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Thursday, 3 November 2011

Friends of OWS...............from Rico

Apart from the criminal conspiracy ACORN being curiously 'missing' from this summary of OWS supporters, this actually looks about right otherwise.
OWS should be 'known' by it's friends.

Any questions?

Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Bedtime Totty...........

Hahahahaha​hahahaha!!​!!!!!!!!!!​!.................from Rico

The "flight to safety" to the US Dollar is merely picking the best-looking horse at the glue factory.

It is unthinking, and quite foolish.

Run. Panic. Hide.

I think Bill Fleckensteain (and others) are right. Paper fiat is crashing in the next year or two. It's happened before, and it's happening now.


Self Contained?


One way to contain Persia's Preacher Command may just be to let the coming power vacuum in the ME suck it right up!

WoI Def Sec Brief



Defense

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta again forcefully advocated against automatic defense cuts that would occur should the deficit-cutting supercommittee fail to work out its own plan, lawmakers said Tuesday. - Politico

The Pentagon’s sweeping strategy review will examine a Navy plan to move an aircraft carrier from Virginia to Florida, according to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert. – The Hill

The U.S. Defense Department will brief F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) manufacturer Lockheed Martin within the next two days on the results of its "should-cost" review of the $382 billion stealth fighter program. – Defense News

Company officials, about to enter negotiations for the fifth tranche of low rate initial production (LRIP 5), say the dramatic reduction over the past 18 months in the amount of time it takes Lockheed mechanics to put together one of the complex stealth fighters is a sign the program is recovering from the crisis it faced in February 2010.  – AOL Defense

As part of its ongoing export control reform initiative, the Obama administration is preparing to introduce new guidelines for the export of military aircraft, according to government and industry sources. – Defense News

As their annual budgets shrink, Pentagon officials must “adapt” their decisionmaking to ensure its manufacturing sector remains strong, and they even plan to “tailor” investments to protect some “niche firms,” Brett Lambert, deputy assistant secretary of Defense for manufacturing and industrial base policy, told a House Armed Services subcommittee. – The Hill

Intelligence

The Pentagon is offering field commanders control of counterintelligence operations to cope with the never-ceasing efforts by countries such as China, Iran and Israel to gain access to classified information and technology. – AOL Defense

Nuclear Weapons

According to scientists and officials, the United States’ weapons laboratories, armed with some of the fastest computers on the planet, are peering ever deeper into the mystery of how thermonuclear explosions occur, gaining an understanding that in some ways goes beyond what was learned from explosive tests, which ended in 1992. – Washington Post

Nonproliferation

Josh Rogin reports: As congressional budget battles loom, 22 leading nuclear arms control advocates have joined in an effort to urge President Barack Obama to protect funds for nuclear non-proliferation and securing of loose nuclear material. – The Cable

The War

Lawyers representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say authorities at the military base have begun reading privileged attorney-client communication — in a sharp break with past practice. – Washington Post

Andrew Krepinevich writes: For a relatively small effort on their part, in short, America's enemies could potentially impose enormous costs on its undersea economy, including loss of energy resources, damaged infrastructure and environmental degradation…Given the stakes involved, just as the U.S. and its allies developed the forces, capabilities and methods needed to defend their economic assets at sea during the Battle of the Atlantic, a similar effort is needed now with respect to America's undersea economic interests. The alternative is to hope for the best—and hope is not a strategy. – Wall Street Journal (subscription required)

Cybersecurity

At a global conference on Internet security, the U.S. and U.K. set out principles they hope will form the basis of international cooperation in Web governance, in which states would work together on issues such as security and copyright protection without imposing new restrictions on users. – Wall Street Journal (subscription required)

U.S. and British officials argued against global regulation of the Internet on Tuesday, telling an international conference in London that transparency, diversity and innovation on the Web are key to the prosperity and freedom it brings. – Washington Times

Courtesy of Major Crispin Burke at Wings Over Iraq and the chief hoochie at GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD

Video: Fearless - The Jeb Corliss Story

Cartoon Round Up....





Bonus Babe............

A clear pattern emerges.............from Rico

A clear "pattern" is emerging. This looting goes beyond crony-capitalism.
- It is state-sponsored financial and socio-economic terrorism.

The upper echelons of government, financial institutions, and regulatory agencies are now totally complicit, lawless, and corrupt.
- Did I fail to mention self-serving?

They were willing to wipe out GM bond holders, Solyndra investors, and now MF Global customers.
- What do you think they're willing to do to your 401k's, savings accounts, pension funds, and purchasing power?

It's NO coincidence that Corzine has direct ties to Obama.
- Former Democratic Governor of New Jersey, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, current head of the recently collapsed Manhattan brokerage MF Global (a primary dealer to the FED) and currently point-man/fund-raiser for Obama among Wallstreet banksters.

Think about it for a moment.
- This is bigger than Solyndra. But neither will get much coverage from the kept whores of the MSM, and what we don't know is hurting us...


H/T Liz B

Video: Blame Israel!



H/T Amnon

Pic Dump.............






















Video: Poland crash landing: Boeing 767 touches down without wheels in Warsaw

Video: Angel Thunder 2011

Courtesy: 1st Combat Camera Squadron. Produced by SSgt. Jeff Curtin.

News...........

