally posted by DSpencer View Post
Assuming she didn't join him in prison...Comment
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