Green Math Part 6: Reality bites the UK

Kurds May Be Barometers of Obama’s Iraq Defeat.

EagleSpeak​: This guy gets it: "Viva the shale gas revolution​"

Russia ‘regrets’ U.S. decision to cut off UNESCO funding

Two Visions « Neptunus Lex

Iraq declines regional military training

#Occupy Castle Argghhh!

Firm Run by Former Gov. Corzine Files for Bankruptcy Protection

King Abdallah of Jordan on How No One Trusts Obama's Government

October Leaf/Volt Sales

Jobs Panel Member Whose Solar Firm Won Loan Guarantees Raises 'Conflict of Interest' Concerns

Oral Exam: Herman Cain, Anita Hill and Obama

Obama's Class Warfare: It's All He's Got Left

FBI Learning to Disconnect the Dots

Gisele Bundchen, Mrs. Tom Brady, Tricks Her Son

The 99%: Official list of Occupy Wall Street's supporters​, sponsors and sympathize​rs

Egypt's Massacre of Christians: What the Media Does Not Want You To Know

Armed police! Drop the bread and step away from the duck pond

Europe’s free ride on the back of Nato is over

French satirical newspaper firebombed after prophet Mohammed announcement

Greek military leadership changes spark opposition outcry

Syria: inside Hama, the city of fear and ghosts

Syria enlisted help of 'father' of Pakistan's atom bomb

Iranian hackers threaten to attack 'virtual' US embassy

Afghanistan is a proxy war between India and Pakistan

Zimbabwe police tear gas Morgan Tsvangirai's party headquarters

Liberals hate black conservatives, so they're loving the Herman Cain 'scandal'. But their attacks may backfire

Chinese police take on 'lost generation' grandparents

Libya: Nato 'prevented Gaddafi forces reaching mustard gas stockpiles

India plans 'world's most dangerous railroad' from Afghanistan to Iran

Political Paralysis Prevails in Italy

US offers India the Joint Strike Fighter, top defence technology

Paralysis and moral confusion on Piazza Mahatma Gandhi

Is Ahmadineja​d the Last Iranian President?

UNESCO gains Palestine but loses U.S. funding

Russian parliament to discuss surgical castration of pedophiles

Navy to review carrier move over budget concerns

and finally.......

Battle of Britain Day by Day

Wednesday Wenches...........




Speaking of problems..​.........from Rico

Speaking of DEBT problems (something that is NOT done in the MSM or FTV realm of talking heads and teleprompter readers), though the numbers have not been updated on-line officially yet...we have seen the US cross the $15-trillion debt line.

So, as the US stumbles along into a worse version of the 1930's under a worse pResident, Bernanke & friends can at least smile and be grateful that Americans are distracted enough to not really 'notice' the debt problem, or who caused it.
[Hint for Obamunists and other clueless OWS morons: It wasn't "the rich" or "greedy capitalism" but a bloated, ever-expansive, and over-reaching government....they ARE the real 1% we should be tarring and feathering!]

Just like MORE DEBT does not solve the problem of more debt, neither does MORE GOVERNMENT solve the problem of more government.


Tuesday, 1 November 2011

The Not So Good Old Days in 14th Century England

An interesting book—well, at least to me— is “The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century” by Ian Mortimer. Let me share some snippets from it and, when I am through, as awful as our present times may seem to you, you may thank a merciful God that you born into these, not former times.

You’re visiting Exeter in the southwest of England, one of seventeen cathedral cities. “Arriving in every one of these places involves an assault on your senses…your nostrils will be invaded by the stench from the sewage-polluted watercourses and town ditches.”

“A major town is an intimidating place. Already you have seen the desiccated remains of thieves hanging on gallows at windswept crossroads. At the principal gates of a regional capital you will find the heads and limbs of traitors on display. When you enter the city of York, the largest city of the north, you will see the blackened heads of criminals stuck on poles above the city gates, their eyes plucked out by birds. Legs and arms hang by ropes, each the relic of a treasonable plot, now riddled with maggots or covered with flies.”

To read Alan Caruba's commentary, click here

NewsBusted 11/1/11

Bedtime Totty.............

Not merely a 'crisis' but a problem...................from Rico

This cannot be what the "leaders" of EUrope wanted to see 48 hours after their latest 'solution' to their debt crisis!

Exactly what they were trying to avoid is happening, the 'contagion' has spread to Italy.

But then, the 'crisis' was never really about Greece, but about the massive debt accumulated by socialists in pursuit of their EUropean fantasy.

The Italian-German 10yr bond spread and a look at Fwench banks are two very good indicators that the half-life of these phoney 'solutions' shrinks with each effort to deny the reality of the true problem: too. much. debt.
- And going further into debt to solve a debt problem isn't any kind of a 'solution' at all...

Calling it a 'crisis' does not do the situation justice. It is a PROBLEM. A problem of too much debt.



Bonus Babe...........


Halloween and military tactics

H/T DJ Elliott

Game Changer..............by Dan Friedman

I’ve sent around Barry Rubin’s writing before, but up till now I have never seen him give a talk. Here’s a (36 min.) video of Rubin addressing an audience in Amsterdam on Oct. 17. It’s remarkable how powerful the truth is when it’s presented calmly, unembellished and from the heart.

I hope you make time to watch it, and then pass it on.

Dan Friedman
NYC